Monday, August 10, 2020

Monday Mania - Part 1

On another warm and sunny but manic Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Trump administration's welcome push against technologies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party.

From FrontpageMag, President Trump quietly defies a lawless SCOTUS on DACA.

From Townhall, the new fascism on the far left.

From The Washington Free Beacon, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) advises his old girlfriend Senator Kamala Harris (D) to not run for vice president.

From the Washington Examiner, while airline travel is down by 75 percent, the TSA is finding three times as many guns in carry-on luggage.

From The Federalist, on its first birthday, the 1619 Project gets eight "big takedowns".

From American Thinker, what should motorists do about roadblocks set up by rioters?

From CNS News, according to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, rioting was sparked by false information on social media about police allegedly shooting an unarmed teenager.  (I think that I'm starting to notice a pattern.  Police mistreat or even kill a suspect, usually black, and large numbers of people, many but not all of whom are black, take out their anger by looting and vandalizing businesses, many of which are minority-owned, and which had nothing to do with the police actions which got everybody angry.)

From LifeZette, BLM protesters wake people up in a liberal neighborhood in Washington, D.C. with homophobic slurs.

From NewsBusters, CBS shows its double standards on executive orders by Presidents Trump and Obama.

From Canada Free Press, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) shows his double standards on gatherings.

From CBC News, why do some beaver lodges in Canada have satellite dishes?  (Is that the only way the beavers can watch hockey games?)

From Global News, over 500 coronavirus cases occurring since July 4th  in Canada have been connected to public places.

From CTV News, according to Ontario's human rights commission, black people in Toronto are "disproportionately" arrested, charged and subjected to force by police.  (Whether blacks in Toronto commit proportionate or disproportionate amounts of crime or resistance to arrest is not stated in the article.)

From TeleSUR, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blames thousands of deaths from the coronavirus on lockdowns.

From Morocco World News, one percent the residents of Taroudant, Morocco are prosecuted from not wearing face masks.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announces a second round of inspections in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

From Turkish Minute, the number of coronavirus cases in Turkey passes 240,000.

From Rûdaw, according to farmers in the Iraqi province of Duhok, airstrikes by Turkish planes have destroyed their farms and orchards.

From Panorama, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses a conference on the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Sèvres.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, Cyprus collects 20 tons of dry food to be sent to Lebanon.

From The Syrian Observer, for the first time in nine years, a train carrying grain arrives in Damascus.

From Arutz Sheva, the IDF lowers its alert level in northern Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, according to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the Israeli cabinet never discussed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to annex parts of the West Bank.

From The Jerusalem Post, a compromise proposal could prevent Israel from having yet another round of elections.

From YNetNews, Israel's High Court of Justice rules against demolishing the home of a Palestinian charged with killing an IDF soldier.

From the Egypt Independent, Egypt sends its third planeload of aid to Lebanon.

From Egypt Today, the Egyptian government plans to merge some of its administrative bodies before moving to its new capital.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, the dam talks are again adjourned.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi government employees who violate the country's coronavirus protocols could have their wages docked.

From The New Arab, Lebanon's government resigns.

From Radio Farda, a member of Iran's coronavirus task force does not trust the government's official statistics.

From IranWire, who are Iran's allies in Azerbaijan and what do they want to achieve?

From Dawn, the Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa withdraw their coronavirus lockdowns but still urge to health guidelines.

From The Express Tribune, at least five people are killed and 10 others injured in an explosion at a under-construction building in Chaman, Pakistan.

From Pakistan Today, flash floods kill nine people and destroy 142 houses in the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

From Khaama Press, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg welcomes the upcoming talks between Afghan leaders in Doha, Qatar.

From The Hans India, three people are arrested in connection with a fire at a coronavirus facility in Vijayawada, India.  (My spellchecker has no problem with "Vijayawada".)

From the Hindustan Times, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a submarine fiber optic cable will transform lives in the Indian island groups Andaman and Nicobar.

From ANI, according to Indian minister Prakash Javadekar, coexistence between humans and elephants needs to be strengthened.

From India Today, the Indian army will acquire domestically made weapon-locating radars.

From the Dhaka Tribune, the Bangladeshi Supreme Court will resume its regular benches this coming Wednesday.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announces 28 cabinet ministries and 40 state ministries.

From the Colombo Page, a silent protest is staged against the arrests the mayor of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka and others.

From Maldives Insider, the company Cheval Blanc Randheli donates medical equipment and protective gear to help local efforts against the coronavirus.

From Gatestone Institute, the app TikTok is "China's Trojan horse to indoctrinate America".

From The Jakarta Post, two orangutans from Borneo are rescued from illegal captivity in the Indonesian province of Central Java.

From The Straits Times, a three-year-old girl and three teenagers are among 12 imported coronavirus cases identified in Singapore.

From the Borneo Post, former Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng promises to prove that his is not guilt of the corruption charge that he faces.

From Free Malaysia Today, the sultan of the Malaysian state of Johor tells restaurants to "stop selling exotic meat".

From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports are down over 12 percent for the first seven months of 2020 from a year earlier.

From The Mainichi, an escaped goat finds a home on a concrete wall above railroad tracks in Sakura, Japan.

From The Stream, the trick used to scientists to tell you to trust scientists.

From WBAL, a gas explosion kills a woman and injures people in Baltimore, Maryland.

From HistoryNet, congresscritter John Joyce (R-PA) pushes for the Medal of Honor to be bestowed on a soldier who waged guerrilla warfare against the Nazis.

From SpaceWar, China sanctions 11 Americans in retaliation for similar U.S. actions in response to the Chinese government's crackdown on Hong Kong.

From NBC News, inside the lab in Wuhan, China, which claims to be a "scapegoat" for the origins of the coronavirus.  (via the Daily Caller)

From CheckYourFact, no, President Bush the Elder never said anything about the American people lynching him.

From the Catholic League, the president of Catholic League calls BLM "one of the greatest threats to the health and safety of black Americans".  (via Breitbart)

From the Daily Caller, President Trump is willing to deliver his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination from either the White House or Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

From the New York Post, as an 11-year-old girl is beaten, NYPD cops do nothing.

And from The Babylon Bee, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot drives past rioters and looters to arrest a 7-year-old boy who was having a birthday party.

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