Can BJP's politics and Facebook's business thrive without hate?
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-22
The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/22/can-bjps-politics-and-facebooks-business-thrive-without-hate/

'Drone bomb me': Rose McGowan clashes with Alyssa Milano & other libs over Dem Party 'making world a better place'
rt.com | 2020-08-22
Actress and #MeToo pioneer Rose McGowan has continued an all-out assault on the Democratic Party, sparring with liberal celebrities over 2020 presidential pick Joe Biden and the Dems' progressive bonafides. | McGowan launched a fresh offensive on Friday night, picking up from a rapid-fire tweet session the day prior — in which the actress dubbed the party "frauds," "monsters" and "the lie." She first tangled with Biden backer and fellow actress Alyssa Milano, who responded to McGowan's earlier tweet storm with a thread outlining how the Democrats had "[made] the world a better place." | Milano's thread di…
rt.com/usa/498714-mcgowan-milano-democrats-clash/

Photo: China's Final Type 055 Destroyer Spotted Preparing for Possible Launch
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-22
New reports from Chinese social media platforms Weibo and WeChat reveal that Beijing's eighth and final Type 055 destroyer may be ready for launch soon, as the stealth guided-missile destroyer was spotted receiving a new paint job at a Dalian shipyard.
sputniknews.com/military/202008221080241691-photo-chinas-final-type-055-destroyer-spotted-preparing-for-possible-launch/

Pakistan congratulates Turkey over gas discovery
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-22
Pakistan's president on Saturday congratulated Turkey over the natural gas discovery in the Black Sea."I must congratulate our friends, President @RTErdogan and the people of Turkey, on their biggest natural gas discovery in the Black Sea. Friends revel and rejoice in the happiness and prosperity of friends. Mashallah," Arif Alvi said in a Twitter post.The development remained one of the top trends "HayirliOlsunTurkiye– #PakGreetsTurkey" on Twitter and other social media sites, with users congratulating Ankara over historic discovery.On Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced some 320 billion cubic mete…
yenisafak.com/en/news/pakistan-congratulates-turkey-over-gas-discovery-3537401

On Facebook banning pages associated with anarchism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-22
And the Digital Censorship to Come.
mronline.org/2020/08/22/on-facebook-banning-pages-associated-with-anarchism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-facebook-banning-pages-associated-with-anarchism

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

Dem candidate running to be city's 'first black mayor' faked her own kidnapping to win votes, say South Carolina police
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Sabrina Belcher, who is running for mayor of Sumter, South Carolina, has been arrested on charges of faking a kidnapping to win sympathy votes. She live-streamed the entire incident on Facebook. | Police say the 29-year-old candidate faked a beating and kidnapping to win "publicity, sympathy, and votes in the November election." A 34-year-old man named Christopher Eady allegedly helped her fake the video. | Belcher reported to police that a man was trying to rob her, having broken the windows in her car, and kidnapped her. She claimed not to know the man, but police found in their investigation that she had be…
rt.com/usa/498708-sabrina-belcher-fake-kidnapping-south-carolina/

'You are frauds. You are the lie': Rose McGowan torches the DNC, calls Biden a rapist, inciting a horde of party defenders
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Actress Rose McGowan drew fire from Democratic partisans on Twitter, after seemingly continuing her no-compromises approach to public discourse by accusing the US liberals of uselessness, and Joe Biden of being a rapist. | "You are the season of darkness," the MeToo firebrand tweeted on Thursday, referring to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. "You are monsters," she added. "You are frauds. You are the lie." | You are the season of darkness. @JoeBiden @dnc You are monsters. You are frauds.
rt.com/usa/498660-rose-mcgowan-torches-dnc/

'You are frauds. You are the lie': Rose McGowan torches the DNC, calls Biden a rapist, inciting a horde of party defenders
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Actress Rose McGowan drew fire from Democratic partisans on Twitter, after seemingly continuing her no-compromises approach to public discourse by accusing the US liberals of uselessness, and Joe Biden of being a rapist. | "You are the season of darkness," the MeToo firebrand tweeted on Thursday, referring to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. "You are monsters," she added. "You are frauds. You are the lie." | You are the season of darkness. @JoeBiden @dnc You are monsters. You are frauds.
rt.com/usa/498660-rose-mcgowan-torches-dnc/

'F**k, f**k, f**k': Dem senator caught cursing out assistant on hot mic as technology beats him (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Democratic Party Senator Tom Carper has given Twitter something to laugh about as he got caught cursing on a hot mic at a virtual Senate hearing after getting "frustrated with technical difficulties." | The 73-year-old Carper (D-Delaware) was shown swearing at his assistant after seemingly thinking his live feed wasn't functioning properly — except it was. | "F**k, f**k, f**k," Carper is heard saying, before an aide moves in to help him. The entire exchange was livestreamed to the Senate. | Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) tried to move on to another senator for questioning while Carper dealt with his "tech…
rt.com/usa/498696-tom-carper-senate-hearing-swearing/

'Reexamine your life choices': Trump hater Soledad TRIGGERED by praise of Biden's 'conservative themes' in DNC speech
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Liberal journalist Soledad O'Brien launched a pointed attack on Twitter after Joe Biden's DNC acceptance speech was deemed "conservative," a term that the Trump critic apparently found unbearable in being linked to the Democrat. | After Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, praised Biden's speech as more conservative than any Donald Trump has given because of a focus on "family, faith and character," O'Brien jumped in to blast the commentary and tell Longwell to "reexamine" her "life choices." | "What is wrong with you? What kind of a terrible person says this? Do you not know any people of color who over-…
rt.com/usa/498704-soledad-obrien-biden-conservative-dnc/

Chris Wallace, welcome to the #Resistance? MAGA crowd CANCELS Fox News host who complimented Biden's DNC speech
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Trump supporters seem to have finally decided to engage in 'cancel culture' on Twitter after Chris Wallace, a host on the traditionally pro-Republican Fox News network, praised the speech by the Democratic nominee Joe Biden. | "I thought [Biden's speech] was enormously effective," Wallace said on Thursday night, after Biden's address wrapped up the last day of the Democratic convention in Milwaukee. In Wallace's opinion, Biden effectively countered President Donald Trump's criticism that he was "mentally shot" and a "captive" of the left wing of the Democratic Party. | "And yes, Biden was reading from the tele…
rt.com/usa/498692-chris-wallace-cancelled-biden/

As Democrats deliver 4-point poll boost to TRUMP, media spin says convention bounce 'not the point'
rt.com | 2020-08-21
While the mainstream media have sought to downplay the impact of 2020 party conventions, polls showing President Donald Trump surging ahead as the Democrats held their virtual rally have them both stumped and spinning. | "Don't be surprised if Biden doesn't get a convention bounce in the polls. That's not the point," declared an early Friday headline in the Washington Post. Post-convention surges are hard when the country is polarized and the parties "stage theirs back to back, as they will this year," argued opinion writer Karen Tumulty. | | © Twitter/screenshot | Except both things were just as true i…
rt.com/usa/498695-democrat-convention-trump-poll-bounce/

Woke indulgences? Twitter CEO donates $10 million to 'anti-racism' scholar who preaches discrimination as a fix to all race issues
rt.com | 2020-08-21
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated a "no strings attached" $10 million to Ibram Kendi's Center for Antiracist Research. Kendi is a bestselling author who's become famous by telling white people that they're racists. | Announcing the donation on Thursday, Dorsey said that the center's research "will inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change." According to Boston University, which hosts the center, teams of academics, lawyers, social workers and scientists will collaborate to…
rt.com/usa/498606-dorsey-10mn-donation-antiracism/

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/

'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

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

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/

'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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/