Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Links For The Start Of November

On a mild partly sunny Tuesday which is the first day of November, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Trinity College in Connecticut shows off its double standards.

From FrontpageMag, truckers in Brazil block highways to protest the country's presidential election.

From Townhall, in Georgia's final gubernatorial debate, Democratic candidate Stacy Abrams takes a shot at law enforcement with a racial smear.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) claims to be a defender of women, but as a county prosecutor, she was lenient on accused rapists.

From the Washington Examiner, Republicans should react to the attack on Paul Pelosi the way that the Democrats reacted to the shooting of congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA).

From The Federalist, President Biden's proposed energy "windfall" tax is election theater.

From American Thinker, if the Democrat response to the attack on Paul Pelosi would be hilarious if it weren't so egregious.

From CNS News, two Republican victimized by political violence urge compassion for Paul Pelosi and advise "don't make everything about politics".

From Red Voice Media, who exactly is this guy who attacked Paul Pelosi.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, CNN tries to pin economic woes on the Federal Reserve and total omits Biden's policies.

From Canada Free Press, unchecked left-wing leadership will lead to "zombie democracy".

From TeleSUR, more on the truckers in Brazil.

From TCW Defending Freedom, if the British keep buying stuff from China, they can't complain about China's coal burning.

From EuroNews, Just Stop Oil activists try to break into the Downing Street residence of the U.K. prime minister.

From Free West Media, the producer price index in Germany rises to 45.8 percent year-on-year.

From Euractiv, Germany tightens its animal transport rules and urges the rest of the E.U. to do the same.

From Russia Today, the Russian government gives an update on its frontline reinforcements in Ukraine.

From Sputnik International, the British government claims to have defended Ukraine from Russian cyber attacks.

From The Moscow Times, Russian President Putin demands "real guarantees" from Ukraine before the grain deal is restored.

From Romania-Insider, Romania's governing coalition appoints a new defense minister.

From Novinite, natural gas will be about half as expensive in Bulgaria than in the rest of Europe.

From The Sofia Globe, Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria are unhappy about a government decision to transfer them from hotels to state and municipal facilities.

From Radio Bulgaria, a monument to the Miladinov brothers, who wrote a collection of Bulgarian folk songs, is unveiled in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, did the ancient Greeks build a pyramid?

From Ekathimerini, the Greek Coast Guard claims that a Turkish boat harassed one of its vessels.

From the Greek City Times, Russian archaeologists working in the Taman Peninsula find 2,100-year-old silver medallion depicting the Greek goddess Aphrodite.  (The Taman Peninsula is between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov east of Crimea, from which it is separated by the Strait of Kerch.)

From Balkan Insight, a Serbian minister fired for sexism is appointed to Serbia's Coordinating Body for Gender Equality.

From Total Croatia News, foreigners will be able to buy farmland in Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at N1.)

From The Slovenia Times, Velenje, Slovenia wins a 2024 Green Leaf award.

From The Malta Independent, how not to conserve ancient Maltese rubble walls and cart ruts.

From Malta Today, students at the University of Malta plan to protest increased parking prices.

From ANSA, the Italian government cracks down on illegal rave parties.

From SwissInfo, in Switzerland, you can ride the world's longest passenger train.

From France24, France has it hottest October on record.

From RFI, the French company Thales says that hackers claim to have stolen some of its data.

From ReMix, foreigners account for 70 percent of all violent robberies in Paris.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an "Allah akbar!" breaks out in Lille, France.  (If you read French, read the story at BFMTV.)

From The Portugal News, the airline TAP reportedly intends to cancel more than 400 flights before the end of 2022.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria abandons Syrian and Palestinian refugees in the desert along its border with Niger.

From The New Arab, five false claims about the 2022 World Cup in Qatar debunked.

From Gatestone Institute, 243 sleepless nights for Turkish President Erdoğan.

From The Stream, on All Saints Day, sing a song of the saints.

From Space War, talks between the U.S. and the Marshall is overshadowed by American nuclear tests done there between 1946 and 1958.

From The American Conservative, for and against anti-Putin Russians.

From The Daily Signal, the Biden administration's effort to force people to use electric vehicles is expensive and illegal.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Tom Emmer (R-MN) sets CBS anchor Margaret Brennan straight about tying Republicans to political violence.

From BizPac Review, will celebrities who threaten to leave Twitter now that billionaire Elon Musk has taken over actually do so?

From The Daily Wire, podcaster Joe Rogan predicts that the expected "red wave" will be like the elevator doors opening in The Shining.

From the Daily Caller, a federal judge blocks the merger of the publishers Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, the Michigan gubernatorial race between incumbent Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) and challenger Tudor Dixon (R) is tied.

From Newsmax, is daylight savings time beneficial or detrimental?

And from the New York Post, a collector of Steinway pianos shows off one into which inventor Thomas Edison bit.

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