Thursday, January 9, 2020

Thursday Tidings

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

From National Review, Speaker Pelosi's impeachment leverage play has become a blunder.

From FrontpageMag, the left cringes about Iran.

From Townhall, Democrats turn on Pelosi's "impeach and withhold" stunt.

From The Washington Free Beacon, conservative radio host Mark Levin faults the media and the Democrats for being lenient towards the Iranian government.

From the Washington Examiner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signs onto a measure to start the impeachment trial receiving the articles from the House.

From The Federalist, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) blames the downing of an Iranian passenger airplane on President Trump.

From American Thinker, a left-wing environmental group admits that renewable energy won't save the planet.

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) will send the impeachment articles to the Senate when she's ready.

From LifeZette, musician Cardi B. seeks Nigerian citizenship because President Trump had Suleymani killed.  (Does this woman have any clue about what's been going on in Nigeria for the law few years?)

From NewsBusters, according to MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, people feeling good about the economy "should concern Democrats".

From Canada Free Press, climate change was always a religion, admits Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI).

From CBC News, according to Canada's foreign minister, the investigation of the plane crash near Tehran could re-open diplomatic ties with Iran.

From The Conservative Woman, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have become a disgrace.

From the Express, the U.K. House of Commons votes to deliver Brexit.

From the Irish Examiner, an Irish couple will run for office, against each other.

From VRT NWS, a total of 62 tons of cocaine was seized in Antwerp, Belgium last year.

From the NL Times, a suitcase containing body parts is found in a hangar at Schiphol Airport.

From Deutsche Welle, the Germany Party AfD faces a heavy fine for campaign finance violations.

From the CPH Post, a people's petition wants anyone who has been in Denmark for ten years to be granted Danish citizenship.

From Polskie Radio, the Polish parliament passes a resolution condemning "provocative and untrue" comments made about World War II by Russian authorities.

From Radio Prague, according to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the Czech Republic has no immediate plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq.

From The Slovak SpectatorKomárno, Slovakia introduces subsidized free public transportation.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian government approves climate policy priorities.

From Russia Today, the Russian navy fires new missiles during drills in the Black Sea.

From Romania-Insider, a newly discovered star is named after a Romanian city.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov participates in the ceremony to open the TurkStream gas pipeline.

From the Greek Reporter, cold temperatures cause rivers in Greece to freeze.  (These cold temperatures will be attributed somehow to global warming.)

From Total Croatia News, Croatian fishermen find a strange object in the sea near the city of Mljet.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenes are appalled by the annulment of the death sentence given to a Slovene who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

From the Malta Independent, three NGOs condemn the manner in which Maltese police officers escorted a group of migrants to court.

From ANSA, a former terrorist gets a life sentence for the 1980 bombing of the main rail station in Bologna, Italy.

From SwissInfo, flatulent bacteria are awarded the Swiss energy prize.

From France24, French architects want the Notre Dame Cathedral's roof to be rebuilt in wood.

From El País, the Spanish Supreme Court blocks former Catalan leader Oriol Junqueras from being seated in the European Parliament.

From Free West Media, three Afghan men are arrested for allegedly raping three American women in Spain.

From The Portugal News, an ISIS recruiter dies in a Portuguese jail while waiting for an appeal on his sentence.

From Euractiv, according to experts, to deal with Iran will require more than words.

From Morocco World News, the Polisario Front threatens stop drivers in the Africa Eco Race from crossing Western Sahara.

From Hürriyet Daily News, detained ISIS terrorists allegedly planned to target Turkish police officers.

From Rúdaw, U.S. diplomat David Schenker and Kurdish leaders discuss the de-escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

From In-Cyprus, Pope Francis expresses his support for the reunification of Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, American troops leave their base in Khirab al-Jir, Syria.

From The Times Of Israel, Israel's defense minister creates a new post to combat illegal construction by Palestinians.

From the Egypt Independent, churches, monasteries and other sites along the Holy Family's journey in Egypt have been restored.

From StepFeed, an NGO highlights the struggles of women in Lebanon.

From The New Arab, Jordanian Princess Salma becomes her country's first female military pilot.

From Radio Farda, an IRGC commander claims that Iran disabled the U.S. monitoring system during its missile attack.

From Dawn, Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology calls parts of the country's National Accountability Ordinance "un-Islamic".

From The Hans India, the Indian Supreme Court declines to hear a petition to declare the Citizenship Act unconstitutional.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi navy gets two more warships.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan student protesters present their demands to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

From Jewish News Syndicate, an imam in Dearborn, Michigan eulogizes Suleymani.

From the News Letter, a judge reviewing Northern Ireland hate crime legislation is "shocked" by comments about ISIS from a Muslim leader.

From Gatestone Institute, forcing U.S. troops to leave Iraq would be a victory for Iran and ISIS.

From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian labor unions protest against President Joko Widodo's omnibus job creation bill.

From The Straits Times, Hong Kong's stock exchange chief warns of economic "devastation" resulting from the area's long-running protests.

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's home ministry points out that the temporary pass issued by the state of Sabah does not grant citizenship.

From The Mainichi, worshipers at the Nishinomiya Shrine cover a sacrificial tuna with cash.

From The Stream, British author J.K. Rowling "deserves a hat tip".

From the New York Post, the House of Representatives votes to limit President Trump's war powers against Iran.

From Breitbart, the House Freedom Caucus opposes the war powers resolution limiting Trump.

From LifeNews, before they killed millions of Jews, the Nazis euthanized 300,000 disabled people.

From NumbersUSA, Customs and Border Protection will launch a pilot program to collect DNA from illegal border crossers.

And from Boston(dot)com, a man in Bath, Maine keeps getting attacked by foxes.

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