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1. [Cathy Garger] How Schools Contaminate The Air Our Kids Breathe
2. Examining The Question of Racism at KKCR
3. protest grows against grand jury
4. Medical Community News
5. YUMMYmmmm... mm...frybread[UTF-8] â^@^O
6. HI Superferry: Military Use, Low Numbers Anyway, 1/7/08
7. KKCR - video - comment
8. Withdrawal from US treaties enjoys little support from tribal leaders -
comment
9. Documents dig into underpinnings of ferry decisions
10. HI Superferry: All Pics, Military Use, & Low Numbers for 1/7/08
11. Withdrawal from US treaties enjoys little support from tribal leaders
- more comment
12. Friendship At OHA Leads To Questionable Hire
13. The Story of Stuff and comment
14. Nonkilliing
15. RAGE AGAINST THE VOTE MACHINE
16. 01-17-08
17. FRONTLINE - "The Medicated Child," January 8, 2008
18. Twilight of the Psychopaths
19. chalmers johnson (blowback) on charlie wilson's war -- imperialist
propaganda -- what's being suppressed?
20. plastic bottles -- when hauna tro way! and no ku'ai mai numbahs 7 & 3!
21. pro-sovereignty party wins in marshalls -- will call for termination
of gigantic attack missile test range? rmi consistently votes with u.s.
in u.n.
22. Disappearing World: The Village Falling Into The Sea
23. more on the protests against grand jury repression of Puerto Rican
independence activists
24. 500 For Fair Trade-Valentines Day of Action
25. Disappeared News - 2 new articles
26. critescu: a basic document on indigenous rights (united nations) --
part 1 of 2 and comment
27. critescu (part 2 of 2) -- 11 pp total
28. Winona LaDuke speaking even Hawai'i and Oahu
29. Lynette Cruz speaks in Berkeley, CA
30. The Heart to Forgive - Reclaiming our Relationship after Infidelity -
Wed. Jan 9th
31. chalmers johnson (blowback) on charlie wilson's war -- imperialist
propaganda -- what's being suppressed? - comment
32. The Sexism and Racism in the Democratic Nominee Race!
33. 01-17-08 - comment
34. Needle Exchange Poll on Medscape
35. Brazillian Dance Classes in Kailua on Weds.
36. DU hearing on January 17 8:30 am Capitol room 309
37. plastic bottles -- when hauna tro way! and no ku... - and more
comment
37. The People Of Kaua`i Cry For Help On "Voices Of Truth - On-On-One With
Hawai`i's Future."
38. Free Hawai`i TV - "People Power 2008"
39. DU under international law
40. three Olelo shows related to demilitarization
41. Lingle stonewalls Auditor's investigation on ferry
42. Making Waves series on 'Olelo airdates Jan, Feb '08
43. William Butler Yeats - poetry
44. Vice Chancellor candidates coming to campus
45. GUAM GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL OF ISLAND'S WATER
46. pitfalls & limitations of democracy -- obama vs clinton -- would
voters in hawai'i support or turn down a vote on hawaiian sovereignty?

1. [Cathy Garger] How Schools Contaminate The Air Our Kids Breathe
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:45:34 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5480
January 7, 2008     
How Schools Contaminate The Air Our Kids Breathe
Diary Entry by Cathy Garger

Our educational institutions are involved in projects that harm our kids'
health. What every American needs to know - and do.
::::::::

After reading the article, "Tick, Tick, Boom" in the University of
California San Diego student newspaper, one realizes a great deal of
information is not being told to students (nor their parents) about issues
of critical importance to their health and well-being.

As best as I can tell, American college students are never informed that
atmospheric radioactive explosions (under the term "testing") did not stop
in 1962, but have actually been conducted continuously in the open
air, right up to the present day.   

Many people still have no clue because the open air detonations of
Depleted Uranium (and dozens of other toxics and radionuclides) since at
least 1961 at what used to be called the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in
California (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) as well as at Los
Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico  - have been kept
fairly quiet, generally not covered by the mainstream media, and are kept
below the radar of the general population.

A quote from this piece is all-telling:     ^ÓIt^Òs not clear that the
U.S. armed forces would ever accept this weapon without conducting nuclear
tests first,^Ô Isaacs said. ^ÓWe^Òre afraid that if we go ahead with this
weapon, we^Òll break out of our ban on testing new nuclear weapons and
conduct some explosive tests.^Ô  

Rather than being informed that "explosive [radioactive] tests" already
*are* and actually *have been* going on since before the students were
even born, America's college kids are instead being directed to continue
on with the typical rhetoric of the age-old fight against proliferation of
the nuke bomb. 

Meanwhile, the bomb itself is being "modeled" or "simulated," as the lab
detonators like to call these blasts ... via outdoor toxic & radioactive
EXPLOSIONS, right under our noses in California, about 40 miles outside
San Francisco.  

Apparently, college students are never told about this. The fact that
these Depleted Uranium explosions occur never appears in their newspapers,
since the Universities are accomplices in these detonations, actually
working in partnership with the nuclear weapons laboratories.  

While our young people participate in sit- ins and hunger
strikes organized by older, paid activists from anti-nuke/peace groups
with mysterious foundation fundings and a pre-established agenda for the
students to follow? The irony of it all is that the very air our kids
are breathing outside during these protests contains contamination of
hazardous, toxic, lethal radionuclides - such as Depleted Uranium used in
combat in Afghanistan and Iraq - from these outdoor,
university-backed, simulated nuclear explosions.

Controlled opposition is a HUGE deal on US campuses, and they have actual
well-organized organizations set up in them to "lead" the students in one
lame, pointless demonstration after another, always in the guise of
stopping "the bomb."

If information is controlled and resistance is established for the
students, it takes away the possibility that the students could actually
come up with something that could  effect real and necessary change of
their very own.

What's an example of one such change students could work on if they were
allowed to have a real agenda? They could try putting a STOP to open
air Depleted Uranium explosions in the US, just for starters!

Propaganda around this issue is so slick that it is entirely possible that
the writer of this piece for the UC-SD newspaper may not even know. Unless
she were to read the environmental report for LLNL, how would she
ever learn that the University of California, as the long-term manager
of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory until October 1, is
still working in close partnership with LLNS, LLC and Bechtel, Batelle,
Texas A & M University et. al, immersed in the maniacal push for upping
the open air detonations outside San Francisco from 1,000 lbs. of toxic,
radioactive materials to 8,000 lbs. annually?

How can anyone in his right mind think that DU blasted in the open air -
the same stuff the US military uses on our so-called "radical
extremists/terrorists/enemy" in the Middle East is good for our American
kids, I wonder?

So there you have it in a nutshell, folks. Our kids are being
radioactively contaminated, courtesy of their own universities. No wonder
the truth is being hidden on our college campuses.

If we realize that harm is being purposely brought about innocent citizens
- our kids, no less - don't we have a moral responsibility to inform these
students - and their parents, too? After all, how will our students ever
know their health is being endangered if people like you and me don't
share this information with them? 

Shouldn't all Americans be allowed to know what toxic and radioactive
materials are being exploded by their government into the air they
breathe? And if ordinary people like you and me don't speak up and out,
who else is this world is ever going to tell them?

The thought occurs to me this morning that never, ever before in the
history of humankind has it been more important to be our brother's and
sister's keeper than it is today.

After all, when a parent has to protect her kid from deadly radiological
contamination from the very universities she is paying the big bucks in
tuition to fund? It truly is a matter of grassroots activism, one
parent-to-parent, one grand parent-to-grand parent exchange at a time. 

It apparently is going to take nothing less than a nation of parents and
grand parents to raise our kids and protect them from the very educators
who we work so hard to scrimp and save to support via our kids' college
tuition.        

Good God in Heaven, what has happened to this world? Who in their right
mind would have ever thought when we were kids that when we grew up and
had kids of our own, we would have to fight against our own universities
in order to keep our kids safe? 
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2. Examining The Question of Racism at KKCR
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:15:29 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>

http://homepage.mac.com/juanwilson/islandbreath/2008Year/15-justice_law/0815-03K
KCRracism.html
SUBJECT: KAUAI MEDIA
SOURCE: KATY ROSE kosherkimchee@yahoo.com
POSTED: 6 JANUARY 2008 - 7:00am HST
Examining The Question of Racism at KKCR
image above: Ka'iulani Edens Huff with "distressed" Hawaiian flag. Photo
by David Allio for LA Times
by Katy Rose on 6 January 2008

On December 18, 2007, Ka^Òiulani Edens Huff, the popular and outspoken
host of the ^ÓSongs of Sovereignty^Ô program on KKCR (Kaua^Òi Community
Radio) was informed by email that her programming privileges had been
^Óterminated^Ô due to a complaint by another programmer with whom she had
had a dispute the previous day.

The news spread fast. In fact, Ka^Òiulani herself learned of it from a
third party who had heard a rumor about it. (This breach of
confidentiality is but one unseemly aspect of this affair.) Supporters of
Ka^Òiulani and the Hawaiian sovereignty movement immediately flooded the
station with emails and phone calls insisting on a proper dispute
resolution process instead of the silencing of an important voice from the
air. Those who sent emails received a form letter reply from a staff
person which stated in part:

^ÓKKCR supports the perpetuation and celebration of Hawaiian culture. 
However, there is a no-tolerance policy against violent / abusive behavior
- whether directed against other volunteers, visitors, or station
equipment. 

We have a code of behavior that's required of every DJ - regardless of
their race, wealth, religion, political inclination, etc.  We're committed
to providing a safe environment for every volunteer & visitor who comes to
KKCR.  It's not about a person or personality - it's about self-discipline
and respectful behavior - off the air and on the air.^Ô

Ka^Òiulani^Òs actions during the dispute with the other programmer, who is
a white man, began to be characterized as ^Óviolent,^Ô ^Óthreatening^Ô and
^Óabusive.^Ô (A witness in the studio at the time of the dispute described
a verbal dispute which, though loud in volume and high in emotion, was not
^Óviolent.^Ô ) While the white programmer has not been heard from,
according to Ka^Òiulani the flare up of emotions was related to persistent
signs of disrespect from him toward herself, her people and her culture.

Unfortunately, when people of color resist oppression in our society they
are almost always labeled ^Óviolent^Ô and ^Óthreatening, ^Ô so the use of
this rhetoric in Ka^Òiulani^Òs case has done nothing but increase
suspicion about the motives for her termination.

Supporters of station management^Òs actions have denied that Ka^Òiulani^Òs
termination was indicative of racism at KKCR, and have insisted that she
is simply being held to the same standards as anyone else who volunteers
at the station. However, if examined contextually, both positions prove
untenable.

First of all, it is important to define ^Óracism.^Ô Racism is different
from racial prejudice. ^ÓPrejudice^Ô is an individual matter; racism is
institutional in that it involves one racial group having the power to
carry out systematic oppression through the institutions in our society.
Individual attitudes and behaviors can reinforce systematic oppression, to
be sure. But it is equally true that individuals who would never consider
themselves ^Óracist^Ô or who would never say an impolite word to anyone
can support systemic racism through tacit acceptance of race-based
privileges.

It is silly to call the anger and resistance of people of color, or their
distrust of white people, ^Óracism^Ô because these reactions do not have
any material effect on the privileged position of white people in our
society. Even in Hawai^Òi, where people of color are well-represented in
government and civil service, the majority of social privilege and wealth
is in the hands of people of European descent. It^Òs also important to
remember that, although this discussion is about racism specifically,
there are complex intersections of various forms of oppression always in
play: classism, sexism, heterosexism, colonialism, and ableism, to name a
few.

One of the simplest ways to identify racism is not by peering into another
individual^Òs heart but by observing the material results of structural
decisions. For example, statistics demonstrate that people of color in the
United States are less wealthy, less healthy and more likely to be
imprisoned than white people. Unless one believes that this is the result
of some kind of inherent ^Óinferiority,^Ô it is difficult to deny that in
the United States there is an identifiable institutionalized racism. But
even as racism plays itself out on the macro scale, we can identify micro
scales in our own community institutions.

KKCR provides a good example of institutionalized racism. Because it is
located on Kaua^Òi, it is immediately suspect that all of its board
members and staff and the majority of its volunteers are white. This is
vastly out of proportion with the demographics of the community as a
whole. We are faced with a choice: are there no people of color involved
because they are inherently inferior, or are they not involved as a result
of structural decisions?

Here are just a couple of factors which may be partly responsible for the
under-representation of people of color at KKCR:

The station is located on the north shore, in Princeville. This is a
remote location for most of the island^Òs population, and is also the
^Ówhitest^Ô area on Kaua^Òi. The Board of Directors, which is all white,
is self-electing, leading to the perpetuation of elections of board
members who are known to existing members and similar in class,
educational and racial background.

Luckily, there are simple, if not easy, solutions to the above conditions.
The station can be moved to a major population center on the island, such
as Kapaa or Lihue, and become instantly more accessible to a large segment
of the community. This is a long-term goal advocated by many in the
community. In the short-term, remote broadcasting facilities can be
employed to grant greater access to the airwaves to people on all sides of
the island. A listener-elected board, such as those which exist at
community-controlled radio stations like KPFA in Berkeley, would increase
the potential for a more diverse board of directors.

Institutionalized racism has a way of self-perpetuating. One of the
challenges to making change is that many individuals involved in
organizations with this problem become very defensive when confronted with
it. They may fear that their jobs or positions are being challenged and
threatened if they are part of the privileged group. They may feel that
they are being personally accused of racism, and so their pride is hurt.
One of the most common reactions is denial of the problem entirely. But
actually, analyzing racism in its institutionalized form isn^Òt about
assigning individual blame. It does hold a mirror up to each of us, and it
can be frightening to take a look in that mirror. But more importantly, it
allows us to focus on concrete solutions, which is liberating to everyone
involved.

There are many wonderful resources available to people who are sincerely
looking for a way to dismantle racism in society. Here are a few
recommendations:

^ÓWhite Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,^Ô Peggy McIntosh:
http://www.nymbp.org/reference/WhitePrivilege.pdf

The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege,
Robert Jensen

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel
It is my hope that we can work together to build a community radio station
which honors the vision of Uncle Butch Kekahu, preserves a medium for
information and discussion of Hawaiian sovereignty, and reflects the
racially and culturally diverse community in which we are so fortunate to
live.

To get more involved in solving the problems facing our community radio
station, please come to the next KKCR Community Advisory Board meeting on
Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00pm, at the Kapaa Neighborhood Center.

see also:
Island Breath: KKCR Video 1/3/08
Island Breath: KKCR Controversy 1/3/08
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3. protest grows against grand jury
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:38:13 -0400
From: Deborah Berman Santana <santana@mills.edu>

(note: protests in front of Federal buildings are being planned in San
Juan and in many cities in the US, some on January 10 and others on
January 11. In addition, I believe a delegation of Puerto Rican
activitists plan to ask the UN to intervene against this continual
repression of pro-independence activists.)

thanks to Jan Susler for making available an english translation of this
article.

Protest grows against grand jury
Jesús Dávila
January 5, 2008
El Diario/La Prensa
http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/detail.aspx?section=20&desc=Nuestros%20Países

&id=1787202

San Juan/EDLP Correspondent- The organization National
Boricua Human Rights Network has united with the calls for
protests against the new advances of the grand jury against
Puerto Rican independentists from New York, such that now
there are related demonstrations scheduled in places
including New York, Chicago and San Juan.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has been
visiting news media in San Juan to assure them that their
purpose is not to repress independentists, but rather to
prevent what they consider to be terrorist acts and reiterate
the claim that their agents did not intent to kill the
commander of the Popular Boricua Army-Macheteros, Filiberto
Ojeda, in September of 2005.

But the fact is that the reaction keeps growing in the Puerto
Rican independence movement to the recent subpoenas served by
FBI agents on the Puerto Rican residents of New York for
their appearance next week before a grand jury investigating
The Macheteros. Similarly, the atmosphere of denunciation has
extended beyond what was anticipated when the executive
president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, Fernando
Martín, condemned the main daily newspaper in Puerto Rico, El
Nuevo Día, for mounting a defamation campaign against his
party, in that it is "coincidental" with the FBI's campaign,
and makes "a perfect echo" of it. A newspaper spokesperson
recognized Martín's freedom of expression, but assured that
El Nuevo Día does its work with objectivity.

What is known to date is that various agents from the New
York FBI, accompanied by an agent from the Puerto Rico field
office, last December tried to interrogate three Puerto
Ricans from New York, who they had identified by photographs
and their driver's licenses. Agents showed them between 20
and 30 photographs of individuals as part of their
investigation of The Macheteros, which included known people
in the Puerto Rican independence movement.

When those contacted came up with negative results, agents
served them with subpoenas to appear on January 11, which
implies that if they repeat their refusals to cooperate, they
could be imprisoned for civil contempt for the length of the
grand jury or tried for criminal contempt with much longer
prison sentences.

The protests in San Juan and Chicago will take place the day
they day before the three independentists are subpoenaed to
appear, and the New York protest will take place the day of
the appearances.

Ever since an FBI commando group injured and allowed Ojeda to
bleed to death, that agency has been carrying out an ongoing
investigation which has included spectacular, simultaneous
searches in several towns in Puerto Rico in February of 2006,
and momentaneous detentions of independentists in 2007.
However, there have been no arrests or charges, while the FBI
insists that The Macheteros and its new commander, who uses
the nom de guerre Guasábara, represent a real threat.
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4. Medical Community News
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:02:37 -0600
From: nimchira <tepaatu@gmail.com>

Health and Environmental News
Published since Nov, 2005
Jan. 7, 2008

Galapagos under siege.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7486/3057/9546/0/

Poultry farms in Md. face policing.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7486/3057/9547/0/

Biochips offer animal-friendlier drug-testing technology.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7486/3057/9548/0/

FDA to back food from cloned animals.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7486/3057/9549/0/

Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children, Minorities, Woman and Inmates
(1845 -
2007)http://www.newstarget.com/022383.htmlhtml

Doctors are warned that ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes are putting
patients' lives at risk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/health/7171453.stm

More stricken Cold War-era nuclear workers qualify for aid.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7508/3057/9571/0/

South Carolina boat landings to get signs warning about mercury in fish.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7508/3057/9579/0/

An energy saving bulb has gone - evacuate the room now! Energy-saving light
bulbs are so dangerous that everyone must leave the room for at least 15
minutes if one falls to the floor and breaks, a Government department warned
yesterday.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7508/3057/9586/0/

Across Florida, drought appears here to stay.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7508/3057/9588/0/

Low-energy bulb disposal warning
The Environment Agency says people should know more about the environmental
risks of low-energy light bulbs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk/7172662.stm

Tiny changes created STI strain
Tiny genetic mutations were enough to create an aggressive new form of
chlamydia, research finds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/health/7168078.stm

FDA to clear cloned livestock for consumers: report
http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINN0326923720080104

Racial disparities persist in U.S. cancer treatment
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080107/us_nm/cancer_usa_race_dc_1

Hydrogen fuel cells will never be a practical source of power, right? Wrong.
The technology is set to take off sooner than you think.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/67954/

The United States sends up to 80 percent of its toxic electronic waste to
China, all while turning a profit, too.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/72529/

It's For Real: Aspartame Causes Cancer
http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/no-its-for-real-aspartame-causes-cancer

Dairy Consumption Increases Parkinson's Risk in Men
http://www.newstarget.com/022463.html

Study Links Dense Breast Tissue To A Higher Risk of Breast Cancer
http://www.newstarget.com/022462.html

Acupuncture Reduces Back Pain Better than Drugs, Exercise
http://www.newstarget.com/022461.html

Fava Beans: Great For Hormone Replacement With Anti-Cancer Potential
http://www.newstarget.com/022460.html

Removal of Ovaries Found to Promote Dementia
http://www.newstarget.com/022459.html

WHO warns of high risk of global epidemic from emerging diseases
http://www.newstarget.com/022457.html

Poisoning The Earth For Profit - DDT, A Vaccine For Mosquitoes?
http://www.newstarget.com/022454.html

Lack of Vitamin D May Increase Heart Disease Risk
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/01/vitamin_d.html

Food Prices Expected To Surge In 2008
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/01/food_prices.html

MWD may cut water to L.A. area cities.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9615/0/

Nation's growing thirst threatens a Great Lakes water war.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9616/0/

Lake Erie's water level could plunge 3 to 6 feet as Earth's temperature
rises. http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9617/0/

EPA quits dioxin talks.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9626/0/

Uranium issue contaminates politics on Pine Ridge.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9629/0/

Pollution leads to smaller foetus sizes.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9630/0/

The mold menace.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/7589/3057/9633/0/
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4 Barriers to a Healthy Diabetes Diet - When faced with an insurmountable
obstacle, all of the planning, meal charts and food diaries in the world
won't keep a diabetic-friendly diet from being derailed. That's why an
important part of your diabetes management program should be recognizing
the barriers to healthy eating you face on a daily basis. Diabetes
nutrition experts have identified four broad categories of diet barriers:
financial, cultural, family, and social.
http://www.lifescript.com/NL/28128_20428878.htm
=========

FDA informed healthcare professionals and patients of the possibility of
severe and sometimes incapacitating bone, joint, and/or muscle
(musculoskeletal) pain in patients taking bisphosphonates. Although severe
musculoskeletal pain is included in the prescribing information for all
bisphosphonates, the association between bisphosphonates and severe
musculoskeletal pain may be overlooked by healthcare professionals,
delaying diagnosis, prolonging pain and/or impairment, and necessitating
the use of analgesics. The severe musculoskeletal pain may occur within
days, months, or years after starting a bisphosphonates. Some patients
have reported complete relief of symptoms after discontinuing the
bisphosphonate, whereas others have reported slow or incomplete
resolution. The risk factors for and incidence of severe musculoskeletal
pain associated with bisphosphonates are unknown.

Healthcare professionals should consider whether bisphosphonate use might
be responsible for severe musculoskeletal pain in patients who present
with these symptoms and consider temporary or permanent discontinuation of
the drug.

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm
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Glucose Intolerance Linked to Stroke Risk - Being diagnosed with a key
precursor to full-blown diabetes may raise your risk of suffering stroke,
one study warned. Published in the journal Stroke, the study was conducted
by Danish researchers at Rotterdam's Erasmus Medical Center. Researchers
assessed the risk of stroke among more than 3,000 patients. Those patients
who had been diagnosed with glucose intolerance were a staggering 80% more
likely to suffer a stroke than their peers.
http://www.lifescript.com/NL/28127_20428878.htm
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Vaccine Police At Work in New York

We are only a few days into the New Year and, already, there is another
situation brewing where a militant approach is being taken by state
education and health officials threatening parents that their children
will be suspended from school for failure to get vaccinated. On Tuesday,
Jan. 8, more than 100 middle school students in Bellport, NY could be
suspended from school if they do not show proof that have gotten a Tdap
booster shot and chicken pox vaccine, according to a Suffolk County Health
Department official. Reportedly, a mobile medical unit is scheduled to
come to the school on Monday to inject students who don't show proof they
have gotten the vaccines.

Last November, the Vaccine Police in Maryland brought out the dogs at a
Prince Georges County Courthouse to supervise lines of parents, who had
been ordered under threat of jail time and fines to show up with their
children to get the children injected with chicken pox and hepatitis B
vaccines. That mass round-up generated national news.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/1 1/17/maryland.vaccines/#cnnSTCVideo

Maryland education and health officials said that the parents had not
responded to letters informing them that they were being charged under
state truancy laws because their children had not been attending school
after being suspended for failing to show proof of vaccination. But many
of the parents said they never received the letters or the schools failed
to keep proper records and lost the paperwork showing their children had
gotten all the required vaccines. According to parents who exited the
Maryland Courthouse in November with their children, there was no medical
screening of the children getting shots and no information about how to
monitor for vaccine reactions. http://vaccineawakening.blogsp
ot.com/search?q=police+with+dogs

Parents should be given full information about the benefits and risks of
Tdap and chicken pox vaccines and full information about the right to file
a medical or religious exemption to vaccination in accordance with New
York laws. Hopefully, the mobile unit medical personnel scheduled to
vaccinate the children on-site at schools on Monday will screen the
children for personal and medical histories and previous vaccine
reactions, especially to the "P" part of the Tdap shot.

The pertussis (whooping cough) portion of the DPT, DTaP and Tdap vaccines
has long been associated with neurological reactions such as brain
inflammation, convulsions, shock/collapse, and high pitched screaming.
Children who have had serious reactions to previous vaccinations
containing pertussis vaccine could have more serious reactions if more
pertussis vaccine is given. The same warnings, precautions and
contraindications which apply to DPT, DTaP, DT or TD vaccines, apply to
receipt of Tdap vaccine:

· moderate or severe illness on day of vaccination
· anaphylaxis (shock) or life threatening allergic reaction after previous
doses of DPT, DtaP, DT or TD vaccine
· encephalopathy (coma, decreased level of consciousness, prolonged seizure)
within 7 days of administration of a previous dose of pertussis containing
vaccine
· evolving central nervous system (CNS) disorder, uncontrolled epilepsy,
progressive encephalopathy
· Seizures with or without fever within 72 hours of a previous dose of
pertussis containing vaccine
· temperature over 105 F. within 48 hours of a previous dose of pertussis
containing vaccine
· collapse or shock-like state within 48 hours of a previous dose of
pertussis containing vaccine
· uncontrollable crying lasting more than 3 hours within 48 hours of a
previous dose of pertussis containing vaccine
· Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) within 6 weeks of vaccination
· Serious Arthus-type hypersensitivity reaction after previous receipt of a
tetanus containing vaccine
· serious latex allergy
· severe swelling or severe pain after previous doses of any vaccine
containing tetanus, diphtheria or pertussis vaccine

Link to CDC information on contraindications to vaccination:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd- vac/should-not-vacc.htm

Links to product manufacturer inserts for Tdap and chicken pox vaccines:
http://www.vaccineshoppe.com/US_PDF/ ADACEL%20_2022396%20_6.06.pdf

An autism advocacy organization, A-CHAMP (Advocates for Children's Health
Affected by Mercury Poisoning), has issued an Action Alert advising New York
citizens to call Suffolk County and state education officials to express
concern. http://capwiz.com/a- champ/issues/alert/?alertid=10740641
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Quicker Daily Walks Better for Overweight Diabetics - Overweight adults
with type 2 diabetes may want to pick up the pace to improve their fitness
regimen. That was the key finding of an innovative Canadian public health
experiment, the results of which were published in the journal Diabetes
Care. The experiment, officially dubbed the "Pick Up the Pace" program,
enlisted a group of overweight diabetics who had been participating in a
fitness regimen of daily walks.
http://www.lifescript.com/NL/28126_20428878.htm
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5. YUMMYmmmm... mm...frybread[UTF-8] â^@^O
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:25:31 +1300
From: JK <tepaatu@gmail.com>

------ Forwarded Message

Mmmm......... mm...frybreadâ^À^Ï

This appeared on Youtube the other day. Enjoy! Philcc Helen Roy, Ojibwe
language teacher, instructs on the making of her fabulous frybread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNn0Hjv-jEU

Check the area for more how to recipies for frybread.
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6. HI Superferry: Military Use, Low Numbers Anyway, 1/7/08
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:35:37 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>

Vessel came in at 9:55am, was offloading by 10:07am. Offloading 140-150
people, 58-60 vehicles including 15-20 military vehicles (variation was
due to 4 vehicles loaded on top of other vehicles, counting all was less
than 20), and 1 moped. Three of the military vehicles were painted desert
tan likely indicating recent service in an *ACTIVE* theater of war. NG
were all wearing desert camis, leftovers. Onloading 47-50 vehicles
including 3 large commercial vehicles (one with a container and another
one was a large satellite comm truck), and 2 motorcycles. Even with the
inflated military use today, numbers neither coming nor going were enough
just to cover fuel expense. Some pics attached. Anybody receiving this
has permission to reproduce the pics.

Aloha, Brad
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7. KKCR - video - comment
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:45:56 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>

This is really a case of police abuse and brutality. What needs to be
done is a change in the policy and standard of procedure. Hawaii's
approach to these types of situation used to be quite different than that
on the mainland of the USA. Along the way from about the 70s the law
enforcement procedures were compelled to conform to the US mainland
city-ghetto situations rather than Hawaii island situations. The dynamics
are quite different from the US mainland. Honolulu has been so inundated
by the military personnel and their families that the environment is
heavily influenced by them and the mindset they bring in from the mainland
of the USA; much different than when I grew up.

Tane
----
From: kepalo@hawaii.rr.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:47:40 -1000

Whoa such acts of cowardice by the police. If a Kaua'i
policeman walks in my store I would express my right and
tellem to leave. The Kau'i police is really showing their
better thinking side, da okole. kepalo

----- Original Message -----
From: sabrakauka@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 6:53 PM

http://www.archive.org/details/KkcrGatedCommunityRadio

Ed Coll documented the activities at KKCR radio that led to
Hale Mawae's arrest.

Sabra
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8. Withdrawal from US treaties enjoys little support from tribal leaders -
comment
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:40:49 -1000
From: Kepalo <kepalo@hawaii.rr.com>

Sounds like most of the frogs in this pot is cooked. Appeal to the stomach
is the way to go. kepalo
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9. Documents dig into underpinnings of ferry decisions
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:48:19 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>

And if you like good tongue-in-cheek stuff:
http://disappearednews.com/2008/01/what-to-do-with-one-superferry-if.htmlSunday,
January 06, 2008
 What to do with one Superferry if passengers don't come
by Larry Geller

I suspect that if passenger counts continue to disappoint, the Superferry
might shrug its shoulders and say it has to take on some military business
to make ends meet. Now that special laws have been passed to overrule the
Hawaii Supreme Court, it's free to sail, pending further legal action. So
why not pick up a few Stryker gigs. There may be alternatives, though.
Let's explore some possibilities here. [see on site] ===========

http://disappearednews.com/2008/01/documents-dig-into-underpinnings-of.html
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Documents dig into underpinnings of ferry decisions
by Larry Geller

Kudos to Advertiser reporter Derrick DePledge for his first analysis of
documents obtained from the state under the Uniform Information Practices
Act, and to the Advertiser for requesting (and probably having to pay for)
them. The article appeared in today's paper.

The Advertiser has also posted some documents on the Web, a trend I hope
will continue. The link is at the top of the story on the web article,
Hawaii, ferry at odds in ^Ò04 over environment.

The article should be read in its entirety. I suggest also having a look
back at the earlier Advertiser story, Hawaii Superferry spent $175,000 on
lobbying and my short article,  Honolulu Advertiser reveals extent of
Superferry contributions to Lingle, pols.

There are good comments attached to today's Advertiser article and to my
post, don't miss them.

Perhaps reading the articles together will hint at why (snippet from
DePledge's article):

At the time, the [state Department of Transportation] and its consultants
were conducting financial and operational reviews of Superferry. The
department's harbors staff believed Superferry was considered a "go"
project by the administration and was aware the governor's office was
tracking progress.

In other words, if I may interpret, while the DOT was doing its reviews,
which might have resulted in decisions protecting the public, whales and
the environment, the administration was moving forward and presumably
pushing on the DOT.

How can a mere whale compete with $175,000 in "lobbying" expenses?
Was the DOT really working on the need for an EIS? Again, snipping from
the Advertiser article:

The documents, obtained by The Advertiser through the state's
open-records law, show that the internal debate over an environmental
review for Superferry was far more extensive than has been publicly
disclosed by the Lingle administration and Superferry executives.

There are more documents to come to the Advertiser, and I hope that they
will continue this project wherever it will take them.

I'm curious whether the documents will shed light on the strange position
of Rod Haraga, who was director of the DOT but iced out approximately
contemporaneous to the Superferry reviews. The story appears in this Maui
News article, Gov. Lingle silent on Haraga ice-out. This article
describes how DOT deputies, including harbors, reported directly to Bob
Awana, Lingle's former chief of staff. It includes this statement by
attorney Margery Bronster:

^ÓThe statute is pretty clearly formulated about how departments are
run,^Ô she said.

State law (HRS 26-19 ) states that ^Óthe Department of Transportation
shall be headed by a single executive to be known as the director of
transportation.^Ô Also by statute, only the director is authorized to
sign contracts.

Haraga said he continued to sign contracts during his last year and a
half but had no other operational functions. He could not, he said, get
information about his divisions^Ò activities from his deputies.

So what was going on between the DOT and Lingle, and was the Superferry
project involved? The public deserves to know.

Please do check out the full articles, the snippets above merely scratch
the surface. These kinds of articles are why we need to have a vigorous
investigative press in Hawaii. Bloggers can't do it all.
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10. HI Superferry: All Pics, Military Use, & Low Numbers for 1/7/08
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:05:18 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2008

HI Superferry: Military Use & Low Numbers, 1/7/08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21400600@N03/sets/72157603661212026/

Aloha, Brad
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11. Withdrawal from US treaties enjoys little support from tribal leaders
- more comment
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:53:52 -1000
From: Leota Souza <tuwahine@hawaii.rr.com>

Sure sounds like the sovereign Hawaiian group I have been privileged to
listen to. There isn't one common goal amongst them. It is either where is
your authority, or your genealogy wrong or lesser than mine, or I get mo
koko than you, all going no where. It is a canoe with a hundred steersmen
destine to only drift or swamp..

Records of the American Revolutionary War against the mightiest Army and
Naval force of the 17th century was less than 3% of the America colonies
went against King George of England. They were mostly unarmed and
non-military. 45 % were aristocrats of the British Empire who honored the
Crown. The rest of the colonial population were fence-riders.

Seems it has not changed in the, forgive me. native American Nations since
1492 nor that of the immigrants later called Americans. Black Americans
are now being snowballed that in 2008 there is a savior amongst the
candidates for President, just as the so called Christian American are
being hoodwinked of a Christian crusader. . Majority of Hawaiians, blood
or otherwise are fence-riders. I dare say less than 3 % of the kanaka
maoli will stand oni'pa'a for their nationalism.

The establishment will only honor a democratic majority only when it is in
their favor. The Hawaiian majority of 1893, 1894 or 1898 was not valid, in
fact they were even labeled "prejudice" but they will demand a majority
vote in 2008 because they now are the majority.

The destiny of Hawaiian Nationalism can only be validated by kanaka maoli
voting. No other political status should be allowed in lieu of the koko.
There should only be one question: Hawaiian Nationalism or U. S.
Nationalism? Whatever the majority is cast, that is the direction for
Hawaii nei.

pilipo
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12. Friendship At OHA Leads To Questionable Hire
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:08:22 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>

Hmmm!?! This is a tricky one. Did Kalani just have possession of porn
that included minors in it or did he actually have physical sexual contact
with a minor? ...and was that minor aged below 12 yrs old or just a bit
younger than 18 yrs. Some states have restrictions of consenting age to
between 16 -18 years of age.

So, if he was guilty of physically having sex with a minor; how many did
he have?... was this a habitual or serial thing? Was he a voyeur or
active participant? The magazine racks all over the place have photos of
men and women in various stages of dress; so I wouldn't be bothered with
that argument.

The thing I do find strange is making an issue of giving kids a kiss and a
hug which is a very Hawaiian thing to do and has no connection with
anything sexual (not unless you are a WASP preverted haole Christian).
Who were these adults that lodged these complaints about him? Asking
about the average sized penis is a non-issue and harmless. For anyone's
information, the average size of an adult male's penis is about 6"
(inches).

So now we come to the brunt of this issue of whether Kalani should be
hired and placed in that job-position or not. If he is a threat in
endangering the welfare of children; then I say yes, he shouldn't be
placed in that work-position. The other question: Is he qualified for the
job position?...and how many did they interview for that position? What
were the factors in hiring him?

After reading the articles included, I find the accusation against Kalani
to be frivolous and witch-hunting. He is no more a threat to children as
Mickey Mouse is to Disneyland. The argument made was there's a form of
nepotism within OHA, (which is atypical in USA's government in all levels
of its governance) and its effectiveness on job performances and how it
affects the standard credibility and confidence in those we trust.

Like the common-type cliques we find in colleges (those with tenure vs
those with none); politics (Old-timers vs new timers); business (those
with privilege vs those without); and those elites (the haves vs the haves
not); there are always two sides of the story. We are faced with it daily
and within our lives. It's a matter if discerning what is what.

Because we are more directly involved as beneficiuaries, we are more
concerned with how they are operating the agency. When they attempt to
represent us; it becomes more acute in what they are doing. Thus OHA has
put itself up for closer scrutiny by us and we will be more critical of
those involved in the agency. We seek credibility and transparency and
what is motivating their actions and honesty with responsibility sans the
politics.

Tane
-------

From: makenalg@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:01:05 -0800

Friendship at OHA Leads to Questionable Hire
January 6, 2008
Posted to: http://ohalies.blogspot.com

Mona Bernardino, current OHA Deputy Administrator of
Beneficiary, Advocacy, and Empowerment, attended high school
at Kamehameha Schools with Keith ^ÓKalani^Ô Akana. Kalani
Akana, a former kumu hula and Waiau Elementary teacher has
served time in federal prison for possession of child
pornography and is currently serving time on weekends for
violating the terms of his supervised release.

Akana was caught using the internet at a public library to
access images of men in various stages of undress on more
than one occasion. He also admitted to answering questions
asked by a minor online, including one about the average size
of the male organ (Star Bulletin, Vol. 12, Issue 117). A
U.S. District Court held a hearing for Kalani Akana in April
2007. During the hearing, Mona Bernardino and Clyde Namu^Ño,
on behalf of OHA, submitted support for Akana and committed
to employ him at OHA.

Akana is currently employed in OHA^Òs Education Department,
where he has had direct contact with children. Within the
last three months, adults have noticed Akana kissing and
hugging preschool children in the main lobby and library of
OHA and have submitted complaints internally to Mona
Bernardino and Clyde Namu^Ño. Mona Bernardino was present
while Kalani Akana interacted with these children. Upon
receiving the complaints, Mona Bernardino simply relocated
Kalani Akana^Òs desk to the back of the Education Department,
out of sight of any individual who visits OHA.

It is unfortunate that Mona Bernardino^Òs professional
judgment is clouded by her personal relationship with her
schoolmate Kalani Akana. This is representative of her
constant mismanagement and reckless decision-making as an OHA
Deputy Administrator. Mona Bernardino^Òs decision, along
with Clyde Namu^Ño^Òs support for Kalani Akana, places the
OHA trust and land holdings at risk. If Mona Bernardino had
sound professional judgment, she would not have insisted on
hiring Kalani Akana in the Education Department, where he
would certainly interact with children. Hiring a person in
the Education Department of OHA who was convicted of
possessing at least 400 images depicting minors engaged in
sexually explicit conduct is absolutely irresponsible. Any
responsible employer would have employed Mr. Keith Kalani
Akana in a department that did not require contact with
children, thus reducing risk to OHA^Òs trust and land
holdings.

Furthermore, a conscientious and accountable employer would
have considered the safety of our children first. This
should have been more important than a favor to a high school
friend. Beneficiaries and the greater public should demand
Mona Bernardino and Clyde Namu^Ño^Òs resignations for making
such a reckless decision that places our trust and more
importantly our children in a potentially harmful and
destructive situation.

For more information, pertaining to Keith Kalani Akana and
OHA^Òs support, please visit the following sites:

Star Bulletin, Vol. 12, Issue 117, Friday, April 27, 2007
Ex-teacher to do time for further porn charges

http://starbulletin.com/2007/04/27/news/story12.html

Star Bulletin, Saturday, July 19, 2003
Teacher jailed in child porn case

http://starbulletin.com/2003/07/19/news/story1.html

Posted to: http://ohalies.blogspot.com
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13. The Story of Stuff and comment
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:29:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda Helland <linda_helland@yahoo.com>

I think this is the best film I have ever seen. It takes my deeply held
convictions and lays them out in 20 minutes. Linda

THE STORY OF STUFF

This is one of those life-changing web videos that you finish watching and
just want to forward to everyone you know. Whether you are eight years old
or 80 years old --- whether you are an environmentalist or a skeptic ---
this entertaining 20 minute video will give you a holistic perspective on
how hyper-consumerism is accelerating just about every global problem you
can think of. Watch: http://www.storyofstuff.com/
-----

Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:45:20 -0800
From: Albert Krauss <alkrauss2331@att.net>
The Story of Stuff

And, for an additional perspective on the challenges ahead of us, I highly
recommend Naomi Klien's book ""The Shock Doctrine:The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism". Obviously, the book isn't a 20 minute shot. But, this
brilliant overview, well documented and persuasively written, tells us
where global corporatism and the international banking system (under the
tutelage of the infamous Chicago School of Economics and the now dead guru
Milton Friedman) have taken us - into the mining of disaster, and the
takeover of world resources through the repressive subversion of popular
democracy.

It isn't just a question of our selfish consumption. We can decide to stop
consuming "stuff", but the investment monoliths are ready to grab any
resource, like all of our services and government functions, and our
security apparatus. The walled enclave is coming, for which the Israeli
border wall, the Mexican american border security fences, the new cities
being founded to sequester the tax payments of the rich from the poor
counties surrounding them - all of that is where corporate investment is
trending, and Klein's book elucidates everything leading up to that:
Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Russian, Tsunami economics, New Orleans
economics, the Green Zone replicated beyond Iraq. I'll stop here.

cheers,

Al
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14. Nonkilliing
From: "June T. Shimokawa" <junets@clearwire.net>
Date: January 7, 2008 9:46:00 PM HST

Friends,     I'm asking you to spend one hour this month considering the
subject of NONKILLING, YES, nonkilling of human beings throughout the
world.  For those who see killing first hand,  all too many and too often,
the idea of CREATING NONKILLING SOCIETIES is an imperative; it is their
hope.

    Tuesdays, January 8, 15, and 21, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on `Olelo FOCUS
Channel 54 you will see the airing of the first of a new series called "A
Great Idea!" hosted by Poka Laenui.  The first program will be repeated on
these next three Tuesday evenings.  I hope that you will be able to watch
at least one of them.

    I don't want to inundate you "with facts".  But if you would be
willing to be patient with me, I do want to share a bit of information
with you once each week about how it is that the Hawaii-based Center for
Global Nonviolence with Dr. Glenn Paige (president), `Olelo, and Poka
Laenui have partnered to air these series on GLOBAL NONKILLING and with
discussants being about 30 men and women from 20 nations from every
continent who came together in November 2007 at a Forum which was held
deep in Palolo Valley at the Mu Ryang Sa Buddhist Temple.

    Let's start the new year with hope in our hearts for a less violent
world - with nonkilling societies.            june shimokawa          
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15. RAGE AGAINST THE VOTE MACHINE
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:37:39 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>

E ala e !! Beware!!

Now playing at a theater near you! BULLSHIT, starring a cast of deceivers
money has bought. Fear not you won't miss it for it will run until
November 2008.

By February 5, the majority of Americans will have made up their minds on
the 2008 Presidential Election thinking they made their decision after
great evaluation and consideration for their own good and that of the
country.

I pray you will come to realize before then why thhe likes of Kucinich,
Gravel and Paul are ignored.

Aloha ke Akua,
pilipo

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:06 PM
From: info@ktordnance.com

By: Devvy
January 3, 2008
© 2008 - NewsWithViews.com

"One man with courage makes a majority." --President Andrew Jackson

Today is the Iowa caucus. In five days the New
Hampshire primary will take place. Candidates from the
Republican and Democrat parties are attempting to get
the vote, no matter how many lies and false promises
they have to make. The exception is Congressman Ron
Paul, whose voting record for 22 years and his absolute
consistent stand on constitutional government cannot be
disputed. No flip-flopping, no tarts in the back
ground, no scandals and this man will never sell us out
to any special interest group in this country or
globally, i.e., the Bilderberg group of world
totalitarian monsters.

Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownack and Tommy
Thompson, all pro war mongers and players for the
machine have been treated with respect. The media,
print and electronic, have called Dr. Paul undignified
names, ridiculed and made fun of his supporters calling
us kooks. Nothing even close has been heaped on the
Democrat candidates.

However, according the all the network news political
correspondents as well as print publications, whoever
wins Iowa and New Hampshire, well, it's all over. Even
Patrick Buchanan has thrown out this propaganda: "With
the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8, and the Iowa
caucuses dead ahead, the nominees of both parties may
be known in two weeks. Surely, after Feb. 5, when a
slew of primaries are held, both races will be all but
over." Additionally, the machine has decided that based
on the outcome of the Iowa caucus, ABC and FAUX News
will decide which candidates they will cut from their
upcoming GOP debate. Before a single vote is cast
today, ABC and FAUX have already decided to bar
Congressman Ron Paul from that debate. In other words,
close to 45 MILLION Republican voters will get only the
candidates deemed worthy by about 125,000 votes from
Iowa.

Who is behind all these Machiavellian tactics? I'll
tell you: The machine that runs Washington, DC and your
life. The machine that shoves their globalist
candidates down your throat election after election
after election. Then, playing right into their hands,
Americans go to the polls in November, hold their nose
and vote, election after election after election. Make
no mistake about it: The Republican and Democrat
national cesspool of power hungry jackals are well
oiled, well greased machines that decide for you. They
make the rules that lord over the sheep instead of we
the people making the rules for those we choose to
represent us.

All of the candidates running are ballot qualified.
They have completed all the paperwork, they are raising
money, they are all entitled to run for the office of
the president of these united States of America for as
long as they feel they can. However, the machine
doesn't want you to have that choice. Let me give a
little example here of how the shadow government works.
Brother Huckabee is an obscure governor from the State
of Arkansas who emerged on the scene about the time
ultra- liberal Rudy Julie Annie and Flip Romney were
taking the lead in the pack. As more information became
available about Rudy Julie-Annie and his support of
sodomy and abortion, the Christian Right began to say,
no thanks.

Flip Romney's religion, Mormon, became an instant issue
with Christians with all kinds of claims being made
about his religion. A straight forward explanation of
Mormonism can be read here. I asked a friend of mine
who is Mormon if this is an accurate portrayal of his
religion and he said yes. As the article points out,
there are some profound differences between
Christianity and Mormonism and this is where the
Christian Right if not outright rejected Flip, they
were/are wary. Contrary to some of the hate mail I've
received from Mormons over one of my columns, this
isn't a condemnation by me towards the Mormon religion,
it's simply a documented fact.

Congressman Ron Paul represents a clear and extreme
danger to the agenda of the globalists and shadow
government who have gone into hyper drive to once and
for all destroy this republic and turn America into a
world region, so he was to be marginalized at all
costs. In their arrogance, the henchmen pulling the
strings for the machine decided no one would support
Dr. Paul and so he was ignored until December 16, 2007,
the day he raised more money than any political
candidate in history in a 24-hour period. There is
another Ron Paul money bomb planned on February 3,
2008, for the anniversary of the fraudulent
ratification of the so-called income tax amendment. The
IRS and DOJ and buffoons in Congress will tell you the
Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, but they are lying
through their teeth. Court certified historical
documents prove otherwise, i.e.:

The 4 states listed below are among the 38 states that
Philander Knox claimed ratification from:

The Kentucky Senate voted upon the resolution, but
rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed.

The Oklahoma Senate amended the language of the 16th
Amendment to have a precisely opposite meaning.

The California legislative assembly never recorded any
vote upon any proposal to adopt the amendment proposed
by Congress.

The State of Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of
State in Washington.

Ron Paul has pledged as one of his first, major goals
as president is to get rid of the terrorist operation
called the IRS. There is no need for a direct tax and
beware of these alternative taxing schemes proposed by
constitutionally stupid, Brother Huckaee, because they
will only continue to fund our destruction. Dr. Paul
has promised to get us out of these destructive trade
treaties, stop the hemorrhaging of American jobs and
stop the NAU; see here.

Because of the unrest in the Republican base, the
Christian Right, "Not particularly interested in
running" candidate, Fred Thompson entered the race,
bringing not only a sloth like attitude, his message is
the same worn out one used by his fellow candidates.
That plan has fizzled. In order to counter the drums of
"we'll stay home on election day" from the Christian
Right, our obscure governor, Brother Huck, suddenly
begins to emerge as the holier-than-thou candidate for
the right. He convinces tough guy, Chuck Norris, who
really has done so many wonderful things, that he's the
next coming of Christ. Oddly, this doesn't seem to
swell Brother Huck's campaign coffers. And, then....

And, then, Brother Huckabee speaks to the treasonous
Council on Foreign Relations - the hat trick that wins
the brass ring. Here's a malleable, pro-war,
pro-illegals boy who does the folksy God-talk to
perfection and can deliver the Christian Right or a
large percentage of that voting block. We have our boy!
Suddenly, the media is fawning all over Brother Huck,
while at the same time conducting the most transparent,
despicable and well orchestrated black out of any
presidential candidate in my lifetime. Somehow along
the way, pro-war monger, pro-illegal aliens invasion,
John McCain suddenly leaps up in the polls when scant
weeks ago he was written off as the has been candidate.
Can you believe it? Why, yesterday morning, the
political huckstlers for FAUX News were practically
peeing their pants: McCain has now taken the lead
nationwide! Who are they polling? Mexico City, LA,
Phoenix, El Paso and Guadalajara?

This is the machine at work and this machine is trying
to do everything in their power to deny you the right
to vote for the candidate you feel is best suited as
our next president. The same applies to the Democrat
candidates, Marxist Hillary Clinton, Obama, Edwards,
Richardson, Biden - although there's not a dime's worth
of difference between any of them. All big tax and
spend liars who pretend to have your best interests at
heart. All of them making promises they know they can't
keep. Obama's well greased PR machine continues to
grind out his "change you can believe in" hustle which
is just more of the same failed policies. However,
Democrats have the right to support the candidate of
their choice, but the machine is going to take that
away based on Iowa and New Hampshire. This rancid
process is aided and abetted by a corrupt media who no
longer make any pretense of impartiality or fair and
balanced.

Here's how this rip off works. About 125,000 voters for
each party are expected to participate today in
something called a caucus, roughly 250,000 votes is a
good turn out for the numbers I could find. The 2006
general election for the entire state turned out
1,071,509 votes. So, we're to swallow that this small
number of votes cast today are the barometer for a
presidential candidate for the whole country?

In a few days the New Hampshire primary will take
place. The live free or die state has about 700,000
registered voters; no telling how many will actually
vote. In November 2008, about 100 MILLION Americans
will go to the voting booth, yet the machine is telling
us that if Ron Paul doesn't win Iowa and New Hampshire,
it's all but over? While I respect my fellow Americans
casting their vote in Iowa and New Hampshire, I resent
that those voters - according to the machine - are to
decide for the rest of us 100 MILLION voters. The whole
process is a slick sham.

February 5, 2008, dubbed "Super Tuesday," is the next
batch of primaries and by then the same machine
masquerading as one party will decide who they're going
to shove down your throat. The machines and the media
will decide which of the "top tier" candidates will
best serve the agenda for totalitarian government and
jam it right down your throat. I say no more! No more
rigged machines, no more candidates for the highest
office in this country who serve their global masters
and have no intention of upholding the Constitution of
the United States.

Congressman Ron Paul has said he's in this for the long
run. He continues to raise top dollars to run a viable
campaign, but FAUX News Network or some strangers who
run the Republican Party (the same goes for the
Democrats) are going to tell we the people that Dr.
Paul can't run any longer because X number of votes
cast in a couple of states disqualifies him? The
machine is going to once again manipulate the numbers
and crank up their propaganda machine with "Ron Paul
can't win" or the party has made it's choice and take
that! Who the hell do these people think they are? I
know who they are and so should you: They represent the
down-fall of this republic and more endless wars based
on mountains of lies.

Here's a news flash for FAUX "News" Network, CNN,
MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, David Rockefeller, Angela Merkel,
Chancellor Germany, Sean Hannity, the globalist water
boys at the National Review, Limbaugh, the whole rotten
bunch of Bilderbergers and what passes for the
"mainstream media" in this country: Americans feel raw
rage at what's going on with our elections and our
country. We number in the millions, we know who you
are, your agenda and every day, more Americans are
finding out the truth.

We aren't going to take it one more time. This republic
is in melt down. We are as close to annihilation as it
gets with this push for a North American Union/SPP.

We refuse to allow your machine to dictate our lives
and choices anymore - and that is going to extend to
the congressional races, too.

No matter how dirty you play, we will fight back. The
Timid Tommy's can step to the back of the room and
assume their place in line as so eloquently expressed
by Samuel Adams, revolutionary war hero: "If ye love
wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or
your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed
you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

We will be in your face over vote fraud. No more stolen
elections via rigged machines. We the people believe in
fair and impartial elections even if our candidate
doesn't win. Stealing the elections is shamelessly
un-American and we will not put up with it any more. If
you haven't read The Battle of Athens, you should. This
brave, courageous group of Americans back in 1946
refused to put up with any more crooked elections.

Ron Paul supporters: Tell your state convention
delegates to the Republican National Convention we
demand Ron Paul be the next president of this country.
The Republican Party needs you, but you don't need the
Republican Party that is taking this country to
straight to Hell, right along with he Democrats. Ron
Paul can turn the direction as president. If for some
tragic reason Ron Paul isn't the Republican nomination,
I will NOT vote for the machine's choice because I know
what Romney, Huckabee, McCain and all the rest stand
for and it's bad for America. I will NOT vote for the
continued destruction of my country even under the
threat of stopping a true menace named Hillary Clinton.
I am sick of being threatened by the forces of evil of
who don't care which party "wins," because the machine
controls both of them. If you doubt that, remember
these words from sleezy, serial adulterer, Bill
Clinton, who sold our most sensitive defense secrets to
the commie Chinese, late August 1998, speaking over in
Ireland in response to a question as to what would he
do if removed from office through impeachment:
".....You know, by the time you become the leader of a
country, someone else makes all the decisions."

Americans are taking a stand against the machine
because we're not going to take it anymore.

[Soon we may have to ^Óvote^Ô from the roof-tops.]
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16. 01-17-08
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:47:11 -1000
From: Kealii Makekau <kealii8@lava.net>

January 17th Commemoration at 'Iolani Palace

Commemoration Event
Thursday, January 17
'Iolani Palace
3 - 7 p.m.

The United States acquired Hawaii through force. Queen Liliu'okalani,
Hawaii's last queen, was deposed on January 17, 1893, by a group of
American businessmen supported by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and
diplomatic representative.

We must not let this day slip into the shadows of history. Join fellow
Kanaka Maoli in the ongoing struggle & awareness of Truth, Justice and the
Hawaiian Way.

We welcome and invite all students, teachers and ohana of Hawaii's Charter
and Hawaiian Immersion Schools to participate with song and dance and a
chance to share their mana'o about what it means to be Hawaiian.

Guest Speakers
Entertainment
Food

Events ongoing from Wed. 16th thru Sun. 20th.

Contact: The Office of Communications at 741-7257 for more information.
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17. FRONTLINE - "The Medicated Child," January 8, 2008
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:17:03 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>

Begin forwarded message:

ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION
Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability
http://www.ahrp.org and http://ahrp.blogspot.com

Reminder!

Tomorrow, Tuesday evening, at 9:00 PM (ET) Public Broadcasting System will
be airing a vitally important report, "The Medicated Child.

The report produced by Marcela Gaviria, promises to shed light on a
powerful juggernaut undermining the health, welfare, and safety of
America's children.  Big Pharma and their paid psychiatrists--clinicians
and researchers at prestigious universities alike--are prescribing toxic
drugs to millions of American children without any evidence of a favorable
risk/benefit for children.

The FDA has turned its back on protecting the public from unsafe drugs to
shield companies from liability.  [1]
 http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/07/follow-up-fda-back-door-pediatric.html 

  For example, FDA approved Johnson & Johnson^Òs application to expand
approval of its antipsychotic, Risperdal, for autistic children^×even
after J & J withdrew its application from the UK when strict monitoring
requirements to ensure children's safety were recommended. [2]
 http://tinyurl.com/yqvp3d  

Psychiatrists who prescribe antipsychotic drugs for children--and and
those who recommend these drugs--are following a lethal paradigm
of treatment. They are sacrificing lives to promote pharmaceutical
industry marketing goals for which they receive payment. [3, 4]
http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/minnesota-is-first-of-handful-of-states.html

A 40-fold increase in the "diagnosis" of bipolar disorder in children  (0
to 19 years old) has been documented within a 10-year period (1994-2003):
[5]
http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/09/bipolar-soars-as-diagnosis-for-young.html

The soaring ^Óbipolar diagnosis^Ô for children is generated by
psychiatrists mislabeling children [6] [Link]  then irresponsibly
prescribing antipsychotic drugs. These psychiatrists are disregarding the
documented, measurable damage to children^Òs brain and vital biological
systems--including, hormonal, endocrine, metabolic, cardiovascular, and
respiratory systems.  

Psychiatrists are prescribing these hazardous drugs to otherwise healthy
children, some as young as two. Psychiatrists are playing Russian roulette
by prescribing drugs that are shown to induce irreversible disabling
chronic conditions--including diabetes, hyperglycemia, akathisia, and
sudden death.  The lives of adults taking these same drugs are cut short
by 25 years.   See [7,8,9]  [Link] [Link] [Link]

The question is not IF the drugs will shorten children's lives, the
question is by how many years will children's lives be cut short by the
toxic effects of antipsychotic drugs?

American children in the twenty-first century are being sacrificed with
toxic chemicals much as children in Biblical times were sacrificed to
Moloch (Molekh), and in Mexico children were sacrificed to placate the
rain god Tlaloc.

Today children's lives and health are being sacrificed for financial gain.

If you missed CBS 60 Minutes report, September 2007: What Killed Rebecca
Riley? Below [after the FRONTLINE announcement] is the 60 Minute
transcript. See, video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3312826n

References:

1. Gradiner Harris  Follow-up FDA Back-Door Pediatric Antipsychotic Drug
Approvals, New York Times, July 2007:
 http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/07/follow-up-fda-back-door-pediatric.html 
2. Committee on Safety in Medicine. Risperdal Assessment Report. December
10, 2006.
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=con2025027&Revis
ionSelectionMethod=Latest
3.  Medical Prostitution documented by the NYT, March 2007:
http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/minnesota-is-first-of-handful-of-states.html
4. Gardiner Harris, Benedict Carey and Janet Roberts. Psychiatrists,
Children and Drug Industry's Role, New York Times, May 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/health/10psyche.html
http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/05/psychiatrists-retained-by-drug-industry.html
5. Benedict Carey. Bipolar Soars As Diagnosis For the Young, THE NEW YORK
TIMES, September 3, 2007 [Link]
6. Denise Gellene. Bipolar Disorder In Youths May Be Over-Diagnosed A New
Study Says A Fortyfold Increase Can Be Partly Attributed To Doctors
Mislabeling Children And Teens With The Illness, Los Angeles Times
September 4, 2007  [Link]
7. Marilyn Elias. New antipsychotic drugs carry risks for children, USA
Today, May 2, 2006: [Link] [Link]
8. M. Joukamaa, M. Heliovaara, P. Knekt, H. Vaara, A. Aromaa, R.
Raitasalo and V. Lehtinen.  Schizophrenia, neuroleptic medication and
mortality, British Journal of Psychiatry (2006), 188, 122-127. [Link]
9. Colton CW, Manderscheid RW. Congruencies in increased mortality rates,
years of potential life lost, and causes of death among public mental
health clients in eight states. Prev Chronic Dis 2006 Apr. Available
from: [Link]

Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
veracare@ahrp.org
212-595-8974
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18. Twilight of the Psychopaths
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:26:51 +1300
From: JK <tepaatu@gmail.com>

------ Forwarded Message
From: <blankslatesc@aim.com>

Twilight of the Psychopaths
Dr. Kevin Barrett
The Canadian
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:29 EST

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're
being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put
away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John
Lennon, before his murder by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman

When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization he said it would
be a good idea. But that oft-cited quote, is misleading, assuming as it
does that civilization is an unmitigated blessing.

Civilized people, we are told, live peacefully and cooperatively with
their fellows, sharing the necessary labour in order to obtain the leisure
to develop arts and sciences. And while that would be a good idea, it is
not a good description of what has been going on in the so-called advanced
cultures during the past 8,000 years.

Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All
civilizations, our own included, have been based on slavery and "warfare."
Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism for mass murder.

The prevailing recipe for civilization is simple:

1) Use lies and brainwashing to create an army of controlled, systematic
mass murderers;

2) Use that army to enslave large numbers of people (i.e. seize control of
their labour power and its fruits);

3) Use that slave labour power to improve the brainwashing process (by
using the economic surplus to employ scribes, priests, and PR men). Then
go back to step one and repeat the process.

Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of
civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, injure, and
generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any
remorse. The inventor of civilization - the first tribal chieftain who
successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers - was almost
certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery,
psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in
the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies - especially military
hierarchies. Military institutions are tailor-made for psychopathic
killers. The 5% or so of human males who feel no remorse about killing
their fellow human beings make the best soldiers. And the 95% who are
extremely reluctant to kill make terrible soldiers - unless they are
brainwashed with highly sophisticated modern techniques that turn them
(temporarily it is hoped) into functional psychopaths. In On Killing, Lt.
Col. Dave Grossman has re-written military history, to highlight what
other histories hide: The fact that military science is less about
strategy and technology, than about overcoming the instinctive human
reluctance to kill members of our own species. The true "Revolution in
Military Affairs" was not Donald Rumsfeld's move to high-tech in 2001, but
Brigadier Gen. S.L.A. Marshall's discovery in the 1940s that only 15-20%
of World War II soldiers along the line of fire would use their weapons:
"Those (80-85%) who did not fire did not run or hide (in many cases they
were willing to risk great danger to rescue comrades, get ammunition, or
run messages), but they simply would not fire their weapons at the enemy,
even when faced with repeated waves of banzai charges" (Grossman, p. 4).
Marshall's discovery and subsequent research, proved that in all previous
wars, a tiny minority of soldiers - the 5% who are natural-born
psychopaths, and perhaps a few temporarily-insane imitators - did almost
all the killing. Normal men just went through the motions and, if at all
possible, refused to take the life of an enemy soldier, even if that meant
giving up their own. The implication: Wars are ritualized mass murders by
psychopaths of non-psychopaths. (This cannot be good for humanity's
genetic endowment!)

Marshall's work, brought a Copernican revolution to military science. In
the past, everyone believed that the soldier willing to kill for his
country was the (heroic) norm, while one who refused to fight was a
(cowardly) aberration. The truth, as it turned out, was that the normative
soldier hailed from the psychopathic five percent. The sane majority,
would rather die than fight.

The implication, too frightening for even the likes of Marshall and
Grossman to fully digest, was that the norms for soldiers' behaviour in
battle had been set by psychopaths. That meant that psychopaths were in
control of the military as an institution. Worse, it meant that
psychopaths were in control of society's perception of military affairs.
Evidently, psychopaths exercised an enormous amount of power in seemingly
sane, normal society.

How could that be? In Political Ponerology, Andrzej Lobaczewski explains
that clinical psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non-violent
competitions to climb the ranks of social hierarchies. Because they can
lie without remorse (and without the telltale physiological stress that is
measured by lie detector tests) psychopaths can always say whatever is
necessary to get what they want. In court, for example, psychopaths can
tell extreme bald-faced lies in a plausible manner, while their sane
opponents are handicapped by an emotional predisposition to remain within
hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the judge or jury imagines that
the truth must be somewhere in the middle, and then issues decisions that
benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too with those
charged with decisions concerning who to promote and who not to promote in
corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result is that all
hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths.

So-called conspiracy theorists, some of whom deserve the pejorative
connotation of that much-abused term, often imagine that secret societies
of Jews, Jesuits, bankers, communists, Bilderbergers, Muslim extremists,
papists, and so on, are secretly controlling history, doing dastardly
deeds, and/or threatening to take over the world. As a leading "conspiracy
theorist" according to Wikipedia, I feel eminently qualified to offer an
alternative conspiracy theory which, like the alternative conspiracy
theory of 9/11, is both simpler and more accurate than the prevailing
wisdom: The only conspiracy that matters is the conspiracy of the
psychopaths against the rest of us. Behind the apparent insanity of
contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to
preserve their disproportionate power. And as that power grows
ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are
witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld - the criminal syndicate or
overlapping set of syndicates that lurks above ordinary society and law
just as the underworld lurks below it. In 9/11 and the 9/11 wars, we are
seeing the final desperate power-grab or "endgame" of brutal, cunning
gangs of CIA drug-runners and President-killers; money-laundering
international bankers and their hit-men, economic and otherwise; corrupt
military contractors and gung-ho generals; corporate predators and their
political enablers; brainwashers and mind-rapists euphemistically known as
psy-ops experts and PR specialists - in short, the whole sick crew of
certifiable psychopaths running our so-called civilization. And they are
running scared. It was their terror of losing control that they projected
onto the rest of us by blowing up the Twin Towers and inciting temporary
psychopathic terror-rage in the American public.

Why does the pathocracy fear it is losing control? Because it is
threatened by the spread of knowledge. The greatest fear of any psychopath
is of being found out. As George H. W. Bush said to journalist Sarah
McClendon, December 1992, "If the people knew what we had done, they would
chase us down the street and lynch us." Given that Bush is reported to
have participated in parties where child prostitutes were sodomized and
otherwise abused, among his many other crimes, his statement to McClendon
should be taken seriously.

Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are completely different
from other people. They quickly learn to hide their lack of empathy, while
carefully studying others' emotions so as to mimic normalcy while
cold-bloodedly manipulating the normals.

Today, thanks to new information technologies, we are on the brink of
unmasking the psychopaths and building a civilization of, by and for the
normal human being - a civilization without war, a civilization based on
truth, a civilization in which the saintly few rather than the diabolical
few would gravitate to positions of power. We already have the knowledge
necessary to diagnose psychopathic personalities and keep them out of
power. We have the knowledge necessary to dismantle the institutions in
which psychopaths especially flourish - militaries, intelligence agencies,
large corporations, and secret societies. We simply need to disseminate
this knowledge, and the will to use it, as widely as possible.

Above all, we need to inform the public about how psychopaths co-opt and
corrupt normal human beings. One way they do this, is by manipulating
shame and denial - emotions foreign to psychopaths but common and
easily-induced among normals.

Consider how gangs and secret societies (psychopaths' guilds in disguise)
recruit new members. Some criminal gangs and satanist covens demand that
candidates for admission commit a murder to "earn their stripes." Skull
and Bones, the Yale-based secret society that supplies the CIA with
drug-runners, mind-rapists, child abusers and professional killers,
requires neophytes to lie naked in a coffin and masturbate in front of
older members while reciting the candidate's entire sexual history. By
forcing the neophyte to engage in ritualized behaviour that would be
horrendously shameful in normal society, the psychopaths' guild destroys
the candidate's normal personality, assuming he had one in the first
place, and turns the individual into a co-opted, corrupt, degraded shadow
of his former self - a manufactured psychopath or psychopath's apprentice.

This manipulation of shame has the added benefit of making psychopathic
organizations effectively invisible to normal society. Despite easily
available media reports, American voters in 2004 simply refused to see
that the two major-party presidential candidates had lain naked in a
coffin masturbating in front of older Bonesmen in order to gain admission
to Skull and Bones and thus become members of the criminal overworld.
Likewise, many Americans have long refused to see that hawkish elements of
the overworld, operating through the CIA, had obviously been the murderers
of JFK, MLK, RFK, JFK Jr., Malcolm X, Che, Allende, Wellstone, Lumumba,
Aguilera, Diem, and countless other relatively non-psychopathic leaders.
They refuse to see the continuing murders of millions of people around the
world in what amounts to an American holocaust. They refuse to see the
evidence that the psychopaths' guilds running America's most powerful
institutions use the most horrific forms of sexualized abuse imaginable to
induce multiple-personality-disorder in child victims, then use the
resulting mind-control slaves as disposable drug-runners, prostitutes,
Manchurian candidates, and even diplomatic envoys. And of course they
refuse to see that 9/11 was a transparently obvious inside job, and that
their own psychopath-dominated military-intelligence apparatus is behind
almost every major terrorist outrage of recent decades.

All of this psychopathic behaviour at the top of the social hierarchy is
simply too shameful for ordinary people to see, so they avert their gaze,
just as wives of husbands who are sexually abusing their children
sometimes refuse to see what is happening in plain view. If deep, deep
denial were a river in Egypt, American citizens' willful blindness would
be more like the Marianas Trench.

But thanks to the power of the internet, people everywhere are waking up.
The only obvious non-psychopath among Republican presidential candidates,
Ron Paul, also happens to be the only candidate in either party with
significant grassroots support.

If "love" is embedded in the Revolution Ron Paul heralds, that is because
Dr. Paul - a kindly, soft-spoken physician who has delivered more than
4,000 babies - implicitly recognizes that government is the invention and
tool of psychopaths, and therefore must be strictly limited in scope and
subjected to a rigorous system of checks and balances, lest the
psychopath's tools, fear and hatred, replace love as the glue that binds
society together.

The decline in militarism since World War II in advanced countries, the
spread of literacy and communications technology, and the people's growing
demands for a better life, together represent a gathering force that
terrifies the pathocracy, (those alternately competing-then-cooperating
gangs of psychopaths who have ruled through lies, fear and intimidation
since the dawn of so-called civilization).

Since nuclear weapons have made war obsolete, the pathocracy is terrified
that its favourite social control mechanism - ritualized mass slaughter -
is increasingly unavailable. And if war was the great human tragedy, the
pathocrats' pathetic attempt at a war-substitute - the transparently
phoney "war on terror" - is repeating it as sheerest farce.

Truly, we are witnessing the twilight of the psychopaths. Whether in their
death throes they succeed in pulling down the curtain of eternal night on
all of us, or whether we resist them and survive to see the dawn of a
civilization worthy of the name, is the great decision in which all of us
others, however humbly, are now participating.

About the writer:

Dr. Kevin Barrett, co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for
9/11 Truth, LINK, has taught English, French, Arabic, American
Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at
colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and
Madison, Wisconsin. Barrett became a 9/11 truth activist in 2004 after
reading David Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor and conducting follow-up
research that convinced him Griffin had accurately summarized evidence
indicating 9/11 was an inside job.

In the summer of 2006, Republican state legislators and Fox newscasters
demanded that Barrett be fired from his job teaching an introductory Islam
class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but the University refused
to buckle, and Barrett got high marks from his students. He has appeared
in several documentary films, lectures widely on 9/11 and hosts three
radio programs on three different patriot networks.

jacqueline dollard www.blankslatescript.com

"Real truth is always subversive." Zdenek Urbanek
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19. chalmers johnson (blowback) on charlie wilson's war -- imperialist
propaganda -- what's being suppressed?
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:16:49 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

Imperialist Propaganda
Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson's War
By Chalmers Johnson

It makes the U.S. government look like it is populated by a bunch of
whoring, drunken sleazebags, so in that sense it's accurate enough. But
there are a number of things both the book and the film are suppressing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19014.htm
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20. plastic bottles -- when hauna tro way! and no ku'ai mai numbahs 7 & 3!
and comments
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:36:51 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/printthis.pl?uri=/advice/ask/2008/01/07/index.html
Do They Suck? Umbra on Camelbaks
By Umbra Fisk 07 Jan 2008 Dear Umbra,

Recently, I've started to try to avoid plastics (especially plastic water
bottles). For Christmas, my brother gave me a Camelbak-type water bottle.
How safe is this? I assume it's as bad as most plastic water bottles.

Timothy Kearney
Issaquah, Wash.

answer Dearest Timothy,

Gifting quandary alert.

But does it suck?
Not all plastic water bottles are equal. In a larger context of avoiding
plastic, we may occasionally find ourselves with a plastic bottle that is
handy and use it for a while. There are certain exceptions: We should try
to completely avoid polyvinyl chloride, PVC, which is #3; and the same
with Lexan/polycarbonate (#7, which may say 'other' on the bottle),
renowned for leaching the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A. Avoid these for
your own health as well as on behalf of larger environmental disruption.

Other numbered plastics are less dire, with caveats. Bottle caveats relate
to plastic degradation and microbial contamination. Don't use hot liquids
in plastic bottles; don't reuse milk or juice bottles, since you won't be
able to get them clean and the microbes will grow; and don't use scratched
or damaged bottles for the same reasons.

Back to #7, which in hard water bottles made by Camelbak and Nalgene has
meant the evil BPA-leaching polycarbonate. Camelbak, according to various
press releases, has redesigned its hard water bottles to be a co-polyester
rather than the polycarbonate. The trick for your Christmas present, if
indeed you got a hard water bottle, is that I'm not sure the co-polyester
bottles are yet out, since they seem to be scheduled for early 2008.
You'll have to call Camelbak or look on the bottom of the bottle. Or just
go straight to REI and exchange the thing for a metal bottle. You could
also exchange it for socks, snacks, or a ski pole.

The plastic water bags made by Camelbak, Platypus, and others are a
separate matter of interest. Please follow all the basic plastic protocols
with these vessels, including cleaning them often and throwing them out
when they get skanky -- and you know what I'm talking about, people. Those
tubes are mold havens. Do as I say, not as I did. Ick. From what I can
find, the Platypus bags are polyethylene (this would be #1, I assume) and
the Camelbak bags are polyurethane with a polyethylene lining. So these
are better than Lexan. I know they are incredibly handy when hiking,
biking, and skiing -- just treat them with care and they should have a
long, skank-free life, rather than a short, disposable life.

Baggily,
Umbra
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:39:29 -0500 (EST)
From: bchingkahoola@pol.net

Aloha kakou,

Speaking from experience, even camelbacks will leach something when they
get hot.

Learned this when doing the Huka`i on Hawai`i island on the Ala Loa in
Kona. Suspect it got up to 120 degrees hot and the water tasted awful,
could not be drunk no matter how hot and thirsty.

Camelback changed the composition of the bags last year but lo and behold,
same thing happened on the Kona-Ka`u coastline Ala Loa. The print on the
bags say do not use when it is over 105 degrees.

Suggest that if you are going hiking somewhere hot, put some ice in the
bag to keep it from getting hot. Seems to work but could not prove it on
the Ala Loa last year because there is no ice to be had in south Kona.

Malama pono,

Kaho`ola
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:11:56 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

mahalo e kaho'ola

i always freeze my water in govinda(?) juice bottles and carry small
cooler so it rarely if ever gets above 100 but then i'm not a dedicated
mountain man like you...

Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:09:39 -1000
From: Kepalo <kepalo@hawaii.rr.com>

Leaching has been repoted in freezing this plastic containers. FYI kepalo
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21. pro-sovereignty party wins in marshalls -- will call for termination
of gigantic attack missile test range? rmi consistently votes with u.s.
in u.n.
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:42:47 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

TRADITIONAL CHIEF IS NEW PRESIDENT IN MARSHALLS

MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, Jan. 8) - The opposition party
is back in power in the Marshall Islands after eight years with the
election of former Speaker Litokwa Tomeing on Monday afternoon. Tomeing
defeated two-term incumbent Kessai Note by the slim margin of 18-15 in
Monday's parliamentary vote. The vote returns a traditional chief to the
presidency following eight years under Note, the first commoner to be
president of the country. The opposition, with the support of several
independent senators, also elected Jurelang Zedkaia, another traditional
chief, as speaker of the parliament. But the vice speaker spot went to
Alik Alik, a member of Note's party, by a one-vote margin 17-16. The
parliament recessed until Jan. 14 to allow Tomeing time to name his
cabinet. But the cabinet lineup is expected to be announced by mid-week.
Tomeing's election and the change in government is expected to bring major
changes in relations with the United States, the country's major aid
donor. Tomeing's party - Aelon Kein Ad (Our Islands) - objects to the
terms of a U.S. agreement for long-term use of an important missile
testing range at Kwajalein Atoll, and is calling for changes to the amount
of rent paid to traditional landowners.

Pacific Islands Report briefs for: Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The following news briefs were prepared by Pacific Islands Report, the
daily online news publication of the Pacific Islands Development Program
at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. For the full Report, please
visit: www.pireport.org.
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22. Disappearing World: The Village Falling Into The Sea
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:48:34 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>

http://www.countercurrents.org/hughes070108.htm
Disappearing World: The Village Falling Into The Sea
By Mark Hughes
07 January, 2008
The Independent

The sign as you enter Skipsea is an immediate indication that something is
wrong. "Danger," it reads. "Enter at your own risk." Just ahead, there is
a huge hole in the middle of the road, blocking your path.

The village of Skipsea sits, precariously, on Yorkshire's East Riding
coastline ^Ö the fastest eroding coastline in Europe.

As 2008 begins, many of the villagers have a common new year's resolution:
to leave their doomed village before their homes are washed into the sea.
Official figures estimate that this coastline loses an average of 18
inches a year. The council estimates that 13 homes in the village will
disappear in the next five years, with a further 78 likely to be lost by
2058.

But, worryingly, the residents of Skipsea, which has a population of just
600, say these estimates are far too optimistic.

With 2007 being the worst year in recent memory, 2008 is generally
regarded as make or break for those closest to the ever-receding
cliff-face.

For Josephine and Colin Arnold this will almost certainly be the year they
are forced to leave their home of 19 years.

The couple moved to their 11-room farmhouse in May 1988 to set up a
business in the village, which is a popular tourist destination.

They bought the house with an acre of land and opened a restaurant, a
campsite, a caravan park and a holiday cottage.

But in just 19 years the land behind their home, which once stretched back
100 feet, has shrunk to six feet.

The land where the campsite, the caravans and cottage once stood is gone,
washed away by the sea. Last year's frequent storms forced them to start
demolishing their home, reducing the 11-room farmhouse, where they housed
the restaurant, to to just six rooms.

A 20-foot drop has replaced the space where their kitchen, dining room,
living room and two bedrooms used to be. And a wall of tyres sits at the
end of the driveway to stop cars driving off the edge of the cliff. They
have lost their home and their business. They now live in a renovated
caravan and make their living selling doughnuts from the back of a van.

"It's been terrible," said Mrs Arnold. "We never expected the coast to
disappear so quickly. It's now got to the point that another big tide will
wash away the rest of the house and possibly the caravan too.

"When we moved here we hoped that we could make enough money to be able to
move away but we didn't make the money quickly enough and we became stuck
here. There comes a time when you just have to accept that it is too
dangerous to live here any more. It's at the stage where I dread any bad
weather, I panic when I see rain now because it could mean a storm and
that's bad news."

The couple say that the problem of erosion intensified in the early 1990s
when a developer was given permission by the local council to build sea
defences along the coast.

The Arnolds refused to sell their land to the developer, meaning that
their property was the only one not protected.

Mrs Arnold, 56, added: "In our opinion the defences were never going to
work and that's why we didn't sell the land. And we were right because
they have since fallen down. But when they were built it was a disaster
for us.

"The experts say that about one foot falls off the cliffs every year, but
when those defences went up we sat and watched about 18 feet wash away in
20 minutes. Because we were the only ones without a sea defence all the
water was channelled towards our house."

The couple ^Ö who share their home with their daughter Katie, 30, and Mrs
Arnold's brother Alan Lead and his wife Cindy ^Ö are now waiting to hear
from the council what type of compensation they will be entitled to.

A meeting to discuss the matter is scheduled for March and Mr Arnold, 62,
hopes that they will finally be able to start planning for the future.

He said: "At first we didn't like to think about moving away because this
has been our home for a long time. But we have accepted that it's
inevitable and we are ready to move, but we need somewhere to go.

It's not like a normal house sale where we can sell our house and move on;
who is going to buy a house that will be gone in a few years? We need the
council to give us compensation or land as soon as possible so we can move
away from here."

A short walk from the Arnolds' home, on Southfield Lane, takes you to
Green Lane. You can't take a car between the houses because there is a
huge hole in the middle of the road ^Ö another consequence of coastal
erosion.

Walking down mud track towards Green Lane gives you the feeling that the
houses there have already been condemned. The sign as you enter the street
reads: "Danger coastal erosion. Enter at your own risk."

Residents of Green Lane have to use the back doors of their houses, as
access at the front is hampered by the road closure.

The row of houses on the street hasn't always been right on the edge of
the cliff face. Before 1980 another row sat in front of them. Those
houses have since been washed away.

Valerie Robinson, 65, knows it won't be long before she, like those in the
1980s, is forced to leave her home.

"Our houses are about 100 feet away from the edge but it's getting closer
every year. I've lived here for the past 14 years and more of the coast
has washed away in the past two years than ever before. I can only see it
getting worse," she said.

"I remember when I used to sit out in the garden and tourists would be
envious of our houses. They would tell me that if they won the pools
they'd move here. No one is saying that any more. No one wants to live
here now. When I bought the place I was told by the estate agent that it
would be here for 45 years. That was in 1993 and I don't give it another
five years before these houses are gone.

"We've accepted that we will have to leave soon. We are just hoping we get
some good news in March with regards to the compensation and then we can
think about leaving."

Mrs Robinson's daughter Wendy lives two doors down. She says she is one of
the lucky ones because she rents her property and isn't faced with losing
her only asset ^Ö the prospect her mother faces.

Wendy, 36, said: "It's become a dangerous place to live. I have a 12-
year-old daughter and I'm forever warning her not to play out on the
front. It's a frightening thought what could happen. Only last week an old
man was blown over the edge. I only rent, so I'm lucky in that sense, but
if the council offered me another house tomorrow I would take it. It used
to be lovely living here, 'Millionaires' Row' they used to call it. It's
disgusting now and we just want to get out.

"We feel like we have been forgotten about. We are right on the coast, our
houses about to fall into the sea, and it seems like no one cares."

Michael Kitchen, a neighbour, echoes her sentiments. Mr Kitchen, 65, has
been visiting the village for 50 years and has lived there for the past
12.

He said: "We first started becoming really concerned about coastal erosion
in November 2006 and since then I've written letters to everyone: the
council, Defra, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, the list goes on.

"It's the same story though. They say they are discussing it, but no one
seems interested in protecting this coastline. It's been more than 20
years since the last row of houses went into the sea and since then we
have all been waiting for ours to be next.

"I've been on a deferred list for a council house for the past six years.
Every year they ask me if I would like them to find me a new house and
every year I say no. This year I'm going to say yes.

"The way this coastline is eroding, the next lot of houses will go a lot
quicker than we all first thought. We've to make other plans.

"When the last lot of houses went in the 1980s it was just a handful of
people that lost their homes. This time we are talking about a small
community that is going to disappear.

"This erosion won't stop at our house. It will eat into the village and
before you know it Skipsea will be gone."
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23. more on the protests against grand jury repression of Puerto Rican
independence activists
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:07:28 -0800
From: Deborah Berman Santana <santana@mills.edu>

In addition to protests in front of Federal Buildings in many cities on
both 1/10 and 1/11, a delegation of activists plan to meet with
international organizations in NY on 1/14 to seek international and UN
support against continued US govt harrassment and repression of pro-PR
independence activists.

It should be noted that while the FBI justifies this continuing
harrassment by claiming that they are seeking members of the Macheteros,
many activists and others believe that they are simply seeking to shut up
and shut down activism in support of justice and self-determination for
Puerto Rico.

Once again, thanks to Jan Sussler for providing an English translation for
the newspaper article cited below.

----Forwarded Message-----
From: jsusler@aol.com
Sent: Jan 7, 2008 9:14 PM

Independentist Repudiation of Grand Jury Subpoenas
January 7, 2008
El Vocero

(AP)- Under the slogan "In the face of repression, unity and struggle,"
around twenty independentist organizations came together on Monday to
repudiate what they are calling a new offensive of the Federal Bureau of
Investigations (FBI) against the separatist movement, with the subpoenas
of three Puerto Ricans to a grand jury in New York.

Leaders of the National Hostos Independentist Movement (MINH), the Puerto
Rican Independence Party (PIP), the Socialist Front, and the New School,
among others, criticized the subpoenas of independentists Tania Frontera,
Christopher Torres and Julio Pabón to appear on Friday at a Grand Jury in
New York supposedly convened to investigate the Popular Boricua Army
^ÔMacheteros."

"The legal facade of this repressive operation is directed against The
Macheteros, but the real intention is against the entire independentist
movement, including against the people of Puerto Rico," said Julio
Muriente, co-chair of the MINH, at a press conference today.

"So we will not fall for this divisive, sectarian trap. During this
juncture, the independence movement will demonstrate maturity and
patriotic responsibility, which we understand as the correct response to
an attack which is not against any particular organization, but against a
political, social, patriotic movement, and against a people," he said.
Harry Rodrí­guez, FBI spokesperson, had no immediate comment on these
denunciations.

The organizations called for a demonstration on Thursday, starting at 5:00
p.m. at the Federal Court in Hato Rey, in repudiation of the subpoenas.
They also denounced the fact that the subpoenas of the three
independentists were returnable on January 11, when Puerto Rico
commemorates its leader Eugenio Marí­a de Hostos, known as the "Educator
of the Americas."

The independence movement's denunciation of the supposed U.S. government
offensive against it has grown since the death of the leader of the
Popular Boricua Army ^ÔMacheteros" at the hands of FBI agents on September
23, 2005.
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24. 500 For Fair Trade-Valentines Day of Action
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:15:43 -0500
From: Tara Mack <tara@edliberation.org>

This is a national "teach in" related to one of the curriculum units
linked to our database.

Tara

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrienne Fitch-Frankel [mailto:adrienne@globalexchange.org]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:42 PM

Help teach 500 children about Fair Trade on a single day, and help
hundreds of thousands of kids in cocoa farming communities!

Plus, you can win a Fair Trade gift worth $40

Thanks to many of you, schoolchildren in over 300 cities participated in
Reverse Trick-or-Treating-motivating over 40,000 households to help end
child slavery on cocoa farms and to consider Fair Trade as a positive
alternative to conventional chocolate.

We need your help to build on this Halloween victory. This Valentine's
Day, we are inviting K-6 teachers to educate the next generation about
Fair Trade chocolate. Please take 15 minutes to call any K-6 teachers,
school administrators, and/or youth group coordinators that you know to
ask them to teach Global Exchange's fun, interdisciplinary Fair Trade
cocoa curriculum (downloadable at www.globalexchange.org/cocoa) on
Valentine's Day, 2008. Teachers are planning their spring semester during
this winter break, so now is the time to reach out to any educators you
know.

Are you a teacher? Join K-6 educators nationwide teaching Global
Exchange's Fair Trade Cocoa curriculum, www.globalexchange.org/cocoa, on
Valentine's Day!

If you plan to teach the Fair Trade Cocoa Curriculum this Valentine's Day
you can win a Fair Trade Gift worth $75. To win, simply email us at
fairtrade@globalexchange.org to let us know that you will be part of the
500 for Fair Trade National Valentine's Day of Action, and we will enter
you into the prize drawing. Please include "National Day of Action
participant" in the subject line of your email, and in the body of your
email please indicate your name, your school name, your mailing address,
phone number, number of children in your classroom, and the date you plan
to teach the curriculum.

If you're not a teacher, you can still win! When teachers download the
curriculum, they can enter your name into a drawing for a package of great
Fair Trade gifts worth over $40.
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25. Disappeared News - 2 new articles
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:40:45 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>

"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES - www.disappearednews.com

1. Superferry discloses low booking numbers
2.Looking behind the June Jones headlines at a deteriorating UH
3.More Recent Articles
4.Search Disappeared News

Superferry discloses low booking numbers

From Henry Curtis: Public Utilities Commission Order 23953 re Hawaii
Superferry (dated January 3, 2008) approving the requested extension of
discount rates from March 12, 2008 to June 5, 2008. ''By supplemental
letter dated December 21, 2007, HSF, in support of its request, also
asserts:1. HSF is experiencing bookings at numbers that are much lower
than expected. Bookings are averaging....

Looking behind the June Jones headlines at a deteriorating UH

by Larry Geller The headlines the past couple of days have been around
whether UH can keep coach June Jones or whether he will fly the coop.
Ignored, except by Ian Lind, is the perhaps more important story that the
coop is crumbling while we focus only on June Jones. Today he asks if we
can (should?) afford a top tier football program. A snippet: Take the
beautiful renovation job that was done....

More Recent Articles

* Must-read essay on KKCR, racism, privilege and more
* What to do with one Superferry if passengers don't come
* Documents dig into underpinnings of ferry decisions
* Readers comments on Superferry
* Iowa by the numbers
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26. critescu: a basic document on indigenous rights (united nations) --
part 1 of 2
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:21:37 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

Critescu, Aurelia (Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities) 1981
The Right to Self-Determination: Historical and Current
Development on the Basis of United Nations Instruments. United
Nations Document No. E/CN.4/Sub.2/404/Rev.1.

THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION,
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND MINORITIES

            Almost a decade, some 240 representatives of more than 110
non-governmental organizations from about 26 countries across the
Asia-Pacific region, came together in Bangkok from 24-28 March 1993 and
adopted a detailed declaration in preparation for the second UN World
Conference on Human Rights. It was a significant milestone in the
evolution of the NGOs from the Asia-Pacific region concerning their
involvement at world level in the field of human rights.

            The Bangkok NGO declaration, under self-determination (para 8)
stated: "The right to self-determination of peoples is well-established in
international human rights instruments and international law. The root
cause of most internal conflicts can be traced back to this fundamental
human right". Proceeding further, it said, "we affirm that all peoples
have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right, they freely
determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social
and cultural development. The right of peoples to self-determination must,
therefore, be observed by all governments". Further, "it is understood
also that self-determination does not necessarily imply secession or
independence. Self-determination can mean independence, free association,
integration with an independent state or other constitutional arrangement
arrived at through popular consultation and consent".

            A few paragraphs later, the Declaration stated, under para 12
on Indigenous Peoples, the following - "The Asia-Pacific region is home to
many indigenous peoples. A basic issue among these indigenous peoples is
the fact that many are not recognised as indigenous by governments and as
such are denied the right to self-determination".

            Under "sustainable development", the Declaration boldly
affirmed that "a precondition to genuine development is the attainment, of
national liberation and self-determination of the peoples in the region".

            Again under "women's rights as human rights", the Declaration
stated that "to provide women a life of dignity and self-determination it
is important that women have inalienable, equal economic rights (eg. right
to agricultural land, housing and other resources and property). It is
imperative for governments and the United Nations (UN) to guarantee these
rights".

            Besides, the Declaration also said that `militarisation has
led to the destruction of civil society, undermined the right to
self-determination and denied the people the right to liberate themselves
and their freedom from fear" (Para 7).

            "Threats to self-determination" was listed as one among the
issues requiring urgent and effective action, both in terms of prevention
and remedies". And the NGO from the Asia-Pacific region then called upon,
under new mechanisms, to establish "a special UN Office, perhaps under the
Under-Secretary General, to consider the issue of self-determination".

2.         The second World Conference on Human Rights, (Vienna, 1993)
recalling "the respect for the principle of equal rights and
self-determination of peoples", then stated that "2. All peoples have the
right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine
their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural development".

3.         Once again, more than a year ago, in connection with the
preparation for the third World Conference against Racism, the NGOs from
the Asia-Pacific region emphasized that "all diverse communities have the
right to effective political and self-determination at the national,
regional and local level including through power sharing arrangements".
(Kathmandu, April 2001). Earlier, in Teheran, they said, "we wish to
congratulate the people of East Timor for their successful struggle for
self-determination and independence. And that, "we also extend our
solidarity to the peoples' struggles for self-determination in West Papua,
Aceh, Bougainvillea, the North-East of India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere
in the region" (Teheran, February 2001). The Declaration also confirmed
that "all forms of colonisation and foreign domination are manifestations
of institutionalised racism", and "such racism denies indigenous peoples
the inherent right to self-determination". It also stated that "race-based
and other forms of discrimination against groups that are defined as
minorities are historical and complex and deny their right to
self-determination" (Teheran, February 2001).

4.         Such declarations have regularly been echoed at other UN
events. Recently, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, in its Plan
of Implementation, under Chapter IX. Mean of Implementation stated the
following. "97. Take further effective measures to remove obstacles to the
effective measures to remove obstacles to the realization of the right of
peoples to self-determination, in particular peoples living under colonial
and foreign occupation which obstacles continue to adversely affect their
economic and social development and are incompatible with the dignity and
worth of the human person and must be combated and eliminated"
(Johannesburg, September, 2002).

5.         Annually, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly does
address the questions relating to "the rights of peoples and nations to
self-determination in particular areas". It also dealt with annually at
the UN Commission on Human Rights at Geneva under a specific agenda item.
The Special Committee of 24 on Decolonization, established by the UNGA in
1961 with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting
of independence to colonial countries and Peoples meets annually, hears
statements and formulates proposals and carries out actions approved by
the GA in the context of the International Decade for the Eradication of
colonialism (1990-2000). Eventhough this may refer to non-self-governing
territories under the charter articles 73 and 74, there is still available
a live-mechanism within the UN system on matters relating to
self-determination. In his report to the 55th Session of the UNGA, the
Secretary General stated: "the right to self-determinate is defined as a
fundamental human right in the Charter of the United Nations, the two
principal human rights covenants, the declaration on the right to
development and other international instruments and declarations"
(A/55/175 para 1). And the Human Rights Committee reminds us that the
realization of the right of peoples to self-determination is essential to
the effective guarantee and observation of individual human rights
(General Comment 12 of HRI).

6.         Self-determination as an idea, as an aspiration, as a concept
and as a principle has existed always in the history of humankind, since
the formation of political communities and nations. Politically, it has
been understood as `the rule of particular group of people - nation',
community or, simply, the residents of a place - over their own affairs".

            Following the first World War, it was proclaimed as a
universal principle under the principle of national self-determination.
The Wilsonian ideas, as stated in his `fourteen points' was, `to each
nation a State'. The defeated empires were parcelled out into nation
States, thus becoming sovereign states. "It generated as many
contradictions as it solved: sixty million people being awarded a state of
their own while another twenty five within were transformed into
minorities within these imperfect nation-states". The then newly created
League of Nations, between 1919 and 1945 was mostly concerned with matters
related to minorities rather than addressing its primary purpose of
international collective security. "However the European colonial powers
refused to the subject peoples of Asia and Africa to attain independence".
Decades of conflict followed this proclamation of national
self-determination. Moreover, groups and peoples within these new
nation-states, particularly within Europe began to assert their own claims
to self-determination. Thus the character and standing of the `self' in
self-determination became, and still remains, often a matter of dispute.

            As a concept, self-determination was implicit in the US
Declaration of 1776 under `the consent of the governed' and in the French
Declaration of 1789 as `the divine right of the people'. Within Europe, as
a concept, it helped the "unification of Germany and of Italy and
independence of Belgium and Greece". It played a major role "in the
process of liberation of countries in Latin America from colonial rule".
In all these processes, self-determination never had a legal connotation.
Yet, historically, self-determination played an important role in the
origin and formation of states. It featured prominently in the Covenant of
the League of nations and in the United Nations Charter (1945).

7.         Article 1(2) of the UN Charter, under purposes and principles,
stated "to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for
the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to
take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace". A further
elaboration, under Article 55 was given to self-determination as a
chapeau, among other things characterising international economic and
social co-operation, "to promote (c) universal respect for and observance
of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without destruction as
to race, sex, language or religion".

            These formulations, eventhough lacking in clear formulations
on self-determination, brought out its interrelationships to peace,
stability, international co-operation and human rights. There was much
insistence by Russia to include self-determination and non-discrimination
in the UN Charter. On the other hand, it didn't offer at first sight any
framework towards implementing this principle vis-a-vis the countries
under colonialism, foreign occupation or alien domination. However the
behalf that self-determination should be a guiding principle in
international politics marked a transformation of attitudes and values.

8.         The General Assembly first recognised "the rights of peoples
and nations to self-determination" at its fifth session in resolution 421
(Part D), and called upon the Economic and Social Council to find ways to
ensure the enjoyment of this right. The Assembly recognized that "the
rights of peoples and nations to self-determination is a pre-requisite to
the full enjoyment of all fundamental rights" and that "every member of
the United Nations, in conformity with the Charter, should respect the
maintenance of the right to self-determination in other States". Two
sessions later, the GA asked the right to self-determination (RSD) to be
included in the international covenants on human rights (Res. 545 (1952))
as an article which was under drafting at the Commission on Human Rights.
The Commission was requested by the ECOSOC to come up with recommendations
concerning the right to self-determination. At the same time, there was
"necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in
all its forms and manifestations".

            At this juncture, the UN General assembly adopted in its
celebrated resolution 1514 (XV) in 1960 the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, thereby making
self-determination "a positive duty and a legal right rather than an
aspiration". Calling upon the relevant Charter principles, the Declaration
stated: "2. All peoples have the right to self-determination, by virtue of
the right they freely pursue their political status and freely pursue
their economic, social and cultural development". Two years later, the
UNGA, in its resolution 1803 (1962) on "Permanent Sovereignty over natural
resources", declared it "as a basic constituent of the right to
self-determination". These resolutions rectified what the Universal
Declaration had ignored, and launched the rapid process of decolonization.
And the right to self-determination was firmly lodged in Article one of
both the two covenants, with identical formulation. Once again, it was
reaffirmed in the 1970 Declaration of Principles of International Law
concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among states which further
emphasized that all states were under a positive duty to promote it.

9.         In 1961 the Assembly established a Special Committee to examine
the application of the Declaration and to make recommendations on the
progress and extent of its implementation. The Special Committee, made up
of 24 members has since played a major role in the work of the United
Nations to accelerate the process of decolonization. It co-operated
closely with the Security Council. In 1965, the Special Committee called
upon the commission on Human Rights to look into violations of human
rights in South West Africa, Southern Rhodesia and the Colonial
Territories then under Portuguese administration. In 1967, the Assembly
called other bodies to work on the right to self determination, especially
concerning South Africa. Both the Commission as well as the Subcommission
became more involved not only in activities aimed at putting an end to
violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms but also provided both
the bodies with an occasion to seek and obtain the authorizations
necessary to extend such activities to encompass all countries and
territories.

            In this connection, the Assembly also recognized "the
legitimacy of the struggles by the peoples under colonial rule to exercise
their right to self-determination and independence" in its resolution 2105
of 1965. These considerations culminated in the Assembly's solemn
proclamation in its resolution of 1973, a series of basic principles on
the legal status of those freedom fighters, whose defining feature was,
for the right to exercise their rights to self-determination. These
principles were incorporated in the application of the 1949 Geneva
Conventions. It condemned as criminal acts the use of mercenaries that
impede the realization of the right of peoples and nations to
self-determination - a topic which is currently under scrutiny with the
special procedures of the Commission. This initiative came about when the
activities of US supported groups in Nicaragua, Angola and elsewhere, were
brought to the Commission. Another study, at the level of the
Sub-commission on `adverse consequences of political, military, economic
and other forms of assistance to the South African regime' was undertaken
since 1986 within the context of self-determination.

            A more elaborate effort was authorized at the level of the
Sub-commission earlier in 1974, towards the "study on the implementation
of the right of peoples and nations to self-determination by Mr.Hector
Grosespill (Uruguay) between 1974 and 1978; and a second one on "the study
of the historical development of the right of peoples and nations to
self-determination" by Mr.Aureliu Cristescu (Romania) around the same
period. The first one "considered a number of questions concerning the
definition, scope and legal nature of the RSD". The second one considered
the right to self-determination as developed in the Charter and major UN
instruments. Mr.Cristescu concluded that "the right to self-determination
had become one of the most important and dynamic concepts in contemporary
international life, one that exercised a profound influence on the
political, legal, economic, social and cultural planes, in the matter of
fundamental human rights and on the life and fate of people and of
individuals as such". And the Commission continues to address these
matters under "the universal realization" of these rights, rather
scantily, except for situations concerning occupied Arab territories and
Palestine, "but with relatively little to show for it". As Alston points
out, "it would, however, be virtually impossible to demonstrate a
convincing causal link between that work (the Commission and the
Sub-commission level) and the many practical manifestations of peoples
asserting and achieving their right to self-determination". As Alston
rightly points out, "the conceptual foundations have been clarified for
more in practice than through such conceptual excursions".

            However, it should also be stated that the recent series of
Special at the level of the Commission sessions on East Timor, Kosovo,
Chechnya and Palestine; as well as the debates amongst the  experts of the
Sub-commission and NGOs to extend substantially the both the notion as
well as its application of self-determination. The Treaty bodies have come
out with a number of comments, in recent years on the RSD. The State
parties to the iCCPR and iCESCR have been asked under reporting procedures
about Article. The current deliberations in the context of the rights of
indigenous peoples may eventually catalyse these considerations on a much
broader scale and not just limited to indigenous peoples and minorities.

            As Prof.U.Baxi puts it, "the new nations of Asia and Africa
somewhat understandably insisted that the right to self-determination
extended only to situations of `classic' colonialism, available to their
`peoples' only once in history. That right once exercised was extinguished
for all times. The post-colonial state was somehow to create out of many
nations a single `nation-state'. This has proved hazardous". Moreover,
"since 1945 there has been a definite freezing and sanctifying of
international boundaries as the globe has been enclosed by local sovereign
jurisdiction based on self-determination. It has also created a barrier to
the formation of new jurisdiction especially responding to changing
socio-political identities and consequent demands for self-determination"
(R.Jackson, 2000).

            Commenting further, Prof.U.Baxi adds that, "The processes by
which the RSD was eventually de-radicalized did not comprise only
interpretive or semiotic performances. They were also exercises in
near-complete militarization of the ways of governance as well as
resistance. Far from being dead on arrival, the logics and paralogics of
the RSD brought to the `contemporary' worlds of power new forms of
legitimation crises and democratic deficit. At the same time, from the
stand-point of those who were denied self-determination, the postulate of
`universality' of human rights emerged as a deeply, fragmented notion. The
vaunted `universality' of the RSD thus stands fragmented in the very
moments of its enunciation" (U.Baxi, 2002).

            In this connection, the Declaration on the Right to
Development (1986), with its emphasis on self-determination, sovereignty
over natural resources and popular participation offers a better holistic
opening, addressing the realization of all rights. Particularly, regarding
peoples' rights and participation rights. These have emerged also under
multilateral environmental agreements, based on the Rio Principles of
1992. "There is no finality in the definition and formation of nations"
(Fred Halliday, 2000).

            Actually, the work under these themes have been pursued by
other bodies including ILO, UNESCO, UNITAR and UNRISD.

            The UNESCO, taking up the article 1 of the Charter and other
instruments has been addressing issues and concerns of self-determination
since 1980s under its 2nd Medium-Term Plan (1984-1989) titled `Peace,
International Understanding, Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples". This
didn't find much favour with the UK and the USA administrations, and they
eventually withdrew from the UNESCO, among other reasons. UNESCO meetings
have declared that peoples' rights exist, and have examined it
systematically. It is based on the recognition of political and cultural
identities of peoples, and that the RSD is conferred on peoples by
international law and not by states. And in 1990, UNESCO came up with a
report on Rights of peoples.

            Aided by the UNESCO, a number of initiatives have been taken
up by the civil society and NGOs, while keeping in focus on the ever
growing profileration of RSD claims. Some of them have pointed out that
the RSD claims emerge, among other things, when there is cultural
repression, political marginalization and the systematic denial of the
rights of peoples. While the RSD claims of the individual in the framework
of democracy is no longer seriously questioned, that of peoples still
remains controversial. Under the overarching phenomenon of globalization,
the claims to RSD need to be addressed rigorously. "The RSD is a right of
process and does not prescribe any particular outcome. It is a right of
CHOICE inextricably linked to the core notion of democracy".

            The problem of determining which groups or peoples may
legitimately claim this right had bedevilled its application in the 20th
century. These claims have spilled over into the early years of this
century and some of it are being attended to seriously. It would be
pertinent to understand the validity of self-determination as a
fundamental human right in a changing historical context. It should not
beviewed only as a clear and present threat to the state.

            "The `contemporary' human rights paradigm is based on the
premise of radical self-determination. Self determinations insists that
every human person has a right to a VOICE, a right to bear witness to
violation, a right to immunity against disarticulation by concentrations
of economic, social and political formations. Rights languages, no longer
so exclusively at the service of the ends of governance, thus opens up
sites of resistance" (Baxi). There is also no escape from democratic
governance, if peoples' alienation is to be addressed at local, national,
regional and global levels.
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:35:44 -1000
From: Leota Souza <tuwahine@hawaii.rr.com>

Mahalo for taking the time to extend such a in depth document to the
people of the free world.

May I comment of the "goodness" on the principles of a civilized order.

With all these humanatarian principles one would think man has manifest
himself above the need for God or a god. One must wonder why with all
these moral conditions there is such turmoil everywhere in the world and
in the hearts of men.

There seems to be versions of international law, law of nations, united
nations and of course the constitutions of nations because their only
compatible characteristics is that these laws do not apply equally.

These principles seem to be of private and public origins. When they
are favorable to the world elite they are public and when unfavorable
they are private, meaning they apply at the benefit realm of the elitist.

The Kingdom of Hawaii belonged to the Family of Nations (Christian
Nations) and look what was done to a country of neutrality.

All these principles make nice lyrics to keep the masses of the world in
step but are contrary to the actual music. Ironically, this practice is
identical to the Congress of the United States who say alot of favorable
words to their people but do different.

But then, the only way out is to use these great principles created
by the devine elite for if one creates their own principles they will be
invaded. For that I thank you for sharing this.

pilipo
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:23:19 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

1.         When the League of Nations was established at Geneva in the
1920s, peoples of the first nations from the USA approached it with the
expectations that their existence would be acknowledged and that due
recognition would be accorded through the then exercises of the principle
of self-determination. It was the period in international political
history when the minorities' existence was acknowledged with due
recognition of their rights. "Their visit to Geneva attracted considerable
attention, but there was no tangible results". Similar efforts were made
in the early years of the United Nations to establish a separate body to
look into the problems of indigenous peoples. It never took off until
1970. They remained invisible peoples as far as the Charter and the
Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Even to-day, there is tremendous
resistance, mostly from the member - States in Asia and the USA, to refer
to them as indigenous people without `S'. Instead, terms like
"populations" or "issues" are employed. Such omissions have aggravated
their sufferings in a number of Asian Countries and elsewhere. One
Sub-Commission expert even recently as the year 2000 stated, that there
are no indigenous peoples in Africa and Asia. Their marginalization has a
very long history in our countries. "In many countries they remain the
most excluded and deprived, with their human rights abused, their land and
natural resources appropriated and their languages and cultures assailed"
(UNDP 2000). The most ignominious human wrongs were perpetrated on them,
even to the extent of criminalising them through colonial cultural
technologies. Such practices have never stopped. Some states even look at
them as "surplus items lined for excision with Occam's Razor"
(Thornberry).

2.         "In the 1950s in particular, the doctrine of self-determination
was used to implicate indigenous peoples in the struggle of some Western
powers to arrest processes of decolonization. Belgium warned the
anti-colonial states about the presence of the indigenous on their
territories, who would in turn claim self-determination. This was intended
to stoke fears, thus militating against greater recognition of the
sub-national. It is ironic that this same principle of self-determination
is now asserted by the indigenous as their birth right" (Thornberry
/Anaya).

3.         In that sense, their existence and recognition through the
Durban Declaration of WCAR 2001 is an important aspect, in spite of
subsequent qualification about `peoples'. Under the victims of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, the Declaration
stated: "32. We recognize that the indigenous peoples have been victims of
discrimination for centuries and affirm that they are free and equal in
dignity and rights and should not suffer any discrimination, particularly
on the basis of their indigenous origin and identity, and we stress the
continued need for action to overcome the persistent racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance that affect them"
(Sept. 2001). And the Durban Programme of Action, especially given the
weak results of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
1995-2004 with regard to standard setting, stated "206 Calls upon States
to conclude negotiations on and approve as soon as possible the text of
the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, under
discussion by the Working group of the Commission on Human Rights to
elaborate a draft declaration in accordance with Commission resolution
1995/32 of 3 March 1995" (September 2001).

4.         "According to some estimates, there are about 400 million
persons in the world who may be characterized as indigenous peoples"
(Stavanhagen, 2002), and in Asia, some estimates may state that about ten
percent of the total population of Asia is indigenous/ tribal. In India
alone, there are nearly 427 indigenous communities, each with its own
special language, traditional knowledge and culture. For all of them,
"Land is life. Take away the land and you take away their life". "Our
lands and territories are at core of our existence - we are the land and
the land is us; we have a distinct spiritual and material relationships
with our lands and territories and they are inextricably linked to our
survival and to the preservation and further development of our knowledge
systems and cultures, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and
ecosystem management" (The Kimberley Declaration, Sept. 2002 in connection
with WSSD 2002).

5.         Hence the consistent demand of the indigenous peoples to
exercise their rights to self-determination. At Bali, the Indigenous
caucus in their dialogue paper stated "3. Respect indigenous peoples'
territories and self-determination as a basic precondition for
strengthening the process of partnership and governance for sustainable
development on an equal footing" (Bali PrepCom IV, May 2002). One of the
listeners at this dialogue-plenary at Bali was the Indian Minister of
Environment and Forestry, and whose Ministry currently misusing the
Supreme Court's order of November 23, 2001 is terrorising the Tribals with
eviction. For this Ministry (MoEF), "the eviction of 10 million Tribals
allegedly on 12.5 lakh hectares has become a top priority" (20.09.2002,
the Hindu, Chennai). The Supreme Court order restrained the regularization
of tribals in forest areas". As the writer puts it, "the Supreme Court did
not intend a volte face on previous commitments to social justice for
tribals". The Ministry without consulting the tribals and the Tribal
ministries went ahead with its own circular to all the states seeing "all
tribal people living in any type of forest land as `encroachers'. It
ignored the symbiotic relationship between tribal peoples and forests"
(Frontline, 25.10.2002). The National Tribal Commission of India which was
set up in July 2002 was also bypassed. Sadly, the process has begun and
the resistance to it is rather diffused.

            "Tribals have lived and cared for forest areas for centuries.
Of late, their presence in forests has been challenged, their lifestyles
misunderstood and their existence criminalised so as to label them
trespassers guilty of encroachment. They have no political edge; and are
defenseless when administration decides to move against them. This is what
is happening today. Tribals are being thrown out of forests. They are
being harassed and beaten" (The Hindu, 20.09.02). They have no right to
existence based on self-determination. Domestic remedies are insufficient
for the Tribals just like the Dalits. India does not acknowledge the
complaint procedure under Article 4 of the International Covenant on
Elimintion of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and has deposited
reservations on Art.1.1 of both iCESCR and iCCPR. Such abuses should be
brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples
at the level of the Commission. Hence the urgency to get through the draft
declaration, where India which does not recognise the term, "Indigenous
Peoples", rather Scheduled Tribes, is still asking for definitions.

6.         The Indigenous and Tribal peoples of Thailand are seriously
affected in their rights to nationality and citizenship. On the 28th of
August 2001, the Thai Government passed a Cabinet resolution that granted
temporary residency rights of one year for tribal and indigenous peoples.
Based on the government survey of 1990-91 and 1999, they were to be issued
with blue and green cards with red border respectively. The surveys
according to reliable reports has mixed lot of people and little progress
has been made on the issuance of ID cards. Actually, these indigenous and
tribal peoples are non-citizens. They are under the constant threat of
deportation from their own lands. In the past, the Thai government has
viewed indigenous peoples and tribals as problems only, and their policies
and practices have been erratic. It has caused innumerable problems to
these peoples. These issues have been brought to the attention both
locally as well as to the Sub-commission expert who is currently studying
the rights of non-citizens. How come that these peoples under the exercise
of self-determination are denied their citizenship rights? Article 15(1)
of the UDHR states, "everyone has the right to a nationality". This is
integral to the existence and recognition of the Indigenous and Tribal
peoples of Thailand. It would be important to know what is happening to
them after 28th of August 2002 - the resolution dateline.

7.         At the sixteenth session of the Working group on Indigenous
populations at Geneva (27-31 July 1999), "the observer for Myanmar said
that his country was a union that comprised 135 national races and that
all of them were indigenous in the truest sense of the word : there were
no distinct early comers or late colonizers. Accordingly, the problems of
indigenous populations as such did not exist in Myanmar".
(E/CN.4/Sub.2/1998/16 dated 19.08.1998). In fact, the very title,
"Myanmar" does not acknowledge Burma's ethnic diversity. The present
military regime has followed a rigorous policy of forced assimilation,
"thus engendering a dis-identification process". The same is also the case
with Japan.

8.         On 29 October 1997, the Philippine government adopted the
Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (Republic Act No.8371) which among other
things has key provisions on land and resource rights, and the right to
self governance. While these legal standards are laudable, some indigenous
representatives from the Philippines said that "the Act did not give the
necessary recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples,
and that Philippine indigenous peoples therefore were not satisfied with
the new law. They pointed out "the high costs and difficult procedures
involved in obtaining land titles. They also criticised the appointment by
the President of the members of the national commission on Indigenous
Peoples (WGIP, 1998)". As the Special Rapporteur has pointed out, "In the
two Asian Countries (Malaysia and the Philippines) specific legislation
regarding indigenous peoples provide a legal and institutional framework
for effective human rights protection, yet problems of implementation
remain" (58th CHR, 2002). He intends visiting these two countries.

9.         "The Indigenous Peoples of Malaysia, or Orang Asli, are not a
homogenous group. There are at least 95 sub groups, each with their own
distinct language and culture. However, they are all marginalised
socio-economically and culturally in Malaysia. Politically, the natives of
Sabah and Sarawak are in a relatively better position". One of their
central problems is the dispossession of their lands and forests. Besides,
there is a strong policy orientation towards assimilation. "The 1954
Aboriginal People's Act has many weaknesses and is not favourable to the
Orange Asli, giving them only tenant rights over their customary land".
(Malaysian HR Report, 1998). Where could one locate their exercising their
right to self determination? "Land rights are more than the name
suggests-they are about resources, religious practices, and fundamental
senses of community belonging". (Thornberry)

10.        It was the Sub Commission, more than any international entity
that has all along taken up rigorously the question of the treatment of
indigenous peoples. Even today, annually the Working group on Indigenous
Peoples of the Sub-Commission meeting at Geneva, remains the largest forum
of the UN for the indigenous peoples. This year, there were nearly 1200
representatives. A sizable number were from Asia. The Working Group
followed the first ever study of Indigenous Peoples by Mr.Jose R.Martinez
Cobo from 1973 to 1980. The Working Group was established in 1982 to look
into matters pertaining to the promotion and protection of indigenous
peoples and to design an international legal framework concerning their
rights. The Working Group decided it would be open and accessible to all
representatives of indigenous peoples, NGOs, IGOs and Governments. It
established a fund to facilitate their participation. The first session
took up cases related to physical destruction of indigenous communities
(genocide) and cases of destruction of indigenous cultures (ethnocide).

            The Second World Conference to Combat Racism in 1983 at Geneva
proposed that Governments should recognize and respect the basic rights of
indigenous peoples. This was an important step towards their visibility at
the World level. The Conference came up with the programme of Action with
specific elements, and was endorsed by the General assembly. Some of them
were;

-           to call themselves by their proper name and to express freely
their own identity;

-           to have official status and to form their own representative
organizations;

-           to maintain within the areas where they live their traditional
economic structure and way of life; this should in no way affect their
right to participate freely on an equal basis in the economic, social and
political development of the country;

-           to enjoy freedom of religion or belief

-           to have access to land and natural resources, particularly in
the light of the fundamental importance of rights to land and natural
resources to their traditions and aspirations; and

-           to structure, conduct and control their own educational
system". (The United nations and Human Rights, 1984). (This text was not
effectively promoted)

            One of the priority areas for the Working Group was to prepare
a draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, to be adopted and
proclaimed by the General Assembly. At its eleventh session in July 1993
the Working Group agreed on a final text for the draft declaration and
submitted it to the Sub-Commission. The Sub Commission adopted the draft
text in 1994 and submitted it to the Commission, by its resolution
1994/45. "The draft declaration consists of 19 preambular paragraphs and
45 articles. It also foresees mutually acceptable and fair procedures for
resolving conflicts or disputes between indigenous peoples and states. The
draft declaration further provides that the rights mentioned in it
constitute the minimum standards for the survival and well-being of the
indigenous peoples of the world". It is now under consideration at the
Working Group established by the Commission. The progress is incredibly
slow, since 1995. The year 1995 also marks the launching of the
international decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (1995-2004).

            "The Working Group has been cautions in response to the
numerous situations in which serious violations of human rights have taken
place. In practice, however, the group has paid attention to violations
and has discussed them under the following headings: (a) the right to
life, to physical integrity and security; (b) the right to land and to
natural resources; (c) the right to autonomy or self determination and to
political institutions; (d) the right to develop cultural traditions,
language, religious practices and way of life, and (e) economic and social
rights". (Asbjorn Eide, 1992).

            In recent years, the studies component of the Working Group
has ventured into a number of crucial areas - Education and languages
(1998), Health (1998), Land Rights (1999), Treaties (1999), Indigenous
Children and Youth (2000), Right to Development (2001), Energy and Mining
(2001), Sovereignty over natural resources (2002), Traditional knowledge
and Intellectual property rights, and Protection of their Heritage.

            The Second World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 in its
programme of Action, in the framework of the decade, called for the
establishment of a permanent forum for indigenous peoples in the UN
system. The Commission took seven years to agree on this proposal. In
2000, the ECOSOC approved the decision to establish a forum, at the level
of ECOSOC itself. The first session was held this year. The Durban
Programme of Action (2001) highlighted one of the serious drawbacks by
stating. "203 request states to ensure adequate funding for the
establishment of an operational framework and a firm basis for the future
development of the permanent forum on Indigenous issues within the united
nations system.

            This year, at the 58th session of the Commission, the Special
Rapporteur on Indigenous, Issues submitted his first report without any
worth while discussion.

            Above all self determination remains the pivotal right around
which all other matters can be regulated. As James Anaya puts it,
"self-determination requires confronting and reversing the legacies of
empire, discrimination and cultural suffocation".

MINORITIES     

1.         "To diehards who have developed a kind of fanaticism against
minority protection I would like to say two things. One is that minorities
are an explosive force, which, if it erupts, can blow up the whole fabric
of the State".

            The above quotation from Dr.B.R.Ambedkar was made when the
Indian constitution was being formulated. He cited further: "The history
of Europe bears ample and appalling testimony to this fact". In fact,
Europe was dragged into two major world wars, the underpinnings of which
can be traced to minorities, one way or the other. Minorities have been
"the site of innumerable human suffering" (Derrida) throughout the 20th
century all over the world under a variety of names including the infamous
"ethnic cleansing". Their conditions formed a key feature of the League of
Nations in international political history, eventhough limited to Central
and Eastern Europe. The minorities in the rest of the World simply did not
exist through colonial cultural technologies.

2.         "The League of Nations lacked any provisions which expressly
guaranteed human rights, but it is worth noting that it extended the
jurisdiction of international law in two respects. First, it established a
mandate system for administering the former colonies of states that had
been defeated in the first World War, with the victorious (mandated)
powers charged with running these territories and under a duty to ensure
the protection of rights, such as freedom of conscience and religion (Art
22 of the LON covenant). And, secondly, Art.23 of the Covenant of the
League of Nations, which provided that the populations of the mandated
territories should be treated fairly, was one reason why a number of
Balkan and Eastern European States signed five special minorities treaties
at the end of the First World War. These treaties guaranteed the rights of
those who belonged to a racial, religious and linguistic minority and, as
the Council of the League of Nations had the power to ensure that states
compiled with new obligations, minorities were accorded limited (albeit
unprecedented) recognition under international law". Indeed, it was a
major step. But, "in the wake of events before 1945", the entire edifice
collapsed, yielding once more to "innumerable sites of human suffering".

3.         Perhaps as a precautionary principle, the rights of minorities
was elbowed out of the UN Charter and the UDHR. However, on the same day
of the UDHR, the GA stated that "the UN cannot remain indifferent to the
fate of minorities". And, following the Charter, in 1947, the
Sub-Commission on prevention of discrimination and protection of
Minorities was established. It was not for a uniform solution as the
League of Nations. Eventhough, the Sub-Commission was drawn towards" the
prevention of discrimination", already in 1953, the Sub-commission alerted
the UN to the protection of any minority, not just racial but also ethnic,
religious and linguistic minorities, which might be created in the new
states or along the new boundary lines between states. These
considerations were given effect in Article 27 of the ICCPR, drafted by
the Sub Commission. The Article 27 as drafted, stated : "In those states
in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons
belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right in community
with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to
profess and practice their own religion, or to use their own language".
This remained the only legal norm specifically for minorities till 1992
without any particular institutional framework for implementation except
the HRI.

4.         The Sub-Commission also showed the difference between
non-discrimination and minority rights. The emphasis was more on "equality
of treatment' under prevention, and that, "(2). Protection of minorities
is the protection of non-dominant groups which, while wishing in general
for equality of treatment with the majority, wish for a measure of
differential treatment in order to preserve basic characteristics
(differential treatment of such groups and individuals belonging to such
groups is justified when it is exercised in the interest of their
contentment and the welfare of the community as a whole)" (E/CN4/52).
(Some would like to call it as Special measures).

5.         In this connection, as Prof. Thornberry puts it, "the effect of
the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(1951) was equivocal. Genocide was a crime of group destruction (a denial
of `the right of existence of entire human groups' - GA Res 96/1946)". It
was an important step towards further steps on culture and ethnicity.
However, minority rights in terms of standard setting were locked into
cold war arguments" (Thornberry).

6.         A major step in that direction was initiated through the
studies of Mr.Frances Capotorti, Special Rapporteur at the level of the
Sub-Commission. He made an attempt to interpret the term, "minority" as -
"a group numerically inferior to the rest of the population whose members
- being nationals of the state - possess ethnic, religious or linguistic
characteristics differing from those of the rest of the population and
show, if only implicitly, a sense of solidarity towards preserving their
culture, traditions, religion or language". Mr.Caportorti suggested that
the indigenous peoples must be treated separately. He called for a draft
declaration on the rights of members of minority groups - a process
beginning in 1978 continued till 1991. Concerns were expressed on how "to
facilitate the peaceful and constructive resolution of situations
involving minorities" (Ms. Pailey). And the Commission through its Working
Group since 1978, completed the task in 1991 of drafting the Declaration
on Minorities.

7.         Until 1989, there was no agreed text of the Declaration. "It
was characterized by a singular lack of enthusiasm and progress", at the
level of the Commission. (Eide). Time and again, debates on definition of
minorities paralysed the process. In 1985, another expert, Jules Deschenes
of the Sub-Commission presented a comprehensive analysis, and proposed
that "a definition should exclude (a) indigenous populations, (b)
non-citizens, and (c) oppressed majorities". His definition of a minority
was, "a group of citizens of a State constituting a numerical minority and
via non-dominant position in that state endowed with ethnic, religious or
linguistic characteristics which differ from those of the majority of the
population, having a sense of solidarity with one another, motivated, if
only implicitly, by a collective will to survive and whose aim is to
achieve equality with the majority in fact and in law". The Sub-Commission
experts had differing views, and it was passed on to the Commission. As
Prof.Eide has pointed out, "it is now apparent that no general,
authoritative definition of minorities will be adopted by the United
Nations in the foreseeable future". He also mentioned that "the
Declaration on the Elimination of all forms of Religious Intolerance"
(1981) has some implicit consequences for the protection of religious
minorities", in particular Art.6 of the Declaration (Eide).

8.         At its 47th session, the General Assembly adopted the
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to national or Ethnic,
Religious and linguistic minorities (Res.47/135). More than anything, for
all categories of minorities, the Declaration affirmed, after more than
four decades and "innumerable sites of human suffering", `minority rights
are human rights".

9.         Lacking binding standards and specific procedures, the
situation of minorities continues to be precarious. As the UNDP-HDR 2000
states, "perhaps the most persistent weakness of majoritarian democracies
is discrimination against minorities and worsening of horizontal
inequalities. A critical challenge is to integrate minorities and address
horizontal inequality". The same report in other sections had pointed out
that horizontal inequalities in majoritarian democracies are central to a
number of on going conflicts. The Report stated that studies on acute
horizontal inequalities have also identified 267 minorities particularly
at risk across the world. The Achilles heel of today's majoritarian
democracies is the systematic and consistent exclusion and marginalisation
of minorities. The scale and extent may differ, but the histories of
India, Indonesia, Israel, Nigeria, Russia, the UK and the USA - to name a
few - show that minorities suffer serious discrimination and are far
removed from substantial equality. This constitutes an important
`democratic deficit'.

10.        Minority rights are meant to protect groups against threats
from majoritarian decision making procedures. The threats typically
include (UNDP-HDR 2000).

-           exclusion from public participation.

-           by passing of the rule of law

            ^Õ           what rights for the protection of minorities in
the Constitution? - not only procedural rights but also substantive
rights.

            ^Õ           How well does the political system protect these
rights in practice?

-           Oppression: today the rise of religious intolerance in several
countries is imposing alien cultural practices on minorities and in some
societies intolerance towards those wishing to practice their religion is
a denial of the right to freedom of expression.

-           Impoverishment : forced dislocations from resource-rich areas
and livelihood opportunities. Actions of the majority to further its
economic interests at the expense of minorities.

-           Violence against minorities: a burning political issue. Even
with constitutional protection, minorities can face threats.

-           Arbitrary exercise of power (UNDP 2000). The Report recommends
strongly a rights based, inclusive democracy.

            Governments do recognise the urgency in dealing with these
threats. As the Indian observer once emphasized at the Working Group on
Minorities of the Sub-Commission, `the importance of protecting the rights
of minorities and the fact that such protection contributed to the
political stability of the state in which those lived'
(E/CN-4/Sub2/2000/2).

11.        The Working Group on Minorities established in 1995, at the
level of Sub-Commission is meant to find adequate and effective methods
for the promotion and protection of minority rights. It has produced a
detailed commentary of the Declaration of 1992, prepared by Mr.A.Eide. The
Group has been addressing a number of thematic matters related to those
rights including language rights, cultural autonomy, existence and
recognition of minorities, right to public participation etc. At these
sessions which are open-ended, the five experts do listen to a number of
desperate situations confronting minorities, besides academic debates. The
Group is not empowered to handle complaints. This deserves urgent
rectification, at least through special procedures particularly to deal
with flagrant human rights abuses confronting minorities. The domestic
remedies till date have been ineffective. The problem has to be addressed
at both levels, domestic and international specifically regarding a number
of Asian countries. The Asian region has no regional mechanisms to deal
with human rights including minority rights, except "building blocks",
that may eventually lead to some new regional approaches.
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28. Winona LaDuke speaking even Hawai'i and Oahu
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:09:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Nancy Redfeather <nancyredfeather@yahoo.com>

Attached is a beautiful poster for Winona and Friends who will be in Kona
this Thursday January 10 at 7pm at Christ Church Hall at the corner of the
Konawaena High School Road, and in Hilo the following night, Friday
January 11. Hope to see you all there! Please send this on to everyone
you know who cares about the future of food and farming on Hawai'i island.
Mahalo!

Aloha,

Nancy
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29. Lynette Cruz speaks in Berkeley, CA
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:06:17 -1000
From: Kepalo <kepalo@hawaii.rr.com>

The Berkeley Daily Planet
Web www.berkeleydailyplanet.com
TUESDAY, JAN. 8

Native Hawaiian Independence with Lynette Hiâ^À^Ùilani Cruz with Hawaiian
music, crafts and food, at 7 p.m. at Redwood Gardens Community Room, 2951
Derby St. 548-6310.

Lynette Cruz and Ku Ching spoke to a lively crowd of 25 people at this
event in Berkeley last night--a very good turnout after a day of cold
pouring rain. Amy Marsh brought really good hot food, including sticky
rice, and it was obviously appreciated--all of it disappeared.

As Gabe Welford, her sister Jane, and Jane's son Aland struggled to put
together a power point projector, Lynette talked and answered questions
about the true history leading up to Queen Liliuokalani's provisional
resignation from the throne of the constitutional monarchy of Hawai'i.
She began by addressing the falsehood of Cook being the first non-Hawaiian
to "discover" Hawai'i and Hawaiians, and ended with the falsehood of the
annexation of Hawai'i. She and Ku answered questions from the audience,
some of whom already knew the history, whereas others knew very little or
nothing.

Once we got the projector going, Lynette showed a powerpoint presentation,
with beautiful photographs, on the flow toward unification of opposites
which she had noticed on a recent visit to Kahoolawe. Some of the
opposites were male/female; war/peace; state/ people; heaven/earth;
directions.

Everyone stayed the full three hours and lingered afterwards asking more
questions and talking to each other. A man who came to hear music (we
couldn't get the cd machine to work), told Lynette his view of the history
had been changed forever.
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30. The Heart to Forgive - Reclaiming our Relationship after Infidelity -
Wed. Jan 9th
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:58:51 -1000
From: Global Media Productions <info@globalmediaproductions.com>

IS INFIDELITY FORGIVABLE? Come and find out what newly published author
Mimi Gabriel describes in THE HEART TO FORGIVE - Reclaiming our
Relationship after Infidelity.

This self help book written as a novel depicts a real life experience in
the author's marriage. It is designed to help others heal after the trauma
of betrayal.

On Wednesday January the 9th, at 7 pm, the author will sign copies of her
book available in both hard cover and paperback at her family Maui Meadows
residence.

Please RSVP by calling 832-381-7214.

Mimi Gabriel - Motivation In Motion, International (MIMI)
Author of THE HEART TO FORGIVE - Reclaiming our Relationship after
Infidelity
now available at www.IUniverse.com or at www.Amazon.com

Worldwide VOIP: 281-466-4085, Wireless in the US: 832-381- 7214
Please visit my website at www.thehappiestwoman. net
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31. chalmers johnson (blowback) on charlie wilson's war -- imperialist
propaganda -- what's being suppressed? - comment
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:27:56 -1000
From: Leota Souza <tuwahine@hawaii.rr.com>

It is amazing how subliminal their messages are, yet they are intentional
so that the presenter can brag how well they fooled the masses. They tell
the masses what they are doing but the doing is so ridiculous it is viewed
unbelievable so that the viewer thinks it did not really happen.

"To influence the viewer at a unconscious level" It is a version of Parker
Brother's Chess where us pawns are needed so the game can go on, and on,
and on and on. Never suspecting but dying to play.

pilipo
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32. The Sexism and Racism in the Democratic Nominee Race!
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:42:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Fallon Wilson <wilson_fallon@yahoo.com>

Please read the newsletter below. It includes an essay Jessica D. and
myself wrote it deals with the 2008 Presidential race--Black Women
Teetering between Two Identities.

Fallon W.

Pssst.....Did you Notice Hillary is a Woman?
by Two Black Feminists, Jessica D. and Fallon W.

Last Thursday night I was glued to CNN as Wolf Blitzer and company
announced and analyzed the results from the Iowa Caucus. While Obama^Òs
rousing victory speech about ^Óhope^Ô and ^Óchange^Ô made me beam with
pride, it was that image of Obama^Òs daughters^×two little black girls
with puffy, unruly hair^×taking the stage with him that made me want to
shout. Despite the fact that I^Òve yet to decide which of the Democratic
candidates will get my vote in my state^Òs primary, I know that this
moment is a historical one. A black man winning the Iowa Caucus? Can
America get anymore white than Iowa ? If it^Òs possible to elect a Black
man in Iowa then maybe America is r-re-ready for^Å

Wait a minute. Before I get too far into adding my two cents to the
political pundit banter about what Obama^Òs race means for the
presidential election, let me stop myself. Without a doubt, the narrative
of race that is unfolding within the presidential race is important. By no
means can we dismiss Obama^Òs struggles with proving to Black people that
he is ^ÓBlack enough^Ô while also having to prove to white people that he
is not ^Ótoo Black^Ô (at least not the Jessie Jackson ^ÓBlack^Ô of ^Ò84 or
^Ò88). Yet my identity as a Black woman, one who often teeters on that
tightrope between being Black and woman, means that the racial dynamics
are not the only thing I^Òm watching closely. Hey, Uh, has anyone noticed
that Hillary Clinton is a woman? Going by the analysis of most political
pundits and journalists, it would seem that this tidbit of information
means nothing beyond the question of whether women will vote for Clinton
in sweeping numbers. But regardless of what mainstream media would have us
to believe, gender, like race, presents something more to this election
than the question of whose votes will go where. Clinton ^Òs bid for
president opens the floodgate of questions about what is at stake for a
woman seeking a leadership position.

To begin, Clinton ^Òs ^Ólikability^Ô has often been brought into question
over the course of the race. Compared to Obama^Òs fresh-faced charismatic
persona and Edwards^Ò down-home southern boy drawl, Clinton seems stiff,
unapproachable and ^Ótoo serious.^Ô But given the gendered politics of the
country we live in, can she really afford not to be? While inspirational
sermonic calls for change that border on the second coming of Martin
Luther King, Jr. mean likability for Obama and Edwards, such strong
appeals to emotion can mean defeat for Clinton. By virtue of being male,
Obama and Edwards can make emotional appeals while their ability to be
strong, aggressive, and unwavering (characteristics that Americans want in
president) remain in tact. Not so for Clinton . The Hillary Clinton
campaign knows that if Clinton were to tout those same sermonic speeches,
she would quickly be on the verge of being portrayed as too emotional
(read: too feminine), less serious, and a bit irrational, automatically
forfeiting her perceived ability to govern as president. This is why
^Óexperience^Ô means so much to her campaign. Because she is a woman,
Clinton ^Òs campaign must hinge on more than an abstract vision of change
and a charming smile

As I continue to follow the gendered dynamics of the presidential race,
there are a couple of other things that bring this conversation about the
role of gender in the presidential campaigns to the fore. For instance,
isn^Òt it also interesting that even when some voters are weighing the
advantages of having Clinton as president, they somehow bring Bill Clinton
into the picture? Am I the only one who finds the idea that, ^ÓIf we vote
for Hillary, we^Òll bring Bill back in office^Ô a bit insulting? We are
talking about a woman who has shown through her time in the Senate that
her politics do not begin^×nor do they end^×with her husband. And what
about all this hoopla surrounding what bloggers and reporters are
referring to as Clinton ^Òs ^Ómost public display of emotion during her
campaign^Ô when she ^Óteared up^Ô during a speech yesterday at a New
Hampshire coffee shop? I don^Òt see anyone measuring John McCain^Òs level
of emotion over the course of his campaign, nor did we see this same rush
of news stories about presidential candidates and their tear ducts after
Mitt Romney showed the same level of emotion as Clinton during a Meet The
Press interview.

But, let^Òs be real. This post is really not about Hillary Clinton or the
presidential elections. At least, not entirely. It^Òs really about the
realities that most women face when in leadership positions, regardless of
whether they are in politics, the academy, the church, corporate america
or community organizations. Many Black women have more than a few stories
about how, as leaders, we have thought twice about coming across as too
emotional, too affectionate or too assertive, too bitchy (and too Black )
in order to be taken seriously. But at what cost? Could it be that being a
woman in leadership means sacrificing our authentic selves in order to
settle for a life of wondering if we are ever good enough, better yet
^Óman enough^Ô to lead.

This post is apart of a larger historical narrative of Black women who
have examined how both sexism and racism affect their ability to live
their lives. During tumultuous and violent times, women like

Sojourner Truth , Harriett Tubman , Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells ,
Ruby Doris Smith , Ella Baker , Fannie Lou Hammer , Pauli Murray , Barbara
Smith , Audre Lorde rendered critiques about what it meant to be black,
what it meant to be a woman, and what it meant to be a black woman. Given
their critiques often they were ostracized and chastised by the Black
community for airing what most Black people considered to be the dirty
laundry that sexism does exist in the Black community. It^Òs just not a
white woman^Òs issue. Writing this post concerning the gender dynamics of
the current presidential race pays tribute to the women mentioned above
who understood all to well what it meant to be seen as a black woman when
trying to lead many to freedom.

For More Essays, Articles, and Video about the Sexism and Racism evident
in the 2008 Presidential Nominee Contest, please click on the links below.
*

www.somethingwithin.com/blog/

*

www.youtube.com/watch

* documentthesilence.wordpress.com/
* diaryofananxiousblackwoman.blogspot.com/
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33. 01-17-08 - comment
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:15:40 +0000
From: hanalei Fergerstrom <warhawaii@hotmail.com>

I am happy to hear of the events planned for at the Iolani Palace
and would like to participate with you in any way can.

Similarly, I will be set up on the grounds from the 15th -20
where we hold a vigil during the time there. We do set up a camp in the
back of the Palace by the fountain. We stay there until the 20th. If
anyone would like to join us... bring your tents and family and stay with
us.

This vigil is its 7th year. We do it to honor our ancestors.
Kamehameha l for founding our Kingdom and Queeen Liliioukalani for the
preserving for us the legality necessary for the reinstitution of our
Kingdom government.

This would be a perfect time to bring your mana'o down to share
with one another. We have much more that binds us together than divides
us.

Think of the picture that is painted .... 10-40 tents set up
at the palace for a week as we take the time to learn from one another.
We as a people have such a wide data base of information.

We encourage you all to come... sleep at the palace.. talk
story..share your vision.... share you hope ... display you faith.

Should you want to call me about what we are doing.. call me
at 938-9994.

Aloha Ohana,
Hanalei Fergerstrom
Temple of Lono

Please share this info
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34. Needle Exchange Poll on Medscape
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:08:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Bonnie Fergusson <fergyb2@yahoo.com>

Dear Friends of Needle Exchange,

Medscape is currently conducting a poll about approval of needle
exchange (in response to Bush's signing a bill allowing DC to fund a
needle exchange with their own money). You can go to
http://www.medscape.com/px/instantpollservlet/vote?PollAnswer=1&PollID=2562&URLForRequest=%2Fpx%2Finstantpollservlet%2Fresult%3FPollID%3D2562%26BackURL%3D%2Fpx%2Finstantpollservlet%2Fresult%3FPollID%3D2562&vote=Vote
to weigh in on the approval side. An easy way to support needle exchange.
Thought you'd all want to know.

Love,
Bonnie
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35. Brazillian Dance Classes in Kailua on Weds.
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:53:12 -1000
From: tuamoree dibiase <dhirad@hotmail.com>

Aloha All

You do not want to miss this opportunity
to study with another of Hawaii's most inspiring dancers.
Yahoooo!!!

Brazilian dance class w/
Instructor: Carmen Linhares

Incorporating various styles of dance from Brazil;
*
Afro Brazil
*
~~Samba
*
~~~Orixa
*
focus on choreographed dances
No experience necessary [smile_regular.gif]

Carmens dance background includes:
African, Brazilian, Haitian dance- 25 years, Capoeira "instrutora"

Classes: Wednesdays 6pm- 7pm
Kailua Movement Studio
159 Hekili Street across from old Kailua Movie Theater

Cost: 10 class card $125 or 15 per class,
Introductory 1st class free this month
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36. DU hearing on January 17 8:30 am Capitol room 309
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:58:22 -1000
From: Hawaii for Kucinich 2008 <kucinichhawaii@earthlink.net>

When I was at the Capitol yesterday, I saw a hearing notice posted for a
briefing by the Army about DU and their plans for dealing (or not dealing)
with it. The briefing is January 17 8:30 am Room 309. I thought you and
the rest of those concerned with this issue might be interested.

Peace,

Erik Kvam
Hawaii for Kucinich 2008
kucinichhawaii@earthlink.net
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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:50:35 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2008

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY AFFAIRS
Rep. Cindy Evans, Chair
Rep. Sharon E. Har, Vice Chair

Rep. Marilyn B. Lee
Rep. Joseph M. Souki
Rep. Sylvia Luke
Rep. Dwight Y. Takamine
Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey
Rep. Roy M. Takumi
Rep. Bob Nakasone
Rep. Lynn Finnegan
Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto
Rep. Kymberly Marcos Pine
Rep. Alex M. Sonson

COMMITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Chair
Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair

Sen. Fred Hemmings

DATE:
January 17, 2008

TIME:
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

PLACE:
Conference Room 309
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

The purpose of this informational briefing is to review the U.S. Army's
four-point plan on Depleted Uranium:

â^×^Ï To provide all information obtained to the Hawai'i Department of
Health in a timely manner.

â^×^Ï To partner with the state in the planning and execution of an
extensive survey and monitoring effort during the summer of '07 to address
Schofield Barracks' range, Makua Military Reservation and Pohakuloa
Training Areas.

â^×^Ï To partner with the state in the planning and execution of a
mutually agreed upon response.

â^×^Ï The U.S. Army will provide any necessary training to state
participants.

This past year the U.S. Army partnered with the state in planning and
executing an extensive survey and monitoring effort. Col. Howard Killian,
U.S. Army Deputy Director of the Army Installation Management Command,
will report on it's findings and Col. Killian will advise on a timeline
and actions the U.S. Military plan to inform and protect the public.

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids and/or services to
participate in the House public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign
language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the
Committee Clerk at 586-8510 at least 24 hours prior to the hearing for
arrangements. Prompt requests submitted help to ensure the availability
of qualified individuals and appropriate accomodations.

For further information, please call the Committee Clerk at 586-8510.

Selected meetings are broadcast live. Check the current legislative
broadcast schedule on the "Capitol TV" Web site at www.capitoltiv.org OR
call 550-8074.
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37. The People Of Kaua`i Cry For Help On "Voices Of Truth - On-On-One With
Hawai`i's Future."
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:08:54 -0800
From: Free Hawai`i <freehawaii@earthlink.net>

Aloha `aina,

We want to bring you an update on one of our recent guests on Voices Of
Truth - One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.

Ka`iulani Edens-Huff, who was featured on our recent Radio Free Kaua`i
segment, was taken off the air at KKCR radio and her weekly show, Songs Of
Sovereignty, cancelled.

Moreover others staffers calling for her reinstatement were also removed
from the station.

KKCR, which broadcasts from Kaua`i but can also be heard on parts of
O`ahu, is not a commercial radio station but community owned and run.

It was the vision of the late John Butch Kekahu III, founder of the Koani
Foundation.

Butch knew the importance of media without restrictions.

What has now become very clear is KKCR management's real purpose in all of
this - to silence Ka`iulani's weekly message of a Free Hawai`i.

But instead of us telling you the rest of the story, here are the people
of Kaua`i themselves.

Take a look - http://FreeHawaii.Info

We at the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network call for Ka`iulani's immediate
reinstatement. We consider it outrageous her voice would be silenced.

If you agree, here's how to help regardless of where on earth you live.

Email KKCR station management at kkcr@kkcr.org or call them toll free at
(866) 275-1112.

Demand the immediate reinstatement of all who have been silenced and let
them know you support a Free Hawai`i.

The voice of the people is indeed the basis for strong community whether
it's on local radio or the world over right here on Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.

MONDAY, January 7th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, January 11th At 5:30 PM -
Hawai`i Island - Na Leo, Channel 53
TUESDAY, January 8th At 6:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, January 9th At 6:30 AM -
Maui - Akaku, Channel 53
THURSDAY, January 10th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, January 11th At 8:30 AM -
Kaua`i - Ho`ike, Channel 52
"Hidden In The Forest - A Visit With Dr. Baron Kaho`ola Ching"

Deep in a rain forest in Nu`uanu Valley sits one of the most remarkable
sites in all Hawai`i.

Imagine a place lost in time and space to the modern world - Kaniakapupu.

A palatial summer residence for Kauikeaoli, Kamehameha III, Kaniakapupu
was built over one hundred seventy years ago spanning twenty thousand
acres.

Ka La Ho`i Ho`i Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day, was celebrated on the
site in 1843 with over ten thousand guests attending.

Several key documents in Hawaiian history were drafted there and many of
Hawai`i's future rulers visited the residence as children.

Then time swallowed up and forgot Kaniakapupu until one day a few years
back Baron cut through thick bamboo forests to rediscover it for himself.

What he saw stopped him in his tracks.

Since then, Baron has overseen the caretaking of this astounding place
that time forgot.

Whatever you do, don't miss our visit with Baron to Kaniakapupu. One of
the most unique places in all of Hawai`i, you'll go with us hiking through
dense rain forest as we come face to face ourselves with the ancient
residence and artifacts left untouched for almost two centuries in this
incredible voyage of rediscovery that is sure to take your breath away.

SATURDAY, January 12th At 8:00 PM - O`ahu - `Olelo, Channel 53 "Out Of The
Box - A Visit With Hinaleimoana Wong"

Since she was last on Voices Of Truth Hina Wong has been, well, busy.

An educator at two charter schools in Hawai`i, Hina delivers the kind of
education students crave - and can get virtually nowhere else.

"You don't have to go far from home to be successful," is the message she
gives her students at Halau Lokahi charter school on O`ahu and another one
on the island of Kaua`i.

Teaching Hawaiian cultural values, she helps her students answer the
question, who are we as Hawaiians?

Yet don't for a minute think it's only native Hawaiians, as students of
all ethnicities attend because, as Hina reminds us, her schools mirror the
multicultural population of the independent Hawaiian nation before it was
illegally overthrown.

The impact her curriculum has had on her students is both profound and
lasting. For the first time they see they don't have to assimilate to be
successful.

Bring your entire `ohana together and watch our visit with Hina as she
reminds us the children of Hawai`i really don't have to go and live
somewhere else to make it economically. As she herself says, "we want our
people to live and thrive right here."

Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to
discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants
in the hopes of inspiring viewers to do the same.

If you missed a show, want you see your favorites again or you don't live
in Hawai`i, here's how to view our shows anytime - visit
VoicesOfTruthTV.com and simply click on the episodes you wish to view.

And for news on issues that affect you, watch FreeHawaiiTV.com.

Ho`oku`oko`a,

`Ehu Kekahu Cardwell
The Koani Foundation
Visit www.FreeHawaii.Info
Watch www.FreeHawaiiTV.com
"Voices Of Truth" now online - www.VoicesOfTruthTV.com
The Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network
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38. Free Hawai`i TV - "People Power 2008"
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:58:23 -0800
From: Free Hawai`i <freehawaii@earthlink.net>

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS
FREE HAWAI`I TV
THE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK
TODAY'S VIDEO COMMENTARY -

"PEOPLE POWER 2008"

People Power In Hawai`i Was Alive & Well In 2007.

Here's How To Make Sure You Have A Voice In 2008.

To View Visit http://FreeHawaiiTV.com
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39. DU under international law
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:50:50 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

DEPLETED URANIUM
Statement on Depleted Uranium

E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/NGO/16 - Discusses use in Iraq and legal implications.
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Fifty-fifth session, 14 July 2003 The Illegality of DU Weaponry

Note: This is a Word document. Prepared for the International Uranium
Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16 - 19, 2003. Statement at
conference, November 2000 in Manchester U.K. Report on Depleted Uranium
Munitions 1999 report on radiological weapons. Depleted Uranium and the
War in the Gulf 1997 statement to U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

< http://www.webcom.com/hrin/parker.html >
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40. three Olelo shows related to demilitarization
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:41:35 -1000
From: Kyle Kajihiro <keboi@aol.com>

Three community television programs related to demilitarization in
Hawai'i.  The first is footage of the Makua vigil for peace held just
after Christmas.  The other two are related to a gathering of the Military
Toxics Project in Washington, DC.

Begin forwarded message:

Cherisse Lum 1/6/2008 4:07:10 PM >>>

Makua Vigil
All on Channel 53
2/8/08  Fri 8:00 am 
2/9/08  Sat 10:00 pm    
2/15/08 Fri 4:00 pm 
2/16/08 Sat 10:00 pm    

MTP @ Washington DC: Christine
All on Channel 53
2/7/08  Thu 4:00 pm 
2/8/08  Fri 10:30 pm    
2/14/08 Thu 4:30 pm 
2/21/08 Thu 10:00 pm

MTP @ Washington DC: MTP Speakout
All on Channel 53
2/7/08  Thu 4:30 pm 
2/14/08 Thu 4:00 pm 
2/15/08 Fri 10:30 pm    
2/21/08 Thu 10:30 pm
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41. Lingle stonewalls Auditor's investigation on ferry
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:49:04 -0500
From: DLIMay7@aol.com

Aloha midPac Peaceniks,
The writer's comment on Fred Hemmings' chiming in to defend "Iron
Lady" Lingle is right on. Perhaps Fred is taking a page right out of Slimy
Dick Cheney's playbook--you know, he can be part of the Legislature when
it suits him, but he isn't part of it when he accuses Auditor Higa as
doing the bidding of those(i.e., the State Legislature) who appointed her!
Me thinks Fred should stick to just giving advice on surfing instead?

Peace & Imua, Danny

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From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:36 am
Lingle stonewalls Auditor's investigation while ferry changes course

Companion piece:
http://disappearednews.com/2007/10/lingle-military-and-superferry.html
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Lingle, the military, and the Superferry by Larry Geller

The link between the Superferry and military interests is clarified in
this comment by ConcernedOnMaui to a post on David Shapiro's Vocanic Ash
blog. I know it's bad form to steal a whole comment from another blogger,
but I've not seen anything this well stated, so I steal with great
appreciation and admiration:

> Letâ^À^Ùs be clear about the persons and interests that are behind the
Hawaii Superferry.

> > The Board of Directors of the Hawaii Superferry reads like a roster >
of revolving door ex-military officials. Like John F. Lehman, > former
Secretary of the Navy and founder of the investment firm JF > Lehman, a
company that specializes in investing in military > industries with a
controlling interest in the Superferry.

> > Lehman is associated with the
Heritage Foundation, the notorious > Right Wing think tank that
intellectually and politically > influenced such anti-Native Hawaiian and
anti-environmental groups > as the Grassroots Institute, Pacific Legal
Foundation and Aloha for > All. He is also associated with the Project for
a New American > Century, the folks that cooked up the illegal and
catastrophic > occupation of Iraq and a blueprint for U.S. Empire (well,
they > euphemistically called it â^À^ÜPax Americanaâ^À^Ý).

> > Lehman
proudly announced that the Hawaii Superferry would partner > with the
military as a â^À^ÜWestpac Expressâ^À^Ý to shuttle Strykers and > other
military personnel and equipment between islands and beyond. > The first
Westpac Express was a contract between the U.S. military > and the Austal
Corporation, makers of the Superferry, to move U.S. > military personnel
and equipment around Australia and Southeast Asia.

> > According to
testimony from Sean Connaughton, Maritime > Administrator of the U.S.
Department of Transportation before the > House Subcommittee on Seapower
and Expeditionary Forces of the > Armed Services Committee (March 15,
2007), U.S. taxpayers > subsidized $140 million of the $180 million price
tag for two > Superferries through Title XI loan guarantees. > >

Connaughton said that â^À^ÜAlthough the Administration has not > requested
funding for new loan guarantees since 2001, Congress has > periodically
appropriated money for this purpose.â^À^Ý He seemed to > suggest that the
Superferry was another pork barrel earmark project.

> > Further he
stated,â^À^ÜThe ferries are also militarily useful and > [Transportation
Command] has expressed an interest in them. The > Hawaii SuperFerry
vessels will be offered for enrollment in the > Voluntary Intermodal
Sealift Agreement, or VISA, program.â^À^Ý

> > Like the Strykers and the
UARC, the Superferry is a conspiracy by > politicians, the military and
corporations to impose their profit > and military driven agendas on
Hawaiâ^À^Øi over the opposition of > affected communities and regardless
of the ultimate costs, > consequences and impacts. Kauaâ^À^Øiâ^À^Ùs
powerful assertion of their > right to live in peace and protect their
island from invasive and > destructive forces is an example we can all
learn from.

> > Want to ride the Superferry next to DU-contaminated
Strykers while killing whales on the way?

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http://disappearednews.com/2008/01/lingle-stonewalls-auditor-investigation.html
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Lingle stonewalls Auditor's investigation while ferry changes course
by Larry Geller

I thought Charles
Memminger was in charge of jokes at the Star- Bulletin. But he didn't
write this, appearing in the article, Superferry to have 2 Maui trips
daily: Hawaii Superferry President John Garibaldi said the company needs
more time to work with the Kauai community before resuming service there.

This is so deep! First, it's not clear that Garibaldi has really even
begun to work with the Kauai community. But the real laugh is that our
newspapers continue to dutifully write down whatever Garibaldi says.
Company officials said they are still meeting with communities on Kauai to
ensure a safe and successful resumption of operation. Have I missed
something (it's possible)? Where and when did these meetings take place,
who conducted them ("company officials", maybe?), how many attended, why
didn't the Star-Bulletin report on them? Were they successful? Do Kauai
citizens now feel more comfortable with the prospect of Superferry service
to their island? Why am I asking this instead of the reporter??
Journalism suffers when reporters don't even ask softball questions.
From the same article: Maui Mayor Charmaine Tavares said she is
"disappointed" in the decision and that the company did not consult with
the Maui community. You'd think that this would be a "hint" to the
reporter that claims of outreach and caring for the community could and
should be questioned. Nevermind, probably the assignments are just to
record what they say, and so what is a poor reporter to do. The Tavares
"disappointed" quote is not a result of reportorial digging, the Mayor
sent out a press release yesterday. The traffic study concerns mentioned
in the article were also in the press release. The story does have some
meat: Meanwhile, state Auditor Marion Higa said the Lingle administration
has not released many of the documents her office has requested for an
audit on the decision to start the ferry service without an environmental
study. Higa said she will not be able to meet a March 2 deadline to
complete the audit because the documents are still being reviewed by state
attorneys. In a separate article we learn that Lingle may be emulating
George Bush again by claiming "executive privilege" and not releasing
documents: State Attorney General Mark Bennett said his office has
released thousands of pages to the auditor, but all the information the
auditor wants must be reviewed before it can be released. Bennett said
his attorneys have to go through each page and e-mail to determine if they
include legal advice requested by a state official exercising
attorney-client privilege. "It's a huge request," Bennett said. "We have
made it a large priority. We have not been treating them as unimportant."
Higa said disagreements have also arisen about whether Lingle and
department officials can claim "executive privilege" in restricting access
to documents. "They can make those claims. It depends on how they apply
those claims," Higa said yesterday. Higa, speaking this week during a
Senate Ways and Means briefing, said since November she has received only
one of 30 boxes of documents requested from the Lingle administration.
The last laugh was reading that once again Sen. Fred Hemmings has jumped
in to defend Lingle: State Senate Republican Minority Leader Fred
Hemmings said the Democrats have used the audit to thwart and harass the
Lingle administration. Hemmings accused Democrats of micromanaging the
executive branch of government. "Marion Higa is the legislative auditor
and obviously doing the bidding of those who appointed her," Hemmings said
yesterday. For many of us, Marion Higa is as close to a saint as we have
in state government. Hemmings also separates himself from the rest of the
Legislature, you'll notice. Higa is also his auditor, after all. Could
Hemmings' example of what it is to be a Republican in Hawaii be part of
why there are now so few of them? Ok, getting serious again, maybe the
Superferry "company officials" are happy enough with the thought that
they don't have to run to Kauai to pick up the small number of passengers
who might sign up. It's a good excuse to make a second (more profitable?)
run to Maui. You'd think that they would at least have discussed this
with Maui folks (government and community). Next time a paper reports on
their "outreach" I'll be busting a rib laughing so much. Sorry, I was
trying to be serious, really. See, bloggers have more fun. We'll never
know if avoiding Kauai is the company's secret strategy, of course. It
would be helpful, in evaluating the future of interisland ferry
transportation, if the papers would report the actual passenger count, not
the numbers fed to them by the company. Independent observers (not
working for the newspapers) have reported low ridership. With air fares
going up a smidge, indeed, more people may ride the ferry. If they don't,
we need to know that too. The ongoing ferry saga is no laughing matter at
all. We could use some serious examination of how the ferry business is
going at present. We also need to look out for the health of island
agriculture, and the invasive species discussion has dropped from media
radar. It shouldn't be ignored. The Varroa destructor bee mites may have
already hopped a ride to Maui. Where's the story on that?
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42. Making Waves series on 'Olelo airdates Jan, Feb '08
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:34:19 -1000
From: Kyle Kajihiro <keboi@aol.com>

Making Waves
Saturday nights, 8:30 - 9:00 PM on Olelo Channel 53 

Making Waves, the series, returns to 'Olelo to address current political,
social and cultural issues in Hawai'i and the world.   

Hosted by Kyle Kajihiro, Ikaika Hussey, and Darlene Rodrgues

The first three shows are:

1. No School Left Unmilitarized
Darlene Rodrigues, Host, and Pete Shimazaki Doktor (Vets for Peace, AFSC
CHOICES project) discuss war, peace and military recruitment abuses in
Hawaii schools, as well as grassroots efforts to promote alternatives to
the military. The program ends with the short video "Before You Enlist".
 
2. Invasion by Sea

Kyle Kajihiro, Host, talks with Kat Brady (Life of the Land) and Marti
Townsend (KAHEA) about the dangers and legal implications of the Hawaii
Superferry project and the proposed Navy range expansion in Hawaii.  

3.  Dirty Secret About UARC

Ikaika Hussey, Host, talks with Kyle Kajihiro about the UH Board of
Regent's decision to approve the UARC, a classified Navy research lab at
the University of Hawaii despite overwhelming opposition from faculty,
students and community and explore the secret and corrupt origins of the
UARC that have been exposed in the report The Dirty Secret About UARC.  

The Series airs Saturday nights at 8:30pm on Olelo channel 53, or can be
viewed on the web at olelo.org. The air dates for the the program follows.

1/5/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA No School Left Unmilitarized
1/12/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA Invasion By Sea
1/19/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA Dirty Secret About UARC
1/26/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA No School Left Unmilitarized
2/2/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA Invasion By Sea
2/9/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA Dirty Secret About UARC
2/16/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA No School Left Unmilitarized
2/23/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA Invasion By Sea
3/1/08 8:30 pm Sat NATV Program TBA Dirty Secret About UARC
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43. William Butler Yeats - poetry
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:52:56 -0800
From: Tia Ballantine <tiaballantine@EARTHLINK.NET>

THE FASCINATION OF WHAT'S DIFFICULT

The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.

--William Butler Yeats
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44. Vice Chancellor candidates coming to campus
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:11:00 -1000
From: UH Manoa Chancellor <announce@HAWAII.EDU>

To our UH Mânoa Colleagues:

It is with great pleasure that we announce the names of the four finalists
for the position of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University
of Hawai^Ñi at Mânoa. In order of their scheduled campus visits, they
are:

1. Susan Bryant, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California,
Irvine
Interview Dates: January 22-23, 2008 (Tuesday/Wednesday)
Campus-Wide Forum Date/Time: Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 4:00 pm,
Architecture Auditorium 205

2. James Staros, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY ^Ö Stony Brook
Interview Dates: January 24-25, 2008 (Thursday/Friday)
Campus-Wide Forum Date/Time: Thursday, January 24, 2008, 4:00 pm,
Architecture Auditorium 205

3. Peter Quigley, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs,
University of Hawai^Ñi at Mânoa
Interview Dates: January 28-29, 2008 (Monday/Tuesday)
Campus-Wide Forum Date/Time: Monday, January 28, 2008, 4:00 pm,
Architecture Auditorium 205

4. Diane Ullman, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs,
University of California, Davis
Interview Dates: January 31 and February 1, 2008 (Thursday/Friday)
Campus-Wide Forum Date/Time: Thursday, January 31, 2008, 4:00 pm,
Architecture Auditorium 205

Detailed information on each of the candidates may be found at
www.hawaii.edu/executivesearch/vcacademicaffairs.

We hope you will be able to join us at the campus-wide forums to meet and
dialogue with each of the candidates. Your evaluation and comments on
each candidate would be much appreciated.

Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw
Vice Chancellor Gary Ostrander
Search Advisory Committee Co-Chairs
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45. GUAM GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL OF ISLAND'S WATER
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:15:29 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>

GUAM GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL OF ISLAND'S WATER
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan

HAGATNA, Guam (Marianas Variety, Jan. 9) - The military will have to
secure a permit from the Guam Waterworks Authority for any future water
service development projects now that the government of Guam has declared
full control of the water resources all over the island.

Public Law 29-51, signed by Gov. Felix P. Camacho last week, declares that
all surface water including streams and river as well as ground water
"belong to all of the people of Guam held in trust by the government of
Guam."

"What this law means is that GovGuam and the people of Guam are asserting
their right and ownership of all the water sources in Guam. Anybody who
wants to tap into these water sources must go to GWA first," said Sen. Ben
Pangelinan, D-Barrigada, author of the nationalist law, which was
introduced in the Legislature as Bill 176.

Under the new law, only GWA is authorized to determine the priorities for
water use, whether for residential or commercial.

"In other words, the military cannot just drill a well and start drawing
water anywhere, anytime. They must go to GWA and get a permit," Pangelinan
said.

P.L. 29-51 automatically locks out the military's access to the water
sources found within its own properties.

"All water rights and rights to use the water shall be determined
according to the (provisions of the new law) and there shall be no
riparian water rights in Guam," P.L. 29-51 states.

The new law, according to Pangelinan, will not have a retroactive
application on Fena water reservoir, which is currently under the Navy's
control.

"But this law will not allow our Fena experience to be replicated,"
Pangelinan said.

"Right now we have a water source controlled by the Navy, which determines
the priority use for the water," Pangelinan said.

The Navy's Fena water treatment plan prioritizes service to the military
community, leaving the civilian population unable to meet its own water
needs, Pangelinan said.

The senator said the enactment of the new law flashes the signal for
GovGuam to step up its efforts to reclaim ownership of the Fena water
reservoir.

"This gives us an opportunity to assert our right and to begin working
with Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo and the (Consolidated Commission on
Utilities) to start building our case for Fena water," Pangelinan said

Marianas Variety: www.mvariety.com
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46. pitfalls & limitations of democracy -- obama vs clinton -- would
voters in hawai'i support or turn down a vote on hawaiian sovereignty?
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:36:19 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

[glen ford: obama would send 100,000 more troops to iraq and spend
billions more on an offensive military rather than defensive military
policy -- this would take away resources that just on the basis of basic
human rights the black community is due.

likewise, if two candidates would campaign in hawai'i in the western way
of 'one man one vote,' then indigenous hawaiian rights would be shunted
aside and downplayed just as obama hasn't allowed freedom fighters like
jessie jackson to be photographed beside him.

maybe this is the old tactic of divide and conquer using the race card
-- the empire as well as the greedy so-called 'free market' priority on
private property (i own the land, i develop what i please, i sell to
whom i please) is watering down the hawaiian ethos, the aloha ethos, the
local vote that would support hawaiian sovereignty by flooding the
so-called democratic one-man-one-vote by a final big push of
transmigration to once and for all demolish whatever voting strength
hawaiians held since the 'monster petition' days of 1897 when clearly
95% of the electorate would've supported reinstatement of the legitimate
hawaiian government.

so unless this so-called democratic constitutional right of free travel
is somehow modified under some kind of international legal opinion and
observation, then con-cons and u.s. presidential elections should maybe
be labeled what they really are -- shibai hiding under the guise of
nice-sounding democratic slogans of 1man1vote when it actually is
tyranny of the majority swayed by racist media, religious leaders, and
educators]

Barack Obama and the African American Community: A Debate with
Michael Eric Dyson and Glen Ford

Does Barack Obama present a hope for dealing with African American issues?
Or has he watered down his platform to appeal to white voters? Georgetown
University Professor Michael Eric Dyson and veteran journalist Glen Ford
debate.

http://www.democracynow.org/ january 9, wednesday, 2008
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Gabrielle Welford, Ph.D.
freelance writer, editor, teacher
welford@hawaii.edu

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