Saturday, October 12, 2019

Saturday Stuff - Part 1

As the weekend arrives, here are some things going on:

From National Review, "we are all Ukrainians".

From Townhall, what is liberalism these days?

From The Washington Free Beacon, a website that reports climate change was created by a dark money network.

From the Washington Examiner, former FBI Director James Comey predicts his own vindication.

From American Thinker, to steal a line from Jefferson Starship, "Jane, you're playing a game".

From LifeZette, the 10 "wildest reactions" to Shepard Smith's last Fox News broadcast.

From News Busters, according to NPR, Smith's departure looks like a "purge based on purity".

From RedState, are we doomed yet?

From Canada Free Press, "the left has gone mad".  (Not only that, but I also believe that they're still progressing, pun intended, through more advanced stages of insanity.)

From CBC News, who are Canada's federal party leaders, and how did they get to this year's campaign?

From Global News, Green Party candidate Elizabeth May promises a "national re-examination" of veterans issues.

From Morocco World News, disability rights activists protest in Rabat, Morocco.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish forces take control of the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn.

From Turkish Minute, 17 civilians in Turkey have been killed by rockets and mortar shells fired by the Kurdish People's Protection Units.

From Rûdaw, a car bomb explodes in Hasaka, Syria near a prison holding thousands of ISIS fighters.

From In-Cyprus, France and Cyprus conduct a joint naval drill.

From The Times Of Israel, police in Wadi Ara, Israel search for weapons after the 74th Israeli Arab in 2019 is murdered.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israeli actress Gal Gadot will star in a movie about a woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto.

From YNetNews, the Palestinian leadership is divided over accepting tax revenue collected by Israel.

From Egypt Today, archaeologist Zahi Hawass announces new discoveries in two valleys near Luxor.

From StepFeed, seven times Muslims have been stopped by airport security officials in 2019.

From Radio Farda, Iranian lawmakers want to ban the teaching of English in public schools.

From Dawn, Turkish President Erdoğan plans to visit Pakistan on October 23rd.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government rejects accusations from Afghanistan about the closure of an Afghan market in Peshawar, Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistan's finance adviser, government reforms are starting to bear fruit.

From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces kill or detain 34 Taliban terrorists in several provinces of Afghanistan.

From The Hans India, the Indian government claims to have lifted restrictions on people's movement in "over 99 percent" of Jammu and Kashmir.

From the Hindustan Times, eight people are injured in a grenade attack in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

From ANI, according to Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, there are no human rights violations worse than terrorism and Naxalism.  (Naxalism is an Indian version of Maoism, which is a form of communism.)

From India Today, two "illegal immigrants" allegedly steal Prime Minister Modi's niece's purse in Delhi, India.

From the Daily Mirror, the Colombo Lotus Tower is ceremonially opened, but will stay closed to the public until next year.

From the Colombo Page, the committee investigating the Easter Sunday terror attacks will present its report to the Sri Lankan parliament on October 23rd.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian military officers are removed after their spouses post negative comments about the condition of a minister who had been stabbed.

From The Straits Times, gasoline bombs are thrown inside a Hong Kong metro station.

From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government will offer loans for replanting to small palm oil businesses.

From Free Malaysia Today, a Malaysian chemical engineer recommends the banning of hydrogen-filled balloons.

From The Mainichi, the Typhoon Hagibis hits Tokyo with potentially the heaviest rainfall in decades, killing two people.

From Gatestone Institute, a Turkish homecoming for ISIS.

From The Stream, how President Trump can win in Syria.

From the Daily Caller, according to Trump, the White House is reviewing the case of a Green Beret charged with murder.

From The Washington Times, police in Pelham, New Hampshire respond to a shooting at a church.

From Fox News, health officials warn that visitors to the Philadelphia airport may have been exposed to measles.

From the New York Postthanks to a Tweet from Trump, the hashtag #whereshunter becomes a top trend online.

And from Twitchy, look who Governor Gavin Newsom (D) does not blame for electricity shut-offs in California.

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