POLITICS/HUMOUR: WHERE THE BALLOT “COUNTS”
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HUMOUR: TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS
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CANADIAN POLITICS: THE REAL LAST MAN STANDING: It turns out that I was wrong about Winnipeg being the last Occupy camp in Canada. Recently the authorities have evicted a camp in Fredricton New Brunswick. This leaves one more still up and running ie Occupy Newfoundland in St. Johns. The Newfoundland
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BOOKS: PAPAL SIN AND LORD ACTON: “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks” – Lord Acton I thought that the above quote from Lord Acton was the most appropriate for our times, even
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THE NEW YEAR’S SPECTRE: Perhaps the ghost of New Years Yet To Come ?
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PERSONAL HAPPY NEW YEAR: Welcome to 2012 all you friends, enemies and innocent bystanders of Molly’s Blog. May it be even more eventful and productive than 2011.
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RELIGION: PAPAL SINS: Amazingly enough I finished reading two books on a single day. There are two more rather technical books that I am still reading, but probably few would be interested in them. The first book I finished was the collected fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. I’ve already
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LOCAL NEWS: THE LAST MAN STANDING: Last Wednesday December 21 the Province of Manitoba finally moved to evict Occupy Winnipeg from Memorial Park at, of course, 7:00 am. According to what I read Occupy Winnipeg was the last Occupy camp to be evicted in Canada. Not bad strategy on the
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INTERNATIONAL ANARCHISM: SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIAN PUNKS: In the countries where anarchism is a tradition the idea of “anarchist subcultures” is definitely a peripheral matter. Even in countries where anarchism is not a large tradition but where historical memory has been preserved anarchists are well into moving beyond subcultures. But in
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PERSONAL: FAREWELL TO MY SISTER: I’ve reached the age where I see my siblings dying, something quite different from having your parents die (many years in the past for me). Just this week I have been to Calgary for the funeral of my sister Anne. Sister sister actually. She had
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POLITICAL HUMOUR: WAR IN IRAQ ENDS AS US FORCES LEAVE UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS:
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING: The news tonight is that the North Korean dictator Kim Jong–Il has gone to join his unlamented father in apotheosis. The Korean regime has in fact gone well beyond the bizarre mutation of a Marxist hereditary monarchy. It has become
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CANADIAN POLITICS: CONSERVATIVES ATTACK UNIONS ONCE MORE: Well, this probably counts as non-news as nobody should be suprised that a Conservative Party wants to gut the power of organized workers to fight back. The following articles (English and French) from the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP) warns of this
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: 2011: A YEAR OF REVOLUTION: 2011 was a remarkable year. As revolutions sparked throughout the Arab world the “lower” classes of many other countries also rose up as evidenced in Europe, North America and South America and now even in Russia. In sum there hasn’t been so much
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PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The substance concerens the “torching” of a cop car by supposed anarchists at a recent demonstration about the rigged Russian election.
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PERSONAL: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART FIVE: One thing I am certain of about the Occupy Movement (much more certain than how it will all end up) is that it has finally leapfrogged over the leftist concerns of the last few decades and their petty territorial politics.
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CANADIAN POLITICS: THE RICH GET RICHER: Oh my, is this “news” ? During good times the rich pull ahead as they manage to grab the fruits of expansion. In bad times guess what ? They keep pulling ahead. Good or bad they will get their paws into the till. Here’s
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LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: FORUM ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND BUSINESS:****************************** –WhenThursday, December 8, 2011Time5:00pm until 8:00pmWhereJames W. Burns Executive Education Centre , 177 Lombard Ave (2nd floor), Winnipeg, ManitobaDescriptionhttp://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=712&too=200&eve=8&dat=12%2F8%2F2011&epa=52596Reception:Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.What Does “Occupy” Mean to Business and How Should Businesses Respond?The I.H. Asper School of Business is
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PERSONAL: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 4: As the various Occupy camps fall one after another (a proof of the need for organization ?) to the various authorities it is perhaps about time to reflect on why these protests have gathered the sort of support that “the
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: DEMOCRACY VERSUS THE BANKERS: The following item on the international finamcial crisis is from the Anarkismo website. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Europe & the BankersThe limits of democracy in Project Europe When the Arab peoples began to agitate at the start of the year, European countries quickly began to distance themselves from
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