It's another Monday, and here is some of the bah-daaaah bah-dah-dah-duh:
From Free West Media, the E.U. border guard agency Frontex films traffickers unloading migrants from a trawler onto a small boat. (Like I keep saying, the migrants are not merely migrating, but are being trafficked.)
From ANSA, according to Italian Interior Minister Salvini, the E.U. should send migrants rescued by Sea Watch to Germany or the Netherlands.
From EuroNews, the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo are chosen to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.
From the Malta Independent, six people circumnavigate Malta to show the surrounding marine pollution.
From Malta Today, the Sea Watch 3 asks the European Court of Human Rights to ask Italy to allow migrants on ship to disembark.
From Morocco World News, Morocco's government commits to protecting the rights of Moroccans living outside Morocco.
From The Portugal News, an anthropologist calls Portugal's Roma Community Day "pointless".
From El País, a Vox party politician calls a Supreme Court ruling against five rapists "conditioned by political and media pressure".
From SwissInfo, Swiss voters will have the final say on a ban on arms exports.
From France24, Paris names four squares after LGBTQ icons.
From RFI, asylum requests in the E.U. have decreased to "pre-crisis levels".
From the Express, the party Change UK risks its own annihilation by blocking a no-deal Brexit.
From the Evening Standard, a dozen Tories are also ready to block the no-deal.
From the Independent, shadow chancellor John McDonnell defends climate change activists.
From the Irish Examiner, according to an "independent commission", arrangements to avoid a hard border between Ireland and the U.K. could be ready in three years.
From VRT NWS, the Brussels Employment Service wants to help people in Belgium illegally to find work.
From the NL Times, 18 stowaways are found in a truck at the Europoort in Rotterdam.
From Dutch News, a Dutch man who fought in Syria's civil war fights to retain his passport.
From Detusche Welle, at a neo-Nazi event, police officers administer a very German form of punishment.
From the CPH Post, Denmark's acting prime minister is in contention to become the E.U.'s president.
From Radio Poland, Poland moves to improve the rail links to its Baltic ports.
From Euractiv, the E.U.'s top court rules that Poland's judicial reforms violate E.U. law.
From Radio Praha, the protest against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš was the largest since the Velvet Revolution.
From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak MiG-29s make sonic booms flying to help an Italian civilian jet.
From Daily News Hungary, an opposition party slams the Hungarian government for vetoing the E.U.'s 2050 climate change targets.
From Hungary Today, the mayor of Budapest calls pledges made by his opponents "impossible".
From About Hungary, Prime Minister Orban calls the departure of Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans "good news for Hungary".
From Total Croatia News, tomorrow Croatia will celebrate Statehood Day.
From Ekathimerini, Greek authorities arrest three people, one just 16 years old, for smuggling migrants. (Like I said above, migrants are being trafficked.)
From Novinite, traffic is intense at five border checkpoints between Greece and Bulgaria.
From Radio Bulgaria, in an international operation, the largest migrant smuggling operation to ever operate in Bulgaria has been dismantled. (For the third time, I say that migrants are being trafficked.)
From Romania-Insider, oh give me a home, where the buffalo, I mean, bison roam, in Romania.
From Russia Today, Turkey says that U.S. sanctions won't change its purchase of air defense systems from Russia.
From Sputnik International, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!
From The Moscow Times, the head of the Russian republic of Ingushetia resigns.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish prosecutors issue warrants for 32 more people with alleged FETÖ links.
From Turkish Minute, a Kurdish man claims to have been attacked by fake police officers.
From Rûdaw, despite fires and security issues, Iraq produces a bumper crop of wheat and barley.
From Arutz Sheva, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza cause 11 more fires in Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, thousands protest the planned deportation of about 50 children born in Israel to foreign mothers.
From The Jerusalem Post, Israel is ready to host this year's International Physics Olympiad.
From YNetNews, a former Palestinian Authority negotiator calls the U.S.-led conference in Bahrain a "joke".
From Egypt Today, Egyptian President al-Sisi's efforts to protect victims of human trafficking draws praise from the U.S. State Department.
From StepFeed, one person is killed in an attack at an airport in Saudi Arabia.
From Gulf News, Saudi women protect themselves with pre-wedding contracts.
From Radio Farda, U.S. President Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran.
From IranWire, an Iranian Kurd residing in the U.S. is banned from leaving Iran.
From AhlulBayt News Agency, Saudi authorities seek the death penalty for an Islamic reformist.
From Dawn, a woman in Jallia, Pakistan dies saving her daughter from being raped.
From The Express Tribune, an opposition politician calls Pakistan's prime minister "handpicked", since the word "selected" is forbidden.
From Pakistan Today, Prime Minister Imran Khan tells Pakistanis to "register now, pay taxes later".
From Khaama Press, near Ghanzi, Afghanistan, U.S. airstrikes send nine terrorists to their virgins.
From the Hindustan Times, researchers claim to have created a smart system that can prevent baggage theft at airports.
From ANI, police seize 18 bombs in Dargapur, West Bengal, India.
From India Today, the Indian cabinet approves a DNA profiling bill.
From IndiaFacts, is the "fake narrative" of Hindu terror intended to whitewash Islamic terror?
From the Daily Mirror, according to the Archbishop of Colombo, 176 children lost their parents in the Easter Sunday attacks.
From the Colombo Page, six Indians are arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport for allegedly smuggling gold.
From Aleteia, an order by a U.K. court forcing a woman to have an abortion is overturned on appeal.
From Sky News, "Jihadi Jack" says that he doesn't want to blow up his fellow Brits.
From Gatestone Institute, "everything is coming up roses" in Istanbul, Turkey.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia deploys 47,000 security personnel to prepare for its Constitutional Court's ruling on a dispute over the presidential election.
From Free Malaysia Today, the Malaysian government creates a YouTube video to teach preschoolers about sexual harassment.
From Global News, the Canadian province of British Columbia will install 12 more electric vehicle fast-charging stations.
From CTV News, prosecutors argue that a man who allegedly attacked military personnel should be designated as a terrorist.
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. Labour Party is almost as white as the Tories.
From Snouts in the Trough, would-be U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson has blown it.
From National Review, what the video reporting horrible conditions at a Border Patrol detention facility leaves out. (I've long believed that media bias is not shown by what they say, but by what they don't say.)
From Townhall, the above-mentioned overturn of a court order forcing a woman to have an abortion might have been involved Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).
From FrontpageMag, why do left-wing activists have a certain look?
From The Washington Free Beacon, Oregon Republican Senators defiantly stay away from their jobs, despite threats of arrest. (In Wisconsin a few years back, the flee-baggers were Democrats. Now in Oregon, the flee-baggers are Republicans.)
From Yahoo News, Mexico deploys 15,000 troops on its side of the U.S. border. (via the Washington Examiner)
From the Washington Examiner and maybe the "you can't make this stuff up" department, Alyssa Milano, John Lithgow and others will perform in a play based on the Mueller Report.
From The Federalist, the top eight takeaways from the congressional testimony by Hope Hicks.
From American Thinker, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) puts out a video for illegal aliens about dealing with ICE.
From CNS News, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proposes a massive student loan bailout.
From NewsBusters, ten questions which NBC's moderators should ask the Democratic presidential candidates.
From Accuracy in Media, The Washington Post criticizes President Trump's policies, then admits that they're working.
From Twitchy, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) doesn't seem to understand the point of "interior enforcement" of immigration laws.
From the New York Post, we Americans still love our processed meats.
And from The Babylon Bee, Senator Sanders reveals the real reason for this proposed student loan bailout.
Monday, June 24, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Sunday Stuff
On a Sunday that so far has lived up to its name, here are some things going on:
From National Review, by limiting bureaucracy, we slowly move back to the rule of law.
From Townhall, the comedy of errors from the Democrats "is about to get even more interesting".
From The Washington Free Beacon, home health aides want unions to keep their hands off.
From the Washington Examiner, National Security Adviser John Bolton warns Iran against taking our "prudence" for "weakness".
From The Federalist, why President Trump's cyber attack on Iran was the right thing to do.
From American Thinker, Trump's two-week delay for ICE deportation raids is a trap that Democrats have fallen into, or has Trump fallen into a trap?
From NewsBusters, did an illegal alien call for U.S. citizens to aid and abet illegal aliens?
From The Conservative Woman, a U.K. parliamentcritter is suspended for being and acting like a man.
From the Express, anarchists surround the house of U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson's girlfriend.
From BBC News, parliamentcritter Liam Fox criticizes Boris Johnson's Brexit plan.
From the Evening Standard, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband calls Brexit a "wrecking ball" against the U.K. constitution. (The U.K. constitution is not a single document. However, I'm pretty sure that if it existed before the U.K. joined the E.U., it has good chance of still existing after Brexit finally happens.)
From the Independent, a video shows how former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon has ties with Boris Johnson.
From the Irish Examiner, according to new research, bike sharing cuts out five tons of carbon every year in Dublin. (The word "dioxide" does not appear in the article.)
From CBC News, how the first group of Syrian refugees made it through Canadian high school.
From Global News, Air Canada investigates how a woman woke up on a plane, hours after it landed.
From CTV News, a "massive" pride parade takes over downtown Toronto.
From RFI, how to keep cool on the Paris Metro during the upcoming heatwave.
From The Portugal News, environmental NGOs call for action by the E.U.
From the Malta Independent, Malta, Libya and Spain intercept migrants in the Mediterranean.
From SwissInfo, "how Switzerland has handled the world's gold".
From Deutsche Welle, Germany has lost track of 160 ISIS supporters.
From Free West Media, a court in Bremen, German rules that the term "gold nugget" is hate speech against migrants.
From Radio Praha, a reported 250,000 people protest in Prague, calling for Prime Minister Andrej Babiš to resign.
From The Slovak Spectator, how forestry helps archaeology.
From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto explains why his government does not support Manfred Weber or Frans Timmermans.
From Total Croatia News, the World Jewish Congress denounces attempts by Croatian authorities to downplay the role of the Nazi-allied Croatian regime in the Holocaust.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the happy and the disappointed in North Macedonia.
From Ekathimerini, the 30-year destruction of Turkey's Christian minority.
From the Greek Reporter, Turkey warns the E.U. against taking sides with regard to its drilling hear Cyprus.
From Novinite, the world's most expensive apple grows in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
From Radio Bulgaria, a Bulgarian doctor develops a new way to fight cancer cells.
From Sputnik International, in several Russian cities, people demonstrate against alleged evidence fabrication.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Ekrem İmamoğlu of the Republican People's Party is elected mayor of Istanbul.
From Turkish Minute, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urges Turkey to "immediately" reopen the Greek Orthodox seminary on Halki.
From Rûdaw, ISIS claims responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
From Arutz Sheva, 18 British youths are removed from an airplane at Ben Gurion Airport after one of them threatens to blow it up.
From The Times Of Israel, Palestinian leader Abbas says that the P.A. will take U.S. money, but won't be slaves to U.S. negotiators.
From The Jerusalem Post, Likud and the Blue and White try to form a unity government.
From YNetNews, Small Crater in Israel's Negev region becomes a nature reserve.
From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian government receives requests for compensation from Nubians affected by the construction of the Aswan High Damn.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi orders an international parade for royal mummies being transferred to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. (You could say that he's organizing a tribute to his very distant predecessors.)
From Dawn, Pompeo calls the release of Asia Bibi the "good news" of the year.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority will require passengers to pay their airport taxes in rupees instead of dollars.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistani legislators are urged to avoid calling Prime Minister Imran Khan "selected".
From Khaama Press, a Taliban terrorist is killed by premature detonation.
From The Hans India, Indian security forces kill four terrorists in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.
From the Hindustan Times, encephalitis has spread to 20 districts in the Indian state of Bihar.
From ANI, an ATM is stolen in Yevat, India.
From India Today, Indian Sikhs ask Pakistan to allow 5,000 pilgrims into Kartarpur each day.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan police raid a facility that was producing fake documents.
From Gatestone Institute, "the suicide of France".
From the Borneo Post, Borneo resident Nur Aqilah Salim excels at archery - even though she's blind.
From the New York Post, and then there were 25.
From Twitchy, George Orwell would appreciate the actions of a knitting website.
From Fox News, talking to foreigners does not violate campaign laws.
And from WPVI-TV, just when you thought it was safe at the beach in Brigantine, New Jersey.
From National Review, by limiting bureaucracy, we slowly move back to the rule of law.
From Townhall, the comedy of errors from the Democrats "is about to get even more interesting".
From The Washington Free Beacon, home health aides want unions to keep their hands off.
From the Washington Examiner, National Security Adviser John Bolton warns Iran against taking our "prudence" for "weakness".
From The Federalist, why President Trump's cyber attack on Iran was the right thing to do.
From American Thinker, Trump's two-week delay for ICE deportation raids is a trap that Democrats have fallen into, or has Trump fallen into a trap?
From NewsBusters, did an illegal alien call for U.S. citizens to aid and abet illegal aliens?
From The Conservative Woman, a U.K. parliamentcritter is suspended for being and acting like a man.
From the Express, anarchists surround the house of U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson's girlfriend.
From BBC News, parliamentcritter Liam Fox criticizes Boris Johnson's Brexit plan.
From the Evening Standard, former Foreign Secretary David Miliband calls Brexit a "wrecking ball" against the U.K. constitution. (The U.K. constitution is not a single document. However, I'm pretty sure that if it existed before the U.K. joined the E.U., it has good chance of still existing after Brexit finally happens.)
From the Independent, a video shows how former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon has ties with Boris Johnson.
From the Irish Examiner, according to new research, bike sharing cuts out five tons of carbon every year in Dublin. (The word "dioxide" does not appear in the article.)
From CBC News, how the first group of Syrian refugees made it through Canadian high school.
From Global News, Air Canada investigates how a woman woke up on a plane, hours after it landed.
From CTV News, a "massive" pride parade takes over downtown Toronto.
From RFI, how to keep cool on the Paris Metro during the upcoming heatwave.
From The Portugal News, environmental NGOs call for action by the E.U.
From the Malta Independent, Malta, Libya and Spain intercept migrants in the Mediterranean.
From SwissInfo, "how Switzerland has handled the world's gold".
From Deutsche Welle, Germany has lost track of 160 ISIS supporters.
From Free West Media, a court in Bremen, German rules that the term "gold nugget" is hate speech against migrants.
From Radio Praha, a reported 250,000 people protest in Prague, calling for Prime Minister Andrej Babiš to resign.
From The Slovak Spectator, how forestry helps archaeology.
From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto explains why his government does not support Manfred Weber or Frans Timmermans.
From Total Croatia News, the World Jewish Congress denounces attempts by Croatian authorities to downplay the role of the Nazi-allied Croatian regime in the Holocaust.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the happy and the disappointed in North Macedonia.
From Ekathimerini, the 30-year destruction of Turkey's Christian minority.
From the Greek Reporter, Turkey warns the E.U. against taking sides with regard to its drilling hear Cyprus.
From Novinite, the world's most expensive apple grows in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
From Radio Bulgaria, a Bulgarian doctor develops a new way to fight cancer cells.
From Sputnik International, in several Russian cities, people demonstrate against alleged evidence fabrication.
From Hürriyet Daily News, Ekrem İmamoğlu of the Republican People's Party is elected mayor of Istanbul.
From Turkish Minute, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urges Turkey to "immediately" reopen the Greek Orthodox seminary on Halki.
From Rûdaw, ISIS claims responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
From Arutz Sheva, 18 British youths are removed from an airplane at Ben Gurion Airport after one of them threatens to blow it up.
From The Times Of Israel, Palestinian leader Abbas says that the P.A. will take U.S. money, but won't be slaves to U.S. negotiators.
From The Jerusalem Post, Likud and the Blue and White try to form a unity government.
From YNetNews, Small Crater in Israel's Negev region becomes a nature reserve.
From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian government receives requests for compensation from Nubians affected by the construction of the Aswan High Damn.
From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi orders an international parade for royal mummies being transferred to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. (You could say that he's organizing a tribute to his very distant predecessors.)
From Dawn, Pompeo calls the release of Asia Bibi the "good news" of the year.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority will require passengers to pay their airport taxes in rupees instead of dollars.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistani legislators are urged to avoid calling Prime Minister Imran Khan "selected".
From Khaama Press, a Taliban terrorist is killed by premature detonation.
From The Hans India, Indian security forces kill four terrorists in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.
From the Hindustan Times, encephalitis has spread to 20 districts in the Indian state of Bihar.
From ANI, an ATM is stolen in Yevat, India.
From India Today, Indian Sikhs ask Pakistan to allow 5,000 pilgrims into Kartarpur each day.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan police raid a facility that was producing fake documents.
From Gatestone Institute, "the suicide of France".
From the Borneo Post, Borneo resident Nur Aqilah Salim excels at archery - even though she's blind.
From the New York Post, and then there were 25.
From Twitchy, George Orwell would appreciate the actions of a knitting website.
From Fox News, talking to foreigners does not violate campaign laws.
And from WPVI-TV, just when you thought it was safe at the beach in Brigantine, New Jersey.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Saturday Stories
As the first weekend of summer is upon us, here are some things going on:
From Free West Media, some French hospitals are "like being in Marrakesh".
From France24, President Emmanuel Macron presents France's highest civilian honor to a very British musician.
From VRT NWS, a Belgian prince reportedly helped some of his rich countrymen to hide their cash from the taxman.
From Deutsche Welle, German climate protesters storm a lignite mine.
From Breitbart, 30 anti-Christian attacks occur in Germany in two months.
From Radio Poland, food prices in Poland are among the lowest in the E.U.
From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban meets the European Peoples Party's "three wise men". (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Népszava.)
From Daily News Hungary, over 24,000 Hungarians apply for permission to live in the U.K. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Heti Világgazdaság.)
From Sputnik International, Russia might add up to seven newly discovered islands to its territory.
From The Moscow Times, a Russian film crew is attacked in Tbilisi, Georgia.
From Romania-Insider, a look at Bucharest, Romania.
From Novinite, China is building six bulk ships for the Bulgarian Navy.
From Ekathimerini, a terror group suspect allegedly violates the terms of her conditional release.
From the Greek Reporter, Greece and Turkey exchange strong statements over Muftis in Western Thrace. (Thrace is a region that includes the European portion of Turkey, part of northeastern Greece, and part of southeastern Bulgaria.)
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanian opposition supporters demonstrate against their government.
From Total Croatia News, 600,000 residents of Croatia reportedly neither work nor seek work. (If you read Croatian, read the story at Viečernji List.)
From EuroNews, conditions have greatly improved for a coastal wetland in the Italian region of Apulia.
From SwissInfo, Geneva, Switzerland has a new beach.
From Malta Today, Malta will set up a center to study the effect of travel on climate change. (Perhaps they will study the effect of private jets and limos used by climate conference delegates.)
From The Portugal News, almost 70,000 Portuguese apply for permission to live in the U.K.
From Morocco World News, Colombia renews its support for Morocco's position on Western Sahara.
From TeleSUR, Mayan women victimized by rape during during Guatemala's civil war reject the acquittal of six military personnel.
From CBC News, hundreds of people demonstrating against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion literally march to the beat of different drummers.
From Global News, Habitat for Humanity builds homes for five immigrant families in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
From the Express, a woman reportedly carrying a "suspect package" on a passenger plane leads to RAF fighters being scrambled, with some sonic booms.
From BBC News, U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions about his "row with partner".
From the Evening Standard, recent heart surgery recipient Mick Jagger goes back on stage.
From the (U.K.) Independent, according to a poll, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt risk making the Tories "unelectable" if they allow a no-deal Brexit.
From the (Irish) Independent, a "Civil War-era" grenade is discovered in a work zone in Dublin. (The Irish Civil War was fought from 1922 to 1923.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, residents of Istanbul, Turkey vote to elect their mayor - again.
From Turkish Minute, Turkish President Erdoğan recognizes that even Kurds are human. (My spellchecker rejects "Kurds", but not the singular "Kurd".)
From Rûdaw, Kurdistan's prime minister-elect promises that Christians and Turkmens will be in his cabinet.
From Arutz Sheva, Jewish hikers attacked and detained by Palestinian Authority "police officers" are released before the start of Shabbat.
From The Times Of Israel, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton arrives in Israel to discuss Iran with his Israeli and Russian counterparts.
From The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli startup rolls out an all-electric airplane.
From Egypt Today, a household products company demands that Starbucks changes its logo. (The logos of the two companies each include a star, but there doesn't appear to any other similarity.)
From Radio Farda, according to some Iranian observers, the lack of a U.S. response to the drone downing emboldens Iran.
From Dawn, according to Foreign Minister Qureshi, Pakistan "supports an Afghanistan that is at peace with itself".
From The Express Tribune, Pakistani politician Maryam Nawaz calls proposed economic legislation a "joke". (She sounds like a Democrat criticizing President Trump, or maybe a Republican criticizing President Obama a few years back.)
From Pakistan Today, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asks Pakistan to do more to stop the abuse of blasphemy laws.
From Khaama Press, Afghan special forces kill four ISIS terrorists and capture 14 others.
From the Hindustan Times, attacks by Hindu extremists against minorities continued in 2018.
From India Today, Indian army and police personnel in Jammu and Kashmir use dogs to sniff out terrorists.
From the Daily Mirror, although ISIS has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks, its leader was not initially aware of them.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka produces its largest-ever ship.
From the Borneo Post, nine of the ten fishermen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf have been released.
From Free Malaysia Today, a U.S. NGO quietly improves the lives of migrant workers in Malaysian factories.
From Gatestone Institute, Turks must vote until they get it right.
From The Conservative Woman, the candidates for prime minister need to "wake up" quickly to what conservatism is.
From National Review, "making sense of the Iran chaos".
From Townhall, there were indeed criminals in the migrant caravans.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats lash out at a millionaire who exposes a loophole in the food stamps program.
From the Washington Examiner, in South Carolina, Robert O'Rourke invokes Robert Kennedy.
From American Thinker, something doesn't add up about E. Jean Carroll's story about Trump.
From NewsBusters, HBO host Bill Maher asks Oprah Winfrey to run for president.
From the New York Post, almost 70 climate protesters outside the New York Times building get arrested. (Like I keep saying, they need to protest in front of the Chinese embassy, which is in Washington, not New York.)
And from Twitchy, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) wants everyone to report ICE sightings.
Friday, June 21, 2019
Links For The Summer Solstice
The summer solstice, when the earth's northern hemisphere is most titled toward the sun, occurred today at 11:54 EDT. From now until the next winter solstice, there will be progressively less daylight during each day. Speaking of the winter solstice, that's what happened in the southern hemisphere today. As those of us north of the equator enjoy our daylight, here are some things going on:
From AL(dot)com, five things to know about today.
From the China Daily, six things you might not know about today. (This was linked at The Jakarta Post.)
From National Review, Mayor Pete (D-South Bend, IN) and the media seem to have some double standards in the culture war.
From FrontpageMag, the Mohammad cartoonist deals with "peaceful death threats".
From Townhall, President Trump's critics will not understand why he aborted airstrikes against Iran.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a daily newspaper gives two segregationist Senate colleagues of former Vice President Biden an after-the-fact party switch.
From the Washington Examiner, one of the two alleged Colorado STEM shooters claims to have targeted students over criticism of being transgender.
From The Federalist, Biden's relationship with two the segregationist Senators was more than just "civil".
From American Thinker, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) gets an invitation from sejmcritter Dominik Tarczyński to visit some real concentration camps. (The Polish legislature is called sejm, which is pronounced like the English word "same". Thus, the Polish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter is a sejmcritter. Full disclosure: I have visited and taken pictures of Auschwitz and Birkenau, so I could hypothetically provide AOC with a small introduction, but then I'm not sure that she'd welcome any information from a right-wingnut such as yours truly.)
From CNS News, according to Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), President Trump has a duty to enforce immigration laws, but the Democrats won't help him.
From LifeZette, the success of Chik-fil-A shows that faith has a role in business.
From NewsBusters, right-wing journalist Sean Hannity lets CNN and MSNBC have it.
From CBC News, the Canadian Senate passes an environmental assessment bill.
From Global News, six out of ten polled Canadians back their government's decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
From CTV News, Puslinch Township, Ontario will not be forced to change the name of the street called "Swastika Trail". (There is also a town in Ontario named "Swastika".)
From The Jakarta Post, election committees in two districts in Jakarta are investigated for suspected election fraud.
From The Straits Times, protesters against Hong Kong's extradition bill block police headquarters in the district of Wanchai.
From The Borneo Post, families react to the naming of four suspects in the downing of Flight MH17.
From Free Malaysia Today, a council in the Malaysian state of Kelantan intends to convert all Orang Asli in the state to Islam.
From Channel News Asia, as freedom and living standards decline, some Hong Kong residents get out.
From The Himalayan Times, a pressure cooker bomb is found in Udayapur, Nepal.
From the Daily Mirror, the Malaysian Parliament bans three Muslim organizations.
From The Hans India, the world's largest pumphouse is inaugurated in the Indian state of Telangana.
From the Hindustan Times, a bill against the triple talaq is introduced in the Lok Sabha. (The Lok Sabha is the lower house of India's Parliament.)
From ANI, a Muslim man is allegedly attacked in New Delhi for not saying "Jai Shri Ram".
From India Today, a man in Maharashtra, India is arrested for allegedly giving his wife the triple talaq. (My spellchecker rejects "talaq", but has no problem with "Maharashtra".)
From Khaama Press, Afghan special forces send 13 terrorists, including one from Uzbekistan, to their virgins.
From Dawn, according to Pakistan's Minister of Human Rights, the country's hosting of refugees is "exemplary".
From The Express Tribune, Prime Minister Imran Khan urges Pakistanis to declare their assets. (In other words, financial disclosure statements aren't just for government officials any more.)
From Pakistan Today, there could be a "new era" of Pakistan-India relations.
From Radio Farda, even while U.S. President Trump halts retaliatory strikes, Iran remains defiant over the downing of a U.S. drone.
From IranWire, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps fears internal turmoil as much as an attack by the U.S.
From StepFeed, Saudi Arabia takes steps against abuse of its male guardianship system. (As the author notes, the system itself is not going away.)
From Rûdaw, ISIS claims responsibility for fires in Syria and Iraq.
From Arutz Sheva, Arabs riot along the Gaza-Israel border (again).
From The Jerusalem Post, the U.S.-led conference in Bahrain has united Palestinians - against the conference itself.
From YNetNews, Syrian refugees in Lebanon face new pressure to return home.
From Egypt Today, spectators for this year's AFCON soccer tournament are welcomed into Cairo Stadium by King Tut.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to an Interior Ministry official, Turkey has no space for another migration wave.
From Turkish Minute, almost 70,000 Turks receive pensions from Germany, even though they live in Turkey.
From 9News, a radicalized inmate in New South Wales, Australia says that he will always support jihad.
From Sputnik International, Russian authorities detain 12 people for allegedly planning to set up a sharia state in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
From The Moscow Times, Russian President Putin suspends flights between Russia and Georgia.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, European politicians Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans "have failed".
From Daily News Hungary, the Czech and Hungarian defense ministers hold talks on cooperation between the armed forces of their countries.
From Hungary Today, Hungarians are plagued by mosquitoes.
From About Hungary, Hungary starts upgrading the nuclear power plant at Paks.
From Radio Praha, Slovakia's new president expresses support for Czechs demonstrating against their prime minister.
From Deutsche Welle, German conservatives are divided on how to deal with the "far-right".
From EuroNews, protesters occupy a German coal mine.
From the CPH Post, Danes are still skeptical about vaccines.
From Free West Media, Islamists in Norway argue against showing their ears in ID photographs.
From the NL Times, a witness in the hate speech trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders decides not to testify, out of fear that he himself will be prosecuted.
From Dutch News, the Dutch are among the world's best at returning lost wallets to their owners.
From VRT NWS, a man suspected of leaving explosives next to a railroad station in Brussels has a previous conviction for arson.
From France24, can a referendum on privatization heal French democracy?
From RFI, former French President Sarkozy looks ready to make legal history.
From Breitbart, leaked information shows the Islamist infiltration into French public services. (If you read French, read the story at Le Point. The Breitbart article, along with articles above from Free Malaysia Today, 9News and Sputnik International, come via The Religion Of Peace.)
From Snouts in the Trough, hooray for "refugee week"!
From the Express, police are called to the home of U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson after a neighbor hears "shouting and slamming".
From the Evening Standard, the parents of "Jihadi Jack" are convicted of funding terrorism.
From the Independent, parliamentcritter Mark Fields is suspended for grabbing a protester by the neck.
From the Irish Examiner, Irish prisons have a high voter turnout.
From El País, three Catalan MEP-elects cannot take their seats, because they have not pledged compliance to the Spanish constitution.
From The Portugal News, a Portuguese citizen is arrested for allegedly aiding ISIS.
From Morocco World News, Morocco moves up the date for releasing the results of its baccalaureate exam. (I recently linked a story on France's baccalaureate exam. It appears that Morocco learned something from their French colonizers.)
From SwissInfo, how Switzerland and the U.S. are preparing to deal with drones in the future.
From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini tells Prime Minister Conte that the Dutch should deal with the Sea-Watch 3.
From Total Croatia News, accusations of mistreatment against migrants by Croatian police have not been confirmed.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bosnia and Hercegovina "fails to protect the victims of human trafficking".
From Ekathimerini, a Greek musician sings for the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Tsipras announces oil exploration south of Crete, with the help of ExxonMobil.
From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Borissov, Bulgaria will pay for U.S. F-16s with money from the reserve.
From Radio Bulgaria, negotiations on the price of the American F-16s are still ongoing.
From Romania-Insider, U.S. tanks mistakenly destroy crop fields near Ialomita, Romania.
From the New York Post, a man allegedly threatens to "kill every gay person" at St. Louis's pride parade.
From FOX 10, customers at a Buffalo Wild Wings not only smell a rat, but see one. (via Fox News)
And from CNN, Facebook reverses its ban on a certain Led Zeppelin album cover.
From AL(dot)com, five things to know about today.
From the China Daily, six things you might not know about today. (This was linked at The Jakarta Post.)
From National Review, Mayor Pete (D-South Bend, IN) and the media seem to have some double standards in the culture war.
From FrontpageMag, the Mohammad cartoonist deals with "peaceful death threats".
From Townhall, President Trump's critics will not understand why he aborted airstrikes against Iran.
From The Washington Free Beacon, a daily newspaper gives two segregationist Senate colleagues of former Vice President Biden an after-the-fact party switch.
From the Washington Examiner, one of the two alleged Colorado STEM shooters claims to have targeted students over criticism of being transgender.
From The Federalist, Biden's relationship with two the segregationist Senators was more than just "civil".
From American Thinker, congresscritter AOC (D-NY) gets an invitation from sejmcritter Dominik Tarczyński to visit some real concentration camps. (The Polish legislature is called sejm, which is pronounced like the English word "same". Thus, the Polish equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter is a sejmcritter. Full disclosure: I have visited and taken pictures of Auschwitz and Birkenau, so I could hypothetically provide AOC with a small introduction, but then I'm not sure that she'd welcome any information from a right-wingnut such as yours truly.)
From CNS News, according to Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), President Trump has a duty to enforce immigration laws, but the Democrats won't help him.
From LifeZette, the success of Chik-fil-A shows that faith has a role in business.
From NewsBusters, right-wing journalist Sean Hannity lets CNN and MSNBC have it.
From CBC News, the Canadian Senate passes an environmental assessment bill.
From Global News, six out of ten polled Canadians back their government's decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
From CTV News, Puslinch Township, Ontario will not be forced to change the name of the street called "Swastika Trail". (There is also a town in Ontario named "Swastika".)
From The Jakarta Post, election committees in two districts in Jakarta are investigated for suspected election fraud.
From The Straits Times, protesters against Hong Kong's extradition bill block police headquarters in the district of Wanchai.
From The Borneo Post, families react to the naming of four suspects in the downing of Flight MH17.
From Free Malaysia Today, a council in the Malaysian state of Kelantan intends to convert all Orang Asli in the state to Islam.
From Channel News Asia, as freedom and living standards decline, some Hong Kong residents get out.
From The Himalayan Times, a pressure cooker bomb is found in Udayapur, Nepal.
From the Daily Mirror, the Malaysian Parliament bans three Muslim organizations.
From The Hans India, the world's largest pumphouse is inaugurated in the Indian state of Telangana.
From the Hindustan Times, a bill against the triple talaq is introduced in the Lok Sabha. (The Lok Sabha is the lower house of India's Parliament.)
From ANI, a Muslim man is allegedly attacked in New Delhi for not saying "Jai Shri Ram".
From India Today, a man in Maharashtra, India is arrested for allegedly giving his wife the triple talaq. (My spellchecker rejects "talaq", but has no problem with "Maharashtra".)
From Khaama Press, Afghan special forces send 13 terrorists, including one from Uzbekistan, to their virgins.
From Dawn, according to Pakistan's Minister of Human Rights, the country's hosting of refugees is "exemplary".
From The Express Tribune, Prime Minister Imran Khan urges Pakistanis to declare their assets. (In other words, financial disclosure statements aren't just for government officials any more.)
From Pakistan Today, there could be a "new era" of Pakistan-India relations.
From Radio Farda, even while U.S. President Trump halts retaliatory strikes, Iran remains defiant over the downing of a U.S. drone.
From IranWire, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps fears internal turmoil as much as an attack by the U.S.
From StepFeed, Saudi Arabia takes steps against abuse of its male guardianship system. (As the author notes, the system itself is not going away.)
From Rûdaw, ISIS claims responsibility for fires in Syria and Iraq.
From Arutz Sheva, Arabs riot along the Gaza-Israel border (again).
From The Jerusalem Post, the U.S.-led conference in Bahrain has united Palestinians - against the conference itself.
From YNetNews, Syrian refugees in Lebanon face new pressure to return home.
From Egypt Today, spectators for this year's AFCON soccer tournament are welcomed into Cairo Stadium by King Tut.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to an Interior Ministry official, Turkey has no space for another migration wave.
From Turkish Minute, almost 70,000 Turks receive pensions from Germany, even though they live in Turkey.
From 9News, a radicalized inmate in New South Wales, Australia says that he will always support jihad.
From Sputnik International, Russian authorities detain 12 people for allegedly planning to set up a sharia state in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
From The Moscow Times, Russian President Putin suspends flights between Russia and Georgia.
From the Hungary Journal, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Orban, European politicians Manfred Weber and Frans Timmermans "have failed".
From Daily News Hungary, the Czech and Hungarian defense ministers hold talks on cooperation between the armed forces of their countries.
From Hungary Today, Hungarians are plagued by mosquitoes.
From About Hungary, Hungary starts upgrading the nuclear power plant at Paks.
From Radio Praha, Slovakia's new president expresses support for Czechs demonstrating against their prime minister.
From Deutsche Welle, German conservatives are divided on how to deal with the "far-right".
From EuroNews, protesters occupy a German coal mine.
From the CPH Post, Danes are still skeptical about vaccines.
From Free West Media, Islamists in Norway argue against showing their ears in ID photographs.
From the NL Times, a witness in the hate speech trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders decides not to testify, out of fear that he himself will be prosecuted.
From Dutch News, the Dutch are among the world's best at returning lost wallets to their owners.
From VRT NWS, a man suspected of leaving explosives next to a railroad station in Brussels has a previous conviction for arson.
From France24, can a referendum on privatization heal French democracy?
From RFI, former French President Sarkozy looks ready to make legal history.
From Breitbart, leaked information shows the Islamist infiltration into French public services. (If you read French, read the story at Le Point. The Breitbart article, along with articles above from Free Malaysia Today, 9News and Sputnik International, come via The Religion Of Peace.)
From Snouts in the Trough, hooray for "refugee week"!
From the Express, police are called to the home of U.K. prime minister candidate Boris Johnson after a neighbor hears "shouting and slamming".
From the Evening Standard, the parents of "Jihadi Jack" are convicted of funding terrorism.
From the Independent, parliamentcritter Mark Fields is suspended for grabbing a protester by the neck.
From the Irish Examiner, Irish prisons have a high voter turnout.
From El País, three Catalan MEP-elects cannot take their seats, because they have not pledged compliance to the Spanish constitution.
From The Portugal News, a Portuguese citizen is arrested for allegedly aiding ISIS.
From Morocco World News, Morocco moves up the date for releasing the results of its baccalaureate exam. (I recently linked a story on France's baccalaureate exam. It appears that Morocco learned something from their French colonizers.)
From SwissInfo, how Switzerland and the U.S. are preparing to deal with drones in the future.
From ANSA, Italian Interior Minister Salvini tells Prime Minister Conte that the Dutch should deal with the Sea-Watch 3.
From Total Croatia News, accusations of mistreatment against migrants by Croatian police have not been confirmed.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Bosnia and Hercegovina "fails to protect the victims of human trafficking".
From Ekathimerini, a Greek musician sings for the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece.
From the Greek Reporter, Greek Prime Minister Tsipras announces oil exploration south of Crete, with the help of ExxonMobil.
From Novinite, according to Prime Minister Borissov, Bulgaria will pay for U.S. F-16s with money from the reserve.
From Radio Bulgaria, negotiations on the price of the American F-16s are still ongoing.
From Romania-Insider, U.S. tanks mistakenly destroy crop fields near Ialomita, Romania.
From the New York Post, a man allegedly threatens to "kill every gay person" at St. Louis's pride parade.
From FOX 10, customers at a Buffalo Wild Wings not only smell a rat, but see one. (via Fox News)
And from CNN, Facebook reverses its ban on a certain Led Zeppelin album cover.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Thursday Links
As another Thursday rolls around, here are some things going on:
From Free West Media, police in Cologne, Germany defend their temporary arrest of Muslims yelling "Allahu akbar" while running into the city's main railroad station.
From Deutsche Welle, death threats are sent to pro-refugee German politicians.
From the CPH Post, the Danish Parliament chooses it new speaker.
From the NL Times, the Dutch police present a plan against ethnic profiling.
From Dutch News, three men have been arrested in Amsterdam for sexually harassing undercover policewomen.
From France24, is France's baccalaureate the world's most difficult high school exam? (I first learned about the French baccalaureate during French classes in high school, along with the slogan a bas le bac!, which means "down with the bac", the word "bac" being an abbreviation for "baccalaureate".)
From RFI, gay rights activists file a complaint with the European Commission over France's requirement that gay men abstain from sex for a year before giving blood.
From the Express, the contest for the Tory leadership (and with it the office of prime minister) is between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
From the Evening Standard, climate protesters interrupt a speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.
From the Independent, the U.K. freezes new arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
From the Irish Examiner, the Irish government is urged to investigate the Troubles-related killings. ("The Troubles" refers to the conflict between the mostly Catholic nationalists and mostly Protestant unionists in northern Ireland.)
From Euractiv, the E.U. climate deal falls.
From CBC News, "could Canada be a safe haven for climate refugees?" (The World Bank predicts that 143 million people could become climate refugees. Such predictions have been made previously, and have failed dismally.)
From Global News, while visiting the U.S., Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau weighs in on Quebec's religious symbols bill.
From CTV News, five things to watch for as Trudeau meets U.S. President Trump.
From the Toronto Sun, a Toronto imam accused of sexual assault is arrested trying to board a plane.
From TeleSUR, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez deploys the military around his country.
From Morocco World News, 22 migrants die trying to cross the Mediterranean from Morocco to Spain.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese parliament passes three laws on lobbying.
From El País, a tape allegedly records three Spaniards trying to extort money from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
From ANSA, Germany returns a Roman marble sculpture to Italy.
From Total Croatia News, the Jewish Community of Zagreb objects to a Holocaust monument because it allegedly downplays the crimes against Jews in Croatia.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, an Albanian opposition party calls for protests against the government.
From Ekathimerini, police in Piraeus, Greece dismantle a passport forgery operation. (Piraeus is the port city for Athens. I've sailed out of there twice.)
From the Greek Reporter, new evidence undermines the British Museum's claim to marble statues from the Parthenon.
From Novinite, Sofia will host the inaugural World Meeting of Child Cardiologists and Cardiothoracic Surgeons.
From the Sofia Globe, the U.S. proposes its price for eight F-16 fighter jets.
From Romania-Insider, several sites in a mineral spring resort will be refurbished with funds from the E.U. (If you're a taxpayer in any E.U. country, you could say that this is your tax Euros at work.)
From the Hungary Journal, Prime Minister Orban marks the anniversary of troops from the Soviet Union leaving Hungary.
From Daily News Hungary, a court in Szeged, Hungary gives life sentences to three Bulgarians and one Afghan for the deaths of 71 migrants smuggled in a truck.
From Hungary Today, according to the Council of Europe, minority representation and participation in Hungary is "exemplary".
From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Croatian island of Krk would be in Hungary's interest.
From The Slovak Spectator, could Slovak Prime Minister Pelligrini become president of the European Council?
From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš wants an E.C. president who won't reintroduce migrant quotas.
From Radio Poland, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki goes to Brussels to discuss appointments to key E.U. posts.
From Russia Today, people should be free to criticize authority, says Russian President Putin. (There was a time when I could never imagine myself agreeing with the leader of Russia.)
From Sputnik International, in his annual Q&A session, Putin denies being a space alien.
From The Moscow Times, tens of thousands of Georgians protest over the visit of a delegation from Russia. (This happened in Tbilisi, not Atlanta.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, 415,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since 2011.
From Turkish Minute, in İzmir, Turkey, police detain 33 alleged followers of the Gülen movement. (That is indeed a dot over a capital "I".)
From Rûdaw, a Yezidi journalist is rescued from ISIS.
From Arutz Sheva, dozens of people protest against a gay pride parade in Be'er Sheva, Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel claims to have captured a Jordanian man spying for Iran.
From The Jerusalem Post, how Jerusalem remembers 9/11.
From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel El Sisi allocates almost 110 acres for Coptic cemeteries.
From Egypt Today, Egypt and the U.N. sign a cooperation document to combat extremism.
From Radio Farda, while U.S. House Speaker calls for caution, President Trump says that Iran "made a big mistake".
From IranWire, 10 prisoners in Iran write an open letter calling for basic human rights for political prisoners.
From Dawn, a court sentences a man to death for blasphemy.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan will partially rescind the death penalty.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan and Japan agree to enhance their defense ties.
From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces kill four Taliban terrorists, seize 50,000 kilos of opium, and confiscate 4,400 rounds of ammo. (Seems like a very productive day.)
From the Hindustan Times, India's National Investigative Agency raids a man's house in Coimbatore, over suspicion of ISIS links.
From ANI, the Indian Air Force recovers the bodies of 13 personnel from a crashed AN-32 airplane.
From India Today, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will visit India.
From the Daily Mirror, ISIS reportedly shifts its strategy to threaten India and Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena orders the investigations of people arrested for minor offenses in the Easter Sunday attacks to be expedited.
From the Daily Mail, a group of Iranian villagers are filmed stoning a bear cub to death.
From Gatestone Institute, there will be no peace as long as Iran's mullahs are in charge.
From StepFeed, a Saudi woman becomes the first-ever female chairperson of a publicly-listed local bank.
From The Jakarta Post, a U.N. expert publishes a report about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government is not happy with the latest report on Flight MH17.
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. Home Office claims to consult organizations on immigration, but only gets "a rubber stamp".
From National Review, the U.S. "holds all the cards" against Iran.
From Townhall, what the Catholic Church teaches about immigration is not what Alyssa Milano might think.
From FrontpageMag, "a legal immigrant weighs in" on the current "madness". (If you support open borders and/or oppose the wall, the author is one of the millions of people you regard with bird-flipping contempt.)
From The Washington Free Beacon, the SCOTUS rules against an attempt to remove Blandensburg, Maryland's WWI cross memorial. (The article refers to the court as the "Supremes", a title that in my opinion belongs to Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Cindy Birdsong, not to that group of nine lawyers appointed by politicians.)
From the Washington Examiner, prominent Republicans oppose Roy Moore's latest Senate run.
From The Federalist, if the media don't want to be accused of publishing propaganda, they should stop publishing propaganda.
From American Thinker, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) calls border jumpers an "ethnic group", even though they come from many ethnic groups.
From CNS News, according to Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), "everyone has the constitutional duty to enforce immigration laws".
From NewsBusters, Trump is defended on race relations by a former employee of President George Bush the Younger. (She has a PhD and is a classically trained pianist.)
From the New York Post, a veteran Navy SEAL wins his fight to join the FDNY.
And from The Babylon Bee, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is "getting excited" hearing about concentration camps. (I wonder what she thinks about these camps.)
From Free West Media, police in Cologne, Germany defend their temporary arrest of Muslims yelling "Allahu akbar" while running into the city's main railroad station.
From Deutsche Welle, death threats are sent to pro-refugee German politicians.
From the CPH Post, the Danish Parliament chooses it new speaker.
From the NL Times, the Dutch police present a plan against ethnic profiling.
From Dutch News, three men have been arrested in Amsterdam for sexually harassing undercover policewomen.
From France24, is France's baccalaureate the world's most difficult high school exam? (I first learned about the French baccalaureate during French classes in high school, along with the slogan a bas le bac!, which means "down with the bac", the word "bac" being an abbreviation for "baccalaureate".)
From RFI, gay rights activists file a complaint with the European Commission over France's requirement that gay men abstain from sex for a year before giving blood.
From the Express, the contest for the Tory leadership (and with it the office of prime minister) is between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
From the Evening Standard, climate protesters interrupt a speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.
From the Independent, the U.K. freezes new arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
From the Irish Examiner, the Irish government is urged to investigate the Troubles-related killings. ("The Troubles" refers to the conflict between the mostly Catholic nationalists and mostly Protestant unionists in northern Ireland.)
From Euractiv, the E.U. climate deal falls.
From CBC News, "could Canada be a safe haven for climate refugees?" (The World Bank predicts that 143 million people could become climate refugees. Such predictions have been made previously, and have failed dismally.)
From Global News, while visiting the U.S., Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau weighs in on Quebec's religious symbols bill.
From CTV News, five things to watch for as Trudeau meets U.S. President Trump.
From the Toronto Sun, a Toronto imam accused of sexual assault is arrested trying to board a plane.
From TeleSUR, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez deploys the military around his country.
From Morocco World News, 22 migrants die trying to cross the Mediterranean from Morocco to Spain.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese parliament passes three laws on lobbying.
From El País, a tape allegedly records three Spaniards trying to extort money from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
From ANSA, Germany returns a Roman marble sculpture to Italy.
From Total Croatia News, the Jewish Community of Zagreb objects to a Holocaust monument because it allegedly downplays the crimes against Jews in Croatia.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, an Albanian opposition party calls for protests against the government.
From Ekathimerini, police in Piraeus, Greece dismantle a passport forgery operation. (Piraeus is the port city for Athens. I've sailed out of there twice.)
From the Greek Reporter, new evidence undermines the British Museum's claim to marble statues from the Parthenon.
From Novinite, Sofia will host the inaugural World Meeting of Child Cardiologists and Cardiothoracic Surgeons.
From the Sofia Globe, the U.S. proposes its price for eight F-16 fighter jets.
From Romania-Insider, several sites in a mineral spring resort will be refurbished with funds from the E.U. (If you're a taxpayer in any E.U. country, you could say that this is your tax Euros at work.)
From the Hungary Journal, Prime Minister Orban marks the anniversary of troops from the Soviet Union leaving Hungary.
From Daily News Hungary, a court in Szeged, Hungary gives life sentences to three Bulgarians and one Afghan for the deaths of 71 migrants smuggled in a truck.
From Hungary Today, according to the Council of Europe, minority representation and participation in Hungary is "exemplary".
From About Hungary, according to Foreign Minister Szijjarto, the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Croatian island of Krk would be in Hungary's interest.
From The Slovak Spectator, could Slovak Prime Minister Pelligrini become president of the European Council?
From Radio Praha, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš wants an E.C. president who won't reintroduce migrant quotas.
From Radio Poland, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki goes to Brussels to discuss appointments to key E.U. posts.
From Russia Today, people should be free to criticize authority, says Russian President Putin. (There was a time when I could never imagine myself agreeing with the leader of Russia.)
From Sputnik International, in his annual Q&A session, Putin denies being a space alien.
From The Moscow Times, tens of thousands of Georgians protest over the visit of a delegation from Russia. (This happened in Tbilisi, not Atlanta.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, 415,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since 2011.
From Turkish Minute, in İzmir, Turkey, police detain 33 alleged followers of the Gülen movement. (That is indeed a dot over a capital "I".)
From Rûdaw, a Yezidi journalist is rescued from ISIS.
From Arutz Sheva, dozens of people protest against a gay pride parade in Be'er Sheva, Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel claims to have captured a Jordanian man spying for Iran.
From The Jerusalem Post, how Jerusalem remembers 9/11.
From the Egypt Independent, Egyptian President Abdel El Sisi allocates almost 110 acres for Coptic cemeteries.
From Egypt Today, Egypt and the U.N. sign a cooperation document to combat extremism.
From Radio Farda, while U.S. House Speaker calls for caution, President Trump says that Iran "made a big mistake".
From IranWire, 10 prisoners in Iran write an open letter calling for basic human rights for political prisoners.
From Dawn, a court sentences a man to death for blasphemy.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistan will partially rescind the death penalty.
From Pakistan Today, Pakistan and Japan agree to enhance their defense ties.
From Khaama Press, Afghan security forces kill four Taliban terrorists, seize 50,000 kilos of opium, and confiscate 4,400 rounds of ammo. (Seems like a very productive day.)
From the Hindustan Times, India's National Investigative Agency raids a man's house in Coimbatore, over suspicion of ISIS links.
From ANI, the Indian Air Force recovers the bodies of 13 personnel from a crashed AN-32 airplane.
From India Today, U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will visit India.
From the Daily Mirror, ISIS reportedly shifts its strategy to threaten India and Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena orders the investigations of people arrested for minor offenses in the Easter Sunday attacks to be expedited.
From the Daily Mail, a group of Iranian villagers are filmed stoning a bear cub to death.
From Gatestone Institute, there will be no peace as long as Iran's mullahs are in charge.
From StepFeed, a Saudi woman becomes the first-ever female chairperson of a publicly-listed local bank.
From The Jakarta Post, a U.N. expert publishes a report about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From the Borneo Post, the Malaysian government is not happy with the latest report on Flight MH17.
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. Home Office claims to consult organizations on immigration, but only gets "a rubber stamp".
From National Review, the U.S. "holds all the cards" against Iran.
From Townhall, what the Catholic Church teaches about immigration is not what Alyssa Milano might think.
From FrontpageMag, "a legal immigrant weighs in" on the current "madness". (If you support open borders and/or oppose the wall, the author is one of the millions of people you regard with bird-flipping contempt.)
From The Washington Free Beacon, the SCOTUS rules against an attempt to remove Blandensburg, Maryland's WWI cross memorial. (The article refers to the court as the "Supremes", a title that in my opinion belongs to Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Cindy Birdsong, not to that group of nine lawyers appointed by politicians.)
From the Washington Examiner, prominent Republicans oppose Roy Moore's latest Senate run.
From The Federalist, if the media don't want to be accused of publishing propaganda, they should stop publishing propaganda.
From American Thinker, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) calls border jumpers an "ethnic group", even though they come from many ethnic groups.
From CNS News, according to Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), "everyone has the constitutional duty to enforce immigration laws".
From NewsBusters, Trump is defended on race relations by a former employee of President George Bush the Younger. (She has a PhD and is a classically trained pianist.)
From the New York Post, a veteran Navy SEAL wins his fight to join the FDNY.
And from The Babylon Bee, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is "getting excited" hearing about concentration camps. (I wonder what she thinks about these camps.)
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Links For Juneteenth
On this date in 1865, a Union general rode into Galveston, Texas and announced that slavery was no more. Here on the anniversary of that event, now known as Juneteenth, are some things going on:
From National Review, President Trump's most difficult obstacle to his re-election is........himself.
From Yahoo News, whatever you think of him, Trump can sure raise money.
From Townhall, CNN doesn't like to be told off.
From FrontpageMag, do millionaires deserve reparations?
From The Washington Free Beacon, despite the efforts of Mayor Buttigieg's anti-violence commission, shootings in South Bend, Indiana have not decreased.
From the Washington Examiner, a Senate panel approves funding to address the border crisis.
From The Federalist, the problem for the Democrats is not their old fogies but their young whippersnappers.
From American Thinker, Big Brother exists, and he's not the government.
From CNS News, on the use of military force, Trump should not follow his immediate predecessor, but his first predecessor.
From NewsBusters and the "good luck with that" department, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduces a bill to force big tech to embrace free speech.
From CBC News, the recent approval for the Trans Mountain pipeline eases "oilpatch angst", for the time being.
From Global News, Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer unveils his "long-awaited" climate plan.
From CTV News, a First Nation in British Columbia plans a legal challenge to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
From TeleSUR, according to U.N. investigators, evidence suggests that Saudi Arabia's crown prince is liable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From Morocco World News, Morocco and France signs two agreements that will help Morocco's aviation sector.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government assesses legislation to allow people to work together to produce energy in shared areas.
From El País, how a Roman sarcophagus was found by accident in Granada.
From SwissInfo, the Swiss parliament approves quotas for women on corporate boards.
From ANSA, 45 migrants land on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
From the Malta Independent, Malta received 2,131 applications for international protection in 2018.
From Malta Today and the "better safe than sorry" department, police in Msida, Malta investigate a grenade, which turns out to be a toy.
From Total Croatia News, Croatia and Italy announce cooperation on defense.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, electoral infrastructure is sabotaged in places governed by Albania's opposition.
From Ekathimerini, Greek authorities draft a plan to protect areas hit by wildfires.
From the Greek Reporter, a French-Greek architect designs a new life jacket for migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
From Radio Bulgaria, the European Commission is dissatisfied with Bulgaria's climate plan. (via Novinite)
From Novinite, trade unions and employers oppose the reduction of Bulgaria's VAT on flour, milk, cheese and medicines.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev expects no cutbacks in the combat abilities of F-16 fighter jets purchased from the U.S.
From Romania-Insider, Romania's first "virtual public servant" be become available as a hologram. (Does this mean that the holodecks of the future will be invented by Romanians? If you read Romanian, read the story at MediaFax.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish government promises to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriots in the eastern Mediterranean.
From Turkish Minute, Turkish Cypriots will reportedly reopen the city of Varosha to tourism. (The article cites, Hürriyet Daily News, but does not provide a link thereto.)
From Rûdaw, in the Kurdish village of Takiya, Iraq, wolves and sheep live together in harmony.
From Arutz Sheva, an American rapper's concert in Jordan is canceled due to her support for Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants against testing the IDF.
From The Jerusalem Post, is Venezuelan President Maduro trafficking gold stolen by the Nazis from Holocaust victims?
From YNetNews, Israel will build a pipeline for wastewater from Gaza.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt welcomes a suggestion from Bahrain to link a new "World Diving Park" to the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh.
From Egypt Today, a regional conference on eliminating FGM and child marriage starts in Cairo.
From Radio Farda, Iranian officials claim that U.S. spies have been discovered, with some being executed.
From IranWire, two Iranian activists face new "trumped-up" charges.
From Dawn, a dining car on a Pakistani passenger train goes up in flames.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistani opposition leader Maryam Nawaz calls voting for the proposed federal budget a "disservice to Pakistan".
From Pakistan Today, the U.K. refuses to sign an extradition treaty with Pakistan, because it's "politically-motivated".
From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces destroy a network of Taliban tunnels.
From The Hans India, three suspected ISIS supporters allegedly planned attacks on churches and temples.
From the Hindustan Times, the chief minister of the state of Telangana calls India's prime minister a "fascist", and stands by it.
From ANI, in response to the encephalitis outbreak in the state of Bihar, a health minister orders the testing of litchi fruits.
From India Today, a Hindu group protests against the alleged encroachment onto government land by a Christian church.
From the Daily Mirror, how the global expansion of ISIS impacts Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan cabinet approves a proposal to ban the importation of chainsaws.
From 10 Daily, a Sydney, Australia man sentenced for aiding a terror act says that he no longer supports ISIS.
From ABC7, a woman in Schiller Park, Illinois is sentenced to 6 and 1/2 years in prison for supporting ISIS.
From StepFeed, refugee girls in Beirut, Lebanon face "alarming rates of sexual violence and forced marriages".
From Gatestone Institute, Iran's new terror activity in Europe.
From Russia Today, a Russian security official warns that the "age of digital terrorism" is coming.
From Sputnik News, two people suspected of helping to fund ISIS are detained in the Moscow region.
From The Moscow Times, a team of international prosecutors names the four top suspects in the crash of Flight MH17.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary and Republika Srpska agree to strengthen their ties. (The Republika Srpska is part of Bosnia and Hercegovina.)
From Hungary Today, protesters in Csíkszereda, Romania demand the restoration of the Valea Uzului cemetery. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)
From About Hungary, the V4 countries reveal which E.P. candidates they won't support.
From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic is one of the world's largest sources of spam emails.
From Radio Poland, according to Defense Ministers Mariusz Błaszczak, Poland's move to strengthen its military is a response to Russia being "aggressive".
From Deutsche Welle, German Conservatives allege that the "far-right" AfD is complicit in the murder of Kassel district president Walter Lübcke.
From the NL Times, the Netherlands takes "diplomatic steps" against Russia for its refusal to cooperate in the investigation into the crash of Flight MH17.
From Dutch News, the gun with which Vincent van Gogh may have killed himself is sold at auction.
From VRT NWS, an eight-year-old attacks three teachers at a school in Brussels.
From France24, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial for alleged corruption and influence-peddling.
From RFI, the restoration of the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles learns from the fire at Notre-Dame in Paris.
From The Conservative Woman, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage answers questions.
From the Express, a public relations expert claims that prime minister candidate Boris Johnson would delay Brexit again.
From the Evening Standard, Johnson tops the third ballot, thus moving closer to becoming prime minister.
From the (U.K.) Independent, soon-to-be-former U.K. Prime Minister May is scheduled to make her last official visit to Brussels.
From the (Irish) Independent, a farmer in north Dublin is told to remove his animals from land previously earmarked for a prison.
From the Irish Examiner, a Chernobyl orphan warns against visiting the site.
From Fox News, the guy who once felt a tingle in his leg from then-Senator Obama (D-IL) "heaps praise" on Obama's vice president.
From ComputerWorld, Google asks users of Chrome to help find deceptive websites.
From The Daily Caller, a Republican congresscritter is booed for explaining why reparations for slavery could be unconstitutional.
From the New York Post, New York state lawmakers make a "last-minute push" to decriminalize marijuana.
From Breitbart, someone is arrested for allegedly attempting to jump a fence near the White House.
From Twitchy, right-wing pundit Katie Pavelich rips up Senator Kamala Harris's (D-Cal) talking points on deportation.
And from The Peedmont, scientists meet at Randolph Macon University to find any possible reason why someone would travel to Mechanicsville, Virginia.
From National Review, President Trump's most difficult obstacle to his re-election is........himself.
From Yahoo News, whatever you think of him, Trump can sure raise money.
From Townhall, CNN doesn't like to be told off.
From FrontpageMag, do millionaires deserve reparations?
From The Washington Free Beacon, despite the efforts of Mayor Buttigieg's anti-violence commission, shootings in South Bend, Indiana have not decreased.
From the Washington Examiner, a Senate panel approves funding to address the border crisis.
From The Federalist, the problem for the Democrats is not their old fogies but their young whippersnappers.
From American Thinker, Big Brother exists, and he's not the government.
From CNS News, on the use of military force, Trump should not follow his immediate predecessor, but his first predecessor.
From NewsBusters and the "good luck with that" department, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduces a bill to force big tech to embrace free speech.
From CBC News, the recent approval for the Trans Mountain pipeline eases "oilpatch angst", for the time being.
From Global News, Canadian Conservative leader Andrew Scheer unveils his "long-awaited" climate plan.
From CTV News, a First Nation in British Columbia plans a legal challenge to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
From TeleSUR, according to U.N. investigators, evidence suggests that Saudi Arabia's crown prince is liable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
From Morocco World News, Morocco and France signs two agreements that will help Morocco's aviation sector.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government assesses legislation to allow people to work together to produce energy in shared areas.
From El País, how a Roman sarcophagus was found by accident in Granada.
From SwissInfo, the Swiss parliament approves quotas for women on corporate boards.
From ANSA, 45 migrants land on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
From the Malta Independent, Malta received 2,131 applications for international protection in 2018.
From Malta Today and the "better safe than sorry" department, police in Msida, Malta investigate a grenade, which turns out to be a toy.
From Total Croatia News, Croatia and Italy announce cooperation on defense.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, electoral infrastructure is sabotaged in places governed by Albania's opposition.
From Ekathimerini, Greek authorities draft a plan to protect areas hit by wildfires.
From the Greek Reporter, a French-Greek architect designs a new life jacket for migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
From Radio Bulgaria, the European Commission is dissatisfied with Bulgaria's climate plan. (via Novinite)
From Novinite, trade unions and employers oppose the reduction of Bulgaria's VAT on flour, milk, cheese and medicines.
From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev expects no cutbacks in the combat abilities of F-16 fighter jets purchased from the U.S.
From Romania-Insider, Romania's first "virtual public servant" be become available as a hologram. (Does this mean that the holodecks of the future will be invented by Romanians? If you read Romanian, read the story at MediaFax.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish government promises to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriots in the eastern Mediterranean.
From Turkish Minute, Turkish Cypriots will reportedly reopen the city of Varosha to tourism. (The article cites, Hürriyet Daily News, but does not provide a link thereto.)
From Rûdaw, in the Kurdish village of Takiya, Iraq, wolves and sheep live together in harmony.
From Arutz Sheva, an American rapper's concert in Jordan is canceled due to her support for Israel.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants against testing the IDF.
From The Jerusalem Post, is Venezuelan President Maduro trafficking gold stolen by the Nazis from Holocaust victims?
From YNetNews, Israel will build a pipeline for wastewater from Gaza.
From the Egypt Independent, Egypt welcomes a suggestion from Bahrain to link a new "World Diving Park" to the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh.
From Egypt Today, a regional conference on eliminating FGM and child marriage starts in Cairo.
From Radio Farda, Iranian officials claim that U.S. spies have been discovered, with some being executed.
From IranWire, two Iranian activists face new "trumped-up" charges.
From Dawn, a dining car on a Pakistani passenger train goes up in flames.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistani opposition leader Maryam Nawaz calls voting for the proposed federal budget a "disservice to Pakistan".
From Pakistan Today, the U.K. refuses to sign an extradition treaty with Pakistan, because it's "politically-motivated".
From Khaama Press, Afghan Special Forces destroy a network of Taliban tunnels.
From The Hans India, three suspected ISIS supporters allegedly planned attacks on churches and temples.
From the Hindustan Times, the chief minister of the state of Telangana calls India's prime minister a "fascist", and stands by it.
From ANI, in response to the encephalitis outbreak in the state of Bihar, a health minister orders the testing of litchi fruits.
From India Today, a Hindu group protests against the alleged encroachment onto government land by a Christian church.
From the Daily Mirror, how the global expansion of ISIS impacts Sri Lanka.
From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan cabinet approves a proposal to ban the importation of chainsaws.
From 10 Daily, a Sydney, Australia man sentenced for aiding a terror act says that he no longer supports ISIS.
From ABC7, a woman in Schiller Park, Illinois is sentenced to 6 and 1/2 years in prison for supporting ISIS.
From StepFeed, refugee girls in Beirut, Lebanon face "alarming rates of sexual violence and forced marriages".
From Gatestone Institute, Iran's new terror activity in Europe.
From Russia Today, a Russian security official warns that the "age of digital terrorism" is coming.
From Sputnik News, two people suspected of helping to fund ISIS are detained in the Moscow region.
From The Moscow Times, a team of international prosecutors names the four top suspects in the crash of Flight MH17.
From Daily News Hungary, Hungary and Republika Srpska agree to strengthen their ties. (The Republika Srpska is part of Bosnia and Hercegovina.)
From Hungary Today, protesters in Csíkszereda, Romania demand the restoration of the Valea Uzului cemetery. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)
From About Hungary, the V4 countries reveal which E.P. candidates they won't support.
From Radio Praha, the Czech Republic is one of the world's largest sources of spam emails.
From Radio Poland, according to Defense Ministers Mariusz Błaszczak, Poland's move to strengthen its military is a response to Russia being "aggressive".
From Deutsche Welle, German Conservatives allege that the "far-right" AfD is complicit in the murder of Kassel district president Walter Lübcke.
From the NL Times, the Netherlands takes "diplomatic steps" against Russia for its refusal to cooperate in the investigation into the crash of Flight MH17.
From Dutch News, the gun with which Vincent van Gogh may have killed himself is sold at auction.
From VRT NWS, an eight-year-old attacks three teachers at a school in Brussels.
From France24, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial for alleged corruption and influence-peddling.
From RFI, the restoration of the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles learns from the fire at Notre-Dame in Paris.
From The Conservative Woman, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage answers questions.
From the Express, a public relations expert claims that prime minister candidate Boris Johnson would delay Brexit again.
From the Evening Standard, Johnson tops the third ballot, thus moving closer to becoming prime minister.
From the (U.K.) Independent, soon-to-be-former U.K. Prime Minister May is scheduled to make her last official visit to Brussels.
From the (Irish) Independent, a farmer in north Dublin is told to remove his animals from land previously earmarked for a prison.
From the Irish Examiner, a Chernobyl orphan warns against visiting the site.
From Fox News, the guy who once felt a tingle in his leg from then-Senator Obama (D-IL) "heaps praise" on Obama's vice president.
From ComputerWorld, Google asks users of Chrome to help find deceptive websites.
From The Daily Caller, a Republican congresscritter is booed for explaining why reparations for slavery could be unconstitutional.
From the New York Post, New York state lawmakers make a "last-minute push" to decriminalize marijuana.
From Breitbart, someone is arrested for allegedly attempting to jump a fence near the White House.
From Twitchy, right-wing pundit Katie Pavelich rips up Senator Kamala Harris's (D-Cal) talking points on deportation.
And from The Peedmont, scientists meet at Randolph Macon University to find any possible reason why someone would travel to Mechanicsville, Virginia.
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