Sunday, January 19, 2020

Sunday Links - Part 1

On a clear cool Sunday, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, congresscritter Doug Collins (R-GA) points out why Americans should be concerned about the Democrats' impeachment effort.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Sara Gideon (D-ME) pledges to combat lobbyists after taking almost $20,000 from lobbyists.  (She's a politician and she's a hypocrite, but I repeat myself.)

From the Washington Examiner, Meghan Markle's father has an interesting way of describing her recent behavior.

From The Federalist, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) has lied and will lie again.

From American Thinker, President Trump grabbed Schrodinger's pussycat.

From NewsBusters, The Washington Post has different takes on recent marches.

From Canada Free Press, ProFa will pretend to be MAGA and NRA advocates at a march in Richmond, Virginia.

From CBC News, if you want to learn or teach the Cree language, there's an app for that.

From Global News, Canadian airlines deal with flight shame and the "Greta effect".

From CTV News, the Manitoba provincial government is urged to get rid of daylight savings time.

From TeleSUR, the Bolivian party Movement To Socialism chooses its presidential plan.

From Free West Media, a Spanish minister wants "millions and millions" of immigrants to come to Spain.

From The Portugal News, commuters in Lisbon, Portugal could be sharing bikes in the future.

From France24, the "yellow vest" protests continue in Paris, with more arrests and police tear gas.

From RFI, a fire at a Paris restaurant where French President Emmanuel Macron likes to eat may have been deliberately set.

From SwissInfo, according to a gay Swiss writer, gays don't need special rights.

From the Malta Independent, five reasons why Robert Abela won the contest to become Malta's prime minister.

From Malta Today, according to Nationalist Party leader Adrian Delia, Abela must now show that he's the prime minister of a normal country.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian Defense Minister Karl Erjavec resigns after losing his party's presidency.

From Total Croatia News, the Chinese constructing the Peljesac Bridge dismiss their security guards and allow Croatian police to arrive.  (If you read Croatian, read related stories at Poslovni Dnevnik and Dubrovački Dnevnik.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the government of Cyprus condemns Turkey's latest plan to drill near the island.

From Ekathimerini, according to Greece's new minister for immigration and asylum, stemming migration flow to the Aegean islands is a "priority".

From the Greek Reporter, the forgotten history of the Republic of the Ionian Islands.

From The Sofia GlobeBulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov talks with  International Monetary Fund director Kristalina Georgieva.

From Radio Bulgaria, a school in Plustina, Bulgaria does a good job educating minority students.

From Sputnik Internation, former Russian Prime Minister Medvedev will remain as the chairman of the United Russia party.

From The Moscow Times, Russian President Putin rejects the "president for life" tradition.  (Go ahead, get out the NaCl.)

From Daily News Hungary, U.S. soldiers get to eat Hungarian goulash.  (Having eaten goulash in Budapest, I can be happy for them.  If you read Hungarian, read the story at 24HU.)

From The Slovak Spectator, archaeologists find the remains of a defensive embankment in Žilina, Slovakia.

From Radio Prague, one of Czech classical music's best pieces is The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana.  (His last name resembles the Polish word śmietanka, which means "cream".)

From Polskie Radio, Krzystof Bosak of Poland's "far-right" party Confederation will run for president.  (I put "far-right" in quotes because of how the term is frequently thrown around against anyone who is slightly to the right of whoever is in power.)

From the CPH Post, this week in Denmark, "expect the unexpected".

From Deutsche Welle, participants at the Libya peace conference in Berlin agree to strictly enforce the U.N. arms embargo.

From EuroNews, can the peace talks in Berlin bring an end to the conflict in Libya?

From the NL Times, according to the Dutch Cabinet, workers in dangerous jobs need more alcohol and drug monitoring.

From VRT NWS, 185 Extinction Rebellion activists are detained while protesting at a motor show in Brussels.

From the Express, as a "final swipe" at pro-Brexit voters, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn nominates former Speaker John Berkow (Tory) for membership in the House of Lords.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. pundit Piers Morgan calls Meghan Markle's defenders "race-baiting pundits".

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to impose new restrictions on immigration from the E.U.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, an opinion poll shows the "read risk" of letting Fianna Fáil govern Ireland again.

From the Irish Examiner, the party Sinn Féin calls for a review, but not the abolition, of Ireland's Special Criminal Court.

From The Conservative Woman, a Christian victory against transgender imposition.

From The Stream, as The Stream reaches its fifth anniversary, a look at the last five years.

From Fox News, NBC reporter Ben Collins is slammed for calling tomorrow's gun-rights rally a "white nationalist" gathering.

From Breitbart, Prime Minister Johnson reportedly plans to pursue a trade deal with the U.S. and use it as leverage against the E.U.

From the eponymous blog of Sharyl Attkisson, the real story behind the wildfires and blackouts in California.

From WPVI-TV, SpaceX launches and destroys a rocket in a test of an astronaut escape system.

From the New York Post, new New York Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett reveals why he took the job.

And from Twitchy, congresscritter Maxine Waters talks about more "impeachment activity".

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