Sunday, December 16, 2018

Links For Beethoven's Birthday

Today, on the anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, E.U. countries keep trying to get Hungary to take in more migrants.

From the Hungary JournalFrench philosopher Alain de Benoist and former Czech President Vaclav Klaus talk about national sovereignty.

From Daily News Hungary, a huge anti-government protest takes place in Budapest.

From Radio Praha, the Muslim community is the Czech Republic "moderate and well integrated".

From Radio Poland, the climate conference at Katowice, Poland has adopted a final declaration.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany considers welfare cuts for "Dublin" asylum seekers.

From France24, Strasbourg honors the victims of the Christmas market shooting.

From RFI, French President Macron's concessions appear to have taken some steam out of the "yellow vest" protests.

From the Sunday Express, E.U. leader Donald Tusk takes a swipe at Brexiteers.

From the Evening Standard, "key allies" of Prime Minister Theresa May deny reports of a second Brexit referendum.

From the Daily Mail, an allegedly fake Islamic preacher receives a death fatwa.

From BBC News, the U.K. parliament may have to decide what to do if the present Brexit deal fails.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish army finds over 300 possible crossing points between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accuses Conservatives of fearmongering on immigration.

From CTV News, Canada's ambassador to China meets with one of two Canadians detained there.

From Total Croatia News, were Croatian police filmed illegally expelling migrantsNo, they were just exercising deterrence, says the Ministry of the Interior.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkey's foreign minister, President Trump has told President Erdoğan that his administration is working on the extradition of Fethullah Gülen.

From Turkish Minute, ISIS and al-Qaeda booksellers are doing well in Turkey.

From Rûdaw, Iraq starts to rebuild an "iconic" mosque in Mosul.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel considers a bill to expel the families of Palestinian terrorists.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's Army Chief of Staff confirms that 15 "hardcore" terrorists have been sentenced to death.

From The Arab Weekly, Turkish critics fear Erdoğan's childhood education agenda.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Red Crescent honors three terrorists.

From Gatestone Institute, the silence from the U.N. is getting worse.

From Townhall, "the perfectly legal corruption no one care about".

From the Washington Examiner, according to Rudy Giuliani, Trump paid off two women to protect his family.  (Sounds vaguely like Mr. Bill's reason for lying under oath about 20 years ago.)

From Breitbart, the mayor of Pittsburgh proposes more gun control.

From Fox 5, in my neck of the woods, a llama is rescued from floodwaters.

From Twitchy, the Washington state Women's March disbands because the national group has ties to a real live racist.

From LifeZette, Bill Gates predicts that climate change will kill "millions".  (Can he say that in Chinese?)

From The Daily Caller, a third-grade girl who lost an election to a boy gets some high-end sympathy.

From Variety, the movie Aquaman has made $250 million overseas, before it even opens in the U.S.

From The News, a church window is broken by a vandal named Jesus.  (Is this the son of Levon whom Elton John sang about?)

And from Fox News, the top 10 liberal media "dim bulbs of Christmas".

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