Yearly Archives: 2011

A Solider that went by the name of Bonaparte is quoted as saying: “ An army marches on its stomach!” He knew a bit about soldiering.

I got the expected responses on my first Sesqui article on the 'correct' name to use for The War. My attempt to walk the tightrope successfully by using the three most common got me chewed up anyway :-)

A few days ago, I published a short piece about a BBC global poll gauging attitudes towards various countries worldwide. In the poll, Israel came pretty much at the bottom. The world seems to dislike the Jewish State, and this is not a big surprise.

The Arab uprisings have opened all the hidden doors and secret chambers in the Middle East only to find inside not Osama Bin Laden nor WMD but decades of frustrations and broken dreams, looted Arab fortunes, terrorizing police states, Ghettos and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, governments with terrorist strategies mistaken for moderate regimes and traitorous west backed-dictators in power who won’t allow a chance for a democratic civil society in the Arab world nor stand up against Israel in its aggression and humiliation to the Palestinians Arabs and its daily grab of the Arabic land

His false assumptions are being roundly rejected across America and Europe. Counterterrorism experts, veteran’s organizations, interfaith leaders, local leaders...

“We got ourselves into a bit of a mess because of a legal anomaly that needs to be fixed. A legal amendment to the law has been introduced, he said, and is working its way through the parliamentary process. “All three major political parties support the change.” Gould was confident that the amendment would pass into law “in months not years.”

GRAPPA By Carol Duff RN, BA, MSN STAFF WRITER/Editor Grappa is a distillate made from grapes that are grown and vinified in Italy. Distillation,...

On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissance bomber, a Junkers Ju-390 took off from its base in Norway and flew out across the Atlantic Ocean. Among its four man crew was a brave and daring woman Anna Kreisling, the ‘White Wolf of the Luftwaffe’. A nickname she had acquired because of her frost blonde hair and icy blue eyes. Anna was one of the top pilots in Germany and even though she was only the co-pilot on this mission, her flying ability was crucial to its success.

Tribal Musicians caught up as militancy increases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa By Hanan Habibzai Music shops in Peshawar are now struggling to stay open as the Taliban’s...

On May 22-24, the pro-Israel America conference from AIPAC is coming to Washington, D.C. Will you be there? You gotta know that the U.S. Congress will be. They must go as their hands will be out taking cash bribes with their blackened hearts spilling with no shame as they send our billions earned by the sweat of each American to a land far far away that has no consequence to the everyday welfare of Americans.

One of the most extraordinary aspects of the entire 9/11 tragedy is the extent to which real-time reports from what came to be known as "Ground Zero" at the World Trade Center of secondary explosions and planted devices disappeared from the public discussion and the record almost immediately, never to resurface in any detail in the mainstream media or the 9/11 Commission Report. All one heard officially was the tale of 19 Arabs on 4 planes, solely and completely responsible for all of the death & destruction on that day.

If you are approaching your transition to a civilian career, it’s time to take an inventory of your transferable skills. The good news is this: since you trained and worked in the military, you may be light years ahead of your civilian peers. In addition to the skills you gained from service schools, military occupational specialties or ratings, and coursework, your role in parenting, projects, hobbies, community service and other life experience will serve you well in your transition.

FEB 24 2011- Near the end of June this year the African continent will witness the historic crossing of the first land-based humanitarian aid relief convoy which will journey from Cape Town to the besieged and occupied Palestinian territory of Gaza.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is making a concerted effort this Spring to reach out to student Veterans at eight VetSuccess on Campus sites to make them aware that VA counselors are standing by to help ease their transition from active-duty military to college life.

The events of November 26th, 2008 will forever live in infamy. The terror attacks perpetrated against the Indian city of Mumbai shook the South Asia subcontinent to its core, leaving 195 confirmed dead and at least 295 other innocents wounded (1). The terror was said to be manufactured in Pakistan, the self-declared enemy of India, “the world’s largest democracy.” It was carried out by expertly trained “Jihadi terrorists” as per the direction of Pakistani intelligence and elements within the Pakistani government. This delusional fallacy however, is devoid of any basis in reality and nothing more than a concoction of the vitriol-spewing institution known as the mainstream media.

While Dietz flew guard duty for B-29s, John Gofman helped build “the Gadgets” as one of a couple of hundred thousand Americans working on the Manhattan Project. “The Gadgets,” were the atomic bombs.

"Attack Gadaffi to save thousands of innocent Libyans" By Jim W. Dean STAFF WRITER/Editor On February 25th our senior editor Gordon Duff wrote that we must...

by Chaplain Kathie They face bullets and bombs, watch friends die, risk their lives everyday for a year at a time, endure no sleep, lousy...

Every minute of every day, our global family welcomes 255 babies into the world. That’s 134 million new mouths to feed every year, for a total population increase of 2.2 billion in the next thirty years.

"The team, headed by the prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory.

British engineers are warning technologically advanced nations that their citizens have become overly and dangerously reliant on global positioning systems (the wonderful GPS). The esteemed Royal Academy of Engineering itself said the application of this satellite locator technology is now so broad – from car navigation systems to time stamps on financial transactions – that any disruption can lead to a major disaster.

Today has been a sad day but the battle is not over! If the VSO's would express themselves in unison and if the veterans and civilians continue the battle for a few more days maybe the Representative of WW1 will lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.

Unfortunately, politics is much like religion - no matter how much evidence is brought to bear that a person’s preacher is a hypocrite, a crook, and a pedophile, many of the people in the church will refuse to believe their lying eyes, because it’s not what they want to see.

WASHINGTON (March 10, 2011) – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki is encouraging interested colleges and universities to join the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in participating in the Post-9/11 GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Program for the upcoming 2011-2012 academic year.

The VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network, which includes all of North Carolina and parts of Virginia and West Virginia, is the only VA network in the nation using the “blitz” method to clear its backlog. The network is behind on about 4,000 to 5,000 requests, LaPuz said. “Salisbury by itself is caught up, and now we’re trying to help out our sister facilities,” he said. “In three weeks — one week a month for the next three months — we expect to complete about 1,500 exams.” The goal is to complete these exams within 30 days from the date Starting this week, W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury is taking on a growing backlog of compensation and pension (C&P) exams during what staff term a “blitz” of three one-week sessions. The hospital, along with eight others in the VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network, is dedicating up to 80 percent of its primary care appointment schedule to the exams March 7-11, April 11-15 and May 9-13.

As World War II ended, America and the allies began a 10 year occupation of Germany. The first order of business was "de-Nazification," the removal of all traces of Hitler's propaganda and war machine from every aspect of German life.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will collaborate with the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs on a new research effort focused on investigating the impact of recent conflicts on the health of returning Servicemembers.

Veterans!  Here’s your Top 10 News stories of the day compiled from the latest sources We encourage you to browse our list so that you can...

In the spirit of Rep. Peter King's Radical Muslim Committee Hearings which seek to get American Muslims to out "radicals" to the government and with today's Christian suspect in the MLK bomb arrested, it begs the question "Which religious community is more radical"?

WASHINGTON – Dr. Haru Okuda was recently named national medical director for the Department of Veterans Affairs Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) program. Okuda leads a staff of clinical simulationists and educators in conducting research, developing curricula and best practices and coordinating acquisitions of clinical simulation training systems in support of health care providers at VA medical centers.

Below is the latest support issued by a person of note. WE here at VT are astonished that the Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader are blocking this honor from occuring. We wonder where are all the Veterans' Sevice Organizations on this issue. It seems they are strangely quiet on this issue. Where are their statements for the record. Will they be there for the last WW2, Korean War, or Vietnam Veteran? It is the end of time to recognize each of the veterans that served in WW1. Frank Buckles is just a representative of all the WW1 veterans, your grand parents, or great grand parent. But it is our last chance to remember their legacy! To remember the war that was to end all wars.

“Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza Strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It's the same...

We want to continue to honor our Gulf War Veterans and recognize their early deaths, it has only been 20 years since the Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm. WE are concerned that they are dying too early and still call for national registries of diagnosed illness deaths and the undiagnosed illnesses. This data could prove helpful to health care providers, medical researchers, and the veterans and their families in being proactive in their health concerns.

Riz Khan interviews Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters  -  Aljazeera -  3 March 2011 Roger Waters, the legendary musician and founder-member of the iconic...

First let me say that being right does no good if no one listens. Too many years ago, I noticed a difference between civilian survivors and participants. By that I mean, law enforcement and military personnel. There is one kind of PTSD survivors experience after a crime, natural disaster, accidents and abuse but there is another type when people are part of the traumatic event itself. Then there is the type after violence was used in response coupled with the constant threat of more events.

This March 30th, Palestinian Land Day Join Seeger, Waters, and thousands of others around the world in taking the next step in Boycott, Divestment and...

Apart from its agenda in Afghanistan, the US had defined objectives set for Pakistan as well. Under the ruse of alliance, America wanted to denuclearize Pakistan and turn it into a compliant state subservient to India. For the accomplishment of its objectives, the US in connivance with Israel, Britain and India chalked out a comprehensive covert plan spread over 7-8 years to weaken it from within

MANITOULIN—A decade before US choppers doused Vietnamese jungles with a cancer-causing defoliant dubbed Agent Orange, hydro workers from Manitoulin were not only blithely applying the stuff to the brush along transmission corridors but practically bathing in the toxic tincture.

The United States of America is in the process of slowly and deliberately destroying a human being before the eyes of the world. All of President Obama's posturing about the conduct of dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya will not expunge his own calculated cruelty in allowing his Pentagon to continue the degrading and dehumanizing punishments being inflicted on PFC Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army intelligence specialist accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of files to WikiLeaks. AP reports Manning has now been charged with “aiding the enemy,” a crime that can bring the death penalty or life in prison.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service today announced the availability of $600,000 in “Stand Down” grants that will provide an estimated 10,000 homeless veterans with opportunities to reintegrate into society. The grants are being awarded under the department’s Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program.

SOUTH PASADENA, CA – On March 18th LA County’s High School of the Arts (LACHSA) will be presenting an evening of art and music to benefit New Directions and their programs for homeless veterans. The talented LACHSA students will be creating and donating paintings, prints and photography pieces for a silent auction. The event will take place at SPACE, 1506 Mission Street in South Pasadena, March 18, from 6 to 9 pm.

Henry Kissinger was President Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State. He also held the latter position under President Gerald Ford. While it would be unfair to characterize him as someone who never gave a piece of good advice (he did encourage Nixon to engage in Detente with the Soviet Union), his record weighs heavily on the side of unwise counsel. As we will see he is back in exactly that role, plying bad advice that, in this case, could further erode America’s already messed up intelligence agencies.