Friday, February 17, 2023

Friday Phenomena

On a mild rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a study in Yolo County, California, arrestees released on cash-free or low-cost bail are three times as likely to later commit violence.

From FrontpageMag, we're all human smugglers now.

From Townhall, a new theory about the recently-downed unidentified floating objects.

From The Washington Free Beacon, social workers in Pennsylvania are now required to determine if newborn babies identify as "nonbinary".  (How would a newborn, who can't even talk at that stage, express such identification?)

From The Federalist, Speaker McCarthy (R-Cal) starts to build a case for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

From American Thinker, first, the hard leftists came for the Confederates....

From CNS News, China blasts U.S. lawmakers for their resolution against CCP for the spy balloon, and sanctions the firms which made the jet and the missile that shot it down.

From NewsBusters, the Department of Defense will pay the expenses for for servicepersons traveling to obtain abortions.

From Canada Free Press, Biden's not saying that it's aliens, but might be wandering off into the realm of Little Green Men.

From TeleSUR, Ecuadorian social organizations call for President Guillermo Lasso to resign.

From TCW Defending Freedom, are hurricanes really becoming more powerful?

From Free West Media, according to former French spy chief Alain Juillet, "all our investments in Ukraine have been lost".

From EuroNews, 18 migrants are found dead in an abandoned truck near Lokorsko, Bulgaria.

From Euractiv, Bulgaria delays its intended date for joining the Eurozone.

From ReMix, a special Polish military unit is being assembled in Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian right-wingers demand the release of activists charged with attempting to overthrow the Serbian government.

From Morocco World News, according to Moroccan King Mohammed VI, the African region of Sahel is "on track" reach its climate goals.

From The North Africa Post, over 20 organization condemn allegedly arbitrary arrests of migrants in Tunisia.

From Hürriyet Daily News, the death toll from the two earthquakes in Turkey continues to rise as rescue efforts keep on going.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey plans to deport three Greeks who volunteered for earthquake relief work.

From Rûdaw, according to members of the White Helmets, the aid sent to northwestern Syria is "incomparable" with the extent of the destruction there.

From Armenpress, Russian peacekeepers bring humanitarian cargo to the Azerbaijani region of Artsakh.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to its president, the International Committee of the Red Cross will contribute to solving humanitarian problems in the region of Nagorno Karabahk.  ("Nagorno Karabakh" and "Artsakh" are two names for the same region.)

From In-Cyprus, the price of construction materials in Cyprus reaches a new high.

From The Syrian Observer, President Bashar Al-Assad gives a speech on the repercussions of the earthquakes in Syria.

From North Press Agency, 143 trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the U.N. reach northwestern Syria via two border crossings with Turkey.

From The961, eight things to do in Lebanon this winter.

From Arutz Sheva, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps reportedly tries to attack an Israeli-owned tanker with a drone.

From The Times Of Israel, the Israeli government tells the Israeli High Court of Justice that is still has plans to improve the egalitarian section of the Western Wall.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel keeps having classroom shortages, with no solution in sight.

From YNetNews, an Israeli non-profit called "The Solomon Project" tries to help stray cats.

From the Egypt Independent, six Egyptians are kidnapped in Zawiya, Libya.

From Egypt Today, according to the insurance and finance company Fitch Solutions, Egypt's agricultural exports have hit a record high.

From the Sudan Tribune, women and civil society groups express concern over the exclusion of women from the political process in Sudan.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, thousands of refugees fleeing clashes in Somalia arrive in Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, border authorities foil two attempts to smuggle 27 kilos of meth and 17,000 illegal pills into Saudi Arabia.  (As I might have said before, smuggling drugs into or within a Muslim country is a good way to throw your life away and spend a long time in prison.)

From Gulf News, five situations requiring an import permit when traveling to the UAE.  (Please welcome my newest source Gulf News, which comes from the UAE.)

From The New Arab, four U.S. troops are wounded in an explosion, but a joint raid by U.S. forces and Syrian Democratic Forces troops sends an ISIS terrorist leader to his virgins.

From OneIndia, Hindus in Bangladesh continue to endure persecution.

From Gatestone Institute, laser beams from a Chinese satellite are seen in Hawaii.

From The Stream, should Christians read books written by atheists?

From The Daily Signal, two inconvenient questions about San Francisco's plan to pay reparations for slavery.

From The American Conservative, the railroad disaster in East Palestine, Ohio is not the first of its kind.

From The Western Journal, the unidentified floating object shot down by a U.S. F-22 with a Sidewinder missile over northwestern Canada may have been a Pico balloon launched by a small civilian group of balloon enthusiasts.

From BizPac Review, former Governor (R-SC) and new presidential candidate Nikki Haley opines that Florida's parental right law doesn't go far enough.

From The Daily Wire, according to a medical expert, the coronavirus vaccine more risk to the heart and little benefit to young men.

From the Daily Caller, President Biden announces the resignation of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.  (Marty Walsh is probably not related to, and should not be confused with right-wing commentator Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire, who is also the creator the documentary What Is a Woman? and the book Johnny the Walrus.)

From Breitbart, according to Mexican authorities, gunmen from a Mexican cartel killed at least 14 people who refused to work for them.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at La Jornada.)

From Newsmax, more on the aforementioned Department of Defense policy on travel expenses for abortions.

And from the New York Post, if you've got $21 million lying around, you can buy Madonna former home in Los Angeles.

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