Friday, June 5, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

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

From National Review, the coronavirus lockdowns have become a scandal due to some selective enforcement from governors and mayors.

From FrontpageMag, yes, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-Min), let's talk about racism and police brutality.

From Townhall, Drew Brees should apologize - to all of us who, for a brief moment, thought that he had a spine.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a "who said it?" quiz.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats (naturally) downplay economic gains made during May.

From The Federalist, the left's normalizing collective guilt is tearing America apart.

From American Thinker, Project Veritas starts to expose ProFa.

From CNS News, some Americans go back to work.

From LifeZette, Democrats think that former Vice President Biden's inner circle is too white.

From NewsBusters, Twitter censors the Trump campaign.

From Canada Free Press, Americans succeed where anarchists fail.

From CBC News, the RCMP in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia work to restore trust since the mass shooter wore one of its uniforms.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises an investigation of police violence against indigenous people.

From TeleSUR, Bolivia closes its embassies in Nicaragua and Iran.

From The Portugal News, beaches in the Portuguese region of Algarve are ready to reopen.

From El País, more than half of Spain is expected to move to Phase 3 of its coronavirus lockdown deescalation plan this coming Monday.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron demands that Iran releases French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah.

From RFI, a scientific committee claims that the coronavirus epidemic in France is "under control".

From SwissInfo, the water jet in Geneva, Switzerland, shut off due to the coronavirus, is set to start working again.

From ANSA, according to Health Minister Roberto Speranza, Italians should not think that the against the coronavirus has been won.

From the Malta Independent, the Maltese political opposition is "restructuring itself".

From Malta Today, a fake healthcare worker in Malta is sentenced to jail for the third time after robbing an elderly woman.

From Total Slovenia News, soccer in Slovenia restarts today.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia's prime minister claims to be against having a wire fence on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, a committee of the European Parliament suggests accepting Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen zone.

From Balkan Insight, an NGO files a complaint alleging that Croatian police officers treated migrants inhumanely.

From Ekathimerini, moderate undersea earthquakes are reported in the Aegean and Ionian seas off Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, the U.S. backs Greece in its dispute over the Turkey-Libya maritime agreement.

From Novinite, a man wanted by Interpol is arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Health Minister Kiril Ananiev imposes a 14-day quarantine for people entering from North Macedonia.

From Radio Bulgaria, in the Bulgarian region of Ludogorie, it's "strawberry fields forever".

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian party USR criticizes president Klaus Iohannis's national defense strategy.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Mediafax.)

From Russia Today, according to the WHO, Russia has reached its coronavirus plateau.

From Sputnik International, the diesel fuel spill near Norilsk, Russia has been contained.

From The Moscow Times, Russian communists campaign against proposed constitutional amendments that would give President Putin more time in office.

From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban visits Minsk, Belarus.

From Daily News Hungary, Orban calls upon the E.U. to lift its sanctions on Belarus.

From Hungary Today, Hungarian authorities discover a tunnel below a border fence near the town of Mórahalom.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Index.)

From About Hungary, according to Hungary's Operational Group, Budapest is still the area in the country most infected by the coronavirus.

From The Slovak Spectator, borders between Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria have been reopened.

From Radio Prague, a replica of a Marian column torn down over 100 years ago is erected in Prague's Old Town Square.  (The urge to tear down statues is nothing new.)

From Polskie Radio, Polish lawmakers reject a bid to dismiss Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government seeks to increase its limit in social gatherings to 50.

From Voice Of Europe, a Swedish newspaper moves a writer to a "non-writing position" after he posts a Tweet critical of immigration.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at Fria Tider.)

From Deutsche Welle, Germany tries to deal with its own police racism.

From Euractiv, the German Bundesrat again postpones a vote on the caging of pigs.

From the NL Times, competing petitions call for Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema to step down or to stay.

From Dutch News, hundreds of refugees from Nigeria disappeared from Dutch asylum centers last year, possibly from being trafficked.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at Argos.)

From VRT NWS, according to scientists at the University of Antwerp, 6.9 percent of blood samples taken from Belgians have coronavirus anti-bodies.

From The Brussels Times, Brussels, Belgium approves a "static" demonstration for Black Lives Matter.

From Free West Media, the study be Lancet against the use of hydroxychloroquine is retracted as fake.  (In other words, it was fake news.)

From EuroNews, a German warship that sank off the coast of the county of Kent in 1878 is given protected status by England's National Heritage List.

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson goes over E.U. negotiators Michel Barnier's head.

From the Evening Standard, the U.K.'s coronavirus death toll passes 40,000.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Health Minister Matt Hancock urges people to stay away from George Floyd protests due to the coronavirus.

From the (Irish) Independent, 60 Irish businesses pledge to halve their carbon emissions by 2030.

From the Irish Examiner, Dublin Mayor Tom Brabazon urges people to stay away from George Floyd protests due to the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, the lies that kill both blacks and policemen.

From Snouts in the Trough, two examples of "vomit-inducing" media bias.

From The Stream, if we could only do some thinking.

From The Lid, New York's Mr. Bill shows his double standards.

From Commentary, "the backlash is building".

From RedState, journalist Paul Krugman is caught in self-parody for his reaction to recent economic news.

From Reason, a look at some recent federal court decisions.

From TechRepublic, the sectors in the U.S. where employment increased during May.

From the New York Post, a George Floyd protester trolls Kendall Jenner's Super Bowl ad by giving a cop a can of Pepsi.

And from Twitchy, U.S. diplomat Richard Grenell "shatters" a HuffPo journalist's "sweeping judgment" about police.

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