Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Wednesday Wandering

On a cool cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, OPEC flips the bird at President Biden and American consumers.

From FrontpageMag, as Iranian women are shot while fighting for their rights, the Squad goes Sergeant Schultz.

From Townhall, a New Jersey woman is arrested after fentanyl pills stashed in LEGO boxes are allegedly found in her car.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) wants to ban her fellow congresscritters from trading stocks after the stock market made her and her husband rich.

From the Washington Examiner, when a "conspiracy theory" turns out to be correct.

From The Federalist, amid the media meltdown over senatorial candidate Herschel Walker (R-GA), don't forget how radically pro-abortion Senator Raphael Warnock is.

From American Thinker, did climate change make Hurricane Ian intensify faster than hurricanes normally do?

From CNS News, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, electric vehicles could be "very useful" in a power outage.

From LifeZette, the CEO of the election software company Konnech is arrested one day after The New York Times defended him.

From Red Voice Media, former President Trump releases a "Clinton hard drive" statement to point out unfair treatment by the media.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, First Son Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski drops multiple truth bombs on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight, but the other networks say nothing.

From Canada Free Press, an analysis of Presidents Trump and Biden on the world stage.

From TeleSUR, thousands of Haitians demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

From TCW Defending Freedom, new Italian Prime Minister is denounced, but the real fascists are the coronavirus despots.

From Snouts in the Trough, should we get ready for the next "Fauci plague"?

From Free West Media, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, sanctions against Russia "were not decided democratically".

From EuroNews, the Russian military bombards Bila Tserkva, Ukraine with Iranian-made "kamikaze drones".

From Euractiv, ministers in E.U. countries will vote this coming December on whether Romania and Bulgaria get to join the Schengen area.

From ReMix, the Czech Republic asks the E.U. for help after illegal immigration increases by 1,200 percent in one year.

From Balkan Insight, a former fighter for the separatist Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia is indicted for allegedly killing a Bosnian Army prisoner of war in 1995.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima plans to strengthen its ties with the Spanish region of Andalusia.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco issues licenses for the medical, industrial and cosmetic use of cannabis.

From the Libyan Express, the Libyan parliament rejects a proposed memorandum of understanding with Türkiye about oil or gas.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan proposes a constitutional amendment for headscarf freedom.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey's Constitutional Court rules that the re-arrest of Kurdish politician Leyla Güven despite her election to parliament violated her rights.

From Rûdaw, according to the mayor Sirdakan, a region within the Iraqi province of Erbil, bombardment from Iran has resulted in six villages in the region being abandoned.

From Armenpress, Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan receives International Atomic Energy Commission Director General Rafael Grossi.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, President Khachaturyan visits villages in the Armenian province of Gegharkunik affected by Azerbaijani aggression.  (My spell checker objects to the president's name, but has no problem with "Gegharkunik".)

From In-Cyprus, the air quality around Nicosia, Cyprus is good, despite a fire at a solid waste station in the nearby Turkish-occupied village of Koutsoventis.

From The Syrian Observer, two Turkish-backed militant groups in the Syrian region of Afrin fight against each other.  (Have I said that Syria is a cluster[bleep]?)

From North Press Agency, ISIS terrorists blow up a currency exchange office in Deir ez-Zor, Syria after the owner refuses to pay the zakat tax.  (The zakat is a wealth tax usually amounting to 1/40 of one's possessions held in a single year, and is one of the five pillars of Islam.)

From The961, 12 places to eat and drink in Beirut, Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, arsonists destroy an Israeli-owned farm in Moshav Mechola, West Bank.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is hospitalized for observation after feeling sick during a Yom Kippur synagogue service.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF captures a suspected Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank during raids on Yom Kippur.

From YNetNews, residents of Bat Yam, Israel attack a group of Bedouin Israeli Arabs.

From the Egypt Independent, the Sudanese foreign ministry thanks Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi for allowing Sudanese citizens to stay in Egypt for another six months.

From Egypt Today, President Sisi stresses the need to follow the role model of the Islamic prophet Mohammed in enduring hardships.  (While the EI spells the president's last name "al-Sisi", ET spells it "El Sisi".)

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian government accepts the African Union's invitation for peace talks to end the conflict in northern Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, according to Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, OPEC will remain a major force for global economic stability.

From The New Arab, fires destroy dozens of tents at the Arsal camp for Syrian refugees in northeastern Lebanon.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, despite weeks of protests in response to the death of a woman in police custody, the survival of Iran's government is not threatened.

From IranWire, a popular soccer player is targeted for allegedly "encouraging riots" in the protests in Iran.

From Iran International, Iranian pundits warn that use of force will make the protests worse.

From Firstpost, a 16-year-old Iranian girl who joined the protests is killed and secretly buried.

From Khaama Press, no one, including the Taliban, was expecting the flight of former Afghanistan President Ghani, which resulted in the failure of peace negotiations.

From Hasht e Subh, is the Hazara minority in Afghanistan the target of planned ethnic cleansing?

From the Afghanistan Times, an explosion goes off at the Interior Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

From RepublicWorld, an explosion goes off at a mosque in Kabul.

From The Christian Post, Muslims in Uganda attack two converts to Christianity.

From Gatestone Institute, Turkey allegedly weaponizes illegal immigration by send migrants to and then through Cyprus.

From The Stream, "abortion is the opposite of loving your neighbor".

From The Daily Signal, the Virginia and Maryland suburbs of D.C. and Silicon Valley in California compete to be the richest place in the U.S.

From The American Conservative, playing nuclear chicken with Russia.

From The Western Journal, the pro-Ukraine crowd gets furious at billionaire Elon Musk for having the audacity to propose a peace plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

From BizPac Review, Dr. Fauci admits that he should have been "much, much more careful" with his coronavirus pandemic messaging, but also pleads that "no one's perfect".

From Fox Business, Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan) introduces two bills to prevent IRS overreach.  (via BizPac Review)

From American Wire, Fox News host Martha MacCallum slams congresscritter AOC (D-NY) as the "Mistress of NIMBY".

From The Daily Wire, for the first time in two years, entertainer and self-admitted germaphobe Howard Stern walks out of his home.

From the Daily Caller, a Hispanic moderator asks Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs (D) to specify one thing which she has learned from Hispanics.

From the New York Post, the Biden administration flies dozens of migrant kids to New York state.  (But when Governors Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Ron DeSantis (R-FL) do this sort of thing, it's "human trafficking".)

From Breitbart, a man buys a brand new $115,000 electric Hummer truck, which very quickly breaks down.

From NewsMax, U.S. and South Korean military forces conduct a joint drill after North Korea's latest missile launch.

And from SFGate and the "oops!" department, the Northeastern University School of Law sends out about 42,000 erroneous acceptance letters.

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