Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It seems to be commonplace today that police actions are filmed. Often they appear on blogs and You Tube. Are you allowed to do that? Is it interfering, impeding or unlawful to do so? Do the police have the right to seize your camera, look at what
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Cowichan Conversations: ‘Nobody Understands’ Spills at Alberta’s Cold Lake Tar Sands Operation
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The pollution in Northern Alberta attributable to ‘Fracking’ and Tar Sands’ Operations is out of control. The latest seemingly unstoppable spill of significance is devastating wildlife and the environment. They cannot stop it. Nothing is being done and it seems obvious that the politicians first concern is
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Justin Trudeau Will Legalize Marijuana!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger So here we have a situation where a Party Leader, comfortably ahead in the polls, shows his political acumen and boldly calls for the legalization of marijuana! Politics is a ‘gut game’ Clearly Justin gets that. If it wasn’t so funny it would be serious. But
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Edward Snowden Allowed Into Russia Weeks After Outing Himself as the NSA Leaker
The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission leave the Moscow airport where he has been stranded for over a month. Snowden applied for… Read More
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Whistleblower Sylvie Therrien suspended after leaking Canada’s EI rejection ‘quotas’(VIDEO)
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Sylvie Therrien did not feel right about kicking people off Employment Insurance to meet an Conservative Government mandated quota. Another insider blows the whistle on government behaviour. Now she has not had to flee the country but she has been suspended and may lose her job
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian Taxpayers Federation Want To Blow Up The Senate-Video
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Canadian Taxpayers have embraced humour , satire and a little hucksterism to promote dismantling the Canadian Senate. Their goal is to have a referendum over the senates continued existence. Their claims and denunciations are a little overblown and their ridicule of Independent Senator Mike
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Josh Fox on Gasland Part 2, the Fracking-Earthquake Link & the Natural Gas Industry’s Use of PSYOPs
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger When Gasland first hit for many it was an early wake up call. Nominated for an Academy award Jeff Fox blew the lid of the dangerous risks and terrible damages done by fracking for natural gas. The same threats face BC residents as the BC Liberal government
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Renewable Energy Not All It Appears
Patrick Smyth, a regular Cowichan Conversations reader, is not an IPP booster. He has given us permission to carry his recent letter to the editor in Whistler’s Pique News Magazine. I have been watching Quebec-based Innergex’s Upper Lillooet Power Project and was shocked to see it is actually going ahead. I
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Death is the Cost of Cost Cutting Efficiency in Lac Megantic
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The tide is coming in on the greedy bastards who cut corners to save a buck. It is surely rising on their partners in crime, in this case the Harper government, who willing changed regulations allowing only one worker for trains like the one
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Elderly Man Saved From Fireball By His Little Dog in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec
Amidst all of the terrible news from that train explosion that devastated large parts of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, a happier story. Paul Leclerc, 83, describes on Sunday, July 7, 2013 how one of his dogs woke him and alerted him to the fire caused by the explosion of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bolivian President Evo Morales Plane Diverted Under US Pressure
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are experiencing a time where bizarre is the new norm. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales flight home from a Russian visit was detained, stalled, diverted. Some say he was kidnapped at the direction and pressure from the United States government. This international event was lamely justified by saying that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: They ‘Will Lie, Trick, and Deceive’: Jailed CIA Whistleblower’s Warns Edward Snowden
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It is becoming hard to keep track of all the ‘Whistleblowers’ and the tunes that they are whistling. It is clear that many countries spy, snoop and infiltrate. It has been going on for centuries but accelerated during World War 2 and the Cold War that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Deadly Insecticides Kill Over 30 Million Bees in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger All right this is enough of the death dealing from our chemical companies. In Elmwood, Ontario- Canada, the devastation is frightening in its impacts. Recently in Oregon there was an estimated 25 to 50 thousand bees found dead in a parking lot. Bees are threatened worldwide
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Scandalous Government Coverup of ISA Virus In Salmon
Here is another shocking post from marine biologist Alexandra Morton Alexandra Morton-Marine Biologist The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), our global first line of defence against farm animal epidemics, just stacked the odds against stopping ISA virus from spreading in British Columbia. They stripped the lab I am using
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Whipped-Sean Holman on ‘Party Discipline’ CBC the Current
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Friday morning, 8:30AM June 28th, Rick MacGinnes-Rae, hosting CBC’s ‘the Current’, will peer into the secret world of party discipline. His guest will be Sean Holman. a former ‘Public Eye Online’ blogger, talk show host, columnist and the force behind his latest project ‘Whipped! This will be most
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Nobody Shoots at a Dead Duck!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Our PM Stephen Harper is a power at any cost politician it seems. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is climbing in the polls giving the appearance that he will become the next Prime Minister. That is enough to have the PMO staff doing Harper’s dirty work. Here
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Mandela and Snowden Two Heroes In A Dark World
Nelson Mandela For decades after the intrusive CIA fingered Nelson Mandela, the terrorist was imprisoned in South Africa. In spite of his incarceration he never gave up hope. Mandela gained international recognition and upon his eventual release led the South Africans to democracy as their president. Now in his final
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Medicine Hat Next To Face Flooding Fury
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Calgarian’s are returning to their still soaked homes many without gas or electricity but at least they can start the long process of putting their homes back into living condition. Further south Medicine Hat residents are now sand bagging and with over 1000 volunteers pitching in and
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