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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
My Friends! My Friends!
Our man in the slot has disappeared!
Is it a miracle or Hockey magic!
Without our man in the slot this game will be tragic!
Our coach must be sleeping
behind the bench!
Please wake him up
And stop him from dreaming!
Wait! Wait!
Our man in the slot
Our player most Holy!
I see him now in front of their goalie!
He is taking his shot...
And by God what a shot!
Let us bow our heads and pray...
Hooray! Hooray!
It's not what I feared!
This game is not tragic!
This game is not weird!
With the magic of Hockey our man in the slot
Has re-appeared!
And scored the winning goal!
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
ATTENTION LEADERS IN WASHINGTON AND IRAN AND AROUND THE WORLD.
STOP THE BLOODSHED, PLEASE!
YOU WILL NEED ALL YOUR SOLDIERS TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET FROM FIRES AND FLOODING
CREATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
THEY WILL NEED PICKS AND SHOVELS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR THE WORK AHEAD AND
IF YOU WISH TO SLOW THE HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH ON THIS PLANET EARTH, SIMPLY RETURN TO THE CONCEPT OF
NON-VIOLENT BIRTH CONTROL WHERE BETTER EDUCATION SYSTEMS INCLUDE BIOLOGY AND SOCIAL FAMILY PLANNING METHODS
FOR BOTH SEXES.
CREATING WAR IS EASY COMPARED TO REBUILDING AFTER A DEVASTATING
EARTHQUAKE OR A TYPHOON OR A HURRICANE AND SO WHY CREATE MORE DEVASTATION WHEN
THERE IS SO MUCH ALREADY HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD.
AUSTRALIA IS BURNING AND THEY COULD CERTAINLY USE A FEW MILLION UNARMED SOLDIERS TO HELP PUT
OUT THE FOREST FIRES, TODAY.
TODAY, SCIENCE IS PROVING HOW THE RISING TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANET IS MELTING OUR POLAR ICE CAPS AND CREATING
FLOODING IN MANY LOW LYING COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. IN REACTION TO THIS YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE MAKING THIER
VOICES HEARD AND THEY ARE ACTIVATING TO STOP OUR INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION AND TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING.
lISTEN TO THE CHILDREN, PLEASE!
GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD DO HAVE THE MILITARY ABILITY TO CREATE WARS AND TO MURDER EACH OTHER
BUT PLEASE LEAVE INNOCENT CHILDREN OUT OF YOUR WAR PLANS! I SUGGEST ONLY THE MOST VICIOUS MILITARY
LEADERS FACE UNARMED AGAINST EACH OTHER ON AN ABANDONED ISLAND IN ORDER TO TALK PEACE OR PLAY CHESS.
I ALSO SUGGEST THEY DO NOT LEAVE THE ISLAND UNTIL THEY HAVE SIGNED MULTIPLE AND BINDING PEACE TREATIES.
THANKS FOR READING!
SIGNED: NELSON RAGLIONE. DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD FRIENDLY PEACE AND ECOLOGY MOVEMENT. HUMAN4US2.BLOGSPOT.COM
WE ARE ALSO ON FACEBOOK.
P.S. THANK YOU GRETA THUNBERG!
Monday, December 9, 2019
THE GREAT GRETA THUNBERG.
REUTERS
WORLD NEWS
DECEMBER 9, 2019 / 9:40 AM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO
Activist Thunberg turns spotlight on indigenous struggle at climate summit
Isla Binnie
MADRID (Reuters) - Teen activist Greta Thunberg turned a spotlight on the struggles of the world’s indigenous peoples against climate change
on Monday, appearing at a U.N. summit alongside other young campaigners furious at the West’s failure to tackle the crisis.
Indigenous communities from the United States to South America and Australia have mounted increasingly vocal campaigns against new fossil fuel projects
in recent years, finding common cause with the young European activists inspired by Thunberg.
Pursued by a media scrum ever since arriving at the two-week conference last week after crossing the Atlantic by catamaran,
Thunberg stayed largely silent during her first official appearance at the summit, to allow a young Native American, a Ugandan,
a Philippine and a Pacific islander to speak.
“Their rights are being violated across the world and they are also among the ones being hit the most and the quickest by the climate and environmental emergency,”
Thunberg said of indigenous communities.
Indigenous activists argue that their communities contribute almost none of the fossil fuels emissions driving climate change,
but bear the brunt of extreme weather and loss of wildlife.
Rose Whipple, of the Santee Dakota, native to Minnesota in the United States, called for an approach based on tradition and technology.
“The climate crisis is a spiritual crisis for our entire world. Our solutions must weave science and spirituality and traditional ecological knowledge
with technology,” she said.
The meeting to address the implementation of a 2015 pact struck in Paris to limit temperature rises to well below 2 degrees celsius was shifted to Madrid
after riots over inequality broke out in Chile, which had been due to play host.
“While countries congratulate each other for their weak commitments the world is literally burning out,” said Chilean activist Angela Valenzuela.
The low-lying Marshall Islands became the first nation to comply with a requirement in the Paris Agreement to increase its planned emissions reductions in 2018,
a move bigger emitters are under pressure to follow by 2020.
Carlon Zackhras, representing the atoll nation, said rising sea levels threatened his home, which is only two meters above the waterline.
“We are having to deal with issues we did not create,” he said.
Editing by Matthew Green and Giles Elgood
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
WORLD NEWS
DECEMBER 9, 2019 / 9:40 AM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO
Activist Thunberg turns spotlight on indigenous struggle at climate summit
Isla Binnie
MADRID (Reuters) - Teen activist Greta Thunberg turned a spotlight on the struggles of the world’s indigenous peoples against climate change
on Monday, appearing at a U.N. summit alongside other young campaigners furious at the West’s failure to tackle the crisis.
Indigenous communities from the United States to South America and Australia have mounted increasingly vocal campaigns against new fossil fuel projects
in recent years, finding common cause with the young European activists inspired by Thunberg.
Pursued by a media scrum ever since arriving at the two-week conference last week after crossing the Atlantic by catamaran,
Thunberg stayed largely silent during her first official appearance at the summit, to allow a young Native American, a Ugandan,
a Philippine and a Pacific islander to speak.
“Their rights are being violated across the world and they are also among the ones being hit the most and the quickest by the climate and environmental emergency,”
Thunberg said of indigenous communities.
Indigenous activists argue that their communities contribute almost none of the fossil fuels emissions driving climate change,
but bear the brunt of extreme weather and loss of wildlife.
Rose Whipple, of the Santee Dakota, native to Minnesota in the United States, called for an approach based on tradition and technology.
“The climate crisis is a spiritual crisis for our entire world. Our solutions must weave science and spirituality and traditional ecological knowledge
with technology,” she said.
The meeting to address the implementation of a 2015 pact struck in Paris to limit temperature rises to well below 2 degrees celsius was shifted to Madrid
after riots over inequality broke out in Chile, which had been due to play host.
“While countries congratulate each other for their weak commitments the world is literally burning out,” said Chilean activist Angela Valenzuela.
The low-lying Marshall Islands became the first nation to comply with a requirement in the Paris Agreement to increase its planned emissions reductions in 2018,
a move bigger emitters are under pressure to follow by 2020.
Carlon Zackhras, representing the atoll nation, said rising sea levels threatened his home, which is only two meters above the waterline.
“We are having to deal with issues we did not create,” he said.
Editing by Matthew Green and Giles Elgood
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Dear Brittany Andrew-Amofah:
Our present school systems across Canada are based on providing a work-force for Canadian industrial companies.
Unless those companies are creating projects and systems that benefit our natural environment and do not destroy and pollute the environment, we are programming children to act as workers for polluting and dangerous industrial status-quo companies!
We need to provide new and better and different school environments where nature is the teacher and is helped along by University trained Botanists and Zoologists and Biologists.
One project example is a large Glass Green House filled with birds and plants and children and computers that explain and describe the species of each plant and bird and of course, our own HomoSapient specie.
Unless those companies are creating projects and systems that benefit our natural environment and do not destroy and pollute the environment, we are programming children to act as workers for polluting and dangerous industrial status-quo companies!
We need to provide new and better and different school environments where nature is the teacher and is helped along by University trained Botanists and Zoologists and Biologists.
One project example is a large Glass Green House filled with birds and plants and children and computers that explain and describe the species of each plant and bird and of course, our own HomoSapient specie.
Music would play in the Green-Houses to help grow the plants and the birds and the children.
They would include computers explaining what birds make what sounds and which instruments make what notes. Earphones would be provided for private listening.
Our present status-quo school systems are based on the old imperial hierarchy and that must be changed if we are to protect Mother Earth. There are so many better non-political and non-exploitive methods of education that urgently need to be researched and implemented.
Thanks for reading!
Signed: Nelson Joseph Raglione
Director of the World Friendly Peace and Ecology Movement.. human4us2.blogspot.com
Director of the World Friendly Peace and Ecology Movement.. human4us2.blogspot.com
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
The Greenpeace Challenge.
Taking on the oil industry
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Jesse Firempong, Greenpeace Canada Unsubscribe
Nov 24, 2019, 1:28 PM (2 days ago)
to me
Nelson,
As Venice floods and wildfires rage in Australia and California, the realities of the climate crisis are growing starker every day.
Challenging the industries responsible is a global effort. That’s why I wanted to share some of the ways that Greenpeace is working alongside local communities in multiple countries to achieve a world beyond oil.
Here’s a whirlwind tour of some of the places Greenpeace supporters are taking action for a transition from oil to clean energy:
Investigating fossil fuel companies in the Philippines
In September, Greenpeace activists and representatives from climate-impacted communities blockaded a Shell refinery in Batangas City. Filipinos have also successfully petitioned the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights to launch a landmark investigation into 47 major fossil fuel producers’ responsibility for climate-related human rights abuses following 2013’s Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which claimed the lives of more than 6,300 people and affected millions more. The results of the investigation are expected any time in the coming months.
Campaigning for a Green New Deal in the US
In the US, Greenpeace is campaigning for a Green New Deal, which includes a just transition to renewable energy, creating millions of green jobs and halting any major oil, gas, and coal expansion projects. Taking action alongside grassroots groups, Greenpeace has opposed new pipelines, blocked the largest fossil fuel thoroughfare in the country, and stood up against unjust, anti-protest laws pushed forward by oil companies. These kinds of laws not only intend to silence voices, they disproportionately affect Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans, and queer people.
Defending the Great Australian Bight
Greenpeace is campaigning to defend the Great Australian Bight, an area off Australia’s southern coast where Norwegian company Equinor has set sights on drilling for oil. The Bight is a breeding ground for endangered southern right whales and contains the Great Southern Reef, 85% of whose animals can’t be found anywhere else in the world. Equinor's latest drilling plan was rejected by the government in November but the company has a chance to resubmit it. Hundreds of thousands of people have written to Australia’s government and to Equinor to say the project will never get their blessing to drill in this treasured oceanscape.
Standing up for the Amazon Reef in Brazil and French Guiana
When an incredible reef was discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River between Brazil and French Guiana, it was clear to us that it had to be protected. French company Total was interested in drilling for oil, but after two million people took action Brazil’s government denied Total’s license. Even after this historic win, another oil company (BP) wants to open up a new oil frontier in the region. Greenpeace is campaigning to protect the reef from oil development.
Challenging the car industry in Germany
In Frankfurt, at the International Motor Show in September, Greenpeace worked with other environmental and sustainable transport groups to organize a massive protest against the internal combustion engine. About 25,000 people participated (including 18,000 on bikes!), highlighting the role of the car industry in driving the climate emergency — and calling for renewable-powered public transport, walking and cycling infrastructure.
Supporting Indigenous communities in Russia
In Russia, Greenpeace is supporting Indigenous communities opposed to the impact of oil development on their livelihoods and culture. The majority of the Nenets and Khanty people in Siberia were not properly consulted when Russian oil company Surgutneftegas made plans to drill in the wetlands of the village of Numto, where many among the reindeer-herding Indigenous communities oppose the project.
Scaling oil company headquarters in New Zealand
Although the New Zealand government banned new offshore oil and gas exploration permits in 2018, they did not revoke permits that were released before the ban. Austrian oil giant OMV still holds 17 permits that, if exploited, would be catastrophic for the climate and risk disastrous oil spills in New Zealand’s pristine waters. This past summer, after Greenpeace activists staged a 10 hour climb on the OMV headquarters in Wellington, over 100 people handed in a petition to OMV.
Upholding the rights of future generations in Norway
The Norwegian government is taking advantage of the melting ice caused by climate change to open up a new oil frontier in the Arctic. The Norwegian Constitution that says that the State shall ensure for everyone, including future generations, the right to a safe and healthy environment. That is why Greenpeace and Nature and Youth brought a case against the Norwegian Government. Oil is Norway’s biggest export, and it is burned all over the world. This makes Norway the 7th biggest exporter of emissions on the planet.
Occupying oil rigs in the UK
We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, but oil company BP intends to drill for 30 million barrels of new oil off the coast of Scotland. That why’s this summer Greenpeace climbers prevented BP’s rig from leaving the Scottish coast for five days. This was followed by a further stand off in the North Sea between the rig and the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, which prevented the rig from reaching the drill site.
What can you do here in Canada?
Here in Canada, Greenpeace is working with frontline Indigenous communities to stop the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline and tanker project. Three First Nations, Coldwater, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, are taking this battle to court. They’re asking you to support their legal challenge with a donation as they defend their drinking water, sacred sites, and coastal waters. They go to court in December and could halt this destructive pipeline and tanker project with their courageous action.
All funds donated to their Pull Together legal challenge fund before December 3rd will be matched by a group of generous funders up to $50,000. Please make a donation today in support by visiting Pull Together and have your gift doubled.
Taking on one of the world’s most powerful industries is no small task, but when millions of us come together, to stand for what we believe is possible, it sends a powerful message to decision makers.
We are the generation that ends the age of oil.
Jesse
Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada
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Monday, November 25, 2019
This Is How To Be Resilient: 4 Secrets To Grit When Life Gets Hard
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
What I predicted in 2004 is now a reality.
IN 2004 I WROTE A RESPONSE LETTER TO THE N.D.P.
Hello Chanchal Bhattacharya
If you mean to create value for a government dollar, then I am all for
it. Meanwhile, the Americans and Japanese continue to dump price inflated
cars into our inflated market and continue to advertise new cars every five
minutes on Canadian television stations. Canadians have water and
electricity and lumber and a few high tech toys to exchange for the cars,
but the Americans have gained almost free access to all of our natural
resources and they also control and produce the television brainwashing
needed to sell their Detroit and Windsor built cars, not to mention the
Japanese, German, and Korean imports continuously entering our ports.
Mulroney's NAFTA opened the economic doors and his generosity has almost
politically destroyed Canada as an independent entity. To regain our
independence, we need new non-polluting toys the world will buy, and we have
to sell them at twice the price it takes to make them. Where is Armand
Bombardier when we need him?
I suggest we create water purification systems and windmill electricity
generators as well as Water-mill electricity generators. Insulation products for old
houses. Canadian electric vehicles. Fast Hydrogen-powered Mini busses as
opposed to the forty-foot General Motors slow-moving monsters now crunching
the streets. Artistic tourist traps everywhere. Shade and Fruit tree and
flower garden production within city limits. Co-Operative vegetable gardens
and farm subsidies. Cultural events sponsorship for music..dance..and
comedy. Infrastructure payments for highway reduction and not expansion. We
need to slow and stop cars and then take the time to smell the newly planted
roses while eating carrots and green peppers planted on the spaces we took
back from the newly reduced highways. Our teachers can teach Botany,
Biology, Science, Music, Art, and Sports.
Our farmers need not worry as we will sell their products overseas.
We will also need the labor to create the high tech toys and economic
programs. Because I have a very bad back and I've reduced my workload 90%,
if the dollar is pegged to my labor and the labor of working people like
myself, then I apologize in advance for the economic shrinkage. Cold does
that you know!
You can laugh but if you consider the fact that I represent a member of the hard-working
and skilled Boomer generation and that my generation is about
to achieve old age en masse, we as a country are in trouble. We can import
labor but they will still need housing. I suggest we convert office towers
into small apartments. The same can be done with old warehouses. Do we ask
immigrants to build their own housing? Who will train and teach them the
skills they will need to survive in Canada? I and thousands like myself are
available for teaching our skills, but the current snob and corporate-controlled Imperial Hierarchy won't allow us up the ladder. Most of us don't
have BA's, Ph.D.'s, MA's and FU's.
Other than English, my language ability is not great! I suggest we create
small computer language translators for immigrants to use upon arriving in
Canada.
The more housing we create, the more trees are destroyed. Without trees
we will have disastrous weather conditions here and around the world and
then the fun will start for real. The more people we have in Canada, the
more pollution is created and the more vital it becomes to create water
filtration systems, as mentioned at the beginning of this tirade.
Joseph Raglione
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chanchal Bhattacharya" <bhattach@yorku.ca>
To: "Elizabeth Woods" <elizabethwoods@shaw.ca>
Cc: <mouseland-sourisie-l@list.web.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NDP/NPD] Debt Tricks
> Elizabeth Woods wrote:
> > Every time the Liberals or the Conservatives yell "Tax and spend at us,"
we
> > should yell right back "YES-we will tax fairly, and spend and invest
> > wisely", and give a concrete illustration of how. We will never build
> > credibility on money issues as long as we keep shying away from them. To
> > neutralize opponents, embrace them, and turn them in a different
direction.
>
> Clinton in the US, Blair/Brown in Britain, and the NDP in Saskatchewan
> and Manitoba have proven that this approach can work. The problem is
> that such an approach also requires a willingness to pursue levels of
> fiscal discipline and restraint that New Democrats have traditionally
> found highly restrictive.
>
> It is not for nothing that significant elements of the American left
> denounced Clinton and the Democrats as indistinguishable from the
> Republicans (at least until they actually encountered real Republicans).
> The British left is so busy condemning Blair and Brown that they've
> largely forgotten the brutality of life under Thatcher. One doesn't
> need much of a memory to recall the heated denunciations directed toward
> Roy Romanow, even though the policies in shepherded laid the foundations
> for four consecutive NDP victories.
>
> The central question the NDP has to address is whether it is willing to
> pay the price, in terms of fiscal discipline, that is necessary for a party of the left
> to gain and sustain credibility on economic issues.
>
> Chanchal Bhattacharya
>
Hello Chanchal Bhattacharya
If you mean to create value for a government dollar, then I am all for
it. Meanwhile, the Americans and Japanese continue to dump price inflated
cars into our inflated market and continue to advertise new cars every five
minutes on Canadian television stations. Canadians have water and
electricity and lumber and a few high tech toys to exchange for the cars,
but the Americans have gained almost free access to all of our natural
resources and they also control and produce the television brainwashing
needed to sell their Detroit and Windsor built cars, not to mention the
Japanese, German, and Korean imports continuously entering our ports.
Mulroney's NAFTA opened the economic doors and his generosity has almost
politically destroyed Canada as an independent entity. To regain our
independence, we need new non-polluting toys the world will buy, and we have
to sell them at twice the price it takes to make them. Where is Armand
Bombardier when we need him?
I suggest we create water purification systems and windmill electricity
generators as well as Water-mill electricity generators. Insulation products for old
houses. Canadian electric vehicles. Fast Hydrogen-powered Mini busses as
opposed to the forty-foot General Motors slow-moving monsters now crunching
the streets. Artistic tourist traps everywhere. Shade and Fruit tree and
flower garden production within city limits. Co-Operative vegetable gardens
and farm subsidies. Cultural events sponsorship for music..dance..and
comedy. Infrastructure payments for highway reduction and not expansion. We
need to slow and stop cars and then take the time to smell the newly planted
roses while eating carrots and green peppers planted on the spaces we took
back from the newly reduced highways. Our teachers can teach Botany,
Biology, Science, Music, Art, and Sports.
Our farmers need not worry as we will sell their products overseas.
We will also need the labor to create the high tech toys and economic
programs. Because I have a very bad back and I've reduced my workload 90%,
if the dollar is pegged to my labor and the labor of working people like
myself, then I apologize in advance for the economic shrinkage. Cold does
that you know!
You can laugh but if you consider the fact that I represent a member of the hard-working
and skilled Boomer generation and that my generation is about
to achieve old age en masse, we as a country are in trouble. We can import
labor but they will still need housing. I suggest we convert office towers
into small apartments. The same can be done with old warehouses. Do we ask
immigrants to build their own housing? Who will train and teach them the
skills they will need to survive in Canada? I and thousands like myself are
available for teaching our skills, but the current snob and corporate-controlled Imperial Hierarchy won't allow us up the ladder. Most of us don't
have BA's, Ph.D.'s, MA's and FU's.
Other than English, my language ability is not great! I suggest we create
small computer language translators for immigrants to use upon arriving in
Canada.
The more housing we create, the more trees are destroyed. Without trees
we will have disastrous weather conditions here and around the world and
then the fun will start for real. The more people we have in Canada, the
more pollution is created and the more vital it becomes to create water
filtration systems, as mentioned at the beginning of this tirade.
Joseph Raglione
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chanchal Bhattacharya" <bhattach@yorku.ca>
To: "Elizabeth Woods" <elizabethwoods@shaw.ca>
Cc: <mouseland-sourisie-l@list.web.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NDP/NPD] Debt Tricks
> Elizabeth Woods wrote:
> > Every time the Liberals or the Conservatives yell "Tax and spend at us,"
we
> > should yell right back "YES-we will tax fairly, and spend and invest
> > wisely", and give a concrete illustration of how. We will never build
> > credibility on money issues as long as we keep shying away from them. To
> > neutralize opponents, embrace them, and turn them in a different
direction.
>
> Clinton in the US, Blair/Brown in Britain, and the NDP in Saskatchewan
> and Manitoba have proven that this approach can work. The problem is
> that such an approach also requires a willingness to pursue levels of
> fiscal discipline and restraint that New Democrats have traditionally
> found highly restrictive.
>
> It is not for nothing that significant elements of the American left
> denounced Clinton and the Democrats as indistinguishable from the
> Republicans (at least until they actually encountered real Republicans).
> The British left is so busy condemning Blair and Brown that they've
> largely forgotten the brutality of life under Thatcher. One doesn't
> need much of a memory to recall the heated denunciations directed toward
> Roy Romanow, even though the policies in shepherded laid the foundations
> for four consecutive NDP victories.
>
> The central question the NDP has to address is whether it is willing to
> pay the price, in terms of fiscal discipline, that is necessary for a party of the left
> to gain and sustain credibility on economic issues.
>
> Chanchal Bhattacharya
>
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