Daily News Thread 6/18

China's tariffs on U.S. oil would disrupt $1 billion monthly business

China’s threat to impose duties on U.S. oil imports will hit a business that has soared in the last two years, and which is now worth almost $1 billion per month.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-oil-graphic/chinas-tariffs-on-u-s-oil-would-disrupt-1-billion-monthly-business-idUSKBN1JE0CD

Trump migrant separation policy: Children 'in cages' in Texas

Reporters and Democratic lawmakers have been allowed inside a detention centre that lies at the heart of a growing storm over a new US policy separating migrant children from their parents.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942

Trump wades into German migration row

US President Donald Trump has attacked the German government's approach to immigration, as he comes under pressure over his own crackdown on migrants.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44524873

UN Urges End to Trump's Policy of Family Separation

The top U.N. human rights official called on the Trump administration on Monday to halt its "unconscionable" policy of forcibly separating children from migrant parents irregularly entering the country via Mexico.
telesurtv.net/english/news/UN-Urges-End-to-Trumps-Policy-of-Family-Separation-20180618-0010.html

Colombian Far-Right Candidate Duque Wins Presidential Elections

One hour after the polls closed on Sunday for the second round of Colombian presidential elections, electoral authorities announced that far-right candidate Ivan Duque won over the leftist alternative Gustavo Petro with 53,98 percent versus 41,81 percent as 100 percent of the vote was counted.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Colombian-Far-Right-Candidate-Duque-Wins-Presidential-Elections-20180617-0016.html

Syrian, Iraqi forces say U.S. bombs military border positions, U.S. denies

Syrian state media said on Monday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had bombed a Syrian army position near the Iraqi border, causing deaths and injuries, but the U.S. military denied it was responsible.
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa/syrian-iraqi-forces-say-u-s-bombs-military-border-positions-u-s-denies-idUSKBN1JD11G

Turkish, U.S. units begin patrols near northern Syria's Manbij

Turkish and U.S. soldiers have started independent patrols in northern Syria along the line separating Turkish-controlled areas from the town of Manbij where Ankara says Kurdish militia fighters are based, Turkey’s military said on Monday.
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey/turkish-u-s-units-begin-patrols-near-northern-syrias-manbij-idUSKBN1JE1A3

Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Statewide Gerrymandering Challenges

The U.S. Supreme Court set aside a finding that Republicans violated the Constitution with GOP-friendly voting lines for the Wisconsin Assembly, casting doubt on the ability of voters to challenge statewide maps for being excessively partisan.
outline.com/DyjM83

Coal Plants Keep Shutting Despite Trump’s Order to Rescue Them

President Donald Trump has ordered a rescue of the nation’s struggling coal and nuclear power industries, but that doesn’t mean utilities are reconsidering the shutdown of unprofitable plants.
outline.com/sZqpyZ

Texas cop 'abused migrant girl and threatened to deport mum'

A Texas sheriff's deputy has been arrested for abusing a four-year-old girl and threatening her undocumented immigrant mother with deportation.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44523536

Compulsive video-game playing could be mental health problem

Obsessive video gamers know how to anticipate dangers in virtual worlds. The World Health Organization says they now should be on guard for a danger in the real world: spending too much time playing.
apnews.com/309e0d17ea024b8b8a6bac92d8d3cd09/Compulsive-video-game-playing-could-be-mental-health-problem

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Other urls found in this thread:

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/missing-action-poor-america.html
bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=39642
propublica.org/article/politic-il-insider-chicago-police-anti-trump-protesters-drones
counterpunch.org/2018/06/18/i-spoke-to-palestinians-who-still-hold-the-keys-to-homes-they-fled-decades-ago-many-are-still-determined-to-return/
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/06/18/wisc-j18.html
rs21.org.uk/2018/06/16/i-am-my-own-guardian-the-struggle-against-male-guardianship-and-brutal-state-repression/
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/links-6-18-18.html
businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5
thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors#.Wyf7nzKrhgY.twitter
amazon.com/Emergency-Mylar-Blankets-84-Pack/dp/B004356WLY/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1529357566&sr=8-13&keywords=survival blanket
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

OP/ED

Missing in Action: The Poor in America

How much of the reality of being poor remains hidden, often by design.
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/missing-action-poor-america.html

European-wide unemployment insurance proposals – more bunk!

bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=39642

The Administration of Mayor Rahm Emanuel Keeps Monitoring Protesters

Chicago police and City Hall tracked anti-Trump demonstrators — and now state legislators want to let them use drones.
propublica.org/article/politic-il-insider-chicago-police-anti-trump-protesters-drones

I Spoke to Palestinians Who Still Hold the Keys to Homes They Fled Decades Ago – Many are Still Determined to Return

Keys must always be the symbol of the Palestinian “Nakba” – the “disaster” – the final, fateful, terrible last turning in the lock of those front doors as 750,000 Arab men, women and children fled or were thrown out of their homes in what was to become the state of Israel in 1947 and 1948.
counterpunch.org/2018/06/18/i-spoke-to-palestinians-who-still-hold-the-keys-to-homes-they-fled-decades-ago-many-are-still-determined-to-return/

Rural school closings devastate Wisconsin communities

Along with school closings, Wisconsin teachers saw a 21 percent decrease in wages and benefits between 2011 and 2016.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/06/18/wisc-j18.html

‘I Am My Own Guardian’ – State repression of Saudi activists

rs21.org.uk/2018/06/16/i-am-my-own-guardian-the-struggle-against-male-guardianship-and-brutal-state-repression/

Links 6/18/18

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/links-6-18-18.html

Tybna!

America officially has a new military branch, Trump ordered the creation of the "Space Force" today

I for one, have full faith in Friend and The Earth Defense Force.

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What does Trump hope to acomplish by making children orphans and putting them in cages like chicken?

It makes his base's penis hard.

Extortion for his WALL.

CAN'T STOP HISTORY FAM

He hopes to uphold Obama's legacy.

Obama administration officials are rushing to explain photos from 2014 that went viral this weekend showing locked-up immigrant children

Several former Obama administration officials took to social media and news outlets on Tuesday to explain a gallery of years-old photos that showed immigrant children sleeping in shoddy conditions at a government-run holding facility in Arizona.

The images, which were first published by the Associated Press in 2014, resurfaced over the weekend for reasons that remain unclear, and quickly prompted viral outrage on Twitter. One particularly disturbing image showed two children sleeping on mattresses on the floor inside what appeared to be a cage.

A number of prominent liberals — and even a former Obama administration official — shared the photos in outrage, mistakenly believing they depicted the Trump administration's treatment of immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their parents.

Jon Favreau, who worked as a speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, tweeted, "This is happening right now, and the only debate that matters is how we force our government to get these kids back to their families as fast as humanly possible."

Favreau said Tuesday he later deleted the tweet after social media users pointed out that the photos were taken during the Obama administration. But by that point, critics had already rushed to accuse him of concealing Obama's own harsh immigration tactics while condemning Trump's.

Favreau said in a series of tweets that he made a "mistake" by not checking the date of the photos before sharing them on Twitter. He explained that the photos were taken in 2014, when the Obama administration faced "an influx of unaccompanied minors who showed up at the border, fleeing violence from Central America."

He added that the pictures had been taken while the government was trying to "move those children out of those shelters as fast as humanly possible and connect them with their parents, most of whom were already in the United States."

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businessinsider.com/migrant-children-in-cages-2014-photos-explained-2018-5

A kind of hostage taking. Take people's children away makes them more amenable to returning "voluntarily".

Obama was definitely a shitbag for failing to address immigration in any way. But the new Trump policy, which started in April, is 'zero tolerance' and results in thousands of more family separations. Trump is pinning this on Obama because he knows everyone will believe him but this policy is a direct order from Session.

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Yeah but the photos from 2014 are still the photos from 2014.
I see young children. I see cages. I see children in the cages. I see no parents around. The photo is from 2014, when Obama was in office?

What am I missing here? It wasn't as bad when Obama did it because Eric Holder never wrote a directive for them to do what they were already doing anyways?

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Come on, you don't have to deny it. Spending a shitload of your time on any kind of endorphin dispenser is a surefire sign of pathology

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Just because there's no activity logger on Chans doesn't mean you're probably not clocking in more hours than if you were on CS:GO or some shit.

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It was more of a "who wooda thonk" reaction bru

Okay then bru i gotchu

Fucking lmao.

spending time on discussion boards can be productive
(usually isn't)

Here's a more recent photo with plenty more on the way..

Few things to consider:
1) The Stephen Miller machine is pushing for hegemonic acquiescance. We have not seen that in terms of such questionable domestic human rights in regards to children.

2) It's systemically been intensified. Obama ran a trial run, and stopped the program swiftly because they realized it would be a PR disaster. The notion that the program just continued until we just noticed recently has been debunked already. The policy was reenergized and enforced under Jeff Sessions.

3) The Republicans have taken to calling the children "child actors". Most of Zig Forums probably don't have children so aren't really aware of how criminal it truly is to tear a toddler away from his/her mom, and put them in confinement. It's a special kind of cruelty though, and there are many cogs playing a real role in it.

thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors#.Wyf7nzKrhgY.twitter

4) Finally, this is specifically being maintained by Trump. Passing the buck to Hillary and Obama in Zig Forums might as well be a meme at this point. Place blame on the idiots who refuse to stop it. It's like blaming Henry the 7th for what Henry the 8th is doing… In otherwords, being a retarded pleb who blames the Pharaohs for the current state of capitalism instead of holding the ruling classes feet to the fire.

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What the fuck, is that aluminum foil??

Who's letting Trump off the hook? Why not also blame the dude who started it. Interesting post and details.

You still said:


Would Obama be absolved if he ran a trial run for doming Immigrant children with a Hakapik decided to stop, solely because of the optics and then Trump picked up the immigrant infant hunt again because he doesn't give a fuck about optics?

Also you can't deny this shit is hilarious even if it makes Zig Forumstards smile:

What a covfefe.

Blankets

It's Mylar. amazon.com/Emergency-Mylar-Blankets-84-Pack/dp/B004356WLY/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1529357566&sr=8-13&keywords=survival blanket

By all means he's a shitbag, and Hillary may have gotten away with doing it. My thoughts are that the people who refuse to stop this are using that line of defense incessantly already. I want this particular action to be resolved, and not with the continuance of family separations.

Obama is not absolved. He was a shitbag AND still is. He is probably in fact happy that Trump makes him look better to most normiez.

As to the early photos. That's called poetic justice they got caught with their own shitty policy.

I only mention blaming past administrations and assholes not in power because we have other crisis this tactic will be used on both economic and environmental. These fuckers in the media pass the buck around in a circle.

Thank you based uncle Xi, fuck up the Yanks

Xi and Trump are the protectionists we need now more than ever. Stop Ocean air pollutions. Stop risking enviormental catastrophe! End Tans-ocean international trade today!

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And just when Trump completely fucked the green energy movement too.

Pollution and climate change mixed with end stage capitalism… It's only going to get much worse from here, and Darwinism of smaller countries shall ensue.

Do you honestly think Space Force is going to let any vulnerable country keep American resources within their borders as Climate Change hastens resource depletion?

We absolutely need to empoer environmentally considerate non-internationalist socialists within every global power country to avoid posadism.

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I hope I can get a medical marijuana card to help me with it.

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TRADE WAR

FIGHT! FIGHT FIGHT! FIGHT!

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Planning documents for it were released yesterday. Apparently, the idea is that of you separate families seeking asylum, fewer people will want to seek asylum.

So literally just "fuck brown people"

Still bad, but not as bad because the children in 2014 weren't taken away from their families. They arrived without families and were reunited with them when they were released.

As cruel as it is, it's a rather shit deterrent when compared to the rape, murder, and violence back home.


Why did I know that was going to happen? Conservatives are like a goddamn cartoon.

Also, are you implying that a well-kept slave is better-off than a free peasant?