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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – August 01, 2012

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National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 – Oct. 15, is a time to celebrate the history, achievements, traditions and contributions of Hispanic Americans to our nation.

Presidential Memorandum Supports Employment of Veterans

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President Barack Obama has made helping veterans find civilian employment and reintegrate into the nation’s workforce and economy a top priority, according to a White House fact sheet released July 19.

Bandar Bush, MIA

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When I read the report a week ago on Voltaire.net, responsible for some fair thing but lots of less reliable material also, I became afraid. As a journalist, perhaps the "pretend" kind, in that I have difficulty being slavish and naturally stupid, I knew it could be true.

Veteran Finds Work with Help From VA, Labor Department

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Don’t give up hope. … You have to be persistent,” he said. “The doors will open. It’s not that dark out there. It seems that way, but there will be opportunities.”

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for July 31, 2012

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Raytheon Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a sole-source cost-plus-incentive-fee action under contract N00024-07-C-6119, modification P00099.

Press TV – Attack on Iran Can Foment World War

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Moves this week by the United States to position specialized massive “penetrator” bombs for an attack on Iran clearly demonstrate a total lack of grasp by key players of the risks involved and the chain of events that will inexorably follow.

Breaking: Bird Flu “Engineered” and Spreading

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WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – Last fall, 162 harbor seal pups mysteriously washed up dead on the shores of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Puzzled, scientists conducted autopsies on five of the animals, which suggested that a respiratory infection had killed them.

Terrorism Never Defined

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hen George W Bush decided to invade Afghanistan, outwardly he pretended that the purpose was to avenge 9/11 attacks allegedly perpetrated by Osama bin Laden led al-Qaeda based in Afghanistan and to free the world from the menace of terrorism and to prevent 9/11 like attacks to recur.

Double Standards of Mass Murder

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A Virginia college, a Colorado high school, a Texas military base, an Arizona strip mall, a Colorado movie theatre—all have become part of a recurring event in America: mass murder.

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July 31, 2012

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An emphasis on translating military skills into civilian language has gone into a revamped Transition Assistance Program run by the Department of Defense.

AFGE Decries Retaliatory Actions Taken Against Wilmington VA Medical Center Whistleblower

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The American Federation of Government Employees is calling on Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to take immediate action in ending the retaliatory actions taken against a psychologist at the Wilmington VA Medical Center.

DOD, VA Release Mobile App Targeting Post-traumatic Stress

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The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have released a free Apple and Android smartphone mobile application for use with post-traumatic stress disorder treatment.

VA Must Disclose Veteran Drug Test Documents

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Veterans won another court order requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hand over more documents about its Cold War-era drug experiments on thousands of Vietnam veterans.

A genuine recovery in home prices may have begun

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  A sign that the U.S housing market might be on the road to recovery is a rise of the Home price index in 20 metropolis city's....

EU’s Latest Message to Israel – “Do your worst without fear of sanction by...

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The first question the headline begs is this: What is, or rather what could be, Israel’s worst? In my opinion the short answer is this. In an effort to defuse the demographic time-bomb of occupation and close the Palestine file for ever, Israel resorts to a final round of ethnic cleansing, to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan and other neighbouring Arab states. (What about the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip prison camp? They are left to rot and will suffer the same fate as their West Bank brothers and sisters if they chose to stay and dare to threaten Israel’s security).

Veterans' jobs program gets an overhaul

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Veterans' jobs program gets an overhaul More civilian work training to be offered   WASHINGTON — U.S. combat troops patrol dusty pathways in Afghanistan, look for hidden...

AP Cites Israel in Murder of CIA Asset in Syria, Massive Spying on US

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Were the name a different one, such a document would likely reside along with photographs, informant statements and tape recordings.

What Jews Don’t Like about Zionists

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- Uri Avnery - Some would say that Zionism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for July 30, 2012

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DynCorp International, L.L.C., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $96,741,305 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-11-C-0033) to exercise an option for organizational level maintenance and logistics support for all aircraft and support equipment for which the Naval Test Wing Atlantic has maintenance responsibility.

Aussie Court Debunks US “Gitmo” Tribunal

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WORLD NEWS TOMORROW SYDNEY – The Australian government on Tuesday dropped its court battle to seize profits from a book written by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, saying his admissions of terrorist activity before a U.S. military commission could not be relied upon.

Iranscam: Police Training Wastes $200m, US Audit Proves

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WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – U.S. auditors have concluded that more than $200 million was wasted on a program to train Iraqi police that Baghdad says is neither needed nor wanted.

Koch Brothers Bribery Backfires, Former “Denialists” Prove Man-Made Global Warming

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His research was funded with $150,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder, has historically backed groups that deny climate change.

Record low for 30 year mortgage loans

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  The average rate on 30-year fixed mortgages fell again, dropping below 3.5% for the first time on records that date back 60 years.Mortgage buyer Freddie...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – July 30, 2012

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Toronto Star U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spokeswoman Jo Schuda confirmed that “if someone could be shown as having been a veteran, regardless of the conflict, we could provide a marker. It would indicate, among other things, years of active duty.” Heritage ...

VA medical center keeps losing credibility

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Tampa's James A. Haley VA Medical Center continues to damage its credibility.

Israel, US Stirring Up Iran Crisis

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A report published on Sunday in Ha’aretz reveals that US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon has presented Washington's contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once the nuclear negotiations reach an impasse.

Guns, Guts and Goons

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Gun ownership in America is the primary reason why the internationalists fear the wrath of an armed citizenry. The destruction of the Bill of Rights is a prime objective of the beltway statists. Conversely, the elimination of the remnants of an American federalist constitutional republic is the key eliminate required for imposition of the global Illuminati matrix.

FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency Official Video: The Pollard Story

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It is the official duty of all Americans to report any evidence of foreign espionage. VT supports efforts to secure the United States from the severe harm outlined in this official video. Turning over classified information to what you may think is an ally of the United States is a crime. Expect to be caught and punished. Let Pollard's fate be a lesson to all.

Time for Some Escape – Into Someone Else’s Life

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- Part of the VT journey is not being predictable, with some dares and surprises now and then.

Fear of ridicule leads to damaging partition of 9/11 Truth movement

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Enough navel gazing. Let’s go after the real enemy.

Pulling Up Stakes

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Most people are afraid of dying because they are afraid of the incompleteness of their life ~ whereas I am not afraid of dying because I am in sync with my destiny.

Adamus Tasked With CERN Collider Site Replacement

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Adamus has received a contract worth $45 million dollars to evaluate probable sites for a new, more advanced and signficantly larger super-collider.

The Plight of Rohingyas in Myanmar and Aung Sung Suu Kyi

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The latest spate of ethnic violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority perpetrated by Buddhist majority in the Rakhine state of Myanmar has largely been ignored by international media and therefore, very few people around the world are aware of it.

Fukushima’s Melted Reactors 500 Days On

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- Radioactive particle emission through the air from Fukushima is not only 3.7 times higher than Chernobyl, but 28.3 times more radiotoxic with every breath taken.

Romney Disses 70 Million U.S. Voters in Favor of Super Minority

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U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney demonstrated that he is willing to ignore 70 million U.S. Voters in favor a small minority who support a country that has virtually no economic or social value for the USA and it's peoples.

Haley VA Admits Recording Feed from ‘Covert’ Camera in Hospital Room

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Officials at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center admitted Wednesday to videotaping a brain-damaged veteran using a covert smoke-detector camera after initially denying they did so.

Family discovers ‘covert camera’ in Haley VA patient’s room

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TAMPA — Joseph Carnegie's son-in-law last month noticed an odd-looking smoke detector on the ceiling of the severely brain-damaged 80-year-old's private room at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center.

Indo-Pak Terrorism Interpretation

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The report recommended that Pakistan’s growing international isolation clearly indicates the increasing pressure upon it to act against terrorist groups which it considers as ‘strategic assets’.

2010 – Testing Our Predictions by Today’s Reality

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Twenty five months have passed since this piece was written. We republish it today to see how it has weathered?

Underwater Mortgages on the decline means good news for Veterans

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  Though we are far from a full recovery, CoreLogic came out with new data showing 11.4 million, or 23.7 percent of all mortgages in the 1st quarter of...

The Brutalization of an Aboriginal Woman and Her Teenage Son

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AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: THE BRUTALIZATION OF KWITSEL TATEL AND HER SON THAT OCCURRED DURING HER SECTION 35 TRIAL AT THE CHILLIWACK COURTHOUSE ON JULY 25TH 2012. JUDGE THOMAS CRABTREE PRESIDING.

The Drone and the Bomb

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The lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki belong always before us. The agony of those two cities must remain our dark beacon.