BBC News shows pictures of May Day protests from around the world. I like these peaceful protests more than the usually violent ones. For once, working people don’t have to see their hard-earned property destroyed by thugs.
The house belonging to Irene Svenonius of Sweden’s centre-right Moderate Party has been vandalised by far-left thugs, Expressen reports. It’s no surprise, really. Democracy and communism has never coexisted.
| Outbreak situation | EU | World |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed cases | 981,336 | 3,557,235 |
| Confirmed deaths | 110,103 | 245,150 |
The Kraftwerk founder is dead, BBC reports.
It’s Friday night. Time for rest.
שבת שלום!
Europe Day is in commemoration of the 1950 Schuman Declaration.
A great poet with an entretaining personality has left us today.
Greece’s former Marxist finance minister Yanis Varoufakis seems very content with the corona pandemic. Makes me think of Naomi Klein’s 2007 book The Shock Doctrine, in which she described liberals as little evildoers who use war and natural disasters to push for capitalism. In the ongoing pandemic, it seems the hard left is planning to do what Klein accused liberals of doing.
God TV defends its mission in Israel. I don’t know if it’s stupid or cunning, but this is nonetheless the not-so-hidden purpose of Christian Zionism: gather all the Jews in Israel in order for Jesus to return.
“Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it will pay for the search.”
| Outbreak situation | EU | World |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed cases | 1,026,065 | 4,098,018 |
| Confirmed deaths | 116,323 | 283,271 |
| EU Country | Cases | Deaths | Cases/100k | Deaths/100k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 228,691 | 27,104 | 489.5 | 58.0 |
| Italy | 222,104 | 31,106 | 367.5 | 54.8 |
| Germany | 172,239 | 7,723 | 207.7 | 9.3 |
| France | 140,734 | 27,074 | 210.1 | 40.4 |
| Belgium | 53,981 | 8,843 | 472.6 | 77.4 |
| Netherlands | 43,211 | 5,562 | 250.8 | 32.3 |
| Portugal | 28,132 | 1,175 | 273.6 | 11.4 |
| Sweden | 27,909 | 3,460 | 274.1 | 34.0 |
| Ireland | 23,401 | 1,497 | 482.1 | 30.8 |
| Poland | 17,204 | 861 | 45.3 | 2.3 |
| Romania | 16,002 | 1,016 | 82.2 | 5.2 |
| Austria | 15,964 | 624 | 180.4 | 7.1 |
| Denmark | 10,667 | 533 | 184.0 | 9.2 |
| Czechia | 8,269 | 290 | 77.8 | 2.7 |
| Finland | 6,054 | 284 | 109.7 | 5.1 |
| Luxembourg | 3,904 | 103 | 642.4 | 16.9 |
| Hungary | 3,380 | 436 | 34.6 | 4.5 |
| Greece | 2,760 | 155 | 25.7 | 1.4 |
| Croatia | 2,213 | 94 | 54.1 | 2.3 |
| Bulgaria | 2,069 | 96 | 29.5 | 1.4 |
| Estonia | 1,751 | 61 | 132.6 | 4.6 |
| Lithuania | 1,505 | 54 | 54.0 | 1.9 |
| Slovakia | 1,469 | 27 | 27.0 | 0.5 |
| Slovenia | 1,463 | 103 | 70.8 | 5.0 |
| Latvia | 951 | 19 | 49.4 | 1.0 |
| Cyprus | 905 | 17 | 76.1 | 1.4 |
| Malta | 508 | 6 | 105.1 | 1.2 |
The world is chaotic due to the coronavirus. Lockdowns, border controls, and travel restrictions have become the new normal. There are no news unrelated to this virus. My attention span is stretched to its limits and I get bored with the world.
Malmö is getting attention in Israel. And for once it’s not about anti-Semitism.
| 1 euro in Swedish kronor | |
|---|---|
| October 2003 | 9.06 |
| May 2020 | 11.28 |
The euro has increased its value by 24.5% against the Swedish krona since Sweden’s referendum in 2003.
| EU Country | Cases/100k | Deaths/100k |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 498.8 | 59.8 |
| Italy | 377.3 | 53.8 |
| Germany | 213.7 | 9.9 |
| France | 215.2 | 42.1 |
| Belgium | 492.3 | 80.4 |
| Netherlands | 259.4 | 33.5 |
| Sweden | 315.9 | 38.0 |
| Portugal | 290.9 | 12.4 |
| Ireland | 502.5 | 32.6 |
| Poland | 53.0 | 2.6 |
| Romania | 90.3 | 5.9 |
| Austria | 184.6 | 7.2 |
| Denmark | 192.9 | 9.7 |
| Czechia | 82.4 | 2.9 |
| Finland | 117.7 | 5.5 |
| Luxembourg | 654.9 | 17.9 |
| Hungary | 37.7 | 4.9 |
| Greece | 26.6 | 1.6 |
| Bulgaria | 33.8 | 1.8 |
| Croatia | 54.7 | 2.4 |
| Estonia | 136.3 | 4.8 |
| Lithuania | 57.1 | 2.2 |
| Slovakia | 27.6 | 0.5 |
| Slovenia | 71.0 | 5.1 |
| Latvia | 53.2 | 1.1 |
| Cyprus | 77.6 | 1.4 |
| Malta | 123.9 | 1.2 |
— What’s more than a mile long and has an IQ of 23?
— No.
— Norwegians in a protest march.
I didn’t know him personally, but back in the day when I struggled as a freelance writer, he gave me assignments for Sweden’s Jewish news magazine, Judisk Krönika.
זכרונו לברכה
It’s my birthday today. I’ve cheated death yet another year.
The cornoavirus has made it impossible for me to travel to my flat in Gran Canaria. I didn’t know that one could long for a desert, but I do.
Spanish radio station Cope reports that the earthquake occurred at 6.18am at a depth of 18km and with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter scale.
The Associated Press reports that people all over the United States are protesting the police racism that killed George Floyd, which was caught on camera.