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August 2011

ISS Resupply Ship Explodes, Another Space Failure for Russia

Resupply Craft Crashes After Launch

Crew estimates existing supplies will last. 2.5 tons of fuel and key supplies were onboard at the time of the rocket failure 325 seconds into the flight.

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Military | Read More »

Obama’s Wars on Humanity

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Ignoring social and other homeland needs, America’s business is war, more war, imperial wars, defiantly heading the nation toward tyranny and ruin because of an addiction it can’t or won’t quit.

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »

JCMVAMC To Benefit from Poker Run

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The public is invited to participate in “RIDE FOR THE VETS” on Sept. 24, a poker run benefiting Veterans served by the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center and its outpatient clinics.

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses

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Health problems associated with military service during Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn and related VA benefits

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

The KGB (Kickbacks, Gratuity, Bribes) – alive and well in Washington DC

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Vacation in America…It is a time to be with family for rest and reflection. Late last week my wife, son, and I headed off from our home in North Carolina, to spend a few days at the beach in Destin, Florida, a place I use to live back when I wore a younger man’s shoes.

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Government,Legislation | Read More »

Gaddafi’s “Pet Journalists” 5 Star Prison

RIXOS HOTEL TRIPOLI, 5 STAR GILDED CAGE

Some are real journalists but others are highly paid “guests” of Gaddafi. They were brought into the country to “seed” propaganda.

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Libya,WarZone | Read More »

The Holocaust, Israel’s Most Powerful PsyOps Weapon

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Take a look at the current offerings of the widely viewed and popular “History Channel” on TV, with its distorted image of American History.

August 24th, 2011 | Posted in History,World War II | Read More »

Israeli Video Games in Gaza

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Islam was the second two-year-old to be killed by Israeli drone strikes in two days.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,Britain United Kingdom,Editors Picks,Europe,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Rick Perry, Glenn Beck and Alan Dershowitz: Meshugener or Shmucks?

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Mishugener is a Yiddish word meaning insane or crazy. A Schmuck is Yiddish for a self-made fool- but it also refers to male only anatomy…….

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Iran,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

3,000 Year Old Psycological Operation Still Working Today!

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“Psychological operations are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.”

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Aug 23, 2011

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of a sole-source cost-plus-award-fee modification to Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., under the HQ0276-10-C-0005 contract, P00015.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

Local Programs Improve Veteran Health Through Diet, Activity

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Mary Kodiath, ANP-BC, San Diego VAMC’s Health Promotion & Disease Prevention program manager (left) and Carol Walsh, MS, RD, PACT dietitian (right), while conducting one of the Wellness Group sessions in Oceanside Clinic.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

VA Secretary visits Omaha VAMC

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A large thunderstorm the evening of Aug. 18 damaged vehicles, knocked out power and delayed Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki’s trip to the Omaha VA Medical Center.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Home Diagnostics And Treatment Help Veterans Sleep Easier

Registered Respirator Therapist Karen Armour, right, checks the fit on Vincent Santalla's continuous positive airway pressure mask during a follow-up visit to the sleep medicine clinic in August. (Photo by Kimberly Gearhart)

Are you tired during the day or have trouble concentrating? Does your spouse complain about your snoring? You may be suffering from a condition known as sleep apnea.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Health | Read More »

Another Israeli False Flag?

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Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency) have long, odious histories of committing them. More on that below.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »

Bear Country

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Financial markets provide early signals of future economic conditions, good or bad. Currently, they’re flashing red.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – August 23, 2011

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Florence National Cemetery located in South Carolina is a cemetery rich with history. It is a former Confederate prison, the final resting place for more than 2,000 unknown Union Soldiers and the infamous Florena Budwin.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News | Read More »

Eating Bill O’Reilly’s Shoes Could Cause E Coli

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I can understand people not wanting to pay taxes; certainly, Ben Stein can understand that as well.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »

Doomsday Defense Budget?

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It is remarkable how politicians with close ties to the Defense Industry love to demonize and label any significant cuts to our defense budget with terms like DOOMSDAY.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

The Next Bubbles? An Impending Collapse of Foreign Military Aid?

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Americans are beginning to ask questions

When pressed for details, Americans are getting congressional obfuscation, bumper sticker-style labels, and a bit of self-righteous anger. By Karen Kwiatkowski

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Editors Picks,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Free Society And The Enemy From Within

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The following is a letter from Cafe Palestine Freiburg. I urge you to show your support, attend or/and donate for the cause.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

Challenging AIPAC’s Abuse of Taxpayers Money

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AIPAC is the main culprit in the process of defrauding the American people. The fact is, U.S. citizens have been bankrolling Israel’s system of occupation, racial discrimination and denial of basic human rights to the tune of billions of dollars annually without knowing what they were funding and why. by Omar Barghouti

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Richard Helms: The Most Dangerous CIA Director

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No Director of Central Intelligence has a better reputation than Richard McGarrah Helms, “the man who kept the secrets,” according to his biographer Thomas Powers, the implication being that despite all the known scandals, failures, and disastrous programs, there was real substance to what the Agency did, especially under his direction – what Helms valiantly fought to maintain the secrecy of.

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Of Interest | Read More »

9/11: A Conspiracy Beyond Theory

BY WAY OF DECEPTION WE MAKE WAR -- MOSSAD

Of course the hijackers knew nothing about any plan to fly into buildings like kamikaze pilots on a suicide mission. by Paul J Balles.

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Editors Picks,Iraq War,WarZone | Read More »

Confessions of a 9/11 Truth Activist

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Steve Fahrney, an activist from 9/11 Truth San Diego, who had worked with Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (A&E) for a year, contacted me because of his awareness of my research with T. Mark Hightower on the properties of nanothermite, “Is ’9/11 Truth’ based upon a false theory?”

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Aug 22, 2011

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General Dynamics C4 Systems, Taunton, Mass., is being awarded a $900,000,000 maximum indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to allow the Global Broadcast Service Joint Program Office to acquire approximately 1,500 new receive suites, and approximately 1,100 retrofit kits, for fielded systems.

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

A Veterans Herbicides (plural) Learning Experience

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I have given you readers, our government officials, and our media over the past decades the facts as I can find it on our herbicide issues ‘with documented references.’

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Health | Read More »

Ron Paul Won’t Go Away – Nor Should He

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I am one of millions of Americans who want to vote for a man of integrity and clear principles in 2012 versus a shill for Wall Street and the corporate elite. However, the corporate controlled main stream media is well aware of the Ron Paul populist threat ~ which is why they either ignore or belittle his candidacy.

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors Picks,Government,Politics | Read More »

Ft. Hood Shooting, America’s Breivik

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On November 5, 2009, a Major Hasan, believed by the Army since 2005 to have had terrorist connections, murdered at least 13 and wounded 29 on Ft. Hood, an Army base in Texas.

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Editors Picks,WarZone | Read More »

Hackers, Worms and Israel-USA Collusion Versus Gaza-Palestine

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While hard working American tax payers face economic hardships, 81 members of Congress neglected listening to their constituents during this summers recess to take a lobbyist-funded trip designed to pressure them into sending even more tax-payer-funded weapons to the Israeli military which will be used to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians.

August 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

 

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