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October 2010

DSI Security Services Joins HireVeterans.com

DSI Security Services Seeks Military Veterans for Rewarding Careers Security Giant DSI Teams with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller The success of any organization is measured against the fortitude of its people and the service they provide their customers. DSI Security has based their cultural values around this very concept. Rather than a true focus on [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »

JIM CONDIT JR. THE STRANGEST POLITICAL SECRET

STRAIGHT “DOPE” ON HOW POLITICS REALLY WORKS IN AMERICA 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 key to [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

JEFFREY BLANKFORT: ISRAEL IS THE MOST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET

Well before the birth of the first Zionists, Jewish bankers and capitalists had established themselves in Europe and the United States so it was not surprising that a number of them, beginning with Lord Rothschild in the early part of the century, became supporters of the Zionist project. Now, far and away, they make up [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Politics,World | Read More »

NYTimes Columnist Deplores Afghan War’s Effect on Soldiers

- Deserting our veterans – From the VA: New York Times (10/23, A21) columnist Bob Herbert, in a column entitled “The Way We Treat Our Troops,” writes of an Army sergeant recently killed during his 12th tour of duty, having served four in Iraq and into his eighth in Afghanistan. The columnist adds, “I would [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Military | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

From the VA: 1.      Newmark Says Shinseki Team Is “Really Getting Stuff Done.” On the San Francisco Chronicle (10/24) “City Brights” blog, Craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark posts a 14-minute YouTube presentation by Dr. Peter Levin, a top assistant to Veterans Affairs Secretary Shinseki, on how the agency is going about transforming itself into an organization that [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Top 10,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

“Thank a Veteran at Work”

- Few Americans are aware that only six percent of U.S. citizens have served in the Armed Forces – From the VA: With the help of the White House and VA, HISTORY (the History cable channel) encourages the remaining 94 percent to say thank you to the brave men and women who have sacrificed to [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Military | Read More »

MIDDLE-CLASS? ENTREPRENEURS? LONG GONE!

It was not government employees, or corporate bureaucrats, who made America great and the envy of the world; it was our vibrant entrepreneurial-class, that made us what we once were. By J. (Jack) Speer-Williams — Veterans Today Like swans of legend, our once esteemed American entrepreneurs sing their final, beautiful Swan Song before they just [...]

October 25th, 2010 | Posted in Economy,Living | Read More »

‘AJC’ A PROPAGANDA MACHINE AT WORK

David Harris, as Executive Director of the AJC (American Jewish Committee), has been the organization’s leading spokesman.  In short, he has been their chief propagandist in America for Israel. By Paul Balles — Veterans Today A few days ago, Robert Elman, President of the American-Jewish Committee (AJC), published a letter praising David Harris, executive director [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »

THE ISRAEL LOBBY: TARGETING DEMOCRATS FOR ELECTION DAY DEFEAT

The fury of the “pro-Israel” lobby lately has truly been something to behold. By MJ Rosenberg — www.informationclearinghouse It has abandoned bipartisanship by setting up front organizations like the so-called Emergency Committee for Israel, which is running ads across the country calling on voters to defeat Democratic members of the House and Senate for signing a [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Gap growing between military and civilians

Military- Demarcation Line – U.S. Military Isolation Grows In John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court lost its last veteran. Since World War II, the proportion of the populace deployed to a recent war has dropped from about 11 percent to less than 1 percent. No wonder veterans refer to themselves as “the less than 1 [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

The Israel Lobby: Targeting Democrats for Election Day Defeat

From the Huffington Post. By MJ Rosenberg — The fury of the “pro-Israel” lobby lately has truly been something to behold. It has abandoned bipartisanship by setting up front organizations like the so-called Emergency Committee for Israel, which is running ads across the country calling on voters to defeat Democratic members of the House and Senate [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »

“War Does This to Your Mind”

- War is terror – By Kathy Kelly in t r u t h o u t Kabul – Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a youngster, he was a good student who enjoyed studying. “Now, I can’t seem to think,” he said sadly, looking at the ground. There was a long pause. “War does [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Politics,WarZone | Read More »

Veterans for Change News

- A Voice of the Veterans – By Jim Davis at Veterans for Change Take the Hill Come November 2nd there will be 30 members of the Senate and 435 members of the House up for re-election!  Of the 435 in the House, 32 will be retiring!  Many Americans will sit back, complain, gripe and [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

GORDON DUFF: GADAHN CALL TO ATTACK AMERICANS COMES FROM ISRAEL

A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror campaign, was spread around the world. The message, we are told, was found on a “secret website” by an Israeli company who put it in a press release.

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »

APATHY and the Wars

APATHY and the Wars While doing background research for my recent article, Why are Veterans and Wars off the Political Radar?, I ran across this opinion piece, on the Goals for Americans website titled, “WAR AND APATHY: The Shameful indifference many Americans feel about The Iraq War.” This was part of my inspiration to write [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in 9/11,Peace | Read More »

Gulf War Illness is Leaving A Ghost Group of Veterans

BLACK ALERT FOR GULF WAR VETERANS 1990-91 If you do nothing else today and this week, I beg you to watch this film! Tears are running in the streets and no one knows! Wake Up America, WE need YOU!  The politicians have ignored us for 20 years!  Do they talk about this in their campaigns??  [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »

MIDEAST CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE UN TO END ISRAELI OCCUPATION

Catholic bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end of a meeting chaired by Pope Benedict XVI. In a final statement of their two-week synod, the bishops and patriarchs of the region’s Catholic churches said the citizens of the Middle East “call [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Politics,World | Read More »

VETERANS EXPOSED TO CHEMICALS NEED TO KNOW

Veteran Service Organizationn need to publish the list of 130 military bases on the EPA Superfund list to their membership. Most veterans have no idea that bases they served on are now EPA Superfund sites. A number may have been exposed to deadly contaminants, are now sick, and have never connected the dots to military service. These men and women need to know what chemcials they were exposed to so their doctors can provide an effective treatment plan. Keeping them in the dark is definitely not helpful.

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Health | Read More »

LEBANON’S PALESTINIAN CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN MOVES INTO THE CHRISTIAN HEARTLAND

Franklin Lamb — Shatila Camp The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon and the Washington DC-Beirut based Sabra Shatila Foundation have released a copy of the Open Letter that was delivered this morning in Rome to representatives of  Pope Benedict XVI and Lebanon’s Marionite Patriarch, Cardinal Nassrallah Sfeir on the occasion of the VATICANS 2010 SPECIAL SYNOD [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in World | Read More »

Maybe someday we’ll wake up as a group …

- “WE Support the troops!” “REPUBLICAN Congressmen Will Take Care of the VETS!” has been a Republican song since 1990 and yet, here we are. – It’s not a surprise here, of course, but some of this generation of Vets are able to pay attention to what is being done to them. The Iraq and [...]

October 24th, 2010 | Posted in Support the Troops | Read More »

HUNGARY IS A FAILED STATE. OVER. EXTINCT.

Radiologically and chemically slaughtered, fetuses don’t survive until birth. The result is plummeting Fertility in men and women. Hungary can not recover.

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Health,Politics | Read More »

Why are Veterans and Wars off the Political Radar?

Veterans Today shares the concerns of those Veterans advocacy groups that the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Veterans who served in them are off the Radar this election, and how the apathy of Congress and the American voter has failed America’s Veterans, Troops, and Military Families. This is due solely to APATHY. We at [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Government,Peace | Read More »

When Is A Lie A Lie

We all know when we tell somebody something that is not true that is considered a lie. It seems a local candidate for mayor in the city of Radcliff, Kentucky, J.J. Duvall, has some cognitive difficulties determining what is a lie and what is not when he told a group of voters at a mayoral [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »

How to Prevail in a Lawsuit against the VA for Patient Abuse

In 1999 or before (?) Medical Doctors (M.D.’S) hired by the VA did not have to pass the National Boards Competency Test that are required for all other PRIVATE PRACTICE Medical Doctors practicing in the United States.

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »

IAVA “BEST AND WORST” OF CONGRESS, WHO LOVES AND WHO HATES AMERICA’S VETERANS

WHO SUPPORTS, WHO BETRAYS AMERICA’S FIGHTING FORCES (CHECK HOW JOHN McCAIN SCORES) By the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America www.IAVA.org Please go to their site for full detail on the criteria used to grade legislators and to download the complete report:  DOWNLOAD “THE GOOD (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)” “THE BAD (HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES)” DO NOT [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Veterans Affairs | Read More »

GORDON DUFF: HO HUM, MORE WIKILEAKS “CHICKENFEED”

LAMEST WIKILEAK SO FAR…IS ISRAEL BEHIND IT? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The new Wikileaks claims the US undereported by 15,000, the deaths of Iraqi “civilians.”  With the numbers listed by the military as little as 10% or less of the actual deaths, bumping up the numbers must be a joke.  More leaks about [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »

Bruce: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

I used to wonder vaguely in my mid-teens why everyone in the world was not instantly transformed to a place of paradise after listening to the consecutive songs of Something in the Night and Candy’s Room on Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978). THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Living,Of Interest | Read More »

SEN. DORGAN: DOD IG REPORT CONFIRMS PENTAGON DROPPED THE BALL ON CHEMICAL EXPOSURE OF U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ

- Senate Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan (D-ND) reacts to an Inspector General’s Report concluding the Army’s response to the exposure of hundreds of soldiers to the deadly chemical, sodium dichromate, was not adequate and has left some troops unaware that they were ever exposed. Others, who were informed of their exposure have received [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Fixing the VA and VBA: An Ongoing Campaign

- Following a string of successes ranging from PTSD to expanded Agent Orange presumtives, the fight to creating new veteran-friendly agencies continues. Faster than one can say frack ‘Senator Jim Webb’ or frack ‘Senator Richard Burr,’ the contempt for veterans persists – Veterans for Common Sense’s work fighting to fix the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Benefits,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Fascism – no longer a taboo in Israel

- Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces “awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is leading to, protest and struggle by all available means … in order to arrest the fascist wave that is threatening to engulf us” – By Uri Avnery - via Weimar in Jerusalem: [...]

October 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Corruption,Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »

 

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