a shameful waste of madhouse time

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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H/t to Matt for showing me the link. Twin brothers, both devoted to the Party. Even whitey’s got to smile at that.

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The debate rages on, with many Wenchuan local residents, according to a survey, inclined
to get out of there while they can. This article claims that out of 768 people surveyed, over 90% of them wanted to leave and rebuild their homes and their lives somewhere else. There’s a passage that’s particular revealing as it talks [...]

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Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a
debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group
newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of their publications
ran that essay first), and some of the Beijing-based newspapers. The debate
has gotten rather heated, and [...]

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So, as one might expect, there are some calls from people on the web to boycott the movie Kungfu Panda, an animated film about a panda that learns kung-fu and saves the day. First off, I’m not 100 percent sure whether this is purely an expression of popular sentiment or an official pronouncement, but according [...]

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Before, I guess, only Taiwanese that had their hukou in those two places could move back and forth, but now any Taiwanese with the proper documents can move between Taiwan and the mainland freely, at least through those two places. I was at the Chinese visa office in Paris a couple of days ago, and [...]

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This interview is with an outspoken education official from Sichuan named Lin Qiang and was featured in a recent issue of Southern Weekend, a newspaper based out of Guangzhou, known (in the past), for some more independent, hard-hitting news and coverage of events.
Lin Qiang had been chosen to be a torch-bearer and was also invited [...]

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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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I didn’t know this, but Tariq Ali actually knew her. This is piece from the Guardian, reprinted in Truthout:
A Tragedy Born of Military Despotism and Anarchy
By Tariq Ali
The Guardian UK
Friday 28 December 2007
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair [...]

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