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Honduras and Iran: What is going on? By Johan Galtung - 06/July/2009     The brief answer is Obama's answer: we have to see how it all sorts itself out.  Politically this usually means--like Condi Rice's famous "birth pangs of a new Middle East Order" during the massive killing in Lebanon Summer 2006--that something is going on that should not be interfered with.  Or that Obama wants neither to

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by Larry Geller On July 4, 1894, the Republic of Hawaii was declared, with Sanford B. Dole as president. The illegal overthrow of the independent nation of Hawaii was complete. Yes, although your daily paper may want you to forget this, it is not news that should be ignored. There’s even a federal law confirming the truth of the history they refuse to print. From the Apology Resolution, United

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by Larry Geller Should the public documents of Hawaii’s county governments be available to the public? Sounds like a no-brainer, but that’s if you’re a member of the public. County officials may see it differently. State sunshine laws (open meeting laws and open records laws) don’t apply to the state legislature, which has basically exempted itself, yet these laws apply at the county level.

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by Larry Geller I’m not sure this makes me feel any better, but at least I’m not worried about the popguns that North Korea tested today. Click the above image to play with the app yourself. ( Based on data from The Guardian ) Technorati Tags: Hawaii, Honolulu, North Korea, nuclear weapons del.icio.us Tags: Hawaii, Honolulu, North Korea, nuclear weapons

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by Larry Geller As you watched the video of Sarah Palin explaining her decision to resign, I wonder if you had the same reaction that I did. I felt that Palin was even less coherent than she has been in the past. No short, succinct, two-minute speech for this gal. Like everyone else, I wondered what was really behind her sudden announcement. The timing was perfect, though, in that it was too late

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by Larry Geller The governor’s potential veto list is out. I know that people may differ on whether they think a bill should be allowed to live or die. I have my opinions, but for some of these bills, I am not as informed as others might be on the pros and cons. So I’m grateful when a reasoned appeal comes into my inbox that I might be able to pass on. This message was written by Pam Lichty,

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by Larry Geller Instead of talking on the cellphone in your car today, tune in to Town Square, KIPO 89.3 FM 5-6 p.m., or from home, streaming from hawaiipublicradio.org. Hosted by Beth-Ann Kozlovich. Get the inside scoop on the economic bailout, the economic meltdown, and more, from an insider: journalist Nomi Prins, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs and author of books including Other

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by Larry Geller Ok, no big deal, but the Star-Bulletin might have questioned this statement: The company spent as much as $20 million fighting in court to keep the operation open, including the costs of keeping the ships ready and crews on the payroll while it waited for the state Supreme Court to rule, Harman said. The ferry actually shut down after the Supreme Court ruling. The article

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by Larry Geller Hawaii’s Internet tax (HB1405) could drive web companies to incorporate elsewhere. That’s what a caller told Lt. Governor Aiona yesterday on KHBH. If that happens, then the state would lose the amount of corporate taxes they now pay. For most of us small timers, Amazon ads bring in little, so when the expected email arrived yesterday announcing that all Amazon Associates in Hawaii

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by Larry Geller Gee, the Advertiser breaking news doesn’t have it yet, but the Star-Bulletin does. I depend on the Adv. for breaking news, and this was expected, so they should have been on the alert. Now, if they did, and I'm the one who missed it, I’m sure to get a nastygram or two. The list is here (pdf file). On this list is HB128, which drastically increases contribution limits to state

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Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, 2009, the Interfaith Alliance/Open Table presents its monthly program at 07:00-08:30 a.m. (yes, that is a.m.) at Harris United Methodist Church, 20 N. Vineyard St. nr Nuuanu Ave. (ample parking-driveway off Nuuanu Ave.). 07:10 a.m. -- 7:10 a.m.  “Separation of Church and State: Where is the Line?”, Daniel Gluck, Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Hawaii. 7:50-8:

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Technorati Tags: Twitter, Tweetdeck, Honduras by Larry Geller Update: With cell phones and landlines cut off, it would seem unlikely that there’s much twittering originating within the country. Google doesn’t say if there is any Internet or not… meanwhile, the Organization of American States has been streaming video live and archived here. Ok, I’m trying to see if checking Twitters on #

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by Larry Geller Dave Winer, in a podcast I recently listened to, pointed out (I have to paraphrase) that while cable news was busy talking about a story, whether Sotomayor was a racist, YouTube was focused on events in Iran. Sotomayor isn’t a racist, but Fox News and the others had a story about that, and they were all engrossed in retelling and debating their story. It wasn’t about observable

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by Larry Geller Obama is rallying the troops in a fake “grassroots” support effort to bolster his healthcare plan. HCAN (Health Care Action Network) has gathered members (including two from Hawaii) to DC today to push for the “public plan” option. The battle is engaged. Certainly, many of Obama’s supporters want to back him in bringing about a new system. But many would prefer that he work to

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Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away, published on truthdig.com on 6/22/2009, is a must read for anyone following the Iranian protests and wondering how America figures into the scene over there. Snipping is unfair. I recommend clicking over there to read the whole thing, but to encourage you, here is a short snippet: “The central story of Iran over the last 200 years has been national

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by Larry Geller An email from Amazon.com just came in: We regret to inform you that the Hawaii state legislature has passed an unconstitutional tax collection scheme that, unless vetoed soon by Governor Lingle, would leave Amazon.com little choice but to end its relationships with Hawaii-based Associates.  You are receiving this e-mail because our records indicate that you are an Amazon

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by Larry Geller We’re being warned. In Not Enough Audacity, Paul Krugman warns: The big question here is whether health care is about to go the way of the stimulus bill. Obama keeps screwing up, trying to be non-partisan and compromising before he has even negotiated. The guy is compromising with himself: On one side there’s Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the issues — and ability to

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by Larry Geller Ian Lind and I differ on what position advocates for clean elections should take on campaign spending limits. He wrote today, in his article on the decision in Tavares v. Wong: Supporters of campaign reform opposed a bill introduced in the 2009 legislative session that would have allowed corporations to give no more than $25,000 in total to all candidates combined. By rejecting

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by Larry Geller The Hawaii House Blog reports today that: The nation's educators will posthumously honor Ah Quon McElrath with the César Chávez Acción y Compromiso Human and Civil Rights Award. The National Education Association (NEA) will present her family with the award at a special dinner on July 2, 2009 in San Diego. I can’t tell you how much I miss AQ. She was a role model and leader and

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by Larry Geller What state legislators could not achieve this past session due to persistent protests, the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals has gifted to them in an opinion filed this morning. A summary of the opinion is here. The opinion minced no words—Campaign Spending Commissioner Barbara Wong’s interpretation of the statutes and of legislative intent was incorrect at every point.

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by Larry Geller As I was sifting through Mark Sanford tweets early this morning, I was thinking that I don’t recall that Twitter was foreseen in any of the science fiction that I read mostly as a kid. The closest thing I can think of was a Twilight Zone episode in which a man buys a newspaper and tosses his coin into the box where people toss coins, and it stood on edge. At that moment the famous

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by Larry Geller Hawaii wakes up so late that the Twitter action on the Continent can peak before we even have breakfast. So it was with tweets about South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s weekend tryst in Argentina. Not only were the tweets flying while most of us slept, but someone beat me to the story. Here’s a roundup summarized from a Mediachannel.org article. I’ll just pick a few, click over

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by Larry Geller The Star-Bulletin and Advertiser stories this morning on the ongoing Hawaii Superferry bankruptcy hearings in Delaware were similar, except for this information in the Star-Bulletin: The creditors said the Superferry's abandonment motion is particularly troubling because it was filed less than a week after the company filed a motion seeking to initiate the transfer of $7.5

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by Larry Geller This is so disgusting that I don’t even want to dirty my computer by writing about it. Just go read: "Suck on Our Yachts": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy (alternet, 6/22/2009). Ok, just a little snippet: So some Dutch teachers' union that a year before was buying ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds in 2006 runs into a Goldman salesman who offers them

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by Larry Geller And Americans are still getting foreclosed in record numbers? Where’s the outrage? The Guardian newspaper reports staff at Goldman Sachs can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year history [Democracy Now, 6/22/2009] See the story (or video available on the linked page) for more on this and on regulation of the financial industry. Technorati Tags: Goldman

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