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Salisbury, UK: Military factory explosion leaves one dead, source unknown


Sputnik
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 01:28 UTC
Chemring
© Unknown
Chemring Countermeasures facility
One worker was left dead and another transported to the hospital after an explosion rocked the Chemring Countermeasures explosives factory in Salisbury, United Kingdom.

The plant is just three miles from the secretive chemical research lab operated by the Ministry of Defense in Porton Down, the Sun reports.
"The ambulance service contacted Wiltshire police and Dorset and Fire and Rescue service at just after 5pm today following reports of an explosion at the Chemring plant on High Post Road in Netton," a spokesperson for the police department said.
Six fire crews responded to the blast in addition to ambulances. The police and the Health and Safety Executive will be investigating the source of the explosion while road traffic in the area has been halted by authorities.

The facility produces hardware meant to fortify naval ships and aircrafts from enemy fire.
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Propaganda

On the Venezuela assassination attempt: Maduro survives but journalism doesn't

Ricardo Vaz
Venezuelanalysis
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:38 UTC
The Guardian's slanted coverage of Saturday's attack on Maduro.
© Screenshot
The Guardian's slanted coverage of Saturday's attack on Maduro.
Venezuela was rocked this past Saturday by an attempted assassination of President Nicolas Maduro, during a public event, using drones armed with explosives. But as more details started to become available, the coverage of the mainstream media actually moved in the opposite direction: one after the other they have looked to sow doubt on the events, using words such as "apparent" or "alleged", focusing instead on the government using this "alleged" event to step up repression. In the end, it is hard to tell apart the media coverage from the statements of John Bolton, one of the more hawkish advisers to the US president.

Although there are plenty of examples to choose from, we are going to focus on our personal champion of dishonest Venezuelan coverage - The Guardian. A quick search of Guardian headlines with "assassination attempt" shows that a qualifier such as "alleged" is never used. Be it Jacques Chirac, Guinea's president, or even Saddam Hussein's deputy, nobody had their assassination attempts questioned as a hoax to be used as a pretext to stamp out dissent. Such is the dishonesty of the media coverage of Venezuela. [1]

Yet this is the Guardian's opening paragraph:

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Megaphone

Ben Swann: Facebook purge of dissenting voices could lead to its demise?

Benn Swan
You Tube
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Benn Swan
Alex Jones banned, the Mind Unleashed disappears... Is Facebook's continued purge of dissenting voices on its platform going to lead to the demise of the company? Lets give it a Reality Check

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Monkey Wrench

The banning of Alex Jones is a warning shot against dissent

Danielle Ryan
RT
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:06 UTC
Alex Jones, Infowars
The celebration on the Left at the quick-fire purge of Alex Jones and InfoWars from social media has been disturbing - not because Jones' views deserve to be defended, but because his banning is a warning shot against dissent.

It's important to note at the outset that I have no love for Jones whatsoever - lest this be read as some kind of endorsement or defense of InfoWars. It is not.

When you hound the parents of dead children and promote the theory that inter-dimensional "lizard people" are secretly running the world, you relinquish the right to be taken seriously by a lot of people.

But this is not about Alex Jones or what he believes. It is about the fact that the Left has willfully decided that massive corporations, working hand-in-glove with government agencies, as we know they do, should be the arbiters of truth and should hold the power to decide what we see, hear, read and believe.

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Ambulance

Third Palestinian dies from wounds inflicted by Israeli barbarians in Friday assault on Gaza


Sputnik
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:40 UTC
gaza protest
© AFP 2018 / MAHMUD HAMS
A third Palestinian protester has died of wounds he sustained in Friday's clashes with Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border, Gaza Healthcare Ministry spokesman Ashraf Qidra told Sputnik on Saturday.

Qidra said on Friday that at least two Palestinians were killed and 242 injured in clashes with the Israeli troops on the Gaza border.

"A 40-year-old Palestinian from the city of Rafah has died this morning of severe injuries he sustained [on Friday] in clashes with the Israeli army at the southeastern border of the Gaza Strip," Qidra said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a press release that the clashes occurred after about 9,000 Palestinians gathered along the border.

According to the medics, the man is the 167th Palestinian killed since the beginning of the Great March of Return - a series of Palestinian protests ongoing since late March.

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Eye 1

EU DisinfoLab risks probe over abusing French Twitter users' data - NGO profiled and tagged users according to 'political orientation'


RT
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:22 UTC
gay jewish protesters france
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
The methodology used by DisinfoLab in their study of 'Russophiles' sparked further fury, after raw data showed the Belgian NGO segregating Twitter users over political views - and even noting whether they are "gay" or "Jewish."

The so-called Benalla affair that exposed Emmanuel Macron's bodyguard not only occupied the political and the media world, but also sent shockwaves across the web. A study conducted by DisinfoLab, a Belgian NGO, from July 19 to August 3, revealed that more than 4.5 million French tweets were exchanged on the subject.

But the study went far beyond a simple quantitative analysis. The NGO is now being accused of politically profiling users into different camps, such as 'pro-Mélenchon', 'pro-National Rally' (National Front) and even 'Russophiles'.

Comment: French intellectuals livid after watchdog blacklists everyone criticizing Macron-Benalla scandal as 'Russophiles'

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Bizarro Earth

How will the Victorian government's Orwellian social experiment end?

Janet Albrechtsen
The Australian
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:11 UTC
"We're destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone ...
Sky News Banned
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

My son is studying George Orwell and we chatted about Nineteen Eighty-Four over breakfast this week. If he chooses to look, this book is jumping to life all around him. Books are cleansed of words that must not be said. Books by Enid Blyton, mind you. And Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn,too.
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Sheriff

DOJ slams 'sanctuary' city Philadelphia for giving 'free pass' to criminal immigrants, including child rapist

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:06 UTC
ICE officer
The Trump administration is taking aim at Philadelphia's political leaders for a string of crimes committed by immigrants the city released in defiance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests.

The Justice Department this week highlighted the case of child rapist Juan Ramon Vasquez, who just pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry.

The illegal immigrant from Honduras previously was in Philadelphia custody on local charges back in 2014. But when those charges were dropped a year later, city officials ignored an ICE detainer. Vasquez was later arrested and convicted for raping a child and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

He is now serving between eight and 20 years in prison.

"The facts of this case highlight the danger posed by the City of Philadelphia's decision to disregard ICE detainers and release previously deported aliens from local custody," U.S. Attorney William McSwain said in a statement, accusing Philadelphia of giving Vasquez a "free pass."
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Wine n Glass

Keeping it classy: Drunken foursome brawls in front of Bradford, UK pub


Sputnik
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:56 UTC
Bradford street brawl
© YouTube / News Leak Replacement
Mixing alcohol and hot weather does seem like a good idea to some pub-crawlers. A vicious street brawl in Bradford's city center was caught on camera; four people who were apparently three sheets to the wind beat each other as onlookers laughed and cheered.

A video has emerged online of a brutal alcohol-induced fight between three women and a man in the center of Bradford, West Yorkshire. The three-minute mobile phone clip is believed to have been filmed outside The Turls Green, a Wetherspoon pub.

The video beings with a woman in a beige dress lying face down on the ground. A man in a black T-shirt can be seen walking in his socks to pick up his shoe, which is lying next to her.

The woman tries to follow him, but she fails to stand up and falls over again, and is cheered on by the crowd.
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Info

Thousands of Chinese Muslims join in protest against govt plans to demolish mosque

Samuel Osborne
Independent, UK
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:33 UTC
weizhou mosque
Thousands of ethnic Hui Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China to protest its planned demolition in a rare demonstration against the government.

The Grand Mosque in the town of Weizhou in Ningxia, which has numerous domes and minarets in a Middle Eastern style, did not receive proper permits before construction, officials in the town said in a notice on 3 August.

It would be forcibly demolished on Friday, they added in the note, which was widely circulated among Chinese Muslims on social media.

The protest on Friday comes as faith groups, which were largely tolerated in the past, have seen their freedoms reduced as the government seeks to "Sinicise" religions by making the faithful prioritise allegiance to the officially atheist ruling Communist Party.

Islamic crescents and domes have been stripped from mosques, Christian churches shut down and bibles seized, and Tibetan children have been moved from Buddhist temples to schools.
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