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August 2011

9/11 Unveiled (part 5 of 10): 1, 2 World Trade Center

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Aircraft collision, and the resulting fire, did not cause the twin towers to collapse — “NIST has stated that it did not analyze the collapse of the towers.”

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Living | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Aug 31, 2011

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Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $569,021,288 firm-fixed-price contract modification for 234 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Air Intercept Missile (AIM)-120D All-Up-Round (AUR) missiles;

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

9/11 Rendition Flights Revealed, Including “Tripoli”

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Jets were dispatched to Islamabad; Rome; Djibouti; Frankfurt, Germany; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Shannon, Ireland; Glasgow, Scotland; Tenerife, Spain; Sharm el Sheik, Egypt; and even Tripoli. Some flights landed at airports near where CIA black sites operated — Kabul, Bangkok and Bucharest.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

A Clash of Cultures: Veterans and Non-Veterans

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Research into the views that there is a cultural clash between Veterans and Non-Veterans on college campuses.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Military | Read More »

How to Stay on Top of GI Bill Benefits

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Even before the semester starts, I’m sure my Veterans office on campus is tired of me. I often call or email questions about my enrollment, or if VA has paid my tuition bill.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Documents Tie Former Bush Envoy and Israel to Gaddafi

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“Minutes of this meeting record his advice on how to undermine Libya’s rebel movement, with the potential assistance of foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel.”

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Libya,WarZone | Read More »

Obama’s Krueger Won’t End the Nightmare on Main Street

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Obama looks to add yet another Jew from academia to head his embarrassing Council of Economic Advisers.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Of Interest,Politics | Read More »

Us Or The War Machine

Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse

YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington this summer. Were you aware that in the midst of it the House of Representatives passed a military spending bill larger than ever before?

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »

Mind Over Matter Veterans Path to Healthy Living

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Mr. Powers provides a perfect example of how to take charge of life and choose healthy living.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – August 31, 2011

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On August 30, VA Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in San Antonio. “We are committed to staying the course for positive change at VA.”

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Job Initiatives Focus on Vets, Family Members

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President Barack Obama yesterday called on Congress to move quickly on an initiative to offer tax credits to employers who hire unemployed veterans, including those with disabilities.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »

Do Not Go Into Battle Without A Buddy

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The normal anxiety any of us feel when we consult a physician is often increased when the help is sought for a mental health problem.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

NATO’s Ugly Face

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For months, NATO marauders and rebel killers gang raped Libya – murdering, destroying, ravaging on the pretense of protecting.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »

9/11 Unveiled (Part 4 of 10): The Hijackers

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There were no Arab names on the airlines’ passenger lists — several ‘hijackers’ are reported to be alive.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Guilty Verdict in Case of Agent Orange

The government continues stonewalling Vets over Agent Orange yet evacuated Times Beach, MO, in face of dioxin contamination

The verdict…”Guilty” in the case of the government’s complicity in using Agent Orange

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Why CIA’s Ames And The Bureau’s Hanssen Driven To Spy For Soviets

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Since America’s national security apparatus silenced the Bureau’s Robert Hanssen right before the 9/11 attacks for the rest of his life for spying for 15 years for the Soviets – what it accomplished seventeen years ago with the Agency’s Aldrich “Rick” Ames for similar offences at the same time – the public deserves an account now since the crisis has passed of what they did, and why.

August 31st, 2011 | Posted in Cold War,History | Read More »

NATO Style Liberation

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Wherever it goes, NATO slaughters, ravages, lays waste, incinerates, contaminates, devastates, conquers, colonizes, plunders, exploits, impoverishes and immiserates.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »

More Corroboration, Gaddafi Nanny Torture

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When Shwygar Mullah, nanny to the children of Hannibal and Aline Gaddafi, was found burned over 70% of her body, bloggers claimed she was faking her injuries part of a conspiracy to discredit the Gaddafi family.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Libya,WarZone | Read More »

DOD Peddling Non-Answers in Mental Health Debate

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Last week I sent the Department of Defense questions sparked by a series of new reports appearing in American, British and Australian medical journals questioning the efficacy of mental health drugs so widely prescribed by our young and old veterans.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in PTSD | Read More »

APNewsBreak: Vets Agency Gives Businesses The Boot

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is booting a bus company, a car rental firm and a commercial laundry from its sprawling campus a few miles from the ocean as it tries to counter accusations that it puts commercial interests ahead of housing homeless vets.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

VA Launches Open Source Custodian

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced it has completed an important milestone on its joint path with the Department of Defense (DoD) to create a single electronic health record system for servicemembers and Veterans.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Why My 9-Year-Old Neice Is Smarter Than Our Genius President

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While the evidence suggests that President Obama is not terribly bright and has just benefited from succeeding a downright moron, and while voluminous evidence to which I am privileged suggests that my 9-year-old neice Hallie is extremely intelligent, consider just this one way in which Hallie would make a wiser president than Barack.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Causes,Living | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Aug 30, 2011

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Teledyne Brown Engineering, Incorporated, Huntsville, Alabama under contract HQ0147-11-D-0015.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

Home Telehealth Keeps Veteran Independent

Mr. Adams speaking with Jean Mullally, RN, Home Telehealth Care Coordinator

Mr. Clifford Adams is a legally blind Veteran who lives alone and has several serious medical conditions. Living in his own home is very important to him.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

America’s FBI Goes Rogue

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If one thinks this through, it becomes clear that the FBI policy makers have confused thought and action. In such a way is the road to hell paved with (alleged) good intentions.by Dr. Lawrence Davidson

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Israel,World | Read More »

The Spark Of Life Is Love Not The Higgs Boson

Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) proton-proton collision in which two energetic electrons and two energetic muons, elementary particles similar to electrons, are observed—the type of event that the decay of a Higgs boson might produce, although there are other explanations as well. © 2011 CERN

What if infinite love and not the speed of light was the absolute constant of the Universe? My own personal experience and work as a psychotherapist, particularly in my work with veterans with PTSD, has demonstrated this great truth a truth that all human beings sense and respond to at their deepest level of consciousness.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Gaddafi’s Israeli Intel Mercenaries Uncovered

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incontrovertible proof that Israelis, working in Tripoli, actively managed Gaddafi’s intelligence services.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Libya,WarZone | Read More »

Vietnam Vet Regains Long Lost Bronze Star

Army 1st Lt. Robert C. Berkshire takes a break during his deployment to Vietnam in 1970. Berkshire recently received a new Bronze Star Medal -- the original had been stolen along with his duffle bag at the end of his Vietnam tour of duty -- to replace the one he’d earned more than 40 years ago. Courtesy photo

More than 40 years ago, Army 1st Lt. Robert C. Berkshire earned a Bronze Star Medal for valor during his service in Vietnam.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military | Read More »

American Dream Eating Itself Alive

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There is an ant in Australia that digests itself into oblivion as some sort of weird natural “defense” mechanism. Why God created this, or how the hell could it have evolved.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Telephone Lifestyle Coaching

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VA Butler Healthcare’s MOVE! Program now has another program option: Telephone Lifestyle Coaching, or MOVE! TLC. TLC is a weekly/bi-weekly program of learning through a guided workbook and scheduled phone calls by a Veteran’s healthy lifestyle coach.

August 30th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

 

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