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Millions of Indian workers hold two-day general strike against Modi government
Over 180 million workers began a two-day general strike across India yesterday in protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s big business assault on the working class. Tens of thousands of workers defied threats of sacking and pay cut by state governments to join the national walkout.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/09/indi-j09.html

Venezuela's Maduro warns of 'diplomatic measures' against LatAm critics
Members of the so-called Group of Lima, which includes Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, said Maduro’s new term would be illegitimate because the 2018 election that gave him a second term was not free or fair and that they would not recognize his leadership.
reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-maduro-warns-of-diplomatic-measures-against-latam-critics-idUSKCN1P32C0

Brexit: Second Commons defeat for Theresa May in 24 hours
Rebel Conservative MPs have joined forces with Labour to inflict a fresh blow on Theresa May's government in a Commons Brexit voteIt means the government will have to come up with revised plans within three days if Mrs May's EU withdrawal deal is rejected by MPs next week.
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46805269

Police Say Alternative for Germany Embellished Lawmaker’s Assault
Two days after a right-wing politician was assaulted in Germany, drawing international attention, the authorities on Wednesday said that several elements of the account given by his political party appeared to be false.Frank Magnitz, 66, a member of Parliament from the Alternative for Germany party, suffered head injuries in the attack in Bremen on Monday.
outline.com/JCB9jV

Widespread Gas Shortage In Mexico As Government Tries To Thwart Fuel Thieves
Drop by drop, gallon by gallon, thieves have been draining the pipelines and coffers of the Mexican government.Last year, $3 billion worth of fuel was stolen from Pemex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, according to the country's new president. But a crackdown by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has left many ordinary Mexicans struggling to find gas.
npr.org/2019/01/08/683381485/widespread-gas-shortage-in-mexico-as-government-tries-to-thwart-fuel-thieves

Israeli former minister Gonen Segev to be jailed for spying for Iran
In his latest brush with the law, Gonen Segev agreed with Israeli prosecutors on Wednesday to plead guilty to spying charges.The justice ministry said in a statement that Segev would serve 11 years in prison as a result of the plea bargain in which he had admitted to "serious espionage offenses and reporting to the enemy."
dw.com/en/israeli-former-minister-gonen-segev-to-be-jailed-for-spying-for-iran/a-47004578

'Suspicious packages' found at foreign missions in Australia
Melbourne's Metropolitan Fire Brigade said it had been called to "a number of incidents" across the city.Consulates of the UK, Switzerland, the US and Pakistan are among those evacuated there.There were no reports of harm to any staff."The packages are being examined by attending emergency services. The circumstances are being investigated," the Australian Federal Police said.
bbc.com/news/world-australia-46805944

Matteo Salvini says Italy and Poland could build new Europe
Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has said that Italy and Poland could trigger a “European spring” that could break the dominant “Germany-France axis” as he strives to forge far-right alliances before the European parliamentary elections in May.
theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/matteo-salvini-says-italy-and-poland-could-build-new-europe

Turkey calls for joint control with Russia & Iran over US troop pullout from Syria
As the US is experiencing “certain difficulties” with the withdrawal from Syria, it should be coordinated with Iran and Russia to prevent “terrorists” from taking up the vacated space, the Turkish foreign minister said.“The United States [has] been facing certain difficulties with the process of the troops' withdrawal from Syria. We want to coordinate this process with Russia and Iran, with which we had arranged work in the framework of the Astana process," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday
rt.com/news/448351-turkey-russia-joint-control-syria/

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Meanwhile in the states

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WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

SPAGHETTI-KIELBASA ALLIANCE GANG

Thank you

Tybna!

Imagine my shock!

Not the best plan. Also isn't Poland pro-EU and/or NATO due to Russia? I wouldn't think they would have much in common.

Trump nominates acting EPA head, an ex-coal lobbyist, to run agency
reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa/trump-nominates-acting-epa-head-an-ex-coal-lobbyist-to-run-agency-idUSKCN1P324H

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So apparently Trump wasn't getting what he wanted earlier re:This retarded Wall so he literally got up, said "Bye Bye!" and left without saying anything else.

Also from the meeting

I'm not trying to play American electoral politics but this is just so fucking retarded. I need to escape from this fucking country but I don't have the means or money to ever leave. Its just dumbfoundingly stupid, this feels like a fucking coma fever dream. """No because then I won't get what I want"""

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Can anyone be shocked by shit like this anymore

*"hurting the workers you promised to help"

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Dialectics are in motion. Watch and learn, w*Sternoids

BASED

MAGA

THANK YOU, VERY COOL TRUMP

MORE DEAD AMERIKKKANS IS A VICTORY FOR SOCIALISM

No you got it confused, this means more deaths for people regardless of where you live

They sure have that american hand far up their assholes

If I was an American, I'd probably do all I can to go to the UK or something. Although maybe it's an inordinately hard process and I'm underestimating it.

But, I'd legitimately hop countries if I lived in burgerland at this moment in time.

The fuck does Lima mean anyway?

Boiling the oceans to own the libs

Leaving this country expat is nearly impossible unless you're a student or rich, and I'm neither

You can probably just get a student visa to the UK, we have loads of Chinese students.
Just don't bring any radlib crap with you please, the internet has passed on enough of that shit to the locals.

I really do hope Russia and China increase involvement in South America. Would love to see America's vassals be turned to dust.

This mother fucker is losing his mind

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I already live in the UK friend, been living here since I was 5.

Oh I see, that's complete dicks.

the best part is that the lockdown is going to continue onwards
neither party can afford to back down now without losing massive face and pissing off people

It's just Trump's erratic behavior that makes this whole situation more retarded since his base gobbles up everything he fucking does. Literally saying

And getting up and saying
Before storming out

President Autism

I see where Barron gets it from

I was directing it at the American.

Just become a student lmao

The actual "EuroSkeptic Far-Right" has pretty much flipped on Salvini and hate him now because he talks about "Reforming the EU" and how "The Populists must win the next EU elections"

Time is on the Dems' side. Their gutlessness actually works in their favor as far as optics are concerned. They will give him anything except the wall but he won't sign anything unless he wall funding is there.

Also, don't UK student loans only have to be payed off once you start making a salary of £25,000+, so it's even better for this poor user? (Although, I'm not not sure the same thing applies for non-UK/Commonwealth citizens.)

I still can't get over how this is just a tantrum over a border security measure that makes no logical sense and wouldn't stop anything anyways, and would take around a decade to make. I would say its campaign strategy shit but he's acting completely erratically. Not that many Americans are all there, but he is acting like he has dementia

1) that's only for English students (norn, scots, and sheepshaggers all get it far better)
2) its 21k, and it's taken like a payroll tax
3) but apart from that, yes

Okay apparently Trump handed bags of M&Ms, Butterfingers, and Baby Ruths to everyone in the room before the meeting started

What the fuck

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This isn't a new behavior for him

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WorldWar Three, an Endless Killingspree

10 Euros italy is going to switch sides again.

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We have ten years to stop an eventual 3 to 4 degree F change in temperature across the entire planet, causing war and famine and disaster and devastation; writing the fate of the next 100,000 years of human history

And we have a guy who walks out of meetings saying "Bye Bye!" to save us from ourselves before its too late

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Trump is a fucking toddler, but I'm not surprised at how retarded he is, because the most of the people from Burgerland are also retarded, Americans got what they deserve.

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Look I know we're a backwards retarded people populated by boot lickers, but this isn't even American retarded, this is just the deterioration of an elderly man under stress it isn't capable of handling. This is dementia

Sears liquidation temporarily averted, thousands more jobs to be slashed
Sears Holding Corp. put its decision to liquidate on hold Tuesday, considering a revised offer for a takeover bid by its chairman and former CEO, hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert. The original takeover bid to purchase all of Sears’ assets, including 425 of its retail stores, for $4.4 billion was announced by Lampert on December 28, 2018, and was initially rejected by the company’s board.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/09/sear-j09.html

TSA union: Some screeners have quit as shutdown stretches on
Some TSA screeners have left the job since a government shutdown began and others are considering quitting if they don't get paid this week, a union that represents TSA agents said Tuesday.The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents a chunk of TSA employees, said screeners were becoming increasingly panicked as the partial shutdown drags on, diminishing their chances of getting paid Friday.
politico.com/story/2019/01/08/tsa-screeners-quit-government-shutdown-1087269

Samsung phone owners are upset because they can't delete the Facebook app
Samsung's sleazy deals with Facebook mean that owners of Samsung phones are not able to uninstall the Facebook apps that come pre-installed with their devices.This is true even of flagship phones like the Galaxy 8.Facebook claims that if you don't login to the app or run it, it won't spy on you
outline.com/4UTf4N

1 in 5 millennials with debt expect to die without ever paying it off
The average millennial (aged 18 to 34) had about $32,000 in personal debt, excluding home mortgages, last year, according to Northwestern Mutual's 2018 Planning & Progress Study. That debt can feel both crushing — and endless.Just over 60 percent of millennials (classified here as those aged 18-37) with debt don't know when, or if, they'll ever be able to pay off what they owe, according to a new CreditCards.com report.
outline.com/42mFnV

U.S.-China Trade Talks Wrap Up After Extending To 3rd Day
After extending to an unexpected third day, trade talks between U.S. and Chinese officials have concluded, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry announced Wednesday morning. Delegates to the talks have not yet revealed what specifically was discussed, or if anything was agreed to. In a Tweet Tuesday morning, President Trump said the talks were "going very well!"
npr.org/2019/01/09/683497610/us-china-trade-talks-wrap-up-after-extending-to-third-day

'Bad and unexpected': Germany probably just went into a recession
Germany may be in recession, economists said, after they trawled through an unexpectedly horrible set of industrial and manufacturing data published on Wednesday's from the world's fourth-largest economy.German industrial production fell by -1.9% in November.Year over year, production hit a low of -4.6% — the biggest trough since the 2008 crisis.Germany's exports fell -0.4% month over month in November, the government reported today.
thisisinsider.com/germany-just-went-into-a-recession-2019-1

2019 starting off strong in the "It Just Gets Worse" kind of way

Bullshit I talk to Americans online all the time and they're nearly all Trump tier.

I can't believe we're not even two weeks into the new year. Shit just keeps happening.

I don't know if you only post on message boards like Zig Forums or you purposefully surround yourself with mentally ill people, but whichever it is its probably your fault

Americans are retarded but the hyperbolic shit is getting tired. I'd even say a majority of Americans are retarded, it's just that the kind of stupid you're talking about is related to aging minds exposed to leaded gasoline and DDT, boomers basically.

Trump is in this category of age, and he's probably going through dementia. So unless you surround yourself with elderly boomers who's minds are fucked by age and pesticides you're probably exaggerating a bit

Talk about twisting the knife. Taking bets on the next chain to go under, I say Old Navy.

Probably a safe bet

Don't give up on Burgerland

The average American is nothing like the people you meet on online. Most people are just boring normalfags

OP/ED

Free Speech Is a Left-Wing Value
Early American socialists like Eugene Debs fought for free speech rights as a bulwark against state tyranny and employer despotism. We should take up their radical struggle for civil liberties today.
jakkkobinmag.com/2019/01/eugene-debs-free-speech-civil-liberties

Fall of Empires: London, Washington & Paris on brink of collapse
Despite the thrashing around of the NATO disinformation apparat, the imperial heartland has entered 2019 in a state of complete chaos.Washington, London, and Paris – the three capitals of the Empire – are today effectively ungoverned, shutdown, tottering on the brink of collapse or under siege by their own people.Their self-chosen Nemeses – Moscow and Beijing – meanwhile toast the New Year in a state of considerable optimism and self-confidence. These are the facts, this is the news.We should start at the top of the Empire. The United States government has closed down amid stasis and a barrage of inter-governmental howitzers.The defense secretary, 'Mad Dog' Mattis, has resigned as have other uniformed subalterns angry at the president's re-found determination to withdraw from costly and losing foreign wars. The actual "mad dog" – John Bolton – openly defies President Trump over Syria, Mueller closes in, and the new Democratic majority in the House gears up to "impeach the mother***er."
rt.com/op-ed/448381-fall-empires-washington-london-paris/

Is the Historical Subject Returning, Wearing a Yellow Vest?
f someone were to ask me the meaning of politics, I would say that it is concerned with the contestation of power; that it is agonistic, even antagonistic. And that it has to be, because what it contests is the balance of power wielded by different class interests. As Marx recognised, the underlying purpose of the social, political, economic and even legal institutions of capitalist society is to preserve the monopoly of power enjoyed by the capital-owning class. And, consequently, any attempt to challenge that monopoly, in whatever sphere, is going to be countered, as the yellow-vested protesters are currently experiencing on the streets of Paris.
counterpunch.org/2019/01/09/is-the-historical-subject-returning-wearing-a-yellow-vest/

Angela Davis “Stunned” at Award Revocation, But Still Coming to Birmingham
Davis joins a long list of scholars and activists who have been censored in efforts to silence debate on Israeli apartheid.“My long-term support of justice for Palestine was at issue.”Activist, poet, academic and writer Angela Davis says she was “stunned” to learn last Saturday that the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute had rescinded its invitation to honor her next month, in her hometown, with the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Award for Human Rights.However, in a statement released Monday, Davis revealed she is still coming to Birmingham.“Despite the BCRI’s regrettable decision,” she said, “I look forward to being in Birmingham in February for an alternative event organized by those who believe that the movement for civil rights in this moment must include a robust discussion of all of the injustices that surround us”
blackagendareport.com/index.php/angela-davis-stunned-award-revocation-still-coming-birmingham

I don't have any "national pride" but I've lived here for over twenty years, I think I can correctly gauge that this whole country isn't filled with the literal caricatures of human-beings that Euros on here likely talk with and think represent the average American.

You need to realize that most of the world is politically illiterate to the degree you're defining it, which isn't unfair to say.

nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/politics/manafort-trump-campaign-data-kilimnik.html
Marafort lawyers accidentally proved he shared polling data with Russian businessmen tied to intelligence
I mean the "muh Rush'ha!" stuff is annoying but holy hell that's funny.

The Absolute States of America

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It is pretty funny. I don't think most people doubt that he has ties with Russian businesspeople, it's more that people are getting sick of hearing it when it's something incredibly minor in the grand scheme of things.

This seems really shady to me.

I can admit I was wrong about "muh Russia", it's irritating to think about, but I have to say

If all of this isn't bullshit and there actually is a case to be made some portion of the Russian Government, of all the presidential candidates of the Republican aisle to pass a successful legislative agenda to aid them… The idea they picked Trump just because he was more interested and connected with the oligarchs than the other candidates is hilariously stupid for them to do, near unbelievable. But I guess sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction.

If they actually pulled this I dramatically over estimated the Russian governments ability to strategize. Why the fuck would you ever touch Trump's retarded fucking family and his campaign held together with glue and duck tape, only staying together because of everyone's loathing of Clinton? Like as soon as he won they knew it would fall apart, wouldn't they?

For everyone saying "maybe they wanted it to fall apart and cause the US to sanction them! OOOO" No stop stop stop, if any of these allegations turn out to be true and all of us might have taken it for granted, this is probably one of the dumbest things Russia has done in years regardless of intent

Now I'm saying "IF" it turns out to be true. That would just fucking retarded decision making on their part. I mean who would come up with the idea "duhhhh wha about' that Trump bloke' he seems awful trust worthy to help! I know this other guy named Paul!"

Who the fuck signed off on such an idea? Who would ever look at this shit show and say "These guys are our best bet"

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We're stuck in the plot to an unproduced sequel to Burn After Reading

I think Putin just wants to end American hegemony.

I took that into consideration but whatever that plan involved if this is true, completely fucking back fired for them. If your plan involves sacrafices even more of your international standing and an investigation, possibly damaging internal sources within the United States

Why? Like even if you wanted to end US hegemony this is such an ass backwards way of going about it that falls apart in the slightest bit of scrutiny. I don't even think Putin did this, I think its possible someone else with agency might have done this because this seems like amateur hour shit

The US just doesn't have any intention of fucking off no matter what Russia does so I imagine Putin has thrown his hands up and given people free reign to fuck the place up. There have been lasting rumours of kompromat on Trump and that combined with him not being a politician probably cemented the decision to run with him.
Russia didn't win the election for him though, that's just butthurt Dem talk. All the talk of muh hacked elections has revealed a few shitty facebook ad campaigns and twitter bots. Wouldn't be surprised if they flooded 4chan though.

I'm not saying it was the whole election winning, I think you might have been right for Putin to throw his hands up

However that probably wasn't a good desicion to make, because this whole thing is a house of cards. Which is what made all of this so unbelievable in the first place, why would Russia even try this at all? It leads me to believe that Putin wasn't responsible because he's not this stupid, some officials might have organized some bird brained idea to bet all their chips on Trump, because this doesn't seem like a particularly well thought out idea.

This has me concerned because the Russian Government not having control of itself to the degree it might have gotten itself tangeled in this scandal doesn't spell a great future for the country. If someone stabbed Putin in the back accidentally by pulling such a dumb, just grimly stupid idea then what else might others have done

I'm just speculating because it just doesn't seem well thought out, and if they slipped into this whole mess and landed on their ass jeopardizing their country….Russia might not be as organized as anyone thinks they may be in subverting American interests, at least in the sense they're capable of having things explode in their face this easily avoidable

In fact putting such a light on themselves already puts Iran in danger of the sociopathic warhawks around Trump like John Bolton who want to send it back into the stone age like they did with Iraq. I hope I'm wrong and they have their shit together, but man if some desk jockeys in the Kremlin decided to do this clearly without supervision then I don't know, more oversight was clearly needed over whoever was involved in this. My greatest fear is they can now point to Iran as "Russia's ally Iran". And to be honest by putting themselves in this situation and having people go and do shit without clear oversight, the Russian government kind of does have themselves to blame for the consequences of at least not looking over what dumb shit the guy down the hall was doing in 2015.

Trump really is the dumb fucking aspie who was the right man in the wrong place and managed to fuck up geopolitics to a dangerous degree.

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jacobin mag filters to jakkkobin if it's a website link, breaking the link

Genuine question, if I were to ever plan on moving away from the U.S, which countries would anyone recommend?

Nope

Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, Cuba, Venezuela, India, Checkslovakian republic, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, heck even China is better than the UK.

But it might just be practical to just lug all your crap up to the Canadian wilderness with a crap ton of your friends and ignore any of their laws.

Quality LARP post

why?

You're supposed to stay where you are and build communism, not immigrate to my country and drive down the value of my labour…

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hmm

FUCK OFF I WANT TO LIVE IN SWEDEN

LET ME IN FAGGOT

I HATE AMERIKKKA

there's a shortage because gas used to be transported via pipes. the pipes were shutdown which means it needs to be transported via trucks which is 15 times more expensive. this was also sudden so people weren't ready. it's also retarded.

OI! No fank yew gubnar. I prefir tuh nought tongue a queens ahrshole look a sevenh centooray serf, I do, very much, indeed!

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You need to get off the internet user, from a fellow european. If the past 15 years I spent on the internet have taught me anything, it's that online/IRL are two almost entirely sperate spheres. Most Americans in real life are quite ignorant, but not nearly as retarded as Trump or the ones you meet online.

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Sauce on these quotes? Did he actually say this shit?