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Aug 13 2010
So The Stimulus Did Nothing, Huh!
This, directly below, as well as the continuing political? propaganda speak from a certain group that still wear the banner of a once political party, their media mouth and sponsor on 24/7 TV, their so called think tanks and those that want to leave the previous administration in the dust, after agreeing with everything it did, In Our Names, but now don’t want anyone to think they’re associated with that eight years plus so they formed the so called TEA party or as many did even before that started calling themselves libertarians, Has Been Eating At My Craw!!
Summertime Blues: Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., Senator John McCain A u g u s t 2 0 1 0
100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues 74 page PDF, but there’s plenty of articles, by reliable sources, to read all about without downloading.
Aug 12 2010
Disabled Vets, in Albuquerque NM, May Lose Homes
Disabled veterans facing eviction
08/10/2010 – A local non-profit that provides a home for dozens of vets is behind on its mortgage payment and if money doesn’t come soon, the apartment complex could shut down leaving many of its tenants homeless.For the last five years, the local charity has been providing permanent housing in Northeast Albuquerque for mentally disabled vets who otherwise wouldn’t have a place to live. Now, the organization is $160,000 dollars behind on its mortgage and in danger of shutting down.
Thirty-seven mentally disabled veterans call the apartments home. Some of them used to be homeless.
Rest below fold.
Aug 07 2010
Virginia Pols – Fake Veterans Association – Law Passed
Increasingly Bizarre U.S. Navy Veterans Association Saga: Political Slush Fund
This story seems to have no end as States have started investigating since the St. Petersburg Times first broke it near the beginning of the year.
Aug 06 2010
Ailing OIF and OEF Veterans Bringing Lawsuits
The ‘Agent Orange’ of these occupations, that’s literally as some of these soldiers are suffering from exactly the same extreme physical ailments of the same chemicals, and more, of the defoliants only this time they were sucking in smoke and air from these burn pits, as are the citizens occupied and especially downwind and the ground contamination left from the burns!
Ailing vets sue over smoke from trash fires in Iraq, Afghanistan
Aug 05 2010
HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan – July 2010
Iraq, Rapidly becoming the Forgotten War!!
There have been 4,733 coalition deaths — 4,414 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 South Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians — in the war in Iraq as of August 4 2010, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. At least 31,897 {31,860 last month} U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan
Aug 04 2010
Testvets: Use of wounded US troops in drug trial questioned
Testvets {Mike (Beetle) Bailey’s Blog}! A never ending, and usually unknown by those soldiers being tested, fact of the Military as they have extremely easy to use subjects where results can be turned over to the private sector for profit {especially in these times of private contractors and what’s already surfaced as to}, in the many cases over the years this has taken place on many issues, some still unknown and even denied happened.
Aug 02 2010
Afghan War Logs: what did we learn?
The subject title is the one from a Guardian report one of the participants in the Wikileaks document dump and explanations of.
In this first blockquote, and if in the U.S., think of all that you’ve read or especially heard since the three outlets, the Guardian where this comes from being one, helped bring out what the online Wikileaks had obtained and posted simultaneously.
One disappointed paper deliberately provided the Taliban with a to-do list: it drew their attention to specific Wikileaks documents they might inspect in order to take reprisals. The low point was perhaps reached by Channel 4 News, which respectfully quoted a “spokesman” for the bearded murderers, as he uttered promises of revenge on alleged informants. It felt like PR for the Taliban.
Jul 31 2010
Mullen “blood on the hands”: Wikileaks
This is just the recent but think back these years and all read and heard or watched, this is what a big part of recruitment looks like {and rise of hatreds and thus blowback}, add in the killing, maiming, destruction and creating refugees from their homes and country, and add in while in theaters demeaning those that live there and their neighbors and not only in theater but across this country many doing same!
Jul 29 2010
Military Stress: Army Releases Report on Suicide Prevention
I just can’t think of anything more to add, as not only myself but many others have stated over and over thousands of times in these years, to the three reports and link to the study then are stated within them!
This is a 10MB, 370page pdf download, you can visit the Army site by click the graphic or the link.
Army Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention Report
July 29, 2010 With suicides at an all-time high, the U.S. Army released a report today blaming “a permissive unit environment” for high risk behavior.“For some, the rigors of service, repeated deployment, injuries and separations from family resulted in a sense of isolation, hopelessness and life fatigue,” Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter Chiarelli says in a letter accompanying the report.
Jul 28 2010
(R)’s Wanted To Cut VA Budget, Right After Voting More On War Spending!!!
And not with just one amendment but Three of them, which we All know they would have walked in lockstep in voting for!
Not only do they not want their pimps, the wealthy, the corporations, whoever else they get on their knee’s for, to pay for veterans issues, and more, but they keep trying to Cut VA Budgets by millions while pushing Defense and their Wars of Choice Spending to the limits!!
The following link just popped into my e-box, a quick search didn’t bring up another just yet, wondering if the FOX and company will be outraged, or even report on this as they wave their flags and yell patriotism meme’s, they’re patriotism definitions!
Jul 26 2010
We Didn’t Have Computers, An Internet, 24/7 Cable News or a Wikileaks
By now most have heard about the Afghanistan Docs, some 92,000, that were released by Wikileaks and with coordinated release at roughly the same time by three News Media outlets:
The Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation
Der Spiegel: The Afghanistan Protocol; Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It
Whoever hasn’t will as it’s become the main News Story today hitting every level and the links above give you the main outlets of the reports on the documents released and more.
Jul 26 2010
Wikileaks Strikes Again: Afghanistan Docs!!!
This was just coming in on the MSNBC site, only minutes ago:
90,000 Afghan war documents being leaked
Previously unreported civilian deaths among the disclosures by Wikileaks