Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Wednesday Links

On a very warm (around here, anyway) Wednesday, here are some things going on:

















From Total Croatia News, a Dubrovnik area project will connect Lokrum Island and the Trsteno Arboretum.  (I visited all three places in 2007.  If you read Croatian, read the story at Morski, whose name means "of the sea".)


From Ekathimerini, about 30 "far-left" protesters interrupt a meeting of the University of Thessaloniki senate.  (Since I take the label "far-right" with a bit of NaCl, and thus usually use quotes around it, I will do the same for "far-left", just to be even-handed.)


























From the Express, how Farage "walked out" on the "Eurosceptic supergroup" talks.  (If Farage is put on any Brexit negotiating team, as TCW suggests, will he walk out of that, too?)





From France24, a journalist for the daily Le Monde refuses to tell French intelligence her source.  (Again I ask, what is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)







From Radio Poland, the group Solidarni 2010 promises a hunger strike to demand a more vigorous probe into the plane crash that killed Poland's president.  (The group met in the city of Zielona Góra, whose name means "green mountain", which is also the meaning of the name "Vermont".)


From The Slovak Spectator, how to feed the ground squirrels in Biele Vody, Slovakia.  (Permitted an educated guess, I'd say that the Slovak name "Biele Vody" means "white waters", since it resembles the equivalent Polish term białe wody.)







From Sputnik International, Ukrainian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky explains why his arrest is illegal.  (For the third time, I ask, what is this "freedom of the press" you speak of?)

From The Moscow Times, Russian communists demand an apology and that the last season of Game of Thrones is re-shot.  (I would tell them "Go to Hell", but I don't know how to say it in Russian.  Perhaps the Polish idźcie do piekła will be close enough.)



From CNBC, a man lights himself on fire near the White House.  (This shows that the "stupid people" label is still useful.  The story comes via the New York Post.)




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