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Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Offers Improvements in Symptoms Over Three Years
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Israeli defense forces have called up reserves and Egypt second field army is on high alert”
Immigration Hurts American Employment
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
Milestone Allows VA to Refocus 1,200 Decision Makers on Claims Backlog.
Soldier Missing from Korean War Identified
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Guantanamo’s Goon Squads Still Torturing Under Obama
Despite President Obama's pledge to end torture, the brutalization of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo prison continues under his regime.
Blind to Injustice
Much of the public seems blind to the truth of major events and issues that have long needed to be addressed openly.
Disclosure: Adamus Board Addition
Please excuse any cryptic aspects of this news release.
Michael Harris has been added to the American sector of the Board of Directors of the Adamus Group. Other members are James B. Hanke, Frederick Coward and Gordon Duff.
A Shining Light Goes Out – Kaitlyn Rebstock 1990 – 2012
Death is a tall dark stranger ~ who always arrives when you least expect it. Its cold forbidding presence rides on the chariot of the unknown. However, beneath its ominous gray shroud beats an all encompassing heart for death is but a passage within a loving plan in action.Thus those who we love deeply not only live in our hearts but become part of us forever ~ as my late granddaughter Kaitlyn most certainly lives in my heart.
Obama Honors Israel’s N-Bomb.
Perhaps President Obama wants to tell Iran something when he decided to award Shimon Peres, the father of the Israeli nuclear bomb, and the killer in Qana 1, the highest civilian honor America can bestow on any one.
Pakistani intelligence official says that Israel is bent on destroying the US
A senior Pakistani intelligence official has claimed that Israel is using the United States of America as a proxy to provoke retaliatory attacks from Muslim countries, especially Pakistan.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – June 16, 2012
Department of Defense Detroit's Cobo Center will host three major U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-sponsored events from June 26-29.
Watch the Vancouver Hearings! They’re Happening Right Now….
The search for truth requires that all possibilities be considered without prejudice.
Telling the Truth About Israel in France
The time is ripe to move forward and to identify every element within the matrix of global Zionism and Jewish political power.