Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Tuesday Things - Part 1

On the last (very warm) Tuesday of July, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the socialists are on the march.

From FrontpageMag, protests that are truly peaceful don't become violent.

From Townhall, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) plays a disturbing but powerful video during the start of Attorney General Bill Barr's session before the House Judiciary Committee.

From The Washington Free Beacon, why the left fears Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark).

From the Washington Examiner, Barr faults Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) for calling federal officers "storm troopers" and faults congresscritter Jerry Nadler (D-NY) for conflating civil unrest and violent crime.

From The Federalist, it is not President Trump, but the resistance that needs to learn how to accept election results.

From American Thinker, Democrats start to realize that they could be blamed for the riots.

From CNS News, Senator Cotton gives the left another reason to fear him.

From LifeZette, the fake Steele Dossier is from the Democrats, not Russia.

From NewsBusters, one professional rocker opposes BLM.

From Canada Free Press, patriotic U.S. doctors break down the social media barrier.

From CBC News, the brothers who founded WE Charity defend their intentions for doing so.

From Global News, the Royal Bank of Canada agrees to buy electricity from a new solar farm in the province of Alberta.

From CTV News, a vast section of back country in Alberta is reportedly being overused and trashed by tens to thousands of campers.

From TeleSUR, workers in Bolivia reject a delay in their country's elections.

From The Conservative Woman, don't fall for the narrative about the coronavirus's "second wave".

From the Express, U.K. Brexit negotiator David Frost tells his E.U. counterpart Michel Barnier to "take it or leave it".

From the Evening Standard, British activist Tommy Robinson says that he and his family are not in the U.K. and wish to relocate.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycling initiative is welcomed, but some say that it needs more money than the £2 billion currently allotted.

From the (Irish) Independent, statues of two shackled slave girls will be removed from outside the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin defends his "phantom pay cut".

From VRT NWS, the Belgian province of Antwerp is placed under a curfew and other measures in response in to a new surge in coronavirus cases.

From The Brussels Times, what new coronavirus measures will be introduced in Belgium tomorrow?

From the NL Times, the location of Vincent van Gogh's last painting is discovered in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

From Dutch News, according to Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge, mass testing has made the coronavirus visible.

From Deutsche Welle, how German airports intend to stop the coronavirus with testing.

From the CPH Post, a record 70,000 students are admitted to higher education in Denmark.

From ReMix, a migrant who killed a 17-year-old Swedish girl avoids deportation.  (If you read Swedish, read the story at SamhällsNytt.  I remember Voice Of Europe, before it stopped publishing, linking to several stories from ReMix, so I thought that Remix could replace Voice Of Europe as a multinational European source.)

From Polskie Radio, the foreign ministers of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine meet to discuss regional security and their efforts against the coronavirus.

From Radio Prague, a pine tree in Chudobín, Czech Republic that won the European Tree of the Year for 2020 may be older than previously thought.

From The Slovak Spectator, what Košice, Slovakia can learn from Brno, Czech Republic and Tartu, Estonia.

From Daily News Hungary, the one place for everything to be done in Budapest.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Travelo.)

From Hungary Today, five dogs and a goat packed in bags are rescued from a car parked at a mall in Budapest.

From About Hungary, Hungarian police detain nine illegal migrants and two people smugglers on the M7 motorway.  (Once again, we see how migrants are not merely migrating, but are being smuggled.)

From Russia Today, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismisses summits such as the G-7 or G-8 as "obsolete platforms".

From Sputnik International, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claims to have been infected with the coronavirus asymptomatically.

From The Moscow Times, according to a poll, almost half of Russians support anti-government protests in the country's Far East.

From Romania-Insider, the race for mayor of Bucharest becomes more complicated.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at News(dot)Ro.)

From Novinite, Plovdiv, Bulgaria will remove sandboxes from its kindergartens because they can cause infection.

From The Sofia Globe, 8,000-year-old skeletons are found at the Slatina archaeological site in Sofia.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protests in Sofia reach their 20th day.

From Ekathimerini, the mayor of Kythira, Greece files an indictment over a fire that ravaged the island in 2017.

From the Greek Reporter, the Melissani Cave and lake on the Greek island of Kefalonia impresses visitors with its turquoise waters.  (This sounds similar to the Blue Grotto on the Italian island of Capri.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Slovenia and Croatia do not see any need to tighten their border measures.

From Balkan Insight, over 20 Albanian election officials are arrested for alleged vote manipulation occurring in 2017.

From EuroNews, Serbia starts an investigation into the finances of rights groups and people critical of the government.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian Speaker Gordan Jandroković asks his fellow parliamentcritters to keep their masks on.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's Constitutional Court stays a decree to change the name of Titova Road in the municipality of Radenci.

From the Malta Independent, of 94 migrants brought into Malta yesterday, 65 test positive for the coronavirus and are quarantined.

From Malta Today, Malta's governing and opposition parties agree on some constitutional amendments.

From ANSA, former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini criticizes the Italian government over runaway migrants and defends his decision to prevent the rescue ship Open Arms from docking.

From SwissInfo, according to Swiss researchers, a protein produced by the human immune system can help stop the coronavirus.

From France24, Tunisian-born French lawyer and defender of women's rights Gisèle Halimi dies peacefully after reaching her 93rd birthday.

From RFI, two French tourist sites are reclassified as regional parks.

From El País, a court strikes down Madrid's low-emission zone due to technicalities.

From The Portugal News, the Azores reports six new coronavirus cases in one day.

From Free West Media, according to a Beninese historian, Africans should take responsibility for their participation in the slave trade.

From Euractiv, according to a study, battery-powered trains would be a better replacement for diesel engines than hydrogen-powered locomotives.

From The Stream, does the U.S. have only six years left?

From Space Daily, China's new Ziyuan III satellite will boost the country's surveying and mapping abilities.

From The Daily Wire, BLM tells the DNC that its platform needs to be more radical.

From Fox News, some Wisconsin police departments pull out of security agreements with the Democratic National Convention.

From AP News, the NYPD reports that 303 of their police cars have been damaged by rioters since the death of George Floyd.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the New York Post, a federal judge orders documents from a civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell to be unsealed.

From the Daily Caller, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Breeze announces a $5 million donation for building health centers in Louisiana.

And from Twitchy, parody account Sean Spicier strikes again.

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