Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Wednesday Links

I have another place (and a person, too) to report about today, but first, here in the middle of my week in South Carolina are some things going on:

From the Express, a plan to call a "shock" general election to push through a no-deal Brexit has been revealed.

From the Evening Standard, Prime Minister May a "humiliating" defeat in a House of Commons vote for an amendment limiting their tax-raising powers if there is a no-deal Brexit.

From the Independent, May offers Tory MPs a compromise that the E.U. might not like.

From CBC News, since legalization, Canadian cannabis is costing more.

From France24, a new suspect has been charged in Belgium in connection with the November 2015 terror attack in Paris.

From RFI, Parisians step in to help unaccompanied underage refugees.

From the NL Times, the Netherlands and other countries have agreed to take refugees now aboard the Sea-Watch 3, according to Malta's Prime Minister.

From Dutch News, terror suspects have been photographed with their bombs and guns.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at RTL Nieuws.)

From Deutsche Welle, E.U. lawmakers don't like President Trump's downgrading of their Ambassador to the U.S.

From Radio Poland, Polish and Italian right-wingers discuss teaming up in the E.U. parliament.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak Constitutional Court rules that four provisions against extremism are unconstitutional.

From the Hungary Journal, a Dutch MEP joins in a demonstration in Brussels, Belgium against the Hungarian government.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian cabinet sees the hand of George Soros in the demonstration.

From Novinite, Bulgaria approves a plan to discuss buying F-16 fighters from the U.S. and migrants in France beat up a Bulgarian truck driver.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia will decide tomorrow whether to seek F-16s from Israel.

From Ekathimerini, Greek police seize dried berries implanted with cocaine.

From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini, speaking from Warsaw, will not permit migrant landings in Italy.

From the Malta Independent, 49 migrants were transferred from two NGO ships and then brought to Malta.

From El País, the Spanish "far-right" party Vox pledges to support the center-right government of Andalusia.  (I take the label "far-right" with a bit of NaCl, since the term seems to be slapped on those who wish to place finite limits on immigration, and to have those policies decided by each nation's people, acting through their elected representatives, instead of being imposed by the E.U. or other unelected supra-national bureaucrats.)

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish President Erdoğan, FETÖ leader Gülen will have to come to Turkey "sooner or later".

From Turkish Minute, 162 inmates in Turkish prisons launch a hunger strike.

From The Times Of Israel, 80 yeshiva students are summoned by police in connection with a stoning attack that killed a Palestinian woman.

From YNetNews, there's no Russian collusion in the Israeli elections, so says Russia.  (Did I just mention NaCl?  Go and shake out another few grains.)

From Dawn, five Pakistanis detained in Egypt have been charged with smuggling drugs.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan army seizes 3,700 kilos of cannabis near the country's defense wall.  (What's that about walls not working?)

From Radio Farda, an Iranian judge says that going to Islamic prison in this life reduces one's punishment in the afterlife.  (This story and the second Novinite story above were found at The Religion Of Peace.)

From FrontpageMag, President Trump speaks to the nation about the wall.

From National Review, Trump storms out of a meeting with Democrats.

From Townhall, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) points out Trump's great "sin" on immigration.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an analysis of what's happening at the border.

From the Washington Examiner, a record number of families were arrested at the southern border in December 2018.

From The Federalist, lawless borders help criminal organizations, resulting in both Americans and immigrants dying.

From American Thinker, Democrats are willing to "fund the world, but not the wall".

From CNS News, two Hawaiian Democrat congresscritters exchange barbs over "religious bigotry".

And from The Babylon Bee, one Christian votes for whichever party the thinks won't make his faith illegal.

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