Daily News Thread 6/3

'Abhorrent' anti-vaccination movement blamed for worst Minnesota measles outbreak in decades

The US state of Minnesota is dealing with its worst measles outbreak in over three decades. There are now more measles cases in Minnesota than there were across the entire United States in 2016.
ibtimes.co.uk/abhorrent-anti-vaccination-movement-blamed-worst-minnesota-measles-outbreak-decades-1624620

Trump Reviewing Whether to Block Comey Testimony to Senate

The White House is reviewing whether to invoke executive muh privilege to prevent former FBI Director James Comey from testifying before a congressional panel next week.
bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-02/trump-reviewing-whether-to-block-comey-testimony-spokesman-says

US calls North Korea ‘clear & present’ threat, urges China to deal with Pyongyang

The US defense secretary has called North Korea a “clear and present” threat, urging China to recognize Pyongyang as a “strategic liability.” The statement comes after the UN extended sanctions against North Korea over its repeated missile tests.
rt.com/news/390695-north-korea-un-blacklist/

UN clamps fresh targeted sanctions on North Korea for ballistic missile tests

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has agreed to expand the list of targeted sanctions on North Korean entities in order to increase pressure on Pyongyang over repeated missile tests. The latest blacklisting imposes a travel ban and asset freeze on four entities and 14 individuals.
ibtimes.co.uk/un-clamps-fresh-targeted-sanctions-north-korea-ballistic-missile-tests-1624575

Up to 20 dead after 3 explosions target mourners at funeral in Kabul

Up to 20 people have been killed and 87 injured in three successive explosions centered around a funeral taking place in downtown Kabul Saturday, reports the TOLO news network.
rt.com/news/390706-dead-kabul-funeral-bombing/

Kurdish YPG says 'major operation' on Syria's Raqqa to start in days

A U.S.-backed operation by Syrian forces to capture Islamic State's Syrian "capital" of Raqqa will start in the next "few days", the spokesman for the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Saturday.
reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-raqqa-idUSKBN18U0G7

Philippines' Duterte says Islamic State not behind casino attack

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday that Islamic State militants were not behind the deadly attack at a casino in the capital Manila on Friday.
reuters.com/article/us-philippines-resort-duterte-idUSKBN18U0JC

Pakistan claims killing five Indian soldiers in retaliatory attack

The Pakistani military said on Saturday its troops had killed five Indian soldiers in retaliation to Indian firing along the Line of Control in disputed Kashmir.
reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-india-attack-idUSKBN18U0M2

Rock am Ring festival resumes in Germany after 'terrorism' scare

One of Germany's biggest music festivals is to resume a day after the site had to be evacuated because of a "potential terrorist threat".
bbc.com/news/world-europe-40142711

Tories vow not to increase income tax for UK's richest

The Conservatives have ruled out raising income taxes on the highest earners – despite having refused to make the same pledge for taxpayers on lower incomes.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-tory-tax-policy-rise-income-tax-national-insurance-higher-earners-general-election-2017-a7770581.html

Other urls found in this thread:

rt.com/op-edge/390715-james-clapper-russians-genetically-untrustworthy/
rt.com/op-edge/390705-kathy-griffin-trump-caravaggio/
nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/mark-ames-mother-jones-investigated-spreading-kremlin-disinformation.html
boingboing.net/2017/06/02/hurricane-season-started-but-t.html
inthesetimes.com/article/20186/portland-antifa-white-supremacists/
wweek.com/news/2017/06/02/man-pummels-max-train-operator-while-screaming-about-first-amendment-rights/
cnn.com/2017/06/03/americas/chile-secret-police-convicted/
berkeleyside.com/2017/05/26/eric-clanton-charged-four-counts-assault-deadly-weapon/
twitter.com/omriceren/status/870684316191174656
yahoo.com/news/hollywood-parents-react-to-californias-strict-new-122954583347.html
sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-war-in-california-over-nonmedical-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates-part-2/
statnews.com/2017/05/08/measles-vaccines-somali/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditImage

OP/ED

Clapper says Russians ‘genetically driven' to be untrustworthy — and no one even blinks

The former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper thinks Russians have some sort of biological predilection to be an untrustworthy bunch. I wish I was making that up, but sadly, I’m not.
rt.com/op-edge/390715-james-clapper-russians-genetically-untrustworthy/

Trump-Griffin scandal underscores American celebrity-obsessed culture

This past week, comic and attention-monger Kathy Griffin posted a photo on social media of her holding the bloody, decapitated head of President Trump. The ensuing outrage was not the least bit surprising and was exactly what everyone involved craved.
rt.com/op-edge/390705-kathy-griffin-trump-caravaggio/

Mark Ames: When Mother Jones Was Investigated for Spreading Kremlin Disinformation

Mother Jones' sad transformation from target of Kremlin scaremongering to perp in its "evil Putin" reincarnation.
nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/mark-ames-mother-jones-investigated-spreading-kremlin-disinformation.html

The 2017 Hurricane season has started, but Trump hasn't appointed a FEMA or NOAA director

Hurricane season officially began yesterday, but let's hope now more than ever that one doesn't hit the US anytime soon. Because guess what? No one is in charge of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that predicts and forecasts hurricanes ahead of a storm. And for an extra thrill, no one is in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) either, the agency that responds to disasters and offers relief.
boingboing.net/2017/06/02/hurricane-season-started-but-t.html

The Portland Killings Show Why We Need a Robust Antifascist Movement

The senseless killing of two Portlanders on public transit has shaken the nation.
inthesetimes.com/article/20186/portland-antifa-white-supremacists/

TYBNewsAnon2.0
Fuck, man. Absolute STATE of America.
Oh my dayz blud. Just shake that fucking magic money tree.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Fucking aut-right

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Man Pummels MAX Train Operator While Screaming About First Amendment Rights

One week after a double murder on a Portland MAX train horrified the city, a man riding a Blue Line MAX in East Portland started pummeling a TriMet operator who asked him to stop screaming about First Amendment rights.
wweek.com/news/2017/06/02/man-pummels-max-train-operator-while-screaming-about-first-amendment-rights/

Chile convicts 106 former intelligence agents

A Chilean judge sentenced 106 former intelligence agents for their role in the kidnappings and disappearances of 16 leftist militants during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
cnn.com/2017/06/03/americas/chile-secret-police-convicted/

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CRINGE. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

berkeleyside.com/2017/05/26/eric-clanton-charged-four-counts-assault-deadly-weapon/

NYT releases the identity of the CIA's head spy in Iran

twitter.com/omriceren/status/870684316191174656

won't stick
plus, he'll probably go for self defense and be acquitted


doesn't sound like he's in Iran, he's heading up an agency task force at headquarters

If this hinders America's fuckery against Iran, then good.

He hit someone (assault) with an object that can inflict grievous bodily harm (deadly weapon) in front of cameras and admitted to doing so.

Newsweek outed him in 2015. Please don't link to conservashits on Twitter and try to pass it off as news in a news thread.

deadly weapon is a reach, assault no
and if he doesn't plead and goes in front of a bay area jury, what do you think will happen? lol

I too identify as an indigenous pirate

Mental issues, you get a lot of violent schizos. Unfortunately politics gives them an outlet where this sort of underlying aggression is encouraged, textually and in action.

TOP BANTZ

It's a bit ironic considering the Vikings did a lot of damage to the white race, burning the shit out of Britain and Ireland, setting the nascent monastical culture back by a few hundred years and destroying countless artifacts, burying many others in Scandinavia like the savages they were. Then their descendants in the Normans came to subjugate the Saxons and the Celts.

literal autistic screeching.

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If we were talking about Pakistan then sure, but in America most anti-vaxxers are either white conservative christians who believe in faith healing or white liberal hippies who believe in natural medicine

Man, look at all these brown anti-vaxxers. But hey, these protests took place in California where there are no white people so that makes sense.

yahoo.com/news/hollywood-parents-react-to-californias-strict-new-122954583347.html
sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-war-in-california-over-nonmedical-exemptions-to-school-vaccine-mandates-part-2/

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In other words, the US wants to open their markets.

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GOOD NEWS AT LAST!

Anti-vaxxers remind me of that Zizek quote where he says it's easier to imagine the end of the world than a radical change in capitalism. These parents find it easier to imagine their kid dying of some horrible preventable disease than having autism. Autism and vaccines being unrelated aside, fuck these people for demonizing autism.

kys

getting mad that the majority of these cases are from mexican illegals and Somali immigrants is just hilarious and a self-own.

Not really, not any more than I blame the rest of Trump's policies on the people who voted for him out of ignorance

Honestly we just need a genetic test for autism so that autists can just be aborted in utero. Autists are a right wing reactionary plague that have no place is a socialist society.

thats really brave of you to sacrifice yourself for socialism

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That's not very socialist of you nigga

Go YPG

He's right tho.

statnews.com/2017/05/08/measles-vaccines-somali/
Measles sweeps an immigrant community targeted by anti-vaccine activists

Sounds like he and Varg could get along.

incredible

sad!

Holla Forums confirmed wrong again

show me one antivax post on this board or back to playing pretend with Xenu, Tom

t. most turboautistic ideology ever

reading the article it seems like it was activists from outside the community who promoted the anti-vax stuff to the immigrants.

And the immigrants fell for it hook line and sinker because they probably also believe other dumb stuff like chewing gum is a Jewish conspiracy to sterilise young Muslims

It's funny, but also he tried to attack protesters with a baseball bat. Guy was fucking committed.

"All violence is a quest for identity." as McLuhan said.

Guess right wingers and shitskins are in fact equally retarded :^)

It's not gonna stick he's gonna get a hung jury
Although I would bathe in Holla Forums tears if the case gets a Jury nullification saying they won't convict him for hitting Nazis

Press F to pay respects to Clanton's as yet untouched boipucci

No, you fucking idiot — you don't own your child. Your child in an individual and has a right of access to healthcare independent from your retarded opinion on the subject.

I'm hardly enthusiastic about statism but I think it's warranted for the state to break down family-base backwardness such as fundamentalist homeschooling and opposition to vaccination.

For fuck's sake…

This reminds of those Western retards spreading anti-vaccine propaganda in Africa, which obviously resulted in thousands of people over there dying from perfectly preventable diseases.

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stats have been gathered showing antivaxers tend to be from higher income households than the average, blaming poor brown people for this cancerous bullshit is a big stretch.

Damn is Trump secretly an anarchist attempting to discredit democracy beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I'm not even kidding the shit he is doing is just so blatant it must be on purpose. Saying he's dumb only explains so much

Anti-vaccers are little more than a terrorist group, getting people killed with misinformation.

but if all the autists were gone, who would vote conservative? Jobless middle-aged adulterers that believe God is real are the backbone of the right-wing.

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Let's face it, he said what everyone always thought.


Source me, please. My hate for Western meddlers is running low lately.

Man, don't lump us all together like that. I'm an autist but I'm not braindead like the right wingers

US courts do everything they can to criminalise jury nullification even though it's in the constitution, ie. it's illegal to tell people outside a court that they have the right to vote 'not guilty' because they dont agree with the charges

What do we do abut Duterte, he well earned his gulag