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Hagan Statement on ASTDR Report Detailing Ground Water Contamination at Camp Lejeune

Camp Lejeune Marines illnesses firmly tied to base water contaminants.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - United States Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-NC) has issued a statement on the new Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) report detailing ground water contamination at Camp Lejeune.

“This groundbreaking report provides scientific evidence to verify what our Camp Lejeune families have known for a long time—that the water on base was contaminated with harmful chemicals,” Hagan said.

Veterans Exposed to Chemicals Need to Know

Many if not most of the vets who served on the contaminated bases, don't know.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - For the life of me, I still don’t know why the Veteran Service Organizations have not published the list of 130 military bases on the National Priority List.

The EPA Superfund database is accessible from the internet and the health effects of exposure to many of the contaminants have been well identified.

Is Inmate Rehabilitation Succeeding?

Dichotomous systems like these have been shown to fail throughout history; prison rehabilitation schemes are no exception.

(CHICAGO) - Is Inmate Rehabilitation Succeeding?

No, and the dirty little secret is that it's not designed to succeed. In fact a recent study of prison population growth since 1960 revealed that if the growth rate curve continues on its current trajectory that the prison population will double by 2025 and triple by 2050.

US Army Special Forces Trained Mexican Cartel Members

Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.

(U.S. BORDER WITH MEXICO) - It was a brutal massacre even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug war: 72 migrant workers gunned down by the "Zetas" - arguably the country's most violent cartel.

The Zetas have a fearsome reputation, but the real surprise comes not in their ruthless use of violence, but in the origins of where they learned the tricks of their bloody trade.

Film and Petition Raise Awareness of Mojave Desert Ecosystem Collapse

New film Solar Gold: Mojave Desert Facing Ecosystem Collpse, Massive Extinctions, explores the looming crisis.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - In late 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar introduced a "fast track" process for large scale renewable energy projects to be located in the California deserts.

This fast track process provides energy companies with significant publicly-funded financial incentives from the federal government if they break ground on projects in 2010.

Celebration Legacy c.2010 Thanksgiving Day

21st Century America in the first decade has no remorse for its documented arrogant imperious barbarism and criminal illegal legacy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Mayflower Puritans self anointed reverse victim syndrome is not a conflict or ruse of historical facts but rather a correct perception of unaccountable responsibility of Thanksgiving Day October 2010.

Columbus discovery c.1492 and Mayflower Puritans c1620 are inextricably interrelated to the barbarism inherent in the European Empire influence on America c.2010.

CHAOS AT THE BALLOT:
Demonizing the Opponent, Distracting the Electorate

When do exaggerations take on the shape of outright lies?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Can an aggressive politician play the game of "destroy-and-decoy" at the same time? It certainly seems to be the latest sport in this political hunting season.

Take a good look at the airwaves. You probably cannot help it as the barrage of vile negative political propaganda is dished out your way.

Welcoming Our Troops

A memorable twenty minutes at the airport.

(DALLAS, Tx.) - I am picking up a Turkish friend from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.

His arrival happens to coincide with that of a planeload of U.S. soldiers back from a foreign theater of operations, in what appears to be a regular occurrence given the giant Welcome Home plaque permanently installed on the wall here in the arrivals hall, thanking troops for their service.

Border Activists Target Dollar Store Chain

An El Paso group is now reaching out to potential allies in other cities as it expands the campaign against Family Dollar’s labor policies.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - For more than an hour, business slowed to a trickle at the Family Dollar store in downtown El Paso.

Chanting slogans and hoisting signs, a few dozen picketers marched in disciplined, circular formation on the sidewalk in front of the popular discount store on Stanton Street.

Christianity and the Constitution

(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - Republicans consider our Constitution the equivalent of the Bible when it suits their purpose.

Christine O’Donnell, in trying to divert attention from her fundamentalism, exclaims that if elected she will make decisions and use her Senatorial judgment based only on the Constitution. Nonsense; Angle, Palin, Bachmann, Ron Paul and others are determined to lead us down their misguided religious paths.