By Glenn Greewald in Salon The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures. The favored tactic for accomplishing this evasion is the “nobody-could-have-known” excuse. Each time something awful occurs — the 9/11 attack, the Iraq War, the financial crisis, the breaking of levees in New Orleans, the general ineptitude [...]
He became an aircraft maintenance guy. He said the belly pans of the C-130 planes were full of dried Agent Orange for years. The airframe techs would have to hose it out of the planes before they could work on them. The fucking shit was everywhere. Guys on the Aircraft Carriers said they had to hose it off the aircraft that had flown through the area just sprayed with it.
VIETNAM ALL OVER AGAIN….A SONG BY BARRY DAVID BUTLER Posted by Gordon Duff Senior Editor Veterans Today Our thanks to Barry David Butler for telling it like it is. g YouTube – Veterans Today – Related Posts:WARSCAMMuslim Christian Jew, Extremism is ExtremismSyrian Dissidents Reach Out. Yes, Assad is Killing ChildrenAmerica and Pakistan – Questions and [...]
- Paul Sullivan, executive director for the advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense, said it would be unreasonable for veterans to have to prove on a case-by-case basis that their illness came from Agent Orange. He believes the science supports the decision by VA to grant presumptive benefits. – “The presumptive law is absolutely essential,” Sullivan said. [...]
News on Treatment Potential For XMRV, Will It Help Ill Gulf War Veterans? News by means of a new abstract on treatment potentials for XMRV and MVL appears below. Still awaiting any results of testing for XMRV or MVL from Gulf War Veterans who are ill. The author knows that samples were sent off for [...]
More than 40 years ago Herschel Ryan of Monroe was piloting a helicopter on a combat assault mission in Vietnam when he lost his left hand and left eye during an ambush. But unlike many fellow Vietnam veterans, Ryan returned to Monroe to a hero’s welcome. He was wounded and medically retired in 1968, several years before a mood of protest against the Vietnam War swept the country.
“Every Vietnam veteran’s story is going to be different because we all had different jobs and served at different times,” Ryan said. “When I came back to Monroe, I was treated like a hero and learned to make the best out of the situation. But many Vietnam veterans got a bad rap from the press and several individuals.
As the hour for President Obama’s speech to the nation on Iraq approaches, Veterans Today has been getting input from across the political spectrum from the Peace Movement to moderate young Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I will post these cautionary messages to reflect contrasting views, but several things cannot be spun into [...]
By Paul Krugman in Truthout Were Americans misled into the Iraq war? Yes. But Karl Rove, who served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, argued in the Wall Street Journal in July that his “biggest mistake” was not fighting back in 2004 when the story began to spread [...]
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (www.reaganlibrary.com) is joining forces with MilitaryConnection.com (www.militaryconnection.com) to bring to our city the fifth annual Simi Valley Freedom Walk on Saturday, September 11th. Please join us as we remember the victims of September 11th, and honor our troops who continue to fight for freedom. PROGRAM: 4:15 p.m. Pre-program musical entertainment [...]
By Markos Moulitsas Conservatives say a lot of ridiculous things. But few were more ridiculous than the repeated claims that liberals were in league with Islamic terrorists. Why would we make common cause with terrorists? The values and tactics that make Jihadists so despicable are the same values and tactics embraced by our own homegrown [...]
As your constituent and a member of Veterans-For-Change, an advocacy group for Veterans rights, benefits, and treatment, my co-members and I would like to bring to your attention the ever-increasing problems affecting veterans and their families every day. President Obama has clearly stated, “Whether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our responsibility to deliver the benefits and care that you earned. That’s why I’ve pledged to build nothing less than a 21st-century VA”.
No. 785-10 August 31, 2010 ——————————- CONTRACTS NAVY Walsh Construction Co., Chicago, Ill., is being awarded a $131,103,000 firm-fixed price contract for construction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Regional Center at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor. The work to be performed provides for and involves adaptive reuse of historic hangers and new [...]
(DAUPHIN ISLAND, AL) – Riki Ott, PhD, Marine toxicologist, sends open letter to EPA, criticizing the unabated dispersant spraying inland and near the shore waters of the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to the western Florida panhandle. Dr. Ott said the activity is illegal and is being done to sink visible oil. Dr. Ott has firsthand experience in dealing with [...]
- But Beck is really attacking the idea that anyone can be godly who doesn’t believe God’s Will on this Earth happens to coincide pretty much precisely with the agenda of the right wing of the Republican Party of the United States, circa 2010. – By Ed Kilgore in the Democratic Strategist Having read in [...]
NAZI TACTICS AND BOLSHEVIK ORGANIZATIONS, THE ROOTS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM By Gordon Duff Senior Editor/STAFF WRITER History is subjective, though it was never meant to be. Real history has never been in danger as it is today. World War II wasn’t the “clean war” we purport it to be but as dirty as World [...]
By F. William Engdahl at Global Reserach One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s richest man from being the largest shareholder in [...]
- 4,416 U.S. military fatalities – 31,911 wounded (official); Over 100,000 (unofficial) – 320,000 veterans’ brain injuries – 100,000s veterans suffering from PTSD - 1,457 contractor Employee Deaths - 338 journalists’ deaths – 437 academics Killed – Iraqi Deaths due to U.S. Invasion – 1, 366,000 (estimated and growing daily) – U.S. and NGOs lack mechanism [...]
“Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded ‘anti-American,’ ‘anti-semite’ or ‘conspiracy theorist.’” – Paul Craig Roberts By Paul [...]
It’s not war that is costly, about which lawmakers have no reservations about spending. No, it’s those damn veterans who should go away or at least die.
via mal In a victory for VA Secretary Shinseki, President Obama and veterans’ advocates, and Agent Orange victims, the new Agent Orange Illnesses’ Final Rules were published today in the Federal Registry. Sen. James Webb (D-VA) will hold a September 2010 Veterans Affairs Hearing [on Disability Compensation: Presumptive Agent Orange Disability Decision-Making], presumably to apologize to a skeptical veterans community about Webb’s attempt to [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. More Vietnam Vets Getting Benefits For Diabetes Than Any Other Malady. The AP (8/31, Baker) reports, “Because of worries about Agent Orange, about 270,000 Vietnam veterans – more than one-quarter of the 1 million receiving disability checks — are getting compensation for diabetes, according to [...]
By Ed O’Keefe in the Federal Eye (Post) More than 150,000 Vietnam War veterans may apply for benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs in the next 18 months thanks to new regulations making it easier to compensate for health problems caused by exposure to the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange. The changes could result in [...]
German Wines Basics, Yes, This is German Wines 101 By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor GERMANY’S WINE REGIONS AHR The river Ahr is a tributary of the Rhine entering well north of Koblenz, where the Mosel comes in. The best known wines from this region are its Spatburgunders (Pinot Noir) which, at times, can bring [...]
- Army pressured Soldiers to attend Christian concert, Anti-Discrimination Officials Pressured Soldiers Not to File Discrimination Complaints, the soilders did what they wanted and many supporters stood with them and their liberty. Despite the formal and informal military training material laced with nutty biblical citations, no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or [...]
No. 778-10 August 30, 2010 —————————— CONTRACTS MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce the competitive award of five indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for advisory and assistance services to one small business: ERC, Incorporated, Huntsville, Alabama, (HQ0147-10-D-0006) and four large businesses: Madison Research Corporation, Huntsville, Ala., (HQ0147-10-D-0007); Computer Sciences Corporation, [...]
Update: See also Prudential defends armed service members payout practices. Via the AP and Raw Story Dead soldiers’ parents sue insurer Prudential over interest paid on life insurance policies The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest [...]
By Robert Reich The economy is slouching backward because consumers can’t and won’t spend enough to revive it. Congress is about to recess for the summer without doing anything to fill the gap. And it looks like the only issue it will be debating when it returns is who, if anyone, should pay more taxes [...]
Update: See Diseases Associated with Exposure to Certain Herbicide Agents, [TEXT] [PDF]. – The final regulation follows Shinseki’s determination to expand the list of conditions for which service connection for Vietnam Veterans is presumed. VA is adding Parkinson’s disease and ischemic heart disease and expanding chronic lymphocytic leukemia to include all chronic B cell leukemias, such [...]
Steve Benen has an excellent piece in the Washington Monthly on the Tea Party’s incoherence and blind emotion. If we take the Tea Party seriously about wanting their country back, one must ask where were they from 2000-2008 when Bush-Cheney trashed the country? No, theirs is unfocused provincialism against anything alien, foreign, different from their white, [...]
Via 91 Outcomes All About MS – a reportedly common diagnosis among some Gulf War veterans IMAGE: Multiple sclerosis is a central nervous system disorder marked by decreased nerve function with initial inflammation of the protective myelin nerve covering and eventual scarring. Symptoms and severity of symptoms vary widely and may progress into episodes of [...]
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