Daniel Ken INOUYE, Congress, HI (1924-2012)
Senate Years of Service: 1963-2012
Party: Democrat INOUYE Daniel Ken , a Senator and a Representative from Hawaii; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 7, 1924; attended the public schools of Honolulu; during the Second World War volunteered as a private in 1943 and retired after much action as a captain in 1947; belatedly received the Congressional Medal of Honor on June 21, 2000, for heroism in battle during Second World War; graduated, University of Hawaii 1950 and George Washington University Law School 1952; admitted to the bar in 1953 and commenced practice in Honolulu; assistant public prosecutor in Honolulu 1953-1954; majority leader in the Territorial house of representatives 1954-1958; member of the Territorial senate 1958-1959; upon the admission of Hawaii into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress for the term commencing August 21, 1959; reelected to the Eighty-seventh Congress and served until Ja
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Robert Rancourt was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum. As a member of the board, Rancourt joins leaders across the fields of prevention, treatment, recovery, criminal justice, and advocacy who work to support patients, families, and communities impacted by addiction.
Since his appointment as a Minnesota district court judge in 2002, Rancourt has championed improving how the judicial system responds to addiction. In September 2020, he was assigned to serve statewide as senior judge for Minnesota.
“I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum,” said Rancourt. “This is a wonderful organization that is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of addiction.”
We have all seen the effects of a growing tide of portals and outlets seeking to silence, deplatform, limit, or outright remove specific voices and sources from public view. The justifications are numerous, and usually more hysterical than lucid. What is truly perplexing however is when a member of the media itself - a purported journalist no less - actively calls for the silencing of others in their field. Welcome, fair-minded citizens, to the vocational calling of Oliver Darcy, from CNN.
Darcy works in tandem with the infamous media hall monitor from their Reliable Sources program call him Stelter The Lesser to put out their daily newsletter. In the latest edition Ollie engages in what has been his stock in trade, the bizarre practice of a journalist promoting censorship. Most would think that someone whose very vocation is rooted entirely in the 1st Amendment would value above all else the freedom of expression and the open exchange of ideas in the public square. Not Darcy
Have Covid and brutality killed Hong Kong s pro-democracy movement?
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By: Richard Lloyd Parry It was in November last year that I first met Spider-Man; then, as now, he looked nothing like a superhero. I found him at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the narrow campus in central Hong Kong where a tumultuous confrontation was taking place.
Looking back more than a year later, it was the climax of the democracy struggle. Everything that had happened since the summer led up to it; everything that happened since has trailed away.
None of this was obvious at the time. One thousand protesting students armed with bows, arrows and firebombs had occupied the campus, a city block of multi-storey buildings, courtyards and staircases, besieged by an encircling army of riot police. For two days, they had kept them at bay with their barricades and stones fired from giant makeshift catapults. And now the battle was turning.
Sununu’s announcement offers relief for worried citizens
On CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Republican Sununu talked about why he thinks Congress should pass COVID-19 aid immediately. He shared that the pandemic is currently driving various costs, like vaccine development and distribution, and that Congress hasn’t done anything to help Americans amid the eight-month-long lockdowns.
Sununu urged Congress to roll out relief efforts as the country continues to struggle during the coronavirus pandemic. He highlighted the importance of “focused relief efforts” that are flexible for states instead of the “megalomaniac attitude that comes from Washington” that tries to control all aspects of pandemic response.