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Snitching Society: Three neighbors complain about a 10 y.o. girl selling homemade cookies

Savannah Watters
As the Free Thought Project reported last month, 2018 is turning out to be the summer of the snitches as neighbors turn in fellow neighbors to authorities for selling water, lemonade, or for simply being black at your own apartment complex pool. This see something say something society is the wet dream of the authoritarian and as a recent case of a girl selling cookies out of Iowa illustrates, it is showing no signs of slowing.

One would think that in the ostensible land of the free, a little girl selling cookies to raise money over the summer would never be an issue over which people would call the police. However, one would be wrong.

Savannah Watters, a 10-year-old girl selling homemade cookies on her street became the subject of not one neighbor calling the police, not even two. In total, three of this little girl's neighbors called armed men in bullet proof vests to report that a 10-year-old selling cookies is disrupting to their neighborhood.

"It was going really well," said Savannah, until the cops showed up that is.

Neighbors claim the girl's cookie stand was disrupting traffic, so they had no other option but to resort to the force of the state to solve this problem.

Sheriff

Baltimore cop suspended after delivering a vicious beat down to a man on the street

Baltimore apartments
© Eli Pousson / Flickr
Monument Street, Baltimore
Shocking footage of a Baltimore City police officer repeatedly punching a man in the head has whipped up outrage and resulted in the officer being swiftly suspended.

The punch up took place on Monument Street in east Baltimore on Saturday and video of the incident was shared on Instagram. It shows officer Arthur Williams and a man, Dashawn McGrier, shouting before the officer punches him in the head as onlookers can be heard reacting in shock.

A second officer makes a half-hearted attempt to separate his colleague and the victim, who falls on a set of steps as the officer continues to throw punches. Williams then pins McGrier to the ground, and blood is seen on the pavement.

Propaganda

'Stupid Spooks': Soros-backed DisinfoLab lists former French presidential candidate as 'Russian Bot'

Arc de Triomphe
Once a leader in philosophy and fashion, France has now been reduced to falling for tricks recycled from US con artists by Brussels-based grifters, with a little help from Twitter's 'mea culpa' cash and even Uncle George Soros.

It all began when EU DisinfoLab, a non-governmental organization based in Belgium, published a report on Wednesday about how some 55,000 "hyperactive" twitter accounts spread the news of the Benalla affair, and accused a portion of those accounts of being "Russophiles."

Within a day, French media were printing headlines screaming about "Russian bots," prompting the NGO to issue a "clarification" of their findings. Not all of the accounts were "Russophiles," the outfit said, and the report said nothing about "bots" - but the French public was already outraged.

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Yoda

Dr. Jordan Peterson calls out Durham City Council's cynical virtue signalling

Durham City Council

Durham City Council: Jillian Johnson (second left), Mayor Steve Schewel (center)
A few days ago (July 6, 2018) Mayor Pro Tempore Jillian Johnson and her colleagues on the Durham city council saw fit to release a statement on FaceBook concerning my upcoming 12 Rules for Life Tour appearance September 10 at the Performing Arts Center in their city. These are the signatories: The entire council can be contacted here: council@durhamnc.gov

Lest anyone accuse me of doxing, let it be known that all these email addresses can be found on the Durham city council website.

The City of Durham's statement is one of the purest demonstrations I have yet seen of the tendency for the ideologically possessed to use denouncement tactically as a means to amplify and exaggerate personal or identity-group virtue. To lay this bare, I have composed this analysis of the psychological motivations and narrative structure of the statement.

Bulb

Sales of Monsanto's RoundUp weedkiller reviewed in UK after landmark ruling in US on cancer link

Protest on Roundup
© Yves Herman/Reuters
People protest the 2017 takeover of Monsanto by German firm Bayer.
Some of the UK's top DIY chains have put the popular weedkiller RoundUp under a safety review, after a landmark ruling in the US saw a man with terminal cancer successfully sue its manufacturer Monsanto.

Homebase, which has over 250 stores across the UK, said Saturday that they would review all of their products which contain the herbicide glyphosate. "We have confirmed that we will be reviewing our range of weedkiller products," a spokesperson for the company said.

Another store, B&Q, said that they have been reviewing its weedkillers regularly since 2017.

"We have a record of acting ahead of legislation where appropriate. We led the way in removing three pesticides in 2013 and neonicotinoids from our flowering plants in 2018.

Comment: See also: Monsanto on trial: Monsanto's key witness on the animal studies admitted his earlier calculations were all wildly wrong


Jet3

Russia wins intl army games, Shoigu challenges NATO: 'Best not mess with these guys':

Russia tank competition
© Sputnik
Tank biathlon
Russia beat China and 30 other states in the biggest International Army Games yet, which wrapped up after 28 different disciplines were contested across seven countries.

After the fourth edition of the annual competition finished with a Russian win in the tank biathlon - the most popular event in what has become the military version of the Olympics - at a testing ground just outside Moscow, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu expressed his own amazement at the rapid expansion of the competition.

"Did we expect these games to grow to this size? We didn't think it, but we dreamed of it. And now there are tens of millions following this amazing contest around the world. They watch and think: best not mess with these guys. They realize - the equipment these guys use is perfect, and they are in perfect control of it," said Shoigu.

Sheriff

New Mexico police smash man's window and pull him out the car over a seat belt violation

state police car
© Wikimedia / Wikipedia
A viral video showing New Mexico State Police smashing a car window and pulling a man from the vehicle sparked outrage online. Officers have responded by releasing their own video of the incident.

Phillip Page and passenger Angela Fisher-Herrera were pulled over in Taos County in February for not wearing a seatbelt, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Page shared a video of the incident on Facebook last week, which shows an officer breaking his car window and pulling Page from the car.

Police have come out in defense of the officer's actions, saying Page was refusing to comply for 15 minutes before they broke the window. They say he wouldn't show his identification and was asked to roll down the window 20 times and was warned his window would be broken if he failed to comply.

"I'm standing by my officers," NMSP Chief Pete Kassetas said. "At some point after a certain amount of time of noncompliance, something has to happen."

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Attention

YouTube censors SouthFront's latest video analysis "Russian Military Campaign in Syria 2015-2018"

youtube censored
YouTube is censoring SouthFront's new 1.5-hour long video "Russian Military Campaign in Syria 2015-2018".

This video is a detailed summary of military and political developments in Syria since the start of the Russian military operation until now. It was released by SouthFront on August 11.

Less than 2 hours after the release, this video was placed behind an age restriction because it allegedly includes "violent or graphic content that appears to be posted in a shocking, sensational, or disrespectful manner". The age-restriction clearly impacts a possible reach of the video because it does not allow people without YouTube accounts to watch it.

Rose

A little fun: Russian FM spokesperson Zakharova moves to the grooves of trumpet festival in Serbia

Zakharova dances
© RT
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova couldn't resist the Balkan grooves at the trumpet festival in Serbia and showed off some dance moves.

Maria Zakharova was named honorary guest at the 58th Brass Band Festival in the Serbian town of Guca on Friday, where she was filmed walking along the streets, accompanied by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, and enjoying the local cuisine. She was later seen surrounded by a brass band and moving to the grooves of Balcan music.

The Guca Trumpet Festival, one of the biggest in Serbia, also known as Dragacevski Sabor, draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. The trumpet is a traditional instrument in the folk music of Serbia.


Info

'She's a lowlife!': Trump dismisses Omarosa's claims of his racist rants

Trump and Omarosa
© Carlo Allegri / Reuters
President Trump has called his former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a "lowlife," after the former contestant on the Apprentice reality tv show, in her upcoming memoir, accused the US leader of being racist.

"Lowlife. She's a lowlife," Donald Trump said Saturday, after being asked by a New York Times correspondent if he feels "betrayed by Omarosa?"

After her abrupt dismissal last December, Newman wrote 'Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House,' her memoir in which she claims Trump used the "N-word" when he hosted the reality show. The aide was referring to a long-rumored but yet-to-surface recording of Donald Trump that, she argues in her book, might have cost her job at the White House.