Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Wednesday Whatnot - Part 1

On a cool Wednesday in the middle of September, here are some things going on:

From National Review, in Minneapolis, the city council wonders why crime has increased after they tried to defund their police.

From FrontpageMag, "Jewish lives matter", except to some people.

From Townhall, CNN finds a negative angle for President Trump's peace deal signing ceremony.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Trump's crackdown on slave labor in communist China could cost them some big money.

From the Washington Examiner, five potential coronavirus vaccines will be in advanced trials by October.

From The Federalist, according to a study, up to 95 percent of the riots in the U.S. this year are linked to BLM.

From American Thinker, the real reason for the wildfires in the western U.S.

From CNS News, according to Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Democrat congresscritters want Americans to suffer until November.

From LifeZette, a Trump supporter installs an electric fence around his Trump 2020 signs after liberals steal them.  (YouTube has some videos of Trump signs getting stolen in 2016, and videos of would-be thieves getting shocked.)

From NewsBusters, Mandalorian actress Gina Corano makes fun of trans activists with pronouns that sound like they came from R2D2.

From Canada Free Press, Occupy Wall Street activists want to bang on the drum all day.  (Yes, OWS is still around.)

From CBC News, virtual schools in Canada start out facing technical difficulties.

From Global News, violating social gathering rules in the Canadian province of Ontario is gonna cost ya.

From CTV News, some Canadian firefighters helping their American counterparts in California are headed to Oregon.

From TeleSUR, Colombian workers call for rallies against police brutality.

From The Portugal News, a Portuguese MEP asks the E.U. if an illegal migration route has opened in the Portuguese region of Algarve.

From El País, how San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Spain ran out of space to bury the dead due to the coronavirus pandemic.

From France24, defending champion Egan Bernal of Colombia drops out of the Tour de France.

From RFI, France shuts down more schools are students test positive for the coronavirus.

From SwissInfo, Swiss voters in the canton of Basel City will vote on enshrining primate rights in its constitution.

From ANSA, Italian school unions call for a demonstration on September 26th.

From the Malta Independent, activists "blast" the Maltese cabinet for seeing, speaking and hearing no evil.

From Malta Today, Malta reports a record high 106 new coronavirus cases.

From Total Slovenia News, U.S. First Lady and Slovenia native Melania Trump gets a new statue, this one of bronze.

From Total Croatia News, the Croatian company Split Parking adds for electric bicycles and stations.  (If you read Croatian, read the story at Slobodna Dalmacija.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, a Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina comes under fire for visiting Zagreb, Croatia.

From Balkan Insight, the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm Nikšić, Montenegro.

From EuroNews, Bosnian authorities arrest seven former military members in connection with the killing of 44 Bosniak civilians during the 1992-1995 war.  (The Bosniaks are also known as the Bosnian Muslims.)

From Ekathimerini, a truck carrying illegal undocumented migrants crashes in Alexandroupoli, Greece.

From the Greek Reporter, a gold medal won at the 1896 Olympics in Athens sells at auction for $65,625.

From Novinite, Bulgarian lawmakers work out how the country's elections will take place.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria's utility regular raises natural gas prices.

From Radio Bulgaria, anti-government protesters block traffic in front of Bulgaria's parliament building.

From Romania-Insider, how the fate of Bucharest, Romania could be decided by a "dog" and a "plane".  (If you read Romanian, read related stories at România TV and G4Media.)

From Russia Today, according to Russia's foreign intelligence service director, the unrest in Belarus is the U.S.'s fault.

From Sputnik International, five ancient civilizations used a burial ground in Crimea, and archaeologists don't know why.

From The Moscow Times, the hospital in Berlin which is treating Russian dissident Alexey Navalny returns a donation from "Putin's chef".

From Daily News Hungary, according to Prime Minister Orban, clubs in Hungary will have to close by 11 p.m. due to the coronavirus.

From Hungary Today, Orban is not a "big fan" of wearing a mask but recognizes that it's important to protect each other.  (If you read Hungarian, read that story at HVG and a related story at Blikk.)

From About Hungary, Hungary and Austria take similar measures against the coronavirus.  (At one time, Austria and Hungary were the same country.)

From ReMix, Hungarian police say that they have to deal with between 600 and 800 migrants trying to illegally enter the country every week.

From The Slovak Spectator, a Slovak test which can help distinguish between the coronavirus and the flu awaits approval.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Republic's Chamber of Deputies approves a ban on farming chickens in cages that would start in 2027.

From Polskie Radio, Prime Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki (Poland) and Saulius Skvernelis (Lithuania) plan to hold talks in Vilnius.  (At one time, Poland and Lithuania were the same country.)

From the CPH Post, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks up for the victims of sexual harassment.

From Deutsche Welle, 29 German police officers are suspended and investigated for allegedly sharing far-right propaganda.

From Free West Media, German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes 3,000 potential arsonists from the Moria migrant center in Greece.

From the NL Times, for the first time ever, the West Nile virus shows up in the Netherlands.

From Dutch News, the Dutch Council of State allows a cull of red deer to resume.

From VRT NWS, wall paintings made in 1944 by a British soldier are found in Meerhout, Belgium.

From The Brussels Times, 67 Belgian youths are infected with the coronavirus at a party vacation in Portugal.

From Euractiv, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, "European values are not for sale".

From the Express, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reaches an agreement with Tory backbenchers over an E.U. exit bill.

From the Evening Standard, a man who sent a banana to a black man's table at a restaurant in Bromley, England is found guilty of a hate crime.

From the (U.K.) Independent, two police officers in Cambridge, England are disciplined for posting "inappropriate" TikTok videos.

From the (Irish) Independent, DNA analysis traces Vikings in Ireland to Norway.

From the Irish Examiner, 16 more pubs are investigated for possibly violating Ireland's coronavirus laws.

From The Conservative Woman, could the U.K. be heading towards civil war?

From Snouts in the Trough, the cultural enrichment keeps coming every day.

From The Stream, the left does not have a broken moral compass.  (Contrary to what some of us on the right have believe, the left is neither immoral or amoral, but instead has its own version of morality.)

From Axios, the property damage caused by the riots in the U.S. are the most expensive in insurance history.  (via Townhall)

From The Daily Wire, according to a poll, voters in "riot zones" favor President Trump 2 to 1.

From The Daily Signal, congresscritter Liz Cheney (R-WY) demands that the DOJ investigate possible Russian and Chinese infiltration into U.S. environmental groups.

From The American Conservative, a look at a neighborhood in my neck of the woods.

From the Daily Caller, China is building its third aircraft carrier.

From the New York Post, not all Karens are female.

And from the Genesius Times, supporters of former Vice President Biden set their homes on fire in solidarity with rioters.

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