During a hearing in U.S. District Court Monday, an attorney for an Army officer fighting deployment to Iraq questioned Barack Obama’s legal right to serve as president, asserting he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii.
The Army Experience Center, an amusement hall built in a Philadelphia area shopping mall to make killing and dying look like fun to kids, has been the focus of repeated protests and criticism. This past weekend hundreds again protested at the AEC, an
A nonlethal device best known for beating back pirates off the coast of Somalia was deployed by local police in San Diego at political gatherings, and even at a competition to build sand castles, according to a local publication.
Private security guards who worked for Blackwater repeatedly shot wildly into the streets of Baghdad without regard for civilians long before they were involved in a 2007 shooting episode that left at least 14 Iraqis dead, federal prosecutors charge
Leo Church has been transfer to Ft Lewis, Washington to serve the reminder of his eight month prison sentence for being AWOL while taking care of his family.
According to international law experts, the invasion and ongoing
occupation of Afghanistan is as illegal as the US presence in Iraq. The
United Nations Charter mandates that military force against another
country is only justified when used in self-defense or authorized by
the UN Security Council.
U.S. weapons sales jumped nearly 50 percent in 2008 despite the global
economic recession to $37.8 billion [68.4% of global sales] from $25.4 billion the year before.
I expressed the
view that Oathkeepers should be providing real leadership on this issue
to the American people since this weaponized swine flu threat is the
biggest threat confronting our nation today. Its clearly totally in our
faces with a massive media barrage to try to condition us all to take
it.
Vaccination against the pandemic H1N1
influenza will be required for all uniformed US military personnel,
with the immunizations starting in early October, the Department of
Defense (DoD) has announced
In
years to come, the secret supertroopers of SOCOM may be able to cause a
cell tower to stop working, a vehicle’s fuel tank to suddenly explode,
or a single person to inexplicably be incinerated - all completely
silently and tracelessly, without anyone knowing they were ever there
and not so much as a spent bullet left behind.
A portion of
American taxpayer dollars slated for development projects in
Afghanistan is alleged to end up in the hands of the Taliban, the
GlobalPost reports. The United States Agency for International
Development is investigating if its funds are being used by contractors
to pay the Taliban for protection – from itself.
FORT LEE - Some of the soldiers meeting today’s tough military standards put their skills to the test this morning at Fort Lee.It’s part of a three day long anti-terrorism drill. The Army post staged a fake protest to show how well soldiers and Fort Lee Police are equipped handle the situation.
The White House is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to work harder to rally flagging public support for the war in Afghanistan.With casualties rising, the administration is struggling to persuade voters that the war can be won or is worth the human and financial costs.
On Sept. 2, 2008, U.S. and Iraqi troops smashed in the doors of Iraqi
journalist Ibrahim Jassam's home, shouting "freeze" and holding back
snarling dogs before they hauled him off into the night in his
underwear.
A year later, neither Jassam and his family nor
global news agency Reuters, which employed him as a freelance TV
cameraman and photographer, have been told exactly why he has been
detained for all this time by U.S. military forces in Iraq.
As the protestors make their way towards the fence that separates
Fort Lee from the rest of the world, Police and soldiers gear up for a
possible confrontation.
As the chants grow louder and the protesters get angrier, the
scenario changes from training exercise to being real life in just a
matter of seconds
[wanna bet?] It wasn't a bullet or roadside bomb that felled Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez 3 years ago after 9 days in Iraq.
It was an injection into his arm before his unit left the states.
The
then 20-year-old Marine from Springfield, Mo., suffered a rare adverse
reaction to the smallpox vaccine. While the vaccine isn't mandatory,
the military strongly encourages troops to take it.
U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan
have terminated a contract with a company that was
producing background profiles of reporters covering a war that's
becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public.
U.S. officials denied
American troops were violating Philippine laws by engaging in combat
against Muslim militants, saying they were only training Filipino
soldiers and their mission was temporary.
Allegations
that U.S. troops in the southern Philippines are building permanent
structures and joining the fight against al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf
militants have roiled nationalist and left-wing forces opposed to the
American presence.
The No Child Left Behind Act includes a provision that requires high schools to turn over private information on students to military recruiters and allows the Pentagon to create an extensive database on your child. You can opt out! Here's how!!
The Food and Drug Administration said
it has authorized the emergency use of a swine flu test for
U.S. troops overseas, allowing the military to speed up diagnoses and
treatment of a virus that could cause widespread infections again this
fall.
The inquiry into the relationship
between George Raymond, the director of a technology program at Fort
Belvoir, and Catherine Campbell, a favored contractor, and how it
illustrated core problems in the federal procurement system.
ox News: Tammy Duckworth, an injured veteran who is the assistant secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the manual is still under revision -- as stated in a disclaimer on the official Web site -- and has not officially been "reinstated." She said it was one of many options for injured veterans, calling it "simply a tool." Though Duckworth said the document has not been fully vetted, an official directive from July tells VA health practitioners to refer veterans to the document. Duckworth questioned whether that directive had been authorized at the highest levels. video;
For 42 years, the God and Country Rally in Idaho has started its rally with a military fly over.
The God and Country Rally is a non-denominational rally that supports American soldiers.
For 42 years the Pentagon has carried out the military fly over.
Not any more.
In Barack Obama’s America, the military is no longer allowed to do such things if the group requesting the fly over is Christian oriented.
That’s not an exaggeration.
Let’s roll the tape:
Video;
AS VETS AWAIT CHECKS - VA WORKERS GET $24 MILLION IN BONUSES:
WASHINGTON – Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the form of $24 million in bonuses.
In scathing reports this week, the VA’s inspector general said thousands of technology office employees at the VA received the bonuses over a two-year period, some under questionable circumstances. It also detailed abuses ranging from nepotism to an inappropriate relationship between two VA employees.
The inspector general accused one recently retired VA official of acting “as if she was given a blank checkbook” as awards and bonuses were distributed to employees of the Office of Information and Technology in 2007 and 2008. In some cases the justification for the bonuses was inadequate or questionable, the IG said.
Pfc. Michael Jackson
Apodaca, 18 who was arrested Monday, is accused of working as a paid
hit man, and assassinating a member of the Juarez Cartel who had become
an informant for U.S. authorities.
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