Daily News Thread 5/17

Gina Haspel confirmed as CIA head in Senate vote

Gina Haspel is the new director of the CIA, after getting confirmed in the US Senate. Several Democrats crossed the aisle and gave her the green light, despite objecting to Haspel’s role in the CIA’s torture program.
rt.com/usa/427042-haspel-cia-senate-confirmation-vote/

US birth rates drop to lowest since 1987

Births in the US have dropped to their lowest rate in 30 years, marking a cultural shift as women delay motherhood, experts say.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44151642

EU Unites Against Trump on Iran With Moves to Counter Sanctions

The European Union’s 28 leaders came to Bulgaria this week to deepen ties with partners in the east. They left preparing defenses against allies in the west.
outline.com/nd6cf5

Japan is planning retaliatory tariffs against US exports worth $409 million

Japan is considering slapping tariffs on U.S. exports worth $409 million in retaliation against steel and aluminum import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday.
businessinsider.com/japan-threatens-retalitory-tarrifs-on-us-exports-worth-409-million-2018-5

US demanded N. Korea ship ‘some’ nukes & missiles abroad within 6 months – Asahi

The US has demanded North Korea ship some of its nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles out of the country within half a year, according to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, citing sources familiar with the talks.
rt.com/news/426958-korea-nuclear-us-demands/

'US Businesses Rewarding Judge Moro for Jailing Lula,' Says Brazilian Lawmaker

Brazilian congresswoman, Erika Kokay, has criticized judge Sergio Moro for traveling to New York City to receive the “Man of the Year” award from Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce and has said Moro's ties to United States based businesses and officials are a cause for concern.
telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Businesses-Rewarding-Judge-Moro-for-Jailing-Lula-Says-Brazilian-Lawmaker-20180517-0001.html

'These Aren't People. These Are Animals': Trump on Undocumented Immigrants

After making disparaging comments in January saying immigrants come from "shithole countries," United States President Donald Trump has garnered widespread condemnation for his ramped up anti-immigrant, hateful rhetoric, where he described the undocumented immigrants as 'animals' Wednesday at a meeting with some officials.
telesurtv.net/english/news/These-Arent-People.-These-Are-Animals-Trump-on-Undocumented-Immigrants-20180517-0009.html

Mexico rejects Trump's comments that some immigrants are 'animals'

Mexico’s Foreign Minister said on Thursday that recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump describing some undocumented immigrants as “animals” were unacceptable, and that a formal complaint would be filed with the State Department.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/mexico-rejects-trumps-comments-that-some-immigrants-are-animals-idUSKCN1II2AT

Trump Says China May Be Egging On North Korea’s Insults

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping “could be influencing” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after his regime abruptly shifted to a sharp, negative tone this week about the prospects of a planned summit with the U.S. in June.
outline.com/WDpYgy

Bee crisis: EU court backs near-total neonicotinoids ban

The EU's top court has backed an almost complete EU-wide ban on the use of three insecticides, which studies have linked to declining bee populations.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-44151728

DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to Mbandaka city

The Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly hard to control.
bbc.com/news/world-africa-44150762

Air Force apologizes for tweet comparing A-10 strikes to viral 'Yanny vs. Laurel' clip, saying it was in 'poor taste'

The tweet said the Taliban in Farah, Afghanistan would have much rather heard "Yanny" or "Laurel" than the "defeating BRRRT" of the A-10 Warthogs sent this week to repel the insurgents.
businessinsider.com/air-force-apologizes-for-a-10-yanny-vs-laurel-tweet-2018-5

New York man threatens to report Spanish-speaking staff to authorities

A video of a man threatening to report Spanish-speaking restaurant workers to US immigration authorities in New York has gone viral on social media.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44152533

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Other urls found in this thread:

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/links-5-17-18.html
itsgoingdown.org/protesters-disrupt-nexus-pipeline-construction/
itsgoingdown.org/second-trump-inauguration-protest-trial-begins/
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1203/when-will-the-crunch-come/
theintercept.com/2018/05/17/inside-the-barbaric-u-s-industry-of-dog-experimentation/
truthdig.com/articles/43-percent-of-american-households-cant-afford-basic-needs/
twitter.com/W7VOA/status/997180390136844289
nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/richard-pipes-historian-of-russia-and-reagan-aide-dies-at-94.html
livemint.com/Money/3wU3b1IuMYZTl47zYkkcmN/Bitcoin-to-use-05-of-worlds-electricity-by-end-of-2018.html
reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-congress/house-speaker-ryan-moves-to-stop-republican-revolt-on-immigration-idUSKCN1IH22M
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/13/valentines-day-japan-revolutionary-alliance-men-that-women-not-attracted-to
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

Does Donny Tiny Hands Trump think that Kim would otherwise be sympathetic to him if it weren't for pesky Xi? lmao

Looks like this peace deal might not fall through after all.

Screencap this because I'm calling it now. Incel culture will go mainstream in the same way other anti-establishment cultures have like hip-hop and punk rock, in the very near future.
Like starting this year. Already seeing incel merch.

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Does anyone know if Zizek's face has completely healed?

Capitalism strikes again. It's just another identity now.

OP/ED

Links 5/17/18

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/links-5-17-18.html

Protesters Disrupt NEXUS Pipeline Construction

Yesterday morning, a collective of protesters braved an Ohio thunderstorm and walked onto an active construction site, stopping workers from welding a section of the NEXUS natural gas pipeline.
itsgoingdown.org/protesters-disrupt-nexus-pipeline-construction/

Second Trump Inauguration Protest Trial Begins

The second trial of protesters mass-arrested at an ‘antifascist, anti-capitalist’ march during President Trump’s inauguration on January 20 (J20), 2017 has begun in DC Superior Court.
itsgoingdown.org/second-trump-inauguration-protest-trial-begins/

When will the crunch come?

Capital is facing a global debt crisis, warns Michael Roberts
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1203/when-will-the-crunch-come/

Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation

There is a largely hidden, poorly regulated, and highly profitable industry in the United States that has a gruesome function: breeding dogs for the sole purpose of often torturous experimentation, after which the dogs are killed because they are no longer of use.
theintercept.com/2018/05/17/inside-the-barbaric-u-s-industry-of-dog-experimentation/

43 Percent of American Households Can’t Afford Basic Needs

Donald Trump may be celebrating the fact that America’s unemployment rate is at its lowest level in nearly two decades, but that’s not enough for the alarming number of American families still struggling to put food on the table and pay their rent.
truthdig.com/articles/43-percent-of-american-households-cant-afford-basic-needs/

If this happens i will be the founder of anti-incel action

I still don't understand what being an incel is, can someone explain?

Liberal detected.

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Something tells me the meeting won't go so well

Thx NewsAnon 2.0

There was a baby boom in the 2000's about a million extra babies were born. But then the recession happend and for some reason people stop fucking when the economy goes to shit.
Ever since then the birth rate started declining for all races of americans.

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Genocide is a hell of a drug.

@POTUS threatens to decimate #DPRK like #Libya was if Kim doesn't do a deal.
twitter.com/W7VOA/status/997180390136844289

You cant get offended over an innocent joke then call ME a liberal

lol no

lel, the democrats are such hypocrites. Congressional leadership and ranking members of both parties were aware of the torture program and consistently briefed on it. Now they suddenly act all buttblasted about Haspel because they see an opportunity to embarrass a trump nominee.
They had no problem with Brennan, who was a more senior at the CIA during the same period.

Cranky cus your an incel aren't you

can't get fuk, too much time online, no introspection

So it sounds like USA is butthurt that China is backing the DPRK and helping them stand up to the USA.

Finally a women heads the CIA

ironically insulin wouldn't have been discovered without experimenting on dogs, so…

Nah, just trying to keep liberals like you from creating another "BIG OTHER" you can sick the state on.

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"US businesses rewarding 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Moro🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧…"
Like pottery. Fuck Burgerland

HIRE MORE DIVERSE TORTURERS

Sounds like a cranky incel to me

Well you're a liberal, so anyone that complains about the system you want to marginalize.

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Which would be the impact on the left and politics in general if this happen? Anyone know if Japanese communist party have support of the japanese incels?

Think porky is going to start rolling back liberal feminism.
There's too many single moms and single women, and out of wedlock children. Porky can't get rid of the welfare state without shaming women back into marriage.

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Richard Pipes, Historian of Russia and Reagan Aide, Dies at 94

nytimes.com/2018/05/17/obituaries/richard-pipes-historian-of-russia-and-reagan-aide-dies-at-94.html

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Can we ban the autist please?

The trick the obama administration used to make the economy look better was just to stop counting people who stopped looking for jobs as unemployed. The economy is only good on paper. America is probably going to hit japan levels of birth rate decline and idiot pundits are going to be all "but the economy is good"

If Trump learned to read, he would've saw this coming from a mile away. There's a reason previous presidents have been curbing expectations about deals with North Korea.

Now watch as Trump completely debases America to get his "win". We'll all be Kim's whores by the time it's over.

But what about the left? There is any chance that this can help the left in some way?

Bitcoin to use 0.5% of world’s electricity by end of 2018
livemint.com/Money/3wU3b1IuMYZTl47zYkkcmN/Bitcoin-to-use-05-of-worlds-electricity-by-end-of-2018.html

To be honest it'll be more likely that the deal will be scrapped, but who the fuck knows what goes on in this hellscape anymore

Also the massive increase in people receiving disability benefits, who aren't even counted as part of the labor force. The numbers for unemployment have been cooked going all the way back to Kennedy if not earlier, and Clinton really got the ball rolling on deceptive unemployment statistics.

I've read the real unemployment number is over 20% according to shadowstats, but I don't know the reliability of their methodology.

The term is short for "involuntarily celibate" and just means people who can't get laid, but usually when people use it they're talking about the kind of bitter people who make an identity out of it, anywhere from /r9k/ "bitches and whores" types to the sort of psychos who admire Elliot Rogers. The recent terror attack in Canada with a truck was by one of the latter

Only about 60% of Americans are employed.

If I understand that stat correctly, it's more like "America is at 60% of full employment of its labor force", which would mean someone working 32 hours a work counts for 80% even if s/he is getting full time pay and benefits. Maybe I'm mistaken though.

America is a disease.

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Think you can probably help by stop being haunted by liberal spooks and embrace the fact that incels are in fact a systemic outcome of capitalism, namely social media. And stop pushing bourgeois individualism whenever any one of them cries about being alone.

Never mind my stupidity, I did a search on how the 42% unemployment number was found. It's not based on faulty information. That would include a large chunk of the population that wouldn't realistically be expected to work, like senior citizens, students, disabled people, and housewives. Still, it is plain as day the real unemployment rate has hovered around 15-20% just by asking around and noticing what is around you, and in many places the rate is much higher.

Not really. Look at any incel community, they're reactionary autists. If they want to be part of the left, they have to stop being reactionary.

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someone has to stop this shit

Maybe because the USA is deliberately ruining the deal with military drills you fucking idiot?

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Back in the aughts and early '10s the incel forums weren't as politicized, but reactionaries did a lot of ground work to turn the forums into echo chambers, and then to sell fascist ideology. The forum I was most familiar with was liberal as fuck, and exemplified just about everything wrong with American liberalism in the tech era. They closed down years ago, and I don't know where anyone from that forum wound up except one guy who took their shitty lib advice, went into an obviously abusive relationship because he was trained to debase himself for a woman, and wound up in prison the last time I heard.

I don't think there's a whole lot you can do, other than not invoking sexualist ideology for no good reason. Leftism's attachment to a sexual ideology has been its downfall many, many times; you only need to look at the disaster that was the 1960s to see how sexual politics was used as a lever to distract and displace the communist left with a neutered, easily controllable movement tied to irrelevant social issues. Sexualism should have nothing to do with the socialist movement, except as a target for critique as appropriate, and socialism isn't going to cure incel or mental illness or lead to a paradise. There would still be a world of utter shit to sort through after the revolution.

nope, its freedums

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House Speaker Ryan seeks to head off Republican revolt on immigration

reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-congress/house-speaker-ryan-moves-to-stop-republican-revolt-on-immigration-idUSKCN1IH22M

The Republican party is splintering.

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Trump literally doesn't understand anything beyond a few bulletpoint memos. He's a poster child for bourgeois incompetence. The pile of suet actually thinks he's fighting ISIS and saving the world from le terrorism, that's how fucking lost he is.


See what I mean. Everyone is ignoring the ramblings of the retard in the White House and doing whatever the hell they like. No one with any sense wants Trump's retarded border wall, they don't want to stop cheap labor for Porky and they definitely don't want to stop tightening the screws on poor Americans so that, some day, all labor is at the level of the ill-paid illegal labor arrangement for the Mexican immigrants.

Trump and the Freedom Caucus are out to fuck over their own constituencies.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/13/valentines-day-japan-revolutionary-alliance-men-that-women-not-attracted-to

WTF this is unheard of!

That actually surprises me somewhat since the global, historical trend appears to be that people have less children when they become wealthier rather than poorer

Probably depends on how you define "wealth." If you define it by net worth rather than income America is becoming pretty fucking poor.

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But user, the talking teevee man told me that obama gave everybody jobs, the economy is thriving, and we're finally over the great recession.

You really think someone would do that, just go on the teevee and tell lies?

Anyone?

I haven't been paying attention lately, but how true is this looking? I know the Dems have been putting carefully controlled "progressive" candidates forward lately, but what about the rest?

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They're usually more subtle about it.

But isn't the selling point of it that it is decentralised and basically unstoppable? How does it get stopped? Isn't it just random people all over the world doing it?

Most bitcoin mining is done in large server farms, they are easy enough to find and eliminate.

Yes it has. Saw a lecture of his that came out last week. He's back on form.

the most reactionary, trolling shit always gets the most responses whenever inceldom is discussed on here, and everybody gets lumped in the same bag and threads get nuked. stop replying to shit like this swedish retard and actually leave rational discussion open. I am incel and I'm not a Zig Forums shitter, and it's a topic of discussion like any other. stop fucking replying to Zig Forums every single time. you're making one of their dumbest arguments right, that Zig Forums shit is an "answer" to that, by banning discussion.

Of course, how could I be so silly as to think Porkies might not own it all…

w2c

sometimes I wonder if it would have been worth it to get into it back when you could mine at home with your own gpu. I was aware of it then but I decided it was just a dumb scheme.

probably still would not have been able to turn it into real money.

Sometimes I love Japan so much.