Good Morning Comrades! - University funding faces the ax - Iraq rescues dozens of Yazidi slaves from IS terrorists - Does Trump admire Kim Jong-un? - Let the Workers of the World Unite around our CareerSpot Internationalist Information Briefs:

The government and Education Minister Simon Birmingham are set to introduce hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts for universities.  Fairfax Media reports the May budget will also raise student fees and and force graduates to pay back their loans faster.  Despite these moves - which universities have said they are not able to absorb - it may not be enough for Mr. Birmingham to deliver a target of equivalent to the 20 percent cut in government subsidies imposed upon him by the cabinet.

Donald Trump thinks that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a "pretty smart cookie".  SMDH.  Interviewed fora Sunday morning news program, the orange clown said he didn't know if Kim was sane, but seemed to admire the way in which the 33-year old came to and maintained power.  Which would be coming into power by being the son and grandson of the previous two dictators, and maintaining by ruthlessly executing anyone who might be a challenger such as his own uncle and older brother.  So, there's the idiot's mindset.  Hey, I don't know if Kim is sane either, but I'm sure about the orange clown.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is threatening further military action against US-backed Kurdish fighters that Turkey sees as "terrorists", despite their record of being the most effective fighting force against the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State (IS).  The US sent military vehicles with American Flags into Kurdish territory to get in between the two forces and stop border clashes that followed Turkish air strikes against the YPG.  But the thin-skinned and self-absorbed autocrat Erdogan (who once had his balls kicked by a horse) can only see his interests and said the US-YPG alliance "needs to be stopped right now", describing it as "a bother in the region and for us".  

Iraqi troops rescued 36 Yazidis in Mosul, where they were held for three years as slaves of the so-called Islamic State.  United Nations aid workers provided shelter, clothing, and medical and psychological care for the three dozen women and girls.  The terrorists are particularly harsh on anyone who is not an adherent of their peculiar and draconian form of Sunni Islam, and the Yazidis practice a religion not drawn from god of Abraham, as are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  The UN estimates that there are up to 1,500 Yazidi women and girls still being held prisoner by IS.

Two suspected IS members are dead outside Tunis, Tunisia after a clash with security forces who say the pair were planning attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  One blew himself up and the other was shot by police.

A famous Swiss mountain climber is dead after an accident near Mount Everest.  Ueli Steck, known as "The Swiss machine" for his climbing speed, slipped off of Mount Nuptse and fell 1,000 meters.  Mr. Steck was planning to climb Everest in a week; he is believed to be the first casualty in the spring mountaineering season in Nepal, which began in March and will end in May.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has opened the 1,600,000th house built for the poor as part of the Great Venezuela Housing Mission.  This great social program GMVV was started six years ago by the late President Hugo Chavez to provide housing to people hit be a vast flood and was later expanded to provide the possibility for all Venezuelans to own their own homes.  Maduro also announced a 60 percent hike in the minimum wage and a 15 percent raise in food stamp benefits.  "May Day is not a day of capitalism or the right-wing," said Maduro.  "May 1 belongs to the working class."

Meanwhile, the wife of a Venezuelan conservative opposition lawmaker is condemning the vandalism and destruction taking place in opposition protests against the Maduro government.  "Not only that we have already fallen into anarchy, but we have already fallen into vandalism," said Diana D'Agostino, wife of Accion Democratica party lawmaker Henry Ramos Allup.  "Hey, if they see a pole they bring it down, if they have to blow up windows of a store, they smash them," she added, "If they could burn Venezuela today, they would."  She also condemend conservative leader Henrique Capriles for his nihilistic approach to demonstrations and rioting.

"Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights.  Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them."
"The revolution and women's liberation go together.  We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or because of a surge of human compassion.  It is a basic necessity for the triumph of the revolution.  Women hold up the other half of the sky."
-- Thomas Sankara (1949 - 1987)