Friday, August 7, 2020

Friday Phenomena - Part 1

 As sunny weather returns on a Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Senator and possible vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Cal) has an authoritarian view about executive power.

From FrontpageMag, the left-wing effort to rewrite American history.

From Townhall, it's time for President Trump to smoke former Vice President Biden out of his basement.

From The Washington Free Beacon, an elite private school in Annapolis, Maryland plans to hold a black-only event.

From the Washington Examiner, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), New York's schools will open this fall.

From The Federalist, a patriotic man in the Denver, Colorado area keeps waving the American flag.

From American Thinker, left-wingers make excuses for two lawyers arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail into a police car.

From CNS News, Biden wishes to "clarify" his remarks about diversity.

From LifeZette, if New York's mail-in voting for the Democratic primary is any indication, this procedure for the November election could cause quite a bit of trouble.

From NewsBusters, Trump signs an executive order banning the Chinese-owned app TikTok.

From Canada Free Press, Maine's governor does not have the power to assign second-class status to churches.

From CBC News, Canada added 419,000 jobs during July, which is still well below pre-coronavirus levels.

From Global News, police in the Ontario cities of Waterloo and Guelph will create a joint human trafficking unit.

From CTV News, the province of Ontario records less than 100 new coronavirus cases for the fifth straight day.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela's foreign minister claims that Colombia's president and a former president have ties with a drug cartel.

From The Portugal News, Portugal extends its fire alert.

From El País, at least 50 African migrants drown when their boats sink trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron wants aid and change for Lebanon.

From RFI, a 55-person contingent from France is in the heart of rescue operations in Beirut.

From Free West Media, Macron meets with Hezbollah in Beirut.

From SwissInfo, Swiss voters will decide whether their military will acquire new fighter jets.

From ANSA, Italian ministers reject a plan to expand Rome's Fiumicino Airport.

From the Malta Independent, Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli tells the Maltese people to watch the fireworks in Valletta on their TVs.

From Malta Today, Malta introduces new regulations for elderly homes due to the coronavirus.

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian police apprehend 106 foreigners who allegedly illegally entered the country at 15 separate locations.

From Total Croatia News, despite the coronavirus, the Croatian brewing sector is still doing well.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Turkey's foreign minister claims that the maritime agreement between Greece and Egypt will be proven invalid.

From Balkan Insight, an imam in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina thanks God that the coronavirus caused the city's Pride parade to be canceled.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek government steps up its measures against the spread of the coronavirus.

From the Greek Reporter, Greek health authorities impose a curfew on the island of Poros after 18 people there contract the coronavirus.  (I stayed on Poros during most of my trip to Greece in 1999, so I'm sad to learn of this development.)

From Novinite, on the 29th day of their protest in Sofia, participants make speeches and play rock music and Bulgarian folk songs.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian protesters promise to re-erect their tent camps.

From Radio Bulgaria, the people of Velingrad, Bulgaria say "no" to any more tungsten mining.

From Russia Today, Russia's space agency plans a new shuttle based on the old Soviet Buran vehicle.

From Sputnik International, while the fuel leak from a power plant near Norilsk, Russia is cleaned up, a new spill occurs.

From The Moscow Times, Russia wants to send probes to Venus, which only the Soviet Union has done.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban urges people with coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate.

From Hungary Today, Orban calls migrants illegally entering Hungary "biological" risks.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Hang.)

From About Hungary, Hungarians are advised to be cautious when traveling abroad.

From The Slovak Spectator, the Dobšinská Ice Cave in the Slovak region of Košice opens to mark the 150th anniversary of its discovery.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's National Budget Council calls for "fiscal prudence".

From Polskie Radio, the famous Arabian Horse Show starts in Janów Podlaski, Poland.

From ReMix, Polish opposition politicians boycott President Andrzej Duda's second swearing in, which in the opinion of one writer "harkens back to the Partitions".

From the CPH Post, Denmark accepts 200 refugees from Rwanda out of an originally planned 500.

From EuroNews, Denmark's Vegan party claims to have enough support to run for parliament.

From Deutsche Welle, a German lawyer goes on trial for allegedly fabricating a victim of a far-right terror attack.

From the NL Times, while the Dutch government intends to enforce its coronavirus measures more strictly, private gatherings are still a challenge.

From Dutch News, Dutch cafe owners are disappointed at the government's new coronavirus measures.

From VRT NWS, the governor of Belgium's Antwerp province won't enforce a coronavirus curfew during the current heatwave.

From The Brussels Times, where travelers and asymptomatic people can get tested for the coronavirus in Brussels.

From Euractiv, a Belgian court rejects the extradition of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.

From the Express, what are the U.K.'s face mask rule changes?

From the Evening Standard, a large wildfire breaks out in the English county of Surrey.

From the (U.K.) Independent, U.K. Chancellor Rishi Sunak does not want to be the next Prime Minister.

From the (Irish) Independent, Irish garda set up coronavirus checkpoints in the counties of Kildare, Offaly and Laois.

From the Irish Examiner, face masks will be required in Irish secondary schools.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. Tories should know that concern about immigration hasn't gone away.

From Snouts in the Trough, beware of the "beaches of death" in the U.K.

From The Stream, the evangelical Church in America needs a "massive reset".

From The Daily Signal, why President Trump's tariffs on washing machines are cronyism.

From The American Conservative, small towns and suburbs can retain and enrich their character without getting exclusionary.

From the Daily Caller, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin shoots down the $2 trillion stimulus package from the Democrats.

From Fox News, Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) faces a re-election challenge from his left.

From Axios, "cleanup on aisle Biden".  (via Breitbart)

From the New York Post, New York City cancels its Columbus Day parade due to the coronavirus.

And from the eponymous site of Drew Berquist, an Oakland A's bench coach makes a gesture that looks like a Nazi salute.  (via LifeZette)

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