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NO TO INCREASED MILITARIZATION IN HAWAI`I & AROUND THE WORLD
Within the last few days and weeks we have been saturated with military story after story. The U.S. war and occupation of Iraq continues unabated. The numbers of killed and injured increase daily. Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation contamination has been confirmed not only on Oahu, but also now on Hawaii Island at Pohakuloa. Where else?
The Navy is pushing for increased Hawaii warfare training on land, sea and air. The Army is pushing for a Stryker Brigade base and training in Hawaii. A new $300 million National Security Agency (NSA) wiretapping/surveillance center is being built on Oahu.
The Superferry has been linked as a military transport for Stryker, etc. The military is expanding it’s Keaukaha (Hilo Airport) base and now the University of Hawaii has signed (9/27/07) a contract with the Navy to do secret weapons and war research for tens of millions of dollars.
All of these projects have received citizen protest but it appears that no one in power is listening.
Eloquent public testimony was given at Army and Navy Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) hearings. Faculty, students, and community people spoke proudly of our University of Hawaii and the need for keeping it an open center for learning, inquiry, and an exchange of ideas rather than doing secret contract military work.
But military money talks and some Hawaii business people want a piece of the action. All total the U.S. is spending $2 billion dollars a day on militarism yet people go hungry right here in Hawaii and there is a lengthy list of unmet human and environmental needs where money could be better spent.
On the bright side, Honokaa hosted a United Nations Peace Parade on September 23rd. It was a joyous occasion with a real cross section of the community from many parts of the island coming together to support the need for peace, not only in Hawaii but the world.
It is time for an about face – to move in a new direction – away from militarism and toward justice, peace and a disarmed world. What better place to begin than right here in the land of aloha.
An about face means coming to terms with the illegal overthrow of the sovereign independent nation of Hawaii and 115 years of ongoing U.S. military occupation. Justice demands that the occupations of Iraq and Hawaii end and the sovereign nations rise again.
In our hearts we all know that aloha and non-violence walk hand-in-hand. If we truly want peace, we need to use peaceful and just means toward that end. Weapons, war, and occupation are not instruments of peace. Let’s live aloha and support military clean up not build up in Hawaii as an important first step to a disarmed world built on a foundation of justice for people everywhere.
Free Hawaii & Iraq: Military Clean Up NOT Build Up!
U.S. Army DEIS comment deadline is October 30, 2007. Send comments to PublicComments [at] aec.apgea.army.mil and cc a copy to tenfingers10toes [at] protecthawaii.ws
No Stryker Brigade build-up in Hawai’i. Clean-up all live-fire artillery ranges.
Please learn more… Help Us Save Hawai’i and sign the following petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-save-hawaii
Then, please forward to everyone you know!
READ WHY the Stryker Brigade must not stay in Hawaii!
Ten Reasons to Oppose the Stryker Brigade in Hawaii
http://www.dmzhawaii.org/stop_stryker_hawaii.pdf
Army Regulation AR 700-48 "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities," Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002, Section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation 700-48 dated Sept. 16, 2002, specifies these requirements.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_pam_700-48.pdf
Hawaiian Islands Are Radioactive
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893755.shtml
Depleted Uranium Contamination By Strykers In Hawaii
http://www.indymedia.org/it/2007/09/893176.shtml
Death By Breath
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893823.shtml
Hawaiian Islands Contaminated With Ballistic Uranium
http://www.rense.com/general78/hawa.htm
No Peace in Paradise by Kyle Kajihiro
http://www.haleakalatimes.com/news/story2527.aspx
Army’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Stryker Brigade Invasion of Hawaii:
http://www.sbct-seis.org/
Go to Demilitarize Hawaii
http://dmzhawaii.org
Go to Protect Hawaii website:
http://www.protecthawaii.ws/
The Superferry has been linked as a military transport for Stryker, etc. The military is expanding it’s Keaukaha (Hilo Airport) base and now the University of Hawaii has signed (9/27/07) a contract with the Navy to do secret weapons and war research for tens of millions of dollars.
All of these projects have received citizen protest but it appears that no one in power is listening.
Eloquent public testimony was given at Army and Navy Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) hearings. Faculty, students, and community people spoke proudly of our University of Hawaii and the need for keeping it an open center for learning, inquiry, and an exchange of ideas rather than doing secret contract military work.
But military money talks and some Hawaii business people want a piece of the action. All total the U.S. is spending $2 billion dollars a day on militarism yet people go hungry right here in Hawaii and there is a lengthy list of unmet human and environmental needs where money could be better spent.
On the bright side, Honokaa hosted a United Nations Peace Parade on September 23rd. It was a joyous occasion with a real cross section of the community from many parts of the island coming together to support the need for peace, not only in Hawaii but the world.
It is time for an about face – to move in a new direction – away from militarism and toward justice, peace and a disarmed world. What better place to begin than right here in the land of aloha.
An about face means coming to terms with the illegal overthrow of the sovereign independent nation of Hawaii and 115 years of ongoing U.S. military occupation. Justice demands that the occupations of Iraq and Hawaii end and the sovereign nations rise again.
In our hearts we all know that aloha and non-violence walk hand-in-hand. If we truly want peace, we need to use peaceful and just means toward that end. Weapons, war, and occupation are not instruments of peace. Let’s live aloha and support military clean up not build up in Hawaii as an important first step to a disarmed world built on a foundation of justice for people everywhere.
Free Hawaii & Iraq: Military Clean Up NOT Build Up!
U.S. Army DEIS comment deadline is October 30, 2007. Send comments to PublicComments [at] aec.apgea.army.mil and cc a copy to tenfingers10toes [at] protecthawaii.ws
No Stryker Brigade build-up in Hawai’i. Clean-up all live-fire artillery ranges.
Please learn more… Help Us Save Hawai’i and sign the following petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/help-save-hawaii
Then, please forward to everyone you know!
READ WHY the Stryker Brigade must not stay in Hawaii!
Ten Reasons to Oppose the Stryker Brigade in Hawaii
http://www.dmzhawaii.org/stop_stryker_hawaii.pdf
Army Regulation AR 700-48 "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities," Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002, Section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation 700-48 dated Sept. 16, 2002, specifies these requirements.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_pam_700-48.pdf
Hawaiian Islands Are Radioactive
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893755.shtml
Depleted Uranium Contamination By Strykers In Hawaii
http://www.indymedia.org/it/2007/09/893176.shtml
Death By Breath
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/893823.shtml
Hawaiian Islands Contaminated With Ballistic Uranium
http://www.rense.com/general78/hawa.htm
No Peace in Paradise by Kyle Kajihiro
http://www.haleakalatimes.com/news/story2527.aspx
Army’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Stryker Brigade Invasion of Hawaii:
http://www.sbct-seis.org/
Go to Demilitarize Hawaii
http://dmzhawaii.org
Go to Protect Hawaii website:
http://www.protecthawaii.ws/
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US Policies of aggression, nuclear arms, nuclear weapon development, nuclear weapon use threats, and missile shields will only serve to antagonize China, Russia, and some Middle Eastern countries. The inevitable event will be one or many nuclear weapons fired against the United States in the very near future. The only thing that can stop this is for the globalization movement to stop its power grab and for native peoples to be given equal voice in institutions like the United Nations. The native peoples are the moral reserve of humanity, not the rich overbloated bankers, politicians and royalty. The world needs to come together to end racism against religions and ethnicities. We should start with Iran and immediately. The Third Major shaking of the earth on US soil was prophesized by the Cherokee long ago. Its time to listen to the native wisdom again, and let go of the snake oil politicians who are only concerned about themselves.
America has lost its self-determination as the government has been hijacked from its inhabitants by elite factions in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Europe. America no longer operates with self-preservation as a goal. In parallel, Israel is leading and sometimes following on the same suicide path.
Most americans have forgotten the old adage, "If you live in a glass house, you shouldn't throw rocks." The lack of collective wisdom and common sense as a nation will be our demise.
According an AP article, "The Iranian parliament said the US Army and the CIA were terrorists because of the atomic bombing of Japan; the use of depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq; support of the killings of Palestinians by Israel; the bombing and killing Iraqi civilians and the torture of imprisoned terror suspects." A statement signed by the 215 members who voted for the resolution reads, "The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror.
Depleted Uranium will serve the purpose of turning the world community against the US in future world confict certainly after the coming US-Iran war. In light of the use of DU in the Middle East and Afganistan, the world community will destroy the United States and Israel. This is ultimately the plan that will serve the interests of the One World Government and New World Order.
Although DU has about 60% of the radioactivity of the natural uranium for an equal mass of substance (Cantaluppi and Degeto, 2000), elevated uranium activity concentrations have been observed in most of the surface soil samples and all of the biological samples collected in Kosovo. In some soils, elevations of even seven thousand times higher than the background uranium level have been observed.
America has lost its self-determination as the government has been hijacked from its inhabitants by elite factions in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Europe. America no longer operates with self-preservation as a goal. In parallel, Israel is leading and sometimes following on the same suicide path.
Most americans have forgotten the old adage, "If you live in a glass house, you shouldn't throw rocks." The lack of collective wisdom and common sense as a nation will be our demise.
According an AP article, "The Iranian parliament said the US Army and the CIA were terrorists because of the atomic bombing of Japan; the use of depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq; support of the killings of Palestinians by Israel; the bombing and killing Iraqi civilians and the torture of imprisoned terror suspects." A statement signed by the 215 members who voted for the resolution reads, "The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror.
Depleted Uranium will serve the purpose of turning the world community against the US in future world confict certainly after the coming US-Iran war. In light of the use of DU in the Middle East and Afganistan, the world community will destroy the United States and Israel. This is ultimately the plan that will serve the interests of the One World Government and New World Order.
Although DU has about 60% of the radioactivity of the natural uranium for an equal mass of substance (Cantaluppi and Degeto, 2000), elevated uranium activity concentrations have been observed in most of the surface soil samples and all of the biological samples collected in Kosovo. In some soils, elevations of even seven thousand times higher than the background uranium level have been observed.
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