When critics of the Hawaii Superferry uncovered its ties to military programs and warned that the Superferry was a front for establishing a U.S.-based shipyard that could compete for the military JHSV and Littoral Combat Ship contracts, these ideas were derided as “paranoid conspiracy theories”. But less than a year since the demise of the… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2010
John Murtha, Pennsylvania’s “King of Pork” dies
John Murtha, a longtime hawkish congressman from Pennsylvania, dubbed the “King of Pork”, died at age 77. His legend as a master of pork-barrel politics rivals that of Hawai’i’s Senator Daniel Inouye. But now that Ted Stevens has been toppled from his throne in Alaska, and Murtha has died, Inouye is coming under greater scrutiny… Read more »
It’s back! Superferry rises from the dead
Like a zombie flick where the dead won’t stay dead, the State House of Representatives considering a bill to resurrect the Hawaii Superferry by creating a state ferry system and a special fund to have the public fund the venture. Citizens concerned about environmental and social impacts and the military use of the Hawaii Superferry… Read more »
Insulting China
Insulting China By Robert Dreyfuss The Nation: 02/01/2010 http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/524652/insulting_china Just like Hong Kong, soon enough Taiwan — the so-called Republic of China — will be absorbed into China proper. It’s a goner. The sheer force of China’s gravitational pull will draw the island to the mainland. So what, exactly, is the Obama administration thinking? In… Read more »
I Kareran I Palåbran Måmi (The Journey of Our Words)
WHAT: I Kareran I Palåbran Måmi (The Journey of Our Words) WHO: Poets, Angela T. Hoppe-Cruz (MSW/MA Pacific Islands Studies Candidate) & Kisha Borja-Kicho`cho` (MA Pacific Island Studies Candidate). Both women are Chamoru and were born and raised on the island of Guåhan (Guam). WHERE: University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Campus Center, Executive Dining Room… Read more »
Exorcising war’s demons, in poetry and prose
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/nyt/20100208_exorcising_wars_demons_in_poetry_and_prose.html Exorcising war’s demons, in poetry and prose By Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 08, 2010 WASHINGTON — Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his experience — “a year of complete… Read more »
Economic benefit of military expansion in Guam is overstated
This University of Guam Economics Professor, herself a supporter of the military buildup in Guam, says that the claims of the economic benefit of the build up are exaggerated. Apparently the Draft Environmental Impact Statement used the formula from Hawai’i to calculate the multiplier effect of the military spending. But according to the professor, the… Read more »
Mad Science: Military wants to breed immortal ‘synthetic organisms’
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-looks-to-breed-immortal-synthetic-organisms-molecular-kill-switch-included/ Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included By Katie Drummond Email Author February 5, 2010 The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever —… Read more »
Hawai’i has highest concentration of nuclear submarines
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100207/NEWS01/2070354?source=rss_localnews Posted on: Sunday, February 7, 2010 Hawaii-based ‘silent service’ on never-ending training regime ABOARD THE USS SANTA FE — Riding 60 feet under the ocean surface in a 6,900-ton nuclear submarine that’s longer than a football field, there is almost no sense of movement and very little noise. The only sound is an occasional… Read more »
Driving amphibious assault vehicles through ancient fishponds to help endangered birds?
The Marines will drive amphibious assault vehicles through Nu’upi’a ponds to remove invasive weeds and supposedly help create habitat for Ae’o, the endangered Hawaiian Stilt. And in doing so are spreading the seeds of the pickleweed. I wonder how the military was allowed to do this in an ancient Hawaiian fishpond. I can’t… Read more »
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