Daily News Thread 12/18

Washington train crash: Deaths as rail carriages fall on US motorway

Train carriages have plummeted on to a motorway in Washington state, causing "multiple" fatalities, police say.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42401707

Israel believes U.S. will veto U.N. resolution on Jerusalem

Israel said it believes its longtime ally the United States will veto a United Nations Security Council on Monday that would call on U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-israel-un/israel-believes-u-s-will-veto-u-n-resolution-on-jerusalem-idUSKBN1EC25N

Could Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam be the next Libyan president?

The son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, is planning to run in the 2018 presidential elections.
ibtimes.co.uk/could-muammar-gaddafis-son-saif-al-islam-be-next-libyan-president-1651965

Libyan mayor Mohamad Eshtewi kidnapped and killed in Misrata

Unknown gunmen have killed the mayor of Libya's port city Misrata after reportedly chasing his car and kidnapping him.
bbc.com/news/world-africa-42395678

Austria protest as far right Freedom Party tastes power

Thousands of protesters rallied in central Vienna against Austria's new coalition government of conservatives and far right, during its swearing-in.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-42396078

Chilean Billionaire Piñera Wins Presidential Runoff

Chile's right-center candidate and billionaire former President Sebastian Piñera will serve his second term as president.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Chilean-Billionaire-Pinera-Wins-Presidential-Runoff-20171217-0019.html

Kremlin says U.S. tip-off about planned attack 'saved many lives'

A U.S. tip-off about a planned attack in St. Petersburg helped save many lives and Russia and the United States should try to cooperate in the same way in future, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-intelligence-kremlin/kremlin-says-u-s-tip-off-about-planned-attack-saved-many-lives-idUSKBN1EC0ZY

Fox News under fire for reporter’s claims of White House ‘coup’

Never one to shy away from controversy, Fox News may have crossed the line between biased news coverage and self-satire – intentionally or otherwise – as host Jesse Watters alleged a coup may be underway in the US on Sunday.
rt.com/usa/413544-fox-news-white-house-coup/

Harvard and Cuban Academia to Share Scientific Research

The agreement allows for collaboration on scientific research, joint publications as well as post-graduate programs.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Harvard-and-Cuban-Academia-to-Share-Scientific-Research-20171218-0009.html

Twitter to put warnings before swastikas, other hate images

Twitter Inc said on Monday it would begin putting a warning in front of pictures that show Nazi swastikas and other items it determines are hateful imagery, as well as ban their use in any profile photos on the social media network.
reuters.com/article/us-twitter-violence/twitter-to-put-warnings-before-swastikas-other-hate-images-idUSKBN1EC1RD

‘Unlimited’ cheese & wine party runs out of cheese, almost sparks riot

Food lovers are cheesed off after what may be the greatest con of 2017. A food festival that promised unlimited cheese and wine ran out of the former – and has since been labelled the UK’s answer to the Fyre Festival.
rt.com/uk/413529-unlimited-cheese-wine-festival/

Other urls found in this thread:

ibtimes.co.uk/centrist-party-political-equivalent-tantrum-1651578
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/17/ta-nehisi-coates-neoliberal-black-struggle-cornel-west
novaramedia.com/2017/12/18/were-talking-about-billions-stolen-from-workers-organising-in-the-construction-industry/
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-economics-of-luther-or-munzer/
yahoo.com/news/deduction-expected-benefit-gop-leaders-065034878.html
youtu.be/mV3KlE-ZcK0
youtu.be/Q3IyJ51N7ak
boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/153738154/report-antifa-responsible-for-train-wreck
8ch.net/pol/res/11056719.html
psmag.com/news/senate-russia-investigation-turns-to-jill-stein
newsweek.com/antifa-falsely-linked-amtrak-train-derailment-right-wing-conspiracy-peddlers-751893
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

Thanks newsanon

OP/ED

A 'centrist' party is the political equivalent of a tantrum

The urge to summon into being a new political party is both a hallmark of our First-Past-the-Post electoral system and about the hardest thing to pull off successfully within it. The system creates parties in which fellow members are extraordinarily ill-suited to one another; it then attaches an exorbitant price tag to going it alone.
ibtimes.co.uk/centrist-party-political-equivalent-tantrum-1651578

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power, a book about Barack Obama’s presidency and the tenacity of white supremacy, has captured the attention of many of us. One crucial question is why now in this moment has his apolitical pessimism gained such wide acceptance?
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/17/ta-nehisi-coates-neoliberal-black-struggle-cornel-west

‘We’re talking about billions stolen from workers’: Organising in the Construction Industry

Trade union density in the construction industry has halved since 1995, from 30.4% to 13.1% in 2015. 30% membership wasn’t great either; the health, education and transport sectors are still higher now, but 13% density means workplaces without any kind of representation or talk of trade unionism.
novaramedia.com/2017/12/18/were-talking-about-billions-stolen-from-workers-organising-in-the-construction-industry/

The economics of Luther or Munzer?

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-economics-of-luther-or-munzer/

Who gives a fuck about cheese? I'm there for the free wine. Fucking anglos.

TYBNewsAnon2.0

It really is hard not to turn into a Maoist Third Worldist sometimes

Don't you fucking badmouth cheese! Cheese haters go straight to gulag.

Yeah, people in Vienna 'protested'. It will achieve absolutely nothing though.

What is Coates' deal? Because according to the Chapo subreddit, he is a comrade.

New Deduction Expected To Benefit GOP Leaders Was Needed For Votes: Cornyn

yahoo.com/news/deduction-expected-benefit-gop-leaders-065034878.html

Now we know why Bob Corker changed his "No" vote to a "Yes". The GOP is literally paying Senators to vote for this bill. This is bribery.

AUSTRIA IS NAZBOL

This wasn't an accident. Trump's team is doing everything in their power to sway public opinion against the Mueller probe.

My brain says Cuba is turning Liberal, my heart is mourning that Harvard isn't turning Leninist

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THE MADMAN MIGHT ACTUALLY DO IT

Honestly he is perhaps the only man capable of fixing Libya right now, studied at LSE too.

AMURAK AMURAK AMURAK.
youtu.be/mV3KlE-ZcK0

who /2ndJamahiriya/ here?

say a lot about how many lib roaches there are there nowadays. the people who colonized the subreddit from here in the early days and said they could stave off the idpol were delusional

with that said there was like a full day of people agreeing with the West article before all the twitter "leftists" threw a fit and every spineless bitch agreed. but no, coates isn't a comrade

THE GREEN RESISTANCE LIVES
youtu.be/Q3IyJ51N7ak

Thank

pan african social democracy looks better than Apoism every day for a wannabe western revolutionary tbh

Let's hope he keeps that same energy

When will liberals realise that protesting does absolutely nothing without the threat of violence as an alternative? Why is everyone so cucked?

TBF that's basically how all of these guys talk

Wow I wonder what that could include

Haha violence is ALWAYS bad. Don't you realise that using violence would make you just as bad as violent people. You simply you to respect democracy, the best system of government we have.

What's wrong with democracy? I thought a key tenant of communism was to bring democracy into the workplace.

tenet*

Russia gate liberals are going to be shocked when they remove Trump from office only to unleash a wave of right wing violence from people who refuse to accept their bullshit media scandal.

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-economics-of-luther-or-munzer/

mfw Boffy is back to shit up the comments section once more

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GOOD
End the special relationship now.

Nothing when everyone is working towards a common goal and not being gigantic pieces of shit.

It is but I was refering to how these people fetishize democracy within a bourgeois government.

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No fucking way. Got a link?

That's dumb. All they need to do is wait a year or so and let the rightists make an ass of themselves, they'd be out of Austrians' hair for another few decades.

Holy shit, link me

Screens, anything

""antfia"" supposedly deleted tweets with advise on railway sabotage but the ones they've done in the past they always warned people they had done it and never on passenger rails.

boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/153738154/report-antifa-responsible-for-train-wreck

Ticking a box on a piece of paper every 4-5 years isn't democracy.

8ch.net/pol/res/11056719.html

He's been connected on friendly terms to American neocon politicians and British porkies, including Nat Rothschild. Your own anti-imperialism is tricking you into supporting another porky stooge.

Which Holla Forums? If it's 4/pol/ that's not shocking since they're a bunch of retarded Boomer Trumpcuck republicans. If it's 8/pol/ then that's actually just sad and pathetic.

psmag.com/news/senate-russia-investigation-turns-to-jill-stein
A FORMER JILL STEIN STAFFER SAYS THE SENATE'S RUSSIA INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE IS NOW LOOKING INTO HER CAMPAIGN
when will the russia nonsense just fucking end

> 4/pol/ and 8/pol/

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The internet was a mistake
Irony was a mistake
We have to go back

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I was born and raised in Seattle, currently living in Oregon.

Those antifa posts are from April and I have personally seen trains crossing that rail bridge since then, because the section which the train derailed on was directly over I-5 and I drive through there frequently to visit family and such. As usual Holla Forums is conflating what sounds good in their minds with reality.

newsweek.com/antifa-falsely-linked-amtrak-train-derailment-right-wing-conspiracy-peddlers-751893

Kircheis was an idealist, his behaviour and motivations were undialetical.

Which part of Libya?
The "official government" holds less than half of the population.
There is a strict east-west division, and a small Bedouin only area thats autonomous. Three distinct states exist where Libya used to be.