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Entries for 'Andrew Walden'
Monday, July 21, 2008 |
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Puna CDP: Planning to raise taxes and confiscate property
By Andrew Walden @ 2:30 AM :: 4726 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 :: 6343 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 :: 3964 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 :: 3193 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 :: 7732 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 :: 3289 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 :: 4611 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 :: 3174 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 :: 3236 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 :: 6239 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 :: 4699 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 :: 3227 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 :: 3957 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 :: 3384 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 :: 9202 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 :: 12444 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 :: 2913 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 :: 13433 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 :: 19831 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 :: 7181 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 :: 1439 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 :: 13286 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 :: 14312 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 :: 13367 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 :: 17404 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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Saturday, September 8, 2007 |
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Bananas More Radioactive than Depleted Uranium
By Andrew Walden @ 7:56 AM :: 17146 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 :: 8523 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, May 19, 2007 |
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Anti-Globalization Movement joins Jihad vs. McWorld
By Andrew Walden @ 8:15 AM :: 13330 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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Thursday, March 8, 2007 |
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Kuleana Plots Saved from the 'Stewards of Jesus'
By Andrew Walden @ 12:21 PM :: 15290 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy
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“OK, if they ask you are you related to this person or that, just say yes, OK?”
With that instruction, non-Hawaiian sovereignty activist Shelly Stephens, who sometimes calls herself “Makaala Nakoa” sent three Hawaiians into the Hilo courtroom of Third Circuit Court Judge Greg Nakamura on February 1.
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Thursday, February 8, 2007 |
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Hawaii Right-to-Life gathers in Hilo
By Andrew Walden @ 9:53 AM :: 8370 Views :: Life
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About 500 abortions are performed in Hilo every year.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
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Takamine Donors: A Road Map of Hawaii's 'Old Boy' System
By Andrew Walden @ 5:20 PM :: 8522 Views :: Ethics, Politicians
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Running unopposed in the November General Election, Takamine (D-N Hilo, Hamakua, N Kohala) received the predictable campaign contributions from unions. What may be more surprising to readers are the contributions he received from Political Action Committees (PACs) representing Hawaii big business.
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Monday, October 16, 2006 |
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Earthquake Damages Big Island Heiau, Church and Hospital, Destroys Smokestack
By Andrew Walden @ 3:01 PM :: 8796 Views :: Hawaii County
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Plates and glasses smashed to the floor, books came flying off the shelves and TVs slid off tables across Kohala, Kona and Hamakua districts of the Big Island Sunday morning as a 6.7 temblor shook the Big Island.
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006 |
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Case Defeat: Democratic Party Rejects Reform Candidates
By Andrew Walden @ 4:16 PM :: 9990 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Rep. Ed Case called the Democratic Senate Primary vote on Sept. 23, “a Choice between past and future” and explained on his campaign Web site: "This election gives Hawaii's voters a choice between the way things have been in Hawaii and national politics and the way they can and should be. I believe our political culture is broken and must change, and that this election asks voters to choose between the status quo and a better way forward."
But Hawaii Democratic Primary voters said “no.”
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
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Big Island Rancher Larry Mehau Hosts Community Rally for Sen. Akaka
By Andrew Walden @ 6:46 PM :: 34539 Views :: Akaka Bill, Democratic Party, Ethics, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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Big Island Rancher Larry Mehau, resplendent in a dazzling white “Akaka for Senate” campaign T-shirt, welcomed over 100 Hawaii County Democratic activists to a campaign rally at his Big Island ranch on Sunday, Aug. 27, for U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-HI. Several of Hawaii’s Political Candidates Show Face Including Congressional Candidates Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz and Gubernatorial Candidate Randy Iwase....
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Monday, August 7, 2006 |
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Death Tax Mahele: Sens. Akaka and Inouye Vote to Take Tutu's House
By Andrew Walden @ 3:25 AM :: 6666 Views :: Land Use, Taxes
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...condemn thousands of Native Hawaiian families to turn over 30 percent to 50 percent their property to the United States federal government when the inevitable occurs....
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Thursday, July 6, 2006 |
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Failed North Korean Missile Aimed at Hawaii?
By Andrew Walden @ 4:05 PM :: 11379 Views :: Energy, National News, World News
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A Tokyo-based newspaper reports in its Friday AM edition that North Korea’s failed Taepodong-2 missile was aimed at an area of the ocean close to Hawaii.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
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Thimerosal Veto: Saving Vaccines from Trial Lawyers
By Andrew Walden @ 2:14 PM :: 11724 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Gov. Lingle has done a service to autistic children everywhere by rejecting the Thimerosal claims. This is one step away from fear mongering claims which might make for a nice juicy lawsuit one day and a step towards autism research which could discover the real cause(s) and develop real treatments.
Thousands of lives are at stake but the Democrats and their trial lawyer donors care only about the opportunity for more ill gotten gains. The fact that these gains might be made at the expense of the lives of children who are infected by diseases which might have been prevented by vaccines made no longer available due to lawsuit liability is of no concern to them.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2006 |
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'Lost Malihini Tribe' and PASH Aim to Take Over County Council
By Andrew Walden @ 6:50 PM :: 12135 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail
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This contradiction goes to the root of the bizarre political coalition Kona-side. People who were likely conservatives when they lived on the mainland are electing left-wing extremists to the Council. One of their first acts was to install Sierra Club attorney David Frankel as County Legislative Auditor. Frankel had selected Jack Kelly (now PKO Vice-President) as the Sierra Club’s employee to target the Hokulia development. Kelly is one of the four plaintiffs who have demanded $4 million in personal “compensation” from Hokulia according to documents released by Hokulia developer Oceanside 1250.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
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Clinton, Reagan, and Carter's Legal Warrantless Wiretaps on U.S. Citizens
By Andrew Walden @ 2:07 PM :: 19839 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The day after Iraq’s stunning December 15 election success, the New York Times wrote, "Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the …(National Security Agency) has monitored the international telephone calls and international email messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible ‘dirty numbers’ linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications." ... the local media, and The New York Times all chose not to mention that President Bill Clinton asserted his authority to conduct physical searches "for foreign intelligence purposes" without a warrant in Executive Order 12949, dated Feb. 9, 1995, during the Bosnia War.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 |
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Conspiracy Nuts Pass Out Cash
By Andrew Walden @ 12:08 PM :: 8162 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, Military
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“Nancy Aleck, the dynamic Exec. Director of the People's Fund, a progressive, grassroots, small-grants ($3,000 limit) organization, will be on the Big Island during Sept. 20-23 to present information and grant request forms ….”
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Monday, September 19, 2005 |
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As the Storm Fronts Line Up Off Shore, Residents are Asking if Oahu is Ready for a Hurricane
By Andrew Walden @ 10:59 AM :: 9958 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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With Hurricane Jova and two other major other storms lined up in formation, Oahu Civil Defense planners describe a shortfall of 60,000 spaces in evacuation plans which are themselves designed to shelter only about one-third of Oahu`s population. These numbers sound bad enough, but they grotesquely understate the problem.
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
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Beyond Greenmail: Extortion Becomes Expropriation
By Andrew Walden @ 12:58 PM :: 7133 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Land Use
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The Hokulia case is becoming a bald-faced attempt....
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Sunday, August 14, 2005 |
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OHA Trustee Tells Grieving Family That Shrine to Dead Son Must Come Down
By Andrew Walden @ 2:36 PM :: 9188 Views :: Hawaii County , Law Enforcement, OHA
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After a tragic hit-and-run accident on Hilo’s East Kahaopea Street killed 22-year-old Dale K. Tim Sing, his family members are now being ordered by Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Trustee Linda Dela Cruz to remove the shrine they erected at the spot where he died.
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Sunday, May 8, 2005 |
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Know Thy Enemy: Koji Ariyoshi
By Andrew Walden @ 11:53 AM :: 10182 Views :: Hawaii History
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PBS Hawai`i’s propaganda piece on the life of Hawai`i communist Koji Ariyoshi should be required viewing for lovers of freedom who understand the value of knowing their enemy. Somehow the program manages to tell the story of Hawai'i's most prominent Communist without once letting on that Ariyoshi was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, USA.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
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Horowitz Speaks to U. Hawaii Students
By Andrew Walden @ 3:56 PM :: 3001 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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Horowitz Speaks to U. Hawaii Students
by Andrew Walden
In a lively exchange of ideas, David Horowitz, leader of Students for Academic Freed...
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 |
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The Future of Fraud
By Andrew Walden @ 9:01 AM :: 15310 Views :: GMOs
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When questioned by this writer at a September, 2004 movie presentation in Hilo, Future producer Garcia suggested that Pepto-Bismol might be an alternative solution for dying African babies. She also acknowledged that no human has ever been shown to have been harmed by GMOs -- but emphasized that anti-GMO activists were working hard to find someone, somewhere -- suffering from food allergies or other as yet undiscovered disorders for which GMOs might yet be blamed.
Garcia’s attitude of callous disregard for the effects of her victories on the under-developed world’s poorest people is nothing new in the anti-GMO movement.
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Sunday, August 1, 2004 |
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Genetically Modified Marijuana
By Andrew Walden @ 7:33 PM :: 8805 Views :: GMOs
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...Mendocino County, where marijuana is reputedly the single largest cash crop, on March 2, 2004, passed a voter initiative outlawing genetically modified (GM) crops from farmers’ fields. This initiative bans all genetically modified plants--including GM marijuana....
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