On Facebook Banning Anarchist and Antifascist Pages & the Digital Censorship to Come
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective | indybay.org | 2020-08-21
Today Facebook deleted a variety of far-Right militia and Qanon accounts along with anarchist and antifascist pages, including It's Going Down and CrimethInc. The following is a joint statement in response.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/19/18835999.php
Syrian NHS cleaner's plea on Channel-crossing refugees beamed onto White Cliffs of Dover
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-21
An emotional plea for compassion for refugees crossing the English Channel has been beamed onto the White Cliffs of Dover.The landmark was lit up with a giant video of NHS cleaner Hassan Akkad, a Syrian refugee who crossed to Britain several years ago.He highlighted the "terrifying and devastating" journeys that so many people are undertaking to reach the UK by boat. He also blamed the government for using the crisis as a distraction from the coronavirus pandemic.The giant projection is the latest stunt by Led By Donkeys, a group of activists famed for their giant billboards of politicians' tweets. | A message fr…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/08/21/syrian-nhs-cleaners-plea-on-channel-crossing-refugees-beamed-onto-white-cliffs-of-dover/
Great strides taken in Iran's nuclear industry
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-20
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) — AEOI, in a tweet on Thursday, said with or without the activation of the trigger mechanism against Iran, the body has taken major steps in empowering its nuclear industry and providing 90,000 SWU.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162532/Great-strides-taken-in-Iran-s-nuclear-industry
'US shouldn't try its luck, it'll only be humiliated again'
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-20
TEHRAN, Aug. 20 (MNA) — Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi in his Thursday tweet said the US should not try its luck for it will only be humiliated again.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162535/US-shouldn-t-try-its-luck-it-ll-only-be-humiliated-again
On Facebook Banning Anarchist and Antifascist Pages & the Digital Censorship to Come
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective | indybay.org | 2020-08-20
Today Facebook deleted a variety of far-Right militia and Qanon accounts along with anarchist and antifascist pages, including It's Going Down and CrimethInc. The following is a joint statement in response.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/19/18835999.php
On Facebook Banning Anarchist And Antifascist Pages
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-20
Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects, officially on the pretext that they "support violence." This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with cracking down on social movements and everyday people getting organized in their communities. | Facebook has always promoted itself as seeking to assist people in creating networks to meet their needs.
popularresistance.org/on-facebook-banning-anarchist-and-antifascist-pages/
LA Mayor Garcetti crowned Covid-19 'dictator' after shutting off utilities at TikTok star's Hollywood party mansion
rt.com | 2020-08-20
Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti has been labeled a despotic hypocrite by social media, after he cut off water and power at a TikTok influencer's residence where gatherings were held in violation of coronavirus orders. | In a tweet, Garcetti announced that he had instructed the city to disconnect utility services at a house in the Hollywood Hills, claiming that its tenants had put the community at risk by hosting parties "in flagrant violation of our public health orders." | The residence in question has reported…
rt.com/usa/498487-eric-garcetti-water-tyrant-los-angeles/
Remember Russiagate? Vox writer ROASTED for claiming Democrats 'mostly CONTAINED' their conspiracy nuts
rt.com | 2020-08-20
A senior writer at the liberal explainer site Vox got the left and right to unite in laughter and mockery, as they dunked on his claim that Democrats have nothing like QAanon and have done better with their conspiracy "nuttery." | "Conspiracy theories typically flourish among parties out of power," Zach Beauchamp tweeted on Thursday. "Yet Democrats mostly contained the Louise Mensch-style nuttery while a QAnon devotee is going to Congress." | Beauchamp was referring to a Republican candidate for Congress who ju…
rt.com/usa/498582-democrats-conspiracy-contained-russiagate/
'We believe in law enforcement': Texas governor pledges to financially punish cities that attempt to defund the police
rt.com | 2020-08-20
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott has issued a stark warning to left-leaning cities in the Lone Star State, saying he will withdraw funding from municipalities that try to defund law enforcement agencies. | The Republican politician sent the unambiguous message after Austin's city council slashed its police budget by $150 million last week. "Texas will defund cities that try to defund their police. We support law enforcement in Texas," Abbott tweeted late on Wednesday. | Discussing the issue on Fox News, Governor Abbott accused liberal precincts of "caving to socialism," and argued that the violence that's erupted…
rt.com/usa/498527-texas-threatens-defund-cities-defund-police/
Journalism professor melts down after seeing Trump ads on Washington Post website, accusing the paper of SELLING ITS SOUL
rt.com | 2020-08-20
Seeing the front page of his beloved Washington Post plastered with campaign ads for President Donald Trump sent one journalism professor into a fit of rage. And the angrier he got, the more people in the comments laughed. | "No, @washingtonpost, no, no NO. How dare you? Were these pieces of silver worth the price of your soul?" City University of New York journalism professor Jeff Jarvis tweeted on Thursday, after seeing an ad slamming Joe Biden emblazoned across the banner of the Washington Post's website. | No, @washingtonpost, no, no NO.
rt.com/usa/498585-trump-ads-washington-post/
WATCH: Florida lashed by multiple tornados, snapping trees in half and flipping vehicles
rt.com | 2020-08-20
Florida has been lashed by a series of ferocious storms culminating in multiple tornados descending from the sky, terrifying beleaguered locals, uprooting trees and flipping cars in the process. | One waterspout touched down around lunch time, before transforming into a fully-fledged tornado at Golden Beach near Aventura on Wednesday. | Eyewitness footage captured the moment the waterspout made landfall and gathered pace as it transformed into a fully-fledged tornado. | Tornado / waterspout golden beach Florida – ramen by my mom pic.twitter.com/ANsCQgVHqS– Scott shea…
rt.com/usa/498501-giant-tornado-touches-down-florida/
Racism cured? Elizabeth Warren displays alphabet toys spelling BLM in background during DNC speech, gets ridiculed
rt.com | 2020-08-20
US Senator Elizabeth Warren's attempt at a Black Lives Matter nod was mocked on Twitter after she had the letters BLM spelled out with toy alphabet letters in the background of her video address to the DNC. | The progressive senator spoke to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday from a childhood education center, located in Springfield, Massachusetts. | Warren's speech was mainly about her support for Joe Biden's presidential bid and the problems she had with Donald Trump's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. However,…
rt.com/usa/498550-warren-displays-blm-toys-alphabet/
Trump's pardon for Susan B. Anthony SNUBBED as museum rejects it on her behalf, gives president pointed to-do list it would prefer
rt.com | 2020-08-20
A museum ostensibly dedicated to honoring the memory of women's-rights hero Susan B. Anthony has instead chosen to score partisan political points by rejecting a pardon from President Donald Trump on her behalf. | The National Susan B. Anthony Museum in Rochester, New York, snubbed the pardon on Twitter, taking the liberty of channeling what it supposed would be Anthony's thoughts 114 years after her death. "On news of the presidential pardon for Susan B. Anthony on August 18, 2020: Objection, Mr. President. Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon today!" | Anthony wrote in her diary in 1873 that…
rt.com/usa/498598-museum-snubs-trump-pardon/
Doctors offer contradictory information on condition of Russia's Navalny
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-20
Medics on Thursday provided contradictory information about the health of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, saying his condition had stabilised, but that there was still a threat to his life.His spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said on Twitter he was in a serious but stable condition.She had earlier said that he was in a coma in a Siberian hospital after drinking a cup of tea that she said she believed was laced with poison.
yenisafak.com/en/world/doctors-offer-contradictory-information-on-condition-of-russias-navalny-3537253
The "Obama Inspiration Syndrome"
Peter Bloom | commondreams.org | 2020-08-20
Former US President Barack Obama addresses the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 19, 2020. (Photo: PBS News/YouTube Screengrab) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/obamadnc_0.png …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/20/obama-inspiration-syndrome?cd-origin=rss
Popular viral video firm sues Facebook over Russian propaganda label
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-08-19
The company behind In The Now, Soapbox and Waste-Ed is taking on media giant Facebook, who it claims is falsely labeling it as Russian state-controlled propaganda.
mronline.org/2020/08/19/popular-viral-video-firm-sues-facebook-over-russian-propaganda-label/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=popular-viral-video-firm-sues-facebook-over-russian-propaganda-label
AOC Slams NBC News for "Malicious and Misleading" Tweet About Her DNC Appearance
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-19
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) criticized NBC News on Wednesday morning in response to the network's misleading tweet regarding a nomination statement she had made at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) the night before. | Ocasio-Cortez had seconded the nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders for president at the DNC on Tuesday night, doing so in the name of a "movemen…
truthout.org/articles/aoc-slams-nbc-news-for-malicious-and-misleading-tweet-about-her-dnc-appearance/
Shadow Gate Documentary
The Alternative World | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-19
This documentary is about the private national security state that rules us with false news and controlled explanations. It relies on whistleblowers from within the organization. It describes how it was used with Russiagate and Impeachgate against Trump. | Reportedly, the journalist Millie Weaver was arrested at home in Ohio yesterday as she was about to release the documentary. | There is a full press attempt underway to keep the documentary from the public. Youtube lied that the documentary violated their policy on hate speech. There is no hate in the documentary. | Perhaps anticipating such, she had already se…
thealtworld.com/thealtworld/shadow-gate-documentary
Analysis of Vaccine, Censorship Claims Another Victim: Honest-Journalism Giant, Del Bigtree's "The Highwire"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-19
On July 29, YouTube terminated Del Bigtree's "The Highwire" account after he posted a video of Del and me discussing my debate with Alan Dershowitz on vaccine mandates. YouTube also purged hundreds of other truthful videos on vaccines. | YouTube's …
globalresearch.ca/censorship-of-analysis-of-vaccine-honest-journalism-giant-del-bigtrees-the-highwire/5721483
Zarif felicitates new Omani counterpart on appointment
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-19
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) — In a Wednesday tweet in Arabic, Iranian FM Zarif congratulated his new Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood AlBusaidi on his appointment.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162488/Zarif-felicitates-new-Omani-counterpart-on-appointment
Facebook purges & restricts THOUSANDS of QAnon, Antifa & militia accounts, stretching definition of 'dangerous individuals'
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Facebook has removed thousands of groups and pages related to the QAnon conspiracy after expanding its concept of 'dangerous individuals' to include those who merely 'celebrate violent acts.' Streisand effect, meet slippery slope. | The social media behemoth announced a sweeping crackdown on militia groups, "offline anarchist groups that support violent act amidst protests" (i.e. Antifa), and the pro-Trump psy-op QAnon in a blog post on Wednesday. | Explaining that groups which "ha…
rt.com/usa/498472-facebook-purges-qanon-accounts/
Facebook purges & restricts THOUSANDS of QAnon accounts — plus antifa & militia — stretching definition of 'dangerous individuals'
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Facebook has removed thousands of groups and pages related to the QAnon conspiracy after expanding its concept of 'dangerous individuals' to include those who merely 'celebrate violent acts.' Streisand effect, meet slippery slope. | The social media behemoth announced a sweeping crackdown on militia groups, "offline anarchist groups that support violent act amidst protests" (i.e. antifa), and the pro-Trump psy-op QAnon in a blog post on Wednesday. | Explaining that groups that "hav…
rt.com/usa/498472-facebook-purges-qanon-accounts/
Goodyear backpedals on diversity virtue-signaling after Trump calls for boycott — but it's too late
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Tire maker Goodyear is scrambling to do damage control after a leaked diversity-training slide suggested it'd fallen in with Black Lives Matter corporate virtue brigade, triggering calls for a boycott from President Donald Trump. | The company attempted to distance itself from the offending slide — which warned of "zero tolerance" for Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats or slogans such as "All Lives Matter" and "Blue Lives Matter," while deeming "Black Lives Matter" and LGBT pride attire acceptable — in a frantic tweet on Wednesday. | Cautioning that the slide had "created some misconceptions about…
rt.com/usa/498454-goodyear-damage-control-trump-boycott/
Biden plays president, demands Russia fall in line on Belarus
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Joe Biden may be an uncertain election away from becoming president, but he's already tweeting like one. Following an entirely predictable script, Biden demanded that Russia "be told not to interfere" in Belarus' affairs. | "The brave citizens of Belarus are showing their voices will not be silenced by terror or torture," Biden tweeted on Wednesday. "The U.S. should support Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's call for fair elections. Russia must be told not to interfere–this is not about geopolitics but the right to choose one's leaders." | The brave citizens of Belarus are showing their voices will not be silenc…
rt.com/usa/498452-biden-belarus-russia-warning/
FBI slammed after tweeting out ZION PROTOCOLS, history's most notorious anti-Semitic pamphlet
rt.com | 2020-08-19
An FBI Twitter account has raised eyebrows after linking to the 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,' a century-old virulently anti-Jewish pamphlet, without any comment or context. | The FBI Records Vault tweets out documents from the bureau's archives. On Wednesday afternoon, it sent out a link to a PDF copy of the Protocols, using a program called GovTweetManager. | | A copy of the notorious pamphlet had previously been published on the FBI's archive website, vault.fbi.gov. | Thousands of people like…
rt.com/usa/498466-fbi-protocols-zion-scandal/
FBI slammed after tweeting out ZION PROTOCOLS, history's most notorious Anti-Semitic pamphlet
rt.com | 2020-08-19
A FBI Twitter account has raised eyebrows after linking to the 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,' a century-old virulently anti-Jewish pamphlet, without any comment or context. | The FBI Records Vault tweets out documents from the bureau's archives. On Wednesday afternoon, it sent out a link to a PDF copy of the Protocols, using a program called GovTweetManager. | | A copy of the notorious pamphlet had previously been published on the FBI's archive website, vault.fbi.gov. | Thousands of people liked…
rt.com/usa/498466-fbi-protocols-zion-scandal/
Riot declared after Portland protesters set fire to county office that promotes 'cultural traditions and diversity' (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Portland police have dispersed a crowd of protesters after a mob vandalized and torched a local government building that hosted Oregon's first same-sex marriage ceremony. | The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said that demonstrators had "repeatedly smashed first floor windows with rocks and threw burning material" into the Multnomah County Building, which houses the county's Office of Community Involvement. Photographs show the outside of the building was vandalized with graffiti. | Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese said the destruction was "reprehensible" and "serves no legitimate purpose." | pic.twitter.
rt.com/usa/498395-portland-fire-diversity-office-protests/
'Low Bar 2020': Twitter users roll their eyes at Biden saying that ALL Latino kids speak Spanish
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Democratic nominee for US president Joe Biden appeared to have said that all Latino kids speak Spanish during his speech about the community's importance. It provoked online outrage, both about the comment and the MSM silence. | Biden made the provocative statement during a virtual forum organized by Voto Latino — an organization that encourages young Latino voters to register to cast their ballot. | "Latinos are among the fastest-growing populations in the United States," Biden told American composer Lin-Manuel Miranda on Tuesday…
rt.com/usa/498424-low-bar-2020-biden/
American Samoa 'hostage situation' & Rhode Island 'calamari ninja': Twitter loses it over DNC's virtual roll call
rt.com | 2020-08-19
As the Democratic Party moved to nominate Joe Biden, viewers watching at home were somewhat distracted, infatuated with Rhode Island's calamari-wielding "ninja" and a bizarre "hostage-taking" scene in American Samoa. | The party's national convention pushed into its second night on Tuesday, seeing Biden officially elevated as the Democrats' 2020 presidential candidate alongside running mate Kamala Harris. During the roll call vote prior to the nomination, however, spectators couldn't help but notice that delegates in American Samoa, a US territory, were flanked by a pair of uniformed soldiers, giving the appea…
rt.com/usa/498378-democratic-nomination-roll-call-memes/
AdBlock is getting CANCELLED for allegedly making users see an unskippable Trump ad on Youtube
rt.com | 2020-08-19
Anti-Trump netizens have begun ditching the AdBlock app en masse, after users reported they couldn't turn off a YouTube political advertisement sponsored by the president's campaign. | The online outrage over US President Donald Trump's campaign ads began on Tuesday, prompting AdBlock — a browser extension that allows adverts to be filtered out online — to trend on Twitter. YouTube videos with titles such as "Did something happen to Joe Biden?" and "Democrats ruined their cities" apparently couldn't be skipped, blocked or decreased in volume, according to some Twitter users. | Meanwhile, some users r…
rt.com/usa/498436-adblock-is-getting-cancelled/
Prohibited activity: US Army investigating soldiers in viral DNC 'hostage situation' video
rt.com | 2020-08-19
First they were mocked online for posing in a bizarre "hostage-taking" scene. Now they're being investigated for taking part in a political event in uniform. The soldiers who appeared in a Democratic video can't catch a break. | As the Democratic National Convention voted on Tuesday to confirm Joe Biden as its presidential candidate, delegates appeared by video link to cast their votes for the former vice president. One such stream, from American Samoa, drew ridicule, as the territory's top Democrats appeared flanked by a pair of masked soldiers in a scene reminiscent of a ransom video. | Also on rt.com…
rt.com/usa/498463-american-samoa-soldiers-investigation/
Facebook Expands Policy Against 'Dangerous Individuals and Organizations'
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-19
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Facebook said in a press release on Wednesday that it has taken steps to expand its policy concerning dangerous organizations and people and restrict the reach of conspiracy theorists like QAnon and others who have demonstrated a significant risk to public safety.
sputniknews.com/world/202008191080221815-facebook-expands-policy-against-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations/
Don't be Hoodwinked by Trump's UAE-Israel "Peace Deal"
Medea Benjamin, Ariel Gold | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-18
"HUGE breakthrough today," crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab state and the third Arab nation, after Egypt and Jordan, to have diplomatic ties with Israel. But the new Israel-UAE partnership should fool…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/18/dont-be-hoodwinked-by-trumps-uae-israel-peace-deal/
"Refuse to Return" Facebook group cofounder describes explosion of opposition to unsafe school openings
wsws.org | 2020-08-18
The "Refuse to Return" group in Colorado has attracted 9,469 members and helped inspire the formation of at least 35 other groups across the US, with tens of thousands of members in total.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/18/refu-a18.html
Social media video shows Pittsburgh police kidnapping protester during Saturday march
wsws.org | 2020-08-18
Matthew Cartier, 25, was abducted by police and charged with multiple crimes for attempting to protect marchers during Saturday's protest…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/18/pitt-a18.html
Mali: Shootings and Arrests in Bamako Warns of Possible Coup
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-18
On Tuesday morning, a mutiny in a military camp and the arrest of high-ranking officers raised fears of an attempted coup against Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. | RELATED: | US Ends Ebola Screenings for Travelers from Mali | "The embassy received information about the Armed Forces' mutiny. Norwegians must stay at home," Norway's embassy tweeted. | Bamako people are in great turmoil. Government offices, banks, and shops have closed. Local media are not providing any official info…
telesurenglish.net/news/mali-shootings-and-arrests-in-bamako-warns-of-possible-coup-20200818-0005.html
Nothing better to do, Mike? Pompeo 'gotchas' RT by revealing his nonsensical Iran quote is ACTUALLY by OBAMA
rt.com | 2020-08-18
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo apparently thought that 'revealing' a nonsensical quote he posted about Iran sanctions was actually authored by President Barack Obama somehow invalidated RT's coverage of reactions to it. | RT.com "got it wrong again," Pompeo tweeted on Tuesday, saying that it was President Barack Obama who made a statement we attributed to him. "He told Congress, rightly, that the US could snapback sanctions on Iran anytime and no country could block it. It is still true now. I'll wait for your correction." | Hey @RT_com, you got i…
rt.com/usa/498353-pompeo-obama-quote-correction/
#YoKamalaSoIndian hashtag trends in India as locals mock Biden's VP pick's persistent public demonstration of own identity
rt.com | 2020-08-18
Indian Twitter users have been reacting to Kamala Harris' "first Indian-American vice-presidential candidate" status by jokingly trying to imagine the US politician actually living in their country. | The Twitter trend under the hashtag #YoKamalaSoIndian began on Tuesday, after an earlier New York Times report on Harris' "brightest childhood memories" of her Indian family members. | Indian netizens overdressed the California senator in various stereotypes and some local insights about their culture, j…
rt.com/usa/498328-yokamalasoindian-hashtag-trends-in-india/
'Irresponsible' breaking up of Public Health England expected to be announced
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-18
Plans to break up Public Health England in the middle of a pandemic are "irresponsible" and "risky", Labour has said.Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said that structural reorganisation is "time consuming" and "energy sapping".In a series of scathing tweets, Ashworth said the government was trying to "shift the blame" when it announces plans to break up the embattled organisation later.A story placed with the Sunday Telegraph suggests that the coronavirus (Covid-19) response work of PHE is to be merged with NHS Test and Trace to form a new Health Protection Institute, designed specifically to deal with p…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/18/irresponsible-breaking-up-of-public-health-england-expected-to-be-announced/