Monday, June 24, 2019

Monday Links

It's another Monday, and here is some of the bah-daaaah bah-dah-dah-duh:

From Free West Media, the E.U. border guard agency Frontex films traffickers unloading migrants from a trawler onto a small boat.  (Like I keep saying, the migrants are not merely migrating, but are being trafficked.)

From ANSA, according to Italian Interior Minister Salvini, the E.U. should send migrants rescued by Sea Watch to Germany or the Netherlands.

From EuroNews, the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo are chosen to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.

From the Malta Independent, six people circumnavigate Malta to show the surrounding marine pollution.

From Malta Today, the Sea Watch 3 asks the European Court of Human Rights to ask Italy to allow migrants on ship to disembark.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's government commits to protecting the rights of Moroccans living outside Morocco.

From The Portugal News, an anthropologist calls Portugal's Roma Community Day "pointless".

From El País, a Vox party politician calls a Supreme Court ruling against five rapists "conditioned by political and media pressure".

From SwissInfo, Swiss voters will have the final say on a ban on arms exports.

From France24, Paris names four squares after LGBTQ icons.

From RFI, asylum requests in the E.U. have decreased to "pre-crisis levels".

From the Express, the party Change UK risks its own annihilation by blocking a no-deal Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, a dozen Tories are also ready to block the no-deal.

From the Independent, shadow chancellor John McDonnell defends climate change activists.

From the Irish Examiner, according to an "independent commission", arrangements to avoid a hard border between Ireland and the U.K. could be ready in three years.

From VRT NWS, the Brussels Employment Service wants to help people in Belgium illegally to find work.

From the NL Times, 18 stowaways are found in a truck at the Europoort in Rotterdam.

From Dutch News, a Dutch man who fought in Syria's civil war fights to retain his passport.

From Detusche Welle, at a neo-Nazi event, police officers administer a very German form of punishment.

From the CPH Post, Denmark's acting prime minister is in contention to become the E.U.'s president.

From Radio Poland, Poland moves to improve the rail links to its Baltic ports.

From Euractiv, the E.U.'s top court rules that Poland's judicial reforms violate E.U. law.

From Radio Praha, the protest against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš was the largest since the Velvet Revolution.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak MiG-29s make sonic booms flying to help an Italian civilian jet.

From Daily News Hungary, an opposition party slams the Hungarian government for vetoing the E.U.'s 2050 climate change targets.

From Hungary Today, the mayor of Budapest calls pledges made by his opponents "impossible".

From About Hungary, Prime Minister Orban calls the departure of Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans "good news for Hungary".

From Total Croatia News, tomorrow Croatia will celebrate Statehood Day.

From Ekathimerini, Greek authorities arrest three people, one just 16 years old, for smuggling migrants.  (Like I said above, migrants are being trafficked.)

From Novinite, traffic is intense at five border checkpoints between Greece and Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, in an international operation, the largest migrant smuggling operation to ever operate in Bulgaria has been dismantled.  (For the third time, I say that migrants are being trafficked.)

From Romania-Insider, oh give me a home, where the buffalo, I mean, bison roam, in Romania.

From Russia Today, Turkey says that U.S. sanctions won't change its purchase of air defense systems from Russia.

From Sputnik International, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!

From The Moscow Times, the head of the Russian republic of Ingushetia resigns.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish prosecutors issue warrants for 32 more people with alleged FETÖ links.

From Turkish Minute, a Kurdish man claims to have been attacked by fake police officers.

From Rûdaw, despite fires and security issues, Iraq produces a bumper crop of wheat and barley.

From Arutz Sheva, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza cause 11 more fires in Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, thousands protest the planned deportation of about 50 children born in Israel to foreign mothers.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel is ready to host this year's International Physics Olympiad.

From YNetNews, a former Palestinian Authority negotiator calls the U.S.-led conference in Bahrain a "joke".

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President al-Sisi's efforts to protect victims of human trafficking draws praise from the U.S. State Department.

From StepFeed, one person is killed in an attack at an airport in Saudi Arabia.

From Gulf News, Saudi women protect themselves with pre-wedding contracts.

From Radio Farda, U.S. President Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran.

From IranWire, an Iranian Kurd residing in the U.S. is banned from leaving Iran.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, Saudi authorities seek the death penalty for an Islamic reformist.

From Dawn, a woman in Jallia, Pakistan dies saving her daughter from being raped.

From The Express Tribune, an opposition politician calls Pakistan's prime minister "handpicked", since the word "selected" is forbidden.

From Pakistan Today, Prime Minister Imran Khan tells Pakistanis to "register now, pay taxes later".

From Khaama Press, near Ghanzi, Afghanistan, U.S. airstrikes send nine terrorists to their virgins.

From the Hindustan Times, researchers claim to have created a smart system that can prevent baggage theft at airports.

From ANI, police seize 18 bombs in Dargapur, West Bengal, India.

From India Today, the Indian cabinet approves a DNA profiling bill.

From IndiaFacts, is the "fake narrative" of Hindu terror intended to whitewash Islamic terror?

From the Daily Mirror, according to the Archbishop of Colombo, 176 children lost their parents in the Easter Sunday attacks.

From the Colombo Page, six Indians are arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport for allegedly smuggling gold.

From Aleteia, an order by a U.K. court forcing a woman to have an abortion is overturned on appeal.

From Sky News, "Jihadi Jack" says that he doesn't want to blow up his fellow Brits.

From Gatestone Institute, "everything is coming up roses" in Istanbul, Turkey.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia deploys 47,000 security personnel to prepare for its Constitutional Court's ruling on a dispute over the presidential election.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian government creates a YouTube video to teach preschoolers about sexual harassment.

From Global News, the Canadian province of British Columbia will install 12 more electric vehicle fast-charging stations.

From CTV News, prosecutors argue that a man who allegedly attacked military personnel should be designated as a terrorist.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. Labour Party is almost as white as the Tories.

From Snouts in the Trough, would-be U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson has blown it.

From National Review, what the video reporting horrible conditions at a Border Patrol detention facility leaves out.  (I've long believed that media bias is not shown by what they say, but by what they don't say.)

From Townhall, the above-mentioned overturn of a court order forcing a woman to have an abortion might have been involved Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

From FrontpageMag, why do left-wing activists have a certain look?

From The Washington Free Beacon, Oregon Republican Senators defiantly stay away from their jobs, despite threats of arrest.  (In Wisconsin a few years back, the flee-baggers were Democrats.  Now in Oregon, the flee-baggers are Republicans.)

From Yahoo News, Mexico deploys 15,000 troops on its side of the U.S. border.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From the Washington Examiner and maybe the "you can't make this stuff up" department, Alyssa Milano, John Lithgow and others will perform in a play based on the Mueller Report.

From The Federalist, the top eight takeaways from the congressional testimony by Hope Hicks.

From American Thinker, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) puts out a video for illegal aliens about dealing with ICE.

From CNS News, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proposes a massive student loan bailout.

From NewsBusters, ten questions which NBC's moderators should ask the Democratic presidential candidates.

From Accuracy in Media, The Washington Post criticizes President Trump's policies, then admits that they're working.

From Twitchy, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) doesn't seem to understand the point of "interior enforcement" of immigration laws.

From the New York Post, we Americans still love our processed meats.

And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Sanders reveals the real reason for this proposed student loan bailout.

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