Monday, April 4, 2022

Stories For 4/4

On the fourth day of the fourth month, here are some things going on:

From National Review, billionaire Elon Musk buys a 9.2 percent share of Twitter.

From FrontpageMag, Disney bows to the "woke" ideology.

From Townhall, another media hit job against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) falls flat.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson wanted jails to be emptied during the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

From the Washington Examiner, Hunter Biden's Secret Service rents a house near his house for $30,000 per month.

From The Federalist, the Alfa bank hoax is starting to look like Crossfire Hurricane.

From American Thinker, why the LGBTQ+ movement is fighting Florida's new education law.

From CNS News, Senator Bill Haggerty (R-TN) warns of a "tidal wave" of illegal migrants coming across the southern border if Title 42 is revoked.

From LifeZette, the Disney dream becomes a nightmare.

From NewsBusters, the networks ignore the border crisis for two months.

From Canada Free Press, in the Twilight Zone, President Biden is an animatronic robot trying to save his blow-up doll Vice President Harris.

From TeleSUR, Chilean President Gabriel Boric arrives in Argentina for his first official visit there.

From TCW Defending Freedom, get angry at the Great Replacement.

From Euractiv, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban "gloats" over his Fidesz party's supermajority electoral win.

From ReMix, four lessons from Orban's landslide victory.

From Russia Today, Germany plans to expel about 40 Russian diplomats.

From Sputnik International, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Lavrov, the "massacre" in Bucha, Ukraine was a "production" staged for Western media.

From The Moscow Times, the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv prepares to protect its statues from attacks by the Russian military.  (Perhaps Russia should send in some BLM and ProFa goons to do the job.)

From Free West Media, Russia demands a U.N. Security Council meeting over accusations of atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.

From EuroNews, the E.U. considers tougher sanctions against Russia due to the alleged atrocities in Bucha.

From Romania-Insider, pictures from an anti-war protest in Bucharest, Romania, and other stories.  (If you read Romanian, read about the protest at Libertatea.)

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is interrogated at the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office.

From The Sofia Globe, almost 40,000 Ukrainians, including about 25,000 children, have registered for temporary protection in Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, President Radev (Bulgaria) asks President Erdoğan (Turkey) for help in bringing Bulgarian and Turkish ships back from Ukraine.

From the Greek Reporter, Australia provides funds for the Remembrance Trail on the Greek island of Lemnos, to be constructed honor the fallen heroes of the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.

From Ekathimerini, Greece forms an action plan to avert shortages of food and energy.

From the Greek City Times, Greece plans to accelerate its gas exploration and to start drilling by 2025.  (How do you say "drill baby, drill" in Greek?)

From Balkan Insight, Canada deports a suspect accused of crimes against humanity to Bosnia.

From Total Croatia News, the Iskra shipyard in Šibenik, Croatia needs domestic shipbuilders.  (Šibenik was one of the places in Croatia which I visited in 2007.  I visited a church, but did not build any ships.  If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Total Slovenia News, the Slovenian government plans former measures to limit the price of electricity.

From The Slovenia Times, the mayor of Slovenj Gradec is voted the best one from Slovenia's 12 urban municipalities.

From The Malta Independent, airport workers, entertainers and hoteliers in Malta want more coronavirus measures to be discontinued.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela holds his first cabinet meeting since winning reelection on March 26th.

From ANSA, according to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, stopping war is possible.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland launches a platform for reporting child abuse.

From France24, supporters of murdered Corsican separatist Yvan Colonna clash with police in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.

From RFI, a meeting of Corsican political leaders and the French government is postponed due to the violence in Ajaccio.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese drivers buy cheaper gas in Spain, due to lower prices and a government-made discount.

From The North Africa Post, the British company Chariot announces the discovery of new natural gas reservoirs off the coast of Larache, Morocco.

From The New Arab, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, four children were killed by government shelling in the Syrian town of Maarat Al-Naasan.

From Kreately, a Muslim man carrying a "sharp weapon" tries to force his way into Gorakhnath Mandir in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.  (The fourth letter of the site's name is a Greek "omega", but its url has a small "a" in the fourth position.  The Gorakhnath Mandir, also called the Gorakhnath Math, is a temple and shrine of the Nath monastic order and tradition within Hinduism.)

From Gatestone Institute, China undercuts sanctions against Russia, but without any apparent "consequences".

From The Stream, former Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State/presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doesn't get jail, but undergoes "a baby step in the right direction".

From The Daily Signal, right-wing commentator Brett Bozell exposes the misdeeds of the left.

From The American Conservative, the left imposes its agenda through the banking system.

From American Wire, former President Obama makes his first visit to the White House since leaving office.

From BizPac Review, a Pennsylvania judges reverses his earlier decision by ordering the reinstatement of five Democrats to the West Chester School Board.

From WCCO, a review of footage of a 1970 teachers strike in Minneapolis finds an 11-year-old boy who would later sometimes be known as Prince.  (via BizPac Review)

From The Western Journal, why does President Biden keep taking a knee in official photos?  (Perhaps it's his way of breaking away from his former boss's habit of bowing.)

From Reuters, yet another member of Vice President Harris's staff announces his departure therefrom.  (via The Western Journal)

From The Daily Wire, the BLM leadership reportedly buys a $6 million mansion.  (This is not about any house bought by former BLM leader Patrisse Cullors, but about one bought by the organization itself.  Either way, it appears that "BLM" stands for "Buy Luxurious Mansions".)

From the Daily Caller, more on Hungarian Prime Minister Orban's reelection.

From the New York Post, an angry mother crashes a press conference for New York City Mayor Eric Adams to demand an end to the city's mask requirement for toddlers.

From the Star-Tribune, a Minneapolis man skips his sentencing for stealing a bus and allegedly steals a car.  (Now that's what I call "recidivism".  The story comes via the New York Post.)

From Breitbart, the media ignores alleged payouts to the Biden family, as detailed in texts from the aforementioned Hunter Biden.

From Newsmax, police in Sacramento, California arrest a suspect in connection with the mass shooting that occurred around 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning.

And from The Babylon Bee, in the Garden of Eden, Adam gets lazy and names a flying animal "fly".

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