Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline: Change your phone number in your graphics from 1 800-273-TALK, Veterans Press 1, to: 1 800 273 8255; Press 1 for Veterans. Like now. Veterans in crisis needing to call a suicide line don’t need to fuck around with phone keys and replace T-A-L-K with 8255. You get it? Time matters. 1-800-273-8255, Veterans [...]
Make no mistake about it ~ Keith Olbermann’s truth telling was rattling the cages of the corpocracy and he either quit or was asked to abruptly leave his popular prime time TV spot… The stage has been set ~ truth and dissent will be slowly marginalized until we accept and realize that the world is [...]
HA NOI — The Viet Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange yesterday honoured 99 outstanding individuals and organisations for supporting victims and actively participating in the struggle for justice for AO victims. Via VietNamNews They were praised in the “Honouring Golden Hearts for Agent Orange Victims” programme which was held in the capital yesterday [...]
Monsanto—The poster child for big business we love to hate. Never has a single corporate entity-person inflicted such misery and death, and lied about it to the extent that Monsanto has. By Kathy Fuller, The Hillsboro Argus The company that brought us Agent Orange and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) now brings us Roundup Ready seeds and [...]
Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened, chaos is assured. In national security terminology, the January 24 bombing at Moscow’s busiest airport was “out of theater repositioning.” First among Tel Aviv’s priorities is their need to maintain traction [...]
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 067-11 AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Defense Systems Division of Herndon, Va. was awarded a $49,694,900 contract which will research, develop, and deliver an integrated software solution that improves upon the targeting functionality currently performed by Air Force and joint targeting automation software. At this time, $2,173 has been obligated. Air [...]
It wasn’t always this way. Although not required to report to congress in person, George Washington set the precedent by inflicting a speech. Taciturn by nature, John Adams’ address was less than 2000 words but Jefferson had the good grace and gentle mercy to deliver his address to the congress in writing. That method was deemed adequate by every subsequent president until Wilson resumed the inhumane practice of formal speechifying with which we are mutually afflicted every January.
Update: Veterans for Common Sense exec director, Paul Sullivan, says of Sen. Patty Murray becoming chair: “One word will do for Murray: ’Fantastic!’” Senator Patty Murray will likely not echo her GOP House counterpart and hit veterans’ costs, DVA efficiencies and privatization. Murray is the daughter of a disabled World War II veteran, and has worked with the [...]
FOREIGN TRADE ZONES What could they be? Where could they be? Overseas? Nope. They’re here. They’re everywhere. They’re in all fifty states. My state, Idaho, has at least one, up in Boundary County, and a really big one is reportedly being set up right now, near Boise. 30,000 acres. The land inside these foreign trade [...]
Stakes High Tonight, One Speech Sets Political Tone for coming year and 2012 campaign By Macon Phillips at the White House We’re putting the finishing touches on a new feature for WhiteHouse.gov that will offer an enhanced viewer experience for President Obama’s State of the Union address. As President Obama addresses the Nation, WhiteHouse.gov will [...]
FTZs. What could they be? Where could they be? Overseas? Nope. They’re here. They’re everywhere. They’re in all fifty states. My state, Idaho, has at least one, up in Boundary County, and a really big one is reportedly being set up right now, near Boise. 30,000 acres. The land inside these foreign trade zones is [...]
WASHINGTON –Veterans exposed to herbicides while serving along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Korea will have an easier path to access quality health care and benefits under a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) final regulation that will expand the dates when illnesses caused by herbicide exposure can be presumed to be related to Agent Orange. [...]
Palestine does not have to be a lost cause By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER The most sickening (I mean truly vomit inducing) thing about the Al Jazeera revelations, the so-called Palestine Papers, is not what they confirm about the quisling status of the impotent and corrupt Palestine Authority. Nor is it what they confirm about [...]
Chris Kirkham at The Huffington Post has an outstanding piece chronicling the vultures preying on troops at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. While Fort Sill Religous Support “[advises] the command in matters of religion, morals, morale, and ethical issues,” it neglects the vampires sucking these guys dry. Oklahoma, you’re not okay; and neither are the lending operations encircling American [...]
The insanity of Wisconsin GOP Gov Scott Walker and Ohio GOP Gov John Kasich giving away federal money ($810 million from Wisconsin and $385 million from Ohio) will reverberate for years as the resulting labor-intensive projects would have provided badly needed jobs and begun a regional transit policy. via mal Dreams of launching an economic corridor [...]
First 40 bills for veterans submitted in House of Representatives. Depleted uranium testing for troops again advanced as bill, it is about time to assure that this is done.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Urgent Reminder: Deadline at Midnight January 27 to Enroll in VA Health Care In January 2008 Congress increased Combat Veteran benefits by extending the period of enhanced health care enrollment eligibility from two to five years post discharge for Veterans who served in the theater of operations [...]
In Vietnam, some 35 years after the war, Agent Orange is still claiming victims. Used on a massive scale by the U.S. Army to prevent soldiers from hiding, this powerful herbicide permeated the ground. From encephalitis to congenital deformities and leukaemia, thousands of children are being born severely handicapped due to the chemical. From 1961 [...]
Sometimes in the world of disinformation and limited hang-outs, some truth emerges. With more than 200,000 U.S. cables in its possession, Wikileaks has released detailed information about America’s support of worldwide use of genetically modified (GM) crops. By Jill Ettinger in Organic Authority Reports include evidence that State Department officials have made efforts to fight [...]
It is not because of their strengths that they have been able to do this… it is because of the weakness of the non-existent anti-Zionist “opposition” in the American Government and American Media. By Debbie Menon “More and more, Americans from all walks of life are talking about Israel’s influence in Washington, looking for someone to blame. Americans [...]
AFGHANISTAN: RUSSIAN ROULETTE RETURNS By Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent trip to Moscow marks an unprecedented state level rendezvous by an Afghanistan Head of State. The first since the Soviet backed President Najibullah’s trip; whose term ended shortly after the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan. It is [...]
By Brig Asif Haroon Raja War on terror has entered tenth year but the US is still clueless when and how it will terminate the war. One of the reasons for its lack of progress is that in its given set of priorities, Afghanistan was accorded lower priority since it was considered an almost accomplished [...]
A Silver Line for Pakistan Brig Samson S Sharaf The visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to USA will not live in memory for the declarations that were made in the joint press conferences and the press releases. They are more significant in what has not been said. In the backdrop are diplomatic flurry, [...]
Honestly, there are so few nuggets of genuine wisdom in Washington that watching the Sunday talk-show hackery is a form of psychological torture.
Corporate media consolidation is no news and an attack on your capacity to think Recently a MSNBC host has been deleted. I found his speech, ideas, vilification of people I admire and political ideas as awful. I am going to miss him. In America those that speak against the popular presentation of “how things” should [...]
Activists David House and Jane Hamsher tried to visit Pfc. Bradley Manning, who stands accused of leaking classified US government documents, at Quantico on Sunday. By Juan Cole at TruthDig They allege that while still outside the base, they were given a run-around, threatened with having their car towed, and then essentially detained for two [...]
Desert Storm Veterans with gulf war illness being recruited for a medical study on their irritable bowel problems. Gulf War illness is real and the research is finally directed in the right direction to find answers. Twenty years but the old broken system is finally responding. The old cranky battleship of a broken system has made war repairs and is being set right on course. Now veterans are being asked to help. Medical researchers and medical care providers are being asked to help get the information to gulf war veterans 90-91 that are sufferring!
DoD CONTRACTS: No. 065-11 USSOCOM L-3 Global Communications Solutions of Victor, N.Y., was awarded a modification to increase the contract ceiling by $40,000,000 to a new not-to-exceed amount of $157,000,000. This is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity firm-fixed price contract for procurement and sustainment of Special Operations Forces deployable node-medium very small aperture terminal and [...]
Rightwing, sectarian Christians are embedded at the DVA, the Pentagon, all branches of the U.S. military, and the military academies. They want Christian armed forces. And they have plenty of friends in the media—Fox and the usual suspects—to echo their call for war, but work against increased veterans’ benefits. via mal One of their media organs is the Colorado [...]
YouTube – Veterans Today – Valley of the Wolves: Palestine is a new Turkish movie portraying the Mavi Marmara massacre as a premeditated Israeli attack that was set to kill innocent peace activists. An uproar has erupted in Germany in the last few days over the upcoming launching of the film. The film’s intended release [...]
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