Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Tuesday Things - Part 1

On a relatively mild Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Democrats have trouble in their workers' paradise.

From FrontpageMag, the man who defended both O.J. Simpson and President Trump claims that left-wing billionaire George Soros asked President Obama to investigate someone.

From Townhall, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) sees his biggest problem when he looks in the mirror.

From The Washington Free Beacon, how Senator Socialism (I-VT) "fell into line on gun control".

From the Washington Examiner, the U.S. government and two drug companies team up in an attempt to find a vaccine and treatment for the coronavirus.

From The Federalist, the left goes nuts about the current Department of Justice after not much of a problem with worse things done during the previous administration.

From American Thinker, "the epic Donald".

From CNS News, right-wing journalist Laura Ingraham talks sports with female high school athletes forced to compete against biological males.

From LifeZette, after going politically correct, the Boy Scouts go bankrupt.

From NewsBusters, the world's richest man pledges billions of his own dollars to fight climate change.

From Canada Free Press, how do scientists discover and identify viruses?

From CBC News, Via Rail service will resume between Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offers "no clear plan" to resolve the railroad blockades.

From CTV News, anti-pipeline protesters blockade the home of British Columbia Premier John Horgan.

From TeleSUR, 90 percent of women kidnapped in Mexico suffered sexual violence.

From The Portugal News, the Venezuelan government announces a 90-day travel ban for the Portuguese airline TAP.

From El País, a camp for migrant workers in Lepe, Spain has some of the worst conditions in the world.

From France24, conservative candidate Rachida Dati runs for mayor of Paris.

From RFI, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, "political Islam" has no place in France.

From EuroNews, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France suspends its ties with Tuchów, Poland over its declaration of being "free of LGBT ideology".

From Voice Of Europe, almost half of the criminals in the Paris metro area are foreign-born.

From SwissInfo, automotive carbon dioxide emissions reportedly rise in Switzerland due to the import of gas guzzlers.

From ANSA, neo-Nazi stickers showing swastikas are placed on the home of the daughter of a World War II-era Italian partisan.

From the Malta Independent, the E.U.'s foreign ministers agree to end their current anti-migrant-smuggling mission and try something else.

From Malta Today, Malta's postal service suspends mail transfers to China.

From Total Slovenia News, journalists protest layoffs at Delo, Slovenia's largest newspaper publisher.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia pledges a million euros for post-earthquake reconstruction in Albania.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the National Assembly of Republika Srpska adopts a report and conclusions about the Bosnia and Hercegovina Constitutional Court.

From Balkan Insight, the right-wing party Dveri against the Serbian government's policy on immigration.

From Ekathimerini, the E.U. includes a demand that the U.K. return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece in a draft of its Brexit negotiating mandate.  (See the story in the Express below.)

From the Greek Reporter, Greece restores the Plaka Bridge in Epirus "to its former glory".

From Novinite, a container at the Bulgarian port of Varna emits ionizing radiation above normal levels.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria provides 200,000 more leva for earthquake relief in Albania.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria no longer has any legal private lottery games.

From Romania-Insider, more than 2,500 medieval coins are found in Spătaru, Romania.

From Russia TodayRussian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin temporarily bans all visitors from China from entering Russia.

From Sputnik International, the Russian Defence Ministry releases a video showing White Swan bombers.

From The Moscow Times, Russia will consider granting former presidents immunity from prosecution.

From Euractiv, according to an opinion column, a lid needs to be put on Russia's methane flaring.

From Daily News Hungary, how many Hungarians believe that parts of neighboring countries really belong to Hungary?  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From Hungary Today, more Hungarians live in the U.K. than officially indicated.

From About Hungary, two Hungarians are quarantined after arriving from Cambodia.

From The Slovak Spectator, there will be no Magio Beach on the Danube in Bratislava, Slovakia this year.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's Constitutional Court declines to annul a conflict-of-interest law seeming to target Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

From Polskie Radio, Russia has not yet responded to Poland's request to participate in tenth anniversary commemorations of a plane crash that killed the Polish president and 94 others.  (Yesterday, I could not reach the main English page of PR, but got a błąd, that is, "error" message.  Today, the site seems to be working normally.)

From Deutsche Welle, who could replace Angela Merkel as leader of the German party CDU?

From Free West Media, Bavarian police are given intercultural training to help understand migrants from Africa.

From the NL Times, thieves allegedly try to blow up ATMs in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

From Dutch News, farmers plan to protest in The Hague, but are not allowed to bring their tractors.

From VRT NWS, during 2019, Belgians gave almost 170 million euros in humanitarian aid.

From The Brussels Times, a restaurant owner in Liège, Belgium is investigated for allegedly playing Nazi chants and making a Nazi salute during Sunday afternoon services.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Avenir.  If you read Flemish, a.k.a. Dutch, read the story at Het Laatste Nieuws.)

From the Express, the U.K. government is furious over the E.U.'s demand that the Parthenon Marble be returned to Greece.  (See the story in Ekathimerini above.)

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is criticized for not visiting areas flooded by Storm Dennis.

From the (U.K.) Independent, London Mayor Sadiq Khan proposes that U.K. nationals should be allowed to have "associate" citizenship in the E.U.

From the (Irish) Independent, a Sinn Féin member of Ireland's legislature apologizes for Tweets linking Israel to Nazism.

From the Irish Examiner, a woman claiming to have been trafficked from Nigeria to Ireland wins her High Court case against being denied international protection.

From The Conservative Woman, the disgraceful false accusations against a conservative conference.

From The Stream, does an author for The Stream exaggerate the threat to religious liberties?

From the Daily Caller, former FLOTUS/Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denies any interest in being Michael Bloomberg's vice president.  (Professional food tasters breathe a sigh of relief.)

From Fox News, the Pentagon seeks to develop an unmanned "flying gun".

From Breitbart, President Trump commutes the prison sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevic (D).

From the New York Post, according to advocates, the NYPD's Special Victims Division "still doesn't have its act together".

And from Twitchy, Jeff Carlson of The Epoch Times shows how the Department of Justice was pushed leftward under President Obama.

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