Daily News Thread 1/8

U.S. to End Special Protections for Salvadorans

About 200,000 Salvadorans who have been in the U.S. since at least 2001 will become eligible to be deported next year, the Trump administration announced Monday.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/trump-ends-protection-from-deportation-for-200-000-salvadorans

No Evidence of 'Sonic Attacks' in Cuba: US Senator Flake

"The Cuban Interior Ministry is saying the FBI has told them there is no evidence of a sonic attack, even though that term is being used – 'attack' – there is no evidence of it," Flake said.
telesurtv.net/english/news/No-Evidence-of-Sonic-Attacks-in-Cuba-US-Senator-Flake-20180106-0026.html

Brandon Lewis made Tory chairman in reshuffle

Brandon Lewis has been made the new chairman of the Conservative Party in Theresa May's reshuffle.
bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42597785

In a Major Win for LGBT Rights, India to Review Decriminalizing Gay Sex

The case was reopened after five petitioners, who are also members of the LGBT community, filed a request to review the ban.
telesurtv.net/english/news/In-a-Major-Win-for-LGBT-Rights-India-to-Review-Decriminalizing-Gay-Sex--20180108-0007.html

Second emergency landing in three days for US helicopters in Japan

A US attack helicopter made an emergency landing near a hotel in Japan’s Okinawa on Monday. The incident came as a disabled rotorcraft was removed from a beach, where it had landed on Saturday.
rt.com/usa/415260-okinawa-us-marines-helicopters/

U.S. offers drillers nearly all offshore waters, but focus is on eastern Gulf

President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed opening up nearly all of America’s offshore waters to oil and gas drilling, but the industry says it is mainly interested in one part of it, now cordoned off by the Pentagon: the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling/u-s-offers-drillers-nearly-all-offshore-waters-but-focus-is-on-eastern-gulf-idUSKBN1EX129

Trump to call on Pentagon, diplomats to play bigger role on arms sales

The Trump administration is nearing completion of a new “Buy American” plan that calls for U.S. military attaches and diplomats to help drum up billions of dollars more in business overseas for the American weapons industry, going beyond the assistance they currently provide, U.S. officials said.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-weapons/exclusive-trump-to-call-on-pentagon-diplomats-to-play-bigger-role-on-arms-sales-idUSKBN1EX0WX

Burning tanker off Chinese coast 'in danger of exploding'

There are fears of an environmental disaster in the East China Sea as a tanker continues leaking oil two days after colliding with a cargo ship.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42600720

U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Intact Mississippi Law Curbing Gay Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a Mississippi law that lets businesses and government workers refuse on religious grounds to provide services to gay and transgender people.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/u-s-high-court-leaves-intact-mississippi-law-curbing-gay-rights

Commuters face disruption as three-day rail strike kicks off

Commuters in England face three days of disruption as a new wave of strikes over rail safety started on Monday (8 January).
ibtimes.co.uk/uk-travel-misery-commuters-face-disruption-three-day-rail-strike-kicks-off-1654187

Flying Domestic May Get Harder Thanks to Driver’s License Law

States balk at new IDs and data sharing as a danger to privacy, but the federal government could bar their residents from travel if they don’t comply.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/flying-domestic-may-require-you-get-a-new-driver-s-license

A Baby Girl, Ready to Go Home, Is Still in the Hospital 400 Days Later

Hospitals are far more expensive than home nursing, but the U.S. has no comprehensive system to finance it. Parents can go bankrupt trying to take their kids home.
bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-08/america-s-home-nurse-shortage-is-stranding-kids-in-hospitals

Other urls found in this thread:

telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Shadow-Armies-The-Unseen-But-Real-US-War-in-Africa-20180107-0013.html
thephilosophicalsalon.com/how-not-to-be-replaced/
theintercept.com/2018/01/07/black-mirror-season-4-netflix-metalhead/
axios.com/scoop-trumps-secret-shrinking-schedule-1515364904-ab76374a-6252-4570-a804-942b3f851840.html
reuters.com/article/us-new-york-trump-fire/three-injured-in-fire-atop-n-y-s-trump-tower-officials-say-idUSKBN1EX17A
theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/german-metal-workers-strike-in-bid-to-gain-28-hour-working-weeks
boingboing.net/2018/01/08/normalizing-surveillance-2.html
foxnews.com/us/2018/01/08/charges-against-rancher-cliven-bundy-three-others-are-dismissed.html
cnn.com/2018/01/08/us/trump-affirmative-action-president/index.html
thehill.com/policy/technology/367973-nebraska-becomes-first-republican-state-to-introduce-pro-net-neutrality
beta.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-childhood-mortality-usa-20180108-story.html
theverge.com/2018/1/8/16863912/senate-ed-markey-claire-mccaskill-net-neutrality-cra-bill
reuters.com/article/us-usa-satellite/u-s-spy-satellite-believed-destroyed-after-failing-to-reach-orbit-officials-idUSKBN1EY087
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42620807
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

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OP/ED

Shadow Armies: The Unseen, But Real US War in Africa

It will be many years before Africa and its 54 nations are truly free from the stubborn neocolonial mindset, which is grounded in racism, economic exploitation and military interventions.
telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Shadow-Armies-The-Unseen-But-Real-US-War-in-Africa-20180107-0013.html

How Not to Be Replaced

Political currents around the world have witnessed the rise of white nationalists who fear they are being replaced and express a desire to leave a world in which their children will have a place, exemplified by the chant of “you will not replace us” heard in Charlottesville.
thephilosophicalsalon.com/how-not-to-be-replaced/

“Black Mirror” Reveals Our Fear of Robots and Algorithms We Can’t Control

theintercept.com/2018/01/07/black-mirror-season-4-netflix-metalhead/

TYBNewsAnon2.0

The best time of the day has come!

South American druglords have cessnas, why the fuck don't we?


Lol no fags aloud only Jesus


"Paid Iranian vacations for all!"

Slow news day, the accelerationist in me is displeased.

I'm glad we have Justice Scalia 2.0 back on board. I was getting for a bit between time the US court system might have been better off without him. I'm so glad he's back.

Mexican inflation seen rising to 16-1/2 year high in December

Increased volume and intensity of operations in preparation for war, or just a coincidence?

Trump Safety Standards #1! The Best!

Scoop: Trump's secret, shrinking schedule

axios.com/scoop-trumps-secret-shrinking-schedule-1515364904-ab76374a-6252-4570-a804-942b3f851840.html


PART TIME PRESIDENT.

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Forgot Source: reuters.com/article/us-new-york-trump-fire/three-injured-in-fire-atop-n-y-s-trump-tower-officials-say-idUSKBN1EX17A

inb4 failed assassination attempt

Is decriminilization of gay sex not a good thing regardless of your views of idpol?
Surely its a good thing that India, a deeply reactionary nation, is progressing socially at least a bit.

gay sex is bourgeois

Go be a liberal somewhere else.

Vast majority of gays are working class, brainlet

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as long as nobody claims that it's revolutionary potential or essence of leftist politics there's nothing wrong with social progress
homosexuality not being a scapegoat to redirect societies attention and anger away from class is a good thing as long as you also make a distinction between rich faggots and homosexual workers

My suspicion with the various naval accidents that have been occurring around Japan, is that they may be engineered to encourage Japan to develop its own invading force (IE scrap the self-defense military rule which makes sense for Japan but not American imperialism against the Chinese).

This

You're totally right we should havr never had global capitalist revolutions becaise it didnt immediately result in FALC, should have just stayed in feudalism.

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No ones claiming decriminilization of samesex relations is some sort of grand revolutionary act, its just nice for Indian working class gays to not be thrown in prison.

theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/08/german-metal-workers-strike-in-bid-to-gain-28-hour-working-weeks
German workers strike for right to two-year, 28-hour working week

thanks for sharing

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If only. The rate of profit is too low as it is. We'll have FALC before we get a 28h workweek under capital.

Must be nice to live in the core of an empire during its early years.

Less working hours should be a staple of leftist policy.

Honestly, great timing on this: the government can't do shit so they will likely get what they want. Good plan lads.

Eric, simply eric.

why

It doesn't exist.
:^)

Vtech covered up a leak of data on 6.3m children and their families, then tried to force us not to sue - the FTC just fined them $0.09/kid

Vtech is the Taiwanese kids' crapgadget vendor that breached sensitive data on 6.3 million children and their families, lied about it and covered it up, then added a dirty EULA to its products that made us promise not to sue them if they did it again.

The FTC has just fined the company $650,000 over the 2015 breach: a little more than 9 cents per kid.

The breach included recordings and transcripts of conversations between children and their parents, as well as pictures the kids took of themselves and their families. The company didn't even know this data was floating around online until a journalist asked them about it.

boingboing.net/2018/01/08/normalizing-surveillance-2.html

Charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, three others are dismissed
foxnews.com/us/2018/01/08/charges-against-rancher-cliven-bundy-three-others-are-dismissed.html

How Trump became 'the white affirmative action president'
cnn.com/2018/01/08/us/trump-affirmative-action-president/index.html

Nebraska becomes first red state to introduce pro-net neutrality legislation
thehill.com/policy/technology/367973-nebraska-becomes-first-republican-state-to-introduce-pro-net-neutrality

Why the United States is 'the most dangerous of wealthy nations for a child to be born into'
beta.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-childhood-mortality-usa-20180108-story.html

didn't take long

Do they not realize that Trump is loved by Israel?

On that subject.

Senate will force vote on overturning net neutrality repeal

theverge.com/2018/1/8/16863912/senate-ed-markey-claire-mccaskill-net-neutrality-cra-bill


The Democrats are about to make Trump and the GOP own the Net Neutrality repeal.

Does this dumbass know that Trump worked with the mob or does he just not care?

Trump supporters don't like facts user. You should know that by now.

I love how Americans say Communist countries are backwards yet they're also portrayed as having all this weird tech or elite spec ops.

Better version.

The Cubyan Crisis except it's the Cuban Crysis

The basic idea is that communist countries aren't good at anything besides military science because communism is inherently aggressive. Also if you think there's a vast communist conspiracy then you would naturally wonder what other secrets the socialist states are hiding.

Kojima plays with this Cold War paranoia and conspiracism in MGS. After all, Metal Gear itself was designed by the Soviets…

Trump supporters only care about facts that make daddy look good.

Join me in the self-improvement general on leftpol next Sunday, as I try and probably fail badly in trying to not stuff my face with garbage!


During the 2016 campaign his supporters rationalized the mafia connections by saying that it's basically impossible to work in NYC real estate without paying off the mob
I honestly don't really doubt that, but they're trying to cover for him when, as you said, trump probably didn't exactly need to be coerced into working with the mob

Better to give birth at home.

The article is ok, I do disagree with the part that says genes don’t matter, because evolutionary they do. It’s how natural selection works. However the best way to preserve your genes is to bread with others different from you.

I really hope he doesn't keep doing this, too little sunlight can eff with one's mood and judgement
t. late-rising NEET


So why not start an identical thread about it like you did every month-fortnight for like two years? :^)


Right, we're only allowed to be happy for statecaps saying socialist utopia has been achieved


fucking Hell

guys i'm sure the lalilulelo are behind this one

The absolute state of Holla Forums

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U.S. spy satellite believed destroyed after failing to reach orbit: officials

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. spy satellite that was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a SpaceX rocket on Sunday failed to reach orbit and is assumed to be a total loss, two U.S. officials briefed on the mission said on Monday.

The classified intelligence satellite, built by Northrop Grumman Corp, failed to separate from the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket and is assumed to have broken up or plunged into the sea, said the two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The satellite is assumed to be “a write-off,” one of the officials said.

The presumed loss of the satellite was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Northrop Grumman built the multibillion-dollar satellite, code-named Zuma, and was responsible for choosing the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, both officials said.

reuters.com/article/us-usa-satellite/u-s-spy-satellite-believed-destroyed-after-failing-to-reach-orbit-officials-idUSKBN1EY087

so what is the relationship between SpaceX and NASA?

German war graves found at construction site in Estonia
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42620807
I mean, they WERE victims of communism.

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