Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Wednesday Whatnot

As the very warm and sunny weather continues on a Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Ukraine should not be allowed to join NATO.

From FrontpageMag, Attorney General Merrick Garland deserves to be impeached.

From Townhall, the latest report about inflation is not the good news that Democrats want us to think it is.

From The Washington Free Beacon, California Democrat state legislators block a bill that would send repeat child sex traffickers to prison.

From the Washington Examiner, FBI Director Christopher Wray tells congresscritter Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that his agency is not protecting the Biden family.

From The Federalist, 13 reasons why President Biden is not "ethical" as claimed by Time.

From American Thinker, we've had 30 months of lies about the Capitol riot.

From MRCTV, despite increases in the price of shelter, inflation eases from a year ago.

From NewsBusters, NBC  bemoans Iowa Republican state legislators imposing a six-week limit on abortion.

From TeleSUR, Honduras transfers 1,628 gang members to maximum security prisons.

From TCW Defending Freedom, for how much longer can the West's junk money charade continue?

From Snouts in the Trough, does "AI" stand for "artificial intelligence" or "authoritarian idiocy"?

From EuroNews, traces of explosives are found on a yacht in an investigation of the Nord Stream pipeline bombing.

From Voice Of Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returns from the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania without an invitation to join the alliance.

From ReMix, according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Ukraine's massacre of Poles in the region of Volhynia during World War II was a genocide.  (According to modern boundaries, Volhynia is mostly in northwestern Ukraine, but also extends into southeastern Poland and southwestern Belarus.  Before World War II, when Poland's boundaries were farther east than they are today, the region would have been mostly in Poland.)

From Balkan Insight, police in Kosovo investigate an arson attack on the newly-built house of a returning Serb in the village of Veric.

From The North Africa Post, meeting in Rabat, Morocco, African countries on the Atlantic Ocean agree to strengthen their partnership for shared peace, stability and prosperity.

From The New Arab, according to the International Organization for Migration, the number of people displaced by the conflict in Sudan has surpassed 3 million, and the dead bodies of two migrants are found near the Tunisia-Algeria border.

From DuvaR, a juvenile court in İstanbul, Turkey sentences a 14-year-old student to five months in jail for "insulting" President Erdoğan, but defers the announcement of the verdict, thus preventing the child from actually serving time.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?  If you read Turkish, read the story at BirGün.)

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan navy busts a smuggling racket and arrests two suspects who were allegedly smuggling over eight kilos of gold.  (Unlike the alleged gold smuggler in India, which was linked yesterday, these guys did not put the gold in a bodily region outside the reach of sunlight.)

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's Department of Motor Traffic allows three-wheeled tuk-tuks to be modified with certain appliances - for a fee.

From Raajje, speaking in New Delhi, India, Maldivian Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid points out how the Maldives has faced many challenges in establishing itself in the international arena.

From the Bangkok Post, three Germans and a Pakistani are all in custody for allegedly murdering a German businessman in Pattaya, Thailand.

From The Straits Times, Transport Minister S. Iswaran assists Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau in an investigation.

From Tempo(dot)Co, the Light Rail Transit in Jakarta, Indonesia will conduct a trial run today.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysian deputy Law Minister Ramkarpal Singh calls for amendment to Malaysia's health law.

From the Borneo Post, a pig farm Seberang Perai, Penang, Malaysia violates licensing regulations by raising pigs and chickens in the same area.  (Yes, a Muslim-majority country allows pig farming - under certain regulations.)

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam and Thailand agree to jointly combat human trafficking.

From the Taipei Times, Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications will discuss whether jaywalking will cost ya even more, pilgrim.

From The Korea Herald, the South Korean government will track the whereabouts of about 4,000 "ghost babies" born to foreign mothers.

From The Mainichi, an English explorer's 19-century journey in northern Japan is retraced to boost local tourism.

From Gatestone Institute, do not let China attack the U.S. from within the U.S.

From The Stream, "dumbells are racist" and other stories.  (The story spells "dumbell" with one "b", but my spellchecker insists that there should be two, as in "dumbbell".)

From The Daily Signal, yes, it takes just one illegal vote to change the outcome of an election.

From The American Conservative, a review of a book about brain science during the early Cold War.

From The Western Journal, according to MSNBC host Mike Brzezinski, is angry that President Biden's staff don't do a better job of covering for his issues.

From BizPac Review, Biden is (metaphorically) shredded after a 2020 campaign ad resurfaces, in which he bragged that he will "always" answer calls from his grandchildren.

From The Daily Wire, more on the abortion bill in Iowa.

From the Daily Caller, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) has a long history of supporting a group that supports gun control and amnesty for illegal aliens.

From the New York Post, New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) fires back at the City Council for its criticisms on air quality alerts.

From Breitbart, researchers find the toxic chemical acrolein at levels six times higher than normal near the site of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, Biden's approval rating still hovers around 40 percent.

And from the Genesius Times, all this time, Biden has been using common core math to calculate how many grandchildren he has.

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