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Plants vs Zombies™ Official Site - PopCap Games - Free Download Games

textured — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:45:49 GMT

soil your plants. ehhhhhh.

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Mark Rudd: What It Takes to Build a Movement

textured — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:56:10 GMT

good article on activism vs organizing, by mark rudd.

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BBC News - 'No smoking gun' evidence in Kercher case

textured — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:34:01 GMT

"From the day Meredith's body was discovered on 2 November 2007, there is no doubt that Amanda Knox has been unfairly demonised because she is a young woman.

The sexualisation of females connected to big crimes is nothing new. "

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CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

textured — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:52:40 GMT

Human Terrain Systems is not some neutral humanitarian project, it is an arm of the U.S. military and is part of the military’s mission to occupy and destroy opposition to U.S. goals and objectives. HTS cannot claim the sort of neutrality claimed by groups like Doctors Without Borders, or the International Committee of the Red Cross. HTS’s goal is a gentler form of domination. Pretending that the military is a humanitarian organization does not make it so, and pretending that HTS is anything other than an arm of the military engaging in a specific form of conquest is sheer dishonesty.

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Ninth Heaven to Ninth Hell: The History of a Noble Chinese Experiment

textured — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:19:40 GMT

This is the dramatic story of Chen Yonggui and his community, Dazhai, where he developed an agrarian collective which Mao Zedong hailed as a model for the reconstruction of all rural china.

But Ninth Heaven To Ninth Hell is not just the story of an incredible success, it is also the account of a heart-rending tragedy. For after the death of Mao, his successor, Deng Xioping, reversed the aim of China's revolutionary course. Deng rejected Mao's collective road and instead embarked on a free-market "Socialism with Chinese characteristics."

Summary: Important defence of a maligned epoch
Rating: 4

The manuscript of this book had to be smuggled out of China, where the reactionary government suppressed its publication. Today's Chinese "Communist" Party viciously slanders the achievements of collective agriculture in the community Dazhai and the visionary leader Chen Yonggui who helped to make it a success. Yet thousands of people, both Chinese and foreign, saw for themselves the development of this once backward village into a thriving, highly productive agricultural community. It prospered until the early 1980s, when it was forcibly disbanded by the central government. The effects of decollectivisation were dramatic and criminal: in 1987, Dazhai, formerly a prosperous collective, was not able to feed itself.

Qin Huailu is to be applauded for having the courage to record this important period of history in the face of oppression by the current counterrevolutionary régime. The accomplishments of Chen Yonggui and Dazhai will not be forgotten.

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An Anarchist FAQ | Anarchist Writers

textured — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:27:06 GMT

this 'book' changed my life before it was even a book. hot damn they are on version 13.3 now. i remember the old days, printing out verision 1.0.1.6 and highlighting the shit outta it and then doing the same for vers 1.0.1.7 etc. ak press published the first volume and it is 768 pages. that is amazing to me.

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The FSC is the 'Enron of forestry' says rainforest activist

textured — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:09:53 GMT

intense photos.

Quoted: On April 7th, Mongabay printed an interview with FSC International Communications Manager, Nina Haase, in which she defended the FSC against criticism leveled at it by various environmental organizations, such as The World Rainforest Movement and Ecological Internet. The interview drew strong reactions on both sides, and Simon Counsell, director of the Rainforest Foundation UK, requested a chance to respond to the FSC's interview in-depth. In his response, he states that the FSC has created a "'race to the bottom' of certification standards", alleging that the "FSC really has become the 'Enron of forestry'".

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Greenpeace Wipes It's Soft, Virgin Butt with Canada's Ancient Boreal Forests

textured — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:54:23 GMT

Quoted: Forests.org works to end deforestation, preserve primary and old-growth forests, conserve and sustainably manage other forests, and to commence the age of ecological restoration; providing vast forest protection news, information retrieval tools and original analysis

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FSC-WATCH

textured — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:51:20 GMT

Quoted: An independent observer of the Forest Stewartship Council (FSC)

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Are We Addicted to Rioting? - Infoshop News

textured — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:30:06 GMT

interesting discussion.

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