Sunday, August 11, 2019

Veterans related links 081119



Daytona Beach Tattoo - 3 August 2019 @ Peabody Auditorium - 7 PM

Help Protect Veterans from Scams

AARP WATCHDOG ALERT HANDBOOK, VETERANS’ EDITION: 9 WAYS CON ARTISTS TARGET VETERANS

Summary of VA Dependents’and Survivors’ Benefits

Moving Forward: Overcoming Life’s  Challenges

CMCVAMC ChooseVA Newsletter Volume 1. 2018

CMCVAMC ChooseVA Newsletter Volume 1. 2018

Camden County to Host Four-Day Commemoration of Vietnam War

Vietnam 50th Anniversary Commemoration Event

Four-Day Commemoration of Vietnam War To Be Held This September

Veterans Enrollment, Information and Wellness Expo: Saturday, September 14, 2019

2019 VETERANS WELLNESS EXPO: September 14 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

VA Offers New Urgent Care Benefit for Enrolled Veterans

VA offers new Urgent Care Benefit for enrolled Veterans

RAO Bulletin Update 01 August 2019

Military History Anniversaries 1 thru 15 August

Five years after Phoenix scandal, VA still doesn’t keep reliable wait-time data

5 Years After Nationwide Scandal, VA Still Struggles to Track Wait Times

Veterans Affairs Still Lacks ‘Accurate’ Wait Time Information

Department of Veterans Affairs’ new ‘smoke-free’ policy doesn’t apply to employees

Lawsuit filed against VA secretary over delaying benefits for Blue Water Navy vets

Inspector general community launches new online reporting tool for whistleblowers

New accountability office hasn’t made a dent in VA’s ‘culture of retaliation,’ whistleblowers say

Medical Records Anywhere, Anytime

Images and X-rays Available Online

The Jewish Veteran Newspaper

The Jewish Veteran Newspaper Past Issues

Sally-Alice Thompson: A Life Dedicated To Peace And Justice For All

The Shores of Normandy - Jim Radford (D-Day 70 Years On)

The Shores of Normandy by Jim Radford (Lyrics)

Every Day is Extra

The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I

Memories in Green

Auspicious Journey: The Gift of Peace in a Time of War

The National Cemetery Scheduling Office in St. Louis: Gateway to Burial and Memorial Benefits for Veterans and their families

Executives needed to lead Veteran care in 11 cities: Modernize and transform Veterans’ healthcare as executive director/chief executive officer of a VA medical center

#VeteranOfTheDay Marine Veteran Steve Weintraub

Robert Lynn Cox: Faces of service

“Eat it or starve:” food causes stress for women Veterans.  VA researchers hear about a range of unhealthy eating habits that women developed in the military

My Lai: Ghosts in another Vietnam wall

Treating the cause of Insomnia: Behavioral Treatment works best

Borne The Battle #156: Daniel Sharp, Marine Veteran, CEO PopSmoke Media, Podcast Host

Veterans receive free concert, sporting event, family activity tickets: VetTix, VA team up in official partnership

Veterans highlight the importance of VA adaptive sports: Their personal stories of how the program changed, saved their lives

#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Joseph Edward Cook

VA, DeepMind develop machine learning system to predict life-threatening disease before it appears

Episodes of Non-Adherence to Privacy and Security Policies at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center Long Beach, California

Follow-Up Review of the Veterans Crisis Line Canandaigua, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; and Topeka, Kansas

VA announces upcoming awards of more than $400M in grants to help Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness

TogetherWeServed.com offers digital shadow box.  Their mission: Capture the story of every Veteran

VA North Texas opens new mental health facility

When Veterans Should Use Urgent Care Centers vs. Emergency Departments

#VeteranOfTheDay Army Air Corps Veteran Alfred Clark

VA achieves critical milestone in its Electronic Health Record Modernization Program

VA enhances research and education efforts related to airborne hazards and burn pit exposure with newly restructured research hub

VA researchers receive nation’s top award for early career scientists

VA releases Benefits Administration’s 3rd quarter benefits performance results

Isolated And Struggling, Many Seniors Are Turning To Suicide

Declared Dead At War, He Returned Alive To Find His World Had Moved On Without Him

#VeteranOfTheDay Women Airforce Service Pilots Veteran Mildred Darlene “Micky” Tuttle Axton

John Rowan to Serve Eighth Term As National President of Vietnam Veterans of America

Wilkie: Veteran services on Guam to be upgraded

Agent Orange report being finalized

Research Into Burn Pit Exposure Expands

With deaths by suicide rising, Air Force orders resiliency stand-down

Trump signs Rep. Ben Cline's LEGION Act into law

VA, Defense Department announce milestone in electronic health records storage

VA Has Signed Up 5,000 Urgent Care Providers Nationwide Since Mission Act

Scientists Uncover Genetic Links to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

#VeteranOfTheDay U.S. Coast Guard Veterans

Mismanagement of a Resuscitation and Other Concerns at the Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Biloxi, Mississippi

"Say Goodbye" by Shaun Schipper

A Birthday Like No Other

More Vets Will be Headed to Nursing Homes, and VA May Not Be Ready: Report

Airline pilot flies dad's remains home from Vietnam 52 years after seeing him off at same Dallas airport

An American Hero Killed In Vietnam Comes Home, And An Entire Airport Terminal Stops To Watch

Colonel Roy Knight Jr. Is Coming Home

Criminal Justice and Racism links 081119



How progressive prosecutors can transform criminal justice

Scams & Fraud

With racism in America, there is never a teachable moment

George Will's startling assessment of Donald Trump

Behind Trump’s go back demand is a long history of rejecting different Americans

George Conway: Trump is a racist president

White identity politics drives Trump and the Republican Party under him

White Identity Politics (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)

Looking to the Future, Public Sees an America in Decline on Many Fronts: Majorities predict a weaker economy, a growing income divide, a degraded environment and a broken political system

Trump’s incendiary rhetoric is met with fading resistance from Republican and corporate leaders

Trump’s Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don’t Condemn Them

Melania Trump silent as her husband attacks congresswomen by implying they aren't US citizens

‘1950’s racism straight from the White House’: Trump’s tweets revolt politicians around the world

Attorney General speaks out against anti-Semitism and racism

A Racist in the White House

Trump Goes All In on Racism: The president’s tweets are an invitation to a racial conflict that pits citizen against citizen, under the calculation that racism itself is a winning political strategy.

Four more years of an authentically racist Trump?

Ben Carson Tries To Use A Black Church To Defend Trump’s Racism And Gets Kicked Off The Property

Do Americans favor capital punishment? That depends on whether murder rates rise or fall

Your racist uncle was never funny

This is the America we are, unfortunately

'Too bad!': Trump reacts to break-in at Cummings' Baltimore home. Cummings said he "scared the intruder away by yelling" before the person got into the residential part of the house.

A looming civil rights fight could shift political power away from Philly and North Jersey: Philly would lose at least one state House seat, and the suburbs would lose another

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.  For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught - John Pizzarelli

Raging white man gets knocked out — twice — after attacking black father at community pool

Nashville cop resigns in disgrace after being caught slamming black woman into a car over expired tags

‘This is insane!’ Fox panelist unloads as co-hosts twist themselves into knots to excuse Trump’s racism

Trump’s attack on CNN’s Don Lemon quickly backfires after everyone points out it makes him look even more racist

Ohio editorial begs Trump fans not to embarrass state at tonight’s Trump rally

Daughter of segregationist George Wallace: ‘Never seen anything’ like Trump — not even my father

Fox hosts shout down colleague Juan Williams when he notes that Trump's racism is a fact.  Greg Gutfeld: “That's called an opinion Juan, it's not a fact. I could keep saying it, he won't listen”

As Pa. prisons ban tobacco, new informal currencies arise: chips, ice cream tickets, ramen

Inmate deaths at state prisons are unconscionable

My Dad Taught Me How to Build Things. Now I’m Doing It in Prison.  “What neither of us knew was that coming to prison would create new worlds for me to build.”

We Are All Executioners Now: Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the government will put five prisoners to death in six months, ending a 16-year hiatus.

Ten prisoners died in Dauphin County in past 5 years

Prison Heat: Part of Delco Prison goes without air-conditioning during 100-degree heat waveatures

Prisoners go without air conditioning in Camp Hill during central Pa. heat wave

Behind bars, they beg for medical attention from a giant government contractor. For some, help doesn’t come – or it comes too late. A CNN investigation exposes preventable deaths and dangerous care that government agencies have failed to stop.

States have millions of $ to help victims of crime, but seven ban aid for people with criminal records. A close look at two states shows how this hurts black families the most.

I’m 31. I’m a Lawyer. And I’m Still Getting Stopped by the Police.  “Despite everything I have accomplished, this is still happening to me.”

PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY

GRATERFRIENDS archives

GRATERFRIENDS

Gov. Wolf commutes life prison term for man convicted in 1968 Harrisburg bank robbery-murder

Last death-row inmate at Eastern State returns after 50 years in prison

Life Without Murder: The Decline and Promise of Society can be best gauged by entering it's Prisons. This is a story about an innocent Man unlawfully ... since the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's.

In 2019, thousands of community members are returning home from federal prison under the First Step Act. Passing this bill was only our first step – our next is making sure those returning home are #ReentryReady to make their return home a supported and successful one.

Opinion: Why Brandon Flood, freed from prison nine years ago, is right choice for Pennsylvania’s pardon board

HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER DEDICATED TO PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS

Welcome to Prison Legal News!

Prison Living Magazine

Traits and Emotions of a Salvageable Soul: A Conversation with a Touch of Class: Volume 1 Kindle Edition

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Ghetto Prophecy 7Th Street: The Untold Story

Solitary

Sequence of Protocol

Why Are So Many Black Men In Prison? A Comprehensive Account Of How And Why The Prison Industry Has Become A Predatory Entity In The Lives Of African American ... The Largest Prison System In The World

GETTING OUT & STAYING OUT: A Black Man's Guide to Success After Prison

Letters to My Younger Self: An Anthology of Writings by Incarcerated Men at S.C.I. Graterford and a Writing Workbook

Julián Castro answers CNN's most racist question of the night and it's pretty magical

Gilroy terror underscores how deep the tide of white nationalist hate and violence has become

The infuriating, heartbreaking facts of the preventable Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

Audio surfaces of conservative patron saint Ronald Reagan being a raging racist

We need to punish the GOP for embracing Trump's racist attacks on a black congressman. Here's how

Eddie Glaude

FBI agents are reluctant to pursue white nationalist extremists because they don't want to target Trump's base, former counterterrorism official says

Obama urges Americans to reject racist language from top

McCollister says GOP, his party, is enabling white supremacy; Ricketts disagrees

Obama calls on Americans to reject leaders who feed 'climate of fear and hatred'

Seeing Color in Green Spaces: How to Increase Diversity in Conservation.  Black Americans are underrepresented in conservation and outdoor retail careers. To change that, White employers need to apply their liberal values to the workplace.

Decarcerate PA is a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania.  We demand that PA stop building prisons, reduce the prison population, and reinvest money in our communities.

El Paso congresswoman to Trump: Don't come here

The Black Vests Fight For France's African Undocumented Migrants

Regular Session 2019-2020 PA Senate Bill 135 - An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses; in miscellaneous provisions, establishing the Life with Parole Reinvestment Fund; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.

Regular Session 2019-2020 PA House Bill 135 - An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses), 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in authorized disposition of offenders, further providing for sentence of persons under the age of 18 for murder, murder of an unborn child and murder of a law enforcement officer; in sentencing, further providing for sentences for second and subsequent offenses; in miscellaneous provisions, establishing the Life with Parole Reinvestment Fund; and, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, further providing for parole power.

How can we fight white nationalist terror when press won't even call Trump racist?

Texas police lead black man down street on end of rope: Police chief apologises for ‘unnecessary embarrassment’ of arrested man in Galveston

"Agent Orange" Original Song

Learn More About Compassionate Release in The First Step Act

My Black Mentee Is Embarrassed by My Whiteness. What Should I Do?
Another reader asks, “How can I gain my girlfriend’s respect?”

SEX TRAFFICKING PROSECUTIONS PLUMMET UNDER TRUMP.

COLUMN: Trump's brand of racism is nothing new; but it's still ugly

Weapons of the Weak: Americans are used to arguments about identity. But one of the most common coping mechanisms of impacted people is to remain silent.

The Real Race Card: “Racist” can be a problematic word. It is badly misunderstood and can be overused. It lacks definition and has come to mean, for many, hatred for the other.

We must address the mixed messages our country is sending to women and girls

Liz Cheney Goes All-In on Trump’s Racism: Meet the Future of the GOP

Trump’s racist behavior is infamous and longstanding

President Trump Redefines ‘White House’

Socialists of Color to the Front: LeftRoots, a socialist group with majorities of women and people of color, is strategizing to win.

FIRST PERSON | Dehumanized and Still Holding onto Jesus

INSIDE THE WALLS | Reform 2.0: Love and Money

HUMANISM 101 | End Cash Bail

Professor Breaks Down U.S. Racism, Trump’s ‘Ugliness’ In 3 Powerful Minutes: Trump is “a manifestation of the ugliness that’s in us,” Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. told MSNBC.

Court Sentences 77-Year-Old Disabled Veteran To Die In Prison For Treating Illness With Marijuana

Rantin' Randy's Rant 8-10-19

Smoking Gun: Politicians Say the Most Racist Things. Examples of things said by office-holders and aspirants around the country.

The Triumph of Their Will: White nationalists are building political power from within the Republican Party.

How the Alt-Right Plans to Take Over: Their ‘war of position’ will unfold on cultural terrain.

Inside the Hive Mind: After several years submerged in violent prison racism, I became a fascist.

Receiving Our Inheritance: A legendary civil rights organization comes face-to-face with white supremacy—again.

The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics

Negin Farsad: A highly scientific taxonomy of haters

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, awaiting sex trafficking charges, dead of apparent suicide

‘A Nazi travels to Palestine’: A swastika and Star of David on one coin. The unique, juxtaposing coin, sold in a recent Israeli auction, contains the remarkable story about an unlikely friendship between two Germans—a Jew and a Nazi—and about the forgotten moment in history when it might have still been possible to save the Jews of Europe from extermination.

Economics and Corruption related links 081119



Domestic workers deserve labor protections


Boris and Donald’s Wrecking Ball: It will be a new sort of “special relationship” as the men who lead the U.S. and the U.K. work to undo what their predecessors built after World War II.

Let's talk about snapping up cost of living differences.....

Let's talk about the goals of safety nets like SNAP....

Nigel Farage has launched a pro-Brexit group which can take anonymous US cash: World4Brexit, registered in Michigan for tax purposes, is reportedly expected to get "informal advice" from Steve Bannon

French banks could be forced to close 40,000 accounts of 'accidental Americans'

The more we learn about Brexit, the more crooked it looks

'A whole new world’: New law lets Pennsylvania foster kids attend college tuition-free

House and Senate Democrats Unveil Resolution To Save Pre-Existing Condition Protections From Harmful Trump Administration Rule Pushing Junk Plans

Every day pediatricians encounter mental health system’s intolerable lapses

The steep angle of hope

Kamala Harris Releases Healthcare Plan Calling for Privatization of Medicare

Trump FCC Votes to Radically Redefine Local Franchise Agreements and Undermine Community Needs

Lowe's is laying off thousands of workers

Lowe’s Fires Thousands of Workers Despite Getting $1 Billion from Trump Tax Cuts

Rees-Mogg and the AfD’s Alice Weidel have a lot in common – all of it nasty: The ERG supremo and the far-right German leader are nationalists linked by their hatred of the EU and much else

JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick

What level of disparity in health care are we willing to tolerate

Another Trump first: He’s the pro-hunger president

Lapse in hospice care leaves a wound and stirs response

An insecurity complex over Social Security

91 Year Old Terminally Ill Hospital Patient Knits Over 9000 Winter Hats For The Homeless

Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can Do in a Corrupt Political System

Manischewitz is selling all of its kosher food business

Irritating Compounds Can Show Up In 'Vape Juice'

Few German Mothers Go Back To Work Full Time. These Are The Challenges They Face

Why governments should prioritize well-being

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez reminds everyone that undocumented immigrants 'pay for your kids’ schooling, too'

Brexit: Majority of older Leave voters say significant economic damage is 'price worth paying', finds YouGov.  71 per cent of over-65s would accept a big economic hit – and half are willing for family members to lose their jobs

Chinese communist leaders denounce US values but send their children to US colleges

Remain-supporting couple’s house ‘targeted’ with eggs after putting up anti-Boris Johnson poster
Vandals attack home featuring pro-EU posters in windows

Medicare for All — What's Necessary and What's Not: A physician explains the 3 essential features Medicare for All must have — and 2 serious distractions that could waylay it.

JIM HIGHTOWER: Farmers up against monopolies

The devastation of farm country is biting us all on the butt

Betsy DeVos on Education: Voucherize, Privatize and Segregate

Drug Price Gouging: An American Story

Kissing Industry’s Butt in Laurel, Miss.

Is There a Future for Unions?  For labor to secure gains, in the United States or Canada or anywhere, workers must mobilize. We have to bring everyone together, women, men, poor people, people of color, gay people—all working people

Replace Patent Monopolies With Direct Public Funding for Drug Research

Martial law plans being prepped to prevent riots after no-deal Brexit

The Economy and the Election

Neoliberalism Down on the Farm

My Daughters Will Not Grow Up With Disney. Here’s Why.

Megan Rapinoe and the USWNT Are the Heroes America Needed: The World Cup champion team cannot be bossed or bought

No-deal Brexit: Lorry drivers 'could face two day waits without food or toilets'

Here’s Where the 2020 Candidates Stand on Labor: Democrats have a history of empty promises when it comes to bolstering unions and workers' rights. Who can be trusted in 2020?

McKinsey and Company Is an Elitist Cult. Why Is Buttigieg Defending It?  The management consultancy firm is “the single greatest legitimizer of mass layoffs.” And its alumni are loyal for life.

Warren and Sanders Say We Need a “Right To Repair” Tractors. Here’s Why That’s Important.  From John Deere to Apple, corporations try to prevent you from fixing your own stuff. But a growing movement is pushing back.

Some on the Left Want To Nationalize Amazon. Breaking It Up Is a Safer Bet.  Antitrust action has worked in the past. We can use the same model against Amazon.

Breaking Up Amazon Doesn’t Go Far Enough—We Must Put It Under Public Control: A nationalized Amazon could be put to use in building a more equitable, democratic economy.

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

We could lose the whole farm: farm bankruptcies rise as Trump’s trade war grinds on

Brexit: What is the scope for re-opening the negotiations with the EU?

China Stops Buying US Agricultural Products Entirely

Op-Ed: What the government should be doing — but isn’t — to guard against unsafe prescription drugs

Pete Buttigieg's health care plan for rural America aims to attract immigrant doctors, provide better technology

Trump insists Fed cut rate sharply as he sounds pessimistic note on China talks

SHOULD BIG TECH BE BROKEN UP?

Don’t Break Up Facebook — Treat It Like a Utility

Google, Facebook and Amazon face tough questioning over potential monopolies: The tech giants weathered many critiques during a congressional hearing Tuesday. Meanwhile, Apple got less attention.

The FTC’s Big Tech Revolving Door Problem

When Your Doctor is Selling Something: Curbing Corporate Influence in the Physician-Patient Relationship

HHS Has Failed to Report Nearly Two-Thirds of Its Medical Malpractice Payments to National Data Bank, New Analysis Shows: Public Citizen Findings Show Long-Term Systemic HHS Noncompliance With Reporting Requirements, Calls on Congress to Act

PublicCitizen

PublicCitizen Featured Articles

PublicCitizen In the News

CPSC Should Be Allowed to Name Deadly Products Without the Corporate Maker’s Permission: Public Citizen Calls for Repealing Section 6(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act

Immediate Moratorium on Opioid Approvals Is Urgently Needed, Say FDA Committee Chair and Public Citizen: With Dangerous Opioids Continuing to Flood the Market, a Moratorium Is Required to Stop More Abuse, Deaths

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Marcus Ball V Boris Johnson Prosecution Funding

What Exactly Is Boris Johnson Doing?  Whether he’s pursuing negotiating leverage or electoral advantage, the prime minister is headed for disaster.

I Would Walk...400 Miles: This Man Is Walking From Glasgow To London To Protest NHS Privatisation: Two weeks into his challenge, James Corbett tells HuffPost UK why the NHS is "one of the best institutions in the world".

Scientists despair at ‘political fools’ over Brexit

Elderly couple in apparent murder-suicide indicated they could not afford medical care

Brexit: Legal bid to prevent Boris Johnson shutting down parliament

How English nationalist Boris Johnson is turning UK into US ‘colony’ – Henry McLeish

Petition: A No Deal Brexit is not the Legal Default

Graham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020