(via 91outcomes.com) – The military medical corps in the various branches have been responsible for some of the great leaps forward in treating battle injuries. The Veterans Administration has tried to match the treatment level provided at military hospitals with long term programs that over the years have met with varying degrees of success. But [...]
The bone-headed [but great for big-moneyed lobbyists and their Senator servants] U.S. Senate procedure known roughly as the ‘filibuster’ could soon be sent the way of John McCain’s run for the presidency. The filibuster—where 41 votes beats 59 votes—is undemocratic and represents perfectly the non-sensical ways of the U.S. Senate. At left is a photo [...]
MADISON, WISCONSIN-In a Dec. 28th op-ed for his hometown paper, Paul Ryan discussed the federal budget deficit, the economic crisis and his upcoming role as chairman of the House Budget Committee. Read the article here. Ryan, one of Wall Street’s greatest allies on the hill, notably states that American homeowners, not the big banks that [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1184-10 NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive contract for the fiscal 2010-2015 block buy of Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The fiscal 2010 LCS Flight 0+ ship award amount is $436,852,639. There are additional line items totaling $54,742,639 for technical data package, core class services, provisioned [...]
The most important thing to do during a war is to win it and have something left after you’ve won it. That’s fairly obvious — but, if you combine Geloiocracy with repugnant ideas you come up with crap like that.
A Commonsense Solar Defense By Jeff Gates Three days before Christmas, the U.S. Congress authorized $725 billion in defense spending for 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the most since 1945, the last year of World War II. With numbers that large, making comparisons is difficult. Yet consider this. The United Nations reports that 1.5 billion [...]
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has called on the Department of Defense to grant Freedom of Information Act requests from veterans’ organizations seeking information on the misuse of personality disorder discharges. By the CT Health I-Team Service members discharged because of personality disorders receive substantially fewer benefits and services that those diagnosed with combat-related conditions, such [...]
Few who served during Vietnam ever complained of a generation gap. The men who fought World War II were their heroes and role models. By James Webb The rapidly disappearing cohort of Americans that endured the Great Depression and then fought World War II is receiving quite a send-off from the leading lights of the [...]
American Democracy and civil liberties will have to suffer for the needs of the holy state of Israel By Cecilie Surasky in MuzzleWatch By the time she was in high school, Sarah Smith had already been named one of the 100 most influential women in Chicago by Chicago’s business magazine, Crain’s. Now Smith, who happens [...]
Israel: We need lebensraum. And Americans, you can pay. Imagine being expelled from your city–the city where you were born, the city where you grew up, the city where you started a family and where you are raising your four children, the city where you have always lived. From Jewish Voice for Peace This horrible [...]
As we sit around comfortable in our complacency and telling jokes about “going postal,” postal workers are literally drowning in a cesspool of injustice and corruption that’s needlessly destroying their health, well being, and many of their home lives. While that may seem funny to some, the United States Postal Service signals a pronounced change in this nation’s attitude toward poor and middle-class workers. And since it is a government agency, and both our president, and the policing agencies mandated to protect our interests are completely ignoring the situation, the ramifications are chilling.
I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and that Santa gave you all the toys and joy you could have hoped for and as we embark on a New Year, I’d like to wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year! During the past year, our readers and members have shown remarkable [...]
HIJACKER THEORY PROVEN IMPOSSIBLE.. Foreword by Gordon Duff Senior Editor Geraldo Rivera and Judge Napolitano of Fox News proved controlled demolition at the World Trade Center. Jesse Ventura presents witnesses and hard science that debunks the Pentagon attack, all this on network prime time television seen across the United States and around the world. No [...]
“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.” – Lewis H. LaphamThe Republican Party has degenerated into a party of Brownshirts, and voter frustrations with the worsening economic crisis and military occupations gone awry are likely to bring Republicans to power in 2012. With them would come their doctrines of executive [...]
While much condemnation has rightly been expressed toward Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, a less-reported and potentially more sinister measure is set to take effect on January 1, 2011. This new law, which was passed by the conservative state legislature at the behest of then-School Superintendent (and now Attorney General-elect) Tom Horne, is designated HB [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1183-10 AIR FORCE Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., was awarded a $272,552,404 contract modification to provide for 30 F117-PW-100 engines, spare engines, and associated data for the C-17 aircraft. At this time, the entire amount has been obligated. ASC/WNWK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8750-11-C-0045). ARMY The [...]
Eight more Vietnam and Iraq veterans, all with PTSD, faced their fears and not only opened their hearts but found and began to heal themselves in only eight weeks : Allen L Roland The first meeting of the Healing The Wounded Heart Veterans Workshop #3 was held on October 14, 2010 at 11 AM [...]
Julian Assange ushering in a “new global information order?” By Wayne Madsen for www.opinion-maker.org The selective release of around a quarter million US State Department cables, some of them redacted after screening by corporate media entities such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde, among others, comes at a time [...]
GTEC knows our Military community has the talent they are seeking, and wants you to apply today By Randy Miller Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. (GTEC) provides mission-critical technology-based systems, solutions, and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government. Their services and solutions are integral parts of mission-critical programs run [...]
Who Owns the Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow.” So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Every three years, the Paris-based OECD holds its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests of the reading, math and science skills of 15-year-olds [...]
RESPONSIBILITY IS THE KEY TO POWER By JB Campbell STAFF WRITER We are ruled by parasites. We are ruled by people who not only don’t work but expect us to work for them. This is totally irresponsible on our part. And we have been carefully trained to be irresponsible because responsibility is the key to [...]
AND NOW COMES NEWS THAT ALL HUMAN LIFE BEGAN IN ISRAEL. According to the Israelis. Whether that’s so or not, some of us fear that the way things are going, all human life might end there too. AP reports: “It’s very exciting to come to this conclusion,” said archaeologist Avi Gopher, whose team examined the [...]
Veterans helping Veterans and the VA and LA Cops making veterans’ lives a deeper hell.Robert Rosebrock, Director, Old Veterans Guard, writes letter to General Eric K. Shinseki, Sec. of Dept of Veterans Affairs, and a LA Times columnist standing up for veterans. Marine (at left) is a homeless Veteran who was recently arrested by the Los Angeles Police [...]
IF Obama could put America’s own real interests first… By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER The headline is not meant to imply that I think he will. As things are he can’t because of the stranglehold on American policy for Israel/Palestine of the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress, the mainstream media and many institutions [...]
The letter below went out today asking the VA, Central Brain Tumor Registry of United States and American Brain Tumor Association to start tracking the statistical rate of brain cancer occurring in our veterans. Dear Sir: The widows and families of Vietnam Veteran Wives are asking Veterans Affairs, The Central Brain Tumor Registry and The [...]
The Republican Party has it knives out and is casting its eyes with a lean and hungry look on ‘Quite Extreme’ Veterans Health Benefits. “My feelings on veterans benefits,” Max Cleland said, responding to the 2010 Republican pledge to slash them, “they’re all pre-paid. Veterans gave at the office.” By Joel Wendland on the GOP 2010 electoral [...]
To keep conservatives from enacting policies that will kill a nascent economic recovery, progressives will have to organize against these top 10 economy killers. by Isaiah J. Poole in AlterNet Conservatives have a legislative agenda for 2011 that will hurt your ability to get or keep a job, your neighborhood’s ability to recover from the [...]
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Vets Urged To Sign Up For Electronic Payments. The Union City (TN) Messenger (12/28, 8K) reports VA officials “are urging veterans to sign up for electronic payment of their benefits” after the Department of the Treasury announcement last week extending “the safety and convenience of electronic payments [...]
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit a Regional Office. As you might know, I’ve worked on a number of benefits technology projects, but until last week, I’d never actually seen an RO up close, in action
(NaturalNews) Australian organic farmer Steve Marsh recently had his organic certification status pulled by the National Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Australia (NASAA) because his organic wheat field was contaminated by a nearby genetically-modified (GM) canola field. And after Marsh threatened to sue the GM farmer for the incident — which has cost Marsh his entire [...]
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