Pushing the red button?
Trump era sparks new debate
about nuclear war authority
Trickle-down
economics gets
another shot
By PAUL WISEMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Does money roll downhill?
In their drive to cut taxes, President Donald Trump
and congressional Republicans are betting it does.
Behind their legislation is a theory
long popular among conservatives:
Slash taxes for corporations
and rich people, who will then
hire, invest and profit — and cause
money to trickle into the pockets
of ordinary Americans. The White
House says the plan’s corporate tax
cut alone would eventually raise
average household incomes by $4,000 a year.
TRUMP
The tax plan’s “trickle-down” approach was
popularized in the 1980s during the Reagan administration,
though it dates back at least to a 1932
wisecrack by Will Rogers. And history shows it
has a spotty record of delivering on its promises.
The Republicans’ latest version of the approach
edged closer to the finish line Thursday when the
House passed its form of the bill; the Senate is
Monday, November 20, 2017
By ROBERT BURNS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It’s
hard to overstate how thoroughly
the U.S. military
has prepared for doomsday
— the day America gets into
a nuclear shooting war.
No detail seems to have
been overlooked. There’s even
a designated “safe escape”
door at the nuclear-warfighting
headquarters
near Omaha,
Nebraska,
through which
the four-star commander
would
rush to a getaway
plane moments
before the first bomb hit.
KEHLER
Procedures are in place
for ensuring U.S. nuclear
weapons are ready for a
presidential launch order in
response to — or in anticipation
of — a nuclear attack by
North Korea or anyone else.
There are backup procedures
and backups for the backups.
And yet fundamental
aspects of this nightmare
sequence remain a mystery.
For example, what would
happen if an American president
ordered a nuclear strike,
for whatever reason, and the
four-star general at Strategic
Command balked or refused,
believing it to be illegal?
Robert Kehler, a
retired general who once
led that command, was
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Laupahoehoe
Community
Public Charter
School
students
Gabriel
Navalta, Royce
Baun, Neil
Phillip Navalta,
Ariana Kayla
Jabilona, Irish
Marzan and
Marriene Rose
Jabilona with
teacher Todd
Otake, right,
and Hawaii
first lady
Dawn
Amano-Ige,
center.
Courtesy photo
Last week, Gabriel Navalta
got to shake hands, share
ideas about tsunami preparedness
— and even discuss
common interests such as a
love of volleyball — with
students from a scattering of
countries including China,
Seychelles, Chile, Palau
and Papua New Guinea.
“It was awesome to
connect with like-minded
individuals from countries
like us, who also have a passion
for changing society and
(raising) tsunami awareness,”
the 17-year-old Navalta said.
“And it was awesome just
hanging out with them.”
Navalta was one of six
students from Laupahoehoe
Community Public Charter
School who attended the
High School Students
Islands Summit Nov. 7-8 in
Okinawa, Japan. The event
aimed to help student participants
become leaders in
disaster readiness in their
respective countries. It was
Students attend
disaster readiness
summit in Okinawa
By KIRSTEN JOHNSON
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
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Izu Oshima Island dancers speak with a guest about their native dance Saturday during Bunka No Hi
Japanese Culture Day in Hawaii at Sangha Hall in Hilo. For more photos, see Being There, Page A5.
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