Friday, June 12, 2020

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

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

From National Review, the Confederacy was un-American.

From FrontpageMag, "free citizens do no kneel".

From Townhall, the anti-statue rioters show their stupidity.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former Vice President Biden spends millions for ads on Facebook while decrying the "misinformation" on the platform.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a poll, black Americans oppose defunding the police.

From The Federalist, teaching fake history results in destruction of monuments.

From American Thinker, the black lives that don't matter to BLM.

From CNS News, President Trump warns against falsely calling millions of Americans racist.

From LifeZette, Berklee College of Music in Boston apologizes for letting police officers use their restrooms during a protest.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC likens the Seattle neighborhood taken over by protesters to a "pedestrian street festival".

From Canada Free Press, Americans should stand up.

From CBC News, Canadians are allowed to travel to the U.S. by air.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has "serious questions" about the arrest of  Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of New Brunswick makes changes to the upcoming school year in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

From TeleSUR, the human rights commission of the Mexican state of Jalisco alleges that a man detained for not wearing a face mask was executed in an extrajudicial manner.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government approves an agreement to preserve the country's ties with the U.K. after Brexit.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish politics heats up over the possible reopening of the Hagia Sophia Museum as a mosque.

From Turkish Minute, 140 Turkish policemen and soldiers deployed to the Syrian regions of Afrin and Idlib test positive for the coronavirus.

From Rûdaw, the U.S. and Iraq agree to reduce the number of former's troops in the latter.

From Panorama, police in Arabkir, Armenia detain activists and lawyers protesting outside their department.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, the Cypriot government considers a bill that would allow police to close down businesses that disobey the country's coronavirus measures.

From The Syrian Observer, the Palestinian-led Jerusalem Brigade goes after ISIS in the Syrian desert.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the party Likud would have 41 seats in the Knesset if Israel were to hold an election today.

From The Times Of IsraelDefense Minister Benny Gantz and Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn discuss ways to legalize homes built by Israeli settlers on private Palestinian land.

From The Jerusalem Post, five reasons why a warning from the UAE against Israel's proposed Jordan Valley annexation matters.

From YNetNews, ultra-Orthodox rabbis rule against temperature checks when entering places on the Sabbath.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian cabinet denies claims that sports clubs would be allowed to reopen in mid-June.

From Egypt Today, according to Egypt's human rights council, four people thought to have been "forcibly disappeared" have joined ISIS.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the dam talks continue.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia will allow sports to resume on June 21st.

From The New Arab, a UAE official calls Israel "an opportunity, not an enemy".

From Radio Farda, is a grandson of the late Ayatollah Khomeini a possible presidential candidate in Iran?

From IranWire, the father of an Iranian man thought to have been secretly executed is not sure if that is really true.

From Dawn, the Punjab provincial government sends recommendations to Pakistan's federal government for tightening coronavirus measures in the city of Lahore.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government announces a seven-point package for healthcare workers.

From Pakistan Today, according to Pakistani opposition leaders, the country's 2020 budget will cause more unemployment and inflation.

From Khaama Press, an explosion in a mosque in Kabul kills a prominent cleric.

From The Hans India, security forces arrest a terrorist from the group Lashkar-e-Taiba in Khojpura, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

From the Hindustan Times, Indian military officers hold a fifth round of  talks with their Chinese counterparts.

From ANI, more on the talks between India and China.

From India Today, local elections across India are postponed for six months.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Rohingyas use bicycles and rickshaws to spread information in refugee camps.

From the Daily Mirror, prayers will resume at Sri Lankan mosques starting next week.

From the Colombo Page, the general public in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to view the processions at main places of worship.

From Maldives Insider, the coronavirus provides an opportunity to "rebuild better".

From Vice, why are so many terror suspects in Indonesia working as meatball soup sellers?

From The Jakarta Post, a civil group in Indonesia demands that the country's elections are postponed until next year.

From The Straits Times, thousands of people in Hong Kong sing a protest anthem on the anniversary of clashes between protesters and police.

From the Borneo Post, customers at barbers and hairdressers in Malaysia have the right to ask for negative coronavirus test results from foreign workers.

From Free Malaysia Today, a barber from Pakistan who was coronavirus-positive came into contact with 40 people in Malaysia.

From MSN News, a human rights activist in Malaysia opens up on his homosexuality.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc receives the leaders of Chinese businesses operating in Vietnam.

From The Mainichi, the Takagoyama zoo in Futtsu, Japan tries to lure back its escaped monkeys.

From Gatestone Institute, part 1 of a brief history of ProFa.

From The Stream, support from a small number of white supremacists doesn't make President Trump a racist.

From BizPac Review, New York's Mr. Bill declares himself the "strongest mayor in the country".

From Gateway Pundit, no one in BLM seems to know where the money the receive from donations went.

From Breitbart, Los Angeles defunds police overtime.

From the New York Post, stocks rebound from yesterday's selloff.

From USA Today, no, Bill Gates is not planning to microchip everyone through a coronavirus vaccine.

And from Twitchy, Jonathan Turley "shreds" the continuing abuses of power in the case of General Michael Flynn.

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