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Th, Jun 23, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - Gov. Abercrombie & Lt. Gov. Schatz community conversation at Washington Middle School cafeteria.

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. Click here for more information.

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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.

Will Durant, historian, on why Rome fell

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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others

Socrates, who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock by an Athenian court

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I am the governor. I'm not your pal.

Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, in a soundbite that has reverberated around the state.

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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan Click for audio

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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The Muslim Cry for Justice

Submitted by HPI on Wed, 03/02/2011 - 01:32

Will the U.S. quash it yet again?

Eric Margolis, Middle East specialist par excellence, is interviewed on the radio by Lew Rockwell.

The U.S., the putative shining light to the world of freedom and justice, is running roughshod over the people of the Middle East. The invasion of Iraq, which was begun because President George W. Bush said there were weapons of mass destruction there, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis. There was no public outcry from Americans when the weapons of mass destruction that were given as the sole reason for our invasion of Iraq turned out to be nonexistent. The masses of dead Iraqis don't warrant so much as a shrug of the shoulders from the American public.

As the most powerful country in the world, with our war machine firmly in the Middle East, and rivers of our dollars flowing into such countries as Egypt and Israel whether we taxpayers like it or not, just how are we affecting the life of the average person in the Middle East? Eric Margolis explains.

Click here for the interview. (15 minutes)

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