Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Wednesday Wanderings

As we wander into the news, here are some things we see going on:

From Radio Poland, Poland celebrates Armed Forces Day with a massive parade.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Voice Of Europe, a Dutch man goes in trial for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Limburger.)

From the Express, a woman is stabbed to death in the city where knives are illegal.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian officials express their sympathy over the bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy.

From Russia Today, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini blames the collapse on something other than climate change.

From the Daily Mail, a photo of the bridge in Genoa shows damage from weeks before the collapse.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Deutsche Welle, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte declares a state of emergency in Genoa.

From The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 31 people are charged with sexually abusing five girls in the Huddersfield, England area.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Sputnik International, the man who rammed his car into a security barrier at the Houses of Parliament is an immigrant from Sudan.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warns E.U. leaders that letting the U.K. leave without a deal would be "a very, very big mistake".

From the NL Times, an explosive goes off in front of a restaurant in Amsterdam.

From the Metro, U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin is photographed making the Rabbi'ah sign.

From The Federalist, the son of an imam ran a terrorist camp for school shooters.

From FrontpageMag, the leaders of the terrorist camp are out on bail.

From Clarion Project, some "explosive" details emerge about the camp.  (H/T Mary B. for the Tweet)

From Gatestone Institute, Qatar is the most generous financer of mosques in France.

From Bloomberg, Sweden faces a possible historic upset in their upcoming elections.  (via HotAir)

From The Slovak Spectator, the Bratislava airport had its highest number of passengers this past July.

From National Review, two articles about double standards.

From Townhall, President Trump revokes former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance.

From Fox News, a list of other Obama-era officials who could lose their clearances.  (In hindsight, I'd say that every single Obama-era executive branch political employee should have been either fired or asked to resign during the afternoon of 1/20/2017, and their clearances revoked before 1/21/2017 was over with.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Turkey increases tariffs on some American products.

From LifeZette, the Democrat "blue wave" might be a wave of blues.

From LifeNews, Chelsea Clinton goes full Orwell.

From Breitbart Texas, the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the Border Patrol gets busy.

From Accuracy In Media, the CEO of Twitter calls the suspension of Alex Jones a "time out".

From The Daily Caller, having religious parents decreases the chances that a child will commit suicide.

From the Huffington Post, after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission orders the Masterpiece Cakeshop into mediation with a trans customer, the owner sues.

From Breitbart's Big Government, Trump's claim that America was built in tariffs is not without historical merit.

From the New York Post, according to prosecutors, the keys to the trial of Paul Manafort are his documents and his lies.

From Axios, Google releases its political ad directory.

And from the Sporting News, the football coaching transition at Virginia Tech.

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