Monday, August 17, 2020

Monday Links - Part 1

On a warm (but not too warm) Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump and HUD Secretary Carson speak about the suburbs.

From FrontpageMag, the USC student government gets rid of three Jewish members for supporting Israel.

From Townhall, how the CBP is trying to stop a coronavirus wave coming from Mexico.

From The Washington Free Beacon, legal experts are skeptical about New York Attorney General Letitia James's attempt to dissolve the NRA.

From the Washington Examiner, in one month, Trump takes seven times as many questions as former Vice President Biden.

From The Federalist, seven stories the media ignores because "the truth might help Trump".

From American Thinker, the parallels of policies on climate change and the coronavirus.

From CNS News, according to a Trump campaign adviser, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Cal) is to the left of Senator Socialism (I-VT).

From LifeZette, Trump tries to ruin the Democratic convention, and former Democratic presidential candidate David Yang has some advice for his party.

From NewsBusters, an NBC host tells Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) that the Biden-Harris ticket might not be far enough to the left.

From Canada Free Press, rage, hate and socialism will be on display at the Democratic convention.

From CBC News, the Canadian Football League calls off its 2020 season.

From Global News, according to Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, efforts to curb the coronavirus among the province's Hutterites is working.  (His name is not Larry, Curly or even Shemp, but Moe.)

From CTV News, a Lebanese-Canadian restaurant owner seeks help for rebuilding Beirut.

From TeleSUR, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro volunteers to test Russia's coronavirus vaccine.

From The Portugal News, a group of Moroccans who landed in the Portuguese region of Algarve destroyed equipment in the reception center where they were housed.

From El País, the Spanish Royal Household confirms that former King Juan Carlos is in the UAE.

From France24, when a theme park in western France is allowed to host 9,000 people, allegations of political favoritism ensue.

From RFI, when riding France's train au grand vitesse, please wear a mask.

From Free West Media, according to Rennes Mayor Nathalie Appéré, the bicycle race Tour de France "degrades the image of women".

From EuroNews, 74,000 people demand justice for the death of a rooster in Vinzieux, France.

From SwissInfo, at the start-up business Initium in the canton of Jura, you can make your own Swiss watch.

From ANSA, Italy closes discos and requires masks at youth street gatherings.

From the Malta Independent, Malta shuts bars and nightclubs and limits gatherings to 15 people.

From Malta Today, Armed Forces of Malta starts an investigation into an alleged she-don't-lie party.

From Total Slovenia News, the UKC Ljubljana hospital performs its first lung transplant on a child.

From Total Croatia News, a 17-year-old Croat in Zagreb runs his own 3-D printing company.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Poslovni Dnevnik.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to opposition leader Nebojša Medojević, Montenegro's governing party is preparing an election fraud.

From Balkan Insight, tourism authorities in Bosnia and Hercegovina promote a hotel in the town of Višegrad where women and girls were raped during the 1990s war.  (This town shares its name with Visegrád, Hungary, for which the Visegrád Group is named.)

From Ekathimerini, according to Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the E.U. must help Greece protect its border.

From the Greek Reporter, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake hits the Greek island of Hydra.  (My tour group visited Hydra when I was in Greece in 1999.  The island does not allow motorized vehicles, except maybe for police and other government officials.)

From Novinite, a GERB party parliamentary group submits a draft of a new constitution for Bulgaria.

From The Sofia Globe, more on the GERB parliamentary group's submission of a new constitution.

From Radio Bulgaria, the proposed new constitution does not stop Bulgarians from protesting.

From Russia Today, Kalashnikov comes out with the new AK-19.

From Sputnik International, a Russian Su-27SM fighter jet intercepts a U.S. spy plane over the Baltic Sea.

From The Moscow Times, Russia summons the Dutch charge d'affaires over alleged spying on Russia's military attache in the Netherlands.  (See the story from the NL Times below.)

From Euractiv, E.U. leaders plan to hold a video summit over the situation in Belarus.

From Hungary Journal, Hungary welcomes the Israel-UAE peace agreement.

From Daily News Hungary, a Hungarian police unit goes to North Macedonia to help local authorities protect its border.

From Hungary Today, the German food producer Knorr renames its "Gypsy Sauce" to "Hungarian-Style Pepper Sauce".  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at HVG.)

From About Hungary, Hungary and Poland sign a humanitarian cooperation agreement.

From The Slovak Spectator, Celtic remnants in Slovakia.

From Radio Prague, professional Czech soccer teams are no longer required to be entirely quarantined if one player tests positive for the coronavirus.

From Polskie Radio, the presidents of Poland and the Baltic states confer on regional security and the situation in Belarus.

From ReMix, YouTube censors a video on the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

From the CPH Post, a round-up of local news in Denmark, including a way for ships to be docked while reducing their pollution.

From Deutsche Welle, thousands of Germans sign a petition to spare the life of a wild boar who stole a bag containing a naked man's laptop.  (This article is not for those offended by nudity.)

From the NL Times, a tracking device is allegedly found in the car of a Russian diplomat in the Netherlands.  (See the story from The Moscow Times above.)

From Dutch News, the Dutch national archive puts online the names of 21,000 slaves who lived on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.  (If you read Dutch, read the story at NOS.)

From VRT NWS, police dismantle a transit migrant camp in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, Belgians having Lebanese roots gather more than 5,000 tonnes of goods to be sent to Beirut.

From the Express, Brexit trade talks explode after the E.U. attacks U.K. negotiator David Frost.

From the Evening Standard, the last golden eagle in Wales is found dead.

From the (U.K.) Independent, the U.K. needs to protect its beavers.

From the (Irish) Independent, the operator of a bar in Dublin defends an incident in which a barman pours drinks into the mouths of customers.

From the Irish Examiner, a mushroom processing plant in Ireland's County Tipperary remains closed after 29 workers test positive for the coronavirus.

From WestMonster, according to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, the U.K. does not accept the results of the Belarusian election.

From The Conservative Woman, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's legacy to the present U.K. Tories is fading.

From The Stream, the Solzhenitsyn essay "Live Not By Lies" is relevant today.

From The Daily Signal, President Trump considers cutting the capital gains tax.

From Breitbart, BLM and ProFa keep on doing what they do in Portland, Oregon.

From the Daily Caller, Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) speaks about WNBA players protesting her campaign.

From The Daily Wire, actress Sharon Stone blames "one of you non-mask wearers" for her sister catching the coronavirus.

From NBC News, according to a poll, Biden supporters are more likely than Trump supporters to vote by mail.  (via the New York Post)

And from the New York Post, the end.

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