Sunday, October 8, 2017

Hurricane Nate And Other Stuff

Last night, Hurricane Nate moved inland from the Gulf of Mexico, flooding some coastal areas leaving over 100,000 people in Mississippi and Alabama without power.  Some related stories:

From CNN, Nate strikes the coast as a Category 1 hurricane, and weakens down to a tropical depression.

From ABC News, Nate is downgraded to a tropical storm, but rain and flooding will still be a concern.

From The Times-Picayune, Hurricane Nate was, as Shakespeare once said, "much ado about nothing" for New Orleans.

From the Pensacola News Journal, Nate caused a sewage treatment plant to overflow.

In other news and commentary:

From the Independent, the Las Vegas shooter went to the Middle East on a number of cruises.


From The New York Times, ISIS fighters surrender in large numbers.  (Come to think of it, one translation of the Arabic word "islam" is "surrender".)


From The Telegraph, recently reelected German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts forming her new government as Conservatives demand limits on taking in migrants.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal) says that she'll "take a look" about returning donations from Harvey Weinstein.  (via Breitbart Video)


From Breitbart London, a huge crowd in Barcellona marches against Catalan secession.

From Twitchy, the original anthem kneeler offers to stand, if given a job.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, in Nigeria, more than 2,000 suspected members of Boko Haram will go on trial.

From the Sunday Express, two female British terrorists are recruiting more white Muslim women to their cause.

From NCRI, Iran's Revolutionary Guards encourages prisoners to fight in the Syrian civil war.

From The Guardian, In Egypt, LGBT people are targeted for arrest.

From Channel NewsAsia, police in Bangla Desh search for a man who married a Rohingya refugee, in spite of a ban.

From Digital Journal, after surviving a sea voyage, migrants ride a freight train to Germany.

From the Evening Standard, police ask the public for video footage of the car crash that took place near the Natural History Museum.

From Sputnik International, Turkish President Erdogan blames the West.

From Radio Poland, the Polish and British foreign and defense ministers will meet in London.

From Russia Today, the main railroad station in Lausanne, Switzerland is temporarily evacuated over a bomb scare.

From Gatestone Institute, the "Czech Donald Trump" (who was actually born in Slovakia) has rejected multiculturalism.

And from the Telluride Daily Planet, horror writer Jeremy Robert Johnson is weird.

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