Thursday, November 5, 2020

Thursday Things - Part 1

On a warm Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the pollsters have become the "disinformationists".

From FrontpageMag, we've had the election, and how we have the wait.

From Townhall, this election's other winners and losers.

From The Washington Free Beacon, voters shoot down left-wing ballot initiatives.

From the Washington Examiner, the Trump campaign wins the right to oversee vote counting in Pennsylvania.

From The Federalist, are we supposed to believe that Republicans "had a great election night" except for President Trump?

From American Thinker, left-leaning exiles from California become toxic.

From CNS News, at least 14 pro-life women win their House races.

From LifeZette, could the "Squad" oust Speaker Pelosi (D-Cal) from that office?

From NewsBusters, NBC mourns the Democrats failing to have a "moral victory".

From Canada Free Press, have the Chinese gotten their revenge?

From CBC News, if a tentative deal with a union is ratified, GM will again be making pickup trucks in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

From Global News, possible coronavirus exposure is reported in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan from a wake and a funeral.

From TeleSUR, an arrest warrant is issued for a former Mexican foreign minister.

From The Conservative Woman, history's "guilt-fest" shouldn't just include Westerners.

From Snouts in the Trough, will there be celebrations in Beijing, Brussels and Bogota?

From the Express, former parliamentcritter Anna Soubry wants the Brexit transition period to be extended.

From the Evening Standard, will England's coronavirus lockdown be extended after December 2nd?

From the (U.K.) Independent, discarded face masks and glove litter British beaches.

From the (Irish) Independent, it was a long election night for Joe Blewitt of County Mayo, Ireland, who just happens to be former U.S. Vice President Biden's cousin.

From the Irish Examiner, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar rejects calls to allow gun owner to shoot pheasant's during Ireland's coronavirus lockdown.

From VRT NWS, police in Eupen, Belgium detain two minors suspected of preparing a terror attack.

From The Brussels Times, police in Antwerp, Belgium seize 11.5 tons of she-don't-lie coming from Guyana, their "largest overseas drug best ever".  (If you read Flemish, read the story at De Standaard.)

From the NL Times, a teacher in Rotterdam, Netherlands reportedly goes into hiding after being threatened over an Islamic terror cartoon in his classroom.

From Dutch News, Erasmus University in Rotterdam distances itself from a professor who made comments about "Covid 1 to 18".  (If you read Dutch, read the story at AD.)

From Deutsche Welle, the German parliament approves the purchase of 38 Eurofighter jets for €5.4 billion.

From Free West Media, an aggressive mob attacks police in Frankfurt, Germany.  (If you read French, read the story at Lematin, which is a Swiss site.)

From the CPH Post, all mink in Denmark are to be culled due to a farm-related coronavirus mutation.

From Polskie Radio, Poland reports a daily record of 27,143 new coronavirus cases.

From Radio Prague, the Czech Ministry of Health prepares a five-level plan for easing coronavirus restrictions.

From The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia's second round of coronavirus testing is coming.

From Daily News Hungary, Budapest will increase its rapid coronavirus test capacity.

From Hungary Today, according to Hungary's counter-terror leader, the country's terror threat level did not increase after the attack in Vienna.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at ATV.)

From About Hungary, according to Prime Minister Orban, an operative board has assessed Hungary's hospital capacity.

From Russia Today, according to a spokesman for President Putin, the coronavirus situation in Russia is "tense but under control".

From The Moscow Times, up to 40 percent of PCR coronavirus tests in Russia could be giving false negatives.

From Romania-Insider, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announces new coronavirus restrictions but says that the country's economy and elections will go on.

From Novinite, Bulgarian health authorities propose new coronavirus measures.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev vetoes amendments to criminalize the transportation of passengers without required permits.

From Radio Bulgaria, university students in Sofia start protesting again.

From Ekathimerini, the Greek rail service operator Trainose restores service between Athens and Thessaloniki.

From the Greek Reporter, Mount Lycabettus in Athens provides panoramic views of the Acropolis and the Saronic Gulf.  (When I was in Athens in 1999, I was on the Acropolis and got a good view of Mount Lycabettus.)

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi resigns after a Special Court confirms the indictment against him.

From Balkan Insight, Albanian and Kosovo political leaders praise the Kosovo Liberation Army's "just war of liberation" after Thaçi resigns.

From Total Croatia News, the world's largest traditional sail ship, made in Split, Croatia, is ready to go.

From Total Slovenia News, protesters and police clash in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, according to Prime Minister Robert Abela, Malta is not headed towards a coronavirus lockdown.

From Malta Today, according to Maltese opposition leader Bernard Grech, Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit Chairman Jesmon Gatt was not appointed legally.

From ANSA, the Italian regions of Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Val d'Aosta are declared coronavirus red zones.

From ReMix, from where did the Vienna terrorist get his AK-47?  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Nemzet.)

From SwissInfo, archaeologists find an almost complete skeleton of a Barbary macaque in a medieval latrine in Basel, Switzerland.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron urges Europe to strengthen its border controls after terror attacks in France.

From RFI, Macron clarifies that France is fighting Islamist extremism, not Islam.

From El País, the Spanish government decides to wait "two or three weeks" before imposing stronger coronavirus measures.

From The Portugal News, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa proposes a coronavirus state of emergency running from the 9th to the 23rd of November.

From EuroNews, for the fourth straight year, Portugal wins the "Europe's Leading Destination" award.

From Euractiv, European doctors tell the E.U. to put its money where its mouth is.

From The Stream, will we kneel before the new god of Equality?

From the Daily Caller, the Ohio Supreme Court rules against allowing media organizations having access to the student records of man who committed a mass shooting in 2019.

From The Daily Wire, gun sales set a new record in 2020.

From The Daily Signal, "the pollsters got it wrong again".

From Breitbart, Democrats in Georgia train activists to go door-to-door to "fix" ballots rejected on election day.

From Fox News, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania explains the pause in its vote-counting.

From the Star Tribune, more than 600 people are arrested while blocking Interstate 94 in Minneapolis during an anti-Trump protest.  (via the New York Post)

From the New York Post, the NYPD releases the mugshots of five people arrested for minor crimes last night.

And from The Peedmont, a monument to General Robert E. Lee comes in third in the mayoral race in Richmond, Virginia.

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