Monday, November 28, 2022

Monday Links

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

From National Review, the World Health Organization finds a new name for the monkeypox virus.

From FrontpageMag, a ban on a banner saying "all lives matter" is ruled unconstitutional.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, the new Twitter won't really be free until the coronavirus dissidents are.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Atlantic Council helps the oil-rich United Arab Emirates peddle its influence in Washington, D.C.

From the Washington Examiner, former President Trump gets played while hosting a dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

From The Federalist, 12 Republican Senators ditch their constituents to support the wrongly named Respect for Marriage Act.

From American Thinker, why the midterm election results were not a surprise.

From CNS News, Dr. Fauci advises to keep getting boosters.

From Red Voice Media, according to congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee, words can break your bones.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, former Trump staffer Len Khodorkovsky, who is Jewish, lets CNN host Don Lemon have it when it comes to anti-Semitism.

From Canada Free Press, did Canadians know that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to stop the Truckers Freedom Convoy resulted from a suggestion by U.S. President Biden?

From TeleSUR, municipal elections in Cuba have a 68 percent voter turnout.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the out-of-touch U.K. Tories bow to the network BBC.

From Snouts in the Trough, a video shows "the true state of the Russian military".  (Due to the difficulty Russia is having in Ukraine, I have to wonder.  Is this the army that the U.S. trained to fight for 45 years during the Cold War, hoping that we would never have to?  Is this the enemy of whom we were so afraid?)

From the Evening Standard, a bomb is left in a hijacked vehicle outside a police station in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany decides to stop deportations to Iran due to the protests there.

From ReMix, Germany will send Patriot missile systems to Poland, but they will be operated by German troops.

From Russia Today, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticizes Pope Francis for alleging that Chechens, Buryats and members of other minorities in Russia are are acting more cruelly in Ukraine than Russians are.

From Free West Media, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto won't be "lectured" by the U.S. ambassador on foreign and energy policies.

From The Sofia Globe, more foreigners are attending universities in Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, ruins of an ancient Greek city are found in Turkey.

From Balkan Insight, Slovenians vote to restore editorial independence to Radio Television of Slovenia.

From ANSA, the death toll from the mudslides on the Italian island of Ischia rises to eight.

From Euractiv, France and Ireland confirm that the Celtic Interconnector, an underwater electricity able, will be operational by 2027.  (Considering that modern France takes up most of the ancient region of Gaul, whose inhabitants were Celts, as are the modern Irish, the name "Celtic" is quite appropriate.)

From EuroNews, Europol helps to take down a "super cartel" distributing she-don't-lie.

From Morocco World News, French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Morocco this coming January.

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan King Mohammed VI announces plans to establish a national center for intangible cultural heritage.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Türkiye supports a deal to ship grain to Africa.

From Arutz Sheva, a secret Ukrainian military delegation reportedly visits Israel.

From the Egypt Independent, according to Petroleum Minister Tareq al-Molla, Egypt is ready to supply some natural gas to Europe.

From The New Arab, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani announces the recovery of over 180 billion dinars of "stolen" tax funds.

From IranWire, a Baha'i member jailed in Iran describes his ordeal in an open letter.

From India Today, a man travels 65 kilometers to a hospital in Kolkata, India to have a 150-year-old trident removed from his throat.

From the Deccan Herald, a group of Muslim clerics ban dancing, music and fireworks at weddings in the district of Dhanbad in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

From Tempo(dot)Co, Cianjur, West Java, India experiences almost 300 aftershocks after its recent earthquake.

From The Mainichi, the "youngest victim" of the Hiroshima atomic bomb sets out some history with AI-colorized photos and 3D maps.

From Gatestone Institute, was a San Francisco election official not rehired for not being "diverse" enough?

From The Stream, what's missing from the conversation about abortion.

From The American Conservative, the questions which Special Prosecutor John Durham didn't ask.

From Space War, China moves to censor news about nationwide protests against its latest coronavirus lockdowns.

From The Daily Signal, 16 photos showing the protests in China.

From The Western Journal, a self-identified "gender fluid" official in the Biden administration is charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing luggage at an airport.  (I once learned about gender fluidity by reading a science fiction novel.)

From BizPac Review, after its latest "woke" box office bomb, Disney it told to "stop making everything sexual".

From The Daily Wire, the White House releases a "tepid" statement in response to the aforementioned protests in China.

From the Daily Caller, no, madam physicist, the universe is not gay.  (On the other hand, according to a certain quote, the universe is "queerer than we can imagine", although at the time the quote was made, the term "queer" might not yet have been a synonym for "homosexual" or "gay".)

From the New York Post, Republican officials in Cochise County, Arizona refuse to certify the 2022 election results due to claims that its voting machines weren't properly accredited.

From Newsmax, rapper Kanye West claims that the U.S. is run by "300 Zionists", which term he does not define.

From Newsmax, the Buffalo, New York supermarket mass shooter pleads guilty.

And from The Babylon Bee, a bystander to a mass shooting is arrested for allegedly misgendering the shooter.

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