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The native Hawaiians are a great nation of people and as the years have passed my respect for them has grown. During the same time I have lost respect for what I now know to be the biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy.

There is a price that astronomers must pay for damaging workers health and it is the demolition of the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories.

The revolution of 1893 and the annexation that followed undermined a culture and ended the life of a nation. Compared to what such operations have brought to other countries, though, this one ended well.

The only good thing about leaving Hawai'i is that you really appreciate it when you return.

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is just a small part of a very large problem.

The time is approaching where the masses will look at the astronomy and Space industries and say: What a toxic group of people they are.

The unique Hawaiian culture needs to be preserved and protected.

Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.

Traditional (Hawaiian Saying): A road goes down, up and level. In other words. life is like a road.

Traditional Saying (Hawaiian): Only when the water gourd isn't full do you hear it gurgling. (Those who are ignorant have an awful lot to say.)

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea is nothing more than a shady astronomical project that is known from the outset to damage the health of the workers.

They're doing a rain dance? A rain dance? In my hotel? On Waikiki Beach? A rain dance?

We are at the point with the 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, that the frauds are so great that the FBI needs to step in and find out why the government regulators are not doing their jobs of shutting the known biologically toxic project down.

Webley Edwards was on the radio, they remember that, and what he said that morning again and again was “This is an air raid, take cover, this is the real McCoy.” That is not a remarkable thing to say, but it is a remarkable thing to have in one’s memory.

What a farce the toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is turning into!

What is government if health and safety laws are not enforced?

Umica ka hanu HOLD THE BREATH Be patient; don't give up.

When I lived in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii, I was shocked at how quickly I would burn in the Sun.

What now? We can't go to my place or the hospital or the fight club. Should we lay low at the grocery store?

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.

When dealing with mysterious sickness, I advise people to look at what their coworkers were dying from for clues. My coworkers were were dying from suicide, gastrointestinal disease, heart disease and brain disease.

You are one hell of a kisser." A sexy, crooked smile curved on his lips. "You inspire me.

With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude astronomy.

You're playing dirty," she whispered. "Did you want me any other way?

You should've known this ring belongs to me. Eye of the tiger." I shoved him. "But I have the heart of the wolf, asshole.

According to a new study, Hawaii is the happiest place in America to live. And I thought it was just a great place to pretend you were born in.

A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words.

Are we going to New Orleans?" "No", she said, backing out of the spot. "We're going to West Virginia." "I assume by 'West Virginia,' you actually mean 'Hawaii,'" I said. "Or some place equally exciting.

As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

While my doctors proved to me that they were the incompetents of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD), I turned into the expert on the subject.

Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend... I shouldn't say fat, that might offend him, but he's Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

I had done 'Die Hard' and it was somebody's franchise. I actually just got done with the 'Hawaii Five-O' pilot and I was developing some things of my own. So 'Total Recall' one of those projects that I read wanting more not to like it.

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.