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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
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Syria Protesters: We Miss Bush
By Selected News Articles @ 1:00 PM :: 6308 Views :: World News, Family
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Monday, December 19, 2011 |
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The Death of Kim Jong-il
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:45 PM :: 8180 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...the surprise development raises concerns about its impact on Pyongyang's ongoing leadership transition, regime stability, and North Korean security and foreign policies....
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Monday, December 19, 2011 |
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Egyptian Islamists win Election, Begin Burning Books, Antiquities
By Selected News Articles @ 2:04 PM :: 7858 Views :: World News, Family
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Egyptian Scientific Institute: December 17, 2011
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Sunday, December 18, 2011 |
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North Korea Dictator Dies Just as New Aid Deal Was to Be Announced
By Selected News Articles @ 10:51 PM :: 6221 Views :: World News, Family
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In a short dispatch, KCA stated, "Chariman Kim passed away in the train on December 17th, 2011 at 8:30am due to physical overwork."
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Government Says Hezbollah Profits From U.S. Cocaine Market Via Link to Mexican Cartel
By Selected News Articles @ 9:24 PM :: 8758 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Ayman Joumaa, an accused Lebanese drug kingpin and Hezbollah financier, of smuggling tons of U.S.-bound cocaine and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars with the Zetas cartel of Mexico....
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
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Canada Quits Kyoto Treaty
By News Release @ 3:16 AM :: 6798 Views :: World News, Family
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“The Canadian Government’s decision to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol is an important victory for common sense .... "
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Defense Budget Cuts Will Devastate America’s Commitment to the Asia–Pacific
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:57 AM :: 9017 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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These cuts have been put forth with little consideration for their long-term impact....
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 |
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Pearl Harbor Survivor to Direct ‘Mass Band Performance’ on 70th Anniversary
By News Release @ 12:27 AM :: 14323 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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... the Battleship Missouri Memorial will proudly host a mass band performance featuring more than 650 performers from a dozen high school, college and community bands ....
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Monday, December 5, 2011 |
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UN Agenda 21 Reaches into Your Backyard
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:26 PM :: 7991 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Ready to trade in your car for a bike, or maybe a subway instead? Interested in fewer choices for your home, paying more for housing, and being crammed into a denser neighborhood? You can have all this and more ....
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Monday, December 5, 2011 |
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Will Canada Quit Kyoto Climate Treaty?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:56 AM :: 7751 Views :: World News, Family
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Canada’s emissions represent only 2% of the world’s total and 80% of the world’s population live in nations that have no protocol emission limits whatsoever. China’s economy is expanding so rapidly that between 2009 and 2010 its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more that twice the entire Canadian 2010 output....
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Thursday, December 1, 2011 |
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Quality of Living: Honolulu #29 in World, right behind ... Stuttgart
By News Release @ 12:20 AM :: 10574 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Honolulu (29) and San Francisco (30) are the highest-ranking US cities....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Finmeccanica Trumpets Honolulu Rail Deal
By News Release @ 10:10 PM :: 13099 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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ROME: Finmeccanica: signed a contract worth USD 1,334 million for Honolulu driverless metro.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Lucky Hawaii: Bond Sale Benefits as Investors Flee Europe
By News Release @ 2:22 PM :: 10823 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Treasury and municipal bonds rallied Thursday as fears of European contagion spread ... Yields on the Hawaii bond deal were lowered as much as nine basis points, compared with levels offered earlier in the morning....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Sex, Equality, and the Paleolithic Era
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 11127 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...perhaps this will mark the rise of the paleolibs?
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Is the Occupy Wall Street Movement Occupied?
By IPT News @ 12:04 PM :: 8075 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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"The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1 percent of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future."
There has been an ongoing debate about the depth of anti-Semitism within the OWS movement....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
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Monday, November 28, 2011 |
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US Micronesia Aid Crowds out Private Investment, Local Decision Making
By Selected News Articles @ 11:57 PM :: 11098 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The problem is not the size or scope of U.S. support, the problems lay within the ways that money is structured, allocated and managed....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Green Energy Push Drives Outsourcing to China
By NCPA @ 3:08 AM :: 6159 Views :: World News, Family
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Indeed, costly emission cuts in Denmark and elsewhere are likely to lead to a partial relocation of CO2 emissions to more lenient countries, such as China ....
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Maui Smart Grid Demonstration Project to Begin Next Year
By News Release @ 1:39 AM :: 13199 Views :: Kauai County, DHHL, Energy, Environment, World News, Family
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The multi-million dollar project is aimed at improving integration of variable renewable resources, such as solar and wind power, and preparing the electric system for widespread adoption of electric vehicles.
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Friday, November 25, 2011 |
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Happy Thanksgiving from Stacey Djou!
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 11249 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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For Charles, this was a day much like most others, but he was thankful to talk to the girls (they were on a lengthy communications blackout until last night) and to have some turkey for dinner.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011 |
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
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Bill Seeks Terror Designation for Gaza Flotilla Groups
By IPT News @ 10:36 PM :: 13250 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The CIA and U.S. Treasury Department have determined IHH and the Free Gaza Movement "have known terrorist ties," the bill says. (They also have extensive Hawaii ties--Editor)
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Monday, November 21, 2011 |
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Heritage: The Debate over Defense Spending
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:22 PM :: 9134 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Failing to enact the plan by January 15, 2012, would result in automatic cuts to military spending--a scenario that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta describes as "devastating."
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Friday, November 18, 2011 |
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WSJ: Finmeccanica Rushing to Sell Honolulu Rail Contractor Ansaldo
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 PM :: 13162 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, World News, Family
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...it will set up a partnership for the AnsaldoBreda trainmaking unit in advance of selling the business....
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Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
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The Republican Debate Over China
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:20 PM :: 8031 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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China has increased its defense budget by double digits every year for the last 20 years. Just as China seems to be gearing up for some undefined enterprise, the U.S. is winding down its defense budget at a similarly rapid pace.
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Monday, November 14, 2011 |
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GAO: Improvements Needed to Assess and Address Growing CoFA Migration
By News Release @ 5:45 PM :: 12727 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....
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Monday, November 14, 2011 |
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Video: Makana, Wearing “Occupy” T-Shirt, Plays Protest Song at APEC Dinner for Obama, World Leaders—Nobody Notices
By Selected News Articles @ 10:56 AM :: 14069 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Obama, Occupy, and the assembled crony capitalists at APEC are enraged that the Super Committee and/or the Republicans may soon cut off their flow of US taxpayer dollars.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011 |
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Obama Quest for Free Trade Gets Resistance from Hawaii Congressional Delegation
By Andrew Walden @ 3:36 PM :: 11557 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The world is laughing at the dead legacy of Frantz Fanon. The third world rejects victimology and embraces development and trade—and has nothing but success to show for it. All except for Hawaii’s reactionary and backwards Congressional delegation.
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Friday, November 11, 2011 |
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 |
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The Debate Over Iran
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:50 AM :: 7383 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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On November 22, Republican candidates will gather together in Washington, D.C., for a presidential debate presented by The Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute on CNN. The subject: foreign policy and national security.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011 |
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Sovereignty activist 'tortures' children
By Andrew Walden @ 12:02 AM :: 19190 Views :: Honolulu County, Family, OHA
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According to the Star-Bulletin November 22: “Makekau's acts of abuse against her sister's children included hitting their heads with knives and cans of dog food, their fingers with metal and wooden spoons and their mouths with a hammer.” Prosecutors described the conditions as a “house of torture.”
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Monday, November 7, 2011 |
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‘America’s Battalion’ arrives in Afghanistan from Kaneohe
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 PM :: 12516 Views :: Maui County, Energy, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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In the coming weeks 3/3 will take control of operations in Garmsir District, relieving fellow Hawaii-based 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment. The “Lava Dogs” of 1/3 are nearing the end of their seven-month deployment, which began in April.
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Monday, October 31, 2011 |
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Waipahu soldier and 11 others overcome Afghanistan ambush, receive awards
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 12695 Views :: Maui County, Energy, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Waipahu native Army Pfc. Edward Barut and his team successfully overcame a 45-minute complex attack in which insurgents used rocket propelled grenades, small arms fire and improvised explosive devices.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011 |
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Star-Advertiser Punked by Global Warmer posing as Climate Skeptic
By Selected News Articles @ 12:38 PM :: 11755 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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This is what happens to people who believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011 |
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Fundamentals Matter: Capitalism not the Problem
By Dr Ed Gutteling, MD @ 10:23 AM :: 15441 Views :: Hawaii County , Akaka Bill, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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I’m writing this on the 44th anniversary of the execution of that poster-boy of “social justice”, Dr. “Che” Guevara, viewing articles of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Hawaii and the mainland.
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Friday, October 28, 2011 |
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APEC: Obama needs Congressional Support for Free Trade in Pacific—but Hirono, Hanabusa vote No
By Selected News Articles @ 3:53 PM :: 12336 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The Obama administration is hoping to build on the momentum of recent free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama as attention turns to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and trade promotion authority.
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Friday, October 28, 2011 |
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Should America Carry the U.N.?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:31 AM :: 9145 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The 39-story United Nations headquarters stands on the banks of the East River in Manhattan. But now the U.N. is planning the construction of a new building next door, with a price tag pegged at $400 million -- and it could soar even higher.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
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Heritage: The Serious Risks of the Russian Reset
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:12 PM :: 7569 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The large “reset” payoff requires America put it all on the line by cutting U.S. strategic nuclear forces and engaging in missile defense talks with Russia, in addition to abandoning missile defense deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic and keeping quiet about political freedom violations running rampant throughout Russia.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
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Hawaii Lags as States Ban Contracting with Companies that do Business With Iran
By News Release @ 8:03 PM :: 11061 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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California and Florida have already passed Iran debarment legislation, adapted from UANI model legislation....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
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Abercrombie back from Asia: No mention of Cancelled China-Honolulu Flights
By News Release @ 12:05 PM :: 8610 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Read this news release and see if you can identify even one single accomplishment.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
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Obama's Misplaced Mideast Optimism
By Daniel Pipes @ 11:45 AM :: 7851 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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But the Middle East teaches caution; much will probably go wrong in Libya and Iraq. Obama, I predict, will rue his rash boasts.
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Monday, October 24, 2011 |
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Obama's Iraq Failure
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:58 PM :: 10553 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Obama's announcement last week that American troops in Iraq will return by the end of the year is a result of a serious Obama Administration failure that will undermine U.S. security interests in the Middle East
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
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The End of Qadhafi
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:48 PM :: 6081 Views :: World News, Family
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Former Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi is dead from wounds he suffered during his capture near his hometown of Sirte, according to Reuters reports.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
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China Cancels Honolulu Flights, Abercrombie calls Asia trip "extremely productive"
By News Release @ 3:22 AM :: 9786 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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“It was an extremely productive trip that will benefit Hawai'i as we look to strengthen our economy,” Governor Abercrombie said.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
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Horizon Lines Avoids Bankruptcy, But Delisted by NYSE
By Selected News Articles @ 5:31 PM :: 17770 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Horizon Lines completed a complicated $652.8 million refinancing that saves the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier from bankruptcy and will leave bondholders with most of the company's stock.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
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Monday, October 17, 2011 |
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Ideology Yes, Hawaii No: Hirono Votes Against S. Korea Free Trade
By Congress.org @ 11:19 PM :: 12748 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act - Vote Passed (278-151, 4 Not Voting)

The House passed this trade agreement with South Korea. The Senate approved the bill later in the day and the president is expected to sign it into law. (Hirono voted NO.)
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
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Kalapa: The Trouble with Borrowing is Repaying the Loan
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 1:42 AM :: 10537 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The bulk of the $14 trillion debt the nation has borrowed is from other nations.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
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Obama's Failure to Confront the Iranian Threat
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:35 AM :: 6854 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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Yesterday, America learned that Iran conspired to launch a terrorist attack in Washington, D.C., with a planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador and bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies.
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