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.
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.
Submitted by Kawika Young on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 07:12
Hawaii's own Mike Buck of radio KHVH's the Mike Buck Show received a call from a caller last week who was upset about the U.S. using radioactive munitions in Libya, particularly since our purpose in being there was purportedly humanitarian. Mike, possibly thinking of nuclear bombs, found the notion so monstrous and ridiculous that he wrote off the caller as a nut case and hung up. Unfortunately the caller, as this writer recalls, did not clarify that the radioactivity was from our country's use of depleted uranium weapons, which have brought radioactivity to a training area at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island, Iraq, Afghanistan and more. Mr. Buck didn't give him much of a chance to do so.
The highly secretive military, which apparently believes that the best Americans are uninformed ones, speaks very little about depleted uranium weapons.
Conn Hallinan, columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, says in the following video that depleted uranium weapons are almost certainly being used in Libya.
