News 5/4/19

French minister slammed for twisting ‘truth’ after fake claim of hospital attack by Yellow Vests
Yellow Vests protesters and opposition politicians have slammed French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner for describing an incident at a Paris hospital as an “attack.” Social media footage tells a different story.
rt.com/news/458310-yellow-vests-hospital-attack/

Hostilities flare up as rockets hit Israel from Gaza
Militants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 200 rockets into Israel, the army says, prompting air strikes and tank fire on the Palestinian territory.Three Israelis were wounded by the rockets. Israeli fire killed three Palestinians, including a mother and her baby daughter, Gaza officials say.
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48160098

Prince William booed and heckled at service to mark 50 years of Royal Navy's nuclear submarines
Protesters shouted "shame on you" at the Duke of Cambridge as he entered Westminster Abbey for a service to mark 50 years of the Royal Navy's nuclear submarines on Friday.Activists from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), who were across the road from the Abbey booed and chanted, condemning the Duke's attendance.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/03/prince-william-booed-heckled-nuclear-deterrent-service/

Rio de Janeiro: killings by police hit a record high in Brazilian state
Police killings in the state of Rio de Janeiro have hit a record high, rising by 18% in the first three months of this year.Official data reviewed by the Associated Press on Friday show police forces in Rio killed 434 people during clashes in those months, compared with 368 people in same period last year.
theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/rio-de-janeiro-police-killings-rise-brazil

Theresa May must go now, former Tory leader says
Theresa May must resign or the Conservatives should force her out, after the party's heavy local election losses, Iain Duncan Smith has said.The former Tory leader called Mrs May a "caretaker PM" and described her attempts to reach a Brexit deal with Labour as "absurd".
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-48161178

Assange’s father slams US pursuit of Wikileaks founder as ‘revenge’ for exposing war destruction
Julian Assange’s father John Shipton has blasted the US for seeking “vindictive revenge” on his son for WikiLeaks exposing the US “destruction” of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria and the “millions killed” in wars.
rt.com/news/458365-assange-dad-vindictive-revenge/

'Let's just not say it': Jared Kushner says 'two-state' label hinders Middle East talks
Jared Kushner has revealed aspects of the US peace plan for the Middle East, indicating it would pull back from longstanding mentions of a two-state solution with the Palestinians and accept Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/lets-just-not-say-it-jared-kushner-says-two-state-label-hinders-middle-east-talks

Fuel tanker drivers threaten new strike in Portugal
Portuguese fuel tanker drivers have threatened further action, less than two weeks after a three-day strike over low wages and poor working conditions brought the country to a virtual standstill. Half of the country’s petrol stations ran dry, factories halted production, public transport routes were suspended and flights cancelled.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/04/port-m04.html

Venezuela: Socialist Party Headquarters Torched, Attacked
The local headquarters of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in San Agustin, Caracas, was the scene of arson early Saturday morning in an act of targeted violence.
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Socialist-Party-Headquarters-Torched-Attacked-20190504-0014.html

Biodiversity crisis is about to put humanity at risk, UN scientists to warn
Up to 1m species are at risk of annihilation, many within decades, according to a leaked draft of the global assessment report, which has been compiled over three years by the UN’s leading research body on nature.
theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/03/climate-crisis-is-about-to-put-humanity-at-risk-un-scientists-warn

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Peak acceleration news

But also, the government issued an ultimatum yesterday. If parliament approves giving teachers their pay back (cut during austerity), the government quits.
politico.eu/article/portugal-prime-minister-antonio-costa-threatens-to-quit-resign-over-teachers-pay-dispute/

Sanders trip to Soviet Union comes under new scrutiny
The Post’s report, which was based on audio and video of the visit, as well as interviews with several people who accompanied the Vermont senator, includes anecdotes about the then-Burlington, Vt., mayor criticizing U.S. intervention in other countries along with the high cost of housing and health care in his home country.Republicans seized on the report to hit the top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, using the remarks to bolster President Trump’s argument that Sanders would move the U.S. further toward socialism.
thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442000-sanders-trip-to-soviet-union-comes-under-new-scrutiny

Neo-Nazi networks exposed across US military
In March 2019, independent media outlet Unicorn Riot, published more than 770,000 Discord chat messages from chat servers associated with Identity Evropa. Discord is a messaging service popular with computer video game players. Combing through the chat logs, Huffington Post reporters have so far been able to identify 11 members from the white supremacist organization who are currently serving in the US military.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/04/nzws-m04.html

People are hiring private police squads in Detroit
In 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. As a result, budget and pay cuts have since pushed police officers toward better paying opportunities outside the city, and private security companies have rushed into the city. Now, private security is a booming industry in Detroit. The largest contractor has reported 25% year-over-year growth since the city’s bankruptcy.
video.vice.com/en_asia/video/people-are-hiring-private-police-squads-in-detroit/5cbf5a2fbe407747f51e6d8c

Oglala Lakota Sioux to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem: You are not welcome at Pine Ridge Reservation
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem (R) is governor non grata at Pine Ridge after her support of new "riot boosting" laws that target indigenous people opposed to oil infrastructure on their land.
boingboing.net/2019/05/03/oglala-lakota-sioux-to-south-d.html

U.S. Ride Share Drivers Will Strike On May 8th Ahead of Uber IPO
Uber and Lyft drivers in major U.S. cities have united to strike during peak hours on Wednesday May 8th for two hours from 7AM to 9AM local time, according to a report from Autoblog. Cities which may see rush hour even more rush-y include New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles, among others.
jalopnik.com/u-s-ride-share-drivers-will-strike-on-may-8th-ahead-of-1834526115

Warren Buffett says the US won't 'go into socialism in 2020, or 2040, or 2060'
Warren Buffett was asked about the growing political discussion around socialism."I don't think the country will go into socialism in 2020, or 2040, or 2060," Buffett said.Socialism has become a hot topic with the rise of democratic socialists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and recent attacks against the idea by President Donald Trump.
markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/berkshire-hathaway-warren-buffett-doesnt-think-us-will-go-to-socialism-2019-5-1028167387

In 2008 "synthetic CDOs" destroyed the global economy, and now they're back
CDOs are toxic as fuck, but there's a limit to how much damage they can do: you need actual loans or other payment streams to package up into CDOs. Once every rental property's payments have been financialized, you can't mint more CDOs from rental property. But synthetic CDOs have no limit: so long as there's a financial engineer willing to place bets on the performance of CDOs, there's a synthetic CDO to be packaged up from the returns on those bets. And that means that synthetic CDOs can be totally uncoupled from the real economy, which is how the 2008 crisis came involved trillions in debt, representing many, many multiples of the entire planet's net worth
boingboing.net/2019/05/03/this-time-its-different.html

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Art for the 99 Percent
Rich kids are way more likely to grow up to be artists. And that's because capitalism doesn't give us all the freedom to reach our creative potentials.
jakkkobinmag.com/2019/05/wealth-art-creativity-resources-redistribution
archive.is/PuR43

Environmental Crisis, Oil Geopolitics and the Trump Diversion
America in 2019 is a very strange place. The problems of the age: looming environmental calamity, the threat of nuclear annihilation and accumulating class tensions, keep being shoved to the side through diversionary tactics. No sooner had a range of left programs been consolidated under the banner of a Green New Deal than establishment Democrats and their partners in misdirection made it known that ‘stopping Trump’ was their only priority. As priorities go, this one speaks to the limitations of its proponents.Back in the land that time hasn’t forgotten, environmental calamity has been a growing threat for three centuries now. Its growth rate accelerated after WWII along with the threat of nuclear annihilation. Class tensions have been escalating since the 1970s as neoliberalism has diminished the public sphere and accrued wealth and income to those who benefit from social destruction. Given the singular source and its persistence through periods in which either Republicans or Democrats exercised control, systemic drivers are the only explanation left standing.
counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/environmental-crisis-oil-geopolitics-and-the-trump-diversion/

New York Times column falsifies legacy of Eugene Debs
The growing interest in socialism continues to provoke attempts to falsify its history. This is the aim behind the New York Times’ publication last week of a column on the pioneering American socialist, Eugene V. Debs. Written by Hamilton College professor Maurice Isserman, the article presents Debs as a tragic figure who attempted to create a distinctly “American socialism” only to see it fail.Debs’s fervent insistence on the centrality of working class revolution, which dominated his writings and speeches, is overlooked entirely. Isserman makes no mention of the Russian Revolution, though Debs enthusiastically supported it. Indeed, in Isserman’s rendering, Debs was not much of a socialist at all.
wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/30/debs-a30.html

For once wsws deserved to bitch about something. The reading of Debs as moralistic religious was terrible when he received humanist influences from a young age. And no mention of Debs' conversion to radical industrial unionism…

This is not a threat. Nuclear war is impossible. See Mutualy Assured Destruction. Nuclear proliferation is a good thing because it prevents conventional wars between great powers.

Why are liberals so annoying?

He’s right, America will become socialist on September 11th, 2030. Screencap this.

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