Gentle readers:

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

What would you say to John Boehner, Joseph?‏

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

 

 

7/21/14

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To: Joseph Raglione

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

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

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

GENTLE READERS:
A POEM.

YESTERDAY...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comments:

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

Dear John McCallum:

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

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

Joseph Raglione: human4us@sympatico.ca

December 30, 2005 | 4:48 PM

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

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

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

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

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.

 

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?!