From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>
today AP article: Book proposes return
of crown lands to Hawaiians
I think the PGs also pulled a fast one over the people. The Crown lands
are private lands reserved for the Monarch and his heirs/successors.
This was separate from government lands. They stole it from her and then
agreed to giver her an allowance instead.
This is an approximate amount stated in one report:
Crown Lands 984,000 acres
Konohiki Lands 1,619,000 acres
Govt. Lands 1,495,000 acres
Maka'ainana Lands 28,000 acres
All lands were subject to the rights of native tenants which they could
have partitioned at any time. These were arable lands that they farmed
and lived on (approx. 3 acres) that some sold and most did not partition
but are still able to do so. only 8,421 kuleana awarded -- out of 14,195
applications. Originally the King reserved 1/3 of his share to he and
his heirs; 1/3 he gave to the government; and 1/3 went in lieu of the
commutation fees for his lands. Therefore, the Crown lands are private
lands stolen from the queen and her heirs or successors. It could not
have been lawfully ceded but confiscated by the PGs who may have divied
it up amongst themselves. It would be good to look into that.
Too much hanky panky went on even up to today.
Tane
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From: kekahunakeaweiwi@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:43:36 -0700
Another pawn in the OHA Campaign to throw smoke over the real
picture.
Hawaii is over 4 million acres....less the Kuleana Properties, less than a
million....the rest of the lands are crown & govt. lands which leaves over
3 million acres...now the State and Feds say about 1.8 million was "ceded"
by the Republic of Hawaii....Where is/what happened to the rest of the
over 1.2 million acres?
This is the kind of facts needs to be put into the amicus brief.
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:18:20 -0400
From: kahiwal@cs.com
29 States urge U.S. Supreme Court
to Hear Hawaii ceded lands case - comment
"Isaac D. Harp" <Imua-Hawaii@Hawaii.RR.Com> wrote:
>Aole, that's why I asked the question, who knows how to do this legal
>maneuvering stuff.
>
>Paka
I sure as heck don't know how. However, I bet it would be a hairy thing
to do - what with all the citations needing to be made and all done
"correctly."
Professor Boyle has probably written many of these things. Wonder whether
he might have the time to do one.
It seems that the 29 states who are backing the so-called state of hawai'i
- have a history so blatently different from Hawai'i's that their
principle arguments shouldn't count.
After all - Hawai'i is the only state that was an independent member of
the family of nations and had "royal" beginnings. Also - that the u.s. and
its state of hawai'i have no good title to the so-called "ceded lands" -
as the so-called Republic of Hawaii attempted to cede them - BUT had no
real title that it could cede.
Therefor - the state has an "EMPTY" title - if it has any title at all.
AND - if it doesn't have good title - How can it sell the lands?
On the other hand, the state may be a trustee to the lands - if we let it
- as it is trustee over mythical lands without having good title. If
anything - it seems to me - that under "trust" law - that any transactions
done by the trustee MUST result in benefits to the beneficiary(ies) of the
trust - which I would argue MUST benefit ALL beneficiaries.
ku
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In This Issue:
Recalls today ...
The Children's Place Camouflage Pajama Sets
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Crate and Barrel 'Remy' Shag Rugs
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Progress/Thomasville Ceiling Lights
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Backyard Leisure 'Adventure' Swing Sets
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The Land O'Lakes Purina Feed plant in Fremont, Neb., has initiated a limited
voluntary recall of two lamb feed products due to higher than acceptable
levels of copper. http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/landolakes06_08.html
ETHEX Corporation notified healthcare professionals of a voluntary recall of
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91762) due to a report of a tablet with twice the appropriate thickness.
Oversized tablets may contain as much as two times the labeled level of
active morphine sulfate. The lot was distributed by ETHEX Corporation under
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illness, and may be less likely to determine that a tablet is overweight or
oversized than an unimpaired individual. If consumers have any questions
about the recall, they should call their physician, pharmacist, or other
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FDA 'Inaction' Blamed for Salmonella Outbreak. Critics say feds have been
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Southern 'stroke belt' killing tourists, too. People in three southern
U.S. states are facing a health threat no one can explain: an abnormally
high risk of suffering a fatal stroke - even among tourists just visiting
the region
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Why is New York giving away its rights to determine public health
standards? Ralph Fucetola JD says in his blog: "We have to think about the
cowardice and stupidity of our elected representatives and ask why they
are willing to surrender state sovereignty to the dominion of Big Pharma's
lies, while surrendering our well-being. They are turning the Police Power
of the State into the Police State of Power!"
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2008/06/ny-mandates-pharma-forced-vaccine.html
Under the current ACIP vaccination schedule, children between the ages of
birth and 7 years receive 47 doses of vaccines! No science shows this is
either safe or effective.
By age 18 the total is 67 vaccine doses for boys and 70 for girls
(including the absurd and dangerous HPV vaccines). No science shows this
is either safe or effective. Quite a lot of science shows that it is
neither.
New vaccines are being added at a furious clip: there is no profit in
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they be administered? Well, how about compulsory vaccination for you, too?
Under the same agency's recommended schedule, if you manage to survive to
age 70 and you have been unlucky enough to be "fully vaccinated", you have
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of 160 doses (men), 163 for women. And that doesn't even begin to deal
with "special" vaccines like smallpox, "Avian Flu" or other "Pandemic"
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President Bush has proposed military quarantines of whole sections of the
population re: Avian flu or other pandemic. Oct. 2007 executive order from
President Bush that directed HHS to establish a task force to plan for
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condition," with both "incident" or "condition" not defined nor limited.
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Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:52:08 -0400
From: Glenn Welker <ghwelker3@comcast.net>
Subject: Serious New Attacks Against Zapatistas
School children and community members drawn into confrontation
Mexican Military Threatens Zapatista Communities
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Gloria Muñoz: "Soldados y policía intentaron entrar a La Garrucha" "El
pasado 4 de junio pudo ser un día fatal. Unos 200 soldados del Ejército
federal, Seguridad Pública, policía municipal y agentes de la PGR
intentaron entrar a La Garrucha. Luego se dirigieron a los pueblos de
Hermenegildo Galeana y San Alejandro, en la misma región, donde fueron
repelidos por mujeres, hombres y niños armados con palos, piedras y
resorteras; es decir, armados de coraje y dignidad. Dentro de la cascada
de agresiones . . ." *Haz clic para leer este artículo escrito por Gloria
Muñoz*
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Haz clic para leer la denucia Zapatista
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Mexican troops and police threaten food supply in La Garrucha On June 4,
2008 some 200 Mexican troops and police engaged in aggressive actions
against Zapatistas in the Patiwitz Canyon of the Lacandon Jungle.
Specifically the heavily armed military / police convoy entered the corn
and banana fields surrounding Zapatista communities. This threat to the
communities' only food supplies provoked a desperate response by Mayan
boys and girls, women, and men.
Schools for Chiapas supports educational projects in this region and can
testify that the Zapatistas neither grow nor tolerate drugs. Using the
false pretext of searching for marijuana plants, these actions of the
Mexican government against the key Zapatista caracol of La Garrucha and
nearby communities are extraordinarily disturbing. The soldiers promised
to return in 15 days; Schools for Chiapas believes the consequences of
continued Mexican government provocation against the Zapatistas could be
profound.
Click to read Indymedia's translation of the Zapatista denouncement
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To people of conscience ~ Chiapas "Peace Observers" are Needed NOW! As you
see in the above article, there are ongoing and serious Mexican government
provocations against the Zapatistas. Peace Observers play an important
role, especially in tense and potentially explosive situations. Most
atrocities committed against indigenous men and (especially) women that
take place far from the observing eyes of the outside world. Your presence
as a witness and an observer for peace helps prevent such attacks.
You can support the indigenous communities of Chiapas by joining a
"Civilian Observation Brigade" and spending seven or more days of rustic
living in a rural "hot spot" of Chiapas. "Peace Observers" must be at
least 18 years old, speak Spanish fluently, and participate in a training
sponsored by *FrayBa Brigade Requierments*
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(El Centro de los Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas) or *CAPICE
Brigade Requierments*
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(Centro de Análisis Político e Investigaciones Sociales y Económicos).
Your only expenses will be for transportation and the food you cook.
Schools for Chiapas urges our supporters to consider contacting FrayBA or
CAPISE and serving as a "Peace Observer" this summer in Chiapas, Mexico.
*"Brigadistas Civiles de Observación" están necesitados ~ AHORA! * Tu
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de Observación" y tomar siete días o mas viviendo rústicamente en uno de
los comunidades en peligro. Brigadistas Civiles tiene que tener 18 anos,
habla fluente el Español y participar en un taller patroneado por FrayBA
(El Centro de los Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas *Requisitos
del Brigada FrayBa*
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o CAPISE (Centro de Análisis Político e Investigaciones Sociales y
Económicos *Requisitos del Brigada CAPISE*
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Tus unicos gastos será el transporte y la comida que cocinarás durante tu
tiempo viviendo cerca de una comunidad indígena. Sirviendo como
"Observador de Paz" en una manera importante de apoyar la comunidades
indígenas en Chiapas. Escuelas Para Chiapas se urjan nuestros bases de
apoyo de contactar a FrayBA o CAPISE.
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Make a difference by coming to Chiapas In the current situation, it is
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Chiapas trips involve rustic living in breathtakingly beautiful locations
with interesting and involved people from many countries. Some trips
include a service component (construction, cleaning, and painting) and all
of our travel programs only visit areas which are safe. Occasionally trips
are based in comfortable city hotels with day trips to the autonomous,
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Sunday, July 20 until Saturday, July 26, 2008
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Sunday, August 3, 2008 until Saturday, August 9, 2008
*Trip #75: Indigenous Autonomy and the Zapatistas *
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Sunday, August 10 until Saturday, August 16, 2008
* Trip #76: Zapatista Reforestation, Fruit, and Medicinal Tree
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Sunday, August 17 until Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:15:28 +1200
From: karaka <chooky.clarke@gmail.com>
Louise Nicholas' book now out
McNamara got off too lightly says parole challenge lawyer
The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Peter McNamara "got away" with a pack rape for 16 years but the delay in
prosecution should not have resulted in his serving a shorter jail term,
the lawyer for his victim has told the High Court at Wellington.
In a rare challenge, the victim is asking the court to quash the Parole
Board's decision to free McNamara.
Her lawyer, Nikki Pender, said it was repugnant that law changes should
benefit McNamara, who offended with former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob
Schollum at Mt Maunganui in 1989.
If he had been caught at the time of the rape, McNamara, who was then a
surf lifesaver, would have been forced to serve two-thirds of his
sentence.
But by the time he was convicted in 2005, he was a successful businessman
and parole law had changed so that he became eligible for parole after
serving one-third, while still being sentenced at the lower levels that
applied in 1989, Ms Pender said.
McNamara served 29 months of a seven-year term. He was freed by the
Parole Board in January and allowed to return to his Bay of Plenty home.
His victim, whose name is suppressed, has the support of the Sensible
Sentencing Trust in the case. She was in court but McNamara was not.
Schollum and Shipton have their own parole battles. Last month Shipton
was refused parole and last week Schollum gained a reconsideration of his
failed parole bid.
Ms Pender advocated a wider concept of community safety that focused more
on harm and distress that McNamara's lack of remorse or acknowledgement
of wrongdoing had caused.
But McNamara's lawyer, David Jones, QC, said even the victim agreed
McNamara was not going to reoffend, so the main consideration of the
Parole Board - that the offender was not an undue risk to the safety of
the community - was satisfied.
It seemed to boil down to her being disgruntled and upset about his
release and so concluding that the decision must be wrong, Mr Jones said.
The board had to apply objectivity and reason.
The board's lawyer is expected to present its case today.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4579425a6479.html
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:37:26 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>
Subject: FW: Latest ship strike scientific papers
All,
I need to figure out how to get a .pdf file into a blog, but until then I
want to get these out. They are three recently presented scientific
papers regarding ship whale strikes. They are forwarded by Greg Kaufman
who is at the meeting where these papers are being presented. At a
minimum, Larry and/or Ian, can you do a blog post of these documents in
their entirety; Andrea, Juan, Karen, Lee feel free to put them up too.
Aloha, Brad
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:46:29 -1000
> From: Greg Kaufman
> I am currently at IWC Scientific Committee mtg in Santiago Chile --
these papers were just presented.
>
> Spread them around.
[ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM 1MB. ]
[ Part 3, Application/OCTET-STREAM 384KB. ]
[ Part 4, Application/PDF 23KB. ]
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:33:42 -0400
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Subject: Disappeared News - 2 new articles
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES
1. Officer testimony--in their own words--shows why Tasers should not be
given to untrained Hawaii police who falsely claim they are
non-lethal
2. Must see: Bill Moyers keynote address
3. More Recent Articles
4. Search Disappeared News
Officer testimony--in their own words--shows why Tasers should not be
given to untrained Hawaii police who falsely claim they are non-lethal
by Larry Geller Taser Loses 1st Product-Liability Suit; Jury Awards $6
Million By Margaret Cronin Fisk June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Taser International
Inc., the largest stun-gun maker, lost a $6.2 million jury verdict over
the death of a California man who died after police shot him multiple
times with the weapon. The defeat is the first for Taser in a product-
liability claim. A San Jose,....
Must see: Bill Moyers keynote address
by Larry Geller Videos of Bill Moyers' keynote address at the fourth
annual National Conference for Media Reform are currently very hot on the
web. You can catch his brilliant address on Youtube, at the Conference
website, or on Democracy Now. As conglomerates swallow up newspapers,
magazines, publishing houses and broadcast outlets, news organizations
are folded into entertainment divisions.....
More Recent Articles
* A shot across the bow of the Superferry: The Superferry Chronicles
due to be published
* Innovation? In Hawaii it's just a word
* Breaking news--sun rises, wind blows
* Could Lingle be McCain's VP?
* Hawaii State Bar Association considering Superferry boondoggles
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:59:09 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>
Subject: "Didn't the state waive attorney-client privilege..."
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2008
'Didn't the state waive attorney-client privilege...'
I've got a lot of stuff to post, including some things I noticed in the 2
most recent OTF committee meeting reports, the most recently presented
scientific papers on ship-whale collisions, and information on the
Cultural Impact Assessment being done on the harbors including for
Nawiliwili harbor. But, Derrick Depledge came through with a good article
today, so we'll cover that for today and two other lawyer blog comments on
that and save the others for the next few days.
First, from Derrick's article:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008806100355
Posted on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 'Lingle keeps lid on Superferry records;
Administration cites both attorney-client and executive privilege' By
Derrick DePledge Advertiser Government Writer
'The Lingle administration, citing attorney-client privilege and executive
privilege, has declined a request by The Advertiser to publicly release
hundreds of e-mails and other documents related to its decision to exempt
the Hawaii Superferry project from environmental review...
State Attorney General Mark Bennett's office, in a written response to
questions from The Advertiser, said the state routinely declines to
release information requested through the open-records law because of
attorney-client privilege...
State Senate Majority Leader Gary Hooser, D-7th (Kaua'i, Ni'ihau), who
wanted an environmental review of Superferry, said...'It seems clear that
there was a legal analysis and the Lingle administration needs to provide
that,' he said. 'And, I would think, that if the legal analysis supported
their position, they would have provided it already.'
...State Rep. Marcus Oshiro, D-39th (Wahiawa), who aggressively questioned
administration officials about Superferry last year, 'I had hoped for and
expected them to be more forthcoming...' Oshiro, an attorney, said he does
not see any justification for the administration to withhold a legal
analysis of whether an exemption was warranted, or discussions about
strategy related to an environmental review, because of attorney-client
privilege. He said, since the decision itself has been ruled an error by
the Supreme Court and is no longer the subject of any Superferry lawsuits,
the only reason for the administration to withhold the documents is to
avoid embarrassment...'They Really Messed Up'...Oshiro described the
administration's use of executive privilege as even more extraordinary. He
said executive privilege is rarely invoked nationally and he can recall no
previous time it has been used in Hawai'i to deny lawmakers or the public
records linked to a public-policy decision. 'Either way, they really
messed up on this one,' he said. 'If they did not ask for a legal opinion,
they were negligent. If they did ask for a legal opinion and they did not
follow that, they were grossly negligent.'
Now, about the lawyer blog commentaries on this. First, the shorter one
pointed out to me:
http://paisleyesquire.blogspot.com/2008/06/deliverance.html Tuesday, June
10, 2008 Deliverance
When the Superferry lawsuit was going down, I hated saying I went to law
school. People I didn't even know would start complaining to me about how
environmentalists were making Hawaii look hostile to business. They'd tell
me, businesses will see how Hawaii treats companies and they won't want to
bring any projects here ever again. But now the debate has shifted.
Today's Superferry news about the state administration holding back on
legal analysis of preferential treatment for the Superferry makes Hawaii
look like a tiny, rural, backwater
state.http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200806100100/NEWS01
/806100355. It gives Hawaii the appearance of being one of those gross
little places where people get ahead by greasing government officials. It
makes Hawaii look a little like the government regulatory version of
Deliverance. I'm sure anyone would rather pay for an EIS than squeal like
a pig.
And second, a fairly detailed legal analysis about whether the states
actions waived attorney-client privilege on this matter: From:
http://planetkauai.blogspot.com Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Recommend reading
this full blog entry at: Didn't the state waive attorney-client privilege
when it gave an email to the newspaper? Posted by Charley Foster
'Derrick DePledge has an interesting piece in the Advertiser this morning
about the paper's attempts to get at legal advice the AG rendered to the
administration concerning the requirements of an environmental review for
Superferry related harbor improvements...
The protection of the attorney-client privilege, like other privileges,
may be waived or relinquished. The client is the holder of the
attorney-client privilege and, thus, the person ultimately entitled to
decide whether to claim or waive it...
...Certainly it seems arguable to me that this sort of disclosure is 'the
disclosure of 'any significant part' of a communication' which therefore
'waives the privilege and requires the attorney to disclose the details
underlying the data which was to be published.' According to the article,
'The state Office of Information Practices denied an appeal by the
newspaper to revisit a 1991 ruling that found that advice and counsel from
the attorney general to state agencies is protected by the privilege and
excepted from the open-records law.' But it sounds to me like the
newspaper miscast the request. Why ask the OIP to 'revisit' a ruling -
impliedly asking the OIP to overturn the ruling - when what you really
want the OIP to do is enforce the ruling in this case. I would have argued
that under the 1991 ruling the state waived attorney-client privilege in
the Superferry environmental report issue when it passed along to the
newspaper at least one email from the client discussing the attorney's
advice.'
One last thing, a good audio file that came out today of recent interviews
from Kauai on this:
Published: June 10, 2008
'Sea Of Controversy For Hawaii's Superferry'
'For decades, people who wanted to get from one Hawaiian island to another
have had one main option: flying. So when plans were unveiled for a
high-speed ferry between the islands, Hawaiians and tourists were
initially thrilled. But growing concern about the Superferry's potential
environmental impact has turned the issue into one of the state's biggest
legal battles in years. The Environment Report's Ann Dornfeld reports June
9, 2008.' Listen to it here:
http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php3?story_id=4051
Aloha, Brad
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:24:31 -0700
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:12:16 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Fed/State admission of
illegal takeover
interesting. from another list.
----- Original Message ----- From: Cory (Martha) Harden
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:36 PM
Is the text below the first admission of the illegal takeover of Hawai'i
in a Federal or State document? (other than the Apology Bill) Compare with
the recent Navy EIS, where they said US presence is legal.
This is from p. 45 of the Papahanaumokuakea Draft Monument Management
Plan, prepared by two Federal agencies (Fish & Wildlife, NOAA) amd State
Dept of Land & Natural Resources.
In 1893, Queen Lydia Lili^Ñuokalani was overthrown by the self-proclaimed
Provisional Government of Hawai^Ñi, with the assistance of U.S. Minister
John L. Stevens. Five years later,in 1898, the archipelago, inclusive of
the NWHI, was collectively acquired by the United States through a
domestic resolution, called the ^ÓNew Lands Resolution.^Ô
... The Apology Bill acknowledges the wrongful role of U.S. officers in
the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai^Ñi and ^Óapologizes to Native
Hawaiians on behalf of the people of the United States^Ô for the unlawful
overthrow and the ^Ódeprivation of the rights of Native Hawaiians to
self-determination.^Ô It also recognizes that ^Óthe health and well-being
of the Native Hawaiian people is intrinsically tied to their deep feelings
and attachment to the land."
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:34:33 -1000
From: Viviane Lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
Subject: ***With GM taro bill, legislators catered to big business
http://www.molokaitimes.com/articles/8610145347.asp
With GM taro bill, legislators catered to big business
By Dr. Hector Valenzuela
6/10/2008 2:53:47 PM
Now that the dust has started to settle after the end of another
legislative session, the public can once again be reassured that our
representatives put aside the public interest in favor of directives
given to them by big business, and the large land owners in the state.
A key bill that illustrates this point was SB-958, which called for a
10-year moratorium on research to genetically engineering (GE) the
taro plant in Hawaii. The GE of taro, in the laboratory, consists of
inserting foreign exotic genes containing DNA from bacteria, viruses,
antibiotics, and from other plants, into every cell of the taro
plant. Hawaiians were fervently opposed to this, as they consider
taro to be a sacred plant, and part of their genealogy.
Adding to the cultural concerns, critics were opposed to this
research because of the health and environmental risks of releasing
an exotic GE taro into the environment. A problem with the open
release of living forms is that once the genie is taken out of the
bottle, there is no more bringing it back inside. If future studies
reveal that GE taro causes serious health or environmental problems,
it would be impossible to recall because it is indistinguishable from
traditional varieties.
In addition GE taro would likely contaminate non-GE plantings
throughout the state. Contamination has been observed virtually in
all parts of the world were GE varieties are grown. In Mexico, were
corn is considered to be a sacred plant, native species in remote
areas were found to be contaminated by GE varieties from the U.S.,
despite the fact that GE corn is not approved for planting in that
country.
But we don^Òt have to go as far as Mexico. In Hawaii the extensive
contamination of traditional varieties was found only a few years
after UH released the UH Rainbow GE papaya. The GE companies so far
have been unwilling to take responsibility, nor to compensate
farmers, for the widespread contamination of traditional varieties,
throughout the word.
In support of the moratorium were a large group of native Hawaiian
and civic organizations, the Associated Students of the University of
Hawaii at Manoa, Kam Schools, the County Councils from the Big Island
and Kauai, members of the Maui County Council, many farmers, and all
the kupuna and taro farmers from Waipio Valley, adding to over 7,000
letters of support for SB-958.
Despite this overwhelming public support for the moratorium, the
legislature not only killed the bill, but earlier added a preemptive
clause that would have prevented individual counties from enacting
any local legislation restricting the planting of ANY GE crops on
their counties.
In opposition to this bill, the assigned spokesperson for the out-of
state companies was a person of Hawaiian ancestry, and an employee of
Dow Chemical, a global chemical and seed company. Unlike supporters
of the bill, who were cut short after only a few minutes of
testimony, he was allowed ample time to talk about his family roots,
and about his company^Òs long-term commitment to the community.
However, in his testimony the spokesperson for these chemical and
seed companies didn^Òt mention what citizens in other parts of the
world, feel about his company^Òs commitment to community. One such
community would be Bhopal, in India, where a chemical explosion in
1984 left over 23,000 dead, and today a third-generation of victims
from chemical exposure.
Community groups, 24 years after the incident, are still calling for
a clean-up of the toxic waste and of the contaminated ground water
supply. Some of the company^Òs shareholders, including the New York
City Pension Funds are also requesting that the company address the
issues that linger in Bhopal.
----------
Hector Valenzuela is a Professor and Extension Specialist at the
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of
Hawaii at Manoa
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:56:25 +0000
From: Poetry Hawaii <poetryhawaii@hotmail.com>
Subject: Youth Speaks Hawai'i Benefit Fundraiser
ALOHA EVERYONE! (PLEASE THIS FORWARD EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW)
we at Youth Speaks Hawai'i, (in partnership with the ARTS at Marks, a
project of the Hawai'i Arts Alliance,) will be having our first ever
(possibly annual) Fundraiser Dinner Show: "(Brave New Voices) Bring the
Noise!" on Sunday, June 29th, 2008. we are trying to raise money to help
send the 2008 Youth Speaks Hawai'i Slam Team, plus adult
Mentor/Chaperones, to this year's International Brave New Voices Youth
Poetry Festival held in Washington DC in July. After just 2 previous years
of participating in these annual Brave New Voices International Youth
Poetry Festivals, last year's 2007 Youth Speaks Hawai'i Slam Team finished
the festival ranked 5th in the world! So this summer (our 4th), HBO (Home
Box Office) has sent a camera crew to make a documentary following the
2008 YSH Slam Team on their journey to this year's Brave New Voices
festival.
Since some of the airlines closed shop, the remaining airlines hiked their
prices up considerably, while our annual budget, set aside for the trip at
the beginning of the year, remained the same. Now we need to raise
$4,000.00 before the start of the school year. So, we are circling the
wagons, calling in favors and throwing a party, and everybody we know is
invited!!!
come join us for some great food, poetry and live music
--HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
Youth Speaks Hawai'i presents
"(Brave New Voices) Bring the Noise!"
$30 Fundraiser Dinner Show
@ The ARTS at Marks Garage - in Chinatown (www.ARTSatMarks.com)
doors @ 6pm
pupus, dinner & show to follow
there will performances by:
- the 2008 Youth Speaks Hawai'i Slam Team (Alaka'i Kotrys, Ittai Wong, Jamaica Osorio, Jocelyn Ng, & William Giles)
- the 2008 Hawai'iSlam Team (Dar'ron Cambra, Kealoha, TravisT, & Tui-Z Scanlan)
- Makana (renowned guitar virtuoso)
- Tempo Valley (local Hip-Hop/Funk/Soul/Reggae band)
- Jon Osorio (UH Hawaiian Studies Dept Professor, award winning singer/songwriter)
- DJ Mr. Nick (KTUH, NextDoor & 39Hotel resident DJ) will keep music on rotation
- Licious Dishes (raw vegan kitchen featured in the Honolulu Star Bulletin & MidWeek) will be catering some of the evening's food
- Super Special Guests (from Seattle's Blue School,) will be making a "surprise" Hip Hop appearance
PLUS there will also be a SILENT AUCTION* and WINE BAR* available throughout the night as well
--$30 tickets are available @:
1.) ARTS at Marks: 1159 Nuuanu Ave. (& Pauahi St.) Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96817 #: 808.521.2903(p), 808.521.2923(f), email: info@ARTSatMarks
2.) Revolution Books: 2626 South King St. (near University Puck's Alley) Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96826 #: 808.944.3106
3.) by phone: 808.753.4661, or by email: Travis@YouthSpeaksHawaii.org
4.) Or MySpace.com/YouthSpeaksHawaii
--WANNA HELP, (BUT CANT MAKE IT?)--
if you are interested in supporting Youth Speaks Hawai'i, but can't make it to the Fundraiser
there are still a number of ways for you to help make a difference in the lives of Hawaii's youth
1.) you can WRITE US A CHECK.
ANY amount helps, make the check out to: the Hawaii Arts Alliance, memo: Youth Speaks Hawai'i
and mail it in to us @ Youth Speaks Hawai'i, 1159 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96817
(receipts are available for tax write off puposes)
2.) DONATE an item of value, or certificate for service to our *SILENT AUCTION.
AND we'll take anything you're willing to give us.
just contact TravisT: 808.753.4661 or email: Travis@YouthSpeaksHawaii.org and he'll come and get the item(s) from you
its as easy as that. (receipts are available for tax write off puposes)
3.) DONATE a bottle or two for our *WINE BAR.
red, white, whatevers, if its alcoholic, we'll take it.
just contact TravisT: 808.753.4661 or email: Travis@YouthSpeaksHawaii.org and he'll come and get the item(s) from you
its as easy as that. (receipts are available for tax write off puposes)
attchd is a printable version of our Bring the Noise! poster, please feel free to spread the word
and PLEASE THIS FORWARD EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, seriously
Thanks
and I'll see you folks on Sunday, the 29th. word
(and June's LASTuesdays re:VERSES before that)
YOUTHSPEAKS!!!
peace
TravisT
Outreach Director, Youth Speaks Hawai'i
ps. --WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUTH SPEAKS HAWAI'I?
YOUTH SPEAKS HAWAII
Founded in 2005, Youth Speaks Hawaii is the local chapter of the nation's
leading nonprofit presenter of spoken word performance poetry, education,
and youth development programs. At Youth Speaks Hawaii young writers 13 to
19 years old are speaking their own messages through the powerful medium
of spoken word slam* poetry to many of their urban and suburban peers.
We, at Youth Speaks Hawaii are absolutely committed to providing youth
with as many opportunities as possible to develop and publicly present
their voices in a variety of media - from live performances and theater,
to videos, books, cd's, television & the internet.
At Youth Speaks Hawaii, the voices of youth matter. Politically aware,
critically engaged, and unafraid to speak, youth are moving themselves
into positions of power - claiming voice when they've been voiceless, and
access where they've been sidelined. Because the next generation can speak
for itself.
YSH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- YSH has been running free weekly poetry workshops for youth, every
Wednesday of the school year from 4-5:30pm at The ARTS at Marks Garage, in
the gallery district of Honolulu's historical Chinatown. The Wednesday
workshops continue through the summer months of June, July & August.
- YSH has sent 3 youth poetry slam teams (6 poets a team, 12 youth from 7
different Oahu high schools, 6 mentors & 5 parent chaperones) to the past
3 annual Brave New Voices International Youth Slam Festivals held in San
Francisco (05), New York City (06), & San Jose (07), where out of 40 teams
representing 36 different cities throughout the world, the 2007 YSH slam
team placed 5th in the rankings.
- YSH poets have performed their poetry in over 32 venues (from Oahu to
Oakland to New York City) including 20 different Hawaii schools, from
intermediate to university campuses, from Manoa to Maui & Hilo.
- YSH poets taped a nonsmoking commercial in conjunction with the state &
other agencies in the winter of 2006, which has aired statewide on
television through the summer & fall of 2007.
- YSH has published 2 slam poetry journals or chapbooks ("Spread the Word"
volumes 1 and 2,) as well as put out a cd (entitled "Spoken Words")
- YSH has received support, grants & funding from such charitable
organizations as the Hawaii People's Fund, the Starbucks Foundation, the
Hawaii Arts Alliance, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts,
GiRLFeST, the re:VERSES Poetry Collective, the American Lung Cancer
Association & The ARTS at Marks Garage.
- YSH has run 5 one semester long Artist Residencies in 3 Oahu high
schools. Sending a YSH Mentor as a once a week supplement to help
facilitate the teaching of creative writing and spoken word slam poetry in
the classrooms of different English teachers. Thereby sharing & spreading
the YSH pedagogy.
- YSH has held 3 annual Interscholastic Poetry Slams, involving 6 schools
each sending a team of 4 poets to represent and compete for top honors in
front of audiences 600 people large.
_________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:03:12 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Blood Quantum Issue
Aloha kakou, The up coming appeal of the recent Hawaii Supreme Court
ruling on authority of "Ceded Lands" by State of Hawaii AG Bennett and
supportive by 29 States, will tell the Kanaka Maoli where they stand.
The term "Ceded Lands" is a misnomer. It is as phony as Aloha in an Aloha
Shirt or as Hawaiian as a Kau Inoa T-Shirt. To accept "Ceded Lands" is to
agree it is lawful or even legal to accept "Stolen Lands" or property .
Only illegal pawn shops and dictatorships fence stolen property. Ask any
Police Department in a civil society. The fake Republic of Hawaii fenced
"stolen property" to the United States of America whose greed and
arrogance overlooked a lawful 'bill of sale"
The Akaka Bill validates the the illegal fencing of private property
belonging to the Ali'i and the consent of Hawaiian Nationals.
These 29 states are using the 1802 Enabling Act as its baseness of
sovereignty. This act was based upon "Indian Territory". No Indian Nation
had international treaties or independent recognition as that of the
Hawaiian Kingdom. Hawaiians are not Indians as per the doctrine of
Columbus.
Hawaiians must never forget the wisdom and gift of sovereignty from
Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III. He agreed with God Almighty that Hawaiians
are Children of God and not heathen Indians.
No Court of Law can change that unless you choose and consent too! They
may alter your identity by their terms but still need your consent.
E ala e!
pilipo
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:00:06 -1000
From: Viviane Lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
Subject: Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive
labor pools
>>Prison industry advocates say the ^Ófactories with fences^Ô train
inmates for jobs on the outside. They say the work reduces recidivism and
boredom and gives inmates a source of income to help pay their court
fines, support families, or spend at the commissary. Critics, on the
other hand, describe them as Dickensian places where laborers have no
workplace protection, are routinely exposed to cancer-causing toxins, and
are exempt from federal labor laws, which means they can be forced to
accept wages lower than those in Third World countries. <<
Yeah, even better than outsourcing!
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http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/health/abuse/news.php?q=1213132136
Posted 6/10/08
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor
pools.
Unless she^Òs dying or recovering from surgery, a patient at the Federal
Medical Center-Carswell must work. The hospital out on the banks of Lake
Worth is run by the Bureau of Prisons, and its patients are women who
have been convicted of federal crimes. Bureau rules require all prisoners
^× even those in wheelchairs ^× to work at whatever jobs their
infirmities will allow, from scrubbing floors to cleaning toilets.
Just across the street from the hospital complex is a camp for
minimum-security women prisoners who are not ill. They get most of the
hot, hard jobs ^× cleaning boilers, welding, mowing. The pay is a lousy
12 cents an hour with no raises. That^Òs why a job that many on the
outside would take only as a last resort is the most coveted in the
compound: Ernestine the telephone operator.
So when you call directory assistance using, say, Excel
Telecommunications, chances are good your inquiry might be answered by a
federal prisoner. At Carswell, a fifth of the prison workforce ^× most
from the camp but a few from the hospital as well ^× get to sit in
cubicles in an air-conditioned building, start at almost double the pay
of the regular prison jobs, and, if they behave and don^Òt make mistakes,
get regular raises until they reach the maximum pay of ^× hold onto your
hat ^× $1.45 an hour. Of course, they have to work seven and a half years
to reach that maximum. And since this center hasn^Òt been open long
enough for anyone to make the maximum, the highest pay at Carswell is
$1.15 an hour.
With toothpaste at $5.95 in the prison commissary, inmates who take those
calls for Excel have to work between five and 25 hours to earn enough for
one tube. But by comparison, they^Òre lucky: Women who work at other
prison jobs have to sweat out 49 hours for the luxury of brushing their
teeth.
The math on the other end is even simpler, if grander in scale: Excel, a
$2.5 billion global company, comes out the clear winner. If the
19-year-old Irving-based long-distance carrier had to pay no more than
minimum wage to non-prison U.S. workers to field calls from its worldwide
network, it would cost the company $900 a month per worker, plus benefits
and payments to Social Security. The 370 prison workers in Excel^Òs call
center at Carswell make $180 a month at most, with no benefits.
But the Carswell prisoners are far from the only ones participating in
this exercise in government-assisted capitalism.
How many people know that when they dial 411, the operator at the other
end of the call is often a federal prisoner? Or that when they call to
reserve a camping space at a national park, the person taking their
personal information may be sitting in a cubicle in a maximum-security
prison? Or that the body armor for the soldiers fighting in Iraq and
Afghanistan is being manufactured by federal inmates?
In what critics call slave labor and advocates call job training, more
than 100 factories and service centers in federal prisons across the
United States employ inmates in jobs such as those above and hundreds
more, making everything from underwear to military gear to intricate
electrical components, all under the umbrella of a near-billion-dollar
corporation known as the Federal Prison Industries, Inc., trade name
Unicor.
This little-known and wholly owned arm of the BOP has come under fire in
recent years from environmentalists, prison reform groups, and
congressional investigative committees for, among other things, exposing
inmate workers to dangerous levels of lead and other toxins in its
computer recycling centers. The company has also been investigated for
profiting from sales of tens of thousands of excess Defense Department
computers that were supposed to be given free to low-income schools
around the country and, what may be worse, failing to remove sensitive
data from the computers it resold. Unions and even the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce are up in arms over its use of dirt-cheap prison labor to take
jobs from the private sector.
The prison workers are just as unhappy. Unicor and the companies it
contracts with ^Óare making a killing off of us here,^Ô one of the
Carswell workers wrote recently to Fort Worth Weekly. ^ÓAnd then we leave
prison and have nothing to fall back on. Just think how beneficial it
would be if they paid at least minimum wage, paid into Social Security
... so that we would have something when we leave, old and broken down.^Ô
There^Òs another Carswell prisoner who may be in a better position than
most to help shine a spotlight into this dark corner of the federal
prison system. ^ÓThis prison is making huge profits off of nothing more
than slave labor and then marking up prices by as much as 50 percent in
the commissary, making even more profit off of all us,^Ô Karen Lucchesi
Lewis said.
Lewis has been a lot of things in her 42 years. She has known fame as the
daughter of legendary Texas Rangers baseball manager Frank Lucchesi. She
has owned and managed a multi-million-dollar spa and wellness center. She
has been an honored volunteer fund-raiser for charities in her hometown
of Colleyville. And, as a sufferer from lupus, she has been a proponent
of naturalized medicine. What she never dreamed of becoming was an
advocate for women in prison ^× especially one advocating from inside the
walls. But that is exactly what she is these days, turning a shattering
life change into a ^Ómission from God,^Ô as she calls it.
For the last three years Lewis has been doing time at Carswell, after
getting caught up in a money-laundering sting aimed at the man who at
that time handled legal matters for her business and who got off with a
light sentence after testifying against her. In court, her criminal
lawyer presented a defense so weak that even the sentencing judge
commented on it. Still, Federal Judge John McBryde sent her to prison for
78 months.
While her new attorney, her family, and supporters such as North Side
businessman Mike Costanza are working to get her conviction overturned,
Lewis is on another quest. She wants to expose the injustices that she
said she has witnessed since she entered the Carswell compound in 2004 ^×
everything from ^Óterrible medical neglect to women being used as slave
labor for the prison to make millions in profits.^Ô
Regardless of whether one believes in her innocence, Lewis is a
high-profile inmate who is unafraid to speak out about a culture of abuse
at Carswell that has been reported by the Weekly in an ongoing series
since 1999. Now, to the prison^Òs litany of well-documented medical
horror stories, rape, and sexual misconduct cases, are added allegations
that the inmates are being exploited by a government industry that few
citizens have ever heard of ^× even though it has been around since 1934.
Someone^Òs making millions off the labor of the women at Carswell and
thousands like them across the country ^× but it sure isn^Òt the inmates.
During the depths of the Great Depression, U.S. federal prisons were
filling up with men and women who in many cases had done nothing more
heinous than stealing bread to feed their families or hopping a freight
train to search for work. In that swelling population, President Franklin
Roosevelt saw not only a need but an opportunity. With a stroke of his
pen, the Federal Prison Industry/Unicor was born, designed as a work
program to teach inmates skills they could use when they were released.
The presidential order, later made into law, carried with it a
requirement that all federal agencies would have to buy from FPI when
they needed any of the products manufactured by the prison industry. The
initiative got $4 million in tax-revenue seed money but was required to
be self-sustaining from then on. Private businesses could not bid for the
work, even if they offered lower prices and better quality. Conversely,
Unicor was prohibited from selling to private businesses ^× a limitation
honored more in the breach these days, thanks to Bureau of Prisons legal
maneuvering.
Prison industry advocates say the ^Ófactories with fences^Ô train inmates
for jobs on the outside. They say the work reduces recidivism and boredom
and gives inmates a source of income to help pay their court fines,
support families, or spend at the commissary. Critics, on the other hand,
describe them as Dickensian places where laborers have no workplace
protection, are routinely exposed to cancer-causing toxins, and are
exempt from federal labor laws, which means they can be forced to accept
wages lower than those in Third World countries. Private companies
seeking government business complain they are forced to compete unfairly
with Unicor.
For the last several years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, labor unions,
and prison reform groups such as FedCure have all pushed for legislation
that would outlaw Unicor^Òs preferential treatment and require the
corporation to pay minimum wage. Members of Congress from states whose
manufacturing businesses have lost millions in government contracts to
Unicor have taken up the cause, but to date the corporation has been able
to fend off all such efforts.
By 2006 Unicor had come a long way from that initial $4 million. Last
year, according to its annual report, the corporation held assets of $730
million in 108 factories and service centers at 79 prisons across the
country. Its gross sales were $718 million with profits of $71.2 million.
Those profits were produced by more than 21,000 inmate laborers who made,
on average, $1,700 for a year^Òs work. The profits aren^Òt, as one might
suspect, plowed back into the prison system to, say, improve healthcare
services at Carswell or reduce the inflated prices for basic personal
hygiene supplies at prison commissaries. Instead, it is plowed back into
Unicor.
One its harshest critics is U. S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan
Republican who has been trying since at least 2000 to get legislation
passed that would reform Unicor and force it to compete with private
companies. He said that the requirement that federal agencies must buy
from Unicor allows it to perpetuate itself without regard to whether that
is the best option for agencies and for prisoners themselves.
One congressional aide, who asked for anonymity, said that Hoekstra has
found no evidence that those who run the corporation are enriching
themselves. But, he said, it^Òs a ^Ógiant Ponzi scheme,^Ô that requires
more and more millions to feed its ever-expanding enterprises.
In recent years, Unicor has added to its list of factory-made products
what it calls ^Óservices^Ô: computer recycling centers, industrial
laundry services, printing shops, and call centers ^× all for sale to
private, for-profit companies in spite of the law^Òs prohibiting
language. BOP Director Harry Lappin, who is also head of Unicor,
maneuvered around that little obstacle in the law, apparently
successfully, when he testified before a congressional committee last
year that the corporation^Òs new offerings are ^Óa service, not a
product^Ô and that therefore the law does not apply. Unicor now
advertises its call centers on its web page and in its catalogs as
^Ódomestic outsourcing at offshore prices.^Ô
Three major national communications networks use the ^Ódomestic
outsourcing^Ô call center at Carswell for their directory assistance
services, according to FPI program director Todd Baldau. Baldau refused
to name the clients, citing ^Óproprietary information.^Ô However, two
inmates who currently work at the center, who asked not to be identified
for fear of retaliation, said the companies are Excel Telecom, Cricket
Communications, and Metro 411. Calls and e-mails to the three companies
were not returned. Baldau would not say what the companies pay Unicor for
inmate labor for their call centers, but the corporation^Òs 2006 annual
report listed sales of $27.8 million from its 18 service centers,
including Carswell, with profits of $2.5 million.
The policy that all prisoners in federal lockups must work, including the
less critically ill patients in prison hospitals, is designed to keep
prisoners occupied as much as anything, bureau spokesman Mike Truman said
in an interview for an earlier story. ^ÓLife can get very boring in
prison,^Ô he said, and reducing boredom reduces the potential for trouble
among inmates.
Working for Unicor ^Óis a privilege for good inmates with a smidgen of
education,^Ô said a former Carswell prison employee who asked not to be
named. ^ÓThey are monitored heavily, are lectured frequently, and really
do their jobs in fear of losing them if they mess up. ... The work is
easy, conditions are better [than any other jobs there], and the work is
useful on their resumés once they get out. ... That^Òs why jobs with
Unicor are coveted.^Ô The call center at Carswell has been open for more
than five years. Women sit in a small, guarded, air-conditioned building
near the center of the compound, taking directory assistance calls in
eight-hour shifts, 24 hours a day.
Sweatier non-Unicor jobs basically cover maintenance work at the prison
camp and hospital, including groundskeeping, floor-scrubbing, plumbing,
welding, carpentry, and cleaning the boilers that provide hot water and
heat for the compound. ^ÓThey even work on the elevators,^Ô said former
inmate Dana Corum. ^ÓAnd that^Òs a full-time job because those dang
elevators were always out.^Ô
Prison officials also refused to discuss details of Unicor pay scales.
But one of the inmates who provided the names of the Unicor client
companies wrote to the Weekly that the pay starts at 23 cents an hour
with incremental raises that top out at $1.15 an hour. She said that
after 18 months on the job, the women get an additional 10 cents an hour
for ^Ólongevity^Ô and another 5 cents an hour for each 18 months after
that up to 80 months. At that point, they will have ^Ómaxed out^Ô at
around $1.45 an hour. ^ÓThere are a few ^Ñpremium pay^Ò positions that
rate an extra 25 cents an hour ... for being extra important to the
operations ^× or the most liked,^Ô she wrote. It takes ^Ópolitical ...
shit to get these spots.^Ô
The Spokane Area Journal of Business reported last year that regular call
center jobs in this country start their workers at more than $11 an hour,
plus benefits. Call center personnel in India, by comparison, make
between $159 and $204 a month, although those salaries are expected to
rise soon, as other offshore costs of business have already begun doing.
Then there^Òs Carswell, where monthly pay ranges from $36 to $180 a
month.
And since the prison laborers receive no benefits: and no Social
Security, the private companies that contract with the prisons save on
those substantial costs as well. Average cost to an employer for health
insurance for a family of four in 2007 is around $9,000 a year according
to Towers Perrin, a global business financial management firm. And then
there^Òs that 9.1 percent matching contribution to Social Security and
Medicare for each employee.
Unlike Indian workers, American inmates don^Òt have to pay for all their
living costs from those salaries ^× but Indian workers, on the other
hand, don^Òt have to pay almost $2 for soap. Inmates are required to buy
all personal items, and often meet some dietary needs, from the prison^Òs
commissary.
Most can^Òt afford just the basic things that are necessary for their
health and hygiene, said Lewis, who is one of the few who has a family
able to put money into her prison account, to a maximum of $300 a month.
A commissary price sheet lists a bar of bath soap at $1.65, deodorant at
$2.80, and a box of regular tampons at $5.30. For diabetics, who must buy
their own non-sugar products, a 50-count box of Equal packets costs
$3.80. Many of the women at Carswell come from poor families. Some have
been abandoned by their families, and only a few have loved ones who can
send them money for such basic needs.
Corum, a diabetic, spent five years at Carswell, off and on. She was sent
to Marianna, Fla., for a year midway in her sentence as retaliation, she
believes, for speaking to the Weekly for an earlier story about the
hospital^Òs poor medical care. Her condition deteriorated so badly at the
Florida facility that she was finally sent back to Carswell. She finished
her sentence two years ago. She did not work in the call center but had
friends who did.
Even though the women work under strict guidelines, which forbid them to
ask callers for personal information or tell them their calls have been
routed to a prison, the jobs can be enjoyable and provide some relief
from the rigidity of prison life, Corum said. ^ÓThey had some fun, but
the pay is still lousy,^Ô she said, ^Óand the whole thing is a racket
that^Òs making money for the prison and unfairly competing with
legitimate businesses.^Ô
Unfair competition with private business is high on the Communications
Workers of America^Òs list of concerns with the federal call centers
because of the resulting loss of jobs for its members, said Candice
Johnson, a spokeswoman for the national union. ^ÓGenerally, outsourcing
has been the big issue^Ô with American communications workers, she said.
^ÓBut if those [outsourcing] companies are now bringing back that work to
the federal prisons, and still paying the same low wages, that is still
an unfair advantage over the other companies that have stayed here and
are trying to provide good-paying jobs and good service.^Ô Johnson said
the CWA believes the prison jobs do not provide the training that such
work requires in order to give good customer service. ^ÓGood companies
value good customer service,^Ô she said. That was a big problem with the
call center jobs that were sent overseas in the first place, she said:
Foreign workers read from scripts, and if the customer^Òs problems
didn^Òt fit the script, the employee was stumped and the customers ended
up angry and frustrated. For that reason, she said, companies like AT&T
and U. S. Airways are in the process of bringing their call centers back
to this country. ^ÓPeople [in prison] need the opportunity to learn
skills^Ô but Unicor is not the answer, she said.
The system has its defenders outside the prison system. Journalist Harry
Sheff, in an article for a web-based business magazine, wrote in July
that ^ÓUnicor call centers don^Òt compete with American jobs ^× they only
take on contracts that were about to be outsourced overseas.^Ô
Other voices of protest are coming from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
whose director of legislative affairs told National Public Radio in
September, ^ÓWe do not believe Federal Prison Industries should continue
its unfettered expansion into the commercial marketplace. ... The
business community is extremely concerned about this.^Ô Future expansion
by Unicor is possible because of the enormous increase in the prison
population in recent years ^× an involuntary workforce numbering close to
200,000 now and increasing by about 2.5 percent annually.
Unicor now offers more than 140 products and services for sale to other
government agencies, with more than half its output bought by the
Department of Defense ^× by far its largest customer, especially since
the beginning of the Iraq war. Like every other defense contractor,
Unicor has benefitted from the war and dislikes competition. ^ÓWhile we
expect the continuing war effort [to] provide another year of excellent
work opportunities for our inmates, that situation will not last
indefinitely,^Ô Unicor directors wrote in the 2006 annual report. ^ÓWe
are positioning to a post-war environment.^Ô
Another similarity between Unicor and other military contractors has been
its propensity for corruption.
When she was at the Federal Correctional Institution Marianna in Florida,
^Óthere was a big Unicor scandal,^Ô Corum said. ^ÓThey were selling
stuff, government stuff, out of open-air sheds on the grounds, just like
a flea market.^Ô Corum said she witnessed huge trucks pulling up and
unloading all kinds of computers and electronic equipment: ^ÓThere was a
real racket going on. People who worked there were buying the stuff dirt
cheap.^Ô
Corum wasn^Òt exaggerating. In 2000, Rep. Hoekstra, chairman of the House
subcommittee on education and the workforce, opened an investigation into
the ^Óracket^Ô that Corum had witnessed, albeit a small part of it. The
FPI ^Óhas been taking tens of thousands of items in excess federal
government equipment, especially computer equipment, and using them to
fuel an entry of unknown scope into the commercial marketplace,^Ô he said
at the opening of the subsequent hearing. In other words, they were
selling used government equipment, improperly and in huge quantities.
According to Hoekstra^Òs office and transcripts of the hearings, Unicor
acquired the computers through a process that allows federal agencies
that are replacing equipment to pass along outdated but still operable
items for use by other agencies. If other federal agencies don^Òt need
the hand-me-downs, the equipment is supposed to be dispersed, free, to
nonprofit groups, schools, or state governments. It is never supposed to
be sold.
In this case the computers were destined to be sent to poor school
districts under a presidential order of Bill Clinton. Somehow, FPI got to
them first, hauled them out of the warehouses, and began a huge, illegal,
garage sale, Hoekstra said. He noted that at the time the U.S. Department
of Justice was conducting a criminal investigation of Unicor. ^ÓIt is
high time,^Ô he said. ^ÓFPI has been out of control for years, exceeding
its statutory authority and running wild through the marketplace without
any Congressional ... authority.^Ô
Hoekstra^Òs evidence showed that during 1999 FPI took almost 60,000
excess items from the Defense Department alone, worth $481 million, and
in 2000 added 83,000 more excess items with value estimated at just under
$89 million. The company would have topped the $1 billion mark in illegal
sales, the chairman said, if not for the ^Óvigilance of a dedicated
public servant^Ô who blew the whistle. FPI^Òs defense was the ^Ódubious
claim^Ô Hoekstra said, that it did not break the law governing its
existence because selling the equipment was a service and not a product,
the same justification echoed by Lappin last year when Congress
questioned the call centers.
As a result of his own investigation, Hoekstra introduced legislation
that would have reined the corporation in. It didn^Òt pass that year, but
his spokesman said Hoekstra will keep reintroducing the bill for as long
as it takes to get it passed.The most recent scandal involved Unicor^Òs
recycling centers. A single personal computer contains a toxic cocktail
of cancer-causing chemicals, including up to eight pounds of lead,
according to a report by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. In 2002
SVTC found that prisoners at a maximum-security prison in Merced, Calif.,
were ^Órecycling^Ô computers there by smashing them with hammers or
raising them over their heads and slamming them on a metal table. They
were being showered with glass and toxic chemicals. None was issued
protective clothing or face or eye protection, the coalition reported.
Air quality tests in the room showed high levels of toxins just a few
feet from a food-processing area. Prison personnel refused a
supervisor^Òs repeated requests for improved safety measures. The
supervisor went public, ultimately filing a whistleblower lawsuit.
By 2005 the BOP had admitted that in at least three of its factories,
prison workers had been exposed to higher than safe levels of toxic
chemicals ^× but officials said the problem had been fixed. Not true,
said the government^Òs Office of Special Counsel and called for an
investigation by the Justice Department. The investigation is ongoing. In
the meantime, Unicor clients such as Dell and the state of California
have cancelled their computer recycling contracts with Unicor under
pressure from environmental groups, labor unions, and prison reform
advocates. Dell chief executive Michael Dell was met at a computer
industry gathering by protestors in striped prison garb accusing him of
hiring ^Óa high-tech chain gang.^Ô Still, the scandal did not deter
Arkansas from giving Unicor an exclusive contract to recycle all of the
state^Òs used computers.
Worker exposure to deadly lead, followed by denials and cover-ups, is not
new in the prison agency. The Weekly reported on a similar incident that
happened at Carswell in 1999, when three federal maintenance workers and
a half-dozen female inmate workers were ordered to dismantle a lead-lined
medical radiology room at the hospital. They were given no protective
clothing or breathing equipment, even though they were working in a small
room and had to crawl into some of the lead-lined cabinets and grind the
lead out. Three of the civilian workers suffered such serious and
irreparable lead poisoning that they can no longer work, and their
doctors have said it will shorten their lives. Even their wives and
children had high levels of lead in their blood.
Karen Lucchesi Lewis wishes that the same kind of pressure brought
against Dell could be brought against the telephone companies under
Unicor contract at Carswell. But she is realistic enough to know that it
is unlikely to happen. Women in prison, she said, are forgotten by the
public and the Congress ^× and that includes a woman who ran an $8
million business before her conviction.
Lewis has much more outside support than the average inmate. Nelson
Thibodeaux, editor of a Colleyville online newspaper, Localnewsonly.com,
has written extensively about her case.
But others from the Colleyville business community and women^Òs groups
she once participated in have abandoned her. She was a major fund-raiser
for many charities in Colleyville and North Texas including the
Colleyville Woman^Òs Club, the Christ Haven Shelter for women, the North
Texas Cancer Center and the Bobby Bragan Foundation that provides college
scholarships. Lewis said that when she asked a prominent woman from one
of the charities if she would be a character witness for her at her
trial, she declined.
At Carswell, Lewis was at first put to work mowing the grounds. ^ÓThey
never considered the fact that someone with lupus is supposed to stay out
of the sun,^Ô she said. Later she was moved inside to help clean the
boilers. She has not applied for work with Unicor, she said. Instead, she
has established a health education and exercise class for the women. That
takes up ^Óall of my spare time,^Ô she said. Her lupus is currently in
remission, she said.
Lucchesi said that her memories of growing up as Frank and Kathy
Lucchesi^Òs youngest child sustain her. ^ÓWe had a very old-fashioned
Italian upbringing,^Ô she wrote in one letter. ^ÓI used to love to go to
the games to watch Papa on the field and then eat late at night.^Ô But
her famous dad, who was manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, the Chicago
Cubs, and the Texas Rangers, kept her away from the players he managed,
she said. ^ÓI was never allowed to date them.^Ô After Frank retired, the
whole clan lived near one another in Colleyville.
All of that familial happiness came to a crashing end in 2004 when Karen
was taken in handcuffs and leg-irons through the clanging prison gates of
Carswell, bringing her to a cramped, four-person cell in the austere
prison where she was destined to spend the next six and a half years.
^ÓI was in shock. I couldn^Òt believe it was really happening,^Ô she
said. ^ÓI have never even had a traffic ticket.^Ô But in October 2003, a
traffic ticket was not the issue. Dirty money was. That month Lewis was
found guilty by a federal jury in Fort Worth of laundering $20,000 for an
assumed cocaine and marijuana dealer through her business bank accounts
for an alleged eight percent fee, about $1,600.
Her long-time friend and business attorney Anand ^ÓAni^Ô Alloju had
introduced her to a wealthy Mexican citizen and supposed drug dealer
allegedly interested in investing in her business. Lewis said she was
never told by Alloju that the man was a dealer. In fact, he was an
undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration working a sting
operation aimed at Alloju. The lawyer, who had access to Lewis^Ò bank
accounts, laundered the $20,000 through those accounts without her
knowledge, she said, even forging her signature on some checks.
The DEA agent claimed she was a willing participant. On the stand,
Alloju^Òs testimony about Lewis^Ò knowledge of the scheme was vague and
contradictory. The jury believed the agent. And even though Alloju was
the primary target of the sting and admitted in court that he had washed
$200,000 in what he clearly understood was illegal drug money through
various other phony accounts he set up, he was sentenced to two years and
spent only 11 months in prison, getting out early after completing a drug
rehab course. By pleading guilty and testifying against Lewis, Alloju got
a reduced sentence and a pass for his psychiatrist wife Lisa Alloju, who,
according to her husband, deposited the drug money in Lewis^Ò accounts.
Lisa had just completed a probated sentence for drug possession and was
never charged in the money-laundering case. The 41-year-old Alloju did
not enjoy many days of freedom; he died of unknown causes a little more
than a month after his release in 2005.
^ÓEven if you don^Òt believe [Lewis] was railroaded ^× and I do ^× the
trial was a farce,^Ô said Costanza. ^ÓThen she gets three times the
sentence that the slime-bag who set her up got. It makes no sense.^Ô He
and other supporters of Lewis think that the undercover agent went after
her as a trophy. ^ÓA big name gets more print and more glory for the
undercover guy,^Ô Costanza said. ^ÓKaren wouldn^Òt be in prison if her
name had been Smith.^Ô
The pain her incarceration has caused her close-knit family seems to
weigh heaviest on Lewis these days. ^ÓWhen a family member goes to
prison, the whole family goes to prison,^Ô she said. ^ÓEveryone^Òs life
is put on hold.^Ô
But she seems to have come to terms with her imprisonment. She^Òs
campaigning to let the world know of the injustices she has witnessed
there. The most recent, she wrote to the Weekly, was the death of
Genevieve Ramirez, 64, who on Aug. 1 fell in her room and hit her head
around 1 a.m. Lewis and several other inmates ^Ócouldn^Òt find or get
medical help till after 3 a.m.,^Ô she wrote. ^ÓShe had a brain aneurysm.
They took her to [an outside] hospital and she was put on life support
for two days, then they pulled the plug.^Ô The BOP has not returned calls
requesting information on Ramirez^Ò death.
Weekly reporters, except in rare instances, have been banned since 1999
from entering the prison to interview women such as Lewis. But she is one
of the many who have managed to be the eyes and ears for reporters in
keeping tabs on what goes on there. It takes courage. Many who have done
so say they have suffered retaliation ^× including Corum, who suffered
such gross medical neglect that when she left two years ago, her kidneys
were near failure and her heart was critically damaged. She has had
multiple surgeries since she got out. Other women have been sent to
solitary on trumped-up charges or transferred to other prisons where they
could not get the medical help they needed.
Lewis said that, even when she gets out, she won^Òt give up on her
efforts to help the women at Carswell. And others, including current and
retired judges, are working to focus congressional attention on the
conditions there.
Congressional attention apparently is what it will take to change
anything in U.S. federal prisons. Prison officials routinely turn down
journalists^Ò requests for information into their operations. A decade of
pleas and inquiries by family members of women who have died ^× including
one who may have been murdered ^× due to inadequate medical care or worse
at Carswell have produced no apparent reforms. A General Services
Administration investigation into FPI^Òs theft of the computers concluded
that officials of the prison industry ^Ódemonstrated a pattern of
deceit^Ô and that its officials lied and obtained and sold federal
property under false pretenses. But the subsequent Justice Department
criminal investigation on that topic ^Ówent away,^Ô according to one
Hoekstra aide. No one was ever prosecuted.
And then there were the women prisoners who also worked in the
lead-contaminated rooms at Carswell eight years ago. They, too, showed
signs of higher than normal levels of lead in their blood. But they were
scattered to other prisons, and the bureau refuses to release information
on their whereabouts.
You can reach Betty Brink at
bettybrink@att.net.
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In This Issue:
Warning for Regranex--Cream for Leg and Foot Ulcers. A boxed warning has
been added to the label of Regranex Gel 0.01% (becaplermin) to address the
increased risk of cancer death in patients who use three or more tubes of
the product. http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/regranexcream061108.html
Paxil Babies: The Dangers of Antidepressants
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GYtYZEeG75P3%2BmL1Aji9OWhLOYR0nhp1
Top Psychiatric Researcher Dr. Biederman Caught Lying about $1.6 Million
in Drug Money; Performed Medical Experiments on Children
http://www.naturalnews.com/023408.html
Anti-Psychotic Drugs Found Useless on Patients with Learning Disabilities
http://www.naturalnews.com/023407.html
A Month of Fast Food Can Wreck Your Liver
http://www.naturalnews.com/023404.html
400 Medicinal Plants on Verge of Extinction Warn Researchers
http://www.naturalnews.com/023402.html
In Wisconsin, the great lake robbery. The severe damage in central
Wisconsin is only part of a still evolving Midwestern flood and storm
system that has broken levees, closed or wiped out bridges, and led to the
evacuation of towns and cities in at least two states.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13270/3057/16848/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jaGljYWdvdHJpYnVuZS5jb20vbmV3cy9uYXRpb253b3JsZC9jaGktd2lzY29uc2luLWZsb29kc2p1bjExLDAsMzEzMjY2LnN0b3J5&x=7e0bda30
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The earthquake rumblings which continue along the west coast of North
America are all associated with volcanoes.
First Volcano: Beginning in the south is 'Cerro Prieto' near Mexicali at
the northern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
USGS List: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/115-33.html
Second Volcano: Further north along the west coast is to 'The Geysers'
just north of San Francisco.
Clear Lake 'The Geysers' Map: USGS List:
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
Third Volcano: Continuing north to the Oregon just a few miles off the
coastline is 'Aixal USGS List:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/oregon/seismicity.php
Fourth Volcano: Moving further north to Alaska. Here there are several
volcanoes; currently the "swarm" is coming from 'Atka Volcano': USGS List:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/special/Alaska_eqs.php
But the real danger lies right in the middle of the four swarms above.
Sitting in the middle of this vast array of volcanoes which lines the West
Coast of America up to Alaska, is the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The
Cascadia Subduction Zone is a very long sloping fault that stretches from
mid-Vancouver Island to Northern California.
It separates the Juan de Fuca and North America plates. New ocean floor is
being created offshore of Washington and Oregon. As more material wells up
along the ocean ridge, the ocean floor is pushed toward and beneath the
continent. Quake Swarms Lined Up with Cascadia
Large Subduction Zone quakes are the largest earthquakes in the world and
can exceed 9.0 magnitude. Because earthquake size is proportional to fault
area, is perfectly set for "the big one" which is often mentioned.
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Imagine the NRA suggesting that loaded guns be permitted in national
parks. I know people already do it, but to make it a rule would be
terrible. Please ask the federal government to keep wildlife safe in
national parks. It only takes a minute. Here is the link:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/US_2008_parks_poaching?rk=b72Cxh5qhGm8W
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Roche Laboratories, Inc. has updated their package insert for their
protease inhibitor, Invirase (saquinavir) to include the following drug
interaction information and include new warnings regarding
coadministration of Invirase/ritonavir and digoxin (used in the treatment
of various cardiac conditions).
Updated drug interaction information has been added on five products in
the product package insert revision:
1. Digoxin (see Warnings; see also Clinical Pharmacology Table 2,
Precautions, Drug Interactions, Table 6) A new Warning has been added.
Caution should be exercised when Invirase and digoxin are coadministered.
Coadministration results in a significant increase in serum concentration
of digoxin; therefore, the serum concentration of digoxin should be
monitored and the dose of digoxin may need to be reduced.
2. Garlic capsules (see Warnings; see also Precautions, Drug Interactions)
No data are available for the coadministration of Invirase/ritonavir with
garlic capsules. A Warning has been added that the coadministration of
garlic capsules and saquinavir is not recommended due to the potential for
garlic capsules to induce the metabolism of saquinavir, which may result
in subtherapeutic saquinavir concentrations.
3. Methadone (see Precautions, Drug Interactions; see also Clinical
pharmacology, Table 2) Methadone levels are decreased and the dosage of
methadone may need to be increased when coadministered with
Invirase/ritonavir.
4. Tipranavir/ritonavir (see Precautions, Drug Interactions) Combining
saquinavir with tipranavir/ritonavir is not recommended due to a decrease
in saquinavir levels with coadministration.
5. Omeprazole (see Precautions, Drug Interactions) When Invirase/ritonavir
is coadministered with omeprazole, saquinavir concentrations are increased
significantly. If omeprazole or another proton pump inhibitor is taken
concomitantly with Invirase/ritonavir, caution is advised and monitoring
for potential saquinavir toxicities is recommended, particularly
gastrointestinal symptoms, increased triglycerides, and deep vein
thrombosis.
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Brain cancer in a can or as one singer song writer calls it, Stoopid
juice. Drinking a lot of diet soft drinks lately? Not feeling so well,
experiencing headaches, migraines, dizziness, unsteadiness, confusion or
memory loss. Concerned about brain tumors, brain lesions and lymphoma? If
so you may want to check your favorite soft drink for aspartame, an
artificial, non-saccharide sweetener. Marketed under the trade names;
Equal, NutraSweet, Tropicana Slim and Canderel it is used as an ingredient
in approximately 6,000 consumer goods. Most commonly used in soft drinks
it is also in chewable vitamin supplements and sugar-free chewing gums.
You may want to listen to this original song by CC Williams, Stoopid
Juice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CCulRHssg"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CCulRHssg
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CCulRHssg
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Americans being forced to choose between obeying their conscience and
obeying a medical doctor wielding a needle.
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vaccination is a medical intervention performed on a healthy person that
has the inherent ability to result in the injury or death of that healthy
person
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001YJBBWb69NpcEXb1J0B2_2QvInJ22tYEkpE4nlyNO2lJPho7zEvhdXD2BGlNUWMNaaiS6uIRcBUUqlvAJGaotYAsjzUsiTQJodg5AYnuL7iIXu3duRJh78Q==
There can be no guarantee that the deliberate introduction of killed or
live microorganisms into the body of a healthy person will not compromise
the health or cause the death of that person either immediately or in the
future
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:05:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: bchingkahoola@pol.net
29 States urge U.S. Supreme Court
to Hear Hawaii ceded lands case - comment
Aloha kakou,
Maybe it is time for the non Kanaka Maoli Hawaiian Nationals to speak out.
By citing 103-150 the US violates the Hawaiian Tribe rights.
But they actually violate international law by violating the rights of the
Hawaiian Nationals including the non Kanaka Maoli Hawaiian Nationals for
our national lands.
Wonder if OHA would be willing to foot the bill for another party
(amicus?) to the case? This would allow the issues of the illegal alleged
overthrow.
It is also entertaining how the states can claim that 103-150 is just a
joint resolution of congress and therefore not binding on anybody. Seems
to me that there was another joint resolution of congress called the
"annexation act" that should similarly not be binding on anybody. Maybe
that could be one of the arguments before the us supremes?
Malama pono,
Kaho`ola
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From: Poka Laenui
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:54 PM
Subject: State Destroying Wai`anae's model program for mental health
services
[i know the meeting's over--but important to know about... g]
Meeting tonight, 6/11 at 6:30 p.m., Wai`anae Multi-Activity Room,
Wai`anae Gymnasium (behind the Public Library) to discuss and arouse
interest in this issue. Please try to circulate for us. Mucho Gracious
and mahalo a nui loa.
PRESS RELEASE
State Department of Health out to Destroy
WAI`ANAE^ÒS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
The Adult Mental Health Division (AMHD) of the State
Department of Health has targeted for destruction the only non-State
operated community mental health center (CMHC). The Wai`anae community,
over 2 decades ago, broke away from the State to form its own center to
meet the special needs of the Wai`anae mentally ill population. Within
that period of time, it has garnered national and local recognition for
its high quality of services. It has received national (CARF)
accreditation for its services five consecutive times since 1995 (each
accreditation covered a maximum 3 year term).
Hale Na`au Pono has developed an array of services from
housing to social interaction to alcohol, tobacco and drug treatment, to
clinical services covering the most seriously mentally ill to those well
able to manage their illness. No other CMHC in the State has been able to
extend its service array to the extent Hale Na`au Pono has. No other CMHC
in the State has been able to retain national CARF accreditation.
Over the past three months, the State Department of Health has
attempted to shut down all clinical services of Hale Na`au Pono. It is
now requiring that its clients be reassigned to other service providers,
none of whom are located in the Wai`anae community.
In a few months, the situation in Wai`anae will become
explosive. The State^Òs action is medical malfeasance.
Hale Na`au Pono will be calling an informational meeting on
June 11, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the Wai`anae Multi-Purpose Center located
behind the Wai`anae Gym. The public is invited.
Pōkā Laenui is the Executive Director of Hale Na`au
Pono.
For further information, go to www.wccmhc.org or contact
Bernie or Alvina at Hale Na`au Pono at 696-4211.
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:17:28 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] this follows on poka's announcement that i posted
earlier...
thanks for forwarding to me, fran.
Waianae Mental Health Center Shutting Down Print
Written by KGMB9 News - news@kgmb9.com
June 11, 2008 07:15 PM
Mental health experts in Waianae have a warning Wednesday night, they say
get ready for crime and drug use to go up if a mental health center is
shut down. The center's management says the state is not renewing its
contract and has ordered it to start transfering people to other agencies.
Waianae's Community Mental Health Center serves nearly 400 people, if the
center is forced to close executives say patients will have to go into
Honolulu to get their medication and psychological treatment, but case
managers say that simply won't happen and the people will revert back to
their troubled habits.
"We have everyone from pedifiles , to murderers to rapist, to thieves, and
there will be turmoil up and down the coast, it's not going to be safe,"
said Ben Hoff.
Many of the center's consumers are only given a day's supply of medicine
and often an employee has to watch them take it. The state says it has not
been able to reach a deal with the center but says there are enough other
clinics in the area so there will not be a lapse in service in Waianae.
A community meeting and rally is set to begin at 6:30PM, the meeting is at
the Waianae Multi Purpose Center behind the Waianae gym.
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:06:03 -0400
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Subject: Disappeared News - Newspapers disappear your news on impeachment
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introduced articles of impeachment against Bush? It won't happen, of
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committee, which, according to CNN, ends it. And as you can read in the
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Date: Thurs, June 12, 2008
From: Tikkun <magazine@tikkun.org>
Subject: Obama & AIPAC: Notes from Israeli Peace Movement Gush Shalom
leader Uri Avnery
Tikkun to heal, repair and transform the world
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[Editor's Note: Tikkun's current perspective on Israel can be found in
Rabbi Lerner's editorial introduction to the May/June, 2008 issue of
Tikkun, the issue dedicated to Israel at 60. We're proud to have received
many comments from a wide variety of religious leaders saying of that
issue of Tikkun "it will be remembered decades from now as the
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including many who disagree with Rabbi Lerner's perspective." In any
event, as we send this article by Uri Avnery we want to again remind our
readers that we don't necessarily agree with the various statements we
send out, but only warrant that they are perspectives worthy of
consideration and debate even if we think they are misguided. We take this
opportunity to say it because in this case we think most of waht Avnery
says is not misguided at all, but very very relevant. In particular, we
think that the compromises with AIPAC are ill-advised both morally and
politically. ]
Uri Avnery on Obama at AIPAC
7.6.08
No, I Can't!
AFTER MONTHS of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack
Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has
wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has
become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful
country in the world.
And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran
to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a speech that
broke all records for obsequiousness and fawning.
That is shocking enough. Even more shocking is the fact that nobody was
shocked.
IT WAS a triumphalist conference. Even this powerful organization had
never seen anything like it. 7000 Jewish functionaries from all over the
United States came together to accept the obeisance of the entire
Washington elite, which came to kowtow at their feet. All the three
presidential hopefuls made speeches, trying to outdo each other in
flattery. 300 Senators and Members of Congress crowded the hallways.
Everybody who wants to be elected or reelected to any office, indeed
everybody who has any political ambitions at all, came to see and be
seen.
The Washington of AIPAC is like the Constantinople of the Byzantine
emperors in its heyday.
The world looked on and was filled with wonderment. The Israeli media
were ecstatic. In all the world's capitals the events were followed
closely and conclusions were drawn. All the Arab media reported on them
extensively. Aljazeera devoted an hour to a discussion of the phenomenon.
The most extreme conclusions of professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen
Walt were confirmed in their entirety. On the eve of their visit to
Israel, this coming Thursday, the Israel Lobby stood at the center of
political life in the US and the world at large.
WHY, ACTUALLY? Why do the candidates for the American presidency believe
that the Israel lobby is so absolutely essential to their being elected?
The Jewish votes are important, of course, especially in several swing
states which may decide the outcome. But African-Americans have more
votes, and so do the Hispanics. Obama has brought to the political scene
millions of new young voters. Numerically, the Arab-Muslim community in
the US is also not an insignificant factor.
Some say that Jewish money speaks. The Jews are rich. Perhaps they
donate more than others for political causes. But the myth about
all-powerful Jewish money has an anti-Semitic ring. After all, other
lobbies, and most decidedly the huge multinational corporations, have
given considerable sums of money to Obama (as well as to his opponents).
And Obama himself has proudly announced that hundreds of thousands of
ordinary citizens have sent him small donations, which have amounted to
tens of millions.
True, it has been proven that the Jewish lobby can almost always block
the election of a senator or a member of Congress who does not dance -
and do so with fervor - to the Israeli tune. In some exemplary cases
(which were indeed meant to be seen as examples) the lobby has defeated
popular politicians by lending its political and financial clout to the
election campaign of a practically unknown rival.
But in a presidential race?
THE TRANSPARENT fawning of Obama on the Israel lobby stands out more than
similar efforts by the other candidates.
Why? Because his dizzying success in the primaries was entirely due to
his promise to bring about a change, to put an end to the rotten
practices of Washington and to replace the old cynics with a young, brave
person who does not compromise his principles.
And lo and behold, the very first thing he does after securing the
nomination of his party is to compromise his principles. And how!
The outstanding thing that distinguishes him from both Hillary Clinton
and John McCain is his uncompromising opposition to the war in Iraq from
the very first moment. That was courageous. That was unpopular. That was
totally opposed to the Israel lobby, all of whose branches were fervidly
pushing George Bush to start the war that freed Israel from a hostile
regime.
And here comes Obama to crawl in the dust at the feet of AIPAC and go out
of his way to justify a policy that completely negates his own ideas.
OK he promises to safeguard Israel's security at any cost. That is usual.
OK he threatens darkly against Iran, even though he promised to meet
their leaders and settle all problems peacefully. OK he promised to bring
back our three captured soldiers (believing, mistakenly, that all three
are held by Hizbullah - an error that shows, by the way, how sketchy is
his knowledge of our affairs.)
But his declaration about Jerusalem breaks all bounds. It is no
exaggeration to call it scandalous.
NO PALESTINIAN, no Arab, no Muslim will make peace with Israel if the
Haram-al-Sharif compound (also called the Temple Mount), one of the three
holiest places of Islam and the most outstanding symbol of Palestinian
nationalism, is not transferred to Palestinian sovereignty. That is one
of the core issues of the conflict.
On that very issue, the Camp David conference of 2000 broke up, even
though the then Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, was willing to divide
Jerusalem in some manner.
Along comes Obama and retrieves from the junkyard the outworn slogan
"Undivided Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel for all Eternity". Since Camp
David, all Israeli governments have understood that this mantra
constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to any peace process. It has
disappeared - quietly, almost secretly - from the arsenal of official
slogans. Only the Israeli (and American-Jewish) Right sticks to it, and
for the same reason: to smother at birth any chance for a peace that
would necessitate the dismantling of the settlements.
In prior US presidential races, the pandering candidates thought that it
was enough to promise that the US embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. After being elected, not one of the candidates ever did
anything about this promise. All were persuaded by the State Department
that it would harm basic American interests.
Obama went much further. Quite possibly, this was only lip service and he
was telling himself: OK, I must say this in order to get elected. After
that, God is great.
But even so the fact cannot be ignored: the fear of AIPAC is so terrible,
that even this candidate, who promises change in all matters, does not
dare. In this matter he accepts the worst old-style Washington routine.
He is prepared to sacrifice the most basic American interests. After all,
the US has a vital interest in achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace
that will allow it to find ways to the hearts of the Arab masses from
Iraq to Morocco. Obama has harmed his image in the Muslim world and
mortgaged his future - if and when he is elected president.
SIXTY FIVE years ago, American Jewry stood by helplessly while Nazi
Germany exterminated their brothers and sisters in Europe. They were
unable to prevail on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to do anything
significant to stop the Holocaust. (And at that same time, many
Afro-Americans did not dare to go near the polling stations for fear of
dogs being set on them.)
What has caused the dizzying ascent to power of the American Jewish
establishment? Organizational talent? Money? Climbing the social ladder?
Shame for their lack of zeal during the Holocaust?
The more I think about this wondrous phenomenon, the stronger becomes my
conviction (about which I have already written in the past) that what
really matters is the similarity between the American enterprise and the
Zionist one, both in the spiritual and the practical sphere. Israel is a
small America, the USA is a huge Israel.
The Mayflower passengers, much as the Zionists of the first and second
aliya (immigration wave), fled from Europe, carrying in their hearts a
messianic vision, either religious or utopian. (True, the early Zionists
were mostly atheists, but religious traditions had a powerful influence
on their vision.) The founders of American society were "pilgrims", the
Zionists immigrants called themselves "olim" - short for olim beregel,
pilgrims. Both sailed to a "promised land", believing themselves to be
God's chosen people.
Both suffered a great deal in their new country. Both saw themselves as
"pioneers", who make the wilderness bloom, a "people without land in a
land without people". Both completely ignored the rights of the
indigenous people, whom they considered sub-human savages and murderers.
Both saw the natural resistance of the local peoples as evidence of their
innate murderous character, which justified even the worst atrocities.
Both expelled the natives and took possession of their land as the most
natural thing to do, settling on every hill and under every tree, with
one hand on the plow and the Bible in the other.
True, Israel did not commit anything approaching the genocide performed
against the Native Americans, nor anything like the slavery that
persisted for many generations in the US. But since the Americans have
repressed these atrocities in their consciousness, there is nothing to
prevent them from comparing themselves to the Israelis. It seems that in
the unconscious mind of both nations there is a ferment of suppressed
guilt feelings that express themselves in the denial of their past
misdeeds, in aggressiveness and the worship of power.
HOW IS it that a man like Obama, the son of an African father, identifies
so completely with the actions of former generations of American whites?
It shows again the power of a myth to become rooted in the consciousness
of a person, so that he identifies 100% with the imagined national
narrative. To this may be added the unconscious urge to belong to the
victors, if possible.
Therefore, I do not accept without reservation the speculation: "Well, he
must talk like this in order to get elected. Once in the White House, he
will return to himself."
I am not so sure about that. It may well turn out that these things have
a surprisingly strong hold on his mental world.
Of one thing I am certain: Obama's declarations at the AIPAC conference
are very, very bad for peace. And what is bad for peace is bad for
Israel, bad for the world and bad for the Palestinian people.
If he sticks to them, once elected, he will be obliged to say, as far as
peace between the two peoples of this country is concerned: "No, I
can't!"
web: www.tikkun.org
email: info@spiritualprogressives.org
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:07:45 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Hawaii Supreme Court ruling tampers with federalism
from today's honolulu advertiser...
Hawaii Supreme Court ruling tampers with federalism
THE ISSUE
Twenty-nine state attorneys general support Hawaii's appeal of a decision
that froze the sale or transfer of the state's ceded land.
NO other state has former royal lands that were ceded to it, but 29 state
attorneys general have joined Hawaii Attorney General Mark Bennett to ask
the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that blocks the sale or
transfer of ceded land. They understand that failure to do so would set a
dangerous precedent infringing on states' rights protected under
federalist principles.
Ceded lands amount to 1.2 million acres, encompassing nearly all
state-owned lands. Hawaii's Supreme Court ruled in January that a 1993
joint resolution by Congress apologizing for the overthrow of the
monarchy a century earlier requires that ceded lands be "preserved" until
"a proper foundation for reconciliation between the United States and the
native Hawaiian people" is achieved.
The Apology Resolution does not exactly say that, but that was the state
high court's interpretation. The resolution does say that Hawaiians never
"directly relinquished their claims" to the land, implying that the state
is de facto custodian of the lands.
A brief by the 29 state lawyers, prepared by Washington Attorney General
Rob McKenna, asserts that Congress meant the resolution to be "a symbolic
apology" and nothing more. If that had been the intent, Congress would
have tailored it as a concurrent resolution. A joint resolution, which is
what the Apology Resolution was, has the same force as a bill enacted by
Congress and signed into law by the president. In this case,
then-President Bill Clinton provided his signature.
"A state's ability to survive as a sovereign state is seriously
undermined if the title to its lands can be singled out and impaired by
the federal government," McKenna wrote. Indeed, the Admission Act granted
the state "title" to the ceded lands, albeit with the conditions that the
land or income from it be used for one of five purposes, including
"betterment of conditions for native Hawaiians."
On that basis, the state turns over 20 percent of profits from ceded land
to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The current case arose after OHA
balked at the transfer of Maui acreage to the state affordable housing
agency, rejecting a check for $5.8 million in compensation, about
one-fifth of the property's value in compliance with the five-purpose
formula.
Bennett argues in the state's appeal that "the federal government granted
title to Hawaii to most of the previously ceded lands (keeping some
350,000 acres) and mandated that these ceded lands be held by Hawaii in
public trust." Final reconciliation will occur after Congress passes Sen.
Daniel Akaka's Hawaiian sovereignty bill and the next president signs it
into law.
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:21:24 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Prime minister apologizes
to native Canadians - comment
 Aloha kakou,
With sadness may I comment on this!
No matter were you go, it is always those damn indians or natives, lower
or upper case, it doesn't matter they bare heathens and less of human
kind.
Aboriginal people of the world must closely watch these humane
confessions. It's not what they say, it is all in what they do. Look at
the strife and confusion the U.S. Apology 103-150 has done. Even has
casted a few into prison.
Word on Annexation Policy of Civilized Nations:
In the law of nations, one can only acquire "unsettled" land for its
territory, and later annex that territory. However, one may not acquire or
annex another nation. The act of annexation was unheard of in
international law, and that fact had been known since the time of the
Ancient Greek City-States.
Not only is the annexation of another nation unlawful in the law of
nations, but there is no provision in the Constitution for the United
States of America or its Declaration of Independence to take over another
nations. If the ridiculous concept of annexation of another nation were
lawful, total world war would break out as greater nations would annex
lesser nations. The Middle East chaos of today would be just a weekend
picnic.
However, all unoccupied land is up "settlement".
Civil societies consider any action to annex another nation is always
under "Color of Law" and is considered null and void ab inition.
What was the Hawaiian Kingdom? What are kanaka maoli and Hawaiian
Nationals? We owe Kamehameha the Great far more than what perceive or
deserve. Mahalo for being the Warrior-Statesman.
E ala e!
pilipo
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:18:09 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Fw: TODAY! Protest Anti-Latino Racist Remarks
good letter...
wish i could make the protest!
----- Original Message ----- From: Kyle Kajihiro
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:51 AM
There will be a Demonstration/Press Conference at 3:00 pm, TODAY 6/12/08
at Honolulu Hale to call for action to be taken by the City to address Rod
Tam^Òs racist remarks. Tam refused to meet with and apologize in person
to local Latino leaders. His racist comments have sparked other hate
messages direct at Hawai^ÒI^Òs Latino community. (See attachments) This
is unacceptable. Please come out to show your solidarity. Racism will NOT
be tolerated in Hawai^Òi.
Please spread the word!
-----
From: AztecBaca@aol.com [mailto:AztecBaca@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:52 PM
To: All concerned
Fr: CCR
Re: Race Baiting in Hawaii
Please note the below
1) T.V. coverage: http://www.kitv.com/video/16502798/index.html
2) Attached CCR letter of support
3) Attached hate letter
Mexican bashing has become the rule in the political discussion to resolve
the so-called immigration issue. The KKK/Minuteman, white supremacist, and
loud talk show host are attempting to demonize our people.
You can help STOP the Race Baiting / Mexican Bashing by:
A) Forwarding an e-mail of support: to Marie Villa, Editor Hawaii Hispanic
News: marievilla@hawaiihispanicnews.org
B) Forward protest e-mails to:
Governor Linda Lingle - governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
Mayor Mufi Hannemann - mayor@honolulu.gov
________________________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:50:54 -0500
From: nimchira <chooky.clarke@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Voices Health/Environment News
News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
June 12, 2008
In This Issue:
Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis. In the discussion of the global food
emergency, one underlying factor is barely mentioned: The world is running
out of freshwater.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qy53WpQA0POjlu%2FpgEQ%2B2nKe%2B2lOcMNV
How Water Has Become a National Security Issue. Water has become a key
strategic security issue for the U.S. government and that has some very
concerned.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SQUyv8%2BSZ5xbAMGKOJIj6XKe%2B2lOcMNV
Where Have All the Fish Gone? By some accounts, if current fishing trends
continue, all the world's fisheries will have collapsed by mid-century.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VUIBbS%2FxxkQ4zszD8GvfD3Ke%2B2lOcMNV
Why Are the World's Lakes Disappearing? From the Great Lakes to Lake Chad,
the world's inland lakes are drying up.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Baj8iwpQIm6xuMhKBK7l4nKe%2B2lOcMNV
Vets taking PTSD drugs die in sleep--Hurricane man's death the 4th in West
Virginia 24 Jun 2008 A Putnam County veteran who was taking medication
prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder died in his sleep earlier
this month, in circumstances similar to the deaths of three other area
veterans earlier this year. A Putnam County veteran [Derek Johnson, 22, of
Hurricane] who was taking medication prescribed for post-traumatic stress
disorder died in his sleep earlier this month, in circumstances similar to
the deaths of three other area veterans earlier this year.
http://wvgazette.com/News/200805230640
Fears grow that MRSA variant has entered food chain
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/fears-grow-that-mrsa-variant-has-entered-food-chain-838880.html
Patients 'Overdose' on Medical Debt. Hospitals, doctors encourage patients
to pay with plastic.
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=917122d2af&e=0fa96e422d
FEMA Gives Away $85 Million of Katrina Supplies
http://www.truthout.org/article/fema-gives-away-85-million-katrina-supplies
Ranks of Underinsured US Adults Increase 60 Percent
http://www.truthout.org/article/ranks-underinsured-us-adults-increase-60-percent
Chemical law has global impact.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13312/3057/16897/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vd3AtZHluL2NvbnRlbnQvYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDA4LzA2LzExL0FSMjAwODA2MTEwMzU2OS5odG1s&x=a916f05b
Chemical imbalance. Known as endocrine disruption, chemicals found in
computers, shampoo, plastic water bottles and prophylactics are skewing
our odds against cancers and causing developmental delays and reproductive
roadblocks.
ttp://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13312/3057/16898/0/?u=aHR0cD
ovL3d3dy5jc2luZHkuY29tL2d5cm9iYXNlL0NvbnRlbnQ%2fb2lkPW9pZCUzQTI2NTAw&x=2b2a6
417
Wal-Mart, Toys R Us to remove products with BPA.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13312/3057/16901/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uZXdzZGF5LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy9ueS1ienBsYXMwNjEyLDAsNDUwMjIwMC5zdG9yeQ%3d%3d&x=82a6342a
Most experts foresee a repeat, at least, of 2007 Arctic ice loss.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13312/3057/16904/0/?u=aHR0cDovL2RvdGVhcnRoLmJsb2dzLm55dGltZXMuY29tLzIwMDgvMDYvMTEvbW9zdC1leHBlcnRzLWZvcmVzZWUtYS1yZXBlYXQtYXQtbGVhc3Qtb2YtMjAwNy1hcmN0aWMtaWNlLWxvc3MvaW5kZXguaHRtbA%3d%3d&x=b165f2e5
Under base, a water war is brewing. There are two massive underground
aquifers that once slaked the thirst of 15,000 soldiers and their
families--but access to that water is emerging as a sticking point in
stalled negotiations between the state and three towns over which
ultimately has authority over it.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13312/3057/16913/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ib3N0b24uY29tL25ld3MvbG9jYWwvbWFzc2FjaHVzZXR0cy9hcnRpY2xlcy8yMDA4LzA2LzEyL3VuZGVyX2Jhc2VfYV93YXRlcl93YXJfaXNfYnJld2luZy8%3d&x=8f882be0
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:30:38 -1000
From: Tim Bostock Productions <tbp@artsatmarks.com>
Subject: extraordinary shows heat up the summer
Dear Friends
This Weekend
The Aloha Piano Festival is in town, and Giorgi Latsabidze offers a rare
Piano Recital tonight at 7.30pm at the Convention Center Liliu Theatre -
The Complete 12 Transcendental Etudes of Liszt, which is attempted by very
few even international concert pianists. Check it out! Tickets are $20
or Students $5 call 779-3108 or e-mail alohapianofest@yahoo.com.
Little Kitchens is a celebration of the best food and drink from
Honolulu's smaller restaurants, on Friday June 13 at HiSAM from 5.30pm to
8.30pm. Advance tickets (excellent value!) and more details from
www.honoluluweekly.com
The Dragon Upstairs (above Hank's on Nuuanu) brings back by popular
demand! Ginai and Pierre Grille, playing inimitable jazz blues and soul -
tomorrow, Friday from 9pm
HTY presents a remount of Rap's Hawaii, featuring the work of legendary
writer and performer Rap Reiplinger, on Saturdays June 14, 21 and 28 at 4
and 8 p.m. at Tenney Theatre, St. Andrew's Cathedral. The last run sold
out, so don't miss this one. Vaudeville theatre for all the family - a
really unique, funny and excellent show. Tickets are online at
www.htyweb.org or call HTY box office at 457-4254.
Next Week
John Cruz Makes Moonlight Mele Magic - John Cruz and the Girlahs kick off
the Bishop Museum Summer Concert Series Thursday June 19, 7pm. It'll be a
magical night with the great singer songwriter. Tickets are at Bishop
Museum box office - while you're there see the Whales!
Last week of June
The ARTS at Marks on Tuesday, June 24, from 8pm, hosts Youth Speaks Hawaii
& Poetry Hawaii presenting reVERSES, the Final Show! Hosted by Lyz &
TravisT, with featured poets, open mic, & jazz by DJ Mr. Nick. All-ages.
ALSO on Sunday, June 29th. Youth Speaks Hawaii offers the 1st Annual
Fund-raiser Dinner, with music by members of Tempo Valley, DJ Mr. Nick,
(vegan & more) buffet by 'Licious Dishes, full wine bar, silent auction,
Makana, Jon Osorio, Kealoha & more of Hawaii's spoken word champions
performing. More info and tickets from Travis at 753-4661
On Thursday, June 26, from 7.30pm at The ARTS at Marks Garage, "John
Cage's Sonatas & Interludes". Celebrated pianist Adam Tendler performs
THE avant-garde classic by perhaps THE most influential US composer of the
20th century, on a grand piano "prepared" with bolts & bits of rubber. A
modern masterpiece combining the sonata structure of the Baroque with the
rhythmic structure of Indian music. Just $10 at the door, or $8 in
advance from www.honoluluboxoffice.com or 550-8457.
Then sensual and spiritual modern dance from the leading underground
collective - Giinko Maraschino presents CoExist at The ARTS at Marks, from
8pm June 27 and June 28. Tickets $15 and $20 from
www.honoluluboxoffice.com and 550-8457.
Finally Taiko Fest 08 is on Friday June 27 at Hawaii Theatre, featuring
TaikoProject from LA, Taiko Center of the Pacific Youth Group, and the
fabulous Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble. Tickets from Hawaii Theatre box
office 528-0506 or www.hawaiitheatre.com
With Aloha
Tim
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:16:59 -1000
From: Oahu Deeksha <ohm.oahu@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Summer Solstice & Full Moon Celebration w Deeksha...Tuesday,
the 17th...gathering at 6:30
We will be having Oneness Deeksha Blessing on Friday, the 13th at Aloha
Rainbow Bridge. 7 pm. Week 4 of our series. I will send more about that in
a separate email. Please also join us for the Full Moon on Tuesday the
17th.
Warm Regards, Yana
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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:42:54 -1000
From: Oahu Deeksha <ohm.oahu@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Week 4: Your thoughts are not your thoughts
Manomava Kosha (Mind Body)
Contemplation: YOUR thoughts are not your thoughts. See how thinking is an
automatic process controlled by the whole universe and not by you. You
might call it ancient mind or race consciousness. We tend to be controlled
by the thoughs we have, instead of controlling them.
Sadhana: Vipassana for 21 minutes (Awareness meditation)
Meditation: Vishuddhi Chakra (throat chakra) meditation for 21 minutes.
(HANG) 7 times Kundalini arahana ma at the end
Please join us this Friday as we explore this concept of thought while
receiving Oneness Deeksha Blessing. Our session will be in the smaller
room, as there is an group meeting in the larger room.
-- Many Blessings;
the Oahu Oneness Blessing facilitators www.oahudeeksha.com Rev. Sue
808-221-6782 Heddy King 808-223-7177 Burdae Irwin 808-286-3808
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From: <moderator@PORTSIDE.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:03 PM
Subject: Japan Officially Recognises Ainu
> INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Japan Officially Recognises Ainu
> By Catherine Makino
> June 13, 2008, Inter Press Service News Agency
> http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42738
>
> TOKYO, Jun 11 (IPS) - In a historic breakthrough Japan's Diet
> has unanimously passed a resolution pressing the government
> to recognise the Ainu as indigenous people.
>
> "We are thrilled," said a tearful Tadashi Sato, director of
> the Ainu Cultural Centre in Hokkaido. "This is the first time
> the government has recognised us as indigenous people. We
> appreciate it."
>
> The resolution calls on Japan to officially recognise them as
> a people with a unique culture and language and promote
> policies to address their problems.
>
> There are about 200,000 Ainu living throughout Japan though
> most are on the northernmost island of Hokkaido. They were
> once thought of as the remnants of a Caucasoid group but this
> is yet to be proved.
>
> "The next step is to make sure the government follows up on
> its promises," Sato told IPS. Chief Cabinet Secretary
> Nobutaka Machimura said the government would set up a panel
> of experts to study ways to bring back their dignity.
>
> This is a significant step toward recognising that Japan is
> not a "pure single- race" society and that any such ideology
> can only be based on myth.
>
> "It puts an end to years of false reporting to the United
> Nations by the Japanese government to the effect that â?~Japan
> has no minoritiesâ?T and therefore is not practicing
> discrimination," says Andrew Horvat, a professor at Tokyo
> Keizai University who has written on the topic. "In fact, the
> treatment of the Ainu over the past 150 years by the Japanese
> majority is no different from the sad history of aboriginal
> peoples in the U.S., Canada or Australia."
>
> This move in the Diet means that the representatives of the
> majority of Japanese people agree that their country is
> multi-ethnic and that its laws and policies should reflect
> that fact.
>
> "This is a historic move and has great significance for
> people from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East
> who have arrived in Japan in increasing numbers to work in
> various capacities -- from IT entrepreneurs to construction
> workers," Horvat said.
>
> The resolution comes ahead of Japanâ?Ts hosting of the G8
> Summit in Hokkaido in July.
>
> "Coming right before the G8 Summit is no coincidence," says
> Gregory Clark, head of the Research Japan Office and Honorary
> President of Tama University. "The media were bound to make a
> fuss about their lack of status."
>
> Recognition means the government can diffuse any embarrassing
> protests. It is also a gesture that burnishes Japanâ?Ts image
> as leaders from major industrial nations prepare to gather in
> Hokkaido.
>
> Last month, thousands of Ainu gathered in Tokyo on a sunny
> afternoon and held a demonstration calling for recognition as
> indigenous people. Then the Renrakukuai -- an Ainu group that
> was founded in 1994 -- presented officials from four
> government ministries a petition in a meeting arranged by
> lawmakers who supported their cause. There were 6,419
> signatures and 180 groups demanding their rights from the
> government.
>
> The U.N. adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
> People last September recognising a broad variety of rights,
> including rights to ancestral land for indigenous peoples.
>
> "There could also be a Tibet connection since someone was
> bound to notice that Japanâ?Ts Ainu policy of total
> assimilation makes even the Chinese look good," Clark said.
>
> Many Ainu live in discrimination and poverty. According to a
> 2006 survey by the Hokkaido government, the ratio of Ainu
> living on welfare was more than three times that of the
> national average. The proportion of Ainu receiving higher
> education was one-third the national average.
>
> Machimura did not state whether the government would
> recognise land compensation claims. In fact, some critics say
> his statement did not represent a change in official
> government position.
>
> In 1986, then Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone made the
> comment that "Japan is an ethnically homogenous nation." It
> triggered protest by the Ainu and their supporters and
> sparked the nativeâ?Ts protection law. It was also around this
> time that the public started to become aware of Ainu issues.
>
> Then in 1997, the Ainu culture promotion law took effect,
> replacing the nativesâ?T protection law, aimed at preserving
> ethnic culture. It was an effort to pass down Ainu songs and
> dances to their younger generation.
>
> While the majority of Ainu in Hokkaido have cheered the
> adoption of the resolution, some remain sceptical. "I was
> happy when the [1997] law was passed, I have yet to see our
> situation improve and Iâ?Tm afraid to expect too much now,"
> says Hokkaido resident Urawa Toyama.
>
> The Ainu still plan to make the world aware of their
> situation and culture in Hokkaido at the Jul. 1-4 Indigenous
> Peoples Summit, ahead of the G8 Summit.
>
> (END/2008)
> ___________________________________________________________________
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:14:42 -0400
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Subject: Disappeared News - 2 new articles
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES
1. Today's Supreme Court decision: signifying--what exactly?
2. Look for the Stop Rail petition in your MidWeek
3. More Recent Articles
4. Search Disappeared News
Today's Supreme Court decision: signifying--what exactly?
by Larry Geller Yes, it's an important decision, of course. But please
check out this article on Slate.com today, The Enemy Within: Who are we
more afraid of: enemy combatants or federal courts?: The Supreme Court's
decision Thursday in Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States
isâ^À^Ôas all the big enemy-combatant cases have beenâ^À^Ôboth enormously
important and relatively insignificant. This is....
Look for the Stop Rail petition in your MidWeek
by Larry Geller Do you read MidWeek? Doesn't matter. Don't throw away
this week's copy (arriving sometime between Wednesday and Friday usually)
without first extracting the copy of the Stop Rail Now petition that's
tucked into it. If you don't get MidWeek, you can still download a copy
of the petition from the Stop Rail Now website here. I understand that
the number of signatures has been....
More Recent Articles
* Newspapers disappear your news on impeachment
* Officer testimony--in their own words--shows why Tasers should not be
given to untrained Hawaii police who falsely claim they are
non-lethal
* Must see: Bill Moyers keynote address
* A shot across the bow of the Superferry: The Superferry Chronicles
due to be published
* Innovation? In Hawaii it's just a word
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:34:18 +1200
From: karaka <chooky.clarke@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Punctuation
An English professor wrote the words: "A woman without her man is nothing"
on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly..
All of the males in the class wrote: "A woman, without her man, is
nothing."
All the females in the class wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:24:55 +1200
From: karaka <chooky.clarke@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] FW: Feeling Guilty about Being Happy
From: "Artemis Goldberg" <panthertracker@myself.com>
Guilty Pleasures Feeling Guilty about Being Happy
Happiness is an experience we all long for and deserve in our lives. We
may wish for the happiness that comes with a much-needed vacation or an
exciting new love affair, yet when the actual experience of happiness
emerges, we may be too overcome with guilt to enjoy it. If guilt is
interfering with your ability to feel joy, you may find relief in looking
at the beliefs you hold about yourself and what it means for you to be
happy.
Guilt about feeling happy can arise for different reasons. Deep down you
may believe that you don't deserve to be happy because you hurt someone in
the past, had more than others growing up, or maybe you received a mean
comment from someone you admired. Perhaps it once seemed that painful
experiences always followed happy ones; now whenever you begin to feel
happy, you find yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop. Happiness may
even just feel uncomfortable because you've gotten so used to feeling
down. The truth is that when you feel too guilty to let yourself enjoy
positive emotions, you are denying a part of yourself that has a right to
exist. By limiting your life experience to just the negative feelings, you
are cutting yourself off from the fullness of life NOTNOT- which includes
all of the positive emotions as well. Fortunately, you can begin to shift
the way you respond to happiness even in this moment.
From now on, when happiness begins to blossom in your heart, try to accept
it, relish in it, ask it to stay. It's okay to feel happy even if you
believe you don't deserve it. Feeling good is an expression of your
wholeness and your connection with life. The next time happiness appears
for you, try not to feel guilty about it. Instead, welcome your happiness
in like a long-awaited friend.
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:56:40 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Fw: Airdates - Issues That Matter: Hawaiian Roundtable
poka and i talk about the hawaiian roundtable discussion held at the oha
boardroom on june 5. next one is scheduled for saturday, june 21, 10 am @
jarrett middle school cafeteria. please join us, and also forward to
others who might be interested.
leona, can you pass this on to those on the sign in sheet? mahalo.
lynette
----- Original Message ----- From: Cherisse Lum
To: 'palolo@hawaii.rr.com'
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:14 AM
Issues That Matter: Hawaiian Roundtable
6/19/08 Thu 3:00 pm Channel 53
6/20/08 Fri 3:00 pm Channel 53
6/25/08 Wed 11:00 pm Channel 49
6/26/08 Thu 2:00 pm Channel 53
6/27/08 Fri 4:00 pm Channel 53
Aloha!
Cherisse Ferreira
Olelo Traffic Department
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:32:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: patricia blair <cris6369@yahoo.com>
Subject: Legendary Folk Singer Promotes Solstice Sing for Peace
Please contact Husam about supporting or
participating in the Maui Sing for Peace in
support of the Aloha Peace House. Husam spoke at
Open Table in Honolulu in April concerning the
goal of the Aloha Peace House. Thank you very
much for your support. Pat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Rebekah Fraser: 203-606-2929,
email:infin8peace@gmail.com
Legendary Folk Singer Promotes Solstice Sing for Peace Pete Seeger and
Clearwater Music & Environmental Festival Endorse Worldwide Event
New Salem, MA ^Ö 13 June 2008
Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger and other participants of the Clearwater
Music & Environmental Festival in Westchester County, New York will
participate in Solstice Sing for Peace next weekend.
According to Solstice Sing for Peace founder Rebekah Fraser, Seeger
expressed his excitement about Solstice Sing for Peace, and offered not
only to sing peace songs at Clearwater, but also to personally promote the
event. "Mail me a few hundred flyers," he told Fraser in a phone
conversation Monday, "and I'll put them up at my community's Strawberry
festival this weekend." With Seeger's assistance, Fraser also reached
Jeff Rumpf, Executive Director of Clearwater Festival, who agreed to
endorse Solstice Sing for Peace.
Solstice Sing for Peace is an all-inclusive grassroots movement empowering
local organizations and individuals to work together to create 24-hours of
singing for peace in 24 time zones. Fraser's vision is for people around
the world to sing in celebration of peace for 24 hours on the June
solstice, and in so doing to shift the global focus to peace on the
longest day of the year.
Wherever people are in the world, whoever they are, and whatever their
ability level, people are invited to sing or chant in celebration of peace
sometime between 11:00pm GMT on Friday, 20 June and 11:59pm on Saturday,
21 June.
Founded by Seeger, The Clearwater Festival takes place in Westchester
County, NY, and is America's oldest and largest annual festival of its
kind. This unique event has hosted over 15,000 people on a weekend in June
for more than three decades. The Festival^×a celebration for the Hudson
River^×features high quality singer-songwriters, performers and musicians
offering fun with a purpose^×a diverse mix of contemporary, traditional
and American Roots music, dance, and storytelling.
In addition to Clearwater Festival, other organizations endorsing the
event include American Choral Director's Association, Sacred Earth
Network, Food on Foot, and Aloha Peace House. A Solstice Sing for Peace
event is currently being organized on Maui, and proceeds will benefit the
Aloha Peace House. Michiko Pumpian, founder of World Peace Project for
Children (www.sadako.org), is also endorsing Solstice Sing for Peace, and
plans to create a small concert in her hometown of Nagasaki, Japan and a
larger concert in Sasebo.
Solstice Sing for Peace is sponsored by YES Watch, MyLocalGroups.com,
Tradeport USA, Smoothie Productions, Sunrise Media and Young Entrepreneurs
Society of Orange, MA.
Good News Broadcast is a media sponsor. We, The World, a 501(c) 3
non-profit organization based in New York offered Fiscal Agency to
Solstice Sing for Peace, thus enabling the fledgling organization to
accept tax-deductible donations.
To sponsor the organization or an event near you, write to Rebekah at
infin8peace@gmail.com or call 203-606-2929. More information about
organizing and registering for Solstice Sing for Peace is available at
www.solsticesing.wordpress.com.
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:44:40 -0700
From: Susan Sher <ssher@pacific.net>
Subject: [parentsforpeace] Contact Members of House Judiciary Committee re
Bush Impeachment articles
Dear Folks, Here is all the contact info to let these members know that
many of us are seriously counting on them to not let the latest Kuccinich
attempt at impeachment die in their committee. Member Robert Wexler of
Florida has all ready signed on as a co-sponsor. As far as I know, none of
the others have openly stated their support. If you have time to contact
only one member, I think the Chair, John Conyers would be a good place to
start. He has been such a courageous leader in Congress -- until now. He
seems to be pressured by the Demo party centrists to ignore this. Thanks,
Susan Sher
THE FULL JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
http://judiciary.house.gov/fullcommittee.aspx
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=8
Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5126
http://www.house.gov/conyers/
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=7
Honorable Howard L. Berman
2221 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-4695
http://www.house.gov/berman/
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=26
Honorable Rick Boucher
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3861
http://www.boucher.house.gov/
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=27
Honorable Jerrold Nadler
2334 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-5635
http://www.house.gov/nadler/
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=28
Honorable Robert C. Scott
1201 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-8351
http://www.house.gov/scott/
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=29
Honorable Melvin L. Watt
2236 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-1510
http://watt.house.gov <http://watt.house.gov/>
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=30
Honorable Zoe Lofgren
102 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3072
http://lofgren.house.gov <http://lofgren.house.gov/>
http://judiciary.house.gov/CommitteeMember.aspx?id=31
Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee
2435 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-3816
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Honorable Luis Gutierrez
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:09:51 -0500
From: nimchira <chooky.clarke@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Voices Health/Environment News
News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
June 13, 2008
In This Issue:
Gardeners warned over wood mould - Gardeners are warned about a mould that
grows on compost and decaying wood following the death of a man.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/health/7451439.stm
Veterans from 1960s chemical tests press for help - Lawmakers and veterans
of secret chemical and germ tests on military personnel demanded help from
the Bush administration Thursday, but they got no satisfaction. Officials
from the Pentagon and Veterans Affairs Department said there was no need
for legislation to guarantee health care and benefits to the veterans.
Thousands of servicemembers were exposed, often without their knowledge,
to real and simulated chemical and biological agents, including sarin and
VX. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/chemical_tests_5
FDA hit for slow progress on improving food safety
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1037482920080612
NY to sue CVS, Rite Aid over expired product sales
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080612/us_nm/cvs_riteaid_dc_1
Congressional Report Faults FDA Inaction
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=f7da3ced38&e=0fa96e422d
That 'new shower curtain smell' gives off toxic chemicals, study finds -
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-me-showercurtain13-2008jun13,0,2784885.story
Zapped! How Irradiation Is Threatening Our Food System - Lab animals fed
irradiated food have developed illnesses from cancer to immune system
failure. So why is the government pushing the same food on you?
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LSc4q0vYLaIahkBLScH2v0CfBNf0zTa8
Port Arthur incinerator set to burn toxic PCBs.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13342/3057/16956/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jaHJvbi5jb20vZGlzcC9zdG9yeS5tcGwvbWV0cm9wb2xpdGFuLzU4MzQ3MDUuaHRtb
A%3d%3d&x=c1e58e9c
Tapping the ocean. Desalination turns salty water into fresh water. As
concern over water's scarcity grows, can it offer a quick technological
fix?
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13342/3057/16965/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5lY29ub21pc3QuY29tL3NjaWVuY2UvdHEvZGlzcGxheXN0b3J5LmNmbT9zdG9yeV9pZD0xMTQ4NDA1OQ%3d%3d&x=2f19b2c3
Countries are renting farmland abroad.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/13342/3057/16967/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy51c25ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGVzL25ld3Mvd29ybGQvMjAwOC8wNi8xMi9jb3VudHJpZXMtYXJlLXJlbnRpbmctZmFybWxhbmQtYWJyb2FkLmh0bWw%3d&x=c13a1794
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The Energy Non-Crisis should be heard by everyone on earth. [Video] This
is the title of a book by the same name. For instance, did you know the
Alaskan Oil Reserves are probably the largest on earth. Lindsey Williams
explains that gas could be less than $1.50 at the pump in California
within one year if the President and Vice president and administration in
Washington, D.C. would be honest and tell the people the truth. It was
said in the l960's that crude oil would be the method of controlling the
world. What we pay at the gas pump is a form of taxation to those who
control the world. Incredible lecture. Listen to comments about Kissinger.
Listen to comments about Saddam. You're going to be shocked. When gas is
over $2.00 a gallon those who rule the world get 60 billion a year. They
are after Iran because they have said they are going to flood the world
with cheap oil! Lindsey Williams says war is a racket. Find out why they
can't bring oil from the North slope of Alaska. We are paying the national
debt by a designed plan at the gas pump. It's an incredible story.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en-CA
TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/22/18494641.php
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:23:06 +1300
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: [livingnation] COOK ISLANDS: Traditional chiefs make bid for power
NZ MAORI STIRS COOKS SOVEREIGNTY STOUSH
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4583560a12.html
AVARUA, Rarotonga (Stuff/NZPA/Pacific Media Watch): An attempt by a narrow
majority of traditional chiefs in the Cook Islands to hijack control of
the island nation from the elected government is being reported as a bid
for real power to be given to traditional chiefs.
Eight of the 15 high chiefs in the House of Ariki, an advisory body to
Parliament established 42 years ago, made a proclamation on Thursday at
Taputapuatea Marae in Avarua
They claimed to be dissolving the government elected in September 2006 and
taking over leadership of the island nation of just under 20,000 people,
Television New Zealand reported.
New Zealand Maori sovereignty campaigner Bruce Mita - a former director of
a Sydney funeral home - was reported to have participated in secret
meetings to help the high chiefs get control of the Cook Islands' natural
resources.
TVNZ said Mita claimed he represented futures traders in New York and said
he could make billions of dollars for the Cooks, a group of islands which
are self-governing in free association with New Zealand. Cook Islanders
are citizens of New Zealand.
And it quoted one chief, Makea Vakatini Joseph Ariki, as saying:
"Basically we are dissolving the leadership, the prime minister and the
deputy prime minister and the ministers.'
But Terepai Maoate, Deputy Prime Minister in Rarotonga, said the
government would not recognise those actions.
And paramount chief Pa Tepaeru Ariki said: "What the Ariki is doing now,
is illegal, very illegal. It is a sad day for myself and other Ariki for
this to happen."
TVNZ said the House of Ariki had a purely advisory role and the chiefs had
not wielded political power for more than a century.
The Cook Islands Herald reported the group's proclamation was a way of
reclaiming the mana of the paramount chiefs.
"They are asking for public support in their quest for recognition as the
Atu Enua and original source of the land of our islands," it said.
Many chiefs still had large tracts of land that belonged to them as family
land, but others had lost land by gifting it to churches or having it used
for schools, airports, ports and administration buildings.
Those chiefs whose ancestors generously provided land for public purposes
in the last century had been given little or no acknowledgement, the
newspaper said. The people who now controlled the gifted land saw
themselves as "owners" rather than only custodians.
Lands had been given on condition of receiving payments of labour or food
- the equivalent of ground rental - now Ariki were not even automatically
on the VIP guest list for government functions.
"The invitations have fallen by the wayside," the newspaper reported
online. "People tell them that everyone is equal but some high officials .
. . appear to be trying to elevate themselves to take the place of the
paramount chiefs".
In 1947, there were six Ariki in the Legislative Council but when the
islands prepared for self-government in the early 1960s, there was just
one "token place" initially provided in the Council of State. Though there
was a House of Ariki eventually recognised under the constitution, in
practice the chiefs were rarely consulted.
A bid in 1974 to have the House of Ariki select one of its members as the
Queen's representative failed by one vote.
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:39:57 +1300
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] Team re-creates Big Isle Hawaiian site
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hapaialii Heiau, a Hawaiian cultural temple site first built in the
early 1400s, has been restored by a team of cultural, archeological and
masonry experts in Keauhou on the Big Island. The heiau, seen in a
handout photo, likely served as a seasonal calendar. In the background
is Keeku Heiau, currently undergoing restoration.
Team re-creates Big Isle Hawaiian site
By Karin Stanton
Associated Press
KEAUHOU, Hawaii >> A piece of Hawaiian history has been restored, one rock
at a time.
Hapaialii Heiau, a stone monolith lying on the Keauhou shoreline, is
believed to have once served as a calendar. It is the first of several
ancient temples and sacred sites along the shore scheduled for restoration
by Kamehameha Investment Corp. Inc., a for-profit arm of Kamehameha
Schools.
"The purpose of this restoration is to make these sacred sites the
anchors, the icons, the symbols, essentially the platform for establishing
a cultural presence on this land," said Greg Chun, corporation president.
He said the existence of 10 to 12 sites in the area shows that ancient
Hawaiians felt it was a special place.
"Where a site like this is resurrected out of the ground, the land starts
to look and feel different," Chun said.
Hapaialii Heiau and the adjacent Keeku Heiau, currently under
reconstruction, sit on the rocky coast between the Outrigger Keauhou Beach
Resort and the site of Kona Lagoon Hotel, which was demolished in 2004.
Carbon dating indicates Hapaialii Heiau was constructed between 1411 and
1465. The restored temple measures 150 by 100 feet and is completely
surrounded by water at high tide.
The restoration team was comprised of archaeologists, cultural
practitioners and Hawaiian experts in dry stack masonry.
The team used measurements and research from 1906 maps of the inner wall
and 1952 maps of the outer wall.
Historians believe it took thousands of commoners a decade to maneuver
huge rocks into place and construct the platform.
Master mason Billy Fields and his three-man crew, with the assistance of
modern machinery, took four months to re-create the heiau.
"The engineering is already done," he said. "It's not written in books,
but my advantage is I get to take it apart. We already have the rocks, so
I have the easy part."
The team began moving stones July 25 and finished in December. With the
exception of the finishing layer, stones used in its restoration were
recovered from the surrounding area.
During the project it was discovered a person could accurately mark the
passing of the seasons when standing behind the center stone on the
heiau's top platform and aligning it with various points on the heiau.
Experts found that the sun sets directly over the southwestern corner of
the platformlike structure during winter solstice, and they are expecting
it to set over the northwestern corner during this month's summer
solstice.
"Our ancestors were well-accomplished developers," Chun said. "A lot of
knowledge was revealed through this work."
Chun said the restoration project will launch education programs geared
not only to student assistants who earn class credit, but to visitors who
want to soak up some Hawaii history with their sunshine.
"We look at assets like this as the foundation for education programs
that will capture,
preserve, document and teach cultural practice," he said. "Hopefully,
students discover some things about themselves and even some career
opportunities they hadn't thought about."
A program for visitors is under development.
"Our ancestors chose to live and build in this place for very special
reasons," Chun said. "We know what we're doing won't be marketable to
everybody, but it will be uniquely tied to stories of this land."
Work has begun on restoration of the adjacent Keeku Heiau, where invading
Chief Kamalalawalu of Maui was sacrificed after being defeated by Chief
Lonoikamakahiki in the 16th century.
Long-term plans include identifying and researching cultural and
historical sites within 100-plus acres of archaeological preserves found
in Keauhou, about six miles south of Kailua-Kona.
The restoration project was recognized earlier this year with a Historic
Hawai'i Foundation Historic Preservation Honor Award. The project has
been documented in a pictorial story in the Keauhou Kahaluu Heritage
Center, which marked its grand opening this week at Keauhou Shopping
Center.
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From: Max Obuszewski
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:46 PM
Subject: Climate Change Protesters Hijack Coal Train
Published on Friday, June 13, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
Climate Change Protesters Hijack Coal Train
by Martin Wainwright
Climate change campaigners hijacked a train carrying coal to Britain^Òs
biggest power station this morning, swarming on to the roof of its 20
huge trucks.0613 01 1
The 40 protesters stopped the regular delivery service to Drax in
Yorkshire disguised as railway workers in yellow warning jackets and
waving red flags, having read up on standard railway safety rules.
See the video.
Hear the audio.
The ambush took place at an iron girder bridge over the river Aire
between the villages of Gowdall and Hirst Courteney at 8am GMT. One group
then used the bridge girders and climbing equipment to scale the 12ft
high trucks.They hoisted a huge banner reading ^ÓLeave it in the ground^Ô
- referring to the coal destined for the power station^Òs furnaces. The
protesters carried food, water and even a portable lavatory with the
intention of being able to remain on board for several days.
As the driver of the EWS train radioed for advice, a second group of
protesters used shovels which they had also brought with them to start
emptying the gravel-like power station coal on to the track. Police
arrived half-an-hour later and sealed off the area, after calls from
motorists stuck at a level crossing which was closed as a safety
precaution.
A lone police constable was initially instructed to stay at the level
crossing 500 yards from the train, but he was soon reinforced by other
North Yorkshire officers. They sealed off the bridge from both sides,
while the driver stayed in his cab.
^ÓWe are ready to stay here for as long as Gordon Brown and the
government keep burning polluting fuel in these power stations,^Ô said
one of the protesters before clipping climbing ropes to the train^Òs
wheels and the bridge girders. Although flimsy, the web would risk damage
to the train or bridge if any attempt was made to drive off.
The raiders initially lay concealed on the edge of track as two earlier
trains took supplies into Drax, whose eight vast cooling towers are
guarded by coils of barbed wire. The power station was the scene of a
spectacular but unsuccessful siege two years ago by Climate Camp, the
group behind today^Òs action.
The rooftop group included one woman protester dressed as a canary - the
traditional warning of dangerous pollution down a coal mine. She said:
^ÓThe government and the country needs a warning,^Ô before fixing on an
orange cardboard beak to go with her bright yellow feather coat.
Commuters in the early morning rush hour included an engineer at Drax who
was cycling to work and had to stop at the Hirst Courteney level
crossing. He said: ^ÓThere are interesting arguments to be had, but at
the end of the day, these people use electricity like the rest of us,
don^Òt they.^Ô
The Drax line is likely to be closed until the protesters leave, and
safety checks including the removal of the shovelled coal are expected to
disrupt supplies to the power station for several days afterwards.
Drax responded to the hijacking by defending their record, setting out
details of emission cuts of an estimated 3m tonnes a year at a cost of
£180m. The plant, which supplies 7% of Britain^Òs electricity, is
improving burning efficiency, says the company, and increasingly using
renewable biofuels.
Melanie Wedgbury, head of external affairs at the plant, said: ^ÓWe are
the largest power station but also the cleanest and most efficient. It^Òs
only because we are the biggest that we produce the most CO2. For every
unit of electricity we generate, we generate less CO2 than any other of
the coal-fired stations.^Ô
The campaigners promised more protests later this summer, when another
power station will face an attempt to close it down, similar to the Drax
Climate Camp in 2006. One of the coal-shovellers on top of a freight
wagon said: ^ÓLast year was Heathrow, this year it^Òll be a coal-fired
power station because those are the two big things, aviation fuel and
burning coal.^Ô
© 2008 The Guardian
Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th
St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at]
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always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and
nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and
everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:53:57 -0400
From: kaiokauai@aol.com
Subject: Re: [kaleimailealii] COOK ISLANDS: Traditional chiefs make bid for
power - comment
Aloha kaua e Mike, mahalo for the info:
To me, the operative lines
New Zealand Maori sovereignty campaigner Bruce Mita - a
former director of a Sydney funeral home - was reported to
have participated in secret meetings to help the high chiefs
get control of the Cook Islands' natural resources.
TVNZ said Mita claimed he represented futures traders in New York
and said he could make billions of dollars for the Cooks, a group
of islands which are self-governing in free association with New
Zealand. Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand.
detail where the devil is.
If the "narrow majority of traditional chiefs" prevail, it shouldn't take
long to determine whether their actions were pono for the people, or a
case of having cut their individual sweet deals.
Kai`opua
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:17:39 +1300
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: Hawaii scientists see algae's 'green' potential
Friday, June 13, 2008
Hawaii scientists see algae's 'green' potential
Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Nanea Kalani Pacific Business News
The search for "green" alternatives to fossil fuels has turned some
Hawaii entrepreneurs into farmers.
Their crop is algae, an abundant and renewable source for biofuel with a
rapid growth rate and high oil yield.
Helping them is Hawaii's climate, where sun and water offer an ideal
environment for algae farming.
At least two Hawaii biotech firms are focused on researching and
developing algae strains for biofuel production. And a third is looking
to set up on the Big Island later this year.
Biofuel, which refers to clean-burning fuels made from vegetable oils or
animal fats, can be used to run cars, planes and power plants.
Compared with other crops being used and researched for fuel
alternatives, algae is unsurpassed in terms of oil production. Experts
estimate that algae can make 8,000 to 10,000 gallons of oil per year per
acre. That compares to 150 gallons per year for canola or rapeseeds, 50
to 60 gallons for soybeans, and 20 gallons for corn.
But the challenge lies in finding which strains of algae -- there are
more than 300,000 varieties -- can work as fuel. From there, researchers
need to find the best ways to grow and process the organisms, as well as
how to harvest the oil and process it into usable fuel.
Process that works
Honolulu-based HR Biopetroleum is confident it has found a process that
works.
The small firm was formed in 2005 by Mark Huntley, a University of Hawaii
researcher, and Barry Raleigh, retired dean of UH Manoa's School of Ocean
and Earth Science and Technology. Late last year, the 25-employee company
agreed to a multimillion-dollar deal with oil industry giant Royal Dutch
Shell to head a two-year demonstration project that will grow six acres
of algae on the Big Island.
"We have a patented production and research process, very strong
strategic partners and a very strong management team," said CEO Ed
Shonsey. "Our project with Shell is to commercially produce algal oil for
bioenergy purposes."
Shonsey joined HR Biopetroleum in January from a publicly traded San
Diego biotech firm that specializes in alternative fuels.
A facility for the company's joint project will be completed in about six
months at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority in Kona.
Commercial production
Shonsey said that aside from the joint venture, HR Biopetroleum's focus
is to build commercial algae-production plants in Hawaii and on the
Mainland. He said the company already is producing oil on a pilot scale
and expects commercial plants to be operational in three years.
He said customers for HR Biopetroleum's product will include not only
makers of biodiesel, but also producers of jet fuel and electrical power
plants that use diesel, such as Hawaiian Electric Co.
Currently, Hawaii's only biodiesel company is Pacific Biodiesel of Maui,
which sells a product made from used cooking oil.
Another company, Imperium Renewables Hawaii, plans to build a $90 million
biodiesel plant at the Campbell Industrial Park in Kapolei, which will
produce the fuel needed to run a new power plant being built by HECO. The
plant is expected to be operational by 2009.
Meanwhile, biotech company Kuehnle AgroSystems of Honolulu is putting to
use its plant breeding and modifying expertise to do algae research for
other firms.
The 10-year-old company, founded by UH horticulturist Heidi Kuehnle,
specializes in chloroplast science and has been working with algae
strains for biofuel production for the past four years. (Chloroplasts are
specialized units within plant cells.)
Customized strains
In the biofuels market, Kuehnle AgroSystems works with algae growers to
create customized strains using natural or genetic-modification
techniques. HR Biopetroleum is one of its customers.
Meanwhile, business partners Frank Infelise and Mario Larach plan to
launch Kai BioEnergy Corp. on the Big Island later this year to make
biodiesel from microalgae. The company is considering space at NELHA.
Algae production can be eco-friendly in addition to its alternative fuel
applications.
Because algae thrives on carbon dioxide, farms have the potential to
capture and utilize waste carbon dioxide that power plants create and
emit from burning fossil fuels.
Also, after the oil is harvested, the waste product can be sold as
fertilizer.
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Subject: Fabulous!!! Gore Vidal^Òs Article of Impeachment |AfterDowningStreet.org
Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 10:17 AM
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Gore Vidal^Òs Article of Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2008-06-12 12:27.
* Impeachment
By Gore Vidal, TruthDig
On June 9, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of
Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of
the federal government. This counterrevolution began in the exact place
which had slumbered during the all-out assault on our liberties and the
Constitution itself.
I wish to draw the attention of the blog world to Rep. Dennis Kucinich^Òs
articles of impeachment presented to the House in order that two faithless
public servants be removed from office for crimes against the American
people. As I listened to Rep. Kucinich invoke the great engine of
impeachment^×he listed some 35 crimes by these two faithless officials^×we
heard, like great bells tolling, the voice of the Constitution itself
speak out ringingly against those who had tried to destroy it.
Although this is the most important motion made in Congress in the 21st
century, it was also the most significant plea for a restoration of the
republic, which had been swept to one side by the mad antics of a
president bent on great crime. And as I listened with awe to Kucinich, I
realized that no newspaper in the U.S., no broadcast or cable network,
would pay much notice to the fact that a highly respected member of
Congress was asking for the president and vice president to be tried for
crimes which were carefully listed by Kucinich in his articles requesting
impeachment.
But then I have known for a long time that the media of the U.S. and too
many of its elected officials give not a flying fuck for the welfare of
this republic, and so I turned, as I often do, to the foreign press for a
clear report of what has been going on in Congress. We all know how the
self-described ^Ówar hero,^Ô Mr. John McCain, likes to snigger at France,
while the notion that he is a hero of any kind is what we should be
sniggering at. It is Le Monde, a French newspaper, that told a story the
next day hardly touched by The New York Times or The Washington Post or
The Wall Street Journal or, in fact, any other major American media
outlet.
As for TV? Well, there wasn^Òt much^×you see, we dare not be divisive
because it upsets our masters who know that this is a perfect country, and
the fact that so many in it don^Òt like it means that they have been
terribly spoiled by the greatest health service on Earth, the greatest
justice system, the greatest number of occupied prisons^×two and a half
million Americans are prisoners^×what a great tribute to our penal
passions!
Naturally, I do not want to sound hard, but let me point out that even a
banana Republican would be distressed to discover how much of our
nation^Òs treasury has been siphoned off by our vice president in the
interest of his Cosa Nostra company, Halliburton, the lawless gang of
mercenaries set loose by his administration in the Middle East.
But there it was on the first page of Le Monde. The House of
Representatives, which was intended to be the democratic chamber, at last
was alert to its function, and the bravest of its members set in motion
the articles of impeachment of the most dangerous president in our
history. Rep Kucinich listed some 30-odd articles describing impeachable
offenses committed by the president and vice president, neither of whom
had ever been the clear choice of our sleeping polity for any office.
Some months ago, Kucinich had made the case against Dick Cheney. Now he
had the principal malefactor in his view under the title ^ÓArticles of
Impeachment for President George W. Bush^Ô! ^ÓResolved, that President
George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the
following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States
Senate.^Ô The purpose of the resolve is that he be duly tried by the
Senate, and if found guilty, be removed from office. At this point, Rep.
Kucinich presented his 35 articles detailing various high crimes and
misdemeanors for which removal from office was demanded by the framers of
the Constitution.
Update: On Wednesday, the House voted by 251 to 166 to send Rep.
Kucinich^Òs articles of impeachment to a committee which probably won^Òt
get to the matter before Bush leaves office, a strategy that is ^Óoften
used to kill legislation,^Ô as the Associated Press noted later that day.
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