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Admiral Joe Sestak for U.S. Senate

Admiral Sestak always supported our veterans when he was in Congress, and we need him now in the U.S. Senate.

(MEDIA, PA) - When Admiral Joe Sestak declared he would be running for the U.S. Senate this week, I was happy to hear it.

This is primarily because of one reason: he will take care of the veterans our Senators and Congressmen voted to send them to war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military Sexual Trauma: 26,000 Victims and 26,000 Perverts

MST (Military Sexual Trauma) causes the worst PTSD.

(PORTLAND, OR) - I don't know what else to call them, we do have pedophiles and they certainly are perverts assaulting helpless children.

There has got to be a name for ranking sergeants and officers who take advantage of their positions of authority to assault personnel supposedly under their care.

US Accepts Durand Line as Formal Pak-Afghan Border

The remarks by US officials were widely criticized by the government of Afghanistan.

(KABUL Khaama Press ) - The U.S. has once again emphasized the legal status of the Durand Line as the border line between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This, despite Afghan president Hamid Karzai's insistence that the government of Afghanistan will never accept the legal status of Durand Line.

Democracy Tsunami About to Hit Pakistan

The days of military dictatorships are being consigned to history and the beacon of democracy in Pakistan is burning brighter and brighter with each passing day.

(TEHRAN) - Pakistan’s powerful generals and feudal landlords have managed to keep the people poor and uneducated and the country underdeveloped for years.

But it appears that they are finally going to be swept from power this week as the wave of the people’s desire for democracy has begun surging into a tsunami.

Inviting Armageddon

Try as I may to keep my self imposed vow of silence on Syria the time has come for me to speak out. Armageddon awaits.

(LONDON) - My silence was born from the deep belief that if you have nothing constructive to say regarding any on-going conflict then keeping your own counsel is best.

What could you or I, as Arabs and Moslems and children of Greater Syria, say when you see that everything that you have been brought up to believe in has been destroyed?

Marine With Prostate Cancer in Pain, Called 911 for Help

An El Toro Marine with prostate cancer was left on his own to drive home after telling a cancer center treatment doctor of severe abdominal pains.

(SOMERDALE, NJ) - Cancer is not something that anyone would volunteer for or for that matter wish on another human being. The cliché ‘avoid like the plague’ comes immediately to mind.

Images of bone thin humans wasting away in a hospice bed flood the mind; unable to eat from the effects of chemotherapy; awaiting death’s call; sedated with drugs to kill the pain; all hope of recovery gone.

Did China Just Invade India?

According to news reports in India Chinese troops have set up checkpoints 19 KM inside Indian borders with a banner that reads “You are in Chinese Territory”.

(WASHINGTON DC IntelliHub) - Hostility is rising between India and China over their disputed Himalayan border and shared water resources.

All of this comes just before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is scheduled to visit New Delhi next month.

Marijuana Prevents Suicides

In 2010, 38 thousand people committed suicide. About seven thousand were veterans.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Oregonian and and The New York Times both had headlines, May 3, 2013, 'Suicides Surge in United States and Oregon'.

I believe military PTSD victims have the highest rate but there are far more civilians in that same age group.

Armed Forces Memorial Month

All we ask is for our Legislators to do their job, pass legislation to help our veterans in need.

(MEDIA, PA) - Armed Forces of wars past and present are honored with monuments and memorials. They are symbols to remind us Freedom is not Free, it is paid for in blood.

Those who served wrote a blank check to our Country payable at any cost to include the giving of their life in the name of Freedom.

Conquerors from The Congo to The Jordan

The formula used by Leopold and the Zionists is a well-worn conquerors’ formula of deceit, deception, destruction and seizure.

(CHICAGO) - In the late 19th century, Henry Morton Stanley (of Stanley and Livingston fame), was the “king’s man”— more accurately, a hired colonist conqueror—working for Belgium’s King Leopold II.

Stanley’s assignment: Seize and conquer the vast and unexplored territory surrounding Africa’s Congo River...