Daily News Thread 3/10

Trump administration considers $6 billion cut to HUD budget

The plan would squeeze public housing support and end most federally funded community development grants, which provide services such as meal assistance and cleaning up abandoned properties in low-income neighborhoods.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-considers-6-billion-cut-to-hud-budget/2017/03/08/1757e8e8-03ab-11e7-b1e9-a05d3c21f7cf_story.html?utm_term=.7bc991c0d343

After Halting Start, Trump Plunges Into Effort to Repeal Health Law

President Trump, after a halting start, is now marshaling the full power of his office to win over holdout conservatives and waffling senators to support the House Republicans’ replacement for the Affordable Care Act.
nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/health-bill-clears-house-panel-in-pre-dawn-hours.html?_r=0

South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye

A South Korean court removed the president on Friday, a first in the nation’s history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time.
nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/asia/park-geun-hye-impeached-south-korea.html

Wikileaks is offering tech firms CIA files first

Technology firms will get "exclusive access" to details of the CIA's cyber-warfare programme, Wikileaks has said.
bbc.com/news/technology-39221421

ACLU challenges warrant to search Facebook page of Dakota Access opponents

The American Civil Liberties Union is moving to quash a police warrant granted to search data on a Facebook page of a group protesting the Dakota Access pipeline
thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/323131-aclu-challenges-police-effort-to-search-facebook-page-of-dakota-access

Politicians to Skip Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade After Gay Group Is Banned

Some of Massachusetts’s top politicians said on Wednesday that they would not attend the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston after organizers told a group of gay and transgender military veterans that they would not be allowed to march on March 17 after two years of L.G.B.T. inclusion in the event.
nytimes.com/2017/03/08/us/boston-st-patricks-day-parade-outvets-lgbt.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Rise of the Machines: A Burger Flipping Robot Is About To Start Work at a Fast Food Chain

Created by Miso Robotics, “Flippy” is billed as an even better alternative to using a lowly human being to upend burger patties in your commercial kitchen.
foodandwine.com/news/burger-flipping-robot-at-caliburger-chain

Strong U.S. job growth, rising wages set stage for Fed rate hike

U.S. employers hired workers at a robust pace in February, beating expectations, and wages grinded higher, which could give the Federal Reserve the green light to raise interest rates next week despite slowing economic growth.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKBN16H0KA

Gutting Dodd-Frank Is Hard, So Republicans Focus Elsewhere

Reality is setting in on Capitol Hill that rolling back the Dodd-Frank banking law won’t be quick or easy – even though it’s a priority for Republican President Donald Trump, who says the measure is hurting the economy. Bank stocks have rallied partly because investors expect change.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-09/gutting-dodd-frank-is-hard-so-republicans-turn-to-easier-things

EU summit reveals sharp divisions within Europe and tensions with US

Germany has responded to Washington’s increasingly belligerent rhetoric by attempting to bind Europe together under its leadership and prepare “for a trade war with the United States,” as the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper put it.
wsws.org/en/articles/2017/03/10/eusu-m10.html

The Dutch far right’s election donors are almost exclusively American

Wealthy American conservatives have poured large sums into the electoral campaign of far-right leader Geert Wilders of the Netherlands’ Dutch Freedom Party, in support of his anti-Islam, anti-EU views.
qz.com/928684/the-dutch-far-rights-election-donors-are-almost-exclusively-american/

Britain will have to pay Brexit 'divorce bill', says Irish Prime Minister

Estimates have put the bill at anything between €15bn and €60bn
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-divorce-bill-enda-kelly-article-50-eu-council-summit-a7621346.html

Other urls found in this thread:

theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/wages-rising/519114/?utm_source=feed
thebaffler.com/blog/rubber-and-heroin-abdurraqib
counterpunch.org/2017/03/10/the-necessity-for-and-obstacles-to-transforming-the-unions-into-a-fighting-force-for-workers/
newrepublic.com/article/141245/great-republican-swindle
rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-russia-story-is-a-minefield-for-democrats-and-the-media-w471074
jacobinmag.com/2017/03/george-bush-president-trump-iraq-war-katrina-torture/
thenation.com/article/the-young-turks-are-beating-major-media-operations-on-youtube/
crimethinc.com/2017/03/09/the-light-revolution-in-romania-when-toppling-the-government-isnt-enough
novaramedia.com/2017/03/09/dangerous-women-feminism-class-struggle-and-self-care/
evonomics.com/creator-ceo-basecamp-com-exponential-growth-devours-corrupts/
truth-out.org/news/item/39761-on-labor-and-beyond-trump-is-following-scott-walker-s-playbook
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

OP/EDs

The Most Underrated Story About the U.S. Economy

Income growth is faster at the bottom than at the top. Thank a growing economy, falling unemployment, and minimum-wage hikes across the country.
theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/wages-rising/519114/?utm_source=feed


Rubber And Heroin In A Dying City

In Akron, Ohio, the Goodyear sign tells a story of lost jobs and lost hope.
thebaffler.com/blog/rubber-and-heroin-abdurraqib


The Necessity For, and Obstacles To, Transforming the Unions into a Fighting Force For Workers

Without a union, individual workers can be fired at will; their wages can be reduced; they can be forced to work unreasonable schedules; they can be denied benefits; the list is endless. But when workers unite and act collectively, the balance of power shifts.
counterpunch.org/2017/03/10/the-necessity-for-and-obstacles-to-transforming-the-unions-into-a-fighting-force-for-workers/


The Great Republican Swindle

The Trump administration and GOP Congress are lying about Obamacare and their proposed replacement. If they succeed, it would be one of the great scams in the history of Congress.
newrepublic.com/article/141245/great-republican-swindle


Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media

Russia scandals have bloodied the Trump administration. But it carries dangers for those reporting it
rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-russia-story-is-a-minefield-for-democrats-and-the-media-w471074


The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush

The cuddly George W. Bush who paints pictures of dogs and Jay Leno is a war criminal. He doesn’t deserve an inch of rehabilitation.
jacobinmag.com/2017/03/george-bush-president-trump-iraq-war-katrina-torture/


The Young Turks Are Beating Major Media Operations—on YouTube

They sat down with Laura Flanders to discuss the future of progressive media.
thenation.com/article/the-young-turks-are-beating-major-media-operations-on-youtube/


The "Light Revolution" in Romania: When Toppling the Government Isn't Enough

The sudden politicization of large numbers of people in this atmosphere does not work to the advantage of radical social justice struggles. The discourse is dominated by the right-wing agenda. Everyone wants to be educated European intellectual entrepreneurs. They are dedicated to the ideology of so-called post-politics—the extreme center.
crimethinc.com/2017/03/09/the-light-revolution-in-romania-when-toppling-the-government-isnt-enough


Dangerous Women: Feminism, Class Struggle, and Self Care

It’s important to consider the women who often get left out of this performative display of remembrance. ‘Extremist’ women, like Assata Shakur, Angelina Davis, Fighters of the YPJ. Liberal discourse advocates for women’s rights within the confines of the status quo instead of pushing for a revolutionary vision of feminism.
novaramedia.com/2017/03/09/dangerous-women-feminism-class-struggle-and-self-care/


The Ideology of Exponential Growth Devours and Corrupts

There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth.
evonomics.com/creator-ceo-basecamp-com-exponential-growth-devours-corrupts/


On Labor and Beyond, Trump Is Following Scott Walker's Playbook

Shortly after his inauguration, Walker was caught on tape telling a right-wing billionaire funder that he intended to "divide and conquer" the unions by introducing legislation that would destroy collective bargaining.
truth-out.org/news/item/39761-on-labor-and-beyond-trump-is-following-scott-walker-s-playbook

Reminder that animu pics make anything 100% less relevant.

That's fucking bullshit. Even more so if they don't contact the Linux Foundation.

Reminder that OP is based

So, the Atlantic article neglects to mention that a date for fed rate hike has already been set, and whatever wage increases gained in the last two quarters will be wiped away after March 17, after the rate hike.

In the media there's a portraying of the general jobs outlook as good, but in the real economy most of the job losses were replaced by precarious work. While people in stock market gambling casino have been demanding this rate hike, in real terms we are only now regaining what's been lost since 2008.

Even the smallest change could send the economy spinning. It's too soon for a rate hike, it's too soon paint this rosy picture of abundant jobs.

Wikileaks giveth and Wikileaks taketh away

not too bad

Yup, nothing suspicious here at all, guys.

i guess when assange said he was an """""anarchist""""" he meant an ancap LOL

You are misunderstanding this m8.
They are giving the vulnerabilities to companies first so they can fix their software, if they handed them out to everyone immediately, teenage hackers would be able to cause a lot of damage.

Thanks to capitalism Linux is left behind again, great

GNU/Linux systems were mentioned as compromised too in the Vault7 leaks, so it only makes sense to make those vulnerabilities specific to Linux public, but I'm guessing that will never happen and only porky will benefit as usual.

Wilileaks is gonna """"""""warn"""""""" the cyber monopolies about something they already know? Snowden is playing dumb here, Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook all know about the backdoors and the malware. They allowed them to put it there in the first place. Why the fuck does Snowden play dumb like this? I've known about the Vault Zero leaks since 2010, i saw a reddit dump of all the social media, cyberwarfare and psychologicla warfare they were doing. These companies know what the intel agencies want, they want the same thing. Why does Snowden do this? Woke tech companies, Wikileaks is on the same side as the Executive branch, Exxon Mobile is cool. People are being played for fools. Wikileaks was considered an unimportant controlled op by many after the election and now because its attacking Liberals and conspicuously avoiding cons and nationalists, its the good guys. the same right wingers who would've hung Snowden and Assange for being traitors are spreading PizzaGate and Wikileaks like its god's truth.

the Liberal press will lie openly about income growth and unemployment if it means defending the Golden Calf OBUMMER

Linux and Tor have been compromised since the beginning, thinking you're untouchable by the Deep state because you use an alternative OS and Browser is retarded and naive

So that justifies only handing out useful info to companies?

Cool strawman, but nobody said that.

fidel is cute as fuck

It makes the work of soup letter agencies way more harder tbh.

fuck you're right, why even bother doing anything then

dude. Snowden has nothing to do with this.

no it doesn't it makes it hard for small fish to bother you

that's not what i said, is it?

Snowden is shilling the leaks, Assange authorized them. Mentioning he's not involved is a non-sequitor. The Wikileaks idiots are serving up intel secrets to mega corps that ALREADY KNOW about these back-doors and put them there on purpose to help the State. This has ALL been common knowledge for almost a decade. I saw an info dump of these exact procedures and programs way back in the day on reddit. Everything from the Air Force manipulating facebook feeds to the Navy influencing twitter hashtags to back doors in ever Windows machine on Earth to being able to track screens/keystrokes on all vulnerable devices (read:everything). None of this is new. People in the Truth Movement have been screaming about panopticon surveillance since the early 2000's. The fact that wikileaks is making itself the center of all this, involving our Prez and Mega Corps as allies in "the fight against tyranny" is a disturbing media narrative we should not ignore. Apple and Google are wings of the Deep State. Trump is beholden to Exxon Mobile, Goldman sachs, real estate companies, Defense contractors. None of these parties will protect us from the surveillance state

furrners interfering with muh election

I can't help but smile seeing Soros on the receiving end of a color-coded revolution. Or hue-coded revolution, as it were.

Oh fuck, I'm mistaking Romania for Macedonia. Please bully me.

I always forget how much of a neoliberal shill the Atlantic is


The Fed painted themselves into the corner on this one
It's damned if they do, damned if they don't
Or worse, they actually believe the bullshit numbers that they put out

Uh, I hate to be the one to tell you this but the right wingers spreading PizzaGate aren't the same right wingers that think Assange and Snowden are traitors that should be assassinated by CIA hit squads

where does it say they won't allow linux devs to see it?

>thebaffler.com/blog/rubber-and-heroin-abdurraqib

Great article, and tragic story of how capitalism kills.