Yearly Archives: 2010

# Salida, Colorado V.A. Opens Rural Telehealth Clinic in Salida # Albuquerque, New Mexico Vet's death highlights PTSD problem # Fort McCoy, Wisconsin Soldiers Transitioning Back Into Civilian Life # San Diego, California "The Two Star General Who Wasn't Pleads Guilty # Elmira, New York, New York Veteran's widow battles killer parasite from Vietnam

HACKED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor WE are back up, working on a new look and will come back swinging for the fence. Thank...

Last night the Associated Press released an article entitled Pat Robertson: Haiti 'cursed' by pact with devil that is printed in today's Washington Post. The comment is not very helpful is it? Before you get into thinking that Robertson is a fringe element fruit cake you need to know that he is a former Marine Corps officer from the Korean War era, and a highly educated and respected American religious leader and social commentator. The fact that he is more or less nuts with evangelical fervor is off the point. Millions of Americans hang on this guy's every word. And that is the point I want to make here today.

The U.S. Military, al-Qaeda, and a War of Futility By Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch In his book on World War II in the...

The wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a message 13 January for those trying to prevent military suicides: Don't forget the spouses. In addition, a study recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine claims a clear link between the incidents of Army wives attempting suicide and the deployment tempo of their husbands.

Haiti and America's Historic Debt The fundamental unreliability of America's media Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists...

By Jeremy Scahill—As multiple scandals involving Blackwater continue to emerge almost daily, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee...

President Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, the man I worked hard to elect to the Presidency is going to ask for $708 billion dollars for defense spending next year. I give up all delusions of change. I just plain give up. In an article entitled Obama wants record $708B for military next year in today's Washington Post, we learn that nothing has changed relative to our defense spending insanity in Washington. It is business as usual.

Washington, DC Morphine may help with PTSD Denver, Colorado Paying tribute to a homeless veteran Detroit Lakes, Minnesota Detroit Lakes acts on new veterans park Juneau, Alaska...

What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans 1. Obama, Gould To Speak At Forum On Improving Government Operations. 2. Study Of Injured US Troops Links Morphine To Decreased...

A group of Iraq-Afghan War veterans, some of whom I know personally, have just launched a series of web sites for booking and managing...

In Politics Daily tonight we learn in an article entitled U.S. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Make History With Length of Service that we have just made history. These young people have been in combat longer and more often than any other troops in American history.

Politics Daily has a fine article entitled Defense Spending: $700 Billion a Year and We're Still Not Safe that pretty much says it all. I wish I had written this piece. This is gritty American wisdom at its best.

The Israel/India Alliance Below is the fourth installment in a 5-part series on Pakistan by Jeff Gates, author of Guilt By Association. In April 2009, Tel...

THERE IS ONLY ONE DEFINITION OF "BELIEF" A BELIEF IS A LIE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When a suicide bomber kills himself and others, generally...

Shamrock Foods, Commerce City, Colo., is being awarded a maximum $9,457,010 firm fixed price, indefinite quantity contract for full line food distributor. There are...

According to the Veterans and Military Family advocacy group Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), the Department of Veterans Affairs just released data to the...

When the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued its update guideline on screening for breast cancer in November 2009,1. the members were unprepared for the overwhelmingly hostile reaction from the media, public advocacy groups, and specialist medical groups.

Yes? A GOP landslide in 2010? I guess that we will have to wait until the Fall to see. This piece from the Washington...

Dirty Truths About Iraq The case for economic rights 'Total Disaster And Chaos' In Haiti Afghanistan's Development Debacle ...

In a long but very fine Newsweek article entitled A Farewell to Victory journalist Katie Paul explains to us why the words 'victory' or...

In today's Washington Post in an article entitled Pentagon inquiry into Fort Hood urges focus on service members who may pose risk we learn...

Evansville, Wyoming Still waiting two years later Boston, Massachusetts Funding Restored For Veterans Clinics San Marcos, Texas Veterans task...

In an editorial from the New York Times entitled A Year of Terror Plots, Through a 2nd Prism we get the absolute perfect apologist for our abuses in western and central Asia telling us that (1) the terrorists that the U.S. faced this year are amateurs and (2) providing commentary on our actions overseas on blogs and in the media helps the enemies of our country!!! Where did this guy Scott Shane go to journalism school? Find the place and shut it down, okay NYT? Ernie Pyle is turning over in his grave right now.

"WASHINGTON -The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.

Johns Hopkins University Advanced Physics laboratory, Laurel, Md., was awarded on Jan. 8, 2010, a $24,777,235 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. This contract is to build Phase II on the preliminary design created in Phase I, culminating in the completion of a working prototype that demonstrates the capabilities of the National Cyber Range (NCR). Upon completion of all phases, it is anticipated that the NCR will enable a revolution in the nation’s ability to conduct cyber operations by providing a persistent cyber range. Work is to be performed in Laurel, Md. (43.8 percent); Cambridge, Mass. (24.8 percent); Albuquerque, N.M. (6.2 percent); North Chelmsford, Mass. (5.6 percent); Northport, N.Y. (4.4 percent); Los Angeles, Calif. (4.1 percent); Bethesda, Md. (2.7 percent); Salt Lake City, Utah (2.5 percent); Idaho Falls, Idaho (2.4 percent); Columbia, Md. (2.0 percent); Columbia, Md. (1.3 percent); and Camden, N.J.(0.2 percent), with an estimated completion date of April 14, 2011. Bids were solicited via broad agency announcement with seven bids received. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (HR0011-10-C-0039).

Were the seven CIA employees killed in the recent terror attack at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan really CIA? Sources now tell us that some were Blackwater operatives, not CIA at all. Is the CIA and Blackwater one in the same? Are either one or both working for the United States or has the disease of privatization created a culture of greed and incompetence that has left the United States vulnerable and defenseless? Are we simply "out of our depth" in Afghanistan?

Coach Whisenhunt sacrificed their ego to hide a bag of tricks Sun Tzu was on the NFL field this past week and his name was...

Gulf  War Veterans Alert! The Veterans Affairs Research Advisory Committee has now posted its Nov 2009 meeting minutes.  The link to the full minutes:  http://www1.va.gov/RAC-GWVI/page.cfm?pg=94 ...

Obama Picks CIA Insider for Inquiry Engelhardt and Turse, The CIA Surges Will Court Let Corporations Buy Elections?...

‘It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news’ ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008...

A disturbing new trend seems to be seeping from the Grand Old Party, and it is one that will force Americans to deny a number of key things such as facts, footage, common sense, and, yes, their own memories. Republicans appear ready to convince the country that September 11, 2001 wasn't part of George W. Bush's presidency.

What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. VA: Suicide Rate Among Young, Male Veterans is Up. 2. Electronic Health Records Initiative Collaboration Between VA, and Kaiser....

Decorated World War II  Veteran once lifted 3,200 pounds at Coney Island Amusement ParkNEW YORK - A famed strongman who once lifted 3,200 pounds...

By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2010 – There are no clear-cut answers to suicide...

Lorain, Ohio WW2 Vet found frozen to death Bethel, Alaska Territorial guard statue sparks skirmish Tyler, Texas Tyler Woman Helps...

The Associated Press is reporting in a story entitled Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100 that a bona fide hero...

Mr. Cheney, while you and those around you were being kept safe during the Vietnam War, I was fighting in Vietnam. I wasn't fighting for you. If I had known who you were, I would have thrown you in a well in a New York minute. Like generations before me, I hoped my own children wouldn't have to sleep in mud day after day and see their friends blown apart beside them. Now I have to listen to your endless whining about how Americans should think nothing about how important it is to be safe, safe, of course, because we are sending the children we fought to protect out to die for us. If I have to be kept safe in my old age, seeing our kids and grandkids die, many of them husbands, parents, it just isn't worth it. If real killing and dying has to go on to really protect America, something some of us aren't so sure is the case, I will go right now, but I am dragging your bloated hulk with me.

                 Marine veteran remembers visit by Colonel Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, Medal of Honor and Navy Cross recipient, the Marine Corps’ highest ranking Ace from WW II....

The Hill in DC is back. Below is a list of Bills that the SENATE VA Committee has on its plate currently. What you need to do!

No. 014-10--------------------------------------------------------------------------------CONTRACTS: NAVY                 Sikorsky Aerospace Maintenance, Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $34,739,262 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-09-C-0024) to exercise an...

In November, 2008, Chairman Akaka received a letter from the widow of a veteran regarding the Treasury Department’s seizure of funds from her bank account to reimburse the government for the VA compensation check issued to her late husband the month that he died. The widow had not been notified in advance of this action. Unaware that the funds were no longer in her account, she wrote several checks to honor obligations that she unknowingly could no longer cover. Her bank responded with financial penalties.