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Free Postcards to help stop Canadian Bombers from flying over Afghanistan.

Joseph Raglione
July 04, 2009
Gentle readers of the American Chronicle, and to my friends around the world, I quickly need your help to stop the Prime Minister of Canada from sending Canadian Bombers to Afghanistan. When G.W.Bush was removed from office within the U.S., his clone in the form of P.M. Harper continued to hold, by the proverbial skin of his teeth, power in Canada. Harper continues to prove to the world he is a hard nosed Conservative with the ability not only to pipe dirty Bitumin Oil into the U.S. but to send non-discriminating bombers into Afghanistan. The following is a message from Steven Staples of the Ceasefire organization...>

Ceasefire.ca Launches New Postcard Campaign on Afghanistan

Dear Joseph,

You may not be reading about it on the front pages of our newspapers, but here in Ottawa it is evident that a campaign is afoot to extend Canada´s war-fighting role in Afghanistan beyond the current end date of December 2011.

That´s why we have printed 5,000 copies of this postcard addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, urging him not to deploy CF-18 fighter bombers to Afghanistan and, instead, to end the war through peaceful means and bring troops home as soon as possible.

You can help the campaign by distributing a pack of the postcards to your friends, colleagues and family members. Fill in this coupon and we will mail you a campaign pack of 10 postcards.

We need every ounce of energy to work to end Canada´s war in Afghanistan. Both Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff have supported the war, creating a powerful, pro-militarist bloc in Parliament.

In fact, the political agendas of both the Conservatives and the Liberals are moving closer together everyday. As respected Toronto Star columnist Chantal Hébert wrote recently, "The Liberals and the Conservatives jointly wrote the current marching orders of the Afghan mission. Their Canada-U.S. agenda has never been as similar."

John Manley has replaced Tom d´Aquino as the head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.


Equally alarming is the growing power of the "big business" side of the Liberal Party. Former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley has replaced Tom d´Aquino as the head of the powerful lobby group, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE).

John Manley is the former Liberal Cabinet minister who presided over the disastrous integration of Canadian and U.S. security rules after 9/11, and led Stephen Harper´s panel on Afghanistan, which helped the government extend the war once again.

Author Scott Taylor signs copies of his new book for Ceasefire.ca donors. In recent months, more than 500 people have donated for the first time.

Joseph, we need to pull together. Our Ceasefire.ca network of Canadians who want our country to be a peace leader is growing stronger every day.

Ceasefire.ca now emails to 20,000 contacts, and in the last six months more than 500 people have donated to the campaign for the very first time.

I hope that you will become a Ceasefire.ca volunteer organizer and distribute a pack of campaign postcards to help end Canada´s war in Afghanistan.

Thanks for every act you can take to make Canada a peace leader once again.

In peace,

Steven Staples, Ceasefire.ca

P.S. Please make your donation to Ceasefire.ca's campaign to end Canada's war in Afghanistan. If you have already made a gift recently, please accept our thanks.

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This message was sent from Steven Staples, Ceasefire.ca to Human4us@Sympatico.ca. It was sent from: Rideau Institute, 63 Sparks Street, Suite 608, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A6. You can modify/update your subscription via the link below.

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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!