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Have a Happy Earth Day and Ask stubborn Ken Salazar to save the Polar Bears.

Joseph Raglione
April 21, 2009
Gentle readers of the American chronicle, why is Ken Salazar not acting to save the Polar Bears? Is it because the Arctic remains an Oil and Mineral prize for a few basically ignorant world leaders? I hope Barack Obama and Ken Salazar are not among those few ignorant world leaders? I know Putin thought it was funny to plant a Russian Flag on Canada's Arctic Ocean Floor. He is lucky we did not plant a mine field on that same Canadian Arctic Ocean Floor. In turn, after studying the facts, I thought it was funny telling Putin how the price of Oil would drop to almost nothing within a few years, and so would his Russian Siberian Oil. The following is a message from GreenPeace...>

April 21, 2009.

Dear Joseph,

On Friday the Environmental Protection Agency declared the obvious -- greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

This victory ends a process begun 10 years ago, when a few states and environmental groups, together with Greenpeace, petitioned and then sued the EPA to exercise its authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The Bush administration was a roadblock for eight of those years.

But now we're moving in the right direction with a new opportunity to stop global warming and protect endangered species. We need your help to ensure this victory.

Last year Greenpeace, together with other environmental groups, won a three-year legal battle to protect the polar bear from extinction when the federal government listed the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. But the Bush administration included a regulation that exempts global warming from the threats the government must consider in protecting the polar bear.

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an end to Global Warming.

Global warming is the biggest threat to polar bears because it causes their sea ice habitat to melt beneath them. This regulation undermines the basic protections needed to save the polar bear from extinction. The Bush administration also included a second regulation that will weaken the Endangered Species Act so that no animal could be protected from the effects of global warming.


Congress granted Interior Secretary Ken Salazar the authority to immediately rescind these Bush era regulations that fail to protect the polar bear or stop global warming pollution. If Secretary Salazar does not withdraw the Bush regulations by Saturday May 9, they will remain in effect. (The question of why Salazar is stalling remains suspiciously open?)

In the coming days Greenpeace activists will creatively share with Secretary Salazar the tens of thousands of petitions that you and others have submitted calling on him to reject these regulations.

Please make a generous gift today to support our efforts to protect amazing species like the polar bear from global warming.

Your gift will help us reach more supporters and mobilize the public to ensure we keep moving in the right direction.

For the bears,

Melanie Duchin

Global Warming Campaigner

Anchorage, Alaska

P.S. Happy Earth Day for tomorrow!

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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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