Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Stories To Start September - Part 1

As the month of September starts on a cloudy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to his lawyer, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense and was carrying his rifle legally.

From FrontpageMag, BLM is a Marxist hate group disguised as a racial justice group.

From Townhall, President Trump gives an entertaining take on the Green New Deal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Biden ticket and the DNC go Sergeant Schulz on China's repression in Tibet.

From the Washington Examiner, it's time to be honest about what the BLM movement wants.

From The Federalist, as California Attorney General, Kamala Harris (D) did not fight against poverty, but against the poor.

From American Thinker, the charges faced by Rittenhouse.

From CNS News, Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) still can't get go of the alleged connection between Trump and Russia.

From LifeZette, social media users admit the former Vice President Biden latest speech is "really bad".

From NewsBusters, more from Rittenhouse's lawyer.

From Canada Free Press, the huge number of false positives on coronavirus tests blow the scam apart.

From CBC News, Canada's weakened Liberal Party gives New Democratic Party an opening.

From Global News, a Walmart in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is closed after 12 of its workers test positive for the coronavirus.

From CTV News, Canada starts to recognize its residential schools for their historic value.

From TeleSUR, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake strikes off the Chilean coast.

From The Conservative Woman, the U.K.'s "supine" parliamentcritters and "the surrender of freedom".

From the Express, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells French President Macron to respect the U.K.'s sovereignty.

From the Evening Standard, Extinction Rebellion is back, as 90 of them get arrested in London.

From the (Irish) Independent, a primary school in Dublin sends a class home after one student tests positive for the coronavirus.

From the Irish Examiner, Ireland reports 217 new coronavirus cases, the most in a day since May.

From VRT NWS, Belgians go back to school.

From The Brussels Times, former Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon claims to have not been "familiar" with footage of an arrest in which a Slovak man was killed.  (The minister's last name is the French word for "ham".)

From the NL Times, a Dutch police union wants undocumented migrants who are repeat offenders to be deported.  (In other words, if you enter the Netherlands illegally without having any documents, and commit not just one, but at least two crimes at different times, you would get deported, if this police union were to have its way.)

From Dutch News, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte keeps night clubs closed, but points out other things that people may do.

From Deutsche Welle, you may rally and protest in Berlin, if you wear a mask.

From the CPH Post, Denmark's historic J-Day is canceled due to the coronavirus.  (If you read Danish, read the story at DR.)

From Polskie Radio, Poland observes the 81st anniversary of the beginning of World War II.

From EuroNews, did Poland's grievances from World War II delay the acceptance of the new ambassador from Germany?

From Radio Prague, face masks are required in certain places in the Czech Republic.

From The Slovak Spectator, take in easy in Piešťany, Slovakia and its spa.

From Daily News Hungary, students blockading the Theatre and Film University in Budapest demand that its new board of curators resign.

From Hungary Today, what's behind Hungary's sudden increase in coronavirus cases.

From About Hungary, according to an opinion column, George Orwell was right about the left being ignorant.

From ReMix, while other European countries convert churches in to mosque, bars, or strip clubs, Hungary builds or renovates them.

From Russia Today, Russia doesn't like the U.S. conducting war games in Estonia.  (I'm pretty sure that many Russians don't like the fact that the three former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now all in NATO.)

From Sputnik International, a Russian MiG-31 flies to "meet" a Norwegian patrol plane over the Barents Sea.

From The Moscow Times, Denmark summons the Russian ambassador after a Russian fighter jet allegedly enters Danish airspace.

From Novinite, President Rumen Radev claims to have a version of Bulgaria's constitution, after the current government resigns and elections are held.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria removes quarantine and coronavirus testing requirements for travelers from Serbia, Turkey and Belarus.

From Radio Bulgaria, more on Bulgaria's coronavirus policies that start today.

From Ekathimerini, police in Thessaloniki, Greece find heroin in a stinky place.

From the Greek Reporter, the history of the White Tower in Thessaloniki.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, two E.U. officials expect Montenegro to continue progressing toward E.U. membership.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonian authorities arrest three suspected terrorists and seize weapons and explosives.

From Euractiv, the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo prepare for some tough talks in the U.S.

From Total Croatia News, Croatian parliamentcritters are required to wear masks on the job starting tomorrow.

From Total Slovenia News, experts warn that children in Slovenia schools could spread the coronavirus.

From the Malta Independent, Nationalist Party leadership contender Bernard Grech claims that he would resign if Malta were to legalize abortion.

From Malta Today, relatives of the most recent person in Malta to die from the coronavirus claim that he contracted it while in the hospital.

From ANSA, according to a new study, the Renaissance painter Raphael recreated "Egyptian blue" for his work "Triumph of Galatea".

From Free West Media, the E.U. tells Italy to keep allowing migrants to land.

From SwissInfo, go time traveling in Basel, Switzerland.

From France24, 14 suspects go on trial for alleged involvement with the terror attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

From RFI, possessing drugs in France is gonna cost ya, right on the spot.

From El País, Madrid closes its swimming pools and restricts access to parks in an attempt to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus.

From The Portugal News, despite risks from the coronavirus, the Portuguese island of Madeira can't close to tourism.

From The Stream, actor Jim Caviezel hits back against abortion and the persecution of Christians.

From The Daily Signal, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser claims to be "worried" about America "descending into a race war".

From the Daily Caller, three people accused of violent crimes who were bailed out of jail by a fund supported by Senator Kamala Harris (D).

From The Daily Wire, British singer Adele calls cultural appropriation a myth.

From CheckYourFact, no, the recently departed actor Chadwick Boseman did not die from poisoning.

From WPVI-TV, Philadelphia's health commissioner urges students at Temple University to assume that everyone around them is infected with the coronavirus.  (This sort of thing seems to apply to law-abiding healthy people including students, but somehow does not apply to rioters, looters, vandals, statue-topplers, and illegal migrants.)

From the New York Post, amusement park owners in New York beg Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) to let them reopen.

And from The Babylon Bee, in a rare campaign event outside of Delaware, former Vice President Biden speaks against violins.  (We already know that President Bill Clinton never had sax with Monica Lewisnsky.)

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