Monthly Archives: July 2011

Using such modern tools as ground-penetrating radar and conducting analyses of water and soil core samples, a team of investigators in South Korea is searching for clues to a decades-old mystery:

Over half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could potentially be prevented through lifestyle changes and treatment or prevention of chronic medical conditions, according to a study led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) had over twice the risk of developing dementia within seven years after diagnosis compared to those without TBI, in a study of more than 280,000 older veterans conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will host the National Veteran Small Business Conference and Expo, August 15-18, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La.

You may have received an email recently from someone who is trying to start a petition to get members of Congress to pay into Social Security like other Americans.

I’ve known this Marine since he was in grade school. He’s married now, father of a young boy, deployed with the Marines in Afghanistan, his unit or the place of deployment in-country are not disclosed for obvious reasons.

Rupert Murdoch's troubles keep piling up. So, Murdoch is taking a more proactive approach to stop the bleeding. But will it work? postulates Mike Whitney

Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Defense Electronic Systems, Clearwater, Fla., is being awarded a $109,245,120 fixed-price-incentive-fee contract for engineering and manufacturing development for the Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System for Navy and Marine Corps rotary aircraft.

Take note of important signs and symptoms and know when to seek medical care.

While testifying before British Parliament on what he called “the most humble day of my life,” Rupert Murdoch nearly took a pie in the face.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP are one of the most recognized global law firms of the 21st century. Paul Hastings is now opening its doors and offering a wide variety of careers to our US Veterans.

Justice is a delicacy best served cold, preferably in cold blood, in full service to the Hectoring Hegemons!

Dogma of New World Order (NWO) conceived by Zionists and neo-cons Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney in 1990 presented Islam as the chief threat to western capitalist system and the US uni-polarism after the fall of Soviet inspired communism.

Of Murdoch's "assets," his most lethal "stinger" has been Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Their secret love affair is subject to continual obfuscations and denials though they are the political sweetheart team of all time, a veritable "Dr. Evil and MiniMe" of journalism.

The thirst for freedom and the hunger for a better way of life led Ali Baharanyi to seek asylum in the United States to escape a tyrannical regime in his native Africa.

VA has embarked on a major initiative to reach out to women Veterans in order to solicit their input on ways to enhance the health care services VA provides to women Veterans.

As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur.

The media and propaganda are powerful tools which can be used for good or for evil. Captain America is an example of how the media masters push for war.

The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country.

The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world — and shows the world our true character as a nation.

Getting a military/veterans appropriations bill through the legislative process

Having disposed of the Murdoch menace - for the moment anyway - it's time for the British public to turn the spotlight on the other villains our craven politicians pay homage to.

When publications go bad. We are going primal on these ruthless rebels

The Missile Defense Agency is announcing the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification, option exercise, under contract HQ0147-09-C-0007 to The Boeing Co., Huntsville, Ala.

Despite the strains military life can cause for families, being soldiers has proven to be a common denominator that has improved the relationship of a father and son serving in Iraq.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it is offering a $50,000 prize to the first team that builds a personal health record (PHR) using the Blue Button℠ download format, and arranges to install the PHR on the websites of 25,000 physicians across America.

Edward H. Seiler, Director of the Huntington VA Medical Center, extends an invitation to Veterans, their families and members of the community to attend a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Homeless Veterans Resource Center, located at 624 9th Street in Huntington on July 29, 2011 at 11 a.m.

When the standoff began on a humid August night, it seemed destined to become one more case of a returned soldier pulled down by a war he could not leave behind.

Nuclear Ambiguity is an Israeli-American policy for without the West's agreement, there would be no ambiguity. Israel and the United States have also worked in collaboration in targeting Iran, but Washington is eager for ‘plausible deniability.’ There’s no denying the hypocrisy in high places.

In June, VA’s Women Veterans Call Center started to contact women Vets to educate them on VA health care and gender-specific services available at VA facilities. In the first month, the Call Center reached over 1,000 female Vets.

The young man who greets his cousins rugby playing fiance with the two finger hand-as-gun gesture to the head, should fit in well with the Apache pilots slice 'em and dice 'em mentality -- by Felicity Arbuthnot

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In Japanese, Homare means Noble Honor and yesterday Homare Sawa had the noble honor of bringing a Japanese team back from the precipice of a certain World Cup defeat in the final minutes of extra time with one of the greatest pressure goals in World Cup history ~ counting both men and women.

Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it.

A prominent condition affecting Gulf War Veterans is a cluster of medically unexplained chronic symptoms that can include fatigue, headaches, joint pain, indigestion, insomnia, dizziness, respiratory disorders, and memory problems.

ITT Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo., was awarded a $267,918,208 cost-plus-award-fee contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to provide base operations and security support services in support of the military troops and equipment moving through the country of Kuwait.

The following Appeared in Newsreal Magazine in summer of 1977, and was taken from an earlier article in the Christian Science Monitor.

What do George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln have in common?

The use of Agent Orange could be considered by many as a war crime and perpetuated by our unwillingness to solve the toxicity problem

On JULY 13, 2011, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the military BCMR’S ( Board For Correction of Military Records ) were arbitrary and capricious, committed an abuse of discretion, and violated matters of law.

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. "Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

A special supplement of the journal Women’s Health Issues published July 13 shows the tremendous growth and diversity of VA women’s health research in recent years.