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SENATOR HAGAN’S PRESS RELEASE ON CAMP LEJEUNE’S ATSDR REPORT
United States Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-NC) today issued a statement on the new Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) report detailing ground water contamination at Camp Lejeune.
Frustration – Part II
Hello Folks:
I am working with an OIF veteran regarding a non combat injury in Iraq. He fell off of an Army wrecker. His back...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 980-10
October 26, 2010
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CONTRACTS
NAVY
RLF Transystems, LLC, Inc., Winter Park, Fla. (N62470-11-D-1008); Stanley Consultants, Inc., Muscatine, Iowa (N62470-11-D-1009); and Clark Nexsen CH2M Hill, Norfolk,...
JOE CORTINA: THE ZIONIST ‘HOLLOWHOAX’ CONTINUES
"HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS": old adage
(Editorial note: Views are that of the author and included for information purposes only.)
PROLOGUE
Since I wrote this...
President Obama: ‘It Gets Better’ Statement on Bullying
- President Obama is committed to ending bullying, harassment and discrimination in all its forms in our schools and communities -
By Brian Bond at...
Obama appoints record number of gay officials
- Bigotry under attack by most LGBTQA-friendly president in U.S. history -
By Sam Hananel
WASHINGTON – Less than halfway through his first term, President Barack...
Air Force manual describes shadowy cyberwar world
- Relentless attackers are trying to hack into home and office networks in the U.S. "millions of times a day, 24/7" -
Update: See U.S. Dod...
New Medical Forms Will Streamline Veterans Claims Process
- Physician Questionnaires to Boost Disability Exam Efficiency -
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released three new disability benefits questionnaires for...
CHEMICAL EXPOSURE: ONE VETERAN’S STORY
An Air Force veteran who worked as a fuels specialists has been sick for over 20 years with various serious medical conditions. He has a 50% service connection disability from the VA. His story is compelling and shows the impact on what exposure to toxic chemicals can do to an otherwise healthy young man.
Anti-Veteran Senate Candidate Ron Johnson Runs His ‘No-Details’ Campaign
Amid sporadic and below-the-political-radar Tea Party threats to privatize the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Wisconsin Republican-Tea Party Senate candidate Ron Johnson maintains...
The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy — How to Fight the Corporate Takeover...
- Historian Thom Hartmann discusses the history of corruption that led up to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, Citizens United v. FEC (No. 08-205)...
Lawyers establish Flotilla Justice Group to coordinate legal action
- Echoes of the work American civil rights attorneys Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler as human rights lawyers fight for Gaza freedom fighters -
From...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Baker: VA Can Benefit From "Open Source Community Based Around VistA." FierceGovernmentIT (10/26, Walker) reports, "Public debate over the electronic road ahead...
VFW Political Endorsements Rile Grassroots
Should grassroots members have a say in political endorsements made in their group's name?A dispute over that question could end in the Veterans of Foreign Wars dissolving the political action committee its members created more than three decades ago. At heart, the debate is one between Washington insiders—who seek to increase their leverage on Capitol Hill—and veteran members the PAC said are swept up in a national anti-establishment tide.
BEWARE OF NEW WORK AT HOME SCAMS
From the VA:
Consumers continue to lose money from work-from-home scams that assist cyber criminals in moving stolen funds.
Worse yet, due to their deliberate or...
TacTalk: THE COLOR CODE OF MENTAL AWARENESS
White is the lowest level on the escalator. In Condition White one is unaware, not alert, oblivious. This state can be characterized as "daydreaming" or "preoccupied". People in White tend to walk around with their heads down, as if watching their own feet. They do not notice the impending danger until it literally has them by the throat.
Walk-in Veteran Pilot Program in Wisconsin and Kansas
Some evidence that the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs (DVA or VA) and the agency's Veterans Benefit Administration are turning the corner in delivering...
Top 13 Human-Caused Environmental Horrors (Halloween Special)
- The Horror -
By Michael Ricciardi - writer, naturalist, multi-media artist - in PlanetSave
We have chosen to narrow the sample to the post-World War II...
ALAN HART SPEAKS OUT ON ‘THE UGLY TRUTH’
Alan Hart Esq, former reporter with the BBC, weighs in with Mark Glenn of The Ugly Truth, viz a viz the latest events taking...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 971-10
October 25, 2010
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CONTRACTS
NAVY
Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $511,351,720 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will...
DEMAND THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS
The House is duty-bound to Bring Articles of Impeachment against Clarence Thomas
For OpEdNews: earl ofari hutchinson - Writer
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can...
JIM CONDIT JR. THE STRANGEST POLITICAL SECRET
STRAIGHT "DOPE" ON HOW POLITICS REALLY WORKS IN AMERICA
By Jim Condit Jr., Candidate for US Congress, 8th District Ohio
(My congressional campaign at www.TheRestOfTheStory2010.com...
DSI Security Services Joins HireVeterans.com
DSI Security Services Seeks Military Veterans for Rewarding Careers
Security Giant DSI Teams with HireVeterans.com
By Randy Miller
The success of any organization is measured against the...
JEFFREY BLANKFORT: ISRAEL IS THE MOST IMMEDIATE THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET
Well before the birth of the first Zionists, Jewish bankers and capitalists had established themselves in Europe and the United States ...
NYTimes Columnist Deplores Afghan War’s Effect on Soldiers
- Deserting our veterans -
From the VA:
New York Times (10/23, A21) columnist Bob Herbert, in a column entitled "The Way We Treat Our Troops,"...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Newmark Says Shinseki Team Is "Really Getting Stuff Done." On the San Francisco Chronicle (10/24) "City Brights" blog, Craigslist.com founder Craig Newmark...
“Thank a Veteran at Work”
- Few Americans are aware that only six percent of U.S. citizens have served in the Armed Forces -
From the VA:
With the help of...
MIDDLE-CLASS? ENTREPRENEURS? LONG GONE!
It was not government employees, or corporate bureaucrats, who made America great and the envy of the world; it was our vibrant ...
‘AJC’ A PROPAGANDA MACHINE AT WORK
David Harris, as Executive Director of the AJC (American Jewish Committee), has been the organization's leading spokesman. In short, he has been their chief...
THE ISRAEL LOBBY: TARGETING DEMOCRATS FOR ELECTION DAY DEFEAT
The fury of the "pro-Israel" lobby lately has truly been something to behold.
By MJ Rosenberg -- www.informationclearinghouse
It has abandoned bipartisanship by setting up...
Gap growing between military and civilians
Military- Demarcation Line - U.S. Military Isolation Grows
In John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court lost its last veteran. Since World War II, the proportion...
“War Does This to Your Mind”
- War is terror -
By Kathy Kelly in t r u t h o u t
Kabul - Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a...
Veterans for Change News
- A Voice of the Veterans -
By Jim Davis at Veterans for Change
Take the Hill
Come November 2nd there will be 30 members of the...
GORDON DUFF: GADAHN CALL TO ATTACK AMERICANS COMES FROM ISRAEL
A call to arms, demanding Muslims in America and elsewhere begin a terror campaign, was spread around the world. The message, we are told, was found on a "secret website" by an Israeli company who put it in a press release.
APATHY and the Wars
APATHY and the Wars
While doing background research for my recent article, Why are Veterans and Wars off the Political Radar?, I ran across this...
Gulf War Illness is Leaving A Ghost Group of Veterans
BLACK ALERT FOR GULF WAR VETERANS 1990-91
If you do nothing else today and this week, I beg you to watch this film!
Tears are running...
MIDEAST CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE UN TO END ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Catholic bishops in the Middle East urged the United Nations Saturday to end the Israeli occupation of Arab lands at the end...
VETERANS EXPOSED TO CHEMICALS NEED TO KNOW
Veteran Service Organizationn need to publish the list of 130 military bases on the EPA Superfund list to their membership. Most veterans have no idea that bases they served on are now EPA Superfund sites. A number may have been exposed to deadly contaminants, are now sick, and have never connected the dots to military service. These men and women need to know what chemcials they were exposed to so their doctors can provide an effective treatment plan. Keeping them in the dark is definitely not helpful.
LEBANON’S PALESTINIAN CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN MOVES INTO THE CHRISTIAN HEARTLAND
Franklin Lamb -- Shatila Camp
The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon and the Washington DC-Beirut based Sabra Shatila Foundation have released a copy of the Open...
HUNGARY IS A FAILED STATE. OVER. EXTINCT.
Radiologically and chemically slaughtered, fetuses don't survive until birth. The result is plummeting Fertility in men and women. Hungary can not recover.
Why are Veterans and Wars off the Political Radar?
VT shares the concerns of those Veterans advocacy groups that the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Veterans who served in them are off...
When Is A Lie A Lie
We all know when we tell somebody something that is not true that is considered a lie. It seems a local candidate for mayor...