Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, Philadelphia Flyers player Ivan Provorov refuses to participate in the team's pride night commemoration, citing his Christian faith.

From FrontpageMag, Americans start pushing back against self-appointed petty tyrants.

From Townhall, was Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg's arrest in Germany staged?

From The Washington Free Beacon, since President Biden was inaugurated, anonymous Chinese donors have given millions of dollars to the university which houses his think tank.

From the Washington Examiner, whatever happened to the "damage assessment" of the classified documents found at former President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago?

From The Federalist, the election process in Maricopa County, Arizona is "marked by chaos and uncertainty".

From American Thinker, IPCC climate models "grossly" exaggerate manmade "global warming".

From CNS News, congresscritter Mike Johnson (R-LA) lists some "unanswered questions" in the Biden classified document case.

From Red Voice Media, the conflicting testimony in the trial of some Capitol rioters.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, this week's "Woke of the Weak".

From Canada Free Press, Californian's leaders allow the vast majority of the water delivered by recent storms to go right back into the sea.

From TeleSUR, Brazil's Supreme Court orders preventive detention for 180 participants in the country's Capitol riot.

From TCW Defending Freedom, are deaths from coronavirus vaccines being disguised as deaths from the coronavirus?

From Snouts in the Trough, a recommendation for the daily newsletter at the Daily Sceptic.

From ReMix, the Polish port of Gdańsk had its busiest year on record in 2022.

From Russia Today, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the West has offered no "serious proposition" on Ukraine.

From EuroNews, a helicopter crash near Kyiv, Ukraine kills at least 18 people, including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi.

From Euractiv, according to migration experts, E.U. countries could face 4 million more Ukrainian refugees.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian car brand Dacia become one of the E.U.'s top ten in terms of units sold.  (Dacia is the name of an ancient region corresponding roughly to modern Romania.)

From Novinite, a flu epidemic breaks out in the Bulgarian region of Dobrich.

From the Greek Reporter, an underwater volcano near the Greek island of Santorini has a growing magma chamber.

From Balkan Insight, at the Belgrade Higher Court, a Serbian man pleads not guilty to "inciting terrorism".

From Total Croatia News, despite price increases due to the introduction of the euro, prices still decreased in Croatia during December 2022.

From The Slovenia Times, the number of visitors in 2022 to Ljubljana Castle in Ljubljana, Slovenia gets back over 1 million.

From The Malta Independent, giving your car a VRT test in Malta is gonna cost ya a little more, pilgrim.

From ANSA, Italian police find a second hideout used by recently-arrested Mafia "superboss" Matteo Messina Denaro.

From Free West Media, the number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy continues to increase.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss researcher finds an exceptionally large meteorite in Antarctica.

From France24, French Uber drivers will earn a minimum of €7.65 per ride thanks to a union deal.

From El País, Spanish police arrest 15 allegedly involved in a network that smuggled drugs into Europe.

From The Portugal News, cheap drugs in Portugal become less cheap.

From The North Africa Post, the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, Morocco hosts an exhibit of contemporary art from Benin.

From The New Arab, foreign diplomats visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

From Al Arabiya, an Iranian man is sentenced to eight years for beheading his wife.

From OpIndia, Taliban members publicly flog nine people for robbery and "sodomy" in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.S. is "missing in action" when it comes to the Islamist plan to conquer eastern Africa.

From The Stream, according to the lawyers for pro-life father Mark Houck, abortion clinic "escorts" are exempted from the FACE Act.

From The Daily Signal, Roe v. Wade is gone, but "the struggle to protect life continues".

From The American Conservative, the "war on autocracy" might be even more contentious than the "war on terror".

From The Western Journal, former President Trump is reportedly preparing to return to Twitter.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is assigned to two House committees.

From The Daily Wire, more on the alleged "staging" of the aforementioned Greta Thunberg's arrest in Germany.

From the Daily Caller, Trump asks to be reinstated on Facebook.

From the New York Post, liberals mock Senator Kyrsten Sinema for wearing a furry white vest at the WEF conference in Davos, Switzerland.

From Breitbart, retail sales decline sharply in December 2022.

From Newsmax, the Minnesota Court of Appeals will hear the appeal of the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of state charges in the death of George Floyd.

And from Sky News, oops!

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