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Orange County Great Park: Preserving El Toro`s Toxic Past

A tale of toxic hangars
Hey OC, check out what you get for your tax dollars...

(IRVINE, Calif.) - It has been announced that plans to destroy the runway at the old El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine, California are now in reverse.

The entire runway at this old base along with hangars 296 and 297 in a section of the base that formerly contained Marine Wing Support Group-37, will stay right where they are.

Prior to Being Obsessed with WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton was Obsessed with Honduras

None of the cables so far answer the question of what prevented the U.S. from fulfilling its manic need to restore Zelaya to the presidency.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In preparing for her today's Wall Street Journal, “WikiLeaks, Honduras and the U.S.”, Mary Anastasia O’Grady presumably had a number of approaches choose him.

One option was to announce that Assange is an agent of FARC and that confirmation has been obtained from the laptops impounded during the 2008 Colombian raid on their camp in Ecuador....

Tell that to the Liberty`s Survivors, Mr. Lieberman

“Israel does not pose a threat to peace in the world” - Joe Liberman (My emphasis added).

(LONDON) - Question: Why is it that in this Christian season of “Peace on Earth and good will to all men (and women)” the name of Israel’s Soviet-born foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, described by some as Israel’s “Hitler in-the-making”, should enter my mind?

Answer: Because I’ve been thinking about a most extraordinary statement (extraordinary even by his own standards) he made on a recent visit to Australia.

Palestinian Statehood to be Decided by UN?

Prominent former political leaders in Europe – foreign ministers, prime ministers, and other luminaries – are urging the EU and its member states to explore the Palestinian statehood issue.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - In November 1988, the State of Palestine was unilaterally declared in Algiers when the PLO’s National Council adopted the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.

The independent State of Palestine is widely recognized by over 100 United Nations member countries, although oftentimes in equivocal terms.

Orange County Great Park to use Radium Contaminated Hangar

A radium paint room was a common feature on many military airfields.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The latest Orange County Great Park plans are to keep the runways and hangars at former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in place to “dramatically reduce costs and speed up the building of Irvine’s Great Park,” according to the Voice of OC.

Former MCAS El Toro is an EPA Superfund site, the base closed in July 1999, and sold at a public auction in 2005.

Female Engagement Team (FET / USMC)

Women can be and often are the most compassionate and successful leaders in the military.

(CLEVELAND) - There is a certain type of woman who joins the U.S. Marine Corps. She is not your average person by any means; but like others who wear the eagle, globe and anchor, she is a person of immense pride and dedication.

Those who are not wash out, there is no Marine Corps for people who only go halfway.

`All Kinds of Flooding Is Going On` in California Winter Storm

Snowfall has also been exceptional...

(STATE COLLEGE, Pa.) - AccuWeather.com reports a relentless barrage of storms that has been pummeling California and the West with tremendous rain and snowfall since Friday will keep at it for one more day.

The last storm in the series will plow onshore over California tonight into Wednesday, sending rainfall totals for this entire event ranging anywhere from 5 inches to 2 feet in central and southern parts of the state.

Building Border Food Security

“I think it’s been really positive,” - Youth Organizer, Cristina Dominguez

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Sprouting up in the Rio Grande Valley, a new organization seeks to reshape the production, distribution and consumption of food.

Called La Semilla Food Center, the New Mexico-based project intends not only to grow and sell organic food, but also expose youth to new careers, inspire value-added industries, get locally-grown produce into large institutions, spin-off small businesses, and encourage nutritional awareness.

From the Township Garden to the City Table

“To grow these vegetables here for me, first, is a life” - Christina Kaba, a farmer working with HoH

(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) - Around 1 million people in South Africa—the majority of whom are recent arrivals from the former apartheid homelands, Transkei and Ciskei— live in the shacks that make up Khayelitsha, Nyanga and the area surrounding the Cape Flats outside Cape Town.

Just under half, or 40 percent, of the population is unemployed, while the rest barely earn enough income to feed their families.

America`s War Veterans: PTSD and its Cure

If the suffering veterans of America can forge a movement to loudly say NO to the vile indignities being heaped upon us right here at home in the land of the free, they can make a difference to their own healing.

(LOS ANGELES) - The two American websites, Veterans Today and Salem News, run by two former US Military veterans, contain some of the most outstanding RealitySpeak writings by both civilians and America's war veterans, presumably, all mostly being eagerly ingested by other American war veterans.

In full disclosure, these websites also reprint my two cents every now and then.