April 09, 2010 journal, Kyrgyzstan falls to its citizens may challenge our landing rights. Quoting USA Today-"The fate of a key U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan remains unclear w/ the leader of the coup government saying there are no immediate plans to close it, while another top official suggests Russia will ensure the facility is shut down. At the same time, the Central Asian nation's ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, refused to step down. In an interview on Echo of Moscow radio, coup leader Roza Otunbayeva noted that the Kyrgyz and U.S. governments had signed treaties allowing the Manas base and that they "have a definite term," the Washington Post reports. "It is frivolous to say that we are going to chase out any bases, as some rumors have already said. Give us time to look around," he said. "I think that our decisions will be weighed, and they will serve the interests of our republic." But another opposition leader, Omurbek Tekebayev, who is in charge of constitutional matters, told Reuters that because of Russian support for the coup, "there is a high probability that the duration of the U.S. air base's presence in Kyrgyzstan will be shortened." this all seems like a stage act with the agreements signed with Outremont board but it seems also rehearsed and easy until it was surely preplanned. U.S. forces at Manas have been confined to the base. Stars and Stripes has more about Manas, and Reuters has a Q & A about its strategic importance to the war in Afghanistan. This morning Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Otunbayeva and offered Moscow's help. She thanked Putin for Russia's "significant support" in exposing what she called Bakiyev's crimes and said two senior officials would travel to Moscow to discuss Russian aid. Putin denied that Russia was behind the coup. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent 150 paratroopers to protect the families of Russian military staff in Kyrgyzstan, according to the Ria Novosti news agency. Meanwhile, Bakiyev remained defiant in his undisclosed location in southern Kyrgyzstan, saying, "I am the elected head of state. I do not admit any defeat." At least 75 people have died and 400 hospitalized since the uprising began yesterday. Here is the latest. The Christian Science Monitor has a profile of the leader of the interim government, who had been the foreign minister and was a former U.S. ambassador." (Posted by Michael Winter) We may see lots more this. This was a model takeover if Fox News and Rush Limbaugh want to know how to do it. The Kyrgyzstan people took their country back by plain old human force and desperation. Kyrgyzstan serves as our main base into Afghanistan with war to fight the ghost enemy. A neighbor to Afghanistan where we land planes has forced a change in government most likely to become American unfriendly. The citizens rose up with sticks & stones burning. They crashed the castle gates with military tanks and helped themselves to elaborate food. We have reportedly given them hundreds of millions of dollars to be a friend & use their main air base for trucking in soldiers with military equipment for the war in Afghanistan. The coal mine disaster in West Virginia is a human disgrace for all mankind. Smoke rises from the ground from fires and blasting in the mines including methane gas making people sick. The $27 an hour is not to be compared to one human life given. The residents say they are afraid to speak out, they are afraid of retribution/retaliation. These people are being exploited similar to the slave workers were exploited years ago. Have we not come out of the dark ages and will we never come out of the dark ages so long as the Wall Street money faction exist? We're just a commodity to the money lords. I say shut down the coal mines and let the Wall Street energy racketeers figure it all out. Every time a Miner enters the tomb miles underground he may not return to his family.