Friday, April 29, 2022

Friday Phenomena

As the sunny but cool weather continues on the last Friday of April, here are some things going on:

From National Review, why are Republican Senators again pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens?

From FrontpageMag, how Presidents Obama and Biden destroyed the world's greatest military.

From Townhall, Border Patrol agents harshly criticize DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his statements made in front of several congressional committees.

From The Washington Free Beacon, First Lady Jill Biden's biography sells only 250 copies in the first week after its publication.

From the Washington Examiner, inflation reaches a 40-year high in the personal consumption expenditures price index.

From The Federalist, U.S. special forces veterans rescue a family abandoned during the withdrawal of Afghanistan and reunite them with their U.S. citizen father in Austin, Texas.

From American Thinker, the term "fossil fuels" is really a misnomer.

From CNS News, Secretary Mayorkas can't say if 42 people on the terror watch or no-fly list were released into the U.S.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) slams Biden on the border crisis.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, new Twitter owner Elon Musk is not happy with Biden's new Ministry of Truth.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, according to Musk, "the far left hates everyone", even themselves.

From Canada Free Press, journalist Piers Morgan and Fox News are caught in their lie about an interview with former President Trump.

From TeleSUR, Ecuador lifts its mask mandate.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the mainstream media's "outrageous misreporting" on the war in Ukraine.

From Snouts in the Trough, Jabberman is coming for your kids.

From Free West Media, Poland buys natural gas from Germany, who bought it from Russia.

From EuroNews, according to the UNHCR, over 3,000 migrants died at sea trying to get to Europe.

From Euractiv, the U.K. will not impose customs checks on imports from the E.U. until 2024.

From ReMix, according to Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, Sweden is not planning to hold a referendum on NATO membership if its parliament decides to apply for it.

From Balkan Insight, pro-Russian Bulgarian Socialists threaten Prime Minister Kiril Petkov over his support for Ukraine.

From The North Africa Post, Tunisia and China sign two health cooperation agreements.

From The New Arab, between 160,000 and 250,000 Palestinians, depending on the estimate, perform the last Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

From Dawn, former Pakistani National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri is allegedly attacked at a restaurant in the capital city of Islamabad.

From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan promises to issue a white paper on alleged corruption by his successor and his family.

From Pakistan Today, at least five Pakistani pilgrims are arrested for alleged sloganeering against their prime minister and others at the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia.  (I believe that this mosque is the second holiest site in Islam, behind only the Grand Mosque in Mecca.)

From The Hans India, in Hyderabad, India, Bharatiya Janata Party workers disrupt a speech by Telangana state Minister Vemula Prashant Reddy with chants of "Jai Shri Ram".

From the Hindustan Times, police in the Indian state of Punjab arrest Shiv Sena party leader Harish Singla.

From ANI, Indian Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi lambasts the Aam Aadmi Party for "lying" about an alleged coal shortage.

From India Today, dozens of students at the Banaras Hindu University's Women's College protest against an iftar dinner.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the increasing use of helmets by violent criminals in Bangladesh to conceal their identities.

From New Age, the U.S. donates 3 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to Bangladesh.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invites all parties represented in parliament to form an all-party government.

From the Daily Mirror, did President Rajapaksa agree to form a new interim government, as alleged by former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena?

From Raajje, the number of tourists arriving in the Maldive Islands in April increases by 55 percent over April of 2021.

From The Straits Times, Guangzhou, China tries to quell an outbreak of the coronavirus.

From Tempo(dot)co, Indonesian President Joko Widodo intends to mediate between Russia and Ukraine at the G20 summit.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Parti Socialis Malaysia asks why police question them over a peaceful assembly.

From the Borneo Post, according to state Government and Local Housing Minister Masidi Manjun, the Malaysian state of Sabah will adjust its coronavirus measures in necessary.

From Vietnam Plus, work starts on a monument to the late North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh in Phu Quoc, Vietnam.  (My spellchecker objects to "Phu", but has no problem with "Quoc".  I'll never figure that one out.)

From the Taipei Times, work starts on an aboriginal culture and arts project in Guangfu, Taiwan.

From The Mainichi, at an aquarium in Sakai, Japan, you can see and touch the body of a giant squid.

From Gatestone Institute, relations between the E.U. and China are in a "downward spiral".

From The Stream, no, Jesus would not be "woke".

From The Daily Signal, the film 2,000 Mules offers "vivid" evidence of voter fraud.

From The American Conservative, "it takes a village" in Hungary to help Ukrainian refugees.

From The Western Journal, the woman appointed to head the Ministry of Truth spread lies about Hunter Biden's laptop.

From BizPac Review, NPR is called out "bigly" for claiming that the economy is "sturdier than it looks".

From The Daily Wire, according to Van Jones of CNN, things have not gotten better for black Americans under President Biden.

From the Daily Caller, 12 pivotal primary races for the 2022 midterms.

From the New York Post, Meri Mion of Vicenza, Italy celebrates her 90th birthday with a cake provided by the U.S. Army, as compensation for one stolen from her by American troops during World War II.

From Breitbart, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra falsely claims that the Biden administration doesn't incentivize doctors to implement "anti-racism" policies.

And from GBH, a woman in East Boston, Massachusetts learns that her dog was not purchased, but leased.  (via NewsBreak)

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