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Friday, August 31, 2012
South Africa : Marikana killing fields exposed - No police charged with killing !
Major challenge to ANC government after reports that many miners were shot in the back, and now murder charges against other miners, no police charged
Vishwas Satgar says the murder of striking miners reveals that the deep apartheid pattern of the labor market, particularly in the mining industry, has not changed
Long Live Marinaleda - Long Live Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo - Land to the People
The self-described "Communist Utopia of Marinaleda" is a communist cooperative town whose inhabitants have been taking over and expropriating hectares of land (now communally owned).
Recently, it's mayor Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo led labourers into supermarkets and took basic living supplies (without paying) that were given to poor families hit hardest by Spain's economic crisis.
Houses in the town cost only 15 Euros a month and with wage equality, everyone is virtually employed.
On August 16th, the mayor starts a protest march from Jódar across the Andalusian region telling mayors to skip debt payments, stop layoffs, cease home evictions and ignore central government demands for budget cuts.
Solidarity with Marinaleda. The rest of the world under the yoke of capitalism must know there is a very active bastion of resistance. Workers of The World, Unite!
Democracy and Class Struggle salutes Marinaleda and Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo and calls for emulation of Marinaleda across Europe.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Civil societies and NGOs : The Imperialist components by Saba Navalan
Regardless of whether it is post-genocide Sri Lanka or post-occupation period of Libya or Nepal's counter revolution, these community based organistations are the basic imperialist component which facilitate the corporates to create their 'marketable environment'. The term 'civil society' and community based organizations are frequent terminology used within the non-governmental organizations lingo which have emerged to modify the international political system in favour of imperialism. In their conception and practice, civil societies are shaped and community based organizations are formed to help corporates to exploit.
The concept of civil society first emerged to dismantle the socialist camp such as Soviet Russia and later the east European countries. For several decades this concept of civil society was used to guide and absorb the so called 'anti-communist' activists before it was then experimented in the developing countries in order to destroy the anti-imperialist, nationalist, democratic and revolutionary forces. Today it serves to implement neo-liberal social and economic structure throughout the world.
As Professor Ernest Gellner explains in his book on civil society , 'the current usage of civil society rose to prominence as a direct reaction to the Marxist-Leninist structure that prevailed in the soviet union and Eastern Europe'.(1994) American empire and its western allies massively funded and created these civil societies in order dismantle Soviet supported countries such as Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Marcia A. Weigle; Jim Butterfield acknowledging in their article 'Civil Society in Reforming Communist Regimes' as follows; 'In Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, the foundations of an independent civil society were built on the basis of social initiative from below designed to empower society in the face of Communist domination over state policies'. 'The collapse of communist regime in Eastern Europe was thus considered to be process of redeveloping Civil Society.(Cahalan -1994) 'The paradigm of civil society now became the dominant model to explain the 1989 anti-Communist revolution in eastern and central Europe. (Casier 1992)' Movement towards the civil society helped bringing down regimes in Eastern Europe'(Bozoki and Sukosd 1993).
A simple concept like civil society helped to shape the entire world on behalf of imperialist countries and its corporate capitalists. Nevertheless regardless of any opinion on these countries and politics that they used to hold their power, imperialism was threatened by the existence of these countries. In order to include these countries in the American empires boundaries, at the same time exploit and destroy its resources and people. Civil societies acted as direct imperialist component until 1990s. Since late 1980's and 1990s, the same concept of civil society is being used to destroy the 3rd world countries on behalf of neo-liberal economic structure. In the 3rd world the imperialist ruling class has always been funded and supported by western institutions and corporates.
Since 1990, with experience gathered in Soviet and Eastern Europe, civil society mechanism is being used to control the poor countries. Civil societies are interchangeably linked with NGOs which are global political and pro-imperialist actors operating rural and urban areas in Asia, Africa and the other exploited countries and dependent on the funding from Europe, the US and multi-national corporates. Neo-liberal economy and globalisation terror assault on workers, peasants, students and the other small national productive forces generates great discontent which could be starting point of a anti-imperialist class and national revolution.
In this context, the NGOs and the concept of civil society are applied to divert the discontent from the direct attack on the corporate and the neo-liberal system. In Nepal the NGOs have successfully destroyed and divided a revolutionary movement and create an exploitative environment. In Sri-Lanka these civil societies and NGOs helped the government to eliminate all the resistance forces before 2009 genocide. The resistant itself has been taken by the western funded NGOs, right groups and related civil societies. People's resistance has gradually been eliminated and corporate land grab and exploitation is now 'peacefully' taking place. The civil societies and NGOs want 'peaceful development' in 3rd world countries. The rhetoric of development in these countries as used in neo-liberal vocabulary represents implementing the infrastructure for corporates, the exploitation and theft. Civil societies serves as a transitional force in order to mobilize the various level of public fractions and infiltrate into social, cultural, political, economic and environmental realms. However the basic ideology of the civil society is to promote the class compromise.
The contemporary civil societies are made out of profoundly divided classes. Civil societies obscure class divisions, class oppression and class struggle. Former left movement leaders, leaders of some trade unions, intellectuals and democratic forces have been co-opted by these NGOs and civil societies for unimaginable wages which is the imperialist bribe to their local agents who are mostly paid in several thousand dollars, ten to twenty times more than a national average wage.
Civil societies and NGOs emerge in the absence of organised revolutionary movements in third world countries. The temporary revolutionary leadership gap has to be urgently filled to resist the NGOs and class based mass movements must be organised to substitute the civil societies.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
"Nonsense Economics" and the Deepening Greek Crisis - Municipal workers go on strike
See Also :Contribution KOE to the Assisi Camp of Anti Imperialist Camp
Petros Al Achmar, Department for International Relations, KOE
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Solidarity with South African Miners - Picket the London South African Embassy 30th August 3pm - 6pm
Show your solidarity with South African Miners, support the strike and protest the massacre - picket South African Embassy, Thursday 30 August, 3-6 pm, Trafalgar Square.
Nearest tube station Charing Cross
on behalf of
Pan African Voice
Mumia Abu Jamal Defense Campaign UK
Pan African Community Forum
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Interview with Comrade Kiran : Revolution has not paused; it is developing on slow or, fast speed.
(An interview with the chairman of CPN-Maoist Comrade Kiran)
1. International
How do you evaluate present international situation?
Electronic communication and information technology has developed significantly since some decades. It is a qualitative progress in the sector of productive force.
But, the hegemony of imperialism is there in this area, and American imperialism is dreaming of unipolar world system by standing on this base.
But, the crisis which has rapidly grown around 2008 A.D has affected United States of America and several European countries. The crisis is the consequences of unproductive investment in army sector and cut off of the financial capital from production.
Imperialism doesn't have the real solution of this crisis, as consequences of development and rapid growth of such crisis in United States of America and other countries, on the one hands the peoples of all over the world are being attracted toward socialism and fed up with imperialism and one on the other, the possibility of workers movement also being strong in the developed countries.
In competition with American Imperialism other competitive forums are also developing now. In this situation there is not possibility of fulfillment of the dream of unipolar world system of American imperialism.
American imperialism and its allied forces are accelerating their movement of interference now Libya to Syria by capturing the oil stock of Middle East including the Arab countries to avoid the crisis and they themselves are circling on the maze of this movement.
Presently, in the world development of the contradictions among the imperialist countries and the contradictions between capitalist and proletariat class becomes sometime slow and sometime fast.
Even now the contradictions between imperialism and the oppressed countries is static as the principal contradictions. Revolution is the main tendency of the world even today.
Observing in totality, we get objective situation favorable for revolution. But, the
subjective condition is weaker in comparison.
The set back of Revolution on Peru and emergence of capitulationism and rightist liquidationism in Nepal is the subject of worry. But in some of the countries of the world there are serious attempt of revolution and CPI (Maoist) is presenting itself effectively in this area. In this time, the main duty of the revolutionary communists of the world is to build the subjective situation strong and start to prepare for revolution by focusing on the struggle against imperialism and reaction.
Revolution has not paused; it is developing on slow or, fast speed. History of revolution is based on the dialectics of ebb and flow. Defect of all types of imperialism and reaction and victory of scientific socialism is inevitable. At last, no one can stop the progressive development of history and speed and velocity of revolution.
International Dimensions of Prachanda's Neo-revisionism by Comrade Basanta
I had authored an article about 6 years before. It was entitled: "International Dimensions of Prachanda Path". The article, published in the 10th issue of The Worker, Party organ in English, had created debate in the international communist movement.
Is Prachanda Path really a creative development of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism or merely a deviation from it was the question under debate at that time. Given the development of people's war in leaps, one after another, it was also not an easy task for them to take position against it. But, most of the revolutionary parties did not assimilate it rather they opined that it resulted from the ideological deviation on the part of CPN (Maoist).
The wave of Prachanda Path, which was said to be the synthesis of the experiences of 5 year's long stormy people's war, had stretched all across the world. It was not unnatural too. Party had defined Prachanda Path as a series of particular ideas generated by the Nepalese revolution. I had prepared that article as our party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), comprehended it at that time.
Unsurprisingly, Prachanda was happy with the article.
After 6 years now, I am writing again a short article centring on Prachanda. It is titled: "International Dimensions of Prachanda's Neo- revisionism." Some readers may think that Basanta is correct because Prachanda has taken a U-turn from his earlier Marxist-Leninist-Maoist position. Someone may say that to think of Prachanda, who considers Marxism as a vibrant science and applies in practice accordingly, a revisionist is the result of mechanical and dogmatic thinking on the part of Basanta and his team-mates. This debate will obviously surface in the days to come. The revolutionaries will regard that Basanta is correct; but the revisionists and liquidationists will do its opposite. Naturally, this article will not make Prachanda happy this time.
Everyone is aware that an intensive and extensive two-line struggle was on between Marxism and right revisionism inside the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) mainly for the last four years. But, in the recent days, there has been a turn in this process and the revolutionaries dissociating from the party led by Prachanda, have built up a new party.
As a member of this new party, the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist, I am here with this article. We have not yet synthesized the entire experiences acquired during the tumultuous period of people's war and the period that followed. The forthcoming Party Congress will do it. For now, we have taken only a preliminary position according to which the people's war had definitely amassed new experiences but it was not correct at that time to synthesise them in the form of Prachanda Path. The national convention organized on June 15, 2012 summed up the strength and weakness of the revolutionaries also. It concluded that there were three kinds of ideological mistakes namely fideism, liberalism and metaphysics with them.
These weaknesses were manifested mainly on the question of ideological synthesis i.e. Prachanda Path and the centralisation of leadership. On the other, the convention unanimously concluded that the appropriate terminology to denote Prachanda's ideological and political degeneration is neo- revisionism.
These weaknesses were manifested mainly on the question of ideological synthesis i.e. Prachanda Path and the centralisation of leadership. On the other, the convention unanimously concluded that the appropriate terminology to denote Prachanda's ideological and political degeneration is neo- revisionism.
The neo-revisionism noticed in Prachanda has been manifested in different form than it had in the past revisionists, who used to attack upon the basic principles of Marxism in a direct and straightforward way. Like for example, Proudhon and Lassalle opposed the scientific socialism with the arguments that the process of continued reforms and strict discipline in the bourgeois society can pave the way for capitalism to reach communism. Bernstein concluded the basic principles of Marxism like class struggle and the theory of surplus value have been outdated. Khrushchev took position against the role of violence in revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat under socialist society. Liu Shao Chi and Teng Hsiao Ping stood against the theory of continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat put forth by Mao Tsetung.
They one-sidedly emphasized upon the development of productive forces as opposed to the Maoist principle of grasp revolution and promote production. In our context, Prachanda has not made him stand yet in open against the basic concepts of Marxism as the aforesaid leaders did in the past. He has been doing it in the name of creative development of MLM.
They one-sidedly emphasized upon the development of productive forces as opposed to the Maoist principle of grasp revolution and promote production. In our context, Prachanda has not made him stand yet in open against the basic concepts of Marxism as the aforesaid leaders did in the past. He has been doing it in the name of creative development of MLM.
When the situation develops to a new level, the old logics are not sufficient for the political parties to support their new position. It is true not only for the Marxists but also for the revisionists and other parties as well. Mao has said that revisionists are the reactionaries who mislead people in the guise of Marxism. So in the new situation the revisionists need to find new logics to misguide the revolutionaries. Prachanda understands it well. So he has been steadily sowing seeds of revisionism since long in the guise of creative application and development of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. He has not yet directly opposed the dictatorship of the proletariat as Khrushchev did. But, the development of Marxism which he has claimed is in fact the development of revisionism. In this way, revisionism has been replacing Marxism in the party led by him. The classical and modern revisionism openly oppose the basic tenets of Marxism including the dialectical and historical materialism, theory of class struggle, role of violence in revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat etc. etc. But, the neo-revisionism does the same in essence but in the pretext of opposing dogmatism, creative application of Marxism and the originality of revolution. To arrest the essence of Marxism in the name of its creative application and development has been the main characteristics of neo-revisionism. In this way, the features in points of Prachanda's neo-revisionism can be cited as follows.
Prachanda has been slowly attacking upon the universality of Mao's contributions. In the wake of party unity that took place with the Unity Centre - Masal, the UCPN (Maoist) had adopted Marxism-Leninism-Maoism/Mao Tsetung thought as its guiding principle. He argues that there is no difference as such in using two terminologies, Maoism or Mao thought, so long as they are done to mean the universality of Mao's contributions. It is indeed his artful deceit to blur the difference between Maoism and Mao thought which respectively refer to universality and particularity of Mao's contributions. By so doing he has been weakening the grasp of Maoism in the party and the revolutionary movement as well.
Mao has said that the struggle for production, class struggle and scientific experiment are the three sources of knowledge. In addition, he has stressed Marxism goes on developing through an infinite spiral of practice to theory and theory to practice. But quite the opposite, Prachanda claims that Marxism has become a matter of common knowledge for him. He had said in a CC meeting held about five years
before. By so saying he has stood against Maoist theory of knowledge and of course Maoism itself.
Interview with G.N.Saibaba in Varberg Sweden
The 14th of April 2012 "Jan Myrdals great award, the Lenin award" was handed out in a theatre in Varberg, Sweden. Individuals from different countries and mostly from different parts of of Sweden came for the celebration. Many of participants stayed at Hotell Gästis in central Varberg which have a lot of interesting arts, a library with revolutionary litterature and a beautiful pool, called the "Lenin bath". At the hotel we where very happy to be able to interview the joint secretary of Revolutionary Democratic Front of India, G.N.Saibaba.
Indiensolidaritet, Sweden, 28/8 -2012
Interview with G.N.Saibaba in Varberg Sweden, 14-15th april 2012
(The transcript of the interview is checked by Saibaba)
Indiensolidaritet: Can you say something about the political work you do in India?
Saibaba: I work for an organization called Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF). It is a federation of revolutionary mass organizations working among different oppressed classes and sections of the Indian society. Revolutionary students' and youth organisations, revolutionary peasants' organisations, revolutionary workers' organisations, revolutionary cultural organisations as well revolutionary womans' organisations from different regions across India are constituents of RDF. Thus RDF is a large network of revolutionary organisations reaching out to all sections and strata of the society.
From the year 2009 onwards began the Operation Green Hunt, the Indian state's genocidal war on the poorest of the poor in India. All of us in our organization RDF work with other parties, groups, democratic organisations and individuals to raise our voice collectively and unitedly against the present military onslaught on the people and the extermination campaign against the people of India. We see this massive military operation as a continuation and the latest addition in the war waged by India's ruling classes against the people of the subcontinent for last many decades – be it in Kashmir, North East, Punjab, and now in central and eastern India. So we are at one level involved in the basic struggles of the people and at another we are working along with a large network of political forces and carrying out a countrywide campaign against Indian state's anti-people policies, particularly Operation Green Hunt.
Indiensolidaritet: The way we see it, there are two lines regarding solidarity work in Europe. One line is trying to unite people on an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal basis and another one focuses more on Maoism. What do you think about this?
Saibaba: Yes, there is this perception and understanding of how to develop the solidarity movement for the peoples' struggles and the particularly on the military attack on the people that is going on in India. So what I can see is that there are large sections who think that, the large sections of the people of India and the larger confrontation is more important to focus on, to tell the world outside India. There is another section of organizations which hold that the present campaign by the Indian state is targeting the revolutionaries in India and therefore the revolutionaries should be supported directly. What is important today is that the people of India – the poorest of the poor 80 percent of the country who live an extremely perilous existence – are looking forward to a basic change in their lives. The poorest section of humanity in the world therefore is waging a defiant struggle in India under the leadership of the revolutionary Maoists who are from among their own. So if you take the larger picture of what is happening in India, you can see that this is a great resistance against the loot of the land and minerals by the corporate sector. Monopoly capital in its desperation to dominate the world's resources would like to overcome its crisis by exploiting the cheap raw materials in India and other oppressed countries. It's an attempt by the imperialists, by the monopoly capital on the world scale, to transport their burden of the economic crisis upon the shoulders of the poorest of the poor in India.
Removing the people from their homes and hearths has become pertinent for the corporations backed by the government to capture the valuable mineral resources which are estimated to a value of several trillions of dollars. So the resistance movement is built up by the indigenous people, the poorest of the poor, the millions and millions of the wretched of the earth. To crush this movement and to silence all the people the Indian government has sent more than 250,000 armed personnel to these regions backed by its air force and navy. You therefore can see the importance of the struggle. Of course the revolutionary forces are involved – they work in these areas and organise the people, but the question is much larger. It is an anti-imperialist struggle of the people, led by the revolutionary Maoists. This is a larger question because this resistance exists not only in the central and eastern parts of India where the Maoist movement has a strong presence, but extends to every part of India even where the Maoists are absent. So in our view, we have to take into account this anti-imperialist struggle as a whole. We have to recognize that this is a larger struggle of the people of India who are not led by the revolutionaries everywhere simply because they do not exist in other parts. So the international solidarity should be to the entire movement. The other section of the people who feels that the revolutionary movement is a target too is not wrong in their perception. Yes, the revolutionary movement is a target of attack. In fact the Indian prime minister has termed it "the largest internal security threat" way back in 2005 reflecting the intent of the ruling classes to finish off the revolutionary movement. But what is important to recognise is that the anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggle spanning over entire India and the revolutionary movement in India which exists in a considerable part of the country are interrelated. We cannot separate this two. The larger anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle is very important and we must not lose sight of it. We must stand in solidarity with the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle of the common people of India. The Indian ruling classes and the imperialists have planned many genocides and massacres but the people have successfully resisted them so far through coordination and collective struggle, not allowing any of these corporate houses to intrude and take over their lands and resources.
So we in India feel that to give support to the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles of the people is also to give support to the revolutionary movement in India. Therefore we need not and should not separate these two and give support only to the revolutionaries as if the revolutionaries exist outside and separately from this struggle. The revolutionary struggle in India is a part of the larger anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle going on in the subcontinent.
Our Beloved Comrade Tarimela Nagi Reddy by Indian Comrade
1. Introduction
On 28th July this year the Indian Communist Revolutionary Movement dips its blood in memory on the 36th death anniversary of Comrade Tarimala Nagi Reddy. His contribution to the Indian Communist Revolutionary Movement was invaluable .`
In light on the great repression on the democratic rights movement in India even today Com Nagi Reddy's teachings have great relevance.
He laid the foundation for the correct perspective in the democratic Rights Movement.
In light on the great repression on the democratic rights movement in India even today Com Nagi Reddy's teachings have great relevance.
He laid the foundation for the correct perspective in the democratic Rights Movement.
He was born in a wealthy family on February 11th 1917. His schooling was done in the Theosophical and Rishi Valley schools which were reknowned for their discipline and all –round development of personality.
Here he learnt about the dignity of labour ,which was professed by the schools. This teaching set the trend for his revolutionary career.
He meticulously studied Marxist –Leninist theory and moulded himself with revolutionary consciousness.
Remarkably he launched a struggle against the landlord of is own family.
Comrade Nagi Reddy's political ideas were not tolerated by the governing body of the Madras Loyoal college ,thus he moved to Benarus Hindu University,where he had greater avenues to express his political thought. Making untiring efforts he led the student masses towards nationalist politics, socialist ideas and proletarian revolution.
Inspite of carrying the burden of leading the student's movement and participating in the secret organization of the party, his upper-class background prevented him from attaining party membership early.
In 1939, the Communist Party of India had full faith in Nagi Reddy's proletarian revolutionary qualities , and awarded him party membership.
Marge Grower, the then vice-chancellor of Delhi University ,openly challenged the national slogan for the formation of a constituent assembly.
Here he learnt about the dignity of labour ,which was professed by the schools. This teaching set the trend for his revolutionary career.
He meticulously studied Marxist –Leninist theory and moulded himself with revolutionary consciousness.
Remarkably he launched a struggle against the landlord of is own family.
Comrade Nagi Reddy's political ideas were not tolerated by the governing body of the Madras Loyoal college ,thus he moved to Benarus Hindu University,where he had greater avenues to express his political thought. Making untiring efforts he led the student masses towards nationalist politics, socialist ideas and proletarian revolution.
Inspite of carrying the burden of leading the student's movement and participating in the secret organization of the party, his upper-class background prevented him from attaining party membership early.
In 1939, the Communist Party of India had full faith in Nagi Reddy's proletarian revolutionary qualities , and awarded him party membership.
Marge Grower, the then vice-chancellor of Delhi University ,openly challenged the national slogan for the formation of a constituent assembly.
Comrade.T.N, openly opposed this,being the leader of the Students Union. Fascinatingly,the Indian Congress leader Gandhi opposed him Gandhi wrote a letter to the Vice –Chancelor of the BHU to demand an apology from T.N.
T,N.opposed it and as thus failed in his law examinations.
Angered T.N. left the college and returned to his village. He started organizing students and youth into the Communist Movement. Several youth were attracted to Comrade T.N's simple, down-to –earth style of explaining politics and economics. This made the Congress leaders helpless. (They opposed the Communists in the Freedom Struggle)
T,N.opposed it and as thus failed in his law examinations.
Angered T.N. left the college and returned to his village. He started organizing students and youth into the Communist Movement. Several youth were attracted to Comrade T.N's simple, down-to –earth style of explaining politics and economics. This made the Congress leaders helpless. (They opposed the Communists in the Freedom Struggle)
In 1949 T.N. published a booklet titled 'economic effects of War' which dealt with the effects of the 2ndworld war on India when the government was imposing collection of levy from peasants for war efforts.
At the same time it left the food grain stocks of landlords untouched. From underground, he charted out a programme to oppose the levy. He collected the details of food grain stocks with the landlords and exposed it before the people.
The government issued an arrest warrant on Com.T.N. and gave him rigorous imprisonment for 1 year.
At the same time it left the food grain stocks of landlords untouched. From underground, he charted out a programme to oppose the levy. He collected the details of food grain stocks with the landlords and exposed it before the people.
The government issued an arrest warrant on Com.T.N. and gave him rigorous imprisonment for 1 year.
In the Telengana struggle T. N. served as a member of the Rayalaseema Regional Committee, taking proper measures to save the secret organization and the families of several comrades which came uder repeated raids by the police. His wife Laxmikanthamma also lived a rigorous underground life.
Comrade T.N.played a major role in the Telengana Armed struggle from 1946-51. He was arrested in 1951 . In 1952 he came out of underground life and contested the elections.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Marikana' Autopsies show miners were fleeing'
Insiders in the investigations into the shooting said post-mortem reports did not favour the police version of events - that they opened fired after being fired upon.
"the post-mortem reports indicate that most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed.
"A lot of them were shot in the back and the bullets exited through their chests.
"Only a few people were found to be shot from the front," said one of several sources, who cannot be named as they are not allowed to speak to the media.
Independent Police Investigative Directorate
(IPID) spokesman Moses Dlamini would neither confirm nor deny the contents of the post-mortem reports.
He said they would hold a briefing in Rustenburg on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) led by the Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane has confirmed that all the post mortems were complete.
IMC spokesman Harold Maloka said the post-mortems were conducted by state pathologists and verified by independent private pathologists.
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/autopsies-show-miners-were-fleeing-1.1370093#.UDtMNSPI__h
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/autopsies-show-miners-were-fleeing-1.1370093#.UDtMNSPI__h
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Tribute to Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union(APRSU) by Indian Comrade
The Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union carved out a permanent niche in the annals of the history of the revolutionary student movement worldwide. Probably no student movement worldwide made such efforts to emulate the experience of the Russian and Chinese Revolution. It reminded you of a ship surviving in the stormiest of seas as the APRSU weathered every storm in it's journey.
It traversed the wildest of forests. Lighting the torch of Mao Tse Tung Thought. Words simply cannot describe the sacrifices of the martys which should be inscribed in Gold. 20 years ago the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union faced it's official ban.(the same time the C.P.I-M.L.-Peoples War Group was banned)
This organization played a historic role in building the students movement in Andhra Pradesh, for 3 decades. It waged struggles on all fronts, playing a major role in building the Rytu Collie Sanghams (peasant associations)and Radical Youth League committees. It also built the Singanakeri workers Union in 1982.
Significantly, on 14th April,1972 Student George Reddy, leader of Progressive Democratic Students was martyred. George was the architect of the Revolutionary Student movement in Andhra Pradesh which had it's genesis in the Progressive Democratic Students and 'Vishaka 'group.This year on 14th April was the 40th anniversary of his martyrdom at the hands of ABVP goondas.
This year is the 25th martyrdom anniversary year of Women comrade Madidila Sarna Latha , Ravinder Reddy, Gogu Venkanna Veeraiah and Gajjavelli Sammanna , 20th martyrdom anniversary of Com. M.Srivasa Rao and M.Vijay Kumar and 30TH martyrdom year of Com.Sheshaiah and Gangarajan. All these martyrs contributions have to be written in gold letters.
Other significant comrades who were martyred were Com.Janardhan, Com.Chandrashekar, woman comrade Janjanam Savitri , Raju, Mahesh and Veerana.The majority of these martyrs were simply killed in cold blood and the police fabricated false cases that they were killed in encounters after staging attacks.
Often the bodies were not returned to the parents and cremations taken place without the parents or relatives. Today let us dip our blood in memory of all the martyrs of the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Can popular protests be developed to seize power from the capitalist elites?
Picture Wilhelm Langthaler
Can popular protests be developed to size power from the capitalist elites?
by Wilhelm Langthaler at the Anti Imperialist Camp at Assisi
The European Union is experiencing its deepest and most acute crisis ever – both in economic as well as in political terms. We are faced with massive capital flight from Southern Europe to its centre, which is not much longer sustainable. At the same time the imposed austerity is driving a downward spiral into recession leading to mass impoverishment. Popular protests are in the making while the politico-institutional framework is at the brink of collapse. The Euro and the entire EU is being threatened, destabilising the power of the capitalist elites.
Acute crisis of capital flight
The current stage of the crisis of the EU/Euro is marked by capital fleeing the European south. The symbol for this are the increasing interest spreads over German bonds. But also banks and the corporate sector are in acute shortage of capital while private consumption is plunging. Together with the severe austerity imposed by the EU centre the European south is suffering deep recession of which the worst is still to come. Large sections of the population including the middle classes are being impoverished to an extent and in a pace unprecedented since decades.
For any peripheral country this would mean immediate default and devastating social crisis as countries like Mexico, Indonesia, Argentina and many other countries did suffer from. Only being part of the EU and the Euro, default could so far be postponed – to social costs which might exceed even the ones to be expected with bankruptcy as Argentina had exemplified.
Behind the South Africa Mineworkers massacre by Jean Damu
Behind the South Africa Mineworkers massacre:
Aug. 19, 2012
by Jean Damu
The recent South African mineworkers massacre in which scores were shot and killed had its origins in long disgraced trade union organizing tactics but that in no way absolves the police and mine owners from being held in accountable.
There is blood and blame enough to cover both sides of the barricades, enough in fact that the regional leadership of the immensely influential South African Communist Party has called for the arrest of the leaders of the breakaway mine workers union which they assert foment violence wherever they appear.
Before addressing the issues confronting the unions it should be made clear that the police are going to have a very difficult time convincing anyone they shot in self-defense. There are numerous videos showing police forces standing in front of their vehicles, not behind them for protection, as they fired into crowds of protesting miners. That simple fact alone belies police protests of innocence.
CPP denounces docking of another US warship in Manila
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today condemned the scheduled docking of another US warship in Manila as another "arrogant display of contempt of Philippine sovereignty".
The USS Milius is scheduled to arrive today and dock at Manila Bay for a four-day port call.
"The docking of the USS Milius highlights the increasingly frequent arrival of interventionist troops of the US in the Philippines as the imperialist US government aims to further increase its presence and power projection activities in the Asia-Pacific," said the CPP.
"The CPP condemns the Aquino regime for allowing the US government to use the Philippines as a platform for its interventionism in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the Aquino regime, the puppetry and servility of the Philippine reactionary state has reached its highest levels in recent times."
Oppose ban on Revolutionary Democratic Front in Andhra Pradesh
Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF) has been banned by the Andhra Pradesh government on 9 August 2012 through Government Order No.430 under Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act 1992. This comes as the latest of the anti-people repressive measures that the Andhra Pradesh government have persistently adopted to over the last few decades to crush democratic voices and peoples' movements under the garb of fighting Maoism. This comes as another glaring example of the hollowness of Indian government's claim as 'largest democracy of the world'.
We strongly condemn this act of banning and criminalisation of our organisation and demand the immediate withdrawal of this authoritarian ban.
The Government Order brands RDF as "unlawful" and bans it "with immediate effect". The GO links RDF with the banned CPI(Maoist) by calling it a "frontal organisation" of the Maoist party. Falsely implicating RDF as "part of Tactical United Front", it dubiously enlists the following as "unlawful activities" of the organisation:
(1) Sub serving the interest and objectives of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) whose avowed objective is to overthrow the lawfully established Government by means of force and violence through terrorist activities involving the use of firearms and explosives;
Greece: Politicizing the struggle as the main task
Contribution KOE to the Assisi Camp of Anti Imperialist Camp
Petros Al Achmar, Department for International Relations, KOE
After the elections we find ourselves within a new political landscape characterised by the radicalisation of the popular forces. There are four main points to be mentioned:
First of all, everything is in flux. Nothing is secure: nor the political preferences of society, neither the relationship of forces between the people and the special regime imposed by the troika despite the relieve they got from the electoral outcome.
Then there is the acceleration of the political schedules. One event precipitates the next. The privatisation of the Agricultural Bank – which mortgaged 50% of the arable land – within only one day bears witness of this pace.
Furthermore there is the total insufficiency of the new government and the entire political system in administering the crisis. To survive Samaras concentrates on attacking Syriza. Within this frame we have to put also the manifold increase of deadly attacks on migrants by the Nazi-fascists of Hrisi Avgi and their struggle against the left.
Real Green Solution to Climate Change - No to the Agro Industrial Complex by Nickglais
In an recent exchange on Radical Wales a contributor was told he had to choose between Corporate Industrial scale Windmilling or Corporate Fossil Fuel Mining in Wales.
The reply was that these were the false dicotomies posed by Corporate Capitalism and were not the real choices offering fundamental and long lasting solutions to our ecological problems.
The real ecological choices are between the real solution from the ground up and community based or the top down fake "green" corporatism posing as a solution.
The Green market economy is in disarray if anybody cares to take a closer look, with carbon trading on verge of collapse and a well deserved prison sentence looming for one of the founders of this carbon trading scam.
Utimately the ecological prolem is a social problem and not a technical one of windmills or coalmines.
The clear advocates of a ground up community ecological solution are the International Peasant Movement of Via Campesina who have developed an alternative based on the science of agroecology as opposed to agro industrial agriculture.
Henry George - Land Value Taxation - Wolf in Sheeps Clothing by Nickglais
Picture Henry George
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist ,who was the most influential proponent of the Land Value Tax.
Henry George in his book Progress and Poverty tries to marry the interests of the working class with that of the capitalist class against landowners.
Henry George was an advocate of the free market and free trade against any form of protectionism. He believed in removing taxes from Labour and Capital and placing the burden of tax on landowners.
However whilst most Georgists are self confessed right wingers some on the Left like the Green Party in the UK have also adopted Georgist ideas.
The object of Land Value Taxation is to ensure that the rent attributable to the natural value of the land , and to the value created by its fortunate location, is paid to society as a whole and not to individual landowners.
Whilst the Land Value Taxation ostensible target is the absentee landowner or speculators, LVT would also fall on every landowner however small and they would be under pressure to extract as much profit from their land as possible to pay the tax.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Wales - Depopulation, Emigration and Immigration - Statement from Great Unrest Group 2012
The right wing has a obsession with inward migration to Wales which it sees as the source of all problems, while always missing the main problem in Wales that of the neo liberal capitalist economy which drives many of the most able and resourceful young people into outward migration from Wales.
Wales is the second poorest country in Western Europe after Portugal with a GNP per capita that is unfavourable to that of Greece.
The focus on the immigration into Wales takes the focus away from the more fundamental question of Welsh Depopulation. It is comparable to focusing on symptoms rather than of the main cause of illness of the patient.
In Wales the problem is the terminally ill neo liberal capitalist economy and immigration is just one of its many symptoms.
The Welsh population is ageing and the productive working population is shrinking, therefore there is an urgency to fighting depopulation in Wales which none of those parties that participate in representative democracy in Wales have so far seriously addressed.
The representative parties in Wales represent themselves.This should be no surprise and was clearly seen by the early Greek Democrats thousands of years ago, which was why they favoured direct democracy over representative democracy.
The drawback of Nepal's Revolution : The NGO's Harvest
-By Saba Navalan
Nepal is one of those lands so very rich in natural resources that it constantly pricks the eyes of multi-national companies which dominate the world today. Nepal which is situated at the backyard of India had been treated over the years as its slave-land. The poor farmers and working class in Nepal is representing the 'neo-slaves' of the globe. In many villages there has never been any governance or State administration. The inhabitants of these villages have never had access to government medical facilities. The horror of slavery in the Feudalistic System of Governance in the last century remains dreadfuly present trapped in a time capsule.
For a long time Nepal has remained so steep in enslavement and subjugation as if it was under the 'colonial rule' of India. Prior to Maoists, no one proposed an alternative system of politics against India's domination as well as revolutionary path against the feudal slavery system. In this milieu people were mobilised under the leadership of the Unified Communist Party which followed Maoism in letter and spirit.
Villages were freed. Within a span of ten years many villages came under the overall influence of the Maoists. People were trained in people's warfare. People were mobilised and organized through the Agricultural Labourers Organizations, trade unions and Workers' Forums at first and later through Students' Forums and Organizations which too became powerful. The Maoists maximised the conflicts and contradictions that existed between the King's battalion otherwise known as the Royal Nepal Army and the Police Forces, in the initial stages and had developed effective suitable military strategy.
In a similar vein, exploiting the contradiction that existed between the King and the Political Parties that were arguing the case of 'bourgeois parliamentary democracy' the Maoists began to launch their revolutionary initiatives in the urban areas as well amidst the lower rung of the middle-class. Around 75 districts had completely or partly, came under the Maoist administration just before 2000.
NDFP condemns inhuman treatment of Basque Political Prisoner Iosu Uribetxeberria
The Spanish government's urgent appeal for economic and financial aid should be put under serious question because of its gross violation of the fundamental rights of Basque Political Prisoner Iosu Uribetxeberria and other prisoners.
By LUIS G. JALANDONI
NDFP Chief International Representative
Member, NDFP National Executive Committee
14 August 2012
By LUIS G. JALANDONI
NDFP Chief International Representative
Member, NDFP National Executive Committee
14 August 2012
NDFP condemns inhuman treatment of Basque Political Prisoner Iosu Uribetxeberria
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) vigorously condemns the Spanish Government's inhuman treatment of Basque Political Prisoner, Iosu Uribetxeberria. He has been a political prisoner since 2005. He was then already diagnosed as suffering from cancer.
Last month, he suffered dizziness and severe headaches. Two nodules lodged in his brain and lungs were found out. The cancer has metastasized. A few days ago he was transferred to the Donostia Hospital where he is constantly under police guard.
He has courageously started a hunger strike to protest this inhuman treatment by the Spanish government that violates even its own Spanish Penal Law. Article 92 of this Law provides for the release of incurably ill prisoners.
Iosu Uribetxeberria also exposes the fact that there are 14 other prisoners with similar serious illnesses. This is a brave act of solidarity for his fellow prisoners.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines firmly supports the just demands of Basque Political Prisoner Iosu Uribetxeberria and calls for his immediate and unconditional release and that of the 14 other prisoners with serious illnesses.
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Arash Darbandi
UIC Student-Athletes Go Through Commencement Services
35 student-athletes received a bachelor's degree in the spring and summer sessions
Cross Country Concludes Competition at Horizon League Championship
Ehrhardt finishes first and garners Women's Athlete of the Year title
Cross Country Prepared for Competition at 2013 Horizon League Championship
Flames eye top spot after a second-place finish in 2012
Cross Country Concludes Competition at ISU Pre-National Invite
Ehrhardt secures 17th place in women's 6K race
Cross country concludes competition at the UW-Lucian Rosa Invitational
Ehrhardt posted a personal best in the 5K with a second-place finish
Career-Best XC Times
Career-Best Outdoor Times
Career-Best Indoor Times
2014 Outdoor: Ran a season best 16:48.63 in the 5,000m run at the Chicagoland Championships... Placed 13th overall in the 5,000m run at the College of DuPage Spring Opener with a time of 17:06.79.
2014 Indoor: Participated in the 3,000m run at the Windy City Rumble taking 10th overall with a time of 10:02.17.
2013 XC- Finished 10 of 202 runners at the College of DuPage Invitational with a time of 26:20.0...Competed in the Illinois Intercollegiate Championships, Sept. 13, earning 43rd-place with a time of 26:13.05...Clocked in with a time of 27:54.18 during competition at the Horizon League Championship, Nov. 2.
2013 Outdoor: Served as a distance specialist, competing in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter runs ... Finished the 5,000 meter in 15:45.29 at the Huskie Open (4/20/13) ... Crossed the finishing line in 32:31.58 during the 10,000-meter run at the Chicagoland Championships (4/4/13), the eighth-fastest time in the Horizon League during the outdoor season. 2013 Indoor: Ran the 3,000-meter at the Horizon League Championship (2/23/13), crossing the finishing line in 9:07.98.
XC 2012: Took home fourth-place honors at the UIC Opener on Sept. 1 with a time of 21:28.60 in the 4.1-mile race ...
Outdoor 2012: Posted a 36:30.47 in the 10,000 at the Chicagoland Championships on April 6 and placed 22nd overall ... placed 10th in the 5,000 at the DePaul Invite on April 20 with a time of 16:30.59.
Indoor 2012: Placed seventh in the 5,000 at the Chicagolandland Championships on Feb. 11 with a time of 15:36.32 ... ran a 4:43.08 in the 1,500 at the Carthage Tadd Metzger Invite on Jan. 27 to place 11th.
Outdoor 2011: Placed ninth in the 1,500 meter run at the Chicagoland Classic (4/09/11).
Indoor 2011: Placed 12th in the 3,000 meter run at the North Central Invitational (1/21/11)... took 15th in the 3,000 meter run at the UWM Panther Tune-Up (2/18/11).
PREP AND PERSONAL: Three-time letterwinner in cross country and track at Hinsdale Central (Ill.) ... three-time all-conference honoree in XC, indoor and outdoor track and field ... two-times all-region honoree in XC and outdoor track ... helped his cross country team to a 25th place finish his junior season ... team captain in his senior campaign ... member of the Dean's List and an Illinois State Scholar ... biggest athletic thrill to date is winning the Joliet Invite in high school making state in cross country and track ... born July 16, 1992 ... son of Susan and Saeed Darbandi ... has two siblings, Azad and Sria ... currently enrolled as a Psychology and Biological Sciences double major.

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If you've ever been in need of a craft tutorial or inspiration, you've likely been able to find a blog that helped you. Writing craft blogs are a good for marketing for those that have their own craft businesses or just want to record their crafting experiences. Here are a few tips for those that want to start their own blogs.
Blog Basics
Decide what the focus of your blog will be. Will you have step-by-step instructions on how to build something specific? Or will your blog be more inspirational covering ideas and encouraging creativity? Maybe your blog can go between the two kinds of styles.
Make sure to use great photography. If you don't do your own photography, make sure to have permissions for any images you use and credit the photographer. Pairing up with other crafters and artisans is a way to help other artists and give you a subject to write about.
Decide if your blog will focus on a specific craft or cover many topics, including lifestyle, food and cooking or even music. If you are covering many topics you will want to set up the page in a way that it is easy to find the specific topics.
Here are a few bloggers thoughts on how to start and write craft blogs:
Blogging as a business
Blogging has become a way to make a side income or a business in itself. From DesignMom.com to the Pioneer Woman, there have been a lucky few that have found commercial success through writing about their craft online. By allowing advertisements on your blog you are able to make a residual income. And it is a way to market your craft sales through social media, by posting your blogs on Pinterest, a special Facebook page or by Twitter.
Read Lines Across to get more tips on blogging as a money making venture.
Staying in it for the long haul
Starting a craft blog is a lot of work and take quite a bit of time. Once you've started it and promoted it, the hard part starts. Writing. And not stopping. It takes tenacity and consistency to just keep at it. Set small goals for yourself and celebrate your successes. Megan Petersen is a seasoned craft blogger with a impressive, growing following. She has found a love of writing and sells eBooks about crafting for a business. She says there are five reasons why a craft blog fails.
"The problem with a lot of us creative types isn't always starting something. That part is motivating and exciting, and we are bursting with energy when it comes to something new. We jump in with both feet – hopeful, excited, and sure that this new project is going to be just the thing.
And then it gets hard.
We don't see the results we were expecting as soon as we thought we would.
The finish line feels too far off (or impossible to reach) and there is a cool new shiny in front of us that we are just oh so excited to try instead.
It's at this part, where the grind starts to kick in and things start to get harder, that most people give up.
This is why most people don't succeed." - Megan Petersen, from the post Reaching the Finish Line on her blog Beading for Business.
Spokane area craft bloggers
Read each others blogs and support other crafters. There is so much talent out there to collaborate with.


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Hammers tickets still on sale
by Stuart Vose
Away trip to Boleyn Ground on general sale.
Tickets for this weekend's away game at West Ham United remain on sale.
The Black Cats make the trip to the capital to face Sam Allardyce's side on Saturday (December 14).
Tickets are priced at £42 adults and £24 over-65s and under-16s and can be purchased in person at the Stadium of Light ticket office or by calling 0871 911 1973.
All tickets are sold subject to ground regulations.


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College Hockey:St. Cloud Upsets Michigan Tech
Huskies Get Three Power Play Goals
HOUGHTON, Mich. — The way the No. 13 Michigan Tech Huskies have been playing through the early stages of the season, it appeared as though the only thing that could derail their ascension to elite status in the WCHA would be the loss of junior goaltender Michael-Lee Teslak to an injury. Unfortunately, thats exactly what 2,890 Michigan Tech fans witnessed Friday night, as the No. 17 St. Cloud State Huskies took advantage of Teslak's injury, beating Michigan Tech, 5-2, behind three of power play tallies.
"We played a good game tonight," said St. Cloud head coach Bob Motzko. "I said that this weekend was going to be a special teams weekend."
Michigan Tech (5-4-0 overall, 4-3-0 WCHA) jumped out of the gates quickly, getting three shots on sophomore netminder Jase Weslosky, but Weslosky was equal to the challenge. Michigan Tech senior winger Jordan Foote had two or three chances in close to Weslosky, but he was in the right spot to make the stops.
"Jase was good when he had to be," said Motzko.
The momentum of the game shifted once Michigan Tech started heading to the box. With junior winger Malcolm Gwilliam off for hooking, St. Cloud (5-2-2 overall, 2-2-1 WCHA) was able to get one past Michigan Tech goalie Rob Nolan.
"I dont think that we played with the jump and the spark and the emotion that we needed to," said Michigan Tech head coach Jamie Russell. "You need to play 60 minutes in this league."
Freshman Garrett Roe fired a shot that snuck through the pads of Nolan to sit on the goal line, and sophomore winger Ryan Lasch pounced on the loose puck, netting his third power play marker of the season at 14:20. The goal, Lasch's sixth of the campaign, was also assisted by assistant captain Garrett Raboin.
St. Cloud opened the second with their third man advantage, and used it wisely, striking at the 1:02 mark. Sophomore winger Andreas Nodl notched his third power play marker as he put a shot just under the crossbar, but just over Nolan's shoulder. Roe and senior Aaron Brocklehurst both assisted on the goal.
With Foote for high sticking, St. Cloud's top power play unit struck again as Nodl fed the puck across the slot to a streaking Lasch, who beat Nolan with a one-timer. The goal, which came at 6:53, was also assisted by Roe. St. Cloud finished the night three-for-five on the man advantage.
"The back-door (goal) was a breakdown," said Russell. "We should have picked that up."
Special teams became the theme of the second period as Michigan Tech struck on a power play of their own when senior center Peter Rouleau scored a goal very similar to the one that Nodl had scored earlier. The goal, which came at 9:59, was set up by junior defenseman Geoff Kinrade and Gwilliam.
"Kinrade made a nice pass to me," said Rouleau. "The goalie went down, and I just got it over him."
Junior Michael Olson regained the three-goal lead for St. Cloud when he buried a rebound off a shot from freshman winger Aaron Marvin, who stole the puck from Michigan Tech sophomore winger Ryan Bunger. The goal, which came at 12:37, was Olson's second of the season.
Michigan Tech nearly cut the lead to two again as Rouleau was fed the puck in position to fire on net during a four-on-four situation. Unfortunately for Michigan Tech, Rouleau hit more pipe than net, and the puck skittered harmlessly behind the net.
Early in the third period, Michigan Tech began to press and their hard work nearly paid off when junior center Alex Gagne found himself almost alone with the puck in front of Weslosky twice, but neither time could he pull the trigger.
"We can't play 20 minutes and expect to win," said Rouleau.
Michigan Tech continued to pressure the St. Cloud defense, and it eventually buckled as Rouleau buried what was a third or fourth rebound chance at 7:36. Rouleau's fourth of the season, and second of the game was assisted by freshman winger Jordan Baker and assistant captain Tyler Shelast.
With Michigan Tech continuing to press, St. Cloud took advantage of a turnover at their own blue line, and junior center Brett Borgen and freshman winger Brian Volpei skated nearly the length of the rink two on one. Borgen hit Volpei near the Michigan Tech net, and Volpei netted his first collegiate goal at 14:57.
"We just came off our best weekend of hockey, and we felt it was imperative to have a strong effort tonight," said Motzko.
Weslosky played strongly throughout the third period, coming up with 11 of his 21 saves.
Nolan struggled for Michigan Tech, stopping 23 in the game.
With the win, St. Cloud now holds a 5-0-1 advantage over Michigan Tech through their last six meetings. The teams meet at the MacInnes again tomorrow night.
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Jan. 28, 2013
STANFORD, Calif. - Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football David Shaw and the Stanford Football program have announced their 2013 summer football camp dates.
In addition to the annual youth Junior Cardinal Camp, coach David Shaw and his staff will also host a series of high school camps: the Quarterback Academy, the All-Positions Camp, the Elite Defensive Backs and Receivers Camps and the Specialists Camp. Additional camp dates may be added at a later time.
The Junior Cardinal Camp, held on June 10 and June 11, is open to boys and girls ages 6-12. The Junior Cardinal Camp is designed to introduce the basic fundamentals of football in a safe and enjoyable environment. Camp instruction will be led by Head Coach David Shaw and members of the Stanford Football coaching staff. Several members of the Rose Bowl Game Champion 2012 Stanford Cardinal Football team will work as counselors at the Junior Cardinal Camp.
The prestigious Stanford Quarterback Academy will be held over two days on June 18-19 and is open to boys entering 9th, 10th, 11th or 12th grades. It is an elite level camp which focuses on preparing young men to play the quarterback position. There are both overnight and commuter options for the QB Academy.
On June 19, receivers and defensive backs will join the quarterbacks for a single day of instruction specializing in receiver and DB play. These camps are open to 10th, 11th and 12th graders.
The All-Positions Camp will be held over two days on June 19-20. The All-Positions Camp offers overnight accommodations in the Stanford dorms as well as a commuter option for local campers. This is the only full contact camp option offered by Stanford.
Stanford will wrap up its week of summer camp with the prestigious Specialists Camp on June 21. This camp, conducted by Stanford Special Teams Coordinator Pete Alamar, provides individual instruction for punters, kickers and snappers.
Stanford will not host the Stanford Football Passing Tournament in 2013 but hopes to resume the tournament in 2014.
To register for any of the summer football camps, visit stanfordfootballcamps.com or click here. The Stanford Football Camps are open to any and all entrants. For your safety and benefit, we recommend that you choose a camp that fits your particular skills and level of development.
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You dont have enough information to be discussing this, a sunspot is a cooler spot on the sun, not a hotter spot.A giant sunspot that's at least six times the diameter of Earth has formed on the sun in less than 48 hours, according to NASA.
So what? Haven't the global climate "scientists" been telling us for decades that changes in the sun have virtually nothing to do with Earth's climate? Don't you believe in consensus? I mean, how could a ball of fusing hydrogen 1,300,000 the size of Earth with a coronal temperature of 4,000,000K+ possibly have more impact on the climate than the kind of lightbulb you use in your house?
The solar maximum should be passed this year, but the 9-14 year cycle historically has no real correlation to the registered temperature changes that have been recorded as continuing to rise over the last 100 years. This is misinformation that is spread by those that have a political purpose, not a scientific one .
You need to find people that have less knowledge on the subject, the ignorant, that is your constituency


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A couple hours ago, Tiger Woods posted a tweet that surprised many and confirmed the fears of some: his physical state is far from perfect--so far, in fact, that he will be forced to miss next week's U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club. His tweet reads:
Not playing in US Open. Very disappointed. Short-term frustration for long-term gain.
It is nearly three years, now, since Woods won his last major championship, the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines' South Course. He needed 91 holes--regulation, plus an 18 hole playoff, plus a sudden-death playoff hole--in order to finally defeat underdog Rocco Mediate. Throughout the tournament, it was clear that he was in considerable pain stemming from his left knee. Two days after the remarkable triumph, Woods announced that he would miss the remainder of the 2008 PGA Tour season in the wake of surgery to repair his left ACL.
Now, Woods is again citing his left knee as the source of trouble. He withdrew midway through his first round at the Players Championship in May and has not indicated when next he will play tournament golf. There is still no timetable for his return beyond a message on Woods' website indicating that he hopes to be able to play in this year's AT&T National, June 30th through July 3rd, for which he has served as tournament host since its inception.
The announcement confirms the suspicions of those who have posited that Woods' left leg is nowhere near 100% strength. Now there will be suspicion and speculation that that leg may never fully heal and allow Woods to play near the consistently high level to which he treated the golf world from 1997 until 2008. As always with injuries, time will tell.
Here are some links to Connecticut-based fitness outfits that offer golf-specific conditioning programs, so that you may be able to avoid golf-related injury:
- Magna Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Center--Avon
- Brian Buturla--Norwalk
- Solo Fitness--Glastonbury


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For the second straight year, the Bruins begin their season at Loyola Marymount at the Concourse Hotel at LAX Classic. UCLA plays three times in two days, opening against Binghamton on Friday at 4 p.m. On Saturday, the Bruins play twice, taking on LIU Brooklyn (11 a.m.) and LMU (7:30 p.m.).
Free audio (with Darren Preston at the call), free video (courtesy of LMU) and live stats will be available for this weekend's matches on UCLABruins.com. Links will be available on the women's volleyball schedule page.
The Bruins participate in the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge next weekend at Stanford's Maples Pavilion. UCLA takes on 11th-ranked Illinois on Friday, Sept. 5 at 8 p.m. in a rematch of the 2011 National Championship contest, which the Bruins won in four sets. The UCLA-Illinois match will air live on Pac-12 Networks. On Saturday, Sept. 6, the Bruins face off with top-ranked and defending national champion Penn State at 5 p.m.
The Bruins received the 36th-most points (23) in the AVCA Preseason Coaches poll, one of nine Pac-12 teams to earn votes in the initial rankings (Stanford, Washington, USC, Arizona State, Oregon, California, Arizona and Colorado). Three other UCLA opponents this season, #1 Penn State, #11 Illinois and #17 Hawai'i, are also nationally ranked. The Volleyball Magazine rankings have yet to be announced.
The Bruins have won 44 straight matches when hitting .300 or better, including six times last season ... UCLA is four wins away from 1,200 for the program's history ... head coach Michael Sealy enters the season 10 wins away from 100 for his career.
The home matches for this season's UCLA-USC rivalry have switched, with the September tilt now being played at Galen Center and the November contest taking place at Pauley Pavilion.
Originally, the Bruins were scheduled to host the Trojans on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at Pauley Pavilion and travel across town on Friday, Nov. 28.
Due to the Sunset Blvd. water main break on July 29, which caused flood damage to UCLA volleyball's two home venues, Pauley Pavilion and the John Wooden Center, the Bruins and the Trojans will switch home dates.
The Sept. 23 match at Galen will be televised live on Pac-12 Networks at 8 p.m., while the Nov. 28 contest at Pauley will air live on ESPNU at 8:30 p.m.
A decision as to the sites, as well as any potential dates and time changes, for the remaining nine UCLA home matches on the 2014 slate will be announced shortly.
Binghamton returns 10 letterwinners and five starters from a 2013 team which went 9-19 and placed fifth in the America East Conference with a 7-7 record. Sophomore outside hitter Allison Hovie averaged 2.62 kills per set and 1.89 digs per set last year, adding 26 aces, while senior setter Amanda Dettman quarterbacks the offense after posting 9.26 assists per set, 2.01 dps and 38 aces in 2013. Glenn Kiriyama is in his 16th year as Binghamton's head coach and has a record of 232-230. Friday's matchup will be the first between the Bruins and the Bearcats.
LIU Brooklyn brings back 11 letterwinners and six starters from last year's squad which went 23-8 and posted an undefeated 14-0 record in the Northeast Conference. The Blackbirds advanced to the first round of the NCAA Tournament a year ago, falling to Penn State. Senior outside hitter Annika Foit is the top returning hitter at 4.17 kills per set, adding 2.63 digs per set and 27 aces last season. At the setter position, senior Vera Djuric had 10.39 assists per set, 2.30 dps and 22 aces in 2013. Kyle Robinson is in his seventh season at the helm of LIU Brooklyn and has a record of 119-76. The Bruins have won both matchups against LIU Brooklyn, including a 3-0 sweep (25-13, 25-15, 25-12) at Pauley Pavilion on Nov. 30, 2012 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. UCLA also claimed a sweep on Sept. 16, 2006 in College Park, Md. (30-22, 30-23, 30-23).
Loyola Marymount returns nine letterwinners and three starters from a 2013 team which went 14-14 and finished sixth in the West Coast Conference with an 8-10 mark. Senior middle blocker Litara Keil is the top returner after averaging 3.50 kills per set to go with 0.76 blocks per set and 16 aces. Junior setter Hannah Tedrow posted 9.56 assists per set a season ago with 1.32 dps and 19 aces. Tom Black is in his fifth season as LMU's head coach and has a record of 61-58. In nine years as a head coach, he has a 176-87 mark.
UCLA has won seven straight against Loyola Marymount to increase its series advantage to 10-1. Last year on Aug. 31, the Bruins posted a four-set win (14-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-23). Karsta Lowe led the Bruins with 23 kills on a .514 hitting percentage to go with four blocks, while Megan Moenoa recorded 32 assists. With last year's victory, the Bruins are 5-0 all-time at Gersten Pavilion. The Lions' lone win against UCLA was a five-set victory in the first round of the 1986 NCAA Tournament at the John Wooden Center.
Outside Hitter
For the second straight season, the UCLA offense will run through Karsta Lowe. The senior came off a junior campaign in which she was named an AVCA Honorable Mention All-America, AVCA All-Pacific South Region First Team and All-Pac-12 First Team. Lowe led the Bruins a season ago in kills (4.31) and points (4.68) per set, ranking second among hitters with a .290 percentage. Lowe ended the season with double figures in kills in 24 in a row, posting at least 10 in 29 of 30 matches. She surpassed the 20-kill mark eight times and hit at least .400 on seven occasions.
A pair of third-year players return on the outside in junior Maddy Klineman and redshirt sophomore Haley Lawless. Klineman played in all 30 matches, making 18 starts in 2013, and was third on the team with 2.16 kps. She added nine aces, 1.16 digs and 2.52 points per set. Klineman registered eight double-figure kills matches, including a season-best 19 against Creighton on Sept. 14.
Lawless looks to have her third season with the Bruins be the charm as far as the injury bug goes. After redshirting in 2012 (right shoulder), she played in 13 matches (nine starts) last season before suffering a season-ending left ACL injury at Arizona State on Oct. 20. In her baker's dozen contests, she averaged 1.78 kills and 0.53 blocks per set, ranking third on the team with 1.83 dps. Her highest kill total was on Oct. 11 at Oregon when she had 10.
Sophomores Claire Felix and Jessyka Ngauamo are back in their second season at UCLA. Felix, who may also see time in the middle, was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team a year ago. She played in 26 matches, starting the last three of the season, averaging 1.74 kills and 0.47 blocks per set. Felix had a career day on Oct. 12 at Oregon State, notching 14 kills and just one error in 22 attempts for a .591 hitting percentage.
Ngauamo played in 13 matches and 31 sets in her first season away from Australia, making three starts. She had 16 kills and 43 digs (1.39 per set). Ngauamo had a career-best 13 digs against Oregon on Nov. 10, adding a season-high five kills versus Santa Clara (Sept. 5).
One transfer and two freshmen will add to the Bruins' depth on the outside this season. Sophomore Izzy Carmona averaged 1.98 kills and 2.42 points per set during her freshman season at Florida State in 2013. She played in 30 matches and posted a .273 hitting percentage with 0.84 blocks per set, adding seven double-figure kills matches for the Seminoles.
Freshman Reily Buechler enters her first season in Westwood after four years of varsity volleyball at Torrey Pines High School. She was named the San Diego CIF Player of the Year and received First Team All-San Diego County accolades in both 2012 and 2013, posting 345 kills, 171 digs and 20 aces as a senior.
Freshman Olga Strantzali comes to UCLA from Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She prepped at Hellenic College of Thessaloniki, winning three National School Championships and tallying 263 kills, 57 aces and 330 points as a senior. Strantzali was also a standout on the Greek National Team.
Middle Blocker
A pair of Bruins return in the middle in senior Zoë Nightingale and sophomore Jennie Frager. Nightingale appeared in all 30 matches a year ago and led the team with 1.09 blocks per set to go with 1.12 kills per set. After earning All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention accolades as a sophomore, Nightingale had nine matches with at least five blocks in 2013, including a season-best nine at Colorado (Sept. 27) and Oregon State (Oct. 12).
Frager appeared in just six matches and 11 sets a season ago, recording five kills and 10 blocks. Her best offensive match came at Long Beach State on Sept. 18 when she had a pair of kills, while her best defensive contest was a four-block match against CSUN on Sept. 13.
Two returners and two transfers highlight the UCLA setting position. Senior Megan Moenoa averaged a team-best 9.21 assists per set in 24 matches in 2013, ranking ninth among Pac-12 setters. She recorded 1.77 digs and 0.35 blocks per set to go with 13 aces. Moenoa had four double-doubles, posting a career-best 68 assists and a season-high 13 digs at California on Nov. 3.
Sophomore Jordan Robbins appeared in 13 matches, making eight starts a year ago, averaging 5.26 assists per set, 1.44 digs per set and three aces. She posted a pair of double-doubles, with 28 assists and 13 digs at Long Beach State (Sept. 18) and 21 assists and 12 digs at Colorado (Sept. 27), registering a season-high 35 assists against CSUN on Sept. 13.
Senior Julie Consani comes to UCLA for her senior season after spending the last three at Cal State Fullerton, where she ranks sixth in school history in assists. Consani started all 28 matches in 2013, leading the Titans with 11.08 assists per set, which ranked 32nd in the nation.
Junior Michaela Leonard was a two-year setter at San Jose State, ranking seventh on the school list in assists with 2,494. Leonard started 60 of the 61 matches she appeared in during the last two seasons, averaging 11.06 assists, 1.88 digs and 0.47 blocks per set as a sophomore for the Spartans.
Defensive Specialist/Libero
In the backcourt, the Bruins have two returners and two newcomers named Taylor. Junior Karly Drolson was the primary libero last season, averaging a team-best 3.58 digs per set to go with 14 aces, which was third on the team. Ranking 10th among Pac-12 players in dps, Drolson had 18 double-figure digs contests, reaching at least 20 six times and posting a career-high 32 at California on Nov. 3.
Fellow junior Rachel Inouye played in 20 matches and 52 sets in 2013, producing 1.75 digs per set and four aces. She set career highs in digs in consecutive matches, posting 12 at Stanford on Nov. 1 and 13 with an ace at California on Nov. 3.
Sophomore Taylor Formico sat out last season after spending her freshman campaign at UC Santa Barbara. In 2012, she was named AVCA All-America Honorable Mention, AVCA West Region Freshman of the Year and Big West FOY, leading the nation with 792 digs, averaging 5.87 per set, which was first in the conference and eighth in the country.
Fellow Taylor, Taylor Schlener, was a three-sport athlete at Yorba Linda High School, playing four years of libero, three years of basketball and two years of track. Schlener recorded 582 digs as a senior, earning First Team All-Empire League honors and league MVP accolades.


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PIRATE BAY AND ITS ILK could soon benefit from a Google legal challenge to the music and film industries' claims that search engines help promote 'piracy'.
According to the Associated Press, Google has asked a California judge to declare that by linking to copyright infringing works on Rapidshare, the search giant is not facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs.
If Google wins, not only will the content industries have to leave it alone, but there might be a few problems for some of the actions against filesharing sites. Pirate Bay and the like have long argued that they were like Google and only provided links to torrent files. If they changed their sites to emphasise the similarities then it would be impossible for the movie and film industries to take them down.
This California legal challenge was sparked by Blue Destiny Records, a small blues-oriented music label, suing Google, Microsoft and Rapidshare in Florida last year. Blue Destiny claimed at the time that Rapidshare was running "a distribution center for unlawful copies of copyrighted works" and that the Google's and Microsoft's search engines were helping to prop up the company. The label argued that users can easily find copyrighted songs on file-hosting websites by doing a simple search query.
It was supposed to be the big clincher about whether search engines could be found guilty of contributory copyright infringement. But in late March, Blue Destiny voluntarily withdrew its lawsuit. Google then asked the company to waive the right to pursue its copyright infringement allegations. According to Google, the label refused, preserving its legal options. So now Google is going back to court asking for a declaratory judgement that it is not promoting the infringement of Blue Destiny's copyrights.
A ruling in Google's favour on this is what the big content industries dreaded, which is why they have never moved to sue the search outfit. However if Google loses it could find itself in trouble and be forced to make serious changes to its search operations. µ
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