Friday, August 23, 2019

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

As a rainy and surprisingly cool Friday arrives, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the DOJ disavows a white nationalist blog post sent to federal immigration court employees.

From FrontpageMag, it is socially acceptable to be racist - against whites.

From Townhall, since when is freedom of conscience "remarkable".

From The Washington Free Beacon, on Twitter, liberal journalists celebrate the death of conservative billionaire David Koch.

From the Washington Examiner, China brings out the retaliatory tariffs.

From The Federalist, what The New York Times gets wrong in the "1619 Project", and not just the date.

From American Thinker, the Neverland envisioned by the left.

From CNS News, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) a federal government takeover of renewable energy production.

From LifeZette, according to congresscritter Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), left-wingers "are triggered constantly".

From NewsBusters, CNN hires former FBI leaker Andrew McCabe.

From CBC News, in response to Quebec's law about religious symbols, a Sikh teacher moves to British Columbia.

From Global News, the Rolling Stones get their own namesake rock on Mars.

From CTV News, Nebraska's highest court upholds the state's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline's route.  (While this occurred in the U.S., it is relevant to Canada, which is the source of the oil intended to pass through the pipeline.)

From TeleSUR, the Mura native tribe in Brazil vows to protects its land.

From the Express, a Brexit Party MEP criticizes Prime Minister Johnson's "secret plan" to cave to the E.U.

From the Evening Standard, Johnson tells people to not hold their breath.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a no-deal Brexit could result in trash being taken from southern England and deposited farther north.

From the (Irish) Independent, protesters occupy the Brazilian embassy in Dublin, in response to fires in the Amazon rainforest.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland agrees to take in some migrants from the ship Ocean Viking.

From France24, France starts an investigation against recently deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

From RFI, France agrees to take in 150 migrants from the Ocean Viking.

From Euractiv, the city of Biarritz, France looks "post-apocalyptic" as the G7 leaders arrive.

From VRT NWS, Belgians "accidentally born in the USA" risk losing their bank accounts.  (Does this in any way affect Bruce Springsteen?)

From Free West Media, Flemish nationalists offer to sell Wallonia to the U.S. for one Euro.  (The Flemish speak a language that depending on whose opinion you believe is either closely related to Dutch or is a dialect of Dutch.  Wallonia is the French-speaking part of Belgium.)

From the NL Times, people from Amersfoort and Zeist, Netherlands are reportedly prosecuted for holding dog fights.

From Dutch News, customs authorities in Rotterdam, Netherlands seize three tons of "she don't lie".

From Deutsche Welle, Religions for Peace holds its 10th world assembly in Lindau, Germany.

From the CPH Post, waters in Denmark are suffering from low levels of oxygen.

From Polskie Radio, a 95-year-old nurse arrives at the Black Madonna shrine in Częstochowa, Poland after walking all the way from Castiglione, Italy.  (Although she might not think of herself as a "badass", her feat is worthy of this label, as far as I'm concerned.)

From Radio Praha, the mayor of Prague's sixth district decides against removing the red paint on a vandalized statue.

From The Slovak Spectator, an interview with Slovak musicologist Marcus Zagorski.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian official Gergely Gulyas, Hungary seeks good relations with world powers.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian House Speaker László Kövér addresses a conference of Reformed Church intellectuals.

From Hungary Today, a Hungarian Beatles tribute band will perform in Liverpool.

From About Hungary, Hungarian municipal elections start tomorrow.

From Russia Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov inaugurates what is reportedly "Europe's largest mosque".

From Sputnik International, Russia sends the world's first floating nuclear plant into the Arctic Ocean.

From The Moscow Times, the rocket accident which killed five Russian scientists may have involved two explosions.

From Romania-Insider, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia sign a joint declaration on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

From EuroNews, the Molotov-Rippentrop pact is still dividing Europe.

From Novinite, according to Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov, the European Commission needs a cybersecurity department.

From The Sofia Globe, Israelis were the largest group of foreigners visiting Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

From Radio Bulgaria, climbing Bulgaria's ten highest mountains.

From Ekathimerini, France agrees to lend Greece a metope from the Parthenon for its independence centennial in 2021.  (In other words, France will lend Greece something that came from Greece in the first place.  My spell checker does not accept the word "metope".)

From the Greek Reporter, anarchists smash a restaurant door and throw paint on its walls.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Moldova seeks to be included in the development of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.

From Total Croatia News, on the European Day of Remembrance, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković pays his respects to the victims of Nazism and Stalinism.

From the Malta Independent, the 356 migrants on board the Ocean Viking will be distributed to six countries.

From Malta Today, where the NGO migrants rescue ships are this week.

From ANSA, the 5-Star Movement and Democratic Party start talks about possibly forming a new government for Italy.

From SwissInfo, bollards are installed to protect the Swiss parliament building.

From El País, an archive of photos from the Spanish Civil War is found after 72 years.

From The Portugal News, plans to establish lithium mines in Portugal forge ahead despite opposition.

From The Stream, the book The Phoney Victory shows the "dark side" of the "good war".

From the Daily Caller, at least 15 jail workers are reportedly subpoenaed after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.

From Reason, Court of Appeals Judge Don Willett "butts heads" with other Trump nominees over qualified immunity for policemen.

From the New York Post, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is treated for a malignant tumor on her pancreas.

From Fox News, Indiana's attorney general weighs in on California's homeless crisis.

From WPVI-TV, police departments in Pennsylvania are given K-9 dogs.

And from The Babylon Bee, Americans are relieved to find that the Amazon which is burning is the rainforest, not the online bookstore.

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