Today’s Honolulu Star Bulletin reported: “The Alakai went home yesterday looking for work.” Maybe it was a slip, but it was accurate. The Superferry’s home is, and always has been somewhere else. It was never a homegrown interisland transportation system to ship pineapples or allow grandma on Maui to visit her grandkids on O’ahu. … Read more »
Gates: No doubt of North Korea’s hostile missile launch intentions
Here we go again. Secretary of Defense Gates is demonizing North Korea and hyping its threat to Hawai’i. It must be that time of year to shakedown Congress for more funding for missile defense. There’s no justification for North Korea to feel threatened. It’s not like the U.S. has any intercontinental ballistic missiles or has… Read more »
Kaho’olawe waters open for limited fishing
Posted at 2:50 p.m., Friday, March 27, 2009 Kahoolawe commission schedules open waters for trolling only Advertiser Staff WAILUKU, Maui – The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission has scheduled “open waters” weekends for trolling only April 4-5 and April 18-19. Access to reserve waters is severely restricted due to the presence of unexploded ordnance and to… Read more »
What does an F-22 cost?
http://original.antiwar.com/wheeler/2009/03/27/what-does-an-f-22-cost/ What Does an F-22 Cost? Posted By Winslow T. Wheeler On March 27, 2009 @ 8:00 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled On Wednesday, March 25, an F-22 crashed near Edwards Air Force Base, CA. Very sadly, the pilot was killed. The news articles surrounding this event contained some strange assertions about the cost… Read more »
Communities Seek Accountability for Military Pollution
CSWAB UPDATE Communities Seek Accountability for Military Pollution A national coalition of 90 affected communities and organizations have joined together to support federal legislation that will require the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to comply with laws designed to protect human health and the environment. A joint letter to the White House,… Read more »
Bogota Declaration 2009: Faith and Resistance for Peace and Life in the Age of U.S./Global Empire
Peace for Life Second People’s Forum BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA • 20-23 MARCH 2009 Organized in partnership with Colombian NGOs led by Proyecto Justicia y Vida BOGOTÁ DECLARATION 2009 Faith and Resistance for Peace and Life in the Age of U.S./Global Empire With the powers of dance, music, testimonies and prayers, and enriched by multiple analyses, we… Read more »
F-22 fighter crash near Edwards AFB, pilot killed
F-22 Fighter Crashes Near Edwards AFB Last Update: 12:33 am EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) – One of the Air Force’s top-of-the-line F-22 fighter jets crashed Wednesday in the high desert of Southern California. The pilot was killed in the crash. That pilot, 49-year-old David Cooley, was an employee of defense contractor Locakheed Martin…. Read more »
Conspiracy ferry
Conspiracy ferry Did we get taken for a ride by Hawai‘i Superferry? Christopher Pala Mar 25, 2009 Hawai‘i’s Superferry ended its choppy ride last week, leaving tantalizing clues, but no proof, that the whole venture was about more than providing “reliable commercial service in these islands,” as CEO Thomas B. Fargo insisted at his dawn… Read more »
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead.
This blog post about the Superferry debacle by Jan TenBruggencate aptly applies a popular military aphorism: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Source: http://raisingislands.blogspot.com/2009/03/admiral-farraguts-torpedoes-and-hawaii.html Admiral Farragut’s torpedoes and the Hawai’i Superferry There is a point at which a commander throws caution to the winds and orders, in the words of Admiral Farragut, “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed… Read more »
New security situation in South America
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 South American Security Paradigm Samuel Logan International Relations And Security Network http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=98146 Months ahead of the planned closing of Eloy Alfaro airbase at Manta, Ecuador, the US and Colombia continue to negotiate terms that would allow the US military limited access to Colombian airbases. The agreement favors both nations, as the… Read more »
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