Friday, September 18, 2020

Friday Fuss - Part 1

On a cool cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Californians could vote for most of themselves to have racial preferences.

From FrontpageMag, some alleged white supremacists aren't even white.

From Townhall, left-wing fascists decry "fascism".

From The Washington Free Beacon, how President Trump has changed the world.

From the Washington Examiner, U.S. naval submarines are tested in the Atlantic.

From The Federalist, how to stop "the plot to change America".

From American Thinker, why Senator (D-Cal) Kamala Harris (and former Vice President Biden) will lose in November.

From CNS News, Biden won't bore us with the details about his plan to get Americans back to work.

From LifeZette, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gives the state three days after the election to count mail-in ballots.

From NewsBusters, a testing czar debunks ABC's lies about coronavirus testing.

From Canada Free Press, should George Soros be prosecuted?

From CBC News, a woman in Windsor, Ontario, Canada dying of cancer is allowed to see her American parents for the last time.

From Global News, most other Americans, however, will have to stay out of Canada, and vice versa until October 21st.

From CTV News, Canadian families cope with the start of school, when sniffles could bring on coronavirus tests and self-isolation.

From TeleSUR, Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra faces impeachment.

From The Conservative Woman, a look at collectivist mentality.

From the Express, according to a political expert, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson could shut down the House of Lords if they block his E.U. plans.

From the Evening Standard, according to Boris, the U.K. is now seeing its second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

From the (Irish) Independent, a video shows a woman throwing a drink at Irish Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.

From the Irish Examiner, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin confirms that Dublin will go under a level 3 coronavirus lockdown.

From VRT NWS, Belgium sees another big increase in new coronavirus cases.

From The Brussels Times, one of the new coronavirus cases is the mayor of a district in Brussels.  (If you read French, read the story at La Dernière Heure.)

From the NL Times, according to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the coronavirus is making a comeback in the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, protesters put their plastic waste at the doors of the plastic producer Sabic.

From Deutsche Welle, several German states push for an investigation of racism among police.

From the CPH Post, the Danish government limits gatherings to 50 people.

From Polskie Radio, Poland's governing party Law and Justice suspends 15 "rebel" sejmcritters.  (Since the Polish legislature is the Sejm, the equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter is a sejmcritter.)

From EuroNews, the Law and Justice Party is left to govern alone after its "united right" coalition collapses.

From Euractiv, Poland rejects an effort by southern European nations to establish mandatory relocation of migrants.

From Radio Prague, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš will reactivate the Czech Republic's Central Crisis Staff due to the coronavirus.

From The Slovak Spectator, a Chinese company collected data on hundreds of Slovaks, including politicians and diplomats.

From ReMix, the Czech Republic and Hungary refuse to take in migrants from the Moria camp in Greece.

From Daily News Hungary, Hungarian border guards wrestle a Czech bus driver into submission at the border with Croatia.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Kőrkép, which is a Hungarian language site in Slovakia.)

From Hungary Today, Hungary has a daily record number of new coronavirus cases.

From About Hungary, Semmelweis University in Hungary works on a way to test for the coronavirus in saliva.

From Russia Today, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the West wanted Russia to open up to media 30 years ago, but now discriminates against Russian outlets.

From Sputnik International, huge swarms of insects descend on Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

From The Moscow Times, a vehicle breaches the perimeter of the U.S. ambassador's residence in Moscow.

From Romania-Insider, rare books and manuscripts stolen from London in 2017 are found in northeastern Romania.

From Novinite, Bulgaria's coronavirus emergency may be extended for two more months.

From The Sofia Globe, according Bulgaria's chief health inspector, there will be no forecasts about the coronavirus.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protests in Bulgaria reach their 72nd day.

From Ekathimerini, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias asks E.U. leaders to suggest possible sanctions against Turkey.

From the Greek Reporter, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake strikes south of the Greek island of Crete.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, 59 percent of Bulgarians want their government to resign, followed by snap elections.

From Balkan Insight, Croatia strips three parliamentcritters of their immunity after an anti-corruption operation.

From Total Croatia News, a visit to the island whose name means "little whore".

From Total Slovenia News, Slovenian police report 10,220 illegal border crossings during the first eight months of 2020.

From the Malta Independent, migrants riot at a detention center in Safi, Malta, which results in two police officers being seriously injured.

From Malta Today, Maltese Prime Minister Adrian Delia is satisfied with the Nationalist Party's "due diligence" report.

From ANSA, Italians will vote in a referendum on reducing the number of parliamentcritters.

From Free West Media, an illegal migrant kills a priest who had supported migrants.

From SwissInfo, the Swiss start-up Bloom Biorenewables plans to make plastics and other products from biomass instead of petroleum.

From France24, Nice, France limits gatherings to 10 people due to spiking coronavirus cases.

From RFI, French prosecutors investigate a rapper's allegedly "anti-Semitic" song lyrics.

From El País, the Moroccan immigrants who built a fruit empire in Spain.

From The Portugal News, illegal migrants are intercepted in the Portuguese region of Algarve.

From The Stream, it's not necessary to exploit children to teach that it's wrong to exploit children.

From Space War, China holds military exercises near Taiwan while a U.S. diplomat visits the island.

From The Daily Signal, some facts about climate change and the fires in California.

From the Daily Caller, according to President Trump, the Department of Defense can start distributing a coronavirus vaccine 24 hours after the Food and Drug Administration approves it.

From Fox News, former Vice President Biden's relatively low poll numbers among black and Latino men could give Trump an opening.

From The Daily Wire, a Michigan court allows the state to count mail-in ballots up to two weeks after the election.

From the New York Post, a student journalist at Arizona State is canceled for Tweeting a story containing unpleasant facts about shooting victim Jacob Blake.

And from The Peedmont, Trump mistakes Buena Vista, Virginia for a Mexican town, tries to impose sanctions, and sends in ICE agents.  (If you ask me, he should have tried to build a wall around it instead.)

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