Daily News Thread **4/20**

Venezuela state oil company gave cash to Trump inauguration

Venezuela has donated $500,000 to US President Donald Trump's inauguration, newly released records show.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39648675

China chases billionaire who threatens 'explosive' allegations against elite

A flamboyant Chinese billionaire known for his love of supercars and social media has claimed he is the victim of a political witch hunt after he threatened to lift the lid on “explosive information” about corruption at the top of Chinese politics.
theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/china-chases-billionaire-who-threatens-explosive-allegations-against-elite

US accuses Iran of 'alarming provocations' amid nuclear tensions

The US secretary of state has accused Iran of "alarming ongoing provocations" aimed at destabilising the Middle East and undermining America's interests.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39649683

South Korea Tells Trump It's Actually Never Been a Part of China

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Trump said Xi told him during a recent summit that “Korea actually used to be a part of China.” The comments sparked outrage in Seoul and became an issue in South Korea’s presidential race, prompting the foreign ministry to seek to verify what Xi actually said.
bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-20/south-korea-tells-trump-it-s-actually-never-been-a-part-of-china

Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit

Bose Corp spies on its wireless headphone customers by using an app that tracks the music, podcasts and other audio they listen to, and violates their privacy rights by selling the information without permission, a lawsuit charged.
reuters.com/article/us-bose-lawsuit-idUSKBN17L2BT

WikiLeaks’ Assange trolls UK, says may run for Parliament in snap election

Julian Assange has announced that he may run in the UK’s June snap election, mocking the country that the UN says is holding him in arbitrary detention.
rt.com/uk/385375-assange-run-uk-parliament/

Ann Coulter appearance canceled over security concerns at UC Berkeley

Ann Coulter’s planned appearance at the University of California, Berkeley next week has been called off for security concerns, with officials saying they were “unable to find a safe and suitable” venue.
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/19/ann-coulter-appearance-canceled-university-california-berkeley

Nigeria 'gay wedding' bust leads to charges

Prosecutors in the northern Nigeria state of Kaduna have charged a group of 53 people with conspiring to celebrate a gay wedding.
bbc.com/news/world-africa-39654568

RIP at last? Over half of Russians want Lenin’s body to be buried

At least 58 percent of Russians think Lenin’s body should be taken from the Red Square Mausoleum and properly buried, though the majority don’t want the monument to the Bolshevik leader to be removed from Moscow’s main square, a new poll indicates.
rt.com/politics/385294-lenin-buried-moscow-russians/

Panama Papers: Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif survives corruption ruling

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ruled there is insufficient evidence of corruption to remove Nawaz Sharif from the role of prime minister.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-39651441

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theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/blood-from-human-umbilical-cords-can-rejuvenate-old-mouse-brains/523509/?utm_source=feed
vice.com/en_us/article/why-the-cleveland-killing-wont-change-facebook
theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/fox-news-oreilly-fired/523632/?utm_source=feed
vice.com/en_us/article/the-fda-finally-approved-a-weed-trial-for-vets-with-ptsd-tonic
dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/france-green-left-zadistes-sivens-notre-dame-des-landes
wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/20/pers-a20.html
axios.com/retail-jobs-declining-after-financial-crisis-2366712352.html
bbc.com/news/world-europe-39662315
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OP/ED

Blood From Human Umbilical Cords Can Rejuvenate Old Mouse Brains

When a baby is born, the now-useless umbilical cord is usually thrown away. But sometimes, it finds renewed purpose.
theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/blood-from-human-umbilical-cords-can-rejuvenate-old-mouse-brains/523509/?utm_source=feed

Why the Cleveland Killing Won't Change Facebook

When Steve Stephens allegedly killed Robert Godwin in cold blood on Easter Sunday and put videos of the shooting on Facebook, there wasn't much Stephens' friends or followers could do to prevent it from appearing in their news feeds.
vice.com/en_us/article/why-the-cleveland-killing-wont-change-facebook

What Will Fox News Be Without Its Biggest Star?

Eighteen days after a New York Times investigation revealed a slew of sexual-harassment settlements with the biggest star on the biggest cable news network in America, Bill O'Reilly is out at Fox News.
theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/fox-news-oreilly-fired/523632/?utm_source=feed

The FDA Finally Approved a Weed Trial for Vets with PTSD

About 20 veterans commit suicide every day, and Pickering was almost one of them—until he started smoking weed again.
vice.com/en_us/article/the-fda-finally-approved-a-weed-trial-for-vets-with-ptsd-tonic

France: Seeds of a New Green Left?

Amid mounting disenchantment with mainstream politics, longstanding tensions between Socialists and Greens, and a string of disappointments from outgoing president François Hollande, activists known as zadistes have taken the defense of the environment into their own hands—and met formidable police repression.
dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/france-green-left-zadistes-sivens-notre-dame-des-landes

Science and Socialism

Hundreds of thousands of scientists and other professionals, together with students and working people, will take part this Saturday in the worldwide March for Science.
wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/20/pers-a20.html

btw this has nothing to do with Maduro. It's just Citgo's Venezuelan parent company acting sketchy.

TYBNewsAnon2.0

I'm not suprised but still what the fuck…

A huge portion of Asia used to be a part of the Chinese empire. The PRC ideally should consider itself to be a separate entity.

He's also mad that a couple of his pet officials are being investigated/prosecuted for corruption. Basically, this is faction purging in Chinese politics and it's playing out like a corruption campaign.

That parent company is the state-owned Venezuelan oil company. So yeah, it probably does have something to do with Maduro.

it's state owned but it seems like this was them acting on their own accord. Especially if you take in to consideration Maduro's feelings towards the u.s.

Perhaps. I'm dubious, though. It could be some backdoor way of Maduro's regime trying to buy some goodwill/time.

The numbers: U.S. retail jobs (mainly cashiers and sales people) plummeted by about 60,000 in the first three months of the year, to about 15.85 million, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Reality check: That decline is more than the 53,000 people employed in all aspects of coal mining, including executives and administrative staff, an industry on which President Trump has been fixated.

axios.com/retail-jobs-declining-after-financial-crisis-2366712352.html

Thanks, Obama!

lolwut

I was being facetious, m8. Many right-wingers blamed everything on Obama but now we see that Trump can't do shit as well.

I guess Trump wants us all to be slaves in the coal mines.

Policeman and suspected gunman shot dead in Paris gun battle

One policeman has been shot dead and two others wounded in central Paris, French police say, with their suspected attacker killed by security forces.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-39662315

There's only so much coal in the fucking ground, Trump.

I think a second officer has died now and ISIS took credit

fucking Le Pen incoming, barring a miracle

Yeah I thought those numbers were really interesting. For all the hand-wringing over coal jobs, I expected those numbers to be higher. Plus, it's a dead industry due to natural gas anyway.

Oh great, REV UP THAT FRANCE REICH

When fucking ISIS claims responsibility and says "yeah you like that shit? bend over baguette boy" of course they're going to go FULL REACTIONARY and put Le pen in.

Maybe they are controlled by cia.

wouldn't be surprised if they did that shit on purpose. be on the look out

Why does it never cross a right-winger's mind that something like this could be plotted and used to get a right-wing nationalist in power to be used to ramp up a security state?

The fact that these things tend to happen right before elections and none of them seem to notice is baffling to me. Oh, but whenever a lefty is in power, it's always a false-flag to take away guns.

lol