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B-18 "Bolo" bomber on our land in Hawai'i

Coming across an intact WW2 bomber while hiking through the jungle is a unique experience. Finding a large aircraft lying in a gulch on your own property is a sure way to inspire you to discover the...

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A Back Country Hawaiian Lu'au (updated with photos)

(As a bit of escapism, a break from the frustration of politics, I offer this glimpse of a real day in my life before I joined society - with adventure, traditional Hawaiian cooking techniques, and a...

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Melted Soles - a visit to a volcano

“It isn’t a good volcano trip if you don’t melt some rubber off your soles,” I told Michelle. “So don’t wear your new shoes. Sturdy and comfortable, but disposable.” This clearly left Michelle feeling...

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Eight more Fukushima Kids Confirmed to Have Thyroid Cancer

After the Fukushima triple meltdown in March 2011, the Fukushima prefecture set up a program to check children under eighteen at the time for thyroid problems. According to the Japan Times, Friday it...

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What's for Dinner? v8.28: Traditional Polynesian Cooking Basics

Let's be clear at the outset - this is more culture than cooking. The odds that anyone with access to a computer is actually going to try these techniques are microscopic. Yet they are practical, in...

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U.N. Proposes Dumping Contaminated Fukushima Water

As the levels of radionuclides in groundwater under the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants continue to increase dramatically, the United Nations nuclear agency proposes that the massive quantities of...

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"Mind boggling" levels of cesium found in reservoirs far from Fukushima

The Asahi Shimbun reported Tuesday that the mud in 468 reservoirs outside of the Fukushima evacuation zone contain levels of cesium high enough to be designated waste that must be removed. The mud in...

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Japanese government rumored to be planning on doubling ambient radiation...

Finding it "uneconomical" to clean up residual isotopes from the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, Fukushima Central Television is reporting that the Ministry of the...

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The California Native Land Claims Settlement

In 1972 the United States government came to a settlement agreement with the attorneys who supposedly represented the native peoples of California for the theft of their lands. For many of the people...

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Those "inefficient" public services

Short and sweet - I sent in my check for a registration renewal yesterday, putting it in the box just before the postman came in the afternoon. Today, LESS THAN 24 HOURS LATER, my new registration and...

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U.S. and Japanese Scientists Report Genetic Abnormalities from Fukushima

A number of studies in the respected Oxford journal Journal of Heredity report that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has caused genetic damage and population decline in a wide array of plants and animals...

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Went down to the local church and voted today...

And had to walk past a bunch of right wing campaign tables to get there.Yes, in Florida polling places always seem to be at a church. And here's the thing - Florida has a "no solicitation zone"...

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A little gift for the tea partiers

My niece was in China recently, and she came across this tee shirt. It fits so well into the "tea party" narrative that in the spirit of Christmas, I thought I'd give them this little present.And, of...

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Electing Clinton means likely Keystone XL approval

In brief, the Wall Street journal reports that the Clinton Foundation has accepted between a quarter and half a million dollars from a Canadian agency whose priority is to promote Keystone XL.

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Genocide in New Guinea

The Indonesian province formerly known as Irian Jaya, one of the most traditional areas in the world, is a tragic example of genocide ignored, where the forces of "civilization" are wiping out the...

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How will Bernie overcome the superdelegate problem?

We like to think that the Democratic primary is all about one Democrat, one vote. But in fact certain leaders of the Democratic party get 6,650 votes to our one. These few people alone make up 38% of...

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Untoward pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality in Fukushima

Recent studies are beginning to show a high death toll from the melt-down of three nuclear plants in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.Particularly notable is a study in which Dr Alfred Koerblein from...

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Fukushima: Where Did the Fuel Go?

Nuclear news directly from Japan is very hard to come by since the Japanese government passed the State Secrets Bill, which allows journalists to be sentenced to up to ten years in prison for revealing...

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Is the Iowa primary actually settled yet?

Although it has been widely reported that Hillary Clinton has “won” the Iowa caucus, and will receive more national delegates than Bernie Sanders, is this a settled fact?Iowa caucus rules are complex,...

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New Hampshire - The Elephant in the Room

The final tally is in— with 100% of precincts reporting, Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary with 151,584 votes to Clinton’s 95,252 — 60% to 38%. Sanders will get 15 national delegates,...

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Maidu Bear Dance Needs Some Help

When I was a child, every year we would go to the Bear Dance in June — showing up a week or more early to shell, grind, and leach acorns for acorn soup, chop wood, clean up campsites, and scour out the...

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Are Trump Supporters Utterly Unreasonable? Arguments Needed.

I had a discussion this morning with a Trump supporter. My goal, of course, was to get her to switch her support to the Democratic candidate. This woman is very poor, living on Social Security...

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Trump receives the coveted North Korea endorsement

In an editorial yesterday in DPRK Today, North Korea’s state media outlet, Trump was praised as the candidate that would further North Korea’s goals the most.“The president that US citizens must vote...

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