Monday, June 15, 2020

Monday Links - Part 1

On a relatively cool Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Supreme Court extends sex-based protections to transgender and gay employees.

From FrontpageMag, the left exploits the death of George Floyd for its revolution.

From Townhall, a black female high school principal in Chicago is under pressure to resign for opposing looting and violence.

From The Washington Free Beacon, more on the SCOTUS decision.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump gets a nice birthday present.

From The Federalist, what the statue-destroying mobs is not just the Confederacy.

From American Thinker, after the rioting and looting in New York City, Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) wonders why no one takes his lockdown orders seriously any more.

From CNS News, "the Great Society has failed".

From LifeZette, CNN and ABC News are accused of demeaning blacks.

From NewsBusters, reporter Robert Costa of The Washington Post tries to "zing" Trump by badly messing up some geography.

From CBC News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises to extend Canada's emergency coronavirus relief benefit.

From Global News, the Canadian province of Quebec will allow indoor gatherings of up to 50 people starting on June 22.

From CTV News, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces that hair salons, restaurants and malls in and around Toronto may reopen this coming Friday.

From TeleSUR, the mayor of Bogota, Colombia puts the city's hospitals on orange alert.

From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government will announce the resumption of some activities suspended due to the coronavirus.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a museum will be built in the Turkish province of Hakkari to display the area's history.

From Turkish Minute, police detain 10 people at a march organized by a pro-Kurdish political party protesting the removal of three of their members from the Turkish parliament.

From Rûdaw, according to the organization Human Rights Watch, both the Iraqi and Kurdistan regional governments suppress free speech.

From Panorama, Armenia celebrates its National Flag Day.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus appears in a short film celebrating Bloomsday 2020.

From The Syrian Observer, a Russian convey barges through a U.S. checkpoint in Hassakeh, Syria, while Syrian air force planes destroy a jihadist convoy in the region of Jabal al-Zawiya.

From Arutz Sheva, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is not likely to bring the "Deal of the Century" proposed by U.S. President Trump to a vote in the Knesset today.

From The Times Of Israel, as travel in much of the world resumes, Israel's skies are mostly closed.

From The Jerusalem Post, Jordanian King Abdullah II reportedly refuses to speak with Netanyahu.

From YNetNews, Israel starts building a ring road around Jerusalem.

From the Egypt Independent, drive-through coronavirus testing starts in Egypt.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian House of Representatives passes a bill to grant workers, farmers, Christians, and other groups "appropriate" representation.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia's Council of Ministers approves a deal to purchase power from the company Corbetti Geothermal.

From the Saudi Gazette, police in and around Mecca, Saudi Arabia beef up their patrols to catch anyone violating coronavirus protocols.

From The New Arab, Hamas calls for a united "resistance" against Israel's planned annexation of the Jordan Valley.

From Radio Farda, Iran sends oil to China by going through Malaysia.

From IranWire, four decades of forced disappearances in Iran.

From Dawn, Pakistan's National Command and Operations Center identifies 20 cities as potential coronavirus hotspots.

From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani province of Punjab imposes a two-week lockdown in several areas in the city of Lahore after a spike in new coronavirus cases, and reading the Koran becomes mandatory for all universities in Punjab.

From Pakistan Today, two Indian embassy staffers in Islamabad, Pakistan are arrested for alleged involvement in a hit-and-run accident and are later released due to diplomatic immunity.

From Khaama Press, in the province of Laghman, Afghan security forces send five Taliban terrorists to their virgins.

From The Hans India, the Indian state of Tamil Nadu announces a coronavirus lockdown in four districts.

From the Hindustan Times, 6 million India migrant workers a transported at a cost of Rs 600 per person.  (The article uses the term "60 lakh", a lakh equaling 100,000.)

From ANI, the Indian Army and the state police of Assam apprehend two cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland.

From India Today, how the experience of shopping changes as malls are reopened in Delhi, India.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh reports a large increase in recoveries from the coronavirus.

From the Daily Mirror, former Defense Minister Ruwan Wijewardene advises Sri Lanka to focus on its situation instead of on political parties.

From the Colombo Page, the Sri Lankan government decides to release vehicles seized from violating coronavirus curfews.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands ends its coronavirus lockdown and enters its "new normal".

From The Jakarta Post, a same-sex couple who recently got married in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi are arrested for forgery.

From The Straits Times, Singapore is set to move into phase 2 of its reopening from its coronavirus restrictions this coming Friday.

From the Borneo Post, preschools and kindergartens are set to reopen in Malaysia on July 1st.

From Free Malaysia Today, Rohingya refugees trying to reach Malaysia by boat are reportedly held hostage by their traffickers.

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam plans to launch traditional music contests.

From The Mainichi, the family of a taxi driver in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa who was robbed and beaten by U.S. soldiers in 2008 still fight for full compensation.

From Gatestone Institute, Palestinians pursue war against their own media.

From The Stream, 33 questions for the "woke".

From The Western Journal, a black scholar uses the NBA as evidence against "systemic racism".

From RedState, the effort to cover up the coronavirus spread from left-wing protests begins.

From The American Spectator, black lives matter for Democrats only during some of the time.

From BizPac Review, a professor explains how BLM is part of a Marxist agenda.

From Reason, California plans to raise its gasoline tax.

From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill is out sick, but it's reportedly not from the coronavirus.

And from The Babylon Bee, missionaries attempt to bring the Gospel to CHAZ by translating the Bible into primal screeches.

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