1…………> Applied Global Warming: California Code Purple
The wind wildfire threat for Southern California was raised to purple for the first time, meaning that there is extreme danger of yet another inferno erupting and burning uncontrollably as the one in Los Angeles’ exclusive Bel-Air area that consumed multi-million-dollar houses and tract homes alike.
About 20,000 people were under evacuation orders throughout metropolitan Los Angeles and other areas of Southern California.
2…………> Applied Global Warming: Rare Dolphins
“It seems like the Kikori Delta is really the only place in all of [Papua] New Guinea at this stage and — importantly — all of the Pacific Islands, where the snubfin dolphins are found,” senior research fellow Isabel Beasley said about the discovery of two rare species of Australian snubfin and humpback living in the Kikori Delta, in Gulf Province west of Port Moresby.
“They seem to follow Wallace’s Line broadly, but the next stage will be to see within the Indonesia archipelago and also into Papua and West Papua itself, where does the break lie and what’s the driving force behind those species’ little differences,” Dr Beasley said.
3…………> The Evil Of War: PTSD
Why do the children of soldiers returning from the terror of wars have a disproportionate incidence of “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”? Is it a genetic phenomenon, or do the little ones sense the tension and despair of their loving parents?
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42229205/the-american-children-with-ptsd-symptoms
4…………> Bring The Condiments: World’s Bread Competition
Competitor Liu Xin (R) weighs the croissant during a qualification match for the 7th world bread competition in Shanghai, east China, Dec. 7, 2017. The qualification match was held to decide the participants from China for the 7th world bread competition in France in 2019.
5…………> Third Antifada: Hamas Threat
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the influential Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has called for a new uprising against Israel, declaring that, “We should call for and we should work on launching an intifada in the face of the Zionist enemy. We want the uprising to last and continue to let Trump and the occupation regret this decision.”
His call to arms led to violent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops across the West Bank and along the Gaza-Israel border, with stones being hurled at anti-riot troops who used water cannons and tear gas on Palestinians in Bethlehem, injuring 15 demonstrators.
6…………> Remember Pearl Harbor Heroes: Rear Adm. Brian Fort
This article was penned by distinguished Navy Commander, Rear Adm. Brian Fort, Navy Region Hawaii and Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific.
Winston Churchill, who was a World War I warfighter and World War II Prime Minister of Britain, famously said, “The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.”
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is an opportunity for the world’s citizens, especially those of us in the United States and Japan, to remember key lessons of the past and reflect on the meaning of the Second World War.
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island, Dec. 7, 1941. (U.S. Navy video/Released)
Seventy-six years ago, under Western sanctions for having invaded Manchuria and Southeast Asia, Imperial Japan miscalculated and attacked Oahu. Veterans who were around then said they knew war was inevitable. War was already underway in Europe, as Churchill tried to stave off Hitler and the Nazis. When Japanese planes destroyed our battleships in Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, we rose to the challenge to fight fascism, both here in the Pacific and in Europe.
On the home-front, families also rose to challenges and confronted new realities. Women joined the workforce in nontraditional occupations. The armed forces became more diversified. Our nation came together in the name of freedom.
SOLOMON ISLANDS (Aug. 9, 2017) The guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) transits to the site of the wreckage of the World War II Royal Australian Navy heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra (DD 33) near Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Barry participated in a memorial ceremony held for Canberra, which was sunk on Aug. 9, 1942. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Wesley Timm/Released)
In the first year after the attack here in the Pacific, despite some initial setbacks, our aviators literally rose up in the Battle of Coral Sea and Battle of Midway. Submarines and surface forces took the fight to the enemy like never before. We continued to turn the tide in the Battle of Guadalcanal 75 years ago.
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