Monday, May 13, 2019

Links For A Rainy Monday

In my area, the two days dreaded by the Carpenters are coinciding.  As the rain falls on a Monday, here are some things going on:











From the Irish Examiner and the "pot-kettle" department, a self-described "drug runner" calls his fellow criminals "scumbags".







From SwissInfo, and speaking of keeping track of workers, "your employer might be watching you".












From Hungary Today, the satirical Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party is accused of counterfeiting.  (If you read Hungarian, read more at Népszava.)










From YNetNews, people searching for information on how to boycott Israel are taken to a pro-Israel website.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt tests 29,584 foreigners and refugees for Hepatitis C.

From Radio Farda, vigilantes attack Tehran University students protesting against mandatory hijab-wearing.

From IranWire, "how human traffickers swindle refugees".

From Dawn, four policemen are killed in an IED blast in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, protests erupt over the rape of a very young victim in the India-controlled part of Kashmir.  (Pakistanis call the area "Indian-occupied Kashmir" or "IOK".)

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani Senate approves a resolution allowing CSS tests to be taken in Urdu, alongside English.

From Khaama Press, police in Kabul, Afghanistan foil an attempt to sell a smuggled ancient statue.

From the Hindustan Times, more than 500 yaks may have died from starvation in the Indian state of Sikkim.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan police discover firearms and ammunition buried in a land.

From Gatestone Institute, "how Palestinian leaders punish patients".

From The Jakarta Post, an Indonesian NGO welcomes a U.N. effort to control the export of waste.

From the Borneo Post, four ISIS terrorists are held for allegedly plotting attacks and murders.  (The Borneo Post is based in the Malaysian part of Borneo, which consists of the states Sabah and Sarawak.)

From The Straits Times, Filipinos vote in the country's midterm elections, mostly without problems.

From The Conservative Woman, is there a relationship between feminism and anorexia?

From Snouts in the Trough, Jew-haters at a pub are protected in Northern Ireland.

From National Review, Harvard fires a dean who had been on Harvey Weinstein's legal defense team.

From FrontpageMag, the Democrats impeachment con is hurting their own chances in 2020.

From Townhall, TV host Bill Maher tells the Democrats to impeach President Trump or shut up.

From The Washington Free Beacon, presidential candidate Bob O'Rourke (D-TX) is slammed for suggesting Stacey Abrams (D-GA) for his running mate.

From the Washington Examiner, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) owns comments made by congresscritters Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

From The Federalist, the theory about Shakespeare being a Jewish woman tells us more about the theorists than about the Bard.

From American Thinker, why has the media lost interest in the most recent school shooting?

From CNS News, while over a million Uighur Muslims are held in Chinese "reeducation" camps, most Muslim governments don't have much to say about it.

From LifeZette, China responds in kind to President Trump's tariffs.

From Fox News, a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate agrees with Trump's stance on China.

From the New York Post, former Vice President Joe Biden says that he's open to breaking up Facebook.

From Breitbart, Pennsylvania state representative Brian Sims (D) locks his Tweets after a large pro-life rally.

From Twitchy, decide for yourself if congresscritter Tlaib's comments on Israel were taken out of context.

And from The Babylon Bee, a cruise line for Christian singles promises to avoid going farther than the Virgin Islands.

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