Hello Gentle Readers:
I went to a magnificent 'Pink Martini' concert tonight at Place Des Arts in Montreal, with their on stage invited guests, the young Von Trapp family singers. If you have seen the movie the Sound of Music with Julie Andrews, you may remember how one of the Von Trapp children declared he was incorrigible. That child grew up to train his grandchildren into one of the best singing groups of our time. I could not believe my ears. These kids are excellent and they are going straight up the charts with their first de-but performance in Montreal. The Von Trapp great grandchildren are on their way to becoming international super stars and if they remain with Pink Martini, the mix will meld into one of the best shows in the world! It will also finally give Pink Martini the kind of international publicity they deserve because these musicians and singers are the very best and they are well worth both the price of admission and the standing ovation they received from tonight's adoring audience.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Hello Gentle People:
It is hell week in Quebec, Canada. The week leading up to the first of July when thousands of basically poor people shift out of shoddy rental apartments and into even worse apartments. If you are trying to find an apartment for rent at a reasonable rate, forget it. Landlords have stopped renting and Condominiums are for sale everywhere. Condos today are basically apartments guarded by private real estate Brokers who filter people with the ability to pay higher monthly rates from those who can barely scratch a living on welfare or who exist on small old age pensions. Brokers do this class discrimination in exchange for a finders fee from the Condo owner and Brokers are the reason rental rates have jumped out of reach for thousands of people.
Almost directly because of brokers there is a quiet revolution going on where a certain group of renters, with help from the police, are becoming hostile towards small scale landlords.
These renters sign a lease for a year and then, for one reason or another, refuse to pay two or three months rent. They know for certain that the police will not remove them from the apartment they are occupying and they also know that the police will send the unsuspecting landlord to an arbitration court. It is in the court house the landlord discovers he or she is responsible for opening a file and finding a lawyer to either help remove the tenant from the property or force the tenant to pay money owed; but only after both tenant and landlord face a judge. The landlord may, if the judge rules in his favour, be able to collect past due rent from a tenant who left without paying but only if that person can be found! To find lost tenants a landlord has to hire a detective specializing in finding lost tenants. Meanwhile, the lost tenant may suddenly reappear and claim the few days remaining on his lease. Even though said tenant cancelled his Hydro Electric contract in the middle of the final month and has not paid rent for two months, he now wants to re-enter the apartment to collect a few of his things. Things such as door knobs, light bulbs, plastic electric plug shields and basically anything that is not nailed down. He or she may even do a little damage and claim the damage was not their fault and it is the reason they refused to pay rent. If the landlord complains, the tenant quickly phones the police and claims the landlord is a threat to his or her person. They explain to the police officer entering the scene that all they were trying to do is move out of the apartment and the landlord intimidated them. Of course the officer will create a police report and now the landlord has a police file and begins to seriously consider converting his property to Condos and hiring a Broker to sell his renovated Condominium; thus leaving the poorest of the poor out on the street. Satan must love hell week?!
It is hell week in Quebec, Canada. The week leading up to the first of July when thousands of basically poor people shift out of shoddy rental apartments and into even worse apartments. If you are trying to find an apartment for rent at a reasonable rate, forget it. Landlords have stopped renting and Condominiums are for sale everywhere. Condos today are basically apartments guarded by private real estate Brokers who filter people with the ability to pay higher monthly rates from those who can barely scratch a living on welfare or who exist on small old age pensions. Brokers do this class discrimination in exchange for a finders fee from the Condo owner and Brokers are the reason rental rates have jumped out of reach for thousands of people.
Almost directly because of brokers there is a quiet revolution going on where a certain group of renters, with help from the police, are becoming hostile towards small scale landlords.
These renters sign a lease for a year and then, for one reason or another, refuse to pay two or three months rent. They know for certain that the police will not remove them from the apartment they are occupying and they also know that the police will send the unsuspecting landlord to an arbitration court. It is in the court house the landlord discovers he or she is responsible for opening a file and finding a lawyer to either help remove the tenant from the property or force the tenant to pay money owed; but only after both tenant and landlord face a judge. The landlord may, if the judge rules in his favour, be able to collect past due rent from a tenant who left without paying but only if that person can be found! To find lost tenants a landlord has to hire a detective specializing in finding lost tenants. Meanwhile, the lost tenant may suddenly reappear and claim the few days remaining on his lease. Even though said tenant cancelled his Hydro Electric contract in the middle of the final month and has not paid rent for two months, he now wants to re-enter the apartment to collect a few of his things. Things such as door knobs, light bulbs, plastic electric plug shields and basically anything that is not nailed down. He or she may even do a little damage and claim the damage was not their fault and it is the reason they refused to pay rent. If the landlord complains, the tenant quickly phones the police and claims the landlord is a threat to his or her person. They explain to the police officer entering the scene that all they were trying to do is move out of the apartment and the landlord intimidated them. Of course the officer will create a police report and now the landlord has a police file and begins to seriously consider converting his property to Condos and hiring a Broker to sell his renovated Condominium; thus leaving the poorest of the poor out on the street. Satan must love hell week?!
Monday, June 16, 2014
Gentle readers, this week I recommend you find www.Greenpeace.org and www.Sierraclub.org in our Index and read the facts you will not find in the commercial media..
The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement presents: Our INTERNATIONAL WEB SITE INDEX .
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"All that ever was still is constantly changing within the eternal energy of the universe and the only constant is
constant change. Author: Joseph Raglione."
Gentle People:
Welcome to my index of fun web sites and return as often as you like. Joseph Raglione/
Gentle People:
Welcome to my index of fun web sites and return as often as you like. Joseph Raglione/
10.= http://www.Ted.com
12. = http://www.Reuters.com
17. = http://www.wwfindia.org/
18. = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhLa6O1OP0Y
21. = http://storyofstuff.org/
28.= http://www.nytimes.com/
29.= http://video.canadiens.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=291&id=587397&lang
30.= http://www.iTooch.com How to greatly improve our school systems.
31. =http://www.Netmaths.com
32. =http://www.Evernote.com
33. =http://www.abmaths.com
34. =http://www.Sciences.com
35. =http://www.iBooks.com
36. =http://www.skitch.com
37. =https://plus.google.com/u/0/
38.=http://www.jaccorde.com
39.=http://www.Atlasdumonde.com
40.=http://www.Echecs.com
41.=http://mlb.mlb.com/home
42.=http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/
43.=http://www.nfl.com/
44.=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83650
45.=http://crowdenergy.org/ocean-energy-turbine-kickstarter-video/
46.=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVmmpGeR6nk
47. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
48. http://www.sierraclub.org/
29.= http://video.canadiens.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=291&id=587397&lang
30.= http://www.iTooch.com How to greatly improve our school systems.
31. =http://www.Netmaths.com
32. =http://www.Evernote.com
33. =http://www.abmaths.com
34. =http://www.Sciences.com
35. =http://www.iBooks.com
36. =http://www.skitch.com
37. =https://plus.google.com/u/0/
38.=http://www.jaccorde.com
39.=http://www.Atlasdumonde.com
40.=http://www.Echecs.com
41.=http://mlb.mlb.com/home
42.=http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/
43.=http://www.nfl.com/
44.=http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83650
45.=http://crowdenergy.org/ocean-energy-turbine-kickstarter-video/
46.=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVmmpGeR6nk
47. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
48. http://www.sierraclub.org/
Thursday, June 12, 2014
It is far past the time the U.S. government helped to mass market pure Electric vehicles. I suggest they retool General Motors and drop their gas burning engines once and for all. Remember what president Bush did to the EV1. He totally destroyed that great little Electric car and then forgot they ever existed. I suggest president Obama return the favour with the same result to polluting gas burning vehicles. Convert G.M. assembly lines to all Electrics and do it fast. Why? Because the Japanese have already started the process. Why let them have all the fun in 2015. Do this before the Democrats lose and are removed from political office. It takes courage but it is not like starting a war! Bush did that also.
Contact NASA for ideas on making viable Electric Cars and then sell all Electrics at prices average people can afford. Twenty thousand Dollars or less is a reasonable sticker price for a new Electric car. Finally, create an electric charging station grid for long distance travel. Today, we are being barraged by gas burning cars on Television and on the WWW. Polluters know how to market cars and there is not a decent pure Electric car in sight. Elon Musk, the maker of the superb Tesla Electric car is currently concentrating on creating a rocket to Mars. I salute his courage and creative intelligence but I and millions of people around the world are riding Bicycles while waiting for affordable Electric cars to hit the market and meanwhile, CO2 continues to build up in the atmosphere. Soon, the proverbial merde is going to hit the fan.
Contact NASA for ideas on making viable Electric Cars and then sell all Electrics at prices average people can afford. Twenty thousand Dollars or less is a reasonable sticker price for a new Electric car. Finally, create an electric charging station grid for long distance travel. Today, we are being barraged by gas burning cars on Television and on the WWW. Polluters know how to market cars and there is not a decent pure Electric car in sight. Elon Musk, the maker of the superb Tesla Electric car is currently concentrating on creating a rocket to Mars. I salute his courage and creative intelligence but I and millions of people around the world are riding Bicycles while waiting for affordable Electric cars to hit the market and meanwhile, CO2 continues to build up in the atmosphere. Soon, the proverbial merde is going to hit the fan.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Gentle People:
It is a shame but General Motors continues to sell anything but pure Electric Cars on Television and in the print media hoping against hope that average people are stupid and have short attention spans and they will forget about Electric vehicles. It has been proven that pure Electrics are faster than gas burning cars, create zero pollution and have the capacity to travel up to six hundred Killometers without a charge. Electric vehicles are on the market but the Oil cartels with their political allies in Washington and Ottawa along with their advertising friends on Madison Avenue, continue to block their progress. The good news is however that average people everywhere now have the communication ability to spread the truth and the CAA has a web site that provides somewhat slanted information about Electric vehicles. Slanted towards gas burning vehicles which proves my point but hey anything is better than nothing!. http://electricvehicles.caa.ca/types-of-electric-vehicles/ Until Tesla produces more cars and reduces their cost, Nissan will continue to be a front runner for Electrics. http://www.nissan.ca/en/electric-cars/leaf/charging-range/
Companies like G.M. who refuse to change and are willing to gamble with the future of their children and grandchildren, have the selfish and ignorant hope that global warming is not dangerous! They now also have the ability to quickly place their advertisements everywhere on the world wide web and feature smaller Hybrid cars that continue to burn gas. Look below this article for proof. With new electronic components copied from the magnificent Tesla Electric car company, many auto makers pretend to have modernized but nothing is further from the truth! Smaller cars do burn less gas but not when twice as many jam the highways! That equals the same amount of pollution.
It is a shame but General Motors continues to sell anything but pure Electric Cars on Television and in the print media hoping against hope that average people are stupid and have short attention spans and they will forget about Electric vehicles. It has been proven that pure Electrics are faster than gas burning cars, create zero pollution and have the capacity to travel up to six hundred Killometers without a charge. Electric vehicles are on the market but the Oil cartels with their political allies in Washington and Ottawa along with their advertising friends on Madison Avenue, continue to block their progress. The good news is however that average people everywhere now have the communication ability to spread the truth and the CAA has a web site that provides somewhat slanted information about Electric vehicles. Slanted towards gas burning vehicles which proves my point but hey anything is better than nothing!. http://electricvehicles.caa.ca/types-of-electric-vehicles/ Until Tesla produces more cars and reduces their cost, Nissan will continue to be a front runner for Electrics. http://www.nissan.ca/en/electric-cars/leaf/charging-range/
Companies like G.M. who refuse to change and are willing to gamble with the future of their children and grandchildren, have the selfish and ignorant hope that global warming is not dangerous! They now also have the ability to quickly place their advertisements everywhere on the world wide web and feature smaller Hybrid cars that continue to burn gas. Look below this article for proof. With new electronic components copied from the magnificent Tesla Electric car company, many auto makers pretend to have modernized but nothing is further from the truth! Smaller cars do burn less gas but not when twice as many jam the highways! That equals the same amount of pollution.
For True Believers
Copyright: Joseph Raglione
They could not explain Eternity
Though they certainly tried.
But could not explain Eternity
And so they lied!
They lied about Eternity
And were so very good,
They created fraternities of True Believers
Who would follow them as only True Believers would.
And pods of imaginary Gods to terrify those who should,
According to them, be True Believers...
And believe in Them or face the wrath of their
Omnipotent Gods!
With strife and damnation and pain for none believers,
A Supreme Being will never deign to explain creation
To foolish sinners here on Earth...
But if YOU obey without question,
Follow orders without disruption...
The Gods will heap rewards upon YOU in the
Afterlife!
Obey the Gods and they will gladly explain creation to you
After your dead...
But will only give mercy and love to you
While you live...
If you are a True Believer.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Gentle readers, if honesty is the best policy, why am I not rich?
| From: | Ivan Frishberg, BarackObama.com (info@barackobama.com) |
| Sent: | Wed 6/04/14 7:47 PM |
| To: | Joseph Raglione (human4us@bell.net) |
| Friend -- Some of the reaction to the President's climate plan from the other side this week has seemed straight-up bonkers. One group likened it to a terrorist act, the Senate minority leader called it a "dagger in the heart of [...] representative democracy"... This would all be kind of funny, too, if the opposition wasn't backed with a whole boatload of cash. The polluters and special interests are prepared to fight this with everything they've got -- right now, we want to know who's willing to fight back. So, how about you? Stand with President Obama, and support aggressive action to combat climate change. The nonsense on the other side is no accident. This is their strategy. Last week, House Speaker John Boehner told a reporter, "I'm not qualified to debate the science over climate change." But this week, he was one of the first out of the gate to throw a punch at the President's plan, saying that this proposal will cost our country billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. The fact checkers don't agree -- Politifact rated his claims "false." Here's what it boils down to: The other side is prepared to spread myths and worse to get their way. We just need people to understand the facts. If you're proud of the President's aggressive plan to fight climate change, you should help fight for it. Add your name today to support common-sense EPA standards on carbon pollution: http://my.barackobama.com/Support-Carbon-Pollution-Standards Thanks, Ivan Ivan Frishberg Climate Change Campaign Manager Organizing for Action ============================== A message from Joseph Raglione. If choking to death in smog filled cities is your idea of the good life, you have been brain washed by too many TV car commercials created by people who do not care if you choke to death in smog laden cities. The rich have alternatives to Oil and Coal. They can place their Billions of Dollars on: electric vehicles, green-house gardens, city gardens, buildings that can be heated and cooled with the sun and the wind, solar panels, water mills that generate electricity utilizing ocean currents everywhere on Earth. Tree planting projects help to save the environment and they create jobs everywhere on Earth. On the cultural side jazz and dance festivals generate employment for thousands of people around the world. Almost anything we can imagine is possible and the rich will not lose a single dime. In fact they will make more money doing life sustaining projects than it will cost them struggling against the rising wave of change now moving towards those same life sustaining projects. The idea of losing thousands of jobs in the Coal mining industry is bogus. Mountain top blasting and the use of Bulldozers and giant shovels have created unemployment for hundreds if not thousands of below ground miners. Why dig holes in the ground when you can simply blow away mountains to expose the Coal veins? Now that the mountains are half flattened, why not place dozens of Wind powered electric generators on those same mountains and give work to local people maintaining the generators? |
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