Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Tuesday Tidings - Part 1

As a cool and cloudy Tuesday arrives, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump is making a mistake pulling our troops out of Syria.

From FrontpageMag, why it makes sense to pull out of Syria.

From Townhall, Fox News host Tucker Carlson finds an election-year request from Mr. Bill to a foreign leader.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) anti-lobbying plan appears to apply differently to corporations and unions.

From the Washington Examiner, impartiality on impeachment is more myth than reality.

From The Federalist, Congress should either take back its war powers or shut up about Syria.

From American Thinker, a Clinton-era House committee staffer gives some perspective on impeachment.

From CNS News, according to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), the U.S. is not obligated "to fight every war and find every peace".

From LifeZette, a Democrat congresscritter is booed at her town hall for supporting a "coup" against Trump.

From Canada Free Press, the winners of last night's Canadian leaders debate.

From CBC News, five key moments from the Canadian debate.

From Global News, a look at the false or inaccurate statements made during the Canadian debate.

From CTV News, seven takeaways form the Canadian debate.

From The Jakarta Post, a Thai pro-democracy activist is arrested for an "inappropriate" social media post.  (What's this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Straits Times, Singapore and Indonesia renew their $10 billion currency pact.

From the Borneo Post, a face cream sold in Malaysia is found to contain mercury.

From Free Malaysia Today, a Buddhist at the center of a video showing cruelty to a dog by Muslims claims that he was not insulting Mohammed by invoking his name.  (Again I ask, what is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From The Mainichi, a controversial art exhibit showing World War II-era "comfort women" reopens with tighter controls.

From the Daily Mirror, a mother and daughter are arrested at a Sri Lankan airport for allegedly carrying a kilo of methamphetamine.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan Navy trains security officials from the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand in the search and seizure of drugs.

From The Hans India, India accuses Pakistan of "weaponizing" women's rights issues at the U.N.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh receives his country's first Rafale jet while in France.

From ANI, in Awantipur, Jammu and Kashmir, Indian security forces send a Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist to his virgins.

From India Today, Minister Singh takes a sortie in the Rafale jet.

From Khaama Press, security forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province send Al Qaeda's leader for the Indian subcontinent to his virgins.

From Dawn, Pakistan summons an Indian envoy over the death of a civilian near the Line of Control in Kashmir.

From The Express Tribune, while in Beijing, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan woos Chinese investors.

From Pakistan Today, the trial for treason of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf starts on October 24th.

From Radio Farda, according to Iran's nuclear chief, the country's nuclear program is back to pre-JCPOA levels.

From IranWire, an Iranian citizen recounts being tortured in an Iran prison.

From StepFeed, the UAE allows its citizens to travel to Lebanon.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Presidents Trump (U.S.) and Erdoğan (Turkey) will meet in Washington on November 13th.

From Turkish Minute, the U.K. warns Turkey against acting unilaterially in Syria.

From Rûdaw, according to a Kurdish official, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov promises mediation with Turkey to protect Kurds in Syria.

From In-Cyprus, a research center in Cyprus will monitor Middle East greenhouse gas emissions.

From The Syrian Observer, a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in Syria's Hama province kills 20 Russian and Syrian government soldiers.

From Arutz Sheva, about 100,000 Jews gather at the Western Wall for Selichot prayers ahead of Yom Kippur.

From The Times Of Israel, "Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur".

From The Jerusalem Post, according to new E.U. foreign envoy, supporting a two-state solution is not anti-Semitic.

From YNetNews, who should fast on Yom Kippur, and who shouldn't.

From Egypt Today, Egypt is keen to support construction of the Rufiji Dam in Tanzania.

From Morocco World News, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE continue their support for Morocco's territorial integrity and its sovereignty over Western Sahara.

From BBC News, in what is seen as act of terrorism, a man from Syria hijacks a truck and plows into eight vehicles at a traffic light in Limburg, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at Frankfurter Neue Presse.)

From Gatestone Institute, "a tale of two coups".

From The Stream, according to political commentator Rachel Campos-Duffy, you'd better "talk to kids about socialism or someone else will".

From Twitchy, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) invites former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to answer questions from three of his Democrat colleagues.

From the Daily Caller, President Trump invites his former rival to enter the 2020 race "on one condition".

From Reason, everyone is misunderstanding the movie Joker.

From WPVI-TV, a Princeton University professor originally from Canada and two Swiss scientists win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

And from the New York Post, "have you seen the little piggies"........using tools?  (Come to think of it, the quoted song, Piggies by the Beatles, also includes the lyrics "clutching forks and knives".)

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