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Comment by J. D'Alba on May 31, 2009 at 5:49pm

Aloha,
Your thoughts are valid and well expressed.
My suggestion regarding NPR is based on my personal impressions of the limited media sources available. Granted no one media provider is without bias or limitation. However, of the mass media news sources I stand in my belief of the value of NPR. But, ... this is my impression. I acknowledge that my perspective is certainly less than perfect. Just as you express your perspective from an intention of promoting what is pono, I do also.

Comment by Ululani on May 31, 2009 at 4:59pm

National Public Radio broadcasts some of the most open and truthful news coverage today. With an earlier post encouraging that the truth of Hawai'i and the US involvement there be spread, I was prompted to email NPR (www.npr.org) and suggest that they consider a story about the issue of the US involvement in Hawai'i.

I have been online since 1989 and I have a diversion to NPR. IMO it is way too hypocritical. Some people post their material about respecting native people yet they are the very ones who take trips to Hawai'i. NO OFFENSE but I don't care for hypocrisy.

Worse... an implication is that NPR is more accurate than other medium. Their Board of Directors are mostly biased media outlets: http://www.npr.org/about/people/board.html and their CEO has connections to the New York Times.


No offense but NPR has biased coverage that seems a bit hypocritical to me. When I want the truth I go to Ehu Kekahu Cardwell and to people like him.

Ehu Cardell already does a great job exposing the truth at Free Hawai'i TV and at Voices of Truth/ He is doing a great job.


NPR will not solve our problems. I notice though that some people want to turn to NPR to expose the truth. Ehu Kekahu Cardwell and people like him ALREADY do.


Maoliworld is an excellent website as are the discussions and information spread there. But, for the most part, we are 'preaching to the choir'.

For you perhaps but when I want to read a kanaka maoli's mana'o I do not want to go to NPR to read a translation or a diluted form of their true mana'o. Instead I prefer to go directly to the source and that is what Maoliworld offers.

I do not hear, see, or read soundbits. I do not listen to dilutions of the truth. Instead I get it raw and real just as it really is. IMHO NPR is NOT the panacea. However Maoliworld is part of the panacea.

Encouraging national media sources to consider covering the issues we care about may be an effective means of moving towards achieving justice for Hawai'i Nei. The principles of the Kanaka Maoli would not only benefit the world, but they are greatly needed.

I disagree. I am very happy with Ehu Cardell getting the word out to the world by using a blog and Youtube.

He ALREADY does a great job exposing the truth to the world using the Internet:

Free Hawai'i TV and at Voices of Truth/



If world leaders were to adopt the manao of Her Majesty Queen Lilliu'okalani and place diplomacy above war, the importance of their people above the importance of oil, and aloha above hate and ego, the world would be lightyears ahead of we are now.

Kala mai but I have to laugh at "aloha about hate and ego." A good example is that some Hawaiians from Ka'u killed some of their oppressive chiefs. If anything sites like Maoliworld offer people differing mana'o and tangents while Ehu Kekahu Cardwell and people like him use the Internet to tell the world the TRUTH about Hawaiians. That includes but is not limited to the realities of war and of life.

That is partly why I have a diversion to NPR. Some people there are simply UNREALISTIC and cost some people their life. Some people ALREADY know about the history of Hawai'i and the Hawaiian Kingdom yet they STILL visit Hawai'i. Sorry but I don't buy into the NPR hype.

Instead my hope and faith is on Ehu Kekahu Cardwell and people like him.

Malama, Lana

Comment by J. D'Alba on May 31, 2009 at 12:58pm

Aloha Anakele,
Lokahi is critically important to the re-establishment of sovereignty. As it stands now there is no need to divide and conquer as the division is self-imposed. This does not, however, diminish the value that the national media can be.

Comment by J. D'Alba on May 31, 2009 at 11:41am

Feel free to share any of my posts. Spread the synopsis regarding Beyond Wailea around the world! The more people thinking about the story the more likely the film will be made and then the truth of Hawai'i will be known and the manao of the Kanaka Maoli will aid the world.

Comment by J. D'Alba on May 31, 2009 at 11:40am

Feel free to share any of my posts. Spread the synopsis regarding Beyond Wailea around the world! The more people thinking about the story the more likely the film will be made and then the truth of Hawai'i will be known

Comment by J. D'Alba on May 31, 2009 at 11:18am

I enjoy the quality of the posts on maoliworld. Yes there are thoughts expressed here with which I don't fully agree. But the thought of reading thoughts only with which I agree would be utterly boring.
Kaohi's post suggests that the ansswer seems to be keeping the light shining bright. The more the world realizes that solutions are found in the manao of the Kanaka Maoli, the more light will shine on Hawai'i Nei. As the world's problems continue to expand the more the respect will grow and more enduring will be the focus resulting in the dissapation of the darkness.
Consider the isolation faced by Her Majesty and the strenght in Her to respond by composing song. What an incredible legacy She has left. If only the world would open their hearts and minds to receive the inheritance She has left for all.

Comment by Kaohi on May 31, 2009 at 10:21am

"preaching to the choir" true
"Light years ahead" another truth
The marketing of 'US involvement' in Hawaii can be elegant, filled with world truths and things that are important to life. My culture has a lot of elements to offer to a global thought. When the light diminishes, however, that's when the heaviness occur, I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm just saying their is a big gaping hole that widens on some Newton's law. Oahu does not play the game according to preservation of the future as in lightyears. As for outer islanders their just sprinkles on a cake or a plaything. If we are counting atoms or scattering matter we need a playing field. Generate the market, Toni understands acostics/audio listening and is very discipline in text and connecting energy sources.

I spent a large part of my academic years in a university around science (I'm not a scientist), I lived on a campus for ten years, so I had an opportunity to see what goes on in labs. The exploration of ideas was the best years of my life, in fact, I have a greater respect for true academics. Even if I disagree with their premise, I appreciate the reasoning or processes towards results. But, Hawaiian academics nope-- I don't buy the mix with politics and Toni can make that attachment very elegantly, she is so regal. Kaohi