Thursday, March 16, 2023

Thursday Things

On a sunny and mild Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admits that businesses linked to the Chinese Communist Party will be bailed out.

From FrontpageMag, leftists try to stop right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk from speaking at U.C. Davis.

From Townhall, according to bank records, members of President Biden's family received over $1 million from a Chinese energy company.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) met with a Chinese influence group even after intelligence officials warned that it was targeting local politicians.

From the Washington Examiner, a bipartisan dinner helps Vice President Harris and Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) patch up their relationship.

From The Federalist, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) demands better answers from social media companies.

From American Thinker, the U.S. is a "land of mutts", which is genetically good.

From CNS News, according to a WHO scientist, the lab leak and natural origin hypotheses for the coronavirus origin must both be investigated "until we have an answer".

From Fox News, a flood warning is issued for Sedona, Arizona, but is downgraded hours later.  (For a look at Sedona, go to this blog's archives for November 2014.  The story comes via LifeZette.)

From NewsBusters, how to crash the economy using big government.

From Canada Free Press, the government is technically not nationalizing the banking system, but broadly are verging on doing so.

From CBC News, here are Canada's 12 "carbon bombs".  (They really should be called "carbon dioxide bombs", but you get the idea.)

From Global News, two Edmonton, Alberta police officers are shot and killed while responding to a family violence call.

From CTV News, Canada will hold a ceremony to mark the coronation of the U.K.'s King Charles III.

From TeleSUR, 21 people have been confirmed as dead from an explosion in a coal mine in Sutatausa, Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s "defence delusion".

From the Express, the U.K.'s Prince William is criticized by actor Peter Egan for his stance on trophy hunting.

From the Evening Standard, unions representing paramedics and nurses working for the U.K.'s NHS pause their call for a strike after the government offers to increase their pay.

From the (U.K.) Independent, when in England, don't drive and use your cell phone at the same time.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, when U.S. President Biden visits Ireland next month, Mr. Bill and Ms. Hill are coming with him.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish President Michael Higgins warns against xenophobia.

From VRT NWS, the education minister of the Belgian commune of Flanders would like to introduce an orientation test for higher education.

From The Brussels Times, asylum seekers occupying the building which will become Belgium's National Crisis Center refuse to leave until the national crisis plan is activated.

From the NL Times, when in the Netherlands, please refrain from jumping off the bird choppers.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at RTL Nieuws.)

From ReMix, the party Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) wins bigly in Dutch regional elections, and will have the largest number of seats in the Dutch senate.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz questions visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel's intended judicial reforms.

From the CPH Post, are Danish insurance companies paying too much attention to BMI scores?

From Euractiv, Poland will soon send four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, a decision to ban Albania's Democratic Party from running in local elections is overturned.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Afghan migrant goes on trial for allegedly pushing a woman with two small children in front of a moving car in Biel, Switzerland.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From EuroNews, the Spanish parliament passes a law against domestic animal abuse.  (Good hoomans!)

From The North Africa Post, American, European and west African navies hold joint maritime drills aimed at stopping illegal fishing.

From The New Arab, the Israeli military claims to be investigating the terror group Hezbollah for possibly being behind a roadside near the kibbutz of Megiddo.  (The article uses one "d" to spell the kibbutz's name, but my spellchecker thinks that there should be two of them.)

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration's "delusional" plan to deal with Palestinian terrorism.

From The Stream, "Biden's banking busts".

From The Daily Signal, 12 incidents of defensive gun use support the case for armed self-defense.

From The American Conservative, the public policy group American Principles Project supports the Railway Safety Act.

From The Western Journal, the Biden administration is paying a large fee to store materials that could be used to build more of the southern border wall.

From BizPac Review, Yale University blames capitalism for environmental damage and climate change, even while some evidence points toward communism.

From The Daily Wire, a group of big banks rescue the collapsing First Republic Bank.

From the Daily Caller, twice-failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) wants to run again, to the chagrin of her fellow Democrats.

From the New York Post, more than two tons of "missing" uranium is found in southern Libya.

From Breitbart, the U.K. bans the Chinese app TikTok from its government devices.

From Newsmax, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) doubles down on his suggestion that the U.S. should shoot down any Russian military jets that become aggressive.

And from Sky News, for the first time in 31 years, the Labrador retriever is no longer America's favorite dog breed.

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