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Band Of Brothers #9 – Into The Light
As Easter arrives in 2012, an ongoing real life resurrection story continues to unfold in Yountville, California with the extremely successful heart centered Healing The Wounded Heart workshops for veterans with PTSD.
Group of Retired Vets Stands Fast in Fight for Homeless
Every Sunday for the last four years, 70-year-old Bob Rosebrock has faithfully manned his post at the corner of Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, just feet from a sprawling park at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.
Girls Who Love Guns
Many of us might tend to think the girls are just living mannequins when it comes to things like gun shows where they very effective traffic stoppers. But they are also serious gunslingers that the market is chasing after. So why the change?
Lee Whitnum’s “whore for AIPAC” comment draws protests – from whores!
Calling Congress-critters rolling in Zionist dough "whores" is an insult to prostitutes everywhere.
Iran, China’s Rise, and American Strategy
Leverett observes the Iranian nuclear issue is likely to turn out to be, on many levels, a major turning point for America’s relative standing as a great power, in the Middle East and globally.
10.3 Percent Unemployment Among Younger Vets; Trend Still Downward
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Veteran unemployment data for the month of March.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for April 06, 2012
AGVIQ, L.L.C.*, Anchorage, Alaska, is being awarded a maximum amount $100,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-award-fee contract for environmental remediation services for projects at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic area of responsibility (AOR).
Victor Bout Must Be Silenced!
- Victor Bout, he is in jail for 25 years to silence him on 9/11. We know this, we can prove it.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April 06, 2012
Improving the health and health care of women Veterans is a high priority within the Department of Veterans Affairs, said a panel of leading researchers on March 27.
Beware of the Latest Foreclosure Rescue Scam – Forensic Loan Audits
Mortgage Fraud Examiners, the investigative firm who warned the public about loan modification scams, the "criminal loan modification trap" and the Mortgage Elimination scam is now warning the public of this latest scam.
Markey to Lead VA Insurance Program
Vincent E. Markey of Philadelphia has been named director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Insurance Center, the eighth-largest life insurance program in the world covering more than 4 million Veterans, active-duty Servicemembers, and Reserve Component and National Guard members, plus 3.1 million spouses and children.
New Job Push to Benefit Military Spouses
Eleven companies have pledged more than 15,000 jobs for military spouses and veterans, the first lady said.
Horse Therapy Helps Veterans Break Through PTSD
A Pentagon Channel documentary sheds light on how military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are finding help through the power of horse therapy.
JetBlue 191 Jumble: False Flag Flight?
911 made wars against Afghanistan and Iraq possible. Might the downing of Flight 191 have been intended as the necessary provocation for a war against Iran? In light of modern American history, it's insane to not consider that possibility.
Fixing Elections Through Fraud
The declining credibility of elections in many countries is creating a crisis of legitimacy severing bonds of trust that once linked citizens to the institutions that govern us.
A Dumping Ground of Inconsistencies
We are going to follow several stories today. Lines will blur, lines between "right" and "left," lines between religion and occult but mostly the lines will blur between what we are told and what is real.
US Supports Human Rights and Democracy? Tell it to Al-Khawaja!
US hypocrisy on human rights has worsened due to the extremist Zionist control of American mid-East policy - especially since the coup d’état of September 11th, 2011.
Guenter Grass, German Nobel Winner, Criticizes Israel Over Iran Tensions
German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass labeled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace"
Art of Resistance – A Comment on Günter Grass
Outrage in Germany, Nobel Laureate Günter Grass has, once again told the truth about Israel being the greatest threat to world peace.
Surprise Video Changes Syria “Timeline”
On the contrary, there is clear evidence that armed groups have targeted and killed security forces and civilians from within weeks of the first small protests in March 2011.
Britain’s Mad-House Foreign Policy
But the best and cheapest way of protecting our national security is simply to eject the madmen from the Foreign Office and stop pimping for the US and its mad-dog protegé.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for April 04, 2012
ALFAB, Inc.*, Enterprise, Ala., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $150,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the procurement of AM-2 matting packages: F-71, F-72, F-73, and F-78 for the expeditionary airfield.
Battle of Shiloh Births a Great American
- When the war ended, he probably was the only individual who served in the Confederate Army, Union Army, and Union Navy.
Medicare and Veteran’s Benefits
If you have or can get both Medicare and Veterans benefits, you can get treatment under either program.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April 04, 2012
On March 31, the North Carolina USO organized a welcome home celebration for Vietnam Veterans at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The event drew over 60,000 Vets and their families.
In Defense of Helen Thomas: What’s Wrong With History?
I stand by my assertion that it’s hard to imagine something more wrong than the WHCA denying Helen Thomas her request.
Debt-To-Income Ratio: Does it Make Any Difference to VA Loans?
VA loan was officially introduced through the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) on June 22, 1944.
VA Grant Supports Improvement at Pennsylvania Veterans Facility
The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $1.9 million to install life safety fire alarms and sprinkler systems at the Pennsylvania Veterans home in Hollidaysburg.
Thomas Szasz – A Humanist Who Deserves Honor
In 1989, when Radio Free America was into it's first full year of broadcasts one of the themes most gripping to a new audience for the new medium of anti-fascist statism, sometimes called ‘populism’ Was the forum promoted around the great work of Dr. Thomas Sczaz author of ‘the myth of mental illness.’
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for April 03, 2012
Arma Global Corp., Tampa, Fla., has been awarded a $500,000,000 single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide TACLAN family of system acquisition, design, integration, production, and delivery in support of U.S.
Duff on Press TV: Americans ashamed of troops atrocities in Afghanistan
These last three incidents and in particular, the killing of 18, which has been a more of a shock in the United States than anyone is aware, is that Americans are so ashamed.
Money Changers, The Resurrection and Israel’s Dimona: WMD Facility
“What I did was sacrifice my life for the truth. In prison I really began to feel like Jesus and Paul. When Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the temple, it was like me in Dimona exposing the Israelis dirty secrets. I felt like Paul being thrown in prison for speaking the truth..."-Mordechai Vanunu
VA Makes Progress on Pledge to End Veteran Homelessness
The Veterans Affairs Department is making progress on its pledge to end homelessness among veterans, with a focus on getting all homeless veterans off the streets by 2015, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki told American Forces Press Service.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April 03, 2012
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which provides VA an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to supporting Veterans who experienced military sexual trauma (MST).
Ali Abunimah on History & Culture
In the above clip I elaborate on Ali Abunimah’s attitude towards history and culture.
Israel’s Escalating Rhetoric on Iran
The US Constitution is the greatest set of rules that man has ever produced. If sullied, it’s the soul of America that vanishes, and with it, the hopes of all who believed in the greatness of America.
Top 10 Reasons I Admire Military Kids
In honor of April’s Month of the Military Child, I created a Top 10 list of the qualities I most appreciate about children from military families.
NCHV Announces Two Calls on Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program SGA
On March 29, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the availability of $15 million in grants through the Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP).
You Had To Be There To Feel The Goose Bumps
Thanking the Vietnam Veterans...a long time coming
African American Veterans with Diabetes Benefit from “Mentors”
African American Veterans with hard-to-control diabetes made significant gains in keeping their blood sugar under control after working with “mentors” with similar health problems, according to a recent study by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News April 02, 2012
Celebrated April 2-8, VA is observing National Public Health Week as a way to promote healthy habits and safe practices among Veterans and staff.
DOD Implements New Changes to Sexual Assault Response
The Defense Department has refined new methods to aid sexual assault victims whether reporting a crime or seeking assistance as they transition from service, the director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office said here March 30.