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TATE, Incorporated Renews It’s Dedication To Hiring Veterans
TATE, Incorporated was founded in 1994 to provide support to the high-risk operator, specifically focusing on personnel recovery. With approximately 400 employees, TATE is now the nation's leading contractor providing Personnel Recovery (PR) plans and operations, Peacetime Governmental Detention (PGD), Hostage Detention (HD), and other sensitive training support to the U.S. government. TATE's current customers include the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and other governmental agencies.
Abbott Labs Looks To Veterans For Help Fulfilling Jobs
They are a global, broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage our health. Their products span the continuum of care, from nutritional products and laboratory diagnostics through medical devices and pharmaceutical therapies. Their comprehensive line of products encircles life itself addressing important health needs from infancy to the golden year.
CASMII: Fact Sheet on US-Iran Standoff
The current U.S. standoff against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of...
JOBS: How to Get a U.S. Security Clearance
A security clearance issued from the United States Government is used to confirm an applicant’s trustworthiness and reliability before providing access to national security information. Find out how to get one...
The Difference Between Mike Vick and George W. Bush is…
George W. Bush admitted to torturing human beings while Mike Vick admitted to torturing dogs. Vick was indicted, found guilty, and paid his debt. George W. Bush has never been indicted, never found guilty, and has never paid his debt. What does this say about us?
Japan offers ‘heartfelt apology’ to U.S. POWs
Japan's foreign minister apologized Monday for the suffering of a group of former World War II prisoners of war visiting from the United States and said they were treated inhumanely. The six POWs, their relatives and the daughters of two men who died are the first group of U.S. POWs to visit Japan with government sponsorship, though groups from other countries have been invited previously.
Vietnam Combat Vet on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Discrimination
- Federal Judge Finds Act Violates First Amendment Rights of U.S. Service Members -
By Ernest A. Canning in the BradBlog
In her Sept. 9 decision...
NYT and Post Push Confrontation with Iran
- Apparently having learned no lessons from the Iraq WMD debacle, the New York Times is pushing for a heightened confrontation with Iran, slipping...
A Winning Message: Bring the Troops Home, Bust the Banksters, Democratize the Economy
- When the message is muscular, the enthusiasm is there -
By John Nichols at The Nation
BARABOO, WISCONSIN -- Decrying the excesses of big banks and...
Fast Gateway to Your Benefit Information
From the VA:
eBenefits is an online service jointly offered by VA and DoD.
With eBenefits, service members and Vets can directly access their personal benefit...
VA Offers Counseling to Rape Victims
- Epidemic of sexual assault drives service -
WDAF-TV Kansas City, MO (9/12, 8:48 a.m. CT) broadcast that as "women serve closer to combat zones,...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
1. Shinseki Honors Beilke By Renaming Minnesota Clinic. The St. Cloud (MN) Times (9/12) says Secretary Shinseki, in honor of US Army Master...
First Living Recipient To Receive Medal Of Honor From Afghanistan/Iraq Wars
The first living recipient to receive the Medal Of Honor since the Vietnam War is Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, he was an Army specialist in Afghanistan when he performed actions on the battlefield that were above and beyond the call of duty. Specialist Giunta put his life on the line to save his fellow soldiers when he and fellow paratroopers were ambushed by the Taliban in 2007. Staff Sergeant Giunta recently received a personal call from President Obama and was informed that he would receive the Medal Of Honor.
Sick Bay Commandos
Soldiers and Marines that frequented sick call has historically been referred to as "Sick Bay Commandos". An old Jody Call goes: "Blind, Crippled and...
PRESS TV TALKS TO MARK GLENN ABOUT ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AMERICA
- As conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to deteriorate and casualties from the two wars continue mount, the US media is attempting to...
Nick Turse: Afghanistan on Life Support
- Would Afghanistan be better losing with the Taliban, tribes and corruption than winning with us? Operation Enduring Freedom echoes Vietnam -
By Nick Turse at...
Open Letter to People of Israel from Lauren Booth, Journalist on the First Free...
- Israel, in an lie absurd by its own propaganda standard, congratulates itself as having the most moral military in the world -
Journalist Lauren Booth was on...
KEN O’KEEFE: BBC’s Blatant Propaganda Exposed Big Time
THE BBC IS AT IT AGAIN..
By Ken O'Keefe STAFF WRITER
I am honoured to have contributed to Anthony Lawson’s new short documentary, ‘BBC Bias: The...
Draftee Reserve and other Myths from Vietnam
Young American men were drafted into the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and yes, the United States Marine Corp too. (Note: Corp is pronounced CORE as in apple core - our Commander in Chief once said "corpse" or "corpsemen" instead of "Corp" when referring to Navy Corpmen.") during the Vietnam war.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. Shinseki To Appear At Clinic Naming Celebration. The Minneapolis Star Tribune (9/11, Brunswick) reports that Veterans...
Top Stories More Important than Quran-Burning Nut Job
Soldiers face charges over secret ‘kill team’ which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war
By Juan Cole via My Catbird...
VA is a national disgrace: “They are routinely denying our military veterans benefits that...
- Houston has highest appeals rate in the U.S. as benefits claims set records -
Borrowing for war and not paying the servicemembers who fight
By Lindsey...
Weekly Presidential Address: A Day That Tested Our Country
From the White House:
Weekly Address: President Obama Commemorates the Ninth Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks
WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Obama marked...
The Kill Team in Afghanistan and the Kill Team at Home, No Good Men...
- If the Kill Team is guilty of what we’re told, then how judge them? ... They are guilty only of bringing the policy...
Message from Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki on the Anniversary of September...
Today, September 11, 2010, we remember our fellow citizens who lost their lives nine years ago in New York City, at the World Trade Center, in Washington, D.C., at the Pentagon, and in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Every American was touched by those horrific events—those who reside in our largest cities and those living in our smallest towns. We all knew someone who was touched by those acts of terrorism. The pain of that touch is with us still.
Tony Blair Scrapped London Book Signing to Avoid Protest ‘Hassle’
Tony Blair took a last-minute decision to cancel his key book signing in central London because of security fears,...
Haaretz: Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda
- Religious desecration is the norm, not the exception in world affairs. See Christians Desecrate Wiccan Religious Site at Air Force Academy. -
By Haaretz (May 20,...
Veterans Exposed to Carcinogen Shed Light on Secret Iraq KBR Contracting Deal
A lawsuit filed by Iraq war veterans against a former Halliburton subsidiary over exposure to toxic chemicals is not the first of its kind, but it has brought new insight into the Iraq war by revealing that a contractor with close ties to the Bush administration was quietly granted legal immunity while securing oil supplies in Iraq.
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 817-10
September 10, 2010
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CONTRACTS
NAVY
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $60,549,708 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-5341) for...
Obama to Award Medal of Honor to Living Afghan War Vet
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2010 – The Medal of Honor will be awarded for the first time to...
If Religious Right QB Tim Tebow Had a Facebook
From Maxim:
Michelle Obama on 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance
Good morning,
Nine years ago, nearly three thousand Americans lost their lives on September 11, 2001. Like many Americans, I was shocked and horrified by...
Obama to GOP: Stop playing games with the economy
Now, I was pleased to see that yesterday, Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio said he would refuse to support this blockade any longer. Senator Voinovich said, “This country is really hurting,” and “We don’t have time anymore to play games.” I could not agree more.
BOB NICHOLS: The War on Sperm in Iraq
Each isotope is prized for its illness and death dealing properties, but none more than those that affect human Germ or reproductive cells: Sperm in men and the ovaries full of eggs in women. Same for you "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" Queers - no one is exempt or immune, radiation is a perfectly equal opportunity Zapper.
GORDON DUFF: TRUTH ABOUT RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY
RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY ARE INCOMPATIBLE, THIS IS WHY WE LEARN HISTORY
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
"As more and more devout rural congregations across America...
JUSTIN RAIMONDO: The ‘Meaning’ of 9/11
It’s not what you think –
Justin Raimondo via My Catbird Seat
One would think that after nine years at least some of the...
Marines Seize Control of Ship From Pirates
Via the DoD
MANAMA, Bahrain, Sept. 9, 2010 – A 24-member maritime raid force from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit today boarded and seized control...
President Obama to Award Medal of Honor
From the White House:
On October 6, President Barack Obama will award Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous...
Secretary Shinseki Announces $13 Million Gravesite Expansion
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a nearly $13 million...
Fed Judge William Moore and Georgia Want Innocent Man Killed
- VT says: Free the innocent man, Troy Davis, now! -
Jen Marlowe in The Nation
On June 23, outside a federal courthouse in Savannah, Georgia,...
Republican Nightmare: Putting Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren to Work Now
- Appoint Elizabeth Warren to start running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) immediately -
See also Brent Budowsky's If Obama names Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. Study Suggests Obesity Makes Brain Damage From Heavy Drinking Worse. HealthDay (9/9, Preidt) reports that a...