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‘Fast and Furious’ Scandal Covers a Larger Republican scandal
The Operation Fast and Furious scandal, as reported by the Washington Post, contains two scandals in one, with the latter being far more egregious.
Veterans For Peace Members Arrested Protesting Drones
Elliott Adams and Nate Lewis, two members of Veterans For Peace, were part of a larger group of 15 activists arrested Thursday at the gate to Hancock Airbase in Syracuse, N.Y., where they held large banners and signs protesting drones for three hours before they were arrested.
The Peace People and Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire says ‘NO to War in...
Much of the terror has been imported...
US Foreign Policy Calculated Cul-De-Sac
The siege mentality that successive teams of US policy makers have finessed to perfection in the last decade in Pakistan and Afghanistan was inspired by the famous Bush slogan ‘who is not with us, is against us’.
Joint VA/DOL Veterans Retraining Assistance Program Reaches Important Milestone
More than 25,000 unemployed Veterans between the ages of 35 and 60 have already applied for new benefits to cover education costs for up to one year through a joint Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Labor (DOL) program that focuses on retraining up to 99,000 Veterans for high-demand jobs.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for June 28, 2012
PD-RX Pharmaceuticals*, Oklahoma City, Okla., was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM2D0-11-D-0003/P00006.
Facts and Suspicions – Middle East Intel Drop
"The usual suspects" who see NATO plots everywhere, usually quoting France's leadership of NATO as key to their crackpot theories, France having left NATO in 1959, know nothing about Syria.
Growing Evidence of Agent Orange in Japan
Growing evidence indicates that during the U.S. occupation of Okinawa from 1945 to 1972, the U.S. violated a treaty to not store herbicides within Japan's political boundaries.
DOD Announces Value Engineering Award Recipients
For their savvy in tackling modern acquisition and improvement issues with an eye on cost control, 48 individuals and teams earned Defense Department recognition during the Value Engineering Awards ceremony today.
Army Reserve Vets Make House Calls in Guatemala
Army Reserve Capt. (Dr.) Daniel Skirvin’s civilian career may have gone to the dogs, but at least during his mission here in support of Beyond the Horizon 2012, his military career has taken more of a turn toward bulls, pigs and chickens.
States’ Attorneys General Action A Victory for Veterans and the GI Bill
Officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs applauded a decision by the attorneys general of several states to give VA the rights to use the GIBill.Com website, after the website’s original owners QuinStreet Inc. agreed to give up the internet site to settle a lawsuit by the states.
UFOs are IFOs
This article will present and discuss what is suspected to be the USG's secret view of what UFO's really are and this will consist of what is a reasonable interpretation of what appears to be true without the high standard of clear and convincing evidence met.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 27, 2012
The VA for Vets Hiring Event started Tuesday in Detroit. June 26-28 the COBO Center will host employers from all over the country who have jobs for Vets.
SYRIA: No to Intervention, No to Illusions
Fifteen months on, the short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into a harsh winter of discontent.
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night: The Tragic Death of Brian Arredondo
Brian Arredondo never really recovered from his brother’s death in the Iraq War. When they were kids, Brian adored his older brother Alexander and tagged along with him whenever he could.
VA Encourages HIV Tests for All Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs is encouraging all Veterans to be tested for HIV at least once in their lives.
Bank for International Settlements on Big Banks
The shadow-banking component that adds to the risk of non-regulatory oversight just deepens the mystery behind the most powerful banking institution that runs roughshod over global finance.
Arizona’s Supreme Court Victory a Rattlesnake in Disguise
Arizona believes it won a victory in the supreme court.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for June 26, 2012
Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $34,064,647 cost-plus-fixed-fee with performance incentives contract to procure electronic protection improvement program.
For Our Vets
Since 1930 the VA has been serving our Veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs serves those who have served us with passion and innovation.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 26, 2012
The shiny item coming up through dirt near Rome turned out to be the dog tag for an American soldier from World War II.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for June 25, 2012
Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va., is being issued a modification to a previously awarded five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (M67854-09-D-7005) to change the maximum contract value to $500,000,000.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 25, 2012
Just a reminder, pre-registration for VA's Veteran Hiring Fair in Detroit on June 26-28 closes at midnight tonight. 22,000 jobs will be available nationwide at this event.
New Mental Health Center at VA Palo Alto Health Care System Opens
The Department of Veterans Affairs Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Robert Petzel joined Veterans, staff and congressional representatives on June 22 to open a state-of-the-art, 80-bed acute mental health center at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
Nursing The Wounded
The end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will bring home hundreds of thousands of enlisted men and women, and it’s likely that many of them will come home with either traumatic brain injuries or serious psychological wounds from their tours of duty.
The Arabs; What Went Wrong?
I thought the original title “ The Failing Arabs” would be too offensive to a very proud people and nation.
Watergate to Fast and Furious
The Department of Justice has a long record of acting as the dictatorship of jurisprudence.
Obama Plays Lead For Jamie Dimon and the Fat Cats
Jamie Dimon’s gold embossed presidential seal cuff links, a gift from the president, are a blatant reminder that Obama plays lead to Jamie Dimon and the fat cats ~ who obviously control America
Abandonment of Gulf War Veterans 90-91 Must Stop
One of the documents that was released at the VA RAC GWIR meeting in Boston this past Monday and Tuesday has more appendices and proof but the basic report provides all the details that are needed.
Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction?
If enough isolated individuals pursue the same goal, the effect is indistinguishable from a conspiracy.
Vanunu Mordechai: Friend, Hero, Brother's Latest Message
Not everything Vanunu wrote me over the past week is for publication, but what follows is...
Eliminating wasteful government programs
We the Veterans…we the voters, often watch from the sidelines and shake our heads in collective amazement at the actions of our government, both on the federal level and the state level.
Jerry Sandusky, Kyrie Irving and Uncle Drew
This is a virtual on the road this weekend as I have been catching up on piles of things waiting for me after being away for five weeks.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 23, 2012
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
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
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?
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
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
This issue is bound to be raised when my forthcoming intelligence history of the DVD, Spyhunter, is published.
Ed Milliband And His Phony Populism
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
- 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)
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.