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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...

John W. Whitehead Testifies to Senate Judiciary Committee About Protecting Americans from Domestic Weaponized Drone Use

He says the government’s use of drone technology was undertaken without any public discussion...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The FAA Reauthorization Act, signed into law by Obama in 2012, authorized the use of drones domestically for a wide range of functions.

John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute, is calling on Congress to protect Americans against the domestic use of weaponized surveillance drones.

U.S. Army Veteran `found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down and presumed dead`

His daughters refuse to take DNA tests to prove his identity.

(LONDON The Daily Mail) - Sgt. Robertson's name is etched along with 60,000 others onto Washington D.C.'s poignant Vietnam memorial, but now the documentary questions whether he is actually alive and well.

The filmmakers claim to have tracked him down to south-central Vietnam - where the 76-year-old is unable to remember his birthday, his American children’s names, or how to speak English.

Military Pulls Out of Annual Air Shows Across the Nation

"Having the Thunderbird's or the Blue Angels is like having the Super Bowl, it's a household name" - Bill Walkup, manager of the Martinsburg airport in West Virginia

(EUGENE, OR) - Military grounds its jet and demonstration teams because of automatic federal budget cuts which is projected to cost the economy Millions if not Billions!

The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels,the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbird's, and the U.S. Army Parachute Team, known as the Golden Knights will not be doing their annual shows over American airspace this year...

Force Conversion Against Loan, Kiln Workers Rescued from Bonded Labor

The kiln workers usually live in or around that vicinity, but there were no latrines in brick kilns’ houses. The women workers are usually trapped and sexually harassed, she added.

(ISLAMABAD) - Bonded labor is the latest form of slavery in Pakistan.

More than 4.5 million kiln workers and their generations are experiencing overburdened and bonded labor problems at around 18,000 brick kilns...