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December 2009

Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

The Rich Worry About You Ann Telnaes Christmas Animation The Year’s Best Editorial Cartoons Iraq sectarian bomb attacks kill 26 Year after warships come, piracy up Maddow Exposes Birch Society Conspiracy Theories       Related Posts:No Related Posts

December 25th, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Michigan Leading the Way for Veterans and Medical Cannabis

DETROIT, Mich. – Michigan citizens demonstrated overwhelming support for medical cannabis in the November election in 2008. Since then, three VA Medical Center directors, with the determination by the VA Regional General Counsel, have made the use of medical cannabis an acceptable adjunct therapy. These are three VA Directors that we all need to thank… [...]

December 25th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Regional Veterans' News

Detroit, Michigan Veterans wait for GI Bill funding Iowa City, Iowa Military magazine gives UI high rating Lufkin, Texas Veterans’ facility on Ford Chapel Road is ‘gone’ Fort Pierce, Florida Donations sought to transport vets to D.C. memorial Milwaukee, Wisconsin History, necessity vie for space on veterans grounds       Related Posts:No Related Posts

December 25th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

No. 1000-09 [Released December 24, 2009]——————————————————————————–                Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc.*, Virginia Beach, Va. (SPM8EG-08-D-0002); W.S. Darley & Co.*, Itasca, Ill. (SPM8EG-08-D-0003); and Safeware, Inc.*, Landover, Md. (SPM8EG-08-D-0004), are each being awarded a maximum $800,000,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for a tailored logistics support program for fire and emergency services for military installations located [...]

December 25th, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »

GORDON DUFF: WHY AMERICANS WILL BE DYING NEXT CHRISTMAS AND…

WILL NATO EVENTUALLY DEFEAT PAKISTAN? HOW CAN WE KEEP TERRORISM ALIVE? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The US and NATO war against Pakistan is going reasonably well.  Our drone attacks are raising militancy and building terrorism among the Pashtuns.  At this rate, terrorist attacks will spread to every city in Pakistan.  Blackwater “hit teams” [...]

December 24th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »

A New Life Nursing Their Damaged Warriors

By Francis X. Clines The New York Times The two soldiers lolled speechless in wheelchairs, severely brain damaged by war, staring out at the home front from a diagnosis of “minimal consciousness.” Their young brides fed them through gastric tubes, one of the frequent tasks in the women’s brave new careers as veterans’ family caretakers. [...]

December 24th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

Afghan Lobby Scam Protests spread across Iran Who Wants to Die for Karzai? Coal’s Greatest Hits, 2009 Edition How CIA fell victim to gambler’s con       Related Posts:No Related Posts

December 24th, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Regional Veterans' News

San Antonio, Texas Hero didn’t forget the GIs of today Vallejo, California Volunteers to improve veterans building Salt Lake City, Utah Clinic for war vets is one-stop shopping Columbus, Ohio County requests state audit of veterans agency Fayetteville, North Carolina Air Force veteran to get surgery near home       Related Posts:No Related Posts

December 24th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

War Spending Exceeds State Government Outlays

By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans. Joseph Henchman, director of state projects for the Tax Foundation of Washington, D.C., says the states collected a total of $781 billion in taxes in [...]

December 24th, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

No. 998-09 ——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY                  Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $163,800,000 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract action for the procurement of four S-70B anti-submarine warfare/anti-surface warfare aircraft for the government of Brazil under the foreign military sales program.  This effort includes associated non-recurring engineering, production and transportation.  Work will be performed in Stratford, [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »

JEFF GATES: ZIONIST DOMINANCE IN THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY

THE REAL ORIGINS OF BARACK “HUSSEIN” OBAMA By Jeff Gates/Staff Writer/Editor (2nd in a series) Be not deceived by Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name or by the fact that he spent several childhood years in Indonesia. His political career is a product of a Westside Chicago Ashkenazi network with roots that trace directly back to organized [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »

GORDON DUFF: RESTORING AMERICA’S REAL GLORY: TRUTH AND HONOR

TIME FOR ALL AMERICANS TO SAY “NO MORE” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Before the fiasco of invading Iraq, a self destructive act done at the behest of lobbyists, we invaded Afghanistan because of 9/11.  The terrorists were trained in the US, under the watchful eye of the FBI and CIA, soaked in Saudi [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »

Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

Break the CIA in Two A Holiday Season of War Blackwater Eyes Afghan Contractor Surge Parting the Curtain on Congressional Nuttiness I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal. I was in the room       Related Posts:No Related Posts

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

NY Vet Battles Homelessness and Disease, While Raising 5 Children

Joseph Mungin, 45, an Army veteran, with his children. From left, Tischa, Tiffany, Devin, Joey, Mr. Mungin and Tina. Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times By Kassie Bracken The New York Times For about a year after moving into their new apartment, the Mungins did not have a single guest. Not because Joseph Mungin and [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Military | Read More »

EMERGING SCENARIO: PAKISTAN'S OPTIONS

NO SOLUTION IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT PAKISTAN By Ijaz-ul-Haq US Administration under President Obama, now in the arena for a good length, seems to suffer as if it can no longer be responsive, decisive and swift.   The closure of Guantanamo Prison Camp in Cuba vehemently announced by President Obama years back has been allowed to drift [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Regional Veterans' News

Lorain, Ohio Clinic, college staying put at St. Joe center Oxford, Mississippi Man to fight allegation of Purple Heart fraud Albuquerque, New Mexico Center for homeless veterans gets $1.6M Hillsboro, Oregon Legion members fill stockings for patients at Portland VA Silver Creek, New York NY veteran seeks owner of US flag found along creek       [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

Maj. Gen. Anthony Cucolo Bans Pregnancy

Last month back the Army general of U.S. forces in Northern Iraq ordered pregnancy banned among military personnel in his command, under threat of court-martial and jail time. The order went into effect on Nov. 4, and was first reported by the military publication Stars and Stripes. Under crushing criticism, and objection from four U.S. female Senators, Cucolo has [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »

No Chance Obama's War in Afghanistan Will Succeed

By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer “There isn’t the slightest possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his Dec. 1 speech (at West Point) will halt or even slow the downward spiral toward defeat in Afghanistan,” writes Thomas Johnson in the current “Foreign Policy” magazine. And for emphasis, he adds the word [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »

Escalating War in Afghanistan Apt to Bring More Economic Woes

By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer If Iraq war spending helped plunge the U.S. economy into its worst slump since the Depression, what does President Obama think his escalation of the Afghan war will do it? Besides forcing taxpayers to cough up fresh billions to enable the Pentagon to chase down a few hundred Taliban [...]

December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »

Who is Barack Obama?

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE Who is Barack Obama? Hello, Rosemary. I was just sitting here contemplating our earlier discussion. You know how much I respect your opinion, so I’m up in the middle of the night contemplating what you had to say about Obama, and my reaction to his policies. Since you’re [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

No. 992-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                 Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $841,877,905 contract to provide for 24 F-16 Block 52 aircraft, advanced counter measure system electronic warfare system, along with associated support equipment, alternate mission equipment and support elements for the government of Morocco.  At this time, $672,782,163 has been obligated.  [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »

Ohio Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park

The Ohio Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Clinton, Ohio, 44216,  was the idea of Dan Delarosa, Mansfield, Oh in 2004.  Dan’s inspiration was his dream to honor the death of his brother, Jesus Delarosa who was shot down in Vietnam.  The park, located at 8005 Clev-Mas. Rd., opened with a dedication on May 17, 2009 attended [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

GORDON DUFF: TRUE STORY BEHIND THE L.A. VETERANS PARK SCANDAL

HEROES vs ZEROES By Gordon Duff/STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor For over a decade, the Los Angeles Veterans Home, or what is supposed to be a Veterans Home, has been under assault from VA bureaucrats supported by an army of armed guards and backed by local millionaires who want to block homeless veterans from using land designated [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

Veterans oppose troop increase in Afghanistan

     One day President Obaama escalates an unwinnable war, the next he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. President Barack Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan was announced a mere nine days before he accepted the international peace prize in Oslo. When America’s commander in chief talked about winning the award, he said [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »

U.S. Troops in Iraq Are Now Detectives and Cops

By Scott Fontaine. KHANDARI, Iraq — “People in these neighborhoods know the sight of American troops,” said Staff Sgt. Brenden Bersey, a Spokane native on his third Iraq deployment. “It used to be that we would attack pretty much anybody who looked at us the wrong way. But we don’t do that anymore.” … [O]ne … of [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »

Editor's picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow Bechtel Gets $128 Million "Small Business" Contract Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal Boehner Calls Tanning Tax ‘Attack on Orange Americans’ Pregnancy in Iraq could bring courts-marshal for US soldiers Ten Worst Things about the Bush Decade; The Rise of the New Oligarchs       Related Posts:No [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

U.S. Aid to Al Qaeda

Glenn Greenwald notes Al Qaeda’s recruiting agent: Missiles killing innocents. How would you feel if someone killed your family? – Following up on what I wrote yesterday about our missile attacks in Southern Yemen strengthening Al Qaeda, there is an unusually informative article in Time — written by Abigail Hauslohner and based on her interview with Yemen expert [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »

Regional Veterans' News

Middletown, Ohio Protest outside Veterans Service Commission Denver, Colorado Eight accused of posing as vets to collect benefits Madison, Wisconsin Study finds high suicide rates among Wis. veterans Norman, Oklahoma Veteran’s legal battle to return to Norman continues Grand Rapids, Michigan Hero’s welcome for injured Afghanistan war veteran       Related Posts:No Related Posts

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

Palestinians Demand Probe of Israeli Organ-Harvesting

I must admit.  I did not believe it.  Not ever.  For years the Palestinians have been accusing Israeli authorities of harvesting organs from them and others in the area.  I thought it was ghoulish nonsense and anti-Israeli propaganda.  Now it turns out to be true.  An Israeli doctor in an interview on Israeli television Channel Two has admitted [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »

"Buddy, can you spare a dime?"

Today’s Washington Post is a veritable treasure chest of crucial information relative to our present schizophrenic state of mind as a nation. We are in very deep financial trouble, much deeper than we have been told, and all the "war talk" seems to be fluff to take our minds off the real issue of impending [...]

December 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

 

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