Sunday, December 29, 2019

Sunday Links - Part 1

Here on the last Sunday of 2019 are some things going on:

From Townhall, Trump campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany gives a "perfect" example that shows why Americans hate the swamp.

From The Washington Free Beacon, another possible TWFB Man of the Year is Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

From the Washington Examiner, five facilities controlled by Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria get droned.

From The Federalist, "identity politics enables anti-Semitic violence".

From American Thinker, how President Obama affected the military.

From LifeZette, Ivanka Trump points out that family will always be her top priority.

From NewsBusters, ABC and NBC try to dismiss former Vice President Biden's promise to not comply with any senatorial subpoena.

From Canada Free Press, the alleged scandals involving Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) and her son Paul are deeper than the Ukraine.

From CBC News, electric vehicles aren't as green as you might think.

From Global News, a Canadian business is building a plant that suck carbon dioxide from the air.  (The word "plant" would be appropriate, because plants of another definition, as in living green-colored organisms, really do remove carbon dioxide from the air.)

From CTV News, horse-drawn carriage rides will soon be discontinued in Montreal.

From TeleSUR, ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales meets with members of his party in Argentina.

From The Portugal News, the Portugal Rally in 2019 makes a record impact on the Portuguese economy.

From RFI, the French government accuses the CGT trade union of "obstructionism".

From SwissInfo, wolves make a comeback in Switzerland.

From EuroNews, the NGO ship Alan Kurdi docks in Sicily after rescuing 32 Libyans.

From the Maltese Independent, the year of Maltese protests.

From Malta Today, Maltese customs authorities seize 1.7 tons of tobacco from a barber shop.

From Total Slovenia News, a Slovenian border crossing is closed for an hour because an electric device for tuning pianos was mistaken for a possible bomb.

From Total Croatia News, a Turkish migrant smuggler crashes his van into a police vehicle at a rest stop on a Croatian highway.

From Ekathimerini, Greek riot police will wear ID tags and body cameras.

From the Greek Reporter, the Greek government intends to open the Kasta Hill Tomb in Amphipolis to visitors in early 2022.

From The Sofia Globe, the Bulgarian foreign ministry warns travelers about a three-day strike by cabin crews of the airline Germanwings.

From Russia Today, Russian security forces arrest two people suspected of planning terror attacks on New Year's Eve in Saint Petersburg, after a tip-off from U.S. agents.

From Sputnik International, the north magnetic pole is expected to continue moving toward Russia.  (The article's top picture appears to have been taken from Doctor Who.)

From The Moscow Times, the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists complete a prisoner exchange.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian opposition party LMP submits a bill to ban fireworks and pyrotechnics.

From About Hungary, Hungary in the E.U. in 2019.

From The Slovak Spectator, the bottom-up rise of creative industry in Slovakia.

From Radio Prague, another incident happens at the statue of Russia Field Marshal Ivan Konev in Prague.

From Polskie Radio, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki accuses Russian President Putin of having "lied about Poland".

From Free West Media, the archbishop of Krakow is not a fan of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

From Deutsche Welle, German Chancellor Merkel's "grand coalition" faces new challenges.

From the NL Times, the top ten stories from 2019 in the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, Turkey deports a Dutch ISIS bride and her child back to the Netherlands.

From VRT NWS, Italian police arrest an Albanian wanted in Belgium for alleged people smuggling.

From the Express, Sir Keir Starmer becomes the front runner in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be able to ride around on his Christmas present from his girlfriend.

From the (U.K.) Independent, Big Ben will ring in 2020 behind its restored clock face.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish author Sally Rooney makes former U.S. President Barack Obama's list of favorite books for 2019.

From the Irish Examiner and the "what could go wrong?" department, Dublin Airport plans a trial of an off-site bag drop service.

From The Conservative Woman, a deal in October, and then a groundhog Brexit.

From The Stream, a U.S. Senate candidate (R-AL) comes to the defense of a high school football team under pressure from atheists.

From Fox News, according to Karl Rove, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) could claim victory in the Iowa Caucus.

From CBS DFW, a man shoots people in a church in White Settlemen, Texas and is then shot by a member of the congregation.  (via Breitbart)

From Breitbart, a synagogue and Jewish shops are vandalized in London.

From Twitchy, Warren says that Biden should testify before the Senate in the impeachment trial.

And from The Peedmont, according to your dad, you should get to the Richmond International Airport at least two hours early.

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