Angela Alegna Delivers Music Christmas Card for the Troops My America’s New Music Hero for 2010 is Angela Alegna by Johnny Punish After living twelve years in Ireland, Angela Alegna has come home to America in order to campaign on behalf of our returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who are finding it difficult to [...]
No. 988-09——————————————————————————–NAVY Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $200,923,690 modification to previously awarded contract for 241 Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles and 47 shipping containers for the NATO SeaSparrow Consortium. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz. (45 percent); Andover, Mass. (10 percent); Camden, Ark. (2 percent); Australia (11 percent); Germany (8 percent); Canada (7 [...]
Veterans we can ask the Senators while they are battling on Health Care to Squeeze some no cost actions in to get some small business done. I am working to network on Facebook and to build a bigger effort not only for Gulf War Veterans but all Veterans! WE need to use all the tools [...]
The "American people have only one part to play in the Nation’s wars-that of spectator." Adrian Lewis is a professor of history at the University of Kansas. Though I don’t concur with all the views of this Army Combat Studies Institute article, for example despite the fact that the Pentagon lowered fiscal year quotas for [...]
And the guy that’s standing on the ground, that needs some help.You don’t walk up and kick him.If you gonna do this, you better wear his shoes for awhile.Because you know what? Trade places with him and he’ll pick you up.It’s the truth. You better pass around as much love as you can in your [...]
1. America Needs Pakistan’s Help — Again (First Installment in a 5 Part Series) By Jeff Gates, Staff Writer/Editor Ordinary Americans need the assistance of Islamabad now more than at any time in the past six decades. That aid lies not in combating “Islamo fascism” but in countering the influence inside the U.S. of Israeli [...]
Afghan War Costs 101 Tom Friedman, museum exhibit First They Came for the Banksters The Risky Supply Line to Afghanistan Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011 Blackwater guards’ lawyers want nicknames kept from jury Related Posts:No Related Posts
Here are some Buy-American links for the Holidays. Let’s face it, outsourcing jobs (off-shoring) to countries who care even less for their workers than we do hollows out our economy and is a course that cannot be safely sustained. So as Holiday season continues, please consider using these Buy-American links for the Holidays to find American-made products. [...]
The Associated Press has reported just moments ago that as of last evening Iran has siezed Oil Well Number 4 inside of what is a disputed Iraqi border between Iran and Iraq resulting from their disastrous war of the 1980s. And now it begins. Stand by. This cannot be good and brings a whole new meaning to [...]
By Walter Pincus The Washington Post The chairman of a Senate investigative subcommittee called Thursday for stepped-up government oversight of contract work in Afghanistan, saying Pentagon auditors have already challenged nearly $1 billion in charges by military contractors. "What additional controls and government oversight are needed to make sure that these contracts don’t result in [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Interagency Council On Veterans Employment Holds First Meeting. 2. Studies Highlight Emotional Toll Deployments Take On US Soldiers. 3. Teleconference Part Of Veterans Support Initiative In Minnesota. 4. Veterans Find Understanding While Working At Organic Farm In California. 5. VA Apologizes For Prostate-Cancer Program, Denies Radiation Violations. 6. VistA Said To Be Old, [...]
Seymour, Tennessee VA Hospital won’t be in works Attleboro, Massachusetts Attleboro war veteran plaques stolen Corunna, Michigan County Board plans to reorganize veterans committee San Diego, California Veterans find peace working on San Diego-area farm Seattle, Washington Mom died? No problem; they just kept taking the money Related Posts:No Related Posts
Time Magazine online has an interesting article posted entitled New Job for Ex-Soviet Pilots: Arms Trafficking . It is worth a read and a few minutes thought. Apparently, ex-Soviet and Russian pilots are using old planes to smuggle weapons and munitions all over the world. This cannot be good! The Thai government has just arrested a flock [...]
The Washington Post has posted an article this morning, Six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be repatriated , which tells us of a situation which may be a prelude of things to come that may happen very quickly. We are possibly getting ready to send up to 97 Yemeni detainees in total from the GTMO [...]
The Associated Press has released a story this morning, Mumbai gunman recants confession, alleges torture, in which a man accused by police of being part of the Mumbai massacre in India last year is recanting his confession saying that he was tortured. Even if he is guilty, torture can weaken the prosecution’s case. Read the [...]
In today’s Washington Post political section we find out that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has promised the President that he will find him the votes that he needs to fund the ramping up of the war in Afghanistan. The story is entitled Boehner offers to help Obama on Afghanistan and offers an insight [...]
The New York Times today has posted an editorial entitled Guantánamo Must Be Closed that is worth a slow read. I have to tell you; something is odd. The editorial board of this fine old paper comes out in support of the ramping up of warfare in Afghanistan and then chides the Obama Administration for [...]
The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the Democrats blocked a Republican effort last night to hold up a ‘must pass’ defense spending bill in the Senate that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in their effort to hold up health-care legislation. What is so odd about this is that this is exactly what [...]
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The New York Times has a story tonight entitled One U.S. Battalion’s Trials in Afghanistan concerning the efforts of the First Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, a Stryker Brigade battalion which has suffered high losses in Afghanistan. They continue to fight and do the best that they can. Whenever I read one of these unit profiles [...]
The Washington Post is reporting tonight in a story entitled Yemeni forces launch pre-dawn assault on alleged al-Qaeda sites that a rarity in the Arab world has occurred. A weak Arab central government has stood up to Al Qaeda. They are actually engaging their own troublemakers in combat. I had to read the story twice. [...]
The Associated Press has just released a story entitled Pentagon: Insurgents Intercepted Drone Spy Videos that outlines the almost primitive procedures the Afghani insurgents used to get access to spy drone videos. Therefore, they could see what the drone could see and look at the targets as the coalition forces were looking at the same [...]
by: Yana Kunichoff, T r u t h o u t – According to a new government report, more than 50 percent of the Department of Defense workforces are military contractors and the Obama administration’s troop surge in Afghanistan is set to only increase these numbers. The report, prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the [...]
Edelman Reaches Out to Hire Veterans Pioneer Thinking. Breakthrough Communications. Rewarding Careers. For more than half a century, Edelman has defined the practice and direction of public relations. Today, they are the world’s largest independent communications firm. Joining their company of industry-leading communications professionals may be the most rewarding decision you’ll ever make for your career. In [...]
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE Healthcare: There was a 3 a.m. Call to the White House, and No One Answered President Obama is in trouble. How do I know? Because as one of his biggest supporters, now, I’m even beginning to wonder if I allowed myself to get too caught up in the [...]
No. 984-09——————————————————————————–NAVY ITT Industries Corp., Integrated Electronic Warfare Systems, Clifton, N.J., is being awarded a $111,737,911 not-to-exceed firm-fixed-price contract for non-recurring engineering required to modify, manufacture, test and deliver 17 AN/ALQ-214(V)3 radio frequency defensive electronic countermeasures engineering development model (EDM) units. In addition, this contract provides for delivery of three ALQ-214 systems test fixtures (test [...]
Kucinich Wins $8 Million Dollars for Gulf War Illnesses Research WASHINGTON – December 17 – Efforts by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to continue to help ailing veterans of the first Gulf War paid off yesterday when he won the inclusion of $8,000,000 for Gulf War Veterans Illnesses (GWVI) in H.R. 3326, the Defense Appropriations spending [...]
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