May Day: local celebration in Wichita

People across the world will be celebrating May Day, the international day of the Worker. Even in Wichita Kansas we will have a celebration:

May Day Potluck and Musician’s The St’ates will perform

For International Workers’ Day

Friday, May 1, 6:00 to 9:00 pm

Peace Center

1407 N. Topeka, Wichita

Songs and Stories about John L Handcox and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union which formed in 1934. The STFU was a precursor to organizations in the civil rights movement.

Janie Stein and Marty Bates of Salina People for Peace also known as The St’ates will provide song and stories. Presentation will begin at 7:00 pm. ome early for the potluck.

More problems with Nepal's military

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

In the latest development in Nepal's experiment with allowing former rebels to take the helm of the nation's democratically elected government, the Maoist leadership formally retracted its threat last week to sack the chief of the formerly royalist Nepal army. The move, some say, may have saved the less-than-a- year-old government from being overthrown. The intractable dispute over assimilating the former Maoist guerrillas into the army, as per the terms of the peace accord signed in November 2006, could have led to a military coup. But while the government's reconciliatory decision succeeded in keeping power and pulling a fragile peace process back from the edge, the Maoists now find themselves tasked with trying to stamp out growing unrest amid their own ranks — the former insurgents of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Trouble had been brewing for months in Kathmandu over the most controversial goal of the peace accord: integrating the 19,000 former guerrillas into the Nepal army and, more important, into society. During the Maoists' decade-long insurgency, the former King's Royal Nepalese Army was called upon to tackle the Maoist guerrillas, and the two forces have been stridently inimical to each other ever since. "The fact is, the Nepal army today is the only significant opposition to the Maoist takeover of Nepal," says retired Major General Dipankar Banerjee, director of the New Delhi–based Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies. "The new government wants to get greater influence over the army."
Indeed, the current army chief, Rookmangud Katawal, has a reputation for being a strident royalist and Maoist baiter. Katawal had been adopted by Mahendra, the father of King Gyanendra, whom the Maoists fought hard to bring down in their aim to abolish the monarchy. The army chief has long resisted the induction of the PLA into the Nepal army, and he courted trouble last November by beginning recruitment of 3,000 new soldiers before any former PLA guerrillas had been folded in — a move made without permission from the Ministry of Defense and against the provisions of the peace agreement. Katawal also refused to retire eight monarchy-era generals despite the new government's order. Things came to a head earlier this month when he refused to let the Nepal army participate in the National Games because the PLA was also taking part.
The Defense Ministry wrote to Katawal earlier this month, giving him 24 hours to clarify his actions. When the general wrote back defiantly, claiming the actions were legitimate, his removal looked imminent, sending shock waves through the political establishment and the donor and diplomatic community. The key opposition party to the Maoists, the Nepali Congress, disrupted parliament on Tuesday and was joined by 15 other political parties, including a key coalition partner, CPN-UML, to oppose the Maoists' move to unseat Katawal. Even the Indian ambassador to Kathmandu, Rakesh Sood, made several representations to PM Prachanda, asking him to back down.
Even after Prachanda did just that, however, the end of this dramatic series of events has left the Maoist leader facing the ire of his own ranks, who are getting edgy after being corralled into U.N.-monitored encampments around the country since they began their surrender over 2½ years ago. Nearly 20,000 PLA fighters have been verified by the U.N. and are ready to be inducted into the army if they meet the eligibility criteria. But that process has yet to begin, a stall that some have attributed to the opposition of the army chief and the Nepali Congress. "The fact is that the Maoists took things to the edge, and now face-saving within the party will be difficult," says journalist and Nepali Times publisher Kunda Dixit. "The problem is now not between the army and the Maoists but within the Maoists themselves."
By all accounts, accommodating all 19,000 former guerrillas in the army is not possible. Earlier this month, the Army Integration Special Committee set out to conduct the first survey of what the former rebels want to do. A vast majority are expected to opt to join the Nepal army, but those who don't make the cut will have to be assimilated into other security forces or given other jobs per the terms of the accord. "Some 5,000 have left — they just got tired of waiting," says Kosmos Biswokarma, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Nepal. "The rest are getting impatient. They want decisive action." Prachanda's biggest problem now will be containing this unrest and finding a solution. Until then, "the first great world experiment of the 21st century" — as Prachanda described the Maoists' political ascension in Nepal in November 2006 — may only yield more instability for the people of this tiny Himalayan nation.

Is the US finally serious about global warming?

In the news: “Clinton tells nations US acting on climate change.” If this is true it will be the first time in years that the US has lifted a finger to try and stop the greenhouse affect. The last president and congress went out of their way to ignore all efforts on controlling global warming. If anything, this country has been in denial, even though storms have increased and the Polar Regions are melting at an alarming rate.
Still, the creature comforts are what this country has been about.

According to The Wichita Eagle, Apr. 27, 2009:

“At an international forum on energy and climate change organized by President Barack Obama, (Hillary) Clinton said the U.S. no longer doubts the urgency or magnitude of the problem.
"The United States is fully engaged and ready to lead and determined to make up for lost time both at home and abroad," Clinton said at the start of the two-day meeting. "The United States is no longer absent without leave."

It’s way past time to take action on global warming.

More on the Red Corridor of India

NewsX Video: Red Corridor in first phase of the LS polls

“Pro-Life” whackos hold up Sebelius

Anti-abortion wing-nuts in the Republican Party have successfully held up the appointment of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for health secretary over her support of abortion rights. This isn’t surprising, but Republicans have been able to get Democrats to appoint all kinds of right-wing nut jobs to posts for the two George Bushes and Ronald Reagan. What makes them think they have a right to approve some one President Barack Obama picked based on their out-of-touch with the public politics.
They lost the election and need to get over it. Obama picked Sebelius and they need to approve her.
For The Wichita Eagle coverage click here.

Afghanistan is always in the news

According The Wichita Eagle; “US worried about recent Taliban moves in Pakistan.” It should. This is an imperialist war the US can’t win. The people of Afghanistan have a love-hate relationship with the Taliban. They aren’t liked well, but are trusted more than the weasels and opportunist puppets this country has installed to lead.
The only way to fix Afghanistan is to let its own people decided who will run their country. The British got run out, the Soviets got run out and now we will fill our coffins and Veteran hospitals with victims until they finally run the US out.

Cheney approved torture!

“Before we condemn torture, let’s see the results it gets. It’s wonderful stuff”
From The Raw Story:
"I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do," Cheney said. "And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."He added: "It's been a remarkably successful effort, and I think the results speak for themselves."

Military struggles in Nepal

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION
The Unified CPN (Maoist) has advised the government to suspend General Katawal from the post of army chief if his clarification is not convincing

The ruling Unified CPN (Maoist) has advised the government to suspend General Katawal from the post of army chief if his clarification is not deemed convincing.

A meeting of the party's Central Secretariat held today morning at the Prime Minister's official residence to discuss the government's decision to ask General Katawal to furnish clarification had reached to this conclusion.

The meeting also concluded that the government had the constitutional rights to seek clarification from its army chief and also decided to hold a mass meet in the capital city today in support of the government's decision to ask General Katawal to furnish clarification on the controversial issues related to the army.
Dahal pledges `scientific land reform'
PM Dahal pledges `scientific land reform'

Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday said "a New Nepal" couldn't be envisaged without a "revolutionary land reform program", informing that it also has bearing on the ongoing peace process.

Land Reform in Nepal

From:
PM Dahal pledges `scientific land reform'

Speaking at the inaugural of an international conference on 'Securing Rights to Land for Peace and Food Security' that kicked off in the capital city, he said the government has put "scientific land reform" under its priority list and is also actively working to ensure the rights of landless as well as farmers.

Stating that the poor and the voiceless have been deprived of the rights to their own land as it has been under the control of landlords since ages, he pledged to put an end to this injustice once and for all.

The three-day conference has wide participation from both within the country and outside and will focus its deliberations on the problems related to land all over the world including land becoming a precious commodity in the wake of rising population.

One of the chief slogans of the Maoists when it fighting a vicious war against the state during insurgency time was "Tiller as Landlords", by way of which it seized lands from big landlords and distributed it among landless farmers. Even before coming to power, the Maoists used to say that "scientific land reform" or equal distribution of land among the country's populace is what it would strive for. nepalnews.com Apr 21 09

Something in the Air

Something In The Air (Bob Dylan & Tom Petty)

Maoist stage deadliest attack in Peru

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

Sun Apr 12th 2009
LIMA Communist Party of Perú (PCP) rebels in Peru have staged one of their deadliest attacks in years, killing 13 soldiers in an ambush of a military patrol in the country's remote southeast.
On Saturday the attac from the PCP used dynamite and grenades, and their victims included a captain, a junior officer and 11 soldiers.
The assault, one of the deadliest by the Maoist guerrilla group in the past decade, also left one soldier missing and two more wounded.
"Most of the soldiers plunged over a cliff," but the circumstances of the deaths and the fall off the mountainside were not immediately clear.
The ambush came only hours after one soldier was killed and four were wounded in another PCP attack on a military patrol in the same area of Ayacucho department, 550 kilometers (341 miles) southeast of the capital Lima.
The 'defense minister' said an army unit and a helicopter have been dispatched from Huanta city to help the survivors of the ambush and hunt down the Maoists.
The latest ambush came barely 48 hours after Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in crimes committed by an army death squad during his 1990-2000 rule. He is accused of conducting a "dirty war" to fight both the Maoist PCP and Tupac Amaru rebels.
The PCP have grown bolder in their attacks and have made the coca growing region along the Apurimac Ene river their stronghold, allying themselves with local peasant masses.
Sociologist Jaime Antezana said there have been 11 Maoist attacks on military patrols in the past 11 months, adding that the military "fare the worst."
"These are not isolated but systematic attacks. We're dealing with highly mobile rebel forces who since 2005 have been expanding their presence in the coca growing valley in southeastern Peru," the expert in rebel and drug violence told RPP radio.
Prime Minister Yehude Simon decried Thursday's ambushes as "desperate responses by the Shining Path in the face of advances by the armed forces" in Apurimac Ene.
Thursday's attack was the deadliest since an October 10 rebel ambush that killed 14 people -- 12 soldiers and two civilians -- in nearby Huancavelica Department.
There have been 21 rebel ambushes since July 2003 that have left 35 soldiers, 23 police and more than a dozen civilians dead.
The region is just northwest of Ayacucho, where the PCP was founded in the 1960s and from where it has operated for more than two decades.

Maoists stunned India on polling day

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

How Maoists stunned India on polling day
April 17, 2009

Krishnakumar P reports on how Thursday's attacks revealed that the Maoists have far better military training and superior firepower than believed earlier.
• Rebels used people's militia comprising well-trained youngsters from the forests and border districts for Thursday's attacks.
• Security forces did not have enough time to change tactics employed with great success in November and thus lost the edge to the rebels.
Yet to recover from the spectacular attacks by the Maoists during the first phase of polling, security agencies have identified two key reasons for the setback.
Most of Thursday's attacks showed that the Maoists had far better military training and superior firepower than was estimated till now, top police and intelligence officers from various Maoist-hit states told rediff.com on Friday.
The second reason was that the Maoists had thoroughly studied the security forces and their tactics during the November 2008 assembly election in Chhattisgarh (which is widely seen as a stupendous success for the security forces) and were better prepared to be able to strike with clockwork precision and greater intensity thus inflicting devastating losses.

We don’t care about the “tea party” cry babies

Anyone who has watched TV (KAKE for example) or read the The Wichita Eagle newspaper, in Wichita or many other cities in the Mid-west, is aware of the “Tea Parties.” They seem at first like people who just don’t like taxes being too high, but they are the conservatives who oppose President Barack Obama and the stimulus package. The fact is they oppose any use of tax money that goes to alleviate unemployment or the continuing loss of people’s homes.
Unlike many other causes, these conservative cry-baby whiners just don’t want their money going to help anyone. They were silent when their taxes go to support Israel, Colombia, Iraq or the continued war in Afghanistan. They don’t even mind the use of tax money to create more elite teams of assassins called Navy Seals. But when it comes to alleviating the suffering of their fellow citizens, they just don’t give a damn. So for those of us who are not wing-nut Republicans, these people are a nuisance and a bunch of selfish whiners, who want a return to the Herbert Hoover days of old. They don’t deserve the media coverage they get and they are just a bunch of cry-babies. Someone please just change their diapers so they will all Shut the Fuck Up!

Cry-baby Republicans

More actions in India

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

BHUBANESWAR: Seven CISF jawans were killed in a gunfight following a daring attack by Maoists on a well-guarded armoury and bauxite mine of NALCO in Orissa's Koraput district, police said on Monday. ( Watch ) On line video: http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/videoshow/ 4393830.cmsBefore fleeing from the spot, the heavily-armed Maoists numbering about 200, including some women, looted the CISF armoury in the mining area which contained huge quantities of sophisticated arms and ammunition as well as explosives.
Seven jawans of CISF posted at the hilltop bauxite mines in Damanjodi area were killed in the gunbattle that continued till early morning after the Maoists attacked it last night. The well planned attack, apparently aimed at disrupting the upcoming polls and loot explosives, took place shortly after 9.30 pm last night in Asia's biggest bauxite mines.

Italian government harasses radicals

The Italian Government is obviously afraid of the new political activism taking place in its country. The following is an example of police harassment from:

Association for Proletarian Solidarity (ASP), http://www.solidarietaproletaria.org/ and Party of the Comittees to Support Resistance - for Communism, http://www.carc.it/ :

JOINT STATEMENTSearched the homes of four comrades of the Caravan of (n) PCI!The publication of the website "Cops hunting!" rouses Magistracy's reprisalThis morning at dawn Vincenzo Cinque of the Struggling Workers Union (SLL),Rosalba Romano and Fabrizio Di Mauro of the Association for ProletarianSolidarity (ASP), Angelo D'Arcangeli of the CARC Party have had searches intheir homes, in their cars and, in the case of the comrade of the CARCParty, also at his parents' home in Priverno (in the province of Latina).The agents of Digos [the political police, Note of the Translator] in Milan,Bologna, Naples and Latina, on behalf of the Public Prosecutor of theAttorney of Bologna Morena Plazzi, seized computers, storage media (portablehard disks, CD, USB keys), cameras, video cameras, some mobile phones, andmuch papery material. The comrades are under investigation within the inquiry the Attorney ofBologna opened on people who manages and joins the website " cops hunting"(http://cacciaallosbirro.byethost7.com) that aims to make known faces,names, cities in which they operate, addresses of policemen, Carabinieri,Digos, etc., who intimidate, beat, shadow, spy on those who struggle todefend human rights and to not pay for the crisis of the masters. We currently have no other news, but that, at least in one case, the Digospresented itself at the door of the comrade of ASP with a "Rambo" policemanwith gun in hand and balaclava on his face, with an intimidating andthreatening attitude. He kept the "equipment" (gun in hand and balaclavas)and attitude, going up and down in the streets of the neighbourhood lookingfor comrade's car parked near her home. The Digos zealous officials, who had already refused to give their names,signed the minutes of searching in an illegible way... in short, pistol inhand, balaclavas on face, illegible signatures on minutes ... they wereashamed to show their faces and sign with name and surname the provocationthey were performing. The only name we know is that of Bovio of the Digos ofBologna who led a team which carried out the searches. This has been nothing but a provocation. After the bedlam roused by themedia about the site "cop hunting "(obscured a few days after the (new) PCImade known its existence by a release), policemen, officials, judges, theirinstigators who lead business committees of business were frightened. Theycan not understand how it is possible that those who usually are recorded,followed, intimidated, threatened and clubbed have found ways to break downthe curtain of anonymity and silence (which is the premise of impunity) andeven allow the masses to participate in a democracy: exposing the beating,the torturers, and infiltrated the guard dogs of masters who workundisturbed on the streets, who infiltrate the movement, which threaten andarrest Communists, vanguards of struggle, workers and combative youngrebels. It is a today's news that two railway policemen of Milan beat to death ahomeless. The masses are not allowed to know the reasons for this murder, toknow names, surnames and faces of these murderers in uniform. Not to mentionthe bookstall keeper died in London during protests against the G20 becauseof the beatings suffered by agents. Maybe is it a crime to file thesecharacters? Maybe is it a crime to make known their faces, names, addresses,or is it an action of democracy and popular control? Is it not a democraticright to know all relevant information to the masses for not live inapprehension of meeting them while they are in their exercise of murdererswho abuse their power? From now on, will the magistracy and law enforcementagencies stop to make photos and movies to those who participate in sit in,protests, marches breaching one of the democratic rights won by the Partisanresistance? If with the searches of the four companions the Attorney Office of Bolognasought to give a signal to those who welcomed with enthusiasm and spirit ofinitiative the creation of the site "cop hunting cop", it flopped. In fact:1. These comrades are already getting the embrace of Communists,combative workers, young rebels' solidarity; we add to this our solidarityand our unconditional support and invite the democratic people, theanti-fascists, the proletarians to do the same. 2. The bourgeois justice and its repressive organs will not be able tokeep standing the social and economic capitalist order by another heavylegal stunt, which harms the political and democratic rights the massesconquered by the victory over fascism in the Resistance. We can get out ofdismissals, exploitation, deaths for curable diseases, precariousness,brutishness and the degradation to which the bourgeoisie is forcing millionsof people only by the struggle to make Italy a new socialist country. Anyprovocation, any act of repression, any persecution can not stop the rebirthof the communist movement that is coming, and of which the (n) PCI is thevanguard in our country. This new inquiry by the Attorney Office of Bologna was opened a few daysbefore the hearing to be held April 17 in Ancona, where the judge PaolaMureddu must decide whether to send for trial three comrades of ASP and theNational Secretary of the P-CARC for "defaming PM Giovagnoli", who canafford to persecute Communists, Anarchists, students and immigrants (gainingby investigations for "terrorism" - often ended up with flops - thepromotion to Chief Prosecutor of Rimini). He, considering himself above theordinary mortals, feels hurt and denounces those who called him by his realname, "the new Torquemada"! Who is defaming who? We invite you toparticipate in the sit in, which will be held in Ancona on April 17!

Do notforget the cameras! Repression will not stop the struggle!
No impunity nor coverage for beaters and spies in uniform and theirsponsors!
Let's send home Berlusconi's gang!
Let's build a People's Block Government!

Republicans defend right-wing wacko groups

Republicans have been supporting all kinds of right-wing nut jobs and it is no surprise they take offence at a Homeland Security Department assessment that warns that right wing extremist may be recruiting at this time. With such spokespersons as Rush Limbaugh it’s not surprising they don’t want the government to scrutinize right-wing nut jobs. They’ve had no problem with the government spying on and harassing left-wing groups that are non-violent.

According to The Wichita Eagle:

Republicans criticize report on right-wing groups
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON - Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists. House Republican leader John Boehner described the report as offensive and called on the agency to apologize to veterans.
The agency's intelligence assessment, sent to law enforcement officials last week, warns that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S. economy and the election of the country's first black president to recruit members.
The assessment also said that returning military veterans who have difficulties assimilating back into their home communities could be susceptible to extremist recruiters or might engage in lone acts of violence.
"To characterize men and women returning home after defending our country as potential terrorists is offensive and unacceptable," said Boehner, R-Ohio.
The commander of the veterans group the American Legion, David Rehbein, wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressing concern with the assessment, which made its way into the mainstream press after conservative bloggers got wind of the analysis.

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New drinking law is over-kill

A new law in Kansas will make it easier for police to prosecute parents who have had underage drinking parties on their property. This law makes it easier for police to ignore parents who claim they didn’t know drinking was taking place on their property.
Once again, the moral mental police of Kansas, who really don’t approve of any drinking, are trying to control the thoughts and actions of both adults and their youth. It’s an attempt to change people’s attitudes. This attempt has failed before and will fail again. People’s attitudes can’t be changes by just passing laws.

From The Wichita Eagle:
Apr. 14, 2009
Governor signs stiffer underage drinking law
For story click here.

Action from Peru

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION:


The Google Translation:

Lima, 12.04.09. According to a statement from the Joint Command of the Armed Forces soldiers killed in ambush in the province of Huanta would be 15 including the captain in command of the force, 7 injured in two different account and disappeared. These data confirm the confrontation as one of the most important blows that the Maoist People's Liberation Army inflicted the army of the old state from the beginning of the military offensive in VRAE. Amid the controversy for their brutality towards the local population, military forces have conducted operations to consolidate its bases in the area covering the valleys of the rivers Apurimac and Jan.

The original:


Lima, 12.04.09. Según una declaración del Comando Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas los militares muertos en las emboscadas en la provincia de Huanta serian 15 entre ellos el capitan al mando de la fuerza, 7 heridos de diversa consideración y dos desaparecidos.
Estos datos confirman el enfrentamiento como uno de los golpes mas importantes que el maoísta Ejercito Popular de Liberación inflinge al Ejercito del viejo Estado desde el inicio de la ofensiva militar en el VRAE.
En medio de la polemica por su brutalidad con la población local, las fuerzas militares han realizado operaciones para consolidar sus bases en la zona que abarca el Valle de los rios Apurimac y Ene.

correovermello noticias esta para servir a las masas populares en el conocimiento de las noticias de la Revolucion Proletaria Mundial
saudos vermellos / saludos rojos

No privacy for the unemployed

For those looking for work here in the US, don’t expect your possible employers to respect your privacy. They want to know EVERYTHING about you and you have no secrets.

We already expect to get drug tested and there are even some questionnaires that want to make sure you AGREE with drug testing and your employers right to control every aspect of your life.

Now expect to be asked about your credit history. Had some trouble paying of a huge credit card debt? That could cost you a job. You may need a job to keep you credit history up to date, but don’t count on an employer cooperating on that. They are only looking for ways to weed people out.

As jobs become scarce, expect employers to become nastier and more intrusive into your private life. As far as they’re concerned – you don’t have a private life.

Turkey in the European Union is not Obama’s business

Europe is right to deny Turkey into the European Union. They are also right that it isn’t for President Barack Obama or anyone in the US to decide if Turkey belongs in the EU.
Turkey has been a long time ally of the US and it has been exempt from criticism on human rights issues. Turkey has outlawed a number of political parties the government doesn’t approve of and it suppresses the rights of the Kurds.
There is not the political tolerance and adherence to human rights that the other Western European countries abide by. This is one area that Obama needs to stay out of.

From Hurriyet Daily News:

French, Austrian FMs dismiss Obama's backing of Turkey's EU bid

ISTANBUL - It is for the European Union alone to decide whether to make Turkey a member of the bloc, Austria's foreign minister said Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama publicly reiterated his backing Ankara's bid. The French FM also dismissed Obama's remarks in support of Turkey's EU bid.
"It's not new. The Bush administration also tried to convince us... But it is clear that the European Union and its member states will alone decide," Austria's Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger was quoted by AFP as telling Austrian public station, Radio Oe1.

Obama reiterated Monday his support for Turkey's European Union ambitions during a speech to Turkish lawmakers in Ankara. The U.S. president completed his two-day visit to Turkey on Tuesday.

"The question is to know if Turkey is changing its position," Spindelegger added.

Turkey began EU accession talks in 2005 but progress has been slow. Sticking points include a trade row over Cyprus and opposition from Austria, France and some members of the German government to its accession.


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In Kansas- pro-life wing nut will try to fill Tiahrt’s representative seat

In a part of Kansas that has continued to re-elect the most right-wing and corrupt politician in Kansas, Todd Tiahrt, it is no surprise that this pro-military, pro-religious right Kook would try for this job.
Republican National Committeeman Mike Pompeo is the crackpot who will step up to the plate and try and take Tiahrt’s place. That shouldn’t be hard. There are the churches who vote for Tiahrt out of blind loyalty while he sells all his votes to the highest bidder. All Pompeo has to do is find a wealthy backer he can keep happy and the bribes (campaign contributions) keep rolling in. He has Tiahrt to learn that from.

For The Wichita Eagle story click here.

Abu-Jamal loses another chance at a re-trial

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been a political prisoner for many years in this country. It appears he will stay in prison since the Supreme Court just decided to let his conviction stand. The court did not take up the death penalty case against him, which would ad him to a long list of martyrs here in the US.

According to The Wichita Eagle, Apr. 06, 2009:

High court lets Abu-Jamal's conviction stand
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Mumia Abu-Jamal has lost his bid for a new trial in the killing of a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but held his death sentence invalid. The appeals court said it would not second-guess state court rulings rejecting Abu-Jamal's claims of bias in the composition of the jury.
The high court considered only the conviction. The state has separately asked the court to reinstate the death sentence, but the justices have not acted on that request.
A Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Jamal, who is black, of killing Faulkner, who was white, in 1981 after the patrolman pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother during an overnight traffic stop.
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From Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal (1/3)

Philippine's Sison wins against Dutch deportation

Charges have been dropped against Jose Maria Sison, the onetime founding member of the Communist Party of the Philippines. He is now free from deportation from the Netherlands. The Philippine government had tried to have him deported as a terrorist suspect even though he had not been involved with the CPP in many years.

According to the BBC:

Philippines rebel charges dropped

Dutch prosecutors have dropped murder charges against Philippine Communist rebel leader Jose Maria Sison.
The national court said there was not enough evidence to implicate Mr Sison, 70, in the killings of two former associates in Manila in 2003 and 2004.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder was arrested in 2007 in Utrecht, where he lives in exile.
The CPP military wing, the New People's Army (NPA), is waging a rebellion that has cost more than 40,000 lives.
The NPA suspended peace talks with the government in 2004 after it was included on a US list of proscribed terrorist organisations.

For More information click here.

Indian Maoists blow up phone attena

From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

MALKANGIRI (Orissa): Maoist blew up two signal towers of a mobile phone service provider in Orissa's Malkangiri district on Saturday.
The towers were destroyed by using explosives at Kangrukunda and MPV-22 under Kalimela police station, about 30 km from here yesterday.
Large quantities of cables kept near the structure were also set ablaze by the Maoists, they said adding that the Maoists are against spread of telephone network in the region as it facilitates sharing information with the police.
The Maoists feel that telephones, including mobile ones, enable police informers to pass on information about the movement and activities of the Maoist Revolutionaries.

PDR of Korea - Is the cold war really over?

Did the cold war really end? Of course we have that last remnant of the Soviet empire, Cuba, but there is also the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. And if we are to believe that the cold war non-sense is gone from that conflict, we only need to look at a recent article for National Geographic; “Escape from North Korea.”
It comes complete with old cold war rhetoric such as “escaping communism” and making it to “freedom.” One comment in the National Geographic article states: “In the border city of Yanji a missionary cautiously looks for North Koreans needing help on their long journey to freedom.”
Of course the north is not a true worker’s paradise but neither is the south. The so-called “freedom” found in the south is rather limited. Wages are stuck low, competition for jobs and living space are fierce. And much of the lights and “glamour” of the south’s capitol is more like capitalist clutter than some kind of milk and honey. There’s also a lot of pollution in the south.
Yahoo News also states that recent missile launches by the sovereign state of DPR (North) Korea are being met with threats from the US:
“At the United Nations, Japan's U.N. ambassador, Yukio Takasu, said his country would request an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss a possible response if North Korea launched the long-range missile in the coming days.
The United States and others have threatened North Korea with punishment if they launch the long-range missile.
"They're doing everything consistent with the launch of a space vehicle on April 4," the U.S. defense official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.”
Considering the fierce independence of the DPRK, it is unlikely that threats will ever bring any positive change to that country.

G20 and protests

Once again, the G20 meet in secrecy to decide the fate of the world economy. This has not gone on without protests from many factions of the left.

From: Democracy Now, April 1:

As Obama Arrives in London for G20, Tens of Thousands Gather to Protest in the Streets

President Obama is in London today ahead of the G20 summit, where world leaders are gathering to discuss the global economic crisis. Tens of thousands of protesters from around the world are gathering in London to demonstrate against the G20 talks and call for economic justice and environmental accountability.