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Joseph Raglione

July 22, 2009

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July 22, 2009: E/Mission control for ships, drone planes, Toronto strike, oil revenues, contraception, Israeli soldiers, media analysis, sunscreen ratings, and much more...

This week's Goods include:

EMPLOYERS USE CRISIS TO DEMAND CONCESSIONS, by Linda McQuaig. Toronto's city workers find themselves blamed for economic crisis. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=388

CANADA TO BUY NEW DRONE PLANES, by Paul Weinberg. USA lobbying Harper to stay in Afghanistan and maybe expand to Pakistan. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=389

REPATRIATING POTATOES, by Stephen Leahy. Indigenous peoples strive to protect traditional crops and ways of sharing information about them. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=386

NEW EMISSIONS LIMITS FOR SHIPS IN COASTAL WATERS, from Friends of the Earth International Maritime Organization moves towards protections against ship pollution. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=384

Editorial

ISH'S EDITORIAL WILL RETURN. Ish Theilheimer's latest musical, Country Sparkin' at Sunnydale Acres, opened this week in Eganville, ON. http://www.stonefence.ca/

Science matters

HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT IS BAD FOR THE ECONOMY, by David Suzuki, with Faisal Moola What's good for our earth home, is good for us. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=391

Canadian politics

HONOURING THE "LITTLE GUY FROM SHAWINIGAN", by Geoffrey Stevens. Queen's reasons for giving award to Jean Chrétien may include his fortitude and good humour. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=390

A TAXING QUESTION FOR ALBERTA, by Gillian Steward. Oil revenues prove an unreliable funding platform for essential services. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=397

"THE PREMIER HAS MISLED THE VOTERS", by Bill Tieleman. Gordon Campbell shares his views on the need for truth in budgeting. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=394

HOW TO AVOID ABORTIONS, by Elsie Hambrook. Common ground is preventing unwanted pregnancy. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=385

ONTARIO'S RIGHT WING NEEDS MENDING. by Inside Queen's Park. Tim Hudak, new Conservative leader, has to choose the party's direction. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=387

Canadian culture

Q AND A WITH RICHARD WAGAMESE, by Jeremy Klaszus. Ojibway author has walked a long, hard road to recovery from alcoholism, homelessness. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=396

Workplaces

CADILLAC FAIRVIEW FIRES ALL UNIONIZED EMPLOYEES, from Communication, Energy and Paperworkers. Company wholly owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=392

WORKERS CALL FOR CLEMENT'S IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION, from the United Steelworkers. Industry Minister clearly sides with company in strike: Steelworkers. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=398

World beat

30 ISRAELI SOLDIERS PUBLISH "BREAKING THE SILENCE", by Uri Avnery. Hard-hitting report rings true, although authors remain anonymous. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewFeature.cfm?Ref=393

Consumers

FIND A SAFE, EFFECTIVE SUNSCREEN, from the Environmental Working Group. Three out of five sunscreens either don't work or contain hazardous chemicals or both. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewBrief.cfm?Ref=129

Media files

IF USA MEDIA WERE ANY GOOD, by David Swanson. Activist enumerates stories that major media have omitted or under-reported. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewBrief.cfm?Ref=131

Hot headlines

FORGET SHORTER SHOWERS, by Derrick Jensen. Listen up: personal change does not equal political change. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewHotHeadline.cfm?Ref=67

TWO CHEERS FOR THE G8'S TWO DEGREES, by Gwynne Dyer. The world needs deeper cuts, but a two-degree limit is the best we are going to get now. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewHotHeadline.cfm?Ref=66

Take action!

SPP REDUX?, from Council of Canadians. Demand a say in the next North American leaders' summit, in August. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewBrief.cfm?Ref=133

Humour

PREPARATION IS EVERYTHING, from the Random House Book of Jokes and Anecdotes, edited by Joe Claro. Timing is important, too. http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewBrief.cfm?Ref=132

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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