Monthly Archives: March 2010

No. 180-10 ------------------- VA/DOD Expand Electronic Health Information Pilot to Eastern Virginia The Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense today announced the next phase of...

No. 178-10 ------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE                   McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, Mo., was awarded a $148,668,470 contract which will provide for 6,565 Lot 14 guided vehicle...

I’ve been to war. For many, the effects are genuine, sure, and we should help them. I do not want to dismiss anyone’s suffering. I do, however, want to acknowledge the seductive power of the red carpet of victimhood, and life bending to resemble a well-crafted story.

TOLEDO VETERANS MEMORIAL MOTORCYCLE EVENT CANCELLED By Nick Hauptricht for VT The event planned for May 16, 2010 welcoming the WW2 memorial stones given to Rep....

Two articles today, an OpEd in the New York Times and a column at Truthdig by E.J. Dionne highlight the ongoing struggle over how...

We live in an era of amazing technological advances while our citizens descend ever deeper into the abyss of scientific illiteracy. Nowhere is that made more evident than by curious actions taken by state legislatures in Utah and South Dakota. Congressmen in these two states believe that scientific inquiry can be reduced to the fiats of legislation, and that objective truth can be discovered through the passage of state law.

The research article below from the Clinical Vaccine Immunological Journal discusses chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and sleep disturbances on the measurement of IL-10 Cytokine Testing...

The Gulf war reunion This one for all veterans that has served in the Gulf. From Desert Storm OIF and OEF. We all served in a place where there has been a lot of toxins around us. We have lined up many things for you to do around the area. Six flags is close by. The WRIISC will be there to teach us how to get your doctor to better under stand TBI's and GWI. They will also let you know haw to get to one of the tree clinics for help.

Gulf War Veterans that have had extensive respiratory changes in basic measurement on lung functions and vital capacity need to remember to assess data...

This Woman-Owned US Small Business has joined with HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller CDS2 incorporated in February 1994, as a niche research, analysis, strategic planning and decision...

GULF WAR VETERANS HAVE VISUAL PROBLEMS IMPACTING SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE For 19 years the Gulf War Veterans have suffered.  Back in the 1990s...

GTEC knows our Military community has the talent they are seeking, and wants you to apply today. By Randy Miller Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc....

Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia patients might appreciate this new research article that highlight supplements that might be beneficial.  Magnesium, l-carnitine, and S-adenosylmethionine are...

The GOP leadership is a much more serious threat to the American way than Al Qaeda can ever be. While Al Qaeda is undoubtedly a physical threat to the American people, the GOP is attacking America's soul. They're attempting to alter what America is as a nation - and you're failure to address that issue is so counter- intuitive to your political base, who, after all, voted for change, that many are beginning to wonder if you're not part of the problem.

If anything, the "9/11 truth "movement is the victim, a victim of smear campaigns and it is increasingly reported that their organizations, which number in the hundreds, have come under investigation by security agencies and their membership has been heavily infiltrated much as with the militia movements of the 80s and 90s.

The groundbreaking Women Airforce Service Pilots were buried without military honors and long denied benefits. But now they'll receive the Congressional Gold Medal.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Ashland, Oregon, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Farmington, New Mexico, Sikeston, Missouri, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC, Teaneck, New Jersey, and Canton, Ohio.

Report By Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force Nearly Complete. The lead item in George W. Reilly's "Veterans Journal" column for the Providence (RI) Journal (3/8) notes, "Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced on Feb. 27 that the department's Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the needs of ill veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991." Reilly adds, "Task Force chairman John Gingrich, VA's chief of staff and a retired Army officer who served during the Gulf War, said, 'Reaching out to Gulf War veterans is not only essential to our transformation of VA, for many of us it is also personal.'"

The VA First Internal Evidence Of Change For Gulf War Veterans Of 1990-91 Does Not Transmit President Obama Pledge For Transparency in Government VETERANS AFFAIRS...

GTEC knows our Military community has the talent they are seeking, and wants you to apply today. By Randy Miller Global Defense Technology & Systems,...

James J. Alonzo “My name is Hector, I got Agent Orange. “ said the homeless Viet Nam veteran to the intake clerk. There are intake clerks...

Update: Dionne: "oth parties should join to pass a bill that Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) hope to...

THIS IS "BETWEEN US" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I just returned from the region after a REMF "combat tour" of my own, 5 star...

As befits our political culture, appeals to the contemporary American bigot are accomplished with sophisticated brands, images, impressions, and coded vocabulary, and not overt prejudices and stereotypes. But...

The cancellation of Bill Moyers journal is another stake in the heart of American journalism. The Nation pays tribute to the journalist who "refuses to treat Americans as imbeciles." Justine Sharrock at Mother Jones takes aim and fires at the Oathkeepers, the militant wing of the Tea Party and Rachel Maddow publicly dismantles Lynn Cheney over commentary on the "values" of defense attorneys in her 'Al Qaeda 7' Attack Ad. Those stories and more in today's picks.

Iraqis have begun voting in their second full parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion against a backdrop of deadly attacks. Around 19 million voters will cast their ballots at 47,000 polling stations across the country Agence France Presse Iraqis have begun voting in their second full parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion against a backdrop of deadly attacks.

We live in a world of deep inequality, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. We in the rich world generally agree that this is a problem we ought to help fix—but that the real beneficiaries will be the billions of people living in poverty. After all, inequality has little impact on the lives of those who find themselves on top of the pile.

The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to discourage investment there, records show.

Irked by Hollywood's portrayals of the Iraq and Afghan conflicts -- don't get them started on 'The Hurt Locker' -- five veterans will offer their cinematic perspectives.

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from West Palm Beach, Florida, Reno, Nevada, Tampa, Florida, Fresno, California, Medical Lake, Washington, Orlando, Florida, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Palm Bay, Florida.

James J. Alonzo Regardless of what anyone says there are many good things that came out of Viet Nam war. One was the discovery of...

The Peace rallies planned from 20 March were originally scheduled to be centered in three cities: Washington, DC, Los Angles, and San Francisco, California,...

While the Cheneys, father and daughter, continue to hammer away at the accusation that the Obama administration has a "mindset" problem because it (sometimes) chooses to deal with terrorists through the criminal justice system, another bullet-hole has been leveled at their argument by, of all nations, Germany. This isn't France that chose to try terrorist suspects in a civilian criminal court. This is big bad Germany. And these were not just any terrorists. The judge in the case declared,

Prisoner rape is one of this country's most widespread human rights problems, and arguably its most neglected. Frustratingly, heartbreakingly—but also hopefully—if only we had the political will, we could almost completely eliminate it.

Even as American combat forces leave, the United States will have to expend more treasure, time and maybe even blood to secure the gains of the last three years.

On Wednesday, March 31, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine skier Bode Miller and Olympian Casey Puckett will join Assistant Secretary...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Martinsburg, West Virginia, Craig, Colorado, Newark, New Jersey, Joplin, Missouri, Seattle, Washington, Las Vegas, Nevada, Brockton, Massachusetts, Merced, California, St Louis, Missouri, and Vero Beach, Florida.

IS AMERICA THE VICTIM OF A WAR FROM WITHIN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One day you read about a break-in at a Senator's office,...

James J. Alonzo Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it? Did you...

No. 173-10 -------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                   Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded an $117,401,603 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive fee V-22 multi-year...

Defense Contractor Looking to Hire Veterans Charles F. Day & Associates is looking to hire U.S. Veterans Now! They are mostly a contractor for the...

Update: Wolf Blitzer says CNN coverage of Cheney smear is "offensive" and that "CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism. Lawyers at the...