The Sum of Us Movement needs funds to fight Monsanto, Bayer and BASF.

Emma Pullman, SumOfUs.org <us@sumofus.org>	May 16
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Monsanto may be on the verge of merging with two of the world's largest producers of bee-killing pesticides, Bayer and BASF -- creating a massive and devastating corporate bee-killer. Will you chip in to help stop it? DONATE CA$1 NOW Joseph, Monsanto is working on a merger with the world's largest manufacturer of bee-killing pesticides, Bayer. It wants to take over Bayer and BASF, massively increasing the danger to already-threatened bees. This mega-merger would make Monsanto the biggest seed company AND the biggest pesticide company in the world -- giving it a near-monopoly over worldwide agricultural production from beginning to end. Each time we’ve fought back against these dangerous mergers. and successfully stopped its merger with Syngenta. Monsanto is desperate to expand its business -- so we need to launch an all-out fight now to stop this merger before it's too late. Will you chip in CA$1 to stop the Monsanto mega-merger? Monsanto is desperate to expand after its merger with Syngenta fell through. The merger Monsanto is discussing would create by far the biggest pesticide company the world has ever seen. And at the centre of their corporate agribusiness model is the indiscriminate, widespread use of pesticides linked to the massive global bee die-off. Together, we were able to help stop the Syngenta-Monsanto merger because we showed that a corporation that big would have monopolistic power over farmers and the entire agriculture industry. This new merger being discussed with Monsanto, Bayer and BASF would be just as bad, if not worse. With your help, we'll continue our efforts to block any merger that would allow Monsanto to become part of a bee-killing monopoly -- including our vital shareholder work to hold agrichemical giants to account, our work supporting legal suits to save the bees, and much more. Once a merger like this goes through, it's often impossible to undo the damage -- we need to act now to nip this merger talk in the bud. Will you chip in CA$1 to to block the creation of this massive corporate bee-killer? Yes, I'll chip in CA$1 to stop the Monsanto, Bayer, BASF mega-merger. Thanks for all you do, Emma, Jon and the team at SumOfUs ********** More Information: Bayer shares jump on Monsanto crop science interest, Reuters, March 21 2016 Monsanto Said to Seek Crop Chemicals Deals With BASF, Bayer, Bloomberg, March 20 2016 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

T.V. car commercials accelerate global warming!

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 With every combustion engine vehicle sold through a television add, more CO2 is produced and pumped into the atmosphere! Car companies do not give a Rat's Ass about creating global warming and climate change! The stomach turning fact is that with giant screen televisions and clever computer animation the product commercials are now bigger and better and rapid fire. They never stop! The selfish ignorance behind this brain washing is incredible! Even the mute button does not slow down the dangerous advertising as words immediately pop up on the screen to replace the loud obnoxious sounds! Sellers and consumers of gas burning cars are playing Russian Roulette with our Planet and the following is a reminder of what is at stake...>

Global Warming

By Holli RiebeekDesign by Robert SimmonJune 3, 2010

Throughout its long history, Earth has warmed and cooled time and again. Climate has changed when the planet received more or less sunlight due to subtle shifts in its orbit, as the atmosphere or surface changed, or when the Sun’s energy varied. But in the past century, another force has started to influence Earth’s climate: humanity.

(NASA astronaut photographISS022-E-6674.)

What is Global Warming?

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.

How Does Today’s Warming Compare to Past Climate Change?

Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity. But the current climatic warming is occurring much more rapidly than past warming events.

Why Do Scientists Think Current Warming Isn’t Natural?

In Earth’s history before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s climate changed due to natural causes unrelated to human activity. These natural causes are still in play today, but their influence is too small or they occur too slowly to explain the rapid warming seen in recent decades.

How Much More Will Earth Warm?

Models predict that as the world consumes ever more fossil fuel, greenhouse gas concentrations will continue to rise, and Earth’s average surface temperature will rise with them. Based on plausible emission scenarios, average surface temperatures could rise between 2°C and 6°C by the end of the 21st century. Some of this warming will occur even if future greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, because the Earth system has not yet fully adjusted to environmental changes we have already made.

How Will Earth Respond to Warming Temperatures?

The impact of global warming is far greater than just increasing temperatures. Warming modifies rainfall patterns, amplifies coastal erosion, lengthens the growing season in some regions, melts ice caps and glaciers, and alters the ranges of some infectious diseases. Some of these changes are already occurring.

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President Obama believes in protecting the environment.

The White House <info@mail.whitehouse.gov>	Jun 18 (2 days ago)
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THE WHITE HOUSE  Why the President travelled to Yosemite this past weekend: National parks are an American invention. They are treasures in our national inheritance -- millions of acres of public lands and waterways -- that one generation passes on to the next. These beautiful spaces offer adventures for our children, essential protection for our wildlife, and support for local economies. Yet, we aren't entitled to them. Our public lands need our protection -- they need our dedication to their upkeep and our commitment to their expansion. And it falls on the shoulders of each new generation to carry on this stunning inheritance, because even though our national parks are vital to our future, the consequences of climate change are becoming more evident every day. That's why the First Family visited Carlsbad Caverns and Yosemite National Parks this past weekend. Not only did they celebrate the National Parks' 100th anniversary, they highlighted the critical role our parks will play in America's next century. You can follow the First Family's trip this past weekend on our live blog. That's also why President Obama has taken unprecedented action to invest in America's natural resources, setting aside more public lands and water in his two terms than any president in American history. He is America's most prolific conservationist -- and he's not done yet. Here's what you need to know about President Obama's historic conservation record: Protected more than 265 million acres of America's public lands and waters -- more than any other president in history. Dedicated unprecedented attention and resources to restoring iconic places like the Chesapeake Bay, California Bay-Delta, Great Lakes, and Everglades. Designated more than 2 million acres of federal wilderness and protected thousands of miles of trails and more than one thousand miles of rivers. Oversaw more wildlife recoveries under the Endangered Species Act than under any previous administration. Launched Every Kid in a Park, which gives fourth graders and their families free access to parks. Get the full record on how the President has protected our treasured national resources. You can also help celebrate and support our national park system by sharing photos of your favorite park with the hashtag #FindYourPark. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ And now a message from your favourite political activist.                                   ALL THE ENERGY THAT EVER WAS STILL IS. All the energy that ever was still is constantly changing within the eternal energy of the Universe. This magnificent concept of eternity has intrigued human imagination for centuries and because the human brain has trouble understanding an eternity of changing energy, we humans have created imaginary Gods to give us a sense of tranquillity. All religious beliefs have evolved from a fear of change and are based on the hope for eternal life after death. Religious beliefs, unfortunately, have created more death than peace on Earth during our human history and thankfully today millions are  abandoning the indoctrination and fear based imaginary concepts imposed upon them as children.        Unfortunately, many are also abandoning the strict rules and guidelines and basic Ethics that religious authorities imposed over centuries to create civilized behaviour. Those moral guidelines and Ethics are now often badly enforced by civil authorities around the world who continue to punish unlawful behaviour using the same dangerous and antiquated penal systems created by the ancient religious authorities. That needs to be updated with better education and better humanitarian correctional methods.       Today, parents and educators are looking up at the galaxies and pondering new and marvellous questions. What are light years? What are: Nebulas and Star formations and Gas giants and Black Holes? With modern technology and magnificent telescopes we can now give to our children science based facts and a new sense of wonderment. Science is replacing fear based religious fantasies with a magnificent new understanding of the universe. With provable facts we can now see what was once hidden to our parents and space has become a new play ground for those who possess high intelligence and the courage to explore where no human has gone before.            For the rest of us who need some form of comfort zone to find inner peace, I suggest we all do  as our ancestors did and worship Nature. I specifically recommend protecting and growing trees and flowers and pesticide free vegetable gardens. For our young and young at hearts who enjoy love and sex, be careful because sex has been usurped by unscrupulous people and commercially exploited to the point where it is threatening our existence! Marketing today is a form of religious indoctrination utilizing both repetitive advertising (some call it Hypnosis) and sex as a selling tool to sell consumer products. It is not, I repeat, a good thing! I repeat again! Many companies want to win and maintain economic power even while they pollute us off the Earth. They are marketing and selling products dangerous to the environment and most often use sex as a selling tool.           I honestly believe our human economic and political power should be invested on and for the protection of all life on this our small planet earth! Invested that is if we wish to continue enjoying our own conscious human energy forms. If not, we can imagine how energy will continue to change with or without us!  Thanks for reading and have a great life!.  Signed: Joseph Raglione. Friday, September 11, 2015

Hello Gentle Friends:

  I have just read an article in our Quebec newspaper: LA PRESSE, reporting how our Quebec school classes will now begin at 9:0 Clock instead of 8:30. This sounds strange to me because when I went to grade school in Quebec, many Moons ago, our classes began at 9:O-clock. My parents rudely awakened me at Six in the morning in order to wash and eat breakfast before 7 O-Clock and then run to catch the School Bus before 8 O-Clock. We were in our class seats exactly at 9 O-Clock and I failed miserably in both French and Mathematics because I was half asleep and those were the first subjects presented to us before lunch!

 My point is nothing much has changed or is changing and it is time for some real changes within the school systems of North America. Honest and real change begins with the school class starting time. That is the most important change and it should be Ten by the Clock and not Eight or Nine.  Ten O-Clock is the best time for young people to begin school classes. It gives them extra sleep time in the morning and then to eat and digest a proper Breakfast. It gives them more time to arrive at school without rushing to beat the Clock. It allows them to wake up and face the difficult classes such as Mathematics and French and Science without the added burden of fatigue. The question is why will our government not allow it? The answer is because our government members are influenced by money oriented industrial companies and our economic system is based on a competitive social hierarchy where products must be created and sold quickly and employees are expendable. A later class Time would benefit children and surprise, it would also benefit future industrial employees? It will give people time to think about what is honestly important for human health and for the health of this planet.

  Our current system based on product manufacturing is forcing employees to get up early in the morning in order to "beat the traffic." Today that means 4 AM and surprise, everybody else is up early also for the same reason and the traffic remains jam packed! North America is losing the economic Rat Race to the rest of the industrial world and that gives us a chance to evaluate what is honestly more important. Saving Nature and the Biosphere or chasing money? There is only one answer. We have to think of changing our economic system in order to protect the children and the natural world.

 The most important school subjects today begin with the protection of Nature. Of course languages are necessary for communication but then Botany and Biology, Science and Mathematics are absolutely important subjects. Without a planet to live on our industrially based economy is worthless! We have to place our priority where it belongs and that is saving the natural environment and protecting our Biosphere. You can teach any and all of these subjects using music.

  Anybody driving on the roads of Quebec, today, will be stuck in traffic sooner or later and will understand how gas burning cars are dominating the industrial system. All over the world automated Robots are making Cars faster and faster and only intelligent Robots will be able to survive a future on this planet without a life supporting atmosphere. Their is solid evidence our planet is warming to the point of no return and the future will not be pleasant for our children. To stop this cycle of foolish industrial production we need people who are not asleep most of the day and people who are not absolutely money oriented!

With that said lets move on to Lunch hour. Why an hour? Why not a half hour for lunch? With an earlier start time a half hour for lunch will help decrease the total school hours. And here is one more important concept. If today's school administration honestly cared about children every school would have a large Greenhouse building and vegetable crops growing in Hydroponic solutions. The children would be assigned to care for the plants and they would be able to eat what they grow. Plants grown without profit oriented additives or pesticides or profit oriented creations of genetically modified crops.

 Yes, it is past the time we removed big business from our schools and give our children a fun learning experience. A place to go every morning not because they have to but because they want to enjoy step by step learning without the constant pressure to compete and succeed and without that nagging tired feeling.

 Thanks for reading!
Joseph Raglione.

For all you young ladies who want to be president.

Gentle People: The following is a message for young women everywhere from Michelle Obama.

Together, we are stronger

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First Lady Michelle Obama <info@mail.whitehouse.gov>	Jun 7 (3 days ago)
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Back when I was a girl, I had all kinds of big dreams for myself. But by the time I started school, I began encountering folks who seemed to doubt my ability to reach my goals: Teachers who thought girls just weren’t very smart, and would call on the boys in class instead. People who thought a girl shouldn’t have ambition and who would ask my brother what career he planned to have, but would ask me what kind of man I wanted to marry. I soon realized that the hopes I had for myself were in conflict with the messages I was receiving from the world around me that girls’ voices were somehow less important; that being strong and powerful and outspoken just wasn’t appropriate or attractive for a girl. But fortunately, because countless strong women -- and men -- marched, advocated, spoke out, and broke all kinds of barriers and glass ceilings, girls today are beginning to get a whole new set of messages about their place in the world. And today, we all know one thing for sure: We are stronger when we stand together. That's what my friend Oprah and I will be sitting down together to discuss next Tuesday, June 14th, at the United State of Women Summit. We are in awe of the trailblazing women who came before us, and we want to continue that progress and empower women and girls for generations to come. And we want to hear from you. So get your questions ready! Between now and the Summit, tweet them to @FLOTUS or  @Oprah using the hashtag #StateofWomen, then tune in to watch our conversation live on June 14th at 5pm ET at go.wh.gov/usow. You might just hear those questions answered! And, don't forget to share it with your friends. With us at the Summit will be so many incredible people doing extraordinary things to empower women around the world. People like Amani Khatahtbeh, who works to eliminate stereotypes surrounding Islam and promote Muslim women in Western societies through a site she founded; Amy Poehler who uses her comedic gifts to bring people together to make change; and Shonda Rhimes, who has created wildly popular TV shows featuring diverse casts that defy stereotypes and inspire us to challenge inequality. I am so excited to stand with these women and so many others next week, and I hope that you will tune in, send your questions, and be part of this exciting moment. Michelle Obama This email was sent to human4us@bell.net. Unsubscribe | Privacy Policy Please do not reply to this email. Contact the White House The White House • 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW • Washington, DC 20500 • 202-456-1111

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Happy Birthday Tim Berners-Lee and thanks for the WWW!

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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, turns 61 years old today. Berners-Lee was exposed to computers early, as his parents worked on the first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I. In 1989, while working at CERN, Berners-Lee invented the Web.

The idea was to allow people to exchange information over the internet without having to email each other. He set up the world's first website, complete with hypertext to access other pages. He wrote software for a Web server and browser. CERN released the World Wide Web software into the public domain on April 30, 1993. Berners-Lee is director of the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium and founding director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure access for people around the world.

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"Sir Tim Berners-Lee" by Paul Clarke - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

The inventor of the World Wide Web and one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century’, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a scientist and academic whose visionary and innovative work has transformed almost every aspect of our lives.

Having invented the Web in 1989  while working at CERN and subsequently working to ensure it was made freely available to all, Berners-Lee is now dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Web’s future. He is a Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to ensure the Web serves humanity by establishing it as a global public good and a basic right. He is also Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a global Web standards organization he founded in 1994 to lead the Web to its full potential. In 2012 he co-founded the Open Data Institute (ODI) which advocates for Open Data in the UK and globally. Sir Tim has advised a number of governments and corporations on ongoing digital strategies. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim presently holds academic posts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), (USA) and the University of Southampton (UK.)

Sir Tim has received multiple accolades in recent years. These include receiving the first Queen’ Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and being knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth in 2004. He has received over 10 honorary doctorates, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Finland Millennium Prize in 2004. In 2007, Berners-Lee was awarded the UK’s Order of Merit – a personal gift of the monarch limited to just 24 living recipients. In 2012, he played a starring role in the opening ceremony for the Olympics, where, in front of an audience of some 900 million, he tweeted: “This is for everyone”.