http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091030/BREAKING01/91030084/Commander+of+Pearl+Harbor+sub+relieved+of+command Updated at 9:08 p.m., Friday, October 30, 2009 Commander of Pearl Harbor sub relieved of command By William Cole Advertiser Military Writer The commander of the nuclear attack submarine USS La Jolla based at Pearl Harbor was relieved of his post today “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” the… Read more »
F.B.I. rules allow greater surveillance, spying, and racial profiling
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/29manual.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1256811449-zYrgidPidGueUZgJ5P7iMg Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: October 28, 2009 WASHINGTON — After a Somali-American teenager from Minneapolis committed a suicide bombing in Africa in October 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating whether a Somali Islamist group had recruited him on United States soil. Instead of collecting information… Read more »
“Intellectually bankrupt” system – earmark losers complain about Inouye
Oh, the irony! An air logistics company from Hawai’i seeking a $20 million earmark from Senator Inouye complains about the unfairness of the process when they are passed over. >><< http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/10/29/earmark_applicants_complaint_fuels_critics/ Earmark applicant’s complaint fuels critics Passed over for funding, group cites inequities By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | October 29, 2009 WASHINGTON – They… Read more »
Ex-soldier guilty of Waikiki rape
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=11402318 UH dorm burglar guilty of additional sex assault Posted: Oct 28, 2009 11:26 AM By Minna Sugimoto HONOLULU (HAWAIINEWSNOW) – A former Schofield Barracks soldier gave up his court fight in a Waikiki rape case Wednesday. Mark Heath pleaded no contest to burglary and sex assault. Prosecutors say two years ago, he broke into… Read more »
Obama signs defense bill with pork for Hawai’i
Pres. Obama signs the FY2010 Defense Authorization Bill, which seems to include some of Rep. Abercrombie’s U.S. worker preferences and prevailing wage provisions for jobs related to the military expansion on Guam. Interesting that a hate crimes bill was tacked on to the military authorization bill. It would be interesting to know the four military… Read more »
Explosive shell prompts evacuation of apartments
Explosive shell prompts evacuation of apartments By Leila Fujimori POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 28, 2009 http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20091028_Explosive_shell_prompts_evacuation_of_apartments.html Police evacuated a half-dozen residents of a Kapahulu apartment building yesterday morning after an explosive shell was discovered in a third-floor apartment unit vacated by an 88-year-old former military man. It turned out to be an empty U.S…. Read more »
“Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within”
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/27/filmmaker_pascale_bourgaux_on_rape_in “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within” As with suicides, the rate of sexual assaults within the US military now exceeds that of the general population. A Pentagon report earlier this year found one in three female service members are sexually assaulted at least once during their enlistment. Sixty-three percent of nearly 3,000 cases… Read more »
Ex-Marine, foreign service official resigns over war in Afghanistan
Another diplomat resigns in protest over U.S. wars, this time the war in Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh, a former Marine and a rising star in the diplomatic corps said his resignation was “based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.” >><< U.S. official resigns over Afghan war Foreign Service… Read more »
US, Japan at odds over air base
US, Japan at odds over air base By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy Posted Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:11am AEDT http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/26/2723915.htm?section=world Japan’s new centre-left government is finding itself squeezed between the Obama administration and the people of the southern islands of Okinawa. At the heart of the row is a US air base which the… Read more »
U.S. – Japan disagree about bases in Okinawa
There are interesting developments in Japan over the fate of U.S. military bases in Okinawa. The new Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has made moves to revise the mutual security alliance and change plans to relocate a U.S. Marine base within Okinawa. Okinawans have strongly opposed the new base in the Henoko area. The new… Read more »
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