Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

On a cloudy and cool Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From ABC News, Harvey Weinstein gets 23 years.

From National Review, China's choice for U.S. president is former Vice President Biden.

From FrontpageMag, rights are not wishes.

From Townhall, what we should learn from the coronavirus.

From The Washington Free Beacon, recent gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) continues to be a sore loser.

From the Washington Examiner, Biden wins in Idaho.

From The Federalist, like the media, Biden doesn't know much about guns.

From American Thinker, according to Democrats, the coronavirus shows that the U.S. needs socialized medicine.  (They neatly avoid the fact that China, from where the coronavirus comes, is a socialist country which has socialized medicine.)

From CNS News, many diseases have been named after places.

From LifeZette, former FLOTUS/Senator/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to be chronologically challenged.

From NewsBusters, ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd appears to have some double standards about "rhetoric" allegedly causing violence.

From Canada Free Press, what we must not mention.

From CBC News, a judge in Yorkton, Saskatchewan rules that a will written on a restaurant napkin is valid.

From Global News, according to Saskatchewan officials, the province is preparing for a possible coronavirus outbreak.

From CTV News, a woman accused of spying for Russia tries to reverse a court order barring her from Canada.

From TeleSUR, the Dominican Republic prepares to re-do its most recent municipal elections.

From The Portugal News, people who do not obey social isolation rules put in place due to the coronavirus risk going to prison.

From El País, Valencia, Spain postpones the Fallas festival due to the coronavirus.

From France24, a court in Paris sentences two men to prison for a money-raising scam involving an attempt to impersonate French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

From RFI, Paris mayoral candidates spar (verbally) on live TV.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss canton of Ticino declare a state of emergency over the coronavirus.

From ANSA, Italy earmarks 25 billion euros for the coronavirus emergency.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela announces a travel ban to four more countries, quarantines, and fines for those who violate their quarantines.

From Malta Today, due to the coronavirus, Maltese lawyers and judges agree to limit court appearances.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia confirms a total of 57 cases of the coronavirus.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian League soccer games will be played without any fans for the rest of this month.

From Voice Of Europe, Bosnian police move migrants sleeping in the town of Tuzla to a camp in Blazuj, near Sarajevo.  (That name Tuzla sounds vaguely familiar.  Where have I heard it before?  Oh wait, I know.  That's where Hillary Clinton claimed to have dodged sniper fire.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Montenegro and Kosovo still have no cases of the coronavirus.

From Balkan Insight, Croatian war criminal Tomislav Mercep will be released on parole.

From Ekathimerini, the leader of the E.U. border agency Frontex discusses its plan to protect the Greek borders.

From the Greek Reporter, Greece summons the Turkish ambassador after a speedboat rams a Greek coast guard vessel near the island of Kos.

From Free West Media, Greece releases a video showing a Turkish armored vehicle ripping down a Greek border fence.

From Novinite, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov predicts the coronavirus peaking in September.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria reports its first death from the coronavirus.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria announces new measures against the coronavirus.

From Romania-Insider, Romania confirms six more cases of the coronavirus.  (If you read Romanian, read related stories at Digi24 and News(dot)ro.)

From Russia Today, Russian lawmakers approve the constitutional amendments proposed by President Putin.

From Sputnik International, Russian authorities in Crimea arrest four member of the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

From The Moscow Times, Putin's "infinite rule" inspires numerous memes.

From Daily News Hungary, the Hungarian government introduces new measure to deal with the coronavirus.

From Hungary Today, Hungary's central bank quarantines and cleans its paper currency.

From About Hungary, Hungary declares a state of emergency due to the coronavirus.

From EuroNews, the Ukrainian captain of a boat involved in a deadly collision on the Danube goes on trial in Hungary.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia confirms three more cases of the coronavirus.

From Radio Prague, a replica of a wooden church is ready to be installed in Guty, Czech Republic, to replace the original church, which was destroyed by arson.

From Polskie Radio, Poland confirms two more cases of the coronavirus.

From Deutsche Welle, a German pop singer is under fire for a video in which he uses allegedly anti-migrant lyrics.  (What is this "freedom of expression" you speak of?)

From Euractiv, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany is "well-equipped" to deal with the coronavirus.

From the NL Times, most soccer matches in the Netherlands will go on as scheduled, despite fears of the coronavirus.

From Dutch News, according to a survey, the Dutch are drinking less.

From VRT NWS, Belgium confirms 47 new cases of the coronavirus in 24 hours.

From The Brussels Times, the Belgian government launches a website and poster campaign against the coronavirus.

From the Express, the location and numbers of coronavirus cases in the U.K.

From the Evening Standard, a tiny newly discovered sea creature is named after the plastic in its digestive system.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the next round of Brexit trade talks are likely to be shelved because of the coronavirus.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Green Party refuses to enter talks with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on forming a coalition government.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland reports is first death from the coronavirus and confirms nine new cases.

From The Conservative Woman, is it now "insensitive" to celebrate Mother's Day?

From Snouts in the Trough, will the coronavirus wake us up to the fact that China is not our friend?

From The Stream, sanctuary cities now protect people who not only are in the U.S. illegally, but have committed other crimes here.

From Breitbart, Senator Socialism (I-VT) is not going down without fighting the Democratic establishment.

From Accuracy in Media, how is big tech fighting against misinformation about the coronavirus.

From Fox News, Ben & Jerry's postpones its free cone day due to the coronavirus.

From the New York Post, video footage shows a woman burning a flag outside a Hindu temple in New York City.

And from Twitchy, due to the coronavirus, the city that allows getting relief in public bans gatherings of more than 1,000 people.

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