Thursday, August 25, 2022

Thursday Links

On a warm cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, some moderate Democrats come out against President Biden's student loan "forgiveness".

From FrontpageMag, Dr. Fauci's biggest crime, which trumps all the others.

From Townhall, former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loses a battle of legal wits to reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Biden claims that the authority to cancel student loan debt come from a law intended to help military personnel that was signed by President Bush the Younger.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden tells the working class to "drop dead".

From The Federalist, Utah and two of its counties sue the Biden administration over a land grab at two national monuments.

From American Thinker, how afraid should we be about this year's hurricane season?

From CNS News, according to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), "student loan socialism is a slap in the face" to college students who paid their debts and everyone who avoided taking on those debts.

From LifeZette, Biden's planned student loan forgiveness is a bribe offered to younger voters.  (Isn't bribery one of the impeachable offenses explicitly recited in Article 2 of the Constitution?)

From Red Voice Media, Washington, D.C. has a "deadly hump day".  (via Lifezette)

From NewsBusters, CNN admits that canceling student loan debt increases inflation and is legally dubious.

From Canada Free Press, "is there any truth left in America?"

From TeleSuR, Bolivian social activists march in support of President Luis Arce.

From TCW, with statesmen gone and replaced by mediocrities, it's no wonder that the West is in peril.

From Snouts in the Trough, a look at "the leader of the free world".

From Free West Media, since the start of the Russian invasion, a million Ukrainians have fled to Germany.

From EuroNews, a violent brawl between soccer fans results in thousands of euros of damage to a brasserie in Brussels, Belgium.

From Euractiv, according to an investigation, Russian bombers in Ukraine are using fuel from the French company TotalEnergies, the only Western oil company still operating in Russia.

From ReMix, Germany has the answer to rapidly increasing energy prices.

From Balkan Insight, five people are arrested for alleged human trafficking after their bus, which was carrying 48 Syrian migrants, collides with a police car in Burgas, Bulgaria.

From The North Africa Post, the German government reaffirms its support for Morocco's autonomy plan for the region of Sahara.

From The New Arab, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners start a sit-in protest in the courtyards of Israeli jails.

From Dawn, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reverses a ban on departmental sports which had been imposed by his predecessor Imran Khan.

From The Express Tribune, over 900 people have died from floods in Pakistan resulting from heavy monsoon rains.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani military generals each offer a month's salary for flood relief.

From The Hans India, public schools in Hyderabad, India don't have all their necessary textbooks.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian government will restrict the export of wheat flower.

From ANI, the Bharatiya Janata Party tells the Congress Party to not preach to them about spying.

From India Today, a hospital in the city of Kanpur become the first in India becomes the first to perform a fat-derived stem cell transplant.

From the Dhaka Tribune, a spike in diesel fuel prices in Bangladesh results in a spike in egg prices.

From New Age, thousands of Rohingyas who had fled from Myanmar observe their fifth genocide remembrance day at their camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lankan Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera, fuel will not be provided to unapproved businesses.

From the Daily Mirror, nine air passengers from Sri Lanka are detained at the Hyderabad, India airport for allegedly having gold in a place outside the reach of sunlight.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih urges top achievers to pursue knowledge in fields essential for national development.

From This Day, the U.S. Department of State honors slain Nigerian student Deborah Samuel Yakubu.

From The Straits Times, Bruneian Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah concludes his state visit to Singapore.

From Tempo(dot)Co, when in Jakarta, Indonesia, don't gamble online.

From Free Malaysia Today, police in Malaysia bust an international drug smuggling operation, arresting two durian farmers and another man for involvement with the storage of the drug syabu.  (I confess to having been unfamiliar with durian, which is a fruit, and syabu, which is a drug, but seeing that my spellchecker had no problem with either word, I figured that the terms are legitimate.  "Syabu" can also be spelled "shabu", to which my spellchecker does object.)

From the Borneo Post, former Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak waves to his supporters while on his way back to prison, after meeting with his family.

From Vietnam Plus, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang, Vietnamese authorities are working to protect their citizens who were tricked into illegally working in Cambodia.

From the Taipei Times, a Taiwanese couple are convicted of running a carbon credit trading scam.

From The Mainichi, four technical intern trainees from Indonesia receive letters of appreciation from the mayor of Yamaguchi, Japan for capturing a monkey.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. Congress holds the key to the air power balance between Greece and Turkey.

From The Stream, the left-wing war on pro-life pregnancy centers.

From The Daily Signal, a federal judge blocks the Biden administration's efforts to coerce emergency room doctors to perform abortions, even if it goes against their religious beliefs.  (As far as I'm concerned, anyone who would force a doctor whose religious beliefs are against abortion to perform them is not pro-choice but pro-abortion.  On a lighter note, the judge's name leaves me wondering if he was going to pull out a left-handed guitar and play it behind his head.)

From Sino Daily, after China conducts military drills, Taiwan announces plans for a record defense budget.

From Space War, according to the U.N.'s human rights chief, when a report on rights in the Chinese region of Xinjiang will be published is still unclear.

From The American Conservative, we'd better "farm or die".

From The Western Journal, the one video clip which the Republicans should run from now until the midterm elections in November.

From Politico, President Biden's plan to forgive student debt produces a "centrist revolt".  (via The Western Journal)

From BizPac Review, the White House staffers who will benefit from Biden's student loan forgiveness are outed.

From The Daily Wire, according to a writer quoted by actor Mark Ruffalo, the bad reviews for the movie She-Hulk Attorney at Law come from racists and woman-haters.  (If we can't define the word "woman", can we define the term "woman-hater"?)

From the Daily Caller, according to a poll, Americans are split on whether the Department of Justice is lying about the FBI raid at the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Trump.

From the New York Post, after his DUI arrest, speaker spouse Paul Pelosi is stripped of his membership in the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation.

From Breitbart, according to Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), most Americans did not understand the "magnitude" of the border crisis until his administration started bussing illegal migrants.

From Newsmax, according to St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard, high inflation is likely to persist longer than previously expected.

And from The Hill and the "what could go wrong?" department, the Federal Reserve wants to replace private cryptocurrencies with its own.

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