The 2010 Great Depression is as unnecessary as the one in 1929 By Jim Condit Jr., Candidate for US Congress, 8th District Ohio (My congressional campaign at www.TheRestOfTheStory2010.com is devoting our “radio ads campaign” to making known the 1967 attack on USS Liberty. The significance of what happened to the USS Liberty in 1967 holds [...]
The decision to deliver a death sentence to Tariq Aziz has caused a stir in the international community. By Mark Seddon So what really lies behind the decision by Iraq’s high tribunal to pass a death sentence on Tariq Aziz, long serving Iraqi foreign minister and number two to Saddam Hussein? The decision has caused [...]
Internal Debate Within the VFW brings the relationship of their Veterans’ advocacy group and Political Action Committee under scrutiny. While catching up on my emails this morning, I was led to two articles posted on Congress.org about disunity within the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) that pit their national leadership against grassroots members of the VFW.
- The harm that this company has done to Gaia in the post WWII period is immeasurable – By Doug Casey’s No Way Out I have expressed strong disapproval of Monsanto often in my entries on this site. The harm that this company has done to Gaia in the post WWII period is immeasurable. They [...]
By Zahir Ebrahim for Veterans Today and Salem-News.com (CALIFORNIA) – The BBC News reported on October 06, 2010 that ‘Nato contractors ‘attacking own vehicles’ in Pakistan’. It stated in its carefully worded “limited hangout”: ‘Nato supply convoys travelling through Pakistan to Afghanistan have regularly come under attack in the past, but following Pakistan’s decision to [...]
From the VA: 1. VA Assists Homeless Vets In New Jersey. The Orange, New Jersey-based Local Talk News (10/27) reports, “Mayor Cory A. Booker and GI Go Fund Executive Director Jack Fanous announced that the City of Newark’s G.I. Go Veterans Transition Center, Stand Down of North Jersey, Inc., the New Jersey State National Guard, the [...]
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United States Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-NC) today issued a statement on the new Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) report detailing ground water contamination at Camp Lejeune.
Hello Folks: I am working with an OIF veteran regarding a non combat injury in Iraq. He fell off of an Army wrecker. His back is badly damaged. The VA said the injury was “dengenerative disk disease”. His AFES, pre-deployment and post deploymenet physicals did not note “dengenerative disk disease”. He has a few documents [...]
No. 980-10 October 26, 2010 —————————————————— CONTRACTS NAVY RLF Transystems, LLC, Inc., Winter Park, Fla. (N62470-11-D-1008); Stanley Consultants, Inc., Muscatine, Iowa (N62470-11-D-1009); and Clark Nexsen CH2M Hill, Norfolk, Va. (N62470-11-D-1010), are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for engineering and design services for design projects located throughout the Naval Facilities Engineering Command [...]
“HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS”: old adage (Editorial note: Views are that of the author and included for information purposes only.) PROLOGUE Since I wrote this documented expose of some of the outright lies and deceptions surrounding the so-called Zionist holocaust – better described as a ‘hollowhoax’– several distinguished learned patriots and seekers of [...]
- President Obama is committed to ending bullying, harassment and discrimination in all its forms in our schools and communities – By Brian Bond at the White House Recently, several young people have taken their own lives after being bullied for being gay – or perceived as being gay – by their peers. Their deaths [...]
- Bigotry under attack by most LGBTQA-friendly president in U.S. history – By Sam Hananel WASHINGTON – Less than halfway through his first term, President Barack Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in history. Gay activists say the estimate of more than 150 appointments so far — from agency heads [...]
- Relentless attackers are trying to hack into home and office networks in the U.S. “millions of times a day, 24/7” – Update: See U.S. Dod Cyber Command Cyber Security. America’s growing dependence on information technology has given rise to the need for greater protection of digital networks and infrastructures. To highlight the need for increased [...]
- Physician Questionnaires to Boost Disability Exam Efficiency – WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released three new disability benefits questionnaires for physicians of Veterans applying for VA disability compensation benefits. This initiative marks the beginning of a major reform of the physicians’ guides and automated routines that will streamline the claims [...]
An Air Force veteran who worked as a fuels specialists has been sick for over 20 years with various serious medical conditions. He has a 50% service connection disability from the VA. His story is compelling and shows the impact on what exposure to toxic chemicals can do to an otherwise healthy young man.
Amid sporadic and below-the-political-radar Tea Party threats to privatize the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Wisconsin Republican-Tea Party Senate candidate Ron Johnson maintains his secret policy specifics to be revealed should he assume office. Asked what the Department of Veterans Affairs’ responsibility is to homeless veterans, Johnson recently declared that his election campaign is not [...]
- Historian Thom Hartmann discusses the history of corruption that led up to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, Citizens United v. FEC (No. 08-205) – By Joshua Holland in AlterNet Election 2010 is being fought on a wave of campaign dollars unleashed on the American people by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United v. [...]
- Echoes of the work American civil rights attorneys Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler as human rights lawyers fight for Gaza freedom fighters – From the Free Gaza Movement International legal experts and lawyers representing victims of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla today announced the establishment of the “Flotilla Justice Group.” The announcement came at the [...]
From the VA: 1. Baker: VA Can Benefit From “Open Source Community Based Around VistA.” FierceGovernmentIT (10/26, Walker) reports, “Public debate over the electronic road ahead for the Veterans Affairs Department is often informed by a series of high-profile information technology project failures at the department,” whose “Chief Information Officer Roger Baker has told Congress and [...]
Should grassroots members have a say in political endorsements made in their group’s name?A dispute over that question could end in the Veterans of Foreign Wars dissolving the political action committee its members created more than three decades ago. At heart, the debate is one between Washington insiders—who seek to increase their leverage on Capitol Hill—and veteran members the PAC said are swept up in a national anti-establishment tide.
From the VA: Consumers continue to lose money from work-from-home scams that assist cyber criminals in moving stolen funds. Worse yet, due to their deliberate or unknowing participation in the scams, these individuals may face criminal charges. Work-from-home scam victims are often recruited by organized cyber criminals through newspaper ads, online employment services, unsolicited emails [...]
- I decided to see if I could go the entire month of March without consuming any Monsanto products – By April Dávila in Life As a Human In January of this year, while procrastinating on Facebook, I followed a link to an article reporting on evidence that there may be health effects associated with [...]
White is the lowest level on the escalator. In Condition White one is unaware, not alert, oblivious. This state can be characterized as “daydreaming” or “preoccupied”. People in White tend to walk around with their heads down, as if watching their own feet. They do not notice the impending danger until it literally has them by the throat.
Some evidence that the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA or VA) and the agency’s Veterans Benefit Administration are turning the corner in delivering benefits in the face of record veteran suicide rates: From the U.S. DVA Veterans Benefit Administration: A new VA ‘Walk-In Claims’ pilot program is available for Kansas and Wisconsin Veterans, the [...]
- The Horror – By Michael Ricciardi - writer, naturalist, multi-media artist – in PlanetSave We have chosen to narrow the sample to the post-World War II time period, also excluding nuclear weapons tests and chemical weapons usage (such as Agent Oorange use in Vietnam and other regiona) as these tests/uses are intentionally meant to cause [...]
- Monsanto’s war-zone harvest – By Hannah Gurman in the Asia Times In last month’s blitzkrieg tour of Central and Southeast Asia, two of the four stops made by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton share the unfortunate bond of enduring an invasion by US air and ground forces. In the space of a few [...]
Alan Hart Esq, former reporter with the BBC, weighs in with Mark Glenn of The Ugly Truth, viz a viz the latest events taking place in his former stomping grounds–the Middle East and Palestine. Of the more important topics discussed— Zionism and Peace are Incompatable, the new piece written by Alan Hart where he makes [...]
No. 971-10 October 25, 2010 —————————————————— CONTRACTS NAVY Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $511,351,720 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa. (70.8 percent), and Schenectady, N.Y. (29.2 percent). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. No [...]
The House is duty-bound to Bring Articles of Impeachment against Clarence Thomas For OpEdNews: earl ofari hutchinson – Writer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can and should be impeached. The case and the grounds for impeachment proceedings against him are virtually iron-clad. The evidence is compelling that Thomas perjured himself in his testimony to the [...]
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