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By Henry Curtis Remember the HECO Press release of December 2, 2008? "Governor Linda Lingle and Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, today unveiled a plan to bring an electric-car network to Hawai‘i, creating a model for the adoption of electric cars in the U.S. The move – only the second of its kind announced in the nation – will help fuel Hawai‘i’s drive to lead the nation in

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“The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to”—President Barack Obama, responding to Medea Benjamin by Larry Geller You’d never know it from the article in today’s Star-Advertiser, but long-time activist and Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin scored an impressive victory Thursday during President Obama’s speech at the National Defense University. “I’m going off-script, as you might have

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by Larry Geller When Microsoft announced Vista, it appeared the new operating system would be a leap ahead of the workhorse version Microsoft XP. It didn’t pan out—many systems administrators stuck with XP because it was reliable, and Vista was not. So the next version, Windows 7, was greeted with enthusiasm. Basically, it was Vista done right, more or less. Now comes Windows 8. Microsoft is

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by Larry Geller The Star-Advertiser story (Judge won’t block seizure of belongings, Star-Advertiser p. B1, 5/23/2013) reporting on orders issued by Judge J. Michael Seabright as a result of the May 17 hearing on the (de)Occupy case against the City was not complete. Yes, Judge Seabright declined to issue a preliminary injunction based on the “facial” claim that the City’s stored property

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by Larry Geller A  committee representing  400 men and women who say they were molested as children by Christian Brothers of Ireland announced today that they have reached a settlement with the Catholic religious order. The agreement provides for a financial settlement for abuse survivors including a $16.5 million cash payment from the Christian Brothers and one of its insurance carriers. Abuse

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by Larry Geller There’s nothing to be done about it except apply the brakes. While the newspaper seems to announce new condo towers rising to record heights each day now, the articles never mention that each development is accompanied by parking for its residents. Each parking stall will be occupied, adding thousands of additional cars to Honolulu’s already congested roads and highways. From

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“Today, I'm a shadowless man.The sun calls me into the street, and I walk alone into the lightof noon. The moment has come.” -- from Lahaina Noon, a poem by Eric Paul Shaffer by Larry Geller Hawaii is truly unique in many ways. One of them is that we are the only state to experience what we call Lahaina Noon. There are two days each year in the tropics when the sun passes directly overhead.

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by Larry Geller Two orders were issued by Judge Seabright in the (de)Occupy vs. Honolulu case yesterday. One is very complicated, I couldn’t unscramble it right away. Standby for more news tomorrow. Yes, the case is very much alive and is moving along. In the meantime, check out this letter in the Honolulu Weekly. The paper has always granted its letter writers plenty of column-inches to express

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by Larry Geller KOKUA COUNCIL AND HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICA (HARA) CO-SPONSOR THE 2013 LEGISLATIVE REVIEW “THE GOOD, BAD, AND UGLY” AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PAST SESSION BY LEGISLATIVE LEADERS WHEN: WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2013, 8:30 a.m. until noon WHERE: HAWAI’I STATE CAPITOL, ROOM 325 A free continental breakfast and light lunch will be provided by HARA Key legislators will offer their

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“There is so much capacity there [at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where many of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings were brought] that it’s no wonder—in my experience, it’s no wonder that people did really well, the patients did really well, once they got there.” by Larry Geller The pull-quote above is “stolen” from an interview on Democracy Now (5/14/2013)  with Dr. Paul Farmer, an

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by Larry Geller There’s a petition calling on the Governor to sign SB1214 into law. The petitioner’s authors say their car had been fraudulently booted, costing them $160 to regain the use of it. So far the petition has garnered 537 signatures. This is a “Frankenbill,” originally a “gut and replace” perpetrated by the House. Although I didn’t follow the bill, it appears to be one of the most

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“My introduction to daoism was via Joseph Needham and Chinese philosophers in Beijing. They see Western science as heavily biased with its atomism, deduction–aristotelian tertium non datur–values, leading to false dichotomies. Daoism inspires the search for both-and, like current Chinese capi-communism. Or commu-capitalism.” Mono- Multi- Inter- Cross- Trans-Disciplinary by Johan Galtung, 20 May

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by Larry Geller The headline in the May 1 issue of Ka Leo, the University of Hawaii student newspaper, is Admin looks at increasing campus police, surveillance (Ka Leo, May 1, 2013) was like déjà vu all over again, and again, and again. Where I have I read about UH increasing campus security? Well, for example, in this August 27, 2005 article: UH vows to create rape-free campuses (Star-Bulletin)

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by Larry Geller As expected, Judge J. Michael Seabright instructed the attorneys for (de)Occupy Honolulu and the City and County of Honolulu to draft the wording of an order that will address plaintiffs' as-applied challenge to the city’s stored property ordinance but does not address the constitutionality of that ordinance. The order will to hold the City to complying with the law and not

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by Larry Geller It’s good to see an interview in the mainstream press that gives the (de)Occupy protesters a chance to explain their campaign. Check out KITV’s interview posted on their website: The story behind the deOccupy Honolulu movement (KITV, 5/16/2013) (includes video). From the interview: We asked deOccupy protester Cathy "Sugar" Russell why she lives on the streets in tents. She

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by Larry Geller Washington and commercial media still want to cut Social Security and shred the social safety net even though, in the month of April, the federal government reported its highest budget surplus in five years. The United States posted its biggest monthly budget surplus in five years in April, the Treasury Department said on Friday, adding that revenues are running at a record high

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“The eventual amount paid for the construction of one individual field office was nearly $1 million, almost 30 times the amount we estimated it should have cost.” by Larry Geller Heck, who cares, it’s only another $1 million of taxpayer money. In this town, a million wasted here, a million wasted there, it’s just part of a day’s work. cyn·i·cism  (sn-szm) n. 1. An attitude of scornful or

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by Larry Geller Repeated raids on homeless street encampments in Honolulu have cost taxpayers something in excess of $1 million, a figure arrived at by multiplying the count of known raids by the Mayor’s estimate of $15,000 each (see: Mayor admits huge waste of money in homeless raids, 4/3/2013). A preliminary injunction, expected to be ordered after a hearing this Friday in federal court, is not

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by Larry Geller See: Breaking: City to be enjoined by federal court on (de)Occupy raids, (5/10/2013). It would be foolish to speculate on what might happen in the May 17 hearing in federal court in the case that (de)Occupy Honolulu has brought against the city. We know that the plaintiffs have been asking for an order to stop the city from seizing and destroying their property, but we don’t know

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“Up comes another ghost from the past, Hillary Clinton, possibly US presidential candidate in 2016; a much adored Secretary of State.  Stephen Zunes (truth-out.org, 23-02-13) about her legacy: “supporting autocratic regimes and occupation armies–undermining arms control and defending military solutions to complex political problems–outspoken supporter of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, lied

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by Larry Geller I visited the Complete Streets demonstration this afternoon. Cooke Street was closed off from traffic and host to several installations along its length starting from Ala Moana Blvd. It’s important that this was done, and the event (which includes much more than just this street demo) looked like a lot of fun for kids and families (see below my rant for some of the fun). The first

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“When the most vulnerable (e.g. homeless) or the most outspoken (e.g. (de)Occupy Honolulu) are ejected from our definition of the public, how we define democracy is sorely limited. When our belief in what tourists want overrides the very real needs of human beings, how we regulate public space is operating from deeply flawed assumptions.” by Larry Geller I’ve read Annie Koh’s A Park Is For The

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by Larry Geller As a result of a status conference held this morning in Judge J. Michael Seabright’s chambers, an agreement has been reached in which the attorneys for (de)Occupy Honolulu and for the City and County of Honolulu will work together on the wording of a stipulated preliminary injunction based upon plaintiff’s challenge to the city’s ordinance. An evidentiary hearing will not be

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“The court, having concluded this five-week trial from 8/4/09 through 9/11/09 and having considered the trial evidence and arguments of counsel, determines that Plaintiffs proved by clear and convincing evidence breaches of trust by the Defendant State of Hawai'i ("State") and Defendant Department of Hawaiian Home Lands ("DHHL") during the claims period (August 21, 1959, statehood, through 1988)

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by Larry Geller Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s Housing First plan to address homeless issues calls for 25 “chronically homeless” people to be placed in housing units across Oahu by the end of 2014 and then place an additional 50 people in 2015, according to a plan obtained by the Star-Advertiser. [Star-Advertiser, Caldwell's project to house chronically homeless, 5/9/2013] Caldwell’s plan will benefit

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