Friday, July 10, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

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

From National Review, the emptiness of our political slogans.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump is just starting to go after the left.

From Townhall, the authoritarian left does not want a level playing field.

From The Washington Free Beacon, can former Vice President Biden deal with political correctness?

From the Washington Examiner, Biden promises to resume the Democrat crusade against Catholics.

From The Federalist, the media lies against Trump.

From American Thinker, a look at ProFa, BLM and Satan.  (These days, the Devil doesn't just go down to Georgia, but travels all over the U.S.)

From CNS News, according to right-wing commentator Mark Levin, Republicans should subpoena the tax returns of every SCOTUS justice.

From LifeZette, if elected president, what would Biden's first year in office be like?

From NewsBusters, the cancel culture mob goes after Goya Foods - again.  (As I write this, I'm eating some Maria cookies from Goya, which come in a cylindrical foil package.  I'm also a fan of their rice products.)

From Canada Free Press, sanctimonious Soviet-style Stalinists sack statues.  (As far as I know, statues of former klansman Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), eugenicist Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and pro-slavery Senator Stephen Douglass (D-IL) have neither been knocked over nor vandalized with graffiti.)

From CBC News, a former Toronto, Canada police officer claims to have been racially profiled by a university's security personnel.

From Global News, Canadian Conservative parliamentcritters want a probe over the awarding of a contract to a charity which paid Prime Minister Trudeau's family members for speeches.

From TeleSUR, Uruguayan workers protest President Luis Lacalle's attempt to scale back the country's welfare state.

From The Portugal News, the Lisbon city council decides against mandatory coronavirus tests for incoming travelers.

From El País, Spain reports 73 active coronavirus clusters, including six more in the last 24 hours.

From France24, French magistrates investigate claims that human corpses were "left to rot" at a research center in Paris.

From RFI, police dismantle a migrant camp near Calais, France after complaints from local residents and businesses.

From SwissInfo, Swiss cantons call for more support for tracking foreign travelers.

From ANSA, Italy might extend its coronavirus emergency beyond July 31st.

From the Malta Independent, 19 parliamentcritters from Malta's Nationalist Party give their reasons why leader Adrian Delia must step down.

From Malta Today, "Delia awaits his fate".

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's imports and exports fall during the first five months of 2020.

From Total Croatia News, public bicycle rentals are successful in Split, Croatia.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Dalmacija Danas.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, the E.U. wants the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo to continue.

From Balkan Insight, more on the talks between Serbia and Kosovo.

From EuroNews, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is "not worried" about losing his power after several days of unrest.

From Euractiv, according to an opinion column, the genocide at Srebrenica, Bosnia should not be forgotten.

From Ekathimerini, work to extend the Grand Walk in Athens begins.

From the Greek Reporter, what will happen to the Byzantine mosaics in the Hagia Sophia, now that Turkey plans to turn the museum back into a mosque?  (Stay tuned for Part 2, which will include at least one source relating to Turkey, for more on this development.)

From Novinite, for the second straight day, Bulgarians protest for and against their government.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria and Croatia are accepted into the Eurozone's "waiting room".

From Radio Bulgaria, some tips for driving in Bulgaria.

From Romania-Insider, a Romanian company intends to develop a safer internet.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at G4Media.)

From Russia Today, as Russia starts the final stage of its coronavirus vaccine trials, volunteers reportedly have immunity and no side effects.

From Sputnik International, Russian fighter jets conduct mid-air refueling exercises.

From The Moscow Times, a court in Komsomolsk-On-Amur, Russia fines a LGBT activist for "gay propaganda".  (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)

From Daily News Hungary, some details about changes in Budapest's public transportation system.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Portfolio.)

From Hungary Today, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary might need new coronavirus protection measures due to an upsurge in the disease outside the country.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Hirado.)

From About Hungary, also according to Orban, a million jobs have been saved in Hungary during the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovaks are eating slightly less chocolate.

From Radio Prague, the Prague airport gets a huge colorful eye mural.

From Polskie Radio, according to Health Minister Łukasz Szumowski, voting in Poland's presidential runoff election will be safe.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government revises its recommendations for wearing face masks.

From Deutsche Welle, Germany shuts down slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück due to a coronavirus outbreak, which gives pigs a reprieve.

From Free West Media, foreigners are over-represented in attacks against police in Hamburg, Germany.

From the NL Times, the Dutch government files a human rights case against Russia for the downing of flight MH17.

From Dutch News, the Dutch central bank will investigate its historical involvement with slavery.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NU(dot)NL and a related story at VN.)

From VRT NWS, mouth masks are mandatory in shops in Belgium starting tomorrow.

From The Brussels Times, police in Knokke-Heist, Belgium seek a man who kicked one of their officers.

From the Express, London Mayor Sadiq Khan shows off his hypocrisy on face masks.  (I'm convinced that all politicians are hypocrites, differing from each other only in degree.)

From the Evening Standard, a group of bison are set to be introduced into a woodland in the English county of Kent, the first to reside in Britain in 6,000 years.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks to bring the country's National Health Service under more political control.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin warns young people about the dangers of the coronavirus.

From the Irish Examiner, migrant workers at Irish meat plants care concerned about their safety due to the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, a British structural engineer originally from Sri Lanka wonders why the U.K. can't be proud of its imperial heritage.

From Snouts in the Trough, a flu virus from Wuhan, China broke out in 1996 and 1997.

From The Stream, five ways to defeat the cancel culture.

From The Daily Signal, the "1619 Project" provokes racial division, but does not offer any real solutions.

From The Daily Wire, the majority of Seattle's city council wants to cut police funding by half.

From WPVI-TV, the coronavirus transmission rate in New Jersey falls below 1.0.

From Fox News, Arizona wheat growers benefit from soaring pasta sales due to the coronavirus crisis.

From Fox5 Atlanta, a dead cat in Atlanta is registered to vote.  (I've head of alleged dead voters before, but until this development, they were all deceased humans.  This must be yet another use for a dead cat.  The story comes via Breitbart.)

From the New York Post, according to a survey, more than 40 percent of Americans have a family heirloom over 50 years old.

And from the Daily Caller, recently departed musician Charlie Daniels receives military honors at his memorial service.

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