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Veterans: Quality of Life

If a veteran needs advice in dealing with the VA, there is help.

(MEDIA, PA) - What is Quality of life for our veterans? The meaning for most upon returning home is security. Jobs that offer equitable pay with benefits, home ownership, education opportunity.

Many veterans returning home bring with them acquired skills. Skills they did not have prior to entering the military.

9-Year Old Child Accosted and Kicked by Israeli Soldier (VIDEO)

Child abuse is child abuse, regardless of whose boot is doing the kicking.

(SALEM / WEST BANK) - Video was just released that clearly shows a young boy being grabbed and then kicked by two adult men- Israeli soldiers.

The Palestinian child, 9-year old Abdul Rahman Al-Burgan, was outside his home and was attempting to walk from the side of the house to the front, when a soldier accosted the boy and forced him to the ground. Another soldier quickly ascended on the kid to give him a hard kick while being held.

UN Tribunal Finds Ethics Office Failed to Protect Whistleblower

Ban has sought to curb the tribunal's jurisdiction but has so far been unsuccessful.

(LONDON Guardian UK) - A landmark case brought by a former UN employee against Ban Ki-moon, casts light on what activists describe as a pervasive culture of impunity in an organisation where whistleblowers are given minimal protection.

James Wasserstrom was sacked and detained by UN police after he raised suspicions in 2007 about corruption in the senior ranks of the UN mission in Kosovo

The Last Days of the Lilliputians

Only when we join together in solidarity will we succeed.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - In Gulliver's Travels the tiny Lilliputians attacked the much larger Gulliver while he was sleeping and tied him to the ground with thousands of threads.

In a similar way the ruling elite have tied the working class in bondage. Small in number but great in power, the elite have designed myriad mechanisms of control to hold the much larger working class down and force it to work for them.

Wikipedia Founder Speaks Up Against the Extradition of Richard O`Dwyer to the USA

Why is the US going to such effort for a copyright violation?

(ST PETERSBURG, Florida) - Richard O'Dwyer is a 24 year old British student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is facing extradition to the USA and up to ten years in prison, for creating a website – TVShack.net.

O'Dwyer is not a US citizen. America is trying to prosecute a UK citizen for an alleged crime which took place on UK soil.

Boland Amendment Redux

Boland had the right idea. It's again deja vu. Ron Paul is today's Boland. This time it's with little congressional backing.

(CHICAGO) - In 1982, the House passed the Boland Amendment. It was attached as a rider to the 1983 Defense Appropriations Act.

It cut off CIA and other covert Contra funding. Washington backed them against Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front.

Simulating an Iranian Attack on Israel - Why?

An Israeli attack on Iran could set the region on fire and leave the U.S. with no choice but to become fully engaged militarily.

(LONDON) - According to reports, the U.S. and Israel are going to hold their largest ever joint military exercise shortly before American voters decide whether to give Obama a second term in the White House.

The exercise, involving thousands of soldiers and the most advanced anti-missile defense systems, will simulate simultaneous attacks from Iran and Syria.

GOP`s Gang Mentality

Our Government is stymied while The Republican Holy See tries to get Mitt Romney elected.

(PASO ROBLES, CA) - The Republican Party has become more a religious than political Party that devolved from the Puritan concept of Christianity.

It uses the same methods Roman Catholics used for centuries to establish its power over those it ruled ruthlessly until Protestants won their freedom from The Church.

Vitamin C Mops Up The Nuclear Age

The medical industry has suppressed the immense value of vitamin C for decades.

(LONDON) - This is perhaps the most important information since the US dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombs opened the terror of the nuclear age and its looming threat of mankind one day being exterminated by radioactive fallout.

That threat is over. Vitamin C mops of free radicals from radiation and repairs DNA.

Steve Emerson was Never an AIPAC Staffer

Emerson is the author or co-author of six books on terrorism and national security.

(SALEM / NEW YORK) - Steve Emerson is considered one of the leading authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations, his biography notes.

An article recently carried by Salem-News.com, incorrectly asserted that Steve Emerson was a staff member with AIPAC - the most powerful lobby for the Zionist government of Israel in the United States.