Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Links For A Snowy Wednedsay

Looks like winter's back, for a day anyway.  Now that I've gotten some exercise of the shoveling variety, it's time to relay some things going on:




From Dutch News, at least 34 Dutch nationals, some who are veterans of the SS, reportedly still receive pensions from Germany.  (I recently noted a similar situation with some Belgians.  If you read Dutch, read the story at EenVandaag.)

From VRT NWS, a group of MEPs occupy a runway at a military airbase.  (The article calls some of them "peace campaigners".  Over the years, I've often noticed that people who say that they promote "peace" always seem to have had problems with the U.S. and its European allies possessing nuclear weapons, but don't seem to have had any analogous problems with the Soviet Union, or more recently, Russia.)


















From The Slovak Spectator, it was twenty years ago today, that the first Slovak went into space.  (An American of Slovak ancestry name Gene Cernan went to the moon in 1972.)











From Arutz Sheva, the IDF strikes a Hamas post over the latest incendiary balloons coming from Gaza.  (H/T Gadi Adelman for the Tweet)
















From LifeZette, more on the Muthana story.



Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Tuesday Links

As Tuesday afternoon rolls around, here are some things going on:

From Voice Of Europe, a 20-year-old Nigerian "refugee" in Germany commits over 100 crimes before being detained for deportation.

From Deutsche Welle, Saudi women who had fled to Germany still live under threat from their families.

From Radio Poland, a Polish radio broadcaster raises money for children in Mariupol, Ukraine.

From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš calls Israel "our strategic partner in the Middle East".

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia moves to protect whistleblowers.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary will open a trade representation in Jerusalem.

From Hungary Today, the European Commission responds to Hungary's "information campaign".

From About Hungary, the Hungarian government will promote the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.

From Russia Today, Russia introduces the newest version of the Kalashnikov.

From Sputnik International, an American spy plane is reportedly surveying the coast of Crimea.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's government and its banks disagree on how to protect debtors.

From the Greek Reporter, the Australian Archaeological Institute celebrates ancient Greek music.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bosnia and Hercegovina has found several migrants linked to terrorism.

From Total Croatia News, is Starbucks coming to Croatia?  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Novac.)

From ANSA, an Italian Senate panel votes against putting Interior Minister Salvini on trial.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese customs officials seize more then 15 million cigarettes.

From Morocco World News, Morocco plans to acquire its first submarine.

From El País, Spain's "far-right" Vox party takes its "anti-immigration" message to the Madrid area.  (The party is considered "far-right" and "anti-immigrant", I would suspect, because it wants immigration to be limited to finite numbers and to be decided on by Spain instead of the E.U. the U.N., and opposes illegal immigration.)

From France24, French politicians from across the political spectrum will march together against anti-Semitism.

From RFI, about 80 graves in the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France have been vandalized.

From VRT NWS, about 30 Belgian veterans of the Waffen SS could lose their German war pensions.

From the NL Times, the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba is struggling to accommodate asylum seekers from Venezuela.

From Dutch News, the Netherlands will not take in any ISIS terrorists.

From the Express, ISIS bride Shamima Begum is stripped of her British citizenship.

From BBC News, U.K. Prime Minister May will go to Brussels for more Brexit talks.

From the (U.K.) Independent, according to former E.U. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the U.K. will probably delay Brexit.

From the (Irish) Independent, three Northern Irish people rescue nine dogs from Chinese meat trade or medical testing.

From CBC News, Alberta announces a deal with two railroads to transport crude oil.

From Global News, a judge dismisses charges against former SNC-Lavalin executive Stéphane Roy.

From CTV News, the "United We Roll" truckers rally in Ottawa.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities order the detention of another 363 alleged Gülen followers.

From Rûdaw, the U.N. is concerned about the 200 families trapped in ISIS's last remaining enclave.

From Arutz Sheva, two American congresscritters visit Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu urges Europe to take a stand against anti-Semitism.

From The Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu and political rival Benny Gantz trade barbs.

From YNetNews, an incendiary device attached to a balloon causes fires in the Kissufim forest.

From the Egypt Independent, in the North Sinai region, Egyptian police send 16 terrorists to their virgins.

From Egypt Today, what Egyptian women would get from constitutional changes being considered in parliament.

From The Express Tribune, a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard believes that the person who carried out a suicide attack against them was Pakistani.

From Pakistan Today, Sikhs come to the rescue of students and traders in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.  (The article calls the area "Indian occupied Kashmir".)

From Winds of Jihad, an Islamist imprisoned in Australia calls Jews "the most evil creatures of Allah".

From Gatestone Institute, Facebook is still championing blasphemy laws.

From FrontpageMag, how Democrats created the border crisis.  (Neither I nor the article's author regards Republicans as innocent, for that matter.)

From National Review, our age is full of strange paradoxes.

From Townhall, "do leftists believe what they say?"

From The Washington Free Beacon, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has connections to a radical group.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) realizes that you can't have free everything.

From The Federalist, President Trump is "on solid legal ground" with his border emergency.

From American Thinker, Trump gave a "magnificent" speech on Venezuela.

From LifeZette, five celebrities who owe Trump and his supporters an apology over the Smollette hoax.

From NBC News, the Trump administration launches a global effort to have homosexuality decriminalized.  (I'm pretty sure that his detractors will still call him a homophobe.)

From CNS News, it looks like we'll have another chance to "feel the Bern".

From The Conservative Woman, polar bears and penguins appear to be defying the predictions of the climate change crowd.

From Fox News, Ariana Grande has achieved something also done only by the Beatles.

From the New York Post, police in Pennsylvania find an alligator guarding a drug house, and give it a new name.

And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claims to have been assaulted by two guys wielding smallpox-infected blankets.

Monday, February 18, 2019

Links For Presidents Day

Today we honor the men who have occupied the highest office in the land.  The observance evolved from George Washington's birthday (2/22), and perhaps was influenced by Lincoln's birthday (2/12), since both occurred in February.  It should be noted that Washington's birthday was originally on 2/11, but was changed because the British and their colonies switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one.  Of course, besides Washington and Lincoln, you can also honor such men as Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and William Harrison, who died just a month after being inaugurated.  (He is thus, in my opinion, the least bad president we've had.)  Meanwhile, here are some things going on:

From National Review, some questions for people who believed Jussie Smollett.

From NewsBusters, the 11 worst reactions of Smollett's hoax.

From Townhall, Democrats don't want ICE to find out when illegal aliens try to buy guns.

From the Washington Examiner, protesters take over and vandalize a Border Patrol museum in El Paso, Texas.

From The Federalist, leftist organizations smear a Wisconsin judge for being Christian.

From American Thinker, mainly by not enforcing laws, President Obama "made mincemeat of the Constitution".

From CNS News, Geraldo Rivera claims to be a fan of both President Trump and congresscritter AOC.

From LifeZette and the "get it through your thick skulls" department, the government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around.

From FrontpageMag, the tangled web woven by Jussie Smollett.

From The Conservative Woman, how the kids protesting climate change can practice what they preach.  (To my pleasant shock, the article actually mentions China and its emissions, something with which most climate change believers don't appear to have any problem.)

From the Express, according to one Brexiteer, Britons have had enough of the E.U.'s arrogance.

From the Evening Standard, a boat carrying 19 migrants is intercepted off the coast of Dover, England.

From the (U.K.) Independent, seven MPs quit the Labour Party, with possibly more to follow.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Ireland is spending "hundreds of millions of euros" on a no-deal Brexit.

From the Irish Examiner, Coverney also says that Ireland will not be "steamrolled" over the border backstop with the U.K.

From France24, French women who had escaped from ISIS want to go home.

From RFI, French MPs try to deal with rising anti-Semitism.

From VRT NWS, who are the Belgian ISIS fighters?

From the NL Times, despite protests, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will keep growing.  (Hopefully, they'll get enough gates to accommodate planes which land early, as the one I was on two years ago.)

From Dutch News, a proposal by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, which would prevent dual nationals from voting, is not likely to be enacted.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany and France agree to an arms export pact.

From Radio Poland, tensions between Polish and Israeli leaders cause the cancellation of a Visegrad summit in Israel.

From Radio Praha, the E.U. space program is preparing for an expansion in Prague.

From The Slovak Spectator, halal-certified baby foods will be produced in Nové Zámky, Slovakia.  (Due to the similarity between Slovak and Polish, I'm pretty sure that the city's name means "new castles".)

From the Hungary Journal, some new allies would welcome Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Azonnali.)

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian opposition MPs walk out of parliament and visit a Suzuki factory.

From Hungary Today, the Hungarian government is launching an "information campaign" about the E.U.'s immigration plan.

From About Hungary, two corporations will team up to build a solar energy plant near Győr, Hungary.

From CBC News, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's principal secretary Gerald Butts resigns.  (This story was discussed during the BTR show of Kel the Red Fox Blogger.)

From Global News, the United We Roll Convoy gets closer to Ottawa, Canada.

From Mexico News Daily, cocaine smuggling by boat from Columbia to Mexico triples in four years.  (The site has informed me that I have only two pages left for this month, so it looks like I won't be able to link stories from this site all that often.  This is dismaying because this site is the first one from Mexico that I've been able to use.)

From El País, about 200,000 people in Barcelona protest against the trials of Catalan separatist leaders.

From Morocco World News, jihadis released from Moroccan prisons show a high rate of recidivism.

From Total Croatia News, a Croatian NGO strongly objects to the criminalization of speech.

From Ekathimerini, since 2016, more than 7,000 Turks have applied for asylum in Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, two Greek women prepare top climb Mount Everest.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan turns down a call from the U.S. to not purchase Russian S-400 air defense systems.

From Turkish Minute, according to Turkish Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, 3.6 million Syrians live in Turkey.

From Rûdaw, women will lead Kurdistan's regional parliament for the first time since it was established.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel and the U.K. sign a trade agreement.

From The Times Of Israel, five Palestinians are arrested clashing with police officers.

From The Jerusalem Post, a judge bans Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu from being photographed with IDF soldiers.

From YNetNews, the Sea of Galilee is expected to rise to a level which removes restrictions on pumping.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt again deals with locusts.

From Egypt Today, two policemen are killed in a suicide bombing near the Al Azhar mosque in Cairo.

From Radio Farda, Iranian authorities reveal a huge stash of "banned books".

From Dawn, three Kashmiris and four Indian soldiers are killed in a gun battle Pulwama, Kashmir.  (This is where the recent suicide bombing which killed over 40 Indian soldiers occurred.)

From The Express Tribune, Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammad orders the release of 2,107 Pakistani prisoners from Saudi jails.

From The Manila Times, an imam in Zamboanga City, Philippines kills his own mother and two sisters.

From Gatestone Institute, multiculturalism in Germany during January 2019.

From AZ Central, tourists to the Grand Canyon have been exposed to radiation for almost 20 years.  (via The Daily Caller)

From Twitchy, noted Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan blames Jews for using him to break up the women's movement.

From The Blaze, what really happened when a kid reportedly was arrested for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

From Accuracy in Media, while Trump declares a border emergency, another migrant caravan arrives.

From Breitbart, leaked photos show migrants overwhelming a border facility.

From LifeNews, more polled women than men oppose late-term abortions.

From the Tampa Bay Times, was there one shooting per week in Florida during 2018?

From Fox News, five inconvenient truths about communist thug Che Guevara.

And from the New York Post, a Fordham professor finds that his 30-year-old Apple computer still works.

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sunday Stories

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

From TMZ, the former congresscritter whose last name is a slang term for the body part he might have exposed is no longer behind bars.  (via the New York Post)

From Fox News, White House adviser Stephen Miller defends President Trump's emergency declaration.  (The story comes via the New York Post, which also records Miller blaming President Bush the Younger for the problem of illegal immigration.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, according to a suit filed by a think tank, the Washington state AG colluded with labor unions.

From the Washington Examiner, where Trump could order the construction of new wall sections.

From American Thinker, now that the attack on Jussie Smollett appears to be a hoax, 2020 Democrat candidates aren't saying much.  (This shows that it's a good idea to wait awhile for the facts to come out before taking to social media.  That way, you won't have to act like Sergeant Schulz later on.)

From Global News, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe calls Canada's attempt to implement a carbon tax "revolutionary".  (Larry and Curly have yet to weigh in.)

From the Express, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair calls Brexit a mistake and demands a second referendum.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. politician Nigel Farage claims that 100,000 people have signed up to join his new Brexit Party.

From the (U.K.) Independent, some senior Tory MPs are under fire for dismissing a march calling for a second referendum as "desperate".

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan says that it was "unfair" to protest near the home of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

From the Irish Examiner, Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle O'Neill calls for making the Ireland-U.K. border "invisible".

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron condemns the anti-Semitism that broke out at a "yellow vest" protest.

From RFI, France and Saudi Arabia sign a defense deal.

From Malta Today, the planned tunnel between Malta and Gozo will have a free bus system.

From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the Budapest Process will become a symbol for stopping pro-migration forces.

From Daily News Hungary, according to a Fidesz party spokesman, Europe is being led in the wrong direction.

From Radio Poland, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Polish government iron out their misunderstanding.

From Russia Today, what we know about Russia's new nuclear cruise missile.

From Sputnik International, about 100 monuments to Soviet soldiers have been removed in Poland.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece's top 10 ancient finds during the last 10 years.

From Hürriyet Daily News, police in Bursa, Turkey arrest four ISIS suspects wanted by Interpol.

From Turkish Minute, Turkish authorities detain 735 people in operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.

From Arutz Sheva, an Arab professor at Columbia University claims that Israel tests weapons on Arabs.

From The Times Of Israel, an IDF soldier is wounded and 19 Gazans are shot in the latest violence along the Gaza-Israel border.

From Egypt Today, according to Egyptian diplomat Ezzat el Beheiri, illegal migration should be confronted locally, regionally, and internationally.

From Dawn, according to an Indian general, the explosives used in the suicide bombing in Pulwama, Kashmir were obtained locally.

From Pakistan Today, a meeting between representatives of the U.S. and the Taliban in Pakistan has been cancelled.

From News 18, a Kashmiri student at Bengaluru College is arrested for praising the Pulwama bomber on WhatsApp.

From Gatestone Institute, persecution of Christians during December 2018.  (The last two stories and the Arutz Sheva link above come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From CNS News, MSNBC gives a teenage candidate a forum to push for more gun laws.

From Twitchy, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) helps El Chapo understand how his client will help pay for the wall.

From FlaPol, Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (both R-FL) visit the border - of Columbia and Venezuela.  (via the New York Post)

And from Breaking Burgh, the nation's memes hold a moment of silence to honor actor Bruno Ganz.

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Saturday Stuff

I now return to my regularly scheduled listing of things going on:








From The Conservative Woman, what Britain must do to defeat the Islamist threat.  (My recommendation would be to allow Britons to criticize Islam and its prophet, limited only by the requirement to be truthful.)






From SwissInfo, Swiss actor Bruno Ganz goes to the theater in the sky.  (He portrayed Hitler in the movie Downfall, a scene of which was used in all those "Hitler rants" parody videos.)






From Sputnik International, according to the chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Russia has completed reconfiguring its missile alert system.  (If Russia has an "aerospace" force, President Trump's idea of a "space force" doesn't seem all that farfetched.)

















Music Break

It's about time for another set of songs.  First up is Sheryl Crow with Everyday Is A Winding Road, from her eponymous second album.  Neil Finn, then of Crowded House and currently in Fleetwood Mac, provides some backing vocals.


Friday, February 15, 2019

Stories For A Relatively Warm Friday

As the weather turns mild today, here are some things going on:




From The Washington Free Beacon, what is a national emergency, anyway?

From the New York Post, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether the census can include a question about citizenship.  (The Constitution, both originally and in the 14th Amendment, uses the word "persons", not "citizens", which means that non-citizens are still counted, if I understand correctly.)

From The Washington Post, and speaking of the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned to her duties.  (via The Blaze)





























From Independent Balkan News Agency, Islamists are expected to return to Bosnia and Hercegovina.



















From The Economic Times, a profile of a suicide bomber.

From Gatestone Institute, free speech versus religion.

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Links For Valentines Day

Here on February 14th are some things going on:

From Breitbart, Border Patrol agents in two parts of Texas find 29 migrants hidden in tractor-trailers.

From CNS News, gun control supporters still misdiagnose the Parkland shooting.

From LifeZette, the Senate passes a budget comprise in an attempt to avoid another shutdown.

From Fox News, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), President Trump will sign a border bill and then declare an emergency.

From National Review, Rhode Island legislators consider an abortion bill similar to those passed in Virginia and New York.

From FrontpageMag, why two noted groups hate today's celebration.

From Townhall, the mythologies surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden.  (Back in 2008, when Senator Obama was running for president against an old white guy named McCain, he apparently decided to get his own old white guy as a running mate.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a take-down notice sent to a gun-rights website was fake, says the New Jersey attorney general's office.

From the Washington Examiner, the Senate confirms William Barr as Attorney General.

From The Federalist, as the "Russian collusion" hoax unravels, the signs that it was a hoax have been in plain sight.

From American Thinker, police in Chicago are starting to think that the actor Jussie Smollett's story about being attacked is a hoax.

From The Conservative Woman, a brief biography of St. Valentine.

From The New Straits Times, a Malaysian imam is charged with possessing an illegal gun.

From Step Feed, a Saudi cleric claims that polygamous men are not required to tell their first wife about their second.

From Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority is in a dilemma about how to regard someone who both rapes and murders and Israeli.

From Khaama Press, in Afghanistan, members of one terrorist group kill two members of another.

From The Express Tribune, 44 Indian troops are killed by a suicide bomber in the India-controlled area of Kashmir.  (The article calls this part of Jannu and Kashmir "Indian-Occupied Kashmir", or "IOK".)

From Radio Farda, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejects claims the his country was involved in the recent suicide attack in Iran.

From Rûdaw, four ISIS terrorists are killed, while 30 civilians go free as a result of operations in Iraq's Mosul and Salahadin provinces.

From World Israel News, a Turkish computer game incites Arabs to liberate the Temple Mount.

From Arutz Sheva, the Israeli parties Jewish Home and National Union will run together.

From The Times Of Israel, in a leaked clip from the Warsaw Mideast summit, Arab delegates are seen defending Israel and attacking Iran.

From YNetNews, the Iranian woman who removed her hijab has escaped from the country, along with her daughter.

From Egypt Today, 585 inmates in Egypt receive a presidential pardon.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey detains 52 Syrians over suspected ISIS links.

From Novinite, Bulgaria will soon start drilling in the Black Sea for oil and gas.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek parliament rejects a proposal by SYRIZA to have the country's president elected directly by the people.

From the Greek Reporter, Greeks living in the U.K. will have to travel to E.U. states to vote in the upcoming E.U. elections.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia will receive 150 more refugees.

From Malta Today, six reasons why the debate over the proposed Malta-Gozo tunnel hasn't even started.

From ANSA, the return of France's ambassador to Italy is reportedly "imminent".

From SwissInfo, how do you move a 2,000-year-old 1.5-ton 10-feet-tall Buddha from Peshawar, Pakistan to Zurich, Switzerland?

From El País, for Catalan Deputy Prime Minister Oriol Junqueras claims to be a "political prisoner".

From The Portugal News, Portuguese maritime police rescue 25 migrants from a dinghy near the Greek island of Lesbos.

From RFI, Valentines's Day the French way.

From the Express, a Remainer MP tells Tory Brexiteers to change parties.

From the Evening Standard, vegans hold vigils for cows.

From BBC News, a teenage girl who left London to join ISIS has no regrets, but wants to go home.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. government will not help her return.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland will have either a border on the island or a border with the rest of the E.U.

From the Irish Examiner, a committee in charge of implementing the Good Friday deal find that dealing with a no-deal Brexit will cost money.

From the NL Times, the Dutch island of Curacao will be a "logistics hub" for aid to Venezuela.

From Deutsche Welle, senior Germans are conned by "fake police".

From Radio Poland, Jewish groups protest after an American reporter misidentifies whom the Warsaw ghetto Jews uprose against.

From Radio Praha, Venezuelans in the Czech Republic are concerned about their homeland.

From Daily News Hungary, according to Hungary's government, only ruling parties can prevent the "forced settlement of migrants".

From About Hungary, The Guardian is wrong about Hungary's family being about "controlling women's bodies".

From Russia Today, Russia's space agency plans to use a "super-heavy launcher" to send a takeoff and landing complex to the moon.

From CBC News, Alberta truckers drive to Ottawa to protest Canada's oil and gas policies.

From CTV News, about 100 Canadians are trapped in Haiti due to roads closed by Haitians protesting against their president.

And from Global News, the family of a 10-month-old heart recipient send out their Valentine's Day wishes.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Wednesday Links

As Hump Day (a slang term for "Wednesday") is upon us, here are some things going on:







From CBC News, Saskatchewan argues against the Canadian federal government's carbon tax.  (This is a live blog that started yesterday and was updated today.  According to my browser's "find" feature, the word "dioxide" does not appear in the article, and the formula "CO2" appears only once, not in the article's text, but in a comment.)


From The Conservative Woman, "stop shoving veganism down our throats".

From the Express, an angry lorry driver shuts down a Remainer's call for a second Brexit referendum.  (The term "lorry" is the U.K. equivalent of the American word "truck".)
















From Independent Balkan News Agency, North Macedonia takes its seat at NATO's table today.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece's government continues the spending tradition that bankrupted it in the first place.  (I must acknowledge that the U.S. doesn't have too much room to talk about such matters.)






From The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli spacecraft named Beresheet will measure the moon's magnetic field.  (If all goes well, this will be Israel's first lunar mission.  The Hebrew word "beresheet", which may also be spelled "bereishit" or "bereshit", when translated into Greek, is "genesis".)







From the Jewish News Syndicate, an imam in Detroit says horrible things about Jews.




From National Right To Life News, "why can't we protect babies who survive abortion?"