Honolulu finalist for 2011 APEC meeting Pacific Business News (Honolulu) – by Chad Blair Honolulu is one of three finalists in competition to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2011 annual meeting. Mike McCartney, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said Thursday that Honolulu is competing with San Francisco and Los Angeles. McCartney said… Read more »
Maui Community College degree to serve ‘star wars’ tracking station and supercomputer
New degree signals Maui CC name change By Craig Gima POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 28, 2009 If the Board of Regents approves a proposal to offer a second bachelor’s degree at Maui Community College, it will likely mean a name change for the Kahului campus to the University of Hawaii-Maui, UH President David McClain… Read more »
Pearl Harbor sailors arrested for beating in New Hampshire
2 in crew of Pearl sub held in N.H. By Star-Bulletin Staff and News Services POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 24, 2009 Authorities in New Hampshire arrested and charged two crew members of a Pearl Harbor-based nuclear submarine with beating a man unconscious and threatening a witness on a Portsmouth, N.H., street. The victim, a… Read more »
Air Force runway expansion studied in Kona
Air Force runway project gets second land study By Gregg K. Kakesako POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 28, 2009 The Air Force will conduct a supplemental environmental study on building a $30.3 million auxiliary runway at Keahole Airport in Kona that would be used to train C-17 Globemaster cargo jet pilots in short-landing field operations…. Read more »
Helicopter crash kills two
CARROLL COX / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-BULLETIN The wreck of a U.S. Army Kiowa Warrior helicopter lay on the tarmac at Wheeler Army Airfield yesterday after a crash that killed both pilots. Army officials are investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred while the helicopter was performing exercises above the main runway. Copter crash… Read more »
When we almost nuked Savannah
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair05152009.html May 15-17, 2009 When We Almost Nuked Savannah The Case of the Missing H-Bomb By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Things go missing. It’s to be expected. Even at the Pentagon. Last October, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported that the military’s accountants had misplaced a destroyer, several tanks and armored personnel carriers, hundreds of machine guns,… Read more »
Jon Osorio Responds to the “Ceded” Lands Settlement
An Open Letter to the Lahui May 23rd, 2009 Letter to the Lāhui: Early this week I was a part of a panel “Hoʻopunipuni: The Myth of Statehood” organized by Arnie Saiki, in Los Angeles. Julian Aguon, Kekuni Blaisdell, Kuhio Vogeler and I all spoke about the many different and connected deceptions that have maintained… Read more »
Dahr Jamail: Colonizing Culture
As an independent journalist, Dahr Jamail has brought the world vivid and horrifying accounts of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. When he visited Hawai’i a few years ago, Hawaiian Independence activists introduced him to the history and current state of the U.S. occupation of Hawai’i and of the sovereignty movement. He immediately got it. In… Read more »
Another Case Confirms Agent Orange on Guam
Another case confirms AO on Guam http://guam.mvarietynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6726:another-case-confirms-ao-on-guam&catid=1:guam-local-news&Itemid=2 Tuesday, 26 May 2009 00:14 by Mar-Vic Cagurangan |Variety News Staff ANOTHER veteran who was stationed at Andersen Air Force Base from 1962 to 1965 won his claim for disability benefits based on medical findings which showed that his illness was the result of his exposure to Agent… Read more »
NYC schools to limit recruiter access to students
May 20, 2009 In a Switch, City Tells Schools to Monitor On-Campus Military Recruiting By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ Schools will be required to provide military opt-out forms to 9th- and 10th-grade students and to develop a plan to monitor on-campus recruiting by the armed forces, according to new guidelines announced by the city’s Department of… Read more »
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