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N. Korea: Growing Mushrooms and Raising Rabbits for 60th Anniversary of Party's Birth
Good Friends ^ | 04/03/08

Posted on 04/05/2008 2:22:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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Growing Mushrooms and Raising Rabbits for Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Party's Birth

Issue No. 118 2008.04.03

People are busy trying to grow mushrooms and raise rabbits all over the country, following Kim Jong-il's directive issued on Feb. 3, 2008. Ministry of Agriculture, which will be in charge of this drive, are prodding factories, enterprises, and other work units all over the country to carry out the directive. Workers at factories, enterprises, and work units as well as children at Kindergarten should grow mushrooms and raise rabbits until the 60th Anniversary of Korean Worker's Party's Founding. People's Committees at province, city, or county level are instructed to resurrect agriculture section, which had been disbanded, to carry out this project. The agriculture sections are sending official papers on the project to factories, enterprises, and work units. They are also creating inspection units made up of exemplary workers.

Still, some people are really worried about this project. They cannot understand why they are asked to do it again, which has been done every year (previously) without little success. One official complained, "The most urgent problem is to secure feed-grass for rabbits. You can't give just any grass to rabbits. It would cause diarrhea, which would kill rabbits. The same with growing mushrooms. You have to get mushroom spores from Mushroom Institute, and raise them in a germ-free environment with careful control of temperature and humidity. Usually we control the temperature with floor-heating. It may sound simple but requires specialized skill because careful attention to details is needed." He has a huge reservation about (unskilled) general public doing it at their enterprises or schools.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bizarre; centralplanning; kimjongil; korea; nkorea; northkorea
This is the typical example of a bizarre Stalinist-style project that came from the mind of an allegedly omniscient and omnipotent leader(, who happens to be very fat and very short.)
1 posted on 04/05/2008 2:22:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 04/05/2008 2:23:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It makes one wonder if the little dictator has been dipping into the magic mushrooms or if he’s beyond rational thinking.


3 posted on 04/05/2008 2:39:29 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“This is the typical example of a bizarre Stalinist-style project that came from the mind of an allegedly omniscient and omnipotent leader...”

Yep, you nailed it right on the head. This project is likely to work about as well as Mao’s idea to increase steel production by having people create their own backyard furnaces .


4 posted on 04/05/2008 2:55:56 AM PDT by DemforBush
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Rabbit Bourguignon


5 posted on 04/05/2008 2:58:07 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Cindy
It could be a way to keep population busy and under control.
6 posted on 04/05/2008 3:06:02 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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These are giant German rabbits I think. They were given to NK by an old Communist from Germany named Karl. This is almost so bizarre as to be unbelievable. I find it even more hard to believe that someone hasn’t dispatched this moron along with his half-baked schemes.


7 posted on 04/05/2008 3:21:53 AM PDT by WildcatClan (Don't blame me...............I supported Duncan Hunter.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wonder how long it will be before they discover rabbit starvation.


8 posted on 04/05/2008 3:22:40 AM PDT by bad company (How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization)
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To: Cindy

More like dipping into the Jack Daniels and Grey Goose.


9 posted on 04/05/2008 3:48:47 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ok, I knew it had to be something like that.


10 posted on 04/05/2008 3:52:21 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: WildcatClan
These are giant German rabbits I think.

You need a lot of schnitzel, wurst and dortmunder to feed giant German rabbits.

11 posted on 04/05/2008 3:53:35 AM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: Cindy

He has a thing for the finer liquor.

He will spare no expense to get it.


12 posted on 04/05/2008 3:54:09 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

While his people starve...


13 posted on 04/05/2008 3:55:32 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

At least the Romans had bread and circuses. The NK’s have mushrooms and rabbits.


14 posted on 04/05/2008 3:58:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Cindy

But of course.

Me first, my protectors second, and the rest can cope...


15 posted on 04/05/2008 4:04:17 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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Mushrooms are both the National Flower and Mascot.

“Let all citizens be as mushroom,” said Kim Mentally Ill..


16 posted on 04/05/2008 4:07:28 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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This is as stupid as the old Soviets planting by the calender, sowing flax seed on frozen ground.

Much as I love them (Morel season soon!!) mushrooms have little nutritional value. Tree bark may have more caloric content.

17 posted on 04/05/2008 4:30:26 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: WildcatClan

I don’t think so.....

Kim Jong Il ate my rabbits for his birthday
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1615350.ece


18 posted on 04/05/2008 5:21:21 AM PDT by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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People are busy trying to grow mushrooms and raise rabbits

Next year they are going to try to grow weeds and raise mice.

19 posted on 04/05/2008 5:27:26 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
This is the typical example of a bizarre Stalinist-style project that came from the mind of an allegedly omniscient and omnipotent leader(, who happens to be very fat and very short.)

And very ronery.
20 posted on 04/05/2008 5:31:52 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

[The most urgent problem is to secure feed-grass]

I imagine that is a problem, from what I have heard in the past, the starving people are eating it.


21 posted on 04/05/2008 5:33:40 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: DemforBush

Or when Mao had all of the farmer’s tools collected and smelted down to increase steel production.The next year food production crashed and people starved.


22 posted on 04/05/2008 5:40:16 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: nuconvert

LOL, I saw that. If true, it isn’t really funny. What a greedy SOB.


23 posted on 04/05/2008 5:47:31 AM PDT by WildcatClan (Don't blame me...............I supported Duncan Hunter.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
["Still, some people are really worried about this project. They cannot understand why they are asked to do it again, which has been done every year (previously) without little success..."]

That about says it all. Definition of insanity.

24 posted on 04/05/2008 10:20:37 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: WildcatClan
These are giant German rabbits I think.

Texas rabbits are bigger:


25 posted on 04/05/2008 10:26:04 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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