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U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan

For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than... more

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Unemployment and the returning soldier: transitioning to civilian jobs Continue reading on Examiner.com: Unemployment and the returning soldier: transitioning to civilian jobs - National USO | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/uso-in-national/unemployment-and-the-returning-soldier-transitioning-to-civilian-jobs#ixzz1BLIi0ttq

The majority of unemployed veterans in the US are in the 25-34 year old bracket, yet... more

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RealCombatLife.com

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From War to Peace

Each day Chevy thinks about the different people that he has worked with, and the... more

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Alen Matters

Alen Matters has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and currently is serving in Iraq... more

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Images Operation Iraqi Freedom

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Honorably Discharged USMC Lance Corporal Brent Harvey, Renaissance Man!

Brent Harvey has created Documentaries, Short Films, Online Series, Commercials and... more

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Pot charge against Vietnam veteran illustrates confusion with medical marijuana law

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Open Letter To All Employees Of Monsanto

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Libs Have the Freedom to Bitch! Thank You Courageous Vets

Our country is grateful to our nation’s military service members, both active... more

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Garfield Does Not Hate Veterans, Despite This Strip

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Greatest American War Vet You Never Heard Of - Why?

Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history, was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism. General Butler was still in his teens when, on 20 May 1898, he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War. In the early part of the last century General Butler led assault troops in Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Haiti. He was a regimental commander in France during World War I and later served in China. On 1 October 1931, he was retired upon his own application after completion of 33 years' service in the Marine Corps. Major General Butler died at the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, on 21 June 1940, following a four-week illness.

After his retirement General Butler wrote a book WAR IS A RACKET, which begins as follows:

WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
(read entire book - super-short at www.warisaracket.com)

And in a speech delivered in 1933, General Butler said:

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
(watch re-enacted speech at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0)

General Butler has had a naval destroyer, a military base and a chapter of Veterans for Peace (the 'Smed Butts') named for him. He is loved and quoted not only in the United States, but around the world.

In early 1934, Butler alleged the existence of a political conspiracy of Wall Street interests to overthrow President Roosevelt, a series of allegations that came to be known in the media as the Business Plot. (from wikipedia)

In November 1934, Butler told the committee that a group of businessmen, claiming to be backed by a private army of 500,000 ex-soldiers and others, intended to establish a fascist dictatorship. The McCormack-Dickstein Committee confirmed some of Butler's accusations in its final report. (from wikipedia)
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Thanks, General Smedley Butler for saving us from the New World Order...for at least 75 years. If only people listened to you, we wouldn't have these inbred, power-tripping psycho Federal Reserve, UN, CFR, Bilderberg Group, Committee of 300, CIA, NSA, Goldman Sachs, Trilateral Commission, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Freemason, PNAC f*cks running our country.Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the... more

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GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING: Video of Torture Hearing Released: On this Veterans Day, don't let the voices of soldiers like Sgt. Luther go silent

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A Shout Out to all of our Veterans on Veterans Day

of these incidents are true...we need to appreciate the things that our veterans have... more

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This Veterans Day, Help a Woman Come Home

On Veterans Day, we remember the bodies of dead servicemembers but often overlook the... more

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THE GOP: A ONE HUNDRED YEAR RECORD OF SWINDLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE : Veterans Today

In 1921 — eight years before the great depression — Republicans took over the helm of this nation for 12 years. During that time there were three Republican administrations, the first of which was the administration of Warren G. Harding. History remembers Harding’s administration for one thing more than anything other — scandal. It was during Harding’s presidency that the Teapot Dome Scandal erupted. His administration was considered the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States — until Nixon’s, then Reagan’s, and finally Bush’s.
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Next, in 1923, came Calvin Coolidge, the president that Ronald Reagan is said to have most admired. Coolidge’s policies of large tax cuts, allowing business a free-rein, and his encouragement of stock speculation contributed greatly to the impending stock market crash and the great depression that was to come.
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Then in 1929 Herbert Hoover came to power. During his administration the stock market crashed, starting the great depression. In spite of the fact that by 1933 the unemployment rate was at 33.3% with 16 million people out of work, the Republican, Hoover, just sat, thinking that the economy would eventually rejuvenate itself. During Hoover’s administration 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding that they be paid what they were owed by the government. Hoover responded by calling in federal troops to throw these ex-servicemen off government property.
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Finally in 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a liberal democrat, was elected overwhelmingly. He immediately surrounded himself with a group of the finest minds in the country, including Columbia professors Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Rexford G. Tugwell, and Raymond Moley, known at the time as the “Brain Trust.” After assembling these men and others he went about the business of developing a” New Deal” for the working class people of this country.
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The New Deal had two components — one to help the economy to recover from the effects of the great depression, and a second component to give relief to the American people and to insure that they were never be placed in a position of total destitution again. To help heal the economy Roosevelt created programs that regulated business, controlled inflation, and brought about price stabilization; to bring relief to the people he signed The National Labor Relations Act which guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining, and he created the Social Security Administration to guarantee workers some sort of income once they became too old to work. He also signed the Fair Labor Standards Act which protected workers rights and set a minimum wage for workers.
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With his New Deal in place Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this “bleeding heart liberal”, not only led this country out of the worst, Republican generated, crisis that this country has ever faced, but went on to lead the free world in victory over Hitler in WWII. He then ushered in the most sustained prosperity that the world has ever known.
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One would think that conservatives would have seen the light, but their passion to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the middle and lower classes seems to supersede all logic. Therefore, from the moment that the New Deal went into place, conservatives have been determined to dismantle it. The closest they’ve come to succeeding started during the Reagan administration with Supply-Side Economics, or, “Reaganomics” — and the battle is currently raging in Washington D.C. as we speak.
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Supply- Side Economics was a scheme hatch by U.S.C. economist Arthur Laffer and the Reagan crowd which was supposed to cut the deficit and balance the budget. The theory behind Reaganomics was ostensibly, if you cut taxes for business and people in the upper tax brackets, and then deregulated business of such nuisances as safety regulations and environmental safeguards, the beneficiaries would invest their savings into creating new jobs. In that way the money would eventually “trickle down” to the rest of us. The resulting broadened tax base would not only help to bring down the deficit, but also subsidize the tremendously high defense budget. When the plan was first floated, even George Bush, Reagan’s vice president to be, called it “voodoo economics.”
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Reaganomics, for the most part, sought to undo many of the safeguards put into place during the Roosevelt era and create a business environment similar to that which was in place during the Coolidge Administration. What actually took place, however, was even more like the Coolidge era than planed.
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Instead of taking the money and investing it into creating new jobs, the money was used in wild schemes and stock market speculation. One of these schemes, the leveraged buy out, involved buying up large companies with borrowed funds secured by the company’s assets, then paying off the loan by selling off the assets of the purchased company. This practice cost the citizens of this country its industrial base. In addition, the bottom fell out of the stock market. On Monday, October 19, 1987 the Dow-Jones Average fell 508.32 points. It was the greatest one-day decline since 1914 – 15 years before the Great Depression.

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Fayetteville NC's Veterans Day Parade

Honoring past, present, and future Veterans in America's hometown.

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America to celebrate Veterans Day

Although Veterans Day is hosted and organised in Merrick, Yes, Veterans Day (which was... more

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Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons

by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Here’s the harsh truth... more

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Shocking video from "60 Minutes" on how we are treating our veterans

This video aire Sunday night on CBS' "60 Minutes" and shows how many... more

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