BUSINESS Experts scramble to figure out how global oil price crash the fault of Wet’suwet’en protestors Originally published by BEAVERTON by IAN MACINTYRE(@MRIANMACINTYRE) Photo Credit CALGARY — As oil prices crash 31% worldwide and the Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report
Data as reported by national authorities by 10AM CET 05 March 2020 Figure 1. Countries, territories or areas with reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, 05 March 2020 HIGHLIGHTS Five new countries/territories/areas (Bosnia Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Robert Reich-What Bernie Skeptics Need To Know
What Bernie Skeptics Need to Know Before Super Tuesday The Democratic establishment is wrong to think Bernie Sanders is too progressive to win a general election. He's the Democrats’ best shot at taking back the White House.Share this with all the Bernie skeptics you know before Super Tuesday: Posted by
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar Step Back and Support Joe Biden-Video
BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar & Pete Buttigieg Are Out BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar & Pete Buttigieg Are Out Posted by The Young Turks on Monday, March 2, 2020
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sanders and Khanna Introduce New Bill to ‘Stop Donald Trump From Illegally Taking Us to War Against Iran’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speak during a press conference following a vote in the U.S. House on ending US military involvement in the war in Yemen, on Capitol Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Maintain Your Rage-Austraila Is Ground Zero
Austraila is ‘Ground Zero’ in the rage worthy reality that is the ‘Climate Crisis’ of our lives. British Columbia, like Austraila, could also explode into a hell on earth scenario if we continue with the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hope Lies In The Streets
The decay and rupture of the social bonds that once held our societies together have unleashed the dark pathologies of opioid, alcohol and gambling addictions and led to an explosion of hate Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Greta Thunberg Speaks At World Leaders Climate Summit at COP25
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Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Greta Thunberg-A breath of fresh air delivering reality into the dark world of climate deniers
BY CHARLOTTE ALTER, SUYIN HAYNES AND JUSTIN WORLAND PHOTOGRAPHS BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA FOR TIME Greta Thunberg sits in silence in the cabin of the boat that will take her across the Atlantic Ocean. Inside, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ‘NO FUTURE, NO CHILDREN’ UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS, CANADIAN YOUTH DECLARE
Climate Strike Canada/Facebook A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking sufficient action on the climate crisis. Climate Read more…
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: On “Unalienable” Human Rights
Screen capture, launch of the Commission on Unalienable Rights On Monday, July 8th, the U.S. State Department announced the launch of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, which is intended to rethink and reshape how human rights laws are applied around the world. This Commission was deemed necessary to ensure that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Denmark’s 41 year old Social Democrat Mette Fredericksen elected to lead new government
Encouraging signs that globally voters are once again supporting Left Centre party’s and rejecting the hard-assed hard-headed right-wing politicians. And that is not all. We are seeing a pronounced gender shift. Voters are supporting Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jon Stewart Calls Out Congress For Slashing Budget To Assist Responder Victims-VIDEO
Longtime host of the Daily Show, Jon Stewart delivers the truth to an out of touch Congress. His messaging is dead on the money. Perhaps we could bring him to Canada to speak to our Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017
The MSM has pretty well been the PR arm for CIA’s attempted coup in Venezuela. You really have to wonder about the talking heads who spew the party line without balance and that quaint Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Chris Hedges-What Does Julian Assange Face In the USA?
We are heading into a power struggle following the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The chill factor for other journalists, reporters and bloggers are clear enough. Assange revealed US military activities in Afghanistan and Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: John Pilger On The Arrest Of Julian Assange
This is a pivotal event for democracy and free media. Lying is generally OK in the political realm, but truth-telling will bring down all the forces that have been exposed by Wikileaks. John Pilger lays Read more…
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: The Arc of History – Podcast
All of us can wield a power that those who would divide us will never know: an ability to make common cause out of our common humanity and our common dignity, and a determination to join hands across the divisions that beset the human condition, to create a better world
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan Bait & Switch: Backdoor pipeline to Washington State refineries could save Trans Mountain Expansion
Washington Governor Jay Inslee meets with BC Premier John Horgan in Victoria (Flickr/Province of BC) By Joyce Nelson In a widely published June 3 op-ed for Postmedia newspapers, Thomas Gunton – a former B.C. Deputy Minister of Environment – decimated the Trudeau Liberals’ decision to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain
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