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TERROR WITNESS, KURT HASKELL REFUSES TO BE SILENCED 3rd RATE COVERUP NOT UP TO NORMAL AMERICAN STANDARDS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Haskell Story by MiLive Reporter Aaron Foley The Detroit terror attack can, if we, the people, finally demand justice, bring down the mechanism that has allowed the phony War on Terror to [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
STARTING WITH MY LIST OF WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR JOIN IN By Gordon Duff Senior Editor Inspired by Bruce Arnold For the new year: 1. End the war in Afghanistan and bring all troops home. 2. A home, job and decent health care for every veteran. 3. A new Shelby GT500 for my garage [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
No. 1011-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc, Poway, Calif., was awarded a $266,055,622 contract for program management; urgent repairs and services; logistics support; configuration management; technical manual and software maintenance; engineering technical services; contract engineering technical specialists; contractor inventory control point and spares management; depot repair; flight; operations support; reliability/maintenance enhancements; and [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »
By Del Quentin Wilber – A federal judge on Thursday threw out charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 people in a 2007 shooting in downtown Baghdad. In a 90-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled that the government violated the guards’ rights by using their immunized statements to help [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
“AIR COMBAT” HAS TAKEN ON A NEW MEANING FROM GRANDPARENT TO GLADIATOR AT 30,000 FEET Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor As a frequent flier, I began some years ago looking thru the waiting areas during preboarding for “potential terrorists.” There is nothing more embarrassing than picking out a would be hijacker, an insidious terrorist, then, five minutes [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
ALAN J. KUPERMAN: NOT PEACE BUT WAR By Paul Craig Roberts On Christmas eve when Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times delivered forth a call for war. "There’s only one way to stop Iran," declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is "military air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities." [There's Only [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Cheney needs a reminder An Inconvenient Voting Record Some Perspective On Terrorism U.N. To Move Staff Out Of Pakistan For Safety TSA strong-arms bloggers who published new airport procedures Limbaugh Rushed To Honolulu Hospital That Gave Rise To ‘Birther’ Conspiracy Related Posts:No Related Posts
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Loma Linda, California New vet medical facility planned Tampa, Florida Liberty Manor offers shelter to homeless vets American Lake, Alaska Veterans urgent care clinic to cut hours Philadelphia, Pennsylvania VA apologizes for botched cancer treatments Nashville, Tennessee Tennessee’s Veterans’ Homes Board lacks contracts Related Posts:No Related Posts
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
As we can plainly see in an article from today’s New York Times entitled New York State Has First Deficit in General Fund we have a growing and very dangerous problem. The states are running out of money to operate. And in a related editorial put out by the Times editors entitled Failed State we [...]
December 31st, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
(FALSIFIED VIDEO REALLY TAKEN IN 1991: Courtesy Fox News) By Gordon Duff and Brian Jobert: Who says Al Qaeda takes credit for a bombing? Rita Katz. Who gets us bin Laden tapes? Rita Katz. Who gets us prettymuch all information telling us Muslims are bad? Rita Katz? Rita Katz is the Director of Site Intelligence, [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
No. 1009-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY Sauer, Inc., East Jacksonville, Fla. (N40080-10-D-0490); Haskell, Jacksonville, Fla. (N40080-10-D-0491); John C. Grimberg, Rockville, Md. (N40080-10-D-0492); TtEC-Tesoro, JV, Virginia Beach, Va. (N40080-10-D-0493); and Whiting-Turner, Baltimore, Md. (N40080-10-D-0494), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity large multiple award construction contract for various large dollar construction projects within the area of responsibility of the [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Dick the Coward My Daughter’s on the No Fly List The Global War on Stealth Underwear Top GOP Myths about the Crotch Bomber Affair Expanding Scope of US Engagement Exactly What Bin Laden Wants Related Posts:No Related Posts
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
I was physically and sexually abused by nuns when I was a child. As a result, I am active in the movement within the Catholic Church to root out the bishops and priests and nuns and lay brothers who sexually abused children while hiding behind their cassocks and habits. One of the leaders in this [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Richmond, Virginia Volunteers Build New Home for Local Veteran Kauai, Hawaii Kaua‘i Veterans Council’s 2009 fundraiser a success Bangor, Maine Disabled vet plate not enough to avoid a parking ticket Mansfield, Ohio Mystery shrouds saga of Mansfield WW I vet’s headstone Salt Lake City, Utah Did communications breakdowns imperil Utah VA patients? Related Posts:No [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN OUR DISCUSSION SECTION A READER TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE IN KOREA 1950 By Bobby "Y" for Veterans Today Duffster: You invited me to write about my experiences in the Korean War which I am not going to do to any extent. War is hell in all wars. I am going to write [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
If today’s Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in the Washington Post is any indication, the President and Commander in Chief has now more or less lost the Left wing of the Democratic Party as an ally…in any endeavor…for damned near anything. The piece is entitled As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Now here is an odd but interesting story from the Sphere blog entitled Why So Many Terrorists Get Their Start as Engineers . The piece does not really attempt to answer the question presented, but it sure does point out an oddity about Islamic terrorists and their education of choice. It really makes one think. [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
No. 1008-09 ——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: ARMY Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded on Dec. 22, 2009, a $258,364,288 firm-fixed-price contract for the purchase of 728 new M1075 palletized load system trucks on the existing contract. Work is to be performed in Oshkosh, Wis., with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2012. One bid was solicited [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »
By Ray McGovern Consortium News In the past, I have alluded to Panetta and the Seven Dwarfs. The reference is to CIA Director Leon Panetta and seven of his moral-dwarf predecessors — the ones who sent President Barack Obama a letter on Sept. 18 asking him to “reverse Attorney General Holder’s Aug. 24 decision to [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
COULD TERROR WAR BE RESPONSE BY GOP AND ISRAEL AGAINST THREATS TO THEIR GLOBAL PLANS? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (STORY CONTINUALLY UPDATING WITH BREAKING NEWS!) When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed “the crotch bomber” is another dupe. He could have been [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
Pakistan is Calling Top Ten Middle East Crises, 2009 Cause and effect in the "Terror War" Is Air Travel Now More Trouble Than It’s Worth? U.S. intelligence: ‘Time is running out’ in Afghanistan Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here…sort of… Related Posts:No Related Posts
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
In an article with a video posted on CNN News online we have the former head of the Department of Homeland Security who is also a former Governor of the state of my birth and childhood, Pennsylvania, stating quite plainly that there is a class of alleged felon in our country that does not deserve [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
St. Augustine, Florida VA home almost complete Odessa, Texas Odessa VA Office Moving to a New Location Rockaway, Oregon Hexavalent chromium exposure weighs on veteran Farmington, New Mexico Solar panels illuminate veteran’s Nageezi home Springfield, Missouri Community, officials failing to recognize veterans’ needs Related Posts:No Related Posts
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
In today’s Washington Post we read an article entitled Army wife’s blog about her injured husband becomes a window into sacrifice . It was hard to read but it is a real and genuine window into what less than 1% of the American population, our people in uniform, are bearing up under. I wonder how [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
There are several articles in today’s New York Times that deal with the state of American anxiety concerning air travel safety. The first one is entitled Obama Seeks to Reassure U.S. After Bombing Attempt and seems to indicate that the President’s normal use of charm and calm composure to quell fears is not going to [...]
December 29th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
ISRAEL DENIES OPERATING ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AIMED AT UNITED STATES BBC Middle East Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence. Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy [...]
December 28th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
WHAT TERRORISTS KNOW AND YOU DON’T By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I have worked in electronics, both communications and security systems for decades. The industry is full of magic, satellites that can read license plates, not just from space but inside parking garages and tell you the sex of the baby you may not know [...]
December 28th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
The Borowitz Report - December 28, 2009 Department of Homeland Security Issues Terrorist ID Cards Requires Application, $25 Fee WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In the wake of the Christmas Day airline terror attempt, the Department of Homeland Security today said it was instituting a bold new series of security measures, including issuing an official [...]
December 28th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
No. 1005-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $98,000,000 modification to the previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for special tooling and special test equipment required for the manufacture of Joint Strike Fighter Air System low rate initial production aircraft. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, [...]
December 28th, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »
THAT POSSIBLE INDIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENT PLACED BOMBER ON PLANE VERIFIED: DUTCH POLICE LOOKING FOR ACCOMPLICE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (and attributed sources) Reuters reports Dutch military police are investigating claims that an accomplice (identified as “very well dressed Indian man”) may have helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam on [...]
December 28th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »