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www.yourmilitaryvoter.us: Your Vote…Make it Count
For more than 12 months now we have been working on a new website which will help voters get a handle on the candidates running for national office.
Fodder for Extremist
Four joint hosts of an MSNBC programme called Cycle decided to open a Pandora's Box and discuss some of America's problems in the Middle East.
Colbert Claims Obama Teleported to Mars for Gay Trysts (with Jerome Corsi?)
Colbert picks up my "Obama on Mars" story and runs with it...except he left out the carniverous plesiosaurs.
2014 Is Only Two Years Away
A significant event occurred this week in Britain. There were significant events elsewhere of course, including in Danville Kentucky, where Vice-President Biden cheered up the troops at the cost of alienating independents with his rudeness and smirking.
Bill “Kill ’em All” Maher: Smirky Avatar of West’s DeathCult
Bill Maher wants more and more abortions, suicides, executions...hangings, gassings, shootings, electrocutions...maybe even dismemberments, disembowelments, defenestrations, beheadings, and crucifixions.
Diary of an Israeli Shill
I am writing here to come out of the closet as a paid shill. For a little over six months, I was paid to spread disinformation and argue political points on the Internet.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – October 12, 2012
My HealtheVet downloads from Personal Health Records now includes immunization information directly from health records.
Market "Turned the Corner" says JPMorgan
JPMorgan Chase & Co. posted a record quarterly profit on Friday as falling interest rates and a recovering housing market brought big increases in...
A Question About American Interests in the Middle East…
In an article for TomDispatch, Peter Van Buren (a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for many years) posed what he described as Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in Presidential Debates.
Longtime VA Researcher Receives Lasker-DeBakey Award
Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, a long-time VA researcher often called “the father of human transplantation,” has received one of the world’s top awards for science from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.
Nineteen VA Medical Facilities Named to Joint Commission’s Top Performers List
Nineteen Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities from across the Nation were recently recognized by The Joint Commission as top performers on key health care quality measures for 2011/2012.
Job Search Secret
It is mind-boggling to me that there are 13 million people looking for 3.2 million jobs according to Department of Labor. Because of such statistics, it is easy to get over-whelmed and not know where to start in a job search.
Hezbollah Confirms Sending Drone Into Israeli Airspace
Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah confirms the Lebanese resistance movement has sent a drone deep into the Israeli airspace evading radar systems.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for October 11, 2012
National Strategic Research Institute, Lincoln, Neb. (FA4600-12-D-9000), is being awarded a $76,297,663 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for engineering, research and development services.
Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War
- Natural gas is the flammable ingredient that is fueling this insane scramble for energy in the region
What are efforts to contain Fukushima? None.
- The VeteransToday recommended fix of putting the reactors under water has not been done by the US Government.
American Church Leaders Challenge Israel and Congress
We urge an immediate investigation into possible violations by Israel...which respectively prohibit assistance to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – October 10, 2012
Your courage, your determination and your drive all led you to serve America proudly. Those same characteristics will also lead to satisfaction and success in adaptive sports
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for October 10, 2012
These contracts include options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of these contracts to an estimated $750,000,000.
Grand Marshals for the VA Veterans Day Parade 2012
Valley Veterans of service from World War II through Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF - Afghanistan) will be honored by the Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS), as part of the VA Veterans Day Parade.
Press TV: Duff: Found nuclear waste “not the end of story” (video)
"They're Going to Kill Us All
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By Gordon Duff and Press TV
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Texans can breathe easier: The radioactive waste Halliburton fracking surveyors lost last month has finally...
The CIA, the KKK and the USA
By assigning covert action roles to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it is as if the White House and Congress had legitimized the Ku Klux Klan to operate globally.
Sheriff Dever and the Cochise County Election, Some Observations
Several weeks ago, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever died in a one car accident on a lonely road. A replacement of extremely questionable quality has been nominated to replace Dever, a man targeted by the drug cartels.
Republicans Ask VA's Chief of Staff to Resign
Two Republican legislators are calling for the chief of staff to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to step down.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the ranking...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – October 09, 2012
The PTSD Coach smartphone app on iTunes and Android Marketplace can help Veterans learn about and manage their symptoms. The app provides direct links to support and help.
Mitt: The Strange Case of the Secret “Vietnam Years”
During the brutal Vietnam War, some men dodged the draft, sought deferments, faked illnesses, were placed in National Guard and Reserve units then destined to never be called up.
Aussie Govt. Whitewashes FBI Assassination
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Govt. of Australia found FBI agent Bill Spenser, who calls himself "William Phelps" not guilty of serious wrongdoing.
GCC Joins hireveterans.com
GCC Technologies was founded in 1997 with its headquarters in McHenry, Maryland. GCC is a fast growing service-disabled Veteran owned Small Business and HUBZone company with an outstanding record of performance providing more effective and efficient acquisition, business process, administrative and security services to multiple federal agencies.
Kayani-Putin: When Two Former Spy Masters Meet
With global geopolitics rapidly evolving and progressing into a dynamic wave of new-founded strategic partnerships, Pakistan and Russia have resorted to making most of the current scenario by increasing bilateral communication and eventual understanding.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – October 08, 2012
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, America’s national memorial to the Holocaust will honor all the brave soldiers who fought in World War II as part of its 20th anniversary commemoration.
Real Terror in America – Political Corruption and Incompetence
- Homeland Security Fusion Centers - Just Another Budget Scam
Pending Home Sales Have Fallen
Pending home sales have fallen after reaching a two-year peak, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
The highest level of activity was seen...
LEJEUNE MARINES GET THE ‘SHAFT’
Louisville VA denies most Camp Lejeune compensation claims from toxic water wells. Reasons for high denial rate (84%) not available. Marine veterans left to their own resources.
Media Coverage of Identity Politics
By any traditional standards of accomplishment, Barack Obama has failed miserably. This assessment is not based upon any particular ideology or partisan politics, just on straight pragmatic results.
The Assembly Line Culture
My father managed a branch of a steel pipe making company in Pennsylvania. I was about ten or 11 the first time he took me on a tour of his company.
NATO Undermining The UN and Should Be Abolished – Former Assistant UN Secretary-General Halliday...
NATO is a “dangerous” instrument of American aggression that is undermining the United Nations and “must be abolished,” a former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN says.
Undeniable, American Civil War, it is in the Cards
- We have bred it seems a race of sociopaths, be they cartel hit men, corrupt police or guards at military prisons, perhaps even contractors loading planes with narcotics
Here Comes Evil
In a few weeks’ time, Americans will face the grim prospect of choosing a new government, either headed by the same president or by a new one. Why a grim prospect?
Abunimah Did It Again
I don’t know who Abunimah’s pay masters are, but I guess it ain’t the Islamic Jihad.
October 1973: the Arab-Israeli War Remembered
"Debunking the Myth of Israel's invincibility, under the nose of the Americans, was indeed President Sadat’s idea of how to win the military conflict in October 1973"
Press TV – Hollywood Masters Propaganda War on Iran
America’s new fall TV shows are back at it. Last year the Israeli propaganda and Islamophobia had begun to dissipate but, this year, it is easy to see, the “Masters of Hollywood” are engaged in war mongering on behalf of their own masters in Tel Aviv.
How al-Aqsa Mosque Became a Refugee from Jerusalem
Once upon a time, some people wanted to destroy al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. So the mosque asked its friends, “Will you help save al-Aqsa?” We’re over a thousand years old and need your help.