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British Army Seeks 'Snow Flakes' And 'Me Me Me Millennials' In New Recruiting Campaign
Are you a "binge gamer"?An unfocused office prankster?A "me me me millennial"?If so, the British army wants to recruit you.It's all part of a new advertising campaign unveiled by the U.K. Defense Ministry aimed at 16- to 25-year-olds "looking for a job with purpose," according to a statement.
npr.org/2019/01/03/681953174/british-army-seeks-snowflakes-and-me-me-me-millennials-in-new-recruiting-campaig

Arrest of Yellow Vest leader Drouet slammed as ‘abuse of power’ & ‘dictatorship’
Shouts of “dictatorship” were heard as one of the leaders of France’s anti-government Yellow Vest movement was arrested in Paris late on Wednesday, after authorities charged him with organizing and leading an unauthorized protest.Eric Drouet was detained by police as some of the movement’s supporters gathered in the capital’s Place de la Concorde, near the iconic Arc de Triomphe monument.
rt.com/news/448001-yellow-vest-drouet-detained/

U.S. warns Iran on space launches, Tehran rejects concerns
The United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on Thursday against pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile technology.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran/u-s-warns-iran-against-space-launches-ballistic-missiles-idUSKCN1OX114

Trump mocks India’s prime minister Narendra Modi over library in Afghanistan: ‘I don’t know who’s using it’
Donald Trump has ridiculed India’s prime minister for the supposed construction of a library in war-torn Afghanistan. In a rambling press conference at a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Mr Trump railed against a litany of perceived injustices, including a lack of international support for the US in conflicts in the Middle East and Asia.
independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-narendra-modi-india-library-afghanistan-war-press-conference-cabinet-a8709286.html

Hundreds die on UK streets as homelessness reaches record levels
Thousands of people are living on the streets in every UK town and city and a record number of roofless people are dying.One encounters homeless people on every major high street—sitting, sleeping, begging, wrapped in a sleeping bag or blankets in an attempt to keep out the winter cold.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/03/home-j03.html

Police refute claims of far-right patrols after migrant attacks
A German far-right group has carried out street patrols in the Bavarian town of Amberg where four asylum-seekers allegedly attacked a dozen passers-by over the weekend.The Nuremberg branch of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) posted pictures on its Facebook page of people wearing red vests with the words "We're creating safe zones" on them, walking through the streets of Amberg.
dw.com/en/police-refute-claims-of-far-right-patrols-after-migrant-attacks/a-46944468

Israel toughens prison conditions for Palestinians to 'fulfill moral duty to victims'
Israel is set to deliberately worsen the holding conditions for Palestinian prisoners with a cooking ban and restrictions on visits and water usage. "This party is coming to an end," the Israeli Public Security minister has said.Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan unveiled restrictions to be imposed on Palestinian prisoners kept in Israeli jails on Wednesday.
rt.com/news/447971-israel-worsens-prison-conditions/

CIA Chief Pushes For More Spies Abroad; Surveillance Makes That Harder
CIA Director Gina Haspel spent much of her career overseas and undercover — and she wants more CIA officers doing the same.In her one public speech since becoming head of the spy agency, Haspel said her goal is to "steadily increase the number of officers stationed overseas. That's where our mission as a foreign intelligence agency lies, and having a larger foreign footprint allows for a more robust posture."
npr.org/2019/01/03/679167999/cia-chief-pushes-for-more-spies-abroad-surveillance-makes-that-harder

Brazil's new foreign minister says country will abandon globalism
Brazil’s new Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo said on Wednesday that his country would revert to its former, less globalist policies and support those fighting against “tyranny” in Venezuela.At the United Nations, Brazil would no longer serve the interests of international non-governmental organizations, he said, in a speech made after being sworn in
reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-araujo/brazils-new-foreign-minister-says-country-will-abandon-globalism-idUSKCN1OW1OO

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More proof call of duty is just stage one of the program to turn people into MIC murderbots

Holy shit, this is actually hilarious.

The youngest Millennials are like 22-23 right now…
Just another case of marketers seriously stretching definitions to suite their own purposes.

Anyone else feel like reaction is way less coherent now?

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seems legit

What a fucking joke.


LMAO

Celebrate the Party’s 50th anniversary and lead the Philippine revolution to greater victories
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), together with the entire membership of the CPP, the Filipino people and all their revolutionary forces, celebrate today 50 years of great achievements and revolutionary victories accumulated by the Party through five decades of leading the people’s democratic revolution since it was established on December 26, 1968 under the theoretical guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
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Amazon worker describes brutal conditions at Tracy, California warehouse during Camp Fire
John informed the IAWV that during this time—in the lead-up to the notorious holiday “peak” season—Amazon ordered its workers to continue laboring in the hazardous air as if conditions were normal. At one of their daily morning meetings, management claimed that they “had installed charcoal filters” that would supposedly protect workers from the smoke. John and his coworkers doubted this claim, but felt that even if such filters were installed, “it was still really smoky in there and people were often coughing”
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/03/amzn-j03.html

Prosecutor in Michael Brown shooting case fired
The new St. Louis County prosecutor, Wesley Bell, has fired the lawyer who presented the evidence in the case of Michael Brown, the black teenager whose shooting by police sparked violent protests in Ferguson, Mo.Bell was sworn in on Tuesday, and in one of his first acts, sent a two-page letter to assistant prosecutor Kathi Alizadeh firing her, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports,
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Google shifted $23 billion to tax haven Bermuda in 2017: filing
Google moved 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) through a Dutch shell company to Bermuda in 2017, as part of an arrangement that allows it to reduce its foreign tax bill, according to documents filed at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.he amount channeled through Google Netherlands Holdings BV was around 4 billion euros more than in 2016, the documents, filed on Dec. 21, showed.
reuters.com/article/us-google-taxes-netherlands/google-shifted-23-billion-to-tax-haven-bermuda-in-2017-filing-idUSKCN1OX1G9

Dow tumbles 650 points as Apple news, manufacturing data spark fears of global slowdown
U.S. stock indexes closed sharply lower Thursday, after a survey of American manufacturers showed the sector growing at its slowest pace in two years, and after a sales forecast cut by Apple Inc AAPL, +0.29% intensified fears of a slowing Chinese economy.
marketwatch.com/story/dow-tumbles-650-points-as-apple-news-manufacturing-data-spark-fears-of-global-slowdown-2019-01-03

One of Trump's top economic advisers thinks the US-China trade war will cause a 'heck of a lot of US companies' to make nasty announcements like Apple's
One of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers suggested Thursday that Apple's shock announcement downgrading its revenue outlook for the holiday quarter was only the first in a series of ugly corporate revelations coming as a result of the US-China trade war.Kevin Hassett, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told CNN that Apple's sales drop in China — which the company pointed to as the primary reason for the revenue shortfall — would only represent the start for US companies.
thisisinsider.com/hassett-us-companies-china-trade-war-tariffs-like-apple-2019-1

Does he get his knowledge from Zig Forums

Globalism has been a right-populist boogeyman for a while now.

Reactionaries use the term "Globalism" to describe what is essentially a post-american world order or at least one in which America is not the hegemonic power. This talking point will dry up when America is blown away.

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No it’s used by right wingers to describe the reduction in power of the nation state. It has nothing to do with America. Not everything has to do with America. There are countries that aren’t America. Do you understand this Christcom?

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Are you seriously not noticing how much America dick sucking all these "anti-globalist" reactionaries do?

The US specifically, at least in their Fox News poisoned minds

OP/ED

Tommy Robinson and the impact of the super-rich on UK politics
In 2017 Robinson began campaigning against what he called "grooming gangs," appearing outside the courts and denouncing the defendants because of their religion and warning that their abuse had been covered up. He was arrested for contempt of court, and within just one day £20,000 in donations were raised to support him.The following year Robinson was arrested again outside a court in Leeds, for contempt of court, after placing a live video on Facebook about a child exploitation trial. He was briefly jailed, and while his case was appealed his supporters staged a mass demonstration in London in July that turned violent. It was the largest right-wing demonstration since the 1970s and it was funded by a think tank in the US called Middle East Forum.One of the activists present was Avi Yemini who denounced Islam as a barbaric ideology and claimed it had taken over England. Another speaker was Carl Benjamin who was revealed to have sent the Labour MP Jess Phillips a tweet threatening rape. Benjamin has over 880,000 YouTube subscribers and has posted videos denouncing not just Islam but feminism. He has now enrolled as a member of UKIP.Although Robinson depicts himself as a mere underdog whose campaign against Islam has been suppressed by the establishment, he is now receiving more funding from right-wing groups than anyone else in Britain.
rt.com/op-ed/447939-tommy-robinson-support-us-billionaire/

Corporations Are Swimming in Cash
Corporations have more cash than they know what to do with. We should take it into public hands.
jakkkobinmag.com/2019/01/corporations-cash-flow-2017-stocks

Russiagate vs. Climate Genocide: How Democrats Cover Up Trump’s Worst Crime
The more important an issue is to humanity, the likelier it is Democrats don’t want to discuss it.Thus, it’s hardly surprising that Noam Chomsky felt obliged to point out the “moral depravity” of both major parties for discussing neither climate change nor the increasing risk of nuclear war during the recent midterm election campaigns. It’s likewise hardly surprising that the Republican Party, which Chomsky rightly terms “the most dangerous organization in human history,” likes to stay mum on the real nature of its wantonly destructive policies. But what’s truly amazing—until one habituates to the mammoth corruption of current U.S. politics—is how utterly unwilling today’s Democratic Party is to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely in an unflattering, but in a criminally insane light.
counterpunch.org/2019/01/03/russiagate-vs-climate-genocide-how-democrats-cover-up-trumps-worst-crime/

The Strategy of International Class Struggle and the Political Fight Against Capitalist Reaction in 2019
As this statement was being completed, the International Committee of the Fourth International learned of the untimely death due to cancer, on December 31, 2018 at the age of 57, of its comrade Halil Celik, the founder and leader of its sympathizing group in Turkey, Sosyalist Eşitlik. This statement is dedicated to the memory of this intransigent revolutionary and fighter for Trotskyism.1. At the start of last year, the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) stated: “This new year of 2018—the bicentenary of Marx’s birth—will be characterized, above all, by an immense intensification of social tensions and an escalation of class conflict around the world.”Events have substantiated this prediction.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/03/pers-j03.html

2:00PM Water Cooler 1/3/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China, Apple, global manufacturing, Terry McAulliffe, Warren on war, Sanders 2016 campaign, PayGo, Green New Deal, manufacturing, employment, construction, Wells Fargo, more Apple, Amazon, journalism, obesity, Erica Garner.
nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/200pm-water-cooler-1-3-2019.html

Christcom, your entire worldview is based on America. You have to understand that the world is more than America.
The only reason why most of these people are bro-US is because most of the live in the US.

This is because the Democrats are not just complicit in the Republican’s worse crimes, but active participants. Obama oversaw eight years of “war on terror.” He also sat on his bum for eight years and let fracking take over the midwest and do nothing to support Nuclear and Renewable energy.

the only answer the neoliberals will have towards climate change is cosmetic. They might also use it as an excuse to fuck over poor people. Like marcon did in france with that tax.

Neoliberals actively sabotage the climate through terrible policies that alienate everyone else. They're fucking wreckers

Because we all know that turning point isn't a bunch of working class volunteers donating their own time and money.
I personally think democrats will slide a victory with a center right neoliberal bro lad using Russiagate. Every political donor that exists right now is flooding the internet and airwaves with anti-DemCopSoc polemics. I respect the progressives for not falling for right wing bullshit, but they're plainhearted. They don't have the needed victimhood grievance complex or energy to effect any leftward change from the status quo (let alone to pursue a "we won't settle for nothing less than complete change" agenda). Marketers astroturfing infighting cannibalism won't likely work as well in 2020 with the moderate defection from Trump (I live in deep red south and many defectors will vote some dumb right wing hick into Congress cuz he pretends to be protestant… but not Trump). Prediction: in 2020 the U.S. get's 4-8 years of neoliberal dem then goes imperialistically right wing fascist with the next Republican in yet another American right wing insurgency. But, yup climate will kill millions and impoverish even more around then. Tip: The blue-collars will suffer the worst so learn a complex and useful skill aye.