Monthly Archives: January 2010

There are a number of issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure that VT continues its progress toward a more professional, informative, ...

Pakistan is a country with a very fast-growing young population. 60% of its population is between 15-35 years and we no program for them. We have no direction set for them.

Tony Blair's greatest weakness was not so much that he adjusted facts to support his policies, but that he had so little grasp of the facts in the first place.

In Afghanistan's Khost and Helmand provinces, Afghanistan's most violent, U.S. jets more frequently drop bombs that are intended to maim and kill.

"I still think about suicide, but when I start thinking about it I have to think, 'What's the impact on everyone I care about?'"

In today's Time Magazine online we learn that in the State of Vermont, among perhaps the most left leaning population in the Union, a...

Regional stories today on veterans education, health, benefits, and news from: Bloomfield, New Mexico, San Diego, California, Pueblo, Colorado, New Albany, Indiana, St Paul, Minnesota, Sarasota, Florida, Augusta, Georgia, Temple, Texas, Anchorage, Alaska, Highland Park, New Jersey, Colleyville, Texas, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Red Bluff, California

In today's Newseek Online we read an article entitled The Wisdom of Crowds, When populist rage leads to smart policy. Its a must read for anyone...

In today's Washington Post a piece entitled China's strident tone raises concerns among Western governments, analysts speaks to the worry that Western governments and...

The Sharp Dressed Man Who Aided Mutallab Onto Flight 253 Was U.S. Government Agent Kurt Haskell for Infowars Please note that in the article that follows,...

documented in records for anyone examine. Bloodletting after Bloodletting … two books and barrels of oil, now that is one hell of an environmental disaster. #2 is to take a stand against the corporate rulers stop buying their shit ….tell your wife’s, husbands, children,

Last week's breakin at Senator Mary Landrieu's office in the New Orleans Federal Building was more than it seemed, much more. All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel. One arrested, Stan Dai, is listed as an Operations Officer of the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program and a known expert and lecturer on, not only surveillance but explosives training, assassinations and "false flag operations."

In today's Washington Post we read in a piece entitled U.S. speeding up arms sales, defenses with Gulf allies that once again, we have...

Congressman Steve Buyer announces his retirement and my assessment of his "career" and good riddance. Can we have Chris Smith back now or someone else like him and not another Booyer

TIME WE TOOK STOCK IN WHAT IS REAL AND ISN'T TIME TO GET MAD AT THE RIGHT PEOPLE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I belong to...

Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed the Israeli government's support of the settlement movement by planting a tree in each one of the three biggest settlement blocks in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Despite the Israeli government's support, funding, and approval of settlers, they are often presented in the media as in conflict with the state and the army.

Sherwood Ross writes about Howard Zinn's view of the "war on terror," Joan Walsh is pleased to see Obama come off the ropes and step into the center of the ring, bin Laden claims that the US did in JD Salinger?, Texas' Jim Hightower says Hang Tax 'em High and Global warming truths in today's picks.

The Washington Post today has a piece entitled U.S. sells weapons to Taiwan, angering China that speaks to our continually deteriorating relationship with China. ...

AOL News is reporting this morning that a combined American-Afghan commando unit called in NATO air support which killed a regular Army Afghan border security...

Robert Fisk of The Independent reports from the West Bank on the demolition of homes and destruction of villages by the state of Israel...

A very important article for active duty combat soldiers appears today in New Scientist online.  The article is entitled Drug could turn soldiers into...

Today's regional stories on Veterans, health, education and benefits come from: Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Portland, Oregon, Sacramento, California, Saginaw, Michigan, Cincinnati, Ohio, Garden City, New York, New Concord, Ohio, Washington, DC, Lansing, Michigan, Iowa City, Iowa, and Great Falls, Montana

The "free market" has lost its' shine for most world governments if the present economic summit in Davros, Switzerland is any indication.  Veterans and all...

Tennessee has thrown caution, and reason, to the wind, deciding to use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate children in public schools in the ways of Jesus Christ. The quaint notion of separating Church and State be damned. A curse on the prohibition of governments establishing religion. Who needs the First Amendment when we have the Lord?

The Washington Post reports today in a piece entitled Pilot considered the only ace Tuskegee Airman dies that Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, USAF...

The bill requires Camp Lejeune veterans and dependents to pay TRICARE health insurance premiums, which makes them eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home. The bill requires that this health care be provided within 90 days of the enactment of the bill. However, directing DOD to provide health benefits to Camp Lejeune water contamination survivors is a little bit like leading a horse to water.

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AOL News  is reporting today that stereotypical Western sexual categories (gay and straight) simply do not apply to Pashtun men.  I have to tell...

In AOL News today we find a piece entitled Russian Stealth Fighter Takes First Flight in which we learn that a Russian/Indian collaboration on...

A while back we showcased the only political candidate found to possess the courage, independence, foresight, and reality to break from the political party...

Photographs: Roads Best Not Traveled From: Waze.Com Sure, it feels fantastic to traverse the vast stretches of the best roads in the world via adrenaline...

The First Annual Alaskan Veterans Halibut Fishing Tournament is going to be held 21 May 2010. The 1st Annual Alaskan Veterans Halibut Fishing Tournament is open...

The Retired Enlisted Association Newsletter is running a listing it has recieved from the Department of Veterans Affairs this week outlining which ships are...

FORMER MARINE SGT DYER, FLAMBOYANT SPOKESMAN FOR TEABAGGER, OATHKEEPER GROUPS JAILED FOR SEX WITH 7 YEAR OLD AND FEDERAL WEAPONS CHARGES. ASSOCIATES AND SUPPORTERS ALL SAYING...

Find out What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans Committee: DOD Should Offer Care To Vets Exposed To Contaminated Water.  VA Researcher Authors Study On Drinking...

GOP AND CORPORATE PRESS HAVE ONE GOAL:  KEEP BUSH AND HIS CABAL OUT OF PRISON By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Ask any American, or, in...

an excerpt from the book Free to Be You and Me by Marlo Thomas and Friends

The SCOTUS aided Corporate takeover has been prominent in the news this past week and featured heavily here as well, Personally. I can't think of a more important issue than changing or negating the effects of that ridiculous decision. In other stories NATO is coughing up 500mil to pay off the Taliban, apparently their roadside stickup revenues are sagging and Steve Benen address the problem of no nothing voters in today's picks.

The Washington Post today is running a piece entitled Obama faces dwindling options in his effort to close Guantanamo Bay .  It seems that...

In a piece with an embedded video on CNN News online this morning entitled Blair: I believed 45-minute weapons claim 'beyond doubt' we learn that...

In today's New York Times we read a story, that if carried through to its inevitable end, could very well bring world stock markets...

Veterans News on Health, Benefits, Education, GI Bill, today from: Anchorage, Alaska, Billings, Montana, Woodbury, New Jersey, Helena, Montana, Moscow, Idaho, West Palm Beach, Florida, Camp Lejuene, North Carolina, Medford, Oregon, West Palm Beach, Florida, San Francisco, California, Kansas City, Missouri, Middleboro, Massachusetts, and Muskogee, Oklahoma,