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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
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Lehman Brothers: Obama’s Rezko-Auchi conflict of interest
By Andrew Walden @ 11:19 AM :: 25588 Views
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Reporters have not noted Obama’s glaring conflict of interest—the Lehman debt owed to a bank possibly owned by the financier who loaned millions of dollars to Tony Rezko.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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$6386 per house: Council weighs new fees
By Andrew Walden @ 2:28 PM :: 3448 Views
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Your house is not the only target. The bill also slams hospitals. In the midst of Hawai`i’s medical crisis, a new 100,000 sq foot hospital would be required to fork out $545,100 to the county. A 100,000 sq foot commercial center would be hit with $496,800 in new fees. A new 100,000 sq foot school? $108,000. Nursing home? $190,300. Also targeted churches, industry, and warehouses.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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PRIMARY ALERT -- VOTE September 20
By Andrew Walden @ 11:35 AM :: 3253 Views
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Our Primary Election endorsements:
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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No endorsement: Hawai`i Co. Mayor
By Andrew Walden @ 11:33 AM :: 4042 Views
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There is nobody worthy of our endorsement running in the Hawai`i County Mayor’s race. Here are some quick points on the poor choices facing voters:
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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Takamine, Schatz attack Hawai`i Free Press
By Andrew Walden @ 11:25 AM :: 6929 Views
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After 54 years of Yoshito Takamine and Dwight Takamine ruling HD 1 unchallenged, Takamine suddenly faces challenges both within and outside his own party. In late 2006 he attempted to “shed more blood, not less” of Ed Case supporters in the Legislature after Case’s defeat in the Democratic Senate Primary. Takamine failed and lost his powerful chairmanship of the House Finance Committee. Shunned, Takamine then racked up the worst attendance of any Legislator in the 2007 session. He then fled the House, announcing his campaign for the Senate District 1 seat being vacated by Sen. Lorraine’s decision to seek the Hawai`i County Mayor’s seat.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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Urgent Care in Puna
By Andrew Walden @ 11:20 AM :: 4458 Views
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While activists and politicians futilely beg government to fund Urgent Care in Puna, private enterprise provides it. Thanks to what Dr Ed Gutteling calls “a very favorable deal” on rental of a Shipman-Estate-owned building near the Kea`au Police Station, Kea`au Urgent Care is up and running. Initial hours are M-F 8:30A -6P. Call 966-7942 for info.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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Banning freedom one ordinance at a time
By Andrew Walden @ 11:16 AM :: 3320 Views
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Banning plastic bags – like banning other legal products (light bulbs, electric water heaters, etc)-- is much more than an inconvenience. Our individual-freedom-based “people first” way of life is being hijacked by a so-called environmental “earth first” dictatorship.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor September 7, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:05 AM :: 3699 Views
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Usual suspects against telescope, Stop Bill 324, Fascist Takamine?, Tooo Stooopid to reelect Council, Kaua`i water victory, Marine Acquitted --- Injustice Remains, Against law to deny schooling, HSTA vs Con-Con
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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Billy Kenoi at Shooters—and the Pali shooter—the connections
By Andrew Walden @ 1:25 AM :: 37324 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Law Enforcement, Military
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All the newspapers have missed the connections between convicted Pali shooter Ethan Malu Motta, his codefendants, and the incident at Shooters Bar and Grill....
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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Incumbents get little homegrown support
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 AM :: 3954 Views
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Entrenched incumbents are relying on donations from corporations which do business with the state, lobbyists, political action committees (PACs) and labor unions. But unlike elections over the last few decades, these incumbents are facing well-funded challenges whose contributors include many fresh faces coming largely from within the electoral district.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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September 20 Election PRIMARY ALERT
By Andrew Walden @ 1:23 AM :: 3933 Views
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Many Hawai`i County Council races will be decided in the September 20 primary election.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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Ka`u donations boost Enriques
By Andrew Walden @ 1:11 AM :: 14271 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, OHA, Politicians
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After years of thuggery and intimidation by Bob Jacobson’s Ka`u Preservation, Inc supporters, Council District 6 residents are fighting back....
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor August 21, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:04 AM :: 3701 Views
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Misinformation on Takamine Donors--Who is to judge?--Spaceport pipedream--Son kept out of school--Barack McGovern Obama--3rd in costs, 47th in rank--Finish the road already
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 |
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Billy Kenoi helped Pali Shooter
By Andrew Walden @ 10:13 PM :: 32579 Views :: Ethics, Law Enforcement, Politicians
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Admitted Pali Golf Course shooter Ethan “Malu” Motta apparently had a lot of friends in Hilo—including politicians....
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 |
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Death of a Bakery
By Andrew Walden @ 3:24 PM :: 4566 Views
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For thirteen years, Jim O’Keefe has delivered fresh-baked specialty breads to retail customers, restaurants and hotels on the Big Island. But the pressures which give Hawai`i a reputation as the nations’ worst business environment have taken their toll.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 |
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Puna CDP: Eliminate affordable housing
By Andrew Walden @ 10:21 AM :: 8777 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Greenmail, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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Puna is one of the very few places in Hawai`i where young local families can afford to buy their own home and begin life as a family. But environmentalists are working hard to put a stop to the inflow of locals and replicate the success they have had in making Maui and Kaua`i into exclusive havens for rich mainland transplants.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 |
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Six Million paper bags
By Andrew Walden @ 1:18 AM :: 10668 Views :: Environment
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The plastic bag ban has a certain lucrative logic to it. It turns out that plastic bags gum up plastic recycling machines and reduce the resale value of bundled used plastics. So what is the solution? Improve the recycling machines so they don’t become gummed up? No. Instead recycling companies are using their clout with City and County governments all over the world to impose plastic bag bans. They will inconvenience the public rather than improve their technology.
Waste-to energy plants don’t have a problem with plastic bags. So a council decision to ban plastic bags is just another step towards rejecting waste-to-energy, which is a more efficient method of recycling than bundling up paper and plastic and shipping it to the mainland.
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor August 7, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:08 AM :: 4416 Views
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Puna doesn’t need CDP--Lay off the bureaucrats--Queen of the Tree People blocks WTE--Commission violates rules for HD24--The People’s Rights-- ‘Banana patch’ to be cleared for rail project?
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
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The Frank Marshall Davis network In Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 11:57 AM :: 10761 Views :: Hawaii History, Obama
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by Andrew Walden AIM
In a July 14 news release the “Honolulu Community Media Council” (HCMC) denounces Accuracy In Media and the Pittsbur...
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Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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Council denounces depleted uranium
By Andrew Walden @ 3:38 AM :: 18789 Views :: Hawaii County , Military
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Bananas are more radioactive than depleted uranium. Tobacco, marijuana, chocolate, cocaine, heroin, and the human body all emit higher levels of gamma and beta radiation—the most powerful types-- than depleted uranium. Rather than being a radiation source, depleted uranium is used as a radiation shield used to block emissions from nuclear reactors.
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Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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Puna CDP: Planning to raise taxes and confiscate property
By Andrew Walden @ 2:30 AM :: 4985 Views
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It is unfashionable to believe these actions are the result of ideology, but the arrogant prologue to the Puna CDP should put all doubts to rest.
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Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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Hospital layoffs spread to Waimea
By Andrew Walden @ 12:26 AM :: 6972 Views
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The same problems which are driving doctors out of Hawai`i are forcing cutbacks on services and staffing at the already under funded sister-island Hawai`i Health Services Corp hospitals and now the only privately-operated hospital in Hawai`i County—North Hawai`i Community Hospital.
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Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor July 21, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:05 AM :: 4176 Views
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Good factual information--Reading pleasure--Stopping School Closures--Political prostitutes--Where are the police when you need them?--Hele On the bus--A choice for Puna
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Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Cut bureaucracy, not schools
By Andrew Walden @ 9:42 AM :: 3428 Views
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The accountability-free DOE bureaucracy is “painfully aware” of nothing but its own perpetuation.
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Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Hospital layoffs: HMSA, lawyers profit
By Andrew Walden @ 7:37 AM :: 8439 Views
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For two years in a row, hammered by demands for medical malpractice reform and demands to introduce more competition into the Hawaii medical insurance market, the Democratic caucus of the State legislature has delivered a flat “no!”
Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
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Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Lingle to veto school closures?
By Andrew Walden @ 6:58 AM :: 3559 Views
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Governor Lingle said a May 22 letter from Ted Hong, requesting her to veto HB 2972 was one of the first opposition letters to the bill she received.
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Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Fred Blas launches ‘Campaign for Puna’
By Andrew Walden @ 1:44 AM :: 4873 Views
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Over 250 Puna residents joined Fred Blas for a Maku`u Farmers Market June 21 kickoff rally launching his campaign for Puna’s House District 4 seat as a Republican.
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Monday, July 7, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor July 7, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:06 AM :: 3399 Views
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Kona CDP ‘Picayune’--Council gets garbage right--Throw the bums out!--Waiawi: Bananas safe--Imagine the Vog--No-Drill Network
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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Schools on “prime real estate” to close?
By Andrew Walden @ 6:46 AM :: 3448 Views
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Instead of cutting bureaucracy, Senators Lorraine Inouye and Roz Baker have a different solution—close down rural schools and sell them to developers.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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Kohala HS to lose $1832 per student
By Andrew Walden @ 4:43 AM :: 6614 Views :: Education K-12
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Kohala is one of the few Big Island schools not deemed ‘failing’ under “No Child Left Behind” standards. Under formulas used by the Board of Education under Act 51, successful schools are often punished by budget cuts. Kohala HS will be losing $500,000 in funding for the 2009-10 school year.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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Journal Closes (maybe)
By Andrew Walden @ 2:38 AM :: 5236 Views :: Hawaii County , First Amendment
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The Hawai`i Island Journal is closed. Its last edition, published June 14, carried only a short notice of regret ...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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Helping our next Mayor communicate
By Andrew Walden @ 1:17 AM :: 3483 Views
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Hawai`i Free Press assists four Big Island mayoral candidates with some suggestions for new campaign slogans:
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor June 21, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:13 AM :: 4269 Views
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Akaka Reservation for Corporations--Special rights for terrorists--Tossed from graduation--Raining on the poor--Suing for Smoking--Bush Lincoln--Hawaiians recognized in US Constitution
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 |
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Overheard at a County Park:
By Andrew Walden @ 12:09 AM :: 3594 Views
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Citizen--“But officer, officer, this is for my glaucoma. I have a prescription!”
Officer—“Just because you put a few stems and seeds in there doesn’t make it legal. I’d know the smell of tobacco anywhere. Let’s go! I’m taking you in.”
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Saturday, June 7, 2008 |
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Council votes: Hands off drug pushers
By Andrew Walden @ 9:30 PM :: 9956 Views
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Councilmember and Mayoral candidate Angel Pilago has found a cause great enough to risk his candidacy - dope. With Pilago joined by Brenda Ford, Emily Naeole, and Dominic Yagong, the County Council voted 4-4 not to accept $441,000 in federal funds offered to the Hawaii County police for “Green Harvest” marijuana eradication work.
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Saturday, June 7, 2008 |
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‘Clean Elections’ activist nailed by Campaign Spending Commission
By Andrew Walden @ 12:39 AM :: 13358 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics
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Leading Hawai‘i County “clean elections” advocates are caught up in a web of campaign spending violations and campaign-related conflict-of-interest charges.
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Saturday, June 7, 2008 |
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Letters to the Editor June 7, 2008
By Andrew Walden @ 12:09 AM :: 3107 Views
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‘Ohana banned from graduation--What Is A Veteran?--Jimmy Obama--“Change” -- Everywhere But Hawai`i--Surrender lies--Not voting this time
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
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Italian Government Disowns Honolulu Consul Letter Recognizing Hawaiian Kingdom Government
By Andrew Walden @ 10:54 AM :: 14617 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, Hawaii History, Law Enforcement, OHA
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In a February 28, 2008 letter, Honorary Vice-Consul of Italy in Hawaii, Carmen Di Amore-Siah, purports to grant the Hawaii Kingdom Government group recognition by the Government of Italy.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 |
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Molokai Ranch: Protesters to Cash in with Takeover Plan?
By Andrew Walden @ 2:49 PM :: 21672 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Greenmail
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Molokai’s largest private employer is closing operations. With unemployment already at 7 percent, 120 more Molokai residents (on an island of just over 7,000 residents) are losing their jobs. In a state where politicians pretend to be obsessed with “saving agriculture,” cattle ranching will end on the 1/3 of the island owned by Molokai Ranch.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 |
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Will Soldiers Get to Vote in 2008?
By Andrew Walden @ 7:28 PM :: 7868 Views :: Energy, Environment
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Convicted felons are being registered. Some jurisdictions propose allowing non-citizens to cast ballots in state and local elections. But are our soldiers voting?
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
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Hawaiians Reject Office of Hawaiian Affairs ‘Settlement’ Proposal
By Andrew Walden @ 8:40 PM :: 1953 Views :: Hawaii County , OHA
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...“Sovereignty is already happening now. We are educating our children. What we have in front of us doesn’t work.”....
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Thursday, February 7, 2008 |
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Hawaii Legislators Consider Becoming Dope Dealers
By Andrew Walden @ 8:42 AM :: 14726 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment
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After nationalizing a Kauai poi factory in December, the state of Hawaii is considering collectivized agriculture. A bill before the Legislature’s House Committee on Health would establish a state farm on Maui -- to grow marijuana.
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Monday, January 14, 2008 |
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Red Hot Lava Menaces Old-boy Scam
By Andrew Walden @ 6:23 PM :: 15547 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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Red hot lava threatening Puna’s Royal Gardens subdivision opens yet another chapter in a long-running saga. A hui of elected officials and state and county engineers in 1961 bought the 1,807 acre site from the Bishop Estate (Kamehameha Schools) for $200,000 after easily obtaining preliminary approval to subdivide from the Hawaii County Planning Commission.
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Saturday, December 8, 2007 |
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OHA Drug Policy: Treatment no, pushers yes
By Andrew Walden @ 6:10 PM :: 14393 Views :: Kauai County, OHA, Drugs
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Earlier this year, OHA officials, led by Trustee Don Cataluna, blocked Kauai County from building a residential drug treatment facility for juveniles on a former Humane Society site about a half mile from Kauai’s Hanapepe Salt Pond. This as young Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians are literally dying from methamphetamines and other drug abuse.
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 |
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Office of Hawaiian Affairs Blocks Kauai Drug Treatment Facility
By Andrew Walden @ 6:20 AM :: 18993 Views :: Kauai County, Health Care, OHA, Drugs
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Kauai residents, including minors, have been required to leave the island for inpatient drug rehabilitation services ever since Serenity House was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki in 1992. After 14 years of waiting, Kauai Mayor Brian Baptiste broke ground on a new inpatient treatment facility at Hanapepe near the Salt Ponds in August 2006.
But now, thanks to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), construction has been halted and the location may be abandoned.
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Friday, September 7, 2007 |
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Bananas More Radioactive than Depleted Uranium
By Andrew Walden @ 7:56 AM :: 18937 Views :: Environment, Military
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When the Army’s inevitable discovery of the DU rounds at Pohakuloa came, the activists’ agit-prop show took over the so-called mainstream media. The Hawaii Tribune Herald printed the double lie, “Radioactive find at PTA fuels fears” as its Aug. 26 headline. It is wrong on both counts: It is completely false to call DU a “radioactive find” unless it would be correct to call the potassium-40 laden protesters, “radioactive activists.” Secondly the activists are not fearful but utterly thrilled to discover that DU is present on the Big Island. As Albertini said, “This is going to be bigger than Agent Orange.”
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
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Hurricane Flossie: Hawaii Gets its Lucky Miss
By Andrew Walden @ 11:28 AM :: 9272 Views :: Hawaii County
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Hurricane Flossie gave Hawaii emergency planners exactly what they needed—another lucky miss. Passing south of South Point, Flossie generated little more than high choppy surf and gusty winds for Kau. Hilo and Puna had very light winds and just over 2 inches of rain. County workers closed off beach access. Schools and state and county offices were closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
In Kau and coastal areas of Hilo and Puna, many businesses and residential windows were taped and a few were boarded up. The county opened up 10 emergency shelters mostly in buildings where windows had been replaced by wooden jalousies shielded by metal grilles to protect against flying debris.
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 |
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Depleted Uranium: Radioactive Propaganda
By Andrew Walden @ 2:50 PM :: 16356 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Military
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In attempting to prove DU is dangerous, the activists have in fact proved the opposite. They have discovered what any junior high school physics student already knows -- the world is naturally bathed in background radiation. This background radiation is far stronger than anything depleted uranium could ever emit. DU radiation is literally too weak for them to measure.
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 |
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Anti-Globalization Movement joins Jihad vs. McWorld
By Andrew Walden @ 8:15 AM :: 14303 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Jihad vs. McWorld is the name of a March, 1992 essay and a 1996 book published by Benjamin Barber. Barber, a social democratic “third-roader,” argues that both tribal warfare “jihad,” and what he sees as the “threat” of globalism, equally endanger democracy in the post-cold war world. Now, nearly a decade and a half after Barber’s essay appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, it appears that leading anti-globalization activists worldwide have stopped equivocating and decided that globalism is the greater threat. They have teamed up with jihad.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
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The Depleted Uranium Scam
By Andrew Walden @ 7:53 AM :: 19131 Views :: Environment, Military
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If the Big Square Building comprises 100,000 square feet weighing 100 pounds per square foot, and that weight were made up of equal parts drywall, brick, and cement, the ten-million-pound building contains about 42 pounds of non-depleted uranium and 63 pounds of radioactive thorium.
Jim Albertini of the misnamed Malu-Aina Peace Center writes March 27, “We must not tolerate having any depleted uranium in our environment….” By this logic the legislature should immediately be shut down and quarantined as a toxic waste dump.
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