Sunday, September 16, 2018

Links For A Sunny Sunday

Today is Sunday, and has largely lived up to the name.  Besides an appearance of the bright yellow thing in the sky, here are some other things going on:



From ZeroHedge, a Greek "humanitarian organization" smuggles migrants.  (See, I told you that migrants are being trafficked.)




From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is under fire for not taking in Syrian orphans.  (Why Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc. can't take them in is not asked.)








From The New Indian Express, Pakistan has become a "graveyard of Muslims".

From American Thinker, Islam's "culling footbridge".





Saturday, September 15, 2018

Saturday Stuff

Other than a not-quite-full schedule of NCAA football games, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, a Senegalese migrant in Spain kicks a dog and suffers bobbitish consequences.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at Diari de Tarragona.)

From the Express, according to a columnist, U.K. Prime Minister May might have to hold a "people's vote" on the final Brexit deal.

From the Independent, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair thinks that a new party in his country "may be impossible".

From The Guardian, about two in five polled voters in the U.K. say that they would vote for a new party.

From the Evening Standard, families are rescued from a rollercoaster that lost a wheel in Warrington, England.

From France24, Paris puts out a PSA against public urination.

From Deutsche Welle, NATO "monitors" Russia's war games while maintaining its air-policing program.

From Total Croatia News, an "extreme right" party protests outside the offices of the Croatian Democratic Union in Zagreb.  (In Europe these days, if you don't want your country overrun by unlimited numbers of migrants, you're "extreme right".)

From Ekathimerini, the leader of the Greece's New Democracy party pledges lower taxes and social security contributions.

From the Greek Reporter, a poll puts New Democracy ahead of the SYRIZA party.

From Sputnik International, according to the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, the tensions between the Moscow and Constantinople Patriarchates have been going on for centuries.

From Radio Poland, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak asks for a permanent deployment of U.S. troops in Poland.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey will not open its border with Armenia until it ends its occupation of Azerbaijan's Karabakh region.

From Rûdaw, Iraq elects the new Speaker for their Parliament.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, members of the Komala party throw stones and other objects at Iran's embassy in Paris.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli planes reportedly conduct airstrikes near the Damascus airport.

From The Jerusalem Post, a terror balloon lands in the back yard of a member of the Israeli Knesset.

From Haaretz, Iran shuts down a newspaper because of an article deemed offensive to Islam.

From The Star, Malaysian police arrest ten suspected members of a terror cell.

From Jamie Glazov Productions, why Glazov was banned by Facebook.

From Twitchy, Vox notes some "striking parallels" between the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.  (Various Tweets recorded by Twitchy note what might be some glaring differences.)

From Fox News, gunmen kill four people and injure nine others in Mexico City's Garibaldi Plaza.

From the New York Post, according to a new book, we're entering the "age of bewilderment".

From The Verge, FEMA will test a "presidential alert" text message for iphones.

From LifeZette, was that Weather Channel reporter faking it?

And from Breaking Burgh, cracking down on President Trump, special prosecutor Mueller gets golf courses to wear wires.

Music Break

Today I have a little extra time on my hands because the college football game I wanted to watch has been cancelled due to Florence, so here's a musical post.  To start is Paul McCartney's Smile Away from the Ram album, in which the singer's various body parts allegedly give off a far-reaching odor.  The song features some unintelligible backing vocals which sound vaguely like "I don't know how to do that".


Friday, September 14, 2018

Friday Fuss And Florence

As Florence pushes inland, probably striking a town in South Carolina having the same name, here are some other things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, an "allahu akbar" of the "run 'em over" variety breaks out in Nîmes, France.  (If you read French, read more at Midi Libre and Le Figaro.)

From The Local FR, more on the attack in Nîmes.










From Russia Today, the Russian Orthodox Church ends its participation in structures chaired by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.  (The patriarchate appears to still bear the former name of Istanbul.)






From Palestinian Media Watch, Fatah mocks 9/11 in a cartoon.








Thursday, September 13, 2018

Thursday Links

As Hurricane Florence starts hitting the east coast, and maybe raining on the city of Florence in South Carolina, here are some other things going on:

From CBS Boston, in three suburbs of Boston, dozens of homes burn from gas explosions.

From The Federalist, according to a study, half of all teenage transgender girls have attempted suicide.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Planned Avoidance of Parenthood's new president is the first doctor to lead the organization in almost 50 years.

From LifeNews, under their new president, will PAoP continue to sell body parts from aborted fetuses?

From National Review, the Trump administration settles lawsuits by reconsidering asylum claims of over 1000 parents and children who crossed the border illegally.  (NR uses the term "immigrant", but I will not, because people who cross the border illegally are not true immigrants.  At best, they are refugees or asylum seekers.)

From Townhall, a new projection shows the GOP keeping control of the Senate.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Alan Dershowitz, President Trump is not an unindicted co-conspirator.

From Voice Of Europe, Italian Interior Minister Salvini tells us who he thinks are the racists.

From Radio Praha, a Czech pilot celebrates Czechoslovakia's centennial by flying around the world.  (He did this even though there's no Czechoslovakia anymore.  The story comes via Voice Of Europe.)

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak parliament approves a one-off holiday to celebrate Czechoslovakia's centennial.

From The Local SE, a center-left coalition narrowly wins the Swedish elections.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From ANSA, Italy's public debt is called "a problem" within the Eurozone.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Radio Poland, in the dispute between Hungary and the E.U., Poland sides with Hungary.

From VRT NWS, in Belgium's Brussels region, 71 percent of the people have foreign roots.

From the NL Times, she don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie.

From Dutch News, His Holiness addresses sexual abuse by clerics.  (This story is not about the Pope and Catholic priests.  If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From Deutsche Welle, police remove environmental activists and their treehouses in Germany's Hambach Forest.

From France24 and perhaps the "what could go wrong?" department, France will introduce driverless trains by 2023.

From El País, the Spanish congress gives their assent to checking to see if Francisco Franco is still dead.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece expects to have a seaplane network operating in 2019.

From Russia Today, a Russian Ombudsman asks President Trump to pardon a Russian citizen caught in a DEA sting.

From Sputnik International, Russia will examine the cost effectiveness of a bridge connecting Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

From Rûdaw, Iraqi lawyers have been reportedly threatened or arrested for representing accused ISIS suspects.

From the Express, Hurricane Helene heads toward Britain and Ireland.

From the Independent, a no-deal Brexit could render U.K. drivers licenses invalid in the E.U.

From the Daily Mail, a no-deal Brexit could take a third off U.K. home prices.

From Al Arabiya, Morocco introduces a law design to protect women from harassment and violence.

From The Seattle Times, a German teenager has been arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb a gay night club.

From Gatestone Institute, in Germany, stifling dissent about mass migration.

From the New York Post, Pope Francis accepts the resignation of a bishop based in West Virginia.

From Breaking Burgh, the president promises to send "only the best" paper towels to victims of Hurricane Florence.

And from Twitchy, SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh meets the Inquisitor Kaiju.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Links For Jan Sobieski Day

On September 12, 1683, Polish King Jan III Sobieski defeated the Ottoman Turks who had been besieging Vienna, and in the aftermath captured beans which could be brewed into what we now call coffee.  By the way, how did Sobieski get to be the king of Poland?  He was elected.
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On the anniversary of the defeat of the Ottomans, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, German press make up a story about "neo-Nazis" hunting migrants.

From CNN, a driver plows into a crowd in Hengyang, China, killing nine people.

From Radio Poland, Poland is "concerned" about the Russian crackdown on people protesting retirement age reform.  (I would be remiss if I didn't include something from Poland.)

From Radio Praha, senior Czech officials support moving their country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

From The Slovak Spectator, rural tourism in Slovakia reaches record levels.

From the Hungary Journal, the European Parliament approves the Sargentini report.

From Russia Today, Russia's Liberal Democrats propose a law to allow and regulate dueling.

From Sputnik International, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov warns against accusing U.S. astronauts of causing the air leak in the International Space Station.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey sends observers to the Russian-Chinese joint military exercise.  (I suppose that I would be remiss if I didn't include something from the modern descendant of the Ottoman Empire.)

From the Greek Reporter, Cyprus's president Nicos Anastasiades will visit Athens next week.

From Total Croatia News, members of the E.U. border force train in Croatia.

From France24, rockets are fired at the Matiga airport in Tripoli, Libya.

From Deutsche Welle, thousands of sex abuse cases have been reported against Catholic priests in Germany.

From the NL Times, the Amersfoort zoo gives out masks for people who do not want to be shown in other people's pictures.

From the Express, more than 50 Tory MPs plot to remove Prime Minister Theresa May from her office.

From the Independent, Conservative British members of the European Parliament support Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.

From CBC News, injured Canadian veterans are reportedly still waiting to see if they qualify for aid.

From Global News, the world's oldest drawing has been discovered in South Africa.

From Minds, a historical look at jihad in Burma.

From Townhall, according to The Washington Post, Hurricane Florence is in part President Trump's fault.

From CNS News, almost 30 percent of American households had six-figure incomes in 2017.

From Fox News, as Hurricane Florence approaches, Waffle House activates their storm center.

From LifeNews, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) likens abortion to tonsillectomy.  (My appendix, which was removed decades ago, is unavailable for comment.)

From The Washington Post, an attempt to remove Trump's D.C. liquor license fails.  (via Twitchy)

From Philly(dot)com, a man tries to pull a knife on a Trump-supported candidate in California.

From LifeZette, former President Jimmy Carter advises his fellow Democrats to avoid moving too far left.

From The Guardian, North Carolina passed a law in 2012 banning policies based on climate predictions.

And from The Babylon Bee, a man who always stands for the flag.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Football Game Cancelled Due To Hurricane

Due to the expected arrival of Hurricane Florence, the football game between Virginia Tech and East Carolina scheduled for this coming Saturday will not be played.  Whether the game can be rescheduled has not yet been determined.  The two teams are not in the same conference.

I would certainly not be surprised if other NCAA games are also affected.

Read more at the press releases from Virginia Tech and East Carolina.  Both come via TechSideline.

UPDATE:  Read even more at The Roanoke Times and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Trump Speaks At Shanksville, And Other Stories For 9/11

Earlier today, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania to pay tribute to the crew and passengers of the airplane which crashed in that area.  Vice President Mike Pence, who had visited Shanksville a year ago, led a ceremony at the Pentagon.  The president spoke for 15 minutes, recounting the stories of the passengers and crew, and recalling how they fought back against the hijackers, which saved lives back in Washington, D.C.  Also attending the ceremony were Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, former Governor Mark Schweiker and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

The dedication of the Tower of Voices took place on Sunday.  The 93-foot tower will eventually hold 40 bells, one for each passenger and crew member.

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In other stories:






From Sputnik International, the Russian Foreign Ministry warns the U.S. and its allies against "new dangerous steps" in Syria.  (What's the Russian word for "hypocrite"?)





From France24, French right-wingers oppose reviving the teaching of Arabic in schools.  (I find myself disagreeing with them.  For those who wish to make the effort, Arabic is a good language to learn these days.  My only concern is that learning Arabic should be optional, not mandatory.)







From Gatestone Institute, "are we remembering 9/11 or forgetting it?"


From FrontpageMag, 9/11 remembered 17 years later.

From National Review, America has a caste system.







Monday, September 10, 2018

Links For A Rainy Monday

If rainy days and Mondays get you down, today will get you down twice over, since it's still raining where I live.  Besides that, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, an "allahu akbar" breaks out at the Lyon, France airport.  (If you read French, read the story at Le Figaro.)

From ANSA, according to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Italy will not take lessons on racism.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Russia Today, in Paris, a postman is stabbed by a man wielding scissors.  (The story comes via Voice Of Europe, which also report another stabbing, but may also be read in French at BMF TV.)

From Radio Poland, Warsaw's Praga district has been named one of Europe's "coolest neighborhoods".  (The story comes via Voice Of Europe.  The name "Praga" is very similar to, and may be the cognate of, the Czech name "Praha", for which English uses "Prague".)

From Radio Praha (and speaking of Praha), sensors tested by the Czech Technical University could be used to prevent bridge collapse.

From Sputnik International, the Russian Orthodox church is outraged over the Constantinople Patriarch's appointed envoys to Kiev.

From The Guardian, the "far right" makes gains in the Swedish elections, but the main blocs are deadlocked.

From the Express, the E.U. plans to deploy 10,000 armed troops to deal with illegal immigration.  (Isn't that sort of thing racist or xenophobic or something?)

From the Independent, National Security Advisor John Bolton calls the ICC "dead to us".

From the Metro, a dozen Conservative MPs "vow to quit" to prevent Boris Johnson from become the party's leader.  (The Conservatives are commonly known as the Tories.)

From the Evening Standard, the South Yorkshire police are mocked for asking citizens to report "offensive or insulting words".

From Deutsche Welle, Germany considers joining U.S.-lead airstrikes in Syria.

From the NL Times, Hurricane Isaac heads toward Dutch islands in the Caribbean.

From Dutch News, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte rules out changes to the Netherlands' child refugee policy.

From France24, a man wielding a knife and an iron bar injures seven people in Paris, including three tourists.

From The Sun, more on the incident in Paris.

From Ekathimerini, the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos, Greece could be shut down.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece's budget primary surplus is €605 million greater than a year ago.

From Total Croatia News, Dubrovnik has become a victim of its own success.  (I visited the city in 2007)

From Rûdaw, a railroad line reopens between Baghdad and Fallujah in Iraq.

From AhlulBayt News Agency, the U.N. human rights chief calls upon Saudi Arabia to hold accountable the people who bombed civilians in Yemen.

From Asia Times, divisions between radical Muslims could lead to civil war in the disputed region of Kashmir.

From Gatestone Institute, torture and sexual abuse are rampant in Turkish prisons.

From News 18, the New York City subway station buried by the 9/11 attacks reopens.  (The last three links, and the article from The Sun above, come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From FrontpageMag, the "pathetic meltdown" by Serena Williams at the U.S. Open.

From National Review, Nike's ads featuring the original anthem kneeler is a political trap for Democrats.

From Townhall, the first American woman to successfully manage a presidential campaign predicts what will happen to the writer of the anonymous op-ed in The New York Times.

From the New York Post, a floating trash collection device is on its way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

From The Daily Caller, President Trump's administration responds to former President Obama's attempt to take credit for Trump's economy.  (As others have noted, Obama had no problem taking credit for his own accomplishments, while admonishing others that "you didn't build that".)

From Accuracy In Media, the Washington Post continues to inject race into the governor's race in Florida.

From News12, on Long Island, three vending machines were found to dispense crack pipes.  (via Breitbart's Big Government)

And from the Babylon Bee, Democrats threaten to abandon their last shred of sanity if Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed.  (They still have their last bit of sanity?)

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Rainday Links

It's been raining where I live since yesterday afternoon, so instead of Sunday, it's Rainday.  Other than water falling from the sky, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, a local leader of Sweden's Social Democrats says that Islam's rules are more important than those of Sweden.

From Russia Today, Sweden's Social Democrats achieve their worst election results in a century.

From Sputnik International, members of Saudi Arabia's royal family bicker over the war in Yemen.

From Radio Poland, two opposition parties in Poland gear up for local elections.

From Ekathimerini, two Turkish soldiers are arrested in Greece and released back into Turkey.

From the Greek Reporter, a previously stolen ancient marble column is returned to Greece.

From Deutsche Welle, two Afghan nationals are arrested for murder in Köthen, Germany.

From the Sunday Express, backbencher Jacob Rees-Moog reminds Prime Minister Theresa May that Brexit means Brexit.

From the Metro, former London Mayor Boris Johnson accuses May of "wrapping a suicide vest around Britain".

From The Guardian, a Tory Eurosceptic plan for Brexit includes a new force to defend the Falklands.

From the Mirror, a scoutmaster who had been dismissed for comparing a niqab-wearing person to Darth Vader receives an out-of-court settlement.  (The articles cites The Sunday Times, which is behind a paywall.)

From the Independent, the Muslim Council of Britain asks the Home Office to ban Franklin Graham from visiting Britain.

From the Malta Independent, a second group of migrants who had been on board the Aquarius leaves Malta for Luxembourg.

From EuroNews, Cyprus struggles to deal with more asylum seekers.

From Gatestone Institute, extremist Muslim persecution of Christians during February 2018.

From CBC News, some Canadian First Nations and Metis communities want to buy stakes in the Trans Mountains pipeline.

From LifeZette, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have conflicting recollections regarding a 2016 campaign meeting where Papadopoulous suggested a Trump-Putin summit.