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China: Not your typical “Party School” or the use and abuse of ideology

August 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in some kind of leadership position. He spent four months as in the Party School, attending [...]

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Notice to Chinese petitioners: if you fight the law, the law will win.

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

徐贲:善待底层民情_网易新闻中心 via kwout

These two pictures, from Hunan province, have been making the rounds on the internet because of what it says on the banners: the first one says “谁不依法信访就打击谁” which means “whoever unlawfully petitions the government will be attacked” while the second one says “违法上访,坐牢罚款”, which means “illegal petitions will be result in jail sentences [...]

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The troubles in Weng’an and Jiang Jie He village: gangs, dams, mines, gambling, death

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I was reading Southern Weekend’s investigation into the Weng’an region: the common wisdom now is that the problems didn’t begin or end with the June 28 incident, but that the latter was merely what happened when long simmering problems reached the boiling point. This report about a place called Jiang Jie He Village (瓮安县龙塘乡江界河村), where [...]

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Three elderly Hainan residents protest government use of land

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

What’s interesting about this is that their land was taken and used for a police sub-station (pai chu suo), but that was not something recent, but rather happened way back in 1974. They felt they were shafted then, and kept apply for some kind of hearing on the matter of this land but to no [...]

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Criminals in the Bush administration: the unofficial list

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Criminals In The Bush Administration « Suzie-Q via kwout

Read it to believe it. This is a list of all the criminals in the Bush administration. And they didn’t even include all of them. You can find the exact methodology and standard of inclusion from the link.

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