Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:46 PM
Subject: FW: Sarah Palin: Vote Now on PBS - HURRY - vote still going on
Aaah! We live in a scary country!
PBS has a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP?
What is so astounding is that this vote is not close. take
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Then: Pass this on!
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Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
Just click & vote^Å NOW.
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:42:41 -0700
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
Subject: [livingnation] Using Your Influence On "Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future"
Aloha `aina,
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Date: Sun, Sep 21, 2008
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] Keanu's paper
some of you asked to read keanu's paper, being published in the journal of
the san francisco law school this fall.
----- Original Message ----- From: Keanu Sai
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:24 AM
I recently completed an article that will be published in the next few
weeks in the Journal of Law and Social Challenges (San Francisco School of
Law), vol. 10, Fall '08. It addresses the importance of terminology,
especially those terms that have legal consequences, in particular the use
of colonizer/colonized versus occupier/occupied. This is the approved and
formatted version of the article that was sent to me by the editor, and
will be coming in hard copy and housed at the UH Law library. Keanu.
[ Part 2, Application/PDF 443KB. ]
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From: rubellite johnson <rubekawena@yahoo.com>
Date: September 21, 2008 8:24:34 AM HST
Subject: Fw: Prison Re-entry Curriculum - Raedean Karasuda
Dear Ray Smith:
  The following information should be a must-study item, especially for
HISAC (State of Hawaii Committee of the USCRC, i.e., the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission members), inasmuch as the forthcoming information on the
history of incarceration study will reveal where and how the prison
systems developed, and how the previous system (i.e., capital punishment,
kapu, kanawai) differed and changed as time went by, and therefore, how
that reflects the present incarceration system as it affects the
communities now (as well as the ethnicity factors).
 I had been hoping to sometime have the chance to find out where Robert
Wilcox had been taken after the first Wilcox Rebellion in the time of
Kalakaua...the records have to be somewhere, but who knows, a lot of time
has gone by. Nevertheless it's worth a try.
 More to do and to know about what happened, why, and how the
information should help us find a way past the guillotine, firing squads,
and lethal injections. Â
 I found some interesting information reading a psychologist's insight
into human problems, and I've passing what he said on to people who ask,
why this and why that over here. Simple. The way he put it is people
start out as children, and they have YEARNINGS. So he said children who
don't do their assigned homework (at school, primarily) lack DISCIPLINE,
meaning "self" discipline, and adults have to find nice ways to inspire
them to discipline themselves in performing those tasks outside the
home. I thought that's nice, but problem today is that they don't do the
homework, I mean, chores at home? TV, IPOD, press-button satisfactions
of yearnings, rather than earnings?
 What we need is to be gentle with those who yearn beyond the capability
to resist taking out their frustrations on others to satisfy NEEDS,
DEMANDS,and, yes, YEARNINGS? I have to keep my attention on EARNINGS, OR
YEARNINGS GET NOWHERE ANY SATISFACTION AT ALL. My mother always said
everytime, "Mind your manners. Keep your hands to yourself. Give up your
seat for that old lady over there. etcetcetc. I suppose that's what
creates civilization. Manners, respect, a soft answer turneth away
wrath. When the pennies fall out of your purse to the ground, leave them
there. Some child will find them and put them in a piggy bank. Not
finders keepers losers weepers. Go to the cross alone, only way. Â
RkawenaJ
--- On Tue, 9/16/08, KEKAPA <kekapa@aol.com> wrote:
From: KEKAPA <kekapa@aol.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6:45 AM
Aloha kakou,
FYI - This is a 162-Page (!) Hawaiian Prisoner Re-entry resource document
written by Rae dean Karasuda-a friend and colleague of some years, as part
of her doctoral thesis. Note the number of pages; plus there is a one-page
cover letter in the 2 documents attached. I haven't read it yet but will
in the days ahead. This is a makana-gift to all of Hawai'i!
Blessings and aloha - Kekapa
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From: "RaeDeen M. Keahiolalo Karasuda" <rbkarasuda@hotmail.com>
Date: September 15, 2008 1:38:04 PM HST
Subject: Curriculum Available
Aloha kÄ^Ákou, Â I am pleased to announce the completion of E Holomua Me
Ka 'Ike Pono, a reentry curriculum funded by a grant from the U.S. Justice
Fund of the Open Society Institute. Mahalo nui loa for your interest and
support. Please feel free to share the attached introductory letter and
curriculum with others. Â MÄ^Álama pono, Â RaeDeen Â
[ Part 2.2, Application/PDF 79KB. ]
[ Part 2.4, Application/PDF 2.8MB. ]
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:09:55 -1000
From: Mamo Kim <kupaoaikauhane@gmail.com>
Subject: FW: white privilege- A MUST Read!
Aloha Kakou,
If you're like me, you might be vexed with the what has become a highly
frustrating presidential campaign spectacle. I have found the non-sense
to be particularly revealing and have an opinion that it is good for us to
witness (the extent of the problem in America), but I did not manage to
put my thoughts into as succinct a coherence as Tim Wise. I offer this
article below for your edification and hope you will send it out, and
speak with your children, family and friends about this very pertinent
analysis.
Mamo
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sydney Lehua Iaukea <siaukea@hawaii.edu>
From: Joseph Campos <camposj@hawaii.edu>
From: "Jenny S. Samaan" <samaan@hawaii.edu>
Aloha dear friends and family,
A colleague just forwarded the message below. I found the analysis by
Tim Wise, among the most prominent anti-racism writers and activists in
the US, to be both accurate and extremely sad. I'd like to urge each of
you to do all that you can in your respective spheres to usher in a new
engagement with America and with the world! I am sure you would agree
this will be the case with President Obama in the White House! My dear
friends abroad, please be sure to vote absentee ballot!
Jenny
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This is Your Nation on White Privilege
> By Tim Wise
> 9/13/08
> For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or
who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this
list will help.
> White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like
Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of
your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and
Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as
irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
> White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck,"
like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes
with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to
"shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American
boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.
> White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in
six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college),
and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement,
whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for
college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because
of affirmative action.
> White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of
Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't
all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator,
two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're
"untested."
> White privilege is being able to say that you support the words
"under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough
for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be
immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the
pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't
added until the 1950s--while if you're black and believe in reading
accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because the Constitution,
which you used to teach at a prestigious law school, requires it), you
are a dangerous and mushy liberal who isn't fit to safeguard American
institutions.
> White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
people immediately scared of you.
> White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member
of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
Union, and whose motto is "Alaska first," and no one questions your
patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse
merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids
on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being
disrespectful.
> White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers
and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to
child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you
merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
college and the fact that she lives close to Russia--you're somehow being
mean, or even sexist.
> White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't
even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
running mate anyway, because suddenly your presence on the ticket has
inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your
party a "second look."
> White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support
your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or
being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black
and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
Chicago means you must be corrupt.
> White privilege is when you can take nearly twenty-four hours to
get to a hospital after beginning to leak amniotic fluid, and still be
viewed as a great mom whose commitment to her children is unquestionable,
and whose "next door neighbor" qualities make her ready to be VP, while
if you're a black candidate for president and you let your children be
interviewed for a few seconds on TV, you're irresponsibly exploiting
them.
> White privilege is being able to give a 36 minute speech in which
you talk about lipstick and make fun of your opponent, while laying out
no substantive policy positions on any issue at all, and still manage to
be considered a legitimate candidate, while a black person who gives an
hour speech the week before, in which he lays out specific policy
proposals on several issues, is still criticized for being too vague
about what he would do if elected.
> White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years
whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely
criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an
explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring
Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in
speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on
Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black
pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black
people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.
> White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when
asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking
you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to
give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're
dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.
> White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school,
then to Yale and then Harvard Business school, and yet, still be seen as
just an average guy (George W. Bush) while being black, going to a
prestigious prep school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and then
to Harvard Law, makes you "uppity," and a snob who probably looks down on
regular folks.
> White privilege is being able to graduate near the bottom of your
college class (McCain), or graduate with a C average from Yale (W.) and
that's OK, and you're cut out to be president, but if you're black and
you graduate near the top of your class from Harvard Law, you can't be
trusted to make good decisions in office.
> White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she's
disfigured in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire
beauty queen (who you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be
thought of as a man of strong family values, while if you're black and
married for nearly twenty years to the same woman, your family is viewed
as un-American and your gestures of affection for each other are called
"terrorist fist bumps."
> White privilege is when you can develop a pain-killer addiction,
having obtained your drug of choice illegally like Cindy McCain, go on to
beat that addiction, and everyone praises you for being so strong, while
being a black guy who smoked pot a few times in college and never became
an addict means people will wonder if perhaps you still get high, and
even ask whether or not you ever sold drugs.
> White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran
and still be viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with the maturity
to be president, while being black and suggesting that the U.S. should
speak with other nations, even when we have disagreements with them,
makes you "dangerously naive and immature."
> White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW
has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among
the "lesser adversities" faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin
explained in her convention speech.
> And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush
90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are
losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly
isolated from world opinion, just because a lot of white voters aren't
sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and
ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very
concrete and certain.
> White privilege is, in short, the problem.
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From: "lance d. collins" <lobsang@maui.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Colloquium on Obama and Race]
> This Friday.
[ Part 2, Application/PDF 22KB. ]
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:26:44 -0700
From: David Chirot <david.chirot@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Threat to Democracy in Latin America By Harold Pinter, John Pilger,
Tony Benn
*Threat to Democracy in Latin America*
*By Harold Pinter, John Pilger, Tony Benn*
We are appalled by the failure of much of the international media to
provide accurate and proportionate coverage of these events. All democrats
throughout should rally to defend democracy in Latin America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20820.htm<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0011bgFTJTCyHGPySyEHLHCDsyyy__IPdD3bNUxtP-OZt1kAPIZDkXKbuZQmqczHsyrZbVgAMwzF3AuS6Dp3bMSwmn469pA76IWNor2yyb2t3-41U533OYk8Wxkno8BQUkzcoIuGwZTbj9kLhBnCcQAoErN4uJE8Cxg>
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:53:27 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>
Syngenta buys Kunia land for $14M- comment
There is nothing to stop them except to vote out most of the legislators.
They have often been the nemesis of good government. Most are still
stupid and have to be in politics because they can't run a business
successfully. That's why they are politicians incapable of governing this
place. Some call it plantation mentality and "yas massa!" mentality.
There the wannabes so they can lunch at Pacific Club. They are plain dumb
idiots!
Tane
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:40:05 -1000
From: Fran Orian <anapuni808@hawaiiantel.net>
white privilege- A MUST Read!
[however, says g, many many white folks don't believe they are owed or
have special privileges. they just go about life in a way that assumes it
and makes that happen. "other races" may believe they should have special
privileges--often as a way to balance out the status quo of assumed and
unacknowledged white privilege. Wise is just putting labels on what
usually goes unrecognized. that's why it's so hard for so many white
people to come to hawai'i--suddenly a minority! suddenly hearing that
not everyone likes white people! whoa! g]
I think this is more a description of ultra conservative, right wing,
sexist, racist, bigoted Republicans - who are mostly white. Not all white
folks are as described in this list (in fact, I don't know any who are
quite like this) and it behooves all of us to learn to look past the
stereotypes that are promoted by just such "lists" as this. Yes, there
are those who feel they have special privileges just because they are
white. There are also many who believe THEY have special privileges and
are "owed" just for being black, Hispanic, Asian and other races.
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:01:11 -0500
From: Joanna Brown <joannabrown47@hotmail.com>
Subject: [edliberation] Trouble the Water
I thought this might interest edliberation subscribers.
A remarkable documentary about Katrina and its aftermath, called "Trouble
the Water" is now playing in a number of U.S. cities. The documentarists
are interested in working with social justice organizations and teachers
(see the website: http://troublethewaterfilm.com/theaters)
Three years ago, Hurricane Katrina exposed the reality of poverty and
racism in this country, and the repeated failures of the Bush
Administration.
Trouble the Water, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance
Film Festival, tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband
trapped in New Orleans by the hurricane and its deadly floods.
the trailer is: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=20271484937
Roger Ebert gave it Four Stars... Michael Phelps, of the Chicago Tribune
raves:
"Four stars! -- Katrina gets a good, deep look from people who were
there..."
Sundance Film Screen Invite- Unblock Images to View!
Network@lists.edliberation.org
http://lists.edliberation.org/listinfo.cgi/network-edliberation.org
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:17:05 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>
Subject: [livingnation] FW: The Destabilization of Bolivia and the "Kosovo
Option" - comment
I wrote back to Chossdovsky and praised him for his writing. I also
included the similar history in Hawaii in hopes that he will lood at us in
a new light and probably reflect it in his future writings.
Tane
-----
From: tane_1@msn.com
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:33:49 -1000
The Destabilization of Bolivia and the "Kosovo Option"
By Michel Chossudovsky
This is an excellent article that I enjoyed reading. It is very
reminicent of what happened in Hawai'i; but the names of the characters
have changed. History has repeated itself and the leopard has not changed
its spots.
It's interesting to note that in the 1800s, US. Minister John Levitt
Stevens was kicked out of Paraguay and Uruguay for attempting the same
thing as a pro-annexationist. The U.S. sent him to Sweden to chill out
till they could use him again. Through President Benjamin Harrison and
his old friend James Blaine (Secy of State), they sent him to Hawaii to
aid in the overthrow plot they had formulated with Lorrin Thurston to
destabilize the Hawaiian government and assist in the takeover to set up
the puppet government. They didn't wait for the U.S. American citizens to
overthr ow the Hawaiian Kingdom; they just went through the motions while
the rest of the Kingdom was ignorant of what transpired. Without control
of the government, its buildings, and police deptartment and Royal
Barracks, A small group of men made a proclamation in front of the
government building and Stevens immediately recognize them as the
legitimate government of the Kingdom. Stevens then threatened the Queen
with war against her if she objected. The Queen took the diplomatic route
to spare the lives of her citizens and that of the U.S. troops and U.S.
American traitors by entrusting her government to the U.S. until it
investigates the criminal actions of its minister and restore her to her
rightful position as head of state for the Hawaiian Kingdom. A sidenote:
The Queen could have overtaken the U.S. Troops handily but refused to be
pulled into war with the U.S. and instead appealed to the U.S. justice and
honor that it would do the right thing. This way, lives would be spared.
Isn't that a civilized thing to do? We had the same problem with the
British and it was resolved peacefully with the King in 1843. The Queen
expected the same results and didn't count on the U.S. treachery. This
plot was planned in the 1880s and culminated from 1887 to 1893. The
object was not to set international precedent but to appear as a domestic
revolution. It's an ingenious sleight of hand, wouldn't you say? This
appears to be a habitual thing for the U.S. government or at least the
elite powers that be which leaves the rest of Congress ignorant of the
facts.
Mahalo,
Tane
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:10:41 -0400
From: kahiwal@cs.com
Subject: [livingnation] Betting that Bush might stay a longs ways from
Vermont!
"CLG News" <clg_news@legitgov.org> wrote:
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
20 Sep 2008
Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins 19 Sep 2008 Charlotte
Dennett, the Progressive Party's candidate for Vermont Attorney General,
said Thursday she will prosecute President [sic] Bush for murder if she's
elected Nov. 4. Dennett, an attorney and investigative journalist, says
Bush must be held accountable for the deaths of [hundreds of] thousands of
people in Iraq
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:11:15 -1000
From: Robin Rae <Art4Peace@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Patrick Irelan: Morales Si, Secession No
ECONOMIC B.S. GETTING DEEPER
Listening to the official government and corporate media
sources explain why the taxpayers are giving an $85 billion
guaranteed loan to AIG, one gets into the very heart of the
propaganda system.
With this AIG loan, the American taxpayer has now put up
about a trillion dollars in bailouts and loan guarantees to
big financial market companies, this year alone.
When those who run the system explain why it is that we must
allow homelessness and hunger, they are quick to tell us we
have a "free market." There can be no attempt to intervene
and give a crust of bread to a starving child. That would be
socialism, which would bring the world to an end.
But when the big transnational investors who control
corporate media, the same fat cats who fund and manage our
elections, make a bunch of unsound investments and get into
financial trouble themselves, all of us are made to pay.
This they do not call socialism, but a "market correction."
Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University's Stern
School of Business, said "We're essentially continuing a
system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized."
In other words, if the big investors make money, they get to
keep it, but if they lose money, us peasants have to pay.
Although AIG's inept management will be replaced, there is no
question the new executives will be given millions of dollars
in salary and bonuses, this time backed by the taxpayer.
Crime does indeed pay, when it comes to stealing from
taxpayers.
Corporate media make it all possible. They do not allow
leftist views which warn against the privatization and
deregulation that got us into big government debt together
with the massive failures of the financial market. Op-eds
are always full of articles telling us the opposite, however,
from the corporate-funded think tanks (American Enterprise
Institute, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Hoover
Institution etc.) whose purpose is to brainwash the masses.
It is why Americans walk around like zombies, unable to
fathom the obvious.
----
RESPECTING PAKISTAN
Suddenly the Bush regime has decided it is "committed to
respect" the sovereignty of Pakistan. Admiral Mike Mullen,
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said this on visiting
Pakistan yesterday.
Perhaps someone in our government is not insane and wanting
to take on a nuclear power like Pakistan to add to the other
invasion blunders which have our military bogged down up to
its ears, even as they rattle the saber at Iran, Cuba,
Russia, Venezuela, Syria and Bolivia (more on Bolivia in
today's featured piece, below).
They did wait until after Pakistan's top military commander,
General Ashfaq Kayani, threatened that the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of Pakistan will be defended at all
cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations
inside Pakistan. This, only following raid after raid by
U.S. forces based on false intelligence, resulting in the
deaths of innocents.
----
BRINGING "FREEDOM" TO IRAQIS
A new book came out a few days ago, written by U.S. troops to
tell us what is really happening in Iraq. You will not get
anything like this from the corporate media, who are
obviously keeping Iraq out of the news until after the
election. Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness
Accounts of the Occupation is published by Haymarket Books
<http://www.haymarketbooks.org/> .
Dahr Jamail has a great write up on it this morning, replete
with excerpts like this: "I remember one woman walking by,"
said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the U.S. Marines who
served three tours in Iraq. "She was carrying a huge bag, and
she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up
with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and
when the dust settled, we realized that the bag was full of
groceries. She had been trying to bring us food and we blew
her to pieces."
-----
The two things feared most by the transnational investors who
run the planet like a private plantation are that democracy
will break out somewhere in the world outside of the U.S.,
and more importantly, that it will break out here, where
their control is absolute.
To read corporate media one only gets an Alice in Wonderland
look at what is happening in Bolivia and other Latin American
nations where democracy is breaking out despite the best
efforts of the National Security State. Every effort is
being made to bring Bolivia back into the
corporate-controlled fold.
My own corporate-viewpoint monopoly newspaper headlined this
morning "Socialist president has foe arrested." Imagine them
saying of president Bush "Capitalist president," followed by
spin to make him look bad. The "foe" they are talking about
is Leopoldo Fernandez, governor of Panda, who is accused of
ordering his right wing goons to massacre peasant activists,
probably with encouragement from the U.S. ambassador. Such a
person would be arrested anywhere, but corporate media
overlook savagery when it is done in the interest of their
masters. --Jack
----
Bolivia Versus the Empire
Morales Si, Secession No
By PATRICK IRELAN
<http://www.counterpunch.org/irelan09162008.html>
Evo Morales is a patient man. After he was elected president
of Bolivia in 2005, he set about in a peaceful and democratic
way to liberate his country's oppressed majority. That
majority includes indigenous South American Indians, who make
up over 55 percent of the population, plus a large proportion
of the country's mestizos, who constitute a total of 30
percent of the population. Morales himself is an Aymara
Indian, the first indigenous president in the history of
Bolivia. The remaining 15 percent of the population is as
white as the faces you recently saw at the Republican
National Convention. (Ethnic statistics courtesy of the CIA's
World Factbook.)
During the campaign, Morales and his Movement Toward
Socialism (MAS) promised to distribute the country's oil and
natural gas revenue in a manner that would help the
impoverished majority without sending the white minority into
the poorhouse. He also wanted to institute land reform for
the benefit of the landless peasantry. In a manner
reminiscent of the Spanish latifundia, 5 percent of the
producers owned 89 percent of the arable land. The poorest 80
percent owned a mere 3 percent of the land (Nidia Diaz,
Granma, 12/7/2006).
In Bolivia, it's quite common for a wealthy family to own
30,000 acres or more. In the departments of Santa Cruz and
Beni, a mere 14 families own three million hectares of
farmland (Diaz). One hectare equals 2.47 acres. You do the
arithmetic. The mainstream press in the United States
sometimes calls these people "farmers," which I assume is
meant as a joke. Anyone with that much land isn't a farmer.
He's a landlord or a land baron or the lord of the manor.
This type of land ownership is medieval. If I owned 30,000
acres of Illinois farmland, I'd sell it and buy Los Angeles.
The MAS proposed various other reforms as well, but these two
alone sent the Bolivian oligarchy into a frenzy. It tried in
every way to block land-reform bills in the legislature. It
accused Morales of tyranny. It called him and his people
racist names. It hired thugs to block the roads and
intimidate indigenous people. In spite of all this, the
government found ways to divert profits from oil and natural
gas sales to fund its social programs for Bolivia's
impoverished majority. People learned to read and write.
Hundreds of Cuban doctors appeared to mend their injuries,
cure their diseases, and remove their cataracts. And they did
all this at no charge.
Bolivia, it seemed, had friends in nearby countries-Cuba,
Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, and many more. But far
away, beyond the Equator and the Gulf of Mexico, the North
American Empire made fearful noises. Morales was a bad
Indian. Free medical care was a violation of God's laws. Poor
people should not complain. Bolivia was messing with Adam
Smith's unseen hand. George II, Condi Rice, and Dickey Bird
Cheney appointed Philip Goldberg as their ambassador to
Bolivia. He would know what to do.
Finally, in his patient way, President Morales arranged a
recall referendum. If the people didn't like him, they could
kick him out. About 53 percent of the voters had elected him,
but maybe they didn't like him anymore. The referendum took
place in August 2008. The people arrived at the polls. And
Morales received 67 percent of the votes.
Clearly, the empire and the oligarchy needed a new program.
The five Bolivian departments that contained most of the oil,
natural gas, good farmland, and white people had already said
they wanted more autonomy from all the Indians who lived in
the four departments in the Andes Mountains. President
Morales said no to the autonomy idea. So Phil the ambassador
went to see the prefects of the five lowland departments that
had all the white faces. In his previous job, he had worked
in Yugoslavia, where he learned how to tear a country apart.
The autonomy plan, AKA the secession plan, went into action.
The prefects of the lowland departments turned loose their
hired thugs, who torched a building containing the offices of
an indigenous-rights group, seized airports and government
buildings, and murdered at least 16 people. This was only a
fraction of the damage done.
At first, President Morales sent only civil and military
police to confront these criminals. He told the police to
avoid using force. Morales is a patient man, but he soon
learned that patience had lost its efficacy. He sent in
regular army troops, and an uneasy peace quickly returned.
Next, he told Phil Goldberg to pack his bags and never come
back. He then immediately recalled Bolivia's ambassador to
the U.S.
One day later, Hugo Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador and
recalled the Venezuelan ambassador from Washington, D.C.
Chavez also said he would not care to receive a new
ambassador until the United States has "a government that
respects the peoples and the governments of Latin America."
Chavez had already warned the U.S. that Venezuela would not
allow the balkanization of Bolivia.
An announcement that the oligarchy and the Bush staff had not
expected quickly followed. Speaking on behalf of President
Lula of Brazil, foreign policy adviser Marco Aurelio Garcia
said, "We won't tolerate a rupture in the constitutional
order of Bolivia." Don't be surprised if other Latin American
countries respond in similar fashion.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Fourth Fleet, recently pulled from the
mud off of Newport News, has been drifting here and there in
the Caribbean like a flock of lost goslings. Admiral James
Stavridis said that, despite reports to the contrary, "We
have no intention whatsoever to have an aircraft carrier as
part of the Fourth Fleet." That statement, if true, is good
news. For the first time in its long history, Bolivia may be
happy that it's a landlocked country.
---
Patrick Irelan is a retired high-school teacher. He is the
author of A Firefly in the Night (Ice Cube Press) and Central
Standard: A Time, a Place, a Family (University of Iowa
Press). You can contact him at pwirelan43@yahoo.com
<mailto:pwirelan43@yahoo.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:07:38 -0400
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:58:38 +1200
From: Karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Been tempted to buy those expensive creams & drops?
Don't bother.....next time you are peeling the spuds [potatoes] trim one
of those peels to fit your bags .... stick them on, spud side to bag & see
the transformation. Spuds contain catecholase, which is actually used in
some cosmetics as a skin lightener & tightener. Might work better if you
have time to rest for 1/2 an hour.
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:51:22 -0400
From: Wild Divine <newsletter@wilddivine.com>
Subject: Biofeedback & Post Tramautic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Dear Friend,
While there may be plenty of stories about the war, there never seem to be
enough stories about the soldiers waging the war-and more specifically
what is being done to help them after the fighting stops.
We came across this recent article (below) on how one group is using
biofeedback to help returning soldiers.
We hope this information is useful to you or someone you know.
Here’s one veteran’s recent experience with Healing Rhythms:
"I am a 100% service-connected, disabled veteran who has been diagnosed
with extreme Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. For 21 years, all that I
have had was different types of drugs to keep me calm or subdued. In just
5 uses of Healing Rhythms, I can see how much this would change my life
and actually save it. I believe in it so much that I am willing to stake
my reputation on it." -Ronald J. Brunwick
From all of us at Wild Divine, Live Well
Learn more about Healing Rhythms for yourself. Click here.
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Relearning peace after war
ECU lab uses biofeedback to help Marines manage stress disorder
GREENVILLE - A year and a half after he left Iraq, Sgt. Terrell McClain is
still fighting the sniper who shot him in the arm and the mortar shells
and rockets that rattled his brain. His weapon: biofeedback.
About once a week, McClain, 24, and a handful of other Marines travel from
Camp Lejeune's Wounded Warrior Barracks to a lab at East Carolina
University, where they are strapped with sensors that measure stress via
perspiration, body temperature and heart and brain rhythms. They are
taught methods of controlling anxiety, such as breathing techniques or
thinking of pleasant topics. Computer screens let them see the effects in
simple terms such as a computer-generated roller coaster that starts
moving when they reduce anxiety and stops when it rises again.
The idea is to train the wounded Marines to control outbursts of anger and
anxiety and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic
brain injury.
"There's nothing abnormal about these guys," said Carmen Russoniello,
director of ECU's psyschophysiology and biofeedback lab. "They are having
normal responses to the situations they were in, and we're just training
them to have better responses."
McClain said he was skeptical when he started the program in March but is
now a believer, because it has helped him control his hair-trigger temper,
a typical PTSD symptom.
"I still express my emotions, but I don't act wild," he said. "It's
helping a lot, and I mean a whole lot."
Biofeedback is only one part of Russoniello's program, which is designed
to reduce anxiety and stress through relaxation, recreation and social
interaction.
Meet the civilians
Therapists also are using activities such as kayaking, Frisbee golf and
wheelchair basketball, and more traditional forms of therapy, such as
group counseling. Even getting off the base and interacting with college
students is part of the therapy, since many of the wounded Marines will
soon be moving back into the civilian world, Russoniello said.
"We do serious training, but life isn't just serious," Russoniello said.
"It's also about having fun, and it's about things like checking out who
you are in relationship to others. Whatever we do, it has to make sense as
far as real life."
Russoniello served with the Marines in Vietnam and said for years
afterward he struggled to cope with the things he had seen and done. He
wanted the nation's latest generation of combat veterans to have it
better.
Many will need help: This spring, the Pentagon released data showing that
more than 40,000 troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan had been
diagnosed with PTSD, and military leaders say that more have gone
undiagnosed. Thousands more have traumatic brain injuries, typically from
the blast of the improvised bombs used so often by insurgents in Iraq.
Russoniello's lab is working with the Marines assigned to Camp Lejeune's
Wounded Warrior Barracks while they recover. Many in the barracks have
PTSD, brain injuries or both. They also often have physical problems, and
the recreational therapy in the ECU program helps them improve things such
as balance and coordination.
The program started in February. It's operating on a shoestring,
Russoniello said, but last month it opened an office next to the barracks.
That will make it easier for Marines to get therapy more than once a week.
The program is weeks from adding a new therapy even closer to the cutting
edge than biofeedback: Marines will be immersed in a highly detailed
"Virtual Iraq" where they will assume a digital form and encounter the
very things that caused their problems -- bombs, ambushes, snipers.
The idea, which has been under limited use in several places around the
country in the past couple of years, is to desensitize those who have
experienced trauma and give them more control over their memories of
combat. Therapists will control the number and type of "surprises,"
stopping the sessions periodically when the Marines' stress levels spike,
to work with them on controlling their responses.
Boosting the chaos
The wounded Marines will use the techniques learned from the simpler
biofeedback equipment to control their stress levels. From session to
session, therapists will gradually boost the level of chaos, allowing the
Marines to come to terms with tougher and tougher experiences.
The "Virtual Iraq" program is being donated by a treatment center on the
West Coast that is working with Marines there. The program has been in use
elsewhere for a few years.
Therapies based in virtual worlds have several advantages, Russoniello
said, including the ability of Marines who deploy again or who leave the
service and move to a distant state to continue working with the same
therapist.
McClain, the sergeant who was shot by a sniper, said more wounded troops
should try the innovative therapy and the techniques like "going to a
happy place" in your mind.
"To be able to calm down, that's a big thing," he said.
Of course, those who aren't familiar with the Marine Corps'
band-of-brothers camaraderie might be startled at the happy place McClain
goes to in his mind: Iraq, 2006. With his Marine buddies.
By Jay Price, The News & Observer
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:38:29 -0400
From: Tara Mack <tara@edliberation.org>
Subject: Request for teaching materials about the war from Rethinking Schools
Request for teaching materials about the war from Rethinking Schools for
new website.
tara
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Today's Topics:
1. Teaching About the Wars -- a call for help (BBPDX@aol.com)
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:39:34 EDT
From: BBPDX@aol.com
Dear Rethinking Schools friends,
Our booklet, "Whose Wars? Teaching About the Iraq War and the War on
Terrorism," is almost out of print. Rather than simply reprint this, we've
decided to create a web-based publication that we'll be able to update as
new articles and resources become available -- for example, see Ian
McFeat's fine piece, "Afghanistan's Ghosts: Activities provide background
for teaching 'The Kite Runner' and the 'good war,'" included in the fall
issue of Rethinking Schools, coming out in early October.
Jody Sokolower, former Berkeley High School teacher who has written
several excellent articles for RS, has agreed to coordinate our new
project. Her note below describes our "wish list" of articles and
resources we'd like to make available. Please contact Jody at
soksha@igc.org with ideas and proposals.
Bill Bigelow
Rethinking Schools
I have agreed to edit an online collection of curricula aimed at
supporting teachers who want to engage their students in learning and
critical thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about US
military strategy in general.
Do you have curricula and/or resources to submit for consideration? I am
looking for the following:
Background information (particularly if it is student-ready) on the
following topics:
?? ? Recent history of US/Iraq relations
?? ? History and significance of oil?
?? ? History of war resisters and conscientious objectors
?? ? Contradictions re: rights of women (including lesbians) and gay men
in the military
Curricula on the following topics:
?? ? Multiple voices of Iraqi people
?? ? Multiple voices of Afghani people
?? ? Multiple voices of US soldiers
?? ? Women in the military
?? ? Lesbians and gay men in the military
?? ? Iraq section of Naomi Klein?s Shock Doctrine
Curricula on the following videos:
?? ? In the Valley of Elah
?? ? Hell No, We Won?t Go
?? ? Control Room
Modifications, updates and/or experiences with Rethinking Schools
curricula on these topics (from Whose Wars? or from the magazine)
Anything else that seems relevant and important.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you have material to submit.
Don?t hesitate to contact me if you have questions.
Thanks and take care,
Jody Sokolower for Rethinking Schools
soksha@igc.org
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:23:57 -1000
From: UH Announce <announce@hawaii.edu>
Subject: New Species Discovery in News@UH
Genetic studies by Manoa's Matthew Craig reveal one species of grouper is
actually two^×in the September 22 edition of News@UH now online at
http://www.hawaii.edu/newsatuh/2008/0922/index.php
More UH News
^Õ University of Hawai'i Act 188 Task Force holds first meeting
^Õ The Office of Hawaiian Affairs awards $1 million to Hilo^Òs Na Pua No^Ñeau
^Õ Kapi'olani receives $155,580 to develop cultural training for the
hospitality industry
^Õ BOR report includes Manoa^Òs School of Social Work named for Myron
"Pinky" Thompson
^Õ West O'ahu^Òs Louis Herman and Chris Conybeare produce the film Primal
Quest
^Õ Lyon Arboretum receives a grant for Native Hawaiian plants collection
^Õ HMSA assists medical students with expansion of services on neighbor
islands
^Õ O'ahu campus teams battle for AUW softball championship
^Õ Kudos for Honolulu^Òs David Cleveland and Manoa^Òs Satoru Izutsu
^Õ In memoriam -- Manoa remembers Professor Howard Frederick Mower
^Õ Manoa's School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene honors Senator Rosalyn Baker
^Õ Manoa^Òs Andrew Reilly co-edits The Men^Òs Fashion Reader
^Õ UH events include jazz at Manoa, Hilo and Kapi'olani, Manoa^Òs
folktales and fairy tales symposium, Hilo^Òs international women^Òs
conference and more
^Õ Announcement -- ITS free brown bags and training courses
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:00 -1000
From: UHM Ombuds office <announce@HAWAII.EDU>
Subject: Workshop on bullying
Bullying can occur in department meetings. It can occur in the department
office. It can occur in the classroom. Bullying may result in faculty,
staff or student distress, absenteeism, lower productivity, poor morale or
violence. The UHM Ombuds Office will be conducting a workshop for faculty
on the problem of bullying on campus. Learn how to recognize the many
faces of bullying, and what you can do to deal with the problem.
The 1½ hour workshop will be held at Campus Center Room 309 on October 13,
at 1:30 p.m., and will be repeated in the same location on October 16, at
1:30 p.m. Enrollment for each session is limited to 18 participants.
Please register by calling Lori Mina at 956-3391. For further information
about the workshop, or if you would like to schedule a separate workshop
for your school or department, please call Susan Park at 956-3391.
This workshop is offered to UHM faculty members only. Separate workshops
on bullying will be offered to staff, students and administrators.
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From: "Colin Kippen" <kippen@kippen4oha.org>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:44 AM
Subject: Message from Colin Kippen for OHA
> Aloha,
>
> I am running for Trustee-At-Large of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
> (OHA) because I believe in its mission.
>
> OHA is a state agency born of a noble cause and with great promise.
> Sadly, OHA has lost its way. Trustees approve spending millions each
> year on mainland lobbyists, junkets and t-shirts. They have a budget of
> nearly $45 million a year and employ 170 people; yet provide no direct
> services to anyone. Their existence is of little consequence to most of
> the people they were created to serve. And, when questions arise about
> their spending, they run for cover or seek political retribution.
>
> OHA must change. We should demand programs and services that make a
> measurable difference to our people and communities here in Hawaii. With
> your help, we can make OHA more accountable, more open, and more
> relevant to the people it was meant to serve.
>
> Help me change OHA for the better. Vote Kippen for OHA. Vote Kippen for
> Change.
>
> Malama Pono,
>
> Colin Kippen
> --
> Friends of Colin KIPPEN
> PO Box 2366
> Honolulu, HI 96804
> email: kippen@kippen4oha.org
> Phone: (808) 861-6577
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:55:52 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Fw: Akaku show times on Na Moku's struggle for water against
A&B/HC&S/EMI
fyi. can watch online on olelo's streaming video...
go to http://olelo.org/whatson_web.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Murakami
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:51 AM
Especially Maui residents:
Please watch Akaku Community Television on Maui on the following dates at
the following times for the show Ed Wendt, Steve Ho`okano and I taped on
the issues involving our struggle against A&B/HC&S/EMI:
Channel #54
9/22 @ 8:31 pm (TONIGHT)
9/23 @ 8:01 pm,
9/24 @ 11:49 am
9/25 @ 8:01 pm
Channel #53
9/26 @ 10:00 AM
10/4 @ 12:00 PM
10/14 @ 3:30 PM
10/22 @ 4:00 PM
I am informed that one can also view these shows on streaming video on
demand at akaku.org, but am not sure about that. The opening segment by
"Sustainable Girl" is a bit off beat, but please watch the show that
follows!
The show contains some very revealing video and still photos that
accompany our panel discussion, thanks to Steve Ho`okano's extra efforts.
Mahalo to Steve for all his volunteer time away from his true love -
farming kalo. Everyone who cares about this issue owes him a debt of
gratitude.
PLEASE WATCH before the Water Commission meeting on Sept. 24 (this Wed.).
See, attached agenda. You'll hopefully learn a lot in preparation for that
crucial meeting, when the CWRM staff is presenting its recommendations to
the commission.
· The Commission hears arguments at 11 AM at Haiku Community Center on
HC&S' motion to consolidate all 27 petitions for CWRM consideration,
rather than the 8 that the CWRM targeted for action since March 2008.
See, attached staff submittal on Motion to Consolidate.
· The plan is to then open up the meeting for public testimony on the
amendment of interim instream flow standards (IIFS), probably around 2 PM
and continuing into the evening, to give working folks time to get to the
hearing. See, attached staff submittal on amending IIFS.
Please FORWARD to anyone else interested.
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:36:25 -0700
From: chela delgado <chela.delgado@gmail.com>
Subject: [edliberation] Support progressive educator and civil rights
activist Bill Ayers
Dear friends and colleagues in the field of education,
It seems that the character assassination and slander of Bill Ayers and
other people who have known Obama is not about to let up. While an
important concern is the dishonesty of this campaign and the slanderous
McCarthyism they are using to attack Obama, we also feel an obligation to
support our friend and colleague Bill Ayers. Many, many educators have
reached out, asking what they could do, seeking a way to weigh in against
fear and intimidation. Many of us have been talking and we agree that this
one gesture, a joint statement signed by hundreds of hard-working
educators, would be a great first step. Such a statement may be
distributed through press releases or ads in the future.
Please go to www.supportbillayers.org in order to sign the statement and,
just as importantly, forward it to other friends and colleagues who would
like to stand up against these attacks. (*Title/Affiliation will be listed
for identification purposes only. Please be assured that we have no
intention of using your name for any other purpose than beneath the words
on this page.)
Thank you!
Friends and supporters of Bill Ayers
_____________________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:14:18 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Obama & the 'Bubba vote'
bubba? i wondered what that meant. now i know. oh, i get it, that's
racism outside of hawaii...
----- Original Message ----- From: REDVET
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:00 PM
Obama and 'the Bubba Vote'
[col. writ. 9/9/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal
By now, if pundits were to be believed, Sen. Barack Obama was supposed
to be coasting to an easy November win, buoyed by dramatic moments at the
democratic Convention, and cruising on a comfortable lead in the polls.
But if ever there was an election season that proved that pundits
couldn't catch the ball, this is it.
For the polls are neck-and-neck dead heats between the campaigns of
Obama and Arizona Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.). If there was a
post-convention bounce, it went to McCain for his surprise pick of Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin for the V.P. spot.
She has energized a campaign that was seen as moribund just a few
weeks ago.
There is another factor that we cannot ignore; what former GOP house
majority leader, Dick Armey (R - Tex) calls 'the Bubba vote.
In Armey's words, "The Bubba vote is there, and it's very real, and it
is everywhere," Armey went on to explain what he meant by 'the Bubba vot
e'; "There's an awful lot of people in America, bless their heart, who
simply are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man." There it
is.
If this Bubba vote has kept Obama from bouncing after a successful
convention, McCain's Palin pick has compounded this problem.
For it demonstrates that all the hue and cry over 'experience' was
but a smokescreen for something else. It shows us that all the clamor
over 'qualifications; was naught but pretext.
For after all is said and done, for millions of Americans, Barack
Obama's blackness has made him automatically ineligible for election.
That's not issues; that's not views, that's not politics; that's
race. Period.
And, truth be told, that's America, at its core.
After the Democratic conventions, many Black publications gushed over
the history of the nomination. And while it's true it's never happened
before, it's also true that a nomination is nothing more than a means to
an end.
If he loses the election, the nomination goes into the Geraldine
Ferraro closet, and it will be generations before this historic
opportunity returns.
And, if 'the Bubba vote' gets its way, he may well lose.
It reminds us of what's called 'the Bradley effect,' after former Los
Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley ran for Governor of California. Bradley was
leading in polls by double digits the night of the election.
By morning, he'd lost.
When Douglas Wilder ran for Governor, he led by 10 points in the
polls. His victory was just over 1% of the vote.
So, the polls are neck-and-neck. Indeed, some show McCain leading.
What's that tell ya, but that 'the Bradley effect' (or should we call
it 'the Bubba effect'?) is still at work?
--(c) '08 maj
[Sources: Wolf, Richard and Martha T. Moore, " Armey predicts Obama will
hit blockade of 'Bubba', " USA Today, Thurs,. Sept. 4, 2008; Henry,
Charles P., "Obama '08 - Articulate and Clean," Black Scholar. (Spr, '08).
p. 5.)
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:13:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: megavote@mailmanager.net
Subject: MegaVote: HI 2nd, 9/22/2008
Congress.org presents: M E G A V O T E
September 22, 2008
In this MegaVote for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District:
Recent Congressional Votes -
* Senate: National Defense Authorization Act
* House: Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act
* House: National Capital Security and Safety Act
* House: Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act
* House: No Child Left Inside Act of 2008
Upcoming Congressional Bills -
* Senate: Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008
* House: Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2008
* House: Making continuing appropriations for the Fiscal Year
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Recent Senate Votes:
National Defense Authorization Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=201&chamber=S&congress=1102
Vote Passed (88-8, 4 Not Voting)
The Senate passed this bill that authorizes defense spending, including a
3.9% pay raise for those serving in the military.
Sen. Daniel Inouye voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=201&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=201)
Sen. Daniel Akaka voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=202&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=202)
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Recent House Votes:
Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=599&chamber=H&congress=1102
Vote Passed (236-189, 9 Not Voting)
The House passed this bill that seeks to reduce foreign oil dependence and
enhance national security through clean and renewable alternative
technologies.
Rep. Mazie Hirono voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=31644&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=31644)
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National Capital Security and Safety Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=601&chamber=H&congress=1102
Vote Passed (266-152, 1 Present, 14 Not Voting)
The House passed this bill to require the District of Columbia Council to
widen the rights of gun ownership to its residents.
Rep. Mazie Hirono voted
NO
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see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=31644)
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Commodity Markets Transparency and Accountability Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=608&chamber=H&congress=1102
Vote Passed (283-133, 17 Not Voting)
The House passed a bill requiring the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(CFTC) to subject the overseas trading of US energy and agricultural
commodities to the same regulations and reporting requirements which
domestic trades are subjected.
Rep. Mazie Hirono voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=31644&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=31644)
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No Child Left Inside Act of 2008
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=614&chamber=H&congress=1102
Vote Passed (293-109, 31 Not Voting)
This bill to improve environmental education programs passed the House on
Thursday.
Rep. Mazie Hirono voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=31644&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=31644)
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Upcoming Votes:
Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008 - H.R.6049
The Senate is scheduled to take up this bill to extend temporary tax
provisions that expired at the end of 2007.
Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2008 - H.R.5244
The House is scheduled to vote on this bill intended to establish fair and
transparent practices relating to the extension of credit.
Making continuing appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2009 - H.J.Res.____
The House is also likely to work on a continuing resolution to fund
government operations for fiscal year 2009.
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