Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, contrary to charges by Democrats, the voting bill in Texas does not prevent anyone from voting.

From FrontpageMag, why President Biden's acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide is flawed.

From Townhall, it turns out that Dr. Fauci knew that masks weren't affective against the coronavirus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the intelligence community warns Biden of a terror threat at the Mexican border.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden considers new sanctions against Russia after a second ramsomware hack, this one against meat producer JBS SA.

From The Federalist, how ending freedom of expression infringes the right to have a private life.

From American Thinker, surviving a previous coronavirus infection is shown to be as effective for preventing infection as vaccines are.

From CNS News, former HUD Secretary Ben Carson points out how to almost guarantee that you won't live your life in poverty.

From LifeZette, according to former President Obama, his politics would not change if the existence of aliens is proven.

From NewsBusters, while Facebook censors conservative accounts, it has no problem with communist Chinese propaganda.

From Canada Free Press, how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario provincial Premier Doug Ford will snatch elections from voters, in a way similar to that done last November in the U.S.

From Global News, the province of Ontario will keep its schools closed to in-person learning until this coming fall.

From TeleSUR, leftist Peruvian presidential candidate Pedro Castillo claims to have clean hands.

From The Conservative Woman, will the coronavirus bring about the end of freedom in the U.K.?

From the Evening Standard, weekly coronavirus deaths in the U.K. are at their lowest since last September.

From the Irish Examiner, the results of Ireland's Leaving Cert tests will be released on September 3rd.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's health ministers advise the country to allow only fully vaccinated travelers to enter.

From Dutch News, the Sanguin blood donation service reports that over half of its donors have coronavirus antibodies.

From Free West Media, tribal chiefs in Namibia reject a proposed reparation agreement with Germany, which once colonized the place.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian authorities prevent a planned terror attack.

From Sputnik International, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum begins in St. Petersburg, Russia.

From Euractiv, according to Leningrad regional governor Alexander Drozdenko, testing on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany will start next week.  (The city of St. Petersburg was known as Leningrad during the Soviet era.  It appears that the surrounding region, or oblast, has retained that name.)

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian Football Federation publishes rules for attending the Euro 2020 matches in Bucharest.

From The Sofia Globe, the U.S. sanctions three Bulgarians for their alleged roles in corruption.

From Ekathimerini, Greek labor unions call for a 24-hour strike on June 10th.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegro is at a political impasse.

From Balkan Insight, a secretive far-right movement in Bosnia weds Bosniak nationalism and neo-Nazism.

From Malta Today, the Maltese government introduces summer courses for students affected by the coronavirus.

From Italy24News, the coronavirus persists in Catania, Italy.

From RFI, the coronavirus persists in southwestern France.

From ReMix, an interview with French MEP Nicolas Bay of the party National Rally, who warns that the French must fight back against Islamist who are waging a war against them.

From EuroNews, the European Commission unveils plans to reform the passport-free Schengen area.

From The North Africa Post, French President Emmanuel Macron expresses his "full support" for the governmental transition in Libya.

From Turkish Minute, a Turkish civil society organization chairman is investigated for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Times Of Israel, the Knesset elects Isaac Herzog as Israel's 11th president.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi orders that women will be allowed to work on the country's State Council and Public Prosecution starting on October 1st.

From The New Arab, Jordanian activists urge their countrymen to switch off their electricity for an hour to protest the import of gas from Israel.

From IranWire, a look at censorship in Iran.

From Yahoo News, Iran's largest warship catches fire and sinks in the Gulf of Oman.

From The Express Tribune, a Pakistani soldier is killed by an IED explosion in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

From The Afghanistan Times, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemns the bombings of civilian buses near the capital city of Kabul.

From India Today, is India's second coronavirus wave tapering off, and is a third wave inevitable?

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka prepares to face an oil leak from the tanker X-Press Pearl.

From Sp!ked, we must stop ignoring anti-Semitism from Muslims.

From The Straits Times, the Mufti of Singapore warns against violence and harmful attitudes against women.

From the Borneo Post, China claims that a military flight over waters near Malaysia was "routine training".

From Vietnam Plus, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Vietnam) sends a letter to President Vladimir Putin (Russia).

From Gatestone Institute, China's Belt and Road is being constructed using forced labor.

From The Stream, say the name Leah Sharibu.

From The Daily Signal, how the coronavirus could help working women.

From Space War, searching for the "mother" of modern Iraq, Gertrude Bell.

From The American Conservative, how America's food is getting outsourced.

From BizPac Review, on the first day of Pride Month, Disney is hit with a sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit.

From The Western Journal, President Biden botches a line from the Declaration of Independence.  (This might be a worthy sequel to "you know the thing".)

From the Miami Herald, a man learns the hard way that a paintball shooting will be taken seriously.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Daily Caller, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) laughs at the idea of retirement.

From The Daily Wire, a Democrat-connected group was behind ads intended to depress Republican voter turnout in 2018.

From Newsmax, pressure from woke corporations "strengthened" Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's (R) decision to sign a bill banning biological males from females sports.

And from the New York Post, musician Dolly Parton wears makeup to bed in case there's an earthquake.

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