Daily News Thread 9/21

Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

The company’s operation in Michigan reveals how it’s dominated the industry by going into economically depressed areas with lax water laws.
bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/nestl-makes-billions-bottling-water-it-pays-nearly-nothing-for

North Korea: Trump signs new order to widen sanctions

US President Donald Trump has signed a new order that boosts sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41354664

Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico may be months without power

Hurricane Maria has knocked out power across the island of Puerto Rico, home to 3.5m people, officials have said.
bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41340392

‘I’ll kill you’: Duterte vows to have son murdered if drug-trafficking allegation true

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says he will not hesitate to have his own son murdered if allegations of his involvement in a $125-million drug shipment prove to be true. He has also vowed to “protect the police who kill him.”
rt.com/news/404055-duterte-son-threat-drugs/

Philippines: Armed Forces Kill 9 Communist Guerrillas

Philippine soldiers have killed nine guerrilla fighters who were members of the country’s New People’s Army, NPA, communist militant group, Reuters reported.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Philippines-Armed-Forces-Kill-9-Communist-Guerrillas-20170920-0015.html

Palestinian Groups Submit Evidence of Israeli ‘War Crimes’ to ICC

The 2014 Israeli war on Gaza is the first major offensive to potentially fall under ICC jurisdiction.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Palestinian-Groups-Submit-Evidence-of-Israeli-War-Crimes-to-ICC-20170920-0032.html

US Set to Ease Restrictions on Gun Exports

The officials from multiple agencies have said the new rules will cut government red tape and regulatory costs, boosting U.S. exports of small arms.
telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Set-to-Ease-Restrictions-on-Gun-Exports-20170920-0020.html

Police kill deaf man on his own porch despite witnesses yelling 'he can't hear you'

Police in Oklahoma killed a deaf and mentally handicapped man in front of his own home after he walked towards them holding a metal pipe – seemingly unable to understand their commands.
ibtimes.co.uk/police-kill-deaf-man-his-own-porch-despite-witnesses-yelling-he-cant-hear-you-1640293

Pittsburgh Officer On Desk Duty While Violent Confrontation Is Investigated

One of five Pittsburgh officers involved in a violent arrest recorded by a bystander and posted to Facebook has been assigned to desk duty while the others are working their usual assignments.
pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/09/21/pittsburgh-police-officer-desk-duty-violent-arrest/

Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight

An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies.
reuters.com/article/us-cyber-standards-insight/distrustful-u-s-allies-force-spy-agency-to-back-down-in-encryption-fight-idUSKCN1BW0GV

Tesla Denies Claims That It Tried to Block Unionizing Effort

Tesla Inc. is denying claims that it threatened to fire pro-union workers at its Fremont, California, factory and tried to prevent them from passing out union literature.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/tesla-denies-claims-that-it-tried-to-block-unionizing-effort

RT may soon be dropped by US providers, courtesy of McCain & Graham

Buried deep inside the just-passed defense budget is a small amendment, which could lead to a ban on broadcasting RT in America. The architects of the provision, Senators Graham and McCain, may recall that in their youth such practices formed what was known as the ‘Iron Curtain’.
rt.com/usa/404082-rt-ban-america-mccain-graham/

6th mass extinction event could happen by 2100 – study

Over the past 540 million years Earth has suffered five mass extinction events, the worst of which wiped out more than 9 per cent of marine life on the planet. A new study has suggested that the next such catastrophe might not be too far away.
rt.com/news/404107-sixth-mass-extinction-2100/

Other urls found in this thread:

telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Filipinos-Remember-Martial-Law-Under-Marcos-While-Resisting-US-Duterte-Fascism-20170921-0003.html
propublica.org/article/why-do-border-deaths-persist-when-the-number-of-border-crossings-is-falling
counterpunch.org/2017/09/21/fool-me-twice-trojan-horse-democrats-pile-into-the-house-of-single-payer/
youtube.com/watch?v=GiHftejWSvU
youtube.com/watch?v=dY_ed4_xQbg
kmov.com/story/36415378/st-louis-police-union-headquarters-vandalized
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/21/ultra-left-group-torch-50-police-vehicles-day-anti-macron-protests/
rifters.com/crawl/?p=6782
youtu.be/RuiPFcGHQQc).
archive.is/AIDhE
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

This is news?
Anyway, TYB NewsAnon 2.0. Have a cat

Jesus

OP/ED

Filipinos Remember Martial Law Under Marcos While Resisting 'US-Duterte Fascism'

On the Filipino People's Day of Protest, teleSUR spoke to veteran fighters against the U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship and those fighting fascism's return under Duterte.
telesurtv.net/english/analysis/Filipinos-Remember-Martial-Law-Under-Marcos-While-Resisting-US-Duterte-Fascism-20170921-0003.html

Why Do Border Deaths Persist When the Number of Border Crossings Is Falling?

Government policies funneling illegal immigrants into more dangerous crossing areas have contributed to fatalities.
propublica.org/article/why-do-border-deaths-persist-when-the-number-of-border-crossings-is-falling

Fool Me Twice: Trojan Horse Democrats Pile into the House of Single-Payer

It’s great that more than a third of Democratic senators have signed on to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All bill. It’s a potentially strong bill that’s been welcomed by single-payer activist organizations like Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and National Nurses United (NNU), and it represents a victory for the tireless work of single-payer activists and the popular pressure they stoked. It is also, we must recognize, only possible because of Bernie’s insistent promotion of healthcare as a right, in a campaign that widened the field of American political discourse.
counterpunch.org/2017/09/21/fool-me-twice-trojan-horse-democrats-pile-into-the-house-of-single-payer/

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WHAT, DO YOU JUST EXPECT COPS NOT TO REACT WHEN THEIR LIVES ARE IN DANGER?! #BLUELIVESMATTER

Duerte is scum

kek

Reminder that half the tankies here supported him when this started up.

Fetonte, you will always be MY president o7
youtube.com/watch?v=GiHftejWSvU

I always fucking sickened by that. Everything about Duerte screamed fucking corruption.

Footage

youtube.com/watch?v=dY_ed4_xQbg

Good Duterte

Bad Duterte


We will hang capitalists with the rope they sell us.]


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The workers will unionize then Musk will say he’s the reason they have good working conditions, not the unions. Then from all the good publicity car sales will increase.

The advent of everyone having cameras on them really is exposing just how free America really is.

Police are probably defensive about behaving this way because they always have and they don't want to change now that everyone knows what they do, outside of the people they regularly mistreat that Americans looked down upon until now.

KILL ALL COPS

THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

That shit is so fucking gay you should be banned just for posting it ironically

Don't just kill a cop.
BLOW UP POLICE STATIONS

St. Louis police union headquarters vandalized

kmov.com/story/36415378/st-louis-police-union-headquarters-vandalized

baby steps

fuck it mask off

What the fuck is Duterte's problem?

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: if he kills his son on live television he'll get my respect as consistent-but-evil

He's a sociopath

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I thought mankind is the 6th event.

nothing to see here, just some cops dispensing law and justice on aggressive belligerents.

Hang every cop with the entrails of every judge.

whoa thats like soooo deep mang

ARE YOU READY BOYS?

For Lares's extended absence to continue indefinitely? Zownds gug do em :–DDDDDDDDDDDD

And yet, everyone still supports cops.

Ancapistan? I mean we already have Somalia but Anapistan 2 is fine

Not everyone. While most people haven't been made to experience the apathetic cruelty of the state, a growing number of people are, and with mass and social media these incidents are becoming harder to ignore, especially as they grow increasingly arbitrary and brutal. Young people especially, being poorer and less insulated from police violence, are starting to form a generally negative view of the cops.

And as usual, the older and wealthier part of the population is mega copcucked, but the younger and poorer sections are harboring fewer illusions about whose side cops are on.

The media supports them.
Only retards truly support the cops as off record people fear the police like they would the local mafia boss.

Dammit meant to say that people who are on camera have to act like they support and respect police but most know them as retarded thugs.

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pls…..pls no more anime

Post yfw the FN literally imploded over this guy eating a vaguely Maghreb-inspired food

(and previous)
I believe the statement is true mostly in America. In European countries the police is *still* a tool of force for the power in place and everything, but they are much more restrained and less murder-happy than cops in Burgerland

The news item that started the discussion is gross incompetence more than police "evilness" IMO.

the police's story is literally "oh we told him that we were cops and he CHARGED US"

It was just a few Soralian internet lunatics sperging of twitter, he should've just ignored them instead of making a big deal out of it.

Philippot truly believed that the FN could be reformed and become "respectable"
His strategies failed during the campaign
He and many of his close circle lost legislative elections
The great reform that he wanted to make during the summer simply didn't happen - at all, not even a public statement about it

This is probably him realising that no, he will *never* carry the party in safe waters, no matter how many interviews he gives and no matter how talented he is

I've thought a lot about why American cops are so much more intensely violent and incompetent compared to Euro ones. I don't know much about the Euro justice system, but the best answer I can think of is that in America cops have the duel job of protecting property and the status quo (just like Euro cops) along with the side job of fueling the PIC. American cops are hired and trained specifically to be manhunters whereas Euro cops are just used to keep the peace and make sure the proles stay settled.

Maybe it's that, or maybe it is that you have 2 years of training against 6 months, usually less racial tensions (though they still exist), and most importantly, not the goddamn awful American justice system

Pleas bargains, for-profit prisons and inmate labour is modern day slavery
An actually non-negligible part of First-Responders and Firefighters in some states are inmates doing barely paid labour
Also, remember that judge who was paid by a correction facility to send younglings and one of them killed themselves ? Good times

>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports union leaders responded with a message on plywood covering the broken windows: "We're open, We won't be defeated."
Aren't these the same cops who were chanting "OUR STREETS" as they marched through the town a few days ago? What the fuck is wrong with american pigs? Our cops may be capitalist tools but they don't act like a fucking street gang.

The question is why do all of those things exist? People like to think the system is broken, but it more likely seems like it's designed that way.

I can think of several reasons, probably most of them incomplete

telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/21/ultra-left-group-torch-50-police-vehicles-day-anti-macron-protests/
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Kim Jong Un responds to Trump's UNGA comments, calling him a "gangster and a dotard"

Really worth a read. The thing about North Korea and KNCA (the state newspaper) is that their assessment of the situation is never wrong. They're easily the most straightforward and coherent in this so called crisis.

This bourg's gray matter should be on the street holy fuck.

Lmao

Will France rise again?

'no'
They posted pictures of cops, their families including babies with clear subtext to assassinate them
You're a bunch of fucking sociopaths if you support this behaviour holy shit, it's like setting cops on fire and having the audacity to complain that cops aren't treating you nicely afterwards

It won't even change anything but gather support for the policemen even who are at the forefront against islamig terrorism


His thinking is just too complex for u :^)


People are called to march on the street this Saturday. We'll see how many are there. I'm probably going to march

This is why unironic succdems should be banned.

So fucking what


You mask it with your ideology but there's something else than brings you to act and it's just the desire to do violence.
I have a hard time feeling sympathy for black blocs faggots when they set people on fire.

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Succdems btfo

Please leave

I'm not moralist. I'm just saying - act tough, get hit. Don't except any pity "muh boliss brutality :'((" if you're throwing fucking Molotov Cocktails.

I'm not a moralist either if I think people of dubious mental stability make bad leftists. Also, I'm actually reading Stirner right now. His point is much more nuanced than what you're posting, but reading it would require you to stop masturbating to Riot porn

That fucker is just asking for it now.

this nigga goin to the guillotine

What a world we live in.

muh cop cars
The arson was done by anarchists, I'm pretty sure they don't have any illusions that police are going to be nice to them no matter what they do.

fcken saved

why the fuck isn't there another dorner
why the fuck isn't there 100 of them

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oh my sweet jesus

The cops got set on fire because they acted like shitwaffles in the first place.

this has to be a troll

Yeah, it's just human nature. Just like lobbying in The United Nations to change clean drinking water to a luxury instead of a basic human right, bribing third world puppets to privatize water sources and sell them to a foreign corporation and then sell it back to third world people who've been drinking their land's water for free for centuries.

Peak capitalism.

Friendly reminder that The Democratic Cops of America just elected a police officer to their national committee. This rosepost ain't the least bit surprising.

He got booted out though

He could've sat on the committee for 5 minutes before getting the boot and it would still be unforgivable.

They'll be forgiven when they boot out everyone who supported and put him there.

a friendly reminder that randomly attacking cops in retaliation to violence of other cops is reasonable: rifters.com/crawl/?p=6782

I wish Kim Jong Un was on twitter so we could have more sweet nuclear bantz in real time

Vox: Bernie Sanders wants world peace and prosperity. But he has no idea how to get there

This might be the most infuriatingly stupid thing Vox has published yet, and that's saying something. For those that don't know, Bernie gave a speech recently to Wesminster College (you can watch it here: youtu.be/RuiPFcGHQQc). The basic gist of the speech is that war (imperialism) is driven by inequality (capitalism) and that we can only stop it together. Many people are calling it one of the best speeches of Bernie's political career. This is how Vox and other reactionary centrists are responding:

archive.is/AIDhE

Is this that gay nazi poster?

Burn down Vox tbh

How does one identify as intersex? I thought that term was specifically about mixed up physical appearance of genitals. I think what
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meant by that is already covered by terms like queer and non-binary, no?

Humans are cruel and vindictive. A lot of people actually enjoy knowing that prisoners get systematically tortured and enslaved. It's the just world fallacy combined with some very barbaric instincts.

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Translation: "You may have found the heart of the problem, but that doesn't help maintain and justify imperialism, so STFU"


Speak for yourself Hobbes.

Yes, it was me. Strange somebody still remember me.
I will never understand this blind hatered against cops. I get the idea of being against the institution, especially in its current form, and from a theoretical point of view I get hating cops, but these wishes for violence, I just don't understand.

I remember wondering if the moralizing gay french dude with conservative seeming sympathies would stick around and become more lefty or fuck off to some other, more agreeable part of the internet. I also liked your posts I think.

And I don't know, man. Cops in america are disgusting even without the constant violent abuse. Hard to sympathize even though I once, a long time ago, wanted to be one. Maybe they're a little nicer in france?

Hehe, nice way to pinpoint me
Where would I go ? Reddit a shit and 4/pol/ has ruined 4chan. I also like being challenged and defending myself.
Erf, I dunno. Sticking around make me realise a bit more about the theory and mostly about why muh commodities are so important.

I literally quoted Das Capital (well, the chapter I've read) to friends last day when we were talking about DLC and how I find it a typical excess of Capitalism. I shitposted 'I have a better idea, let's abolish money' and redpilled them about exchange-value, use-value and how art cannot be "produced" since it's not destroyed when you look at it, and how as such Capitalism isn't required to produce art, and in fact, hinders it.

I'm probably biased. I literally never had any problem with law enforcement my whole life, I'm white, middle-class, can follow orders and rules without too much fuss (a personality trait ? Internalised Capitalism ? Gayness ? Who knows) and like orderly, proper and clean public places probably too much.

The two times I've had to talk with cops was when either I was under 10 and got lost in a supermarket and was brought to policemen who called my parents and when my bike got stolen. That's probably all.

I see it from very far away, so you're probably right. They surely look less professional and less trained. There's a saying here that failed policemen become private security because of how selective the training is.

Th-thanks

One of the men who sheltered Lenin after the July Days was chief of police of Helsinki.

Not that poster, but I'm thinking it really does depend on what part of the world you came from. As a burger you get to experience the harsh reality of the 'police' laid bare. It's common knowledge in Holla Forums that fascism is capitalism in decay, and to apply further on apply that logic to single institutions, I find, is also true. The American 'police' is the enforcement arm of domestic capital in its own decay. I'm not claiming that the U.S. is a fascist state, but rather part of its institutions are reaching the barbarism associated with fascism.

I can understand not wanting to go the full violent revolutionary in your thinking. It's a hard pill to swallow. I don't want to think that things are actually so stacked in an irreversible way that violence is the only way forward but it's also getting more and more painfully obvious that there's no other option. And if things come to such a head then, yes, killing a lot of evil cops, and even maybe some good ones would probably be an inevitability since they would be on the front line in stopping any kind of radical change in the system itself. Of course at that point I'd imagine a lot fo them would have quit?

If you were american I'd pontificate that, as a middle-class gay, you're personally dependent on recent liberal amendments to keep you as a safe and protected member of society and don't personally feel the burdens that a poor gay suffers and thus it is in your benefit to keep the system going etc etc. But I don't know anything about gays in france so idk.


I really don't know what to make of our cops though. It's like they've been affected by the same edgy amoral right-wing internet mindset I see everywhere these days. Aren't they typically pretty cut-off from the federal government?

I honestly didn't think these motherfuckers would take this new red scare this far. This is unbelievable.

We might never know. I don't believe revolution is going to happen in our time, tb'h. I do believe that we can improve things, or at least, not stand by while they are being destroyed.

I guess that I've always been the kind of guy to prefer "safe" solutions and never liked risk../

Homosexuality isn't that kind of a deal, though homophobia is a bit more prevalent at the bottom, unfortunately. We are ironically much more influenced by the "Money is evil" aspect of Christianity than the "Sex is evil" one.

Funnily, your boss was forbidden to fire you for being gay a few decades before being gay was legal.

Hes cool

Thanks for the link.

It's only going to get worse.

Sure sure. As long as Macaroni doesn't crown himself king then things should keep going smoothly.

Well yeah, obviously. Again I see this as a reaction of being middle-class since even the concept of a middle-class is reactionary imo. You're dependent on the scraps of the upper-class while also having a lower-class to place yourself above. It's like having a vanguard of capitalism.

Where I live in America we don't even have that first protection and only have the second because of a federal amendment. Love these freedums.

When are the french going to start being socialist badasses again?

They really want to, but the streets are too wide now.

May 68 was the greatest shit

Compared to the rest of Europe they are still the most militant, no?

Is anyone even close to being as militant as the greeks?

My pleasure to shill for based Watts!

What's going on with Bloomberg? Aren't they an (openly) corporate mouthpiece? I don't follow them very much, but the last two articles I've read has been this Nestle-critical one and the one referenced by Richard Wolff about investors not paying their share of taxes.