- The mainstream’s high praise of this book, however, would seem to be due in large part to its minimization of two taboo issues—neoconservatism’s Jewish nature and its focus on Israel. Where the book breaks through what was heretofore largely blacked-out in the mainstream media is its discussion of the major role played by the [...]
No. 773-10 August 27, 2010 ————————————— CONTRACTS NAVY BAE Systems Tactical Vehicle LP, Sealy, Texas, is being awarded a $628,999,998 firm fixed priced delivery order #0009 under previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5030) for the procurement of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Engineering Change Proposal for enhanced sustainability and safety of 1700 Caiman Multi-Theater vehicles [...]
- And now NATO has fired a colonel serving as a staff officer in Afghanistan for daring to criticize the most important tool we have in the fight against insurgents: PowerPoint. – By John Cook In Afghanistan, loose lips sink careers, it seems: First, commanding general Stanley McChrystal got the boot for speaking too freely [...]
Aristotle, in his Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics sees virtue as an admirable character trait that is the mean between the vices of deficiency and excess. In politics of course no one directly discusses ethics, just talking points in support of message. Barry Goldwater was an exception: “I would remind you that extremism in the [...]
By the Associated Press As of Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, at least 1,145 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is five more than the Defense Department’s tally, last updated Thursday at [...]
Movement on New Retrovirus is Rapid! Mystery Deepens on XMRV Now SAIC Shows Involvement [Federal Register: August 27, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 166)] [Notices] [Page 52758-52760] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr27au10-66] ———————————————————————– DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing AGENCY: National Institutes [...]
I am not against war. I am a combat Vietnam Veteran. I know war. Lives were stolen in Vietnam and we are doing again every day, maybe not in same numbers but the lessons of Vietnam have more than been forgotten. The brightest time in American history, another “greatest generation” may well have been the one that stopped an evil and corrupt war. That generation saw the cost. Only the young, the young and the parents of those the war destroyed knew Vietnam. America simply turned away, a nation of, do we call them, do we call us, cowards? Is there another term?
Gulf War Illness newest study by Dr Haley is hot off the press. More scientific proof of damage done to gulf war veterans. The question is where are the new tests, new blood tests and diagnostic tests, that will show the damage and lead to the veterans getting compensation and diagnosis and treatment. It has [...]
- Big shoes to fill in Fla – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former state Comptroller Bob Milligan will head the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs on an interim basis. Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet on Thursday appointed Milligan, a retired Marine Corps. lieutenant general, to replace the late Leroy Collins Jr. The 75-year-old Collins, [...]
It’s apparent to all but the most blind policymakers that something is scary about this recession/recovery/recession [40 percent chance of a double-dip, says Roubini].
By Glenn Thrush at the Politico If President Barack Obama needed any more incentive to go all out for Democrats this fall, here it is: Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority. Everything from the microscopic – the New Black Panther party [...]
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman of VoteVets.org Jon Soltz contacted Veterans Today and asked us to forward this letter from Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans who are in favor of the controversial Muslim Community Center being planned near ground zero in New York. Although Jon and I do not see eye to eye on every [...]
- One suicide every 36 hours – Contradicting the U.S. Army’s suicide prevention report, an independent DoD report released this week failed to place the blame for servicemembers’ and veterans’ suicide rate on ”high risk behavior” at home, implicating the suicide victims themselves. Instead, the DoD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide by Members of the Armed Forces’ report [...]
By Ernest A. Canning at the Brad Blog “The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 do not represent Islam. Far better representatives of Islam are the over 100 Muslims who died at work in the towers that day. No one need apologize for Islam.”—Hal Donahue, VoteVets.org Seeing it as part of their duty to support and [...]
- Mormons give 24-percent approval rating, Muslims 78, Jews 61 – Via the Political Wire – Gallup: “Among major religious groups in the United States, Muslims give President Obama the highest average approval ratings and Mormons, the lowest. Jews and those with no religious identity rate Obama higher than the national average, while Protestants’ ratings [...]
By Paul Krugman in the NYT What will Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, say in his big speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo.? Will he hint at new steps to boost the economy? Stay tuned. But we can safely predict what he and other officials will say about where we are right now: that the economy [...]
- Israeli intelligence steps up its activity in the U.S. — and gets away with it. By Philip Giraldi - From the American Conservative via My Catbirdseat Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Shinseki To PVA: Department Will “Never Give Up” On Any Veteran. The Providence (RI) Journal (8/27, Freyer) notes that on Thursday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki told the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), “who have been holding their 64th annual convention at the Westin Hotel” [...]
By Joseph P. Kahn at the Boston Globe BRAINTREE — In the space of a few hours, on bomb-clearing patrol near Balad, Iraq, US Army Corporal Eric Small and his unit were rocked by three separate roadside explosions. He sustained serious injuries to his head, back, neck, and hip. Small’s combat days were over. It [...]
HAVE YOU HEARD? The ability to determine a patient’s increased genetic risk of disease and provide appropriate health care is emerging as a component of personalized medicine in VA and is now available to VA clinicians for the first time in history. The VHA Employee Education System (EES) and Office of Research and Development (ORD) [...]
No. 771-10 August 26, 2010 ——————————————– CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Science Applications International Corp., Fairfield, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $500,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for maintenance, repair and operations supplies. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The original proposal was [...]
DOCTOR HOPES HIS TECHNIQUE HAS FUTURE FIGHTING PTSD By Harper Scott Clark Temple Daily Telegram – Staff Writer http://www.tdtnews.com/story/2010/3/9/64674 A technique meant to relieve physical and emotional pain through psychotherapy is revealed in a newly released book on the subject. “Time to Listen” by Texas psychiatrist Robert Rynearson describes how unmasking and releasing repressed emotions [...]
This article, A Veteran Weighs the Costs of War, was sent into Veterans Today by Persian Gulf War Veteran Chante Wolf with permission to re-publish. What follows is an excerpt from her article. For the full article go to VetSpeak at www.VetSpeak.org What caught my eye when Chante sent this to us is how much [...]
DLI teams with HireVeterans.com for a second year, US Veterans wanted By Randy Miller Dedicated Logistics, Inc. (DLI), prides themselves on being leaders in providing tailored, technology-driven freight transportation solutions that help their customers achieve a competitive advantage, both locally and nationally. DLI was founded in 1995 with a goal of elevating the integrity of [...]
What has become abundantly clear is that the Obama administration has taken the Bush-era doctrine of the world as a battlefield and run with it. US special forces are now operating in seventy-five countries across the globe—up from sixty under Bush—and special operations sources say Obama is a major fan of the work of JSOC and other special operations forces.
Update: Raw Story reports Bush-Cheney campaign pressured papers to keep campaign manager’s sexuality secret (from November 11, 2004). Ken Mehlman ran the most hateful, anti-gay project in presidential history in George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign. President Bush’s campaign manager and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee now says he’s gay. From the Atlantic: By Marc [...]
By DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI in the NYT KABUL, Afghanistan — The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Security Council, [...]
Via TechTicker By Aaron Task Stocks tumbled again Wednesday morning, sending the Dow below 10,000 for the umpteenth time since it first crossed that hallowed level in 1999. Fear in the market is being expressed by the continued rally in Treasuries and widespread chatter about an ominous sounding technical indicator: The Hindenburg Omen. The Hindenburg [...]
From the VA: The AP (8/26, Hawkins) says Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “asked business leaders Wednesday to take a chance on veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and offer them jobs and mentorship.” Mullen, who “told the Executives’ Club of Chicago that the unemployment rate for [...]
I always thought that the deficit commission was a bad idea; it has only looked worse over time, as the buzz is that Democrats are caving in to Republicans, leaning ever further toward an all-cuts, no taxes solution, including a sharp rise in the retirement age.
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