Daily News Thread 4/23

South Korea turns off loudspeaker broadcasts into North

South Korea has stopped broadcasting propaganda via loudspeakers along the border with North Korea, ahead of top-level talks later this week.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-43861161

Trump reportedly asked Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu if he even cares about making peace

In a phone call last year, President Donald Trump reportedly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he even cares about making peace with the Palestinians.
businessinsider.com/trump-asked-benjamin-netanyahu-if-he-cares-about-peace-with-palestine-2018-4

Yemen war: US-Saudi air strike on wedding 'kills 20'

At least 20 people attending a wedding party in northern Yemen, including the bride, are reported to have been killed in an air strike.
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43863608

Serzh Sargsyan: Armenian PM resigns after days of protests

Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned after days of large-scale street protests against him.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-43868433

Trump hosts first-ever state visit from France's Macron — and trade and Iran are on the agenda

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes France's Emmanuel Macron to the White House on Monday at the start of a three-day state visit expected to be dominated by U.S.-European differences on the Iran nuclear deal and souring trade relations.
businessinsider.com/trump-hosts-frances-macron-first-ever-state-visit-talk-trade-iran-2018-4

Ruling Party Candidate Wins Narrow Victory in Paraguay Vote

Mario Abdo Benitez, a former senator from the ruling Colorado Party, won Sunday’s presidential election in Paraguay, in a surprisingly narrow victory over the opposition candidate.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/ruling-party-candidate-on-course-to-win-paraguay-s-presidency

Madagascans Protest New Electoral Law as President Warns of Coup

Hundreds of opposition demonstrators took to the streets of Madagascar’s capital to protest a deadly crackdown on an anti-government rally, as the country’s president warned of a coup plot.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/madagascans-protest-new-electoral-law-as-president-warns-of-coup

Mexican presidential hopeful shocks with proposal to chop off thieves’ hands

A Mexican presidential candidate has stirred controversy, after his unsettling comments that thieves should have their hands cut off went viral.
rt.com/news/424886-mexican-chop-hands-off/

Syrian Military-Islamic State Fight Intensifies

Bombing intensifies near the Syrian capital of Damascus as part of an ongoing military operation to disrupt the Islamic State's occupancy to the south of the state.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Syrian-Military-Islamic-State-Fight-Intensifies-20180423-0004.html

A journalist's death was captured on Facebook Live during protests in Nicaragua

A Nicaraguan journalist was shot dead on Facebook Live while filming protests in his home country.
businessinsider.com/angel-gahona-killed-on-facebook-live-in-nicaragua-2018-4

Finland's basic income trial falls flat

The Finnish government has decided not to expand a limited trial in paying people a basic income, which has drawn much international interest.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-43866700

Trump says may tie Mexican immigration control to NAFTA

President Donald Trump threatened to make Mexican immigration control a condition of a new NAFTA agreement on Monday, saying the southern U.S. neighbor must stop illegal immigrants from getting into the United States.
reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta-trump/trump-says-may-tie-mexican-immigration-control-to-nafta-idUSKBN1HU1ZE

Man fined for hate crime after filming pug's 'Nazi salutes'

A man who filmed a pet dog giving Nazi salutes before putting the footage on YouTube has been fined £800.
bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43864133

Florida police failed to unlock phone using a dead man's finger — but corpses may still help in hacking handsets

Police in Largo, Florida, went to a funeral home to press a dead man's finger against his phone in a failed attempt to unlock the handset.
businessinsider.com/florida-police-fail-to-unlock-phone-using-dead-mans-finger-2018-4

AP-NORC Poll: Amid strikes, Americans back teacher raises

Americans overwhelmingly believe teachers don’t make enough money, and half say they’d support paying higher taxes to give educators a raise.
apnews.com/d48bfef260b04f9a872d999256bb8004

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Other urls found in this thread:

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/marx-200-carney-bowles-and-varoufakis/
theintercept.com/2018/04/23/border-patrol-agents-assaulted-cbp-fbi/
itsgoingdown.org/reinstate-the-dekalb-8-support-bus-drivers-fired-for-organizing/
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/04/students-teachers-facing-world-adults-wrecking.html
propublica.org/article/shutdown-of-bryan-texas-schools-probe-shows-trump-administration-pullback-on-civil-rights
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/04/links-4-23-18.html
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/trump-may-invoke-cold-war-era-defense-act-to-boost-coal-plants
wcax.com/content/news/CE-Raid-Guatemalan-worker-arrested-on-New-York-dairy-farm-480355803.html
apnews.com/0030334ac49b4265b40c3a88fd939a59/Hillary-Clinton-out-of-politics,-star-of-GOP-midterm-plan?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics
thehill.com/homenews/media/384366-hannity-hud-shell-companies-report
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

How clueless one can be?

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His naivete is a little charming sometimes.

OP/ED

Marx 200: Carney, Bowles and Varoufakis

As the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth gets closer, a host of conferences, articles and books on the legacy of Marx and his relevance today are emerging.
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/marx-200-carney-bowles-and-varoufakis/

How the Border Patrol Faked Statistics Showing a 73 Percent Rise in Assaults Against Agents

theintercept.com/2018/04/23/border-patrol-agents-assaulted-cbp-fbi/

Reinstate the DeKalb 8! Support Bus Drivers Fired for Organizing!

Across the country teachers, bus drivers, and other school employees have gone on strike for better pay and benefits in a massive groundswell of action. In DeKalb County (located east of Atlanta) in Georgia, 400 bus drivers took part in a sickout, and in response, the school district fired 8 drivers.
itsgoingdown.org/reinstate-the-dekalb-8-support-bus-drivers-fired-for-organizing/

Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking

Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/04/students-teachers-facing-world-adults-wrecking.html

Shutdown of Texas Schools Probe Shows Trump Administration Pullback on Civil Rights

propublica.org/article/shutdown-of-bryan-texas-schools-probe-shows-trump-administration-pullback-on-civil-rights

Links 4/23/18

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/04/links-4-23-18.html

He's like a naive and drunk straight dude being tricked into oral sex by his gay friends

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Trump's Latest Plan for Saving Coal Comes From the Cold War

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/trump-may-invoke-cold-war-era-defense-act-to-boost-coal-plants

But muh free market.

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OH GOD WONT SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN THE CHILDREN ARE SAD NOW VOID EVERYTHING AND SERVICE THEM

The "collective cry" from their opponents, gun owners, exists because children aren't allowed to own guns yet also want to take that right away from the adults they will one day turn into. Children aren't allowed to own guns because children are stupid and have bad reasoning skills, a fact supported by medical science as human brains don't fully mature until about age 20. Even then the status quo is gun control, all the children here are doing is defending it and demanding more of it from a President who is happy to assume new powers.

More to the point most "youth activism" is a massive distraction from labor rights and class issues, and the hodgepodge of different issues prevents solidarity from forming and thus no centralized action on issues except issues with big checks behind them. Should any of them step out of line, like blacklivesmatter did outside the 2016 DNC, they're dropped and forgotten about to be replaced by some new movement. Remember the #metoo stuff? Everyone forgot about that after Conyers and Franken got roped in.

Yet despite all the talk about activism from this teacher there's no talk about her union or labor events students attended. Probably because that never happened because the teacher isn't interested in promoting organized labor by introducing her students to it. That is the real failure here and is why bourgeoisie elements keep winning, because existing organized laborers refuse to introduce children to labor rights. Instead they're put off into trendier issues like gun control or gays rights, until a strike happens and kids keep showing up to school with nonunion substitutes because there is no solidarity.

NY dairy farm targeted in ICE raid

wcax.com/content/news/CE-Raid-Guatemalan-worker-arrested-on-New-York-dairy-farm-480355803.html

I think it's ironic that many farmers voted for this.

Also the entire "youth activism" shit is garbage in the first place because there isn't any difference between "youth activism" and normal activism. The students are being judged by the same standard their adult peers are yet some people think the criticism is undeserved because being a "student" automatically makes someone better than someone else. This is incredibly manipulative and is the go-to tactic of bourgeoisie soccermoms who use this as a way to justify banning anything and everything from shop classes to vending machines within schools.

And by any normal standard, what they're asking for (their remaining rights to be removed) is ridiculous and self-destructive, especially when Congress is already looking at a nationwide school gun ban a thing that would require all schools to be closed campuses with armed checkpoints aka prisons where future students won't have any freedoms. Their demands for having their rights taken away will result in exactly that.

Hillary Clinton out of politics, star of GOP midterm plan

apnews.com/0030334ac49b4265b40c3a88fd939a59/Hillary-Clinton-out-of-politics,-star-of-GOP-midterm-plan?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics

THE ETERNAL HILLDOG.

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