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Thousands of protesters take to the streets on Bastille Day in France

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© REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesFrench health workers attend a demonstration on the Bastille Day in Paris to urge the French government to improve wages and invest in public hospital in the wake of the coronavirus
France's national holiday has been marred by scuffles between police and protesters, as thousands of people took to the streets of Paris to demonstrate against public health support measures they deemed insufficient.

Streets in the center of the French capital once again descended into chaos as police officers in riot gear clashed with groups of angry protesters while France was celebrating Bastille Day.

Videos posted on social media showed officers wearing helmets and body armor using tear gas and pepper-spraying crowds in a tense standoff. The protesters were seen throwing various objects at the police.

NPC

UK professor's baseless claims that 'second wave of coronavirus could kill 120,000' this winter

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Britain faces a potentially more deadly second wave of COVID-19 in the coming winter that could kill up to 120,000 people over nine months in a worst-case scenario, health experts said on Tuesday.

With COVID-19 more likely to spread in winter as people spend more time together in enclosed spaces, a second wave of the pandemic "could be more serious than the one we've just been through," said Stephen Holgate, a professor and co-lead author of a report by Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS).

"This is not a prediction, but it is a possibility," Holgate told an online briefing. "Deaths could be higher with a new wave of COVID-19 this winter, but the risk of this happening could be reduced if we take action immediately."

Comment: : The UK government's virus models and estimates have been proven to have been deadly wrong, with many more people suffering and dying from the lockdown than from the coronavirus: Everything You Think You Know About Coronavirus...


Stock Down

Businesses shutdown with thousands of jobs lost as lockdown wipes out England's high street shopping

Oxford Street
© Henry Nicholls/ReutersShoppers in Oxford Street, London, where footfall has remained 81% lower in June than the previous year.
Shoppers were allowed to return to the high street in June as stores began to reopen in England and Northern Ireland, but figures show that few chose to do so. Retail footfall collapsed by 65% compared with the same month last year, according to research by data company Springboard.

The latest figures are an improvement on the 73% year-on-year decline in May, but highlight the challenges facing retailers and hospitality companies as they try to encourage worried customers to return as the coronavirus lockdown eases. At the same time online shopping has soared, as consumers browse and order from the comfort and safety of their home.


Comment: Obviously online shopping went up, but it's unlikely it compensated the economic losses caused by the lockdown, this will become even more apparent as the delayed effects begin to bite.


Retailers have cut thousands of jobs in response to the drop in high street, mall and retail park shopping. Last week, John Lewis and Boots cut 5,300 jobs in total and announced permanent store closures.

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NPC

Best of the Web: Language as Weapon: The woke mob tries to redefine racism to hide its own bigotry

White privilege protests
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In their quest to change Western culture, Black Lives Matter and 'Woke Twitter' are redefining racism to weaponize the charge against anyone they choose. It's a dishonest tactic that lets them get away with their own bigotry.

Racism is an evil thing. People who are branded with that title are given a massive scarlet letter, and are generally cast out of civil society. Rightfully so, as no one wants to interact with someone who is so malicious towards someone else's skin color. Individuals like Jared Taylor or Richard Spencer are not tolerated (unless they're commentating for CNN I suppose).

One of the above words needs to be stressed: it's 'malicious'. As it has been understood for as far as I can remember, racism requires malice. This is why the term 'hate group' was first coined. Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Brotherhood, or other white nationalists or white supremacists are considered 'hateful' because that is their modus operandi. They outright despise anyone who isn't like they are.

Corona

Booze ban South Africa: rule by diktat

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With a wave of his presidential hand, the command was given: alcohol sales will once again be banned, with immediate effect. Minutes later, the new regulations were gazetted and came into force. South Africans now live in a dictatorship.

'Dictatorship is a form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations,' says the Encyclopædia Britannica. 'The term dictatorship comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises.'

This perfectly describes President Cyril Ramaphosa and the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC), chaired by minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

Family

In search of new citizens: In bid to reverse population decline, Putin signs law simplifying process to obtain Russian passport

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© Sputnik / Sergey Averin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a long-awaited law streamlining the process for foreigners to obtain Russian citizenship. The world's largest country hopes to attract up to 10 million migrants by 2025.

According to the new rules, it is now much more straightforward for certain types of foreigners to become Russian.

Foreign citizens who have a Russian parent, are married to a Russian, or have a child with a Russian citizen, can now quickly obtain a passport themselves. The acquisition of Russian nationality has also been streamlined for foreigners who reside permanently in the country.

Shoe

NBA blasted after viral video shows ban on custom 'FREE HONG KONG' jerseys but no ban on other contentious messages

LeBron James and Anthony Davis
© Reuters / Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY SportsLeBron James and Anthony Davis during game against the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center.
The NBA is once again being accused of bowing to China, after a viral video revealed its website does not allow custom jerseys with the phrase "Free Hong Kong," but has no problem with plenty of other disruptive messages.

"The NBA bans you, the fan, from putting #freehongkong on customized league jerseys even as they allow players to wear customized jerseys," journalist Clay Travis tweeted on Sunday.

Travis Included a video actually showing the merchandising section of the website rejecting the phrase. Numerous people took to social media to give other firsthand accounts of the site not allowing the message.

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Question

Kanye Derangement Syndrome: Chance The Rapper asks why Biden would be better than Yeezy. The left goes crazy!

Kanye West/Chance the Rapper
© Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Mario AnzuoniKanye West • Chance the Rapper
Chance the Rapper triggered liberals by asking: Why would Biden make a better president than Kanye West? It's a legitimate question, but the vitriolic response suggests honest debate has fallen victim to cancel culture, too.

Since Kanye West announced his intention to run for president, numerous theories have been thrown out by talking heads in an effort to make sense of just one more crazy headline in the insanity that is 2020.

Is he running to split the vote and help President Donald Trump against Biden, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party? Or is he simply trolling and building his brand?

Nobody really knows, but considering the fact that West has gone from a MAGA-hat wearing Trump supporter to wanting his own political party called the Birthday Party, there is little chance we will be seeing a serious three-way race between the rapper, the president, and Biden.

Comment: And...Chance got scorched! The bulk of the comments came from the never-Trump #Resistance, reminding West he hadn't even filed FEC papers yet:






See also: 'Done with Trump', Kanye West talks White House bid, damaging Biden...and much, much more


Attention

Wayne Dupree: Left is showing epic panic; they know a November loss is on their doorstep

Biden
© Getty Images/Joe RaedleDemocratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop at Tipton High School on December 28, 2019 in Tipton, Iowa.
The Left's anger is intense because they were so close to success with their riots, and now they're terrified Joe Biden will lose his election showdown with Donald Trump. I understand the anger and the impulse to vent about it, but this is not the time. Venting may help you feel better, but it doesn't help the cause, it only encourages others to think it's a lost cause, so why bother?

It's time to put things in the proper perspective, which is that the re-election of President Trump takes priority over your anxiety. It's time to stand your ground, regardless of your fears. It's time to "man up."

The American Left has taken the hammer and sickle of Marxism and is using them to trample out the vintage where the fields of liberty were born. To them, anything in writing must be destroyed because that is history. That explains why they must topple statues and ban books, and even thought. To feel anger, one must have thought, and that's suddenly passé. You would be better off in a zoo according to the Left, whose candidate for office belongs in an assisted living facility.

Without thought, the great masses become sheep, all the more easily led and controlled. And what is control? As George Orwell said: "He who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past."

Fire

Bari Weiss' resignation letter from the New York Times: Says Twitter is its ultimate editor

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Dear A.G.,

It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.

I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper's failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn't have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming.

Comment: Another perspective: Bari Weiss resignation: Palestine advocates decry 'hypocrisy'