Friday, November 16, 2018

Friday Fuss

The sun has come out, the temperatures have risen into the 40s, and yesterday's snow has made like the Wicked Witch of the West and said, "I'm melting!"  As my area thaws out, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, British writer Janice Atkinson gives her opinion of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal.

From the Express, radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer asks Conservative MP Dr. Sarah Wollaston to point out just one concession from the E.U.

From BBC News, the U.K. names a new Brexit secretary.

From the Independent, some Cabinet ministers want to "remould" May's Brexit deal.  (In the U.S., we'd spell it "remold".)

From The Conservative Woman, is the U.K. Foreign Office any better than the mob in Pakistan?

From VRT NWS, a Belgian professor teaching in London thinks that "Britain is crippling itself" like nothing he's ever seen.

From the NL Times, anti-Zwarte Piet protesters, unable to prevent the character from appearing, will still get to protest.

From Dutch News, the Dutch state will appeal a court's ruling on climate change to their Supreme Court.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces critics of her refugee policy in Chemnitz.

From Radio Poland, the Polish government will introduce new benefits for mothers of at least four children.  (The answer to any Polish joke starting with "How many [Poles] does it take to...." will now be "The more, the better", or in Polish, Im więcej, im lepiej.  The story comes via Voice Of Europe.)

From Radio Praha, investigators are trying to find the son of Czech President Andrej Babiš, who may have been abducted to Crimea.

From The Slovak Spectator, thousands of protesters call for "a decent Slovakia".

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian opposition party will file a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Orban, accusing him of people smuggling for allowing former MYROM Prime Minister Gruevski to enter Hungary.

From Russia Today, Russian women sue their country's National Guard for not allowing women to serve as snipers.

From Sputnik International, Russia successfully launches a Soyuz rocket for the first time since the failed launch in October.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, French politician Marine Le Pen tells a forum in Sofia, Bulgaria says that the E.U. is the "biggest enemy of Europe".

From Ekathimerini, a deal between the Greek government and the Church of Greece appears to be doubt.

From the Greek Reporter, the Greek government promises to improve living conditions for migrants.

From Total Croatia News, when Croatia takes over the E.U. presidency in 2020, enlarging the E.U. into the Balkans will be a priority.

From ANSA, leaders of the two main parties in Italy's governing coalition continue their spat over (wait for it) trash incinerators.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says that "the ball is in British hands" on the Brexit deal.

From France24, a French appeals court gives accused rapist Tariq Ramadan a conditional release.

From RFI, French motorists are ready to block roads in protest of higher gasoline prices.

From SwissInfo, is sucking carbon dioxide from air the solution for global warming?  (The earth is already full of things which absorb carbon dioxide.  We call them "plants".)

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to a columnist, Turkey has a second recording relating to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

From Arutz Sheva, as promised, the U.S. votes against the annual U.N. condemnation of the Israeli "occupation" of the Golan Heights.

From The Times Of Israel, the chief of Hamas tells Israel, "Don't test us again".

From The Jerusalem Post, Yad Vashem hosts Jewish leaders from Lithuania.

From Al Arabiya, has Qatar groomed a member of Al-Shabaab to become a district president in Somalia?

From AsiaNews, eight men have been arrested in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for allegedly recruiting children to become human shields.

From i24, two Argentinians with suspected ties to Hezbollah have been arrested ahead of the G20 summit.

From Gatestone Institute, America's first two Muslim congresswomen misled voters about their views on Israel.

From FrontpageMag, the top 10 university leaders who support terrorism.

From NPR, North Korea will release an American who had entered the country illegally.  (To all the "open borders" people out there, I know it might be hard to believe, but most countries in the world have laws about how and where to enter and will actually punish you for violating those laws.  If protecting national borders, requiring visitors and immigrants to be checked at ports of entry, and enforcing immigration laws are racist and xenophobic when done by the U.S., shouldn't these policies be equally objectionable when done by other countries?  The story comes via Townhall.)

From Townhall, is Hillary Clinton going to have another reincarnation?  (As I may have mentioned one other time, she will lose her desire to be president when she stops breathing, and even then, I'm not completely sure.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, it's not the right time to cut defense spending.

From the Washington Examiner, gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) concludes her campaign.

From The Daily Caller, the migrant caravan is a "horde", says the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico.

From the New York Post, the migrants and the residents of Tijuana aren't getting along very well.

From Breitbart, the husband of President Trump's campaign manager would rather "move to Australia" than vote for his wife's client.

From Fox News, the border wall going up in Texas inspires nearby landowners to have a diversity of opinion.

From LifeNews, President Trump awards the Presidential Medal Of Freedom to the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

From CNS News, "birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens should not be a difficult issue".  (This, of course, demonstrates the difference between "should not be" and "isn't".)

From American Thinker, today's marijuana is not the same stuff your grandfather might have smoked.

And from National Review, if you were on death row, what would be your last meal?

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