Th, Jun 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m. - Land Use Commission hearing for approval of Ho'opili residential project, permanently destroying prime agricultural land. At State Office Building on Beretania St., across from St. Andrew's Cathedral.
Sa, Jul 23, 2011, 11 a.m.-12 noon - Waialua Public Library, 67-068 Kealohanui St., Waialua (Oahu north shore). Lorrin Pang, M.D., on risks of our mono crop diets & present agricultural methods in Hawaii. More info.
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.
Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, pp. 79-80.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
In a war, while one side may ultimately be able to claim victory, both sides lose.
Anonymous
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We are not going to war over a bunch of dead [American] sailors.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th President of the United States
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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Send an email, make a call, write a letter. We [Hawaii state legislators] need to know what you think and the system works much better if you are involved.
Hawaii state representative Karl Rhoads, District 28 (Palama, Downtown, Chinatown, Sheridan)
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I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.
Former communist & Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver shortly after he voluntarily returned to the U.S. as a prisoner from seven years as a free man, but an exile, abroad
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Speaking on the UN summit sidelines, Iran's president tells Russia Today that the biggest trouble facing the world is domination by the United States. In an exclusive interview with Russia Today, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives his view of the world and its problems with the 800-lb. gorilla in the world's room, America.
Towards the very end of the interview, he tells us what the American mainstream news usually doesn't mention, the shocker that the U.S. has kidnapped eight Iranians abroad (he says) and brought them to the U.S. to imprison them. These are the eight Iranians that have been said to be on the bargaining table in exchange for the two American hikers in an Iranian prison. Ahmadinejad denies that the release of the two Americans depends on the release of the eight Iranians in our jails.