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.
Irked Ron Paul Accuses Lawrence O'Donnell of Breaking Pre-Interview Agreement
Submitted by Kawika Young on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 01:14
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell professes ignorance and shows no signs of honor over any promises made about the interview to Congressman Paul (R-TX). Was this a deliberate ploy to knock the Congressman off balance? NBC, owned by GE, whose CEO and chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, has a close relationship to the Obama administration, is the most pro-Democratic-party mainstream television network.
O'Donnell asks dumb questions apparently designed to stun by their sheer stupidity and false assumptions, to which it's difficult to give intelligent answers. Or perhaps the Harvard grad had the questions prepared beforehand on the teleprompter and wasn't able to adjust as Ron Paul's answers made the questions, statements and accusations non sequiturs. O'Donnell persistently and aggressively pursues the all-too-common journalistic practice of trying to make a fool of his interviewee by putting his words into his interviewee's mouth. Then O'Donnell ends the interview by trying to get Rep. Paul to agree on the spot and on air to come back!
The video is a study of a predatory snake in action.