Thursday, June 25, 2020

Thursday Links - Part 1

On a warm cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump slows down immigration just a bit.

From FrontpageMag, President Woodrow Wilson was an internationalist and a racist.

From Townhall, conservative principles do not require submitting to tyranny.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Democrats in the House unanimously block a resolution against rioting an violence.

From the Washington Examiner, the Dixie Chicks change their name.

From The Federalist, how privileged white women helped fuel the riots.

From American Thinker, according to a black writer, BLM is the enemy of black Americans.

From CNS News, according to a spokesman for Turning Point USA, mobs tore down statues of abolitionists in Philadelphia and Madison, Wisconsin.

From LifeZette, against what are the peaceful protesters actually protesting?

From NewsBusters, CBS and NBC can't accept that the NASCAR "noose" really wasn't one.

From Canada Free Press, the Democrat national convention will place former Vice President Biden in virtual reality.

From CBC News, the American fast food joint with an Irish name ends its meatless burger trial in Canada.

From Global News, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warns against acceding to China's demands to release Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.

From CTV News, the province of Nova Scotia will hold a parade for the Canadian military personnel who were killed in a helicopter crash off the Greek coast.

From TeleSUR, Brazil worries about a possible locust invasion from Argentina.

From The Conservative Woman, Marxism is a cruel creed that has only made life horrible.

From the Express, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair keeps opposing Brexit and supporting the E.U.

From the Evening Standard, as places of worship reopen in the U.K., singing and chanting will not be allowed.  (As a longtime musician, I find this to be very disturbing.)

From the (U.K.) Independent, Liverpool, England will get an aerial zipline despite warnings that it could "Disneyfy" the city.

From the (Irish) Independent, in Kildare, Ireland, a garda gets stabbed and keeps on working.

From VRT NWS, Belgium expects more mosquitoes and wasps than usual this summer.

From The Brussels Times, tours of Bruges, Belgium will continue, but without Segways.  (During my stay in Bruges and a subsequent visit, I never got anywhere close to a Segway.)

From the NL Times, a teenager is arrested for allegedly throwing a firework at police officers at a BLM demonstration in Rotterdam.

From Dutch News, according to a Dutch parliamentary committee, many mosques in the Netherlands are funded by foreign organizations that promote a hard-line version of Islam.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS and a related story at AD.)

From Deutsche Welle, an interview with a former worker at the Tönnies meat processing plant in Germany.

From the CPH Post, several Danish political parties push a ban on public calls to prayer.  (If you read Danish, read the story at DR.)

From Polskie Radio, one person is killed and over a dozen are injured when a bus falls off a bridge in Warsaw.

From Radio Prague, according to President Andrej Babiš, the Czech Republic will continue acquiring military equipment despite the coronavirus-caused economic downturn.

From The Slovak Spectator, one third of all industrial jobs in Slovakia might be replaced by robots.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungary and Ukraine will reopen their land border crossings this coming Monday.

From Hungary Today, Hungary prepares its own coronavirus testing kit.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto warns of a new wave of migration and its possible health and economic risks.

From Russia Today, a businessman in Bor, Russia erects a statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin without permission from local authorities.

From Sputnik International, a railroad terminal in Ust-Luga, Russia receives its first freight train.

From The Moscow Times, according to an environmental activist, fuel from a spill near Norilsk, Russia may have reached the Arctic Ocean despite official claims of a successful cleanup.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian authorities dismantle a money-forging network, which they claim was the world's largest forger of plastic banknotes.

From Novinite, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov launches the construction of a bridge and inspects a landfill in Troyan, Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, police in Bulgaria bust an archaeological crime organization.

From Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria adopts strict rules for the use of spas in resorts.

From Ekathimerini, police in Athens launch an internal investigation after a video shows several officers allegedly taunting a transvestite.

From the Greek Reporter, hotel owners are angered by the Greek government's decision to require them to province coronavirus quarantine rooms.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the Montenegrin government condemns violence in Budva and other cities.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama condemns the war crime indictments of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Kosovo politician Kadri Veseli.

From Total Croatia News, according to Tourism Minister Gari Cappelli, 246,000 tourists are currently in Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Glas Istre.  If permitted an educated guess, I'd say that glas is the Croatian word for "voice", since it resembles the Polish word głos.)

From Total Slovenia News, some statistics about Slovenia and its population, from 1991 to today.

From the Malta Independent, according to Malta's environment minister, the country's low-carbon development strategy could be finalized by December.

From Malta Today, a woman from Msida, Malta is remanded in custody after allegedly being found carrying 72 packets of illegal drugs.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte requests patience on forming guidelines for the reopening of schools.

From SwissInfo, a Swiss court rejects a complaint from an unvaccinated student who had been excluded from school after a classmate contracted the measles.

From France24, the Eiffel Tower reopens, for people who want to get some exercise.

From RFI, the French region of Ile-de-France will launch coronavirus testing to track down "possible dormant clusters".

From El País, Spanish scientists start an online protest for better working conditions.

From The Portugal News, the Public Safety Police in the Lisbon area carries out an operation against members of a cheerleading team called the No Name Boys.

From Free West Media, most citizens of the E.U. don't feel that "mainstream parties" represent them.

From EuroNews, migrant rescues resume in the Mediterranean despite concerns about the coronavirus.

From Euractiv, the election for the chair of Eurogroup has no candidates.

From The Stream, the truth about why statues of Jesus make Him look white.

From Breitbart, congresscritter Louie Gohmert (R-TX) calls on the DOJ to crack down on the "leaders" of a left-wing crime wave using RICO laws.  (via BizPac Review)

From The Daily Signal, countering the 1619 Project's "lethal" narrative.

From Small Biz Daily, why some businesses survive and even thrive during the coronavirus crisis.

From the New York Post, Disneyland and Disney World will remake their ride Splash Mountain according to the movie The Princess and the Frog.

And from HistoryNet, history's five worst battlefield blunders.

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