Daily News Thread 4/13

Syria chemical attack 'fabricated' - Assad

Syria's President Bashar-al Assad says reports of a chemical attack by his forces were "100% fabrication".
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39588876

U.S.-led coalition mistakenly kills 18 militia allies in Syria, says Pentagon

A U.S.-led air strike mistakenly killed 18 members of a Kurdish and Arab militia backed by Washington south of the Syrian city of Tabqa, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-air-strike-idUSKBN17F1OT

Chemical weapons experts in Turkey to investigate; UK confirms sarin use

Global chemical weapons investigators have gone to Turkey to collect samples as part of an inquiry into an alleged chemical weapons attack in neighbouring Syria last week that killed 87 people.
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-chemicalweapons-idUSKBN17F0TP

Fifth person killed in Venezuela unrest: officials

A fifth person died Thursday after being shot during protests against the Venezuelan government, officials said.
afp.com/en/news/205/fifth-person-killed-venezuela-unrest-officials

US jobless aid applications fell to 234,000 last week

Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, which is evidence of a stable job market and greater security for workers.
apnews.com/ce5c52c375534f8fae0fa4638465de85/US-jobless-aid-applications-fell-to-234,000-last-week

Nasa to make major announcement about Saturn and alien life

Nasa is due to reveal information from its research into Saturn and alien life in a press conference on Thursday, at 7pm UK time.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/13/nasa-announce-major-discovery-ocean-worlds-search-alien-life/

UK goes beyond UN to say South Sudan violence 'is now genocide'

The violence in South Sudan is now genocide that is being perpetrated along tribal lines, the International Development Secretary has said.
independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-sudan-africa-genocide-uk-priti-patel-un-violence-a7681361.html

Senior New York judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam found dead in Hudson River

US judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve in New York's highest court, has been found dead in the city's Hudson River.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39588099

United Airlines passenger dragged from plane likely to sue-his lawyer says

The passenger dragged from a United Airlines plane in Chicago in an incident that sparked international outrage and turned into a public relations nightmare for the carrier, will likely sue the company, his attorney said on Thursday.
reuters.com/article/us-ual-passenger-idUSKBN17F1WT

Russia blocks app used to organize protests

Russia has banned the use on its territory of a smartphone app widely used like a walkie-talkie to organize demonstrations and other gatherings.
apnews.com/aad441b617374dc7b9e29b7e0d994fec/Russia-blocks-app-used-to-organize-protests

Kremlin: No positive shift yet on Russia-US ties

President Vladimir Putin's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hasn't produced any positive shift yet in Russia-U.S. relations, the Kremlin said Thursday.
apnews.com/a44c95a0ff5f48bcb99f310a2b9cc236/Kremlin:-No-positive-shift-yet-on-Russia-US-ties

Other urls found in this thread:

counterpunch.org/2017/04/13/what-is-wrong-with-trumps-attack-on-syria/
vice.com/en_us/article/marine-le-pen-sure-follows-a-lot-of-white-supremacists
bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=35753
inthesetimes.com/article/20058/trump-syria-strike-assad-media-newspaper-editorials/
rt.com/op-edge/384614-un-resolution-syria-russia/
rt.com/op-edge/384611-australia-confrontation-us-china-military/
bigstory.ap.org/article/15dbe95d03e04d7d92e0f13336be98ed/epa-head-tells-coal-miners-regulatory-assault-over
rt.com/usa/384667-cia-assange-wikileaks-critisize/
wsj.com/articles/trump-says-he-offered-china-better-trade-terms-in-exchange-for-help-on-north-korea-1492027556
twitter.com/xinfengcao/status/851073458289102848
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

OP/ED

What is Wrong With Trump’s Attack on Syria?

Trump may have acted with insufficient evidence as to whether the chemical weapons attack was actually the responsibility of Assad and the Syrian government.
counterpunch.org/2017/04/13/what-is-wrong-with-trumps-attack-on-syria/

Marine Le Pen Sure Follows a Lot of White Supremacists

With the first round of France's Presidential Election fast approaching, tracking polls show Independent Socialist Emmanuel Macron is only .2 percent ahead of the National Front's (FN) Marine Le Pen.
vice.com/en_us/article/marine-le-pen-sure-follows-a-lot-of-white-supremacists

Australian labour market – stronger performance this month (but suspicions remain)

The latest labour force data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics – Labour Force data – for March 2017 shows a rather substantial jump in full-time employment (74,500 thousand) and a rising participation rate (up 0.2 points).
bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=35753

Once Again, Corporate Media Unites To Support U.S. Escalation in the Middle East

Of the top 100 US newspapers, 47 ran editorials on President Donald Trump’s Syria airstrikes last week: 39 in favor, seven ambiguous and only one opposed to the military attack.
inthesetimes.com/article/20058/trump-syria-strike-assad-media-newspaper-editorials/

‘I don’t believe a word of it’ – CIA whistleblower on US intelligence about Syria chemical attack

The UN, not the unilateral bombing of Syria should have been the first stop for US diplomacy, says whistleblowing former CIA analyst John Kiriakou. As for evidence the American politicians claim they have; he says “they are making this stuff up.”
rt.com/op-edge/384614-un-resolution-syria-russia/

Australia is sleepwalking into confrontation with China

Wars can happen suddenly in an atmosphere of mistrust and provocation, especially if a minor power, like Australia, abandons its independence for an "alliance" with an unstable superpower.
rt.com/op-edge/384611-australia-confrontation-us-china-military/

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Even if the chemical attack is real, if the US invades
Everything will become much, much worse

Thanks for making these threads OP. I appreciate you.

B-but if the USA invades Syria who cares r-right guys? Both sides are equally as bad!
Surely the invasion and puppet dictator installed after will help the Rojava revolution!

It was 59 missiles not 60

Lets go

SO NO ONE IS GONNA INVESTIGATE WHO'S BEHIND THIS?
HOW ARE NORMIES NOT SEEING THIS IS WMDs ALL OVER AGAIN?

Just did some research on OPCW.

Their director, Ahmet Üzümcü, is Turkish.


so yeah this 'investigation' should be top notch.

HAPPENING ALERT

US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan in area populated by Isis members

Nice, can't wait for the even more retarded sequel to those unconvincing speeches Bush and Blair gave back in the day. Who do you think will give a less convincing speech this time? Trump or May? Might be surprisingly close

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fucking lol

a short video on the bomb

Because they don't think at all and just repeat whatever moralizing bourgeois pablum the idiotbox tells them.

bigstory.ap.org/article/15dbe95d03e04d7d92e0f13336be98ed/epa-head-tells-coal-miners-regulatory-assault-over
oh boy here we go

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rt.com/usa/384667-cia-assange-wikileaks-critisize/

Trump Administration attacks wikileaks. CIA Director Mike Pompeo called Julian Assange and his associates “demons” and accused WikiLeaks of siding with the world’s dictators and endangering the security of the “free world” with the help of states like Russia.

“It’s time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service, often abetted by state actors like Russia,” Pompeo told the audience. “The Russian propaganda outlet RT actively collaborated with WikiLeaks,” Pompeo added, repeating the unsubstantiated allegation by Hillary Clinton’s campaign from October 2016, when RT reported on the daily disclosures of emails from Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta. Assange “knows nothing about America and our ideals,” Pompeo declared, adding that had he lived in the 1930s he would have been on the “wrong side of history,” as he “and his ilk make common cause with dictators today.”

The CIA director rejected Assange’s reasoning that WikiLeaks had the right to publish documents that WikiLeaks obtained, arguing that the right to free speech does not apply to non-Americans. “Julian Assange has no First Amendment freedoms,” Pompeo said. “He’s sitting in an embassy in London. He’s not a US citizen.”

“These are not reporters doing good work, trying to keep American politicians honest” but hostile intelligence operatives working with the intent “to destroy the American way of life,” he added. “No one has the right to steal secrets from America with intent to do it harm.”

4D UNDERWATER QUASI-BACKGAMMON
Assange better dump shit on Trump

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I'm interested in how this will play out. Trump billed himself as anti-establishment, yet condemns a site that is nothing but anti-establishment. They have something on him, you don't get to be a billionaire without a few skeletons in your closet.

I'm betting they found out wikileaks is planning to dump something and this is a preemptive strike to discredit them in the eyes of Americans

just you watch

Trump had to be tutored on Geopolitics by Xi

wsj.com/articles/trump-says-he-offered-china-better-trade-terms-in-exchange-for-help-on-north-korea-1492027556

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This admin is the gift that keeps on giving

Launch date for the first Chinese built carrier in 10 days
twitter.com/xinfengcao/status/851073458289102848

This is fucking depressing.


MUH BUSINESS MAN

Whenever I see his face I sob thinking of how better Arrival could have been

Ooo~
Chinese naval power is definitely going to be a first

Naval parity by 2025
They're cranking out a fuck huge number of modern surface combat ships right now, and while they claim to only be working on 1 carrier, reality is they're building like 4

Does China have any good fighters or ground attack air assets? I'm pretty ignorant about Chinese military capabilities to be honest

right now it's not US tier, but they're rapidly modernizing their airforce, currently testing/limited deployments of 5th gen aircraft

The biggest weakness they have is no domestic engine industry, but there's only 3 countries that really have that

But of course. The same media that went apeshit at him now lines up to lick his balls. That old class solidarity.


That's the problem: all his shit is already out and easily searchable. Anyone with enough braincells to spell "Trump" knows he's a crooked businessman and what a terrible job he's doing. You can't throw more dirt at him because he's already completely covered in it. Fuck, a leak about him might actually improve his public image, the way the world has gone insane.


If it's not a submarine, it's a target.