Gentle Readers of this newsletter.   If you like Coffee you understand that the  richest Coffee retailer on Earth is the Nestlé company.  So rich in fact they now want to buy our water sources  and sell the water back to us in their small plastic bottles.   I suggest we stop buying their  Coffee until they stop trying to dominate our natural clean water  sources. I also suggest that world government politicians  wake up from deep slumber and create millions of  Salt water desalination plants before the land based  clean water supplies dry up. They can use the  proposed Oil pipelines for water distribution networks.  I have yet to see anybody enjoy a nice cold glass of Oil! ->  Dear JOSEPH Raglione, Nestlé subsidiary Poland Spring set its sights on the tiny town                                                     of Fryeburg, Maine, USA nearly a decade ago,                                                                         pushing to build a huge bottling plant and take                                                                             long-term control over the town's spring water.                                                                           Nestlé has sued the small town multiple times,                                                                   arguing that its right to grow market share is more                                                         important than the town's right to self-determination.  Nestlé wants to lock up its control over                                                                           Fryeburg’s water with a contract that --                                                                                   including extensions -- lasts until 2057. This lifetime contract would be unprecedented in North America  and would be a major victory for  water privatization companies."  ->This is a story that has to be told because water                                                                       is a human necessity for basic survival.  It is also a human right and I honestly believe                                                                               privatizing and selling water is basically a criminal action!                                                         Today, the plastic litre water bottle is in almost every store and restaurant and I wonder what will happen when the price of bottled water slowly begins to climb?                            Exactly how much economic and political power do you want to give private water bottling companies?  Tell Nestlé and Poland Spring to stop bullying the people of Fryeburg. Nestlé has tried every trick of the trade in fighting Fryeburg, relentlessly working to grind down and bankrupt opposition in the town with a wave of lawsuits. The corporation has found itself shut out of fifty-year contracts, so it is pushing a 25 year contract -- with four five-year extensions -- to test the limits of how long it can lock up water before people fight back.  Nestlé has also sunk deep into Maine politics, but local activists have been fighting back and are winning victories. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the deciding members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission -- the body that would rule on Nestlé's Fryeburg fight -- had connections to the corporation, forcing the Commission to recluse itself from the case. This month, the entire membership of the Fryeburg Water District resigned under threat of recall. This relentless pressure is having an effect, and we need to keep it up. If Nestlé sees that its bullying is hurting its global brand, the company will rethink its strategy of taking Fryeburg's water. Nestlé is trying to retell the Story of water, saying it's a good up for sale to the highest bidder. This way, Nestlé gets it for a steal, pumps aquifers dry, and then moves on to the next town. In places like Fryeburg, people are taking a stand and saying "Not here. Not anywhere." Please join them today. Tell Nestlé and Poland Spring to stop the attempt to lock up Fryeburg's water until 2057. Thanks for all you do!  Nestlé has sued this small town five times, arguing its right to grow market share is more important than the peoples' wishes. Tell Nestlé and Poland Spring bottled water to stop bullying Fryeburg, Maine. Take Action! -------------------------- References and further reading:Conway Daily Sun: Fryeburg water company seeks long-term agreement with Nestle for water extraction, August 23, 2012 Al Jazeera America: Conflict of interest claims persist in Nestle waters case, September 27, 2013

Gentle readers, memory lane is a fun place...especially in space and on the Moon!

"One small step for man, one giant step for mankind"

Forty-five years ago this week, two humans walked on the Moon for the first time. It was the achievement of their lives, and of so many of our lives on Earth. But amidst the excitement and hard work of landing so far from home, the Apollo 11 astronauts had many chances to look back at where they had come from. The famedHasselblad camera captured some of those moments.

These two photographs were taken by the crew on their outbound journey from Earth to the Moon. Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, and these photos were captured that day. The top view shows the full disk of Earth, with bits of California, the Pacific Northwest coast, and Alaska peeking through the cloud cover in a scene otherwise dominated by the Pacific Ocean. The second, closer view shows more of the western United States and Canada, with the Rocky Mountains filling much of the center of the scene and the Arctic ice cap at the top.

Unless you spend a lot of time looking at images from space—a pasttime that was in its infancy in the late 1960s—the view can be mysterious and disorienting sometimes. Reading through the transcripts of Apollo 11 communications, we can get some sense of the wonder, disorientation, and awe that Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong must have felt while looking for navigation points or for simple beauty shots of their planet. About 51 minutes after launch, the conversation centered around lights in Earth’s atmosphere:

Collins: Look at those bright ones down here.
Aldrin: Lightning! Is that lightning out your window?
Armstrong: No, I haven't seen any lightning.
Aldrin: Hell, that must be lightning. Either that or it's the atmosphere.
Armstrong: I just saw something. Maybe it is the atmosphere. They said that Borman's [crew] could see it. They couldn't hear it, but they could see it alright.

About 30 minutes later, Collins looked down on a different, unfamiliar scene and noted: “It looks like trees and a forest or something. Looks like snow and trees. Fantastic. I have no conception of where we're pointed or which way we are, but it's a beautiful low-pressure cell out here.”

Ten hours into the flight, Aldrin and astronaut Charlie Duke (working communications from Mission Control in Houston, Texas), had a conversation that sounds like a description of the images above.

Aldrin: Hey, Charlie, I can see the snow on the mountains out in California, and it looks like LA doesn’t have much of a smog problem today.
Duke: Roger, Buzz. Copy. Looks like there’s a good view out there then.
Aldrin: Charlie, with the monocular, I can discern a definite green cast to the San Fernando Valley.
Duke: How’s Baja California look, Buzz?
Aldrin: Well, it’s got some clouds up and down it, and there’s a pretty good circulation system a couple of hundred miles off the west coast of California....Okay, Houston. You suppose you could turn the Earth a little bit so we could get a little bit more than just water?
Duke: Roger, 11. I don't think we got much control over that. Looks like you'll have to settle for the water.

To learn more about NASA’s celebration of the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11, click here.

1. Reference

2. NASA History Division (2011, March 29) The Apollo 11 Flight Journal. Accessed July 20, 2014.

Astronaut photograph AS11-36-5339 was acquired on July 16, 1969, with a Hasselblad camera using a 250 millimeter lens. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center. Astronaut photograph AS11-36-5302 was acquired on July 16, 1969, with a Hasselblad camera using an 80 millimeter lens and is provided by the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Both photos have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.

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Gentle readers:

 If I was a religious American citizen, I would be constantly trying to convince Federal government Republicans that money and power are leading us all down a road to hell and that they should be thinking of helping people survive on a daily basis. It is lucky for me that I am not a religious American citizen and that I am a world political activist for human rights and the environment. As such I am including the following article in my blog...for all good people who deserve better.

What would you say to John Boehner, Joseph?‏

Jim Messina, BarackObama.com (info@barackobama.com)

 

 

7/21/14

 Newsletters

To: Joseph Raglione

From:	Jim Messina, BarackObama.com (info@barackobama.com)
Sent:	Mon 7/21/14 10:23 PM
To:	Joseph Raglione (human4us@bell.net)

Joseph -- No, you didn't just wake up from a bad dream. John Boehner and House leaders are actually moving forward with their plan to sue the President. Of course, it's an unbelievable waste of time and taxpayer dollars -- and when you think about what Speaker Boehner hasn't gotten done for the American people, it's even more outrageous. Name any issue you've wanted to see progress on, and you can be pretty damn sure the House hasn't done anything meaningful to move it forward. That isn't working for the vast majority of Americans, and it's up to us to let him know it. So I'm asking you, Joseph -- what's the one thing you would say to John Boehner, if you could? Because OFA volunteers are going to hand-deliver all of your messages straight to his office. It's not really the political stunt of suing the President that makes me mad. What really ticks me off is that John Boehner and House leaders are spending time (and our money) on a wasteful lawsuit instead of doing anything good for the American people. Right now, John Boehner is personally standing in the way of progress. A lot of it. He and House leaders are blocking comprehensive immigration reform. They're refusing to make long-term investments in our transportation infrastructure, and aren't even considering a bill to raise the minimum wage for hard-working families. They're preventing action from being taken on climate change. They won't lift a finger to help relieve the burden of student loan debt, or reduce discrimination against LGBT Americans. And it's not the first time we have seen this from John Boehner and his friends in the House -- remember when they shut down the government and wasted hundreds of hours trying to repeal Obamacare and take away affordable health care from Americans? It seems like John Boehner goes through a lot of trouble to keep real work from getting done. That's something that frustrates a whole lot of people across the country who work hard every day. It's time he heard from us. Let Speaker Boehner know what's on your mind and tell him to stop wasting our time: http://my.barackobama.com/Send-John-Boehner-A-Message Thanks, Messina Jim Messina Chair Organizing for Action

The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
Directory.
1...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQeABIoO6A
     What will happen in the near future when there will be millions of cameras and small spying devices watching our every move? Are there methods to change the future? The program "What's Next" investigates and attempts to answer these questions. Will future government drones and corporate surveillance systems and devices bury our individual human freedoms. If so what can we do about it now, while we still have a chance to change what happens in the future? If you value your personal freedom, you will watch this Utube video.

GENTLE READERS:
A POEM.

YESTERDAY...

I WAS AMONG A SANDAL WEARING CROWD
IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN
ALL HAVING FUN!

A HUMAN WALL
SHUFFLING UP AND DOWN ST. CATHERINE STREET
MONTREAL...

WITH SHORT SHORTS COVERING THOUSANDS OF SCINTILATING BUMS
WE WALKED BETWEEN TALL BUILDING WALLS
UNDER STRINGS OF BRIGHT PINK BALLS...

FEMALES FROM EVERY COUNTRY FELT HAPPY AND FREE
DARING TO WEAR TIGHT TIGHT SHORTS OPENLY
WITH THE COURAGE AND THE FREEDOM NOT TO CARE....

AND WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE VILLAGE
THE VERY GAY VILLAGE!
I PRETENDED NOT TO SEE THE MEN KISSING MEN
OPENLY THERE...

AND CONCENTRATED ON MY MATE PUSHING ME
DOWN THE FESTIVAL STREET TOWARDS THE FREE FIREWORKS...
FROM LA RONDE...

WHERE THOUSANDS WERE WAITING NEAR THE OLD BRIDGE
FOR THE BOMBS TO EXPLODE IN THE AIR!

TODAY...
THE PAPER READ
"29 WOMEN MURDERED IN BAGHDAD"...
WHO WERE TRYING TO BARELY SURVIVE AS PROSTITUTES
UNTIL DEATH CAME EARLY AT THE END OF GUNS
SILENCED FOR SECRECY THERE!

Hello Gentle People:
 I've forgotten how long I have been writing on the world wide web. The following article reminded me of why I started in the first place. Today is July 4th., 2014. For all you Americans, have a happy holiday!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Raglione [mailto:human4us@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:42 PM
To: NDP ADMIN
Subject: "sustainable development"

FIRST NAME: Joseph
LASTNAME: Raglione
E-MAIL: human4us@sympatico.ca
POSTAL CODE: H7R-3X3
PHONE: 450-627-6810

Comments:

This message was a reply sent ten minutes ago to the following Liberal minister...I suggest you use it before the Liberal's do...and yes, I am manipulating both your parties as much as is humanly possible at this time...because I am certain you will return to ignoring my suggestions and ideas once you regain power...if you regain power.

Dear John McCallum:

Your use of the words "sustainable development" creates an impression in my mind that the Liberals intend to sustain Canada's industrial development. Industrial development world wide is creating global warming. I suggest the following new catch phrase would be more apppropriate. ( Let us economically protect and enhance and sustain the natural environment, in essence placing economic value on nature, not as a commodity or as a natural resource, but as a life sustaining and life protecting shield against human species extinction.) Industrial development can also be maintained if, like a Doctor's oath, first and foremost it does no harm.That phrase might be palatable to scientists and hard working practical people across Canada. Do not harm life sustaining Mother Nature and we will reap a great abundance...otherwise, we will reap Human extinction!

Signed: Joseph Raglione:
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. Affiliated with GreenPeace, The Sierra Club, the WWF, and N.G.O.'s around the world struggling towards peace and harmony with Nature.

Joseph Raglione: human4us@sympatico.ca

December 30, 2005 | 4:48 PM

Gentle People:
 Death does not scare me but watching a documentary featuring the atrocity we have labelled the Alberta Tar Sands project certainly shames and humiliates me!. I am ashamed that my Canadian government is allowing the perpetuation of the greatest polluting disaster on Earth! I am ashamed that they are covering up this mess with lies to the general public. Lies claiming we cannot have an economy without the Tar Sands or without Oil and Coal. These are absolute in your face dangerous lies! These liars are people who care only for money and power and do not care if you live or die with a climate that is becoming dangerous! These people believe that millions upon millions of internal combustion engines are necessary for perpetuating a world economy controlled by approximately 51 giant companies. They completely ignore the fact that global warming is dangerously heating up this planet and it is created by their Oil based industries. It is a slow and sneaky war against the people of this Earth. An undeclared war using psychological techniques. They use powerful sales advertising and mass Media control as human motivators. In my opinion these are subconscious weapons against the people. The author George Orwell wrote a book about thought police dominating our every move and he was correct! Today's thought police are subtle. They use Television and the print media and today mini telephones and cameras to keep millions of people occupied with buying their things created from Oil.
 Giant box stores are doing booming business selling millions upon millions of  'things' and they have replaced religion as human motivators. Things do not have moral codes. Things are inanimate and do not replace the affection and love we all need from each other. Things will not hold your hand when you are old and say "I love you and I will care for you!"

 Today things such as cars are created by robot controlled assembly lines in order to save the cost of human labour. Are these robots programmed to love and care for humans? The writer Isaac Asimov tried to introduce robots that cared but I can only wonder what we humans are going to do as more and more computerized machines take over our human labour. Creating "consumer needs" is a fundamental principal for industrial companies who want to sell their "things." However, in order for people to buy "things" they need money. To obtain money people need work.  Money is the thing that today represents basic food and shelter and security for our human survival and it is, unfortunately, controlled and distributed by many top industrial and political leaders who simply don't care if we live or die as they introduce labour saving and profit making devices into the not-so-free-market!

  In other words the giant soulless companies who create things also pay for political protection and when they get rich enough, own Banks. Banks distribute money and power coupons and ask us to spend the small amounts of money we average "consumers" accumulate in order to perpetuate the "economy."
Top of the ladder Industrial business people control our world economies and also our basic food and shelter systems. It is a scary thought! There are millions of people who do not have the capacity or the methods to accumulate money and such people have become desperate and dispensable. We can see millions of them begging for money and slowly dying on the streets within many large cities around the world!

 Gentle readers, before we become too depressed, let me write how there are non violent solutions for the above problems. It begins with shopping in garden centres and planting vegetables and flowers and trees. It continues by creating Bicycle paths and shutting off your hot water tanks three times a week. It gains speed with all Electric cars and roof-top Solar Panels and continues from there. I will report back to you on where you can find many solutions to pollution. One of those places is "The Story of Stuff".com"