Last nights Councilman Tom Berg's landfill meeting at Kapolei Hale was really about bashing IBEW 1260. What is interesting is there are similarities to IBEW 1260 and EPA Regional 9 tehy both represent Guam. There were HECO employees there to answer questions from the audience. Guam is an attachmeent that happens to be a weak link in most 'activism' and I am coming from not too distant experience. The first person that I heard from that talked about 'sustainability' was Senator Ramos at Dr. Kekuni's Tribunal. Although he was to be on the panel, he chose to be in the basement with us. We listened to Senator Ramos talk about taking care of the land and ocean and how unsustainable our environment will be if we didn't.
The was the first earth talk that I heard that refered to the 'aina' from a politican. And talk we did for many years at UH Manoa, from recall at the East West Center, we had multi discussions on 'sustainable' earth. What was said by Senator Ramos was lost the next election. Guam was in the house debunking Senator's Ramos push to sustain the earth. In otherwords, earth was taken out of the equation and replaced with sicentific data processes. In other words what you see is what you get--the data that is. It's a step away from the source point of the incident--data measures 'punks' mother earth and its people.
Like with just what had happen in Fukushima and the 134 mercury calculations. Regardless, the meltdown is dangerous and should not have reached the 'waterways' with U 239. But, who gives a dam about Alpha particles!
So my question was last night 'What landfill will be receiving Alpha particles fromt he UXO clean up off of Maili Beach? All 233 acres of clean up will have to go to a landfill, I just want to know if its Waimanalo gulch that's going to receive this landfill, will they receive U 239 too. Cause if that is the case, what cell? How are they going to keep these alpha particles apart from each other. One cannot have U 235, U 238 and U239 in the same cell because it is radioactive material for eons.
I was sadden to hear the State, City and HECO panalist because of their lack of knowledge to the issues. They tried, but too local and lacking in information, but the Anglo's were typical bashing of the locals. That tension, I tried to stay away from.
EPA Regional 9 have a 2009 detail listing of what can go into the landfills. Last night according to the people in charge of the Waimanalo Landfill --anything goes and it is sanctioned by the Department of Health and Medical Institutions. There was a practicing MD on the panel to field the public questions on the blood vials that washed from Mauka to Makai and out to the ocean floating in front of our canoe paddlers from Waianae. The needles sank to the bottom, and the vials floated. (I don't know how to change the fonts back) I am going to stop here.
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I was sadden to hear the State, City and HECO panalist because of their lack of knowledge to the issues. They tried, but too local and lacking in information, but the Anglo's were typical bashing of the locals. That tension, I tried to stay away from.
EPA Regional 9 have a 2009 detail listing of what can go into the landfills. Last night according to the people in charge of the Waimanalo Landfill --anything goes and it is sanctioned by the Department of Health and Medical Institutions. There was a practicing MD on the panel to field the public questions on the blood vials that washed from Mauka to Makai and out to the ocean floating in front of our canoe paddlers from Waianae. The needles sank to the bottom, and the vials floated. (I don't know how to change the fonts back) I am going to stop here.
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Monday, December 06, 2010
Gaming Industry Lobbyist, Progressive activist screen Abercrombie cabinet picks
By Andrew Walden @ 2:50 PM :: 1282 Views :: Hawaii State News, Hawaii State Politics
by Andrew Walden (PUBLISHED 11-24-10)
in part:
Midweek explains:
The think tank focuses on healthcare and economic development. One of its first and biggest undertakings was the Hawaii Uninsured Project, which aims to reduce the number of people in Hawaii with no health insurance. It was partly thanks to the project’s data that 29,000 people recently gained Medicaid coverage.
“That’s 25 percent of the uninsured population in a single swoop,” Kaneko says. “That’s the power of public policy.”
HIPA also is participating in the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan, a roadmap for how Hawaii will grow and develop and use its resources in the future.
And then there’s the Akaka Bill. “That piece of legislation is probably the most far-reaching since statehood,” Kaneko says. “But I would say that 99 percent of the population has not even read the bill itself. It’s a long drawn-out process, and there’s a lot of misconceptions about the Akaka Bill.”
And in fact Kaneko’s motivation was to hold the Hawaii Democratic Party together as it splintered in the Cayetano days. Midweek doesn’t even realize what it is saying:
Kaneko started to think about HIPA in the 1990s because he was frustrated by talk that never went anywhere when it came to improving Hawaii’s economy and by decisions that were made without any research to back them up.
What frustrated me at this meeting when Tom Berg's friends bashed in IBEW, 29,000 people got Medicad coverage and HECO wanted to take away their long time employed almost to retired medical family benefits.
Another almost too stupid to comprehend, in Waianae our utility poles fall all the time however we never make a fuss or reach the news media. We know its the wind and it will take weeks to restore our problems. So we tolerate the darkness which is nothing new to us. Ewa people blamed a Ecyliptus tree, that caused the dominoe effect of the downed polls and blamed the property owner! A preschool no less! The other crazy thing, aside from bashing the IBEW 1260, they wanted compensation from HECO because their ice cream melted. HECO hired mainland contractors to come to Hawaii fix their problem. Hey, nobody died in Ewa, they got their electricty back and the new Anglo residence of Ewa got their x-box back on. Where was the emanciapation for the IBEW? HECO enjoyed the bashing of IBEW 1260 that night. Tom Berg's sign said 'Landfill' which brought me back to meeting in Kapolei. I smelled a rat, so I went to this meeting with my own 'mouse trap' which basically was the case