Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Wednesday Wanderings

On a warm partly sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the tourism board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to oversee Disney World ends its "illegal and un-American" DEI policies.

From FrontpageMag, the newest indictment of former President Trump effectively criminalizes political dissent.

From Townhall, the judge assigned to preside over the trial stemming from Trump's newest indictment was appointed by then-President Obama and donated to his campaign nine times.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden wants to replicate California's disastrous homelessness policy.

From the Washington Examiner, more on Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminalization of dissent.

From The Federalist, the latest Trump indictment is a declaration against American voters and the right of free speech.

From American Thinker, how President Warren G. Harding turned America around.

From MRCTV, after losing billions on electric cars, Ford decides to embrace hybrid vehicles.

From NewsBusters, ABC misleads on the border crisis and ignore the large increase in apprehensions in July.  (This increase does not account for the illegal aliens who got through without being caught.)

From Canada Free Press, Special Counsel Smith's wife is connected to the Obamas.

From TeleSUR, teachers in Chile start a 48-hour strike.  (Don't they have summer vacation?  Oh, wait, it's winter down there.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, a return to the theater of coronavirus-mania.

From Snouts in the Trough, dystopian novels are not supposed to be guidebooks.

From EuroNews, Russia attacks grain facilities in Ukraine and starts naval drills in the Baltic Sea.

From Voice Of Europe, the district council of Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany refuses to accept an elected representative from the party AfD.

From ReMix, two Belarusian helicopters encroach into Polish airspace in the region of Białowieża.  (The Polish region of Białowieża includes a park of the same name, which is known for its forest and its European bison.)

From Balkan Insight, seeking the truth about Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina who were victims of the Holocaust.

From Morocco World News, the Chinese tire maker Sentury secures land on which to build its first factory in Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, France starts evacuating its citizens from Niger.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan reassigns high-ranking police officers close to former Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.

From Rûdaw, Yazidis mourn and remember the genocide committed by ISIS almost nine year ago.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian weightlifter Garik Karapetyan wins a gold medal at the European U20 and U23 weightlifting championships in Bucharest, Romania.

From AzerNews, Azerbaijani civil society representatives send an open letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

From North Press Agency, challenges mount of Syrians living in remote villages in the governorate of Raqqa.

From The Times Of Israel, E.U. Ambassador to the Palestinians Sven Kühn will not accuse Israel of apartheid, but regards the idea as worthy of discussion.

From Egypt Today, Egypt receives its first shipment of mazut, for use in its electric power stations.  (According to Wiki, mazut is a "low-quality heavy fuel oil".)

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's Sustainable Agricultural Rural Development Program supports more than 63,000 agricultural projects.

From DohaNews, Qatar resumes its air bridge to war-torn Sudan.

From The New Arab, Tunisian President Kais Saied dismisses Prime Minister Najla Bouden "without explanation".

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyIran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is reportedly preparing for protests ahead of the anniversary of Masha Amini, who died in police custody.

From Khaama Press, Afghanistan's defense ministry has repaired over 2,000 military vehicles.  (How many of those were left behind by the U.S., I wonder.)

From Dawn, a suspected terrorist in Quetta, Pakistan experiences premature detonation.

From India Today, how videos on social media fueled clashes in the Indian state of Haryana.

From OpIndia, in Haryana, several Hindus wear Muslim clothing to escape from a Muslim mob.

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dr. Abdul Momen, some foreign governments and international organizations don't want the Rohingya to be repatriated "at this moment".

From the Colombo Page, when in Sri Lanka, don't attack the Buddhist monks.

From Raajje, Maldivian President Mohamed Solih several development projects on the island of Muraidhoo.

From Reuters, the head of an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia is arrested for alleged blasphemy and hate speech over its unorthodox teachings.

From Gatestone Institute, which states really are racist?

From The Stream, Jesus does not belong to any particular race.

From The Daily Signal, according to legal experts, it's surprising what is - and what's not - in Trump's new indictment.

From The American Conservative, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's apostacy.

From The Western Journal, with Trump's third indictment, a pattern emerges.

From BizPac Review, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) ignores her state's residents and allows an electric vehicle company connected to the Chinese Communist Party to buy up land.

From The Daily Wire, police descend on the Russell Senate Office Building amid reports of an active shooter.

From the Daily Caller, a defense contractor is required to pay $1.3 million in restitution and go to jail for three months for providing the military with fraudulent parts.

From the New York Post, a review of the rebooted film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

From Breitbart, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces that he and his wife Sophie will divorce.

From Newsmax, the Republican National Committee releases a video showing 24 minutes of Democrats denying election results.

And from SFGate, a family-run restaurant in San Francisco refuses to raise the price of its $3.75 cheeseburger.

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