Friday, September 27, 2019

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

As the workweek winds down, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump did wrong, but is impeachment a good idea?

From FrontpageMag, urging Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Biden does not violate any law.

From Townhall, Trump calls out congresscritter Adam Schiff (D-Cal).

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) proposes to ban private prisons, even though she has invested in them.

From the Washington Examiner, Trump's personal lawyer alleges that the whistleblower complaint was written by a law firm.

From The Federalist, Democrat congresscritters have no credibility on impeachment.

From American Thinker, impeachment frenzy from the Democrats precedes time bombs which will explode in their faces.  (For any law enforcement types reading this, these are figurative bombs.  There is no real bomb threat either here or in the linked article.)

From CNS News, the Trump administration proposes a record low of admitted 18,000 as refugees in 2020.

From LifeZette, the whistleblower may have had help.

From NewsBusters, a judge demands that congresscritter AOC (D-NY) appears in court for blocking followers on Twitter.

From Canada Free Press, the Biden-Ukraine debacle means that nobody in the deep state ever goes to jail.

From CBC News, Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg praises climate marchers in Montreal.  (Is there a Chinese consulate in Montreal?)

From Global News, students in Edmonton plan to protest climate change at the Alberta provincial legislator.  (Is there a Chinese consulate in Edmonton?)

From TeleSUR, the Brazilian Supreme Court makes a ruling that could lead to former President Lula da Silva being released from prison.

From The Portugal News, U.K. nationals in Portugal are "lucky" compared to those in other European countries.

From El País, a Spanish judge accuses seven Catalan separatists of belonging to a new terror group.

From SwissInfo, about 3,500 climate protesters demonstrate in Lausanne, Switzerland.  (Is there a Chinese consulate in Lausanne?)

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Conte promises to act on the demands of climate protesters.

From the Malta Independent, five migrants at the Safi detention center are charged with causing unrest.

From Malta Today, two groups of migrants in Malta are relocated to Portugal and France.

From Total Croatia News, according to Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Slovenia cannot block Croatia's entry into the Schengen Area indefinitely.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to North Macedonian Prime Minister Zaev, "Greece needs to take the leadership of the Balkans".

From Ekathimerini, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls for the burden of the migrants to be shared, and has some criticism for Turkey.

From the Greek Reporter, five children and two adults are killed when a boat carrying migrants capsizes near the Oinousses islets in Greece, and a storage room and possibly a throne room are found in Zominthos Palace on Crete.

From Novinite, more than 750,000 Bulgarians traveled outside the country in August.

From The Sofia Globe, a record number of foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in August.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgarians tend to have views that are conservative, but not too conservative.

From Romania-Insider, more than 180,000 Romanians in the U.K. apply for "pre-settled" status.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Russia Today, Russia's Pacific Fleet fires the Onix supersonic cruise missile.

From Sputnik International, the Russian government hopes that transcripts of the talks between President Trump and President Putin will not be released.

From The Moscow Times, dumacritter Vitaly Milonov wants gender-inclusive Barbie dolls to be banned from Russia.  (Since the lower house of the Russian legislature is called the Duma, a dumacritter is the Russian equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From the Hungary Journal, according to Prime Minister Orban, the reason the European Commission has a problem with MEP Laszlo Trocsanyi is that he helped protect Hungary from migration.

From Daily News Hungary, the Council of Europe welcomes Hungary's efforts against human trafficking.

From Hungary Today, American entertainer Will Smith loves Budapest.

From About Hungary, the Hungarian government spends billions of forints for education and helping the homeless.

From The Slovak Spectator, the top 10 events in Slovakia during this coming October.

From Radio Prague, the German embassy in Prague marks the 30th anniversary of the large influx of East Germans to Prague in 1989.

From Polskie Radio, Belarus considers importing oil via the Polish city of Gdańsk.

From Voice Of Europe, public libraries in Sweden have become hotbeds of violence, drug dealing and sexual harassment.

From Deutsche Welle, German activists demand that abortion is legalized.

From EuroNews, German car lovers strike back at climate protesters.

From the NL Times, police in Amsterdam find liquid cocaine in an aquarium.

From Dutch News, Dutch lawmakers consider introducing deposits on plastic bottles.

From VRT NWS, a joint effort by U.K. and Belgian police results in the arrest of 15 suspected people smugglers.

From France24, French legislators approve in vitro fertilization for lesbians and single women.

From RFI, Parisians celebrate the 130th birthday of the replica of the Statue of Liberty which overlooks the Seine.

From Euractiv, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance reaches its 25th anniversary.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister has an available legal move with will kill off every Remainer attempt to stop Brexit.

From the Evening Standard, about 40 percent of Thomas Cook customers are back in the U.K.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the Scottish National Party could support Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as temporary prime minister to stop a no-deal Brexit.

From the (Irish) Independent, a bridge in Cork, Ireland is named in honor of a woman who saved more than 200 children from the Nazi concentration camps.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland's Taoiseach defense the expense used to provide security for U.S. President Trump and Vice President Pence during their visits.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s climate policies are futile and expensive.

And from Snouts in the Trough, only the Australians dare to oppose the climate hysteria.

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