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McKinstry Joins HireVeterans.com

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Established in 1960, McKinstry is a full-service design, build, operate and maintain (DBOM) firm with over 1,600 employees and approximately $400 million in annual revenue.

Milestone for Veterans Retraining Assistance Program

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We hit 45,000 approved applications for VRAP. We're excited so many Veterans have taken the opportunity to achieve their educational goals. Help us continue the momentum.

Venture Construction Joins HireVeterans.com

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Founded in April of 2000, 120VC and all of its products have been built on a foundation of successfully delivered projects for its clients. Like every business cycle, every project – or venture – has three major components.

PGS Worldwide has joined the HireVeterans.com Team

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Jobs For Veterans At Major Info Tech Company. PGS Worldwide is an Information Technology, Engineering and Telecom staffing services provider and a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – December 05, 2012

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Last week, VBA hosted the November edition of our Twitter Town Hall Series. The topic for this session was Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment. Check out the review of our event to see if we answered your questions.

Vietnam veterans sue military in Conn. over PTSD

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The military has failed to correct the wrongful discharges of thousands of Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, an advocacy group says in a federal lawsuit.

Palestine at the UN – Hold off the Celebrations

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- Palestinians under Jewish Occupation and in the Diaspora have to take a second look at 45 years of a failing national project and leadership

PressTV – Defiers beat the Deniers – 138 to 9 at UN

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- U.S. Gets Lost in Time - With the Hockey Puck and Coconut Brigade

Veterans Gun Rights Debated on U.S. Senate Floor

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  The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act recently hit an unexpected bump over an amendment on veterans’ gun rights in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Tom Coburn...

Birth of a State – Death of Apartheid

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While we celebrate the long awaited birth of the state of Palestine we must ensure the death of apartheid as currently practiced by the state of Israel.

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – December 04, 2012

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For about two years, VA’s online communications team has been closely tracking the advertising and recruitment efforts of for-profit schools looking to bring in GI Bill tuition dollars. In some cases, these schools have ensnared Veterans looking for info by using official-looking websites, which funneled potential recruits to those schools without any balanced, objective information.

POEM: Made in USA

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From the national insane asylum From the factories of death Come the instruments of destruction To rob the living of their breath.

US forces rape women in northern Afghanistan village: Locals

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US forces rape women in northern Afghanistan village: Locals US Special Operations forces search a home during a nighttime raid in Afghanistan. (File photo) --- By Press...

Press TV: US Police Officers Fire 137 Shots to Kill 2 Unarmed Suspects

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Tensions are on the rise in the major US city of Cleveland after 13 predominantly white police officers fired 137 shots to kill two unarmed African Americans following a 25-minute car chase.

Press TV: Iran Captures US Drone (video)

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- Iran warns it will respond with stronger action if US drones attempted to violate Iran’s airspace again.

EMERGENCY: Mexico Building Settlements on US Land

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VT had learned that Mexico is building settlements on US land citing that "Mexico will be building on land that serves it strategic interests! Holy Crap America! Get pissed off!

Birth Defects Found in Vietnam Veterans’ Children

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Petition needs signatures for Children’s Research Center for diagnosis and treatment of serious health conditions linked to dioxin exposures.

Downward mobility haunts US education

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An integral part of the American Dream is under threat - as "downward mobility" seems to be threatening the education system in the United States.

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – December 03, 2012

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The Southwest Riverside County chapter of the Military Officers Association of America meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5," and "is focused on supporting members who are struggling with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

U.S. – U.K. Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012

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Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.

VA Registers “GI Bill” as a Trademark

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The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that GI Bill is now a registered trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and VA is the sole owner of the mark.

Uri Avnery – The UN Palestinian Vote

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- The Old Man of Israeli His Has Say about the Big Day
jewish settlements and wall

Britain and France May Pull Ambassadors From Israel

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Britain and France, like most of the Gentile world, are upset that Israel is going ahead with building new illegal Jewish settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem and in the Palestinian West Bank. Senior diplomats say these actions may take place within the next few days.

Press TV: US Builds Israeli Nuke Bunkers and Bio-War Labs

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Legally, the law, based on the disputed Oslo Accords, which expired in 2000, would require the dismantling of the “Gaza Wall,” a project no different than the Warsaw Ghetto, the Berlin Wall or Buchenwald.

Popular Culture Promotes the Police State

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he New World Order, designed around a functional police state that is encouraged by continuous popular cultural messages, is apparent to even the most avid establishment apologist. Liberty and freedom, hardly ever mentioned in a positive light by the mass media, is a direct threat to the ruling class.

Now that Palestine has its birth certificate…

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You have rescued the chances of peace by supporting the forces of reason and responsibility rather than the irrational and irresponsible exercise of force and violence.

Beating of War Drums

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Some of the important news gets reported quickly and is then forgotten just as hurriedly.

Sniping for Morons, Technology Trumps Training

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The new TrackingPoint system makes long range shooting, those oh so difficult 800 meter head shots something granny or the kids can do with less than five minutes of training.

Self Defense Hypocrisy, the Persecution of Bryon Smith

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It took the pop culture media five minutes to assign the requisite "three name" serial killer moniker to Smith, a retired State Department Diplomatic Security Officer. Smith had, at one point, worked for my good friend Leo Crampsay, who headed that department. Smith shot two intruders on Thanksgiving and chose not to report it to the police until Friday morning out of what he described as "professional courtesy."

Full Text of UN Resolution A/67/L.28 on Palestine

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Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and stressing in this regard the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.

Are Israel’s Jews, some of them, on their way to becoming Nazis?

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Some and perhaps many will regard my headline question as offensive but I make no apology for asking it; and I take comfort from the fact that my decision to pose it is fully supported by one of my very dear Jewish friends - Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer.

CIA Trolls Infect the Net

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In July of this year it became apparent through a flood of mainstream media reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) was “desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure” yet the NSA is notorious for its surveillance programs on American digital activity.

Roger Waters Speaks at the UN (video/music)

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Musician, Roger Waters, speaks to the UN General Assembly on the issue of justice for the Palestinian people.

The Personification of Self-Righteousness

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In the song Mack the Knife there’s a line about a body on the sidewalk “oozing” life. Last night there was a body, a living one, oozing self-righteousness. It was not on the sidewalk.

Press TV: Iran planning indigenous S-300 missile system: Defense Minister

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- One of the boomerangs of the Western sanctions is that they have only spurred Iranian development of domestic defense production

Jones and InfoWars Increasingly Cited as “Fox News Lite” (video)

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A video analysis of Alex Jones accounting for statements made that are grossly in contradiction to reality and fact. Is the once seen as independent and influential Jones serving an agenda.

ESPN: Israeli Football Champs, Racists and Hate Mongers (ESPN Video)

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Presented unedited, courtesy of ESPN Sports:

Ukraine Signs $1bn Gas Deal With Fake Spanish Company Executive

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It was the deal of the century, a $1bn contract for a brand new gas plant that would rescue Ukraine from its dependence on energy supplied by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Billionaire Taubman sexually harassed flight attendant lawsuit

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Octogenarian billionaire mall developer A. Alfred Taubman has been sued for $29 million by a Michigan flight attendant who claimed he sexually harassed her numerous times aboard his private plane.In a complaint filed Thursday with the federal court in Detroit, Nicole Rock accused her former boss, 88, of a variety of improper conduct in the roughly six years she worked for the married father of three

Secret Space War

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You are NOT allowed to KNOW anything for sure about this Secret Space War because these facts are deeply and narrowly compartment-ed under "Beyond Black" National Security Classifications (Aka NATO Cosmic Top Secret).