Daily News Thread 5/4

Local UK election results 2018: Parties fail to make decisive gains

Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour achieved "solid" English local election results despite not making big gains.
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43997872

Israel's Prime Minister now has the power to declare war — as tensions with Iran heat up

Israel just passed a law granting its prime minister and defense minister the power to declare war, and it comes at a time of soaring tensions with Iran.
businessinsider.com/israel-prime-minister-netanyahu-power-war-iran-syria-2018-5

Iran's Foreign Minister: 'We Won't Renegotiate Nuclear Deal'

"Iran will not renegotiate what was agreed upon years ago and has been implemented," Zarif said in a YouTube video address on Thursday.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Irans-Foreign-Minister-We-Wont-Renegotiate-Nuclear-Deal-20180503-0022.html

Anti-Elitist Student Protest Shuts Top French University

One of France's most prestigious universities was forced to shut Thursday after student protesters staged a campus occupation against government plans to make public higher education less accessible.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Anti-Elitist-Student-Protest-Shuts-Top-French-University-20180503-0031.html

Swedish Leftists Get Tough on Migration Ahead of Election

Trailing in the polls, Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats are toughening up their immigration policy ahead of a general election due in September.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/swedish-leftists-get-tough-on-migration-ahead-of-election

US ‘freezes funding’ for White Helmets as group’s Douma chem attack claim falls apart

As the reputation of the controversial militant-linked White Helmets continues to crumble, even the US State Department seems to be having second thoughts about supporting the group, reportedly placing a freeze on its funding.
rt.com/news/425810-white-helmets-us-funding-freeze/

Look Who's Picking Up the Tab for Karl Marx's Birthday Bash

Karl Marx’s home town is holding a party for the Communist Manifesto author’s bicentenary, and China is paying for the birthday gift.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/look-who-s-picking-up-the-tab-for-karl-marx-s-birthday-bash

White House denies report that Trump is seriously considering pulling US troops out of South Korea

President Donald Trump gave another indication that he may be considering pulling some US troops out of South Korea after he reportedly ordered the Pentagon to prepare options for a drawdown, according to a New York Times report published on Thursday.
businessinsider.com/trump-could-pull-us-troops-out-of-south-korea-2018-5

The Marine Corps has opened an investigation into an alleged neo-Nazi group member in its ranks

The Marine Corps has officially launched an investigation into a lance corporal who apparently attacked a protester at the Charlottesville "Unite The Right" rally while marching with white supremacist groups.
businessinsider.com/the-marine-corps-is-investigating-an-alleged-neo-nazi-group-member-2018-5

Kilauea: Hawaii emergency declared over volcano eruption

Kilauea volcano has erupted near a residential area on Hawaii's largest island, prompting a local state of emergency and the mandatory evacuation of 1,700 residents.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44001651

Arizona Teachers Get A Raise, But Not The One They Wanted

After staging one of the largest teacher strikes in U.S. history, Arizona educators have secured a 20 percent pay rise over the next three years.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Arizona-Teachers-Get-A-Raise-But-Not-The-One-They-Wanted-20180503-0021.html

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Who is that girl and why do I find her creepily similar to Beria

THANK YOU! BASED NEWSANON!

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OP/ED

Those Gig Drivers Aren't Independent Contractors – They're Employees

A unanimous decision Monday by the California Supreme Court appears to require companies like Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers as employees, who must therefore be paid no less than the state’s minimum wage and be reimbursed for their vehicle expenses.
prospect.org/article/those-gig-drivers-arent-independent-contractors-theyre-employees

How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America

How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/bill-cosby-obama-mega-preachers-sold-economic-snake-oil-black-america

Union betrays Arizona teachers strike, backs Republican state budget

The deal orders teachers back to work while meeting none of the five demands for which 60,000 teachers walked out.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/04/ariz-m04.html

Teachers brutalized in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican officials are using "disaster capitalism"–a U.S.-imposed "debt crisis" and the massive destruction caused by recent hurricanes–as an excuse to close public schools, open charters and attack the teachers' union.
socialistworker.org/2018/05/03/teachers-brutalized-in-puerto-rico

Links 5/4/18

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/links-5-4-18.html

Yuri from DDLC

tbh the death of America's K12s is really tragic and is what happens when you let technocrats make the curriculum all about standardized testing

also fuck europe for making standardized testing a thing

lol what? you don't think all of europe has the same education system do you?

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the entire point of doing standardized testing here was because european countries were already doing it

Jeez my dude, you are thirsty.

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I don't know when europe had standardized testing but here in france i've never taken an american style "standardized test".

you mean those shits where you just black dots on a/b/c/d for like 50 questions? That's a stupidly american thing, trying to copy europe and failing miserably. Also consider the fact that European education systems aren't a total fucking joke.

You speak of Europe like it's a single country.
American style standardized testing isn't a thing in any of the Nordic countries where i'm from

you still do standardized testing though, fill in the dots are just the most efficient and a natural evolution of the design. For example schools don't even need to pay teachers to grade exams when there's a (proprietary) scantron machine that will do it in bulk overnight

theres a differnce between american multiple choice standardized testing and european long asnwer standardized testing.

The fuck is DDLC

Doki Doki Literature Club

Who is "you"? Europe isn't a single country with a single educational system.
I live in a European country and i promise you there is no standardized testing here.

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You must be American, the EU isn't a country and the EU doesn't force a specific form of education or testing upon it's members.
Also not all of Europe is in the EU. Stop thinking the EU is anything similar to the USA.

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Guide to the Trump presidency.
1. Make outrageous claim/promise/demand
2. Get spooked by the response
3. Lie and say you never made outrageous claim/promise/demand
4. Repeat

Throw in some occasional gaslighting and you have the last year and half.

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A currency not even all EU countries use.
Get a clue

It's baffling how misinformed Americans are about Europe and the EU, thinking those terms are interchangeable.

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If the EU didn't control the Euro then what is Brussels.

Giuliani on Kushner: Men like him are ‘disposable’

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/385989-giuliani-on-kushner-men-like-him-are-disposable


Kushner's going under the bus.

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just stop, you are embarrassing yourself

They all are. It's business, everyone except the boss is disposable.

ids sbrouds :DDDDDD
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ofc he is. The man's an idiot.

t. also burger

Brussels is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

The takeaway is that Trump is willing, maybe eager, to lose Kushner to Mueller, but not Ivanka.

It'll probably go into federal courts but if this holds Uber and the like are completely fucked, their entire model relies on people who don't understand they're losing money to sign up

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i dont have uber in my country, i thought it would be a good alternative to the monopoly that the taxi drivers have here (theyre horrible)

The SCOTUS refused to take up Gray v. Fedex (same shit but with Fedex) and that was under Scalia. The decision will stand regardless of how red the Supreme Court gets.

I also hate my local taxi drivers and taxi service but uber is a horrible company aswell

I hope that left review guy is ok.

tbh the stormy daniels stuff is fucking retarded and I don't know anyone who actually cares about it. Then again I remember thinking the same about Monica Lewinsky too, but even in that case the only people who cared were social conservatives who are largely dead as a movement now.

White House struggles with fallout over $130,000 payment

thehill.com/homenews/administration/386147-white-house-struggles-with-fallout-over-130000-payment

Once again, Trump is keeping the White House in the dark.

Giuliani is just another Trump mouthpiece. He's not speaking as an attorney, but as parrot, regurgitating Trump's idiotic reasoning. Trump believes if he cops to the payment, Cohen would be off the hook, not realizing that it just creates more problems.

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i don't like trump but i couldn't give a shit about that stormy daniels thing. she's just doing this for publicity and money and so is the media.
Her character is about as respectable as trump

Don't lie. You'll be sucking his cock in midterms to own libs just the rest of the Zig Forumslocks.

Isn't it something with using campaign fund to silence her which is not allowed??
But Sanders also said that it is problematic when they focus on pornstar instead of government bailing out banker

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sure campaign fund is the only thing that could be considered anything but the only people that really have any right to be outraged by that are the people who donated to the campaign.
Aside from that that's not the main focus, the media just makes a thing about anything stormy trump like the defamation lawsuit she's now filing.
It's ridiculous and there are so many other bad things his administration is doing that deserve more attention

It's also illegal and, thanks to Giuliani, now has shades of money laundering, bribery, and tax evasion.


The problem is that the GOP absolutely will not do anything about them. That one party control has put everything on stasis, allowing Trump to run rampant with impunity.

With that kind of situation, it's understandable that people have gravitated to the Mueller probe, along with the interconnected Stormy and Cohen cases, as a way to put things in order.

yea but why

Damn it anglos.
The eternal jew, as expected.
Based Iran.
At least the smelly french young ones are human beings.
Fuck the fascist pieces of shit opressing the people of Puerto Rico.

If Israel starts a war with Iran we are irreparably fucked.

That makes sense considering that she's his flesh and blood but isn't he at all considered that she or his grandkids may hate him for taking their dad/husband away?

I don't disagree with you, but think the media putting so much emphasis on stormy is just them being lazy. it's very easy to cover that tabloid tier stuff

only the EU. America won't notice any changes since America has actual borders.

Because they underpay workers, overcharge customers, and don't ensure drivers aren't sex offenders (which is a violation of the law in most states). They actively try to engage in union busting and don't give workers mandatory severance pay or 401k matching as required by the law before the ruling.

Uber is awful so is Lyft. They only get away with what they do because urban petty bourgs like to go drinking together and what little transit America has closes at about 8pm. It is bourg transportation for bourg people, as taxis are in general.

stop, please
you're embarrassing us

fucks sake

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I like how jezza is losing

Except that it won't. Trump's shit policies will go on regardless of all these silly investigations. Even if pigs fly and he gets impeached, Pence will just continue to roll out more terrible policies, as they are in fact Republican orthodoxy. These investigations are pseudo events.

I don't think they have much of a choice there. Trump's lies are so constant that breaking them all down seems like a waste of time at this point.

That's why they're also looking at Midterms. If the Democrats take the House, that will put a serious monkey wrench in Trump's agenda and cost him a valuable shield from more investigations.

Honestly, I can't fathom how Trump will govern with a congress that doesn't completely suck his cock. We would probably get an endless deluge of voter fraud accusations and even more petulant whining.

Trump will just lean harder into trade protectionism and infrastructure spending, splitting Democrats. Dems would quietly accept it because they have no alternative vision, and if they turn on either of those they would quickly loose their majority. It's a bad position for them to be in so long as Trump keeps banging on the protectionist drum.

You're fucking deluded.

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The damage has been done though. He has his SC appointment, he's appointed a gaggle of incompetent judges in other positions, and passed a big tax giveaway. And all the terrible executive work like undermining the working of the EPA will continue regardless of what happens in Congress. Even if more investigations follow after the House flips, they will not make up for the fundamental powerlessness of the Democrats.

can israel just fuck off?

all he has to do is promise higher taxes on imports and more money for pork projects. Democrats support both.

nope, they're only going to get bigger after America's new embassy in Jerusalem opens. First Jerusalem will be fully annexed, then Golan Heights, then the West Bank and then parts of Syria. Maybe Israel will buy back the Sinai Desert too. All the arabs will have to accept Israeli citizenship or be forced out as migrants.