Daily News Thread 8/25

Germany bans far-left website after G20 violence

Germany has banned a far-left website after police raids on its supporters early on Friday turned up knives, batons and catapults, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.
reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-internet-idUSKCN1B51CJ

Hurricane Harvey: Texas braces for massive storm

Texas is bracing itself for Hurricane Harvey, which may be the worst storm to hit the US mainland in 12 years.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41045079

Samsung Heir Gets 5 Years for Scandal That Toppled a President

Jay Y. Lee is set to spend the next five years in prison, one of the harshest sentences handed to a South Korean chaebol executive, after a court convicted him of bribing his way to greater control of the Samsung empire his family founded.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-25/samsung-heir-sentenced-to-five-years-prison-on-graft-conviction

Trump imposes new sanctions on Venezuela 'dictatorship,' PDVSA debt

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new Venezuelan government debt and state oil company debt in an effort to pressure President Nicolas Maduro’s “dictatorship” to halt its “tyranny,” the White House said on Friday.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-venezuela-sanctions-idUSKCN1B5216

U.S., Mexico, Canada ink non-disclosure agreements for NAFTA talks

The United States, Mexico and Canada signed non-disclosure agreements before the first round of negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico’s Economy Ministry said on Friday.
reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta-idUSKCN1B523D

US Removes 4 Military Members for Bringing Women to Pence’s Panama Trip Hotel

Four U.S. military service members who were part of Vice President Mike Pence’s communications team have been removed from White House duties and reassigned for bringing women back to their hotel in Panama, U.S. officials said.
telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Removes-4-Military-Members-for-Bringing-Women-to-Pences-Panama-Trip-Hotel-20170825-0014.html

Polish government lashes out at ‘arrogant’ Macron, who says Poles deserve better

The French president has irritated Warsaw, suggesting that the Poles deserved a government that would not isolate the country. Polish officials said Emmanuel Macron was an arrogant and poorly informed person, who should mind his own business.
rt.com/news/400897-macron-poland-isolated-row/

Chechnya is forcing hundreds of divorcees to reunite to tackle Isis

President Kadyrov claims children of divorced parents are more likely to join extremist groups.
ibtimes.co.uk/chechnya-forcing-hundreds-divorcees-reunite-tackle-isis-1636707

Japan says to impose additional sanctions against North Korea

Japan will impose additional sanctions against North Korea following the reclusive country’s repeated missile launches and unresolved abduction issue, its top government spokesman said on Friday.
reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-japan-idUSKCN1B506Q

India guru rape case: 23 die in unrest as Ram Rahim Singh convicted

At least 23 people have been killed in violent protests over the rape conviction of a popular religious leader in north India.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41049705

Far-right smear campaign against Antifa exposed by Bellingcat

Far-right activists are using fake Twitter accounts and images of battered women to smear anti-fascist groups in the US, an online investigation has revealed.
bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41036631

San Francisco latest city to brace for protests

San Francisco braced on Friday for a weekend of protests, including a rally by an Oregon-based group that local leaders labeled “white supremacist” as the city’s mayor urged residents to boycott the event.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-protests-idUSKCN1B514X

White supremacist plotted mass shooting 'because he couldn't get laid'

Messages from a white supremacist who stockpiled weapons and plotted to commit a mass shooting at an Australian shopping centre show how he was "fully prepared to shoot cops".
ibtimes.co.uk/will-start-killing-if-i-dont-get-laid-soon-texts-neo-nazi-mass-shooting-plotter-revealed-1636652

==Arizona man fired after writing on Facebook 'can't wait to drive through anti-Trump protesters'=

A man from Arizona has been fired from his job for making a joke on Facebook about driving his car through a crowd of Trump protesters, less than two weeks after a woman was killed when a white supremacist ploughed his car into anti-fascist demonstrators in Charlottesville.
ibtimes.co.uk/arizona-man-fired-after-writing-facebook-cant-wait-drive-through-anti-trump-protesters-1636717

Other urls found in this thread:

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/insurer-aetna-reveals-hiv-status-of-clients-in-mailing-to-12-000
reuters.com/article/us-usa-protests-statues-idUSKCN1B51X2
ibtimes.co.uk/russian-propaganda-machine-spreads-hacker-claim-that-us-testing-chemical-weapons-ukraine-1636700
reuters.com/article/us-france-politics-macron-makeup-idUSKCN1B52E1?il=0
criticallegalthinking.com/2017/08/25/tenses-violence-antifascist-action-legal-critique-charlottesvilles-wake/
ndpr.nd.edu/news/what-can-philosophy-contribute-to-ethics/
rt.com/op-edge/400852-hamilton-twitter-propaganda-russia/
counterpunch.org/2017/08/25/colin-kaepernick-and-the-nfl-man-vs-machine/
crookedtimber.org/2017/08/25/when-political-scientists-invite-torturers-to-talk/
anfenglish.com/freedom-of-the-press/youtube-closes-ypg-account-21701
theintercept.com/2017/08/25/border-patrol-checkpoints-in-texas-will-stay-open-as-hurricane-evacuation-is-underway/
youtube.com/watch?v=RG629uoizro
thehill.com/homenews/administration/348061-trump-pardons-arpaio
dota2.gamepedia.com/media/dota2.gamepedia.com/8/89/Kunk_death_15.mp3
libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=4B03487747574EBAA050E1BCEB1B68E6
statesman.com/news/local/nuke-plant-could-close-south-texas-project-braces-for-strengthening-hurricane-harvey/IlBEvX9Z2rXeXruDeVG76J/
mystatesman.com/business/hurricane-harvey-texas-energy-industry-braces-for-potential-damage/COcqkIkP5zSVd7S4ufHk1L/
khou.com/weather/nuclear-facility-on-texas-coast-will-resume-operations-through-harvey/467413925
chron.com/business/energy/article/South-Texas-nuclear-plant-ready-to-weather-11961781.php
twitter.com/FBCSO/status/900793654192869376
apnews.com/d7b38219387e418ab187617f709fad28
washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-confronts-unprecedented-public-rebuke-by-gary-cohn-after-charlottsville/2017/08/25/d5ec8488-89b3-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html
chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-pentagon-transgender-ban-20170825-story.html
washingtonexaminer.com/how-do-you-say-whoops-in-russian-podesta-group-retroactively-files-more-doj-disclosures-for-pro-putin-work/article/2632538
thehill.com/policy/national-security/348046-mueller-subpoenas-six-manafort-linked-pr-firms-report
usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/25/prison-worker-told-serve-inmates-rotten-food/601498001/
twitter.com/phoenixnewtimes/status/901263384087334914
theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/san-francisco-dog-poo-protest-patriot-prayer-rally
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

More News

Aetna Accidentally Reveals HIV Status of Clients in Mailing to 12,000

Insurer Aetna Inc. inadvertently revealed the HIV status of some clients in a mailing about medication for the disease sent to about 12,000 people last month.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-24/insurer-aetna-reveals-hiv-status-of-clients-in-mailing-to-12-000

Kansas City takes down Confederate monument after vandalism

Municipal workers in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday started dismantling a Confederate memorial that was vandalized earlier this month, the latest move to take down a Civil War symbol amid a fierce debate about race and the legacy of slavery in America.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-protests-statues-idUSKCN1B51X2

Russian propaganda machine claims US covertly testing chemical warfare in Ukraine

Russian media spread CyberBerkut claim that diseases were 'dispersed intentionally'.
ibtimes.co.uk/russian-propaganda-machine-spreads-hacker-claim-that-us-testing-chemical-weapons-ukraine-1636700

'Makeupgate' stalks France's Macron a year after fuss over Hollande's haircut

Social media commentators and political opponents of Emmanuel Macron tore into the French president on Friday after it emerged that he spent 26,000 euros ($30,901) on makeup during his first 100 days in office.
reuters.com/article/us-france-politics-macron-makeup-idUSKCN1B52E1?il=0

dude what

OP/ED

Tenses of Violence: Antifascist Action & Legal Critique in Charlottesville’s Wake

A petition submitted to the White House on August 17, demanding that the Trump administration ‘formally recognize AntiFa as a terrorist organization,’ has obtained over 270,000 signatures at the time of this writing, on August 23.
criticallegalthinking.com/2017/08/25/tenses-violence-antifascist-action-legal-critique-charlottesvilles-wake/

What Can Philosophy Contribute to Ethics?

ndpr.nd.edu/news/what-can-philosophy-contribute-to-ethics/

I predict a 'RIOT' as dissent in American media becomes illegitimate

Since the German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled its “Alliance For Securing Democracy (AFSD)," I’ve resisted commenting, simply because the lobby group’s “Hamilton 68 dashboard” is too preposterous to merit serious analysis.
rt.com/op-edge/400852-hamilton-twitter-propaganda-russia/

Colin Kaepernick and the NFL: Man vs Machine

counterpunch.org/2017/08/25/colin-kaepernick-and-the-nfl-man-vs-machine/

When Political Scientists Legitimate Torturers

The American Political Science Association, which will be meeting next week in San Francisco, will be featuring John Yoo on two panels. Many political scientists are protesting this decision, and will be protesting Yoo at his panels. I am not attending the conference this year, but I wrote the following letter to the two program chairs of the conference.
crookedtimber.org/2017/08/25/when-political-scientists-invite-torturers-to-talk/

so much for the "the state and police support leftists, we are anti-establishment" right

they are fully aware they're full of shit when they're saying that.

you greatly underestimate how retarded people can be

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What the fuck? How is it possible to spend that much on makeup on just 3 months? Even high end cosmetics from Chanel rarely go above $500.

Corruption, probably, I dunno kek.

I'm a newfag, test

YouTube closes YPG account


anfenglish.com/freedom-of-the-press/youtube-closes-ypg-account-21701

Make up is insanely expensive my dude.

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Man, this pisses me off. This isn't about "thinking differently", this is about the actual, real-life living conditions of people. The bourgeoisie "thinking differently" results in the poverty of billions and deaths of millions. Furthermore, they back up their "thoughts" with real violence by armies, police and other repressive apparatus. Yet calling for resistance to this is expressing "hate" towards those poor businesses…

Autistic incel pedo nazi, what a twist

See, this is why we need freedom of speech, to stop monsters like you from oppressing people just for having a different opinion. The wealthy have a right to their opinion too, you know.

Tsk tsk

Feels good man

Is the right decucking it’s self?

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That's that Indian Motorcycle Jesus guy isn't it? I just saw western media promoting this guy like half a year ago.

Damn, 2 raped and now 23 dead.

Wages for his hair dresser and make-up artist.
I wouldn't be suprised if the american president has similar expences.

theintercept.com/2017/08/25/border-patrol-checkpoints-in-texas-will-stay-open-as-hurricane-evacuation-is-underway/
BORDER PATROL CHECKPOINTS IN TEXAS WILL STAY OPEN AS HURRICANE EVACUATION IS UNDERWAY

Just according to keikaku

So let me get this straight. You can prep for a mass shooting but if you clearly state in your manifesto that you only mean to kill civilians and no cops it's less of an offense?

Blue Lives Matter :^)

Angie, honey, please step up against this wall here for me. Thaaaaaaannnnks.

Yes, that's him.
200 000 protesters in the street
2500 arrested during the riots
23 dead
It won't be socialism that replaces capitalism, it will be this guy.

But 6 months of Trump is enough to make any real American long for the Bush Abu Ghraib days.

The fate of the world rests on his furry shoulders.

youtube.com/watch?v=RG629uoizro

No one likes a quitter user.

imagine your boss telling you that you have to finish your shift even though one of the most deadly storms we've seen in recent history is on the way.

we can't let the spooky mexican's get past us!

You people keep yelling at me for stereotyping antisocial men who don't bone past 23, but at the end of the day……………

I wonder if they'll even get hazard pay lol

You have the power to prevent this hoochie. Use that useless sheet of yours for a better tomorrow, you can make sure there are no virgins past the age of 23.

Nah. People who can't get laid can't get laid for a reason

Like being a nazi

I dont think you being a lesbian helps a lot to be honest.

Guilty as charged

People were Nazis back in the day and they still got laid.

Anyway hows your architecture study going.
What do you think of brutalism? hint, its garbage
I hope i remembered this right.

Raping slavs isn't getting laid.

It can be necessary for urban planning, but I would say most American urban architecture goes without critique faaaaaaar less than it fucking should. Suburban households and shopping centers are worse than any straight fucking concrete rectangle.


Yeah the perquisite is "back in the day"

Just for fun look up the American UTBAPH phenomenon and tell me that it's better than Brutalism. Be honest.

A lot of nazis were sexually lacking though.

Being good at sex is degenerate. Have you not heard of blacked.com?

The fact someone fucked Heinrich "The Chinless" Himmler is more than enough evidence Nazi Germany was wrong

When he gives you the "I'll take you and my two inch erect cock to Atlantis and back" look but its the 21st century and there's no reason anyone would fuck you

Marginally better than brutalism
Then again american architecture in general is shit

You are legally blind. UTBAPHs are a fucking abomination.

I'm in Houston. Hold me, Holla Forums. ;_;

Surfs up

lol good luck

Why are you trying to genocide the White Race?

If that's supposed to be Heinrich Himmler he looks like a racist 1940s caricature of a Japanese man.

But I'm not straight

Didn't "y'all" already deal with this back in 2015? I remember seeing news footage of the whole city underwater.

It happens once a year or so in the south. Then they take their frustration with the weather out on the country every four years.

Oklahoma does it better with their collective tornado angst

Angst is the correct response to something that can throw cars through the town and rip buildings apart.
Unless you mean the faggy english angst instead of the proper germanic angst

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Shit, I forgot how crazy the environment can be in America. Still a beautiful country though…

BREAKING: TRUMP PARDONS ARPAIO
thehill.com/homenews/administration/348061-trump-pardons-arpaio

Two pedophiles

Angst in German actually means fear. In English the only time people ever seem to use it is when describing edgy teenagers.

That guy's prisons are so fulla inmates half of them sleep in tents in the middle of the desert in fenced off areas. Fucking drug war…

dota2.gamepedia.com/media/dota2.gamepedia.com/8/89/Kunk_death_15.mp3

THE MADMAN!

But Trump's not following through on any of his promises besides pardoning a very large mean honey baked ham

The great Wall of China wasn't built in a day you know.

That's really fucked up.

Bread and circuses. That's what his mindless followers are getting when their president pardons guys like Arpaio and defends Confederate statues. Meanwhile slowly, but surely the whole world goes to shit…

So you're saying it's going to take decades for Trump to do anything. Sounds realistic.

Friday AND a huge hurricane bearing down on Texas? Now this is what I call a news dump!

"All I'm saying is give Trump a chance."

You know what else The Great Wall and Trump's promises have got in common? Neither of them are gonna accomplish what they're intended to do. The Huns still fucked China and the Mexicans are still gonna fuck you.

TO?

Come again?

Was the world really in a great place half a year ago?

Are there any nuclear power plants (you just know have shifty regulations because it's Texas) along the Texas coast this is going to hit

It's getting progressively worse for sure. Trump's already going back to war in fucking Afghanistan of all places. AFGHANISTAN. He ain't even been in the big boy chair for 3/4 of a year either.

Just looked it up

STP Nuclear Operating Co

Have fun dealing with that with no fucking funding from FEMA

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If we don't stop them in Afghanistan today then it'll be Uzbeki-beki-beki-beki-stanistan tommorow.

slightly disappointed that Hurricane harvey isn't going to roll through Arizona now

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What's based about pardoning a stupid cop

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Because it's his hot presidency and he does what he wants.

So he basically is resigned to being a one-termer then? Hmm.

libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=4B03487747574EBAA050E1BCEB1B68E6

Prisson is no place for a patriot like Arpaio. America needs him on the front lines ASAP.

Hahahahahahahahaha this fucking Nuclear Plant has had problems since 1985 and its going to be demolished by Hurricane Harvey right in the presidency Texas voted who destroyed FEMA, so nobody is going to do anything about the fucking radiation and everyone in Texas gets cancer

You're right it's the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station right now

Nah, he's tryna keep his core support happy by throwing them a bone here and there. By bailing out a guy like Arpaio who's known for being very touch on illegal immigration and in general just kind of a racist prick he's basically winking at the "build the wall" chanting Trumptards from 2016 that got him elected.

Gimme a 1-10 scale rating on how bad this hurricane situation's looking right now. I wanna know how powerful it is and if there's a chance that it might miss the plant.

Speak of the god damn devil

NUKE PLANT COULD CLOSE: South Texas Project braces for strengthening Hurricane Harvey

statesman.com/news/local/nuke-plant-could-close-south-texas-project-braces-for-strengthening-hurricane-harvey/IlBEvX9Z2rXeXruDeVG76J/

It's at nearly the same rating as Hurricane Katrina and Trump destroyed the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Not even Bush did that and he managed to fuck up Katrina so badly his presidency never fully recovered.

Trump is definitely going to handle this fine, I'm assuming.

Sounds like nothing. Screencap this.

Trump can always just build a wall on Texas' coast and have the weather pay for it.

So, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. shadow of Texas soon?

Trump can always just build a wall on Texas' coast and have Mexico pay for it.

Hurricane Harvey: Texas energy industry braces for potential damage

mystatesman.com/business/hurricane-harvey-texas-energy-industry-braces-for-potential-damage/COcqkIkP5zSVd7S4ufHk1L/

Nuclear facility on Texas coast will resume operations through Hurricane

khou.com/weather/nuclear-facility-on-texas-coast-will-resume-operations-through-harvey/467413925

South Texas nuclear plant to weather Hurricane Harvey

chron.com/business/energy/article/South-Texas-nuclear-plant-ready-to-weather-11961781.php

Maybe they're confident enough their nuclear power plant plagued by safety issues since its inception will hold up to hurricane force winds that they're forcing their employees to work in it while it hits.

It makes perfect sense the first Super Mutants would originate in Texas.

Iraq beat them to it.

Iraqis already have'm.

calm down Holla Forums

twitter.com/FBCSO/status/900793654192869376

Trump just pardoned Sheriff Arpaio. Also Sebastian Gorka just resigned from the White House.

Holy shit! He going to be filled man hoes when he's older.

Holy fuck if we don't have the Hungarian Devil who do we have left

So breaking the law is allowed as long as you are a Trump supporter? Great message to send out.

Flynn and Manafort will be pardoned too. Trump gives zero fucks.

the Obama administration had mountains of evidence ready to prosecute Bush for torture but chose not to. This isn't new.

George Bush,George Bush Jr, Barbra Bush, and Tony Blair are demons that cannot be touched lest they unravel a deadly millennia old curse on the population

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National security aide Sebastian Gorka leaves White House

White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka tells The Associated Press he has resigned from his position.

A White House official, however, says Gorka did not resign but “no longer works at the White House.”

That official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Gorka is declining to discuss the reasons he has left the White House, but is pointing toward excerpts from his resignation letter that were posted Friday evening by The Federalist website.

Gorka wrote that “the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will ‘Make America Great Again,’ have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months.”

Gorka’s departure comes a week after the exit of chief strategist Steve Bannon from the White House.

apnews.com/d7b38219387e418ab187617f709fad28

So how do we exorcise them?

Catapults? Not even a trebuchet? What is this, 200 BC?

4chan's Holla Forums literally started that 2 days ago

i wonder if some bbc cyberjournalists lurk on Holla Forums

RIP To the Strongest Man to ever grace the US Government. Farewell, Hugo Drax

washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-confronts-unprecedented-public-rebuke-by-gary-cohn-after-charlottsville/2017/08/25/d5ec8488-89b3-11e7-961d-2f373b3977ee_story.html

Is ✡✡✡Cohn✡✡✡ next?

I think journalists started lurking there a while back.

Guillotines work.

Now this shit's getting weird, burger Comrades should seriously consider moving up the border to Canada.

Trump tells Mattis to ban transgender recruits; current military could possibly remain

chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-pentagon-transgender-ban-20170825-story.html

for those that forgot, Gorka had endorsed the neo-fascist Hungarian Guard, aka the paramilitary wing of the far-right Jobbik party.

It's weird. You usually do not hear departing White House employees talking so much shit. Spiro Agnew, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld left without an unkind word for anyone.

How do you say 'whoops' in Russian? Podesta Group retroactively files more DOJ disclosures for pro-Putin work

washingtonexaminer.com/how-do-you-say-whoops-in-russian-podesta-group-retroactively-files-more-doj-disclosures-for-pro-putin-work/article/2632538

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The comments section on the hill…. :(

thehill.com/policy/national-security/348046-mueller-subpoenas-six-manafort-linked-pr-firms-report

Holy shit. Is this book just one big apology for porky's misdeeds?

Prison food worker: 'I was fired for refusing to serve rotten potatoes'

usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/25/prison-worker-told-serve-inmates-rotten-food/601498001/

Talk about a fucking Friday dump, Jesus.

twitter.com/phoenixnewtimes/status/901263384087334914
Trump is pardoning this guy.

But he didn't do any of the things he promised, basically. If anything, Trump is showing what a complete joke democracy is and how you're just gonna get the same generic policies no matter what.

Kind of fucked up that so many people are getting their whole freakin lives destroyed with three days notice. Not much to say besides that.

…damn


It's disgusting but not suprising. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Turd Reich: San Francisco dog owners lay minefield of poo for rightwing rally

theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/san-francisco-dog-poo-protest-patriot-prayer-rally

Jesus, that's some spooky shit.

yo theres a thread happening about u