Revolutionary News

 
Captain Paul Watson was arrested yesterday in Germany for extradition to Costa Rica.  The German police have said that the warrant for Captain Watson’s arrest is in response to an alleged violation of ships traffic in Costa Rica, which occurred during the filming of Sharkwater in 2002.  The specific “violation of ships traffic” incident took place on the high seas in Guatemalan waters, when Sea Shepherd encountered an illegal shark finning operation, run by a Costa Rican ship called the Varadero.  On order of the Guatemalan authorities, Sea Shepherd instructed the crew of theVaradero to cease their shark finning activities and head back to port to be prosecuted.  While escorting the Varadero back to port, the tables were turned and a Guatemalan gunboat was dispatched to intercept the Sea Shepherd crew.  The crew of the Varaderoaccused the Sea Shepherds of trying to kill them, while the video evidence proves this to be a fallacy.  To avoid the Guatemalan gunboat, Sea Shepherd then set sail for Costa Rica, where they uncovered even more illegal shark finning activities in the form of dried shark fins by the thousands on the roofs of industrial buildings.
Conservationists around the world maintain hope that the Costa Ricans will drop the charges against Captain Watson.  There is also a chance that the charges have already been dropped, but Sea Shepherd has been unable to confirm that with the Costa Rican officials. With Costa Rica’s rich biodiversity, it would be a travesty for them not to stand up for sharks, which sit at the highest levels of the food chain assuring balance among ecological communities in the ocean.
While in jail, Captain Watson is being assisted by the European Parliament Vice President Daniel Cohn Bendit and the European deputy Jose Bove.  Our hope is that these two honorable gentlemen can set Captain Watson free before this nonsense goes any further.  The European Sea Shepherds have also mobilized to support Captain Watson.
As the plight of the sharks becomes more desperate, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has begun to outline a new shark campaign for 2012. Julie Andersen, founder of Shark Savers and Shark Angels, has joined Sea Shepherd to lead our global campaign to save sharks from extinction.
Sea Shepherd will use its expertise and experience, as well as media savvy, to empower people around the world to take back their sharks – an animal critical to their, as well as the global, environment and economy.
Sea Shepherd is offering its assistance to countries around the world to enforce international and local laws, end ruthless poaching, patrol marine sanctuaries under attack, implement high tech defenses, and empower locals through training and the provision of resources to take on the battle. Sea Shepherd will also fight a war of public opinion, changing everything we know about an animal most despised.
The first stop will be the South Pacific, where the team will be headed in June.
“We’ve got all the laws we need to protect sharks. Now we will leverage our resources and expertise to help countries around the globe enforce them. Using Galapagos as a model, we will travel wherever we are needed – enforcing local laws while developing strategies and training locals to defend their sharks, fueling world-wide enforcement efforts.” – Julie Andersen, Shark Campaign Director

 
The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the “civilian population wherever necessary.”
The course, first reported by Danger Room last month and held at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College, has since been canceled by the Pentagon brass. It’s only now, however, that the details of the class have come to light. Danger Room received hundreds of pages of course material and reference documents from a source familiar with the contents of the class.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to make sure it doesn’t contain similarly hateful material, a process that is still ongoing. But the officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, still maintains his position at the Norfolk, Virginia college, pending an investigation. The commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels who sat in Dooley’s classroom, listening to the inflammatory material week after week, have now moved into higher-level assignments throughout the U.S. military.
For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement communities, trying to convince whoever it could that America’s real terrorist enemy wasn’t al-Qaida — but the Islamic faith itself. In his course, Dooley brought in these anti-Muslim demagogues as guest lecturers. And he took their argument to its final, ugly conclusion.

 
“We’ll obviously see a lot less immigration in countries like Canada the U.S. and Europe. We’re going to see a return of the local economy, a resurgence in manufacturing and agriculture. We’re going to see a shrinkage of the financial sector.”
Jeff Rubin has a message for all the economists and central bankers out there, waiting with baited breath for rock-bottom interest rates to kick the world economy into high-gear: it’s not going to happen, and the sooner you realize that, the better.
As the straight-shooting former chief economist of CIBC World Markets argues in his new book, The End of Growth, triple-digit oil prices are here to stay — a reality that will make it impossible for developed economies to return to the glory days of rapid expansion built on cheap credit and affordable fuel.
But as Rubin sees it, that’s not all bad news. Though he predicts permanently tepid growth will push Greece and Portugal into default, he also says it will reverse globalization, stop climate change in its tracks — and put a limit on oil sands expansion.
It’s a view he concedes might not be very popular among those in the financial industry where he made a name for himself. But he says that’s because they’re still using a playbook that no longer makes sense.

“I realized that I am not the mother of my children only, but the mother of all the children of the oppressed peasantry…”
Pamela Jane ‘Ka Sol’Lapiz
Revolutionary Martyr of the New People’s Army
April 1966 – April 2012
“Traditionally, the second Sunday of May is always commemorated as Mother’s Day, throughout the world mothers are remembered of their heroic deed. Thus the revolutionary forces of MAKIBAKA express its highest regards to all of its members who were mothers and those women who chose to be mothers of the oppressed. This occasion might be a bourgeois initiated commemoration but the fact that we’re going to commemorate this special day with the revolutionary mothers and martyrs makes all the difference. We will always treasure the undying compassion of mothers and women who have served their life for the revolution and the Protracted Peoples War.
All along in our semi-feudal and semi-colonial mothers are stereotyped to be at home attending the needs of her husband and children, and in some harshest condition they become the submissive servant of the entire family lineage.
Along with the pace by pace advancement of the Protracted People’s War, we sow the seeds of the revolution in the so-called basic unit of the society. We splinter to pieces the remnants of the old society and as we establish the new society brought by the National democratic Revolution, we build with a stronger foundation and equality amongst its members.
We give our highest salute to the revolutionary women cadres, red fighters, red commanders, and members of the revolutionary organizations. They have continued to break the traditional mothers that the patriarchal society have thought us, they are women and mothers without homes to tend, they are mothers with children to fed but have continuously feeding children whom were literally homeless and have long been forgotten by the US backed government. Their undying vocation for the revolution made them mothers of the oppressed peasant, workers and the broad masses. These are mothers that though not with their children physically, have preserved their families and have guided their children to be children of the revolution.
MAKIBAKA-TK also pays tribute to the entire revolutionary martyr, the mothers who unselfishly shared their time, love and life for the revolution and its children. Ka Soli, Ka Sol, and other martyrs have not only made their children orphan but they orphan the revolutionary forces and the masses that have considered them as their mothers also. Thus, our cause to liberate the country from imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism will carry on to be aflame by their children and its generation, until our nation democratic aspirations have reach its completion.”