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News 4/22/23 Alternate Timeline News Anon 2023-04-24 (Mon) 12:28:48 No.468860

Sudan ‘resistance’ activists mobilise as crisis escalates
The efforts came from Sudan’s “resistance committees”, neighbourhood groups that have spearheaded Sudan’s pro-democracy movement since 2019. “Every coordination committee did a scan of working hospitals. Even the hospitals that were not working before the war, we made them operate by bringing doctors, fuel and [getting them] electricity,” said Ahmed Ismat, the spokesperson for one of the groups from south Khartoum, the capital.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/22/sudan-resistance-activists-mobilise-as-crisis-escalates
https://archive.is/i2Wp4

Foreign states start evacuations from Sudan as battle rages
The army said early on Saturday it would provide safe pathways to evacuate nationals from the United States, Britain, France and China, while Saudi Arabia and Jordan were already evacuating via Port Sudan on the Red Sea. It said airports in Khartoum and Darfur's biggest city Nyala were problematic.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-army-okays-foreign-evacuation-khartoum-battle-rages-2023-04-22/

Iranian women taunt hardline police chief over latest attempt at hijab enforcement
Those who are caught for the first time are sent a "warning text message as to the consequences" of their actions. On the second offence, their vehicles would be confiscated and they would face a lawsuit. However, with an economic crisis still gripping the country, and with more women refusing to wear headscarves in public since 2022's anti-government protests, many in Iran find the government's concern with women's clothing infuriating. Morteza, a taxi driver in his mid-30s, told Middle East Eye that he stood squarely opposed to the dress code enforcement in Iran. "I have received a warning message from the police too. But I won't listen to such bullshit," he said.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iranian-women-police-hijab-enforcement-taunt-radan

Many detained in police attack on vigil by Saturday Mothers
Turkish police have once again prevented the weekly vigil by Saturday Mothers in Istanbul and detained seventeen members of the initiative, including the co-chair of the Human Rights Association (IHD), Eren Keskin, and the spokesperson of the IHD Prison Commission, Nuray Çevirmen, and Hanım Tosun, wife of Fehmi Tosun, a Kurd who "disappeared" in Istanbul in 1995.
https://anfenglishmobile.com/human-rights/many-detained-in-police-attack-on-vigil-by-saturday-mothers-66774

Firefighters donate fire engine to Palestine
FIREFIGHTERS have donated a fire engine to their colleagues in Palestine for the third time in a year. It is the latest act of solidarity by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in a relationship that has also seen hundreds of Palestinian firefighters trained in Scotland and firefighting kits sent to Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah, East Jerusalem and Hebron.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/firefighters-donate-fire-engine-palestine

Berlin airport cancels all departures on Monday due to strike
Germany's Verdi union called for a one-day strike of air security staff at Berlin airport on Monday as part of an ongoing wage dispute, prompting the airport to cancel all passenger departures that day. The walkout is due to start at 3:30 a.m. local time (0130 GMT) on Monday and will end at midnight (2200 GMT), the union said.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germanys-verdi-union-sets-strike-berlin-airport-monday-2023-04-22/

French cops confiscate cookware
Video posted to social media shows police officers opening backpacks and ordering protesters to ditch their cookware. When one complains such restrictions are illegal, the officer retrieves a piece of paper from his car, presumably bearing the brand-new edict forbidding “entertainment devices.” Demonstrators were also reportedly forbidden from bringing small flutes anywhere near the school where Macron was to speak.
https://www.rt.com/news/575145-french-cops-confiscate-pans-macron/
https://archive.is/ms3kf

US cannot stockpile arms to defend Taiwan on our military bases, asserts Philippines
The Philippines has announced that it will not allow US and its military forces to stockpile weapons that could be used to defend Taiwan on bases it has access to under the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) signed in 2014. Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo told the Senate members during a hearing that Washington will not be permitted to conduct activities that were not agreed upon in the 2014 deal, according to South China Morning Post.
https://www.wionews.com/world/us-cannot-stockpile-arms-to-defend-taiwan-on-our-military-bases-asserts-philippines-584470
https://archive.is/OtB6m

Guatemala orders arrest of lawyers for imprisoned journalist
A Guatemalan judge on Thursday ordered the arrest of three lawyers defending jailed journalist José Rubén Zamora. The announcement by prosecutors was the latest in a case that has drawn concerns about press freedom in Guatemala. Zamora is the director of El Periódico, a newspaper that has published critical articles about alleged corruption under President Alejandro Giammattei.
https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-corruption-press-freedom-giammattei-73f58f28559e1aae625bc2be7b5691c3

Costa Rica Police Strike Over Days Off Reduction
Groups of off-duty officers blocked streets in several cities, including San Jose. Other dozens of agents held a demonstration outside the house of Chaves, who seeks to have 9,500 officers on the streets at all times for six months while the special operation lasts. To develop such an operation, the Chaves administration plans to create 700 new police positions and change the schedules of current officers, who used to enjoy six days of rest for every six days at work but now must work six and rest four.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Costa-Rica-Police-Strike-Over-Days-Off-Reduction--20230421-0006.html

Alternate Timeline News Anon 2023-04-24 (Mon) 12:30:35 No.468861

US hotel workers face unwelcome guests: union busters hired by bosses
Late last year, workers started trying to organize a union with Unite Here Local 2 in response to staffing issues that have persisted through the Covid-19 pandemic, stagnant pay as housing costs in the area have soared, and issues such as neglected infrastructure. Around 250 workers at the hotel would be included in the bargaining unit. Late last year, workers started trying to organize a union with Unite Here Local 2 in response to staffing issues that have persisted through the Covid-19 pandemic, stagnant pay as housing costs in the area have soared, and issues such as neglected infrastructure. Around 250 workers at the hotel would be included in the bargaining unit.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/22/anti-union-consultants-california-fairmont-resort

Bill That Could Lead to Monthly Renter Fees Passes in Florida House
In an issue shadowed by soaring rental costs across the state, the House on Thursday passed a heavily debated bill that could lead to landlords collecting monthly fees instead of security deposits from renters. The House voted 89-22 to approve the bill (HB 133), which supporters said would provide an option to help renters get into apartments without having to come up with potentially thousands of dollars in upfront money. But opponents said the fees would not be capped and that renters wouldn’t be able to eventually recoup the money like they might with security deposits.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/bill-that-could-lead-to-monthly-renter-fees-passes-in-florida-house/3019204/

RI House votes to ban rental application fees
The R.I. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to ban rental application fees, which housing advocates argue are a significant burden on tenants looking for apartments. The legislation, which was sponsored by Pawtucket Rep. Cherie Cruz and is part of House Speaker Joe Shekarchi’s housing package, was approved in a vote of 70-0 and sent to the Senate for consideration.
https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ri-house-votes-to-ban-rental-application-fees/

US Republicans support culture war – poll
The survey, conducted last week and published on Friday, showed that 55% of Republican respondents think opposing the “woke ideology in our schools and businesses” is more important than protecting Social Security and Medicare from cuts. Only 27% prioritized preserving the entitlement programs. Asked if they would support a candidate who pledged to preserve the entitlements as they are, 49% of all voters – Republicans and Democrats alike – said yes.
https://www.rt.com/news/575146-woke-entitlements-primary-politics/
https://archive.is/UTYOl

Kim Potter, officer who killed Daunte Wright, to be released from prison
A former Minnesota police officer convicted of fatally shooting a 20-year-old Black man during a 2021 traffic stop is set to be released from prison on Monday. Kimberly Potter was sentenced to two years for killing Daunte Wright while attempting to take him into custody in the Twin Cities suburb of Brooklyn Center.
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/kim-potter-officer-who-killed-daunte-wright-to-be-released-from-prison

NAACP sues after Mississippi expands control over law enforcement in Jackson
The NAACP sued Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves after he signed legislation that allows state authorities to exert more control over law enforcement in Jackson, including by expanding the Capitol Police, which shot four people last year without much public explanation. The lawsuit, which was e-filed Friday evening in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, accuses Reeves and other state officials of unfairly singling out Jackson, a predominantly Black city struggling with violent crime and an overburdened court system.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/naacp-sues-mississippi-expands-capitol-police-jackson-rcna78197

Blackstone is the latest victim of the weakening commercial real estate market
The ongoing commercial real estate slowdown has a new victim: Blackstone, the largest owner of commercial real estate globally. The company saw its distributable earnings — the profit distributed to shareholders after expenses — plunge 36% since last year. That’s raising eyebrows on Wall Street as investors assess the fallout from last month’s regional banking crisis.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/investing/blackstone-earnings-cre/index.html
https://archive.is/b2GRI

Alternate Timeline News Anon 2023-04-24 (Mon) 12:31:36 No.468862

The prices crisis is getting worse – it's time for radical solutions
FOOD prices rising at their fastest for 45 years means inflation is driving a social emergency for millions of households across Britain. Tory cuts since 2010 have already led to widespread hunger. It was not so long ago that foodbanks were almost unknown — Britain’s biggest provider the Trussell Trust had just 35 foodbanks in 2010-11. The figure had swelled to 1,300 by 2019-20 — a rise of over 3,600 per cent. Most media reports paint the “cost-of-living crisis” as a recent phenomenon. It is not — today’s pain has been building for 15 years in which wages have been held below inflation. Tory governments have presided over a steady rise in child poverty — with 800,000 more children growing up in poverty in 2018 than when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition took office in 2010. They have driven a steady rise in in-work poverty too. In 2010 one in five children in poverty came from a working household; that had risen to one in four by the time Boris Johnson became PM. So this crisis has been a long time coming. The lie that wages are driving inflation has been exposed in detail by the trade union movement, especially the invaluable economic studies published over the past year by Unite’s research unit Unite Investigates. Wages cannot be driving inflation when they are falling so far behind it — and have been doing so for over a decade.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/prices-crisis-getting-worse-its-time-radical-solutions

Meet Sudan's web of warlords, foreign backers and their tangled alignments
It has been a week since the armed conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), under commander Abdelfattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), under commander Mohammed Dagalo, began all over Sudan. The conflict, which blew up on April 15, has many underlying factors including mounting pressure on the paramilitary RSF into integrating within the SAF too quickly for the latter’s liking. This pressure radically shifted the conversation on Sudan’s democratic transition from civilian rule, blocked by the military, to preventing another long and destructive Sudanese civil war. So far, a number of competing narratives have tried to simplify the conflict as a regional proxy war between a historically broke Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, on which Egypt depends for its financial survival for the third time in nine years. Even if Egypt wanted to be, it is not in the financial or physical shape to be a proxy power in an active conflict. More importantly, referring to the conflict as a regional proxy war is reductive when discussing a country as complex as Sudan. Every war in Sudan thus far has been a multi-level conflict. Here is an attempt to map out all the players and on which side of the conflict they stand.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/meet-sudans-web-warlords-foreign-backers-and-their-tangled-alignments

Tony Cliff: Economic roots of reformism
We live in a critical period for civilisation. During the last half century humanity has suffered two terrible wars and is now living in the shadow of total annihilation. The present generation has witnessed mass unemployment and hunger, fascism and the gas chamber, barbarous murders of colonial peoples in Kenya and Malaya, Algeria and Korea. However, in the midst of these terrible convulsions, the working class in a number of countries in the West – the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Denmark, Germany and others show a stubborn adherence to Reformism, a belief in the possibility of major improvement in conditions under capitalism, and a rejection of the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. Why is this so? Why the general political apathy and rejection of revolutionary changes in society, when humanity as a whole is in the grip of life and death struggles? Only if we find the correct answer to this question can we answer a further one: For how long can Reformism push aside revolutionary aspirations in the working class? There can scarcely be a question more vital for Socialists in the West and hence for the world Socialist movement. The present article IS an attempt to contribute something towards the clarification of these problems.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1957/06/rootsref.htm

Anonymous 2023-04-24 (Mon) 13:10:13 No.468863

TYBNA

Anonymous 2023-04-24 (Mon) 13:40:40 No.468864

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>Demonstrators were also reportedly forbidden from bringing small flutes anywhere near the school where Macron was to speak.
What the fuck ?

Anonymous 2023-04-24 (Mon) 15:53:37 No.468867

>>468864
Flute-based battle plan RUINED

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 18:34:25 No.468894

>The Philippines has announced that it will not allow US and its military forces to stockpile weapons that could be used to defend Taiwan
This is the Ukraine-shock-effect, as many countries realize the true price of empire.

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 18:40:54 No.468895

>>468894
Not disagreeing, but what makes Ukraine as 'an example of what a country should avoid' different from 2003 Iraq?

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 19:03:00 No.468896

>>468895
>what makes Ukraine as 'an example of what a country should avoid' different from 2003 Iraq?
Iraq was the enemy of the US empire, and it got destroyed. The story where the big powerful empire crushes a puny foe, shocked nobody.

Ukraine was a different story, because Ukraine was the ally of the big powerful empire, and as such the expectation was that the power of the empire would grant Ukraine a swift and triumphant victory without suffering much damage. Ukraine now lying in shambles despite being on team empire, that is the big shocker.

Of course the outcome was predicted across the political spectrum of realists, but that's another story.

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 19:36:37 No.468898

>>468896
>Ukraine was a different story, because Ukraine was the ally of the big powerful empire, and as such the expectation was that the power of the empire would grant Ukraine a swift and triumphant victory without suffering much damage

Did anyone actually believe that? Barring a direct intervention (which wasn't going to happen - Russia is a nuclear power & Ukraine isn't in NATO), most in America expected Ukraine would have lost by now.

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 20:10:14 No.468899

>>468895
Wait a minute, i might have misread that, you might have been talking about deterrence. As in the US destroying Iraq should have deterred more countries from opposing the US.

I have to admit i don't know how to quantify how many countries complied with the US empire because of fear from getting the Iraq treatment. I don't know if objectively the Ukraine-shock-effect is more powerful than the Iraq-avoidance-effect, but superficially it kinda does appear like it is.

Fear is only a short term motivator and people who are effective at reaching positions of power usually have a much lower fear response. So you'd expect that the people who end up the leaders of countries are less likely to act out of fear.

Also it's possible to draw the conclusion that because Ukraine got destroyed despite complying with the empire, that is worse because it being Submission + Defeat, while those that were defeated in defiance to empire did not loose their dignity.

I think that broken expectations also do play a role.

>>468898
>Did anyone actually believe that? Barring a direct intervention (which wasn't going to happen - Russia is a nuclear power & Ukraine isn't in NATO), most in America expected Ukraine would have lost by now.
It's hard to know what people really think, but it does appear that the Neo-liberals really believe their own superiority myths. If i had to guess what the neocons think: They can't make mistakes, they can only be failed by others.

The people in the west who expected Russia to curb-stomp Ukraine in 3 weeks, thought that Ukraine would take the first peace-deal the Russians would offer. I think the Russians might have had similar illusions. The other thing was that Russia didn't use heavy weapons in the first half of the war, they didn't destroy anything that would impact the civilian population. For a very long time they operated with damage minimization as a priority. Virtually everybody in the west expected Russia to go in like the Americans "shock and aw" massive fire-power unleashed. Nobody expected Russian legalism to be so influential, they declared it a "special military operation" and that really did put many constrains on what the Russian military could do.

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 20:50:46 No.468901

>>468899
>The people in the west who expected Russia to curb-stomp Ukraine in 3 weeks, thought that Ukraine would take the first peace-deal the Russians would offer.

I thought the former but didn't think the latter…
Yeah, Russia might have been under that impression, though.

Anonymous 2023-04-25 (Tue) 21:26:17 No.468905

>>468901
Most people who were paying attention to the Donbass civil war, had that impression. The expectation was that Ukraine would rather grant the Donetsk and Lugansk People's republic some concession over fighting the Russians.

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