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Conservative Twitter voices being hit with malicious 'abusive speech' complaints


RT
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 19:32 UTC
twitter censorship
Several prominent journalists raised alarm at baseless complaints being sent to Twitter over stories on sensitive topics, such as the activities of British spy Christopher Steele, and links between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and China.

Conservative newspaper Washington Examiner's Byron York was reported for posting an apparently innocuous link to his own August 9 story, which exposed the lobbying work Steele, notorious for his Donald Trump dossier, performed for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

York said that he was not found guilty of violating the social network's rules.

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Calendar

One yr anniversary of Charlottesville clashes, Trump condemns racism, says he 'fights for' minorities


RT
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 18:53 UTC
Protesters
© ReutersClashes in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017.
The US President has spoken out against racism and violence ahead of a fresh Unite the Right rally on Sunday, and has trumpeted his own achievements that he says have benefitted African-Americans and Hispanics.

"The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!" Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday afternoon.

The statement Trump made one year ago, in which he blamed "hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides" in the aftermath of the clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters, was one of the most controversial moments of his presidency. While he gathered some support from his base, who believed that Antifa helped ignite the combustible atmosphere, Trump was widely condemned even by members of his own party, who pointed to the death of Heather Heyer, who was killed when a Unite the Right demonstrator plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.

Saturday's tweet took a more diplomatic, positive and inclusive tone but, notably, did not contradict anything the US president said a year ago, something ignored in most media outlets, which commended his conciliatory tone, but noted by his political opponents.
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Attention

US: Dramatic shootout at routine traffic stop caught on police dashcam


RT
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:58 UTC
Police dashcam footage shows dramatic shootout at routine traffic stop
© Pennsylvania State Police / YouTube
Newly released police dashcam footage shows a brutal, blockbuster-like shootout between a driver and two officers during a routine traffic stop in Pennsylvania that escalated very quickly.

Northampton County First Deputy District Attorney, Terence Houck, released the footage on Thursday to demonstrate the risk state troopers face in their line of duty. Houck said he received permission to release the footage from the family of Geneseo Corporal Seth Kelly, who nearly died in the incident.

The shocking dashboard footage shows trooper Ryan Seiple attempt to arrest Daniel Clary, 22, after he fails a field sobriety test on Route 33 in Plainfield Township, Northampton County, in November 2017.

Comment: From the article:
"Northampton County First Deputy District Attorney, Terence Houck, released the footage on Thursday to demonstrate the risk state troopers face in their line of duty. "
Fair enough, this is one instance, in the short section of video shown, that the cops probably acted as they are duty bound and what is sadly to be expected in their line of work, especially in the US. Although the US police force are better known for their abhorrent behavior in much less dramatic situations:

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Bomb

Israel destroys Gaza cultural center in 'a war against every part of Palestinian identity'

Ahmad Kabariti
Mondoweiss
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Destroyed cultural center
© Mohammed AsadNidal Eissa, Deputy Director of the Said al-Mishal Foundation for Culture and Science standing on ruins of the cultural center.
Dozens of neighbors of the Said al-Mishal Foundation for Culture and Science were seen leaning out of their windows this morning to listen to music they believed would not be played again. The cultural center's building was completely destroyed by consecutive Israeli airstrikes, but Hazam Gusain, 18, led his twelve-man band on the center's ruins. The band which had lost their headquarters, equipment and uniforms in the attack, carried their guitars, drums and digital pianos after they all connected their instruments to a small diesel generator.

For 15 minutes, the al-Anqaa (the Phoenix) band sang and played three national songs. Some local residents who came down to the 'concert' to join in, while others watched from further away, clapping their hands to shake off the deep gloom of the preceding hours.

On Thursday evening, at 18:00 Gaza time, 12 successive explosions were heard as Israeli warplanes flew over Gaza City, hitting the popular cultural center, one of the very few cultural outlets left for Gaza's youth in the besieged enclave.

The five-story building held three theatres, offices for cultural associations, a library, and hosted an office for Gaza's Egyptian community.
bombing composite
© Mohammed Assad/KJNHazam Gusain performs with his band • Shocked witness minutes after the explosion • The Said al-Mishal Foundation for Culture and Science center ruins

Comment: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." - Golda Meir, fourth prime minister of Israel

Israel doesn't on all counts.





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Attention

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


Sputnik
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 01:28 UTC
Chemring
© UnknownChemring 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.
© ScreenshotThe 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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