Thursday, July 9, 2020

Thursday Tidings - Part 1

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

From National Review, former Vice President Biden proposes the largest tax increase in U.S. history.

From FrontpageMag, CNN host Don Lemon would like former President Obama's likeness to be added to Mount Rushmore.

From Townhall, the Supreme Court rules that President Trump must turn his tax returns over to Manhattan's district attorney.

From The Washington Free Beacon, are protests by Minneapolis police officers causing a crime wave?

From the Washington Examiner, an American flag is cut down by vandals in Washingtonville, New York.

From The Federalist, the letter in Harper's, written by elites against cancel culture, will either be a bulwark or a death rattle.

From American Thinker, for the media, 2020 is "deja vue all over again".

From CNS News, former governor (R-SC) and representative to the U.N. Nikki Haley points out how BLM picks and chooses which lives matter.

From LifeZette, the Democratic congresscritters known as the "Squad" introduce a pro-crime bill.

From NewsBusters, CBS blames Trump for acts of anti-Asian hate, even though he Tweets against such acts.

From Canada Free Press, our God-given rights have no expiration date.

From CBC News, immigration into Canada has been interrupted by the coronavirus.

From Global News, the city council of Kingston, Ontario, Canada confronts the legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald.

From CTV News, the Canadian province of Quebec bans dancing at bars and alcohol sales after midnight.

From TeleSUR, according to a rapper from Puerto Rico, people are dying from the coronavirus on the island.  (Where, other than in Antarctica, are people not dying from the coronavirus?)

From Morocco World News, Morocco extends its state of emergency over the coronavirus until August 10th.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to two Turkish officials, a court will likely announce a decision on the Hagia Sophia museum on Friday.

From Turkish Minute, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey wishes to "regulate" social media, but not to shut it down.

From Rûdaw, hundreds of Sufis from Iran enter the Iraqi region Kurdistan to attend a funeral of a Sufi leader.

From Panorama, 3,089 violations of Armenia's coronavirus-related health and safety regulations are recorded in one day.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot police shoot and wound two illegal irregular migrants on a beach in Syrianochori, Cyprus.

From The Syrian Observer, Amnesty International "slams" Russia and China for vetoing cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria at the U.N. Security Council.

From Arutz Sheva, Prime Minister Netayahu admits that Israel's economy was reopened too soon.

From The Times Of Israel, according to a hospital chief in Jerusalem, Israelis shouldn't get "too worried" about the surge in coronavirus cases.

From The Jerusalem Post, an Israeli ministerial committee will meet to determine new restricted zones due to the coronavirus.

From YNetNews, as they face new possible lockdowns, local Israeli leaders try to combat the coronavirus.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt believes that Ethiopia's dam stance will prevent a dam agreement.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian army carries out exercises to prepare to deal with "mercenaries of irregular armies".

From the Saudi Gazette, holy sites in Saudi Arabia prepare to receive Hajj pilgrims.

From StepFeed, 10 inspirational quotes from businesswomen in the Middle East.

From The New Arab, the dam dispute goes onto social media.

From Radio Farda, has the Iranian student protest of July 1999 been forgotten?

From IranWire, a woman is stabbed 21 times in a courtroom in Sanandaj, Iran.

From Dawn, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan, the coronavirus could again spread if Pakistanis are not careful on Eidul Azha.

From The Express Tribune1,363 prisoners in the Pakistani province of Sindh are infected with the coronavirus.

From Pakistan Today, Pakistan plans to reopen its educational institutions on September 15th.

From Khaama Press, a suicide attacker detonates his car bomb at a checkpoint in the Afghan province of Wardak.

From The Hans India, could Ayurvedic formulations be used to treat coronavirus patients?

From the Hindustan Times, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh orders a two-day coronavirus lockdown.

From ANI, for this year's festival of Ganesh Chathurthi, the Khairatabad Ganesh idol will be 27 feet tall due to the coronavirus.

From India Today, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indians could reduce the spread of the coronavirus by not spitting in the open.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi government refuses to remove Rohingya refugees from the island of Bhashan Char.

From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan air force is allowed to purchase four training helicopters.

From the Colombo Page, Sri Lanka's Civil Security Department plans to provide over 100,000 citrus saplings to mitigate conflicts between elephants and humans.

From Maldives Insider, Lets Coffee Maldives seeks to empower entrepreneurs.

From Kurdistan24, an internal Syrian security organization denies that its head was arrested for allegedly smuggling foreign ISIS women out of the Al Hol camp.

From The Jakarta Post, beaches reopen on the Indonesian island of Bali under "strict health protocols".

From The Straits Times, Singapore secures three of the five best private equity and venture capital deals in southeastern Asia.

From the Borneo Post, foreigners who received coronavirus treatment in Malaysia endorse the hospitals at which they stayed.

From Free Malaysia Today, a century-old Hindu shrine is torn down in Alor Setar, Malaysia.

From Vietnam Plus, top Vietnamese and Cambodian leaders confer by phone.

From The Mainichi, 13 elderly people in the Japanese prefecture of Oita suffer copper poisoning from drinking a sport drink from an old kettle.

From Gatestone Institute, "why are Palestinians committing suicide?"

From The Stream, 19 points made in the Bible that could lead to solutions for America's racial problems.  (I have come to believe that the Bible, if properly understood and applied, which I realize is a big "if", is the most anti-racist book ever written.)

From the Daily Caller, the man who drove his car into a BLM protest in I-5 in Seattle is charged with three felonies.

From The Daily Wire, two men jailed for rape despite exculpatory DNA evidence sue the sheriff's department which arrested them.

From The Daily Signal, the fragility of woke protesters.

From Breitbart, businesses in Portland, Oregon has reportedly lost $23 billion due to violent "protests".  (I use quotes around "protests" because the term is used loosely, to include acts of violence.)

From the New York Post, the Supreme Court rules that a large area in eastern Oklahoma is a Native American reservation.

From WPVI-TV, how to spot Comet Neowise.

And from Check Your Fact, no, The New York Times did not publish an article claiming that President Trump died from an overdose of hydroxychloroquine.

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