Monthly Archives: March 2010

Former attorney supervisor in Orange County District Attorney's office said the Marine officer was injured by a blow to the head and while unconscious...

Maybe we should pour in a few more $ trillion, cut taxes on the rich, and pay everyone in Iraq $ millions more not...

"We polled many Whispers associates and sources, and they were quick to size up the top five Obama cabinet members." Fifth on the list, according to Bedard, "is Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, who has turned an agency that is at the bottom of lists in past administrations into an example of how to bring federal services to the troops, injured veterans, and even homeless vets. He's showing that the VA has a heart."

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Edison, New Jersey, Madison, Wisconsin, Hamtramck, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Apple Valley, Minnesota, Salt Lake City, Utah, Houma, Louisiana, Newport News, Virginia, and MCAS Futenma, Okinawa.

Excerpt from more scary analysis: by Paul B. Farrell Commentary: Warning, you can't get back to even, cannot win Wall Street's 'Loser's Game' How Not to Lose...

When Israel Murdered American Citizen Rachel Corrie the world saw exactly what Zionism has become.

"CONSPIRACY THEORY" BECOMES REALITY IN THE NEW CIA/BLACKWATER PARTNERSHIP By Ahmed Quereshi "When these CIA agents killed a couple of Chinese engineers back in 2004,...

The VA's Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illness met in Washington, DC on March 1-2 and significant active, heated, lively discussion followed the Update on Research from VA Research. Many of the RAC committee members spoke up concerning Dr Haley's Research at UTSWMed in Dallas Texas. It seems to the majority of veterans that some negotiations and mediations are desperately needed.

". . . how accountable is it to produce a show called The State of the Black Union then sponsor it with companies that are largely responsible for the very conditions that you're complaining about? One of the sponsors was Allstate Insurance–a company that is alleged to have denied the claims of thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims. One victim, Michael Homan, alleges that Allstate denied his claim based on their position that Katrina wasn't windy enough. Another sponsor was Exxon/Mobile–a company that's raking in record profits while many Black people have to flip a coin to decide whether they're going to eat or put enough gas in their car to get to work. Wal-Mart was another sponsor–a company that's committed to blocking collective bargaining, providing their employees fair wages and healthcare, who destroy jobs by running other businesses out of the community and purchasing their merchandise from outside the United States, and who humiliate their customers by searching them before they leave the store."

Employers Who Hire Veterans Get Tax Breaks By Blake Christian, CPA, MBT and Chuck Swenson, CPA, PHD Much is being written and debated regarding getting our...

No. 160-10 ------------------------------------------------ CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE    Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $568,531,272 contract which will provide the incremental funding for the original F-22...

SIBEL EDMONDS: THE TRAITORS AMONG US SIBEL EDMONDS HAS NAMED NAMES. WHY ISN’T THE MEDIA REPORTING THE STORY? by Brad Friedman for HUSTLER MAGAZINE – March 2010 SIBEL...

In Missouri, It is Illegal To Drive With An Uncaged Bear (Caged Bears Are OK)

The contortions and lies in the glorification of Israeli militarism by American neocons should not shock us. Yet, the latest pathetic column by neocon Richard Cohen startles...

We continue to see evidence of an alarming decline in the quality of our nation's criminals. Consider the man who attempted to rob a mini-mart in the town of Vernon, Conn., as reported in a Journal Inquirer story sent in by alert reader Dan Thompson. The robber elected to wear a disguise, which was a good idea, since he was a regular customer of the store. The problem was the particular disguise he picked.

According to religious prognosticators, sinners will suffer the wrath of god in the form of earthquakes as biblical punishment for their errant ways. The declarations and explanations of such divine calamities always come after the fact, but let us not have such annoying details get in our way. Nobody is more out front in decoding god's will than Robertson; he declared that the devastating earthquake in Haiti was a consequence of Haitians making a pact with the devil.

I ask our readers, especially those who lean left or center (or liberal) if I may, meaning those of us who seriously want Peace,...

This summary briefing comes to us through the courtesy of Just Foreign Policy. Summary: U.S./Top News 1) Japan's Social Democratic Party, a junior partner in the ...

The battle for the Afghan town of Marja is being hyped as if it were the battle of Stalingrad. There was never doubt that NATO would force the Taliban out. A contemporary British account of frontier in the last century said of the Pashtun-fighting man: “When he stayed and defended something, whether a gun or a village, we trapped him and pulverized him. When he flitted and sniped, rushed and ran away, we felt we were using a crowbar to swat wasps.’’

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, enacted in February of 2009, offers $4,800 to an employer for hiring a qualified veteran. That's right, there is now a major tax incentive to hire a veteran. Why wait, get on board.

CORRUPTION AND MILITARY GAME PLAYING CLOUD WAR OBJECTIVES By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor www.veteranstoday.com March 3, 2010 Sandwiched in a region of gas, oil, copper and coal...

Now it's 10 months later and 2,500 soldiers are about to come home. At least 800 of them, likely more, don't have jobs. Many will face the grim necessity of losing their federal pay and needing to find work at a time when Oregon is afflicted with double-digit unemployment. Their incomes will fall off a cliff when they leave the federal pay system this spring.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from New Hempstead, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Flemington, New Jersey, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Burlington, Vermont.

Shinseki, Akaka Agree On Need To Reform VA Disability Claims System. In continuing coverage, the AP (3/2) reports Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and US Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) "have agreed that reforming the VA disability claims system must be a top priority." On Friday, Akaka "said...in a Washington news release that he's encouraged by the administration's commitment to add thousands of staff to process veterans' disability claims."

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, enacted in February of 2009, offers $4,800 to an employer for hiring a qualified veteran. That's right, there is now a major tax incentive to hire a veteran. Why wait, get on board.

© James J Alonzo When I worked security in 1973, at the General Hospital Cancer Center waiting room one day, I heard a woman and...

No. 157-10 --------------------------------- CONTRACTS: ARMY                  Weeks Marine, Inc., Covington, La., was awarded on Feb. 25, 2010, a $58,509,050 firm-fixed-price contract for work consisting of mechanical and...

Even as the Pentagon, Congress, and the Obama administration spar with one another in a debate over gays serving openly in combat, the DoD...

The Associated Press (AP) reported that as of Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, at least 924 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan,...

What is a Zionist today? Short answer: One, not necessarily a Jew, who (to quote Balfour) supports the Zionist state of Israel “right or wrong” and who cannot or will not admit that a terrible wrong was done to the Palestinians by Zionism — a wrong that must be acknowledged and then corrected on terms acceptable to the Palestinians if there is ever to be peace and the countdown to catastrophe for all is to be stopped. The Arab word for the catastrophe of the original dispossession of the Palestinians is Nakba. In my view, Zionism’s Nakba denial is as obscene and as evil as denial of the Nazi holocaust.

The last US administration displayed a rather perverse and dangerous penchant for dressing up their behaviour, providing it with religious or patriotic intent. President Bush packaged the Iraq war, for example, as America's mission - having been charged by God to bring the gift of freedom to the world. The "war on terror" was presented through the lens of the Second World War and the Cold War and transformed into a battle of cosmic proportions against those who "hate our freedom" and "our way of life". US troops who were sent into battle in Iraq were seen as "defending our freedom" or "making America safe".

George Bush and Ahmad Chalabi Turn Iraq Over to Iran 5000 American Dead Betrayed By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The word is finally out.  The American...

Congress approved an intelligence agency bill in late February after Democratic leaders hastily removed a provision that would have imposed prison sentences for personnel...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from

Find out What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans Generally Favorable Reaction Meets VA New Look At "Gulf War Illness" Claims. Shinseki, Veterans Affairs Committee Discuss...

We're edging towards an economic recovery, so naturally Americans might wish for a lessons-learned report, maybe an evaluation of the institutions that brought about...

With a world in the hands of folks like Bush or Obama, Gordon Brown or Tony Blair and the EU folks, Merkel and Sarrdoozie of France, anything with signs of human life and intelligence is always welcome. Italy's prime minister spends more money on lesbian prostitutes than an American senator can steal in a lifetime. Imran Khan is a saint in comparison.

Since 2007, at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have appeared on cable news broadcasts "with no disclosure of the corporate interests that paid them," The Nation magazine (March 1) reveals.

  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Traveling around Pakistan is a challenge for an American nowadays.  It’s not the highways.  It isn’t even that...