Thursday, April 7, 2022

Thursday Links

As the rainy weather continues on a Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the horror in Bucha, Ukraine.

From FrontpageMag, the company Ben & Jerry's tries to enforce food apartheid in the Palestinian territories.

From Townhall, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed, with three Republicans voting in her favor.

From The Washington Free Beacon, U.S. Senators, governors and others call on Yale to punish the mob which disrupted a free speech panel.

From the Washington Examiner, according to an opinion column, Democrats "cry crocodile tears" over high gasoline prices.

From The Federalist, the January 6th Inquisition Committee is to America what the John Doe investigation was to Wisconsin.

From American Thinker, 457 years after the Ottoman siege of Malta, Pope Francis surrenders to Islam.

From CNS News, the U.N. suspends Russia from its human rights council.

From LifeZette, President Biden encourages coronavirus-infected illegal migrants to cross the southern border.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, hosts on The View get into a heated exchange over Title 42.  (via LifeZette)

From the Objectivistaccording to former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), the Biden administration is more out of touch than any other in modern history.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, and speaking of New Gingrich, will there be a second "Contract with America"?

From Canada Free Press, what former President Obama's 3rd term would look like.

From CBC News, according to First Nations leaders, birth alerts are still happening at a hospital in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, in spite of Ontario's decision to stop them.

From Global News, six cases of the coronavirus variant XE have been reported in Canada.

From CTV News, two RCMP officers say that they started shooting at a mass shooter at a gas station in Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada when he lifted an RCMP pistol at them.

From TeleSUR, thousands of Mexicans rally to support President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ahead of a recall referendum.  (Imagine a presidential impeachment proceeding which is carried out, not by Congress, but by the people in general.  On the other hand, this sort of thing is faced by the governors of some American states.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the BBC is desperate for the privatization of Channel 4 to fail.

From Snouts in the Trough, Biden's "sad sad snubbing".

From the Express, over 4,000 homes in 10 English counties undergo a power outage.

From the Evening Standard, England's Napier Barracks, used to house asylum seekers, must be closed.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a security guard at the British Embassy in Berlin denies spying for Russia.

From the (Irish) Independent, Russia expels two Irish diplomats based at Ireland's embassy in Moscow.

From the Irish Examiner, according to Ukrainian Ambassador to Ireland Larysa Gerasko, Ukrainian refugees in Ireland want to work, but will need some help getting on their feet.

From VRT NWS, to make Belgium less reliant on Russian energy, cook with your microwave.

From The Brussels Times, a dangerous Palestinian is captured in the Belgian Flemish province of Limburg.

From the NL Times, housing prices fall in the Netherlands for the first time in three years.

From Dutch News, inflation in the Netherlands reaches 9.7 percent.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at CBS, which is not related to the American broadcaster CBS News.)

From Deutsche Welle, German intelligence has reportedly intercepted messages by Russian troops discussing the murders in Bucha, Ukraine.

From Euractiv, the German government warns of a "spillover-effect" from the war in Ukraine into the Western Balkans.

From the CPH Post, Denmark will be the home of a new NATO center.

From Polskie Radio, Polish President Andrzej Duda tells CNN that it's "hard to deny" that Russian troops are committing "genocide" in Ukraine.

From Radio Prague, according to Czech radio, the office of the Czech president has shredded 32 more classified documents.

From The Slovak Spectator, can the new cycling route in the Slovak region of Spiš be successful?  (Full disclosure:  Some of my own Slovak ancestors come from Spiš, so if I ever go over there and take a ride, it will be a homecoming of sorts.)

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian House Speaker László Kövér has some harsh words for left-wing politicians.

From Hungary Today, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary is willing to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at the Hungarian edition of Forbes and a related story at G7.)

From About Hungary, Orban calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during talks with Russian President Putin.

From Free West Media, the European Commission starts "rule of law" proceedings against Hungary just after its parliamentary election.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian former prisoners at Croatia's wartime Lora detention camp condemn the sentences given to a former camp commander and a former prison guard.

From EuroNews, why did the "red forest" around the nuclear plant at Chernobyl defeat Russian troops?

From ReMix, one unexpected effect of the war in Ukraine might be a shortage of chocolate.

From The North Africa Post, to replace its supply of energy from Russia, Italy turns to Libya.

From The New Arab, the IMF reaches an agreement on $3 billion in aid to Lebanon.

From Reuters, the Maldive Islands shelters the yacht of a sanctioned Russian billionaire.

From The SportsGrail, an Indian Instagram influencer calls for the deaths of Hindus.

From Gatestone Institute, when will President Biden see that his mistakes are harming American interests?

From The Stream, with mixed emotions, Major League Baseball is back.

From The Daily Signal, don't believes Biden's claim that he's "only taxing the rich".

From Space War, in talks with NATO, Ukraine asks for "weapons, weapons, weapons".

From Sino Daily, China warns of "strong measures" if U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) visits Taiwan.  (I'm no fan of Pelosi, but due to my animus toward communism and communist governments, I'm siding with her on this one.)

From The American Conservative, will get get fooled by the groomers again?

From The Western Journal, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reacts in the creepiest way to the knickname given to him by his employees.

From BizPac Review, right-wing commentator Allie Stuckey hits a left-wing nerve by flipping the script on groomers.

From The Daily Wire, journalist Megyn Kelly claims that the aforementioned President Putin tried to get in her head during an interview.

From the Daily Caller, Californians are shocked to learn that electric vehicle use increases the demand for electricity, which in turn increases its price.

From the New York Post, in expressing support for Elon Musk's involvement with Twitter, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) admits liking the breaking wind sound effect in Tesla vehicles.

From Breitbart, according to a survey, 73 percent of Americans think that the economy is on the wrong track.

From Newsmax, the U.N.'s humanitarian chief is "not optimistic" about a ceasefire in Ukraine.

And from the Genesius Times, the aforementioned Speaker Pelosi tests positive for the coronavirus, but is asymptomatic due to all the alcohol in her blood.

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