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| greetings from the middle of the pacific where US involvement in WWII was triggered by Pearl Harbor attack and penultimately ended at Hiroshima 69 years ago today. (i say penultimately because it took Nagasaki three days later to seal the deal.) they say Hawai'i today wouldn't last three weeks if the imports ceased. see that white speck below the word police just at the horizon? take a closer look. it's a rare sight here. usually the container ships steal in secretly like ghosts slithering through keyholes; glimpse them spectral through mists late at night. but today perhaps in advance of Iselle they're rerouted and prioritized. the forecast is for torrential rain so people... flood the stores to snap up caseloads of bottled water ? a better investment would be a  barrel to catch some of the deluge.
after WWII it was business as usual, onlymoreso. German and Japanese industrialists casually exonerated from war crimes, ruined factories retooled for peacetime manufacture, import/export between sworn enemies, a new worldwide consumer class conditioned to em- brace planned obsolescence, consent enforced by a well-appointed police state. Hawai'i could and should grow all its own food because it can and used to. sun, rain, soil, knowledge. self-sufficient tradition meets a sustainable future. but time and resources are running out. meanwhile, the ships keep coming in. |
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