Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Wednesday Whatnot

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

From National Review, after an armed man is arrested at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house, the Democrats need to call off targeting the justices.

From FrontpageMag, did an employee at Mickey Dee's intentionally stuff a fish sandwich with bacon so that a Muslim family would eat it?  (In my experience, Mickey Dee's Filet-O-Fish normally doesn't include bacon.)

From Townhall, the White House and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) cheered the intimidation of SCOTUS justices.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats go all in to defeat black veteran Richard Irvin in the Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary.

From the Washington Examiner, Republican governors rightly reject President Biden's transgender lunch funding blackmail.

From The Federalist, the fatal flaw in actor Matthew McConaughey's "common sense" gun plan.

From American Thinker, trying to sell global warming to Eskimos.  ("Global warming", did the article say?  Come on, it's now "climate change".  And don't say "Eskimos", it's supposed to be "Inuit".)

From CNS News, according to NBC, the January 6th Inquisition Committee "has some work to do" due to the decline in the belief that then-President Trump was responsible for the Capitol riot.  (In a way, I would agree.  In my opinion, the Committee needs to investigate if Trump offered National Guard troops to protect the Capitol; if and why Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) and or D.C. Mayor Bowser declined the offer; if and why police allowed rioters into the building; and whether any agents provocateurs from the FBI and/or any left wing organizations were involved.)

From LifeZette, Biden's inflation is the worst tax on American pay checks.

From NewsBusters, more on the incident at Justice Kavanaugh's house.

From Canada Free Press, lawyers might just be the problem.

From TeleSur, Venezuelan President Maduro visits Turkish President Erdoğan.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K.'s Tories must take off their blinkers and get rid of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.  (Or as I call him, Boris the Spider.)

From Free West Media, more German retirees are forced to go back to work.

From EuroNews, one person is killed and nine others injured when a car runs into pedestrians in Berlin.

From CNN, more on the car attack in Berlin.

From Euractiv, far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's bloc sets out its economic plans ahead of France's parliamentary elections.

From ReMix, according to Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski, Poland's willingness to accept Ukrainian refugees was due to Christianity.

From Balkan Insight, Bulgaria's governing coalition falls apart as the party There's Such a People withdraws due to disagreements about a dispute with North Macedonia.

From Morocco World News, according to Moroccan Ambassador to the U.N. Omar Hilale, Polisario member Sultana Khaya is not a defender of human rights.

From The North Africa Post, Algeria is asked about where its Saturday and Sunday people are.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey intends to conduct an operation to bring 500,000 Syrians safely back into Syria.  (Will my two Syrian sources have anything to say about this?  Stay tuned.)

From Turkish Minute, according to an intelligence report, Turkey is one of the four main countries which conducted espionage in Germany during 2021.

From Rûdaw, according to Prime Minister Mustafa al-Khadimi, "90 percent" of the disputes between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region have been settled.

From Armenpress, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan receives the Council of Europe's Venice Commission President Claire Bazy-Malaurie.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenian authorities tell Bazy-Malaurie that they are committed to the process of democratic reforms.

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot education ministry announces free Greek lessons for Ukrainian refugees.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian and Russian forces are boosted due to Turkey signaling an upcoming offensive operation.

From North Press Agency, according to a local human rights organization, Turkey's possible invasion of northern Syria could have "catastrophic repercussions".  (Yes, my two Syrian sources have stories about the operation mentioned in HDN above.)

From The961, Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport is ready to welcome tourists into Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, on the Israel-Lebanon border, Hezbollah terrorists disguise themselves as environmental activists.

From The Times Of Israel, according to an op-ed, former Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli right are about to regain power and will hold it for a long time.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel is "prepared to defend" the Karish gas drilling rig after threats from Lebanese officials.

From YNetNews, Liberia submits a formal request to open a trade office in Jerusalem that could in the future become an embassy.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt will establish marine ambulance centers in the Red Sea and South Sinai governorates.

From Egypt Today, Egypt will launch a satellite from Florida aboard the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9.

From the Sudan Tribune, Deputy SPLM N leader Yasir Arman denounces remarks made by the movement's leader Malik Agar criticizing demonstrations against Sudan's military coup.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the National Bank of Ethiopia issues licenses to eight new private commercial banks.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia plans to invest $100 million to train 100,000 young people for tourism-related jobs.

From The New Arab, the Syrian Democratic Forces are "ready to work with" the Syrian government if Turkey invades.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iran turns off two surveillance devises used by U.N. inspectors to monitor its uranium enrichment.

From IranWire, three Iranians on the U.K.'s planned deportation flights to Rwanda are political cases.

From Iran International, a passenger train derails in eastern Iran, resulting in 21 deaths and 60 serious injuries.

From Khaama Press, Indian officials are reportedly considering reopening their country's mission in Kabul, Afghanistan without its senior diplomats.

From Pajhwok Afghan News, according to a British newspaper, U.K. parliamentcritter David Lammy (Labour) is visiting Kabul to assess the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

From the Afghanistan Times, over 100 women display their handmade products at an international exhibition in Kabul.

From OpIndia, a Muslim boy exposes the teachings of Bangladeshi madrasas.

From the India Times, al-Qaeda warns of suicide attacks against Indian cities over comments made by two Bharatiya Janata Party spokespersons about the Islamic prophet Mohammed.  (Although this site's name is similar to that of The Times Of India, they don't appear to be related.)

From WION, Iran executes 12 ethnic Baluch in a single day.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.N. will justify a "mirror image" of Russian President Putin's war in Ukraine.

From The Stream, red flag gun laws aren't "common sense" safety measures, but the new Jim Crow.

From The Daily Signal, "how vocational-technical schools are helping students to achieve the American dream".

From Space War, China's new drone carrier, officially called a research vessel, hints at "swarm" ambitions for the Pacific.

From Space Daily, according to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, China intercepted an Australian patrol jet over international waters.

From The American Conservative, about gun ownership and citizenship in a republic.

From The Western Journal, a journalist takes a road trip in an electric car, taking more time charging the car than sleeping.

From BizPac Review, a former science teacher from Kansas reportedly pleads guilty to forming and leading an all-female ISIS battalion.  (This might give new meaning to the phrase "we're not in Kansas any more".)

From The Daily Wire, Twitter changes its mind and complies with Elon Musk's demands for transparency.

From the Daily Caller, leading Democrat congresscritters prioritize legislation on regulating big cat ownership over bills that would boost domestic energy production.

From the New York Post, according to New York gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino (R), the Biden administration is sending "single adult men" on migrant flights meant for children.

From Breitbart, gas prices reach a new high for the 11th straight day.

From The Hill, Democrats are becoming frustrated by President Biden's weak responses to current crises.  (Silly Dems, don't you realize that Biden and others want at least some of these crises to take place?  The story comes via Breitbart.)

From Newsmax, the U.S. moves to loosen some Trump-era restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba.

And from The U.S. Sun, a man meets an attractive woman online, but it turns out to be an act of catfishing by his ex-girlfriend.  (Isn't that the basic plot of The Pina Colada Song by Rupert Holmes?  The story comes via the New York Post.)

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Tuesday Tidings

On a warm cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden needs to stop complaining.

From FrontpageMag, according to Biden, you can't see how good the economy is.

From Townhall, CNN's new boss is "evaluating" anchors Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how the left learned to love one instance of domestic terrorism.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats make a last-ditch effort in a special election to save a House seat in Texas.

From The Federalist, congresscritter Liz Cheney's (R-WY) January 6th Inquisition Committee wants to abolish the electoral college.

From American Thinker, why former President Trump should not run for his old job in 2024.

From CNS News, we're doing everything we can to lower gasoline prices, claims the White House.

From LifeZette, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) attacks her fellow Democrats for not using the term "Latinx".

From NewsBusters, two males identifying as female dominate a women's cycling event.

From Canada Free Press, AOC's latest publicity stunt is broadcast on Fox News.

From TeleSUR, thousands of people in the Cuban province of Matanzas are evacuated due to floods.

From TCW Defending Freedom, how can the U.K.'s government of deceivers protect anyone's "safety"?

From Snouts in the Trough, have the people of the U.K. all been "rwandaed"?

From the CPH Post, camping in Denmark appears ready to set another record in 2022.

From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defends her controversial approval of Poland's recovery plan.

From Hungary Today, Hungary offers Nigeria 10 million forint in aid after the attack on a Catholic church in which at least 50 people were killed.

From About Hungary, according to Minister of Economic Development Márton Nagy, Hungary will introduce a tax on "extra profits".  (Who gets to define which profits are "extra"?  Oh, yeah, the Hungarian government, of course.)

From Russia Today, according to an op-ed, American weapons will lead to more deaths in Ukraine, but won't have an effect on the war's outcome.

From Sputnik International, according to a journalist, a Russian win in Ukraine is necessary for stability in the Middle East.

From The Moscow Times, a Russian court orders the arrest of science fiction writer Dmitry Glukhovsky for allegedly criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Romania-Insider, hundreds of trucks are stuck at Romania's borders with Ukraine and Hungary.  (If you read Romania, read the story at Europa Liberă.)

From Novinite, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov comments on why Bulgaria would not let Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov not being allowed into the country's airspace, and on other matters.

From The Sofia Globe, a U.S.-funded renovation of an ancient Thracian tomb near Sveshtari, Bulgaria us unveiled.  (The ancient region of Thrace includes the European portion of modern Turkey, and some adjacent areas of modern Bulgaria and Greece.)

From Radio Bulgaria, thanks to radio presenters such as Maya Daskalova, Radio Bulgaria programs are broadcasted on over 90 world radio stations.

From the Greek Reporter, ancient Greek dwellings known as "dragon houses" are still standing today.

From Ekathimerini, a man is arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece for allegedly shooting a gun into the air and possessing drugs.

From the Greek City Times, Turkish media claims that the Greek islands of Agathonisi, Farmakonisi, and others really belong to Turkey.

From Balkan Insight, the Bosniak-Croat Federation component of Bosnia and Herzegovina votes to ban small hydroelectric plants.

From Total Croatia News, the Nikola Tesla EV Rally, known as the "world's quietest race", gets underway in Rovinj, Croatia.  (It will pass through the city of Šibenik and end in the port of Zadar, both of which I visited in 2007.)

From Total Slovenia News, according to the paper Dnevnik, statistics on illegal migration do not justify Austria's passport controls on its border with Slovenia.

From The Malta Independent, according to Maltese europarliamentcritter Dr. Josianne Cutajar, the E.U. needs to do more for its islands.

From Malta Today, a section of the promenade in Marsaskala, Malta collapses, but no one is injured.

From ANSA, Italian police arrest 14 members of a Pakistani terror cell.

From Free West Media, a public school in Bari, Italy tells students to buy an Apple iPad or drop out.  (For a look at Bari, go to this blog's archives for September 2012.)

From SwissInfo, trying to figure out energy bills in Switzerland.

From France24, health workers in France protest for higher pay and more staff ahead of the country's parliamentary elections.

From RFI, 18 people go on trial in Marseilles, France for allegedly trafficking horsemeat that was unfit for human consumption.

From ReMix, an illegal migrant from Tunisia becomes the first person arrested in connection with a wave of hypodermic needle attacks in France and the U.K.

From El País, jaguars are reintroduced into Argentina.

From Euractiv, the bacteria Legionella is found in over half of the tourist facilities evaluated in Spain's Balearic Islands.

From The Portugal News, the Portuguese tourism sector is looking for foreign workers.

From The North Africa Post, Rabat, Morocco holds the first ministerial meeting of the African Atlantic States.

From The New Arab, a U.S. envoy will visit Lebanon next week to discuss its maritime gas dispute with Israel.

From OpIndia, the Minorities Democratic Party in the Indian state of Maharashtra issues a death threat against former Bharatiya Janata Party spokeswoman Nupur Sharma for her statement on Islam.

From Firstpost, an alleged Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist who delivered mosque sermons is arrested in Srirampura, Karnataka, India.

From The Telegraph, a man in East Burdwan, West Bengal, India allegedly chops off his wife's right hand in order to keep her from taking a government job as a nurse.  (This site is from India and should not be confused with the British site having the same name.)

From Gatestone Institute, how the Free World can prevent a repeat of Ukraine in Taiwan.

From The Stream, Neocons and NeverTrumpers keep on collaborating with the enemy.

From The Daily Signal, new charts show the harm resulting from President Biden's "budget-busting binge".

From Space War, China accuses Canada and Australia of "disinformation" over encounters with its military jets.

From The American Conservative, the size of weddings and funerals has been limited, but not so with Pride parades.  (Two years ago, it seemed that no government officials wanted to limit the size of BLM and Antifa riots protests.)

From The Western Journal, 2nd Amendment user Kyle Rittenhouse releases a video of himself firing an automatic gun, and has a message for the president.

From BizPac Review, congresscritter Eric Swalwell (D-Cal) keeps on flying and spending money.

From The Daily Wire, singer Kid Rock refuses to apologize for his drunken rant in which he slammed TV hosts Oprah Winfrey and Joy Behar.

From the Daily Caller, the CDC removes its monkeypox mask recommendation after one day.

From the New York Post, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admits that current levels of inflation are "unacceptable".

From Breitbart, police in Sweden are concerned that weapons being used in Ukraine could end up in the hands of Swedish criminal gangs.

From Newsmax, according to a poll, a majority of Americans believe that another depression is on the way.

And from WLWT, a Cincinnati policeman is fired after getting the words "pure" and "evil" tattooed on his hands.

Monday, June 6, 2022

Links For D-Day

On the anniversary of the Allied landings in the French region of Normandy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, when will President Biden start firing people?

From FrontpageMag, the real reason for the baby formula shortage.

From Townhall, gas prices have doubled since Biden took office.

From The Washington Free Beacon, why Harvard Law School is less woke than Yale Law School.

From the Washington Examiner, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) blasts Biden for tying school lunches to LGBT policy.

From The Federalist, nine big things which we learned from the prosecution of Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.  (My spellchecker objects to "Sussmann", which is how he spells his last name, but has no problem with "Sussman", with a single "n".)

From American Thinker, the most terrifying aspect of school shootings.

From CNS News, the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri explains that a woman shot by police was armed, despite what a witness said.

From LifeZette, Biden is making his fellow Americans poorer.

From NewsBusters, networks pump an inflated stat about mass shootings and absolve far-left cities and prosecutors blame.

From Canada Free Press, problems with Big Tech won't be solved by big government.

From CBC News, due to higher food prices, almost a quarter of Canadians are eating less.

From Global News, tax charges against former Canadian parliamentcritter Rob Anders (Conservative-Calgary) are stayed.

From CTV News, the Canadian federal government names John Ware, a U.S.-born slave who became a successful rancher a person of national significance.

From TeleSUR, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decides against attending the Summit of the Americas.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a no-confidence vote today.

From the Express, Prince Harry and Meghan Markel fly back to California in a private jet with no sign of having repaired their relations with the rest of the British royal family.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. parliamentcritters start voting on the no-confidence motion against Boris Johnson.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. reports 77 new cases of monkeypox, bringing its total to 302.

From the (Irish) Independent, a British national appears in court after €4.9 worth of she-don't-lie is seized from him in Dublin, Ireland.

From the Irish Examiner, almost 6,800 Ukrainian students are enrolled in Irish schools.

From VRT NWS, the Belgian town of Landen sees its worst flooding in 20 years.

From The Brussels Times, Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will leave tomorrow to make a state visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From the NL Times, according to the Dutch airline KLM, almost all of its passengers stranded on Saturday have either reached their destinations or have been rebooked.

From Dutch News, the amount of nitrogen compound pollution in some parts of the Netherlands will have to cut by 70 to 80 percent in order to comply with a court ruling.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NRC.)

From Deutsche Welle, Germany tries to forge energy connections with countries in Africa.

From Free West Media, Wiesbaden, Germany has so many problems with electric buses that the city has gone back to diesel-fuel buses.

From Polskie Radio, Polish weapons are reportedly earning compliments in Ukraine.

From ReMix, a possible new European alliance could give Poland an alternative to the E.U.

From Radio Prague, Czech economic diplomats meet in Prague in person, for the first time since 2019.

From The Slovak Spectator, victims of a police raid conducted on June 19th, 2013 in Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia will be compensated.

From Daily News Hungary, is the Hungarian government really "proto-fascist" and "white nationalist"?  (My other two Hungarian sources have no stories for today, their most recent being from three days ago except for one from two days ago.  If there is any reason why they might be taking a day off, I'm not aware of it.)

From EuroNews, Russia criticizes Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia for not allowing Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to fly through their airspace in order to visit Serbia.

From Euractiv, record inflation is a hot topic ahead of the French parliamentary elections.

From Balkan Insight, Bosnian war survivors are angered by renaming of a street in the capital of Sarajevo after a war crimes defendant who died during his trial.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and Libya discuss cooperation in strategic planning.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and other countries protest "Islamophobic" remarks made by Indian official Nupur Sharma.

From RAIR Foundation, British Muslims protest against the film The Lady of Heaven.

From FXEmpire, M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo kill two Congolese soldiers.

From Gatestone Institute, the liberation of Europe and the fall of the Third Reich.

From The Stream, the Matt Walsh film What Is a Woman? exposes the disturbing transgender agenda.

From The Daily Signal, it's time to get away from the gun control debate loop.

From Space War, South Korea and the U.S. launch missiles in response to North Korea's missile tests.

From The American Conservative, how to abate the baby formula crisis.

From The Western Journal, how a pregnant woman armed with an AR-15 dropped an armed home invader who was attacking her 11-year-old daughter.

From BizPac Review, a billionaire former Republican spends lots of money in his effort to become the next mayor of Los Angeles.

From The Daily Wire, Burger King Austria introduces the "Pride Whopper".  (I say that like Mickey D's and other fast food joints, when it comes to the Seven Deadly Sins, BK should stick to gluttony.)

From the Daily Caller, the movie Top Gun: Maverick has earned over $550 million worldwide.

From the New York Post, New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) lashes out at his city's criminal justice system.

From The Sun and the "oops" department, pro cyclist Luis Carlos Chia wins the third stage of the race Vuelta a Colombia, and then crashes into his wife.  (via the New York Post)

From WESH, a Florida man is convicted of abusing his stepson due to a waitress noticing bruises on the boy.  (via the New York Post)

From Breitbart, the establishment media are lukewarm about President Biden's possible second term.

From Newsmaxat least 160 Conservative U.K. parliamentcritters have expressed their support for the aforementioned Prime Minister Johnson.

From CNBC, the Justice Department moves to seize two jets from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.  (via Newsmax)

And from The Babylon Bee, some signs to look for if you think that former First Lady/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is sending hitmen after you.  (She wouldn't do that to yours truly, would s

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Sunday Links

On a warm sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a poll, almost three quarters of Americans disapprove of President Biden's handling of inflation.

From Townhall, we now know who's urging Biden to "forgive" student loans.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the Doobie Brothers.

From the Washington Examiner, the California Court of Appeals rules that Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon must actually do his job.

From American Thinker, disarming victims is not a good way to fight crime.

From NewsBusters, The New York Times uses the Uvalde, Texas shooting to drum up support for gubernatorial candidate Bob O'Rourke (D-TX).

From Canada Free Press, Russia's war against Ukraine reaches its 100th day.

From TeleSUR, Colombian President Iván Duque is sentenced to five days of house arrest for contempt of court.

From TCW Defending Freedom, a poem on surviving an eco-warrior boat trip to an offshore bird chopper assembly.

From Snouts in the Trough, how will you little people spend your "carbon budgets"?

From Free West Media, according to a study, coronavirus vaccines are linked to 25 percent of heart attacks in young adults.

From EuroNews, allied World War II veterans gather to commemorate the Normandy landings on D-Day.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, in Berlin, a rejected asylum seeker from Tunisia allegedly stabs his ex-wife.  (If you read German, read the story at BZ.)

From The North Africa Post, Morocco launches this year's edition of Operation Marhaba, under which Moroccans abroad will be able to visit their home country.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia hopes to triple its number of foreign tourists in 2022.

From the People's Gazette, "killer herdsmen" open fire in a Catholic church in Owo, Nigeria, killing at least 28 people.  (via the eponymous site of Robert Spencer)

From The Print, how an Islamic cleric educated in Lucknow, India inspired the first jihad in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.

From Gatestone Institute, NATO should not pay ransom to Turkey, but should instead amend its rules to expel the country.

From The Stream, how to make a manufactured crisis.

From Space War, according to the South Korean military, North Korea has launched multiple ballistic missiles.

From The Daily Signal, some letters to the editor.

From The Western Journal, the private plane that got too close to Biden's Delaware beach house was not following a flight plan.

From Fox News, in a straw poll taken at a conservative conference in Colorado, Florida Governor DeSantis (R) beats former President Trump.  (via BizPac Review)

From BizPac Review, Trump "torches" former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) for saying that the Republicans didn't have "the guts" to impeach him.

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll, Biden's approval is cratering on key issues.

From the New York Post, for the first time in a month, Russian missiles strike Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Breitbart, the aforementioned Governor DeSantis prioritizes school safety.

From Newsmax, Senator John Barrosso (R-WY) warns of looming power outages.

And from the Daily Caller, a Disneyland Paris employee breaks up a marriage proposal.

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Saturday Stuff

On a warm sunny Saturday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, corporate wokeness was just an excuse for Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg to resign.

From Townhall, woke organizations push the transgender agenda on young students.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while the left says "tax the rich", congresscritter Kathy Manning (D-NC) has over a million bucks in a fund based in the Cayman Islands.  (I have a device which will show many left-wingers the "rich" whom they wish to tax.  It's called a mirror.)

From the Washington Examiner, "back-alley" abortions are already happening - in abortion clinics.

From American Thinker, it's time to get rid of the word "homophobia".

From LifeZette, Pennsylvania Democrats are walking over a cliff with senatorial candidate John Fetterman.

From NewsBusters, a look at two spectacularly wrong climate predictions made in 2006 and 2008.

From Canada Free Press, why Western civilization is falling apart.

From TeleSUR, three people have died in Cuba due to heavy rains.

From TCW Defending Freedom, soccer fans have a red card for the "Great Reset".

From Free West Media, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation's online managing director wishes death on Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.

From EuroNews, Russian President Putin guarantees the safe passage of grain from Ukraine.

From The North Africa Post, the U.S. trains about 30 Moroccan customs officers against the smuggling of chemical, nuclear and biological materials.

From The New Arab, Tunisian police block protests against a referendum planned by President Kais Saied.

From OpIndia, Muslims attack Hindus who refuse to close down their shops after the former's Friday prayers in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.  (If you read Hindi, read the story at Zee News.)

From IANSLive, a Guinness world record-holding cyclist is stabbed to death after objecting to harassment against a female friend in Bogura, Bangladesh.

From Gatestone Institute, the Biden administration should not leave Americans and their allies in the dark about Iran.

From The Stream, hang (figuratively, of course) disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti around the media's neck.

From News(dot)com(dot)au, the moment when the people celebrating Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee gave Prince Harry and Meghan Markel what they deserved.

From The American Conservative, an American looks at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

From The Western Journal, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) points out 11 incidents when a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun.

From BizPac Review, according to American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, President Biden's failures show that he's "simply not up to the job", and a box of loaded guns is found on a school campus in Parkland, Florida, the city where a mass shooting occurred in 2018, which was left by the principal.

From The Daily Wire, Joe and Jill Biden are whisked away from their Delaware beach house after small plane enters its airspace.

From the Daily Caller, let girls be girls and protect them from the left-wing gender ideology.

From the New York Post, the original Gerber baby passes away at age 95.

From Breitbart, according to congresscritter Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Republicans are ready to provide "counterprogramming" to the January 6th Inquisition Committee.

From Newsmax, according to congresscritter Olbernolte (R-Cal), the rule of law "has completely broken down" at the southern border.

And from Fox News, a kangaroo and a man get into it in Argyle, Australia.  (via the New York Post)

Friday, June 3, 2022

Friday Phenomena

On a warm and cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Biden surrenders to Saudi Arabia.

From FrontpageMag, the moral stupidity of gun control.

From Townhall, debunking the narrative about mass shootings and "assault rifles".

From The Washington Free Beacon, a taxpayer-funded project to create transgendered monkeys is in turmoil.

From the Washington Examiner, a 3,400-year-old city in Iraq is rediscovered due to a drought.

From The Federalist, gas prices in the U.S. set 18 records in 19 days.

From American Thinker, the Marine Corps drops its helmet.

From CNS News, the number of government workers in the U.S. grew by 57,000 in May.

From LifeZette, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams (D) works with real communists.

From NewsBusters, the anarchic philosophy behind "Pride Month".

From Canada Free Press, hockey superstar Theo Fleury brings the spotlight onto anti-Canuck Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

From TeleSUR, Mexico is among the countries with the strongest recoveries in tourism.

From TCW Defending Freedom, U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak should explain why there is no plan to levy any windfall profits tax on bird chopper assemblies.

From Snouts in the Trough, the globalist elites make us all out to be fools.

From Free West Media, the world is in for an economic "hurricane".

From EuroNews, the U.K.'s Queen Elizabeth will miss her Jubilee service due to "discomfort".

From Euractiv, 500 patients are transferred from Ukraine and Moldova to hospitals in other European countries.

From ReMix, 200,000 people in Prague, Czech Republic are left without power.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a self-appointed "guardian of public morals" harasses three girls in  a railway station in Vienna, Austria for not wearing headscarves.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Balkan Insight, Ukrainian refugees face eviction from hotels and transfer to other facilities due to the upcoming tourist season.

From The North Africa Post, the Renault Group decides to use cobalt from Morocco for the batteries in its electric vehicles.

From The New Arab, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune fires three government officials for "insulting" the "country's image".

From Pajhwok Afghan News, acting Afghan Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoub wants cordial relation with India.  (PAN had no stories yesterday that were not behind a paywall.  IranWire has no stories dated from today or yesterday.)

From Dawn, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan castigates the current government over gasoline prices.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrives in the province of Balochistan for a day-long visit.

From Pakistan Today, Shehbaz Sharif names Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence as a Special Vetting Agency screening all public officeholders.

From The Hans India, West Bengal state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee causes a political slugfest by inaugurating a railroad bridge in the district of Hooghly.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian delegation meeting with the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan includes a woman.

From ANI, 178 female workers become ill due to a gas leak at a laboratory in Vishakhpatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

From India Today, according to Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, India's foreign policy is not based on sitting on the fence.

From the Dhaka Tribune, according to a study, nearly 47 percent of women on public transport in Bangladesh face sexual harassment.

From New Age, the Dhaka University Teachers' Association condemns a death threat made against Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan navy recovers abandoned bottles of pesticide near the island of Nainathivu.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan authorities object to an order from the Colombo Commercial High Court preventing a Russian Aeroflot plane from taking off from Sri Lanka.

From Raajje, according to Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih, the presidential office staff are crucial for implementing his administration's policies.

From The Straits Times, gasoline prices in Singapore reach a new high.

From Tempo(dot)Co, earthquakes strike in the Indonesian Regency of North Luwu, in the province of South Sulawesi.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Indonesian government considers imposing a minimum 15 percent tax on the digital economy.

From the Borneo Post, the Indonesian cabinet approves in principle to three items of parliamentary reform.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam becomes the first country to authorize commercial circulation of a vaccine against African swine fever.

From the Taipei Times, according to Taiwanese Prime Minister Su Tseng-chang, Taiwan is a priority trading partner of the U.S.

From The Mainichi, police in Amagasaki, Japan thank a 7-year-old boy for protecting a lost 3-year-old child.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Biden is no friend of Israel.

From The Stream, with no answer for inflation, Biden goes to the beach, and other stories.

From The Daily Signal, a crisis pregnancy in Washington, D.C. is vandalized.

From Terra Daily, China's diplomatic gambit becomes the new "Battle for the Pacific".

From Space War, Iran investigates the death of a member of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

From The American Conservative, a way for Republicans to make housing more affordable.

From The Western Journal, a White House advisor admits that Biden was passed over with important information.

From BizPac Review, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany points out that Johnny Depp once joked about assassinating then-President Trump.

From The Daily Wire, former Trump advisor Peter Navarro is indicted for contempt of congress.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), who repeatedly has called to defund the police, still spends taxpayer money on private security.

From the New York Post, Capitol police arrest a former NYPD cop who was allegedly in possession of a fake badge, a BB gun, body armor, high-capacity magazines, and other ammo.

From Breitbart, the Florida Supreme Court declines to rule on a lawsuit challenging Governor Ron DeSantis's (R) congressional redistricting map.

From Newsmax, Special Olympics rescinds its coronavirus vaccine requirements.

And from the Genesius Times, the man who accidentally gave the Taliban 300,000 guns lectures Americans on gun control.

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Thursday Things

On a warm party sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, we've had "enough of the supply-shock excuse" for inflation.

From FrontpageMag, 12 lessons which conservative patriots learned from the Uvalde, Texas school shooting.

From Townhall, pregnant girls in Illinois will no longer have to notify their parents before obtaining abortions.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Biden's border crisis results in the U.S. foreign-born population reaching its highest level in a century.

From the Washington Examiner, a court in California rules that bees are "fish".

From The Federalist, the real loser in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation case is The Washington Post.

From American Thinker, the real cause of mass shootings.

From CNS News, doctors sue the FDA over its "crusade" against the use of ivermectin to treat the coronavirus.

From NewsBusters, the networks hide First Son Hunter Biden's vices.

From TeleSUR, two Colombian parties support candidates from the Historical Pact party.

From TCW Defending Freedom, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson blusters, immigration into the U.K. keeps on increasing.

From Free West Media, bicycles are 15 times more likely to be stolen in France than in Switzerland.  (If Freddie Mercury were still around, he might find this news disconcerting.)

From EuroNews, photos from U.K. Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.

From Euractiv, the E.U. steps up efforts to debunk Russian President Putin's food security propaganda.

From ReMix, according to Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak, Poland wants to manufacture South Korean K2 Black Panther tanks in Poland itself.

From Balkan Insight, Amnesty International urges Croatia to not extradite Pussy Riot activist Aysoltan Niyazova to Turkmenistan.

From Morocco World News, the book Lesbian Diaries by Fatima Zahra Amzkar is pulled from the International Book Fair in Rabat, Morocco.

From The North Africa Post, Nigeria and the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) enter an agreement to construct a gas pipeline from Nigeria to Morocco.

From the Libyan Express, according to Libyan House Speaker Aqila Saleh, the city of Tripoli is under the control of armed groups.

From Hürriyet Daily News, NATO announces that it will hold talks with  Turkey, Sweden and Finland in hopes of ending Turkey's objection to the other two countries joining the alliance.

From Turkish Minute, a lawmaker from the Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party slams the U.S. consulate in the city of İstanbul for flying the Pride colors.

From Rûdaw, the centuries-old black community in Zubair, Iraq is still on the margins.

From Armenpress, Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Hambardzum Matevosyan attends the 67th meeting of the Commission for Europe of the United Nations World Tourism Organization.

From Public Radio Of Armenia, Armenia and Greece are keen to deepen their bilateral defense cooperation.

From In-Cyprus, Cypriot President Anastasiades and the Union of Cheese-makers legal protection for halloumi cheese.

From The Syrian Observer, according to data from Syria's Central Bureau for Statistics, more boys than girls are being born and more men than women are dying in Syria.

From North Press Agency, while attacking a prison in Hasakah, Syria, ISIS terrorists reportedly behead and burn guards and other employees.

From The961, Lebanese Health Minister Dr. Firas Abiad tests positive for the coronavirus.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli police summon and question three Joint List knessetcritters for alleged terror incitement.

From The Times Of Israel, Jewish activists push against a rabbinic ban on prayer on the Temple Mount.

From The Jerusalem Post, thousands of people participate in the 20th annual Pride march in Jerusalem.

From YNetNews, the IDF concludes a military drill in Cyprus.

From the Egypt Independent, Yemenia Airlines offers flights between Cairo, Egypt and Sanaa, Yemen.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El-Sisi pardons a new set of prisoners.

From the Sudan Tribune, Sudanese state governors call for mining policy reforms.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, 568 million Africans still have no electricity.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia announces visas for the Umrah pilgrimage that can be issued just 24 hours after being applied for.

From The New Arab, warring parties in Yemen agree to renew their two-month truce.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Iranian authorities threaten filmmakers who supported anti-government protests.

From Iran International, 5,000 surveillance cameras and 150 websites in Tehran, Iran are hacked.

From Khaama Press, an Indian delegation meets with Afghani Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

From the Afghanistan Times, more on the Indian delegation to Afghanistan.

From OpIndia, Hindu employees of the Indian government leave the valley of Kashmir after Islamic terrorists start killing Hindus.

From the Organiser, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a Muslim man allegedly gives Hindu women celebrating Vat Savitri Puja rituals some liquid gold.

From Gatestone Institute, "Turkey, terrorists and NATO".

From The Stream, how two British civil wars planted the seeds of American liberty.

From The Daily Signal, proposed federal red flag gun laws raise their own red flags.

From Space War, Russia's invasion of Ukraine turns into a war of attrition.

From The American Conservative, President Biden's dishonest obsession with taxes.

From The Western Journal, noted 2nd Amendment user Kyle Rittenhouse is inspired to new action by the verdict in the aforementioned Depp/Heard defamation case.

From BizPac Review, the Biden administration announces $6 billion worth of taxpayer-funded subsidies student loan forgiveness for students who attended a now-defunct college chain.  (As the article notes, there will be no refunds for those who paid off their student loans to attend any of the chain's colleges.  In other words, the irresponsible will be privileged over the responsible.)

From The Daily Wire, Democrats start campaigning against both Pennsylvania Republican senatorial candidates, even before the winner of their primary is announced.

From the Daily Caller, even some wealthy Americans have having difficulty in the current economy.

From Breitbart, a trucker pleads guilty to attempting to smuggle 73 illegal aliens through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas.

From Newsmax, congresscritter Ro Khanna (D-Cal) calls on Biden to have a "bolder vision" for dealing with inflation.

And from the New York Post, you can own the last Howard Johnson's restaurant in the U.S., for just $10.

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Stories For The Start Of June

As the hot sunny weather continues on a Wednesday which is the first day of June, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one more reason to not vandalize the Mona Lisa.

From FrontpageMag, governments, not businesses, cause high gasoline prices.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, pro-lifers are not hypocrites for supporting gun rights.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the case of a serial looter in Virginia and D.C. shows why looting is going to continue.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden's plan on inflation is "pathetic".

From The Federalist, six times when a stronger civil society could have prevented the Uvalde, Texas shooting.

From American Thinker, Biden's greatly increased energy prices are not an accident.

From CNS News, ICE rescues 70 children in Texas from abuse and sex trafficking.

From LifeZette, fortifying schools will require more than barriers.

From NewsBusters, the media ignore an armed woman who killed a mass shooter.

From Canada Free Press, life goes on for the little people.

From TeleSUR, the Chilean Chamber of Deputies passes a draft resolution designating four Mapuche organizations as terrorists.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the case against Jubilee bunting.

From Snouts in the Trough, have police in the U.K. gone mad, given up, or both?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the trial begins for an Afghan accused of destroying a Christ figure at a church in Frauenberg, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at MDR.)

From Russia Today, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Western sanctions have prevented Russian ships from delivering grain.

From Sputnik International, Lavrov slams Ukraine's demands for foreign MLRS rocket launchers.

From The Moscow Times, according to dumacritter Leonid Slutsky, Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine could vote join Russia as early as July.  (A dumacritter is the Russian equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From Romania Insider, the Henri Coandă airport, which serves Bucharest, Romania, is rated the fourth worst in the world.

From Novinite, according to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, there has been no progress on open issues between Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

From The Sofia Globe, traveling be trains between Sofia, Bulgaria and cities on the Black Sea will take less time.

From Radio Bulgaria, a Norwegian citizen is detained in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria for alleged terror offenses.

From the Greek Reporter, why does Greece still require masks?

From Ekathimerini, deconstructing Turkish revisionism.

From the Greek City Times, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was the first to describe heterochromia of the eyes.

From Balkan Insight, fake bomb threats plague the Bosnian region of Republika Srpska.

From Total Croatia News, over 6,800 Ukrainian children have been accommodated in Croatia.

From EuroNews, Croatia could adopt the euro in January 2023.  (The current Croatian monetary unit is the kuna, which means "fox", according to what my tour group was told in 2007 when I was there.) 

From Total Slovenia News, this morning's headlines in Slovenia.

From The Malta Independent, according to Doctors for Life, no frozen embryos so far have been adopted.

From Malta Today, Maltese police arrest seven people for allegedly trafficking she-don't-lie.

From ANSA, Italian politician Matteo Salvini claims to be working "out in the open" for peace.

From SwissInfo, Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland work in the hotel, restaurant and IT sectors.

From France24, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, the Champions League final "could have been better organised".

From RFI, pressure mounts on French President Emmanuel Macron to visit Ukraine before France's term as the E.U.'s president ends.

From El País, the ex-wife of a Qatari prince is found dead at her home in Marbella, Spain.

From The Portugal News, people can now visit beaches in Portugal without any coronavirus restrictions.

From Free West Media, the WHO's globalist plans suffer a setback.

From Euractiv, Egyptian President Abdul al Sisi calls on the E.U. for some dam support.  (At other sites, I've seen his first name spelled "Abdel" and a hyphen between the "al" and the "Sisi".)

From ReMix, according to Canadian sociologist Mathieu Bock Côté, terms such as "young people" and "sensitive neighborhoods" are coded "Soviet-style" language used to disguise reality.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From The North Africa Post, Tunisia's General Labor Union announces a general strike in the public sector starting on June 16th.

From The New Arab, an Egyptian court sentences a child molester to 15 years in prison.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at El Watan.)

From OpIndia, two Muslim groups in the Indian state of Bihar try to settle a dispute the old-fashioned way.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is not waiting for nuclear weapons in order to destabilize the Middle East.

From The Stream, June is Pride Month, and Google will make sure that you won't forget it.  (When are the months for the other six Deadly Sins?)

From The Daily Signal, CBO numbers show that tax revenue increased after then-President Trump's tax cuts.

From Space War, the Russian government accuses the U.S. of "adding fuel to the fire" by planning to supply Ukraine with new weapons.

From Terra Daily, China claims to be not competing for influence in the South Pacific.

From The American Conservative, Venezuela's claim that its crises are the result of American sanctions in a blatant lie.

From The Western Journal, the U.S. State Department is accused of hypocrisy for flying the LGBT flag at the American Embassy at the Vatican for "Pride Month".

From BizPac Review, the BBC is accused of altering an alleged rape victim's quote to avoid "misgendering" the alleged rapist.

From The Daily Wire, the U.S. military is slammed for its Pride Month Tweets.

From the Daily Caller, 48 Republican Senators tell Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that they will block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment.

From Breitbart, actor Johnny Depp wins $15 million in his defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

From Newsmax, the alleged Buffalo shooter gets indicted.

And from the New York Post, the new leader of Big Luxurious Mansions has had her share of financial difficulties.