By Chris Rodda (Talk To Action) On May 13, 2010, about eighty soldiers, stationed at Fort Eustis while attending a training course, were punished for opting out of attending one of these Christian concerts. The headliner at this concert was a Christian rock band called BarlowGirl, a band that describes itself as taking “an...
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U.S. soldiers punished for not attending Christian concert
Detainees accused of possessing popular Casio F91W watches
Due to its claimed use in terrorism, possession of the Casio F91W watch was listed in Combatant Status Review Tribunal reports and other government documents as a reason for these detainees’ continued detention. The watch was popular all over the Moslem world because it had great prayer alert features. Among those listed: Abdullah Kamel...
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More than 53% of your tax dollars go to the military
By Dave Lindorff (Common Dreams) The 2011 military budget, by the way, is the largest in history, not just in actual dollars, but in inflation adjusted dollars, exceeding even the spending in World War II, when the nation was on an all-out military footing. Military spending in all its myriad forms works out to...
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Rumsfeld kept anyone who spoke Arabic from going to Iraq
I heard of how doubts about the legality of invasion were the closest the British military had come to mutiny. Of how the Pentagon tried to freeze out the State Department by speaking at joint meetings entirely in acronyms that only Pentagon staff would understand. And of how Donald Rumsfeld weeded out from those...
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U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes — ABC News
By Joseph Rhee, Tahman Bradley and Brian Ross (ABC) Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to...
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GI in Afghanistan held for child porn for pictures that his parents sent him of his 4-year-old niece in a swimsuit
By Eric Timmons (The Register Mail) Spec. Billy Miller, 24, was due to return from Afghanistan last September, but his tour of duty has been involuntarily extended while he awaits a court martial on charges of failing to obey a general order and possession of child pornography. Miller’s mother, Terri, said the family e-mailed...
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Thousands of GIs go deaf because Army failed to supply earplugs
By Sherwood Ross (LA Progressive) Thousands of GIs have suffered preventable hearing loss because they were not supplied with earplugs to reduce the din of battle. Many have a permanent ringing in their ears they will suffer throughout their lives. The condition is widespread. In 2006, the Veterans Administration paid out more than a half billion...
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