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December 2011

Britain May Be a Christian Country…

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Prime minister David Cameron has told Britain: “We are a Christian country and we should not be afraid to say so.”

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Britain United Kingdom,World | Read More »

Destroying the American Dream

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Corporate greed and profits over people priorities launched nationwide OWS protests in hundreds of US cities for change.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Business,Economics & Markets,Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »

Questionable sources: Message, Not Messenger Is What Counts

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The following was on the net, from the Sorcha Faal site on the day the rotten pigs in Congress were passing the now famous “Orwell was right act” that destroys the bill of rights.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Government,Politics | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Dec. 21, 2011

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Refinery Associates of Texas, Inc., New Braunfels, Texas*, was awarded a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $1,095,855,536 for aviation turbine and naval distillate fuel.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

VA Launches Facebook Pages for All 152 Medical Centers

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The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that all of its 152 medical centers are now actively represented on Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Vet News,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

A Holiday Message From The Secretary

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On Christmas night, 1776, General George Washington led a poorly-clothed, poorly-equipped, and poorly-fed American Army across the icy Delaware River to attack well-equipped Hessian troops at the garrison in Trenton, New Jersey.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

Are You a Veteran or Concerned About One?

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You’ve served your country. Maybe you’ve been happy in the past, but now you experience anxiety attacks, or find everyday life to be too stressful.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

The Epilogue of “We Were Soldiers Once”

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There’s more to the movie “We Were Soldiers Once”

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Heroes,Military,Veterans Affairs,Vietnam War | Read More »

Islam and liberty: Contradictory or Complementary?

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Is the so-called Arab Spring, whose twin banners are Liberty and Islam, doomed to collapse under the burden of a contradiction?

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Europe,Middle East,World | Read More »

Gen Pervez Musharraf Vying To Return

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Gen Musharraf came in the limelight when he was appointed Army chief by Nawaz Sharif in October 1998.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in World | Read More »

Groveling for Campaign Money Isolates America

Picking Up the Last of His 30 Pieces of Silver

A longer headline would have added the words because of President Obama’s grovelling for Jewish campaign funding and votes.

On 19 December, in the Jewish Daily Forward, Josh Nathan-Kazis wrote this:

“Top-level Jewish fundraisers from President Obama’s 2008 campaign are sticking with the president in 2012.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Israel,Living,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Taking the Bad Guys Head On…It’s a Win-Win Situation

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We are in a win-win situation because we know that truth is on our side.

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Britain United Kingdom,Israel,Middle East,Palestine,World | Read More »

Nazi Hunting in Tel Aviv

Here We Go Again - Another Israeli Atrocity

There are over 2000 Israelis who are wanted as international war criminals from 1967 War

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,World | Read More »

Jane Harman and the Woodrow Wilson Center – A Cruel Betrayal

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The Wilson Center…is up to its neck in tainted corporate cash…violating its Congressional mandate

December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,Politics | Read More »

Rupert Murdoch, 9/11, and the Leveson Investigation of the Media-Police Complex

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I am taking this step to intervene in the work of the Leveson Inquiry on the advice of my friend and colleague, human-rights lawyer Paul Warburton.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in 9/11,Editors Picks | Read More »

Israel Under Retaliatory Threat?

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Russia Prepared for Conflict Over Iran If Necessary…Sources Confirm

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Editors Picks,WarZone | Read More »

An Open Letter Of Apology To President Barack Obama

President Obama Makes Statement On GOP's Obstruction Of Cordray's Nomination To Run The CFPB

Now that you have signed the National Defense Appropriation Act into law giving yourself the power to arrest and imprison any American indefinitely, I want to tell you how very very very very very sorry I am for all those nasty things I wrote about you.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Humor,Politics | Read More »

Josephus Best Journalist Ever?

You are looking at a rare reproduction of a lost oil painting titled The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 by David Roberts, a member of Britain's Royal Academy.

A recent book “Jerusalem, a biography,” by Simian S. Montefiore helps make this point about Josephus by simply good research and clear writing.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Religion | Read More »

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Dec. 20, 2011

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Navistar Defense L.L.C., Lisle, Ill., is being awarded a $133,714,728firm-fixed-priced delivery order 0022 under a previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5032) for 514 field service representatives in support of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle program.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy | Read More »

Media OUTFOXED

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Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Iraq War,Israel,Middle East,New World Order War,WarZone,World | Read More »

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – December 20, 2011

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VA and Housing and Urban Development recently released a national report that shows Veteran homelessness fell nearly 12 percent between January 2010 and January 2011.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Top 10,Vet News | Read More »

Hines Recognized with Prestigious Award for Patriotic Support of the Military

Seven Seals Award

Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital received the prestigious Seven Seals Award from the Illinois Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), today in a special ceremony.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Military,Vet News | Read More »

Fanatic Rabbi Who Teaches “Goyim Slavery” Comes to US

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Israeli Rabbi who teaches that “the sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews” plans to tap support of Sephardic Jews in US

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,Israel,Middle East,World | Read More »

Hanukkah: A Celebration of Superstition Over Widsom

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Tonight is the start of the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah. Hanukkah is a celebration, we are told, of the Jews rebelling against an evil Syrian king.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Living,Religion | Read More »

Homeless Veterans Bank Robbery

Homeless Veterans sleep outside the largest VA in the nation

Every day at the homeless veterans shelter in Boston at ten in the morning there was a huge influx of vets.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Regional,Top 10,VA Home Loans,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »

Growing Hunger and Homelessness in America

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Millions of Americans now endure protracted Depression conditions at a time half the population is either poor or low income. Long-term unemployment is unprecedented, and federal aid is being cut, not increased.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Economy,Jobs & Careers | Read More »

Is the Empire USING “Moderate Islam” ?

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Is the bankster empire USING “moderate Islam”? James Petras says yes. I say it’s not that simple. Some “moderate” but anti-bankster Muslim leaders are following a long-term strategy.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in New World Order War | Read More »

December 2011 U.S. Housing Market Overview

Debt-laden Fannie and Freddie continue to weigh on the housing market

While the U.S. housing market continues to suffer, faint signs of life are being seen in certain segments of the rental market. This makes sense once you consider that many Americans either cannot afford to purchase a home, or remain wary of further price declines in the overall market.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Economics & Markets,Economy,Investing & Finance | Read More »

Debunking the Myth that China is Selling U.S. Treasury Securities

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Among the myths that have been spread by radio talking heads like Alex Jones, Max Keiser and Glen Beck, as well as gold dealers and their associates is that China has been selling U.S. treasury securities. Many of the gold bugs directly associated with gold dealers have also been preaching this myth.

December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Asia,China,World | Read More »

Pentagon Pressure May Have Delayed Obama Apology

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Reportedly, under pressure from the Pentagon, President Obama “hesitated for more than a week” before he phoned Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari “to provide a qualified apology” for the November 26th killings by U.S. aircraft and artillery of two dozen Pakistani soldiers at a border post near Afghanistan.

December 19th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

 

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