- Rep. Michael E. McMahon was placed on the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Congressional Report Card “A List” for his dedication to veterans’ health and safety – PoliticalNews.me – Oct 22,2010 – Staten Island, NY – Rep. Michael E. McMahon (D-Staten Island/Brooklyn) was placed on the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America [...]
- Fox News has a strange set of journalistic ethics – From Media Matters: The media topic of the week was the firing of Juan Williams by NPR over his remark that he gets “nervous” around “people who are in Muslim garb” on airplanes. Williams’ firing comes weeks after CNN canned Rick Sanchez for remarks [...]
- Mission Accomplished? – Related Posts:Is Writing Wrongs Right? Iran Signs Own Death WarrantIf Herb Caen, I Can TooThe Assassination of Cpl. Pat Tillman, USANew Bombs and War Crimes in Fallujah
- Another reason to avoid war: Good, dedicated people do awful things. All war is terror, generally WE OUGHT NOT wage it unless WE ABSOUTELY HATE TO. - The secret files record graphic detail of extensive abuse at Iraqi police stations, army bases and prisons. Electricity used on feet and genitals; electrocuted; sodomised with a water bottle; [...]
- You might expect black holes to be, well, black, but several decades ago Stephen Hawking calculated that they should emit light. Now, for the first time, physicists claim that they have observed this weird glow in the lab. – By David Shiga in The New Scientist “Their experiment is the very first observation of Hawking radiation,” [...]
Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America Author Jamal Kanj talks about life in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. In his recent book “Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian refugee camp to America,” provides an account of life from Palestine to refugee camps in Lebanon and the events leading [...]
We are pleased that the ADL has noticed that If Americans Knew is influencing the debate on Israel IF AMERICANS KNEW The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently released a report on the top 10 “anti-Israel” organizations affecting the mainstream discourse in the United States. We are pleased to announce that If Americans Knew is in this [...]
No. 965-10 October 22, 2010 ————————————————————— CONTRACTS AIR FORCE Advanced Aerospace Engineering Concepts, La Verne, Calif. (FA8530-11-D-001); Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc., Birmingham, Ala. (FA8530-11-D-002); Engineering & Software Systems Solutions, Inc., San Diego, Calif. (FA8530-11-D-004); Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta, Ga. (FA8530-11-D-005); and Support Systems Associates, Inc., Melbourne, Fla. (FA8530-11-D-006), were awarded a maximum $402,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity [...]
NEARLY FOUR OUT OF FIVE AUSTRALIANS: “9/11 A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY” By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor “76.7% of Australians cite 9/11 government conspiracy in poll. How can a government get so out of touch with reality, so “snookered” by American pressure over the 9/11 coverup that it would wake up one morning looking totally idiotic to its [...]
Reconciliation itself isn’t the problem. Giving reconciled criminals a legitimate place in the Afghan government – who are paid by foreign interests, are directed by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and have never been held to account for their crimes against the Afghan people – is the problem.
The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts. The relatively obscure emblem has become omnipresent because of one place it can’t appear: flying above a war memorial in a public park.
Are you the kind of guy that most people don’t get? Why are so many of our veterans committing suicide? Why are they so overwhelmed with depression? Simple… people don’t understand them and it makes them crazy.
- Families face uncertain future and no clear way forward in a system where money and pettiness rule – By Mike Jamieson The government is a sovereign immunity and with the exception of limited waver through the federal tort act, they are pretty much free to do what ever till caught, that there’s not much [...]
The mid term elections of 2010 have been memorable for sheer goofiness as well as for the corporate funded blanket of ugly, false and misleading advertising that has been lowered over the public airwaves. With the addition of a mountainous heap of money provided by greedy plutocrats, election cycles have become national holidays from reason and sanity that fall between their mates, Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Good, Better, Best Vibrations By J. Speer-Williams Someone once wrote … “The truth has a certain elegance and restraint to it. Sometimes it can be a little rough because truth doesn’t spend in any time in makeup as lies do. Lies require cosmetics and strategic lighting. Truth posses its own beauty without the need for [...]
By Tim King – Salem-News Today would have been the young man’s 19th birthday. (SALEM, Ore.) – Furkan Doğan shot the Israeli military first, then they shot back, and ultimately executed him on the deck of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ‘Mavi Marmara’ last May. The problem, is that Furkan was only using a video camera. [...]
- Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce kicked off a national advertising campaign to weaken the historic rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations – By ERIC LIPTON, MIKE McINTIRE and DON VAN NATTA Jr. in the NYT Dow Chemical delivered $1.7 million to the chamber last year [...]
- Bob Perry, a wealthy home builder from Texas, has given $7 million since September to American Crossroads, the group Karl Rove helped start – By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MICHAEL LUO at the NYT WASHINGTON — When Bob Perry, a wealthy home builder from Texas, emerged six years ago as a prime financer of the Swift [...]
From the VA: 1. Shinseki, Sessions Trying To Limit “Bureaucracy” For PTSD Sufferers. CNN Newsroom (10/21, 2:37 p.m. ET) broadcast that “about 200,000 patients nationwide receive some sort of treatment via mobile monitoring units in their homes.” CNN also spoke to American Telemedicine Association Chief Executive Officer Jon Linkous, who pointed out that the US Department [...]
A picture really does say a thousand words at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, SC. Lining the hallways of the first floor of the medical center are photo portraits of over 80 Lowcountry Veterans. The pictured Veterans include those who are patients and employees of the center – the homeless, nursing [...]
The plot of al Qaida story was so simple, few Muslim mujahideen with a militant edge targeting any western object. a theme that has lately been the funniest plot for talented filmmakers throughout the world from England cinema to Bollywood India. In that way we lately began to hear of al Qaida’s affiliates.
Franklin Lamb, Shatila Camp, Lebanon In the days since Iran’s president Ahmadinejad completed his visit to Lebanon, and given the continuing lively discussion across the local and international political spectrum evaluating the impact of his historic appearance, one thing appears fairly clear. US State Department official Jeffrey Feltman who came to Beirut quick from Saudi [...]
WSI is an international network in existence for 15 years. Being the world’s largest Internet consulting firm, WSI has been ranked as the #1 Internet Market Services Franchise in Entrepreneur Magazine’s January 2010 Franchise 500 – an honor maintained for 10 years in a row.
The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza. YouTube – Veterans Today – Amidst scenes of jubilation from thousands of Palestinians there to greet the convoy, Kevin Ovenden, the convoy director, expressed his joy at being in Gaza once again. “We [...]
- Asked what the Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ responsibility is to homeless veterans, Johnson declared that his election fight against Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) is not “about details.” – Evidently, homeless veterans do not figure prominantly into the millionaire rightwinger’s conception of a U.S. Senate campaign. Betrayal of veterans is typically a bi-partisan game, but [...]
No. 964-10 October 21, 2010 ————————————————————– CONTRACTS NAVY InfoEdge Technology, Inc., Austin, Texas, is being awarded a $44,505,174 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for litigation support services for the Naval Litigation Office, Washington, D.C. Work will be performed in Washington, D.C. (70 percent), and Austin, Texas (30 percent), and is expected to be completed by October 2015. [...]
HOLOCAUST DENIER AND ANTI-SEMITE THREATENS TO DESTROY ISRAEL “MORE DANGEROUS THAN AHMADINEJAD..” Jerusalem – (VT) Reports of the capture of a known bin Laden associate has come in today from Jerusalem. “We were able to make an arrest based on an informant inside the terrorist cell.” Local sources indicate that the terrorist mastermind, believed to [...]
On the basis of the study “No evidence that Muslims hijacked planes on 9/11″ by Elias Davidsson (2008), that we have carefully examined, and other similar studies, we undersigned are now convinced that the U.S. authorities did not prove [beyond reasonable doubt*] their account on the mass murder of September 11, 2001, in particular their claim that Muslims/Arabs committed this crime.
The Citizens United case was a game changer in terms of money being spent by outside groups on the 2010 elections—but the question is, how much? This primer (included below) provides a detailed explanation of the before and after, and also includes Sunlight’s policy recommendations for new disclosures needed to ensure that that the midterms don’t become a practice run for even more massive spending in 2012.
TRADES HALL PRESIDENT, BRAKEN, SUPPORTS 9/11 TRUTH…SUPPORT HIM By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor 9/11. Its time we all quit pretending. 9/11 stinks. Even Fox News says so, finally, after so many years. When Judge Napolitano had Colonel Schaffer and the CIA’s Michael Scheuer on, outing the conspiracy and then invited former ISI Chief, General [...]
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