Daily Archives: July 29, 2010

Gates Assails WikiLeaks Over Release of Reports, DoJ Source Says Espionage Act of 1917...

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- Bush-Cheney-Ashcroft are back as the Obama administration threatens using the Espionage Act of 1917 against whistle-blowers reinterating that Obama like Bush is lying....

VA Slow to Implement Cost Controls, Says House VA Chair

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Failure to Act Increases the Risk of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse of Funds Directed to Caring for America’s Veterans   Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday,...

The GOP Plot to Screw the Economy and the Middle Class

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- What the GOP and Tea Party allies are doing is not just reckless, it's sociopathic - By Bob Cesca at Huffington Post We're only three months...

Tea Partyers Are Not Crazy, Just Sarah-Palin Foolish

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By: Barbara Koeppel  in The Nation The mythmongers in Tea Party land and millions more Americans seem to prefer fiction to fact. Based on a mid-April New York...

Video – Endgame in Afghanistan: ‘It’s Taken a Year to Move 20km’

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- As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of...

Republicans Block Bill to Aid Small Business

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- GOP: Target America - By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a bill to aid small businesses with expanded loan programs...

John McCain; A Closer Look at Evil (Part 4)

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With McCain’s help, Ashkenazi organized crime has steadily gained more political power. Its operatives already wield influence disproportionate to their numbers, indifferent to their place of residence and often contrary to America’s interests.

Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan: How its helping Troops and Vets with PTSD

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Back in May 2010, we ran an article Virtual Reality Combat Simulations as a Treatment for PTSD that resulted in a heated debate about...

Panel Suggests Changes in Long-Term Defense Planning

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- Among the potential threats to U.S. national interests, according to the panel, are radical Islamic extremism and terrorism, the rise of great powers...

U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards

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No. 669-10 July 29, 2010  ----------------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY                 General Electric Aircraft Engines, Lynn, Mass. is being awarded a maximum $445,281,495 firm-fixed-price, sole-source, requirement-type contract for engine...

Official Reminds Troops, Vets to Submit ‘Stop Loss’ Claims

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By Ian Graham WASHINGTON, July 29, 2010 – Defense Department officials want to ensure that anyone whose military enlistment was involuntarily extended under the so-called...

Depleted Uranium continues in the News

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The news out of the Hearing on Dissatisfied Gulf War Veterans occurred on July 27th in The House committee on Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Oversight...

Beware of the Cowardly Deficit Vulture

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- It nests with corporations, squawking for tax breaks, bailouts and military contracts that have little to do with national security - By Chuck Collins at...

The Suffering of Fallujah

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- Depleted Uranium (DU) - Uranium (U) is a naturally occurring heavy metal that has both radioactive properties caused by the decay of the uranium atom’s...

Monitoring updates on XMRV Research for Gulf War Veterans

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Gulf War Veterans(90-91) that are dealing with CFS are carefully monitoring what the civilians with CFS are keeping a close eye on and wondering...

As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up

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By Anne Flaherty WASHINGTON – Estimates of the number of graves potentially affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew to as many as 6,600...

Shirley Sherrod to Sue Andrew Breitbart

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SAN DIEGO — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her...

GORDON DUFF: WIKI-LEAKS IS ISRAEL, LIKE WE ALL DIDN’T KNOW

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LAME "LEAK" SITE NOTHING MORE THAN THIN COVER FOR "THE TEL AVIV TANGO" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Now "Wiki-Leaks" is busy selling phony bin...

PSEG Continues Their Military Hiring Efforts with HireVeterans.com

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PSEG has again partnered with HireVeterans.com, now for the 4th year........ By Randy Miller Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is a publicly traded ...

Crack cocaine sentencing disparities bill on the way to President Obama

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 - NAACP-SUPPORTED LEGISLATION TO REDUCE CRACK COCAINE/POWDER COCAINE SENTENCING DISPARITIES PASSES U.S. HOUSE AND SENATE; CRUCIAL BILL REDUCING SENTENCING DISPARITIES FROM 100:1 TO 18:1...

IMRAN KHAN: DON’T BLAME PAKISTAN FOR THE FAILURE OF THE WAR

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Don’t blame Pakistan for the failure of the war  By Imran Khan Before the West invaded Afghanistan my country had no suicide bombers, no jihad and...

Army Releases Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention Report

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The Army today released the Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Suicide Prevention (HP/RR/SP) Report, the result of a focused 15-month effort to better understand...

Jewish Voice for Peace and interfaith allies speaks out against Christians United for Israel’s...

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- Jewish Voice for Peace member Shelley Fudge takes part in an interfaith press conference organized by CodePink. -

Number One in Joblessness in Modern Recessions

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- It is the worst of times, period. - By Pau Krugman I’ve seen a peculiar meme surfacing here and there lately — the assertion that...

Long journey back for troops with brain trauma

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By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today TAMPA, Fla. — Army Ranger Cory Remsburg was thrown like a rag doll into an Afghanistan canal Oct. 1...

Veterans Agency to Probe Insurer Handling Soldiers’ Benefits

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- In 2009, the families of U.S. soldiers and veterans were supposed to be paid death benefits totaling $1 billion immediately, according to their...

Regional Veterans News 7/29/10

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Regional Veterans News 7/29/10 Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from: Southeast Texas - Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical...

John McCain: A Closer Look at Evil (Part 3)

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The political career of John McCain offers a case study in how organized crime operates in plain sight. When he was selling us on the war in Iraq, was he working for the same syndicate that sold us the subprime fraud?