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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Sunday: Rally Against Gay Civil Unions
By Andrew Walden @ 4:12 PM :: 3086 Views

Sunday February 22 at 2pm at the State Capitol: Rally against HB444.  Opponents of gay marriage will protest against the legislature's effort to extend tax cuts to gay couples and give them child adoption rights equivalent to married couples under the aegis of "Gay Civil Unions".

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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Hawaiians denounce OHA settlement
By Andrew Walden @ 2:09 AM :: 11404 Views :: OHA

Testimony in Hilo was 100% opposed to OHA receiving any ceded lands revenue. Speakers were angry and emotional. OHA Trustees and staff left at 7PM to “catch a flight.” In contrast, Rep Mele Carroll said she was staying “all night if necessary.” Said Carroll, “If I gotta hear the raw stuff that’s OK too. We don’t get out enough.”

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Friday, February 13, 2009
OHA plans to “move” Hilo’s Banyan Drive hotels, demolish apartments
By Andrew Walden @ 6:54 PM :: 8127 Views :: OHA

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs plans to “move the hotels to the other side of the road” along Hilo’s Banyan Drive. 

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Kamehameha Schools behind $170.4M plastic bag tax and recycling money grab
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 AM :: 3971 Views

The details for the story are all there, but they have been hidden in plain sight and need to be rearranged to see what is happening.

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Thursday, February 5, 2009
US Solicitor General backs State in Ceded lands Case
By Andrew Walden @ 3:29 PM :: 7302 Views

Acting US Solicitor General Edwin S Kneedler, a Bush administration holdover, January 29 filed a motion asking to participate in the oral arguments February 25 before the US Supreme Court in support of the State of Hawaii position in the ceded lands case.  He has been granted 10 minutes of Hawaii Attorney General Mark Bennett’s 30 minutes of oral arguments to present the United States government’s position.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Malu Motta: “I need one governor so he can pardon me.”
By Andrew Walden @ 4:02 PM :: 30199 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Law Enforcement, Politicians

EM: Someone got to win governor that we know, huh? My best friend is an emcee at, he on tonight, he’s on the mic…(unintelligible) ….Hawaiian braddah.

Informant: Yeah, yeah, you gotta be pushing that.

EM: David, they grooming him to be Governor. That’s my best friend, bah. They sign the work tomorrow. He could be governor in 20 years from now. Not tomorrow, you know.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Mehau associate Brian Schatz files for Lt Governor
By Andrew Walden @ 1:07 PM :: 4799 Views

Former State Rep Schatz on January 30 filed papers with the Campaign Spending Commission to campaign for Lt Governor in 2010 -- making him the first of two Democrats running.  Schatz' campaign chair is Andrew Winer, who led Dan Akaka's 2006 US Senate reelection campaign.

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Monday, February 2, 2009
The Obama-Auchi Connection: First Hawaiian Bank avoids subprime lending, makes record profit
By Andrew Walden @ 12:34 PM :: 8886 Views

 

Interestingly, First Hawaiian's ownership structure leads back to BNP Paribas, a large French bank. According to the website of Cipaf, an investment vehicle of Nadhmi Auchi’s General Mediterranean Holdings (GMH), Cipaf is “amongst the topmost investors in the enlarged BNP Paribas.”*  Nadhmi Auchi, a former Iraqi Baathist official of Saddam Hussein's government, more recently financed business ventures with now-convicted-felon and Chicago political 'fixer' Tony Rezko creating a condition of "longstanding indebtedness" of Rezko to Auchi's holding company.  Rezko funded the political campaigns of impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and President Barack Obama.  Rezko also assisted Obama in the purchase of his Chicago mansion.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Friendly greeting for Stryker brigade at Pohakuloa
By Andrew Walden @ 12:17 AM :: 5358 Views

Decked out in the uniform of an earlier war for freedom, Robert Williams of Na`alehu joins dozens of Big Island residents Saturday 1-31-09 to greet Stryker Brigade troops returning to once again consecrate the sacred `aina by training at Pohakuloa. 

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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Kenoi Fundraiser payout? Gotti lawyer on Pali murder case
By Andrew Walden @ 12:53 PM :: 9865 Views

Update Jan 31: Hear Malu Motta tapes -- "Like, he did them like nothin', know what I mean?"

Admitted Pali Golf Course shooter Ethan “Malu” Motta apparently had a lot of friends in Hilo—including politicians. Nine months after the January 7, 2004 O`ahu murders, hundreds of Motta’s friends gathered at Hilo’s Nani Mau Gardens to raise funds to help pay his legal fees. Billy Kenoi spoke at the event. Stacey Higa says he was given tickets. One source indicates “700 to 1,000 people” were there. The $100 tickets for the October 30, 2004 “Gathering at the Garden” invite supporters “to share this beautiful evening with family, friends and dignitaries in support of a very special man we love dearly.” A ticket obtained by Hawai`i Free Press, says the event was “Hosted by Billy K. Live & Direct.”

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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Kauai police crime roundup: Sergeant dismissed for sex assault, etc, etc, etc
By Andrew Walden @ 1:56 AM :: 6200 Views

A sergeant was dismissed for “commission of a criminal act,” specified as sexual assault....and much more in this month's Kauai PD news.... 

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Friday, January 30, 2009
Michael Steele elected Chair, Republican National Committee
By Andrew Walden @ 3:22 PM :: 3235 Views

Working to seek voters among a 90% Democrat community may seem an exercise in Republican futility, but in a democracy, it is an inherently unstable arrangement for 90% of any electorate to consistently vote one way. Black voters tip the balance in favor of Democrats in Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, and Maryland. Republicans need only gain 20-30% of the black vote to dramatically shift the balance of power in some or all of these states.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Obama, the Akaka Bill, and the abolition of slavery in Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 2:43 PM :: 10730 Views

As contract laborers their bodies were practically the property of the sugar planters, to be abused and even whipped with black snake whips. In several places the Japanese went on strike to enforce their demand on the planters who were daily violating a US law in keeping them under servitude....

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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Organic food tied to Puna Rat Lungworm outbreak -- more cases reported
By Andrew Walden @ 12:07 PM :: 13313 Views

Another case or Rat Lungworm disease has been diagnosed in the Kapoho-Kalapana area of Puna and more unreported cases have been revealed. The outbreak has been tied to organic farming.

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Friday, January 16, 2009
Akaka Bill rewrite: Tribal jurisdiction for Hawaii?
By Andrew Walden @ 4:02 PM :: 9585 Views :: Akaka Bill

If the language imposed by the Bush Justice Department in 2005 is written out of what will become the 2009 version of the Akaka Bill, the changes could impact the dynamics of Senate debate.  

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Akaka Bill Reading List
By Andrew Walden @ 5:10 PM :: 27144 Views

The Akaka Tribe vs Hawaiians and Hawai`i: dozens of articles and informative links

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Monday, January 12, 2009
Fish fight: DLNR to hold public meetings on uhu, weke, and ulua
By Andrew Walden @ 12:22 PM :: 4885 Views

The public discussion will center on using minimum size rules to protect harvested resource fish that may be at risk of being over harvested, and will focus on at least three main fish families that the DLNR feels may be in need of updated regulations.  They are: Parrotfish (uhu), Goatfish (weke), and Jacks (ulua/papio).

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Saturday, January 10, 2009
The day the job market turned
By Andrew Walden @ 1:36 PM :: 3219 Views
Basically, when Aloha Airlines was closing and Altres helped sponsor a job fair for the employees, from that moment on, it completely shifted.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Newly discovered video: Bob Jacobson, other leftists greet Dennis Kucinich
By Andrew Walden @ 4:42 PM :: 6328 Views
Painfully hilarious: You gotta see this peek into the inner workings of the Hawaii County Council....
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Hawai`i progressives dump Obama: “How soon can he be impeached?”
By Andrew Walden @ 4:02 PM :: 7166 Views
Writing at Disappearednews.com, Larry Geller of Kaua`i asks: “How soon can he be impeached?”
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Hawai`i ceded lands anti-Semitism? Hawai`i ceded lands anti-Semitism?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:25 PM :: 7976 Views :: Hawaii County , OHA

“No anti-Semitism here” insist OHA's admittedly pro-Palestinian protesters January 3 lining Kanoelehua St.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Obama's Church: Millionaire neurosurgeon stops paying for elderly mom's nursing home
By Andrew Walden @ 12:55 PM :: 5558 Views
This case is being used as an argument in favor of socialized medicine. We're just going to put all these pieces together in one place and let readers explore all the interconnections...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Ceded lands: OHA’s attack on constitutional rights
By Andrew Walden @ 2:21 PM :: 10048 Views
All citizens should be alarmed that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is attempting to use political pressure to force the State of Hawai`i to abandon its “ceded lands” appeal to the US Supreme Court. OHA apparently expects to lose out in any Supreme Court decision. In spite of the fact that 32 other states support Hawai`i’s appeal, OHA does not respect the right to have the case heard before the Supreme Court.

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Monday, January 5, 2009
Obama loses Richardson: More pay to play
By Andrew Walden @ 1:44 PM :: 3396 Views
A federal grand jury is investigating how a California firm that contributed to the political activities of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nominee to head the Commerce Department, won a lucrative government contract.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
News to Puna: Raw Food=Rat Lungworm
By Andrew Walden @ 1:35 AM :: 10819 Views

Humans have been cooking food since before they were Homo sapiens....but ... There was a raw food festival in Novemeber 20-23, 2008 in Kalapana....and now ... an outbreak of Rat Lungworm disease....

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
“From Hack to Flack”: the Big Island newspaper-Democrat revolving door
By Andrew Walden @ 3:12 PM :: 9353 Views
Reporters are eyeing a job in government. Since almost all elected positions are held by Democrats, this creates an unspoken alliance between journalists and Democratic Party candidates and officeholders.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Obama’s Democrat Governor Blagojevich arrested, cuffed by FBI
By Andrew Walden @ 4:15 PM :: 3482 Views
FBI: Was trying to sell Obama’s Senate Seat Contradictory statements from Obama camp about Obama discussing his replacement with Blagojevich Obama...
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Our last print edition
By Andrew Walden @ 4:19 PM :: 4620 Views
After four years of publication, the December 7 edition will be the last print edition of Hawai`i Free Press.  Due to the high c...
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Board of Education: the Transsexual-Libertarian Connection
By Andrew Walden @ 12:04 PM :: 15112 Views :: Education K-12
If voters are going to have a chance at school reform, they will have to know who their allies are.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Stephens Media and stolen newsracks
By Andrew Walden @ 11:31 AM :: 3643 Views
The Stephens Media purchase of 808 Classifieds has gone completely unnoticed—and the acquisition raises questions about the tactics Stephens will use against competing newspapers....
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Friday, December 5, 2008
Kona mosque-builder threatens lawsuit
By Andrew Walden @ 10:09 AM :: 15344 Views
Muslims planning a mosque and other Islamic facilities for North Kona have threatened to sue HawaiiReporter.com. At issue: At issue: A September 3, 2007 article by this writer reporting allegations of “fraud” in mosque-related fundraising efforts by the Masjid al-Baqi Project of Hawaii, Inc.
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Friday, December 5, 2008
Kona Mosque Plan Questioned
By Andrew Walden @ 10:02 AM :: 16490 Views
by Andrew Walden, (originally published 9/3/2007)

A Muslim group appears to be raising money to build what would be the Big Island’s first mosque.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Letters to the Editor November 21, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 1:37 PM :: 3322 Views
GOP looks to 2010, How to make telescope payoffs, State pension fund depleted - Again, One term President, Stock up now before hurricane Obama, Low Class Council, Demanding Answers
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Barack Obama: Born in Hawai`i
By Andrew Walden @ 11:34 PM :: 18497 Views :: Obama

A fairly impressive internet industry has sprung up claiming that Obama was born in either Kenya or Indonesia. This is nonsense which distracts from the broadly unexplored story of Obama’s upbringing.

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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Obama Governing: a preview
By Andrew Walden @ 11:12 PM :: 3297 Views

Barack Obama’s election victory removes the mental asterisk when one tells a black child, “you can grow up to be anything you want—even President of the United States.”

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Obama’s ‘gift’ to Hawai`i: Akaka Bill
By Andrew Walden @ 11:44 PM :: 7856 Views

For Hawai`i the first thing on the new political agenda created by the Democrat sweep in the national elections will be the Akaka Bill.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Barack Obama Reading List:
By Andrew Walden @ 10:12 PM :: 28253 Views
Barack Obama: Born in Hawai`i http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/main/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/92/Barack-Obama-Born-in-Haw...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hokuli`a Settlement Exposed
By Andrew Walden @ 11:55 PM :: 16976 Views :: Development, Greenmail

Is the County of Hawai`i subject to secret agreements which direct the passage of future legislation? Is the Legislature? Did the plaintiffs get money?

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
VOTER GUIDE--Our Endorsements
By Andrew Walden @ 1:00 PM :: 3701 Views

Our Endorsements for the November 4 Election

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Vote “No” on drug dealers
By Andrew Walden @ 12:56 PM :: 3172 Views

Hawai`i County voters are being asked to approve a change to county ordinance making cannabis enforcement the lowest law enforcement priority. This is falsely portrayed as a move to legalize marijuana. It is not.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Puna Revolution: November 4?
By Andrew Walden @ 10:04 PM :: 3455 Views

After years of neglect, voters of House District 4 Puna appear on the verge of making a change.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Telescope: The Shakedown begins
By Andrew Walden @ 8:14 PM :: 18041 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA

Some may have thought this problem was settled when activists were given plum jobs at Hilo’s shiny new Imiloa Astronomy center, but shakedown is the foundation of Hawai`i’s so-called economy and when Dan Inouye plops a $1.2 billion money bag on the top of Mauna Kea, the grasping begins.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Supreme Court to hear Ceded Lands Case
By Andrew Walden @ 2:03 AM :: 5485 Views

The State is asking the High Court to overturn the Hawai`i State Supreme Court’s January, 2008 decision holding that the United States Congress in the 1993 “Apology Resolution” had forbidden the State from selling or exchanging any of the State’s approximately 1.2 million acres of so-called “Ceded Lands”, unless and until a political settlement was reached with Native Hawaiians. The State argued to the High Court that the United States Congress had done no such thing and that Congress has no power to try to control the sale of lands belonging to a sovereign state.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Obama's CAIR Lawyer
By Andrew Walden @ 12:51 AM :: 5316 Views

Obama’s choice of representation is yet another sign that free speech would be at risk of being strangled by political correctness and lawsuits under an Obama Presidency.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Letters October 7, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:13 AM :: 3066 Views

Nov 4 Vote for Hospital,  $700B to Bail out Political Correctness,  Crisis of Do-Gooderism, Roots of Crisis,  Let the Government handle It?,  Riddle of the horse  

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Nov 4: Old Boy vs Shakedown artist
By Andrew Walden @ 11:51 AM :: 3679 Views

Kenoi vs Pilago in November 4 runoff for Big Island Mayor.  This is what happens when the entire political class has its hands in the cookie jar and can’t agree over how to divide up the cookies. 

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Revolution: New voters back Enriques
By Andrew Walden @ 11:46 AM :: 7308 Views

Enriques and his volunteers worked to bring new voters into the process and to mobilize discouraged voters.  They won with 52.2% of the vote defeating incumbent councilman Bob Jacobson by more than 10 percentage points 2,354 to 1,894.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Big Island Weekly joins 9-11 deniers
By Andrew Walden @ 11:37 AM :: 15202 Views :: Hawaii County , Military

According to Big Island Weekly editor Kristine Kubat's  September 3 column, “If you think the U.S. government was behind the 9-11 attack, you are not alone.”  Kubat then proceeds to promote “9-11 Truth Awareness” by inviting them to a 9-11 denier demonstration ...

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Moloka`i activists seek control of ranch
By Andrew Walden @ 11:31 AM :: 15931 Views :: Maui County, Development, Greenmail

Ritte’s phony “Save La`au” campaign has been falsely portrayed as an anti-development battle, but in reality it is a battle between two competing developers each tied to a different government group. 

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Obama tries to stall Iraq withdrawal
By Andrew Walden @ 11:23 AM :: 9204 Views

Information is emerging that Obama acted to keep troops deployed. In a September 15 New York Post editorial, CNN and BBC contributor Amir Taheri writes that, according to Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Senator Obama in June told visiting Iraqi officials that President Bush’s government was in a ‘”state of weakness and political confusion’” so the negotiations should be postponed until after the election.

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