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In article , Charlie wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 18:51:57 -0700, Billy wrote:

In article
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Bill wrote:

http://www.seedsanctuary.com/

Some guy in Britain got me looking about.

Bill

The multinationals just keep pulling the noose tighter and tighter.
The thing is that denial is much easier than admitting civilization
is under attack. I can't deal with it. There isn't anything I can
do. I just need to relax, I just want to lie down . . . and they've
won. No tanks in the street. No street fighting. No demonstrations.
Then . . . one day they come to take your neighbor, and then another,
and then without really being aware of it, it's Bosnia,
all over again.

And it makes me wonder why the hell I even bother daily struggling with
my addictions......

Don't lay down on me, Billy.

Charlie, feeling really effedup about the situation and needing sleep,
but.........the music keeps playing, and it's "The Wall" now, and the
coffee was too strong and I keep needing that last smoke......it's a
Mencken type of night...just maybe.....

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist
the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
~~H.L. Mencken

From 1919.

Just the abstract ;((

Bill

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http://lj.uwpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/2/201

Leberecht Migge's "Green Manifesto": Envisioning a Revolution of Gardens
David H. Haney

Leberecht Migge's "Green Manifesto," published in Germany in 1919,
represents one of the most overtly political tracts ever written by a
landscape architect. In this document, Migge proposed that all social
and economic problems of the German nation could be solved by creating
as many gardens as possible, which included parks, but most importantly,
small, intensive vegetable gardens where everyone could grow their own
food. If "everyman" could be self-sufficient, then they supposedly would
enjoy relative freedom from the domination of the capitalist system.
Migge's vision was not of a nostalgic return to nature, but a synthesis
of garden, dwelling, and communal space that embraced the latest
developments in technology. Migge applied the principles of the garden
and gardening to the whole country, proposing such forward-looking
policies as regional and national resource management. This paper
examines the background conditions which led Migge to make such broad
claims of economic, political, and social importance for the garden, and
considers some negative aspects of his position, specifically in light
of colonialist nationalism.

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