Monday, June 1, 2020

Stories For The Start of June - Part 1

As June starts busting out all over, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the brother of police brutality victim George Floyd speaks against the riots.

From FrontpageMag, Democrat fingerprints are all over the riots in Minneapolis.

From Townhall, what's reportedly being found in cities where protests are going on make one wonder about who might be organizing the riots.  (This appears to corroborate the story from ZeroHedge that I linked yesterday.)

From The Washington Free Beacon, a man who once managed the Beatles now lobbies for China.

From the Washington Examiner, D.C. police offer rewards for identifying looters in the George Floyd protests.

From The Federalist, the George Floyd rioters and the original Boston Tea Partiers have nothing in common.

From American Thinker, the economic fallout from the coronavirus lockdowns and the riots will not diminish President Trump's support.

From CNS News, Senator Spartacus (D-NJ) drafts a law which would create a national register of police misconduct.

From LifeZette, the police chief of Richmond, Virginia gets teary-eyed describing how rioters set fire to a home with a child inside.

From NewsBusters, TV host Joe Scarborough gives a Minneapolis cop a race-change operation.

From Canada Free Press, an outsider looks at America's race problems.

From CBC News, protesters in Montreal try to point out that racism is a problem in Canada.

From Global News, 11 protesters in Montreal are arrested.

From CTV News, according to an investigation, the crash that killed a member of Canada's Snowbirds may have been caused by a bird strike.

From TeleSUR, over 18,500 families in El Salvador are evacuated due to Tropical Storm Amanda.

From The Conservative Woman, why abortionists love the coronavirus.

From EuroNews, some British parents are not happy about schools reopening.

From the Express, a mob assembles to protest "disproportionate" police presence at an arrest in London.

From the Evening Standard, according to experts, the U.K. eased its coronavirus lockdown too quickly.

From the (U.K.) Independent, London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants the Brexit transition period to be extended.

From the (Irish) Independent, Ireland is likely to impose a hosepipe ban due to a high demand for water.

From the Irish Examiner, an Irish consumer website calls for penalties for running a car's engine while not moving.  (Isn't that what happens when you obey a stop sign or wait for a red traffic signal to turn green?)

From VRT NWS, seven suspects are arrested in the kidnapping of a 13-year-old boy in Genk, Belgium, most of whom are "radicalised Muslims".

From The Brussels Times, a petition is circulated online to keep graffiti honor George Floyd on a Belgian train.

From the NL Times, restaurants reopen today at noon in the Netherlands.  (Due to the time zone difference, this has already taken place.)

From Dutch News, the Netherlands reports six more deaths from the coronavirus as mass testing gets underway.

From Deutsche Welle, according to an opinion column, the killing of George Floyd opens wounds for black people in Europe.

From the CPH Post, why Swedish people can't stop loving Danish people.

From Polskie Radio, Poland allows domestic flights to resume.

From Radio Prague, the second oldest bridge in Prague reopens after a major renovation.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia reports one new case of the coronavirus.

From Daily News Hungary, a piece of Jesus's cross is claimed to be in Hungary.  (I've come to believe that there are enough alleged bones of the Apostles to build a small army, and enough alleged pieces of the cross to build a barracks for them.  If you read Hungarian, read the story at Blikk.)

From Hungary Today, Hungary reports one death from the coronavirus and 16 more active cases.

From About Hungary, Hungary launches a national consultation to gauge opinions on the coronavirus pandemic.

From Russia Today, President Putin announces that Russia will hold a nationwide vote on proposed constitutional changes in July 1st.

From Sputnik International, clinical trials of potential coronavirus vaccines made by two Russian companies are expected to start in June.

From The Moscow Times, Moscovites go outside for the first time in two months.

From Romania-Insider, the leader of Romania's largest opposition party asks Prime Minister Ludovic Orban to resign after a photo taken in his office goes viral.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at HotNews.)

From Novinite, 25 beaches in Bulgaria have free umbrellas and sunbeds.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov fires Deputy Environment Minister Krassimir Zhivkov.

From Radio Bulgaria, social organizations try to help the "unseen" children in Bulgaria.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek government agrees to pay for the accommodation of tourists who have the coronavirus.

From the Greek Reporter, police and the coronavirus have greatly reduced the flow of migrants from Turkey into Greece.

From Voice Of Europe, 229 illegal migrants landed on the Greek island of Lesvos during May.  (If you read Greek, read the story at Kathimerini.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the opposition in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its House of Representatives calls for the government to be dissolved.  (The federation is one of two entities that make up the country Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Republika Srpska.  As an American, I can't help but wonder where the name "House of Representatives" came from.)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian parties fail to reach an agreement on electoral reform.

From Total Croatia News, why have high-ranking Croatian public employees been arrested?

From Total Slovenia News, hotels, spas and fitness centers in Slovenia are allowed to reopen.

From the Malta Independent, most coronavirus restrictions in Malta will be removed this coming Friday.

From Malta Today, Maltese law courts will reopen on Friday but will use only half their rooms.

From ANSA, according to Emilia-Romagna Governor Stefano Bonaccini "some risks must be taken to reopen Italy".

From Euractiv, Austria opposes the current E.U. coronavirus rescue plan.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's anti-coronavirus measures are found to have been effective.

From France24, the square in front of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens as renovation workers "play catch-up".

From RFI, as France allows bars and restaurants to reopen, it puts out a coronavirus tracking app.

From El PaĆ­s, the Spanish health ministry reports no deaths from the coronavirus in 24 hours.

From The Portugal News, about 3,000 people have been prevented from entering Portugal since border control was restored due to the coronavirus.  (For the first time in several days, this site is not giving me a "your connection is not private" message.)

From The Stream, domestic terrorists behind the recent riots don't care about racial justice, but want to tear down America.

From BizPac Review, according to an opinion column, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) must resign.

From SportsMap, baseball, we don't need your male bovine waste right now.

From the Daily Caller, if models can't accurately weather, why should they be trusted to predict climate change?

From LifeNews, Missouri officials allow a Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood clinic in St. Louis to stay open.

From the New York Post, a woman accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at a police van in Brooklyn, New York has a long rap sheet.

From CNN, the daughter of New York's Mr. Bill is arrested for alleged unlawful assembly and later released.

From Twitchy, former Vice President Biden tells a "whopper" of a lie - in a church.

And from The Babylon Bee, clever churchgoers in southern California avoid getting arrested by disguising themselves as rioters.

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