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IBTimes: VA Stops Releasing Data On Injured Vets As Total Reaches Grim Milestone

VA ceased to disclose this data despite President Obama’s second-term campaign pledge that his administration would be open and transparent.

(PORTLAND, OR) - As many of you know, the Pentagon reports 51,583 WIA in the two wars through Nov. 3 and 59,908 injured in non hostile causes or sick enough to be evacuated—but only through Dec 3, 2012 when it stopped reporting that category of casualties.

The reason the VA has treated a million vets, although only 111,491 were wounded or injured in theater (to Dec 3), it that most of them (about 890,000) sought treatment for their conditions after they returned home.

Human Rights: Being Positive

Today (Saturday 11-5) we met in Ramallah for a study day to work and organize for a positive future: one democratic secular state in historic Palestine.

(BETHLEHEM) - From now on our posts will have more positive than negative links/stories. But first an unclassified note (time will tell impact): Israeli warplanes attacked Syria.

The Palestinian negotiating team submitted its resignation following Israel’s announcement of building thousands of new Jewish colonial settler homes on Palestinian lands and its announcement of thousands of home demolitions for native Jerusalemites.

First-Hand Observation

Kenya’s vibrancy
Is just a vibe
With little viability.

(UGANDA) - When you live in East Africa
In the vicinity of Kenya;

When you collate
Books like IT’s OUR TURN TO EAT
With what you see in flesh
Where democratically elected MPs
Pass draconian Bills
Just to piss of those
Who coveted their turn
To gorge themselves;

Costa Rican Journalist Calls for Re-Examination of CIA-Contra Drug Links, DEA Agent`s Murder

Lafitte Fernández claims that in the 1980s, the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan went into league with the largest drug traffickers of the era to ship copious quantities of cocaine through Costa Rica and El Salvador to the United States to help support the Contras.

(SAN JOSE) - A crusading Costa Rican journalist working in El Salvador has challenged fellow reporters in Costa Rica to get to the bottom of the presence of Mexican drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero in Costa Rica in 1985.

Tico journalist Lafitte Fernández claims new evidence suggests Quintero was part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to arm and train Nicaraguan Contra rebels with the proceeds of cocaine trafficking through Central America.

Professor Sir Simon Wessely - Right or Wrong?

It has been shown time and again that Professor Sir Simon’s published assertions about disorders such as ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, Gulf War Syndrome, the Camelford drinking water poisoning, and interstitial cystitis are simply wrong.

(LONDON) - When a professional person – especially a doctor – has repeatedly been shown to be wrong in their professional judgment and, as a direct consequence, people have been harmed, that doctor should surely be held personally responsible and accountable.

In such circumstances legitimate criticism should not be dismissed as an ad hominem (personal) attack.

Driver Escapes Injuries in Serious Car Fire (PHOTOS)

A blow out caused the driver to lose control, the vehicle then went between two 6" Diameter size trees hitting both, then striking some bushes, before traveling through a small parking lot.

(TANGENT) - A car fire was reported at Hwy 99E and Old Hwy 34 in Tangent Halloween night, the call came in around 7:20 p.m. according to All Dennis Weis with the Tangent Fire Dept. Investigators say this happened as a result of a blown out front tire. The problem occurred while the driver of the white mini an was heading south on Hwy 99E.

The blow out caused the driver to lose control, the vehicle then went between two 6" Diameter size trees hitting both, then striking some bushes, before traveling through a small parking lot.

Iran to Follow?
White House Expected to Ease Sanctions Targeting Syria

Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly slated to continue meetings with Saudi-Israeli officials in an attempt to tamp down their growing angst.

(DAMASCUS) - Additional easing of Syrian sanctions is expected by mid-November according to staff at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Control (OFAC).

Pressure on Obama from Putin is part of the ‘price tag’ for Russia’s role in bailing out the American president, whose chemical weapons ‘redline’ became something of an albatross.

Ken Collins Responds to Laird Hamilton on Carlos Burle and Maya Gabeira

Laird Hamilton appeared on CNN, saying that Carlos Burle's wave could only be considered the "wipeout of the year" because at the end of his ride, Carlos fell.

(GIG HARBOR) - On October 29, 2013, a massive swell hit Nazaré, Portugal. Big wave surfers Maya Gabiera and Carlos Burle decided to test their merit on the wave.

Maya, despite intense training and preparation, broke her ankle on the wave and, after a struggle, drowned in the turbulent waters. Her rescue partner Carlos Burle managed to get her out of the water and give her CPR on the beach. She was taken to the hospital and will live to surf another wave.

OCA Calls for Boycott of Nestle USA`s Organic Gerber Baby Food and Sweet Leaf Tea

Nestlé was recently caught laundering over $1 million through the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) to defeat Washington State’s I-522 GMO labeling initiative

(FINLAND, Minn. ) - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) today called on its million-plus network to boycott Nestlé USA’s organic Gerber Baby Food and Sweat Leaf Tea.

Last year Nestlé contributed $1.5 million to help narrowly defeat Proposition 37, a California initiative to label GMOs. This year, rather than openly admit to consumers that the company is trying to hide the truth about the GMO ingredients in its products, Nestlé secretly funneled over $1 million, through the Grocery Manufacturers Association, to the campaign to defeat Washington State’s I-522 GMO labeling initiative.

NO FIRE ZONE - One of the Year`s Most Urgent Documentaries

Beautifully crafted and heart wrenching - The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

(LONDON) - Next Tuesday, 5th November at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith as part of Between the Lines festival follow ups we will be showing NO FIRE ZONE: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, Callum Macrae.

The feature-length film is a meticulous and chilling portrayal of the final devastating months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it.