Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, how economists went silent during the coronavirus crisis.

From FrontpageMag, the moral case for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's (R) "migrant transports", such as the one to Martha's Vineyard.

From Townhall, New York state Attorney General Letitia James sues former President Trump, three of his children, and officials of the Trump organization for alleged fraud.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate John Fetter(wo)man (D-PA) says that he won't defund the police, but the PAC he recently aligned himself with says otherwise.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden's nominee to head the National Archives faces scrutiny over the FBI raid at Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago during her confirmation hearing.

From The Federalist, questions which the media should be required to answer about caring for illegal migrants, but can't.

From American Thinker, "how Biden is losing his voters".

From CNS News, the "Inflation Reduction Act" subsidizes intermittent energy while taking money away from cancer research.

From LifeZette, California Attorney General Bob Bonta halts his office's investigation of a Democrat county supervisor.

From Red Voice Media, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) makes a powerful message against the transgender industry as it preys on children.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, AT&T CEO John Stankey predicts that the U.S. economy could possibly be headed for stagflation.  (Considering that the economy had negative growth for the first two quarters of 2022, and has recently had 8 or 9 percent inflation, I'd say that stagflation has already arrived.)

From Canada Free Press, we have forgotten Dr. King, and some of the blame belongs with former President Obama.

From TeleSUR, Guatemalan farmers demand that President Alejandro Giammattei resigns.

From TCW Defending Freedom, new Prime Minister Liz Truss's challenge is to tackle the U.K.'s bloated and failing public sector.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the U.K. going through a disability scam?

From Free West Media, German Bunderwehr personnel visit Azerbaijan.

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin declares a partial military mobilization to bolster its forces in Ukraine.

From Euractiv, the E.U. considers more sanctions against Russia if it persists with holding referenda in occupied parts of Ukraine.

From ReMix, President Emmanuel Macron pushes to send into the French countryside.  (Apparently, moving migrants around one's country is OK when some leaders do it.)

From Balkan Insight, after the aforementioned Russian military mobilization, flight tickets to Serbia and Turkey sell out.

From Morocco World News, Algerian lawyers leave a regional gathering of the Arab Lawyers Union in response to comments supporting Moroccan sovereignty over the region of Western Sahara.

From The North Africa Post, according to French soft wheat exporters, Morocco could import up to 5 million tons of soft wheat from France in 2022 and 2023.

From the Libyan Express, the head of Libya's Presidential Council Mohammed Menfi indicates that he is ready to work with U.N. envoy Abdoulaye Bathily to complete the country's constitutional basis.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a 1,500-year-old grave of a child is found at the ancient site of Bathonea, within modern İstanbul, Turkey.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish police detain 20 Iranian woman in İstanbul for protesting in a prohibited area over the death of Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of Iran's morality police.  (TM uses the dot above the capital "I" in the city's name, while HDN does not.)

From Rûdaw, the U.S. renews its anti-ISIS memorandum of understanding with the Peshmerga.

From Armenpress, Armenia submits new evidence of alleged violence to prisoners of war and desecration of dead bodies by the Azerbaijani military to the International Court of Justice.  (The article's main picture shows the International Court of Justice building in The Hague, Netherlands.  To see a similar picture of this building, go to this blog's archives for May 2017.)

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to Armenia's Ministry of Defense, Azerbaijani forces opened fire at Armenian positions using mortars and large-caliber firearms, violating the ceasefire between the two countries.

From In-Cyprus, starting on October 1st, single-use plastics will be banned in Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, according to "Western diplomatic sources", the dialogue between Syria and Turkey will soon transition from security to political.

From North Press Agency, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command announces cooperation with the Syrian Democratic Forces to secure the border between Iraq and Syria.

From The961, a free art exhibit in Lebanon showcases the history of the capital city of Beirut.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is expected to show support for the establishment of a Palestinian state when he speaks at the U.N. tomorrow.

From The Times Of Israel, speaking in Tel Aviv at a ceremony to observe the 50th anniversary of the Munich Massacre, Israeli President Isaac Herzog shows parallels to present-day terrorism.

From The Jerusalem Post, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett disagrees with Lapid.

From YNetNews, International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach apologizes for not honoring the victims of the 1972 Munich Massacre.

From Israel Hayom, a Palestinian allegedly kills an 84-year-old Israeli woman and is found hung a day later.

From the Egypt Independent, according to a study, the ancient Egyptians invented the first robot over 4,000 years ago.

From Egypt Today, if you want to get some dates, go to the Egyptian governorate of Aswan in October.

From the Sudan Tribune, Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan travels to New York to participate in the U.N. General Assembly's 77th meeting.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia shows its dam resolve to build a green economy.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman succeeds in mediation efforts which result in the release of 10 POWs held by Russia.

From The New Arab, Egypt's Presidential Pardon Committee announces the release of 28 detainees who were held without trial.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, protesters and a police assistant are killed in protests held in response to the death of the aforementioned Iranian woman Mahsa Amini.

From IranWire, according to locals, due to protests over the death of Mahsa Amini and the resulting government response, Sanandaj, Iran looks "like a military zone".

From Iran International, speaking at the U.N., Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi calls for former U.S. President Trump stand trial for ordering the death of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.

From Khaama Press, according to the U.K.'s human rights ambassador, Afghan women face "grave" oppression.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to a survey, 99 percent of Afghans support the reopening of schools for girls above the sixth grade.

From the Afghanistan Times, the U.S. announces negotiations with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to take back aircraft taken to those countries from Afghanistan, in return for help against terrorism.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran acquires 2.5 million acres of land in Venezuela.

From The Stream, should 10-year-old children be told that the world is a better place without them in it?

From The Daily Signal, Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen prepares to go on trial in Hong Kong.

From The American Conservative, the "atrocity" at Vanderbilt University.

From The Western Journal, Trump drops a truth bomb on Biden about where he sat at Queen Elizabeth's funeral.

From BizPac Review, a book claims that Dr. Fauci mocked diners who followed policies that he himself promoted.

From The Daily Wire, after a North Dakota man kills a teenager for being a "Republican extremist", is President Biden responsible for that sort of violence?

From the Daily Caller, Republican Senators will propose a bill to label drug cartels "foreign terrorist organizations".

From the New York Post, a book claims that Queen Elizabeth was "very hurt" when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit the royal family.

From Page Six, according to fashion designer Christina Oxenberg, who counts King Charles III as her third cousin, the royal family's treatment of Markle is "treasonous".

From Fox News, the North Dakota man who ran down the "Republican" teenager is free on bail.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, according to a poll, Republican candidate J.D. Vance has a slight lead over congresscritter Tim Ryan (D-OH) for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat.

From Newsmax, the U.S. embassy in Cuba will start processing full immigrant visas in 2023.

And from the Genesius Times, Biden finds a way and a place to welcome all migrant children.

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