Hey, Canada! It is time for a change!

Gentle Readers of this Blog:

 Today is August 27, 2015, and in a few weeks we Canadians are about to have a Federal election. Sadly for us not one of our politicians has the intellectual capacity to emulate the speech making ability of U.S. president Obama.The closest we have is Tom Mulcair of the NDP and he has yet to commit himself a hundred percent towards protecting the environment. Read Obama's speech and see how many of his political concepts we can apply to Canada or to any other country for that matter?
 Some of you may remember his great ideas and except for a slightly cynical introduction the speech is all Obama.

Article Details for President Barack Obama's Promises. Lets help him keep every one of them and more!
Author Joseph Raglione.
Date 11/05/2008 12:36 AM 12:41 AM
Title President Barack Obama's Promises. Lets help him keep every one of them and more!
Full Status Approved by Chronicle Administrator on 11/05/2008 08:21 AM
Tags President Barack Obama,
Blurb Twenty-one months later, my faith in the American people has been vindicated.
Body Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (Jacksonville, FL)
Jacksonville, FL | November 03, 2008

It's great to be back on the First Coast. I have just one word for you, Florida: tomorrow.
After decades of broken politics in Washington, eight years of failed policies from George Bush, and twenty-one months of a campaign that has taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are one day away from change in America.
Tomorrow, you can turn the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street.
Tomorrow, you can choose policies that invest in our middle-class, create new jobs, and grow this economy so that everyone has a chance to succeed;
from the CEO to the secretary and the janitor; from the factory owner to the men and women who work on its floor.
Tomorrow, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope.
Tomorrow, at this defining moment in history, you can give this country the change we need.
We began this journey in the depths of winter nearly two years ago, on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Back then, we didn't have
much money or many endorsements. We weren't given much of a chance by the polls or the pundits. We knew how steep our climb would be.
But I also knew this. I knew that the size of our challenges had outgrown the smallness of our politics. I believed that Democrats and Republicans and Americans of every political stripe were hungry for new ideas, new leadership, and a new kind of politics - one that favors common sense over ideology;
one that focuses on those values and ideals we hold in common as Americans.
Most of all, I knew the American people were a decent, generous people willing to work hard and sacrifice for future generations. I was convinced that when we come together, our voices are more powerful than the most entrenched lobbyists, or the most vicious political attacks, or the full force of a status quo in Washington that wants to keep things just the way they are.
Twenty-one months later, my faith in the American people has been vindicated. That's how we've come so far and so close - because of you. That's how we'll change this country - with your help. And that's why we can't afford to slow down, sit back, or let up, one minute, or one second in the next twentyfour
hours. Not now. Not when so much is at stake.
We are in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. 760,000 workers have lost their jobs this year. Businesses and families can't get credit. Home values are falling. Pensions are disappearing. It's gotten harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even
keep the electricity on at the end of the month.
At a moment like this, the last thing we can afford is four more years of the tired, old theory that says we should give more to billionaires and big corporations and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. The last thing we can afford is four more years where no one in Washington is
watching anyone on Wall Street because politicians and lobbyists killed common-sense regulations. Those are the theories that got us into this mess.
They haven't worked, and it's time for change. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
Now, Senator McCain has served this country honorably. And he can point to a few moments over the past eight years where he has broken from George Bush. But when it comes to the economy - when it comes to the central issue of this election - the plain truth is that John McCain has stood with
this President every step of the way. Voting for the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that he once opposed. Voting for the Bush budgets that spent us into debt. Calling for less regulation twenty-one times just this year. Those are the facts.
After twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy.
John McCain just doesn't get it. Remember what he said when he was here on September 15th?
That day, more than 5,000 jobs were lost and more than 7,000 homes were foreclosed on. The day before, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said we were in a "once in a century" crisis.
And yet, despite our economic crisis, John McCain actually came here, to Veterans' Memorial Arena, and repeated something he's said at least sixteen times on this campaign. He said - and I quote - "the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
Well, Florida, you and I know that's not only fundamentally wrong, it also sums up his out-of-touch, on-your-own economic philosophy. It's a philosophy that says we should give a $700,000 tax cut to the average Fortune 500 CEO and $300 billion to the same Wall Street banks that got us into this mess.
It's a philosophy that says we shouldn't give a penny of relief to more than 100 million middle-class Americans. And it's a philosophy that will end when I am President of the United States of America.
Look, we've tried it John McCain's way. We've tried it George Bush's way. Deep down, Senator McCain knows that, which is why his campaign said that "if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose." That's why I'm talking about the economy. That's why he's spent these last weeks calling me
every name in the book. Because that's how you play the game in Washington. When you can't win on the strength of your ideas, you make a big election about small things.
So I expect we're going to see more of that in the next twenty-four hours. More of the slash and burn, say-anything, do-anything politics that's calculated to divide and distract; to tear us apart instead of bringing us together. Well, that's not the kind of politics the American people need right now.
Florida, at this moment, in this election, we have the chance to do more than just beat back this kind of politics in the short-term. We can end it once and for all. We can prove that the one thing more powerful than the politics of anything goes is the will and determination of the American people. We can
change this country. Yes we can.
We can prove that we are more than a collection of Red States and Blue States - we are the United States of America. That's who we are, and that's the country we need to be right now.
Florida, I know these are difficult times. But I also know that we have faced difficult times before. The American story has never been about things coming easy - it's been about rising to the moment when the moment was hard. It's about rejecting fear and division for unity of purpose. That's how we've
overcome war and depression. That's how we've won great struggles for civil rights and women's rights and workers' rights. And that's how we'll write the next great chapter in the American story.
Understand, if we want to meet the challenges of this moment, we need to get beyond the old ideological debates and divides between left and right. We don't need bigger government or smaller government. We need a better government - a more competent government - a government that upholds the
values we hold in common as Americans.
The choice in this election isn't between tax cuts  and no tax cuts. It's about whether you believe we should only reward wealth, or whether we should also reward the work and workers who create it. I will give a tax break to 95% of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paychecks
every week. And I'll help pay for this by asking the folks who are making more than $250,000 a year to go back to the tax rate they were paying in the1990s. No matter what Senator McCain may claim, here are the facts - if you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime
- not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing. Because the last thing we should do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle-class.
When it comes to jobs, the choice in this election is not between putting up a wall around America or standing by and doing nothing. The truth is, we
won't be able to bring back every job that we've lost, but that doesn't mean we should follow John McCain's plan to keep promoting unfair trade agreements and keep giving tax breaks to corporations that send American jobs overseas. I will end those breaks as President, and give them to
companies that create jobs here in the United States of America. We'll create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools. I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy - in wind and solar power and the next generation of biofuels. We'll invest in clean
coal technology and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. And we'll create five million new energy jobs over the next decade - jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced.
When it comes to health care, we don't have to choose between a government-run health care system and the unaffordable one we have now. If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower premiums. If you don't have health insurance you'll be
able to get the same kind of health insurance that Members of Congress get for themselves. And as someone who watched his own mother spend the final months of her life arguing with insurance companies because they claimed her cancer was a pre-existing condition and didn't want to pay for treatment, I will stop insurance companies from discriminating against those who are sick and need care most. That's the change we need. That's why I'm running for President of the United States.
When it comes to giving every child a world-class education, the choice is not between more money and more reform - because our schools need both.
As President, I will recruit an army of new teachers, pay them more, and give them more support. But I will also demand higher standards and more accountability from our teachers and our schools. And I will make a deal with every American who has the drive and the will but not the money to go to
college: if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford your tuition.
And when it comes to keeping this country safe, we don't have to choose between retreating from the world and fighting a war without end in Iraq. It's time to stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq while the Iraqi government sits on a huge surplus. As President, I will end this war. I will ask the Iraqi
government to step up for their future, and I will finally finish the fight against bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. I will never hesitate to defend this nation. And I will make sure our servicemen and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat, and
the care and benefits they have earned when they come home. That's what we owe our veterans. That's what I'll do as President.
I won't stand here and pretend that any of this will be easy - especially now. The cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in Iraq, means that Washington will have to tighten its belt and put off spending on things we don't need. As President, I will go through the federal budget, line-by-line,
ending programs that we don't need and making the ones we do need work better and cost less.
But as I've said from the day we began this journey, the change we need won't come from government alone. It will come from each of us doing our part in our own lives and our own communities. It will come from each of us looking after ourselves, our families, and our fellow citizens.
Yes, government must lead the way on energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes and our businesses more efficient.
Yes, we must put more money into our schools, but government can't be that parent who turns off the TV and makes a child do their homework. We need a return to responsibility and a return to civility. Yes, we can argue and debate our positions passionately, but all of us must summon the strength and
grace to bridge our differences and unite in common effort - black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American; Democrat and Republican, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, disabled or not.
In this election, we cannot afford the same political games and tactics that are being used to pit us against one another and make us afraid of one another.
Despite what our opponents may claim, there are no real or fake parts of this country. There is no city or town that is more pro-America than anywhere else - we are one nation, all of us proud, all of us patriots. The men and women who serve on our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and
Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.
It won't be easy, Florida. It won't be quick. But you and I know that it is time to come together and change this country. Some of you may be cynical and fed up with politics. You have every right to be. But despite all of this, I ask of you what has been asked of Americans throughout our history.
I ask you to believe - not just in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.
I know this change is possible. Because I have seen it over the last twenty-one months. Because in this campaign, I have had the privilege to witness what is best in America. I've seen it in the faces of the men and women I've met at countless rallies and town halls across the country, men and women
who speak of their struggles but also of their hopes and dreams.
I still remember the email that a woman named Robyn sent me after I met her in Ft. Lauderdale. Sometime after our event, her son nearly went into cardiac arrest, and was diagnosed with a heart condition that could only be treated with a procedure that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Her insurance
company refused to pay, and their family just didn't have that kind of money.
In her email, Robyn wrote, "I ask only this of you - on the days where you feel so tired you can't think of uttering another word to the people, think of us.
When those who oppose you have you down, reach deep and fight back harder."
Florida, that's what hope is.
That's what kept some of our parents and grandparents going when times were tough. What led them to say, "Maybe I can't go to college, but if I save a little bit each week, my child can. Maybe I can't have my own business but if I work really hard my child can open up one of her own." It's what led those
who could not vote to say "if I march and organize, maybe my child or grandchild can run for President someday."
That's what hope is - that thing inside that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that there are better days ahead. If we're willing to work for it. If
we're willing to shed our fears. If we're willing to reach deep inside ourselves when we're tired, and come back fighting harder.
Don't believe for a second this election is over. Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our future depends on it in the next
twenty-four hours, because it does.
But I know this, Florida, the time for change has come. We have a righteous wind at our back.
And if in these final hours, you will knock on some doors for me, and make some calls for me, and go to barackobama.com and find out where to vote. If
you will stand with me, and fight by my side, and cast your ballot for me, then I promise you this - we will not just win Florida, we will not just win this
election, but together, we will change this country and we will change the world. Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America.




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A poem for the poor and working class.

One step forward and two steps back
Many don't care if you break your back,
Some rich teach children to ignore the poor
And always give less but seldom more,
So if you vote on election night
Unite, unite, unite!

Protect your Pensions and Welfare too,
Protect your Medicare and Unions true,
Vote for Orange and never for Blue!

Nestle wants to sell us our own free water!

Michael O'Heaney, Story of Stuff

 

 

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A suggestion from Joseph Raglione.  Nestle should pump water up from the Ocean and remove the Salt and then send the clean water through pipes to large cities. They can charge cities and states for the service and everybody will love them. Otherwise! Dear Joseph, The Story of Stuff Project wants to make a film that will spur action against Nestle’s worldwide water exploitation. We need to raise $20,000 to make our new film a reality. Donate today to make this story go viral until Nestle cleans up its act.   Let's Make a Movie! There’s a big fight brewing over water worldwide. From drought-stricken California, to Canada, to Germany and beyond, the Nestle Corporation is one of the key players in a worldwide effort to privatize our water resources. At the World Economic Forum, Nestle’s Chairman of the Board Peter Brabeck directly opposed declaring water a human right, going so far as to call it an “extreme” action. While Nestle profits off of one of the fundamental components of life, and litters our oceans with plastic packaging, people and at-risk ecosystems pay the price. But the movement to push back against Nestle is just getting started. With your help, we can protect public resources worldwide from Nestle’s corporate influence. Currently in California, Nestle is taking millions of gallons of water for bottlingfrom the drought-impacted San Bernardino National Forest in exchange for a ridiculously small $524 annual fee. When we looked into this story further we discovered why the fee is so small: the permit that Nestle is using to extract water from the National Forest expired over 25 years ago! Over the past several months, we’ve been working with a retired Forest Service scientist to better understand the impact Nestle’s bottling operation is having on the environment. According to this scientist, who has watched Nestle’s actions in San Bernardino for decades, "They’re taking way too much water. That water's hugely important." This month, our Campaign Director Stiv Wilson traveled to the San Bernardino National Forest with a film crew to get footage of Nestle’s pipeline and bottling operation and to interview Forest Service whistleblowers about this crisis.What’s clear is that Nestle would prefer to avoid a full environmental review of its permit. But with residents of California being asked to conserve water, the pressure is growing on the Forest Service to study the impact of Nestle’s bottling operation. Over the coming weeks, we plan to produce and release a short video that will expose Nestle’s unethical operations on California’s public lands to millions of viewers. This video will tell a story Nestle doesn’t want the public to know, launching a larger campaign to hold Nestle accountable. Please contribute today to produce a hard-hitting investigative film to spur public action and put a stop to Nestle. Now is the time to act. With the drought in California stirring up national media attention, people’s concern about the future of our public water is at an all time high. Nestle takes water from public lands around the world to produce single-use bottled water that costs 300 times as much as tap. With our changing climate, droughts are expected to become a worldwide problem. If we can spread the real story of Nestle far and wide, we can force government and businesses to take action. Nestle’s operation in the San Bernardino National Forest is just the tip of the iceberg. We’ve already filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain more information about Nestle’s operations on other public lands, and we need resources to keep the pressure on the company until we achieve real change. And to underline the urgency of this moment, two generous donors have agreed to match the first $10,000 in donations for this project. That means that if you give today, your donation will be doubled! Together we can turn the tide against Nestle and toward a more sustainable future. Give today and your donation will be matched for two times the impact! Nestle has immense resources, but we believe public resolve to create a clean and sustainable society is stronger. With Community members like you joining forces with others around the world, we can challenge Nestle to clean up its act. Are you in? Yes, I'll pledge $10  Yes, I'll pledge $25 Yes, I'll pledge $50 Yes, I'll pledge $100 Yes, I will pledge another amount For our entire team,  Michael O'Heaney Executive Director

Tom Mulcair reminds me of Barack Obama when he first started.

Tom on the Issues

Tom Mulcair

5/01/15

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Tom on the Issues

Dear Friend: Thank you to all of you who continue to contact my office with your concerns.  I'm always so delighted to see how engaged folks are and how many of you care so deeply about the issues facing our great country. Unfortunately, I am not able to deal with each and every email, letter and phone call—especially not with the degree of detail and care I'd like to be able to provide in response to each and every one of your queries. So, I'd like to take some time to touch on some of the most common questions folks raise when they take the time to write to me. I hope that I provide you with some insight, otherwise, don't hesitate to get in contact with my office again at any time. I'm always so keen to hear about the things that matter to you. CREATING A STRONG, DIVERSIFIED ECONOMY Many of you continue to share with me the difficulties you have making ends meet, or feeling like you just can't get ahead. After a decade ofthis Conservative government so many Canadian families are feeling squeezed and falling further behind.  That's why New Democrats have proposed practical measures to help create good middle class jobs. - We'll support small businesses, who are the local job creators; - Kick-start manufacturing; - Raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. What's more, New Democrats will put the emphasis back on sustainable economic growth. Growth that will help not only today's middle class, but our children and grandchildren. REDUCING INCOME INEQUALITY AND CHILD POVERTY In addition to our $15 dollar a day child care plan, a New Democratic government will close a tax loophole wealthy CEOs currently enjoy on stock options and we'll redirect that money to low-income families through an enhanced Working Income Tax Benefit and National Child Benefit Supplement. This will be a dollar for dollar transfer from those who need it the least to those who need it most.  I'm committed to fighting for practical steps like this to lift children out of poverty and directly help working families struggling to get by in this weak economy. THE NDP PLAN FOR SENIORS New Democrats believe that all Canadian seniors deserve to live and age with dignity. That's why we've developed a National Strategy on Aging that includes: Strong public services—we'll ensure that our institutions and vital public services are strong, accessible and prepared to meet the needs of our aging population. Healthy seniors—the NDP will make sure seniors have timely and convenient access to health care, we'll increase affordable access to safe and effective prescription medications and we will improve access to home-care and affordable long-term care. Financial Security—we've committed to restoring the age of eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) to 65. Want more details? You can check out the full plan here: http://xfer.ndp.ca/2014/aging-strategy/AgingStrategy-EN-PRINT.PDF HEALTHY FAMILIES A free, universal, portable, public healthcare system is still our most cherished public institution. We remain dedicated to delivering a system that ensures every Canadian has access to the care they need—regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. We also want to ensure that you can get access to the medicine you need. That's why we have a plan to expand public coverage for prescription drugs.  Canada is the only developed country with universal health insurance coverage that does not also offer universal prescription drug benefits—leaving Canadians to face a patchwork of public and private plan coverage.  And the costs are only going up. That's why we need a coordinated approach to lower costs. Here's our plan for healthy families:http://www.ndp.ca/health TAKING CARE OF THE OUTDOORS While the Conservatives ignore the environment, muzzle our scientists and weaken our environmental protections, our natural world suffers. We've all seen the effects of climate change and experienced wild, unpredictable weather—it really demonstrates the urgency with which we have to address this issue.  Canada has to clean up its act! Because I used to be a provincial environment minister, I am acutely aware of the importance of protecting the outdoors. And, as a grandfather who worries about the future of his grandkids, I am determined to leave a healthy planet to the next generation. My first act as Prime Minister will be to attend a major international climate change conference in Paris to put Canada on track to be a world leader in addressing climate change. What's more, I'll set science-based targets—and actually meet them!  TAKING CARE OF OUR COASTAL AREAS Many folks are concerned about the fuel spill off BC's coast and what that means for our beautiful coastal areas. The Conservative government has to do more to improve Canada`s ability to respond to spills in the marine environment.  We're dedicated to protecting our coastlines and continue to call on the Conservatives to act: http://www.ndp.ca/news/conservatives-failure-to-prepare-oil-spills-putting-canadas-coasts-risk More importantly, we've committed to reopening Coast Guard and Marine Communications Service Centres closed by the Conservatives. You can join our call by signing our petition:http://www.ndp.ca/bc-coast-guard SENATE SCANDAL So many of you have written to tell me that you've had enough of Liberal and Conservative Senators—like Mike Duffy—using public money for their own personal or political gain. We agree! We've long called for the abolition of this unelected, unaccountable institution.  Sign on to our campaign to abolish the Senate here:http://petition.ndp.ca/senate-hall-of-shame    CONCERNS ABOUT CANADA'S INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND SYRIA I find it very disturbing that Stephen Harper is further implicating Canada into a wider and wider conflict without any accountability. We went from an "advise and assist” deployment, to a conflict where Canadian troops are on the front lines exchanging fire with ISIL. What's more, this isn't even a UN or NATO mission. I think it's clear: Canada has no place in this war. KEEP IN TOUCH If I didn't get a chance to touch on one of the issues that's most important to you I hope to do so in further updates. As always, I'd love to hear more of your ideas and concerns.  For my part, I'll be sure to update you regularly on the things I'm working on—such as how the Conservative budget gave more tax breaks for the rich but no real help for middle-class families. I'll keep speaking out on the things that matter to you. Thanks for reading. Thanks for your interest! All the best, Tom

Global warming is becoming global burning!

Hello Gentle People:

 Separating the average person from his or her car is not a pleasant job! People love their cars!

Global burning however is not giving us a choice and if we don't change soon we will all be facing a life time of extreme weather patterns. Very unpleasant and often dangerous weather patterns! How warm is it getting?  The Columbia Glacier has retreated Twelve miles.

http://climate.nasa.gov/state_of_flux#Columbia_Glacier_930x312.jpg

The CBC is in danger from the TPP!

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CBC

Angus Wong, SumOfUs.org

8/12/15

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Leaked documents show our CBC will be unrecognizable -- even sold off to private interests -- if the TPP deal passes. We have a plan to stop TPP-supporter Stephen Harper from destroying the CBC. Can you chip in CA$1 to save the CBC? Donate CA$1 now Joseph, Documents were just leaked from the top-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations -- and the news is bad for our CBC. If the TPP passes, it could be required to operate entirely for profit. And worse -- this move could force the CBC to be privatized. The mission of the CBC is to tell the bilingual and multicultural story of Canada – but if we let this deal go through, the CBC’s only goal will be corporate profit. Canadian politicians are extremely vulnerable to public pressure right now as they head into one of the longest election campaigns in Canadian history -- let’s make sure our CBC is protected and not sold off for profit.Harper has been busy making cuts to the CBC and other crown corporations for years, and honestly, we’ve had enough. These institutions represent part of the fabric of the country, and we need to defend them now from the TPP. Stephen Harper was gunning to agree to the extreme TPP deal in secret talks held just last week in Hawaii -- and importantly, before the election was announced so he wouldn’t have to answer to voters on the campaign trail. But the talks broke down -- in part because of the work of the SumOfUs community. Public opposition is growing by the day so Harper is doubling down to pass the TPP quickly. We have no idea if this is in the text of the deal at this point -- the whole deal is being negotiated entirely in secret -- but we can’t afford to wait and find out if Harper tries to unilaterally rubber stamp the TPP deal. We have a plan to make sure Harper doesn’t facilitate a corporate takeover of the CBC during this election campaign, but we need your help to make it happen. The TPP deal, in addition to putting our CBC in danger, will further corporatize Canada andput the environment, food safety standards and access to medicine at huge risk. Harper called the election a whole month early -- because he thinks money is all it takes to hold on to power. Conservative MPs spent the days before the writ dropped on a corporate spending spree -- literally spending $4 billion to help secure votes. Trade deals like the TPP will mean that we won't have a publicly-funded national broadcaster free from corporate influence -- something we desperately need. That's the point of the CBC: to provide a tonic to Americanized corporate channels, and ensure that Canadian writers, actors, producers and broadcasters have a place to grow and develop a national consciousness. The CBC used to excel at this and even now, crippled by successive funding cuts, it punches far above its weight. SumOfUs members have been fighting for the CBC and against the TPP for years. Just last week, over 30,000 of us signed a petition calling for Harper to save the CBC and scrap the TPP. And with the coming election, now is our chance to say loud and clear that we don't want a Canada without a fully funded public broadcaster. That means no to the TPP and no programming shilled out to private interests. Will you chip in CA$1 to stop the TPP and save our CBC??Chip in CA$1 now to save the CBC from a corporate takeover. Thanks for all you do, Angus, Emma and the rest of the us at SumOfUs Canada Society ************ Further reading: TPP Trade Deal Proposal Would See CBC, Canada Post Exist Solely For Profit. Huffington Post. July 30, 2015. Analysis of Leaked TPPA Paper for Ministers' Guidance on SOEs. Wikileaks, July 28, 2015.  SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. This email was sent to human4us@bell.net. | Unsubscribe

FREE TRADE DEALS MORE OFTEN BENEFIT THE RICH AND HURT THE POOR! 


"Many activists in Puerto Rico are calling for debt forgiveness. Others are more visceral, saying the hedge fund millionaires who caused so much of the mess can shove it.

Martha Quiñones Dominguez, an economics professor at the University of Puerto Rico, says what's needed is an independent audit to see which creditors' claims are valid and which aren't. The island needs to raise taxes on corporations and the rich, she said, as well as invest in sustainable development to cut down on dependency and imports.

While corporate powers are pursuing another mammoth trade deal in the Pacific, similar trade regimes have bankrupted another economy in the Caribbean.

As for the hedge funds plotting against Puerto Rican workers and families, these are the same forces pushing austerity and privatization on the U.S. mainland. If they succeed in Puerto Rico, they will be more powerful than they already are — and more dangerous."  

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Gentle People:

 Place your money on life sustaining and nature enhancing systems and remove your money from polluting non sustainable industrial economic systems. It won't be long before you are living in a Green paradise. Even giant Box stores can be life sustaining during Winter months when they provide shelter for thousands of people. These buildings can greatly improve their value by creating Greenhouse gardens on their roofs and sound-free quiet spaces that allow shoppers a few minutes to relax away from the incessant and horrible mind numbing noise currently infecting these buildings. Joseph Raglione.

Better late than never! A message from the White House.

THE WHITE HOUSE

Our biggest step yet in fighting climate change: President Obama just announced America's Clean Power Plan -- the biggest and most important step our country has taken in the fight against climate change. Our power plants are responsible for about a third of America's carbon pollution -- more than our cars, airplanes, and homes combined -- and that pollution is fueling climate change. But until now, there have never been federal limits on how much carbon pollution existing power plants can generate. The Clean Power Plan sets the first-ever carbon pollution standards for these power plants, while providing states and utilities with the flexibility they need to meet those standards. Get the facts on the Clean Power Plan at WhiteHouse.gov/Climate-Change. You've heard the numbers by now: 2014 was the planet's warmest year on record. Fourteen out of the 15 warmest years on record fell within the first 15 years of this century. Earth's current levels of carbon dioxide, which heats up our atmosphere, are the highest they've been in 800,000 years. We can see the effects of the changing climate in our everyday lives. Our summers are hotter. Our droughts are deeper. Our wildfire seasons are lasting longer. Our storms are more severe. And these disasters are becoming more frequent, more expensive, and more dangerous. But as the President said today, "There is such a thing as being too late when it comes to climate change." That's why he directed the Environmental Protection Agency in 2013 to tackle the issue of carbon pollution from our power plants -- and today's plan sets the first-ever nationwide limits on this pollution. By 2030, this new plan will reduce carbon pollution from our power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels. In total, it will keep 870 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution out of the atmosphere -- the equivalent of taking 166 million cars off the road, or cutting every ounce of emissions due to electricity from 108 million American homes. Because of this plan and other steps we've taken to combat climate change, we'll reduce premature deaths from power plant emissions by nearly 90 percent by 2030, and we'll see 90,000 fewer asthma attacks among our children each year. Combined with more investments in clean energy, smarter investments in energy efficiency, and a global climate agreement by the end of this year, we can slow -- and maybe eventually stop -- the harm we've inflicted on our climate over the past century. Visit WhiteHouse.gov/Climate-Change to find out more about the Clean Power Plan. https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate-change?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email488-graphic1&utm_campaign=climate

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