From Bruce Gibbons, Merville Water Guardians (May 28) Call to ACTION: Please take the time to draft an email expressing your concern about this proposal and registering your vehement opposition to its approval. The CVRD needs to know our opposition is not “anti-business”, it is pro-water protection. And they need to know about the issues […]
UPDATE Spring 2022: FLNRORD is dismantled. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Water STEWARDSHIP has been created, out of a portion of the rubble from FLNRORD. FLNRORD (now defunct) = BC Ministery of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, which was responsible for the granting of licenses to take water. UBCM = […]
Selected postings, the Privatization of Water, Water for Profit (Merville) We people are accomplished at creating disasters for ourselves. If you glimpse the lay of the land, you will understand: We have to stop the export of water from BC. It can only end in disaster. A glimpse: 2022-06-01 Canadian Water Summit June […]
A pier at the dried Aculeo Lake in Paine, in 2019. For decades the lake one of the main tourist attractions of Santiago’s surroundings. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Unprecedented drought makes water a national security issue as more than half of Chile’s 19 million population lived in area with ‘severe water scarcity’ by end of 2021 […]
FOR RECLAIM CANADA, May 27, 2022 ACKNOWLEDGE THE REALITY OF CORRUPTION The following is not a criticism. It is my input, intended to be helpful. Canada will not be Reclaimed if any one of the political parties infiltrates, or takes over the reclamation attempt. I think you know that Canadian governments and bureaucracies at […]
Say the same thing, use different words: From the viewpoint of God: “The supremacy of God” From the viewpoint of human beings: “Human beings are not Gods” (We get into trouble when human beings think they are Gods.) To me, the two statements are different sides of the same coin. They mean […]
OPPORTUNITY Please hammer this point in Canada whenever you have the opportunity. It is NOT citizen use of water that makes the big difference in water supplies. It is INDUSTRIAL USE. Insist on monitoring, reporting, and inclusion of industrial use in any and all publications / media releases and media coverage of water departments. Licenses […]
SWIFT, a platform that facilitates cross-border payments, has announced that it has begun testing cross-border payments using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). “We’re collaborating with @Capgemini to explore how SWIFT can interlink the multiple domestic-based #CBDC networks emerging worldwide to make cross-border payments with #DigitalCurrencies more seamless & frictionless,” the organization wrote on Twitter. In […]
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel has called on the British government to block the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Radio Havana Cuba According to the Campaign against the Extradition of Assange, the Argentinean intellectual sent a letter to the UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, who has in her […]
Louisiana’s Democratic Governor, John Bel Edwards, Wednesday reversed the state’s vaccine mandate requiring students to be fully vaccinated beginning the 2022-23 school year. By The Defender Staff Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender’s Top News of the Day. It’s free. Children and students attending daycare, K-12 programs and college in Louisiana, […]