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Ken Larson was awarded the Bronze Star during two military tours in Vietnam. His career subsequently spanned 36 years with major aerospace and defense companies and small business consulting. Ken received the SCORE National Achievement Award in 2010 and the MicroMentor Award for Outstanding Service In Mentorship in 2021. Micro Mentor and SCORE are non-profit organization offering free assistance to small business in business planning, operations, marketing and other aspects of success.

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Daojoan, to random
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Billionaire wealth isn't a sign of a healthy society. It's a symptom of rot. The accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few while millions struggle is an imbalance that demands attention, not admiration.

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@Daojoan

Current events and history itself tells us two important outcomes of the condition you have cited:

  1. When governments and weapons makers treasure the economic windfalls in collective military industrial technology and refuse to negotiate, then political and military values on both sides of a world conflict collide.

Soldiers and civilians then die.

  1. Continuation of the economic disparate imbalance eventually results in revolution.

https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/communicative-negotiation-the-only-way-forward-for-our-planet-in-conflict/

Swede1952, to ilaughed

Blue Jay

Here is a photo of a blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) that I took in October 2023. I haven't seen any of these birds in a few weeks, I know that they are still around though. Perhaps they are deeper in the forest. My guess I'll see them more when it starts getting really cold, especially it snows. Yes, it occasionally snows in Louisiana.

"The oldest known wild, banded Blue Jay was at least 26 years, 11 months old when it was found dead after being caught in fishing gear. It had been banded in the Newfoundland/Labrador/St. Pierre et Miquelon area in 1989 and was found there in 2016." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #bird #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #BlueJay

Smalltofeds,
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@Swede1952

Why do these birds have such a ravenous appetite for peanuts?

Smalltofeds, to random
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VA Exceeds Its Annual Goal for Housing Homeless Veterans

"MILITARY.COM" By Patricia Kime "The Department of Veterans Affairs says it had placed 38,847 veterans in permanent housing by the end of October, exceeding its goal to house 38,000 homeless veterans this year." ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ "VA officials announced Wednesday they also are on track to exceed their goal for keeping those newly…

https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/va-exceeds-its-annual-goal-for-housing-homeless-veterans/

trendless, to novid

“It’s time for our society to admit that we’ve made a mistake and change course.”

> Prioritizing the economy over health will sink both
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-this-is-a-pandemic-of-attrition

@novid

Smalltofeds,
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@trendless @novid
Continued prioritizing of the Military Industrial Complex at 40% of of our annual disposable federal funding will sink both faster.
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2023/11/05/for-veterans-day-what-can-we-learn-from-people-who-are-different-from-us-to-avoid-future-walls-of-faces/

Smalltofeds, to random
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AUTUMN ON THE Trail - Vermillion River Valley - Hastings, Minnesota
(click the link and then the pic for telescopic view)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseyof_armaments/53352801502/in/dateposted-public/

Smalltofeds, to random
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SEASONAL SENTIMENTS - Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseyof_armaments/53334640212/in/dateposted-public/

Smalltofeds, to random
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Pentagon Fails Sixth Straight Audit, With Number Of Passing Grades Stagnant

Glad I Did Not Take The Job - The Destroyer Without A Round For Its Gun DEFENSE NEWS By Noah Robertson "The Pentagon resolved around 500 Notifications of Findings and Recommendations, or specific problems found in last year’s audit. 2,500 more NFRs were identified this year, a total that includes new and recurring issues."…

https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2023/11/19/pentagon-fails-sixth-straight-audit-with-number-of-passing-grades-stagnant/

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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Beautiful day on Saint Johns River

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Smalltofeds,
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@RiversideBryan

One of the very best bass fishing venues in the world.

Smalltofeds, to random
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Autumn on the Mississippi River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota

Smalltofeds, to random
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Morning "Sunrise Shoot" through an Autumn leaf. Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota

Smalltofeds, to random
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Autumn on The Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota

flexghost, to random
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Just as I’m finding a majority of people 18-29 get their news from TikTok…

That TikTok is making sympathy for Osama bin Laden trend

Even Arafat disavowed bin Laden. That man is garbage and the ocean is still mad at us for throwing our trash there

TikTok is cancer.

Pew research poll showing the large amount of Americans 18-29 turning into brain rot losers getting their news from TikTok during that jerk off dance they love to do on there

Smalltofeds,
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@flexghost
A way forward for youth to consider.

Smalltofeds, to random
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Regal On Flyway -Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota

Smalltofeds, to random
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OLD GLORY IN THE FALL - Hastings, Minnesota
(click the link and then the pic for closeup view)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/odysseyof_armaments/51566104266/in/dateposted-public/

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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Smalltofeds,
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@RiversideBryan
Super texturing and shade, yet a feel for the natural .Near and far juxtaposition is great.

RickiTarr, to random
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Do you think voting should be mandatory?

BE NICE!

Smalltofeds,
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@accretionist @RickiTarr

As a veteran, I could not agree more. Voters have a lot on their plate in the immediate future.

On Veterans Day, our active duty military soldiers are the best in the world to defend us if war occurs. They cannot defend against the financial influence and political weight of the largest military industrial complex in world history. Managing that threat is the voters job.

https://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-can-we-learn-from-people-who-are.html

Smalltofeds, to random
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Sunrises - Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota

Smalltofeds, to random
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Clarity and Peace -Vermillion River Trail - Hastings, Minnesota

heidilifeldman, to random
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I find it very difficult to post these days. The ways in which the U.S. is already dangerous and likely to become more so much on display. The dangers - authoritarianism, racism, misogyny, other forms of bigotry, gun violence and more - are not new but they are acute and vivid. It is easy to feel muffled by fear, alarm, and concern. We have to try to resist the smothering of our voices, to keep using them to call out threats, to ask for help and change, to fight for safety and justice.

Smalltofeds,
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@heidilifeldman
There is but one solution.

Smalltofeds, to random
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Autumn on the Mississippi River
Lock and Dam 2 - Hastings, Minnesota

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Our stance on Gaza is a test of our human values, our privilege, and our opposition to racial supremacy.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/gaza-is-a-test-of-human-morality/?utm_content=buffer73cd5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

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@mondoweiss

https://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-can-we-learn-from-people-who-are.html

kissane, to random
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It shouldn’t need saying that any path that runs through murdered kids (anyone’s kids) and grandmas (anyone’s grandmas) isn’t leading to a better world.

Or that the hatred of Jewish people for their Jewishness is so real and terrifying and dangerous.

Or that Palestinians deserve the same freedom to make a good life as everyone else.

Or that every atrocity is wrong and worth trying to prevent.

I feel so choked with grief but when these ideas are controversial it feels necessary to speak.

Smalltofeds,
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@kissane
We are, as a species, going down a path to the next, necessary, evolutionary leap to survive. Let us hope we are capable of making the jump and that the souls that depart along the way will look back from their next spiritual home and feel it was worth it.

soller, to random
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The Maine fucker was a firearms instructor and in the Army Reserve. Being both trained with firearms and in the military, he fits the stereotype of a "good guy with a gun". Somehow, despite this history, he decided to end the lives of dozens of innocent, unarmed people including children.

Will conservatives continue the flawed narrative of the "good guy with a gun"? Will they say all bowling alleys need armed guards?

"Nothing we can do about this, says only place where this regularly happens."

Smalltofeds,
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@soller
No doubt an instructor for the "JR 15" as well.
https://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-mother-of-all-bad-ideas-jr-15.html

hal_pomeranz, to random

The real enemy of people all over the world is the military industrial complex and the governments they control. The slaughter of innocents will never end until the true enemy is defeated.

Smalltofeds,
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@hal_pomeranz

Here is a step in the direction of heading off a root cause of the MIC influence in the U.S.

MAJORITY OF RETIRED 4-STAR OFFICERS GET JOBS IN DEFENSE INDUSTRY

  • A staggering statistic “generating the appearance and reality of conflicts of interest in the making of defense policy.

https://larsoke4.wixsite.com/website/post/majority-of-retired-4-star-officers-get-jobs-in-defense-industry-new-report-says

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion; The Lost Cause prologue, part 6; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/13/pour-encoragez-les-autres/

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Smalltofeds, (edited )
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@Rycaut @pluralistic

Defective pricing, false claims, FCPA violations and many others are standard occurrences for the major government contractors. They lawyer up, go to court, sometimes for many years and then at some point pay fine but never plead guilty as a corporation or as individuals. While in court and after paying the fine the government continues to award them huge contracts. I know - I worked for the big 5 defense contractors for 36 years.
https://rosecoveredglasses.blogspot.com/2017/10/big-data-at-its-best-pogo-federal.html

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