UH (Hawai'i interim) president approves (top-secret) Navy research center

[KamaAina]

against the advice of basically the entire University of Hawai'i community: the student body, faculty senate, and even the chancellor of the main Manoa campus.

http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=4200

University of Hawaii interim President David McClain is recommending that the University system enter into an agreement for a controversial Navy research center but that it not be administered by the UH-Manoa campus....

The contract, if approved by the regents, would be for five years. McClain recommended that the Navy not conduct classified research for the first three years of the contract. He also recommended that after the third year the university evaluate the contract and decide whether to proceed with the final two years....

At the meeting last month, UH-Manoa interim Chancellor Denise Konan told the regents she decided not to recommend the UARC because of opposition by the faculty Senate, student government and native Hawaiians and the need for her administration to concentrate on developing research facilities in Kakaako, where the new medical school is located.

In May of last year, opponents of the UARC staged a sit-in protest at Bachman Hall. They occupied the president’s office for about seven days and left after a promise by McClain to hold an open discussion on the issue.

What makes McClain think the Navy is going to go for this "no classified research for three years" thing? Or is he just putting this out there to shut people up until they can ram this down our throats?

And where are they going to put the UARC, if not under the Manoa campus, the UH system's designated research campus? Are they going to have a separate "Institute of Top-Secret Classified Research, No Foreigners Allowed"?

If this goes through, the UH Warriors athletic teams should change their colors from green to orange -- as in Agent Orange, which was developed at UH the last time it collaborated with the military. :grr:

edit: speling in header

[Mithras61]

1. Hilarious!

"Are they going to have a separate "Institute of Top-Secret Classified Research, No Foreigners Allowed"?"

I love it! :D

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. LOL - - "edit: speling in header" and yet ya spelled "spelling" wrong!!

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But on a more serious note

After all the warnings during WW2 re Pearl Harbor

Why would Hawaii trust the mainland at all?

The Hawaii people, their land and their lives will be sacrificed if it suits the PNACers -

It's just another "outpost" to the USA Admin . . .

The PNACers want Cuba to be it's "Hawaii" on the Eastern Coast -

That's what all this "embargo" bullshit is all about re Cuba

IMPERIALISM

Plain and simple . .

That maniacal "Eagle" just keeps spreading it's wings

Soon to be "clipped" methinks, not in my lifetime maybe.

But before this Century is over

The USA will join the rest of every other Empire in History

as in "The Rise and Fall of ____________"

EVERY Empire seeking nation has fallen since the beginning of time

And it ain't gonna change -

Count on it . .

[KamaAina]

3. 'Speling' is a DU usage like 'moran'

in that context.

You're not secretly rooting for the US to fail so you can carry out your long-planned takeover of North America, now are you? :sarcasm:

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Take over North America? - no friggen way . . .

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If us Canuks ever have any say in anything, I think we'd rather see Hawaii and Alaska be their own countries

And the "United" States is a misnomer, they ain't united at all really -just forced into a union by aggressive military minds

Consider this, the Department of Defense in the USA was previously named the Department of War - which in reality nowadays it really is - The Department of WAR

It ain't about "defense" - it's about "war"

Who the heck would attack the US with all it's nukes?

The USA has more nukes than most of the other nations in the world all put together - yet they make a big fuss about another country getting a nuke or two TO DEFEND THEMSELVES -

Because there is no way that a country like North Korea, Iraq , Iran etc. would dare launch one of a few nukes they might be able to create when they KNOW that the United States can launch thousands . . .

Right now,

I feel safer knowing that China and Russia have enough nuclear weaponry above the North Pole to do the USA serious damage should the USA attack Canada

I would never have dreamed I would think that 6 years ago

But when I saw the first bombs hit Baghdad, which was not at war with any other country, had no military prowess, and the American population cheering at this "Shock and Awe"

I realized that without a major change in the USA's electoral system that OUR biggest threat sits right below our border

NOW we get Harper as a PM

So I'm even MORE concerned