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Selling the house after 15 years…
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“1/4 interesting
repetitive
irrelevant or distasteful
degrading to other place names
pessimistic
you’re better than disrespecting less fortunate places, eh?Let’s turn some of your opinions of Winnipeg upside
Grass can be greener on the other side
Always look on the bright side of life
Report on some truth, lies and deception of the city
Let’s not be afraid to admit some of these Canadian RealitiesHow about mentioning the following NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS…
Siloam Mission working with homeless youth in the Capital City
Flavie Laurent
Winnipeg Harvest
Actionmargeurite
Green Action Centre
Envol 91 FM - La Radio Communautaire du MB
Accueil Francophone
Directorat de l’activité sportive
L’Arche
Action Médias
Isaac Brook Community Centre
Canadian Parents for French Manitoba
Habitat Francais
Canadian Blood Services
Manitoba Conservatory of Music & Arts
U of M Recycling & Environmental Group
Le Réveil/CUSB
Mondragon
L’Entre-Temps des FrancoManitobaines
Discovery Children’s Centre
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Freeze FrameThat’s almost another 1/4 of 100 points of cultural discovery and civic engagement”
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Notes"How did Bill Gates become the richest man in America? His wealth has nothing to do with the production costs of what Microsoft is selling: i.e. it is not the result of his producing good software at lower prices than his competitors, or of ‘exploiting’ his workers more successfully (Microsoft pays its intellectual workers a relatively high salary). If that had been the case, Microsoft would have gone bankrupt long ago: people would have chosen free systems like Linux which are as good as or better than Microsoft products. Millions of people are still buying Microsoft software because Microsoft has imposed itself as an almost universal standard, practically monopolising the field, as one embodiment of what Marx called the ‘general intellect’, meaning collective knowledge in all its forms, from science to practical knowhow. Gates effectively privatised part of the general intellect and became rich by appropriating the rent that followed from that. The possibility of the privatisation of the general intellect was something Marx never envisaged in his writings about capitalism (largely because he overlooked its social dimension). Yet this is at the core of today’s struggles over intellectual property: as the role of the general intellect – based on collective knowledge and social co-operation – has increased in post-industrial capitalism, so wealth accumulates out of all proportion to the labour expended in its production. The result is not, as Marx seems to have expected, the self-dissolution of capitalism, but the gradual transformation of the profit generated by the exploitation of labour into rent appropriated through the privatisation of knowledge." -
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Today in History - January 17, 1949
Andy Kaufman born in New York. The comic would go on to create such characters as lounge singer Tony Clifton, Taxi’s Latka Gravas and Joaquin Phoenix.
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Today in History - January 16, 1945
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun move into the Führerbunker. Because they moved in the middle of the month, it was easier to get movers. Also, they got a deal because it was a sublet, but it was no smoking and pets, but what do you do? They were in a bit of a pinch.
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Today in History - January 13, 1929
Lawman Wyatt Earp, who survived the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, dies in apartment in L.A. of cancer. Unlucky? Maybe not. Anticlimactic? Definitely.
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Dismay is best served cold…
Kelly…I brought you a box of fire fighter books including a number of hard-cover books in mind condition for which you gave me a grand total of $20 I have mentioned this to other people and they have told me that you totally ripped me off but that is water under the bridge…but since then I have grown more and more dismayed by you and the plight you have found yourself in…I have not been back to your store since my dealing with you and I have no intention of doing so and find your up-dates becoming less and less interesting and so am asking that you remove me from your data mailing list…Thanks…
J
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Today in History - January 12, 2010
Earthquake in Haiti destroys much of Port-au-Prince. Since then, the country has been plagued by controversy, disease, and an infestation of Sean Penn.
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Today in History - January 11, 1903
Cry, The Beloved Country author Alan Paton born in Pietermaritzburg. In 1953, Paton founded the Liberal Party of South Africa, which fought against the apartheid legislation introduced by the National Party. He died before Little Steven was able to play at Sun City.
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Today in History - January 10, 1927
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis released in Germany. Critics panned it. Future Nazi Propaganda honcho Joseph Goebbels dug it however. In 1928, he said, “the political bourgeoisie is about to leave the stage of history. In its place advance the oppressed producers of the head and hand, the forces of Labour, to begin their historical mission.”
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Today in History - January 9, 1908
French existentialist writer Simone de Beauvoir born in Paris. She would become famous for The Second Sex, her proto-feminist tract.
