Monday Links

It looks like Voice Of Europe is posting Tweets again, but so far they've only up a few, which means that today I will still look up things myself.  Of course, I can do that even if VOE resumes its previous Tweeting pace.  Even so, starting with a few things they did post, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, after accepting 1,200 migrants, a German town has become "unrecognizable".

From The Local IT, the remains of the Genoa bridge are reportedly making noise.  (The story comes via Voice Of Europe, and may also be read in Italian at ANSA.)

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister May will allow E.U. citizens to stay in the U.K. if Brexit becomes "no-deal".

From the Independent, shots are fired at the U.S. embassy in Turkey.

From the Mirror, Faroe Islands authorities defend killing an entire pod of whales.

From The Telegraph, Pope Francis calls upon all Catholics to "uproot" the culture of sexual abuse.

From El País, an "Allahu akbar" breaks out at a Spanish police station.

From The Sun, three people are injured when a car hits pedestrians in Zaragoza, Spain.

From France24, French farms suffer their worst outbreak of anthrax in 20 years.

From Deutsche Welle, German government and business leaders are not planning any financial aid to Turkey.

From the NL Times, firefighters in Arnhem find a cannabis farm.

From Dutch News, Dutch passenger railroads are facing capacity limitations.

From ANSA, the Italian ship Diciotti will carry migrants to Catania, but they will not be allowed to disembark until other E.U. countries accept them.

From Russia Today, NATO trains Latvian troops to deal with "civilian unrest".

From Sputnik International, Turkey files a WTO complaint against U.S. tariffs.

From Radio Poland, Polish President Andrzej Duda talks with Australian leaders.

From Radio Praha, Czech radio remembers the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia with a special broadcast.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak foreign ministry summons Russia's representative to Slovakia.  (Is there Russian collusion going on in Slovakia?)

From Ekathimerini, concerns remain after Greece exits international bailouts.

From Total Croatia News, so far this year, about 3,200 migrants have been caught illegally entering Croatia.

From the Daily Mail, an Iranian journalist gets 10 years for insulting a 9th century imam on Twitter.

From EJ Insight, the Muslim population in Switzerland has grown substantially.

From Turkish Minute, about 47,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey return home to celebrate Eid al-Adha.

From National Review, the most consequential battle between Muslims and the West.

From FrontpageMag, the left owns the grooming gang crisis in the U.K. and the treatment of Tommy Robinson.

From Townhall, "if you can't say no, your yes means nothing".

From LifeZette, South Africa starts their uncompensated seizure of white-owned farms.

From the New York Post, President Trump accuses China of sending opioids through the mail.

From The Washington Free Beacon, GOP lawmakers are concerned about Confucius Institutes.

From LifeNews, in Northern Ireland, pro-life groups say "civil rights begin in the womb".

From Fox News, an official from the Mexican state of Guanajuato confirms that a man recently arrested by ICE is wanted for homicide in Mexico.

And from The Babylon Bee, Facebook claims that kidnapping and torturing Dennis Prager was an "honest mistake".

Sunday Stuff

As another week gets underway, here are some things going on:

From Fox News, the Indonesian island Lombok is struck by another large earthquake.

From the Sunday Express, according to an audit, 840 bridges in France could collapse in the same way as the bridge in Genoa, Italy.

From the Independent, for the first time in its 117-year history, Minehead has a female lifeboat skipper.

From the Metro, the Facebook page of former London Mayor Boris Johnson allegedly hosts "hundreds" of racist messages.

From the Mirror, shoppers defend themselves from a man wielding a weapon that is illegal in their city.

From The Telegraph, U.K. police search for a man who attacked a mother and daughter with a hammer.

From The Guardian, people fleeing Venezuela face suspicion and hostility in Ecuador.

From France24, Venezuelans in Brazil also face suspicion and hostility.

From Deutsche Welle, German prosecutors will investigate the claims of a Yazidi woman that her former captor is in Germany.

From VRT, anyone lose several thousand Euros lately?

From Radio Poland, Polish President Andrzej Duda asks Polish Australians to consider going back to Poland.

From Radio Praha, Czech ice cream production is on the rise.

From Ekathimerini, Greece still has a long way to go to fix its economy.

From the Greek Reporter, the "wish tree" on the Greek island of Antipaxos has become a tourist attraction.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian ruling and opposition parties criticize their government's proposed tax changes.

From Hürriyet Daily News, more than two million Muslims begin the Hajj.

From The Sun, fears spread that "radicalized" Brits could return from Iraq and Syria.

From the Daily Times, Christian sanitary workers protest absenteeism by the Muslim coworkers.

From Michael Smith News, Indonesian kindergarten children march dressed in black niqabs carrying replica guns.

From Gatestone Institute, an anti-slavery activist is arrested in Mauritania.

From Twitchy, how CNN left out the most important detail about a man arrested by ICE.

From The Daily Caller, Rudy Giuliani welcomes John Brennan's threat to sue over the revocation of his security clearance.

From The Washington Free Beacon, investigator David Daleiden says that the worst is yet to come.

From CNET, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that InfoWars's rules violations had been ignored.

From Townhall, "bring out your dead".

From Variety, the show Crazy Rich Asians doesn't represent all Asians, but that's OK.

From The Hollywood Reporter, Al Sharpton demands some "respict".

And from the New York Post, Palestinians sort through eight years of delayed mail.

Another Update, And Saturday Stuff

First up, let me again update what's going on with Voice Of Europe.  Their Twitter feed now indicates that their activity will be pretty much back to normal in two days.  This means, of course, that I will again be relaying some of their posted links.  Until then, I can still look up stuff from some of their preferred sources, to include in my list of links.  With that in mind, here are some things going on:

From the Express, a leading Brexit campaigner calls for civil servants to "step aside" if they find negotiations too difficult.

From the Evening Standard, thousands of people are stranded by floods in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

From The Guardian, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan dies at age 80.

From the Daily Mail, the U.K. Navy launches "Big Lizzie".

From the Independent, in Beaminster, England, thieves steal a tractor and then use it to steal an ATM.

From the Metro, "Tinkerbell" and "Bob the Builder" are removed from plane for being unruly.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany has no plan for dealing with space aliens.  (Do any countries have such plans?)

From France24, French unions are dismayed that a Canadian has been named CEO of Air France-KLM.

From Ekathimerini, the father of a Greek soldier released by Turkey expresses his gratitude.

From the Greek Reporter, according to E.U. Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, the Greek economy is growing again.

From Russia Today, Russian President Putin says that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a "purely economic project".

From Sputnik International, the death toll from the bridge collapse in Genoa has reached 43.

From Total Croatia News, two Spaniards have been arrested for allegedly trafficking migrants through Croatia.

From The Telegraph, "has tourism killed Dubrovnik?"  (Having visited the city myself, perhaps I should accept a share of the blame.)

From YNetNews, a Jewish organization aids persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

From the Middle East Monitor, the mayor of El Kram, Tunisia wants marriage between Muslim women and non-Muslim men to be banned.

From ABC News (where "A" stands for "Australian"), an Islamic leader accused of illegal land clearing claims to be exempt from the law.

From Hürriyet Daily News, several Turks react to U.S. sanctions by destroying dollar bills and their iphones.  (Didn't Hillary Clinton and/or some of her staffers do something similar a while back?)

From National Review, President Trump was right, even if for the wrong reason, to revoke John Brennan's security clearance.

From Townhall, opinion: Brennan was a danger to national security.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.

From the New York Post, Putin goes dancing in Austria.

From Check Your Fact, yes, the U.S. has the most military satellites currently in space.  (I don't know about Space Force personnel, but you could say that the hardware is in place.)

From LifeZette, chaos ensues after a Trump supporter is kicked off a CNN show.

From The Daily Caller, George Washington's "Letter to the Hebrew Congregations of Newport" will be read at the oldest synagogue in the U.S.

And from The Roanoke Times, how the new redshirt rule could help some of Virginia Tech's younger football players.

Changes At Voice Of Europe, And Friday Links

The organization Voice Of Europe, from whose Twitter feed I've gotten quite a few stories, has not posted anything on Twitter for the past two days, except for an announcement that they "have made some exciting decisions".  What these decisions entail has not yet been revealed.  Meanwhile, I've become familiar enough with some of their sources that I can look up some things myself.  From these and other places, here are some things going on:

From the New York Post, President Trump finds another official to strip of his security clearance.

From Space War, the president's military parade is suffering the same fate as numerous other government programs.

From LifeZette, authorities have reportedly destroyed the "extremist Muslim" compound in New Mexico, but the details are hard to come by.

From Fox News, the judge in the Paul Manafort trial says that he has been threatened.

From Twitchy, the judge declines media requests to release the names of the jurors.

From the Washington Examiner, if the Catholic Church wants to change, it should learn from its own pro-life teachings.

From the Express, scientists in Canada develop a way to speed up the formation of a mineral that absorbs carbon dioxide.

From Russia Today, rebuilding starts in parts of Syria.

From Radio Poland, Polish President Andrzej Duda arrives in Melbourne, Australia.

From Deutsche Welle, a teenage Yazidi girl formerly held as a sex slave by ISIS encounters her captor in Germany.

From Sputnik International, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) accuses Democrats of being "hysterical and xenophobic" about Russia.

From the Evening Standard, four teenagers are stabbed in the city where knives are illegal.

From the NL Times, a couple is arrested for scamming hotels and restaurants in the Netherlands.

From Ekathimerini, Greece and Germany reach a deal about returning migrants to the former.  (The migrants subject to the deal have sought asylum in Greece, but later turn up at the German-Austrian border.)

From the Greek Reporter, a Turkish coast guard ship allegedly harassed Greek fishermen.

From The Slovak Spectator, the organization For a Decent Slovakia plans a protest for September.

From France24, Saudi Arabia launches the "smart hajj" initiative.

From the Metro, in Iran, a Muslim woman removes her hijab after an imam tells her to fix it.

From Gatestone Institute, being pro-Muslim is complicated.

From FrontpageMag, how left-wing policies contribute to wildfires.

From National Review, the ADF continues to defend free speech.

From Townhall, a judge threatens a newspaper for printing information about the Parkland school shooter, which the judge had ordered redacted.

From Deadspin, in one of yesterday's baseball games, there was triple play in which the batter was not retired.

And from Breaking Burgh, the Catholic Church is happy that most priests in Pennsylvania have not abused children.

UPDATE: VOE has posted a Tweet since I started writing this post, thanking another account for their support.

A Sasquatch's Dozen

A small sampling of today's news:

From NewsBusters, Facebook suspends Brigitte Gabriel for criticizing a suspected terrorist.

From CNS News, almost a quarter of young adults enjoy their Mary Jane.

From BBC News, an imam at a mosque in Manchester, England gives a sermon calling for armed jihad.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority funds terrorism in preference to education.

From India Today, a member of a Bangla Deshi terrorist group admits that they have funded their operations by robbing jewelry stores.

From Fox News, one suspect from the "extremist Muslim" compound has lived illegally in the U.S. for 20 years.

From Gatestone Institute, "Jerusalem is not Mecca".

From CNN, the mastermind behind the "underwear bomb" may have been killed.

From Breitbart's Big Government, foreign criminals in American prisons cost Americans about $1.42 billion each year.

From Accuracy in Media, an MSNBC host lets former CIA Director John Brennan equate the loss of his security clearance with human rights abuses.  (This is pure nonsense.  Security clearances are a privilege, not a right.  When someone leaves a government job, the clearance is no longer needed.)

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia receives Europe's "science Oscar".

And from The Babylon Bee, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders alleges the existence of a tape showing President Trump being polite and respectful to someone.

Aretha Franklin 1942-2018

Aretha Franklin, known as "the Queen of Soul", died this morning at her apartment in the Riverfront Towers in Detroit, after suffering from pancreatic cancer.  She was 76.

Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Clarence "C.L." and Barbara Franklin.  The family moved to Buffalo, New York and then to Detroit Michigan, where C.L. became the pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church.  At age 10, Aretha starting singing solos in church, and eventually joined her father on his "gospel caravan" tours.  She later toured with the Soul Stirrers and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  She released her first album Songs Of Faith in 1956, and her first secular album Aretha: With The Ray Bryant Combo in 1961.  Her early music was mainly standards, jazz, doo-wop and R&B.  In 1967, she changed record labels and recorded some songs with the famous Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.  She eventually produced a string of hits including Respect, A Natural Woman, Think, Chain Of Fools, Freeway Of Love, and numerous others.  Her two sisters Erma and Carolyn were also professional singers.  While known mainly as a singer, she also played piano, which she learned by ear during her childhood.  The most charted female artist in history, Franklin won 18 Grammy Awards and became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Franklin was married twice, first to Ted White from 1961 to 1969, and later to Glynn Turman from 1978 to 1984.  She had four sons, including Ted White Jr., who often played guitar for her backing band in concert.  She spent the last few days of her life at home, surrounded by family and friends.

Read more at CNN, People, Billboard, Variety and The Detroit News.

Wednesday Wanderings

As we wander into the news, here are some things we see going on:

From Radio Poland, Poland celebrates Armed Forces Day with a massive parade.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Voice Of Europe, a Dutch man goes in trial for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at De Limburger.)

From the Express, a woman is stabbed to death in the city where knives are illegal.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian officials express their sympathy over the bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy.

From Russia Today, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini blames the collapse on something other than climate change.

From the Daily Mail, a photo of the bridge in Genoa shows damage from weeks before the collapse.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Deutsche Welle, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte declares a state of emergency in Genoa.

From The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 31 people are charged with sexually abusing five girls in the Huddersfield, England area.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Sputnik International, the man who rammed his car into a security barrier at the Houses of Parliament is an immigrant from Sudan.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warns E.U. leaders that letting the U.K. leave without a deal would be "a very, very big mistake".

From the NL Times, an explosive goes off in front of a restaurant in Amsterdam.

From the Metro, U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin is photographed making the Rabbi'ah sign.

From The Federalist, the son of an imam ran a terrorist camp for school shooters.

From FrontpageMag, the leaders of the terrorist camp are out on bail.

From Clarion Project, some "explosive" details emerge about the camp.  (H/T Mary B. for the Tweet)

From Gatestone Institute, Qatar is the most generous financer of mosques in France.

From Bloomberg, Sweden faces a possible historic upset in their upcoming elections.  (via HotAir)

From The Slovak Spectator, the Bratislava airport had its highest number of passengers this past July.

From National Review, two articles about double standards.

From Townhall, President Trump revokes former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance.

From Fox News, a list of other Obama-era officials who could lose their clearances.  (In hindsight, I'd say that every single Obama-era executive branch political employee should have been either fired or asked to resign during the afternoon of 1/20/2017, and their clearances revoked before 1/21/2017 was over with.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, Turkey increases tariffs on some American products.

From LifeZette, the Democrat "blue wave" might be a wave of blues.

From LifeNews, Chelsea Clinton goes full Orwell.

From Breitbart Texas, the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the Border Patrol gets busy.

From Accuracy In Media, the CEO of Twitter calls the suspension of Alex Jones a "time out".

From The Daily Caller, having religious parents decreases the chances that a child will commit suicide.

From the Huffington Post, after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission orders the Masterpiece Cakeshop into mediation with a trans customer, the owner sues.

From Breitbart's Big Government, Trump's claim that America was built in tariffs is not without historical merit.

From the New York Post, according to prosecutors, the keys to the trial of Paul Manafort are his documents and his lies.

From Axios, Google releases its political ad directory.

And from the Sporting News, the football coaching transition at Virginia Tech.

Tuesday Things

Starting with some horrible things in Europe, here are some things going on:

From ANSA, part of a highway bridge in Genoa, Italy collapses, killing 35 people.

From The Local IT, more on the bridge collapse.

From Sputnik International, Italian police publish footage of the bridge collapse.

From the Daily Mail, a man drives his car into a security barrier at the Houses of Parliament in London.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Russia Today, more on the incident in London.

From BBC News, video of the car crash in London.

From Voice Of Europe, after 80 cars are destroyed by rioters in Sweden, police want to "talk" to their parents.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at SVT.)

From the NL Times, a man is arrested in Geldermalsen, the Netherlands after locking himself in a shed while carrying multiple weapons.

From Breitbart London, NGOs react angrily after Gibraltar strips the license of the ship Aquarius.

From Radio Poland, the Polish economy continues its robust growth.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From The Slovak Spectator, the Slovak economy continues its robust growth.

From Deutsche Welle, an explanation of Turkey's currency crisis, while the German economy accelerates.

From The Local FR, pavement urinals in Paris draw derision.

From the Express, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio promises to eject the EPP from the European Parliament.

From The Fiji Times, Tunisia's president proposes inheritance equality for women, with some exceptions.

From Gatestone Institute, is a politically correct cover-up being applied to the Toronto shooting?

From National Review, "the Turkish hostage crisis".

From Fox News, Turkey releases two Greek soldiers.

From FrontpageMag, congresscritter Keith Ellison (D-MN) gets his #MeToo moment.

From Townhall, the media goes Sgt. Schulz on Ellison, which has not gone unnoticed.

From The Washington Free Beacon, President Trump will sanction an Iranian ship for providing aid to terrorists in Yemen.

From NBC News, West Virginia lawmakers have impeached all four of their sitting state Supreme Court justices.  (via The Blaze)

From LifeNews, according to a study, about 40 percent of people supposedly in a "vegetative state" are in reality fully aware.

From LifeZette, according to a border patrol agent, human smugglers regard migrants as "nothing more than cargo".

From Legal Insurrection, HUD Secretary Ben Carson promises to tackle zoning regulations that "stymie" development.

And from Times Now, a parrot stuck on a rooftop in London speaks very rudely to its rescuers.

Monday Mania

As another manic Monday rolls around, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, a conservative British author publishes a book on the E.U. cover-up of migrant crime.

From Deutsche Welle, a suspected former body guard for Osama bin Laden has been banned from Germany.

From ANSA, Italian Labor and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio says that Italy does not fear an attack on its markets.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From the Express, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Salvini warns the E.U. that his government puts the rights of Italians first.  (A country's government defending the rights of its own people?  What a concept!  The story comes via Voice Of Europe)

From Sputnik International, U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid hints that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn should resign.

From Business Insider (who cite the Associated Press), dozens of Bosnians protest in Bihac in opposition to their government's response to an influx of migrants.

From the Evening Standard, the Turkish lira plunges again.

From Russia Today, Turkey accuses President Trump of attacking its currency, and refuses to "kneel".

From the NL Times, three homemade explosives are thrown at the Turkish consulate in Amsterdam.

From BBC News, according to a survey, British Asians are more socially conservative than other Brits.  (The Asians are people of Pakistani, Indian, Bangla Deshi and Sri Lankan origin.)

From Gatestone Institute, "the Turkish-Palestinian hate fest".

From Breitbart London, German Chancellor Merkel and Russian President Putin talk about Syria and a new Baltic pipeline.

From FrontpageMag, a review of Robert Spencer's new book The History Of Jihad.

From National Review, don't destroy the GOP, mend it.

From Townhall, the never-Trumpers' true animus is toward you.

From CNBC, the FBI fires noted anti-Trumper Peter Strzok.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) can't quite explain what her party stand for in the upcoming election.

From LifeNews, according to an opinion column, Brett Kavanaugh "can be trusted" to protect the First Amendment rights of pro-lifers.

From The Federalist, a former congressional candidate, who ran on gun control, is charged with fatally shooting her campaign manager.  (The story comes via Twitchy, who ask "FOR REALZ?")

From The Sydney Morning Herald, a nun is caught with cocaine in her shoes at the Sydney airport.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, Google tracks your location even when you tell it not to.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the federal government spends just over $30,000 to develop an app to help transgenders to change their voices.

From Breitbart Texas, Mexico deploys security forces to protect their beaches.

From CNS News, the federal government has collected a record amount of individual income tax revenue this fiscal year, but still runs a huge deficit.

From The Daily Caller, the head of Pacific Gas & Electric blames global warming for the increased frequency of wildfires while many are caused by their own power lines.

From Fox News, the leader of the Muslim compound in New Mexico once tested positive for explosive residue.

And from The Babylon Bee, the media is disappointed by the low turnout at the white nationalist rally which they hyped.

Sunday Stuff

As another week begins, here are some things going on:

From Radio Poland, Warsaw gets ready for a large military parade.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Voice Of Europe, four Syrians go on trial for allegedly robbing and beating an 80-something couple in Bielefeld, Switzerland.  (If you read German, read the story at Blick.)

From Mehr News Agency, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey is ready to trade in local currencies.

From Russia Today, Russia may stop using dollars in the oil trade.

From Sputnik International, Iran will "bolster" their relations with Turkey.

From France24, France will penalize people for non-recycled plastic next year.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel talks about migrants in Spain.

From the Daily Record, according to a survey conducted by the Brexit Policy Panel, the U.K. has about a 50 percent chance of making a Brexit deal with the E.U.

From the Sunday Express, a shooter injures 10 people in Manchester, U.K.

From The Sun, two jihadis per week are stripped of U.K. citizenship.  (via Breitbart London)

From Breitbart Jerusalem, thousand of Muslim fundamentalists protest against reforms proposed by the Tunisian government.

From KIRO, a war zone in Congo experiences an outbreak of Ebola.

From OPIndia, a Muslim man is allegedly beaten up for participating in a Hindu ceremony.

From Jamie Glazov Productions, Muslim activist Linda Sarsour's brother apparently hates Jews.

From Arutz Sheva, in Rabin Square, protesters sing a song encouraging Arabs to kill Jews.

From Townhall, in Charlottesville, Virginia, ProFa thugs protest against police.

From Twitchy, the Washington Post's coverage of Charlottesville is "exactly" why President Trump's supporters don't like the media.

From Breitbart's Big Government, some real coverage on ProFa in Charlottesville.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the SEIU rallies against the Brett Kavanaugh's SCOTUS nomination.

From The Daily Caller, some priests named in a sexual abuse report remain active because allegations against them have been unsubstantiated.

From Fox News, firefighting crews make progress against the Holy Fire.

From the New York Post, NASA launches a probe that is expect to enter the sun's corona.

From Variety, how the stars of BlacKkKlansman get into character.

And from Breaking Burgh, instead of a parade, the Pentagon offers the president an overfly of thousands of invisible F-35 jets.  (That stealth technology must be coming along very well.)