Monday, September 7, 2020

Links For Labor Day

On a warm sunny first Monday in September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, universities try to circumvent new Title IX regulations on free speech and due process.

From FrontpageMag, Marxism is still a lethal virus.

From Townhall, anti-police vandals write vulgar graffiti on the Michigan GOP headquarters in Lansing.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the politicization of the Post Office distracts from read reform.

From the Washington Examiner, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) calls the 1619 Project "unteachable in public schools".

From The Federalist, if former Vice President Biden wins the presidential election, will coronavirus disappear?

From American Thinker, some questions for Biden supporters.  (I suppose that some people hate President Trump so much that they would vote for any Democrat nominee.  Their answer would thus be, "because he/she is not Trump."  Conversely, I plead guilty to voting for Trump in 2016 in part because he wasn't, and still isn't, former Senator (D-NY)/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.)

From LifeZette, when the left-wing media couldn't stop a Republican from being elected president.

From NewsBusters, the wrongly predicted 2016 Hillary Clinton landslide.

From Canada Free Press, the protests in Oregon become a "socialist passion play".

From Global News, police in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada crack down on bar patrons who disobey coronavirus rules.

From TeleSUR, police in Chile repress a march staged by healthcare workers.

From The Conservative Woman, "Red Wall" voters reject U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's immigration plan.

From Snouts in the Trough, will the U.K.'s rulers reimpose coronavirus regulations using climate change as an excuse.

From the Express, a coronavirus outbreak on the HMS Queen Elizabeth will keep her in port for a while.

From the (Irish) Independent, the Irish government's decision to divide pubs into two categories gives them a self-inflicted headache.

From VRT NWS, police in Brussels stop a demonstration against Belgium's coronavirus measures.

From Dutch News, anti-plastic campaigners clean Dutch streets of 142,000 cigarette butts.

From Deutsche Welle, Russian dissident Alexey Navalny wakes up from an induced coma at a hospital in Berlin.

From EuroNews, for the first time in almost seven years, the chord played by an organ in a church in Halberstadt, Germany will change.

From the CPH Post, Denmark's health minister introduces new coronavirus restrictions in 18 municipalities.

From Gatestone Institute, Swedish authorities confiscate copies of a book written by a stand-up comedian.

From Polskie Radio, Extinction Rebellion protesters block large street in Warsaw, Poland.  (The street's name translates to "holy cross".  Since Warsaw is the capital, and these people are protesting against allegedly man-made climate change, I wonder if the street goes anywhere near the embassy of China, which in recent years has been the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter.)

From Radio Prague, Czech scientist Eliška Materna Mikmeková helps discover new properties of titanium dioxide nanocrystals which could be used to turn carbon dioxide into fuel.

From The Slovak Spectator, speleologists discover kilometers of new passages in Domica Cave, near Rožňava, Slovakia.

From Daily News Hungary, according to the British ambassador, no one supported the U.K. during Brexit more than Hungary did.

From Sputnik International, a Russian health watchdog provides information on Navalny to the prosecution in his case.

From Euractiv, police arrest over 600 people at protests in Belarus.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian Minister of Sports Krassen Kralev leaves intensive care after testing positive of the coronavirus and suffering from other ailments.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek coast guard stops a migrant boat south of the island of Crete.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, according to an op-ed, the agreement between Serbia and Kosovo will bring U.S. funds to the area.  (My fellow Americans, that's your and my tax dollars.)

From Balkan Insight, Albanian governing and opposition parties blame each other for a large international fine.

From Total Croatia News, students from the Center of Excellence in Split, Croatia invent a device that could be used to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

From Total Slovenia News, the Slovenian government is developing an app to track children quarantined due to the coronavirus.

From Malta Today, dead animals in Malta in recycling bags are being dumped at waste processing plants.

From ANSA, schools in the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige open a week early.

From SwissInfo, Swiss virologist Isabella Eckerle calls for more coronavirus tests and mandatory masks for children in schools.

From RFI, French police are "baffled" by a wave of attacks against horses.

From ReMix, France builds its first non-gender school playgrounds.

From El País, five nature trails in Spanish forests.

From The Portugal News, Portugal's taxing authority accepts over 80,000 requests payment of income tax by installments.  (The article uses the spelling "instalments", which my spellchecker rejects.)

From Free West Media, the E.U. pushes ahead with the U.N. Migration Pact.

From Morocco World News, a photograph allegedly taken during the first day of school in Morocco causes Minister of Education Saaid Amzazi to promise legal action against people sharing it.

From Turkish Minute, according to jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, a "human tragedy" is unfolding in Turkish prisons.

From Rûdaw, the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service sends two "senior" ISIS terrorist to their virgins.

From Panorama, a new kindergarten will be built in Chinari, Armenia will be built further away from the border with Azerbaijan.  (via The Armenian Reporter)

From In-Cyprus, a committee is set up to investigate "the Cyprus papers".

From The Syrian Observer, a 17-year-old Syrian girls dies while trying to illegally enter Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, according to a poll, the Israeli party Yamina would be the second largest in the Knesset if were held today.

From The Jerusalem Post, what made Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu change his mind on coronavirus lockdowns?

From Egypt Today, floods his Saint Catherine, Egypt for the second time in a week.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia reports 976 new coronavirus cases and 15 more deaths.

From the Saudi Gazette, at a court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, eight defendants are convicted and sentenced for involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

From The New Arab, more on the sentences in the Khashoggi murder trial.

From IranWire, who are the judges in Iran and what gives them the power over people's lives.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistani educational institutions will reopen in three phases starting on September 15th.

From Naya Daur, a mob forces a teenager in Mensehra, Pakistan to profess the Sunni sect of Islam and declare other sects to be infidels in front of police.

From Khaama Press, the Afghan province of Nangarhar is a good place to get some dates.

From The Hans India, commuters in the Delhi area are pleased that its Metro has reopened.

From the Dhaka Tribune, eight employees of a gas company are suspended in connection with a pipeline explosion at a mosque in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ends taxes recently imposed on imports of gold and profits from making gems and jewelry.

From Maldives Insider, Club Med offers responsible travel in the Maldive Islands.

From The Jakarta Post, almost 300 Rohingya refugees arrive in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

From The Straits Times, police in Hong Kong are criticized for a "rough" arrest of a 12-year-old girl.

From the Borneo Post, Malaysia bans entry from 23 countries due to the coronavirus.

From Vietnam Plus, Cambodia plans to open another border crossing with Vietnam.

From The Mainichi, Typhoon Haishen hits Japan and South Korea.

From The Stream, 2020 has been "a toxic season for the soul".

From The American Conservative, coronavirus dystopia comes to Melbourne, Australia.

From Space War, DARPA's SIGMA program, which detects radioactivity, starts being used to protect U.S. metropolitan areas.

From The Daily Wire, according to the U.N., the coronavirus reveals a male-dominated culture "which damages everyone".

From Fox News, Candace Owens accuses Cardi B of hypocrisy.

From ABC7, according to officials, a wildfire near Yucaipa, California was caused by a pyrotechnic device used at a gender reveal party.  (via the Daily Caller)

From AP News, absentee ballots in battleground states could be rejected at three times the rate of four years ago.  (via the Daily Caller)

From the Daily Caller, a wounded veteran demands that people stop using his image for "propaganda".

From the New York Post, five teachers in New York City ask a judge to allow them to work from home due to concerns about the coronavirus.

And from WPVI-TV, the founder of Jelly Belly launches a series of treasure hunts in which the grand prize is the key to a candy factory.

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