Monday, February 27, 2023

Rainy Monday Stories

On a day which falls into both kinds which the Carpenters found depressing, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the U.S. Department of Energy lab investigating the origins of the coronavirus "knows what it's talking about".

From FrontpageMag, we know that President Biden, who grew up as a black Jewish Puerto Rican Catholic, really wanted to be Polish.  (As an American with some Polish heritage, I say nie dziękuję, which means "no thanks".)

From Townhall, here's the advice Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) gave to the CEO of Disney before the company caved into wokeness.

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a report, Biden's favorite electric truck is built with metal from a refinery in Brazil that is killing people.

From the Washington Examiner, who is and who isn't lining up to replace Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich)?  (Some Michiganders spell her last name "Stab-me-now".)

From The Federalist, a lawsuit forces Los Angeles County, California to remove 1.2 ineligible voters from its rolls.

From American Thinker, the Georgia witch hunt against former President Trump, which includes a real self-proclaimed witch.  (She doesn't even have to turn anyone into a newt, since Georgia has had its own Newt for a very long time.)

From CNS News, more on the DOE backing the lab leak theory about the coronavirus's origins.

From NewsBusters, the MSNBC show Morning Joe falsely blames the Trump administration for the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio.

From Canada Free Press, pretty words from Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre will not save Canada.

From TeleSUR, Chile deploys its military on its borders with Peru and Bolivia to prevent the entry of illegal aliens undocumented migrants.

From TCW Defending Freedom, to whom does the data belong?

From Snouts in the Trough, all you landlords, listen up.  (The article's title contains the misspelling "ladlords".)

From Free West Media, Portugal opens its borders to everyone who speaks Portuguese.  (During the 1980s, I had a roommate who spoke Portuguese.  If he's still around and wishes to immigrate to Portugal, that country will take him in.)

From EuroNews, the U.K. and the E.U. make a new agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol.

From Euractiv, according to Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, a deal on normalization with Serbia is possible this year.

From ReMix, a man in Seegräben, Switzerland is told to leave his social housing where he has lived for 15 years to make room for refugees.  (If you read French, read the story at 20 Minutes.  If you read German, read a related story at SRF.)

From Balkan Insight, an Albanian artist stages an exhibition at the prison where he spent 17 years during his country's communist era.

From Morocco World News, when in Morocco, please be kind to cats.

From The North Africa Post, a U.N. rights group calls on Algeria to stop its crackdown on civil society organizations.

From the Libyan Express, the Chinese company Huawei continues to support talented Libyans.

From Hürriyet Daily News, yet another earthquake strikes Türkiye, this one in the province of Malatya with a 5.6 magnitude.  (My spellchecker doesn't yet accept the new spelling "Türkiye".)

From Turkish Minute, about 200 people are briefly detained in İstanbul, Turkey after protesting against the Turkish Red Crescent for selling tents instead of donating them.

From Rûdaw, water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers decrease sharply in southern Iraq.

From Armenpress, according to a report by the Artsakh Ministry of Health, the, Azerbaijani blocking of the road between Artsakh and Armenia has resulted in an increase of diseases.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, according to Artsakh's Foreign Minister, the pogroms in Sumgait, Azerbaijan revived hate and intolerance toward Armenians in Azerbaijan.  (Artsakh, also called Nagorno-Karabakh, is a region of Azerbaijan which has an Armenian-majority population.  It was an autonomous oblast during the soviet era.)

From Azǝrbaican24, Azerbaijan starts an inter-state arbitration against Armenia under the Energy Charter Treaty.  (This is my newest source.  That is indeed an upside-down "e".)

From In-Cyprus, incoming Cypriot President Nikos Christodoiulides reveals his incoming gender-balanced cabinet.

From The Syrian Observer, the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union announces a delegation which will visit Syria and calls for Syria to return to its natural regional and international roles.

From North Press Agency, in the Syrian region of Kobani, Russian and Turkish forces conduct their 128th joint patrol.

From The961, Lebanon central bank Governor Riad Salameh is accused of embezzling up to $500 million dollars and transferring it to Swiss banks.

From Arutz Sheva, knessetcritter Avi Moaz resigns from his position as deputy minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

From The Times Of Israel, according to an analysis column, "chaos reigns" in Netanyahu's Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, a dual citizen of Israel and the U.S. is fatally shot in a terror attack near Qusra, West Bank.

From YNetNews, what names do Israelis give their dogs?

From the Egypt Independent, the first phase of development for the new Egyptian port of Arish is scheduled to be ready later this year.

From Egypt Today29 Egyptian orphanages shut down due to more children being adopted.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian cabinet approves a new education policy, in which government-controlled universities will be granted autonomy.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Medical Shariah Advisory Committee considers whether to allow abortion for genetic fetal abnormalities.

From Gulf News, why March 2nd is the new launch date for a mission to the International Space Station led by UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi.

From The New Arab, little is known about what happened to the African elephants which were kept at the UAE's Al-Ain Zoo.

From Gatestone Institute, it's time for some realism about China.

From The Stream, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) and "the dark taste for power".

From The Daily Signal, the Equal Protection Project hopes to stop acts of reverse racism.

From The American Conservative, "air heart", pun intended.

From The Western Journal, a man in East Palestine has a "freaky" voice change despite assurances from the EPA that everything is fine.

From BizPac Review, Fox News host Mark Levin asks Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) "exactly the right question".

From The Daily Wire, according to the Chief Twit, the media climate and education system are "racist against whites and Asians".

From the Daily Caller, according to The Washington Post, there is not evidence that Trump is to blame for the East Palestine train wreck.

From the New York Post, according to congresscritter James Comer (R-KY), Treasury Department officials are blocking 150 reports about the Biden family's banking.

From Breitbart, "Muhammad" has become the most popular baby name in Galway, Ireland.  (How many cities in Arab countries have significant numbers of young boys named "Sean" or "Patrick"?)

From Newsmax, Republicans call for the Biden administration to declassify documents detailing the origins of the coronavirus.

And from The Babylon Bee, the White House announces that all conspiracy theories are indeed true, except for the one claiming that Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election.

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