News 10/23

Italy budget: European Commission demands changes
The Commission Vice-President for the euro, Valdis Dombrovskis, said Italy's response to the commission's concerns was "not sufficient" to assuage fears - and the euro's rules were the same for everybody.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-45954022

White House report warns of the ‘costs of socialism‘ ahead of midterms
the White House on Tuesday issued a report warning of the dangers of socialism two weeks ahead of pivotal midterm elections.The report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers fits with a larger campaign strategy from Republicans trying to portray Democrats as extremists for ideas gaining traction in their party, including Medicare for All, the health proposal that would provide government-run health insurance to cover everyone.
outline.com/xHhds6

Canadian PM says it would be hard to scrap big Saudi arms deal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under pressure to punish Saudi Arabia after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said on Tuesday it would be very hard to scrap an arms deal with Riyadh worth up to $13 billion as critics have demanded.
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US sticking to INF Treaty withdrawal, to be filed in due course – Bolton after Moscow visit
Washington is determined to withdraw from the INF arms control treaty no matter what, but has not done so yet, US national security adviser John Bolton said after meetings with the Russian leadership in Moscow.“There’s a new strategic reality out there,” Bolton told reporters, describing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty as a “bilateral treaty in a multipolar ballistic missile world,” that does not apply to countries like China, Iran or North Korea.
rt.com/usa/442065-us-sticking-to-inf-treaty/

People are pooping plastic and pollution might be to blame, pilot study suggests
Small plastic pieces known as microplastics were found in stool samples of every participant in a small pilot study presented this week at a prestigious global gastroenterology conference.
outline.com/LRzBHu

Explosive Device Mailed To Liberal Philanthropist George Soros' New York Home
An explosive device was found at the Westchester County, New York, home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Monday afternoon.In a statement to NPR, the Bedford Police Department said an employee of the house found a suspicious package in the mailbox. They opened it, revealing what "appeared to be an explosive device." The employee placed the package in a nearby wooded area and alerted authorities.
npr.org/2018/10/23/659729192/explosive-device-mailed-to-liberal-philanthropist-george-soros-new-york-home

‘No choice but war’: Israel ‘exhausted all options’ in dealing with Hamas, says defense chief
Israel is left with no choice but to unleash a military action against Hamas militants, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened. The bellicose tirade comes amid reports the IDF are amassing tanks along the Gaza border.“Wars are only conducted when there is no choice, and now there is no choice,” Lieberman told the parliament.
rt.com/news/442015-israel-gaza-war-hamas/

Gavin Newsom: A California governor groomed by the financial aristocracy
With the California governor’s race entering its final two weeks, recent polling shows Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom with a commanding lead over his Republican opponent, John Cox. A poll released by USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times on Wednesday found Newsom leading Cox by 54 percent to 31 percent among likely voters. The two held their first and only debate last week, a radio broadcast which aired for only one hour. … ..
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California Judge Cuts Award To $78.5 Million In Monsanto Weedkiller Case
A superior court judge in San Francisco has upheld a jury verdict against Bayer's Monsanto, maker of the weedkiller Roundup, but slashed the punitive damages by more than $200 million.The jury had awarded $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages to Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper and pest-control manager at a Northern California school district who contracted cancer.
npr.org/2018/10/23/659848853/california-judge-cuts-award-to-78-5-million-in-monsanto-weedkiller-case

New Zealand military covered up killing of Afghan children
On October 15 the magazine North and South published allegations that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) covered up the killing of two Afghan children by a member of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) unit.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/23/nzaf-o23.html

Brazil Elections: Evangelicals Organize in Support of Haddad
Evangelicals across Brazil are positioning themselves in support of the candidacy of Fernando Haddad against the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. They believe that Bolsonaro is inciting violence, inequality, and misery which is against what is preached in the gospel.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Elections-Evangelicals-Organize-in-Support-of-Haddad-20181023-0013.html

Pipeline Fighter Locks to Equipment Truck at MVP Pipe Yard; 6 Arrested and Held on $17k Total Bail
On Monday morning, over a dozen protesters blocked traffic entering and exiting a Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) equipment yard outside of Beckley, WV. This location is a storage and staging area for hundreds of sections of the 42-inch-diameter pipe that MVP is using for its dangerous pipeline.
itsgoingdown.org/pipeline-fighter-locks-to-equipment-truck-at-mvp-pipe-yard-6-arrested-and-held-on-17k-total-bail/

Tech firms make millions from Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, report finds
Silicon Valley technology corporations including Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft make millions from US immigration enforcement, according to a new report.They provide tools that aid surveillance, detention and deportation of individuals targeted by Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, according to a paper published Tuesday by a coalition of immigrant rights groups.
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/23/silicon-valley-tech-firms-making-money-trump-anti-immigrant-agenda-report

OP/ED

Bugocalypse Now! As planet faces ecological collapse, Monsanto shrugs
While it lacks the same Hollywood punch as an asteroid scoring a direct hit on planet Earth, or a tidal wave wiping out New York City, the mass extinction of insects would be no less catastrophic to humans.Around the world, people are beginning to ask the same worrisome question: where have all of the bugs gone? Not that anyone particularly misses the disgusting creatures, mind you, but it would be nice to know what happened to the party.
rt.com/op-ed/442016-monsanto-bees-dying-ecology/

Obama Didn’t Coddle the Saudis? Yes, He Did.
Ex-Obama officials are now claiming his policy was nothing like Trump's appeasement of Saudi Arabia. Don’t be fooled — it’s the latest attempt to whitewash the former president's record.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/10/obama-saudi-arabia-trump-appeasement-coddle

The migrant caravan and the fight to unite the international working class
The massive caravan of immigrants that left San Pedro de Sula, Honduras for the United States on October 13 has attracted widespread attention and support among tens of millions of workers and impoverished people across Latin America. What began as a small group of several hundred immigrants traveling together for security and safety has expanded into a 7,000-person transcontinental political demonstration for equality and democratic rights.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/23/pers-o23.html

Looking for the Next Crisis: the Not Very Scary World of CLOs
We’re still in financial crisis mania, as the business press eagerly tries to tell us how little they learned from the last crisis by trying to identify the source of the next one. The NYT’s latest contribution to the effort is a piece on C.L.O.s, or collateralized loan obligations
counterpunch.org/2018/10/23/looking-for-the-next-crisis-the-not-very-scary-world-of-clos/

McCarthyism in Modi’s India
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are carrying out an audacious campaign to arrest left activists and silence dissent in India. The country is on a path toward fascism. . . .. . .
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/10/modi-bjp-dalit-hindu-repression-maoist

Modi is Hitler?

Christcom gang strikes again

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE

why are their evangelical's different from the american's?

They probably aren’t influenced by Calvinism.

Ya know….I never thought I would live in a time when mainstream media/academia figures would unironically agree with a sentiment along the lines of "Ya know Hitler's merciless racial genocide waged against the Russian people (bodycount over 15 million) and post-war plan to exterminate them wholesale with only a few million left as slaves (projected bodycount 100 million+) proves he was a better man than Donald Trump" but here we fucking are.

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kek

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds

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that's why liberals get the bullet.

Are Huevangelicals different from Burgervangelicals?

I sure hope Drumpf doesn't call out any other billionaires by name.

Yes
They actually tend to side with the left more often than not

Half are way worse
the other half would vote for Corbyn.
Something like that.

What is it with Latin American Christians and being based?

Could you start putting these news on a regular blog with RSS feed too, or using a tripcode so someone could convert these into a blog? These are usually one of the best things Zig Forums has to offer, but I don't have the time to look for them here.

I would but, i don't have any experience doing any of that.