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Anti-racists and Confederate monument supporters scuffle at Dallas rally

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© Rex Curry / ReutersAn effigy of President Trump is carried through the crowd during the “Dallas Against White Supremacy” rally at City Hall Plaza in Dallas, Texas, U.S. August 19, 2017.
Thousands of people have attended a peaceful rally against white supremacism in Dallas. The event was marred by scuffles with supporters of a Confederate monument at Pioneer Park Cemetery. Dozens of protesters are defying police orders to disperse.

Dallas police have warned the remaining protesters to disperse or potentially face arrest after the rally ended and the majority of participants went home.

Earlier, police on horseback and others in riot gear had to intervene to break up the sides protecting and opposing the confederate monument. Although some protesters on both sides were armed, there were no reports of injuries.

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Nimes, France: Train station evacuated as police searched for armed man

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© Charles Platiau / Reuters
The train station in the French city of Nimes was evacuated late Saturday due to the presence of up to three armed people in the building, local media reported.

Police ordered commuters to rapidly leave the train station at around 21:15 local time, the Midi Libre newspaper reported.

The evacuation started after police received information that two or three armed persons were in the building. Initial reports suggested that the men opened fire after they got off a train.

French authorities have now denied the unverified reports of the shooting.

The Prefect du Gard said on Twitter that it "confirms the absence of shooting in Nimes station."

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Flashback Warner Brothers bans Dukes of Hazzard car with Confederate flag

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© Gabriel Bouys/AFP/GettyA 1969 Dodge Charger, dubbed "The General Lee" from the TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard", is displayed during the 37th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Cars auction in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 16th, 2008.
Following South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's call to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol, some of the nation's biggest retailers have similarly promised to stop selling items bearing that symbol. Now, one of pop culture's most visible uses of the Confederate flag - the General Lee, an orange Dodge Charger from the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard - is about to get a makeover. According to Vulture, the lone company that was licensed to reproduce the Confederate flag-branded General Lee as a toy will no longer make that item.

Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) is responsible for licensing the rights to Duke of Hazzard merchandise. "Warner Bros. Consumer Products has one licensee producing die-cast replicas and vehicle model kits featuring the General Lee with the confederate flag on its roof - as it was seen in the TV series" a WBCP spokesman said. "We have elected to cease the licensing of these product categories."

Comment: A simple search on the above sites will show that the General Lee cars are still available. Expect the furor over its availability to erupt again.


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Police find over 120 gas canisters for 'one or more' attacks in Barcelona

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© AP Photo/ Manu Fernandez
According to police, some 120 gas canisters found for "one or more" attacks in the Spanish city of Barcelona in the region of Catalonia.

According to the Catalan police chief, Thursday's attack hasn't been "committed on the full scale" because explosives had been destroyed as a result of an accidental blast in Alcanar a day before the terror attacks.

"We're starting to see clearly that (the Alcanar house) was the place where they were preparing explosives for one or more attacks in the city of Barcelona," Josep Lluis Trapero, chief of Catalonia's police force (Mossos d'Esquadra) said.

Catalan police also said that the ramming attack in Barcelona was conducted by one person. Police still don't know if the attack perpetrator is still at large. He may have crossed the Spanish border with France. The police added that the increased measures of control were still in place in Catalonia, especially on the border with France.

"We think that one person committed this crime," Trapero said at a press conference, broadcast on the El Pais newspaper's website.

"Investigation goes on and we keep on working. We are looking for a person related to the attack, but we can't confirm degree of [his] authorship," the police wrote on Twitter.

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Police still searching for one person after Barcelona attacks, may have fled to France

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© Vincent West / Reuters
Police in Catalonia are still looking for a 22-year-old Moroccan suspect in the Barcelona attacks, who may have fled north into France.

The suspect, Younes Abouyaaqoub, is the only person unaccounted for in the case of an extremist cell of 12 people identified by Spanish police, force spokesman Albert Oliva told a local radio station on Sunday.

Oliva added that the identification process of the 14 victims in Barcelona is progressing, but will require more time for DNA testing and necessary formalities. He said the families of some of the individuals killed have been notified.

Catalan police have put up scores of roadblocks across the province in a manhunt for Abouyaaquoub, but the suspect has so far eluded law enforcement.

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Colorado man stabbed after haircut gets him mistaken for a neo-Nazi

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© Facebook
This Colorado man is avowedly not a neo-Nazi.

But he believes his long-on-top, buzzed-on-the-sides haircut got him mistaken for one - and nearly stabbed to death by a confused anti-fascist.

Joshua Witt, 26, escaped his brush with hairdo-doom with a defensive slice to the hand and three stitches.


"Apparently, my haircut is considered a neo-Nazi statement," he told The Post Saturday, as his account on Facebook garnered 20,000 shares.

Witt says he'd just pulled in to the parking lot of the Steak 'n Shake in Sheridan, Colo., and was opening his car door.

Bad Guys

At least four killed from militants' shelling at Damascus International Fair

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© AP
At least four were killed and four others injured in a militants' shelling at a Damascus international fair, a Syrian security forces source told RIA Novosti.

The Damascus International Exhibition is taking place from August 17 to 26 in the country's capital was renewed after 6 years after its suspension amid the war in the country. There are official delegations and about 1,300 businessmen from Arab and other countries, the Syrian prime minister told Sputnik earlier.

The local source told RIA Novosti that the shelling took place from Eastern Ghouta on Damascus' outskirts controlled by anti-government armed militant groups.

"Four people were killed and four others injured when rocket-propelled projectiles fell at the Damascus International Fair," the source said.

The shelling comes amid a ceasefire in Syria.

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Fail! Chelsea Clinton on Confederate statues: Christians don't memorialize the devil for his rebellion

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© Adrian Sainz, File
Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, has been spending a lot of time on Twitter during the last year attempting to expound on all manner of topics to show how engaged she is, but her attempt to compare Confederate statues to the worship of the devil did not fare so well.

The younger Clinton took to her Twitter account on Thursday to try to mix Biblical themes with Confederate themes, saying, "The story of Lucifer-who rebelled against God-is part of many Christians' traditions." Then she added that she never saw a statue of "Lucifer" in a church:

Some feel that Chelsea is attempting to set up a basis for a run for office by using her Twitter account to show how brilliant she is, but this particular tweet landed with a thud.

Whether or not you consider statues to Confederate generals an act of evil, Chelsea's point fell short just by dint of historical fact. The truth is, Lucifer has appeared in art, paintings, and sculptures - many of them appearing in churches and religious texts - since Christianity began.

2 + 2 = 4

Young Bostonian Tries to Reason With Leftist Radicals at Boston Protest... Bad Idea

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A large group of leftist radicals converged on downtown Boston, August 19th, 2017
In a recent editorial on Sott.net, I advised readers not to 'take the bait' of joining one side or the other in the hystericized 'right Vs left' activism that is currently gripping the USA. Well, here's another piece of unsolicited advice: don't try and reason with those who are already chewing down on that bait, and loving it. A perfect example of why you should not make any such attempts was seen today at a rally of opposing groups in Boston.

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'Europe is lost': Barcelona's chief rabbi warned Jews to move to Israel because of threat of radical Islam

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© Susana Vera / Reuters
In the aftermath of this week's terrorist attacks in Barcelona, the city's chief rabbi has warned his community that Jews in the region are doomed because of the threat of radical Islam.

At least 14 people were killed and over 100 injured in two separate terrorist attacks in Barcelona and the nearby coastal town of Cambrils. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack on Las Ramblas in Barcelona.

"I tell my congregants: Don't think we're here for good, and I encourage them to buy property in Israel," Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen said in an interview with Jewish news agency JTA.

"This place is lost. Don't repeat the mistake of Algerian Jews, of Venezuelan Jews. Better [get out] early than late."