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911 Remembered

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:41:44 +0000

Our strength is in our unity and purpose. Don’t forget who we lost on 9/11 ten years ago. Keep their memories alive forever in our heart and mind.

Hunger in America

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:35:24 +0000

One in Six Americans do not have enough food to eat, and more than 50 million Americans live in “food insecure” households, according to Feeding America, a U.S. hunger-relief organization.

Feeding America: Feeding America will help provide food to an estimated 14 million children this year. The organization says that for $45, it can feed a family of four for a month.

To donate to Feeding America Click Here

You can contribute $10 by texting FEED to 50555.

You can also make a food donation to your local food pantry.

For a list of food pantries in your area click here.

To become a Champion to End Childhood Hunger Click Here

Cost of Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Pegged at $4 Trillion

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:38:50 +0000

A new report from Brown University estimates that the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost $4 trillion to the American economy. It states that U.S. has already spent $2.3 trillion to $2.7 trillion, contradicting the Congressional Budget Office, which pegs the overall cost of wars at $1.8 trillion through 2021.

Since September 11, more than 2,300 contractors and 6,000 U.S. soldiers have died along with 550,000 soldiers claiming disability at the Veterans Administration. Click here for more info.

Obama on Afghanistan Drawdown: ‘The Tide of War Is Receding’

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:18:41 +0000

Americans Are Tired of Wars

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:19:42 +0000

Michelle Obama Meets Nelson Mandela

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:17:27 +0000

A Woman Arrested For Video Taping From Her Own Back Yard

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:09:03 +0000

Bin Laden Cost $3 trillion to US Economy

admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:41:05 +0000

By most estimates, Osama bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down. Read more.

Pakistan Denies Sheltering Bin Laden

admin — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:44:27 +0000

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, issued his first formal response to questions about how the world’s most-wanted criminal was able to live for so long in a million dollar compound near Islamabad.

Some in the U.S. press have suggested that Pakistan lacked vitality in its pursuit of terrorism, or worse yet that we were disingenuous and actually protected the terrorists we claimed to be pursuing,” Zardari wrote in an opinion piece in the Washington Post. “Such baseless speculation may make exciting cable news, but it doesn’t reflect fact.”

“He was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be, but now he is gone,” Zardari wrote, without offering further defense against accusations his security services should have known where bin Laden was hiding.

“Although the events of Sunday were not a joint operation, a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama bin Laden as a continuing threat to the civilized world.”

Bin Laden’s Death Increases Terrorist Threat on America

admin — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:37:11 +0000

Because Osama Bin Laden’s death is a major blow to Al Quaeda, experts caution that this could actually incease the threat of terrorism against Americans. Government agencies are said to be on full alert for attacks by Islamic terrorists who may be trying to avenge the killing of their leader.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last night issued a preliminary “situational awareness alert,” saying bin Laden’s death could inspire retaliatory attacks from al Qaeda or its allies–or even from radicalized individuals in the United States. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that although the department remains “at a heightened state of vigiliance,” it doesn’t plan to issue a broader security alert. Napolitano explained that DHS officials only approve that shift when “we have specific or credible information to convey to the American public.”

Former C.I.A. director Michael Hayden told Bloomberg the United States should “brace for retaliatory attacks,” as the news service put it, from al Qaeda and affiliated groups.

And former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned on NBC’s Today Show this morning: “There has been intelligence that suggested that if Osama bin Laden were ever captured or killed that there would be a violent attack on America or Europe, in one way or another.”