Obama to reveal Isis strategy ��� but pledges no Iraq war.
A so-called core coalition of 10 countries to tackle Isis announced at last weeks Nato summit in Wales by the US secretary of state, John Kerry, had no Arab members and included only one Muslim state, Turkey. Obama went��.
Capital Playbook: Brian Williams unlikely to return to the chair
Possible anchors include both Today show co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie.2. There are two scenarios in which Williams returns: One, he pulls off a stunning apology tour and wins back the favors of the nation. Two, Nightly tanks so bad.
Probe finds Fort Collins VA Staff taught to Falsify Records
VHAs Office of the Medical Inspector evaluated problems with wait times and passed on a copy of their investigation report to USA Today. What coverage of the report left out, like the names of management, I was sure to��.
EXPOSED: VA Call Centers Block Majority Veteran Calls
Benjamin is an award winning investigative reporter, Veterans Law attorney, and a disabled veteran of the US Air Force, where he served in its Special Operations Command. After receiving an Honorable.. McDonald makes Shinseki and every previous VA Secretary, and every under-secretary, including Allison Hickey Undersecretary of Benefits, look like honest and competent executives, but none of them ever have been. The VA is ran by secret Unions and��.
5 things you need to know Wednesday
Now, almost 100 years later, teams representing the same fighting forces today meet in southern England to remember what became known as the Christmas Truce. The match comes after Prince William visited the U.K.s National Memorial Arboretum on .
Voices: Plenty of restrictions on expression in Europe
The Americans reporters I know in Germany resist this practice, hard. Often I tell sources, Sorry, my publication doesnt allow me to do that. Sometimes the speakers cave, sometimes they dont. But sometimes we just dont have a choice. We wont get.
Feminist writers besieged by online abuse? Washington.
Instapundit, others ridicule VA Secretarys Special Forces service. Twitchy itself received a shout out ��� more of a whispered aside, actually ��� in a piece by Michelle Goldberg published in the Washington Post Friday that claims feminists are beginning to retire from social media rather than endure the ���nonstop harassment that. Spring-boarding from Susan Faludis 1991 book ���Backlash,��� Goldberg writes about the transition from print to the digital media of today.
Risen: Obama administration is greatest enemy of press freedom
I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting to undo damage done to press freedom in the United States by Barack Obama and Eric Holder, Risen continued in another tweet. My son is a reporter. I dont want him to have to live in a country where there.
Inside the Vaccine War: Measles Outbreak Rekindles Debate on Autism.
. of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Autisms False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure and Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us.
Strong D real MVP of Super Bowl
(Sorry, couldnt resist.) Not only did New Englands defense win the Super Bowl but it also got the Patriots to the Super Bowl. New England had to stage a divisional-round comeback versus Baltimore. Patriots down 28-14 early in the second half, the.
Former Marine on Chris Kyle, American Sniper, and Social.
Ross Caputi, a former marine who participated in the USs second siege of Fallujah, writes that the reason the American Sniper book and film have been so successful is that they ���tell us exactly what we want to hear���: that US America is ���benevolent��� and ���righteous���.. And then the State will use the fear to invest in more war and scapegoat until the United States is a foot note in history like Rome, destroyed by its own upper Elites by False Flags, Hubris, and Arrogance.
Boston bombing suspect seen for the first time since 2013
Boston Police Special Operations members patrolled on foot with dogs. Thursdays hearing was the last chance Tsarnaevs lawyers had to ask the judge for new ground rules for the trial. They recently filed a new motion seeking, for the second time, to.
Why SEAL Leaders Are Upset at ONeill, Bissonnette.
Before I turned over the Editor-in-Chief position to Jack Murphy, I did my best to warn them about bad things we heard on the street as it related to the main stream news press. And as much as we try to stay out of Special Ops��.
Getting the Facts Straight on VAs Outreach to Vets.
Looking at the numbers, we see that while IAVA has a single Facebook page with over 205,000 fans, VA has 87 Facebook pages���with a combined subscribership of nearly 220,000 fans. VAs main Facebook page alone.. Tnx KM. ���Instead of waiting for Veterans to find us, were going to seek them out where they already are ��� which is, increasingly, online.��� ��� VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. Tom Caldwell says: March 21, 2011 at 10:42 am. OK I just joined IAVA last��.
VA Expediting Claims Decisions for Veterans Waiting a Year.
Allison Hickey, a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, is VAs Under Secretary for Benefits.. Sorry, I misspoke. VA actually assigns the disability ratings and DoD applies the evaluations to the unfitting condition(s) ��� assuming you went through the IDES process. It could be that VA is trying to reconcile your payment with DFAS, but without seeing. I got a partial decision today, My claim was 11 months old and processed quickly because of my homeless status.
Doctors engulfed in spine surgeon saga
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ��� More than a dozen physicians representing two hospitals have been named as defendants in federal lawsuits that allege they acted in bad faith by allowing a spine surgeon to perform surgery at the hospitals. The doctors in question .
The Endless Tragedy of Vietnam
And the chillingly large number of children and adults who suffer from the effects of the worlds most poisonous defoliant, Agent Orange; today fourth-generation children continue to be born with twisted and useless limbs... The United States.
Operation Desert Storm: 20 Years Later | VAntage Point
I was informed the day we declared war that I couldnt go because my brothers were already ahead of me; one in the Air Force, one on 24 hour deployment notice in the Army. The ship that we were.. Hopefully after I tracked down my medical files from St Louis, all my doctors, clinics and hospitals���.the VA will make a positive decision on my disability claim. At age 55, I feel like I... Yet, today, DOD officials still claim the alarms were all false alarms. If the alarms are��.
VA secretary sorry for false special forces claim
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has apologized for making false claims about having served in the the U.S. militarys elite specials operations forces, the latest scandal to hit the besieged department. The incident, first reported Monday by.
Boston Globe Publishes Spineless Anti-Veteran OpEd
Benjamin Krause is an award winning investigative reporter, Veterans Benefits Law attorney, and disabled veteran of the US Air Force, where he served in its Special Operations Command. He attended Northwestern.. I have filed many claims. And I am pursuing the ones that the VA has either turned down, or just hung onto for years even after being scheduled at 100% pandt. (Oh, by the way, there is not a single false claim that I have filed.) For your information, it��.
Fact check: GOP responses to State of the Union
Sen. Ted Cruz falsely claimed that not a word was said about radical Islamic terrorism. In fact, Obama vowed to combat violent extremism and asked for congressional authority to use force against the Islamic State. ��� Cruz also said Obama could not.
Cuba-US delegations begin talks in Havana
The talks between U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, the top U.S. diplomat for Latin America, and her Cuban counterpart ��� Josefina Vidal, head of the Foreign Ministry��s North American affairs division ��� are the first in 38 years.
Retired generals a target in CENTCOM hacking
A screenshot of U.S.Central Commands YouTube channel Jan. 12, 2015, after the site was hacked. Its Twitter account also was affected. (Photo: European Pressphoto Agency). 24 CONNECT 43 TWEET 1 LINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. WASHINGTON .
MMQB ��� VA Silent On Another VA Director Departure
This news is significant because it signals that VA Secretary Robert McDonald will continue the policy of allowing senior executives to retire without consequence in light of the wait list and related scandals. House. Here is what we will talk about today: Drug scandal likely. Williams admitted that in 2006, he agreed to pay Clark to submit a false claim to the VA on Williams behalf for diabetes purportedly arising from military service during the Vietnam War. Williams��.
Weekly News Digest 06-12 October 2013 | SupportMilitary.org
VA Blaming Claims Backlog Uptick On Shutdown. (USA TODAY, 07 OCT 13) ��� By Gregg Zoroya. The Army is expanding a $50-million-per-year program created in 2009 to help soldiers withstand mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder despite research by its own scientists showing it does nothing to reduce. In her confirmation hearing last month, secretary of the Air Force nominee Deborah James said the service needs to do a better job instilling
The Gulf War Ground Assault: 20 Years Later | VAntage Point
What defined them, in my memory, was their willingness to serve, their dedication, and the way they put their hearts and souls into every assigned task���no different than the young men and women serving today, and over the past decade, in Iraq and Afghanistan. All of them... Only wish is after these 20 years is that VA would recognize these attributes instead of making excuses about the lack of trasined professionals and very long delays on compensation claims.
Top US Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A.
Pieczenik said that Osama Bin Laden died in 2001, ���Not because special forces had killed him, but because as a physician I had known that the CIA physicians had treated him and it was on the intelligence roster that he had marfan syndrome,��� adding that the US... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the videos were fakes; just like Obama himself is a fake, and just like the whole ���U.S. government��� is a fake.. What do his claims have to do with Obamas race?
Terror suspect a stranger at mosque he claimed as own
Authorities say Christopher Lee Cornell who is accused of plotting an attack on the U.S. Capitol is acting oddly in jail and speaking with a fake Middle Eastern accent. VPC. Suspect-mosque-011515. Masjid Abubakr Siddique mosque in the South Fairmount .
Full text: Sen. Joni Ernsts State of the Union response
For two decades, Ive proudly worn our nations uniform: today, as a Lt. Colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard. While deployed overseas with some of Americas finest men and women, Ive seen just how dangerous these kinds of threats can be. The.
January 2010: Adam Ciralsky on Blackwater | Vanity Fair
And in November, as a North Carolina grand jury was considering a raft of charges against the company, as a half-dozen civil suits were brewing in Virginia, and as five former Blackwater staffers were preparing for trial for their roles in the deaths of 17 Iraqis, The New York. His access to paramilitary forces, weapons, and aircraft, and his indefatigable ambition���the very attributes that have galvanized his critics���also made him extremely valuable, some say, to U.S. intelligence.
Suicide bomber kills at least 30 in Yemen
Special cops work to unravel confusing highway pileups · Emergency personnel work at the scene of a. Critics Corner: The Odd Couple is oddly bad. Critics Corner: The Odd Couple is oddly. Raw: Ukraine Forces Leaving Strategic Town. Raw.
VA Nearly Done With Agent Orange Claims | VAntage Point
Today, VA announced that nearly all of the 230,000 claims for Agent Orange presumption for diseases including ischemic heart disease, hairy cell and other chronic B-cell leukemias, and Parkinsons disease have been processed, which has put $3.6 billion into the.. Isnt it something that we can use the military as policing forces to try to maintain security, peace and build democracies in almost any other country that has issues, sometimes wether they want us or not.