My Friends! My Friends!

Our man in the slot has disappeared!
Is it a miracle or Hockey magic!
Without our man in the slot this game will be tragic!
Our coach must be sleeping
behind the bench!
Please wake him up
And stop him from dreaming!
Wait! Wait!
Our man in the slot
Our player most Holy!
I see him now in front of their goalie!
He is taking his shot...
And by God what a shot!
Let us bow our heads and pray...
Hooray! Hooray!
It's not what I feared!
This game is not tragic!
This game is not weird!
With the magic of Hockey our man in the slot
Has re-appeared!
And scored the winning goal!

ATTENTION LEADERS IN WASHINGTON AND IRAN AND AROUND THE WORLD.

STOP THE BLOODSHED, PLEASE!
YOU WILL NEED ALL YOUR SOLDIERS TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET FROM FIRES AND FLOODING
CREATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
THEY WILL NEED PICKS AND SHOVELS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR THE WORK AHEAD AND
IF YOU WISH TO SLOW THE HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH ON THIS PLANET EARTH, SIMPLY RETURN TO THE CONCEPT OF
NON-VIOLENT BIRTH CONTROL WHERE BETTER EDUCATION SYSTEMS INCLUDE BIOLOGY AND SOCIAL FAMILY PLANNING METHODS
FOR BOTH SEXES.

CREATING WAR IS EASY COMPARED TO REBUILDING AFTER A DEVASTATING
EARTHQUAKE OR A TYPHOON OR A HURRICANE AND SO WHY CREATE MORE DEVASTATION WHEN
THERE IS SO MUCH ALREADY HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD.
AUSTRALIA IS BURNING AND THEY COULD CERTAINLY USE A FEW MILLION UNARMED SOLDIERS TO HELP PUT
OUT THE FOREST FIRES, TODAY.

TODAY, SCIENCE IS PROVING HOW THE RISING TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANET IS MELTING OUR POLAR ICE CAPS AND CREATING
FLOODING IN MANY LOW LYING COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. IN REACTION TO THIS YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE MAKING THIER
VOICES HEARD AND THEY ARE ACTIVATING TO STOP OUR INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION AND TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING.
lISTEN TO THE CHILDREN, PLEASE!

GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD DO HAVE THE MILITARY ABILITY TO CREATE WARS AND TO MURDER EACH OTHER
BUT PLEASE LEAVE INNOCENT CHILDREN OUT OF YOUR WAR PLANS! I SUGGEST ONLY THE MOST VICIOUS MILITARY
LEADERS FACE UNARMED AGAINST EACH OTHER ON AN ABANDONED ISLAND IN ORDER TO TALK PEACE OR PLAY CHESS.
I ALSO SUGGEST THEY DO NOT LEAVE THE ISLAND UNTIL THEY HAVE SIGNED MULTIPLE AND BINDING PEACE TREATIES.
THANKS FOR READING!
SIGNED: NELSON RAGLIONE. DIRECTOR OF THE WORLD FRIENDLY PEACE AND ECOLOGY MOVEMENT. HUMAN4US2.BLOGSPOT.COM
WE ARE ALSO ON FACEBOOK.
P.S. THANK YOU GRETA THUNBERG!

THE GREAT GRETA THUNBERG.

REUTERS
WORLD NEWS
DECEMBER 9, 2019 / 9:40 AM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO
Activist Thunberg turns spotlight on indigenous struggle at climate summit
Isla Binnie

MADRID (Reuters) - Teen activist Greta Thunberg turned a spotlight on the struggles of the world’s indigenous peoples against climate change
on Monday, appearing at a U.N. summit alongside other young campaigners furious at the West’s failure to tackle the crisis.

Indigenous communities from the United States to South America and Australia have mounted increasingly vocal campaigns against new fossil fuel projects
in recent years, finding common cause with the young European activists inspired by Thunberg.

Pursued by a media scrum ever since arriving at the two-week conference last week after crossing the Atlantic by catamaran,
Thunberg stayed largely silent during her first official appearance at the summit, to allow a young Native American, a Ugandan,
a Philippine and a Pacific islander to speak.

“Their rights are being violated across the world and they are also among the ones being hit the most and the quickest by the climate and environmental emergency,”
Thunberg said of indigenous communities.

Indigenous activists argue that their communities contribute almost none of the fossil fuels emissions driving climate change,
but bear the brunt of extreme weather and loss of wildlife.

Rose Whipple, of the Santee Dakota, native to Minnesota in the United States, called for an approach based on tradition and technology.

“The climate crisis is a spiritual crisis for our entire world. Our solutions must weave science and spirituality and traditional ecological knowledge
with technology,” she said.

The meeting to address the implementation of a 2015 pact struck in Paris to limit temperature rises to well below 2 degrees celsius was shifted to Madrid
after riots over inequality broke out in Chile, which had been due to play host.

“While countries congratulate each other for their weak commitments the world is literally burning out,” said Chilean activist Angela Valenzuela.

The low-lying Marshall Islands became the first nation to comply with a requirement in the Paris Agreement to increase its planned emissions reductions in 2018,
a move bigger emitters are under pressure to follow by 2020.

Carlon Zackhras, representing the atoll nation, said rising sea levels threatened his home, which is only two meters above the waterline.

“We are having to deal with issues we did not create,” he said.

Editing by Matthew Green and Giles Elgood

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Dear Brittany Andrew-Amofah: 

 Our present school systems across Canada are based on providing a work-force for Canadian industrial companies.
Unless those companies are creating projects and systems that benefit our natural environment and do not destroy and pollute the environment, we are programming children to act as workers for polluting and dangerous industrial status-quo companies! 

 We need to provide new and better and different school environments where nature is the teacher and is helped along by University trained Botanists and Zoologists and Biologists.

 One project example is a large Glass Green House filled with birds and plants and children and computers that explain and describe the species of each plant and bird and of course, our own HomoSapient specie.

 
 Music would play in the Green-Houses to help grow the plants and the birds and the children.
They would include computers explaining what birds make what sounds and which instruments make what notes. Earphones would be provided for private listening.

 Our present status-quo school systems are based on the old imperial hierarchy and that must be changed if we are to protect Mother Earth. There are so many better non-political and non-exploitive methods of education that urgently need to be researched and implemented.
Thanks for reading!

Signed: Nelson Joseph Raglione
Director of the World Friendly Peace and Ecology Movement.. human4us2.blogspot.com

The Greenpeace Challenge.

Taking on the oil industry
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Nelson,

As Venice floods and wildfires rage in Australia and California, the realities of the climate crisis are growing starker every day.

Challenging the industries responsible is a global effort. That’s why I wanted to share some of the ways that Greenpeace is working alongside local communities in multiple countries to achieve a world beyond oil.

Here’s a whirlwind tour of some of the places Greenpeace supporters are taking action for a transition from oil to clean energy:

Investigating fossil fuel companies in the Philippines

In September, Greenpeace activists and representatives from climate-impacted communities blockaded a Shell refinery in Batangas City. Filipinos have also successfully petitioned the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights to launch a landmark investigation into 47 major fossil fuel producers’ responsibility for climate-related human rights abuses following 2013’s Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which claimed the lives of more than 6,300 people and affected millions more. The results of the investigation are expected any time in the coming months.

Campaigning for a Green New Deal in the US

In the US, Greenpeace is campaigning for a Green New Deal, which includes a just transition to renewable energy, creating millions of green jobs and halting any major oil, gas, and coal expansion projects. Taking action alongside grassroots groups, Greenpeace has opposed new pipelines, blocked the largest fossil fuel thoroughfare in the country, and stood up against unjust, anti-protest laws pushed forward by oil companies. These kinds of laws not only intend to silence voices, they disproportionately affect Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans, and queer people.

Defending the Great Australian Bight

Greenpeace is campaigning to defend the Great Australian Bight, an area off Australia’s southern coast where Norwegian company Equinor has set sights on drilling for oil. The Bight is a breeding ground for endangered southern right whales and contains the Great Southern Reef, 85% of whose animals can’t be found anywhere else in the world. Equinor's latest drilling plan was rejected by the government in November but the company has a chance to resubmit it. Hundreds of thousands of people have written to Australia’s government and to Equinor to say the project will never get their blessing to drill in this treasured oceanscape.

Standing up for the Amazon Reef in Brazil and French Guiana

When an incredible reef was discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River between Brazil and French Guiana, it was clear to us that it had to be protected. French company Total was interested in drilling for oil, but after two million people took action Brazil’s government denied Total’s license. Even after this historic win, another oil company (BP) wants to open up a new oil frontier in the region. Greenpeace is campaigning to protect the reef from oil development.

Challenging the car industry in Germany

In Frankfurt, at the International Motor Show in September, Greenpeace worked with other environmental and sustainable transport groups to organize a massive protest against the internal combustion engine. About 25,000 people participated (including 18,000 on bikes!), highlighting the role of the car industry in driving the climate emergency — and calling for renewable-powered public transport, walking and cycling infrastructure.

Supporting Indigenous communities in Russia

In Russia, Greenpeace is supporting Indigenous communities opposed to the impact of oil development on their livelihoods and culture. The majority of the Nenets and Khanty people in Siberia were not properly consulted when Russian oil company Surgutneftegas made plans to drill in the wetlands of the village of Numto, where many among the reindeer-herding Indigenous communities oppose the project.

Scaling oil company headquarters in New Zealand

Although the New Zealand government banned new offshore oil and gas exploration permits in 2018, they did not revoke permits that were released before the ban. Austrian oil giant OMV still holds 17 permits that, if exploited, would be catastrophic for the climate and risk disastrous oil spills in New Zealand’s pristine waters. This past summer, after Greenpeace activists staged a 10 hour climb on the OMV headquarters in Wellington, over 100 people handed in a petition to OMV.

Upholding the rights of future generations in Norway

The Norwegian government is taking advantage of the melting ice caused by climate change to open up a new oil frontier in the Arctic. The Norwegian Constitution that says that the State shall ensure for everyone, including future generations, the right to a safe and healthy environment. That is why Greenpeace and Nature and Youth brought a case against the Norwegian Government. Oil is Norway’s biggest export, and it is burned all over the world. This makes Norway the 7th biggest exporter of emissions on the planet.

Occupying oil rigs in the UK

We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, but oil company BP intends to drill for 30 million barrels of new oil off the coast of Scotland. That why’s this summer Greenpeace climbers prevented BP’s rig from leaving the Scottish coast for five days. This was followed by a further stand off in the North Sea between the rig and the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, which prevented the rig from reaching the drill site.

What can you do here in Canada?

Here in Canada, Greenpeace is working with frontline Indigenous communities to stop the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline and tanker project. Three First Nations, Coldwater, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, are taking this battle to court. They’re asking you to support their legal challenge with a donation as they defend their drinking water, sacred sites, and coastal waters. They go to court in December and could halt this destructive pipeline and tanker project with their courageous action.

All funds donated to their Pull Together legal challenge fund before December 3rd will be matched by a group of generous funders up to $50,000. Please make a donation today in support by visiting Pull Together and have your gift doubled.

Taking on one of the world’s most powerful industries is no small task, but when millions of us come together, to stand for what we believe is possible, it sends a powerful message to decision makers.

We are the generation that ends the age of oil.

Jesse

Communications Officer, Greenpeace Canada

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This Is How To Be Resilient: 4 Secrets To Grit When Life Gets Hard

Barking Up The Wrong Tree November 25th, 2019 Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here. This Is How To Be Resilient: 4 Secrets To Grit When Life Gets Hard (Click here to read on the blog) "I quit" is rarely said flatly. Whether it's said to yourself or others, it's usually "I QUIT!" or "Ugh. I quit..." (cue *sad trombone*). And that's because quitting is rarely done at the height of rational deliberation. It's usually based on feelings in the moment. You feel fear, anger, anxiety, impatience or frustration and then suddenly you snap and it's time to call it a day. We talk about grit and other global perspectives on resilience but the minutiae of actually coping with intense negative feelings in the moment is often left vague. And that sucks because it's usually the hardest part. We've discussed how to deal with problematic thoughts, but that's just the warmup before the championship match. Negative feelings are much more powerful, harder to question and very difficult to disentangle your mind from. We identify with our emotions so readily. "I feel it, so it must be true" is often our default setting. The whole rational deliberation part gets skipped. Feelings are summary judgment. We usually don't even second guess them, and even if we do, they often simply overwhelm us. You can sometimes ignore the Chatty Cathy in the back of your skull criticizing your every action, but feelings grab you by the throat. Literally. Anger, panic or grief can make you feel like you can't breathe. Heart going like a piston, about to explode out of your chest, and you're asking yourself, “Oh, this is what a heart attack feels like...” Instead of persisting with our goals, we quit, procrastinate or do whatever the feeling dictates to escape the discomfort. It's a literal form of "emotional blackmail." But we need to stay in the game when things get hard. Often, resilience is associated with being tough and rigid. But that's not gonna get you very far with feelings. We're not trying to be invulnerable. That's impossible. We're going to be flexible. You cannot avoid or resist all pain in life. You'd have to have a head full of prions to believe that. But we can live with our discomfort better. We can manage it and have a better relationship with it. So how do we do that? We're gonna turn to one of the leading, research-backed mindfulness tools out there: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. We'll draw from five different books on the subject (Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, A Liberated Mind, The Confidence Gap, and ACT Made Simple) because: Feelings are tricky I am, apparently, a masochist. Let's get to it... The Bizarro World Paradox Of Feelings Why do we have such trouble dealing with feelings? Because the problem-solving rules that work for the normal world don’t apply here. Normally, when a problem comes up we can always avoid it, deny it, or kill it. But feelings are inside that closed system called your mind which has a different rulebook. From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: If I told you, ‘Vacuum the floor or I’ll shoot you,’ you’d immediately start vacuuming the floor. If I said, ‘Paint the house or I’ll shoot,’ you’d soon be painting. That’s how the world outside the skin works. But if I simply say, ‘Relax, or I’ll shoot you,’ not only would the directive not work, but it would have the opposite effect. Trying to deliberately control your brain with your brain can be an M.C. Escher-on-shrooms-level nightmare. From A Liberated Mind: ...in order to get rid of something deliberately, we have to focus on it. If we are working to get rid of something, we need to check to see if it’s gone. When we do that with internal events laid down by our own history, such as memories, we have now reminded ourselves of the events connected with these memories yet again. When we do this with echoes of the past, we increase their centrality and build out the history we have with them. Any attempt at suppression only amplifies the difficulty. So we avoid, procrastinate or quit which has disastrous effects on long-term goals and happiness. And that means you're not in control of your life anymore. You're not doing or achieving what is meaningful to you. Life is no longer a pursuit of happiness and fulfillment, it's a pursuit of whatever is not-pain. From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: There is an inherent paradox in attempting to avoid, suppress, or eliminate unwanted private experiences in that often such attempts lead to an upsurge in the frequency and intensity of the experiences to be avoided (Wenzlaff & Wegner, 2000). Since most distressing content by definition is not subject to voluntary behavioral regulation, the client is left with only one main strategy: emotional and behavioral avoidance. The long-term result is that the person’s life space begins to shrink, avoided situations multiply and fester, avoided thoughts and feelings become more overwhelming, and the ability to get into the present moment and enjoy life gradually withers. Some people might say they can suppress feelings. Yeah, you're correct. You can. But research shows you can't suppress the bad without also suppressing the good. If you want your life to be as numb as your mouth during dental work, by all means, go ahead. So how do we control our negative feelings? Easy answer: You can't. Control is the problem, not the solution. Any rigid attempt to resist negative feelings won't work in the Willy Wonka land of emotions. The only way to win the tug of war with feelings is to drop the rope. We must go from avoidance to acceptance. I've said it before and I'll say it again: acceptance does not mean caving and giving in. You don't have to like, agree with or obey the feelings. But you can't ignore, avoid or fight them. Acceptance means allowing them to unfold without judgment, resistance or compliance. From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Acceptance, as we mean it, is the voluntary adoption of an intentionally open, receptive, flexible, and nonjudgmental posture with respect to moment-to-moment experience. Acceptance is supported by a “willingness” to make contact with distressing private experiences or situations, events, or interactions that will likely trigger them. If you wait until you feel good to do what is important, you may be waiting the rest of your life. (In fact, research shows this is exactly why procrastination happens.) To escape the finger trap puzzle you don't pull out, you have to push in. In fact, studies show the ability to accept negative emotions has bigger benefits than job satisfaction or emotional intelligence. From Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: People who are more emotionally willing to experience negative emotional experiences enjoy better mental health and do better at work over time. The effect is significantly greater than the effects of job satisfaction or emotional intelligence (Bond and Bunce 2003; Donaldson and Bond 2004). Some might complain that if we can't change feelings and all we do is accept them, we'll be trapped in a world of hurt. Nope. Because after we accept, we expand. We can't diminish the feeling voluntarily, but we can expand our attention to give us greater perspective and dilute its influence. A tablespoon of salt in a glass of water tastes awful; a tablespoon of salt in a swimming pool isn't even detectable. (To learn more about how you can lead a successful life, check out my bestselling book here.) Okay, all this sounds fine but how do we do it? We're gonna “name it and tame it.” NAME is an acronym, by the way: Notice, Acknowledge, Make Space, and Expand. Let's get started... 1) Notice Notice how you’re feeling. Yes, that sounds dumb and obvious. No, it’s not. When someone says, “Calm down” in the heat of an argument, what's the inevitable response? “I AM CALM!!!” We often don't know how we're really feeling in the moment unless we check. Scan your body. Consciously notice how you're feeling. Tense? Breathing shallow? Heart racing? Focus on the raw sensations. You don't want to identify with the feelings ("I am anxious") you just want to sense what's going on ("There are some anxious feelings.") The feelings are not you, just like an ache in your elbow does not make you "an achy person." Be like a scientist studying it. Where in your body do you feel the anxiety? Back of your head? Center of your chest? If this feeling was an object, what would it look like? Observe it. Don’t judge it. It’s not good or bad; it’s just a sensation. Negative feelings actually have a very short half life if we don't feed them. You know this but you forget it like clockwork all the time. Now the anxiety or fear or anger is going to try to recruit your brain to help it out. And your brain will play along because brains hate unemployment. They love to start spinning stories. The feeling wants to sustain itself. And it will, by getting your brain thinking, “I can’t stand feeling this way,” “I have to get rid of this feeling.” And then you're halfway to procrastination or quitting. The feeling wants you to fuse with it; to go from being "an angry feeling" to "I AM ANGRY!" That basically gives the anger or anxiety the steering wheel, and all your goals go out the window. Once your brain gets engaged it will start spitting out thoughts and weaving them into a story that will fuel the emotion. You'll wrestle with it or justify it or deny it, and all that does is keep it alive. Just return to exploring the feeling. Study it, but don't identify with it. Sensation, not rumination. Remember, feelings don't last forever if you don't perpetuate them. A bad feeling is the single most important thing in the universe... until you realize it's your feelings that are telling you that. (To learn the two-word morning ritual that will make you happy all day, click here.) It's hard to stay focused on the feeling without complying with its wishes to run away, to give up or to punch somebody. The feeling is everywhere, screaming about its importance. You can’t get away from it and it will tell you complying with its wishes is all that will bring you relief. Basically, it's like the marketing campaign for a Marvel movie. We're gonna need help from step 2... 2) Acknowledge Label the feeling. Anxiety. Fear. Grief. And don't say, "I am anxious", say, "I'm noticing anxious feelings." You don't want to identify with it and have it hijack your brain. This is what leads to stupid decisions you later regret. Look at your feelings instead of from your feelings. It's a thing you're experiencing, not what you are. Neuroscientists and hostage negotiators both know about the power of labeling feelings. Giving it a name isolates it and reduces its power. It gets your amygdala to chill and engages your prefrontal cortex to curtail the emotion. (To learn how to deal with passive-aggressive people, click here.) You've labeled it. It's contained. It's not burning quite as strong -- but you're still uncomfortable. Okay, time to... 3) Make Space You want to make space for it inside your mind. You're not letting it hijack you. You're inviting it to pull up a chair. Don't fight or avoid or comply. Let the feeling be. You may be screaming to yourself, "I DID WHAT THE BLOGGER-MAN SAID, NOW WHY HASN'T IT GONE AWAY YET?" Wrong. Bad. You're rabidly pulling on a door marked "PUSH." Remember the paradox. You cannot kill it or suppress it. And if that's what you find yourself trying to do, none of this will work. You must accept it. From The Confidence Gap: The purpose of expansion is to make room for difficult feelings— to accommodate them, not to evict them. So if you’re practicing expansion hoping it will get rid of your fear, then you’re still in avoidance mode, still trying to avoid or get rid of it. And as you’ve seen already, that won’t work. You can’t reverse hundreds of millions of years of evolution that have primed you to feel fear when facing a challenge. Trying to get rid of your fear will only amplify it. Remind yourself why you're doing this. There are wonderful things in this life. To experience them you can't just run away from anything that upsets you. That's not the path to resilience. From ACT Made Simple: Also remember that acceptance is always in the service of valued action, so we can enhance it by explicitly linking it to values: “Are you willing to make room for this feeling if this will enable you to do what really matters to you?” (To learn the 4 harsh truths that will make you a better person, click here.) You've noticed the feeling, labeled it and made some space for it. Final step? 4) Expand We can't get rid of the feeling or avoid it -- but we can expand our attention so that its relative importance shrinks. This happens naturally anyway but we're actively assisting the process, instead of waiting for some greater problem to supersede it, or it to slowly fade. Look at it like a stage play. Right now, the theater is dark with a huge spotlight on that feeling. We're not yanking the feeling off the stage with a hook; we're bringing up the theater lights so the rest of the play is visible. Take a deep breath and turn your attention to the world around you. The feeling is welcome to stay where it is. This is not distraction; you're just inviting more people to the party. From Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: Look around you when you are exposing yourself and observe what else is happening in the world around you. If there are people there, notice them. If there are objects, or buildings, or plants or trees, notice them. Do not do this to diminish the thing you are struggling with. The point is to add to your experience— in addition to these feelings there is also life going on all around you... You'll start to get perspective back. You won't feel the need to be reactive to the feeling, running away or obeying its dictates. You can make wiser decisions in line with your values, instead of raging, wallowing, procrastinating or quitting. You intuitively know there's more to life than the one feeling that is seizing your attention. But we forget this when we're in the grip of it and often make poor decisions as a result. Overfocus on a feeling is like looking at the world through a straw. So accept and expand. You don't want to miss the big show. (To learn how to have a long awesome life, click here.) Okay, we've covered a lot. Let's round it all up and learn the proper way to motivate yourself to actually follow through and do all this when the moment calls for it... Sum Up This is how to be resilient: The Feelings Paradox: Problem-solving doesn't work in the Wonka-ville of feelings. Accept and expand. Notice: If we always knew how we felt people wouldn't shout "I'M NOT ANGRY!!!" during arguments. Scan your body to really notice what's going on. Acknowledge: Labeling is a powerful way to reduce the impact of negative feelings and to prevent yourself from identifying with them. Make Space: Invite the feeling to pull up a chair. (They're not used to this. It's probably how a telemarketer feels when someone is nice to them.) Expand: Bring up the stage lights. Dilute the salt water. Engage with the world outside your head. "I don't want to procrastinate anymore." "I don't want to get anxious and paralyzed by fear." "I don't want to quit when the tension gets high." While well-meaning, these goals are lame. They're “dead person’s goals.” A dead person’s goal is anything a corpse can do better than you can. In other words, they're defined by a negative, what you're not going to do. Killing bad habits and reducing friction is great, but what's it worth if you don't know where you're headed? As Nietzsche said, "Don't tell me what you're free from; tell me what you're free for." From ACT Made Simple: In ACT, we want to set “living person’s goals”— things that a live human being can do better than a corpse. To move from a dead person’s goal to a living person’s goal, you can ask simple questions like these: “So let’s suppose that happens. Then what would you do differently? What would you start or do more of? And how would you behave differently with friends or family?” “If you weren’t using drugs, what would you be doing instead?” “If you weren’t yelling at your kids, how would you be interacting with them?” “If you weren’t having panic attacks or feeling depressed, what would you be doing differently with your life?” We don't want to miss all the great things in life because we're afraid of emotional pain. We want to be able to take more and more of the world in -- but have tools to cope with difficult feelings when they arrive. That's how we persist and grow. Know what happens when you can deal with negative emotions and keep pursuing "living person's goals"? You start really living. ***And if you want a daily insight, quote or laugh, you should follow me on Instagram here.*** Email Extras Findings from around the internet... + Want to know the five ways to boost resilience in your children? Click here. + Want to know a professional photographer's simple secrets for taking more flattering photos? Click here. + Want to learn how to boost your children's creativity and problem-solving skills? Click here. + Miss last week's post? Here you go: How to Be Happier Without Really Trying: 4 Odd Secrets From Research. + Want to know how to give people advice they'll be delighted to take? Click here. + You made it to the end of the email. Now that's resilience. And I thank you. Okay, Crackerjack time: Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Amazon Video, Apple TV, Showtime... MAKE IT STOP. JUST WANNA WATCH TV. Luckily, Polygon has put together a great comparison guide to all the major streaming services so you can make a good decision on which to subscribe to. Check it out here. Thanks for reading! Eric PS: If a friend forwarded this to you, you can sign up to get the weekly email yourself here.

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What I predicted in 2004 is now a reality.

IN 2004 I WROTE A RESPONSE LETTER TO THE N.D.P.

Hello Chanchal Bhattacharya

      If you mean to create value for a government dollar, then I am all for
it. Meanwhile, the Americans and Japanese continue to dump price inflated
cars into our inflated market and continue to advertise new cars every five
minutes on Canadian television stations. Canadians have water and
electricity and lumber and a few high tech toys to exchange for the cars,
but the Americans have gained almost free access to all of our natural
resources and they also control and produce the television brainwashing
needed to sell their Detroit and Windsor built cars, not to mention the
Japanese, German, and Korean imports continuously entering our ports.
  Mulroney's NAFTA opened the economic doors and his generosity has almost
politically destroyed Canada as an independent entity. To regain our
independence, we need new non-polluting toys the world will buy, and we have
to sell them at twice the price it takes to make them. Where is Armand
Bombardier when we need him?
  I suggest we create water purification systems and windmill electricity
generators as well as Water-mill electricity generators. Insulation products for old
houses. Canadian electric vehicles. Fast Hydrogen-powered Mini busses as
opposed to the forty-foot General Motors slow-moving monsters now crunching
the streets. Artistic tourist traps everywhere. Shade and Fruit tree and
flower garden production within city limits. Co-Operative vegetable gardens
and farm subsidies. Cultural events sponsorship for music..dance..and
comedy. Infrastructure payments for highway reduction and not expansion. We
need to slow and stop cars and then take the time to smell the newly planted
roses while eating carrots and green peppers planted on the spaces we took
back from the newly reduced highways. Our teachers can teach Botany,
Biology, Science, Music, Art, and Sports.
Our farmers need not worry as we will sell their products overseas.
   We will also need the labor to create the high tech toys and economic
programs. Because I have a very bad back and I've reduced my workload 90%,
if the dollar is pegged to my labor and the labor of working people like
myself, then I apologize in advance for the economic shrinkage. Cold does
that you know!
  You can laugh but if you consider the fact that I represent a member of the hard-working
and skilled Boomer generation and that my generation is about
to achieve old age en masse, we as a country are in trouble. We can import
labor but they will still need housing. I suggest we convert office towers
into small apartments. The same can be done with old warehouses. Do we ask
immigrants to build their own housing? Who will train and teach them the
skills they will need to survive in Canada? I and thousands like myself are
available for teaching our skills, but the current snob and corporate-controlled Imperial Hierarchy won't allow us up the ladder. Most of us don't
have BA's, Ph.D.'s, MA's and FU's.
  Other than English, my language ability is not great! I suggest we create
small computer language translators for immigrants to use upon arriving in
Canada.
   The more housing we create, the more trees are destroyed. Without trees
we will have disastrous weather conditions here and around the world and
then the fun will start for real.  The more people we have in Canada, the
more pollution is created and the more vital it becomes to create water
filtration systems, as mentioned at the beginning of this tirade.

Joseph Raglione

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chanchal Bhattacharya" <bhattach@yorku.ca>
To: "Elizabeth Woods" <elizabethwoods@shaw.ca>
Cc: <mouseland-sourisie-l@list.web.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NDP/NPD] Debt Tricks


> Elizabeth Woods wrote:
> > Every time the Liberals or the Conservatives yell "Tax and spend at us,"
we
> > should yell right back "YES-we will tax fairly, and spend and invest
> > wisely", and give a concrete illustration of how.  We will never build
> > credibility on money issues as long as we keep shying away from them. To
> > neutralize opponents, embrace them, and turn them in a different
direction.
>
> Clinton in the US, Blair/Brown in Britain, and the NDP in Saskatchewan
> and Manitoba have proven that this approach can work.  The problem is
> that such an approach also requires a willingness to pursue levels of
> fiscal discipline and restraint that New Democrats have traditionally
> found highly restrictive.
>
> It is not for nothing that significant elements of the American left
> denounced Clinton and the Democrats as indistinguishable from the
> Republicans (at least until they actually encountered real Republicans).
>   The British left is so busy condemning Blair and Brown that they've
> largely forgotten the brutality of life under Thatcher.  One doesn't
> need much of a memory to recall the heated denunciations directed toward
> Roy Romanow, even though the policies in shepherded laid the foundations
> for four consecutive NDP victories.
>
> The central question the NDP has to address is whether it is willing to
> pay the price, in terms of fiscal discipline, that is necessary for a party of the left
> to gain and sustain credibility on economic issues.
>
> Chanchal Bhattacharya
>