- Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little; too many politicians want to act tough, too many prosecutors never read Robert H. Jackson essays – The Economist. Spring, Texas — THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped [...]
July 27th hearing of the US House Veterans Affairs Committee- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation can be seen and all testimony read at following site: http://veterans.house.gov/hearings/hearing.aspx?newsid=601 A new review article by Nora Eisenberg reviews some of the feedback from this past week, the article and link follows. As stated the only new item that occurred [...]
Christopher Story died under unclear circumstances after a short illness (1938 – June 14, 2006). It’s a strange world. – – Related Posts:No Related Posts
- Though suicides among active-duty service members are carefully tracked — they hit a one-month record, 32, in June — no reliable data exists for suicides by veterans – By James Dao in the NYT CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Melanie Poorman swiveled in her chair and punched a button on the phone. The caller, an Iraq [...]
- One thing I thought Jews were supposed to understand is that they need to be advocates of universal rights, not just rights for their particular group – If it were not for Frank Rich and Paul Krugman, many Americans wonder, could they have made it through the last nine years? Here’s Krugman on the [...]
- The DAV, VFW and American Legion over the years have been as useful to combat veterans as tits on a boar hog – By Bill Smitts I have been involved with veterans’ issues for over 30 years. Strange as it seems the same crap was discussed in 1981 as now. Such as stressors. My [...]
- David M Kennedy of Stanford Univeristy: “The army is at war, but the country is not. We have managed to create and field an armed force that can engage in very, very lethal warfare without the society in whose name it fights breaking a sweat.” The result, he said, is “a moral hazard for [...]
- SPECIAL REPORT: The top secret Israeli-US program to establish “Al Qaeda” – By Wayne Madsen in Opinion Maker Press clips gathered by the CIA and discovered in the National Archives’ stored CIA files point to an agency keenly interested in any leaks about the highly-classified CIA-Mossad program to establish Osama Bin Laden and the most [...]
- The idea that all of Islam is the same is tantamount to the idea that all of Christianity is represented by the KKK, pedophile priests, and anti-Semitic, Apocalyptic Dominionists – Eric Martin of Obsidian Wings has a piece condemning the ADL for speaking against the “contemplated expansion of the mosque near the World Trade Center.” [...]
By Lawrence Davidson in Opinion Maker Israel is a land built on myths. It is, of course, not unique in this. Indeed in this way Israel is very much like its patron, the United States. In order to build and maintain a mythical status a nation must create a picture of itself from its very [...]
- The idea of waging a U.S. war of destruction against Iran is obvious lunacy, which is why U.S. military leaders have strongly resisted it both during the Bush and Obama administrations. – by Gareth Porter in Commondreams Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the [...]
July 31, 2010 Da Nang, Vietnam Chuck Palazzo “Every War Must End” The words of military strategist Fred Ikle. But, tomorrow, August 1, 2010, the new International Ban on Cluster Munitions is lacking three crucial signatures: Those from the United States, Israel, and Russia. These three countries, well entrenched in war as we speak, and [...]
McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform removed a key constraint on influence peddling by Zionists and organized crime. When you see one, you find the other hovering nearby.
No. 679-10 July 30, 2010 ———————————- CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Universal Sodexho, Tacoma, Wash. is being awarded a maximum $180,000,000 firm fixed price, prime vendor, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for maintenance, repair and operations for the Korea region. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, [...]
By Justin Elliott in Salon Surprising no one, the FBI announced today it had tracked the left-wing historian Howard Zinn for 25 years, despite having apparently no evidence that he ever committed a crime. The bureau released over 400 pages of its file on Zinn, covering 1949 to 1974 — when the bureau says its investigations [...]
By Nicholas Johnston and Brian Faler in Bloomberg President Barack Obama signed a $60 billion war-funding bill that will pay for his plan announced last year to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The measure was approved by the Senate last week and passed the House of Representatives yesterday over the objections of some Democrats [...]
It is with the purpose of freedom- of being able to read all sides of the issue- that I share this resource I found that is available at http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/07/iraq-cry-tamara-journal-of-critical.html It is published in full from that site below. We should seek to understand all sides, all facts, and all views in our analysis of the [...]
By David Shiga THE International Space Station will soon host the most accurate clock ever sent into space. It will allow for better synchronisation of clocks on Earth and also probe exotic physics. The experiment, called Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES), will be built by EADS Astrium and is scheduled to fly to the [...]
Rep. John Hall, Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, issued the following statement today in response to the news that private insurers are unscrupulously holding on to veterans’ life insurance payments. “This type of dishonest business practice at the expense of the surviving families of veterans is simply [...]
By Terence Neilan (July 30) — A record-breaking heat wave continued to send forest fires sweeping across parts of Russia today, destroying villages and leaving thousands homeless and up to 23 people dead, officials said. More than 200,000 acres have been engulfed in the past few days, fueled by strong winds and a severe drought. [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Lawmakers Urge Shinseki To Reconsider Roanoke VA Office Renovations. The Augusta Free (VA) Press (7/30) notes that on Thursday, US Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, both Democrats from Virginia, “sent a letter requesting Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and General Services Administrator Martha Johnson [...]
- “We don’t torture,” squawked George W. Bush time and again; he was lying. Murat Kurnaz in Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo decribes the horror that we, America, became. – By Sherwood Ross Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, [...]
- U.S. Army: It’s not war; the “risky behavior” of our troops at home drives them to suicide. Did you know that a solider committing suicide with a pistol often has just engaged in the high-risk behavior of aiming the barrel at his head and squeezing the trigger, in blatant violation of existing Army policies and [...]
By Lisa Rein in the Washington Post WASHINGTON — About 1.8 million women have served in the U.S. military, and with 245,000 female soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s estimated that within a decade, women will make up 16 percent of all veterans. Yet until recently, some health clinics for veterans [...]
By Kent Faulk in the Birmingham News A tainted water supply at the military base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., caused brain cancer in the two children of a Trussville couple, a federal lawsuit filed last week alleges. Jennifer Edwards died in 2000 at the age of 14, just one day after she was hospitalized. [...]
The Tragic Death of a Night Porter …what possesses greater intrinsic value? Maintaining the mainstream version of the Holocaust at any cost, or the life of a single human being whose only offence was to engage in historical research in a quest for the truth? LES MISERABLES IN MEMORIAM By JPBellinger On June 11, 2010, [...]
- Setting the record straight. Internet hoax says discredited ‘expert’ who presented before White Supremacists/Neo-Nazi’s is slated to speak at the NGWRC National Conference for Gulf War Veterans: He’s NOT – National Gulf War Resource Center’s Health Fair & 20-Year Reunion August 5-8, 2010; Dallas, Texas By Anthony Hardie, Gulf War Veteran (91outcomes.com) – A small [...]
- Letting the tax cuts for the super-rich expire while keeping the rates for the working class offers President Obama a political opportunity to satisfy progressives, co-opt the populism streak in independent voters, and differentiate Democrats from Republicans, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-SD) notwithstanding. The White House signaled Sunday it’s ready for this fight. - By Peter Gorenstein at TechTicker: The countdown has begun. The [...]
- Weapons of Mass Destruction have become a cautionary tale: Don’t believe your government – IN response to: How They Got Their Bloody Way from the May 27, 2010 issue if the New York Review of Books The following letter, by a former US intelligence officer, was sent in response to Thomas Powers’s review of [...]
- Americans have been assured by Presidents Bush and Obama that this war is critical to our security, but never as a country asked to mobilize. Despite deadliest month ever for our troop, Afghanistan remains well down the list of voter concerns, polls show - By James Dao BENSALEM, Pa. — Asked what he considers the [...]
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