Danang, Vietnam April 22, 2010 Chuck Palazzo Not just dioxin – but PCB’s as well …and genetically engineered seeds, forced bankruptcies, suicides – the list continues and grows daily! Monsanto has no, I repeat NO regard for human life or our environment. They continue to destroy both with only one goal in mind: Corporate earnings [...]
OBAMA THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT MILITARY WARNS PRESIDENT TO “STEP UP TO THE PLATE” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The powers, factions and conspiracies that influence our government, moreover a less visible world government is guessed at, lied about but generally never seen. Suffice it to say that what is read in newspapers, [...]
No. 315-10 CONTRACTS: ARMY Federal Program Integrators, LLC, Indian Island, Maine, was awarded on April 16 a $73,999,215 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for one transmission test system to test systems and gearboxes on AH-1, AH-64, CH-47, OH-58, UH-1N, and UH-60 aircraft. Work is to be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas (80 percent), and Indian Island, Maine [...]
Up to $ 4800 in Tax Credits Available to Employers who Hire Veterans President Barack Obama shakes hands with lawmakers after he signs the HIRE Act jobs bill in Washington, Thursday, March 18, 2010. The following Veteran Categories will qualify your company for a $4,800 Federal income tax credit Veteran –member of a family that [...]
Once every month I meet with a men’s group at Villa Springfield on Villa Road, in Springfield, Ohio. I have been volunteering to do this for nearly two years now. There are a few regular attendees that are brought to me each time, and occasionally there are some new faces in the group. Today, there [...]
MORE A “BOWEL” MOVEMENT THAN A PATRIOTIC ONE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor What kind of group protests when their taxes are cut, their freedoms returned and their government starts taking care of its veterans, the environment and begins punishing the thieves that bankrupted America? What kind of group sat blind for 8 years [...]
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE The United States Postal Service: An Assault on the American Middle Class The federal law is clear. 18 U.S.C. § 1001 reads as follows: Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the [...]
VA salutes June Valdivia during National Volunteer Week. She is the recipient of the Female Volunteer of the Year Award, given by VA Voluntary Service’s National Advisory Committee. Valdivia, who will be 89 years old in June, serves as the American Gold Star Mothers representative at the VA Medical Center of the Miami VA Healthcare System. Her first job at the hospital was filing, but she soon gravitated to the nursing home unit where she was a dedicated volunteer for years.
Jonathan Guyer at the Washington Note has an item on Israel’s settlers’ religious nationalism. Guyer’s piece includes links to Eyal Press’ feature on settler nationalism in the current issue of the New York Review of Books, [link appears broken for the moment] among other sources of information on this issue coming to the fore in the mind of the optimist. [...]
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Kalama, Washington, Silver Bay, Minnesota, Madison, Wisconsin, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kinston, North Carolina, Clovis, New Mexico, Destin, Florida, Greenville, South Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio.
Update: For more information, see White House blog knocking down Wall Street Talking Points and Norm Scheiber’s Head Lock: The inside story of how Goldman and the banks are getting clobbered on financial reform. By Simon Johnson, co-author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown On Thursday [April 22], President Obama [...]
Presented by Join Opinion Maker for a Foreign Policy Webinar on April 22 Space is limited Reserve your Webinar seat now at: GoTo Meeting This informative and intellectual presentation by Jeff Gates will cover the following: How Israel Wages War on the U.S in Plain Sight, engages in Game Theory Warfare, and how this nation [...]
By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Afghanistan is to convene a grand tribal convention for a consensus with the Taliban—ones who can peel away from the organization—to relinquish the status-quo and accept the terms and conditions set by regional countries including US, UK and Saudi Arabia to end the War in Afghanistan. This could [...]
94 percent of Kandaharis interviewed last December prefer negotiating with the Taliban to military confrontation, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service. Ninety-one percent supported the convening of a “Loya Jirga”, or “grand assembly” of leaders as a way of ending the conflict. Interviewers conducted the survey only in areas which were not under Taliban control. An unclassified report on the survey was published in March by Glevum Associates, a “strategic communications” company under contract for the Human Terrain Systems program in Afghanistan. All this undermines the U.S. claim that the Kandahar offensive will be supported by locals, Porter notes.
* By Robert S. Eshelman The Nation * Scott Parkin, an organizer at the San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN), is a straight-talking, get-things-done kind of guy, more at ease toiling behind the scenes in environmental struggles than serving as a personification of them. Yet in his fight against the coal industry he has embodied [...]
No. 311-10 ————————————— CONTRACTS: NAVY Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla. is being awarded a $44,414,000 firm-fixed-price supply contract for production of 18 AN/AAQ-30 thermal sight system (TSS) and associated data. The AN/AAQ-30 TSS provides detection, identification, and targeting capability in day/night operations for the U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Super Cobra helicopter. [...]
In response to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Federal District Court by the ACLU on March 16, 2010 on behalf of Plaintiff Robert Rosebrock who alleges that employees of the Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VAGLAHS) violated his first amendment rights to free expression by “chilling” his rights to free speech, the Government filed its answer to the lawsuit on April 12, 2010. The Courts final ruling in this case will be a landmark decision of epic proportion for or against our rights to free speech without censorship, because “If freedom doesn’t ring for Veterans – then for whom shall it ring?
Kleptocracy — now, there’s a word I was taught to associate with corrupt and exploitative governments that steal ruthlessly and relentlessly from the people. It’s a word, in fact, that’s usually applied to flawed or failed governments in Africa, Latin America, or the nether regions of Asia. Such governments are typically led by autocratic strong men who shower themselves and their cronies with all the fruits of extracted wealth, whether stolen from the people or squeezed from their country’s natural resources. It’s not a word you’re likely to see associated with a mature republic like the United States led by disinterested public servants and regulated by more-or-less transparent principles and processes.
FEW AMERICANS ARE AWARE THAT FOX NEWS IS DIRECTLY TIED TO LIKUD EXTREMISTS IN ISRAEL ISRAEL’S PROPAGANDA MACHINE, WAGING WAR AGAINST ISRAELI’S “ALLIES” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In 1898, America went to war against Spain based only in misdirection by news organizations tied to the sugar industry. Cuba sunk into slavery and dictatorship, [...]
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – In a settlement of the government’s securities fraud case against Goldman Sachs, the bank’s CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, has agreed to perform two years of community service as Treasury Secretary of the United States.
Repeated calls to the Charitable Law Division of the Ohio Attorney General’s office have yielded little in the way of information about the US Navy Veterans Association (USNVA) and its enigmatic director “Commander” Bobby Thompson.
An army sergeant who had received 22 honors including a Combat Action Badge prior to being wounded in Iraq by a mortar shell was told he was faking his medical symptoms and subjected to abusive treatment until he agreed to a “personality disorder”(PD) discharge.
When the proud men of the historically significant 1st Division Marines (F/2/1) under Captain Gene Deegan left Vietnam’s Nui Loc Son in April 1967 and moved into the Que Son Valley, they were locked and loaded. They were young – mostly in their teens – and they were walking into a nightmare. The massive 1968 Tet Offensive would shrink the significant 1967 battles into the background until September 1999, when a veteran Marine just happened to be passing through the Que Son Valley on his way to somewhere else and noticed something unusual.
Major League baseball players are honoring the sacrifices made by our nation’s wounded warriors by launching an exclusive line of military-themed licensed products to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, it was jointly announced today by the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and the Wounded Warrior Project. Major Leaguers are also contributing an additional $100,000 from the Major League Baseball Players Trust to the Wounded Warrior Project, to support their efforts in ensuring this generation of wounded warriors is the most successful and well-adjusted in our nation’s history.
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education and other benefits and issues today from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Seneca, Illinois, Ottumwa, Iowa, Millsboro, Delaware, Louisville, Kentucky, Tallahasse, Florida, Portland, Oregon, Laurinburg, North Carolina, and Greenfield, Indiana.
During National Volunteer Week, VA salutes Marwah Ahmed, 17, of Montgomery Village, Md., the 2009 recipient of the James H. Parke Memorial Scholarship for her volunteer work at the Washington, D.C. VA Medical Center. Ahmed, a high school senior, has been volunteering at the VAMC since she was 13. She has served in a variety of departments, including the lab, research and the director’s office.
By Robert Dreyfuss There’s a lot of hullabaloo about the New York Times article on Sunday, breathlessly reporting a “wake up call” from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about the urgent need to rush contingency plans for attacking Iran. Don’t worry about it. Ain’t gonna happen. Not a chance. Zero. Zilch. Nada. I’ll get to the [...]
Chomsky reminds us that genuine intellectual inquiry is always subversive. It challenges cultural and political assumptions. It critiques structures. It is relentlessly self-critical. It implodes the self-indulgent myths and stereotypes we use to elevate ourselves and ignore our complicity in acts of violence and oppression. And it makes the powerful, as well as their liberal [...]
Congress Passes TRICARE Affirmation Act Springfield, Virginia (4/13/10) – The Senate unanimously passed legislation championed by Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) to fix a flaw in the recently passed health care reform law. The legislation, called the TRICARE Affirmation Act, passed the Senate without objection last night and follows successful House passage of the bill before [...]
A SEC Vote will reveal a titanic political fight: Wall Street-GOP v. the Obama administration and perhaps some strange bedfellows who despise Wall Street as the consummate villain of 2007-2010. From the Huffington Post, By Marcus Baram – The SEC’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs has sent shockwaves through the financial industry and Washington, D.C. To keep up [...]
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