Looking back on a disordered life that I occasionally package as journalism, but that actually has more in common with the path of a large ball-bearing through a pinball machine, I don’t really think I will slit my wrists. Though it has its appeal. I mean, it’s unnerving to sail through the vastness of an unasked-for universe, round and round a minor sun, on a ball of rock with billions of… Continue
More troops than ever are surviving their battlefield injuries, often overloading the military’s health care system. Massive blood shortagescontinue to plague military trauma care, and the problem is complicated by the remote, inaccessible locations of today’s war zones.
In 2008, Darpa, the Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm, launched the… Continue
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On July 1, the House sent a bill with $33 billion in war escalation funding in it back to the Senate, but with changes the Senate will have to deal with. There is a good chance the Senate will make changes and
send it back to the House.
The BBC reported on July 4 that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US ballistic missile base in Poland was not directed at Russia. The purpose of the base, she said, is to protect Poland from the Iranian threat.
Why would Iran be a threat to Poland? What happens… Continue
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1 Corinthians 7: 35 But this I am saying to your personal advantage, not that I may cast a noose upon you, but to MOVE YOU to that which is becoming and that which means CONSTANT ATTEDANCE UPON THE LORD WITHOUT DISTRACTION.
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My life can be strange at times, as Jehovah is always leeding me off into the most peculiar…
The celebration of our founders’ 1776 revolt against King George III and the English Parliament is over. Let’s reflect how the founders might judge today’s Americans and how today’s Americans might judge them.
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 to assist some French refugees, James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, stood on the floor of the House to object, saying, “I…
DID THE MILITARY STOP CHENEY FROM DESTROYING THE WORLD?
posted by [Redacted] on Thursday, July 8, 2010
DOES WHITE HOUSE “APOCALYPSE CULT” STEAL NUKES IN ARMAGEDDON PLOY?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
“Remember the one about the B-52 bomber that, according to legend, had six nuclear weapons loaded onto it by accident, which, of course, could not have happened—by accident—for a dozen different reasons, or more.”
In 2007, a bizarre… Continue
Suicides Climb Despite Prevention Efforts
Written by Kelly Kennedy
Thursday, 01 July 2010 09:44
Vice Chiefs Say Solutions Have Been Elusive.
The difference between [the Afghanistan War] and a nightmare is that when you wake up from a nightmare it's over. This is all too tragically real.
July 5, 2010 (Army Times) - As Congress continues to take military leaders to task over historically high suicide rates and mental health issues among the troops, the… Continue
Bombs away! Remember Cambodia
By Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen
The United States war in Afghanistan is "going badly", according to the New York Times. Nine years after American forces invaded to oust the repressive Taliban regime and its al-Qaeda ally, "the deteriorating situation demands a serious assessment now of the military and civilian strategies".
Aerial bombardment, a centerpiece of the US military effort in Afghanistan, has had a devastating impact on… Continue
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On July 4 General David Petraeus assumed command of 142,000 U.S. and NATO troops in a ceremony in the Afghan capital of Kabul. He succeeded the disgraced and soon to be retired General Stanley McChrystal as chief of all foreign troops in Afghanistan, those serving under U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)/Operation Enduring Freedom and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The Case For War - The Iron Mountain Report
By Stephen Lendman
7-7-10
In his 1966 book, "How the World Really Works," Alan B. Jones included a chapter on the "Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace," later published in 1967 by The Dial Press. It became a bestseller, then disappeared. Now few copies are available, but when circulating in the 1960s, it was reported that concerned Johnson administration officials ordered global US embassies to… Continue
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Almost 70 years has elapsed, since the last major conflict erupted in the West, which ended in 1945. All the signs indicate peace is likely to continue, as ties between the Western nations are strengthened through various treaties, reinforcing their allegiance to a common set of values. Europe in particular, there exists is a momentum towards greater unification; the European Union (EU) has evolved from the European Economic… Continue
Added by CHUCK W. on July 8, 2010 at 8:23am —
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“Those who do not learn from history are condemned to re-live it” – George Santayana
By, Adrian Salbuchi,
" As we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology that identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically because the State’s main…
Swettina posted a blog post on an Arizona picture wouldn't come through...I figured it out and wrote a quick page on my personal blog: Peter's Blog Page
For the people that have been living under a rock these past few years you have to know that the FDA is working for corporate interests. This administration of President Obama has been…
Neil Oliver reacts after a top Dutch government official has admitted 'Covid' was a military operation.#gbnews #uknews #covid #coronavirus #covid19 Keep up t...
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...