News 12/13

Strasbourg Christmas market shooter killed in shootout with police
French police have killed the main suspect in the Strasbourg Christmas market shooting, Cherif Chekat, following a dramatic, helicopter-assisted police raid in a city-center district, the country’s Interior Minister confirmed.The French police mounted a massive operation in Strasbourg on Thursday, involving armed officers from the elite RAID police unit and the helicopter.
rt.com/news/446409-police-operation-strasbourg-shooting/

Warring Sides In Yemen Agree To Cease-Fire In Key Port City
After week-long peace talks at a castle in Sweden, the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels have agreed to a cease-fire in Hodeidah, a strategically significant port city held by the rebels.The ability to import food, medicine and fuel through the port is essential for many Yemenis, and a Saudi blockade of Hodeidah helped drive widespread hunger in the country.
npr.org/2018/12/13/676379483/warring-sides-in-yemen-agree-to-cease-fire-in-key-port-city

Senate votes to end US support for Saudi war, bucking Trump
Senators voted 56-41 on the resolution, which would require the president to withdraw any troops in or “affecting” Yemen within 30 days unless they are fighting al Qaeda.The resolution would still need to be passed by the House before it could be sent to Trump, who has threatened to veto it.
outline.com/LfvYDD

Tensions rise as arsonists burn 7,000 voting machines ahead of DRC election
A fire has destroyed much of an election commission warehouse in Kinshasa as tensions rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with just 10 days to go before historic presidential elections which could see the country’s first-ever democratic transition of power or bring further instability and violence.
theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/13/fire-destroys-new-voting-machines-ahead-of-drc-election-kabila

Sri Lankan plantation workers defy union and continue to strike
The Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) attempted on Tuesday to call off an indefinite strike involving tens of thousands of Sri Lankan plantation workers demanding a 100 percent pay increase. Thousands of workers have continued the stoppage, which began on December 4, in direct defiance of the union.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/13/slpl-d13.html

Michael Spavor: The detained Canadian close to Kim Jong-un
Few people can claim to have sipped cocktails on board North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's private yacht, but Michael Spavor is one of them.The Canadian businessman, who has longstanding ties with Pyongyang, has been detained in China and is being investigated on suspicion of harming its national security.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46552644

Number of journalists jailed for doing job near record high: report
A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work, including two Reuters reporters whose imprisonment in Myanmar has drawn international criticism, according to a report released on Thursday.
reuters.com/article/us-global-rights-journalists/number-of-journalists-jailed-for-doing-job-near-record-high-report-idUSKBN1OC0D2

The Koreas take historic steps in de-escalation as Trump silently seethes in Washington
As President Donald Trump seems to have hit a wall in his efforts to denuclearize North Korea, the country’s neighbor, South Korea, continues to make small — yet historic — strides in de-escalating tensions at the long-militarized border.
outline.com/bfz5uc

‘US stole from Honduras more’: Migrants at US border demand $50k ‘reparations’ & faster processing
Two groups of Central American migrants, a fraction of the 7,000-strong human tide that massed at the border during US elections, are demanding speedy approval of their asylum claims – or $50,000 to go home.
rt.com/news/446325-migrants-demand-reparations-border/

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Trump admin reinterprets 2008 agreement to allow deportation of Vietnam War refugees: report
The Trump administration has reportedly unilaterally reinterpreted a 2008 agreement between the U.S. and Vietnam in order to pursue deportation for certain Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before 1995.
outline.com/VdK7vV

Report Condemns Australian Prison For Forcing Woman To Give Birth Alone In Cell
Sometime around 6:30 p.m. on March 11, a pregnant woman locked in an Australian maximum security prison cell began crying out for help.For more than an hour she wailed in pain, pleading for someone to intervene. She was 36 weeks pregnant and the child was about four weeks too early.Her anguish eventually drew custodial staff and, at approximately 7:35 p.m., some nursing staff, who attempted to comfort her through a gap in the cell door. However, without keys all they could offer were words, not the physical support she required.
npr.org/2018/12/12/676272125/report-condemns-australian-prison-for-forcing-woman-to-give-birth-alone-in-cell

Bitcoin bomb threats: Dozens of major public buildings evacuated across US over cryptocurrency email
Counterterrorism officials said a series of bomb threats reported across the country appeared to be a hoax after scammers targeted media outlets and major institutions demanding Bitcoin in exchange for their safety.
outline.com/9FD5LD

==Trump says GM shift to electric vehicles is 'not going to work'
President Donald Trump on Thursday said General Motors Co’s (GM.N) decision to shift much of its focus to electric vehicles will not succeed, and he asserted a new trade deal will make it harder for the company to move work to other countries.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-gm-interview/trump-says-gm-shift-to-electric-vehicles-is-not-going-to-work-idUSKBN1OC2KT

82% of CFOs are expecting a US recession by the end of 2020
Some 82% of chief financial officers say they see a recession beginning by the end of 2020, while nearly half see it even earlier, by the end of 2019.That's according to a survey of US CFOs in the Duke CFO Global Business Outlook."The end is near for the near-decade-long burst of global economic growth," said John Graham, a finance professor at Duke's Fuqua School of Business and director of the survey.
businessinsider.com/82-of-cfos-are-expecting-a-us-recession-by-the-end-of-2020-2018-12

what the megafuck

nice

we don't need hoochie Minh

bye bye hoochie minh

OP/ED

Why It’s So Hard for Most Countries to be Economically Independent from the West
Why is it so difficult even for huge countries with large, diversified economies to maintain independence from the West?If anyone could have done it, it was Brazil. In the 19th century it was imagined that Brazil could be a Colossus of the South to match the U.S., the Colossus of the North. It never panned out that way.And 100 years later, it still hasn’t happened. With a $2 trillion GDP (a respectable $9,800 per capita), nearly 200 million people, and a strong manufacturing base (the second largest in the Americas and 28.5 percent of its GDP), Brazil is far from a tiny, weak island or peninsula dependent on a patron state to keep it afloat.
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/12/hard-countries-economically-independent-west.html

Pelosi Would Sabotage the Progressive Agenda With a Pay-Go Rule
As Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan are using lame-duck sessions to overturn the outcome of last month’s elections, throwing aside long-standing procedures and basic democratic principles, House Democrats seem determined to throw up roadblocks to limit what they can do with their new majority.Specifically, likely Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is proposing the House adopt pay-as-you-go (paygo) rules that require all new spending be offset with either budget cuts or tax increases.These rules would also prohibit any new taxes on the bottom 80 percent of the income distribution. Overturning the rules would require a 60 percent supermajority, which means that a substantial number of Republicans would have to be pulled along to get passage.
counterpunch.org/2018/12/13/pelosi-would-sabotage-the-progressive-agenda-with-a-pay-go-rule/

A significant step forward: Detroit meeting of autoworkers resolves to form rank-and-file committees
On Sunday, more than 80 autoworkers and other workers and youth from throughout the US Midwest resolved at a meeting in Detroit to form rank-and-file factory committees, independent of the unions, to fight against plant closures, layoffs and other attacks on the working class.Following the meeting, a steering committee was established to carry forward the struggle against plant closures.The action taken at the meeting, organized by the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter and the Socialist Equality Party, is a major step forward. With mounting signs of a renewed economic downturn, the capitalist ruling elites are going on the offensive. The announcement by General Motors that it will close five plants in the US and Canada and eliminate at least 15,000 jobs is part of a global restructuring aimed at making the working class pay for the funneling of ever larger sums into the financial markets.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/13/pers-d13.html

Marc Lamont Hill Is Not Alone
Professor Marc Lamont Hill’s job was threatened because he spoke up on behalf of Palestinian rights. He’s just the latest victim in a nationwide wave of censorship and repression aimed at the Palestine solidarity movement — but the movement is fighting back.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/12/marc-lamont-hill-palestine-censorship-israel

I have been studying about Africa during the cold war a little bit. Rep Congo was the first M-L state in Africa, while D.R. Congo was western colony. HDI is still higher in Rep.Congo than in D.R. Congo. Nothing much happened in C.A.R. but apparently it's friendly with North Korea.

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Has KV-2 ever been used in cities? iirc they were designed to destroy enemy pillboxes and they were not used past 1941

Highly doubtful. Wouldn't really be viable to use one in an Urban environment.