Sunday, August 18, 2019

Sunday Stuff - Part 1

On a very warm and sunny Sunday, here are some things going on:

From Free West Media, two and a half billion people don't safely dispose of their own waste.  (You can insert a joke about San Francisco, but that's not whom the article is referring to.)

From CBC News, Canada is reportedly "disappointed" that the U.K. has removed the citizenship of "Jihadi Jack".

From Global News, Canadian federal and provincial leaders are expected to march in Montreal's Pride parade.

From TeleSUR, Spain offers to take in the migrants left on the NGO ship Open Arms.  (The English editions of El País and ANSA don't usually publish anything on the weekends, so I'm using this article from TeleSUR.)

From the Malta Independent, Italian Interior Minister Salvini tells the Open Arms to head for Spain.

From Malta Today, more on Spain offering to take in the migrants on the Open Arms.  (While my usual Spanish and Italian sources have not published anything today, including anything on this story, my usual Maltese sources have come through with flying colors.)

From SwissInfo, a look at Switzerland's most visited monument, the Château de Chillon.

From Total Croatia News, the number of people visiting Split, Croatia this year is finally going down.

From Ekathimerini, Turkish fighter jets allegedly enter Greek airspace.

From the Greek Reporter, Turkish authorities arrest 330 migrants trying reach the Greek island of Lesvos.

From Novinite, Bulgarian authorities seize 76 kilos of cocaine hidden in a fruit shipment.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian effort to combat anti-Semitism is hampered by infighting.

From Radio Bulgaria, foreigners visiting Bulgaria go to its mountains.

From Russia Today, a Russian tank sets a speed record.

From Sputnik International, the International Army Games put on by Russia conclude for this year.

From The Moscow Times, a nuclear power plant at Beloyarsk, Russia is shut down by its safety system.

From Daily News Hungary, does Hungary have a migration crisis?

From The Slovak Spectator, what place was most visited in Slovakia's High Tatra mountains?

From Radio Praha, the Chinese embassy in Prague protests the Czech government's statements on Hong Kong.

From Radio Poland, Polish athlete Aleksandra Mirosław defends her speed-climbing world championship.

From Deutsche WelleGerman Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has a warning for Syrian refugees who vacation in Syria.  (Let me get this straight.  Your home country became so dangerous that you had to leave in order to stay alive, but it's still safe for you go back there?  Is there something that shields visitors, including former residents, from the danger which forced you to leave?)

From VRT NWS, 29 women set a skydiving record by forming one figure in the air, over the Belgian region of West Flanders.

From France24, a man is arrested in Doussard, France after his wife's body was found in the trunk of his car.

From RFI, a Merovingian skeleton is excavated in Cahors, France.

From the Express, with Brexit looming, the U.K. prepares to take back its fisheries.

From the Evening Standard, Blenheim Palace will install a fully functional golden throne.

From the (U.K.) Independent, over 100 parliamentcritters urge Prime Minister Johnson to recall parliament.

From the (Irish) Independent, after Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor punches someone in a Dublin pub, Florida pub workers pour his brand of whisky down the porcelain throne.  (I would have offered to pass some of the whisky through myself before sending it down that way.)

From the Irish Examiner, according to a leaked document, the U.K. thinks that a no-deal Brexit would require a hard border with Ireland.

From The Conservative Woman, the "horrific baby-killing bandwagon" in the southern part of the Anglosphere.

From National Review, American needs to preserve its "other" special relationship.

From Townhall, what become of the Proud Boys/Antifa protest/counter-protest in Portland.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritters Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) share a drawing by an anti-Semitic cartoonist.

From the Washington Examiner, Border Patrol agents have a relatively calm day near the Rio Grande.

From American Thinker, hate is hate, no matter which side it comes from.

From LifeZette, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) suggests a response to Israel's refusal to let congresscritters Omar and Tlaib visit, and what the media won't tell you about Trump rallies.

From NewsBusters, "pronouns die in darkness".

From the New York Post, a brawl breaks out on a delayed flight at JFK.

From the Daily Caller, congresscritter Tlaib compares Israel to apartheid-era South Africa and sounds off on Bill Maher.

From WPVI-TV, soccer builds better youth in Philadelphia.

And from Twitchy, The Babylon Bee nails Snopes once again.  (When Snopes gets through its thick skull the fact that The Babylon Bee is satire, the nailings will stop.)

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