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How the Defense Industry is Hosing Obama and the Taxpayer … Again
The players in the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) regard hogwash like that produced in the QDR as essential weapons for waging their unremitting budget war to extract money from the American people.
Two former Bush aides speak out in defense of the rights of Muslims, Bush...
By Joe Conason in Salon
For Muslims around the world, George W. Bush and his decision to invade Iraq became symbols of Western arrogance, hostility...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. VA Employee Honored. The lead "Local People Honored" item for the Augusta, Maine-based Kennebec Journal (8/17)...
Regional Veterans News 8/17/10
Regional Veterans News 8/17/10
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from:
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania - Cumberland County housing facility...
A Beautiful Gift from the BBC
If you haven't seen it, look for BBC Panorama’s "Death in the Med" program online, you will be treated to first class propaganda as only the BBC can deliver. I am one of the passengers/witnesses interviewed for this program and I am very much aware of BBC's role in justifying war and covering up Israeli crimes. I am in no way naive about this; to the contrary my motivation for the interview lay largely in the all too likely opportunity to expose the BBC.
A Night to Remember As Ross Perot is Honored by Gulf War Veterans
We are asking veterans that attended to offer comments of what quotes they remember from the dinner in Dallas for the NGWRC. Below is...
EL TORO’S BASE WELLS, PUTTING TOGETHER THE PUZZLE
El Toro's shallow aquifer was contaminated with organic solvents like TCE, PCE, vinyl chloride. The Navy denies any contamination of the base waterr supply, despite evidence of TCE contamination in at least two wells. In 1998, Navy's consulting engineer directed to inspect abandoned Well #4 for location of well screen prior to sealing well. Consultant reported 50 feet of well one screen interval in contaminated aquifer. Navy proceeded with well destruction process without inspecting remaining wells for well screen intervals.
Veteran and Military News
From the Friends of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs:
The new lost generation. The cost that can be tallied of the wars in Iraq...
Harry Reid Is Just Another Fool on the Mosque ‘Issue’
- Harry Reid has just officially ended the entire controversy surrounding the supposed "ground zero mosque," forever, by announcing that he is against it....
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 727-10
August 16, 2010
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CONTRACTS
ARMY
Northrop Grumman Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., was awarded on Aug. 12 a $457,125,797 five-year, firm-fixed-price contract. This requirement is for...
President Obama’s Response to Pakistan’s Flooding
The United States Government has provided food, shelter, medical supplies and other life sustaining items to help people in the flood-affected area and has pledged to provide approximately $76 million in assistance. National Security Advisor General James Jones described the U.S. relief efforts already underway to help combat this humanitarian crisis
Senate Veterans Committee September Schedule
The Senate Veterans Affairs committee list a couple of hearings for September so far
Legislative Presentation: The American Legion
Date: Wed Sep 22 2010, 9:30 AM,...
Veterans Heads Up Alert September Hearings
Schedule of Hearings for House Veterans Affairs for September Heads up ALL.
It is critically important that veterans stay alert on hearing topics and get...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. VA One Of First Federal Agencies To Commit All Recovery Funds. Ron Seman's syndicated "Veteran's Beat"...
US defense chief confirms plans to leave office in 2011
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed Monday plans to leave office next year, saying he first wanted to make sure the...
JOE “RAGMAN” TARNOVSKY: WHERE HAVE ALL THE WAR PROTESTORS GONE?
WHERE HAVE ALL THE VIETNAM WAR (DRAFT) WAR PROTESTORS GONE?
By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER VT
Where have all the Vietnam War (DRAFT) protestors...
That’s why Muslims want to build a mosque at Ground Zero
If Catholics around the world do not deserve to be linked to Nazism simply because Hitler happened to be a born Catholic, then Muslims around the world don’t deserve to be linked to terrorism simply because Osama Bin Laden, the leader of some fake terrorist organization happened to adhere to the extreme side of Islam.
Unkown Number of PTSD soldiers misdiagnosed and denied benefits
- Under the Bush-Cheney administration the U.S. Army saw 100s of discharges for personality disorder that should have been diagnosed PTSD. Army still denies the...
Ohio man plans fundraiser for Vietnam veteran whom the VA is shafting
Fundraiser Hart learned of Tate's failing health from a Times-Shamrock newspapers article several days ago. Tate, 59, and a few of his doctors believe his cirrhosis is directly linked to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. The Department of Veterans Affairs, however, does not recognize the toxic chemical as a cause for cirrhosis. And doctors won't attempt a liver transplant, saying the procedure would be too risky since Tate's health is failing
Overlooked cost of the war: Veterans’ benefits
- Nation refuses to recognize veterans as a predictable and worthy cost of war. Eye-opening research by Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes and Nobel laureate...
Regional Veterans News 8/16/10
Regional Veterans News 8/16/10
Regional stories on veterans’ health, education, benefits, legal affairs and other issues today from:
Creek County, Oklahoam - Vet’s Court: History in...
EVACUATE NOW!: This is Not a Drill
The Russian forest fires are re-suspending hundred of millions of Lethal Doses of Radiation from Chernobyl and the much larger Mayak disaster. Best to get out now while the getting is good. Get your kids out, at least.
GORDON DUFF: QUESTION ABOUT HOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAMS
IS THERE A PROGRAM TO HOUSE VETERANS IN VACANT OR REPOSSESSED HOMES?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I don't know how many of us fall...
GORDON DUFF: HISTORY OF GERMAN WINES
Early History of German Wines
By Gordon Duff
As far as we can tell, Romans began the earliest vineyards along the west bank of the Rhine
during...
GORDON DUFF: MARKETING GERMAN WINES
Marketing the Riesling Revival
By Gordon Duff
After decades of dismal sales In the US, the renewed interest In the Riesling varietal is creating marketing
opportunities for...
Why the Mosque and Cultural Center Scare the American Right-wing
That old-time religion, American xenophobia, is the vision, mission, objective, goal and message of the GOP political project. Without feeding bigotry and American nativism, there would be no Republican Party, period. There's a reason people like Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and the ADL don't want a mosque near ground zero, writes M.J. Akbar—it will prove that there's nothing scary about Islam. And there goes the GOP political project
Public Enemy Number One, The American Press
Stealing America's Freedoms Like a Thief in the Night....
Dismembering Afghanistan
- The most radical of these schemes to salvage the Afghan disaster is being floated by the former U.S. ambassador to India, Robert Blackwell,...
DID BUSH AND BLAIR ORDER SCIENTIST’S MURDER?
By Miles Goslett and Arthur Martin
Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons expert as calls grow for full inquest
A leading UN...
Krugman on GOP Targeting Social Security
By Paul Krugman
A Tale Of Two Expenses
Social Security outlays are projected to rise from 4.8 percent of GDP now to 6 percent of GDP...
Freedom for Me but Not for Thee, Say Equality Opponents
- Over at Fox News , Ted Olson silenced the states’-rights argument in favor of Prop 8 last weekend by asking Chris Wallace: “Would...
Wisconsin Congressman Wants Seniors to Fend for Themselves
- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) whose top funder is the insurance industry wants Medicare destroyed and the insurance industry to take over -
By Stephanie Cutter at...
How to Retire Comfortably for Under $1,500 a Month
By Kathleen Peddicord in Yahoo Finance
Jason and Elizabeth Pearce moved from Canada to Belize three years ago. They bought a piece of property on...
Researcher Collects Candid Interviews with Female Gulf Veterans
The Huffington Post (8/13, Kors) interviews University of Richmond professor Laura Browder, the author of "Her Best Shot," a historical look at American women...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
From the VA:
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
1. Homeless Vets, Supporting Military Families: Among Obama's "Top Priority" Issues. CBS News' "Political Hotsheet" website (8/13,...
GORDON DUFF: The Ground Zero Mosque Lies
There never were plans for a mosque at "ground zero." The entire story is made up by a public relations agency working with the Israeli government and the GOP. There are plans for an Islamic center in an old Burlington Coat Factory store blocks away. That far down the island of Manhattan, a couple blocks away is "across town." The idea that Israel is financing the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy when Mossad agents were arrested, dancing in the streets on 9/11, is an obscenity.
Gates likes military’s plans to reinvest savings
By Sagar Meghani
SAN DIEGO – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday he is pleased with the military services' initial recommendations for cutting their budgets...
Sharron Angle: Remaking America on the Pinochet Model
Sharron Angle, the Tea Bagger running against Harry Reid for the Senate in Nevada says that we should use Augusto Pinochet's model of privatization as a guide for reforming our social security system. Yes, Pinochet, the infamous fascist dictator and Nixon/Kissinger ally who engineered the subjugation of Chilean democracy in the 1970s.
VA and VBA Headed in Right Direction, Not There Yet
But until all veterans can report back they easily filed a claim, heard back fast, and received some manner of benefits for their service: We as a country are not there yet.
GORDON DUFF: IMRAN KHAN DEMANDS FREEDOM FOR DR. AAFIA, ASHCROFT RENDITION VICTIM
(FOLLOW DIRECTIONS TO YOUTUBE)
By Gordon Duff for VT and Americans of Honor
Last year, an Israeli-American Judge Richard Berman oversaw one of America's...
U.S. Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia Said to Reach $60 Billion
The package includes 84 F-15s at a cost of $30 billion and helicopter sales totaling about $30 billion that include spare parts, training simulators, long-term logistics support and some munitions.
Taxes Even a Tea Partier Can Understand
From Ezra Klein in the Post:The Bush tax plan vs. the Obama tax plan in one chart