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Website
debunking the Special Assistant
for Gulf War Illnesses
- Updated:
September 25th, 2024
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- This website is from the early
days of OSAGWI and is reflective of the
- beginning appearance. It
does not look like the last incarnation only
- because that got so watered
down. The military Gulflink keeps changing
- hands and URL's to hide it.
There eventual goal is to delete it outright.
- Once I die off then this website
fades, they win, and it all will vanish. Forgotten
- chapter of America. Until then,
this website is a reminder of those forgotten
- vets betrayal by America.
- DOD sits on a vast amount of
records that the bulk have been reclassified Top
- Secret to be hidden for 50
years. Under the guise of WMD clause in the
- national security records review
system. Originally the records were listed
- and reviewed like this:
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- 1995 - 20,000,000 Gulf War
military records declassified
1996 - 6,000,000 files given to OSAGWI to put on website
- 1996 - 1,700,000 files are
medically relevant
1997 - 42,943 put up on gulflink.osd.mil website
At a cost of $150,000,000 less than
.007% of the Gulf War Military
records have been declassified for
public release. 16 years later
99.993% is classified , and the
Pentagon has vowed to reclassify
these records. This include
Confidential Records that should have
been released at the 15 year mark.
They were not, and not at 20 years,
25 years, or 30 years. To protect
private interest that profited from the war
and protect government officials from
over 44,000 mistakes made there.
On February 14th 1999 I sent
OSAGWI a FOIA asking for the bulk
of its records names
be declassified, and sent to me. I received a
partial reply from General
Vesser in a box with 2,877 pages, and
two CD's. On the CD was the
Structured database file and other part
was a unstructured file. Again, only
of the 42,943 files on the
public server. In the Nov 5th1999
response letter from OSAGWI to
me they explained they were
processing the classified portion of the
log sheets for me. That was the last
I ever heard from them on paper
concerning this FOIA. It remains
mostly unanswered to this day
OSAGWI
database file of 42,943 files
OSAGWI
response to me concerning partial response to FOIA
on the other 6,000,00 files.
The Pentagon hides behind Executive
Order 13292 so that the bulk
of what happened in the Gulf remains
hidden from the public. Except
this is criminal intent to withhold
information of neglect, misconduct,
mishandling, and much worse during the
Gulf War. The very same
people who say nothing happened are
the ones with full knowledge
of those records, and vow to conceal
them at all cost. The same people
who lead us back to Iraq again under
false terms, and created yet another
disaster to live down.
- There should be FULL public
disclosure, and we have the right to know
- what really happened in Iraq
from 1990 to present. Only, America has
- no interest in the truth or the
rights of her veterans. This is a shameful
- chapter of our history that
ended up sending troops back and back under
- false pretenses then betrayed
them as well. We even protested sending
- the troops in 2003, proven right
for doing so, and still glossed over as the
- occupation of Iraq went sour.
Now a 2 trillion eye sore that America wants
- to forget. There is no justice
for the vets that served there then or now. There
- wont till everyone connected to
this has been dead a long time. The truth
- buried not for national
security, but economics, and the millions of lives
- it destroyed over oil prices.
September 25th, 2024
Gulf
War issues hit rock bottom with the collapse of the VA RAC
in August 20th 21st
When you spend years and years doing VAs bidding, and its bad leadership, the end result is extreme dysfunction. They followed a DOD 1995 agenda and the poisonous misdirection of Deployment health. Who took public laws like 105-368 and twisted the language to suit there agendas. Such as creating a WRIISC program when it should have been a Gulf war specialty clinic.
The August meeting of the RAC was a travesty. Kind of came off feminist revival more than a broadband look at the issues. By the second day the chairman had lost control and stepped down. 4 members were put off the committee. The last advocate Bill Watts shrank away from the fight. By the last hour it was chaos. I could not tell what happened as it suddenly ended, flat. Adjourned. Poof click.
ORD does NOT want the RAC to function. This is clear. They follow orders from within VA to keep tripping the committee up. So much so ORD says they dont have a budget for refreshments. Really? Water? Its that bad? They want it hostile. Playing tricks with the VES sessions over healthcare and benefits which violates the very charter. Then making sure that subcommittee has no authority to back anything or submit a genuine report. The people they talk to never make print.
Im in the middle of a struggle over my own healthcare. 4 inch tumor turned up in my lungs that I find out showed up in a 2018 CT scan they didnt report. 6 years this thing has been there messing with me, and in 2002 everyone missed it. Gulf war Registry exam, WRIISC exam, Burn pit registry exam, Toxic exposure exam, PACT act claim. Im trying to get it imaged and VA backed away from me. When I pushed with the RAC, Peter Rumm of VA stepped in. He asked the WRIISC, and the WRIISC refused me a MRI. So right now I have no confirmation its not a Liposarcoma or second opinion because VA does not do second opinions.Trickery to wait me out, and hope I go terminal. All the while Peter Rumm is comfortable over at Walter Reed getting advanced medical care for himself. As only certain people in America warrant real medical care these days. Certainly not me.
Im trying to push now for restructure. Fix PL 105-368 to reshape the RAC and to make the WRIISC into what it should have been. Get rid of Deployment Health, WRIISC, OIF and other terminology watering our issues down. Make our law serve the vets of that era. Now that almost half of us are gone 33 years later.
There is no kindness left in this crowd on both sides. Most Americans are veteran haters, and treat vets as losers and suckers like Trump did. My neighbors are weirdo veteran haters spitting on the grave of Gen John Creed Moore and mocking me over crap. Cancel culture is every where. With law enforcement with huge double standards - aiding felons these days. Its all backwards. The election leading to a civil war over stupid things. Run away inflation being disguised and played down by the wealthy to punish the poor. Social class war. There answer is, out spend each other. None of this is viable. Inequity. The second gilded age.
All that hardship is building into resentment alright, the millions of betrayed combat veterans deeply resent this for obvious reasons. Because we pay the most in all this while those that take it for granted spit on us.It wont end well.
Im trying to be a voice for reason with the RAC heading into the November 2024 meeting. ORD wants staus quo. Doing VAs dirty work. Im trying to get things down to basics and start points. Im opposed with VA non-sense. All the while Im not getting any where with my own healthcare. Im proof there is a possible cancer cluster of some kind VA does NOT want to find, soft body masses. Then finally misreport my death after a crappy autopsy that looks for natural causes rather than the tumor that pushed the organs over. Oh, he died of heart failure - not the cancer that wrecked his heart. At 60?
To those that do not show kindness, you do not rate it either. Playing spectator to others suffering is cruelty. Veterans end up rebelling, youll have a nation of them doing this. Only mob rules never works out for anyone. Stop using deception to deal with veterans who served the country in war. Stop trying to trick us. Youve created decades of hard feelings that is going to back fire. Give us the specialty clinical care to live our last days in less pain and discomfort. Defuse this situation in a meaningful manner.
2025 is going to be so bad. Because you idiots want it to happen. You know not what you do. Pull back from the cliff.
June 21st, 2024
Only
the wealthy can play, and get VA bonuses they
didnt earn or justify
Veterans still not putting it together. VA is fine with that as are the wealthy or America shaving off the top. Enough so that money earmarked for PACT act front line workers just went to VA senior executive staff. Even after a Congressional hearing, let the Sec of VA off the hook. Good ole boys padding there wallets.
Ive been real unpopular with the VA RAC this year. Only because Ive been asking for some kind of results. They dont publish, they play favorites, and just keep the whole show in a circular argument. Ive made 2 years of recommendations to them and nothing came from it. Too busy with personal agendas and internal bickering.
My biggest ticket item, the Toxic Exposure Pathology Center just goes over there heads. No one proving me wrong. they just dont care. Including the House and Senate VA committees. Toothless.
Its now become evident that we need a voting body to get anything done. The point of the Uservoice platform was to provide unity without egos. Pitch a idea and then everyone vote on it. Equally as lost on them. Why vote, what does it solve? Kind of like the coming election. Two crappy presidents, must take one. Wrong, and Im tired of this. Wealthy crappy people or nothing. Electoral process is lost on Americans. The ones trying to tank the country.
Cancel culture, sick of it. Idiots all around me that want things there way. Stagnant. Pointless. Bitter. Just stop people, at all cost. A bad joke that doesnt end.
Way too many stupid people in this country that use there apathy as a weapon. Keeping justice at bay. Interfering with economics and infrastructure to keep it as is or worse. Turn away idea people like me that want positive change.
Freedom to oppose progress, and keep the wealthy right where they are sucking it all dry. The stupid set the tone, failure it is. I didnt agree to this. Just like the cover up of Gulf war records, and concealing war crimes from 1991. Let George Bush off the hook, another crappy former president that helped make all this worse.
Another RAC meeting June 24th, and just like the others its committee members keeping them in a personal loop. Pitch all day to them, they could care less.
March 28th, 2024
Top
down economics, and the illusion of progress
In a nut shell, the wealthy declared war on the poor December 2021, and with each passing month it just gets more bloated, distorted, and out of control. Maybe it hasnt burst into open violence, that is coming. Because a definite wall exist in Washington DC between the social classes. Its very much a class war. I got a huge taste of it the last 2 years. Even when I reached the top once more.
Gulf war is most certainly a reflection of this. If your on the top in the bureaucracy then your protected from prosecution from the war crimes committed in 1991. They shield themselves with good ole boys in he government records system so that things remain classified for 50 years from public view. Not to protect America, but the wealthy that profited from the war. The lower social classes then carry the burden of living with the injustices, and be punished if they fight back. Which is where I have been since 1991. Being oppressed, vilified, and punished for my ignorance of there end goals early on. Then my efforts in there ranks the last 26 years.
The most recent RAC meeting was virtual once more, brief, about 4 hours. It was small and unceremonious. I had submitted for the record long before hand. So they had time to mull over my input. Then ignore it. So the meeting was over before it really began. Those in the ranks content to keep there post. Those of us on the outside beating on glass walls looking in, ignored openly. Oh, we are allowed to comment at the end of the day. About 6 of us. Yes, this time its on the record and with our names attached. But, it misses one common element - unity of purpose.
As we headed into the April 23rd, 24th RAC meeting in Phoenix Arizona I got quite heated with the committee over the time it took to post the public comments and committee minutes. 42 days this time. The others do not realize they owe me for getting that reinstated from the September 7th 2023 meeting where we had been reduced to male / female veteran. When VA had won a huge victory by pretending they no longer have to deal with or recognize individuals.
The point had been, they would be right down the street from former VA RAC chairman Jim Binns. That for the last 2 years they have been quite rude to. I tried to get them to invite him to the meeting, and maybe a segment to speak. They ignored this request in favor of keeping him at bay. Jim by the same token backed away from me to keep from being associated with me. He had much to offer them, and neither side cared about diplomacy or content any more. Its a game of egos. Im tired of all of them because of this needless stalemate. Im simply the loudest of them all, and they want this to all be smooth and silent. As silence is consent.
For me, this has gotten real simple. 2 things summarize all this. Physical evidence, and long term genetic damage. Build a Toxic Exposure Pathology Center to take physical tissue samples and run full toxicology like mass spectrometer analysis. Then study pre and post blood samples to look at full genetic spectrum from 1989 to present to compare differences. These are the only 2 realistic goals left to put this issue to bed. Been heading this way for 20 years now. Im reducing the terminology month by month to sound bites. But, saying it over and over.
By the same token, PL 105-368 is still very much in need of revision. Amending. Bring it up to 2024. No chance of that with people out there like Ronald Brown in the VA ranks keeping everyone else at bay. Such a tool. Its all about him much like it was all about Jim Bunker. Until they finally get driven away.
I tried to remind the RAC about reports to Congress long ago. Such as 105-388 that had such a massive following in 1997. That we do that group such a disservice by not even acknowledging what lead to that report. Much less what is important now. Like public statistical reporting. Something we loss when I proved VA was padding the numbers of the GWVIS reports in 2009. There answer? Get rid of my committee and stop producing the reports. From 2010 on that was there goal, and they succeeded.
Right now, I consider myself last man standing in this issue. Not loyal to either side for dozens of reasons. Aware that VA Washington DC acts on NO recommendations from this committee or 22 years of veteran input. Sec of VA ignores it outright. As did Sec of VA Denis McDonough on September 7th 2023. Because this is a social class war, and the wealthy no longer have to deal with the public. They have cut us off hard for 2 years now. So has the media sucking up to the wealthy. All because the villagers havent grabbed there pitch forks, torches, and burn down the place.
Im watching a handful of veterans post the same old tired things on social media. They dont see or hear others. Living in the past. Not willing to rally on common causes. VA relishes this fact. Makes exclusion so much easier. Isolate them further. Both sides locked into personal denial on so many levels. Total loss of objectivity. Which frustrates me in so damn many ways. No platform, soap box, no start points. Just egos swimming in a mosh pit not getting the irony of self indulgence.
So close to the goal. Tremendous headway in my own medical care, and lifestyle. Granted Covid created a 3 year diversion. For me, its about balance. Reducing daily burdens. Ive got a grasp of the genetic damage that has lead to my metabolic issues. The Lysosome errors, and enzyme imbalances that ripple in minute ways. Getting my organs back to equilibrium in a sea of chemical interactions. Finding answer after answer on my own. Pancreas, Liver, Gall bladder, Kidney, Intestines, and such by diligence. 33 years of it. As Im 60 now facing my remaining years with concern. Can I keep this up?
VA has zero desire to take Toxic exposures serious. As long as its not taking physical body tissues like adipose fatty tissue, it dodges proof. No genetic answers, leave it to small segments - dodged that. Wait us out. Like they have with Ionizing radiation, project SHAD, Agent orange, Anthrax vaccines, Burn pits, Leishmaniasis, West Nile Virus, and demo chemical weapon exposures. The price of war? Not for the wealthy.
Being obscure is so upsetting. Only because it delays progress. I want answers and then move on with life. Im not stuck in the past, VA and our government is. They want to stay in 1991, and I want to get past 2024. I did my job, they didnt. These are elected public servants that forget there place. Damn sure dont like hearing you say it to them. Just like the media forgets who it serves. Rather than what exist in this second gilded age.
So for me I go on learning computer codings final steps, scratch building retro computers of long ago, and managing my time so that every day Im busy. Im doing things every day that defy the norm. Surrounded by idiots trying to cheat each other over scraps. As I very much get what is going on. How stupid all sides are right now. That people think civil war will be clean, quick, and easy. So much ignorance. I know better and keep working on improving myself in the face of intellectual regression. People de-evolving into more primitive former states. education becoming a joke, as is the 2024 election.
Ive learned to keep it simple. Which is very ironic considering how complex Ive gotten. Yes, very much so. But, balanced in a way I do not exceed my ability to do so. Ive no desire to be wealthy at all. Know better. My goal is a education unmatched. Using intellect and technology in useful practical ways. Not taking on too much burden. Each day is me studying Objective reasoning to its limits, and trying so hard not to fall into the drunken Subjective reasoning of the fools around me. Blame, boo,hoo me. How totally boring that one is.
Study the problem people. Solve it. Not ignore it. The great 24 trillion dollar joke about to unfold in this election. Out of balance and control. Government shut down every 45 days. Bigger, growth model. Its all a lie. Derivatives market exploding upwards in to the quadrillion dollar ranges. Artificial. In danger. Time to scale back.
Every person in America has a role to play. Accountability starts with you. Once you reign in your own insecurities, your not forcing them onto others. Once its civic collective efforts, its about keeping the wealthy in check. Distribution of wealth is about equality for all, not just the 4% elite. So that envy is kept in check. There is more than enough to go around. Inflation is so unjustified.
Im not jealous or envious of anyone. I have no peers or heroes. My understanding of history, politics, religion are free of the stigma others put on them. So I dont have to live any lies or hide from them. Face it all every day. Solve as I go. All that is left are absolutes I have to work around. Mostly ones humanity created to trick itself. Social concepts that live in shrouded ignorance. Taboo.
Less is more, and yet excess is all the rage. 170 million following Tik Tok? Such a mindless service of distraction. Tells you how many people will starve to death if the slightest thing goes wrong. Stay at home, hide from reality, someone else will take care of you? That ruined Japan these last 30 years.
Its not about being popular, its about survival, and more. Quality of life. Which means its civic because you cant avoid your neighbors. Too bad most of them are so stupid now they cant see beyond there grasp. Take, not give.
Break the cycle. Evolve. Stop making this a George Orwell moment.
January 5th, 2024
New
year, same old problems, and VA is very happy with it
Had not been posting the last few months due to health issues. Did a brief stint with Podcast only to find politics of the crowd tiring. Plenty of people with private agendas, not near enough to focus on singular goals. So I held back on public arguing only because the people doing it were not going any where. Not like that.
The RAC decided in its Sept 2023 minutes that veterans such as myself did not deserve or rate respect. They left out the public comments names so that these people could be ignored. Only the committee warranted attention. Which could not be further from the truth. They didnt pay $1,000 to be there, VA covered there cost. Only to pull back and hide. Cowards. So to VA Im just "Male veteran" which the old RAC would never do. Just keeps getting worse.
For me, Ive found answers. The situation changes and I run into snags. Over all Ide say Im on top of things like very few out there. Dont have to prove it. Just out live them. That should say plenty. Im not looking at surgeries or invasive procedures. For now, its about keeping balance. Which would be easier if I could get a few pounds off.
All year long Sec of VA Denis McDonough dodged real questions and put on a show like he cares. The ugly truth is, he is a political pawn playing dirty, and vets are just cattle to him. Too important to even answer emails himself. Which Im sure is because all the liability law suits he would face, as he has no intention of helping PACT act veterans get better ratings. Too many now. VA cant pay the 70% or higher payouts, and is finding ways to cut those.
Around the hill, the new attitude is - unless you have big money or your a celebrity then you dont matter. They are above everyone. Anything goes, and it does. The vets are islands of one. Easily ignored. Pompous, snide, and looking for hand outs. Cant and wont pull together.
Social media is a huge joke. VA Facebook is a wasteland of pointless commentary and hackers waiting to ambush vets. A mere formality with VA.
News.VA.gov is ignored, and public comments there blown off.
Media is still groveling at Bidens feet looking for favors. Only the wealthy matter. They have zero interest in veteran opinions unless they are puff pieces. You can say American media is very Orwellian and filled with double speak. As the poor bare out 40% inflation. Kept from the general public, tough luck.
So people like me are left to forage for scraps, struggle, and watch others resort to pure criminal intent with aid from local law enforcement. As the local wealthy make there moves to drive people off land, and spread there drug rings out to pay for much of it. Here, big farms are organized crime as they hire thugs to do the dirty work, and double as mob muscle. Then off to church like the fake Christians they are. See, they claim they are aiding less fortunate. What it really is, is indentured servitude where they cant fight back or leave. Trapped, and taking it out on the fellow poor around them. Misdirected anger. Just what the wealthy want. Tricks.
Its this way at all levels now. Wealthy playing dirty, and tricking people. Empty promises, and stalling tactics till people just die off. Its no longer survival, its about cashing out before the collapse. Take what is left.
Living on less? That comment is always meant as a insult to the poor. The people saying it view people like me as cattle, and how I dont matter. People dont even care what there personal self image is any more. Because its gods will? It sure the hell is not. That some are more equal than others? Really? The chosen and the not. Thats what the Nazis thought and people did not like it 4 years in. See, that when it matters - when your in a pit with 100,000 other bodies. Only, its not them. Burning, gas, bullets, and such - that is what is next for the poor.
America let it happen. Most are pushing people around them to the head of the line at the slaughter house. Not getting, your still in line, You may delay it but you die a cowards death when it comes, as you stalled knowing its coming.
The civil war isnt coming, its been going on for 2 years now. The poor have been fighting it every day. Surrounded by parasites and opportunist of the wealthy hoping to cheat us. Its been a land grab. Push home prices to 8 times annual salaries so people cant keep them. Tax people out. Reduce what is left to community homes to hang on, cramped, crowded, ugly.
Remember, you expect mercy from those you dont show it to. Spend two years pricing food, commodities, utilities, medical care, property, and such out of our ranges. The tell us to live on less. You cant take that back or live it down when these people organize. Will be any time now.
Kindness, something America was once known for. Its gone. Those that cashed out were poking sticks in the wounds of the poor. Laughing, We didnt forget it. We know what you plan to do, take it further like the Nazis did. When you finally step over that line, do not beg for the mercy you did not show. Not everyone is stupid or waiting to die like cattle.
Just because you dont feel pain, doesnt mean you wont. The people around you know something is wrong. Those inflicting pain are narcissist animals and they will keep right at it with zero remorse. So the reactions to them will be sudden, and over the top. Even wives and husbands turning on each other knowing that a line has been crossed. Its too late by then, people pushed when they should have stopped. That is 2024.
The wealthy created all this hate, and it has to go some where. Didnt have to happen. Could have been avoided. Only, too many cowards out there that felt ignoring this would work. Good luck with that, when the mob shows up on your door steps. They wont care about any rules or facts. Mob rules.
What is wrong with you people? Really?
October 13th, 2023
30
days later - contempt for the veterans that attended the RAC
meeting in DC Sept 7th, 8th
Was not going to say anything to the committee about when it post the Transcripts of the meeting. Turns out, its not transcripts. Its abbreviated minutes where people who spoke to the committee are reduced to Male - Female vets. Arrogant snide committee members want there names in lights, people not on the committee are insulted into Male and Female vet designations. Cowards.
The RAC of long ago was never this cowardly. Transcripts and public comments had some value. This groups is a bunch of self serving cowards looking for notoriety for a very meager mediocre job. If anything threatens that, play it down. I called the committee out mildly, and I should have been much more brutal. Because they damn sure didnt get the point.
Its too late to get any more comments on the VA RAC news release page on va.gov. They counted on that. But, I pounded them regardless.
September 16th, 2023
Trip
to DC - the Sept RAC meeting - Overpayment of benefits?
Been trying to actually interact with the Sec of VA Denis McDonough since Feb 2022 and it wasnt till September 7th it happened. At 8:10am in front of 810 Vermont street. Got out of his vehicle, secret service escorting him. Oddly, sees me and Ed Bryan - walks over to us. I didnt pour it on because so far he was being pleasant. But, I did tell him what had gone on the last year and trying to interact with him. So he put my name, number, and email in his cell phone. Took pictures with Ed and I. Then left. Im sure he deleted me from his phone just as fast.
Alot happened those two days in DC. Ed Bryan and I had teamed up once more like the old days. So we got to witness things and compare notes.
Right off the bat they switch up the executive discussion to 9am. Deputy Sec Guy Kiyokawa addressed the RAC. Was about 30 minutes. Really wasnt sweeping or even interesting. Then came the photo shoot with public affairs. Denise Nichols did manage to talk them into a shot with him and the veterans in the room. So I ended up in a committee photo with him. Then talked to him afterwards. Another blow off.
First thing that got me. No water bottles by the doors. 99 outside and it was 77 in the room. When asked, Karen Block said they didnt have money for it. Really? Its gotten so bad they cant spring $10 or less for water? Yet, later they could give out 8x10 prints of the photos with Deputy Sec Guy to everyone? Hmmm.
It was lively on the 7th. But, frustrating. the DOD serum repository flat lied about the HIV 1988, 1989 cryo samples. Because up till recently they claimed written consent had to attained. That was the major hurdle for 20 years to my pre post blood sample DNA sequencing. Amplify the red blood cell DNA left in the serum for sequencing. Was livid with them about the bluff. Took it up with Mr. Darpa after his presentation. Feasible? He agreed.
Ed and I left to head over to the Senate. New game, we dont do walkins. I had tried to schedule 2 weeks out with Bernie Sanders, Laura took the call. Wrote the scheduler who ignored me. Just like I told Laura he would do. We show up, inflexible. Personally, Bernie long forgot the promises he made at the CDC conference in 1999 in Atlanta. His most recent acts have been to turn away GWI legislation. Cost too much. But, this is the new Senate where they just dont have to deal with the public any more. No more walkins is purely for the wealthy, and keep the poor at bay. Sell outs.
The evening VES session with the RAC is sad. About 6 of us in the room asking to speak over and over. I think 53 were online, with about 6 pushing to speak. I really got to dominate this portion. My name came up alot after that. But, I dont think the committee got the points. The trap they are in with ORD, PP, OMB. But, it goes well enough that several of us are invited to dinner afterwards. At least that was social and no one got ugly.
Day 2 was much more frustrating. So much effort being put into the GWI IDC 10 code update with the CDC. There was so much more that could have been done. The committee slowed to a crawl and it just got annoying. Even the mention of using the NAS which really outraged me. Did the public comments and the event closed on a cold note. Chairman went cold too. Figures, pressure is off when the mikes go off.
I could say so much more, but Im still really tired. Built a scrapbook of the 4 days in DC. Hit all the usual haunts. Ed and I got familiar once more with all the areas we used to run around to. Arlington as well. But, it had been so hot all that time that it took some of the fun out. Most of the mall area is in repair. Lincoln memorial was all tore up. The whole area had a run down vibe. Union Station was just down right depressing. No one was in the grass at the mall in front of the Capital. It was empty in front of the White house with a much bigger fence.
Then Saturday as we are heading home the Military Times springs a OIG report that Gulf war veterans have been over paid $5 million. Really? Because I dont even know anyone that got a 3.317 rating decision. This is a insulting fabrication. To demonize us. Sec of VA knew this talking to Ed and me, Deputy Sec of VA, VA CMO, certain committee members, and others knew Thursday. Made sure we didnt have a chance to dispute it during the meeting.
All said and done, I think I upstaged the show. My 2nd big meeting with them in one year that I played a big part they wanted to play down. In February it was the powerpoint and this one the multiple times to speak during the VES. I left a a mark. But, VA isnt about progress so this was a huge let down afterwards. No real progress. Like with publications and statistical reports. The pre post genome project. 3.317. PACT act issues.I really felt cheated heading back to Texas.
At least for now I have a fresh feel for DC, and the old haunts. What has changed and what hasnt. 26 years of this. Just like the old days in some ways when we confronted the IOM Gulf War treatment meetings in 2000. 2 years before the RAC even began. This has been a VERY long run for me. Still just as frustrating as ever.
August 22nd, 2023
Sept
7th, 8th RAC meeting in DC - PACT act fall out
Been busy on Facebook despite the fact VA has not taken care of the hackers that still haunt there webpage. Little trolls sitting out there that would crumble up into a ball if they every ran into one of there victims. Teens and weirdos. Sad.
I called the RAC about a week before they posted the meeting in the Federal Register. The committee had been silent since February, nothing. But, I was on top of this and put it out there for the others.
Sec of VA Denis McDonough is still dodging me. Full coward. All the while he goes on playing up the PACT act and VA like he is doing us favors. He is not. He knows the PACT act is failing on a huge scale and is fine with that. Terminal get help. The rest of us get squat unless your OIF from 2033 to present. Even then its not going to find much on purpose. No real evidence with the Toxic Exposure exams.
Im active and all over this. Hammering News.va.gov all I can. But, media is state controlled and they dont write about grumpy vets. Only pro-government fluff. All is well in America, we never wrong our vets.
All the while my near death experience in the civilian ER is being punished. I got the visit authorized, and yet VA wont pay the bill. So after 90 days Scott and White is trying to slip me the $14,000 bill Tri-west wont pay. Adverse benefits issue my ass. I gave them the approval authorization code over and over. Im positive that Sec of VA Denis McDonough is behind this. Cripple me with a huge bill after turning me away from a walkin that would not have cost me a dime. Punish me for using VA medical care.
VA keeps getting worse for me each month. Problem after problem not being solved. A heart issue building on me they wont address. Wait me out, let me die. Keep me from primary care just long enough for natural causes to take over. I cant get seen when I need to. Prove the PVC's Im throwing are real and by the hour. My monitor shows that. Sent in proof. Cant go the ER, they wont pay the bill when they should.
Where is the justice in any of this? Where is Congress? Where is the IG? It should NOT be this hard for a combat veteran.
June 25th, 2023
Layers
of deception / corruption haunt every facet of our country
When you run off every person left that tried to save the system, all you have after that are the people who made it worse. Thats what we have across capital hill and VA.
I made a huge stink about the RAC in February. The meeting was a disaster and it showed in Stars and Stripes article about them. They wanted so much to pretend that meeting never took place. For 30 days they said nothing on the RAC website till I spoke up. Then few hours later, poof. That material was up. Only to have the RAC website go stagnant from there on. June 25th, no new public meetings listed or had happened that I knew about. 4 months and silence? No agenda?
So I wrote the committee and Sec of VA to this effect. That I guess they went back to the GWVITF secret meetings of 2010 format. Decide policy without the vets. Even worse, the NGWRC knows about and is in on it. Silence. Crickets.
Oh, Sec of VA Denis McDonough knows me. As they had to contact Waco VAMC to get me into care since walkins arent allowed and they dont pay for ER visits when you go there. Katie was NOT amused having to call me and schedule me the next day to see the doctor. The clinic deeply resented I once again circumvented protocol and policy. But, my heart condition is very real to me and they just want to wait me out long enough for it to go terminal. Opps, autopsy showed this - how did we miss that?
My ideas for the Toxic Exposure Pathology Center have merit. Ridding Walkins did NOT improve VA care. In fact, when I went in this week to the Waco VAMC the parking lot by the clinic was almost empty. Plenty of spaces. Waiting room and labs had like one person in there. Was like that much of the day. Oh yes, this is working real well for VA turning away Walkins. Plenty of time for others things. No waiting, because your not in line any more.
House and Senate are completely corrupt. VA knows they wont look into them. Service groups gave up. IG gave up. GAO gave up. VA is free and clear of oversight. Which Sec of VA Denis McDonough certainly has run with. Media? State controlled now. They only publish what VA will let them or cut them off. Groups like the RAC cave into VA rather than risk black balling like me. Didnt make them better.
Google is still pretending Gulflink.org doesnt exist, claiming they cant find the file on the server. Total lies. Google has become a puppet of the rich, cutting out content that makes the rich look bad. Monopoly, censorship.
So Im struggling with my neurology and healthcare trying to make sense of the dam muscle spasms - tremors. Vegas nerve? Long Covid? How do you prove it? VA does not want to even try. POTS, good luck proving that.
My doctor does not think Im a idiot, as I make him look good. On paper much of my pathology is against the trends. So he doesnt have to work hard at the parts that are non standard. Follow protocol till something weird gets me. Because VA is not about being creative. Follow the letter of the law and push the vet out. Which is why we need a pathology center with open minds, take a real chance. Nope, cant have that.
26 years, Im not stupid. Been at the fore front. People can say other wise till the cows come home, other wise VA would have not allowed my Powerpoint presentation to the committee in February. Boy did they shut down on that one.
You people need me, not the other way around. Im still trying, give me credit for that. Even locally, with these meth heads right next to me trying to trip everyone up and pit them against each other. Every where I go are assholes making sure than nothing gets done, and they plan to take everyone with them. Bluff and BS. I on the other hand stay focused on my projects and laugh at the stupidity Im dealing with here and in DC. Boy, do you people not get me at all.
My root cellar is almost complete, and its 17 tons of complications coming to a end. Its practical in this global warming climate no one wants to fix. You know what? I can fix that too. Put containers on all aircraft that spray a fine film of inert dust molecules out the back of the engines. Couple of weeks and the seeding will drop global air temps 2 degrees. Water vapor con trails do that now. Take it further. Create some great sun sets too. Water vapor isnt enough on its own. But, 3,000+ flights a day puts alot up there all the time.
Better off without me? Think again. Put me out front and demand they listen? I will get results. Right now, nothing in DC. Silence is consent. I want to change that. The people refusing me have got nothing. Ive got dozens of ideas, and experience.
April 24th, 2023
Hey,
while we are at it - lets kill off VA walk-in care and just make
you go elsewhere for medical care - period
This is the service groups failing us in the extreme. Sucked up to Sec of VA Denis McDonough and look what Skeletor stuck it to you.
With a walkin, you were at least seeing your regular doctor about your issues. Now, surprises come up your starting with a stranger every time. Save cost? Yourve created chaos and caused greater long term expenses and deaths.
This isnt managed care. Your doing all you can to drive veterans into insured civilian care with your bloated $296 billion nightmare. What? A bigger golden parachute for Skeletor when they make him resign?
I had a taste of this April 21st with a walkin gone very wrong. They could not wait to turn me away at the Waco VAMC for anything I begged for. We dont want you. That really came across. Forced me to the Baylor ER down the road where I spent the bulk of the day fighting pneumonia among other things. Had this since Monday and after 5 days there was nothing left of me. Only, its on Waco to follow this up and Waco VA shuts down for the weekend. Nothing.
Try to get to the ER in Temple Saturday and of all things a cop in McGregor decides it time to revenue hunt a stop sign on a far back road while Im coughing up a storm telling him Im on the way to the ER. Guy is some kind of weird anti social jerk amused at my delimna and mocks me. Gives me a ticket rather than a warning. Unless I let him add to my expenses with a EMS call on top of this? He was only offering scenarios that added zeros to my cost. I get a sadist on a back road that predates the sick and dying for money?
Get into the ER, and doctor hears the fluid in my lungs. They up the dosage and 'type at pharmacy. First pill was like being hit by a baseball bat. But, at least it starts working quickly. Drive around McGregor on the way back knowing its a shitty little speed trap. Even the people at the Temple ER desk mock the McGregor cops as gold diggers.
Couple of days and fluids dropped off. Only, this is all a dead end now. Ive heart and lung damage from the pneumonia that needs documenting. What is the recovery method in all this? Im not being managed, on my own guessing what to do and no one to talk too? Because urgent care is isolated to the ER and the VA clinic wont see me for months in advance. Nothing in between? Send a email to My healthe website only to find they send short emails saying "we forwarded your message". Didnt put me in any where, didnt actually help me?
Nothing about the last last week was less than a living hell, and at every step I found cold indifferent people sort of enjoying this scenario. More like predatory behavior and ways to make people spend more money for less. They all seemed quite eager to create more expensive situations since its not them needing care. All the while, all my hard work with the Waco VAMC the last two years has been washed away, and rest to zero. Im back in over my head.
This is all you Sec of VA Denis McDonough? You suck as a human being. Youve made VA medical care costly, bloated, and much harder to access. Come a year from now you can GUARANTEE people will demand your resignation. Once youve screwed VA so badly it implodes. Top down economics? Try DRACONIAN!!!!!
I know you have a disaster on your hands and this ends badly. Just sad how many have to die now to prove it. There is blood on your hands you ghoul. You will cover this up like most criminals. But, not till taking it all with you. Which is in motion.
April 10th, 2023
War
Horse Symposium? The moment a small group shut
out others to make DOD / VA look goo d - when there not
For weeks Ive been hammering VA on the News.va.gov website in its public comments. Trying to get points across that the media wont help with. American media has completely turned on veterans themselves so they can grovel at the governments feet. Play up the PACT act, and report all is well when its not. Really hammered the War Horse Symposium webpage.
Put the word out about the War Horse Symposium thinking that there would be some kind of veteran showing. Only, I found out the whole day was a total shut out of the virtual crowd. This was a prechoosen, hands elected group of people that would put on a dog and pony show. They would not alienate the VA and DOD folks attending. Jon Stewart would go passive, very mild to protect his select group. No one online like me was given a chance all day. You could not even tell I was there. Not even a chat bar or attendance bar. I was though. Fuming at the arrogance.
I found Sec of VA Denis McDonough offensive at best. His body language and his contempt was all to obvious to me. He had nothing to worry about. No one there was going to ask him any hard questions or grill him. I asked a Q&A about the need for a Toxic Exposure Pathology Center and did a screenshot of the page to prove I asked. Nothing. They pointed out Patricia Kime in the audience in front of him, and I emailed it to her. Nothing. All is well, nothing to worry about. Maybe for those there, not for us online.
Maybe the War Horse was something a while back, this one was a joke about what it offered. It was a very small monopoly trying to protect its position and not upset its over lords. 9 hours of nothing. Even less so, it was a waste of my time and 5 gigs of my internet. Bandwidth I needed for other things.
When I think of the War Horse in the future, I will always equate it with this photo of Sec of VA Denis McDonough. Tented hands scowling at people. They were there to make him look good. Grovel. Keep vets like me from asking him questions he has dodged for months. If someone said that there was a problem, not here. All the while I hammered the News.va.gov website webpage about this event and it would not help vets - it didnt.
Thanks for nothing.
March 22nd, 2023
VA
PACT act, VA's new mission statement, Iraqibacter,
and the medias pro-government approach
So very much happened this last month. But, with Google and VA blocking this website - posting her is pointless. Put the attention into Facebook which hasnt really been my buddy either.
March 6th the RAC took down all evidence the Feb 7,8,9th meeting took place. It stayed this way till March 16th when I called this out. Within hours they had the meeting materials up on there website. They were testing to see who was paying attention.
VA had been posting PACT act articles right and left at News.va.gov of which I wrote volumes in every single public comments. they tried to block me at first and found out Im real quick to go the IG. After that I got out but the delays would last days some times. I knew the more I posted and posted key words the search engines would pick this up. Ide be every where eventually even if its Kilroy style.
They held a PACT act event March 18th 2023 here in Waco. They made sure not to post it any where till 4 days before the meeting. Then the media had a limited output 2 days before. None contacted me about it. I was excluded. Killeen Daily herald, Waco Tribune, Channel 10, Channel 44 who knew me wanted to write a pro government article about how well things are going. Everything is fine, it all works, run and apply, no loopholes or problems. Garbage media.
Ive no doubt any more the Sec of VA Denis McDonough is playing dirty and made sure I was excluded. You can bet your ass there is a inter office memo to William Negron in Temple asking him to do things this way. They cant have any negative veteran opinions, and comments effecting the event.
I have been distracted in all this with Hackers on the VA Facebook page, a local drug ring messing with my neighborhood, and medical problems that Im trying to resolve as my new claim goes forward. I finally accepted the possibility of a TBI injury with over a dozen extreme moments I had written off. The WRIISC in DC was pretty sure of this and Im in a TBI study now. It would explain the very specific types of problems, recall, migraines, tinnitus, and such over the last 3 decades. My overt disdain towards PTSD, and this is keeping me from dealing with this. I wont accept PTSD, but Im fighting TBI needlessly.
Im learning more and more about the problematic PACT act issues like the QTC contractor setting up C&P exams. People think they are scammers, and for 4 days so did I. Would not answer the phone, didnt know the numbers. Talked to them Sunday morning and got scheduled. Only to find they are also hindered by the hackers placing false claims. They have to screen those out. Person is over worked trying to make up for the back log.
Hackers took over the VA Facebook cite. Used my name and image to try and scam others. Went after that. Then there badgering commentary in Facebook to drive veterans off. Took it up with Sec of VA, and he passed me to Media Relations who said tough luck. Well, after a week VA Facebook posted a Identity verification badge to help with this. I was getting person after person removed. Fakers like this one teenager from Yemen posing as Gen Rainey. People with zero friends and zero followers or content. Called them out. Ugh.
At every step, Im learning more and more about the current problems between VBA and VHA with the PACT act. Because Im living it. Without the Toxic Exposure Pathology Center I cant get that added physical evidence that would really help my claim. Its all on me to make what there is work by sheer will power and self reporting which is useless.Ive got 2 exams pending shortly and Im sure they wont be of much help. C&P isnt on my side and damn sure wont explain any problems or loopholes - they arent allowed to volunteer. Both with be visual exams and what I add to that. Ugh....
Im all over the place saying Sec of VA Denis McDonough as a staunch critic of him. Local media is cowering from this, not wanting to upset VA or executive branch. I really feel Im dealing with veteran haters in the local media. People who want to see veterans fail. The odd thing is 3 of them claim to be veterans and from what I can tell - they resent others more than want to help them.
The end result is things take a decade to surface rather than now. I will be vindicated later on for what happened now. But for now, Im going forward trying to make a highly flawed law some how work for me. VA doesnt care, and wants to play dirty.
Millions will miss out, but how will we know if this is all being kept a secret. VA is pretending the only person complaining is me, and if they ignore me long enough I will just go away. Only Im ramping up rather than down. These people really dont get me at all. I guess my 122 IQ is a sore spot with very mediocre people who seem to only live to oppose ideas.
March 7th, 2023
VA
censorship total now and VA Inspector General helping
them do this
VA chose to ignore my presentation to the RAC, and even when I ended up in Stars and Stripes in February. So I one upped my game by commenting in any news.va.gov article that would apply. Got quite few up. Then again, wasnt much of a line. Maybe 3 of us per article at most.
Then on the Feb 2023 RAC press release they stopped my last comment. Had a felling they would try again in other places.
The Feb 6th article is "Accessing new toxic exposure health care and benefits" and below are the comments I tried to upload. Server just pretends I dont exist.
So sent this to the OIG who will fail me once more. From there I will take this over to the Department of Justice and several House / Senate subcommittees. Because this one draws a line in the sand. Not like VA is being over whelmed with public comments. But, this is now getting rid of any unwanted comments of any kind. The true mark of censorship and a totalitarian regime that does not follow the constitution any more. If citizens are not allowed to speak up, this isnt a free society any more.
I know the IG will fail me, and that this one has to happen for VA and others to silence the veterans from here out. Of all things, over the Toxic Exposure Pathology Center. Which means I knocked that one out of the park and VA has to kill it off. This one changes the entire game with VA ands brings in millions of veterans that would not been able to before.
The real fight has now begun:
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https://news.va.gov/116593/accessing-toxic-exposure-health-care-benefits/
This is what I submitted that they kept blocking:
This is still the same problem over and over.
These registries and such are reliant on rudimentary medicine. There is nothing advanced about the labs and imaging. Like with ABHOR, your basically getting a 10 minute exam plugged into the Genesis portal data system. At best a chest xray and pulmonary function test.
The PACT Act needs revision and refinement as does environmental healths programs. Because they miss one critical aspect, true tissue collection. Meaning inner tissue resection for toxicology and Pathology workup. True proof of toxic exposures.
VA needs to implement a Toxic Exposure Pathology Center for all these veterans so it can do more than conventional exams. It's time to use a variation of forensic medicine and dig deeper to show possible physiological issues rather than merely suggest them.
Right now, every registry program will fail to provide details of toxic exposures other than survey and self report. Blood labs won't even find much unless they push harder than Chem 7 and such. Damn sure won't find heavy trace elements as they don't look at anything but specified standard markers. VA is ignoring 26 years of my hard work and sacrifice in all this for no good reason. They know I'm right, as did the VA Research Advisory Committee I pitched this all to. With good reason, I ran the entire gambit this last year and it failed me. All of it.
Even after begging the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center to do a fatty tissue resection for full spectrochemical analysis. The system is not flexible in this. So millions will find out what I already know. Only, another year will have passed for them while getting no where.
Sec of VA knows all this, and just plans to ignore it. Let things run there course. He knows as I've pointed each step out this last year. Then presented my findings to the RAC in a PowerPoint they are now blowing off. Ended up in Stars and Stripes over it, so what? Really?
My suggestions are valid. I should not have to keep repeating all this in these public comments. I've got alot more to add but for now I'm sticking with just this part.
March 3rd, 2023
The
infamous RAC powerpoint presentation I did in 2006
People tell me nothing, and so I dont know what files are missing from my website. Been a lot of missing files the last few months. My website had been gutted.
Its one of my best Powerpoints from 2006, and people are looking for it. Its been down for no telling how long now. Mystery file.
This one really tells a story, 28 slides. Really graphic and flashy. 1.7 megs.
Well, its back up. http://gulflink.org/rac/rac2006.ppt
February 21st, 2023
Toxic
media destroying America
Try as I might, mediocrity has a firm grip on the small minds that write for the American media. I was asked to write letters to the editor last week because to these bozos a story like mine isnt worth telling. A veteran that was asked to present to a federal committee, and was in Stars and Stripes over it. Why that happens every day and was never worth publishing.
Its no mistake, American media is either so incredibly lame it cant tell what they truth is any more or its part of a very sinister plot against the population. Because it set out to deliberately tank the VA RAC meeting in Hawaii and it did so. The same thing with the PACT act, and the failure of ABHOR. Only say positive things. Think only happy thoughts.
You dont want me being negative? What did you offer that was better? No news? That Gulf war veterans should not be seen or heard? Thats discrimination. Bold face, in your face, some people are created more equal than others. What is your message?
Killeen Daily Herald, Temple Daily Telegram, Waco Tribune, Gatesville Messenger, Channel 10 Waco, Channel 44 Waco, and others that I walked into repeatedly up to last week have decided any story is worth printing but mine, and Gulf war veterans plight. That the Secretary of VA never did any of us wrong, and is the only person that deserves media. How could I possibly be right about anything? Im not rich, famous, and all over the net like I used to be. The only opinion that matters is the government as they never wronged Gulf war vets.
So they win. Silenced a poor destitute veteran fighting for his life. That my idea of a Toxic Exposure Pathology Center is just stupid. It should be statutes to each of the media directors locally who are gods among us. What was I thinking that veterans rights would come above theres. That any veterans opinion matters any more. What did a combat veteran ever do for this country? The local media sure proved that to me the last 2 months. How dare I think I have value in this country.
February 17th, 2023
Toxic
Exposure Pathology Center, Waco Texas?
Email broadband:
Dear Sec of VA Denis McDonough and RAC
I think Ive come up with a answer to the issue of the PACT act, ABHOR, environmental agents,
WRIISC, Gulf war registry loop holes.
There all designed to fail for one reason. They will never collect hard evidence of toxic exposures
if they never take physical tissue samples that would prove it. Diagnostics, back up the docs
nation wide with second opinions like the AFIP did.
I had a long talk with the VABBB in Boston yesterday. Theoretical's. Long story short, it cant be
expanded or adapted to function like the AFIP.
Try as I might, I cant find a resource within VA that for now could take on the monumental task
of this nation wide. With millions of possible samples that might pour in if this were to kick off.
Then it occurred to me, repurpose a asset that isnt being utilized correctly.
A while back I had a tour of the Doris Miller VAMCs Center of Excellence. The tour was of the
interior and staff. By the end of the tour I was quite displeased. Dr. Seim used the word somatic
research in his presentation and that set off alarm bells. One of the doctors I think was my former
general clinic doctor who only ordered drug screenings every time I came in, was a hateful person
with no compassion. Because of him my foot tumor surgery dragged out another year. After the
tour the clinic would not respond to my emails or me. I realized this was a VA dead end and
a waste of resources because I told them about my potential TBI and they showed no interest.
This is a terrible waste of the expensive freezers, and genetic screening equipment. Why not
repurpose this facility in a more veteran friendly format that could benefit us all nation wide. Its
centrally located, fairly new, mostly done, and would not need very much to make it happen.
Turn a negative into a positive. Create the pathology center that could answer lots of hard lines
questions about Toxic exposures.
I have much more to add, but for now - Im putting this on the table.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely
Kirt P. Love
Director, DSBR
former member VA ACGWV
http://gulflink.org
https://www.va.gov/gulfwaradvisorycommittee/
February 16th, 2023
Joint
Pathology center? VABBB? Where do we go for the pathology
of the tissue samples
Message to VA, RAC:
To whom it may concern
In 2000 I began my fight with the Armed Forces institute of Pathology after visiting with
them at Walter Reed Army Hospital. I could not get Florabell Mullick to catalog Gulf War
tissues samples. Even though they shuttered there doors in 2011, they pretty much
had closed down by 2003.
So by 2005 I had been repeatedly telling the VA Research Advisory Committee the need
to address tissue sample collection issues with the pending death of Wade George from
a brain tumor in 2006. That the AFIP was closing.
VA announced the Gulf War VA Biorepository trust in 2006. But, it was strictly brain bank
and not broad spectrum tissues collection. To be moved to Boston and later be dubbed the
VABBB. I still have the original powerpoint of it in Dallas Nov 2006.
Despite all my best efforts, what little tissue collection has taken place has been brain
or cancer driven. Even with the WRIISC and many other entities. Which when put to the
test in 2022 I could not get a tissue resection done by anyone no matter how hard I tried.
If your going to be using the PACT act, ABHOR, Gulf War Registry, WRIISC, Toxic Exposure
screening, - your going to need some form of physical tissue sample collection other
than surgical cancer biopsy. You need advanced pathology bordering on forensic toxicology
to looks for foreign physical substances in veterans tissues.
I pitched this at the Hawaii RAC meeting February 9th 2023. Im still quite serious about this
and have begun calling around asking anyone in the VA / DOD infrastructure willing to champion
this issue.
My concern keeps coming back to this, everyone throws the DOD Joint Pathology Center in
Maryland at me. This is DOD and I dont feel will be impartial. Soon as they get there hands
on the samples it will be privatized or skewed in some way.
There is a need for a separate entity to deal with PACT act, ABHOR, Gulf war, and similar ventures
when it comes to cutting edge tissue collection for military environmental health exposures.
Im not sure expanding the VABBB would be in our best interest. But, I have nothing better, and
already approached them. They seem open to this.
This has gone on for 23 years now for me, and I feel too much time has been wasted on this.
Tens of thousands have died that any useful data is lost. Countless autopsies that had been
written off as substance abuse or other similar elements wherein liver damage might have
been Leishmaniasis or other exotics rather than just cirrhosis. Many many autopsies that
had a biased cause of death.
I still feel the original AFIP tissue collection has valuable Gulf war samples that needs to
be cataloged in some useful manner. It wasnt just brain and neck samples as implied by
Mike Kilpatrick of DHSD at that time.
Thank you for your time and patience.
February 15th, 2023
The
ongoing threat to the US blood supply by undetected pathogens
Message to VA, RAC:
One of the things the Military have not taken serious is the contamination of
the blood supply by troops donations even to this very day. 32 years later.
There was a FDA blood banking meeting in DC December 11th 2003. I did a
powerpoint that blew them away.
In 2004 the FDA, CDC, and others should have banned American troops returning
from Iraq, and Afghanistan from ever giving blood again. That Leishmaniasis
was running unchecked in the ranks. Troops with black skin lesions that were told
it would resolve on its own. First it was 110, then 200, 400, and then 1,100 cases
that were reported in 2004. I could not get a honest answer out of DHSD and
deployment health at WRAIR about how bad it was. The diagnostics for this were
not up to the job.
The dormancy factor of visceral Leishmaniasis is such that it may go undetected
for decades. Its nearly a genetic pathogen still masked in the cell bodies as a
double nucleus. Very hard to prove or disprove.
We never fully disproved this in Gulf war I vets, and how many have died of this
over the years. Largely, no preserved tissue samples other than the AFIP which
never cataloged this. Only by genetic screening this would have surfaced.
Those that contract Leishmaniasis through the blood supply have no recourse
and only Walter Reed Army Hospital to verify the test. Which just isnt done.
Personally, I feel no Gulf War era veteran should ever give blood to the general supply
as they do not screen for these type pathogens even to this day. With its up to 40 year
dormancy its just not worth it.
When I said my powerpoints were famous, this is the one that set the bar. Listed below.
This is one major thing the PACT act, and all the environmental health registries will go
on missing the mark on. A very uncertain number for a orphan illness that Americans
dont take serious at all these last 20 years. Much like the West Nile Virus we brought
back from Iraq in 1991 that was in the blood supply.
Sincerely
Kirt P. Love Director, DSBR
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https://slideplayer.com/slide/4228697/
December 11th 2003
Contamination of the American Blood supply
February 14th, 2023
VA
Leadership does not welcome veteran input, critique, or
complaints of the PACT act role out
Had been wondering about the last two months on the PACT act. Then it occurred to me. VA is VERY happy with the PACT act. A little too much so. They know it has several glaring flaws they want to keep as is. Its too early in to change these, and fix them since they want the outcomes. For it to take a year for the rejections to come in after the media lost interest. To isolate the complaints one at a time, drive them into submission. Pick them off.
Started with me, to drive me off in plain sight. Failed me, so what. Keep that wall up and make sure no one listens. See if the House and Senate committees remain apathetic to individuals. Wait us out. Save more money waiting out millions.
Keep in mind, no VA programs is flawless. How is this one so flawless right now? Thats just it, this isnt. Just stand on the necks of anyone complaining and make sure to run them off. That the media will help them do it. No negative reviews.
A program with no veterans complaining at this scale is impossible, unless more than myself are being silenced the same way. Im the first, most vocal. But, media through Texas wont help veterans. If the PACT act fails you, its going to be a secret.
February 12th, 2023
Hawaii
turnout low at VA meetings on Gulf War illnesses -
Stars and Stripes
This is really frustrating, the article left out a lot and it glossed over my former committee entirely. Left out my website was being blocked. Made me look like a fly by night just starting rather than the old crowd dating to the creation of the RAC in 1998 by law. It ignored former Chairman Jim Binns as did the committee itself this week. Its a start though.
My powerpoint ( another thing left out ) was a game changer on all levels and the committee opposed it going in. None of these people came to my aid before the meeting, and right afterwards went back to silent mode on me.
Goolge scrubbed me so people cant find "Kirt Love" and "Gulflink.org" so if I cant be found then I dont matter. Im 100% convinced Sec of VA Denis McDonough is behind this request to help protect his career at my expense. Only, I didnt play fair and die as he hoped.
Im world famous again. Will take time for people to figure this out. That or Im murdered shortly to make sure I dont pull off a end run here. Considerable effort has gone into scrubbing me off the net, and create search rules to circumvent me. I was everywhere once, and right now Im being made to look like I never was. World famous in 2003. Now? Cant find me when you look for me. Unless its one of those scam websites like "checkpeople" implying I have a criminal past and all kinds of hidden dirt that isnt there. Never would have passed a background check with the TDEM if I was a criminal flake.
Anyone happy for me with the RAC presentation? Nope, total silence. So much resentment and cowardice out there. How dare I try to make a difference. No wonder the GWI issue is stagnant and silent. The real question is now I called this all out, does Bernie Sanders and the Senate VA committee go on pretending I dont exist so they can avoid all this. He helped us get PL 105-368 and then the last 10 years he walked away from us. So far, dodging me just like the Sec of VA. I was the only one fighting over healthcare and benefits for Gulf war vets, and now the major flaws in the PACT act. IT FAILED ME.
For now, its a hollow victory. The current RAC got away with horrendous behavior and implied the meeting was a success. It wasnt. It was a shut out with a very meager phone in presence. Not a proud moment for VA. Sure bent over backwards to rob me of my victory with my presentation which was the best of my 26 years career in this crowd. That I DONT MATTER.
Local media will bend over backwards to punish me for this one. So will the local VAMC and regional. Because there is no oversight, or compassion left. Gulf war vets should not be seen or heard. At all cost. Who is really behind that?
February 10th, 2023
Success at the RAC meeting, the
ripple effect, then Sec of VA
Denis McDonough sneaks in and out of Waco the same day
Its been a horrid month. Trying so hard to make all this happen since December. Really, this all started last February. Running the gambit of every program in VA to the Toxic exposure screening days before the meeting.
What lead to the invite to speak on the RAC was nothing short of bizarre. Spelled it out to them. They invite me, then pull back telling me not to read into this. Try to tell me what to say heading into this, and then tried to gut my powerpoint twice right before the meeting.
3 days, and they discuss all the things I was asked not to talk about. Only thing that I wasnt on top of was ILER. No biggie, I had a taste of it already.
Before the presentation, could not get anyone to say my name. After it, few didnt. Suddenly tissue collection and Long Covid POTS was all the buzz. After my presentation the committee will never be the same. 30 minutes later, they were ignoring my public comments. Chronology powerpoint
As I fully expected, they went silent on me right after this. Retaliation for the content of my presentation. Because, I called on them to rebel against ORD and Policy and planning. Right the wrongs of Sec of VA Eric Shinseki from 2009 to 2013. There is so much in my presentation, my best ever. This one is famous now. They hate me for it.
Im driving around Waco taking pictures with my van today as I visit Regional and directors staff at Doris Miller. Letting them know I filled a IG complaint about me being kept from the PACT act hiring event. Both pleaded innocence in this but they knew from prior notice Sec of VA was coming. Others who knew me saw this as a media opportunity while they grovel at Sec of VA's feet. Pro government media, all is well. Only, the PACT act failed me and no one cares that is supposed to.
Its clear now, as I was going to the TV stations about the RAC meeting they got the notice about the Sec of VA coming - and cut me off. veterans arent important? Only the Sec of VA is. Suck up to him to get them positive attention from there masters.
So here is a page of me saying the PACT act failed me in front of every media source I could get to today that blew me off. PACT act failed me - Feb 10 2023
February 4th, 2023
RAC
makes its move to censor me
When someone promises you to speak for 15 minutes, you give them the courtesy to do so. You publish the agenda to that effect your committed.
The RAC had the nerve Friday evening to tell me to cut my presentation to 10 slides. No one else, just me. Never mind I timed myself at 30 seconds a slide and coming in at 12 minutes. Ive been doing these for 23 years now. Im a professional. Unless people plan to interrupt me.
Well, Im not changing a thing. They will never give me chance again to present as the committee is filled with ringers out to censor me. As I firmly believe the Sec of VA is behind this to minimize any damage or messages.
Its the 4th, and the Oahu Veteran Center wont past the RAC flyers, PR releases, or the new article in Hawaii. In fact, media nation wide does not seem to want to touch any of this.
What has moved up the ranks of Google is the article by Anthony Hardie about my committee and the GWVIS reports. Means a lot of people have seen it and know something is wrong.
What people forget in all of this, each person that knows of this and does not speak up is aiding a felon. You become a accomplice. So foir instance the people stropping my public comments on the VA website to articles like https://news.va.gov/115225/va-gulf-war-research-advisory-committee-feb-7-9/ Ther person moderating this page is too terrified to post my remark. Here it is since he wont approve it:
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Iโm one of the presenters and as of this evening theyre already trying to gut my presentation to censor me.
At this point Iโm positive the Sec of VA is behind this. He does not want me discussing many things about VA. Dodged me all year long. Pretty sure he is the one that asked Google to pull the plug on my website. Called the White house about it today, senate, congress.
This meeting will NOT be like the others. Not another one designed to fail on purpose.
VA Buried my committees findings and silenced it for 13 years now. Itโs doing all it can to censor me now.
This is what happens when you remove oversight and Congress walks away. You get a dysfunctional program that runs, spins in circles for a decade.
Sec of VA Eric Shinseki gutted both Gulf War committees, and VA never repaired the damage that has been done.
February 3rd, 2023
Calling
the White House 9:30am there time Friday
By the White House standards, today as a bad day to call. I kept getting routed to the comments section which was closed today. They keep bankers hours I guess.
In the past a Liaison officer was on premises that you could talk to. They moved that over to VA who ignores it unless its financial hardship.
So tried to call the White House operator, and argued with two of them for a few minutes. One sent me to comments which was closed. The other made it clear that comments was the only option. That it would be open Tuesday next week.
This makes it official, unless your part of the government - you cant reach anyone like you used to. Above the law, and out of reach of the common person. Hurry up and wait?
It wasnt this way with the Clintons, and that is the role model?
Contacted
the White House, House and Senate, about
Google blocking my website - I think Sec of VA Denis
McDonough requested it
Its bad enough that the 32 year mark the Gulf war records are still concealed. Not to be made public till 50 years have passed. By now its a blatant cover up to protect war criminals that profited for the war. Im the last person left calling out the 6,000,000 records, and getting rid of me finally puts the war in the past. A person who owns a military domain name to do so. The only person to ever do so.
Just as I found out the website had been gutted and started putting content back up in December, Google stops crawling and claims it cant index me. Try all I might, the Google tools wont index me even though Godaddy says Im up. There not responsible for Google and such.
Took me time to figure out what happened, people telling me I had been hacked. It was more than that. This was out right suppression. Make me look like I dont exist. 23 years of hard work and dozens of interviews just simply not there any more. Im being erased.
Sec of VA Denis McDonough has spent the last year dodging me. Im pretty sure because at the advent of the PACT act I was about to prove a good chunk of all this coming out is rigged to fail. Same time a NAS report says so about the Burn Pit Registry ( ABHOR ). In fact, almost a dozen items all year long as I run the gambit of all these programs that failed me. Then there is the issue of my former VA advisory committee they want covered up. Forgotten.
Im little more than a political prisoner now in my home. I have no rights and Im supposed to just stay shut in my house out of the way of others who do not seem to have anyones best interest at heart. Locally, state, or the federal level. Im in the way of progress? Who's progress? Certainly not any of the people that served in the military the last 32 years.
How can I not be alarmed, this is my life. Which has no value apparently. That 23 years of work helping others was stupid of me. How dare I. Really? That my military service is of no value. War veteran? Means nothing. Then what does have value right now in the country? Certainly not me.
February 2nd, 2023
The
pending RAC presentation in Hawaii, and the toxic media
The RAC wont get one fact at the meeting when I present. I found my own medical answers.
In VA's eyes, Im almost normal. Blood labs are almost middle ground now. Blood Pressure was 126 / 76. I have solid stools. Fully lucid. Full use of my appendages. Granted there are other issues and this isnt a cure, Im much more functional that even two years ago. First time in 32 years. At the age of 58? Never be like before the war, but Im not pricing coffins right now. ( $600 )
My research paid off, and saved my life. No one cares. Well, my doctor at VA is impressed if no one else is. He doesnt argue with me on labs or medicines. He gets Im on to something.
The people Im trying to get this across to dont have answers. That if anything else my methods treat geriatric conditions, and improve the quality of life for the elderly if nothing else. Something Im going to take up with the VA geriatric committee in April. Stigma, personal bias, arrogance, contempt, apathy. All the hallmarks of subjective reasoning. While I struggle so hard with objective reasoning. Am I kidding myself or not? Only when it comes to how low others will sink.
So my own answer is simple, I will out live these folks, and present my findings when these people are finally out of the way. Which wont be much longer from the looks of things. Still leaves my fight over Gulf War healthcare and benefits that no one is helping with. Whole crowd is fixated on research which is a dead end. PACT act and ABHOR producing false hopes. No avenues or committees that even care about any of this.
This crowd needs me, and it will sort of figure that out at this RAC meeting in a few days. If people dont bury each other in personal commentary, and singular circular arguments.
Im at the apex of my own career, at what looks like the worst moment to be there in American history. When people are drowning in apathy, and mean indifference. Especially the now toxic media with its jaded agendas.
I dont even have to share my results. Im not benefiting from doing so right now. Im being gracious, and battling a all uphill war over others peoples egocentric issues. That Im the problem? People should realize by now Im a force of nature, and ignoring me doesnt make me go away.
Time will prove me out.
January 31st,
2023
The
Toxic Exposures Screening with the Waco VAMC nurse
Did my Toxic Exposure screening over the phone. Its what I was afraid of. Self report Ice storm messing it up going in, so its going to be done by phone.
Without coaching, you have to tell the doctors what you think might
be the issue. Then they apply standard medicine to it. This wont find
anything using traditional labs.
This is designed to fail.
I gave this nurse a earful, and gave her the history of SHAD, ionizing radiation,
Vietnam, gulf war, OIF, and medical evidence collection among them by
program. The most complicated screenings she will ever do was me.
H2S, fuming nitric acid, oil well smoke, dusty mustard, recursive compounds,
dioxins, industrial pollutants, silicosis, ammonium perchlorate, burning
vehicles, CARC paint, diesel fuel, spent vehicle oils, tent heaters, burning
EOD demolitions, chemical weapons laying in the open, burning nuclear
reactors and fuels, bombing debris, and so much more.
You watch what I do with this information and VA.
Trying to guide others when doing these exams, Because they dont know
what to offer VA. Self reporting relies on education, and most gulf war vets
still dont get what happened. The say Gulf war syndrome and that falls flat.
They say undiagnosed conditions and VA diagnoses badly, there are no
undiagnosed conditions.
This all hinges on blood labs, and only forensic toxicology would be able
to prove anything. Im asking to change that. Keep in mind I dont fault the VA nurses and doctors. This is bad executive policy from above making them do this in a rudimentary way that fails. The problem is 810 Vermont street in DC, and it wanting to fail at this.
There is considerable opposition by the media and social media to the RAC Hawaii meeting Feb 7th, 8th, 9th
OMG, I have never worked so hard in my life to get out information just about a RAC meeting for Gulf War vets. I dont know what is with all this opposition to the story, Finally, by Sunday one story gets out and its being shunned even in Hawaii.
American media has bent over backwards to keep this at bay. Im stunned at how weird and ugly people are being about this event. I would swear they are being told not to publish this. PACT act, ABHOR, and Gulf War.
Then Google sets out to silence my website. Never happened before.
Posted the article from Hawaii on the Oahu Veteran Center facebook page and they took it down. The Flyer from VA two times, and now this. They are hosting the event. Its two days later and the article isnt back up. What, I cant post it, and they simply wont because I did?
This has gotten sinister to say the least. About a week to go and the global media seems bent on suppressing this. The hidden message is as dark as it can get.
Cant get this out with or without my name attached to this. Should have been in all the newspapers, and TV stations by now. Its a long list now of those that know of it, and wont touch this. Big names.
January 30th,
2023
Birth
defects prevalence among infants of Persian Gulf War veterans
born in Hawaii, 1989-1993
This is a reminder that not just Gulf war veterans are forgotten, but there children too. In 1993 something happened that lead to this very study. It was quickly ignored and forgotten.
These studies did not follow a lot of things. Still births, miscarriages, and extreme deformities. They did not do long term studies of learning disabilities, autism, ADHD, and so many issue like this.
What happened 30 years later? Is anyone beside me even asking? I pushed these kinds of issues while on my VA advisory committee in 2008. It was buried with our committees final report. Then VA happily allowed the Gulf War spouse and children registry to lapse. Totally wrote these people off.
Journalism is
dead, too many fragile egos
In the past I had 3 big moments that got global attention. The opposition to Presidential Special oversight Board in 2000. The opposition to the troops going to Iraq in 2003. My getting a federal committee and being on it in 2008. Right now, its the problems with the PACT act, ABHOR, and the RAC meeting heading into February 7th, 8th, 9th.
What Ive run up against is universal contempt by the media to virtually any story that isnt sucking up to the government. Im not allowed to have a attitude or be angry about it either. Im supposed to be groveling at these peoples feet accepting any crumb they might dole out rather than tell a story of hardship. Some of the most mediocre writers Ive ever seen with big chips on there shoulders. Never mind I live in destitution and hardship, the story isnt about me and my hurting fellow vets - its about these writers first.
It was hard to get media long ago, but it wasnt this hard. Ive never seen so many people that put themselves above there story. The lame excuses, and manners as each one justifies there attitude. The story isnt important unless it wins them favor with the government, not the public. These folks literally enjoy devaluing me, and my hardships.
By now Im positive that Sec of VA Denis McDonough contacted Google to have my website barred heading into the PACT act role out. Its the only thing that makes sense. As he had the most to loose if I got attention. It would explain much of the last year and his attitude since February 2022 with me. This only furthers the contempt shown me having virtually no internet presence. As Google is a monopoly above the law in situations like this. It can censor the net when it suite them or the governments.
Whats your end goal here people? Do you not get the irony here. That this screams George Orwell's class war scenario. Oppression of free speech to control the masses? All of this is VERY ominous. What you do to others will soon be done to you as well. Really? Cant happen? It just did.
January 27th,
2023
Google search
engine blocking me entirely
Been at a fight between my host provider and Google. Godaddy says they are doing there job, and dont care if search engines can pick me up. First time in 23 years this ever happened.
Google on the other hand is a organization that has no way to reach when you have a problem. Then when you email them, instant referral to there legal team for litigation. See you in court attitude. Thats tech support?
So GoDaddy says they are up, index file is out there. Google say Godaddy isnt putting out a index file. Says it cant be indexed. But, they have made everything of mine disappear off the net between the two. Zero searches and that with me looking? Right.
OK, Google - my FCC complaint number is 155918753.
The media cant find anything on me, and assumes Im a nut. 23 years of hard work being buried at a critical moment with VA. This is no accident. Bad part is since no on cares, they got away with it. The new norm in America, making people disappear in broad daylight. This is what our government is going to allow for its citizens, blocking our first amendment rights.
I can tell you this, the local TV stations in Waco are no friend of the veterans. They are rude, condescending snobs writing puff pieces for the government. This is nothing like it was just 10 years ago. Im sure they lied about not being invited to the Temple PACT act role out. Saw no media at it of any kind. Public Relations at VA is a joke, but its not that bad not to invite anyone from the media.
January 25th,
2023
Media and VA
shut out veterans voices now
Doesnt seem to matter where I go to in the country about this RAC meeting in Hawaii, they wont put up the flyers or talk about it. Total shut out in Texas, in the US, and in Hawaii. Not with my name by them or just them without me. For 2 weeks solid of this. Not just one, but dozens from TV stations to newspapers and such.
Google claims it cant index my website. So its shut me out. Zero searches even when I search myself. Godaddy says my website is working and they really dont care if Google cant pull me up. This all means Im being shut out fate 23 years of the website. All started 3 months ago.
My issue is 3 fold. The PACT act that failed me. ABHOR that has done all it can not to provide statistical data for 8 years. The RAC meeting in Hawaii that ORD is trying to sabotage. Now the media had demonstrated hostility towards me and Gulf war vets regardless of my part.
Can only mean one thing, to censor veteran voices and paint a happy picture where the PACT act is making it all better when its not. Upbeat stories only and nothing with a down side. Even to misreport it like with me. As nothing has changed for me in 20 years, it didnt the last 6 months either.
Now it looks like the new chairman and the RAC staff are doing all they can to either censor my Powerpoint presentation or just remove my invite. I tried to reach out to the chairman yesterday, and I got silence. Not even diplomacy on her part. Shut out.
Im in contact with all manner of people related to this, and the ones that matter are too sick to be apart of this. They either are too distracted, unaware of anything, or too confused to focus. Producing a unwelcome silence.
This has begun to take on a Karen Silkwood quality around me, and I know how that story turned out. Only, Im saying it out loud before it happens, and no one cares. Which is giving the US government the green light to wipe out other lives in a similar way nation wide in 2023. To silence veteran voices.
Make no mistake, these folks silence the loudest voices first. Then they silence the people who knew about this. Then they make sure no one can speak up about this topic. After that, nothing happened and all is well. Is it?
January 22nd,
2023
Trying to reach
out to Jon Stewart for 6 months now
I feel bad for Jon because he so busy promoting the PACT act right now and no one can tell him if its going wrong. Ive been trying ever since the PACT act passed to warn them of the pitfalls coming, and how VA will abuse the letter of the law. 6 months later, and boy its happening.
Sadly, word will get back when its a avalanche that could have been prevented. As people wont speak up at first. Then it will take time for someone who cant articulate what happened to them, which isnt that easy. Once the rejections are in the thousands a year from now the backlash will hit. That VA largely promoted PTSD as the easy out. A somatic trap.
This has been ugly for me, slow, painful. Having to start over from scratch with ever tiny detail around me. To over come the tremendous apathy, and current mean spirited media. To have my past works trivialized, or suppressed.
At least the people of McGregor have been kind to me. Start small and build on that. Waco has been nothing but rude, and mean till now. So many snobs that just want everything to go away. Live in the past, comfortable.
Waco
VA official cheers PACT Act, encourages
applications
( front page news in Waco )
Im so embarrassed by this puff piece. Im misquoted, and even played as a moron to VA. So much is left out of this. I certainly got nothing from the last year, and damn sure no increase for respiratory and GI. The PACT act failed me in so many ways, and it will others. But, the vets that pushed it through did the best they could. VA twisted the meaning of the law to its advantage. Which a year from now people will point out.
I posted a public comment that Im sure they removed by now. So I took a screenshot to show it was up there. I even asked this writer who's sides is he on?
American media is so busy playing down the veterans themselves. If its not upbeat then dont write it. Tells me the government has been weaponized, and has taken control of the media.
What is missing is Long Covid, and the lies about the ABHOR exam system. Where only 9% have had a actual exam these last 8 years. That is missing from the website state by state, participants - not exams. ABHOR and the other registries play a major part in the PACT act.
Ive been through it all the last year and it all failed me. Im the first to do so. All the while pointing out each step to Sec of VA Denis McDonough by email. In return, he has been totally rude to me the whole time. They acknowledge my emails, he just doesnt feel Im worth writing to. Discrimination.
What a nightmare all this is for me. My life isnt any better, and so far all this is a lie to say im fine when I live in destitution, and despair. Fighting for my life every day, and VA stalling me at every step. Hoping I fade away or just die shortly. Only, Im trying to help the 20,000 Gulf war vets of Hawaii much less the 3,000,000 the PACT act is going to fail in lots of little ways.
How do I know? Im living it and a year later of trying by there rules my life isnt better - get that part straight. Im good at this, so how bad is it for those that arent?
Repairing the decade
long ongoing damage of
Sec of VA Eric Shinseki
VA was in a turbulent period of fast rotating Secretaries of VA a while back. None were staying around very long. A lot unmemorable moments leading to a really disastrous show down in 2014. Sec of VA Eric Shinsekist resignation in disgrace.
But, while in office he did a bunch of harm, and personal internal agendas that VA never set out to fix. Grudge matches that didnt need to happen.
He had it in for the Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans, and wanted its doors closed. Not just for its agenda, and methods, its that I opposed the committees final report. This was not going to end well. Messy. So VA set it to play down the committee, and just pretend we never existed.
Having done so, he set out to go after the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses in 2012 that had given him a vote of no confidence. His answer, get rid of the chairman, and committee members that spoke ill of him.
Since all this in 2013, its been 10 years of things spiraling down wards with VA ringers towing the line of each Secretary of VA. In return, its been dysfunction, and continual losses for Gulf war vets. Having rid of the remaining reporting systems like the GWVIS, and finally killing off the VA Gulf war newsletter.
Its happening again with Secretary of VA Denis McDonough who does not take accountability for his actions, and his staff. For a year I have written him directly, and they acknowledge they got my emails. Then no letter from him, no conversations, and his staff even going after people that did help me. With every Gulf war program, WRIISC, Burn pit Registry, PACT act role out, and Toxic exposure exam. They dont work. His answer is to avoid me. Really? Im that scary? Little ole me?
Gulf war vets continue to suffer from BAD VA management, legacy government personnel, stigma, and what I take as personal discrimination against me. That I am unworthy of his attention. For what, more of the same?
A really bad trends started in 2009, and the cycle needs to be broken. We need to address the short sighted, and mean conduct of VA officials that has lead to so much current dysfunction. As I feel a lottery of random people right now would put in a more sincere Secretary of VA then one appointed.
Its time for change, and its NOT complicated.
January 21st,
2023
Conditional media
and the careful efforts to keep veterans
from speaking up in unison
At this point Im beginning to get things back up on the net. But, there is a trick to searching Google now. It does not respond to direct inquiries. The shorter a phrase, then its about strictly popularity rather than topic. To find me you have to type a sentence like "Kirt Love Gulf War" rather than just my name. Still, Im finding volumes of things missing. People were asking about my website, and the Yahoo mail list for some time now, and these weird filters and hidden app functions were not showing me this.
Granted I wanted my privacy, strive for it. But, it looks like others were taking advantage of this to try, and wipe out my existence. A grand colorful past unmatched by others that is being trivialized because mediocrity is the new thing. No one is a hero these days, and anyone trying must be subverted. The more sincere, the worse the reaction to them. The era of the anti-heroes. Which there are way too many of making America worse every day.
This has never been more true than the media Im dealing with now. Talk about not wanting to report a story. So conditional now. Better be upbeat about the government and whatever. What? VA seems bent on a misinformation campaign like never before, and the media cant wait to promote that. Then they try to find vets to match there stories, and they cant find any. Largely because they want upbeat stories about VA efforts. So many are carrying grudges, and you get all this mediocre tripe about the writer, and not the story. Its a huge double standard and the poor are having to suffer the most for it. This is a social class war.
Everything Im doing to try, and help the 25,000 Gulf war vets of Hawaii before the Feb RAC meeting is being met with some of the most lame things I have ever seen. What they are doing is canceling each other out, and making sure that if anything is said its between 1 to 2 weeks before the meeting. Why? Because this is geared to reach individuals rather than groups. To divide and conquer. Not enough time to rally a large collective effort. Having realized the government can defeat "armies of one", they want this one on one to keep them in submission. The few that do show will put out there hand, get nothing, and walk away bitter. Silenced.
Ive done all I can to try, and rally the old crowd. Nope, sulky silence. They either plan to come in as "Armies of one" to attempt to grand stand, or not at all. Each person has become so jaded, and self centric now they dont plan to work as a whole which VA is counting on. They have already set out to undermine me like much of the last 20 years. For what? They had 10 years of this going no where but down. Driving away people. It failed in 2022 in such a spectacular fashion. More of the same would only make it worse. Nope, got to fall back on destructive behavior like a junky looking for one last fix. Ugh....
Only, I know the OIF folks are hurting and trying. They knew real combat and were sent back to Iraq over and over. They are the ones now in VA at all levels trying to save themselves. These are the people who showed me kindness the last 2 years, and that they want to make a difference. They are in VA medical centers now improving them alone, isolated, over whelmed. Being tricked by VA executive staff to take the blame for bad management and policies. Im trying hard to protect these folks from fallout or games
In the end, I can only do so much against a wall of global mediocrity. I have so many ideas, and 20 years of experience behind that. The people that want me at bay have nothing, they just dont want me to try. They set out to sabotage my committee and its largely been that way ever since. The RAC meetings are mostly circle jerks of egos canceling each other out in a mockish type class war environment. So much effort into humiliation and keeping the vets at bay. Anyone but the committee members who have lofted themselves to god hood. 10 years of boorish stagnation VA is thrilled with.
Yes, none of this helps outright. Criticism. But, Im tired of people walking up to me wanting something then chucking me right after. Thousands of them like Im some well funded organization just to grant them wishes. They have taken everything from me, Ive nothing left. Destitute.
The vets have to pull together, and fight for the greater good. You save all the vets - you save yourselves. Stop being so selfish, and realize this is a civic issue rather than strictly personal. Vote on a single agenda, and unite to push it through. Not 100 people shouting over each other 100 different things.
Your choices have been taken from you, and shortly its just civil war till nothing if left. All that entitlement only ends up with everyone having nothing.
Grow up America, the problem isnt every where - its in the mirror. Stop blaming others, and fix what you can around you in positive ways. Stop using up all around you out of spite. No one owes you, work for what is real. Your working the last of us to death the last few years who are on over load from Covid.
January 19th,
2023
Oahu Veteran center
deletes post on Facebook of pending
RAC meeting in Hawaii Feb 7th, 8th, 9th
OK, Im a little surprised they left it open to post. But, it was real simple and the jpeg of the RAC flyer. 2 hours later, the RAC sends out the notice after 2 weeks of silence over it. Then out of no where the vetcenter deletes two of my post about the meeting. Like Im some diseased maniac posting pornography or something as bad. Very offended.
So I posted it once more, and they took it down again. Now its personal. Ive got screen shots to show it was up. No more. This is censorship. Told the media there. Its on them now.
January 16th,
2023
Much of my past has
been erased from the Web, and now
Im finding dozens of news articles gone
First it was my Yahoo mail list Gulflink being destroyed after 20 years. Then my website largely gutted. Now Ive discovered the bulk of my news interviews gone from the web. Google makes it look like I never existed.
I tried looking so many up by title. Not there. Wall Street Journal? Really? Stars and Stripes? Science magazine?
PSOB news interviews 1999, all gone?
Many dont know I was on Hardball the night of the President State of the Union in 2003. So much media in 2003. Gone?
When I got my committee in 2007. Where did all that go?
Its like someone to trying to make me look like I was no one all my life.
Now I have to build a media section on Gulflink to show it all over time. Rebuild what has been lost. But, will never regain all the search points I once had.
January 14th,
2023
The PL 105-388
report that helped kick off the big hearings and lead to the Research Advisory Committee
November 1997 was a pivotal moment for Gulf War. Government Reform and Oversight would kick off 17 hearings for the next decade. Heading into the formation of programs such as RACGWVI and WRIISC with PL 105-368.
VA feared the congressional committees, and DOD had constant oversight as it played with its OSAGWI division. These entities played cat and mouse up to 2002. Then OSAGWI stepped back, as did MHVCB, and PSOB. By 2003 OIF set in, and the direction was on that.
Christopher Shays and Bernie Sanders were the congressional favorites at the time. The CDC conference in Atlanta in 1998 was setting the tone as PL 105-368 went into overtime with the Omnibus bill. After many incarnations that got further and further chopped up, its was signed into law November 1998. Back when Bill Clinton was President.
April 11th 2002 the RAC had its first meeting. 3 years after the law was passed. Secretary of VA Anthony Principi would be the first and last sympathetic Secretary to work with the Gulf War Crowd. The charter set in January 2002 was way past the 1999 deadline.
It would be a rough run. Filled with VA stalling and squabbling at each step. They were not popular, and called VA out on a vote of no confidence in 2012. VAs answer, gut the committee, and put on ringers. May 2013, they removed Jim Binns as chairman even though the veteran community had no problem with him. It was VA that had the problem. Others left in disgust June 2013.
After 2014, the committee did as VA instructed. Chairman after chairman came and went. It was no longer a power house. No sweeping reports. No more oversight. Congress walked away. VA relished in the committee being a silent tool to bury the past.
Finally, in September 2022 Chairman Lawrence Steinman stepped down, and the worst era has come to a end. February 8th, 9th the RAC will meeting in Hawaii of all things to set up a new Chairman. Cheryl Walker, M.D is a cancer specialist which sounds like VA already knew the cancer clusters have begun. What direction is this incarnation taking? Not the one it once had.
The RAC should reinstate Jim Binns and the older committee members at the veterans request. 10 years, and VA has NOT done a better job without them. If anything, its further gutted Gulf War Resources such as the GWVIS and Gulf war Newsletter. Its stagnant. Only getting a shot in the arm from the PACT act in 2022 which now is being subverted.
Where the hell is Government Reform in all this? The promise they made in 1998. Why have they left us for dead.
January 14th,
2023
There is nothing
glamorous about Gulf war illness
Ive had 3 tumors removed by VA. So far, all benign. But, Ive also removed other growths, and issues myself. Out of necessity. As they grew faster, and faster I could tell I was in trouble. Dark brown, black. Often, it was a soldering gun so that I could make sure it was dead. Not coming back. Do you know hard it is to hold this against you till the feeling is gone?
If its not on the books at VA, it didnt happen. Thats where our problem lies. What gets reported, and the volumes that dont. Ive taken lots of gruesome photos of myself over the years. This one I came close to loosing my leg. Hobbled for 2 years while VA dragged it out. Then the surgeon tells me they may have to take my foot. Sent me to Scott and White where it went quickly. Months to recover. Get this, they sent me home without pain meds or crutches. Had to walk on this that Monday to get meds in Waco, drove myself. Spent the first two days after the surgery with no pain meds. How is that for fair.
Im telling you, pets get better treatment at veterinarians than we vets do. Its easy for people to be aloof when there not in pain. Ive had plenty of bad ER days, and ugly emergencies that I had to wait 5 hours for pain meds while waiting to have my fingers sewn back on. Holding them inside the glove upright while trying to stop the bleeding. Nothing is urgent with these folks.
January 9th,
2023
RAC meeting heading
into Feb 7th, 8th, 9th 2023
There are no details about the Feb 7th 2023 veteran engagement session, it wasnt in the federal register notice. Its would be Hawaii in keep with the group but no one a said a thing out so far.
Media campaign is under way. Trying to reach as many as possible. Started with Hawaii itself, and now progressing to state side locations.
Modified the WEBEX link in the federal register notice to it fits on this page. VA should do a better job on the links by embedding them like I just did.
The GWVIS page is damaged and trying to find out what happened. Version 2 coming.
The fact the RAC is going to Hawaii hit a real sour note with all era veterans. Talk about grinding teeth when I talk to folks. VA has betrayed so many era veterans the last 2 years that no one feels sympathetic about this meeting. One picture of the new chairman on a surf board, and youve got a some serious attitude coming even from the older crowd who cant get care either.
January 8th,
2023
GWVIS reports and
VA fudging the numbers in 2008
I had a major blow out with VA when I was on the VA ACGWV committee. I had built a spreadsheet showing VA had altered its numerical stats in the GWVIS reports over time. The spreadsheet was pretty damning, and the numbers were not small ones. VBA wrote back it was a technical glitch and blew me off. The end result, having been caught changing the numbers and committing fraud - they killed the reports out right.
VA would produce a pre and post 911 report with some stats. Then after 2010 they just stopped all public reporting of Gulf war statistics.
Now Ive come to find the only place the GWVIS reports still exist is on the RAC website and its only two of them. 2007, and 2008. But, the RAC website itself hasnt updated any gulf war links since 2014.
So here is my GWVIS webpage and the ACGWV committee materials associated with this. Buried for 14 years. GWVIS reports and the ACGWV subcommittee materials tied to them
January 7th, 2023
RAC meeting:
February 8th and 9th 2023, in Hawaii?
Dear Readers
You heard it here first. No where else.
The next RAC meeting is in Hawaii on Feb 8th and 9th. I find
this highly offensive.
This time, Im on the agenda presenting about the RAC the
last 20 years in research.
Its the first time in 20 years the RAC has put me on the
docket as a presenter. Long long over due.
Sincerely
Kirt P. Love
Note: 23 years of reading the federal register every day,
it does pay to stay on it.
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Email to other:
They played me to the last minute, that it would be DC.
Then Federal Register posted at 5am on a Saturday as
I predicted. None of this is up on the VA website.
Notice in the email it says ET time. Hawaii.
I have a 25 slide powperpoint that is going to change the
direction of all of this. With a new item at the end no
one will see coming. That effects all era veterans.
The implications here are both staggering and nearly comical.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS ONE. Its my best work ever.
Kirt
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[FR Doc No: 2023-00135]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses,
Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App.2, that the Research
Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses will meet at the
Oahu Vet Center, 1298 Kukila St., Honolulu, HI 96818. The meeting
sessions will begin and end as follows:
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Dates Times
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February 8, 2023 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hawaii Standard
Time (HST).
February 9, 2023 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. HST.
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All sessions will be open to the public. For interested parties who
cannot attend in person, this meeting will also be available by
videoconference by connecting to Webex at the following URLs:
February 8, 2023, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (HST): WEBEX or join by phone: 1-833-558-0712 Toll-free; meeting number (access code): 2764 095 6460.
Meeting password: GWVets1991!Day1
February 9, 2023, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (HST): WEBEX or, join by phone: 1-833-558-0712 Toll-free; meeting number (access code): 2763 890 9669.
Meeting password: GWVets1991!Day2
The purpose of the Committee is to provide advice and make
recommendations to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on proposed
research studies, research plans, and research strategies relating to
the health consequences of military service in the Southwest Asia
theater of operations during the Gulf War in 1990-91.
The Committee will review VA program activities related to Gulf War
Veterans' illnesses and updates on relevant scientific research
published since the last Committee meeting. This meeting will focus on
1990-91 military exposures, exposure assessment, and the health effects
of genes, lifestyle and military exposures.
The meeting will include time reserved for public comments 30
minutes before the meeting closes each day. Individuals who wish to
address the Committee may submit a 1-2 page summary of their comments
for inclusion in the official meeting record. Members of the public may
submit written statements for the Committee's review or seek additional
information by contacting Dr. Karen Block, Designated Federal Officer,
at 202-443-5600, or at Karen.Block@va.gov.
Dated: January 3, 2023.
LaTonya L. Small,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-00135 Filed 1-6-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE P
January 6th, 2023
No clear
leadership, army of one comes full circle with
speaker of the house fiasco
People are so out to trivialize everything, and how each
individual is more
important than the whole - stalemate at all levels.
What I have seen in the Gulf War circles has spread to every
corner of
society. Everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. They dont
feel they have
to be honest or support anything. Its petty revenge. Undermining
others.
100 people shouting 100 different agendas with zero interest in
supporting
anyone but there own agenda. The collapse of government, and
society.
It doesnt matter now if people are brilliant, in fact now that
is punished.
Mediocrity has taken over. People who resent talent because it
wasnt there
idea first. Modesty is gone. Cripple, resent, scowl.
Takes personality to stand out. People resent that. So now
anyone that
stands out if the enemy. Making a lame duck congress a mosh pit
of
mediocrity gone wrong.
This is the time for random lots, lottery. Take control away and
make this
embarrassing for these folks. Make them realize they have to
earn back what
they had rather than demand it.
Entitlement? Get over it people. Its time to get the job done
and it wont be
glamorous again for a long time. Only, the world is watching and
they are looking
to take advantage of this. Too much longer, and they will. Then
when its gone
it takes 10 times the effort to get anything back.
December 27th, 2022
The Toxic Exposure
scenario without evidence?
Been incredibly busy the last week. Ive made tremendous head way
with my
Lysosome enzyme experiments. The key aspect of this was long ago
with the
cholinesterase inhibitors. You mess with one enzyme, it ripples
to others. We
ramped up one and it through off others. Residual long term
effects?
But, as I read up on the PACT act, and ABHOR they refer to
tissue collection
to study environmental factors. I know from the last year with
VA this is not going
on or if it is - its very narrow. Certainly not the WRIISC, and
not ABHOR. Damn
sure not with me.
In fact, tissue collection is NOT a VA strong point other than
base labs. Its
considered invasive, and frowned on. If its done, its during
surgeries for a biopsy
verification or post mortum. Ive begged for years to get adipose
tissue studies.
Then I find out the new RAC chairman is a cancer specialist from
Austin Texas.
Talk about throwing up red flags. As if VA knew what was coming
or what has
already happened.
I wrote the sec of VA about all this today. Here is the link to
that email.
Sec
of VA Dec 27th 2022
December 24th, 2022
The AFIP tissue
vault of 2000, the Gulf war tissue repository
of 2006, and the VABBB now - still no public catalog of
samples
Long ago I fought with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
over its Gulf
war tissue samples it collected since the war. The issue at that
time is they
refused to provide a catalog of the samples.
This facility at Walter Reed hospital was slated for closing.
The hint had
been brain cancer tissue slides of Gulf war vets. Then neck
cancers. Then
the issue surfaced about ALS tied to this. The deal breaker had
been a
veteran dying of a brain tumor that had no where to go. Wade
George. Died
shortly after this.
I complained to the RAC year after year about the lack of
cooperation on
tissues samples and the AFIP. The only game in town. They made a
recommendation, and in 2006 Anil Prasad presented the new
biorepository
to the RAC. I even have the original slide CD they gave me on
request.
Only, after all these years its called the VABBB in Boston and
they dont
answer phones. I know, Ive called. 1-888-561-8727.
There is a current disease cluster the PACT act is aware of as
is VA. They
want to service connect it without giving out numbers. No doubt
samples of
the dying have been sent to the VABBB which does not want to
report it or
catalog it just like the AFIP.
This is NOT what I asked for years ago. This has been corrupted,
and they
dont even want to pretend I was at the beginning of this.
largely because
right now they dont want people asking questions.
Where is the GAO, and Congress in all this? No one seems to be
asking
any public questions about any of this. Why so much terminal
care
presumptions without numbers to back them?
We need public oversight in all this. VA cannot manage itself.
We put the fox
in charge of the hen house and no barking dogs.
December 18th, 2022
A year in review -
doing every Gulf War program and item related
to our plight - show it to them - and still have VA treat me
like garbage
This
has been the wildest week of my life since 2008, and yet with
all this
going on VA has gone out of it way to spoil it for me. There is
such contempt
and over whelming animosity, over what? How dare I say the
obvious?
Its not coming from the Temple VAMC. With them its high praise,
except for
Public Relations giving me the cold shoulder.
Friday I wrote a email to the Sec of VA that got attention of
others. It was enough
to draw Jim Binns ( RAC chairman 2002 - 2014 ) out of retirement
and comment
about it as well. He responded after Betty Aguillar at VA EH
commented about the
Pact act role out at Temple. Sec of VA was in Colorado Springs
speaking to the
most important VAMC in the US that day about the PACT act. That
was sarcasm,
obviously he was there to use VA funds for personal reasons and
go skiing on
the fresh deep snowpack. Rather than to Texas where the biggest
turn out to the
Pact act took place nation wide. ( To avoid facing me )
In my second email Saturday I pointed out to the RAC and VA that
since February
Ive run the entire Gambit of Gulf war programs start to finish
all year long. Beginning
with the Gulf war Registry exam where they didnt even take my
vitals. The WRIISC
referral that took getting the Sec of VA to climb down EH
program to make it happen.
The WRIISC exam that dragged from June to September, and after a
big show end
in a really weak finish. Finally, the Burn Pit Registry that
said I didnt exist over 8 years
and the huge road block to the ABHOR system I pointed out to the
Sec of VA. Finally
I got the ABHOR exam that only 30,000 others got over 8 years
out of the 317,000
that applied. Which certainly wasnt Gulf war vets because the
screening process
didnt allow for southern Iraq land features and such. Where the
CRUR program would
have patched those holes. Another thing I pointed out to VA and
ABHOR HOME.
All year long these programs failed me in finding what I needed.
I didnt get any
benefits increases, beneficial medical evidence, or really any
changes at all other
than fresh insight into these programs. Not to mention my
getting the Waco VAMC
to reinstate the Veteran communication council meetings gone for
5 years. Another
yawn from VA employees who resent me, and my being there. For
what? Because
I make them work, answer questions? Make a phone ring in a very
quiet room they
can relax in away from people.
I offered this information to the current VA RAC committee and
they were quiet
as always. Go away Kirt. If you go away, we can do whatever we
want. We've done
such a good job for VA all these years. Exactly my point, they
have done what VA
wanted since 2014 to drive the issue into the ground. They have
ignored suggestions
the last 3 years completely and pretend Im not even there asking
question online
during there meetings. Till they removed the current chairman
after a year of my
asking them to remove him. Keeping in mind I was asking the Sec
of VA via email
all year long that they want to pretend I wasnt doing. Doesnt
matter I was there at
the opening of the RAC in 2002, and never went away. Drove Jim
Binns and the
others nuts all those years, and yet Jim saw enough in me to
back me recently
because something is better than nothing. VA did him no favors
in 2014.
VA knows right now the battle line with Gulf War right now is
me, Im patient
zero and all they have to do is keep on pretending I dont exist.
They know the
media is cruel now, and wont write a veteran story to save its
life. They know
Congress is gutless, and wont look in on them. They know the
vets are all armies
of one, and wont unite behind any cause any more. No one helps
no one, and
all they have to do is keeping sucking up public funds for
personal ventures like
skiing in Colorado. Im a 3rd world citizen unworthy of there
precious time. My
opinions and 25 years of experience pail in compassion to
theres. What could
I possibly have to offer?
As long as Im alive, Im still here, and undaunted. Only, Im
fighting for more than
3 million other vets right that will be betrayed in the PACT act
role out and the
ABHOR program designed to fail them. In the end, the focus is on
respiratory
and those dying quickly. This will be so meager, and under
whelming in the
coming months. I already know, ran the full spectrum and found
out what others
will learn when they press the final answers of VA EH. That VA
HOME is about
gathering information of who will try, then silence them with
mediocrity.
Gulf War is barely mentioned in all this, and they plan to keep
it that way. The
words "Benefits" and "Healthcare" are still bound by CFR 38 ss
3.317, and its
going to keep turning them away in bulk. Its up to me to change
this, and right
now no one wants me to. OK, then who, where, when?
What a horrid year, because so much is happening, and its
designed to fail. It
could be sweeping changes that really help vets. Not this
falsified fiasco that
will be obvious in 2023. I know, it failed me in a spectacular
way.
Friday
email to Sec of VA and RAC
Friday
letter from Jim Binns to Sec of VA
December 16th, 2022
The PACT role out
in VISN 17, and the Temple VAMC turn out
Had
no real idea what to expect when I drove down. When I got to the
facility I saw
no banners, signs, or displays at the hospital. Got mad right
off the bat. Looked like
a dead end. Then folks at the main tower started saying building
171. Took the
shuttle over. Nothing on the outside there. But, lots of people
going in.
Place was filled with veterans and a line out the door of the
exhibition room. Was
a out standing turn out at 10am. Busy busy. But, not real well
defined and there
were minor issues where to go. The VBA line was wrapped back and
around as
people filled out forms to be seen. Tables were marked with
numbers. Some small
signs here and there with fine copy. Plenty of VA employees
doing different roles
but in a diffuse pattern.
First thing I noticed right off. Geriatric crowd. 50's and up.
Was not seeing anyone
in there 30's and 40's. No wildly dressed folks. Very subdued
and quiet. In a room
this large it should have been stifling. The impression I got
was one of people that
didnt seem excited or impressed at all.
As for the VA folks, younger veterans that wanted to be
involved. These are folks
from OIF and such with a mission. I didnt see surely military
career types that
often drive everyone away. No burn outs snapping at folks. In
fact, the bulk of the
EH folks were energetic go getters I had not seen in 20 years.
Temple had gotten
lucky and replaced a lot of the dead heads I had been bumping
into these last two
decades. Other than the VBA regional director who could not
smile to save his
life. He didnt seem to be having a good day.
Many talked about what happened in Dallas, who put on too big a
show and
was hit with more than a 1,000 vets in the first 2 hours. They
had RSVP'd folks,
and got a huge influx. Too much for the first session. Temple
had at least 200
vets the first hour and then by 12 the line was finally inside
the door way.
Finally, they used a break room to take the VBA over flow and
had them sit
in there to wait to be called. That room was packed quickly.
But, it also had a
kind of quiet sad tone to it like waiting for medical care
visits. It wasnt happy
banter or people visiting loudly. They were not excited to be
here.
I talked with everyone I could. Get the feel of the role out.
Public Affairs folks
were doing what they could. But, afraid for there jobs. When I
asked to take
pictures it was a stern NO. This did NOT sit well with me.
However, I knew people
would be uncomfortable on both sides. This time, I would hold
off only because
of the turn out. This was a mixed bag that could be screwed up
quickly with
the hot heads waiting to snap.
My problem is top down with all this. Its now understood this is
a terminal
benefits drive. Get those dying in and something. But, I didnt
see anyone
that looked like that. No wheel chairs. Thats a bad sign. As the
rest would
find out this is mostly respiratory and depends on ABHOR exams.
I could
see 10% to 30% max for the others applying at most if EH was
kind to
them. Because C&P was not going to coach them. Good thing
Ive been
coaching EH this year on top down strategy and how to work it.
As for the veterans? I was pissed. The younger folks will wait
till its too
late and then hope for a quick fix. Ive seen this with Gulf war.
If its not 100%
rating in 2 weeks then why bother. Do it for me. Boo hoo hoo. I
dont blame
them but I deeply resent this. Generally, the people who know me
want me
to magically do it all for them. I dont. They are living there
lives, and those
working wont leave work for this. Youve got to be willing to put
a hard 110
days into this to get a rating that year. Take your C&P
serious, get the right
consecutive evidence on record, and a good claim writer to make
your C-File
sing in the ratings review. This has to be coached. It wont.
Sad part is, today didnt benefit me. I was here to support the
event. Had already
been through all this with the WRIISC, and ABHOR EH folks on
what I could
do for my current rating. Which they pushed PTSD, and thats a
somatic illness
loophole that punishes vets. All I could do today was observe
and prepare
for the next event. help others use what there is in place. EH
folks l knew I was
watching them closely. They did not disappoint, but didnt have
the support to
drive folks there way. Mixed message.
Timing for me was perfect though. Had spent the last year
starting form scratch
with VA heading into all this. Knew the layout, and who was
where all the way to
810 Vermont street in all this. That the break down is with HOME
and the
executive branch folks ducking the media. Playing down the
disastrous NIH
study about the ABHOR registry.
Its going to take time to flesh out both sides in all this. If
anything. I think a
great group is at the Temple VAMC if they had more support on
all sides.
The veteran community needs to get angry, and fight back at VA
top down.
There focus should be management making higher end benefits
retroactive
to stop punishing those that have gone without a decade to 3
decades.
Yes, there is going to be a rush this year. But, its being
watered down to
reduce the rating decisions. The terminal ill folks get a few
months of help.
Then they die and the spouses, children do not. Those that arent
terminal
will only get small simple stuff added, not 60% or higher needed
to survive
in these times. 10% to 30% is a insult to those fighting to
survive that dont
have clear cut medical conditions you can see.
In truth, I would have rather lost a arm or leg in Iraq. What
Ive been fighting
is sinister and subtle. People see a leg missing, they dont
insult you. Its
not that hauteur snide look down the nose stuff I get. The stuff
I fight everyone
gives up on. Eventually your abandoned even by family that wants
to move on
and enjoy there lives. No one wants to hear it. VA counts on
that. Which
would explain why so many other younger folks are not there
today. There
families gave up on them too. They have to fight to survive each
day alone,
and squeeze by on what little they can. The fight is gone after
Covid and
economic failure had ground us under foot.
I was needed, but not wanted there. Frustrated on how to fit
into this
new battle field. Because its all in flux. There will be more,
this is the intro
and opening doors. ABHOR, PACT act, Camp Legune, and such has
made
VA face the music. But, these are still bean counters and they
plan to reduce
the cost by minimizing this out of view. Now is NOT the time to
be timid if
your a hurting veteran. Its also not a time to be polite to VA
management
in Washington DC. Because we still dont get monthly or annual
reports to any
real numbers. Death count is higher than they let on to be
pushing terminal
illness care like this.
What I will say is, those going to Temple VAMC give these folks
a chance.
Its nothing like 10, 15, 20 years ago. They need help and
support. There is
a large OIF group there that took up the slack. Dont take it out
on them.
But,speak up and stop hiding folks. Doors are open, and you have
to learn
the ropes to go further than they plan for you to. We are being
tricked on
this role out and in a few months the backlash will start. Ive
got my work
cut out for me this next year. Im already ahead of the others.
December 1st, 2022
The Sec of VA,
former presidents, and how they divert attention
away from themselves in a crisis
Had
several phone call from VA Friday. In every one of them I had to
assure that
person I was dealing with at the Temple VAMC that I wasnt out to
get them. The
Secretary of VA's staff had contacted them, and put it off on
them. That the problem
was the Temple VAMC. I had to assure them this wasnt a
Presidential request or
a Congressional request. Ive had two Presidentials and 4
Congressionals in my life.
My first was a lousy 10% rating in 1997 from the Clintons. This
was me writing to
the Secretary of VA who in return ducks every problem this last
year.
The point was my problem is the with the Secretary of VA himself
as his policy the
last year has been one of contempt and arrogance. The man is a
coward, and he wont
write to me like others have in the past. Worse, he continues to
implement policies
and procedures that are harmful by accident or on purpose with
indifference to input.
In his mind, he isnt accountable to me or anyone else. Save
Congress or the
President. Completely forgotten he is a public servant, and
supposed to respond
directly to public inquiry.
If anything, Ive found people at the Temple VAMC Im desperately
trying to protect
from the fall out. That I dont want them to testify to Congress
about what they saw
because VA will fire them as whistle blowers. The one thing its
so hard is to find
people who care, and I want them in place to do just what they
do. Ive seen this too
much over the last 25 years. VA is real quick to get rid of
people who try. Im in a
pickle here because Ive been a round long enough to see how the
villains cover there
tracks by decimation. One bad apple will wipe out a whole unit
to keep there job.
Mediocrity at the highest levels keeps itself in place by
isolation and diversion.
Which has produced a horrible attrition issue at VA.
Been very busy backing up 25 years of data files from my very
earliest days with
the government in 1996. Proving my paper trail in the event I
suddenly vanish.
Ive forgotten just how I used to write the White house and
Pentagon. Found this
5 page letter from Under Secretary of DOD Bernard Rostker
explaining to me the
current situation with Gulf war issues, at President Clintons
request. As the years
past the response letters from Presidents got much shorter. Bush
barely used
2 paragraphs. I had opposed his deployment to Iraq in 2003 and
the world knew it
as global media picked up on that..I could have saved America 2
trillion dollars by
staying out of it. In return, I almost disappeared then when
they seized my plane
at Dulles airfield to shut me up. The patriot act in play in
2003.
We have policy makers that implement bad ideas, and do so
without our permission.
For 25 years Ive opposed this with purpose. To improve on that.
Enough so I was
able to get a Congressman to let me write a letter to VA, and he
signed it. That
turned into a VA federal advisory committee. Then I got
appointed to it. Not just
anyone could do that. He had to see something in me to do this.
As he talked to
me in person. Very few choose to do this or write me. The
cowards.
Gulf war vets have been punished for 8 years with the ABHOR
registry. It was
on purpose. I called it out, and now its about diversion. Not
dealing with that.
Oh, I got my ABHOR exam in a few days. Suddenly Im worth there
time for that.
Like all the other programs I followed to the letter all year
long that fail me.
But, they didnt fail me at Temple. They failed me from the
executive level as
VA does not want Gulf war vets to speak in public. They dont
want us in the room
with them except in diversionary ways. Like keeping the RAC in
place so its
only research they can avoid - rather than healthcare and
benefits issues. The
one thing VA has been adamant about, dont give Gulf war vets a
soap box for
healthcare and benefits issues. Let it all fail.
I can only save VISN 17, I cant save the country. Its too big.
But, I can show the
employees of VISN 17 what there VA bosses have planned for them.
See if they
will save Texas from itself, as we have nothing above them but
tyranny. I think
these folks got that Friday.
So much wasted effort here, and needless distraction. To make a
vastly bloated
tax fraud do the job it was supposed to. Boy, do they not get
me. Just how bad
does this really get before people wake up. At least its got me
aware of my website
and how much data is missing. As Ive lived a life very few ever
dream of.
December 1st, 2022
National Academy
report condemning the ABHOR registry
Reassessment
of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry
Im
pissed, VA burn-pit-registry and VA HOME knew about this report
in October and so far
they have been hiding from it. So while Im paralleling every
aspect of it, and
proving Im right VA including the Sec of VA has been ducking me.
317,000 participants out of 3.7 million, and yet only 30,000 got
medical exams
for 8 years. Proof VA is using this to keep vets at bay.
I sent out the first article from Omaha to others. Warned my VA
EH coordinator
of what is coming with this. Im at the center of this with
answers and no one
wants to work with me, a Gulf War vets with answers. Completely
sinister.
November 29th, 2022
Burn Pit registry
and Gulf War veterans since 2014
My
update project now has taken a monumental turn for me. Having
discovered
many hidden issues. Then couple that with the usual red tape and
indifference
at all levels.
After hours of work, I got through the Burn pit Registry
eligibility menu. I had to
settle for denoting "Iraq" and "Saudi Arabia" without putting
down Kuwait. But,
having done so I sent 3 emails last week at all levels of VA and
DOD. Most were
done BCC so others didnt know the addresses. Only the VA stuff
was public.
The point being I had 3 separate databases of information as
reference, and that
the CRUR should be part of the air borne hazard registry. As
well as still classified
data at DOD over locations that should NOT be classified.
I got the attention of several people on high. DHA was real
quick to say this was
resolved when its not. Then VA threw HOME ( Health Outcomes and
Military
Exposures ) at me which two emails have been forwarded. I can
tell you this is
at the highest levels today of VA and DOD because Ive proved
that for 8 years
VA has done all it can to turn GWI vets away from the Burn Pit
Registry. To make
it hostile and offensive on purpose. So needlessly complicated
that tens of
thousands turned away for 8 years.
Suddenly, Im now eligible and able to finish the survey? It
should not have been
near this hard. Its not over either. Now I get to see how
punitive and shallow
this is too. How quickly they will grab at somatic type
questions and rigged
simplistic responses that can be skewed. Then what?
VA lost ground this year to Camp Legune and Burn Pit Registry.
It has to address
Toxic exposures by law. Its created a loop hole to bypass the
Feres Doctrine to
make civil tort claims stick to the government. What they want
is to minimize the
cost by making sure Gulf war vets dont apply or try. If they do,
then make it so they
give up quickly. We are the orphan cause between then and now.
What is missing in all this is human kindness. 30 years GWI vets
have suffered,
and America doesnt care these days. Its devalued us. Only to
find now they are
pretty much devaluing everything. Which makes it easy for VA to
go on business
as usual. Cold, indifferent, condescending, and getting a little
sick perversion out
that anonymity to be cruel to others. Spite over nothing. A
grudge from 1995 on that
just wont go away.
Been a very hard year with VA. Ive done it all by the book, and
every step has been
drug out then filled with back handed issues. Gulf War Registry,
WRIISC Referral,
WRIISC exam, and now the Burn Pit Registry. Which is why Im now
versed on
where all this is at in 2022. I did it your way VA and its still
designed to fail me
in a colossal way. What little I did get from it, I fought hard
for over months. Each
step was frustrating over nothing.
To VA at the top, Im a annoying nobody unworthy of there time.
They make that
very clear all year long. How dare I write them or complain.
Only all year long I think
Ive made dozens of valid points that have gone unanswered. Im
not worthy of
answers? Really? Public servants in office to aid the
population? They sure dont
get that any more. Doors closed, and spit in our direction more
than ever.
Its a sign of things to come. When all doors are closed. Not far
off now, as the
White House got rid of internal phone numbers people used to
call. This is not
the DC I knew from 1999 to 2005. When it was friendlier. I didnt
think so then,
but I sure see it now. You could walk up or in everywhere back
then - now they dont
even answer phones.
You get what you give America, and cutting off your military is
the last straw
before total anarchy. It was for Rome, and others. I know better
and yet Im very
much alone in many ways because the opportunist dont want people
to catch
them cashing out. Behind closed doors, anything goes. Since
2020, its a ghost
town in DC they wanted. As long as people dont unite or fight
back. Its every
where now - and people are picking each other off thanks to it.
November 21st, 2022
CRUR data, the Army
declass project, OSAGWI hidden internal
files, and the hideous mocumentary "Leave no stone unturned"
My
update project now has taken a monumental turn for me. Having
discovered
how much damage had been done to my website slowly over time.
That others
had altered it to cover up my long years of hard work. Which is
why Google
pretty much dumped me.
Bit by bit Ive gone back 22 generations of backups to recover
the original
files as far back as 2006. Im stunned at how bad the website
got. That others
took advantage this way to destroy it and me. Will take time to
put it all back.
Thousands of pages. Making sure they work. Then Ive got some new
stuff to add.
Going to build a Steve Robinson page with the 2002 materials he
handed me.
He
left OSAGWI, and tried to air what went on there - Congress blew
it off. They
were wrong to do this. OSAGWI was fowl, arrogant, and mean. They
did not
have the veterans interest at heart, at all. Which the
mocumentary "Leave No
Stone Unturned" proved. OSAGWI got away with fraud, waste, and
abuse of
public funds. Then left off the hook to cover up the Gulf Wars
much darker side.
As did PSOB's staff for them. It was truly vile for those of us
that had to watch
close up. Being spit on like this month after month.
Bare with me, about to be some major changes next few days.
November 20th, 2022
Starting completely
over in so many ways, as I found Gulflink
had been gutted - get it all back out there and some
I
had run into a very bizarre situation. I needed to send my CRUR
unit data to
VA EH to show my locations in Iraq - and there all gone. Not
just on the website
but back 12 generations of copies. No telling how long this has
been gone among
dozens of other files. To include the PAC and PSOB websites. My
website has been
gutted of nearly all its files.
See, the Burn Pit Registry has a intentional flaw. It doesnt
list gulf war battle locations
or offer grid cords. So I could not get past this screen. Weeks
later the EH coordinator
called asking what happened. I told her. The offered to send her
my CRUR sheets. Only
to find there all gone. Took me 3 days to back track to a hidden
USB stick from
2006 before I found them again. Now I can prove where I was in
the Gulf war, and also
get others into the Burn Pit registry with the same.
Its made me go back through gigs of old data. Even other peoples
like Chris Kornkven
and Steve Robinson stuff they gave me long ago. Which made me
realize, its time
to start releasing all that. As Steve Robinson gave me internal
OSAGWI records and
documents in a secret office meeting. I vowed I would sit on
them. Since they never
came after him for having them, then that means they were not
classified and suitable
for public release. So now I have to verify this with Deployment
Health. Among numerous
other files that I have inventory logs of for Army, Navy,
Centcom, Satcom, Air Force,
Sea Bees, Special Forces, Pathfinders, and long list I once
tried to FOIA. In fact, it
should be a world record that hasnt been matched since. But,
they dont keep those
kinds of records. I was sending more than 5 a day for 245 days.
Stacks and stacks of
green receipt cards showing they got them. The server system
crashed and security
review got involved. OSAGWI freaked out. Which is when I got the
OSAGWI sever inventory
spreadsheets among numerous other things. Maxwell AFB logs,
Centcom logs, and
then dozens of other files like this. Then Government Reform
stepped in, and Rep
Christopher Shays demanded NARA let me have greater access at
Suiteland. OMG,
the stuff I found. By then Steve Robinson saw I was going to
break the bank and he
talked about OSAGWI. That lead to more and more. Like the stuff
PSOB, MHVCB,
and OSAGWI confided in private with me. It got real weird after
that till March 2003 when
they seized my plane at Dulles AF and rifled my luggage before
my speaking on German
TV. They were looking for classified files.
Im being punished for having Gulflink all the time. Now they
hope it vanishes into
obscurity as the got rid of Gulflink.osd.mil. Its now
https://gulflink.health.mil/ but its
not up on the weekends. So Im going to put up the PSOB, PAC,
MHVCB websites
to make sure its all up. As vets need to get there CRUR data to
get into the Burn
Pit Registry. Having to start that all over again.
So as of today the CRUR data is back up. Over time so with the
bulk of it. Till Im
back in the top ranks of Google one way or another. As there has
been a very sneaky
effort to hide me in plain sight. Im about to change that.
November 19th, 2022
Google rewrites
history, and aids the government to help
conceal what the wealthy dont like online abut the Gulf war
Search
engines were quite the rage in 2000. Big selection, and they had
some
neat properties. But, Google rose up and took the stage. I liked
it at that time
because it took 18 unusual words and thrust me into the top
ranks for decades.
Then slowly as time went by, it became more selective and I saw
it was a screening
tool to limit what people searched for. It was certainly about
popularity, but it was
also about reducing that as well. To make people unpopular, and
wait for obscurity
to rid selection.
Then in 2020 Yahoo set out to rid me of my long standing
Gulflink mail list. It was
a chronicle of daily issues back to 2000. Was quite
unceremonious. Like none of
it ever happened. The build up to the 2003 Iraqi invasion, and
the world media as
we opposed troops deployment. The betrayal of those troops. The
medical problems
that followed them afterwards like leishmaniasis and
acinetobacter baumannii. Finally
the burn pit fiasco. The formation of my own VA federal
committee, and our betrayal
at the hands of the Gulf War Illness Task Force. The decimation
of the RAC, and
its gutting by VA with ringers that ruined it. So much death,
and betrayal.
I asked a VA EH coordinator to look up "PAC Mark Brown" which
should have
turned up dozens of aspects from 1995 to 2003. Nothing.
Presidential Advisory Commitee
didnt come up or him. He was on it. It was such a scam because
they abandoned there
records in a warehouse after the committee was disbanded. NARA
could not find them
and I fought to get them saved. The website too. They were all
too happy in 1999 to
pretend all they GWI data they collected vanished. Same thing
with the Presidential
Special Oversight Board and the Military Health Veteran
Coordinating board. Up to
2002 it was all the rage to just abandon things.
Im trying to prove steps in the system as they progressed over
time, and this all
had mostly vanished. Leaving me as the sole remaining largest
archive of all this that
can prove what happened from 1997 to 2022 in our arena. As I
saved everything you
could imagine for this very purpose. Including every email to
1997. As now most of those
people are quite dead on both sides of this issue. Very little
exist now of our long struggle
with DOD / VA. No one has what I have, I promise you. Not this
complex, and of all
the 33 groups that existed that now have faded away. Even the
British stuff.
Many would like me to die silently in the Gulf war crowd because
I was a battling
cantankerous person in there eyes. Yet, I saved it all because
it was proof of who said
what at key times. The dynamics of the crowd. Its numerous
failings. I didnt want
to falsify any of that, I wanted it verbatum to look back on. As
I could have finished off
the NGWRC a dozen times all the way back to when VVA was ready
to pull there
funding. I was the last person that had there TV commercials
Ross Perot paid for.
I owned the domain name briefly, and it didnt cost them dearly
to get it back. Over
and over till at one point I was very nearly voted president at
a national meeting in
Atlanta - when others sabotaged the nomination. My battle with
Steve Robinson
was epic by then as with OIF under way.
All this gone at the hands of Google. Which I find quite
sinister. As I see its meant
to devalue the unpopular in favor of wealthy public opinion. To
silence Gulf war
vets and help bury the past.
Im needed but not wanted. My new goal is to get this stored at
the Smithsonian
so that NARA cant keep concealing what it shouldnt. That 22
years of constant
betrayal will not be rewarded with a silent victory. To cover it
all up, and write us off.
Change American history in favor of the wealthy. That gulf war
vets were little more
than a nuisance to America to swept under the carpet.
Im still here, Google will not win his fight to make me vanish.
Nor with DOD Deployment
health or VA. You wish I was gone, I didnt die those many many
times. Im more
like Lazarus now but in the bad ways. I deserved better than
this.
October 14th, 2022
Its all about
profit, and if your poor - your screwed
I
watched another product silently vanish from the stores. Just
about anything
from .50ยข to $1 is not profitable and goes up or gives up. This
one was Southgate
Beef Hash. Its now too hard to make it, and they gave up rather
than go up on
price. Its one of dozens of items I relied on as a poor person.
Not good for me,
but it was alright for my growing daughter.
For me, inflation is between 40% to 100% now across the boards.
So many food
items have doubled in price or more. Staples beyond my reach
now. Shortages
on so many things at the bottom end. The attitude is, the rich
must profit at all
cost and they no longer care if anyone makes it. Much like OPEC
and the oil
prices. Its about extreme profit now. Time to cash out.
The poor just take it out on each other. Misdirected anger,
looking for easy targets.
Road rage and un-civic behavior is explosive around me. So is
the contempt
people have for each other. The bottom feeders are lashing out
in passive
aggressive ways not realizing people are building very deep
grudges against
them. Out here, idiots play each other like no one will catch
on. Resentment
is becoming explosive. These will become life time grudge
matches they
wont win. Several have learned already. But, it ripples over
into so many things
like the quality of road repairs and such. TxDot here sabotages
its own road
repairs on purpose.
The media is careful to ignore the credit card defaults about to
happen. Well
over 100,0000,000 credit cards. Thats a possible 1 trillion
dollars on top of 3
trillion in other credit assets that just tanked. As the rich
made sure the only
way people could pay there bills was use credit cards to make up
for the
lack of income. Sucking the world dry. Out of a10 trillion asset
base?
No one is trying to fix any of this. Over all people want this
all to fail. Because
they want there neighbor to fail. Oh, they will make it as long
as there
neighbor doesnt. No you wont idiots. Because you destroyed the
infrastructure
and industry base so well that it cant be rebuilt all at once.
Will take decades
and if its not profitable people wont do it. Because it wont be
about civic, it
will ONLY be about profit. That resentment wont go away till
those people
die off harboring it. Like over 40 years.
Once the poor catch on, it will be mob rules. They will work to
dig the rich out of
there bunkers over time to get there revenges. These folks will
fixate on you
for there suffering. Because rather than be civic, they will
only focus on the
negative. Like for 20 years and such. Waste even more time
making sure that
no one gets ahead.
Its starts with the small things. Till all that is left is over
priced things. Then
no one can afford those. Each thing that isnt profitable
vanishes. Till there
is nothing left. All of you made this happen. Kept living in
denial and thinking
it will fix itself. How? Your not fixing it. You stood back and
gave the devious
and dishonest the keys to the city. They then purged those and
went on a
bender to celebrate. Because the 3rd purge has begun of what
didnt sell,
and manufactures gave up because it didnt make a profit. Freezer
sections
of stores are about to STAY bare of cheapest items.
Well, the margin call is any time now. Growth economics was a
lie. We are
way over the line, and bled the poor dry. The very rich know
this and try to
cash out. Then hide in there bunkers and laugh at the rest of
us. Only, people
they hired to build these bunkers know were they are. People
will camp on
your door step waiting for you to come out when nothing is left.
Thats your
legacy on a global scale? People will forget what you did? Not
likely. Thats
all they will live for at that moment. Has been throughout human
history.
Could have been civic. Global. But, too many out there feel
there are entitled.
Theyve lost sight of what really matters. Like Putin and the
Ukraine. As people
will fight back till both sides loose. Till nothing is left.
Salt the earth. Putin
lost sight of just how toxic past invasions of long ago got. His
quest will
back fire on him and all around him. Because its not realistic.
All around me now are dozens of indicators that people think
this is a golden
time to destroy others, and take what they have. They do NOT get
how people
will fight back, and then never let go of what happened.
Lifetime battles have
begun that only end in violence. Unrealistic toxic mindsets that
do not get
the out come of there actions. You want too much! Something is
better than
nothing. Your not owed people, give that up. Work to keep what
you got
and learn to live on less. Much less thanks to you. Not getting
involved in
the right way when it mattered.
Its too late now. Billions will die soon. Suffering on a epic
scale. Till people
realize long after the fact they killed the golden goose. When
bread is a
luxury and they will kill for it. Did NOT have to happen. Fully
preventable.
Still is. But, not with these 2 digit IQ's out there chipping
away at it. Live
for the moment?
For me the economics war has been going on for 2 years. Loosing
another
thing each day. Knowing its not coming back. Been all too real
for me. I
know growing food is super hard. I have beetles right now wiping
out my
gardens by the thousands. Drought and temperatures make it
impossible
to grow food here. Its not a joke to me. Trying to get seed
stock for next
year from what is left. Texans will die by the millions if they
had to grow
there own food here. Not even enough seed base here if they
started today.
Cant grow food in 106 degree weather and no water.
There are things I know about Texas internally that most have no
clue.
Ive tested the networks and OMG. The contempt is amazing. Then
you have
the Trump anarchist in the wings in key positions ready to
strike and
take over when the bottom falls out. You can have it! Like the
Taliban
being given Afghanistan - turn out the same way. People wont
rally to
your cause folks. Internment camps? Only make it worse. You cant
control
undirected anger at that scale and resentment in your ranks.
What if Im wrong? Great. I hope Im very wrong. Only, Ive been
87% on
such a large number of predictions. The next ones Im keeping to
myself
because I really hate them. I really hope Im wrong. Want to be
on this.
But, Im a student of human nature and I dont have the luxury
after all these
years of being wrong. No one cares, and so it begins. Ive been
living on much
less and have practice. I already know what it feels like and
some. Ive hardened
off to the crappy way people are - they tried early with me.
Those that think
they deserve more than they need, they are all around you. In
fact, thats
pretty much everyone around you now. Even family members, Ive
watched
it here and in mass. Its universal. Your only fooling
yourselves.
September 26th, 2022
The phone campaign
on DC has begun
Early
today I got he automated email from the Sec of VA office that my
complaints have been passed on to VHA. Only, Ive gotten these
before
this year. Dead letter office till now.
It had been a long time since I called the White House itself.
Did today only to
find they killed that 202 number. Things are even worse than I
guessed. So
I called the White House veteran VA hotline at 855-948-2311 only
to find
its not at the White house any more. OMG, they put the fox in
charge of the
hen house. But, turns out my email was also sent to them and the
complaint
number is 8524321. So will hold my breath on this? Yeah right.
( Part 2 of the white house numbers. )
Really? Ive had a forgotten secret phone number all these
years that Donald
Trump killed off? Now I have dozens of others that he had
killed off. 202-456
is dead all the way down the list. 202-456-5484 wasnt among
there list. But,
Biden decided to keep it that way. Hide in plain sight. This
does not deter me.
What the Secretary of VA does not get is this time Im going to
call anyone and
everyone around DC like I used to do 20 plus years ago. This
time Im going
all out to make a scene like I used to in 1999. Till its
impossible to ignore or
avoid me. The last year now demands it. I think the scale of
this has gone
wildly out of bounds by any comparison. Im done being ignored.
This all is a firewall, I intend to tear down this firewall. The
one built slowly
since 2008 till now its absolute. Which means I will have to
stand in front
of the White house with a picket sign soon. That is now on the
books.
You folks went way too far, and now I have to go public in some
really big way.
Draw attention to our GWI plight. Rather than be spit on any
more. Only to
be crushed by the wealthy in some new more cruel way. Cause
right now
GWI vets have NO representation on the hill and VA plans to wait
us out
openly. We have no rights, hurry up and die you scummy vets,
Really? Ive
been the bench mark to how far they can and will go at RAC
meetings. To
mistreat and vilify a vet in the open in front of others. That
my former VA GWI
advisory committee had zero value in the past. Good ole boy
system.
Contempt is the name of the game, not progress. Time to call
that out.
September 25th, 2022
RAC meeting Sept
21-22nd
This
was a mix of things for me. The usual snide condescending
attitude
from the committee, and yet good news - they got rid of the
chairman.
After a year of begging for his removal I guess they heard me.
Since I was
writing the Secretary of VA about him over and over.
The meeting was filled with endless technical flaws for both
days. Day
2 was much much worse. I saved the chat bar session for both
days
including the drop out part when they reset the Webex peer.
What I tired of was 3 different folks who had to control the
meeting in there
own manic ways. It was highly disruptive and was keeping others
from
being heard more. Room fool of chiefs, and no indians. Only, it
was 50
armies of one trying to cancel each other out. Was almost
comical at
times how it came off so petty like shouting on twitter. Text
bombing.
Not real content either, just endless commentary. One liners to
keep
others from posting. Boring at best.
One thing I really did not like, they still havent posted the
presentations
from that day. I said on the chat bar it would be two weeks, and
the RAC
staff said right after the meeting. Well, its Sunday and
nothing. Meeting
ended Thursday. Could have let us download them that day on
Webex.
Nope, lets treat the vets like crap once more - who will do
anything about
it? Certainly not Congress or anyone else. VA is above the law
and its
anything goes. With tax payer dollars.
Then I tried to get back on the Airborne Hazards and Burn pit
registry.
VA says Im not on it after being one of the first to apply. Now
a new
road block. Deployment locations. Gulf war, Desert Storm, it
does not
offer that for Iraq. I knew this was rigged when you cant pull
up the southern
regions or the Madina Ridge. Dozens of spots around the oil well
areas
that dont come up either. Its geared for OIF from 2003 to
present. How
many thousands of GWI vets have been turned away by this screen.
Search aspect only offers newer deployments in middle and
northern Iraq.
Im outraged by this. Its going to take me weeks of data mining
the servers
to pick this apart and find some on my locations. As it does NOT
use
grid coordinates or GPS data.
I wrote once more to the Secretary of VA, and I spelled out much
of the
last year up till now. I truly doubt he will do right by me now.
He hasnt
all year long. He is afraid of me, or so lofty that Im a peasant
to him.
Either way, he certainly isnt brave enough to respond to me
himself.
Sad part is, he will be gone shortly like the others - I have to
learn yet
another Secretary of VA all over again. 8 of them so far for me.
I liked
Brown, Principi the best. Peake gave me my committee. Others
have
been much worse. Snide, rude, mean.
Letter to Sec of
VA Denis McDonough
Im not going away, and Ive done it by the book all year long. If
its this
bad for me, how bad is it for others who dont under stand the
system?
How many tens of thousands are being driven away each year on
purpose?
With loop holes, dirty tricks, technical flaws, and just simply
not having
a answering machine for VA offices like the WRIISC. Its all one
way the
bulk of the time. Dictatorial. Vicious.
People go boo hoo hoo around me, and yet they arent out doing
me. Get
out of my way and let me get something done. As for VA,
mediocrity has
crippled you. Either change path or get out of my way. We did it
your way
for 12 years now and its dead locked. You cant improve on it and
wont. So
let me have a crack at it. Ive got ideas by the box load and its
based on
what I lived through including this year. Your top down, Im
bottom up. Only,
Im the customer and this isnt working. In real business circles,
you would
be chapter 13 and living under a bridge. $100 billion dollar
bloated failure
that would not survive in any other arena with all the twisted
loop hole
laws VA hides behind. Your not even transparent about your
budgets.
30 plus years for me of all this. I have the right to complain,
What I would
like is a crack at fixing some of this rather than watch it get
worse. Its so
distorted and convoluted now the only happy people are the worst
ones
still employed making sure no one else can get them fired.
Legacy VA and
DOD employees with grudges decimating thousands of lives.
Simplify folks, distill this down. CFR 38 is supposed to be
fluid. Its stagnant.
Then lets cut away to fat and get to meat of this. Instead of
pretending I
dont exist and your doing a great job by rigged polls. I dont
share your
glowing internal reviews of your infrastructure. Too many upper
crust
going to expensive training camps and bonuses for failing at
your jobs.
You dont want this critique? Then stop treating me like Im a
migrant
farm worker with no rights. Im a combat veteran, and I wasnt
playing
in port - I was being shot at in Iraq all the time. 100 hours of
endless
moments that this was it - that one would get me. Boom. Boom.
Hour
after hour. How dare you insult that.
Lets try a different direction that doesnt involve more years of
this. Maybe
we try actually making some hard progress. Instead of keeping us
at bay
year after year with your ringers and bogus programs.
Its time to do some work, and Im eager to do my part. With some
help.
September 18th, 2022
WRIISC exam wrap
up, getting my General ham license
and the coming RAC meeting Sept 21-22nd
Boy
what a action packed month it has been for me. Things happened
literally
by the hour. It all over lapped with the WRIISC exams and
studies that went
on and on. First there were 17 video conferences, and then more
kept being
added on. This time, TBI came up, and caught me by surprise. So
the whole
thing shifted on me.
I had just gotten my ham license upgrade to General. Then
applied for the
RACES ham emergency management system. Got on the ham air,
attended a
few ham net meetings. Fixed a vast number of technical problems
on my end
pretty much alone. Then kept moving onto APRS and other systems.
Found
the area is a wasteland more than I knew. New task for this. New
plan.
Locally, Im not allowed to comment for now. Not going to
interfere with the
people investigating. Lets just say others went too far, and now
they have a
very unwanted form of attention. They didnt know when to stop.
The WRIISC was comparing notes from 2008 to 2022 and found that
I was not
degenerating like I thought. But, way too much emphasis was put
once more
on psychology and PTSD. The test were highly biased with trick
question
designed to make a person fall into 1 of 5 categories - all
meant to be some
form of personality disorder. Like about 10 hours of this which
I felt was obsessive
and needless. You cant tell a agenda is still here and
deployment health is
still using its grudge match to condemn Gulf war vets.
All said and done I managed to use this exam cluster to my
advantage despite
the way it was handled. Ruled out so many things. Positive I
made a lasting
impression on most of these folks. As for Dr. Barrett, his build
up to the final
comments was a huge let down. Gave the impression we were going
to
change my world, and maybe a benefits increase. Then he fell
flat on me and
bet the farm on PTSD. Nothing changed for me, and nothing will
if I follow his
methods. But, not counting on him and not worried about it. VA
isnt serious
about helping me and pushing me into the PTSD hole ties my hands
as a
personality disorder. Willed myself sick. Grounds for dismissal
of other
physical disorders. Somatic. This hasnt changed for 2 decades
now. 3.317
fails at this one as well.
The coming RAC meeting is no better, VA gutted them once more
but left
the chairman in place to decimate further. His double speak and
back handed
methods have done just what VA wanted him to do. Keep people
guessing and
spinning in place. Meetings get bigger and people assume they
are being heard.
Unless its research, not enough looked at. Neither is the chat
bar they all assume
is being recorded. Im the only one doing that. These meetings
would not be so
bad if they were in person. Then these folks could not get away
with all this.
The exceptionally rude and condescending committee could not get
away with
this in public rather than hiding online. Just what VA wants.
Im kicking ass all over the place. To a silent audience. As no
one helps no one
is the real montra here. 2 wrongs make a right, cancel out
reality. Sooner or
later reality will set in and then some light is going to get
shed on a bunch
of hidden issues that need airing out. When dishonesty back
fires on all and
the hole backs up under them. I can wait, I see it coming.
All year long Ive systematically tackled the Gulf war system
from scratch and
found it still designed to fail. From the Gulf war Registry
exam, burn pit registry.
WRIISC referral process, WRIISC exam system, and how VA handled
me from
the top down in all this. Including the cowardly Sec of VA
McDonough trying to
avoid direct interaction with me all year long. Oh, you can
email him alright -
he just hides in his office. His staff certainly do the same.
Nothing like past
Secretaries of VA Ive interacted with. Not a short list either.
These people are as dishonest as they can get. So that means the
RAC meeting
on the 21st and 22nd is going to be so blatant it will defy
logic. The chairman and
staff will put on there rose colored glasses and pretend people
like me dont exist.
Which other shameful so called advocates have tried to cash in
on that. A perfect
dynamic for VA to remain static. Distant, off the mark.
Just like with the PACT act, a end of life benefits program.
This is a terrible law
that VA plans to abuse as if its magic. Its really to help the
terminally ill leave
benefits to there spouses and children. Of course they jumped on
this because
it really didnt change he presumption models. The diagnoses part
and ICD 9.
The misisng part is quality of life for those that arent
terminal yet.
Im going through the motions here by the book, and VA is failing
me on simple
stuff. If its failing me and Im very well versed, then its
really failing others that
dont know what to ask or how. VA loves this part, saving money
at the expense
of veterans lives. How many died this year due to this? We wont
know, there is
no monitoring or reporting this for real. If it wasnt in VA care
than it didnt happen
and they dont report that. 92% cant get it. VA wins. All is
well.
The show down with VA over all this is when, not if. The
severity of this grows
with each passing week. Im still here, I didnt vanish. VA and
the secretary of
VA would love if I did. Cowards.
August 14th, 2022
Pact Act, and A
government spiraling out of control
It
all kind of came together watching Congress deal with Trump,
just how
openly dishonest America has become. How each side knew what the
other
was doing in Washington DC, and how far the abuses went. Just
how far
national security has only become a tool of the rich to cover up
there tracks.
Then when there fellow billionaires dont like it, turn on each
other.
How can I possible get the Gulf war records released when a hand
full of
very crooked people control our countries darkest secrets
unopposed. As
each President since 1990 knows what is hidden at NARA. They
have to
cover it up, or risk exposure. Just like Trump hinted at 911
once the heat
was on him. Give the Bush family a black eye. Detract from him.
Then I watched the Pact Act in play. Congress tried to kill it
just like it tried
to kill PL105-368 in 1997. The irony is, this is a toothless law
that really wont
grant very many service connections. Which is why VA is
embracing it now
like it "always' endorsed it? OMB and others in VA picked its
weak points
apart and already plan to stall like they did with Gulf War
vets. To minimize
payouts, care, and the actual veteran that need it the most.
Figure about
less than 5% even getting anything out of this, and 30% rating
or less.
The new trick with VA is to poison the research aspect of this,
and redirect
the funds to other projects like they did with the WRIISC. In
about 5 years
people will see this when its too late. Because, VA does not
have to publish
where the money actually goes. No accountability.
Ive cut the rest of Gulflink off. Might as well. Veterans wont
rally, and VA is
not accountable to Congress or the vets. Pact Act was a bone to
lull these
people back to sleep. Its NOT a victory. Its not sweeping, and
filled with
loop holes. Ive been at this 25 years, and Ive seen it up close
most of that.
Clerk of the house, and HVAC didnt even warn these folks.
Well,
come October is the great credit card defaults of all those
people who
lived on credit most of the last 2 years. Bled dry by the rich,
live for today
as its all going back to normal next week? Keep spending. Its
wiped out
the poor who now have maxed out. The damage is too great, and
trillions
in derivatives will vanish over night as the banks go into
margin call. Then
China and Russia will make there moves in the chaos.
Im surrounded by idiots. Watching them tug at a very fragile
thread in a
dozen directions. Powerless, and having to brace for the
obvious. What
could I possible know, Im just a poor dumb vet. I have no value
to anyone.
Just because Im not wealthy, and ruthless?
Simple is better in all things. Living on so little. Keeping
away from the
distractions, and empty promises. Go devalue yourselves. Im
going to
focus on my plants, chickens, and ignore you all. America gutted
itself,
and is a lost country. Its going to learn from its mistakes
shortly. That
living on credit is a very bad idea. Inflating to infinity.
Good luck with all that people. Im scaling back and focus on
common sense
stuff. As I know better on so very many levels, and Im done
explaining them.
Go fake each other out. See where we all end up a year from now.
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Sincerely
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Kirt P. Love
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Disabled Gulf War Veteran
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Former member: VA
Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans
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Contact: Kirt Love
- ( Email updated April 5th 2020 )
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P.O. Box 414,
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Crawford, Tx 76638
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