- More war drums pounding as new report says: Al-Shehri warns against “the greater state of Israel.” – Looks like the neocons want war fast: By JPOST.COM STAFF Al-Qaida is ready to exploit a war “by the Jews against Iran,” the Sunni group’s second-in-command in Yemen, Saeed al-Shehri, said in an audio message this month, [...]
No. 752-10 August 23, 2010 ———————————- CONTRACTS NAVY Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Sudbury, Mass., is being awarded a $46,873,788 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-5111) for the definitization of the production of an AN/SPY-1D(V) transmitter group, MK 99 Mod 8 fire control system and engineering services in support of the DDG 113 Aegis [...]
“HIT SQUADS” MEANT TO “LIQUIDATE” TALIBAN LEADERS KILLING EVERYONE BUT… By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Months ago, JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) began to roll out their strategy for Afghanistan. After the total failure of the Marjeh operations, it was decided that US Army Special Forces would organize a program to decapitate the Taliban, [...]
Pursuing an ultimate form of realpolitik, Israeli leaders happily collaborate with a reactionary American religious movement which, while having learned to downplay its Jew-denigrating End Time theology, nevertheless aims in its very essence at the elimination of Jewish faith. Israeli leaders, in their dependence on such Christians, exchange short-term benefit for long-term jeopardy. American Christian Zionism is a particularly lethal form of contemporary fundamentalism. Theologically uncritical and dangerously triumphalist, it is bad for Israel, Palestine, America, and peace.
The Navy had the opportunity to inspect all of the wells before sealing them in concrete. (IRVINE, Calif.) – The death knell for Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, once the premier Marine Corps air station, was sounded in 1985 when trichloroethylene (TCE) was found in three wells during a routine well inspection by [...]
Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (www.peacepeople.com) Dear BBC Panorama Team I write to you regarding your programme of 16th August, 2010, about the Freedom Flotilla and particularly the killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli Navy Seals on the ship MV “Mavi Marmara’, on 3lst May, 2010. I have [...]
By Susan Abram Before the cancer settled into her blood and stole parts of her stomach, spleen, and pancreas, the photographs and diary Lesli Moore Dahlke saved from her time in war-torn Vietnam symbolized only her Valley Girl innocence. She was 18 then, a tall, blonde, blue-eyed beauty from Encino with high cheekbones and an [...]
From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Shinseki Scraps Signature Requirement For Health Benefits Application. eMilitary.org (8/21) reports, “As part of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki’s effort to streamline access to benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has removed the signature requirement for Veterans who electronically submit an online [...]
By Medea Benjamin (opednews.com) With the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the administration, the military and the media are trying to put a positive spin on this grim chapter of U.S. history. It would certainly give some comfort to the grieving families of the over 4,400 soldiers killed in Iraq if their sacrifices [...]
A Review of CFS as it stands at this time. Hopefully news of the XMRV or the new name possibily a human infectious gamma retrovirus – the first one we know of an HGRV….. will be published this week and maybe we will see rapid developments in the field and an expedited time table to [...]
(San Francisco) - Russian forest fire fighting officials have fires to fight on at least two fronts. One is the thousand degree dried peat bog smoldering, very smoky, radioactive fires. The other is the familiar Soviet bureaucratic front of rampaging old KGB officers firing work a day guys just trying to do their impossible job. However, [...]
FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO STILL DON’T GET IT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor How can a nation like the United States be duped into two wars and total bankruptcy? It would be one thing if the “truth” about 9/11 was internet conspiracy theory. This isn’t the case. It was all right there in everyone’s living [...]
Radiation and CFIDS Potential Connection Pieces of the puzzle continue to be discussed in widening circles of concerned and ill veterans and civilians. See the article at the end of the introductory commentary. Could radiation be like an accelerator force, a synergistic factor? What happens in a war environment that could affect world health? What [...]
Health Data Shunned by Mainstream Media This research on health findings in Iraq is truly astonishing and points to Cancers being seen in Iraq. It also points to children’s health and the potential alteration in the ratio of male to female population trend being seen in Iraq. The question would also surface of what [...]
Veterans Today Becoming a True Hub of Information for Veterans and Civilians The news as demonstrated by another news item that has gotten legs from what we here at VeteransToday have been doing http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/randy-white-fights-to-expose-cancer-cluster-near-frederick-maryland/19588039?icid=main|main|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Frandy-white-fights-to-expose-cancer-cluster-near-frederick-maryland%2F19588039day Father Fights to Expose Cancer Cluster in Dave Thier Contributor AOL News (Aug. 21) — Two and a half years ago, [...]
- It’s still all right to be a religious bigot in America, so Islam is being scapegoated by the Republican Party and its allies as the ability to openly play on racial fears is being increasingly constrained – By Juan Cole in Informed Comment: Evangelist (and hateful bigot) Franklin Graham said this weekend that President Obama [...]
- The headline does not comprise the framework for peace reported by the national AP and CNN in describing the Israeli stance for successful ’direct talks for peace’ with Palestinian negotiators, but it should … – Instead, we are treated to this: Mr. Netanyahu said a future Palestinian state would have to be demilitarised, recognise Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people [...]
El Toro’s shallow aquifer was contaminated with total dissolved solids (“salts”) and volatile organic compounds. Base wells were in the path of TCE plume. Purchase of municipal water saved lives.
Mainstream television news has begun making a big show of the withdrawal of America’s “last combat troops” from Iraq, but the painful saga continues for our service members. Many being show by local TV stations returning home to their tearful and joyous families in the coming days will ultimately be sent to serve more tours [...]
- So virulent is the Islamophobic hysteria of the neocon and Fox News right — abetted by the useful idiocy of the Anti-Defamation League, Harry Reid and other cowed Democrats — that it has also rendered Gen. David Petraeus’s last-ditch counterinsurgency strategy for fighting the war inoperative. How do you win Muslim hearts and minds [...]
By Asif Haroon Raja The US has earned the dubious reputation of pursuing double standards and making unsubstantiated allegations against a country which it wants to browbeat. These unholy tactics are applicable to friends and foes alike except for Israel , India and western world. Ironic part of the story is that it doesn’t feel [...]
So, there I was, all ready to write my piece, when I came across an article on ynetnews. It sought to spell out the shock perhaps felt by some about the looted goods. A senior Israel Defense Forces officer said of the flotilla thefts: ‘there must be a serious problem in the IDF in terms [...]
FRENCH WINE HISTORY AND REGIONS BY CAROL DUFF Wine is a beverage made from fermented grape juice and thus contains alcohol. Cultivation of grape vines started several thousand years ago and are mentioned many times in the Old Testament. The ancient Egyptians made wine, and the Greeks exported it. During the time of the [...]
This Muslim silence should not be misinterpreted as lack of access to media. Cause it’s not. It is a very serious and early sign of detachment and isolation. The American Muslims are beginning to feel alienated from the American society and this is for anybody familiar with Islam is a very alarming sign.
In reviewing obituaries and talking to several widows of Gulf War Veterans that suffered with unknown illnesses or had died of cardiac events or other causes the writer an ill gulf war veteran nurse having been a cardiovascular and critical care clinical specialist has alot of questions that are still to be answered. What are [...]
A “WATER THIN” DISTRACTION, MORE “FIELD BASED WARFARE” BY ISRAEL By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Five minutes ago, Julian Assange was charged with rape. Two minutes ago, the charges were dropped. Result? Assange is front page news again, a big win for his handlers in Israel that can keep him in the news day [...]
Just as mainstream media helped the Bush administration beat the war drums for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, media is now collaborating with the Pentagon to spin the Iraq War as a success while most of Iraq remains in shambles. I personally believe that going along with the media and Pentagon spin will do [...]
- Smells of red-state immigration reform and a perverse view of labor rights – By: Jacob Horwitz , Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as little as $12 a day. In April, Jimenez took on $1,000 of [...]
Via Operation Firing for Effect: Veterans and supporters, show your support to Jerry Bohr by faxing this to: To the Attention: Chief Judge The Honorable Judge Thomas Bower With your name and state that you are from, and phone number Subject: Jerry Bohr Case number: CDDM002086 To the Attention: Chief Judge The Honorable Judge Thomas Bower 316 [...]
Iran does not have the tools to do so. Iran cannot get them or even make the tools required. Iran cannot even buy the tools. Try calling up Japan Steel and ordering a few tons of Marange Speciality Steel and see what happens.
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