Thursday, June 10, 2021

Thursday Links

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

From National Review, Florida bans the "1619 Project" from its classrooms.

From FrontpageMag, the Marxist roots of critical race theory.

From Townhall, don't ban assault weapons, require them.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a liberal group spending lots of money to attack "billionaires buying our elections" is funded by a Swiss billionaire.

From the Washington Examiner, half of the coronavirus stimulus aid may have been stolen.

From The Federalist, the "root causes" of the migrant crisis are President Biden's border policies.

From American Thinker, the real targets of left-wing thugs like BLM and ProFa.  (The italicized emphasis on "real" is in the original.)

From CNS News, according to congresscritter Byron Donalds (R-FL), the Black Congressional Caucus is denying him membership because he's a Republican.

From LifeZette, according to former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, we should feel sorry not for him, but for our country and for former President Trump.

From NewsBusters, Biden reverses Trump's data security executive orders aimed at China.

From Canada Free Press, Canada has "medical Nazis".

From CBC News, Canada still has no national guidelines for fully vaccinated Canadians.

From TeleSUR, Haiti still hasn't started vaccinating people against the coronavirus.

From The Conservative Woman, rape gangs thrive in the shadow of the U.K.'s ivory towers.

From the Express, monkeypox breaks out in the U.K.

From EuroNews, according to Health Minister Matt Hancock, over 90 percent of the coronavirus cases in the U.K. are the delta variant.

From the (Irish) Independent, this weekend, you can dine outdoors in Dublin, Ireland, but you can't drive in the streets.

From VRT NWS, police clear a beach area in Ghent, Belgium after a large brawl.

From the NL Times, more Dutch police officers will have tasers next year.

From Deutsche Welle, a police unit in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is disbanded due to "far-right" messages left in chatrooms by some of its members.

From Free West Media, despite Germany again allowing deportations, criminal aliens from Syria have no risk of being sent back there.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, an Islamist in Germany praises the murder of a French teacher, for which he gets six months in prison.

From the CPH Post, if you ride a bike in Denmark, be like a Viking and wear a helmet.

From Polskie Radio and the "Russian collusion" department, Polish authorities detain a man for allegedly spying for Russia.

From Radio Prague, 98-year-old Czechoslovak RAF veteran Emil Boček flies again.

From The Slovak Spectator, Levoča, Slovakia beefs up its tourism offers.

From Daily News Hungary, Prime Minister Orban warns Hungarians to get their second coronavirus vaccine shot.

From Russia Today, the Russian Pacific Fleet starts large-scale drills.

From Romania-Insider, the Romanian airline Tarom gets a new general manager.  (If you read Romanian, read the story at AgerPres.)

From Novinite, in a scene out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, crows attack people in Sofia, Bulgaria.

From the Greek Reporter, thousands of people join a strike protest in Athens, Greece to oppose a labor bill.

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama opens a summit meeting for six western Balkan leaders.

From Balkan Insight, North Macedonia returns part of the Serbian parliament building's fence.

From Total Croatia News, Croatia faces numerous recommendations in order to join the EuroZone.

From Total Slovenia News, some results from the second stage of the Tour of Slovenia.

From the Malta Independent, Maltese lawyers lament the lack of any plan to regulate their profession.

From ANSA, the world's first heart transplants from coronavirus-positive donors are performed in Italy.

From ReMix, voter support for anti-immigration parties is rising in Italy.  (What is apparently meant by "anti-immigration" is not that Italy would take in no immigrants or refugees at all, but that the country would not accept unlimited numbers of migrants who cross the Mediterranean or enter by other routes.)

From France24, President Emmanuel Macron announces a drawing down of French military forces in Mali.

From El País, Spain's Basque Country aims to add outdoor spaces to homes.

From The Portugal News and the "Russian collusion" department again, the mayor of Lisbon, Portugal is accused of sharing information with Russia.

From Euractiv, the European Parliament votes to ban cages for farm animals.

From Morocco World News, Morocco co-chairs the first (virtual) Arab-India Energy Forum.

From The North Africa Post, a landmine explosion injures a Tunisian soldier in the province of Kasserine.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkish President Erdoğan, the organization FETÖ threatens the security of Turkey and Kyrgyzstan.

From Gatestone Institute, Erdoğan "whips up antisemitism".

From DuvaR, a mayor in the Turkish province of Giresun replaces a clock tower for "resembling a Greek bell tower".

From Rûdaw, after nearly four decades, a Kurdish farmer's land in the Iraqi province of Sulaimani is cleared of mines from the Iraq-Iran war.

From Armenpress, acting Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker reaffirms the U.S. position that Azerbaijani forces should be withdrawn from the border with Armenia.

From In-Cyprus, a 36-year-old man in Limassol, Cyprus goes to prison for giving meth to a 15-year-old girl.

From The Syrian Observer, Russia's foreign minister accuses U.S. military forces of "plundering Syria" to finance separatist groups.

From The961, a fuel truck receives a warm welcome at a gas station in Borj El-Brajneh, Lebanon.

From Arutz Sheva, right-wingers in Jerusalem protest against Israel's incoming national unity government.

From the Egypt Independent, a "women-friendly cities" program is launched in the Egyptian governorate of Damietta.

From the Saudi Gazette, senior Islamic scholars from Afghanistan and Pakistan sign a historic Afghan peace declaration in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

From The New Arab, Palestinian Arabs boycott Israeli products for a week.

From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, the U.S. imposes sanctions on a network allegedly funding the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

From Dawn, the Pakistani government plans to reward students for planting trees.

From Khaama Press, the U.S. reportedly will consider airstrikes against the Taliban if they attack cities in Afghanistan.

From the Daily Mail, an ISIS affiliate claims responsibility for an attack in northern Afghanistan in which 10 demining workers were killed.

From The Hans India, in a case involving a movie about a deceased Indian actor, the Delhi High Court rules that there is no "posthumous privacy".

From the Dhaka Tribune, for labs in Dhaka, Bangladesh are banned from performing coronavirus tests for travelers.

From the Colombo Page, according to Sri Lankan Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera, damage from the ship MV X-Press Pearl can last for 20 years.

From the Mandurah Mail, a "wannabe jihadi" in Melbourne, Australia searched on Google about "how to join ISIS".

From The Jakarta Post, the Indonesian airline Garuda grounds two thirds of its fleet.

From Free Malaysia Today, controversial Malaysian graphic artist Fahmi Reza tells fellow artists and creators to keep on dissenting.

From The Mainichi, Japan decides to lift its coronavirus quasi-state of emergency in three prefectures.

From The Stream, Christians should get off the social justice bandwagon.

From The Daily Signal, China praises U.S. President Biden's executive orders about software.

From Space War, Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold their first meeting, over which Northern Ireland casts a shadow.

From The American Conservative, what should be done about Belarus?

From The Western Journal, the Republican mayoral victory in McAllen, Texas could be a sign of things to come.

From the Daily Caller, according to a report, Facebook is the number one platform for recruiting into sex trafficking.

From Breitbart, The New York Times shows its double standards on the N-word, being silent about its alleged use by Hunter Biden.

From The Daily Wire, Dr. Fauci gets torched by two actors, one of whom used to portray President Bush the Elder.

From Newsmax, former President Trump joins in the criticism of Dr. Fauci.

From The Hill, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) endorses current Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.  (via Newsmax)

From the New York Post, protesters hijack a Zoom meeting at Hunter College with anti-Semitic rhetoric.

From CheckYourFact, a volcanic eruption shown in a video on Facebook was in Iceland, not in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

And from Fox News, a bear is rescued from the ceiling of an auto manufacturing plant in Pulaski County, Virginia.

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