Jun 012022
 

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 […]

Jun 012022
 

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 […]

May 292022
 

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 […]

May 292022
 

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 […]

May 252022
 

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 […]

May 222022
 

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 […]

May 222022
 

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 […]

May 202022
 
2022-05-19  Louisiana Governor Reverses ‘Insane Mandate’ Requiring COVID Vaccines for Students, CHD

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, […]

May 202022
 
2022-05-19  Commissioner (Council of Europe) calls on UK government not to extradite Julian Assange

  The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović has called on UK Home Secretary Priti Patel not to extradite Julian Assange. Writing in view of the impending decision on Mr Assange’s extradition, the Commissioner noted that the wider human rights implications of doing so had not yet been adequately considered in the […]