Monthly Archives: September 2010

By Paul Krugman Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending: 1. It’s a good idea 2. It’s much...

- America has many unsung heroes, some we remember, others are forgotten. One of the latter died this week, a man who helped to...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      VA Encouraging Hiring Of Veterans. VT Network (9/5, Allen) reported, "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...

HOW MANY AMERICANS REMEMBER WHAT WE LOST THAT DAY....   "Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in...

Several State witnesses testified in Haifa District Court on Monday, September 6, 2010, in the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie's family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Murdered American Citizen Rachel CorrieRachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from Olympia, WA, was crushed to death on March 16, 2003, by a Caterpillar D9R military bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against the demolitions of Palestinian homes.

SUPPORT TROOPS By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER History offers many examples of military personnel fielded as infantry when America's combat arms are hard pressed in...

IS AMERICA'S RACKETEERING "ELITE" A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor There is a group of Americans, a combination of coward, gangster, politician, buffoonish...

Deceased Marine exposed to Agent Orange and benzene.  UPDATED 9/10/2010 (IRVINE, CA) -  A Marine veteran’s widow was awarded compensation for the death of her husband from progressive small...

- Calls for jobs-creating infrastructure investments in face of expected GOP obstruction - By Julie Pace WASHINGTON – Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Critics Seek Congressional Inquiry Into Use Of Seroquel As PTSD Treatment. The AP (9/4, Perrone) reports,...

An international study of clinical data led by a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-Harvard University cardiologist found that patients with deposits of fatty plaque in their arteries are at especially high risk for life-threatening cardiovascular events if they have diabetes, disease in multiple arteries or a history of heart attack or stroke.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) workforce of more than 300,000 – including more than 90,000 who are Veterans – knows one of its objectives as it observes Labor Day is to help young Veterans find jobs. “This Labor Day, we are not only celebrating the dedicated, talented VA employees working to deliver benefits and care to the Nation’s heroes,” says Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “We also are focusing our efforts in encouraging employers to consider Veterans when they need workers with a strong work ethic, leadership and a drive for success.”

WALL STREET TURNS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT By John Humins for VT Former Wall Street supporters of Barack Obama have publicly voiced their alienation with President Obama’s...

"WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED AN IDIOT LIKE BUSH COULD DO SO MUCH..." By Robert Walsh, attorney at law 100% VERIFIABLE FACTS.....EVERY DECENT AMERICAN  SHOULD KNOW ABOUT...

By Craig Whitlock in the Washington Post Uncle Sam wants to give free, no-strings-attached money to about 145,000 troops who were involuntarily kept on duty...

A water truck backs up to the Euphrates River in Iraq. The driver, a Ugandan or maybe an Ethiopian, gets out, lowers a hose into the sewage ridden flow and fills his truck. 5 miles away, a US Army water purification center sits, too far away. The driver thinks, "water is water." Another of the Pentagon's "Zombie Contractors" take their toll, part of the army of "undead" and unqualified who are the world's most expensive work force.

- They just want to steal our money -  See also Paul Krugman's Orwell and Social Security: "I have to say, after Bush’s Social Security...

If you are a member of any nonprofit organization, such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, or the auxiliaries of such organizations, be aware that the IRS has changed its rules about filing its Form 990.

By Michelle Mann in eprisenow.com Your house is my house,” Army Col. Patrick Denman told veterans attending the grand opening of the Wiregrass Community-based Outpatient Clinic...

The housing crash is still in process and here are 10 reasons why it is still a terrible time to buy. Words: 1670 So says...

By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Thirty-four years after NASA's Viking missions to Mars sent back results interpreted to mean there was no organic...

By Deborah Hastings AOL News (Sept. 1) -- Army officials are investigating the sudden, mysterious deaths of 10 babies at the sprawling Fort Bragg installation...

- Whose side are we on? - By Ken O'Keefe I will be returning to America in the next 36 hours as a publicly accused “terrorist...

Look, if you’re absolutely stuck right now, then you’ve got to do what’s necessary but, in my opinion, you should avoid 401(k) hardship withdrawals at all costs … and think long and hard before you consider borrowing against your future retirement. With so many people nearing retirement already grossly underfunded [such actions are] going to prove catastrophic down the line. Words: 1043

The U.S. debt crisis represents a unique, unparalleled, and unimaginable convergence of circumstances yet, despite the utter gravity of our plight, nothing is being done to change our course. Washington must either muster the courage — and the support of the people — to accept the pain and make the sacrifices of a lifetime … or face the downfall of America. Words: 938

Obama has signalled his coming complete surrender to Zionism and its lobby By Alan Hart for VT He did it with seven words. “Ultimately...

This is Economic Warfare in earnest. The stakes are the huge oil and gas operation and market of Russia, which is the No 1 target of this operation.

In the week or so since the much publicized withdrawal of "combat" troops from Iraq, and President Obama's speech last week,...

From the VA: Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      Shinseki Addresses WWII Veterans At Pearl Harbor. Japan's Kyodo News (9/4) reports, "Gathered on a battleship...

- SupportingAgent Orange Healthcare and Benefits for Vietnam War Veterans  Against Dire Threat - September 1, 2010 (Countdown) - MSNBC's Keith Olberman interviews Veterans for Common...

He was speaking at the White House the day before the start of the new round of direct talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, after he had met with them and Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan’s King Abdullah II. (In my last post I anticipated Obama saying at the point of his complete surrender that “America can’t want peace more than the parties.” He also said that – ahead of schedule!)

 -  When the US Government sends its sons and daughters off to war, it must be prepared to pay the full price; a commitment...

DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO! By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor How's your blood pressure?  Meds doing OK?  Have you already forgotten the lies that got...

No. 801-10 September 03, 2010 ---------------------- CONTRACTS  ARMY                  Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc., Knoxville, Tenn., was awarded on Sept. 1 a $278,194,544 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the exercise of...

The numbers don’t lie, and statistic after statistic shows that the economic fundamentals continue to get progressively worse… and anyone who claims that things are getting “better” is either ignorant, completely deluded or is purposely lying. The U.S. economy is not getting “better”. The U.S. economy is dying! Words: 970

The coming months hold the potential to be the most exciting of the year so far,” a team including Steve Hochberg and Peter Kendall wrote in their latest Global Market Perspective report. “Once the neckline is breached, the measured move for the selloff targets the area surrounding 8,000 [for the DJIA]. Words: 493

A confirmed Hindenburg Omen has occurred prior to every major stock market crash since 1987. In other words, if [we encounter] another Hindenburg Omen [by the end of September], it may be time to head for the hills – if you already haven’t. Words: 836

By Katie Drummond in Wired Magazine A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from...

Stay open minded and think dynamically going forward which means not accepting the status quo, not accepting mass hysteria, not following old models and old economic rules, and using “uncommon wisdom”. Period. That will be the only true way to both psychologically and financially survive not just the next few months, but also the next few years. Words: 949

Voices are clamoring for another stimulus package but… Congress is paralyzed… and the President does not have the political – or financial – capital to make it happen. Words: 1950

The Obama administration is “taking the first steps to confiscate retirement dollars,” according to Dr. Jerome Corsi who predicts that the end result will be retirees with 401(k) plans holding near-worthless government debt “that will be paid off in a devalued currency worth … pennies on the dollar.” Words: 810

The Fed is terrified of the U.S. economy falling into a deflationary death-spiral [whereby] lack of liquidity leads to lower prices, leading to unemployment, leading to lower consumption, leading to still lower prices, the entire economy grinding down to a halt… Both the Federal government and the Federal Reserve are hell-bent on using the same old tired tools to “fix the economy”—stimulus on the one hand, liquidity injections on the other – but it’s those very fixes that are pulling us closer to the edge, [not to the deflationary drain, but a hyperinflationary spiral]. Words: 3040