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February 2011
Bottom Feeders: Conservative radio and talk show personalities have longed harangued the public regarding public sector employees. An object of vilification has become the lot of public employees from some sectors of our American society. Many people believe a radio personality, Rush Limbaugh is effective and accurate representative of conservatism in America. Today, February 18, 2011 between 1210 p.m. and 100 p.m., Mr. Limbaugh said words to the effect:
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
While Anglo Saxon universities are boasting of their so-called “glorious role” in the reconstruction of Iraqi academia (See f.i. U of A helping create an education revolution in Iraq)1, Iraq’s education is dying. From August 1990 onwards, UN sanctions excluded Iraqi education from international scientific developments and banned import of essential educational material such as books and even….. pencils. Many Iraqi professors and scientists left the country during that period.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need….. Pentagon douses rumor of Petraeus exit, for now. Afghanistan war commander Gen. David Petraeus is not leaving his post anytime [...]
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Regional,Top 10,Vet News | Read More »
As we look at twenty years since the Gulf War 1990-91/Operation Desert Storm the writer has to wonder have we made headway? The writer wants the President, the VA, the DOD, the legislators both US Senators and Representatives to hear from the veterans that counted on our government to do the right thing morally and ethically. If we had really been tuned into the history of the veterans of World War 1, Atomic Veterans, and Agent Orange Veterans we would not have been so deceived. Maybe the All Volunteer Force would not have been reality. Maybe a draft would still be in affect. But the troops felt it a DUTY, A Sacred Duty to serve their country. They were well educated and trained. Many were college graduates, almost all had completed high school and had a beginning on college level education, in total a different profile than the Vietnam Veterans. Many had families with military traditions and service.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War,History | Read More »
Washington – On the second anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that Recovery Act funds are playing a major role this year in advancing much-needed infrastructure and other construction nationwide to benefit our Nation’s Veterans.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
“The Government are a friend to both Israelis and Palestinians,” UK foreign secretary William Hague, a dedicated Israel fan, told Parliament this week.
“We are calling for both sides to show the visionary boldness to return to talks and make genuine compromises. Talks need to take place on the basis of clear parameters. In our view, the entire international community, including the United States, should now support 1967 borders as the basis for resumed negotiations…”
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
The spotlight that remained glued to Afghanistan for the last so many years has suddenly shifted towards the Arab world where waves of demonstrations are sweeping several Arab countries. The wave was initially triggered in Tunisia as a consequent to self immolation of a young unemployed graduate Muhammad Bouazizi on 17 December and soon turned into ‘Jasmine Revolution’. Cyberspace, Facebook and twitter played a role in stirring revolutionary fervor. Tunisian Army refused to fire on the protesters and stood on their side, which cooked the goose of autocratic ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Middle East,World | Read More »
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has completed the initial evaluation of proposals for its Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) solicitation to transform its information technology programs, which will result in improved quality of health care and benefits services to Veterans, their families and survivors.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
DIPLOMAT, DRUG MULE OR TERRORIST? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Diplomats don’t carry guns. They aren’t supposed to drive around in cars, shooting and running people over. We have seen this behavior a lot recently, part of a pattern of organized banditry, terrorism and mayhem America used to call the Global War on Terror. [...]
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »
VETERANS’ GROUP DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON WATCHES AS POLICE MANHANDLE PEACEFUL PROTESTER George Washington University, Washington D.C., February 15, 2011. Just minutes after Secretary Clinton began a speech lauding freedom of the internet, two security personnel forcefully removed an audience member wearing a Veterans For Peace t-shirt who had silently stood [...]
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
As the nation’s armed forces come together to focus on financial readiness during Military Saves Week, active-duty families who work with financial planners are setting the pace by out-saving their do-it-yourself colleagues and feeling more confident in their long-term finances.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Living,Personal Finance | Read More »
Prince Charles was deeply moved when he learned of the plight of Indian farmers killing themselves following their use of geneticallymodified (GM) seeds, but it has now been found the problem is far worse thananyone thought. Genetically modified foods, touted as the salvation of food supply, have instead destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of people across the world, many in under-developed countries, media reports have found.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in World | Read More »
Diversity is What Union Bank is All About By Randy Miller Headquartered in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $86 billion at December 31, 2009. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and [...]
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »
The mere thought that man’s primary imperative is in pursuit of conflict and greed – and that’s essentially what competition is – is counterintuitive. The fact is, our tendency to be competitive rather than cooperative is man’s primary dysfunction.
February 18th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The aim to tie the story of environmental hazards to all that have been concerned from the patient sufferers be it civilian or military, to the lead Senator that exposed the Plight of the Gulf War Veterans in 1994(Senator Reigle), to the doctors that cared to try to answer the needs despite government interference, to the researchers that are finally now being funded thanks to the Gulf War Veterans efforts, and to the government agencies that were to have our backs but that have interfered and delayed help to those that need it the most. This not a story about whiners, this is the investigative report that covers the science and the research that has taken over 20 years to finally have an awakening that millions are truly sufferring.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »
Controversy over American military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan is common. America has been at war for over ten years. Children of troops that fought America’s enemies in the first days of the war on terror are now fighting too. There is no end in sight. Very well intended people like to point out that The United States failed to comply with what has become to be called the “Powell Doctrine” after General Colin Powell.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Military,Support the Troops | Read More »
By Ali Baghdadi The majority of American politicians and corporate media make me sick to my stomach. In plain English, they make me want to vomit. All the problems of the world are blamed on Muslim “extremists”, “fundamentalists” and “radicals”. Soon, racist bigots may even claim that global warming, tsunamis, earthquakes, catastrophic forest fires, and [...]
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,Religion,World | Read More »
This is so good. While looking for problems with Irritable Bowel Syndrome that gulf war veterans suffer with Gulf War Illness, we may have found cure for Baldness. Maybe balding men will pay us money for the research fund for gulf war illness.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News | Read More »
In the wake of WMD-liar Curveball’s videotaped confession, Colin Powell is demanding to know why nobody warned him about Curveball’s unreliability. The trouble is, they did. Can you imagine having an opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about a matter of great global importance, with all the world’s media watching, and using it to… well, to make shit up – to lie with a straight face, and with a CIA director propped up behind you, I mean to spew one world-class, for-the-record-books stream of bull, to utter nary a breath without a couple of whoppers in it, and to look like you really mean it all? What gall. What an insult to the entire world that would be.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Government | Read More »
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday about the failures of foreign leaders to respect people’s freedoms, a 71-year-old U.S. veteran Army officer, a man who spent 27 years in the CIA and delivered presidential daily briefs, a peace activist and proponent of nonviolence, the man who famously confronted Donald Rumsfeld for his war lies, the man who drafted our letter to Spain and delivered it to the Spanish Embassy on Monday, our friend Ray McGovern turned his back in silence. As Clinton continued to speak about respecting the rights of protesters, her guards — including a uniformed policeman and an unidentified plain-clothed official — grabbed Ray, dragged him off violently, brutalized him, double-cuffed him with metal handcuffs, and left him bleeding in jail. As he was hauled away (see video), Ray shouted “So this is America?” Clinton went right on mouthing her hypocrisies without a pause.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
Veterans! Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can take what you want and keep what you need….. Vietnam Vet Receives Navy Cross. Former Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ned E. Seath has been awarded the Navy Cross nearly [...]
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Regional,Top 10,Vet News | Read More »
It has been 20 years and many gulf war veterans have died. Hundreds of thousands, close to 1/2 of all gulf war veterans have made claims to the VA and they wait years for help to continue to be able to even live above the poverty level. The war in Iraq is over and it is time for full transparency in this government and it will not happen without action by every veteran that ever served, their family members, their friends, and civilians that say they support the troops. Time to prove it!
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in WarZone | Read More »
Depleted Uranium use since Operation Desert Storm is not just a health issue for Gulf War Veterans in the US but all coalition forces and endemic populations that are left to deal with the affects for billions of years. This is an international issue that has seen the UN and WHO involved.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in World | Read More »
How long does it take to get a decision to help a veteran that is alive, how many times back through the system to get the correct decision, and then how long does a surviving widow have to plead the case to fulfill the promises made to veterans by this government!
So I call now for sustained action by all veterans, their family members, their friends, and the citizens of this country…Show it through twitter activity every day!
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
Parkinson’s Disease has been an issue of concern for Vietnam Veterans but the concern on pesticide (organophosphates) exposure and Gulf War Veterans should be tracked closely for rate of occurrence in the next generation of veterans. Developments in this research also highlights the need to examine mitrochrondial damage in the Gulf war veterans.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
“WELCOME MAT” PULLED, FOX NEWS FALSIFIES COVERAGE CHENEY CALLED “WAR CRIMINAL” BY PARTY FAITHFUL By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “Fox News is a propaganda outfit but they call themselves news….an open and active political player, sort of one-part character assassin and one-part propagandist…thrives on fabrications and falsehoods…all a well-orchestrated liar….permeates the entire Fox News [...]
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,WarZone | Read More »
If you are hard-working, like a challenge and want to make a difference every day, then AlliedBarton wants you. By Randy Miller The best people work for the best companies – including industry-leaders such as AlliedBarton. This Security Giant has joined with HireVeterans.com and is inviting our talented US Veterans to submit an application to [...]
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »
The conservative revolution initiated when Ronald Reagan became the US president in 1981 is going off the rails. Reagan’s mantra of business deregulation set loose such kleptocratic excesses among Wall Street insiders that, almost three decades after the Hollywood president’s inauguration, taxpayers woke up to find Big Brother had put knives to our throats. We were informed that the global economy would collapse unless we handed over trillions of dollars of our own and our descendant’s future earnings in order to finance the transfer of trillions of dollars to the very white-collar criminals that caused the economic debacle in the first place.
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Politics | Read More »
Author’s Prologue I write this article as the bottoms-up Egyptian democratic revolution has just brought down what had seemed until very recently to be the solid regime of Hosni Mubarak. It was an amazing accomplishment achieved by the power of the whole people—something that is often sloganized but never realized. And the fact that this [...]
February 17th, 2011 | Posted in Egypt,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »
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