Molly’sBlog 2013-10-25 22:00:00
NORMAN BETHUNE AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION: A GREAT CANADIAN LIE If you visit pretty well any Canadian government site, or one receiving its funding from the government, you will come across…
NORMAN BETHUNE AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION: A GREAT CANADIAN LIE If you visit pretty well any Canadian government site, or one receiving its funding from the government, you will come across…
Reading Mark Twain…’Christian Science’ ‘Christian Science’….Mark Twain, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1907 I was continuing my task of reading anything available, in print or on the internet, when I…
The Spanish Inquisition I found this brief history and analysis of the Spanish Inquisition to be a real eye opener. The institution is followed from its inception in 1479 to…
GREAT CONJUNCTION: A great conjunction in the east south east sky tonight. Perfect visibility here in Winnipeg with Jupiter slightly to the left and above the waxing Moon. Gotta get…
A FREE-ER MARKET One of the perpetual myths of our so-called capitalist society is that we have the closest approach to a “free market”, and that this is all to…
LIFE IN MUTUALISM:IN THE BEGINNING PART ONE-THE TIMES OF GENESIS: Life probably began about 3.8 billion years ago.during the Eoarchaen Era (4 > 3.6 Billion years ago).This is the approximate…
PREDICTABLE AND OTHERWISE PART 2RECENT REBELLIONS: Once more it has been an extended time since I posted here. All this time I have been quite (excessively ?) active on Facebook,…
A MOLLY POINT OF VIEW:PREDICTABLE AND OTHERWISE PART 1: For many years I have held a rather heretical (in the usual lefty point of view) opinion. I personally believe that…
AGRICULTURE:BREAKING THE ANTIBIOTIC ADDICTION: For many years it has been a common practice to add antibiotics to food animal rations (poultry, pigs and to a lesser extent cattle). The rationale…
INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:NOTES FROM THE BALTIC ANARCHIST GATHERING: Impressions from the Baltic Anarchist Meeting 2012 Impressions from the Baltic Anarchist Meeting 2012 Almost two months have passed since the Baltic…
PERSONAL:DRIVING AROUND WINNIPEG: It’s a quick trip from the Slav Rebchuk bridge and the missing “People Before Profit” sign to Selkirk Avenue, the main drag of Canada’s second poorest neighbourhood.…
ENVIRONMENT: A TASTE OF SHELL GAMES TO COME IN THE ARTIC: Shell Loses Control Of Arctic Drilling Rig In Alaskan Harbor By Climate Guest Blogger on Jul 16, 2012 at…
CANADIAN LABOUR: WILDCAT STRIKERS DEFY UNION AND COMPANY IN NEWFOUNDLAND: Up to 1,000 workers have gathered near the road to Vale’s Long Harbour construction site in eastern Newfoundland this morning,…
ANARCHIST LITERATURE:NEW BOOK FROM ARTHUR J. MILLER:Good old A.J.. Here’s a collection of his working class writings in book form. Always relevant over the decades. Here’s the plug… FW Arthur…
DRIVING AROUND WINNIPEG:PERCEPTUAL EXPECTANCY As you drove over the Slaw Rebchuk bridge from downtown Winnipeg to the North End you were greeted for years by the “Welcome To The North…
PERSONAL:MOLLY’S BACK !! Well, it’s been a long drought here in Mollyland, but I’d like to announce my return the world of blogger. I’m still active in reporting up to…
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:THE VICTORIA ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR: Fall rolls around once more, and, as the leaves are turning colour the colourful Victoria Anarchist Bookfair will be blowing into town out there…
DRIVIN’ AROUND WINNIPEG:I HOPE THEY NEVER COME BACK TO LIFE PART TWO: It’s over the Slaw Rebchuk bridge travelling north I go, a bridge named after a socialist by a…
DRIVIN’ ROUND WINNIPEG:I HOPE THEY NEVER COME BACK TO LIFE: A lot of my work days are consumed with driving across Winnipeg. After 28 years of doing this job I…
CANADIAN LABOUR:RIO TINTO OFF THE PODIUM: Over in London England the international mining company Rio Tinto has been awarded the position of the metals necessary to make the award medals.…