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Summer in California

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I grew up with this and hope Mt. Wilson makes it through undamaged - tonight’s the night. Is it any wonder that I have little or no interest in reality shows.

Some say their heroes always were cowboys - mine were these men and women - YES since the 1970s women have been on the firelines too.

How’d you spend you summer vacation?

Amplify’d from www.latimes.com
Firefighters keep watch on a backfire behind homes on the 2800 block of Pinelawn Dr. in La Crescenta Monday. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Firefighter Matthew Cleaver is illuminated by the glow of a backfire in La Crescenta Monday. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles firefighter Thomas Rindge takes a break from battling the Station fire in La Crescenta Monday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The Station fire bears down on Aliso Canyon Road in Acton, several miles north of the area where two L.A. County firefighters died Sunday night after their truck went down a mountainside. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Posted by Ned Hamson  5 months ago

Congo Basin Genocide: Truth and Reconciliation?

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Read and wonder will the world stand by the next genocide - well it already is taking place in the Sudan. Figuring out why we let this happen and how we play into it is step one for preventing the next one and ending this one - no?

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Approximately 1 million men, women and children were killed in the horrific Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Sadly, the actions that led to the genocide have never been fully revealed. The conflicts that preceded the genocide continue to this day. This means that justice has not been done for victims or survivors. It also means that related ethnic violence is continuing in nations bordering Rwanda such as the Congo, where 5 million have now died.

You can help change this. Fill out the form below to send a free, instant message asking world leaders to support an internationally administered Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

I am writing to urge you to support the creation of an internationally administered Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, which includes Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Congo.
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Posted by Ned Hamson  5 months ago

Red Lobster Read This - Illegals Coming Off the Menu!

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Red Lobster is not the only organization that profits from illegally obtained marine life that ends up on the menu but they are one of the largest seafood fast food retailers. So the price of fame - get singled out - grin.

They used to say you could walk on the water on backs of cod when they were running off the coast of Maine and Massachusetts - no more. Of course they used to say that about salmon in Scotland, the Pacific Northwest, tuna off the California coast, Abalone off of California - Norte and Baja but no more.

Gotta have fish three times a day since you gave up you beef or pig three times a day? Think again!

Go rent the movie Soylent Green and think about it being about the world in 2020!

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New treaty will leave ‘fish pirates’ without safe haven

91 FAO Members have agreed on an international agreement to implement “port state measures” to combat illegal fishing

1 September 2009, Rome  - The final text of a new treaty that aims to close fishing ports to vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been agreed upon by a group of 91 countries during talks brokered by FAO, the UN agency announced today.
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Posted by Ned Hamson  5 months ago

Trapped, Enraged, Sinking into Fight4Hire Hell

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It’s sad, enraging, bizarre, ugly, understandable, mysterious - what is it? War and warrior for hire. We don’t need to aid and abet this anymore - bring them all home!

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Steroids, drink and paranoia: the murky world of the private security contractor

Terri Judd on the guns for hire fighting for business in Iraq and Afghanistan

It was the world to which Danny Fitzsimons, a 29-year-old former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and paranoia, and with an extensive criminal past, returned three weeks ago.

Despite rules against alcohol, his ArmorGroup colleagues welcomed him with a drinking session. A fight broke out and he shot and killed two of them – a Briton, Paul McGuigan, and an Australian, Darren Hoare – then wounded an Iraqi, Arkhan Mahdi. He faces a premeditated murder charge and execution if found guilty.

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Posted by Ned Hamson  5 months ago