5000 Posts
2008-03-18 18:32:00
As of March I have officially passed 5000 blog posts. Whoa. 5023 blog posts since I began blogging back in November 2004. Pop the champagne and read on.Of course that's just my blogspot count. Originally I had three blogs when I started, the other two defunct blogs, Red Between The Lines and Heresiology, can be found in the side bar. Total blog posts would then be closer to 6000.And I of course also blog over at the Carnival of Anarchy.So again even more Plawiuk pontifications.Which began on the web way back in 1997.Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:blogs, Canada, blogging, bloggers,
Tories Fail Martin
2008-03-20 08:14:00
Brenda Martin
who languishes in a Mexican jail got a visit from Harpers Mouthpiece; Jason Kenney yesterday. After the media focused on her case of Mexican injustice, the Harper government has finally acted. After two years. However considering the corruption of the Mexican judiciary and cops Kenney should have simply taken a bushel of money with him and paid off all concerned, and Ms. Martin could have been winging her way home.Instead after a weak tea protest she has been promised yet another trial on trumped up charges, in thirty days. Thirty more days, perhaps Kenney should share her cell to insure she gets her trial. After all it's his government that got her put there in the first place. Despite Harpers protests to the contrary."Brenda Martin failed to receive any of this from the Can
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NHL The New Taliban?
2008-03-20 08:10:00
Well one could be forgiven for thinking so considering this headline.....Ex-NHLers square off with troops in KandaharFind blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:Canada, Nukes, Pakistan, Taliban
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The Father of the Neo-Cons Dies
2008-03-20 07:17:00
William F. Buckley passed away late last month. And in his passing the liberal media myth that he was the 'public intellectual of American Conservatism', continues. The laudatory obits forget top mention he was not a public intellectual but a scion of Big Oil, with aristocratic pretensions which were mistaken for intellectualism.His Catholicism was a pining for the old world, Old Europe and its pre-revolutionary, pre-modernist, social order. On the other hand those on the far right knew him for what he was as this John Birch Society obituary reveals;The fact of the matter is that Buckley, far from being the father of anything resembling true conservatism (as best exemplified by Senator Robert Taft, who was denied the Republican nomination in 1952 by Buckley's philosophical brethren), w
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On Magick and Technology
2008-03-19 19:00:00
In my obit yesterday I had overlooked my favorite quote from Arthur C. Clarke, his definition of magick.It ranks up there with any given by Aleister Crowley or Robert Anton Wilson.Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicWhich of course was the logic behind the Technomages on Babylon 5, who quoted Clarke to explain their magick; "using technology to create the appearance of magic". Ah yes Babylon 5 one of the best SF TV programs ever.And befitting his humanism Clarke leaves this vale of tears as he came.Clarke's brother was traveling to Sri Lanka for his burial, due in Colombo's general cemetery later this week. Clarke left written instructions that his funeral be private and secular. "Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith,
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Albert Hoffman RIP
2008-04-30 08:05:00
Swiss chemist Albert
Hofmann, who in 1943 accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), has died at the age of 102, Reuters reports.102 years old...proving that old adage; 'Better Living Through Chemistry'. Good night Dr. Hoffman you have enriched all our lives.TagsCanadaAlbert HoffmanLSDSandos
Worth Reprinting
2008-04-30 05:56:00
April 30 is Walpurgis Nacht; Night of the Witches which corresponds to Samhain; Halloween, October 31 as both days herald a major year changing festival.Walpurgis heralds May Day, Samhain heralds All Saints Day.They are opposite ends of the season. One is spring planting and the other is fall harvest.And of course April 30 is the time the devil asks for his due; (from my blog post last year.) Tax Time and WalpurgisnachtSEEPaganismFind blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:Fire, choral music, Gnostic, Druids, Spring, Germany, Carnival, Mendelssohn, pagan, Divine Fool, Faust, Tree of Life, Christianity, taxes, Walpurgisnacht, Beltane, Goethe, magick, gnostic, plawiuk, origins, traditions, Mayday, Beltane, pagan, paganism, Green-
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Ya Miss Me
2008-04-30 04:37:00
Thanks to everyone who commented here and sent emails inquiring as to my absence from blogging.I took an unannounced break considering I have been blogging almost daily here for four years.But I appreciate the concerns, my health is fine thanks. Just took a needed break. I do that occasionally.What began as a week off ended up being a month off line.Anyways I will be back to blogging on a regular basis again as we approach May Day.Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:blogs, Canada, blogging, bloggers,
Celebrate May Day
2008-05-01 08:54:00
Read my post: Origins and Traditions of May Day.In Edmonton we celebrate with the Labour Arts Festival: MayWeekAnd check out this article on Mayworks celebrations across Canada.Find blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:plawiuk, origins, traditions, MaydayBeltane, labour, labour day, pagan, paganism, Green-Man, Diana
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Dead Weight Of The State
2008-05-08 08:09:00
Michael Taussig is one of the few Marxist Anthropologists to study magick. Over twenty years ago I came across his book;The devil and commodity fetishism in South America"; which deals with the beliefs of Bolivian Miners about the devil living in the caves they mine. Many of these miners are children as documented in the film;The Devils Miner. And they are of course indigenous peoples, enslaved by their Spanish colonizers hundreds of years ago to mine for the old Empires of Europe. They have transfered the belief in animistic spirits from their earlier native religions, to the god forms of their adopted religion; Catholicism. As with most colonized peoples the old gods become the devils of the new religion.Commodity Fetishism and the Devil had a major influence on me in looking at a histo
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Burma's Curse
2008-05-08 07:42:00
Is its prot0-Stalinist Junta which subscribes to the ideology of 'socialism in one country' being the client state of that other proto-Stalinist State; China. There is something karmic about the recent cyclone that hit the country of Burma
/Myanmar. It was headed towards Bangladesh and then suddenly veered right and headed straight for Myanmar.Perhaps it was because all the Buddhist monks the junta jailed in the past year were no longer able to chant in their temples, casting the spells needed to keep the population safe from such a natural disaster.It was typical of such authoritarian regimes to downplay natural disasters, which of course is the greatest test of an autarkic regime. In this case it was first reported that 1000 people were killed, a day later a zero was added to the number;
Black Magick and BioTech
2008-05-15 08:01:00
Came across these interesting articles equating bio-technology with black magick and alchemy.One could say that the current food crisis resulting from biotechnology applied to mass production of foods as well as their commodification into bio-fuels is an act of black magick.Fulfilling the prediction made by Shulamith Firestone back in the seventies when she did her feminist critique of reproductiv
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Post War Socially Constructed Reality
2008-05-22 21:55:00
Key to the social amnesia that occurred around the revolutionary potential of the proletariat after WWII is the social construction of the myth of the middle class. The dull boring fifties as popular history refers to it, was a utopian myth created by the beginnings of a post war boom in America.It was anything but, with the Cold War, the homosexual and communist witch hunts, the rise of the UAW
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Buzz Off
2008-05-25 16:00:00
In the true tradition of business unionism Canadian Autoworkers President Buzz Hargrove sold his members out for a bowl of pottage. Despite his pseudo-socialist bluster, which was really ghost written by Sam Gidden, and his so called political activist unionism, in the end like all other union bosses he sold out his workers for a contract today.It makes one wonder why we need unions. Well actually
Don't Mourn Organize
2008-05-25 11:49:00
The Greatest Wobbly folk singer and hobo since Joe Hill has taken the last train out of the station.Bruce 'U' Utah Phillips has passed away late Friday night. We mourn his passing, a great Wobbly who kept wobbly culture alive through many a dark night when the organization was a mere memory of its past glory. By keeping our wobbly culture of song, and activism alive the spirit of the organization
Eco Socialism
2008-05-28 05:16:00
I love the pretense behind this meeting announcement. As if eco-socialism, social ecology or even feminist ecology were NEW only to be recently discovered by the Left in Toronto. A new synthesis is emerging, combining two great radical forces -- the 'red' movements that seek to free labor and bring down capitalism, and the 'green' movements that seek to mend our relationship with nature. Activi
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Bedtime Reading
2008-05-27 09:43:00
NATO reports as bed time reading, post-coital pillow chat about troop placements, its all too much and led to the inevitable fall from grace for Maxime Bernier yesterday. That his now 'ex' girlfriends apartment might have been bugged might be another reason for the PM to finally fire Bernier who seems to have confused libertarian and libertine.On becoming listed as Mr. Bernier's official partner a
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May 1968
2008-05-28 09:38:00
Forty years ago this month the world changed with students and workers taking to the streets of Paris to call for revolution. Capitalism was at the height of its post war boom yet these folks were calling for its overthrow. A conference was held this month in England to celebrate 1968 And All That. SEE: MLK Da
Support War Resisters
2008-05-30 09:00:00
Canada has a tradition of welcoming American Draft Dodgers and War Resisters now that is being challenged by the Harper Government and its courts. Canada to deport first US deserter of Iraq warWar Resisters: Canada Turns Back on Trudeau LegacyBut there is good news, the NDP have brought a motion in the house to allow Iraqi War Resisters to stay in Canada.BREAKING NEWS - YOUR HELP STILL NEEDEDTo
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Sexism Duffy Style
2008-05-30 08:05:00
On Mike Duffy Live yesterday the issue of Maxime Bernier's jilted girlfriend was the big story. No news there, however he had a woman reporter on from Le Devoir; Helene Buzzetti, who exposed the fact that Julie Coulliard former boyfriend, who was part of her biker past, was trying to get contracts with a provincial government justice department. Now thats news.According to the opposition Parti Qu
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Fire Your Boss
2008-05-29 22:48:00
I was traveling on the bus down Whyte Ave today and saw a fellow with a hat which had written on it;I regretted I was not wearing my wobbly button in response;See: Palm Sunday April Fools DayFind blog posts, photos, events and more off-site about:religion, Harvey Cox, Bakhtin, Jesus, Christianity, clown, Marx, feast of fools, gnosticism, fool, Chris
Perks
2008-06-01 08:35:00
One of the perks of being a one party state is that you can give yourself pay raises without fear of opposition in the legislature. EDMONTON — One of the wealthiest provinces in Canada has dramatically boosted the pay packets of its premier and cabinet ministers.The Alberta government has approved a pay hike, which will see each of the province's 23 cabinet ministers get a pay hike worth about
Navel Gazing Tourism
2008-05-31 18:05:00
I flip channels on my satellite TV and find lots of ads promoting folks to visit Ontario, not just on Ontario channels. I see ads promoting tourist to visit Newfoundland and Labrador, again broadcast across Canada. But Alberta, well once again the mentality of the One Party State is reflected in Travel Alberta campaigns.That is they market not to Canada or the U.S. but within Alberta. Their late
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