Belgium has free public transportation and their citizens are enjoying it tremendously!

Joseph Raglione
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, this is one of the most informative Canadian newsletters, (along with my 'AHEM' U.S, Chronicle articles) that I've come across. It provides viable working solutions for many social problems. One good example is Belgium's Free public transportation...>

A news bulletin from PublicValues.ca, August 24, 2009

New at www.PublicValues.ca:

NEW POLL SHOWS OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH CARE, by the Canadian Health Coalition.

CMA president's privatization agenda goes against Canadian current.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00457

TELL THE USA THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

Avaaz petition aims to cause a stir in US media before congressional vote.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00463

WHY IS ENVIRONMENT CANADA GAGGING ITS OWN SCIENTISTS? By Craig Saunders.

New communications policy restricts how government researchers may interact with reporters.

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DO OUR FEDERAL POLITICIANS STILL BELIEVE IN CANADA? by Deborah Coyne

Bold, visionary national leadership needed, not more off-loading of responsibilities.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00456

"BUY CANADIAN" BETTER OPTION THAN BINDING TRADE AGREEMENTS.

A joint statement on public procurement and the public good.

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MAINSTREAM MEDIA MISSES THE BOAT ON BC RIVER PRIVATIZATION, by Rafe Mair.

Power, tax revenues go south at a loss, local market prices triple.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00459

DISTURBING TREND TOWARD CRIMINALIZING PUBLIC DISSENT IN ONTARIO.

Police compile list, lay charges against rural retirees who oppose dump site.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00458

RIDE FOR FREE: THE CASE FOR FREE PUBLIC TRANSIT, by Dave Olsen, The Tyee.

Belgium's free public transit is a how-to success story.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00461

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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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