Joseph's Wish! When Obama meets Harper, may their dirty Oil Pipeline be dismantled.

Joseph Raglione
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, a young journalist with connections in Ottawa, has asked me a question. My reply is as follows...>

Dear Steven Staples:

Kid, you don't know me very well or you would never ask me your question!

Why don't you visit my blog on Barack Obama's Official Web Site and check out the things I have been writing to him over the past year. If you visit this site: http:Americanchronicle.com/authors/josephRaglione ...you can read the letters and information he has been passing on to me for general distribution.

If I were any other type of person, I would be proud of knowing a "President", but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I'm an arms-length journalist and political activist for the environment, and I don't really know this President...>

Here are questions you can ask him...

1. Why have you permitted Mountain top Coal Mining to continue, with more permits than even the Bush administration granted the Coal companies?

2. Why have you granted a permit for the Alberta Clipper Oil Pipeline to be created? It will pump dirty crude from the Alberta Canada's Tar Sands to Wisconsin U.S.A., for years into the future?

3. What happened to your promise of a cleaner environment?

Signed: Joseph Raglione

Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.

Original Message -----

From: Steven Staples, Ceasefire.ca

To: human4us@sympatico.ca


Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:48 PM

Subject: 42 Minutes with Obama

Joseph,

If you had 42 minutes with President Barack Obama, what would you say to him?

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Harper will meet with President Obama at the White House for 42 minutes. According to media reports, the topics to be discussed include the economy, free trade, energy, and security. The Globe and Mail urged Prime Minister Harper to "make this summit about Afghanistan."

What you would say to President Barack Obama in your own 42-minute meeting? Leave your reply on Ceasefire.ca.

We will be sharing the comments with journalists covering the Harper-Obama summit, so your comment could be heard or seen by millions of Canadians.

Steven Staples, Ceasefire.ca

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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!