Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Here is a story about one of the world’s biggest environmental disasters ever and you do not hear much about it. We have aging and leaky nuclear plants all over the world and we seem incapable of dealing with them when they malfunction , blow
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Cowichan Conversations: Financial Questions Loom about Building LNG Export Terminals
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Our BC politicians have handled the LNG and fracking game badly. The bubble may well be about ready to burst. The Financial Post reports that high costs for new export terminals proposed for Canada’s West Coast make discount sales of liquefied natural gas “difficult to financially justify,”
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Justin Trudeau has Toked! Is he the only MP? Hardly!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Justin Trudeau has it seems a habit of telling the truth and speaking sensibly about marijuana, legalize it. He has smoked pot, ho hum. That is not the surprise, it is that he is not hiding like other politicians who have and do toke up, those who have
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hamburger Chef Jamie Oliver Proves McDonald’s Burgers “Unfit for human consumption”
We knew that these ‘Gut-Bombs’ were not all that good for you but check this out! It is all about greed and disrespect. This relates to the USA. Is it different in Canada? Here is the story with VIDEO
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Liberals Give Green Light To Dump Contaminants in Shawnigan Watershed.
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The BC Liberal Government announced today that the South Island Aggregates (SIA) have been granted a permit to dump 5 million tonnes of contaminated and toxic soils in the Shawnigan Watershed. The CVRD politicians refused to ‘get political’ with their Liberal friends when faced with threats to the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: How to Keep the ‘SNOOPS’ Out of Your Computer
Clive Thompson wrote this amazing piece in Mother Jones about how a new method of interacting will allow access across the street and eventually around the world independently. No cables, no phone lines and presumably no snooping. Scores of communities worldwide have been building these roll-your-own networks—often because a
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vancouver Island Could Become Canada’s 11th Province
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The concept of Vancouver Island going its’ own way as Canada’s 11th province is being floated once again. Separated by land, sea and air many Islander’s think of themselves as ‘Islanders’ first, British Columbian’s next and then of course Canadians. A fledgling group based out of Cowichan
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: We Now Pause For This Announcement
I’m out of town today, so let me offer you this inspirational graphic that I ‘borrowed’ from Richard at Cowichan Conversations. Recommend this Post
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Code RED! Hamilton in Crisis in Harper’s Canadian Nightmare
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger By now most of us know that we in Canada are in serious trouble, much of it induced by Steve Harper’s uncaring federal government combined with the forces he cares about, the greedy corporate industrial interests. This is criminal neglect and only possible when the laws
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ***Newsflash*** Bill Vander Zalm Puts Politicians on Notice over Chemtrails!
Former BC Premier, the man who led the successful fight over the hated HST, has now turned his energies towards the threat of chemtrails. Those trails in the sky most of us have believed to be jet stream are thought by many to be dangerous aluminum and barium released to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sean Holman on Corky Evans-The Failure of Discipline
Former NDP MLA Corky Evans Sean Holman former ‘Public Eye Online’ blogger is now living in Calgary and teaching Journalism at the University of Alberta. More recently he produced the documentary ‘Whipped’ that reveals the real story of political control over elected officials. It has been welcomed by many politicos
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hippies Threaten Our Coastal Wilderness-Forestry & Mining Corporations Outraged!
br />Proud to have been a longhair when it mattered!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Longtime NDP MLA Corky Evans On Todays BC NDP
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberals scored a surprise upset and were re-elected as the government of BC on May 14th, 2013 Since that time members, supporters and pundits along with some current and former MLA’s have been speaking up questioning the so called middle of the road positioning,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the ‘Highs and Lows’ of Weed. CNN! (VIDEO)
Here is the full length CNN commentary by Dr. Grupta that blows the lid off much of the establishment view of marijuana. A credible turnabout for the doctor misled about weed as are a great many of the medical profession and politicians.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Caricnogenic Pollution in Lac-Mégantic at High Levels
The real story of the Lac Megantic Train Wreck is yet to be fully told by the MSM. However credit to CBC for this piece including videos. It is a start. The explosion is telling us that bitumen is far more volatile and dangerous than the previous oil spills that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Giant Corp Nestle’s Get A Free Ride From The BC Liberals
Richard ‘Hub’ HughesPolitical Blogger Christy Clark’s BC Liberals are great managers of our multi billion dollar indebted province. Why life is so easy in BC that we allow private multi nationals like Nestle to pump out our water for free. Now there is a great business to be in! Water
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Poll on the Future of the BC NDP
This is how Cowichan Conversations participants responded. Although not scientific it is a signal to the BC NDP about their lack of relevance and appeal.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Harper has set up a sophisticated program to read our email and monitor our online activities.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks. I was looking to do some tidying up and editing posts on the left side under News & Opinion from Home and Abroad. These are items from across the internet that I include because of their interest and relevance. This story regarding surveillance caught my eye again and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Worker Ownership for the 99%- Press Conference
The corporate model has failed society miserably as far as fairness, democracy, equity and responsibility is concerned. One well established and successful co-op model has been established in Mondragon. Word of their achievements establishing very productive and responsible worker co-ops is spreading. This good news of interest to governments, business, unions and
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