Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

On warm sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Republicans get enraged after President Biden "forgives" billions of dollars of federal student loan debt.

From FrontpageMag, we lied about President Trump before, so trust us now.

From Townhall, a Texas judge blocks the Biden administrations guidelines for abortion in hospitals.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a month after an illegal alien was released from prison and tried to kill his ex-girlfriend, a North Carolina state legislator voted against a bill to prevent that sort of thing.

From the Washington Examiner, after a whistleblower comes forth, Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams.

From The Federalist, Trump is right to point out that Senator Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao have been getting "rich on China".

From American Thinker, no, lame duck congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY), you're no Lincoln.

From CNS News, according to what Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) said a year ago, the president does not have the power to forgive debt.

From LifeZette, Biden's plan to cancel student loan debt is aimed at helping the rich.

From Red Voice Media, school board candidates in Florida who were endorsed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R) win big.  (Or as Trump would say, they win bigly.  The story comes via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to a guest on CNN, forgiving student loans will "make inflation worse".

From Canada Free Press, which do Republicans love more, America or power?

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposes a Venezuela-Colombia economic zone.

From TCW Defending Freedom, at the Boris Johnson academy, geography teacher Liz Truss could be promoted to Headmistress.

From Free West Media, "Swiss security forces are getting nervous" about what could happen this coming winter.

From EuroNews, the fish die-off in the Oder River remains a mystery.

From Euractiv, the German government approves a plan to cut natural gas usage by 2 percent.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man from Iraq goes on trial for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in Bad Arolsen, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Tag24.)

From ReMix, Polish President Andrzej Duda is honored in Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, envoys from the E.U. and the U.S. attempt to break the deadlock between Serbia and Kosovo in their dispute over vehicle license plates.

From Morocco World News, drilling is reportedly progressing well at Morocco's Tichka-Est gold project.

From The North Africa Post, Japanese space engineers are detained at Tunisia's Carthage International Airport for allegedly possessing a spy satellite blueprint.

From the Libyan Express, another mass grave, this one containing seven bodies, is found in Tarhouna, Libya.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, normalization with Israel won't lessen Türkiye's support for Palestine.  (My spellchecker hasn't yet recognized the spelling "Türkiye".)

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities in the city of İstanbul seize the villa of a mob boss who revealed information on "murky" relations between the government and the mafia.

From Gatestone Institute, Türkiye accuses Sweden and Finland of "supporting terrorism" while releasing Turkish Hizbullah terrorists from prison.

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi region of Kurdistan launches a digital drivers license system.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan receives the governor of the Russian oblast of Omsk.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan tells French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna about the importance of repatriating Armenian POWs.

From In-Cyprus, requests for dormitories by University of Cyprus students double the number of available rooms.

From The Syrian Observer, members of a Russian military patrol in the Syrian governorate of Quneitra are injured in an explosion.

From North Press Agency, Syrian government and Russian troops check a site west of Kobani, Syria that was hit by Turkish airstrikes.

From The691, Lebanese judges decide to continue their strike after meeting at the Beirut Palace of Justice.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked revokes the visa of Jordanian official Sheikh Trad Al Faiz after he conducted a subversive incitement campaign from Israel's Negev region.

From The Times Of Israel, according to a Saudi-run news outlet, Israeli F-35 stealth fighters repeatedly penetrated into Iranian air space during recent exercises.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli left and right clash over the opening of a rail line in the city of Tel Aviv on Shabbat.  (In the West, Shabbat is commonly rendered as "Sabbath", the two differing in the placement of the "h".  My spellchecker has no problem with either spelling.)

From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid urges the West to reject the proposed nuclear deal with Iran.

From the Egypt Independent, according to presidential health advisor Mohamed Awad Tag Eddin, Egypt is establishing its first blood plasma factory.

From Egypt Today, Egypt seeks to enhance safari and eco-tourism in the area of Fayoum.

From the Sudan Tribune, the Ethiopian air force shoots down a plane flying from Sudan that was carrying weapons to the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, according to the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front has launched new attacks, bringing a five-month humanitarian truce to an end.

From the Saudi Gazette, a Sudanese man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia goes to jail because of his barking dog.

From The New Arab, a Palestinian Authority official urges Palestinians to avoid using the Ramon Airport in the aforementioned Negev region of Israel.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at Arabi21.)

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian hardliners attempt to police social life and cultural tastes.

From IranWire, campaigners denounce the "show trial" of German-Iranian man Jamshid Sharmadh.

From Iran International, U.N. experts are alarmed by the escalation of Iran's religious persecution.

From Khaama Press, according to the USCIRF, religious freedom in Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover has seen a "severe decline".

From Pajhwok Afghan News, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation seeks support for flood victims in Afghanistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, the U.N. is still divided on whether to allow 13 Taliban officials to travel.

From The Stream, how "gender confirmation" surgery actually confirms that there are only two biological genders.

From The Daily Signal, voter fraud is still going on, and why President Biden's student loan bailout is unfair, especially to those who have paid off their loans or worked their way through college.

From The American Conservative, no, "Christian nationalism" didn't cause the January 6th Capitol riot.

From The Western Journal, right-wing commentator Dan Bongino calls getting the coronavirus vaccination "the biggest mistake" of his life.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson calls the rash of carjackings in Democrat-run cities the "clearest possible sign that civilization is falling apart".

From The Daily Wire, Biden's student loan bailout is "a real slap in the face" to people who have already paid off their loans.

From the Daily Caller, former Florida Governor (R) and current gubernatorial candidate (D) Charlie Crist doesn't want votes from supporters of Governor Ron DeSantis (R).  (Isn't he being a bit redundant, since people who support DeSantis are going to vote for DeSantis in the first place?)

From Fox News, the Chinese island province of Hainan aims to be the first in its country to ban cars powered by gasoline or diesel.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, according to economist Ian Shepherdson, the U.S. housing market is in "much worse shape" than the Fed admits.

From Breitbart, George Lopez becomes the latest comedian to sue the streaming station Pandora for unpaid royalties.

From Newsmax, according to former White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas, Dr. Anthony Fauci leaves a "very important legacy" of "failure".

And from the Genesius Times, Biden promises to transfer all student loans to people who never went to college.

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