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Theresa May is on the brink of a no confidence vote after Conservative MPs reject her Brexit deal
Theresa May has had another bruising day with multiple Conservative MPs submitting letters of no confidence in her. The number of MPs who have gone public with their letters was 22 at the time of the writing.
businessinsider.com/liveblog-theresa-may-faces-pressure-and-resignations-over-brexit-deal-2018-11

North Korea says it's testing 'cutting-edge' weapons
North Korea is developing and testing modern strategic weapons, state media outlets announced on Friday.North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un "inspected the testing of a newly developed high-tech tactical weapon at the Academy of National Defense Science," the state broadcaster said.The weapon was not described, but the test was reportedly successful.
dw.com/en/north-korea-says-its-testing-cutting-edge-weapons/a-46321013

Israel set for early elections after cabinet breaks up, source says
Israel is due to hold elections early next year after the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lost his defence minister and talks broke down in his coalition government on Friday, a source close to the cabinet told the Guardian.Netanyahu had met the education minister, Naftali Bennett, who wanted the defence ministry post in the rightwing government, but the meeting ended with a decision by cabinet members to hold national polls, which were previously due in November 2019.
theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/16/israel-set-for-early-elections-after-cabinet-breaks-up-source-says

Urban ranching: A socialist commune's response to Venezuela's crisis
A socialist commune has drawn the ire of its neighbors in a wealthy area of Caracas with an unusual response to the hyperinflation and food shortages afflicting Venezuela: turning its backyard into an urban cattle pasture.The leaders of the Apacuana commune, devotees of socialist President Nicolas Maduro, drove six hours to purchase 11 450-kilo (992-lb) cows. They set them to graze behind their 2,000-square meter (21,528 square-foot) home, donated by the state-owned telecommunications company two years ago.
reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-cattle/urban-ranching-a-socialist-communes-response-to-venezuelas-crisis-idUSKCN1NL1U6

US to cut Africom troops amid focus on Russia and China
The US is cutting hundreds of troops in Africa as it focuses on countering threats from Russia and China.Around 700 counter-terrorism troops will be removed over the next few years, the Department of Defense said.About 7,200 US soldiers are currently based in dozens of African countries including Nigeria and Libya.
bbc.com/news/world-africa-46234122

Facebook hires former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
Facebook’s decision to appoint former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as its vice-president of Global Affairs and Communications epitomises the integration of the social media giants and the capitalist state apparatus in every country.After reportedly extensive discussions with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Clegg claimed to be impressed by the company’s recognition that it “is on a journey which brings new responsibilities not only to the users of Facebook’s apps but to society at large. I hope I will be able to play a role in helping to navigate that journey.”
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/16/cleg-n16.html

Trump privately asking aides if Pence is loyal: report
President Trump has privately asked aides about his vice president Mike Pence's loyalty, the New York Times reported Friday.Trump reportedly questioned Pence's allegiance so many times that many of his advisers are alarmed, as those kinds of inquiries tend to indicate that he is irritated with someone.
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==Bottles, chili paste thrown as Sri Lanka parliament descends into farce
Sri Lanka’s parliament descended into chaos for a second day on Friday as lawmakers supporting newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books, chili paste and water bottles at the speaker to try to disrupt a second no-confidence motion.The vote went ahead anyway and for a second time lawmakers gave Rajapaksa and his new government the thumbs down, potentially strengthening the hand of Wickremesinghe, who is seeking to return as prime minister.. ..
reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-politics/bottles-chili-paste-thrown-as-sri-lanka-parliament-descends-into-farce-idUSKCN1NL1GT

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Will there be a nation as based as the DPRK?

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No more 'moderates'? Al Nusra terrorists unite ALL Idlib militants under single anti-Assad command
The notorious Al Nusra terrorist group has announced it has united all the rebel factions in Idlib under a single command, eroding whatever thin line ever existed between the so-called 'moderate' militants and hardcore jihadists.The Idlib province has been relatively calm following the September agreement between Russia and Turkey to set up a buffer zone in the province in the hope that it would lead to a long-lasting ceasefire. The deal, which was backed by Germany and France, and supported by the United States, in theory, should have allowed the so-called 'moderate' rebels to take control of the province while separating from radical Islamists. However, exactly the opposite appears to have happened.
rt.com/news/444138-nusra-united-rebels-idlib/

Brazil's new foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen a new foreign minister who believes climate change is part of a plot by “cultural Marxists” to stifle western economies and promote the growth of China.Ernesto Araújo – until recently a mid-ranking official who blogs about the “criminalisation” of red meat, oil and heterosexual sex – will become the top diplomat of South America’s biggest nation, representing 200 million people and the greatest and most biodiverse forest on Earth, the Amazon.
theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/brazil-foreign-minister-ernesto-araujo-climate-change-marxist-plot

Maria Butina, Accused Of Being A Russian Agent, May Be In Talks For Plea Deal
Prosecutors are negotiating a potential plea agreement with the Russian woman who was charged over the summer with being a clandestine foreign agent.The U.S. attorney's office for Washington, D.C., said in a court filing that its lawyers are in talks with counsel for the woman, Maria Butina, who also was charged with alleged conspiracy.Her lawyers have said she is simply a naive young woman who was "jabbering" about her efforts to influence U.S. politicians
npr.org/2018/11/16/668625222/maria-butina-accused-of-being-a-russian-agent-may-be-in-talks-for-plea-deal

Outrage as members of Merkel party’s youth wing filmed singing ‘Nazi-era’ song
The Christian Democrats’ youth wing was filmed yelling out a song sung by Wehrmacht soldiers in the 1930s, causing quite a stir in Germany and an accusation of getting closer to the far-right.Over a dozen members of the Junge Union (Young Union), CDU party’s youth wing, has been filmed singing the ‘Westerwald Song’ in a Berlin pub. And the timing could not have been worse.
rt.com/news/444182-germany-cdu-youth-wehrmacht-song/

A top economist warns Trump's China trade war is doing more damage to the US economy than people think
President Donald Trump's trade war is already wiping out small American manufacturing businesses, and it will have a more negative impact on the US economy than most are expecting, economists at the Swiss banking giant UBS say.Seth Carpenter, UBS' top US-focused economist, expects tariffs imposed by Trump on Chinese goods and China's retaliatory levies to halve the speed of gross-domestic-product growth in the world's largest economy.. ..
businessinsider.com/economist-says-trumps-china-trade-war-worse-for-us-than-people-think-2018-11

the absolute state of liberals

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IT BEGINS

3 ministers quit, it's an inevitability

Didn't that happen already like a few months back and she just replaced them?

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The political crisis in Sri Lanka: Its lessons for the international working class
The political crisis that has raged in Sri Lanka for the past three weeks merits the careful attention of workers around the world.Events on this island of 22 million people, lying off India’s southern tip, are being propelled by the same processes, rooted in world capitalist breakdown, that are shaping political and socio-economic life around the globe.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/16/pers-n16.html

Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honor; Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize should be next
Amnesty International announced it would strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its top award, saying it was “profoundly dismayed” at her failure to acknowledge the full scale of atrocities against the Rohingya people.Before you are tempted to view this as some kind of principled, honorable move on Amnesty’s part, stop yourself and check out its dubious government and corporate funding sources, its selective support for the concept of free speech and the fact that it spends quite a bit of time soft-pedaling Western imperialism and its atrocities while magnifying the wrongdoings of the West’s adversaries.
rt.com/op-ed/444191-obama-nobel-strip-bomb/

Climate Change and Wildfires: The New Western Travesty
The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank’s new book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink.As my wife Chelsea and I drove through Arizona on our annual pilgrimage from California to Montana, orange smoke billowed along the darkened horizon, signals of hearts shattered and landscapes scorched. Days earlier nineteen hotshot firefighters died together as they battled the intense blazes near the mountain town of Yarnell. It was the most lethal wildfire America had witnessed in 80 years.
counterpunch.org/2018/11/16/climate-change-and-wildfires-the-new-western-travesty/

Cuomo’s “Carceral Humanism”
Andrew Cuomo is being touted as a 2020 presidential contender. But his juvenile justice reform law does more to shore up the carceral state than attack it…
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/11/andrew-cuomo-juvenile-justice-carceral-humanism-kalief-browder

Voices of Collective Power From Nanaimo’s Schoolhouse Squat
Analysis and collection of documents from the recent squat of the Nanaimo Schoolhouse Squat in British Columbia. To listen to our podcast interview with someone from Alliance Against DisplacementA week before an injunction imposed by Nanaimo’s City Council was set to displace hundreds from Discontent City, a group of tent city residents and their supporters, including members of Alliance Against Displacement and residents of Anita Place tent city in Maple Ridge, occupied a school abandoned because of austerity cuts to public education.
itsgoingdown.org/voices-of-collective-power-from-nanaimos-schoolhouse-squat/

Nope.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46219495

IMO all this shit against Myanmar / Burma is just a lead up to more regime change shit hoping to weaken China's sphere (Myanmars main weapons supplier and economic partner is China) and continue US hegemony over Asia

It's worth noting that the US has been funding these Rohinga separatists who in reality are basically just Muslim Bengali Nationalists to attempt to destabilise Myanmar / Burma since its socialist period

What a heaving load of bullshit, literally none of this is accurate.

Like what?

For starters the West has been backing all in for Aung San Suu Kyi since she got into power, especially the UK. Secondly Burma has a rather pluralistic attitude to who it trades with and gets investment from: for example a load of investment has come from Japan recently. There is no evidence of funding of "Rohinga separatists, and calling them Bengali nationalists is fucking American tier understanding of cultures " hurr they r nearby thus must wannabe a part". Bengali nationalism evolved in specific opposition to Pakistan and the East Pakistan regime, like fuck some ethnic minority that speak their own language that didn't go through all that are Bengal nationalists.
Fourth as mentioned, outside economies aligned with the West have been bungling investment I to Burma, which at the same time they are trying to destabilise why? So all of that can be erased when it is invaded?finally, what, did the West fund a load of Buddhist monks to go around inciting riots against the Rohyinga, is the great power of the CIA octopus to cause long term ethnic conflict between the Buddhists and local Muslims? Also a load of the US backed liberals were anti Rohyinga. Don't just spout hot takes without knowing your shit mate.

redpill me on the rohingya situation, i want to read more into it

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Relatively big riots happening in France right now.

So since the end of the British Raj in 1948, Burma has moved towards a Buddhist Nationalist position: this transcends the Royalist, Burmese Path to Socialism, Junta, and "Democratic" periods. As a result, the Rohingya, who are a muslim ethnic group that settled on the modern Burmese coast over 1000 years ago from Bengal. They mostly followed the path of trading outposts because of the Monsoon Marketplace. So there is a lot of dispute over their origin.
The Rohygina see themselves as a muslim ethnic group that isn't Burmese, but doesn't really have separatist aspirations. Like many minorities in East Asia they merely seek autonomy within a larger civic structure (Think like the Shan in Burma, Tuvans in Russia, various groups in South-west China, tribal peoples of the Mekong delta ect.), To the Burmese they are Bengalis that don't belong in Burma and they "encourage" their movement to Bengal. To the Pakistani nationalists of the pre-independence period they were seen as a brotherly part of the Umma, but Ali-Jinnah didn;t want to fuck with Burma's territorial integrity at the risk of not being able to form a Pakistan in the first place. Since this strain of nationalism died in the 1970s, it is not that relevant anymore but important to remember for history. It should be noted that Rohingya leaders of the time wanted to join this greater Pakistan. To Bengalis they are kinda like the Austrians to Germans: they have a similar history and language (their language is in the same group as Bengali language proper) but they do not have the same national history. Bangladeshi nationalism derives almost directly from its conflict with West (aka modern) Pakistan. Why is that important? Because the Burmese (and that user's) claim that they are Bangladeshi nationalists makes no sense because they cannot have that same experience. It is like saying a protestant person who is from Scotland totally is an Ulster Unionist: sure they can be a British unionist but only protestants from Ulster can be loyalists, only they have that national experience.
So yeah to talk about the present situation, what is going on is that Buddhist priests have called for Rohingya to be expelled because muh terrorism (which wasn't happening in Burma), and the army was called in to "keep the peace" but instead they helped expel them. Now there is over a million refugees in Bangladesh alone, an things are gonna get worse. The camps will be hit by radicalists, and soon there will be Chechen tier islamism infesting the whole of the bengal delta. All of this was overseen by a former Western Darling who became PM (the UK stripped her of all her honours about a year ago after this started). Shit's fucked up and long term, it is gonna be pretty fucked up.

The smoke in northern california is getting dangerous, causing permanent damage.

nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/air-quality-california.html#click=https://t.co/WRb69fD2JF

Why?

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Mass protests against Macron's neoliberal reforms.

Fuck, someone has died at the French protests.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46233560

It's mostly people mad he raised the price of gasoline

The price of Unleaded and Gazole in France are both at around $1.70/liter how much is it in the States?

Average price for Unleaded petrol is $2.70 per 3.8 Litres (1 US gallon) across the USA, significantly higher in a few states, much lower in some others

Well apparently we're getting screwed pretty hard but so is the rest of Europe, i'm somewhat bitter that the thing that finally angered the country is a rise in fuel prices and not all the godawful reforms Macron has done.

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Good analysis ty

Man Who Raped Dying Teen Gets Less Than 3 Years
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not news or related to socialism, we already know USA has a broken law system