How military contractors run our Defense Dept. and wastes money

Defense spending is very high. In fact, the government wastes a lot of money because defense contractors give millions of dollars to congressmen and senators, in order to ensure billions of dollars in defense contracts. Sometimes contracts in the tens of billions. You won't...

Build up to WW3 100,000 Troops Gather around

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/12/build-up-to-ww3-100000-troops-gather.html World War 3 is Coming People,its 2012,the media are preparing the masses like they always do before something big is going to happen,you dnt have to be a Prophet to see its on its way.When...

Russia Issues Mayan Apocalypse Warning As Troops Ordered To Norwa

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/12/russia-issues-mayan-apocalypse-warning.html A chilling report written by newly appointed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu circulating in the Kremlin today states that the permanent deployment of the 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade by...

US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/11/us-to-leave-10000-troops-in-afghanistan.html US to leave 10,000 troops in Afghanistan past 2014 Some 10,000 US troops will remain in Afghanistan after NATO combat operations end at the end of 2014, US media reports said Sunday. The...

Red Dawn, and the absurd premise of who invades the U.S.

When I was a kid I went to see the 1984 movie, Red Dawn at a drive-in. I was still naive enough at the time to believe that the Soviets could invade the U.S., as the film shows. Heck, the Soviets might not even have had a navy that could have invaded Canada. But, at least...

Why Julian Assange should be a hero to conservatives

I made and I continue to make the claim that American conservatives should be supporting Julian Assange. Having preached for decades that the government should be accountable to the taxpayer, the American conservatives should see as a hero a man who informs the taxpayer of...

Minimizing wars; respecting the troops

The issue I'm handling here is not a simple one, as it has many different aspects. The issue is that of war and treatment of military personnel. While there are some who fully embrace military mentality and support military solutions regardless of their cost and...

Where have all the "support the troop" ribbons gone?

Something I have noticed, why are there so much fewer "support the troops" ribbons on cars? When George Bush was president, they were everywhere. Where have they gone? Did those conservative critics of Obama's handling of the military conflict in Libya, not care about the...

Syrian unrest: 'Heavy fighting' in Jisr al-Shughour

Syrian state Television has confirmed that the army has entered the town of Jisr al-Shughour in the north west of the country. The army moved in after the government said that 120 security personnel had been killed there. Official figures shows some 4,300 people have fled...