Monthly Archives: July 2012

WORLD NEWS TOMORROW- After meeting with Russia’s foreign minister, leaders of the Syrian opposition say Moscow’s support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad allows violence in Syria to continue.

Atlas Air Inc., of Purchase, N.Y., is being awarded one of three U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) contracts to obtain international air cargo pickup/delivery service under the Theater Express II program

So many had been fooled. Andrew Drake seemed too good to be true. But then we look.

CSX Nearly Halfway to Meeting 2012 Veteran Hiring Pledge   JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – July 10, 2012 – CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) is nearly halfway to meeting its...

Very sad news indeed about poor old Ernest Borgnine, one of the greats, who has gone to the great PT-boat base in the sky.

Polonium did not kill Yasser Arafat. Israeli men are sterile as a result of wars.

CNN The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Tuesday an initiative in which the rail sector will hire more than 5000 veterans this year.

A new book reveals that a department known as Kidon within the Mossad has dispatched assassins into Iran in order to murder the nuclear scientists, thereby stunting the country’s nuclear energy program.

From time to time I get videos from odd sources. Back during the Bush era, selling terrorism was a big business, that and silencing people.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented a new initiative, Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO), to increase access to specialty care services for Veterans in rural and medically under-served areas through the use of videoconferencing equipment.

VA has also developed a skills certification process to assess employees’ job proficiency in comparison to national performance standards.

he Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $30,000,000 five-year contract (two-year basic with one, two-year option and one, one-year option) to repair B-1 parts.

- CIA - Facebook Contributed More to Monitoring Americans than All Other Sources Combined

The media have been utterly complicit in the deception since the first moments after the North Tower was hit. Take BBC - please!

Read about one woman’s journey to take her life into her own hands and how she’s inspiring other athletes at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games.

Two interpretations by the participants themselves, of what significant international meetings achieved, the first on 6/25/12 and the second five days later, remind us about subjectivity in the eyes of the beholders.

The best way to learn about opportunities is to talk to your VA clinical team who can help you choose the right sport.

Many of the same forces that make North America a primary aggressor in contemporary processes of colonization abroad are also operative in the internal colonization of the continent's First Nations.

More than 400 volunteers from children to adults descended on the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery today for the 16th annual Renewal and Remembrance, to honor the nation's veterans and fallen service members by sprucing up the landmark's grounds.

I would like to cordially invite you all to a benefit concert for the Wounded Warrior Project, which assists injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

One of my favourite short poems, The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams, is easy reading. Or is it? Try.

DCD-YATES, J.V., Ocean Springs, Miss., was awarded a $41,369,000 firm-fixed-price contract.

“Loyalty to a foreign flag is not loyalty to America.”

A Letter from a USS LIBERTY survivor dated 10 June 1967 and a recollection from member of Rescue, Damage Control and Repair Team that boarded the USS Liberty on the early morning hours of June 9, 1967.

- Arafat was the man who was able to make peace with Israel,..and to get his people, including the Islamists, to accept it.

We can no longer ignore the obvious link between our on going severe weather patterns and global warming climate change ~ which may very well be beyond the point of no return.

- What remains is politics conducted as a fantasy sport game. Avoidance of reality is the source of national pride.

Moti Nissani - In the USA, even when elections are not rigged, once in power the winners routinely defy voters’ sentiments.

“I think master and slave is more the relationship (between Tel Aviv and Washington) these days.”

Summary: For many years, the liberty movement’s aspirations and actions have been focused on the presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul.

The longest standoff between Washington & Islamabad is the latest display of US foreign policy modus operandi at its best & worst.

Da Wurld Is Full of Dummies an We Lern Dumbness from Thim

Pat Buchanan wonders why the neocons are obsessed with Iran. I can answer that...but it isn't going to be pretty.

Too bad the destruction of Islamic land marks in Timbuktu by the criminal thugs called “Ansar El-Islam/Supporters of Islam” did not generate or illicit the strong condemnations denunciations and material actions it deserves from the religious leaders of Al-Azhar, Mecca, Qom and Najaf. At best the condemnation was muted if not apologetic.

Unemployed Vets between 35-60 with no remaining GI Bill benefits may qualify to receive assistance to train for a high-demand job under the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program.

The program is limited to 45,000 participants from July 1, 2012, through September 30, 2012, and 54,000 participants from October 1, 2012, through March 31, 2014.

“Does this pain ever go away? Not when it remains unresolved does it ever really go away, and of course the Liberty matter still remains unresolved."

No investment in Israel Palestine will make any difference if we fail to dismantle the apparatus of the occupation and the occupation is: a form of apartheid.

Gibbs & Cox, Inc., New York, N.Y., is being awarded a $10,799,969 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for design and integration of manned and unmanned craft systems for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Combatant Craft Division.

Last week saw the conclusion of VA’s most recent Veteran Hiring Fairin Detroit, where 240 employers from across the government and private sector brought over 25,000 nationwide jobs for Veterans to snag.

In addition, 300 people will be added to support this new clinical staff. This boost will add to our existing workforce of 20,590 mental health clinical staff.

Do you remember when President Obama called for an unprecedented level of openness in Government?