Thursday, July 2, 2020

Thursday Things - Part 1

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

From National Review, what is being chosen, Mr. Vice President?

From FrontpageMag, why BLM deserves to called "black lies matter".  (To be fair, lies matter regardless of the race or skin color of the liar.)

From Townhall, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tries calm the White House corps about a coronavirus warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci.

From The Washington Free Beacon, almost five million Americans went back to work in June.

From the Washington Examiner, coronavirus-related stay-at-home orders cause an increase in drug overdoses.

From The Federalist, five things you can do to fight back in our current cultural civil war.

From American Thinker, yes, America does have system racism.

From CNS News, the black sheriff or Clay County, Florida will deputize "every lawful gun owner" if necessary to deal with unlawful "protests".  (I put quotes around "protests" because the term is used loosely, to include violent activities that protests sometimes devolve into.  Such violence, which is not speech, would render such protests unlawful.)

From LifeZette, Dr. Fauci gets pushback from left, right and center.

From NewsBusters, the media calls CHAZ/CHOP a "street festival".

From Canada Free Press, surviving until election day.

From CBC News, Canada's Supreme Court dismisses a challenge from a First Nations group against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

From Global News, a history of the Trans Mountain pipeline project.

From CTV News, an armed man is arrested after entering the grounds of the residence of Canada's governor general.

From TeleSUR, the Dominican Republic plans to hold elections on July 5th.

From The Portugal News, the city council of Lisbon, Portugal defends its decision to defund bullfighting.

From El País, nine jailed Catalan separatist leaders may be given a more flexible prison regime.

From France24, France decides to return the remains of 24 Algerian resistance fighters who were killed when Algeria was colonized.

From RFI, the Alsatian village of Hunspach wins this year's "France's favorite village" award.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis pays a huge fine for bribing American doctors.

From ANSA, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte tells the parties in his governing coalition that they all must be more daring.

From the Malta Independent, BirdLife Malta becomes concerned about dead ducks.

From Malta Today, two Egyptians who caused a fire at Malta's Ħal Safi detention center get four years in prison.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek has no plans to resign over being investigated over alleged wrongdoing in procuring personal protective equipment.

From Total Croatia News, Social Democrat Party leader Davor Bernardic wants all Croatians who are eligible to vote to be enabled to do so.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Slovenian President Borut Pahor visits Hungary.

From Balkan Insight, Montenegro's parliament votes to legalize same-sex civil unions.

From Ekathimerini, Greece's army chief warns that an "accident" could happen in the Aegean Sea if Turkey wants to continue raising tensions.

From the Greek Reporter, a ferry route reopens between Igoumenitsa, Greece and Brindisi, Italy.

From Novinite, 18 workers at a tailoring company in Krichim, Bulgaria test positive for the coronavirus.

From The Sofia Globe, a long line of vehicles forms at the border checkpoint between Kulata, Bulgaria and Promachonas, Greece.

From Radio Bulgaria, the Sofia airport implements strict anti-coronavirus measures.

From Romania-Insider, the automaker Ford reduces its employment in Romania due to low demand.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at Adevarul.)

From Russia Today, as Russians vote in favor of proposed constitutional amendments, opposition figures cry foul.

From Sputnik International, President Putin thanks Russians for voting.

From The Moscow Times, Russian prosecutors appeal the early release of a Jehovah's Witness from prison.  (What is this "freedom of religion" you speak of?)

From Daily News Hungary, according to Prime Minister Orban, Hungary will not allow non-E.U. citizens to enter.

From Hungary Today, 101,700 Hungarian citizens have applied to stay in the U.K. after Brexit.

From About Hungary, all businesses in Hungary can file their tax returns online.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovak NGOs plan to protest against Parliament Speaker Boris Kollár for alleged plagiarism.

From Radio Prague, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, postponed until 2021, will still show 16 films at near 100 cinemas in the Czech Republic.  (The Czech city of Karlovy Vary is sometimes identified by its German name Karlsbad.)

From Polskie Radio, Polish authorities detain two Iraqi men for allegedly financing ISIS.

From Free West Media, Polish elder statesman Janusz Korwin-Mikke discusses his country's presidential elections.

From EuroNews, the Finnish air force starts phasing out the swastika from its logos.

From the CPH Post, a roundup of business-related news, including Lego's decision to suspend its ads on Facebook for 30 days.

From Deutsche Welle, a Protestant German pastor is charged with incitement over alleged homophobic comments.

From the NL Times, according to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the Dutch government will not apologize for slavery because it would "further polarize" society.

From Dutch News, a group of Jews and Sinti who went into hiding during World War II urge the Dutch government to take in 500 children from refugee camps in Greece.

From Euractiv, the Netherlands hopes to create a "hydrogen valley" by 2026.

From VRT NWS, according to European holidaymakers, the Belgian region of Flanders is safer than Italy, Spain and France.

From The Brussels Times, members of the Belgian "far-right" party Vlaams Belang "restore" the word "Arab" to the Congo Monument in the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.  (The word "Arab", both the French and Flemish languages, has been deleted and re-added several times from the monument.  It appears that pointing out how non-Europeans participated in slavery makes one "far-right".)

From the Express, during Brexit talks, U.K. negotiator David Frost issues an "angry retort" to his E.U. counter part Michel Barnier.

From the Evening Standard, a police officer stabbed during the recent knife attack in Glasgow, Scotland is released from the hospital.

From the (U.K.) Independent, pubs in the English county of Nottingham will refuse entry to anyone from the nearby city of Leicester.

From the (Irish) Independent, new Irish Taoiseach Mícheál Martin is "cautious" about international travel this summer and puts his priority on restarting schools.  (It appears that at least for today, not only has the accent been restored to the "a" in Martin's first name, but has also been given to the "i".)

From the Irish Examiner, according to new Irish Tánaiste (and former Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar, mandatory quarantine appears unlikely.

From The Conservative Woman, yes, Jesus can be shown as white.

From The Stream, why the Supreme Court ruling in June Medical Services is a "legal aberration".

From The American Conservative, don't let the Federal Reserve use the coronavirus to justify irresponsible polices.

From Military History Matters, the last person to receive a Civil War pension passes away at age 90.

From The Daily Signal, former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) tells conservatives to focus on "black success" instead of "white guilt".

From the New York Post, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urges U.S. companies to avoid doing business with Chinese suppliers who use forced labor from Uighur Muslims.

And from NBC New York, Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested by the FBI in Bedford, New Hampshire.

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