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Another family dog killed by cops, this time in North Carolina

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Another video of yet another police officer shooting another family's dog has been posted to social media and it has sparked a firestorm of outrage. After the Reidsville Police Department ruled the shooting justified, that outrage grew to threats.

The incident happened on August 7 when Police Chief Robert Hassell and Reidsville officers visited the Police Impound Lot to take inventory and also observed the work of Quality Fencing of Reidsville, a company owned by Greensboro firefighter Kevin Paschal.

Paschal had his dog dog Auger out at the site with them. When officers approached a truck on the lot, they say they heard a dog barking behind it and they backed up. That's when Auger ran out.

As the video shows, Auger darted out from behind the car and briefly appeared to put his face by the officer's boot. Within seconds of Auger doing this, Officer Glen Wade pulled out his pistol and fired 5 rounds at the collie mix. Two of those rounds struck Auger who died from the wounds on the scene.

After watching the video, the family believes that the officer was not justified in shooting their dog and they have since called for justice for Auger. They also say that witnesses saw the officer shoot at Auger before he ran out from behind the truck.

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SOTT Focus: Inspired by the Atlantic Council and Ben Nimmo, Facebook deletes Craig Murray's posts since July 2017 - apparently cause he's a 'Russian bot'

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Facebook has deleted all of my posts from July 2017 to last week because I am, apparently, a Russian Bot.
For a while I could not add any new posts either, but we recently found a way around that, at least for now. To those of you tempted to say "So what?", I would point out that over two thirds of visitors to my website arrive via my posting of the articles to Facebook and Twitter. Social media outlets like this blog, which offer an alternative to MSM propaganda, are hugely at the mercy of these corporate gatekeepers.

Facebook's plunge into censorship is completely open and admitted, as is the fact it is operated for Facebook by the Atlantic Council - the extreme neo-con group part funded by NATO and whose board includes serial war criminal Henry Kissinger, Former CIA Heads Michael Hayden and Michael Morrell, and George Bush's chief of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, among a whole list of horrors.

The staff are worse than the Board. Their lead expert on Russian bot detection is an obsessed nutter named Ben Nimmo, whose fragile grip on reality has been completely broken by his elevation to be the internet's Witchfinder-General. Nimmo, grandly titled "Senior Fellow for Information Defense at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab", is the go-to man for Establishment rubbishing of citizen journalists, and as with Joseph McCarthy or Matthew Clarke, one day society will sufficiently recover its balance for it to be generally acknowledged that this kind of witch-hunt nonsense was not just an aberration, but a manifestation of the evil it claimed to fight.

Comment: Craig Murray is a former British ambassador and his articles normally make a lot of sense. But that doesn't matter. If you make a few rational questions here and there about the Skripal or Douma nonsensic Western narratives, you will be a Russian bot. Why? Because a guy with an Internet connection and friends in NATO called Ben Nimmo says so - that's why.

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China passes US in healthy life expectancy for the first time says World Health Organisation

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Chinese people can look forward to a longer healthy life than Americans for the first time since records began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) data.

Chinese newborns in 2016 can expect 68.7 years of healthy life, compared with 68.5 years for American babies, the figures show.

American babies can still expect to live longer overall, dying at 78.5 years compared to China's 76.4. but during the last decade Americans are likely to suffer from ill health.

Comment: So what is causing this very clear decline in the quality of life experienced for the majority of Americans? And it's not just in the US: Life expectancy for poorest girls in England falls for first time since 1920s Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Love Eating Crap? Blame the Food Processors


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Cultural appropriation: When respect for diversity is taken to crazy extremes

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Every year the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a gala. A single ticket costs $30,000. New York's A-listers and wannabes deck themselves in overwrought garments designed for the party's theme. Three years ago "China: Through the Looking Glass" inspired dresses with dragons (pictured), hair held in place with chopsticks and, from a few sartorially confused celebrities, kimonos.

The attire prompted an outcry over "cultural appropriation" - an elastic, ill-defined gripe. No such furore arose over the outfits at this year's gala, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination", even though they included a stilettoed and sequinned pope, Jesus Christ in a gold tiara, and a spectacularly winged angel. Why not?

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Global Network for Syria: Statement on impending F.U.K.U.S. military intervention in Syria

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The following is from the Global Network for Syria [see bottom for names]:

Statement on impending US, UK and French military intervention in Syria

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Isn't it meddling?: Detention of Uighurs must end, UN tells China, amid fake claims of prison camps

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© Tom Phillips for the GuardianA Uighur woman passes a poster celebrating the ‘China Dream’ of President Xi Jinping in a photograph from May 2017.
United Nations human rights experts have called for China to shut down alleged political "re-education camps" for Muslim Uighurs and called for the immediate release of those detained on the "pretext of countering terrorism".

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination cited estimates that "from tens of thousands to upwards of a million Uighurs" may be detained in the far western Xinjiang province. Its findings were issued after a two-day review of China's record, the first since 2009.

China's foreign ministry has rejected the allegations, saying anti-China forces are behind criticism of policies in Xinjiang.

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AAASofA: "Pentagon fires a warning shot against EPA's 'secret science' rule"... Riiiight.

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Guest ridicule of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America by David Middleton

This little gem was in my morning email from the AAASofA:

As is often the case, this really dumb article in Science (as in She Blinded Me With) was originally published by Energy & Environment Greenwire (a publication that has almost nothing to do with energy), kind of like The Grauniad citing SkepSci...

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Internet sh*tstorm: Moon landing movie stirs controversy by leaving out American flag

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© San Diego Air and Space Museum / FlickrThe Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 21, 1969.
One small step for man, one giant sh*tstorm for the internet. A new Canadian-directed Neil Armstrong biopic drew fierce criticism after it left out the iconic planting of the star-spangled banner on the moon.

'First Man' opened to rave reviews from audiences at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday for Canadian actor Ryan Gosling's portrayal of astronaut Neil Armstrong. Faithfully depicting the 1969 moon landing, the movie did leave out one important detail: Armstrong's planting of the American flag, which still stands motionless on the moon today.

American flags could be seen in the background in several shots, but the omission still rankled American viewers. How could Hollywood write such a towering American achievement out of history?

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) led the charge. "This is total lunacy," he tweeted. "The American people paid for that mission,on rockets built by Americans,with American technology & carrying American astronauts. It wasn't a UN mission."

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Immigration agents detain over 100 undocumented workers in Texas raid

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly detained more than 100 undocumented immigrants on Tuesday as part of a raid at a manufacturing company in Texas.

ICE detained 160 workers at a trailer manufacturer known as Load Trail, according to ABC News. The network notes that the company had been previously charged with knowingly hiring undocumented workers.

"I knew these were clearly illegals. This is not the way we are supposed to be hiring," Katrina Berger, the Department of Homeland Security's special agent in charge of investigations, told ABC News. "They told me to keep doing my job - that if they were visited by ICE again, they would simply pay the fine and go on."


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Washington cat killer claims 13th victim; animal shelter offers a $36K reward

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An animal sanctuary in Washington has offered a reward of $36,000 to anyone who can help identify an individual suspected of a string of cat mutilations across the state.

Some 13 animals have been found dead in Washington in recent times, with the last feline victim found on Thursday in Thurston County, near Olympia in the northwest of the state.

All of the cats have been found in public places, with the latest apparently surgically slit and splayed. In some cases, the cats' spines have been removed and in others, the organs have been laid out beside the body, according to The New York Times.

"Kind of like an arsonist goes back to the scene of fire. They want people to find these animals," Thurston County Animal Services Officer Erika Johnson told the newspaper. "It's for shock value. It's like a trophy."