Monday, April 20, 2020

Monday Mania - Part 1

On just another manic and cloudy Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court rules that for criminal convictions, the jury must be unanimous.

From FrontpageMag, when it comes to epidemics, we need to stop being complacent and start building.

From Townhall, leftists want to keep the coronavirus lockdown going because it's giving them their wildest dreams.

From The Washington Free Beacon, while President Trump withholds money from the WHO, Congress is still important to investigating the international response to the coronavirus.

From the Washington Examiner, New York's Mr. Bill cancels event permits in his city through June.

From The Federalist, new releases reveal seven "devastating" things about the Crossfire Hurricane operation.

From American Thinker, it's now Americans who "yearn to breath free".

From CNS News, Trump claims that "some governors have gone too far" and gives an example.

From LifeZette, "why Democrats oppose reopening".

From NewsBusters, NPR finally discusses Tara Reade's allegations against former Vice President Biden.

From Canada Press Press, the phony "prayerfulness" of Speaker Nancy "Granny Grinch" Pelosi (D-Cal).

From CBC News, 19 people are killed on a mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

From Global News, more on the mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

From CTV News, more on the mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

From TeleSUR, discrimination against domestic workers in Guatemala increases.

From Morocco World News, Morocco reports coronavirus infections among the staffs of two more prisons.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey opens a new hospital in Istanbul in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey delays activating its Russian-made S-400 missile systems due to the coronavirus.

From Rûdaw, tensions in Iraq between the U.S. and Iran decrease for the time being.

From In-Cyprus, five swimmers and a jet ski rider are booked in Limassol, Cyprus for violating the country's coronavirus stay-at-home order.

From The Syrian Observer, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, 3,334 civilians have been killed in Syria since April of 2019.

From Arutz Sheva, Israel observes the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day.  (The observance begins at sundown tonight and ends at sundown tomorrow, which is the normal Jewish way of demarcating a day.)

From The Times Of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz sign a deal to establish a coalition government for Israel.

From The Jerusalem Post, Holocaust survivors experience a different Yom Hashoah.

From YNetNews, Israel cancels its traditional countrywide Independence Day airshow, but will conduct flybys to salute medical workers.

From the Egpyt Independent, Muslims face a Ramadan like no other due to the coronavirus.

From Egpyt Today, Egypt's beaches are empty during the country's Sham El-Nessim holiday due to the coronavirus.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Facebook's fact-checking program is extended to Ethiopia.

From the Saudi Gazette, 402 new coronavirus cases are reported for Mecca, bringing Saudi Arabia's total above 10,000.

From The New Arab, Tunisia extends its coronavirus curfew, but promises to ease it after May 3rd.

From Radio Farda, Iran expects another wave of locusts.

From IranWire, remembering two Iranian nurses who were murdered for their Baha'i faith.

From Dawn, at least 15 police personnel test positive for the coronavirus in Karachi, Pakistan.

From The Express Tribune, religious scholars extend their full support to the Pakistani government's coronavirus measures during Ramadan.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani soldiers kill five terrorists in the province of North Waziristan, but lose one of their own.

From Khaama Press, in the province of Wardak, Afghan forces send six Taliban terrorist to their virgins.

From The Hans India, Indian Railways has given out two million free meals.

From the Hindustan Timesan updated list of coronavirus containment zones in Delhi, India.

From ANI, the Indian state of Punjab provides quarantine facilities to 1,200 stranded migrants from the territory of Kashmir.

From India Today, the Indian state of Bihar starts using drones to monitor compliance with its coronavirus lockdown.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh needs more ventilators and ICU beds to fight the coronavirus.

From the Daily Mirror, according to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, there is no need to reconvene Sri Lanka's old parliament

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka will hold its parliamentary elections, which were postponed, on June 20th.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands and India discuss a joint coronavirus strategy and economic support after the pandemic.

From The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian province of West Java distributes food in the Greater Bandung area before the imposition of social restrictions due to the coronavirus.

From The Straits Times, of Singapore's 1,426 confirmed coronavirus cases, 1,369 are foreign workers who live in dormitories.

From the Borneo Post, according to Malaysia's defense minister, the government has no intention of involving neighborhood watch groups in enforcing the country's Movement Control Order.

From Free Malaysia Today, when in Malaysia, please refrain from flipping off the police.

From The Mainichi, a Japanese silicone products firm's elastic mask frame becomes a big hit.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's coronavirus role models.

From The Stream, the question of obeying or not obeying.

From Twitchy, journalist Katie Couric deletes her Tweet calling for media outlets to stop broadcasting Trump's coronavirus briefings, but it has been recovered.

From LifeNews, an abortion activist admits the true meaning of "my body, my choice".  (Earlier today, I read a Tweet that noted how the "my body, my choice" crowd are now telling people what to do with their bodies.)

From the New York Post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes a central role in the fight against the coronavirus.

From Accuracy in Media, the outlet NowThis News links the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden to Donald Trump's past.

From WPVI-TV, the price of oil goes below zero.

From CNET, the FCC is prepared to allow WiFi to expand and be sped up.

And from The Babylon Bee, according to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D), "revolting against a tyrannical government is simply un-American".

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