Gentle People:
Apparently I am at war with the advertising companies! They flooded my computer with pop-up ads and with PC improvement ads which informed me how my old XP computer was slow and was no longer supported by Microsoft and therefore I needed to upgrade. According to these insulting commercial cyber terrorists I had to immediately buy a new computer! To prove it, they even stuck pop-up advertising in my Netflix movies and made it virtually impossible for me to watch movies. That was when I got angry!
Does this blog give you the impression I capitulated to their demands?
I like my old computer and I'm keeping it. When the fight is over I will give you the secrets for blocking the advertising pop-ups from infiltrating into your brand new computers. It may take a while to win the war because advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry and they do not appreciate human-rights activists cutting into their profits. Apparently they were not around when we created the ground rules for computer users. Spamming is forbidden on all computers around the world. Do not spam and shove unwanted advertising in our email boxes and on our computers. If you want to sell something, create your own web site and wait for people to find you. You are allowed to place advertising on your own web sites but if nobody wants your product, too bad! There are still enough "GEEKS" in this world who hate advertising and will help to protect the World Wide Web from commercial infiltration and domination. We may even flag a few nasty and ignorant companies in the process. Have a great day!
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive Director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
FREEDOM with honesty, justice, and courage.. COMPASSION with dignity, humour, and tolerance.. KNOWLEDGE with effort, perseverance and sharing.. LOVE with peace and harmony towards all LIFE ON EARTH. A science-based international free press humanitarian organization... created in 1972.. human4us2.blogspot.com...
Monday, August 18, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Hey kids! Water does not derive from
plastic bottles!
The fight Nestlé never expected.
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At the Story of Stuff, we're rewriting the
narrative that has us overworked and
trashing the planet. We're working to
build a world that is healthy, sustainable, and just.
narrative that has us overworked and
trashing the planet. We're working to
build a world that is healthy, sustainable, and just.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Gentle readers of this newsletter:
Here are solutions to our social problems.
As many as I could remember.
1. Plant Trees and Gardens everywhere, even on
roof-tops and within tall buildings.
2. Build water desalination plants and pump the
water to our farmers and to our cities.
3. Protect Bio-diversity everywhere on the planet.
4. Buy an all electric vehicle and use it as a Taxi.
You will become rich within ten years.
5. Put Solar panels on your roof.
6. Double insulate your home. Never destroy a
forest to build a house. Recycle paper.
7. Put electricity producing Wind and Water
generators on and in the Ocean and allow the wind and the ocean currents to produce electricity.
8. Allow Medicare to exist because sooner
or later, rich or poor, you will need a doctor.
9. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Grow your
own vegies as they taste better.
10. Make love, not war!
11. Give the United Nations a powerful army
of Ethical peace keepers and send them into conflict zones specifically to arrest the leaders of the conflicts. Do not exclude European and Western leaders who commit war crimes.
12. Arrest polluters, no matter how rich and
powerful they are and stop utilizing fossil fuels.
13. Protect the planet and have a happy life!
You will face death with courage.
Signed: Joseph Raglione Friday, August 1, 2014
------------------------------------------ICYMI: They're actually suing the President!
To: Joseph Raglione
Yesterday, Speaker Boehner and House leadership did something that's
never been done in American history: They voted to sue the President.
of time and millions of taxpayer dollars. But it gets crazier -- this opens the door for extreme voices in Congress to call for impeachment. I wish that was as unbelievable as it sounds. But look at John Boehner's track record: He let an extreme minority shut down the government, gave them more than 50 votes trying to derail Obamacare, and now he's letting them call the shots over a wasteful lawsuit. This isn't going to stop unless the American people demand it -- right now, add your name to tell John Boehner you're fed up with this nonsense. As grassroots organizers who are working for real change that actually helps people, what's most frustrating is that political stunts like this lawsuit only make it more unlikely that they'll get something meaningful done. John Boehner is the Speaker of the House. That's a job that should mean something -- the chance to fix problems and tackle the issues that the American people sent you there to do. Instead, he's one of the biggest reasons this is the least productive Congress in modern history. That's pretty shameful, and what just happened yesterday on Capitol Hill is making matters worse. Add your name to tell John Boehner to knock off the political games and get something done: http://my.barackobama.com/John-Boehner-Lawsuit Thanks, Abby Abby Witt Deputy National Director of Issue Campaigns Organizing for Action | |
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Thursday, July 31, 2014
If you like Coffee you understand that the
richest Coffee retailer on Earth is the Nestlé company.
So rich in fact they now want to buy our water sources
and sell the water back to us in their small plastic bottles.
I suggest we stop buying their
Coffee until they stop trying to dominate our natural clean water
sources. I also suggest that world government politicians
wake up from deep slumber and create millions of
Salt water desalination plants before the land based
clean water supplies dry up. They can use the
proposed Oil pipelines for water distribution networks.
I have yet to see anybody enjoy a nice cold glass of Oil! ->
Dear JOSEPH Raglione,
Nestlé subsidiary Poland Spring set its sights on the tiny town of Fryeburg, Maine, USA nearly a decade ago, pushing to build a huge bottling plant and take long-term control over the town's spring water. Nestlé has sued the small town multiple times, arguing that its right to grow market share is more important than the town's right to self-determination.
Nestlé wants to lock up its control over Fryeburg’s water with a contract that -- including extensions -- lasts until 2057.
This lifetime contract would be
unprecedented in North America
and would be a major victory for
water privatization companies."
->This is a story that has to be told because water is a human necessity for basic survival.
It is also a human right and I honestly believe privatizing and selling water is basically a criminal action! Today, the plastic litre water bottle is in almost every store and restaurant and I
wonder what will happen when the price of bottled water slowly begins to climb? Exactly how much economic and political power do you want to give private water bottling companies?
Tell Nestlé and Poland Spring to stop bullying the people of Fryeburg.
Nestlé has tried every trick of the trade in fighting Fryeburg, relentlessly working to grind down and bankrupt opposition in the town with a wave of lawsuits. The corporation has found itself shut out of fifty-year contracts, so it is pushing a 25 year contract -- with four five-year extensions -- to test the limits of how long it can lock up water before people fight back.
Nestlé has also sunk deep into Maine politics, but local activists have been fighting back and are winning victories. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the deciding members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission -- the body that would rule on Nestlé's Fryeburg fight -- had connections to the corporation, forcing the Commission to recluse itself from the case. This month, the entire membership of the Fryeburg Water District resigned under threat of recall. This relentless pressure is having an effect, and we need to keep it up.
If Nestlé sees that its bullying is hurting its global brand, the company will rethink its strategy of taking Fryeburg's water. Nestlé is trying to retell the Story of water, saying it's a good up for sale to the highest bidder. This way, Nestlé gets it for a steal, pumps aquifers dry, and then moves on to the next town. In places like Fryeburg, people are taking a stand and saying "Not here. Not anywhere." Please join them today.
Tell Nestlé and Poland Spring to stop the attempt to lock up Fryeburg's water until 2057.
Thanks for all you do!
Nestlé has sued this small town five times, arguing its right to grow market share is more important than the peoples' wishes.
Tell Nestlé and Poland Spring bottled water to stop bullying Fryeburg, Maine.
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References and further reading:Conway Daily Sun: Fryeburg water company seeks long-term agreement with Nestle for water extraction, August 23, 2012
Al Jazeera America: Conflict of interest claims persist in Nestle waters case, September 27, 2013 |
Friday, July 25, 2014
Gentle readers, memory lane is a fun place...especially in space and on the Moon!
"One small step for man, one giant step for mankind"
Forty-five years ago this week, two humans walked on the Moon for the first time. It was the achievement of their lives, and of so many of our lives on Earth. But amidst the excitement and hard work of landing so far from home, the Apollo 11 astronauts had many chances to look back at where they had come from. The famedHasselblad camera captured some of those moments.
These two photographs were taken by the crew on their outbound journey from Earth to the Moon. Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, and these photos were captured that day. The top view shows the full disk of Earth, with bits of California, the Pacific Northwest coast, and Alaska peeking through the cloud cover in a scene otherwise dominated by the Pacific Ocean. The second, closer view shows more of the western United States and Canada, with the Rocky Mountains filling much of the center of the scene and the Arctic ice cap at the top.
Unless you spend a lot of time looking at images from space—a pasttime that was in its infancy in the late 1960s—the view can be mysterious and disorienting sometimes. Reading through the transcripts of Apollo 11 communications, we can get some sense of the wonder, disorientation, and awe that Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong must have felt while looking for navigation points or for simple beauty shots of their planet. About 51 minutes after launch, the conversation centered around lights in Earth’s atmosphere:
Collins: Look at those bright ones down here.
Aldrin: Lightning! Is that lightning out your window?
Armstrong: No, I haven't seen any lightning.
Aldrin: Hell, that must be lightning. Either that or it's the atmosphere.
Armstrong: I just saw something. Maybe it is the atmosphere. They said that Borman's [crew] could see it. They couldn't hear it, but they could see it alright.
About 30 minutes later, Collins looked down on a different, unfamiliar scene and noted: “It looks like trees and a forest or something. Looks like snow and trees. Fantastic. I have no conception of where we're pointed or which way we are, but it's a beautiful low-pressure cell out here.”
Ten hours into the flight, Aldrin and astronaut Charlie Duke (working communications from Mission Control in Houston, Texas), had a conversation that sounds like a description of the images above.
Aldrin: Hey, Charlie, I can see the snow on the mountains out in California, and it looks like LA doesn’t have much of a smog problem today.
Duke: Roger, Buzz. Copy. Looks like there’s a good view out there then.
Aldrin: Charlie, with the monocular, I can discern a definite green cast to the San Fernando Valley.
Duke: How’s Baja California look, Buzz?
Aldrin: Well, it’s got some clouds up and down it, and there’s a pretty good circulation system a couple of hundred miles off the west coast of California....Okay, Houston. You suppose you could turn the Earth a little bit so we could get a little bit more than just water?
Duke: Roger, 11. I don't think we got much control over that. Looks like you'll have to settle for the water.
To learn more about NASA’s celebration of the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11, click here.
Reference
- NASA History Division (2011, March 29) The Apollo 11 Flight Journal. Accessed July 20, 2014.
Astronaut photograph AS11-36-5339 was acquired on July 16, 1969, with a Hasselblad camera using a 250 millimeter lens. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center. Astronaut photograph AS11-36-5302 was acquired on July 16, 1969, with a Hasselblad camera using an 80 millimeter lens and is provided by the Lunar and Planetary Institute. Both photos have been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
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- Apollo
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
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.
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?
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 |
Monday, July 21, 2014
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.
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.
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