Don't believe the VA - military medical histories exist

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Tuesday September 03, 2013 · 2:10 PM PDT

2013/09/03 · 14:10

I was repeatedly told by VA representatives that my father's WWII military medical records had burned up in the fire of 1973. Three times! Told unequivocally to forget it!

Surprise: when I filed a request with the National Archives, they even came up with his 1944 medical board retirement hearing transcript. And much more.

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Has anyone else heard this yarn concerning the VA about all the medical records having burned up in 1973? Please write in your account if so.

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Has anyone else heard this yarn concerning the VA about all the medical records having burned up in 1973? Please write in your account if so.

yes

13 votes

5 votes

The Occupation is Not Civil Disobedience

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Tuesday October 04, 2011 · 7:42 PM PDT

2011/10/04 · 19:42

Why is the occupation being called civil disobedience, when the people have the constitutional right to peaceful assembly?

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. wiki

Rather it has become a Teach-In. Notice in this video how Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is observing the law by not employing a megaphone.

Someone tell me what laws are being broken?

Below the fold: why this distinction matters.

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Should it be illegal to peacefully gather in public to discuss issues?

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Should it be illegal to peacefully gather in public to discuss issues?

yes

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21 votes

I will answer in a comment

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“the worst shooting in US history…” December 29, 1890?

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Tuesday December 28, 2010 · 3:55 AM PST

2010/12/28 · 03:55

We've heard it too many times:

“the worst shooting in US history…”

With saddened respect to all those who are mourning victims of various public outrages, these may also be teachable moments for the US about her own history.

For it is an insult to the native people of this hemisphere to overlook their collective slaughter with mass shootings by the US cavalry ending barely 100 years ago.

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Friday December 24, 2010 · 10:45 AM PST

2010/12/24 · 10:45

I had a nightmare about snowfall last night, although we haven't seen any yet. So what's strange about dreaming of snow?

We are in Mexico in a place which has never seen snow. But this year El Nino and La Nina are going loco, to put it mildly.

The entire world is experiencing bizarre weather, and it may relate to the oil gusher in the Gulf. Experts said the Gulf Loop Current was broken last June, and that there would be freezing weather this winter.

Various links for your consideration under the fold.

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What is the truth about the health of the Gulf of Mexico?

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What is the truth about the health of the Gulf of Mexico?

They fixed it and everything is fine.

2 votes

They fixed what they fixed but there remain problems.

39 votes

They did not seal the gusher.

11 votes

I have not paid any attention and don't plan on it. Don't bother me with this.

3 votes

Here comes the apocalypse

32 votes

evaporation, schmevaporation

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Wednesday June 30, 2010 · 2:39 AM PDT

2010/06/30 · 02:39

Down here in Mexico, there is a winter storm which scoops schools of fish out of the Gulf and scatters them far inland - frozen.

Hurricanes are famous for hurling cattle, houses, cars, boats - anything - far inland.

So why is the public discussion often limited to whether toxic materials in the Gulf can evaporate and hence be brought inland?

A hurricane is infinitely more powerful than that. I believe people in the shore regions of the Gulf are in much more peril than has been publicized. More under the fold.

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Have you been led to believe that evaporation is the only means by which the Gulf toxins could be brought inland?

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Have you been led to believe that evaporation is the only means by which the Gulf toxins could be brought inland?

Yes

1 vote

7 votes

Too busy packing to fool with this diary

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43% Goldman Sachs' BP stock sold before spill - update

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Wednesday June 02, 2010 · 7:59 AM PDT

2010/06/02 · 07:59

I ran across an interesting link while surfing this morning, indicating that Goldman Sachs sold 43.7% of its BP stock three weeks before the spill.

Under the fold please...

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Thursday October 25, 2007 · 5:02 AM PDT

2007/10/25 · 05:02

There's a dandy one going around best illustrated by what followed this question:

I was informed a month or so ago that my mortgage (30 year fixed) was sold to Citigroup. Any idea what this means for me? I can only imagine that it is not good.

A helpful but mistaken reply:

It's unsettling to have your personal loan vanish into the virtual world of equity-backed securities. But Citigroup, or whoever they sold your mortgage to, cannot unilaterally change the terms of your legally binding loan contract. As long as you make your payments on time, nothing changes for you.

Better have a close look at your mortgage contract. This is usually not the case.

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Had you understood the above mortgage clauses?

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Had you understood the above mortgage clauses?

yes

8 votes

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Globalized Death: Foreign Investors in US War Machine

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Thursday September 27, 2007 · 2:24 AM PDT

2007/09/27 · 02:24

What it will take to be heard on the war/occupation is an international effort, teaming up with citizens of other nations secretly invested in the global war machine.

Now we are learning what really immobilizes Congress - what deafens them to their electorate. Because finally a recommended diary by a credible source tells the truth: the US is owned by her creditors.

So is Congress. Congress has been "globalized" in their concerns. They are highlighting the concerns of foreign investors in preference to their own electorate. This is the gory backside of globalization.

And US war/occupation efforts are now "globalized investment opportunities." Sometime sooner (or probably later) it will also be well understood: there is heavy foreign "investment" in the US wars/occupations by numerous foreign governments. Their citizens will have to speak up together with the US public.

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Sunday September 02, 2007 · 11:58 AM PDT

2007/09/02 · 11:58

The world is feeling the effects of what has been termed "the American Plague:" bogus accounting methods widely employed by Wall Street giants. This video clip titled mark to make believe says it all.

When the whole Ponzi scheme blew apart, suddenly all the misdealing was blown wide open to view. The finance blogsphere is having a field day exploring white collar crime, but the MSM steadily drums for the blood of the little guy as scapegoat.

Before the kleptocracy formally pillories the US mortgage holder, we must consider an issue of Russ Winter‘s daily blog titled Chorus Against the American Plague which outlines the legal (!!) accounting gimmickry which lies at the heart of the finance meltdown.

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have you seen much reporting about corruption at the top level?

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have you seen much reporting about corruption at the top level?

No, they want the blod of the little guy

6 votes

Dribs and drabs, but this is mostly new to me

0 votes

I knew they were rotten, but wow

3 votes

I read finance media regularly and am entirely aware of all of this

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Frankenstein Finance: Supercomputers Play Craps with Mortgages!

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Friday August 17, 2007 · 4:58 AM PDT

2007/08/17 · 04:58

No kidding - what is at the heart of the credit industry meltdown is a story Kurt Vonnegut might have channeled: literally a game of computerized craps.

While the US homeowner is being impugned and scapegoatedfor the credit meltdown in the MSM, the comely mask was torn off a monster, exposing insider trading at the heart of the fiasco. While the MSM pillories the US mortgage holders, finance media blogsphere erupts into a field day satirizing "Frankenstein Finance" and computers gone berserk

Time to shred the costumery and parlance adorning hedge funds. This is too easy to understand. This credit crash evokes 2001: A Space Odyssey and the treacly voice of Hal, one seemingly omniscient computer.

Hal, you there? Hal, can you help us make sense of this mess?

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is this helpful

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is this helpful

no new information here

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fun anyway

0 votes

somewhat - I knew most of this

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yes, I learned something

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answer in comment

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The Montana Index: the Rich are Heading for the Hills, or Costa Rica, or...

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Friday July 20, 2007 · 2:18 PM PDT

2007/07/20 · 14:18

In a phenomenon I would call the Montana Index, the US rich (primarily erstwhile GOP Bu$hco supporters) are expatriating the US in record numbers (30,000+/month) for choice locations such as the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, the Virgin Islands, or Paraguay , or... any place but the urban US. Those who stay behind are heading for the hills of places like Montana .

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how well do you understand the credit bubble

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how well do you understand the credit bubble

not at all

7 votes

not well but better thanks to this information

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so-so

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rather well

28 votes

so well I should have written this diary and then some

2 votes

Get A Horse

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Tuesday June 05, 2007 · 5:56 PM PDT

2007/06/05 · 17:56

and Other Ideas About Peace

The age of big oil would have us think that livestock and agriculture are health hazards within communities or cities. Funny that Big Oil and auto manufacturers would notice that about horses. I say manufacturing will never surpass the horse. Because the horse reproduces itself. Can your car do that?

But there are ways to live with superior environmental stewardship and less cost. More below the fold, after the wake-up call.

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ever ride or have a horse?

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ever ride or have a horse?

yes

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7 votes

tell you about it in a comment

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Don't believe the VA - military medical histories exist

The Occupation is Not Civil Disobedience

“the worst shooting in US history…” December 29, 1890?

Gulf Loop Current - Broken? - update II

evaporation, schmevaporation

43% Goldman Sachs' BP stock sold before spill - update

WARNING about mortgage foreclosure

Globalized Death: Foreign Investors in US War Machine

The “American Plague”

Frankenstein Finance: Supercomputers Play Craps with Mortgages!

The Montana Index: the Rich are Heading for the Hills, or Costa Rica, or...

Get A Horse