Daily News Thread 4/21

Right-wing Israelis stage BBQ outside prison to taunt Palestinian hunger strikers

Activists from an Israeli right-wing movement, Ichud Leumi, have organized a free barbecue outside a military prison in the West Bank where Palestinian inmates are currently on hunger strike.
rt.com/news/385475-israel-prison-barbecue-palestine/

BP oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, scientists find in first-ever financial evaluation of spill’s impact

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/04/cals-bp.html

European Court of Human Rights cannot challenge Turkish referendum results – Erdogan

Challenging the results of Turkey’s referendum that extended the president’s powers is well beyond the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that the issue is “over.”
rt.com/news/385501-erdogan-referendum-european-court/

Deadly Paris Attack Halts Campaigning Before French Election

The murder of a policeman on the Champs-Elysees has forced an early end to campaigning for the leading candidates in France’s presidential election as they head into Sunday’s first-round of voting with the race wide open.
bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-21/french-vote-that-hinged-on-le-pen-becomes-4-way-race-to-finish

Naked mole rats can survive without oxygen using plant sugar tactic

They feel no pain, don’t get cancer and look like baggy-skinned sausages with teeth: the naked mole rat is already famously weird. Now scientists have discovered what could be the subterranean rodents’ strangest trait yet: they can survive without oxygen by switching to a metabolic strategy normally used by plants.
theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/sweet-naked-mole-rats-can-survive-without-oxygen-using-plant-sugar-tactic-fructose

Russia bans Jehovah's Witnesses and labels group as extremists

Russia’s supreme court has banned the Jehovah’s Witnesses from operating in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be considered an extremist group.
theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/20/russia-bans-jehovahs-witnesses

Stroke and dementia risk linked to artificial sweeteners, study suggests

Consuming a can a day of low- or no-sugar soft drink is associated with a much higher risk of having a stroke or developing dementia, researchers claim.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/20/stroke-and-dementia-risk-linked-to-low-sugar-drinks-study-finds

Thai police arrest man smuggling semen into Laos

Thai police have arrested a man attempting to smuggle six vials of human semen into Laos.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-39663671

Cameroon ends internet shutdown on orders of President Paul Biya

Internet services in Cameroon's English-speaking regions have been turned back on three months after they were cut off following protests.
bbc.com/news/world-africa-39665244

Other urls found in this thread:

inc.com/jessica-stillman/yale-researcher-to-bosses-science-proves-job-interviews-are-useless.html
newrepublic.com/article/142152/bernie-sanderss-unity-tour-failed
theintercept.com/2017/04/20/fbi-stings-zero-in-on-isis-sympathizers-few-have-terrorist-links/
theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/the-arctic-ocean-is-filling-with-billions-of-plastic-bits/523713/?utm_source=feed
thenation.com/article/the-next-generation-of-democratic-socialists-has-started-winning-local-elections/
itsgoingdown.org/olympia-wa-train-tracks-sabotage-stop-fracking-equipment/
bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-21/portugal-is-a-keynesian-mirage
twitter.com/AnonBabble

OP/ED

Yale Researcher to Bosses: Science Proves Job Interviews Are Useless

A stack of studies proves informal sit downs are useless. So why do you still insist on using them?
inc.com/jessica-stillman/yale-researcher-to-bosses-science-proves-job-interviews-are-useless.html

Why Bernie Sanders’s Unity Tour Failed

Bernie Sanders will conclude his “Come Together and Fight Back” tour with Tom Perez this weekend—a political roadshow that’s taken the Vermont senator and the Democratic National Committee chair to more than half a dozen red and purple states across America since Monday.
newrepublic.com/article/142152/bernie-sanderss-unity-tour-failed

FBI Stings Zero In on ISIS Sympathizers. Few Have Terrorist Links.

The U.S. government has prosecuted almost 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never committed an act of violence.
theintercept.com/2017/04/20/fbi-stings-zero-in-on-isis-sympathizers-few-have-terrorist-links/

The Arctic Ocean Is Clogging With Billions of Plastic Bits

The Arctic Ocean is small, shallow, and—most importantly—shrouded. Unlike the other large oceans of the world, it is closely hemmed in by Asia, Europe, and North America, with very few watery entrances in and out.
theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/the-arctic-ocean-is-filling-with-billions-of-plastic-bits/523713/?utm_source=feed

The Next Generation of Democratic Socialists Has Started Winning Local Elections

Campaigning for economic and social justice, they are winning municipal races in states like Illinois and Georgia.
thenation.com/article/the-next-generation-of-democratic-socialists-has-started-winning-local-elections/

Olympia, WA: Train Tracks Sabotaged To Stop Fracking Equipment

Early in the morning of April 20th we poured concrete on the train tracks that lead out of the Port of Olympia to block any trains from using the tracks.
itsgoingdown.org/olympia-wa-train-tracks-sabotage-stop-fracking-equipment/

TYBNewsAnon2.0 (do you if the original one will ever be back?)

BTW BP was fined a $20.8 billion and 3/4 of that ($15.3 billion) was tax deductible.


I feel like whoever is around Bernie is shielding him from the shit Shillary supporters and other dems are saying online. I kind of want to print out screenshots of what #NastyWoman #NotMyPresident Twitter thinks of him so maybe he'll stop this nonsense.


No idea. Last he said it was gonna be a week and that was like a month ago.

bernie stop fucking selling out you idiot

the fuck?

It's pretty bad. He lent some support to an economic progressive (running in a fairly actually reactionary area) who didn't have a 100% spotless record on abortion and #TheResistance want to hang him. Louise Mensch is tell her followers he's a Russian agent ffs

why doesn't antifa do anything about the disgusting racism of zionists?

most antifa (except anti-deutsch) support Palestine

Kek

If we don't let rich people keep all their money they won't give us jobs :^)

Wow Bloomberg is pretty frank in stating both the position of the bourgeoisie and the sham of bourgeois democracy:

If Melenchon and Le Pen make it to the 2nd round it'd be interesting to see how the media shills for a person they previously labelled far-right nazi.

bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-21/portugal-is-a-keynesian-mirage

They're improving the economy and reducing the budget deficit but they're slashing the public investment. Did I also mention that they partnered up with the right and sold a fucking bank to an american fund a few days ago while being in a "coalition" of sorts with the Communist Party and Left Bloc?

ugh fucking neolibs every time

poor old keynes, he gets the blame for everything

Redundant.

That was one of the reasons I wanted to see Bernie vs Trump. The media would do a 180 on Trump so fast it would break the laws of physics.

This trend is only going to continue. Porky's insatiable appetite for profit won't be stopped unless something drastic happens.

And that will happen when the Euro collapses again. Our public debt to gdp ratio before 2008 was 68%. It is now at 130.4% and increasing. The right and now the "Socialist" Party are doing everything to please the European Union but somehow the debt keeps increasing and the public investment falling. In the not so distant future the Euro will inevitably collapse and we're in a much worse situation than before. Maybe it will be the encouragement the people need to finally start hunting porky.

Considering his sway with young and working class voters, I don't think Sanders has much care for what Liberals think.

People are listening to him, not that spineless raisin Perez.