Daily News Thread 4/19

D.C. police infiltrated inauguration protest group, court papers show

D.C. police this month searched the home of a local activist they say helped spearhead Inauguration Day protests that injured six police officers and resulted in extensive damage in downtown Washington.
washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-infiltrated-inauguration-protest-group-court-papers-show/2017/04/17/f3739f44-236c-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.2138942df0eb

Facebook Murder Suspect Has 'Shot And Killed Himself,' Police Say

A nationwide manhunt for a suspect who shot an elderly man dead in Cleveland and then uploaded it to Facebook has ended with the man shooting and killing himself in Pennsylvania's Erie County.
npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/18/524490044/facebook-murder-suspect-has-shot-and-killed-himself-police-say

Thousands of Massachusetts drug cases to be dismissed after lab scandal

Close to 20,000 Massachusetts criminal drug cases are set to be dismissed because of a scandal involving a former state chemist who admitted faking tests, civil liberties activists and prosecutors said on Tuesday.
reuters.com/article/us-massachusetts-drugs-idUSKBN17K2JI

US, Aussie advisers caught in ISIS chemical attack against Iraqi troops in Mosul

The Iraqi unit targeted on Sunday in a chemical weapons attack in Mosul was hosting embedded foreign military specialists, according to officials and media reports. American and Australian troops were unharmed by the toxic agent used by Islamic State.
rt.com/news/385262-mosul-chemical-australian-troops/

Blue on Blue: Police unions teargassed as they storm Brazilian Congress over looming pension reform

Members of police trade unions clashed with congressional security officials in the Brazilian capital as they attempted to break into the parliament building to protest against pension reforms. The building’s security personnel deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
rt.com/news/385280-brazil-protest-pension-reform/

‘Hard to say no’: Johnson hints parliament vote against Syria invasion may be ignored at US request

It will be “very difficult” for the UK government to refuse military assistance to the US in Syria if they expressly ask for it, British FM Boris Johnson has said, responding to an MP’s question on if he intends to heed parliament’s vote against the incursion.
rt.com/uk/385239-johnson-syria-us-military-support/

Iran shows off newest long-range missiles at Army Day parade

Iran has showcased its latest locally-developed anti-aircraft missiles together with S-300 air defense systems at an annual Army Day parade. Some of the trucks carrying the weapons were decorated with banners featuring anti-Israeli slogans.
rt.com/news/385276-iran-missiles-parade-israel/

Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of consciousness', brain scans show

Brain scans have revealed the first evidence for what appears to be a heightened state of consciousness in people who took psychedelic drugs in the name of science.
theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/19/brain-scans-reveal-mind-opening-response-to-psychedelic-drug-trip-lsd-ketamine-psilocybin

Physicists observe 'negative mass'

Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed.
bbc.com/news/science-environment-39642992

Zara pulls denim skirt over likeness to 'alt-right' mascot Pepe the Frog

Zara has withdrawn a skirt with a frog design from its website after social media users noted its resemblance to Pepe, a cartoon popular with the so-called alt-right.
theguardian.com/fashion/2017/apr/19/zara-pulls-denim-skirt-lookalike-pepe-the-frog-alt-right-mascot-cartoon

Other urls found in this thread:

vice.com/en_us/article/an-idiots-guide-to-the-surprise-election-announcement
boingboing.net/2017/04/18/the-open-web.html
newrepublic.com/article/142110/rise-jean-luc-melenchon-frances-post-democracy
propublica.org/article/secret-hospital-inspections-may-become-public-at-last
truthdig.com/report/item/what_happened_to_russiagate_20170418/
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/the-case-halting-arkansas-executions/523497/?utm_source=feed
nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/against-false-arrogance-of-economic-knowledge.html
twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/854700284634738688
wolfstreet.com/2017/04/18/houston-new-car-truck-sales-plunge/
twitter.com/AnonBabble

OP/ED

An Idiot's Guide to the Surprise UK Election

There is going to be another election. If you count the upcoming regional elections on the May 4, and the EU referendum, it will be the fourth time in two years that British voters will have gone to the polls.
vice.com/en_us/article/an-idiots-guide-to-the-surprise-election-announcement

Internet Archive: "DRM for the Web is a Bad Idea"

Brewster Kahle, who invented the first two search engines and went on to found and run the Internet Archive has published an open letter describing the problems that the W3C's move to standardize DRM for the web without protecting otherwise legal acts, like archiving, will hurt the open web.
boingboing.net/2017/04/18/the-open-web.html

The Rise of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and France’s “Post-Democracy”

If we were to pick a date when the long unwinding of France’s party system began, it would likely be May 29, 2005. A much-awaited constitution for the then-rapidly expanding European Union was put to the test of a referendum.
newrepublic.com/article/142110/rise-jean-luc-melenchon-frances-post-democracy

Secret Hospital Inspections May Become Public at Last

The public could soon get a look at confidential reports about errors, mishaps and mix-ups in the nation’s hospitals that put patients’ health and safety at risk, under a groundbreaking proposal from federal health officials.
propublica.org/article/secret-hospital-inspections-may-become-public-at-last

What Happened to Russiagate?

For five months, there was a daily drumbeat on Russiagate, the theory that Russia put Donald Trump in the White House. Now, the “scandal” has disappeared.
truthdig.com/report/item/what_happened_to_russiagate_20170418/

The Case Halting Arkansas' Executions

The Supreme Court’s 2016-17 docket has been, by recent standards, relatively sleepy. But one of its cases—an Alabama death-penalty appeal called McWilliams v. Dunn—woke up on Monday.
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/the-case-halting-arkansas-executions/523497/?utm_source=feed

Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge

The shortcomings of economic reasoning are well known, yet mainstream practitioners embrace and defend them.
nakedcapitalism.com/2017/04/against-false-arrogance-of-economic-knowledge.html

Chris Hayes pushes Tom Perez to join Bernie in saying "the ruling class & billionaire class" are to blame for our problems. Perez refused.

twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/854700284634738688

TYBNewsAnon

I'm still amazed at how Holla Forums reacted to the Facebook Murder.

Auto Market continues to melt
New car and truck sales by franchised dealers in the Houston area plunged 22.6% in March from a year ago, to 20,934 new vehicles, with sales of cars down 30.7% and sales of trucks and SUVs down 17.7%. This is the type of plunge Houston went through during the Financial Crisis. By comparison, in the US overall, new vehicle sales declined 1.6% in March, despite record incentives that desperate automakers threw at the market.

The first quarter, with 69,936 new vehicles sold, was the worst quarter since Q1 2011, according to TexAuto Facts, published by InfoNation, and cited today by Greater Houston Partnership. It was the 15th month in a row of year-over-year declines.The average sales price fell to $36,537 as the percentage share of trucks and SUVs in the mix inched down to 67.9% of total sales, from 68.3% in February. With trucks and SUVs being priced higher than cars, the average price per vehicle declined. This is not good for dealers. Their profit margin is much larger on trucks and SUVs than on cars. That cars, which are cheaper, gain on trucks in Houston is not exactly a common occurrence.

While employment overall has inched up 0.6% year-over-year, the goods producing sector, which includes construction, continues to shed jobs, down 3% year-over-year. In the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area, the unemployment rate has reached 5.9%, up from 4.8% a year ago, the highest since September 2013.And total retail sales, which include new vehicle sales, dropped 4.7% in March year-over-year, and are down 4.0% year-to-date.Hotels are suffering too. In Q4, the latest figures available, occupancy dropped to 57.2% from 64.3% a year earlier, and revenue per available room plunged 17% to $56.67.

wolfstreet.com/2017/04/18/houston-new-car-truck-sales-plunge/

Also, GDP growth for the first quarter report is gonna be bad, like holy shit levels of bad, probably around .5%
Recession is likely within the next 24 months

jfc

What a pussy.

I really hope that when the time comes we can have the police on our side.

give me the quick rundown por favor

100% convinced Bernie's association with the DNC is the only thing keeping it alive.
If he's gone, they die. I have wet dreams about it.