Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Tuesday Things - Part 1

As a sunny and breezy Tuesday hangs around, here are some things going on:

From National Review, don't listen to teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.  (I would add, "or her adult enablers".)

From FrontpageMag, how Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was involved in the torture of American POWs in Vietnam.

From Townhall, President Trump gives the globalists a piece of his mind.

From The Washington Free Beacon, during the past few years, Iran has spent a lot of money aiding terrorists.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a survey, almost half of all socialists think that violence against the rich is justified.

From The Federalist, when men commit suicide over unproven allegations, it means that #MeToo has gone too far.

From American Thinker, Trump's tariffs on China might be keeping some Chinese money out of U.S. universities.

From CNS News, U.S. ambassador at large Sam Brownback is dismayed that Islamic countries don't seem to have any problem with China's treatment of the Uighurs.  (If enhanced scrutiny of Muslims at airports amounts to Islamophobia, then surely putting Muslims in detention camps is an even worse form of Islamophobia.)

From LifeZette, according to congresscritter Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), impeachment would be "terribly divisive".

From NewsBusters, some journalists at NBC think that Trump's U.N. speech belongs in the 19th century.

From Canada Free Press, at the U.N., God is not welcome and hasn't been welcome for a long time.

From CBC News, how fertilizer made from natural gas in Alberta helps feed the world.

From Global News, Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer objects to a sympathizer of Syria's president becoming an honorary consul in Montreal.

From CTV News, a Canadian federal judge grants British Columbia an injunction against Alberta's "turn-off-the-taps" law.

From TeleSUR, Nicaragua's leaders promise that there will not be a return to the violence which the country endured in 2018.

From The Jakarta Post, according to Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Indonesia, ties between the two countries will continue to grow.

From The Straits Times, three companies with offices in Singapore are accused of being involved in fires which produce haze.

From the Borneo Post, a video of an elephant swimming in a Malaysian lake goes viral.

From Free Malaysia Today, Indian Islamic cleric Zakir Naik, currently in Malaysia, is close to being declared a "fugitive".

From The Mainichi, two weeks after Typhoon Faxai came through, some people in Japan's Chiba Prefecture are still without power.

From the Daily Mirror, a ban on the niqab and the burqa will continue in the Sri Lankan province of Uva.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka will give its disabled military veterans a generous pension.

From The Hans India, India's Supreme Court rules that police do not have the power to seize immovable property during an investigation.

From the Hindustan Times, northern India and adjacent parts of Pakistan are hit by a 6.0-magnitude earthquake.

From ANI, U.S. President Trump likens Indian Prime Minister Modi to the King of Rock.

From India Today and the "don't take the law into your own hands" department, police in the Indian state of Rajastan arrest seven people for allegedly assaulting a man suspected of cow smuggling.

From Khaama Press, the Helmand provincial government releases photos from a raid in which 22 terrorists were sent to their virgins.

From Dawn, the quake in northern Pakistan has killed 23 people and injured over 300 others.

From The Express Tribune, pictures from the earthquake.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan's Foreign Office rejects a claim by an Indian army general about an alleged terrorist camp.

From Radio Farda, in his speech at the U.N., Trump calls Iran a "repressive security threat".

From IranWire, an Iranian women's rights activist is targeted by a fake news campaign.

From StepFeed, the death of the "Blue Girl" results in Iranian women being allowed into soccer stadiums.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan proposes a "peace corridor" to solve the Syrian migrant crisis.

From Turkish Minute, 186 more people are sought in a crackdown targeting Gülen followers.

From In-Cyprus, the bankruptcy of Thomas Cook creates a domino effect in Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, illegal abortions and hymen reconstructions in Syria are reportedly dangerous for women.

Form Arutz Sheva, Israel's Likud party reportedly offers Blue and White leader Benny Gantz a three-year term as Prime Minister, after Bibi Netanyahu continues in the post for a short time.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel angrily rejects Erdoğan's comparison of Gaza to the Holocaust.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli politician Avigdor Liberman is opposed to any coalition that would include Arab, ultra-Orthodox or "messianic" parties.

From YNetNews, according to Jordanian King Abdullah, Israel would hurt its ties with the Jordan and Egypt by annexing parts of the West Bank.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi speaks at the U.N.

From Morocco World News, a Moroccan court postpones the trial of a journalist accused of having an illegal abortion and extramarital sex.  (Those crickets you hear are from Western abortion rights activists.)

From Gatestone Institute, France welcomes the Saudis and condemns those who criticize Islam.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Stream, what if climate activist Greta Thunberg and noted smirker Nick Sandmann traded places?

From Legal Insurrection, an appeals court reinstates a lawsuit against the University of Michigan's "bias response team".

From Breitbart, several 2020 Democrat presidential candidates call for Trump's impeachment.

From CNBC, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appears to have used Trump's U.N. speech as a chance to take a nap.  (via the New York Post)

From WPVI-TV, Trump says that a transcript of his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky will be released.

From CheckYourFact, does Democrat presidential candidate Bob O'Rourke have a criminal record that prevents him from buying guns?  (Read the story to find out.)

From Rolling Stone, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter dies at age 78.

And from Twitchy, why impeachment is a gift to Trump.

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