Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

Here in the middle of the first week in December are some things going on:

From National Review, why the intra-party fight over a Senate seat from Georgia matters.

From FrontpageMag, even with all the good that the Salvation Army does, the left hates them.

From Townhall, congresscritter Doug Collins (R-GA) points out how the impeachment hearing has no fact witnesses.

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) falsely claims to have fast-tracked HIV drugs to market.

From the Washington Examiner, according to remarks prepared by the only GOP witness, the current process "is not how an American president should be impeached".

From The Federalist, three reasons why Senator Kamala Harris's (D-Cal) presidential campaign crashed.

From American Thinker, the Democrats have a "lose-lose" situation with impeachment.

From CNS News, congresscritter Al Green (D-TX) notices that the impeachment legal experts all have something in common.  (Take me to the river....oh, wait....he's not that Al Green.)

From LifeZette, at the impeachment hearings, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Ranking Member Doug Collins (R-GA) set the tone.

From NewsBusters, CBS can't seem to figure out whether Kamala Harris is a liberal.

From Canada Free Press, "Christmas under Marx and Lenin".

From CBC News, hundreds of Canadian women facing abuse are turned away by women's shelters.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's backup airplane experiences technical difficulties.

From CTV News, a student at McGill University will not have to step down from a student society for accepting a free trip to Israel.

From TeleSUR, Colombians stage their third nationwide strike in 14 days.

From The Portugal News, organizations in Portugal and Spain sign an agreement that's literally for the birds.

From El PaĆ­s, explosives experts safely destroy a grenade that was thrown into a center for migrant minors.

From France24, France braces itself for what could be its biggest strike in decades.

From RFI, a "massive" police presence is deployed in Paris, as many shops and restaurants close.

From Voice Of Europe, welfare-dependent migrants in France complain that their debit cards don't allow cash withdrawals.  (If you read French, read the story at InfoMigrants.)

From SwissInfo, the strike in France disrupts rail travel between France and Switzerland.

From ANSA, according to U.S. President Trump, Italian Prime Minister Conte "is doing a fantastic job".

From the Malta Independent, why do the "super-rich" want Malta's "golden passports"?

From Malta Today, Maltese NGOs plan another protest for this coming Sunday.

From Total Slovenia News, the three co-presidents of Bosnia and Hercegovina start a two-day visit to Slovenia.

From Total Croatia News, the Nigerians deported to the border with Bosnia allegedly lied to Croatian police.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Index.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, citizens of Bosnia and Hercegovina start returning from Syria.

From Ekathimerini, because of a new regulation by Frontex, tighter border controls will go into effect.

From the Greek Reporter, the Greek Coast Guard rescues the entire crew of a Liberian-flagged ship floating adrift near the islands of Lesvos and Skyros.

From Novinite, the Bulgarian power plant Kozloduy will be supplied with Russian nuclear fuel by 2025.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria allocates money to overhaul MiG-29 fighter jets.

From Radio Bulgaria, there have been Bulgarians in Croatia for a long time.

From Romania Insider, the U.S. ambassador to Romania will read to children at a St. Nicholas Day even in Bucharest.

From Russia Today, a conman tricks illegal migrants into paying him to cross his fake Russia-Finland border crossing.

From Sputnik International, a delegation from the Russian Federal Treasury which was supposed to arrive in Washington is not issued their visas.

From The Moscow Times, according to Kazakh President Kassym Jomart-Tokayev, the transfer of Crimea from Ukraine to Russia was not an annexation.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban welcomes NATO's recognition that migration is a security challenge.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, NATO is essential to the fight against terrorism.

From About Hungary, according to an international coalition funded by George Soros, freedom of the press is in danger in Hungary.

From The Slovak Spectator, a railroad trip between Vienna and Bratislava could take only 40 minutes, if Slovakia repairs some old bridges.

From Radio Prague, Czechs mark the 30th anniversary of their real freedom to travel to the west.

From Polskie Radio, a Polish man who fought off the London Bridge knife attacker says that he "acted instinctively".

From the CPH Post, the Museum of Copenhagen is set to reopen in February 2020.

From Deutsche Welle, after the murder of a Georgian asylum seeker in Berlin, the German government expels two Russian diplomats.

From the NL Times, with the bank ABN Amro closing closing many of its ATMs, Dutch police expect criminals to start targeting the ATMs of other banks.

From Dutch News, Greenpeace is banned from demonstrating at Shell's Brent oil rigs.

From VRT NWS, is your son being used as a money mule?

From EuroNews, the E.U. is reportedly failing to meet its climate change commitments.

From Euractiv, the European Commission is set to vote on a ban on organophosphate pesticides.

From the Express, U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn promises, if he becomes prime minister, to let a homeless family live in the prime minister's country residence.

From the Evening Standard, Princess Kate gives out some good advice for Christmas.

From the (U.K.) Independent, a former Labour parliamentcritter endorses the Conservatives, just to stop Corbyn from being elected Prime Minister.

From the (Irish) Independent, an investigation is started after eight migrants are found on a freighter docked in the Irish port of Waterford.

From the Irish Examiner, in an Irish-led Frontex operation, 23 people are deported from Ireland back to Albania and Georgia.  (For anyone who attributes migration to war, what conflicts are currently going on in Albania and/or Georgia?)

From The Conservative Woman, a revised Labour version of British history.

From The Stream, a new media resource for parents trying to raise Christian children.

From TechRepublic, the ten most important hardware developments of the 2010s.

From LifeNews, a baby with anencephaly lives a week longer than expected.

From the Daily Caller, former FLOTUS/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells Howard Stern that she "actually likes men".

From the New York Post, rich neighborhoods in New York City donate cash to the budgets of their schools.

And from Twitchy, an "objective and fair" impeachment witness crosses a street to avoid walking in front of a Trump hotel.

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