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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 23, 2012

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On Thursday, US Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood "unveiled a new portal on their departments' websites designed to help military veterans find jobs in the transportation industry.

Detroit Veteran Hiring Fair Employers Have Need for IT Specialists and Engineers Nationwide

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The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to register public and private sector employers with open positions for its upcoming Veteran Hiring Fair, June 26-28 at Detroit’s Cobo Center.

VA Claims Backlog Also Caused By High Error Rate, Not Only Processing Speed

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VA’s goal within two years is to have a claims-adjudication system that gets a first-time claim decision to a veteran within 125 days with 98% accuracy.

Why So Many Recent Intel Leaks?

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Most of this classified information has been leaked as “rumor” or “highly possible”. More is leaking out almost every day from disgruntled folks who can’t take it anymore, folks who work inside American Intel or at its periphery.

VetLikeMe, edition 3.3

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The Veterans Administration will hold the annual Veteran Small Business Conference in Detroit, Michigan June 26-29. Featured events include multiple breakout sessions, keynote addresses from leaders in Government Procurement, ‘dining with procurement decision-makers,’ an exhibit hall where large government prime contractors will offer subcontracts (we hope) and multiple networking opportunities for conference attendees.

Secret Societies – The German DVD

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This issue is bound to be raised when my forthcoming intelligence history of the DVD, Spyhunter, is published.

Ed Milliband And His Phony Populism

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if Britain wants to save herself and to stand again on her own two feet, she must flee the service economy and pursue real production that would imbue the presently archaic notion of ‘British worker’, with a new and vibrant meaning.

Press TV – West Point Caught Teaching Genocide Classes…for 12 Years

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- How many will just look the other way when their turn comes to be true to the code...as so many before them.

Breaking – Putin in Tel Aviv, Sharpening the Knife (updated)

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Putin loves them both equally but is forced to visit Israel so as not to appear to be, well, deeply involved in a plot against the United States involving Israel, the Soviet Union and Syria.
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Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Offers Improvements in Symptoms Over Three Years

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Patients with Parkinson’s disease who undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS)—a treatment in which a pacemaker-like device sends pulses to electrodes implanted in the brain—can expect stable improvement in muscle symptoms for at least three years, according to a Department of Veterans Affairs study appearing in the most recent issue of the journal Neurology.

U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Assistance for Veterans Seeking Jobs in Transportation

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki today unveiled a new portal on their departments’ websites designed to help military veterans find jobs in the transportation industry.

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for June 21, 2012

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Datum Software, Inc., John Creeks, Ga. (FA8771-12-D-1001); Digital Management, Inc., Bethesda, Md. (FA8771-12-D-1002); Diligent Consulting, Inc., San Antonio, Texas (FA8771-12-D-1003); DSD Laboratories, Inc., Sudbury, Mass.

VA Continues PTSD Outreach with AboutFace Campaign

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In observance of June as PTSD Awareness Month, the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has begun a new online initiative, AboutFace, focused on helping Veterans recognize PTSD symptoms and motivating them to seek treatment.

Ill Gulf War Veterans Demand Action from US Senate

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The VA Research Advisory Committee meeting from June 18-19 in Boston was a firestorm that has been ignited.

DOD Supports Job, Homeowner Proposals for Military, Veterans

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The Defense Department supports legislative proposals that would provide increased career support and homeowner protections to military members and veterans, a senior defense official told Congress today.

Oh What a Mess It Is!

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Am I the only one who looks at the mess in Washington, and shake my head at the absolute chaos in all quarters of government?

Hijacking and Take-Down of The American Republic

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The US Shadow Govt controls the visible USG inside the beltway, also controls the Monetary Production and Distribution System.

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 20, 2012

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June is PTSD Awareness Month, and we’ve put together information and resources to help Veterans receive the mental health care they’ve earned.

VA to Host VetHiring Fair at the National Vet Small Business Conference

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The Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Employment Services Office (VESO) will host its largest hiring fair to date at Detroit’s Cobo Center, June 26-28, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

VA to Increase Mental Health Care Access Consultations in 2012

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In a continuing effort to increase Veterans’ access to mental health care, the Department of Veterans Affairs has set a goal to conduct more than 200,000 clinic-based, telemental health consultations for all mental health specialties in fiscal year 2012.

MSNBC Interview Discussing VA Loans and Pressing Loan Issues

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President and Founder of VA Loan Captain, Grant Moon discusses the serious issues of VA Loans during an interview with MSNBC. During the interview they touch base on unemployment which is creating housing issues amongst veterans, and why you should be careful when seeking a VA loan.

CaptionCall Continues Helping Veterans With Hearing Loss

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Thousands of veterans benefit from the use of hearing aids in a variety of listening situations. Hearing aid consumers rate using the telephone as one of the top 3 most critical hearing situations.

Hardest Hit by Proposed Food Stamp Cuts? Veterans and Active Military

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In a report issued on Monday, the Huffington Post found that Congress' push to cut spending on supportive programs like food stamps would have a disastrous effect on veterans and active duty service members.

Egypt braces for confrontation with military and Israel calls up reserves

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“Israeli defense forces have called up reserves and Egypt second field army is on high alert”

Immigration Hurts American Employment

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Facts mean very little in any debate about immigration north of the Rio Grande. One such example comes from a bastion of journalism, the Daily Beast. Arian Campo-Flores in an article, Why Americans Think (Wrongly) That Illegal Immigrants Hurt the Economy, cites an economist, Gordon Hanson in a 2005 paper.

Disclosure – Time Games

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It would be so convenient if this were a book or movie, it could move in a wonderfully linear fashion with the appropriate car chases and gun battles. Our real dead die of mysterious cancers, inexplicable suicides where no Inspector Morse is there to magically ask the right questions.

Predictions in Chalmers Johnson

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Few books of our time are proving to be as prophetic as Chalmers Johnson’s “The Sorrows of Empire,” published in 2004 by Henry Holt & Co. Its description of the impact of the Pentagon’s war machine on our civil liberties and economy today appears largely to be right on the mark.

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for June 19, 2012

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The Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $171,469,781 firm-fixed-price contract to procure one C-17 aircraft. The location of the performance is Long Beach, Calif.

Job Training Grants to Assist Nearly 9,000 Homeless Vets

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Some 8,600 homeless veterans will benefit from $15 million in grant money for job training through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said today.

VA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s National Chamber Foundation Sign Pact to Boost Veteran Employment

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Leaders of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s National Chamber Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program have signed an agreement pledging “cooperation and collaboration” to help Veterans find civilian jobs. In that spirit, the two organizations will work together in Detroit during the Veterans Hiring Fair June 26-28.

DOL Awards More Than $15 Million in HVRP Grants

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On June 19, 2012, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced the award of 64 grants totaling more than $15 million that are aimed at providing approximately 8,600 homeless veterans nationwide with job training to help them succeed in civilian careers.

Out of Israel – into Africa…on the ZioExpress

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- We shall not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel...Israeli poet, Haim Nahman Bialik,

Ten Years After This Wall

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In Hebrew The Wall is called "Michshol Hafrada" which translates to "The Separation Wall" in English and "Apartheid Wall" in Afrikaans.

Processing of Retroactive Agent Orange Claims Nearly Complete

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Milestone Allows VA to Refocus 1,200 Decision Makers on Claims Backlog.

Soldier Missing from Korean War Identified

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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, were identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

June 18, 2012, Monday Chatter

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To give us a minor start for the week, we are heading into Mitt Romney's underwear drawer, things nobody is supposed to know.

Are you or do you know an unemployed Veteran?

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There is still time to apply for the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP), but don't delay. Almost 20,000 of the 45,000 slots for this fiscal year have already been applied for.

Veterans Attending Detroit VA for Vets Hiring Fair Can Instantly Access Records with eBenefits

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WASHINGTON (June 18, 2012) – Veterans needing important military documents for job applications will be able to instantly obtain them while at the Detroit...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 18, 2012

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Millions of dads have served the country in uniform, and for Father’s Day, we honor and thank them for their service by listening to their stories.

VA Provides Veterans Instant Access to Records with eBenefits

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Veterans needing important military documents for job applications will be able to instantly obtain them while at the Detroit VA for Vets Hiring Fair through the joint Department of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) online portal, eBenefits.

AboutFace: See How PTSD Treatment Turns Lives Around

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Anyone who has put on a uniform knows that “about face” means turn around.

How to Teach The Children-and US-The Way to Peace

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Rich Siegel grew up in a Zionist home and lived in Israel before he learned he had been "lied to" about the "original sin" of national Zionism that continues to wreck havoc on the Holy Land.