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Hiring Veterans Benefits Employers

Vets Bring More Than Job Skills To The Work Place.

(LOS ANGELES) - Vets on Set is a non-profit organization whose mission statement is to attain entertainment industry jobs for US military veterans. Their main purpose is to achieve this goal of job placement while highlighting little known benefits to employers.

Tales of Glenn Ford in New Biography

Film fans will not be disappointed in this book and the stories by his only child, Peter Ford, and the revelations about his dad - as well as his mom, who was the great dancer, Eleanor Powell!

(LOS ANGELES) - Fans of old movies will probably be familiar with the films of Glenn Ford, including such classics as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Teahouse of the August Moon, and Fastest Gun Alive. Oddly enough, though he appeared in around 100 feature films, there has never been a biography on Ford ... until now.

Ford’s son, Peter, recently authored "Glenn Ford: A Life" published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

`Indigenous America Asks Questions about U.S. Green Policies`

A film about the pan-indigenous movement.

(SOLANA BEACH, Calif.) - It is with gratitude that I share with you the latest documentary short film production from RL | A, "Indigenous America Asks Questions about U.S. Green Policies."

As many of you are aware RL | A is in production with a feature documentary film entitled, "Who Are My People."

Benefits Denied LA USO Volunteer Now Riddled with Cancer from Agent Orange

The VA estimates that there may be as many as 250,000 US veterans who are suffering from Agent Orange-related illnesses.

(LOS ANGELES) - THE RUSS REPORT - Over the last twenty years, cancer has become a way of life for Angeleno Lesli Moore Dahlke who, in 1970, was given the opportunity to travel to Vietnam with the legendary Johnny Grant on a handshaking tour along with three other women.

Her latest diagnosis, just days ago, of lymphoma, is a third cancer which she attributes to her exposure to Agent Orange (AO) in Vietnam.

81 House Members Enjoy Hiatus In Israel

The Washington Post provides the names of only three Democratic travelers...

(CHICAGO) - Eighty-one members of the US House of Representatives—about 20 percent of the total membership—are enjoying a late summer week-long, all-expenses paid trip to Israel.

This hasbara (propaganda) trip happens every other summer (in non-election years), but this year’s excursion to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea comes at a time when voters back home are not thinking about Israel. They are worried about their under-water mortgages and disappearing 401Ks.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gordon Gekko

“You’re all pretty much f*cked. You don’t know it yet, but you’re the Ninja generation—no income, no job, no assets.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Gordon Gekko is a fictional movie character played by Michael Douglas (a role for which he won the best actor Academy Award).

At the end of the first movie, in 1987, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) has turned him in for insider trading and the viewer is left with the impression that GG will go to jail. It’s 1993 before he “actually” does and he is in for almost eight years—released just after 9/11.

Capitalism only works for the ca-pittle-ists

Even George Orwell in 1984 did not imagine this degree of intrusion into private lives.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Americans love freedom. They love it so much that they’ll even pretend they have it, when they haven’t had it for very long time.

Are you free?

University Sues Actor For Warhol Portrait of Farrah Fawcett

The complaint also asks the court to require O’Neal to maintain the work in a “safe and secure” location, pending outcome in the case.

(SACRAMENTO) - The University of Texas (UT) system is suing the American actor Ryan O’Neal for possession of an irreplaceable portrait the renowned artist Andy Warhol created of the late actress Farrah Fawcett.

Filed on July 8 in United States District Court, Central District of California, the university regents alleged that through a living trust, Fawcett bequeathed her entire collection of art to the University of Texas at Austin, her alma mater.

You Can Hear the Drums and Feel the Heat as Agent Orange Rises to the Surface

These are honorable men who gave to their country. They are NOT asking for more than their country promised them. Isn’t it time we fulfilled our promises?

(LOS ANGELES) - Agent Orange is current again. It is relevant again. It is becoming a talking point among many. It is highly emotional, a hot button tender spot, among all who discuss it.

For those who fought, those who didn’t, those in favor and those against the war, it still remains this country’s most hated armed conflict — brutal and bloody.

In the Rockets Red Glare - An Independent American

I have carried no hatred, bitterness or negative energy into this battle. I do not believe it would have changed the outcome. It would only have changed the outcome of “me.”

(LOS ANGELES) - This July, Americans celebrate Independence Day. It is the birthday of the United States of America and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

It's a day of picnics, patriotic parades, ball games, a night of concerts and fireworks, and a reason to proudly fly the American flag. A day we celebrate the rights of all Americans, and the protection we share under our constitution.