The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart in a very funny take on CPAC’s “Festival of Whites” at TPM. Death panels and Marxist demons aside, Sarah Palin’s Grandson gets Socialist medical care, Stephen C. Webster tells it at Raw Story. McCarthyism is back, ugly as ever and even more dangerous this time around by Aemilia Scott at AlterNet. Those stories and more in today’s picks.
Find out What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans Shinseki “Fighting To Reduce” Red Tape For Vets Seeking Benefits. Lawmakers Urge VA Support For New Fisher House In Colorado. White House Calls For Health IT “Task Force.” Homeless Vets Facility In Texas Could Soon Begin Accepting Residents. Stimulus Funds To Pay For Upgrades At Several [...]
Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende said he expected Dutch troops to come home from Afghanistan before the end of the year, after efforts to keep them there longer caused the government to collapse, the New York Times reports. The war in Afghanistan has been increasingly unpopular among voters in in many parts of Europe, creating strains between governments trying to please the US and their own people.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Stockton, California, Shreveport, Louisiana, Biloxi, Mississippi, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Port Orchard, Washington, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albany, New York, Columbia, South Carolina, Chicago, Illinois, College Park, Maryland, and Los Angeles, Califronia.
That’s what has led to the current disaffection by both liberals and conservatives toward government. The American people can sense their rights slipping away, but they have yet to come to terms with what is actually going on. They have yet to realize that congressional gridlock is a convenient way of denying them their rights. They have also yet to recognize that the majority in the senate is allowing the minority to abuse of the filibuster procedure because both parties are in collusion. The Republican filibuster provides cover for the Democratic majority for failing to enact, or greatly watering down, legislation being demanded by the people, but neither party wants to enact.
Well may Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warn students in Qatar that “Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship.” She is, after all, an authority on the subject, representing a country where the Pentagon has long been ascendant. Her comment was followed up by Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s press secretary, who, at a February 16th news conference refused to deny the possibility of the U.S. taking military action against Iran, stating, “I wouldn’t rule out anything.”
No. 131-10 —————————– CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems, Inc., San Diego, Calif., was awarded a $77,915,492 contract which will provide the maintenance and support of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system in support of overseas contingency operations through fiscal year 2010. At this time, $71,181,700 has been obligated. 653 ELSG/PK, [...]
Specifically singling out Vietnam War veterans, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said today that the VA is broken, the backlog of claims and the lack of trust by veterans must change. In rhetoric this is a departure from the boilerplate about respecting the troops, meeting obligations … . This is admitting a problem. “In time, I’m hopeful this [...]
Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India. On top of the millions of jobs they have already shipped overseas to increase profits at our expense, they are planning to ship an additional 25% of current US jobs overseas as well.
Ken Hunter, an IRS employee and 2 toured Vietnam Veteran loses life in Texas IRS Crash
A power plant for the home smaller than a breadbox; does it work? Ask Google or FedEx. Video from 60 Minutes. If students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo can create a vehicle that gets 2752 MPG using existing technologies, is it too much to expect something more than 30 MPG from the big guys? That one from Jerry James Stone at Treehugger. Raw story tells the story of Colin Powell kicking Cheney to the curb and supporting the President on National Security issues. Those stories and more in today’s picks.
Check White House.gov for more details. President Obama offers health care reform for American families. Specifics are difficult to argue against; the GOP’s future is imperiled. Health Care Reform will looks a lot like this: Related Posts:Fukushima Cover Up Continues Amid Looming World Health CrisisU.S. support for brutal dictators is a source of frustration in the Middle East: Anthony [...]
It is a breath of fresh air to read ‘on-line’ about a growing number of seriously progressive candidates challenging the politically strategic and deceitful notion of “Let’s stay mum on Iraq and Afghanistan and the billions wasted occupying them for Mobile Oil and Boeing (among others) and maybe, just maybe, voters will not notice and [...]
Fiscal catastrophe is catastrophic. Face it, Republicans do not care; catastrophe is their goal and these guys are pathological. A big clue was waging three wars while simultaneously pushing through tax cuts during the Bush-Cheney administration. Insane – fiscal – policy. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman takes us through it: The Bankruptcy Boys By PAUL KRUGMAN [...]
This past Friday, on February 19th, I traveled to a gathering of WWII vendors in Louisville, Kentucky. It was called “The Ohio Valley Show of Shows”. By invitation, I went with my wife’s cousin, his daughter, and a friend of hers. I had the opportunity to speak with many people (mostly veterans) and there were [...]
by Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Here’s a war game involving Iran, Israel and the U.S. that shows how unintended consequences can spin out of control: With diplomacy failing and precious intelligence just received about two new secret Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Tehran’s nuclear complex. The strike [...]
The AP (2/22, Hefling) notes that during a recent interview, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki “said he’s making it a top priority this year to tackle the backlog of disability claims that has veterans waiting months – even years – to get financial compensation for their injuries.” Shinseki, “a former Army chief of staff who had part of a foot blown off when he was a young officer in Vietnam, was unapologetic about a decision he made in October to make it easier for potentially 200,000 sick Vietnam veterans who were exposed to the Agent Orange herbicide to receive service-connected compensation.” Shinseki “said he’s looking ahead to make sure Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries don’t have similar problems getting financial compensation.”
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Sarasota, Florida, Chillicothe, Ohio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, South Bend, Indiana, Fort Myers, Florida, Remsen, New York, San Clemente, Caliornia, Evergreen Park, Illinois, and Kings Park, New York.
Our country exists for the people; not for the military-industrial complex, not for Wall Street speculators and banks. As soaring levels of unemployment appear to be with us for decades not years, the time is right. Troops get home, citizens have families; is a job too much to ask? We saved the banks, AIG, Goldman [...]
Human beings make peace through direct action of recognizing shared humanity. ‘Verbal terrorism?’ Sure, militarists won’t like it. But America should be funding Villages Group. When people demand peace in sufficient numbers, governments have no choice but to follow. by Carol Sanders — With all the bad news about the fierce apparatus of “Separation” in the West Bank, it [...]
Thus far we at Veterans Today have only managed to find two seriously progressive and independent thinker political candidates willing to take on the two party establishment even though they must run either as Republican or Democrats. One Bob Krause of Iowa is running for the U.S. Senate, and the other Jim Bryan is running [...]
Another veteran frustrated with the Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and suffering from PTSD after surviving three combat tours, lost it and allegedly “made a series of bizarre threats and assaulted a doctor and a police officer at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Buffalo,” and now faces federal charges. My heart is with the veteran and [...]
Update: A reader, who identifies himself as “Rob” says the powerful moneyed interests are American heroes as opposed to the “socialist cronies [who] have created a nation of parasites.” Rob threatens us with, “I don’t believe in a god, but am willing to play one.” Hey Rob, would you say your IQ is in the three-digit [...]
Despite the public’s epidemic disgust with politicians, now would be a splendid time to run for office in this country. That’s because the U.S. Supreme Court has made it infinitely easier for candidates to sell themselves to special interests, who in return will peddle those candidates to voters.
The SEC’s own Inspector General(OIG) has found that between 1992 and 2008 the SEC received six substantive complaints about fraudster Bernie Madoff’s hedge fund operations yet never conducted a thorough and competent examination of them. The SEC conducted two investigations and three examinations based on credible complaints about Madoff’s operations but never verified Madoff’s trading or conducted a Ponzi scheme probe.
These people are unbelievable. Henry M. Paulson says in a New York Times op-ed (Feb. 15, 2010) the biggest problem facing America is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Paulson, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs and the Secretary of the Treasury 2006-2009, manages to work this gem into his column suggesting how to watch the banks. We must [...]
Many disabled individuals who would like to enter, and or remain in the job market typically encounter many barriers in doing so. Our run-down economy has resulted in an overwhelming amount of job losses, lack of new job opportunities, and further distresses for the already disabled and destitute. However, it is imperative to note that the current [...]
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Camp Lejeune North Carolina, San Francisco, California, Tallmadge, Ohio, Cicero, Illinois, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Sioux City, Iowa, Newton, Massachusetts, Fort Myers, Florida, Athens, Georgia, and Louisville, Kentucky.
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, kept a remote U.S. base in the country manned last year at the local governor’s request despite warnings from his field commanders that it should be closed because it was vulnerable and had no tactical [...]
In a political convention which, by most accounts, was heavily overstocked with nut cases, Glen Beck was apparently a standout at CPAC; Mike Madden at Salon has the story. Sunnis, Baathists and Baathists go Lightly, may boycott next month’s Iraqi elections from Juan Cole at Informed Comment and John Yoo says that George Bush had the power and authority to eliminate entire villages if the mood struck him from Raw Story are among the stories in today’s picks.
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