From Public Citizen: The Obama Administration has begun talks with Asian and Latin American nations to enter into the Trans-Pacific Strategic and Economic Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The talks with Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam were originally initiated by the Bush Administration. As the first trade agreement negotiations entered into by...
Some alternative drawings of maps have been circulating. One like the True Size of Africa had me thinking not only about what the physical geographical size of Africa is, but also, what the geographical size of the Pacific Islands are. Moana Nui, altogether, covers a third of the planet–about 169 million square kilometers (about...
Responding to Nov. 7th Financial Times article, ” The G20 must look beyond Bretton Woods II. The discussion of currency valuation as presented by Zoellick is flawed as a result of one very important omission, the accounting for value of GDP. Two points: 1) One of the objectives of Bretton Woods (1946) was to...
From the State Dept. website: “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Hawaii, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Australia October 27-November 8. Secretary Clinton arrives in Honolulu on October 27 where she will meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara to discuss a broad range of issues, including...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InE6Z4a0wrk “State of Aloha captures not just the history of Hawaii, but the spirit of its people.” —Jason Sanders, FILMMAKER Magazine STATE OF ALOHA Documentary feature screening & panel Presented by the Academy for Creative Media Co-sponsored by the William S. Richardson School of Law (Open to the public) Wednesday, October 27, 2010 William...
It’s been nearly a month since my last post and I have not been on vacation. In case you have been wondering, I’ve been focusing on SaveRapanui.org. The situation there has grown from bad to worse, and I’ve been moderating the website for Santi Hitorangi and Susano Hito as they have been very busy...