Thursday, April 28, 2022

Thursday Links And Stuff

On a sunny but cool Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, are you ready for the DHS's Ministry of Truth?

From FrontpageMag, answering the people who call our Constitution "trash".

From Townhall, here's what President Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan left behind.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an Iowa Democratic congressional candidate wants kids to stay in public schools, other than her daughter.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden is "not concerned about a recession".

From The Federalist, 100 facts which Twitter, now that it's owned by Elon Musk, should allow people to say in their Tweets.

From American Thinker, Biden unveils his new plan to transfer money from the responsible to the irresponsible.

From CNS News, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas denies that the border is open.

From LifeZette, some questions for new Twitter owner Elon Musk.  (This and several other articles have yesterday's date, but I didn't see them yesterday.  Maybe they are misdated or showed up later yesterday than when I looked at Lifezette.)

From NewsBusters, in their morning broadcasts, networks ignore bad economic news.

From Canada Free Press, why is Biden the only president in all of U.S. history who appears to hate Americans?

From Free West Media, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto expresses his concern over the treatment of Slovakian opposition figures.

From EuroNews, the Kremlin warns that European security is threatened by Western weapons supplies after the U.K.'s foreign secretary calls for Russian forces to be "pushed out" of Ukraine.

From Euractiv, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Russia's gas "blackmail" and promises E.U. support for Poland and Bulgaria.

From ReMix, Poland could help Germany become independent of Russian oil.

From Balkan Insight, the European Court of Human Rights orders Croatia to compensate five ethnic Serb sisters whose father was killed in 1995 for wrongly assessed court costs.

From Morocco World News, the year's holiest night for Muslims.

From The North Africa Post, a Tunisian government worker is arrested for allegedly insulting President Kais Saied.  (If the U.S. had that sort of law, half of us would be arrested for insulting former President Trump, and the other half for insulting President Biden.)

From the Libyan Express, 94 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya, but 12 others are feared dead.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Turkey is determined to put an end to the terrorist group PKK.

From Turkish Minute, according to the IBAHRI, the conviction of Turkish businessman Osman Kaval for "attempting to topple the government" is a "blatant disregard for the rule of law".

From Rûdaw, drought ruins thousands of acres of farmland in the Iraqi province of Duhok.

From Armenpress, the Armenian Genocide is commemorated at the U.S. Capitol.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, special representatives from Armenia and Turkey will meet in Vienna, Austria on May 3rd.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasisades starts a two-day visit to Estonia.

From The Syrian Observer, according to an official in Syria's Baath Party, Syrian democracy is comparable to European democracy.

From The961, a Lebanese medical student records the highest score ever on the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination.

From Arutz Sheva, an IDF soldier is arrested for writing threatening posts against Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

From The Times Of Israel, according to Bennett, for Jews, Holocaust memory is part of their DNA.

From The Jerusalem Post, the debate heats up over whether Jews are allowed to enter the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.  (I read years ago that many Jews will not enter the Temple Mount because they might inadvertently step into where the Holy of Holies was once located.  No one was allowed to enter this part of the ancient Temple, except for the high priest once a year on the Day of Atonement.)

From YNetNews, Holocaust denial is still common in the Arab world, but views there are changing.

From the Jewish Press, Israel gave an honorary plaque to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine hours before he spoke at a virtual conference alongside terrorist leaders.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt's tourism ministry launches a social media campaign to introduce its new visa facilities.

From Egypt Today, when in Egypt, please do not deface the antiquities.

From the Sudan Tribune, a Sudanese court releases detained members of the suspended Empowerment Removal Committee.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Italy grants Ethiopia €1.5 million to support its food safety project.

From the Saudi Gazette, the Saudi Arabian Supreme Court calls on all Muslims in the country to sight the Shawwal crescent moon this coming Saturday.

From The New Arab, suspected ISIS gunmen kill seven people at an Ramadan iftar meal in eastern Syria.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian authorities allegedly impose "stone age" restrictions at universities.

From IranWire, executions in Iran reportedly increased by 25 percent after Ebrahim Raisi became the country's president.

From Iran International, according to the organization Reporters Without Borders, the U.N. should press for the legal rights of jailed Iranian journalists.

From Khaama Press, the E.U. sends 34 tonnes of food and medical aid to Afghanistan.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, a man in the Afghani province of Kunduz allegedly kills his brother with an ax.

From OpIndia, a Sikh family in Rajpur, Punjab, India is allegedly intimidated into allowing Muslims to convert a gurudwara into a mosque.  (The article does not use the word "gurudwara", but I think that it's the word for a Sikh house of worship.)

From the International Business Times, a former University of Alabama student is sentenced to over seven years in prison for concealing the transmission of money to al-Qaeda.

From Gatestone Institute, Russian President Putin's genocide in Ukraine on Holocaust Memorial Day.

From The Stream, Mickey Mouse gets told "Okay, groomer".

From The Daily Signal, why one rancher in the Rio Grande valley wants a border wall.

From ITR Economics, delay due to pessimism is gonna cost ya.

From The American Conservative, liberals, not conservatives, have integrated church and state.

From The Western Journal, two new rules from President Biden means that incandescent light bulbs will soon be gone.  (If there's an earthquake in New Jersey, it might be Thomas Edison rolling over in his grave.)

From BizPac Review, Democrats distressed about the upcoming midterm elections worry that their leaks to the press about the Capitol riot are backfiring.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) demands the immediate end of the aforementioned Ministry of Truth.  (He doesn't use the term "Ministry of Truth", but as far as I'm concerned, the Disinformation Governance Board deserves that name.  I'm by no means the first person to use it.  For example, see TFIGlobal.)

From the Daily Caller, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) is "alarmed" by a video of Biden trying to pronounce the word "kleptocracy".

From the New York Post, Mexican police find a crime scene - from 900 A.D.

From Breitbart, the streaming service CNN+ shuts down two days ahead of schedule.

From Newsmax, the Russian navy deploys trained dolphins to protect their base in Sevastopol, Crimea.

And from WSBS, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, money does not grow on trees, but you can still get it from one of them.  (via Newsbreak)

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