Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Stories For The Start Of June

As the hot sunny weather continues on a Wednesday which is the first day of June, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one more reason to not vandalize the Mona Lisa.

From FrontpageMag, governments, not businesses, cause high gasoline prices.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, pro-lifers are not hypocrites for supporting gun rights.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the case of a serial looter in Virginia and D.C. shows why looting is going to continue.

From the Washington Examiner, President Biden's plan on inflation is "pathetic".

From The Federalist, six times when a stronger civil society could have prevented the Uvalde, Texas shooting.

From American Thinker, Biden's greatly increased energy prices are not an accident.

From CNS News, ICE rescues 70 children in Texas from abuse and sex trafficking.

From LifeZette, fortifying schools will require more than barriers.

From NewsBusters, the media ignore an armed woman who killed a mass shooter.

From Canada Free Press, life goes on for the little people.

From TeleSUR, the Chilean Chamber of Deputies passes a draft resolution designating four Mapuche organizations as terrorists.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the case against Jubilee bunting.

From Snouts in the Trough, have police in the U.K. gone mad, given up, or both?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the trial begins for an Afghan accused of destroying a Christ figure at a church in Frauenberg, Germany.  (If you read German, read the story at MDR.)

From Russia Today, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Western sanctions have prevented Russian ships from delivering grain.

From Sputnik International, Lavrov slams Ukraine's demands for foreign MLRS rocket launchers.

From The Moscow Times, according to dumacritter Leonid Slutsky, Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine could vote join Russia as early as July.  (A dumacritter is the Russian equivalent of a U.S. congresscritter.)

From Romania Insider, the Henri Coandă airport, which serves Bucharest, Romania, is rated the fourth worst in the world.

From Novinite, according to Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, there has been no progress on open issues between Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

From The Sofia Globe, traveling be trains between Sofia, Bulgaria and cities on the Black Sea will take less time.

From Radio Bulgaria, a Norwegian citizen is detained in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria for alleged terror offenses.

From the Greek Reporter, why does Greece still require masks?

From Ekathimerini, deconstructing Turkish revisionism.

From the Greek City Times, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was the first to describe heterochromia of the eyes.

From Balkan Insight, fake bomb threats plague the Bosnian region of Republika Srpska.

From Total Croatia News, over 6,800 Ukrainian children have been accommodated in Croatia.

From EuroNews, Croatia could adopt the euro in January 2023.  (The current Croatian monetary unit is the kuna, which means "fox", according to what my tour group was told in 2007 when I was there.) 

From Total Slovenia News, this morning's headlines in Slovenia.

From The Malta Independent, according to Doctors for Life, no frozen embryos so far have been adopted.

From Malta Today, Maltese police arrest seven people for allegedly trafficking she-don't-lie.

From ANSA, Italian politician Matteo Salvini claims to be working "out in the open" for peace.

From SwissInfo, Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland work in the hotel, restaurant and IT sectors.

From France24, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, the Champions League final "could have been better organised".

From RFI, pressure mounts on French President Emmanuel Macron to visit Ukraine before France's term as the E.U.'s president ends.

From El País, the ex-wife of a Qatari prince is found dead at her home in Marbella, Spain.

From The Portugal News, people can now visit beaches in Portugal without any coronavirus restrictions.

From Free West Media, the WHO's globalist plans suffer a setback.

From Euractiv, Egyptian President Abdul al Sisi calls on the E.U. for some dam support.  (At other sites, I've seen his first name spelled "Abdel" and a hyphen between the "al" and the "Sisi".)

From ReMix, according to Canadian sociologist Mathieu Bock Côté, terms such as "young people" and "sensitive neighborhoods" are coded "Soviet-style" language used to disguise reality.  (If you read French, read the story at FDeSouche.)

From The North Africa Post, Tunisia's General Labor Union announces a general strike in the public sector starting on June 16th.

From The New Arab, an Egyptian court sentences a child molester to 15 years in prison.  (If you read Arabic, read the story at El Watan.)

From OpIndia, two Muslim groups in the Indian state of Bihar try to settle a dispute the old-fashioned way.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran is not waiting for nuclear weapons in order to destabilize the Middle East.

From The Stream, June is Pride Month, and Google will make sure that you won't forget it.  (When are the months for the other six Deadly Sins?)

From The Daily Signal, CBO numbers show that tax revenue increased after then-President Trump's tax cuts.

From Space War, the Russian government accuses the U.S. of "adding fuel to the fire" by planning to supply Ukraine with new weapons.

From Terra Daily, China claims to be not competing for influence in the South Pacific.

From The American Conservative, Venezuela's claim that its crises are the result of American sanctions in a blatant lie.

From The Western Journal, the U.S. State Department is accused of hypocrisy for flying the LGBT flag at the American Embassy at the Vatican for "Pride Month".

From BizPac Review, the BBC is accused of altering an alleged rape victim's quote to avoid "misgendering" the alleged rapist.

From The Daily Wire, the U.S. military is slammed for its Pride Month Tweets.

From the Daily Caller, 48 Republican Senators tell Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that they will block any bill that would undermine the Hyde Amendment.

From Breitbart, actor Johnny Depp wins $15 million in his defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard.

From Newsmax, the alleged Buffalo shooter gets indicted.

And from the New York Post, the new leader of Big Luxurious Mansions has had her share of financial difficulties.

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