Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

On a sunny day in the middle of the week, here are some things going on:

From National Review, a judge invites amicus briefs against the dismissal of the case against General Michael Flynn.

From FrontpageMag, the "peculiar" world of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

From Townhall, it's a fake news extravaganza.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the GOP wins special House elections in California and Wisconsin.

From the Washington Examiner, April was not a good month for "clean energy".

From The Federalist, "Obamagate" is a real scandal, "and the media know it".

From American Thinker, American abounds in petty tyrants.

From CNS News, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) offers a colorful metaphor for Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) new three-trillion-dollar spending bill.

From LifeZette, congresscritter Maxine Water (D-Cal) admits that Democrats don't want people going back to work.

From NewsBusters, CBS finds an environmental "silver lining" to the coronavirus epidemic.

From Canada Free Press, "the fabric of society is badly frayed".

From CBC News, Ontario Provincial Police warn against fake cops.

From Global News, Guelph, Ontario, Canada will reopen its community gardens this coming Friday.

From CTV News, a family in Guelph finds that all you need is glove.

From TeleSUR, Mexico records its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began.

From The Portugal News, Portugal sets new rules for nurseries.

From El País, the city of Barcelona and its suburbs will have to wait a while before moving from Phase 0 to Phase 1 of Spain's coronavirus deescalation plan.

From France24, police disperse "revelers" from the Montmartre area in Paris.

From RFI, the French government tells Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to keep her city's parks closed.

From Free West Media, the president of a French pro-migrant association is killed by a migrant.

From EuroNews, France records a large decrease in crime during its coronavirus lockdown.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland plans to reopen its borders with France, Germany and Austria.

From ANSA, according to Deputy Health Minister Pierpaolo Sileri, Italians will likely be allowed to move between regions starting on June 1st.

From the Malta Independent, according to a survey, Maltese tourism operators believe that it will take from two to five years to return to 2019's level of business.

From Malta Today, the Maltese cabinet agrees to give the country's president the final say on judicial appointments.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenians are arrested in Italy and the U.K. after being caught with she-don't-lie in their respective vehicles.

From Total Croatia News, some questions about entering Croatia.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the number of migrants arriving in Bosnia and Herzegovina decreases.

From Balkan Insight, activists in Kosovo will continue "rehearsing" their protests despite the country's restrictions on movement.

From Ekathimerini, according to Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis, Greece rejected 11,000 applications for asylum in March and April.

From the Greek Reporter, why Istanbul and Constantinople are both Greek cities.  (I can think of a song that begs to differ with that view.)

From Novinite, Bulgaria reports 65 news cases of the coronavirus, for a total of 2,069.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria keeps its state of coronavirus emergency in place until June 14th.

From Radio Bulgaria, an international trafficking network that moved she-don't-lie through Bulgaria is dismantled.

From Romania-Insider, several Romanian tourist landmarks reopen to visitors.  (If you read Romanian, read related stories at AgerpresTurnul Sfatului and România Actualități.)

From Euractiv, Ukraine passes a "long-awaited" banking law.

From Russia Today, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is banned from Instragram for the third time.

From Sputnik International, winds in Siberia tear the roofs off buildings.

From The Moscow Times, Russia will allow remove voting on President Putin's proposed constitutional amendments.

From Daily News Hungary, two border crossings will be reopened between Hungary and Austria.

From Hungary Today, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony proposes a procedure for reopening his city.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From The Slovak Spectator, due to low coronavirus numbers, schools in Slovakia could reopen in June.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic is one of the first countries to bring back top flight soccer.

From Polskie Radio, Poland will keep its borders closed to foreigners until June 12th.

From the CPH Post, according to Denmark's State Serum Institute, a second wave of the coronavirus in the country is "very unlikely".

From Voice Of Europe, a Kurdish migrant in Sweden is charged with murdering and butchering his girlfriend.

From Deutsche Welle, what to know about Germany reopening its borders.

From the NL Times, in Groningen, Netherlands, Piet may be sooty, can no longer appear in blackface.

From Dutch News, customers at an Ikea in Haarlem, Netherlands suffer chemical burns after a bottle of hand sanitizer is filled with drain-opening fluid.

From VRT NWS, a nudist beach in Bredene, Belgium will be converted into a regular beach, to allow clothed visitors as much social distancing space as possible.

From The Brussels Times, how getting a haircut will work in Belgium starting next Monday.

From the Express, in the city where knives are illegal, a man is stabbed in the street.

From the Evening Standard, nearly 5,000 coronavirus-positive people are believed to have arrived at the U.K.'s airports in April.

From the (U.K.) Independent, for the first time, U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has a higher approval rating than Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish Dáil hears demands for a refugee center to be closed because it was hit by a coronavirus outbreak.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s National Education Union tells teachers to avoid planning to reopen government-run schools.

From Snouts in the Trough, will Australians grovel to the Chinese like the British do?

From The Stream, some short news stories for today's deranged times.

From Breitbart, a narco-terrorist is caught planning to bomb a government building in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.

From BizPac Review, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) threatens to cut off federal air to counties which open before he lets them.  (I originally misspelled the governor's last name as "Worf", which would have been unfair to a certain Klingon on Star Trek: The Next Generation.)

From Reuters, President Trump extends his executive order barring U.S. telecom companies from using equipment from firms that constitute a risk to national security.

From the New York Post, Republican senators plan to grill two guys named James about perjury.

And from The BlazeCNN dares to put teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on its coronavirus panel.

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