Friday, May 29, 2020

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

On a warm sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, three ways that the coronavirus pandemic could change the way we live.

From FrontpageMag, California's attempt to bail out illegal aliens becomes a disaster.

From Townhall, Trump is not the first president to call violent people "thugs".

From The Washington Free Beacon, why Republicans are now worried about November.

From the Washington Examiner, during rioting and looting in Minneapolis, black people and the Second Amendment protect businesses.

From The Federalist, 25 questions for former Vice President Biden about China.

From American Thinker, as the mayhem goes on in Minneapolis, left-wingers again smear Trump supporters.

From CNS News, Trump warns "thugs" that the Second Amendment is still in effect.

From LifeZette, the National Guard is called in as thugs set fire to a police station in Minneapolis.

From NewsBusters, Michael Moore sides with the thugs who set fire to the Minneapolis police station.

From Canada Free Press, Dr. Fauci becomes the "new normal messiah".

From CBC News, Canada extends its ban on large cruise ships docking at its ports until October.

From Global News, Canadian border authorities seize a boat carrying invasive mussels brought into the province of Saskatchewan from the U.S.

From CTV News, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Canadian government is trying to figure out how to families separated by the U.S.-Canada border to reunite.

From TeleSURSuriname President Desire Bouterse, who appears to have lost reelection, demands a vote recount.

From The Conservative Woman, it would be wrong to put a mosque in London's Piccadilly Circus.  (For those of you who would disagree with this article and support having a mosque in Piccadilly Circus since it could promote diversity, I trust that you would likewise support having a church constructed at an analogous location in the Muslim world, such as in Cairo's Tahrir Square.)

From the Express, former U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn loses his bid to represent the party at the Council of Europe.

From the Evening Standard, dogs keep seals company at a sanctuary in the English county of Cornwall.

From the (U.K.) Independent, more than a million people sign a petition calling for U.K. prime ministerial advisor Dominic Cummings to be removed from office.

From the (Irish) Independent, according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ireland's schools will reopen at the end of August.

From the Irish Examiner, gardaí in Cork, Ireland tell a cafe owner to remove his outdoor seating.

From VRT NWS, Belgian hospitals now have less than 1,000 total coronavirus patients.

From The Brussels Times, tests for coronavirus antibodies are now available for all Belgians.

From EuroNews, Jews in Belgium feel vulnerable as anti-terror patrols are scaled back.

From the NL Times, a trade union wants all Dutch slaughterhouse workers to be tested for the coronavirus.

From Dutch News, the online "reinvent tourism" includes virtual walks and tours.

From Deutsche Welle, according to a virologist, Germany "can avoid" a second wave of the coronavirus.

From EN24, a mob ambushes first responders in Dietzenbach, Germany.  (The story comes via Voice of Europe.  If you read German, read the story at Junge Freiheit.) 

From the CPH Post, a roundup of science news in Denmark, including a study showing men being more vulnerable to the coronavirus than women.

From Polskie Radio, Polish police detain three men for allegedly passing off fake U.K. bank notes.

From Radio Prague, coronavirus-related fake news in the Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová helps keep bees, some places to go take a hike, and other stories.

From Daily News Hungary, a worm that can infect and kill dogs is spreading in Hungary.  (If you read Hungarian, read a related story at 24HU.)

From Hungary Today, Hungary commemorates the first anniversary of the collision between a cruise ship and a sightseeing boat on the Danube.

From About Hungary, a new ventilator designed by a team at Budapest's Technical University is put into production.

From Russia Today, a taxi driver in Moscow helps a woman who had been abducted to be rescued.

From Sputnik International, Russian scientists want to collect soil samples from the moon.

From The Moscow Times, the American on trial for alleged espionage in Russia has a successful emergency hernia operation.

From Free West Media, did the U.S. really show evidence of Russian fighter jets being in Libya?

From Romania-Insider, cinemas in Romania are not expected to open before June 15th.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Novinite, more people are arrested for allegedly illegally importing waste from Italy.

From The Sofia Globe, the coronavirus epidemic reportedly decreased the supply of illegal drugs in Bulgaria, which pushed up their price.

From Radio Bulgaria, mass testing for immunity to the coronavirus is launched in the Bulgarian region of Bulgas.

From Ekathimerini, campsites, libraries, golf courses and swimming pools in Greece will be allowed to reopen this coming Monday.

From The Greek Reporter, on today's date in 1453, the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albania signs an agreement to acquire U.S. Black Hawk helicopters.

From Balkan Insight, Kosovo's Constitutional Court rules that the country can form a government without holding elections.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian wine cellars are full due to decreasing sales.

From Total Slovenia News, passenger air travel restarts at Ljubljana's airport.

From the Malta Independent, the number of active coronavirus cases in Malta drops below 100.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela is exempted from being quarantined upon returning from his visit to Libya.  (Again I say, coronavirus rules are for the peons, not for their overlords.)

From ANSA, 630,000 people in Italy give up smoking during the country's coronavirus lockdown.

From Euractiv, among E.U. citizens, Italians are the least satisfied with the E.U.'s coronavirus response.

From SwissInfo, a "spectacular" Roman bath is discovered in Baden, Switzerland.

From France24, French doctors and nurses protest as reforms threaten their 35-hour work week.

From RFI, masked shoppers enter the Printemps store in Paris.  (The store's name means "spring".)

From El País, Spain records only one death from the coronavirus in a 24-hour period.

From The Portugal News, according to Portuguese health authorities, the third phase of its coronavirus deconfinement "requires everyone's responsibility".

From The Stream, remembering Norma McCorvey, known as "Jane Roe".

From Reason, are the coronavirus lockdowns constitutional?

From Stars And Stripes, Kenneth Barithwaite is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy.

From ZeroHedge, a rioter in Minneapolis promises that they will start coming to the suburbs.

From Accuracy in Media, an MSNBC reporter calls riots in Minneapolis "not, generally speaking, unruly", as fires start.

From BizPac Review, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany continues to school CNN's Jim Acosta.

And from Twitchy, Rick Wilson's conspiracy-filled Tweets about the Minneapolis riots go over like a lead balloon.

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