Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Wednesday Wanderings

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

From National Review, we now have "772 days to slow the spread".

From FrontpageMag, we live in Orwellian times with diversity, free speech and "wokeness".

From Townhall, a U.S. Marine is home after a prisoner swap with Russia.

From The Washington Free Beacon, why it's time to regard China as a "genuine adversary".

From the Washington Examiner, a judge rules that Elon Musk is still subject to rules that limit the influence of his Tweets on the price of Tesla stock.

From The Federalist, removing Disney's privileges is not "revenge", but the least that Florida can do.

From American Thinker, the U.S. has become a feudal state with most of us as the serfs.

From CNS News, an illegal alien with links to terrorism is deported from the U.S. seven months after he was arrested.

From the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, Senator Diane Feinstein's (D-Cal) mental health is in question.  (via LifeZette)

From the eponymous site of Steve Gruber, new Twitter owner Elon Musk is a modern-day Howard Hughes.  (via LifeZette)

From NewsBusters, Harvard disinvites a left-wing feminist speaker who opposes male athletes in women's sports.

From Canada Free Press, presenting "Mr. Cana-DUH".

From TeleSUR, Mexican officers prevent a new caravan of migrants from advancing.

From TCW Defending Freedom, according to media gaslighters, "we're all trans fans and migrant-lovers".

From EasternEye, Islamists take over prisons in the U.K. and establish "no-go" zones.

From ReMix, a court in Frankfurt, Germany rules that Deutsche Bahn must offer a third gender option for its train tickets.

From Russia Today, President Putin promises a "lightning" response to strategic threats to Russia.

From Sputnik International, more on Putin's promise.

From The Moscow Times, Russians strip yellow and blue from their streets over the war in Ukraine.

From EuroNews, the E.U. accuses Russia of "blackmail" as it suspends gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.

From Euractiv, the E.U. "inches forward" on banning oil from Russia.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian port of Constanţa becomes a major route for Ukrainian grain.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Adevărul.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria refuses to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov leads a delegation to Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Radio Bulgaria, according to Deputy Prime Minister Assen Vasilev, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev's opinion that supplying weapons to Ukraine prolongs the war is "ignominious".

From the Greek Reporter, scientists find rocks on the Greek island of Santorini that resemble Martian rocks.  (I visited Santorini on a cruise in 2006, but did not go rock-hunting.)

From Ekathimerini, Greece has secured its supply of natural gas and will make its next payment to the Russian company Gazprom "in the last ten days of May".

From the Greek City Times, people in a village on the Greek island of Lesvos still put on a bull sacrifice festival.

From Balkan Insight, Skopje, North Macedonia Mayor Danela Arsovska locates a statue of Ottoman-era rebel Andon Lazov, and might call a referendum to have it reinstalled.

From Total Croatia News, will Russia suspend supplying natural gas to Croatia?  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Index.)

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia observes the Day of Uprising Against the Occupation, which commemorates the resistance against occupying forces in World War II.

From The Slovenia Times, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša accuses political rival Robert Golob of being "pro-Russian".

From The Malta Independent, Malta Public Transport launches two more electric buses.

From Malta Today, carbon dating sheds light on mysterious skeletons found in a church in Żejtun, Malta.

From ANSA, according to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, the Russian attack on Ukraine is pushing the E.U. toward unity.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland and NATO agree to increase their exchange of sensitive information.

From France24, recently reelected French President Emmanuel Macron is targeted with tomatoes.  (He thus suffered the fate about which Ringo Starr refused to sing.)

From RFI, the largest trade union in France urges Macron to consult civil society when setting his agenda for his new term in office.

From El País, Catalan husband and wife pastry chefs Jordi Roca and Alejandra Rivas open an ice cream shop in Houston, Texas.

From The Portugal News, 1,400 Ukrainian refugees are now working in Portugal.

From Free West Media, the U.K., the E.U., and the Biden administration all threaten Twitter.

From The North Africa Post, the IMF welcomes Morocco's "targeted measures" for mitigating the impact of rising energy prices.

From The New Arab, Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi claims that he did not betray former leader Mohamed Morsi.

From Gatestone Institute, NATO will be stronger if Finland becomes a member.

From The Stream, the roots of the American Revolution go back to the Middle Ages.

From The Daily Signal, how safe haven laws, which all 50 states have, help make abortion unnecessary.

From The American Conservative, the China Initiative, which the Biden administration's Justice Department ended, was not racist.

From The Western Journal, now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, automotive designer Henrik Fisker, whose Fisker cars rival Musk's Tesla, leaves Twitter and goes to Instagram.

From BizPac Review, Donald Trump the Younger launches a gun rights group to make sure that Democrats don't disarm American citizens.

From The Daily Wire, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner criticizes actor Mark Ruffalo for calling the Ukraine war a "gift".

From the Daily Caller, China reports the first human case of the H3N8 strain of the bird flu.

From the New York Post, for a cool $9 million, you can own Janet Jackson's residence in New York City.

From Breitbart, Dr. Fauci declines to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner because the thinks he could catch the coronavirus there.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, nearly two thirds of registered voters have had to adjust their budgets due to inflation.

And from The U.S. Sun and the "Sweet Meteor Of Death" department, an asteroid twice the size of the Empire State building will pass within about 2 million miles of the earth.  (via the New York Post)

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