Events

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.

Quotes

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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Passengers Tell What They Saw on Underwear Bomber Flight

Submitted by Kawika Young on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 03:08

The accounts given by the Christmas Day Bomber flight passengers contain information that differs or was omitted from the official versions that were initially released to the public.

Airline passengers may soon lose their privacy, their dignity and their health if new body scanner technology is forced upon them in the name of security and, more importantly, if they acquiesce. Dutch officials have announced that body scanners will be used at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport within three weeks. Schiphol is where the Underwear Bomber made his connection to the Detroit flight he allegedly attempted to blow up.

At 7 min 9 sec into the following video, body scanners begin to be discussed.

There are two types of body scanners. Backscatter models rely on X-rays and the millimeter wave works like radar. X-rays and radar are known to be harmful, and the ill effects would be multiplied for frequent fliers. But that is not discussed in this video. The body scanner companies and the TSA, if asked, are going to have to tell us that what is known to be harmful in this case is not harmful, much like the tobacco companies did about cigarettes until recently.

The former head of El Al, the very secure Israeli airline, finds body scanners outrageous and unnecessary. From what he says, Muslims, who adhere to a religion he says he respects, may torpedo the use of body scanners because of their strong scruples against being seen unclothed.