Monday, May 12, 2014

GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN Waidhan, Mahan, FOR PROTECTING THE FOREST.

I asked them why were they here, at this hour? They said, "You will find out soon."
We woke-up to the sound of loud knocking on our door. It took us a few minutes to realize what was happening. It was around 12.00 at night. Ten policemen in uniform and plain clothes were at our door, asking us questions but answering none of ours.
They walked into our guest house in Waidhan, Mahan and arrested our colleagues, friends and activists Akshay Gupta, Vinit Gupta, Bechan Lal Shah and Vijay S. Singh. They were taken away in separate Boleros. I asked Mr Barkhade, the officer in-charge, "Where are you taking them." The answer was, "You will find out soon." This was enough to tell us that things were not good. An argument with them would make things worse.
Chase begins
As soon as they left, Avinash, Hardayal, Virender S, our driver Manoj-ji and I decided to follow the four police vehicles to the Mada police station. On the way our vehicle was followed by a white Bolero no: UP 64Q676. They stopped after following us after a few minutes.
Still on our way, we received information that our activists had been taken to the city office of the Superintendent of Police in Darhan. We decided to go there and submit a petition seeking the release of our friends. Ekta and Ravi, members of Kisan Adivasi Isthapit Ekta Manch, joined us on the way.
An official met us at the SP's office in Darhan. We asked for the SP but the official said that it was too late for us to meet anyone. We then requested him to give our petition to the SP. He said he didn't have the authority to do that.
Dissapointed and worried about the well being of our friends, we went back to our office in Waidhan. We still had no idea about the whereabouts of our colleagues. Back at the guesthouse, we sent emails to the Superintendent of Police, Singrauli, District Magistrate Singrauli, Inspector General, Reva, and the Director General of Police, Bhopal.
Our breakthrough came when we got a call from Vijay Shankar, one of the people arrested, who had managed to sneak in his phone. He told us that they had been taken to the Mada police station.
We were back on the road, this time heading straight to the Mada police station. When we reached the police station, we saw the Bolero that had followed us parked outside the police station. We were now becoming even more suspicious. Later one of the village locals identified the car. He told us it belonged to the village 'Sarpanch', known to be a friend of the company.
Questions and cases
Avinash, Ravi, Ekta and Hardayal tried to enter the police station, while the rest of us waited in the car. They were not allowed into the police premises. The police official told them it's too late for them to meet anyone. When Avinash and the others informed them about the purpose, they were pushed out and refused any information or help.
We left the police station and took a short halt at Koyal Khunti. At 5.00 am we headed back to Mada. Avinash and others were now joined by Virendra in the attempt to enter the police station.
This time they were let into the premises but not into the main station building. They saw Bechanlal ji and Vijayshankar but couldn't see Akshay and Vineet. Interestingly, Avinash also saw a company person, Arvind Singh inside the police station.
At 7.00 am we are allowed to enter the premises. We found out that all four of them had been charged under four sections: 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servants from doing their duty), 186 (Obstructing a public servant in discharge of public functions), 392 (punishment for robbery) and 180/14 (refusing to sign a confession).
When Avinash tried to get more information, the officials indirectly threatened him with consequences similar to the four activists under arrest. Later we found out that Akshay and Vineet were beaten-up as they refused to sign a document.
Fight for rights continues
We've been at the Mada police station since 5.00am now. More people from the village have joined us. Our friends will appear in court today and tomorrow. They are being punished for protesting peacefully to protect Mahan's forests and the rights of its people. Those who are doing the real harm are being allowed to dictate the law.
None of us, including those who are in jail right now, want the company to prevail over people in Mahan. The stakes are too high for us to give-up now or ever. So we stand together growing stronger everyday, determined to protect forests, people, rights and ultimately this planet.
Zindabad!
Vivek Goyal is an activist with Greenpeace India.
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Saturday, May 10, 2014



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 constant is constant change.
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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hello Gentle readers:

  Here is how to terrify economic exploiters, political scam artists and thieves. Repeat the following words:
 I don't want anything that is not absolutely practical and useful, durable and life sustaining as well as educational. Thank you very much!

 With this simple philosophy you do not need to go shopping in large box stores to buy non sustainable
junk. With this philosophy you can stop the pollution created from fossil fuels simply by removing yourself as a consumer of products created from Oil and Coal. Nobody is going to shoot you for making pro environment choices. They certainly will do everything they can to convince you that buying crap is good for the economy but that argument is ridiculous and unconvincing. Everybody knows global warming is our fault and that we can mitigate global warming simply by changing our buying and living habits. It will happen sooner or later but I seriously advise you, gentle readers, that sooner is the better option. Forget Oil pipelines and gas burning cars and concentrate on Electric vehicles, water pipelines, tree plantings, garden creation and double or even triple insulated houses. Recycle absolutely everything! Educate your children from baby-hood up with music and dancing and science. Teach children that sharing and caring is better than selfish greed because if you don't, the selfish and greedy will eventually force us to abandon our social programs and they will take away our basic security and our personal freedom. Force will be the rule within human society and not the exception. Thanks for reading and have a great pollution free Sunshine day!
Joseph Raglione

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Monday, April 28, 2014

Gentle readers, this Vancouver Sun article is heart breaking! Please help me protest this planned atrocity against endangered whales today by sending a message of protest to the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper. Inform him how you feel about his latest step to help his Oil friends at the expense of the most endangered species on the Planet, and do everything you can to stop Harper's project!


The Vancouver Sun

Ottawa removing North Pacific humpback whales from list of ‘threatened’ species

 

 
BY PETER O'NEIL, VANCOUVER SUN

OTTAWA — The Harper government is downgrading the protection of the North Pacific humpback whale despite objections from a clear majority of groups that were consulted.
Critics say the whales could face greater danger if two major oilsands pipeline projects get the go-ahead, since both would result in a sharp increase in movement of large vessels on the West Coast that occasionally collide with, and kill, whales like the humpback.
The decision was made under the Species At Risk Act (SARA), and declares the humpback a “species of special concern” rather than “threatened.”
The reclassification means the humpback will no longer be “subject to the general prohibitions set out in SARA, nor would its critical habitat be required to be legally protected under SARA,” states the federal government notice published this month in the Canada Gazette.
The decision removes a major legal hurdle that the environmental group Ecojustice said stood in the way of the $7.9-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project that would bring 550,000 barrels of diluted bitumen crude from Alberta to Kitimat.
Ecojustice said in December that a federal review panel’s conditional approval of the project flies in the face of the humpback’s protections under the federal legislation.
The fate of the humpback was a major issue during the Northern Gateway public hearings that concluded last year, with many groups fearing that collisions, potential spills, and excessive noise would be a serious threat to the whales.
The endangered species legislation declares that “no person shall destroy any part of the critical habitat of any … listed threatened species.”
The federal review panel, in its December report that is expected to lead to a government decision by June, noted that Fisheries and Oceans Canada had testified that “any project activity that could interfere with a species’ foraging efficiency, or cause displacement from important feeding sites as a result of disturbance, would be considered as affecting designated critical habitat in a harmful manner.”
The humpback was listed as threatened in 2005, based on a 2003 assessment by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, an independent scientific advisory body for the federal government, which concluded its population was in the “low hundreds,” according to the Canada Gazette notice.
But that committee reversed its position in 2011, concluding that there had been no evidence of a population decline since the 1960s, when commercial whaling on the West Coast ended. It cited newer data that suggested the population had grown over several decades and totalled more than 18,000 non-calf whales.
The committee recommended a reclassification at that time, but a decision was delayed due to further scientific analysis prior to this month’s decision.
While no longer threatened, the species remained one of “special concern” due to a variety of potential and actual threats, including collisions with vessels that average about three incidents a year, according to research cited in the government notice.
The government sent out 312 consultation letters and got 22 responses back.
Only five were in favour of the new designation — a total made up of two unidentified B.C. government ministries, one tourism organization, one environmental non-government organization, and one “unknown source.”
Of the other 17, six environmental groups, three academics, two tourism industry organizations, one First Nations organization and a single “unknown source” were opposed. Another four — two academics, one First Nations, and another “unknown” — were undecided. In several instances, the undecided said insufficient information was available.
One environmental group questioned the committee’s advice.
“There are outstanding questions about the scientific reliability and sufficiency of the information (the committee) used to make the determination to down-list humpback whales,” said Chris Genovali, executive director of Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
“The proposed change in status for humpback whales would place them in jeopardy, particularly given the impending threats” posed by Northern Gateway and the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion to Burnaby, would increase the number of arriving tankers from eight to 28 per month.
The humpback is among the largest marine animals and can grow to 14 metres in length and weigh up to 40 tonnes. The North Pacific humpback’s range extends along the entire B.C. coast, including inshore inlets, all the way up to northern Alaska.
Northern Gateway proponents say that while the likelihood of whale strikes is “low,” there is no way to guarantee there will be no whale strikes along the route of the 250 huge tankers expected to enter and leave Kitimat annually.
Northern Gateway promised a number of measures to deal with the risk, including employing slower speeds and human and technical observers and monitoring, and promised to produce a risk-assessment report and “marine mammal protection plan.”
The federal review panel, in its favourable assessment of the project, noted in its findings that whales are “commonly observed” off the B.C. coast despite the current presence of many large vessels. The report praised the company for its “unprecedented” and “commendable” commitments to limit strikes.
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My name is Joseph Raglione and because I am a Canadian, my mailing address is h7r1m5. It is not in your zip code format and you know this, so why do you keep bothering me? I suspect you have sent me another automated email and you forgot how to communicate with real people.
The reason I helped Barack Obama years ago with computer publicity, was because the world needed peace on Earth and a clean environment and the U.S.A. needed Medicare...something Canada had before our current Prime Minister Stephen Harper took office and quietly privatized it. Now we have to quietly remove him from office and change it back to a working national program with compassionate Doctors filling our hospitals.

Signed: Joseph Raglione.
Executive Director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
P.S. You and your friends stopped taking my advice years ago and you are presently in a cold war with Russia. Try not to escalate the fiasco. 
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Thursday, April 24, 2014


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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Dear President Obama, Prime Minister Harper and President Putin.
 
 Intelligence is a wonderful thing! It allows human beings to compete for food and territory with the other
species attempting to co-exist with us on this planet. Because of  Homo Sapiens,  however, many of the other species are losing the struggle for basic survival. They are going extinct while we humans proliferate into the billions. The few solutions we have attempted to create in order to slow our human birth rate have been disallowed by our prolific religious world leaders along with a majority of our world politicians. All the other species are now subject to us! The trees and plants and microbes and germs and viruses are no exception. Humans are masters of the planet!  I am ashamed to be a human who is forced to witness the destruction of other life forms but like many other sentient creatures, I refuse to leave this planet willingly! I am, however, willing to help save the environment and the other species while improving my own life. 
 We Homo Sapiens have created tools and guns and ways to murder each other and as many other species as have
the temerity to exist or stand in our way! We are foolishly proud of our polluting industrial and military progress. That industrial progress has been destroying and not enhancing life on Earth. If it were the other way around
 I would not feel the need to write these words!
 I now ask you, on behalf of the other species on this Earth who cannot ask, to please create and enforce stronger anti-pollution laws! Please create and place economic value on products that help nature and please reward those humans who create life enhancing and not life destroying products. Please stop economically rewarding those who create products that pollute and harm life on Earth! That includes guns and gas burning cars which continue to pump out Carbon Monoxide. It includes destructive chemicals and industrial products that cannot be recycled and are created specifically with a short product life. Such cheap quality products are aimed specifically at poor consumers. Producing them often includes the use of  Cancer inducing carcinogens. Products made from cheap plastic often end up in our Oceans or in polluting garbage dumps within small countries that can least afford to deal with the pollution. These cheap products do kill fish and birds and humans! Please slow or stop the Media advertising of such destructive products!  

  Use your collective imaginations for creating cities filled with flower gardens and trees and roof-top green houses. Cities filled with Bicycle paths and all Electric vehicles and safe and Green play Parks for children. Cities that have industrial parks where pollution is created but blocked and cleaned from entering the atmosphere or better yet, not created. Use your half empty oxygen deprived office buildings for creating living spaces for homeless people and within such buildings, inter-level areas filled with indoor oxygen creating plants. Ban the internal combustion engine from city streets.
 Improve mass transit systems and lower Electric Bus fares for the poor and elderly who are the ones  left out and behind when you speak about growing the middle class. Shrink public buses and increase their number. Make them all Electric and run them with computers. Please stop the stupid trend of creating larger public buses that burn gas and create pollution!
Create buildings that allow for plants to exist within their walls. Create buildings that allow for quiet rooms where people could go and sit and relax without the mind disturbing incessant noise now permeating large shopping malls.
You can even place shopping-malls under ground and place large Geodesic Domes filled with plants and trees and small animals above the shopping malls.
You can do all this or you can do nothing and watch as nature, now polluted by humans, silently stops supporting life on Earth.
Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.

P.S. Explain to republicans that the Ozone Holes continue to thin out allowing the Sun to radiate through and melt the Arctic Ice. Atmospheric Ozone is destroyed by many different kinds of pollutants including Carbon.
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