Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Wednesday Wanderings - Part 1

On a cool cloudy Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood endorses exactly whom you'd think.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump signs an executive order on reforming police.

From Townhall, Ivanka Trump and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue try to help underserved communities during the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Washington Free Beacon, after ousting a student body president for expressing his Catholic beliefs, Florida State University replaces him with an anti-Semite.  (Among alumni of Virginia Tech, Florida State is often called "Free Shoes U." after an FSU football player allegedly stole some sneakers, or more recently as "Free Seafood U.", after another player was accused of stealing crab legs from a restaurant.  The acronym "FSU" is thus sometimes represented as "F$U".)

From the Washington Examiner, don't underestimate the left-wing radicals who set up CHAZ.  (The area known as CHAZ has reportedly become CHOP.  I can think of one person who might feel relieved by this development.)

From The Federalist, corporate America's attempt to appease the mob will fail, as such efforts always have.

From American Thinker, America paid for its sin of slavery long ago.

From CNS News, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asks where the Democrats were on police reform during Obama's time as president.

From LifeZette, the Democrats go after President Trump and Mrs. Trump, too.

From NewsBusters, two networks censor the biggest ever monthly jump in U.S. retail sales.

From Canada Free Press, the importance of liberty.

From CBC News, a Toronto Blue Jays player and a coach use the coronavirus as an excuse to not pay the rent on their respective condos.

From Global News, Canadian researchers plan to test whether the drug favipiravir can help fight coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes.

From CTV News, police in Montreal decline to prosecute two teenage girls who appeared in a racist video.

From TeleSUR, Brazilians continue to protest against police brutality.

From Morocco World News, Morocco prepares to reopen its domestic tourism.

From Hürriyet Daily News, a Turkish presidential advisory board discusses having prayer at the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul.

From Turkish Minute, Russia reportedly sends two amphibious airplanes to Turkey for firefighting missions.

From Rûdaw, coronavirus test facilities in Iraq's Sulaimani province can't keep up with demand.

From Armenian News, according to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, if dialogue with Azerbaijan's elite fails, Armenia can talk with Azerbaijan's people.  (I have referred to this source as Tert, which is based on its url, but The Armenian Reporter, through which this story comes, calls it Armenian News.)

From In-Cyprus, Greek and Turkish Cypriot epidemiologists hold a teleconference on the coronavirus.

From The Syrian Observer, Russian troops reportedly take an airbase in Palmyra, Syria from Syrian government forces.

From Arutz Sheva, will Judaism's holiest sites be left outside of Israel's sovereignty plan?

From The Times Of Israel, five Blue and White knessetcritters resign.

From The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli navy and the security agency Shin Bet stops an attempt to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip.

From YNetNews, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is reportedly considering a two-phase annexation of land in the West Bank.

From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian city of Hurghada will start receiving flights from Belgium on June 28th.

From Egypt TodayMinister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled el-Anani inspects the Baron Empain Palace in Heliopolis, Egypt.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia is losing hopes in the dam talks.

From Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia's health ministry approves the use of the drug dexamethazone against the coronavirus.

From StepFeed, weddings in Lebanon become much simpler events due to the coronavirus.

From The New Arab, the U.S. slaps sanctions on Syrian elites and businesses under the Caesar Act.

From Radio Farda, 39 human rights organizations warn against "widespread" human rights violations in Iran.

From IranWire, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants his old job back.

From Dawn, a political party based in the province of Balochistan announces is withdrawal from Pakistan's governing coalition.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan considers using dexamethazone in some coronavirus patients.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi blames the clashes between India and China on the Indian government's "hindutva mentality".

From The Hans India, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the sacrifice of Indian soldiers in the clash against Chinese troops will not be in vain.

From the Hindustan Times, a complete English rendering of Modi's statement on the situation on the India-China border.

From ANI, according to Indian defense minister Shripad Naik, China "pre-planned" its attack on Indian troops, and Indian forces will give a "befitting reply".

From India Today, according to former army chief General Shankar Roy Chowdhury, India should be prepared for a conflict that is less than a full scale war with China.

From the Dhaka Tribune, Bangladeshi air crews leave for South Korea to pick up medical equipment.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka opens its first underwater museum in the city of Galle.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's navy goes on high alert to thwart asylum seekers from countries hit by the coronavirus.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands allows businesses hit by the coronavirus to pay their taxes in its local currency.

From The Jakarta Post, a court in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan find Papuan antiracism protesters guilty, but sentence them to less than a year in prison.

From The Straits Times, Singaporean researchers discover five antibodies that could fight the coronavirus.

From the Borneo Post, locals bars in Malaysia introduce the initiative "Adopt-a-Keg".  (I'll drink to that.)

From Free Malaysia Today, Malaysia's High Court upholds the acquittal of a man charged with being a member of a secret society because he has a swastika tattoo.

From Vietnam Plus, eight Vietnamese businesses are declared eligible to import pigs from Thailand.

From The Mainichi, a UFO seen over northeastern Japan might really be a balloon.

From Gatestone Institute, the arms embargo against Iran is about to expire.

From The Stream, CHOP, a.k.a. CHAZ, is not a "festive zone".

From Stars And Stripes, the world's fastest man is suspended for missing doping tests for the third time.

From Conservative Daily News, the New York state Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that camping for months on end is not free speech.

From The Daily Wire, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA), after denouncing high-dollar fundraisers, holds one on behalf of former Vice President Biden.

From Breitbart, Never Trump leader Rick Wilson's hypocrisy is showing.

From SmallBizDaily, labor markets in the U.S. experience a rebound.

And from the New York Post, should the Dixie Chicks change their name?

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