Monday, November 25, 2019

Monday Links - Part 1

As another workweek starts up, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the California DMV makes millions selling information about drivers to private companies.  (Even so, the state is still running large deficits, if I'm not mistaken.)

From FrontpageMag, BDS supporters and Antifa at York University in Canada show that they are the real fascists.

From Townhall, the Democrats have a conundrum about impeachment.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the leadership of Bloomberg News tells its reporters to not investigate the 2020 Democrat candidates, but they may investigate President Trump.  (And some wonder why we right-wingers talk about a left-wing media bias.)

From the Washington Examiner, Trump gives a military dog his day.

From The Federalist, buried in the Inspector General's report on FBI misuse of confidential sources are some "blockbusters".

From American Thinker, the Democrat cold war against Christians is heating up.

From CNS News, congresscritter Devin Nunes (R-Cal) wants more impeachment hearings.

From NewsBusters, the networks showed much more of the current impeachment hearings than they did of Ken Starr's testimony at the Clinton impeachment hearings.

From Canada Free Press, cutting through the fog on Hunter Biden.

From CBC News, the Trans Mountain Corporation monitors pipeline opponents and even labels some as "persons of interest".

From Global News, Quebec requires repeat drunk driving offenders to have cars equipped with breathalyzers.

From CTV News, farmers in Quebec, to protest a strike by Canadian National railroad workers, bump corn at the riding office of the province's prime minister.  (A riding is the Canadian equivalent of a U.S. congressional district.)

From TeleSUR, the Central Workers' Union of Columbia continues striking for the fifth straight day.

From Morocco World News, the Casablanca Derby is marred by arrests, injuries and property damage.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkey's justice minister, over 3,900 judges and prosecutors have been dismissed since the attempted coup of 2016.

From Turkish Minute, a sculptor whose work was called "monstrous" by then-Prime Minister Erdoğan and later demolished wins a compensation case at Turkey's Constitutional Court.

From Rûdaw, the Kurdistan Regional Government launches a campaign against gender-based violence.

From In-Cyprus, according to Cyprus's attorney general, there is no intervention needed in the investigation of an alleged "spy van".

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian authorities arrest a teacher in Lattakia over a Facebook post.  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Arutz Sheva, according to Israel's attorney general, Prime Minister Netanyahu, even though under indictment, is not required to resign.

From The Times Of Israel, a mortar shell from Gaza hits an open filed in Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel does not tolerate violence against women.

From YNetNews, a Human Rights Watch official is expelled from Israel after his work visa is revoked for supporting the BDS movement.

From the Egypt Independent, "Egypt develops infrastructure to charge electric vehicles".

From Egypt Today, about 2,500 Egyptian railroad workers are suspended after testing positive for drug use.

From StepFeed, leaked documents show China's abuse of Muslims, such as the Uyghurs.

From The News Arab, Middle Eastern and North African women still wait for the end of violence.

From Radio Farda, Iranian officials are defiant even while overwhelmed by protests.

From IranWire, an Iranian woman is fatally shot while trying to help a man who had just been shot.

From Dawn, according to Pakistan's interior minister, there was a "disparity" between medical reports about former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his behavior.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani Army announces several top-level postings.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani government moves to delay the verdict in former President Pervez Musharraf's trial for treason.

From Khaama Press, 900 ISIS terrorists and their families, including Indian women and children, surrender to Afghan forces.

From The Hans India, according to Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, democracy has been "murdered" in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian Army will deploy Spike anti-tank missiles on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

From ANI, a 12-year-old boy is selected as a data scientist by a software company in Hyderabad, India.

From India Today, three men inspired by ISIS are arrested in the Indian state of Assam for allegedly planning a terror attack in Delhione of whom reportedly has a "love jihad" in his past.

From the Daily Mirror, new Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invites the Tamil diaspora to help develop Sri Lanka.

From the Colombo Page, new Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa orders police to investigate the vandalism of Tamil language street signs.

From Tempo, Philippine government troops rescue a British man and his Filipina wife from Abu Sayyaf kidnappers.

From Israellycool, the Human Rights Watch worker expelled from Israel appeared to call Hamas a "freedom movement".

From Allah's Willing Executioners, a man wearing a Berlin police uniform appears to make the salute of a Turkish right-wing extremist group.

From Daily Sikh Updates, two Sikh men defend a Muslim couple from a gang that was harassing them at a theater in Birmingham, England.

From Gatestone Institute, while Iran tortures protesters, the world yawns.

From The Jakarta Post, while Indonesian President Joko Widodo selects young people for his team of aides, Vice President Ma'Ruf Amin selects people old enough to be called "colonial".  (The Dutch colonization of Indonesia ended with World War II.)

From The Straits Times, according to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, the government will respect the results of yesterday's elections.

From the Borneo Post, 16 senior Malaysians graduate from the "University of the Third Age".

From Free Malaysia Today, the U.K. will take back 42 containers of plastic waste from Malaysia.

From The Mainchi, the Japanese corporation Toshiba develops technology that can detect cancer from a single drop of blood.

From The Stream, have a "happy Trumpsgiving".

From the Daily Caller, the daughter of an Arkansas governor is considering running for that particular office.  (The article is not about Chelsea Clinton.)

From WPVI-TV, President Trump will sign a bill today to make animal cruelty a federal felony.  (He may have already signed it as I write this post.)

From Fox News, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has plans to create a "plethora" of new federal offices if she is elected president.

From Twitchy, Michael Bloomberg's restaurant order at his first campaign stop draws consternation from both sides of the aisle.

From the New York Post, a newspaper in British Columbia makes the typo from hell.

And from The Babylon Bee, a new prenatal ultrasound technology can detect up to 50 genders.

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