Thursday Things

It's another Thursday, with another bunch of things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, American actress Pamela Anderson thinks that Italian fascism might be making a comeback.  (Insert your favorite blonde joke.)

From ANSA, an amendment to the Italian budget would tax cars based on carbon dioxide emissions.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland "faces a stark choice" on the E.U. integration deal.

From El País, Spain observes the 40th anniversary of their constitution.

From France24, the ship Aquarius will no longer be used to rescue migrants.

From RFI, some "yellow vest" protesters think that the government wants to kill them.

From the Express, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage calls for Prime Minister Theresa May to resign.

From BBC News, workers building a tunnel are accused of damaging an ancient site near Stonehenge.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. police are right to run their cars into mopeds carrying criminals.

From the Independent, Brexit has turned U.K. politicians into "Mr and Mrs Twit".

From VRT NWS, Belgian's prime minister will go to Marrakesh, but will "respect the constitution".

From the NL Times, police arrest a "yellow vest" protester in Maastricht.

From the Dutch News, according to a survey, the Dutch people overestimate the numbers of Muslims and foreign-born people living in the Netherlands.

From Deutsche Welle, Angela Merkel's party will meet to pick her successor as party leader.

From Radio Poland, a court orders former Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa to apologize for his claim about the 2010 presidential plane crash.

From LSM, the Latvian parliament votes to reject signing the U.N. migration pact.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Russia Today, a photo of child mannequins "hanged" in front of a store cause a stir.

From Sputnik International, Finns are shocked by the actions of migrant grooming gangs.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, the U.N. is making the same mistake with the migration treaty as the E.U. did with migration quotas.

From About Hungary, Hungary's House Speaker marks the 150th anniversary of the Hungarian-Croatian Compromise.

From Total Croatia News, war crimes suspects have been arrested in and around Vukovar, Croatia.

From Ekathimerini, according to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Greece is in talks about extending the TurkStream gas pipeline across Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece's population has been decreasing like it had during the 1940s.

From CBC News, Quebec's premier warns that his government might not back the Energy East pipeline.

From Global News, Canada's foreign minister says that his country will support Iraq, but not extend its military mission there.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey makes its largest ever seizure of heroin.

From The Times Of Israel, the U.N. resolution to condemn Hamas gets more support than ever, but fails to pass.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF discovers a second Hezbollah tunnel.  (The above-mentioned Hamas has been digging tunnels into Israel for years.  Hezbollah's similar efforts seem to be very recent.)

From Khaama Press, the Afghan military claims to have killed at least 40 Pakistani Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan's Ghazni province.

From The Korea Herald, a court in Incheon, South Korea sentences a Syrian man to three years for inciting people to join ISIS.

From SBS News, in parts of Indonesia, Islamic exorcisms are used as part of gay conversion therapy.

From Gatestone Institute, the media doesn't say too much about murdered journalists not named Khashoggi.

From National Review, the federal government has discovered the largest oil and gas reserve ever.

From FrontpageMag, is there a nexis between anthem kneeling and domestic violence?

From Townhall, how much blood would 2nd Amendment opponents be willing to shed to disarm American gun owners?

From The Washington Free Beacon, can heroin be used to treat opioid addiction?

From the Washington Examiner, ten questions for former FBI Director James Comey.

From Breitbart, President Trump invites eight Holocaust survivors to a Hannukah reception.  (Bear in mind that this is the same president who the left likes to insult by calling him a "nazi".  Would a real nazi hold a reception honoring a Jewish festival?)

From The Daily Caller, at the beginning of the Hannukah reception, Trump pays his final tribute to President George H.W. Bush.

From Twitchy, more on the failed vote at the U.N. to condemn Hamas.

From CNS News, former (and maybe future) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) says that the U.S. has three coasts, "north, south and west".  (I can see where the "south" coast is the Gulf Coast, the "Gulf" being the Gulf of Mexico, but what happened to the east coast, Madame Speaker?)

And from The Babylon Bee, a recent convert to the Baptist denomination learns that "BYOB" doesn't mean what the thought it did.