Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Wednesday Links

Here are some things going on for Wednesday, a.k.a. hump day, a.k.a. mid-week:

From CBN News, the Senate announces a new budget deal, with big spending increases.


From The Daily Caller, the Los Angeles Times will soon get a new, very rich, very left-wing owner.

From TechRadar, Google is working on a game console and a streaming device.

From Fox News, Lisa Page sent a memo to Peter Strzok saying "potus wants to know everything we're doing."  The memo was sent on September 2, 2016, which would mean that "potus" is Obama.

From Voice Of Europe, a set of 34 refugees in Germany got to bring in 130 family members, and European women put out a successful anti-violence video.

From Russia Today, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May draws some anger by blaming London's and Manchester's mayors for the recent rise in knife-related crime.


From Deutsche Welle, European leaders welcome the new German coalition deal.

From Sky News, a British man is charged with "attending a place used for terrorist training".

From Anadolu Agency, Turkey submits documents to the E.U. requesting visa-free travel for its citizens within the Shengen countries.

From Hürriyet Daily News, E.U. leaders will meet Turkish President Erdoğan in Bulgaria.

From iNews, under a newly-proposed plan, foreign workers in Scotland would not be permitted to travel to other parts of the U.K.

From The Local DK, the Danish government has proposed a ban on full-face veils in public.

From the NL Times, the Dutch party ChristenUnie wants harsher penalties for religious and racist violence.

From Sputnik International, according to a group of AfD lawmakers, German people have become more opposed to sanctions against Russia.

From The Straits Times, according to the chief of Malaysia's party PAS, if they take power, "only Muslims" will make policy.

From FrontpageMag, Sweden appoints a Muslim to be the head of their National Heritage Board.

From National Review written by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), freedom of speech needs to be protected on college campuses.  (I almost typed "protested", which seems to be closer to reality these days.)

From the New York Post, three girls involved with a racially offensive photo have been kicked out of their sorority.

And from Lonely Planet, how airlines deal with snakes (and hedgehogs and peacocks) on a plane.

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