Thursday, August 15, 2019

Thursday Things - Part 1

Here on a Thursday that turned from sun to rain are some things going on:

From National Review, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood shows its dedication to abortion.

From FrontpageMag, California helps students conceal school absences for abortions or gender counseling.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Israel bans U.S. congresscritters Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) from entering.

From Townhall, although Israel has legitimate reasons for not allowing Omar and Tlaib to visit, they should be let in anyway.

From the Washington Examiner, pro-Israel Democrats "slam" the blocking of Omar and Tlaib.

From The Federalist, "Israel has every right to block Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar".

From American Thinker, red flag laws have a racist history.

From CNS News, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) thinks that gun control will bring freedom.

From LifeZette, as Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) continues to recover from a stabbing attack, he talks about the mob who wishes him further harm.

From NewsBusters, a host at CNBC tells his fellow media people to "dial back the hysteria" on the economy.

From CBC News, how four former Canadian Supreme Court justices were caught up in the SNC-Lavalin affair.

From Global News, Quebec's immigration minister has a "heated exchange" with a U.N. refugee representative.

From CTV News, four out of every 10 Canadian cannabis consumers use illegal cannabis.

From TeleSUR, Bolivia doubles its spending on programs to counter violence against women.

From The Portugal News, an operator of an illegal kennel blames the Portuguese government for his problems.

From El PaĆ­s, Spain is one of six countries offering to take in migrants currently on board the NGO ship Open Arms.

From France24, the decontamination of Notre Dame Cathedral begins.

From RFI, President Emmanuel Macron urges French mayors to perpetuate the memory of World War II troops from France's African colonies.

From Free West Media, the U.K. advertising authority bans as "harmful" an ad showing straight white people.

From the Express, in the city where knives are illegal, a man is stabbed outside the U.K.'s Home Office.

From the Evening Standard, Gibraltar releases a seized Iranian oil tanker.

From the (U.K.) Independent, in England and Wales, crime goes up but punishment goes down.

From the (Irish) Independent, a bonfire in Derry County, Ireland is festooned with banners about the Bloody Sunday shootings.

From the Irish Examiner, an Irish army bomb squad performs a controlled explosion on a suspicious device.

From VRT NWS, Belgium's French-speaking Walloons should develop a vision instead of just saying "no".

From the NL Times, a Dutch woman finds a 2-Euro coin with a Nazi symbol stamped over the image of Dutch Princess Beatrix.  (You could call this a "numismatic anachronism".)

From Dutch News, a group of Uyghurs in the Netherlands lodges a protest with the Chinese government over how this ethnicity is treated in China.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany will made additional payments to about 5,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel.

From the CPH Post, Denmark's justice minister calls for more CCTV to improve security.

From Polskie Radio, Poland marks the anniversary of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw against the Bolsheviks.

From Radio Praha, hunters near Brno, Czech Republic find hares and pheasants dead from rat poison.

From The Slovak Separator, recently deceased U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had a Slovak accomplice.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary's Green party protests the government's plans to open new oil and gas fields.

From Hungary Today, two people are arrested at Budapest's airport for allegedly smuggling children.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, the festivities honoring Hungary's first king will take place over three days.

From Russia Today, a Russian airliner suffers a birdstrike, lands in a field with its gear up, and everyone survives.

From Sputnik International, an unexploded bomb from World War II is found in the Kremlin.

From The Moscow Times, according to U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, Russia stole American hypersonic missile technology.

From Novinite, Russia bans the import of pigs and pork from Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, archaeologists discover the tomb of a 14th-century aristocrat at the Kaliakra fortress on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

From Radio Bulgaria, the evacuation of Bulgarian visitors from the Greek island of Samothraki has started.

From Ekathimerini, two men are arrested for arson in the Greek region of Peloponnese.

From the Greek ReporterGreek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos calls on the world to recognize the genocide of Pontian Greeks.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, "Montenegro can benefit from natural gas".

From Total Croatia News, almost 250,000 citizens of western Balkan countries legally emigrated to the E.U. during 2018.

From the Malta Independent, Malta's commissioner for animal welfare calls for an end to horseracing on streets and roads.

From Malta Today, Malta's consulate in Barcelona is vandalized with graffiti.

From EuroNews, Italian Prime Minister Conte calls Interior Minister Salvini "disloyal".

From The Conservative Woman, the elephant in the housing crisis room is immigration.

From The Stream, what Congress can do to help migrant children.

From Fox News, U.S. Jewish conservative Ben Shapiro sides with congresscritters Omar and Tlaib.

From Accuracy in Media, some discrepancies emerge between President Trump's possible primary opponents.

From the New York Post, Epstein had two taxidermied animals in his New York townhouse.

And from Twitchy, Trump discusses a real estate deal that doesn't appear likely, but could make left-wing heads spin.

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