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Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future has been awarded the prestigious Digital Halo Media Activist Award by the Berkeley Video and Film Festival.

The award is given annually to filmmakers judged to have successfully spread ideas online and galvanized community action.

“This award recognizes the Koani Foundation’s successful use of digital media for social change within Hawai`i,” states Paul Kealoha Blake of East Bay Media Center. “Voices Of Truth and the work the Koani Foundation does throughout Hawai`i and the world exemplifies those who carry ideas and concepts forth online from dreams to reality.”

The East Bay Media Center, which produces the Berkeley Video and Film Festival annually, recognizes activists internationally working for social change through digital media.

“We’re thrilled to receive this renown award and recognition,” remarked `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell, a director of the Koani Foundation. “We remain committed to helping create a brighter future for everyone in a Free Hawai`i.”

You can view our interview with Hawaiian patriot Kuhio Vogeler this week about a Free Hawai`i on Hawai`i’s award winning
Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future.

MONDAY, October 18th At 6:30 PM
Maui – Akaku, Channel 53

MONDAY, October 18th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, October 22nd At 5:30 PMHawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53
THURSDAY, October 21st At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, October 22nd At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52
SATURDAY, October 23rd At 8:00 PM O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53
How Do We Run Our Country? – A Visit With Kuhio Vogeler"

Most are now familiar with the movement to restore the Hawaiian Kingdom, which was illegally overthrown a century ago. But when it happens, then what? Who runs the restored government and how? Are we even ready? When we asked Hawaiian scholar and researcher Kuhio Vogeler, his response was both surprising and thought provoking. So how will a Free Hawai`i be run? Watch and find out - See It Here

Now you can become a fan of Voices Of Truth on Facebook by clicking Here and see behind the scenes photos of our shows and a whole lot more.


Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants. We hope you'll be inspired to do the same.

Voices Of Truth now airs on local access stations in Cape Town, South Africa, Sweden and 37 cities across the US. Check your local listings.

If you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network, please email this to a friend to help us continue. A donation today helps further our work. Every single penny counts.

Donating is easy on our Voices Of Truth website via PayPal where you can watch Voices Of Truth anytime.

For news and issues that affect you, watch Free Hawai`i TV, a part of the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network.

Please share our Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Mahalo.
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WHERE
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WHEN - Tonight - 6 PM - 9 PM
WHAT - "Hawai`i A Voice For Sovereignty" Soundtrack Release Event
WHO - Everyone's Invited To Attend
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MEET KIOWA GORDON OF TWILIGHT SAGA &
`EHU KEKAHU CARDWELL OF
FREE HAWAI`I TV TOMORROW NIGHT




WHERE
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Border's Bookstore - Sunset & Vine - 1501 Vine

WHEN - Tomorrow Night, Friday - 6 PM - 9 PM
WHAT - Hawai`i A Voice For Sovereignty Soundtrack Release Event
WHO - Everyone's Invited To Attend

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FREE HAWAI`I TVTHE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK"THEY WON'T SAVE THESE GRAVES" What They Found In The Ground Deserves To Be Preserved, But What’s Been Discovered Will Soon Be Covered.You’ll Be Aghast Why There’s No Respecting Hawai`i’s Past.Can You Guess Why This Is Turning Into A Mess?Watch & You’ll See Why This Desecration Is No Aberration. Then Send This Video To One Other Person Today.
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What - Hawai`i - A Voice For Sovereignty by filmmaker Catherine Bauknight

Where - AIM International Film Festival, Bahai Center, 170 Valencia St In San Francisco

When - Today At 2:45 PM

Who - Hawaiian Patriot Leon Siu will be there in person commenting on the film afterward.
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The Hawaiian sovereignty movement has been focused for years on ending the US occupation of Hawai`i and restoring the Hawaiian Kingdom as the sole and sovereign government.

But how many have thought about who would actually be the ones to run the government once it’s restored?

It turns out more than you might imagine as we found out in our fascinating visit with Hawaiian scholar and researcher Kuhio Vogeler.

Kuhio’s doctoral dissertation on Baltic State nations that did regain independence after prolonged occupation allowed him to discover the key steps to regaining national sovereignty.

What will it take to be successful here? Join us and find out in our brand new visit with Kuhio all this week on Hawai`i’s award winning
Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future.

MONDAY, October 11th At 6:30 PM
Maui – Akaku, Channel 53

MONDAY, October 11th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, October 15th At 5:30 PMHawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53
THURSDAY, October 14th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, October 15th At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52
SATURDAY, October 16th At 8:00 PM O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53
How Do We Run Our Country? – A Visit With Kuhio Vogeler"

Most are now familiar with the movement to restore the Hawaiian Kingdom, which was illegally overthrown a century ago. But when it happens, then what? Who runs the restored government and how? Are we even ready? When we asked Hawaiian scholar and researcher Kuhio Vogeler, his response was both surprising and thought provoking. So how will a Free Hawai`i be run? Watch and find out - See It Here

Now you can become a fan of Voices Of Truth on Facebook by clicking Here and see behind the scenes photos of our shows and a whole lot more.


Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants. We hope you'll be inspired to do the same.

Voices Of Truth now airs on local access stations in Cape Town, South Africa, Sweden and 37 cities across the US. Check your local listings.

If you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network, please email this to a friend to help us continue. A donation today helps further our work. Every single penny counts.

Donating is easy on our Voices Of Truth website via PayPal where you can watch Voices Of Truth anytime.

For news and issues that affect you, watch Free Hawai`i TV, a part of the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network.

Please share our Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Mahalo.
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"Columbus Day" from Tony Castanha.



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Dear Friends,
I know we have been here before, Columbus Day. I think this is an opportunity toeducate people to the Annual Lie we celebrate called in the name of thissupposedly hero, who found America ... pardon me while I chuckle to myself. Ithink it's such a obscene gesture. Would anybody celebrate Hitler? Tell thetruth, learn the truth, get a better understanding of the indigenous peoplesof this place called "Turtle Island "
So as all this will take is for you to pass this on to all the folks youknow.

Below is a piece of graphic art that may enlighten these folks a littleand
with some humor and history and culture of the People of TurtleIsland.

Thank You all for helping with this task.

Joseph "Doc Sunshine" Leon
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Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.

-Chief Seattle, 1854
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Uncle Jim Runningfox
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Taino Elder Emeritus
Aymaco Tribe

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ISIS Report 06/10/10 22. Interviews with Argentine people affected by glyphosate spraying,conducted in August 2010 by journalist Dario Aranda, are available here: http://www.gmwatch.eu/component/content/article/12479-reports-reports

Argentina's Roundup Human Tragedy

Ten years of GM soy and glyphosate poisoning have escalated the rates of cancer and birth defects. Claire Robinson

GM soy a death sentence for humans and the environment
Argentina has become a giant experiment in farminggenetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready (RR) soy, engineered to betolerant to Roundup, Monsanto’s formulation of the herbicide glyphosate.The Argentine government, eager to pull the country out of a deepeconomic recession in the 1990s, restructured its economy around GM soygrown for export, most of which goes to feed livestock in Europe. In2009, GM soy was planted on 19 million hectares - over half ofArgentina’s cultivated land - and sprayed with 200 million litres ofglyphosate herbicide [1]. Spraying is often carried out from the air,causing problems of drift.
In 2002, two years after the first big harvests ofRR soy in the country, residents and doctors in soy producing areasbegan reporting serious health effects from glyphosate spraying,including high rates of birth defects as well as infertility,stillbirths, miscarriages, and cancers [2]. Environmental effectsinclude killed food crops and livestock and streams strewn with deadfish [2, 3].
One of the first medical doctors to report problemsfrom glyphosate spraying of GM soy was Dr Darío Gianfelici, fromCerrito, Entre Ríos, Argentina. According to Gianfelici, there are twolevels of toxic effects from glyphosate: acute effects, such asvomiting, diarrhoea, respiratory problems, and skin rashes; and chroniceffects, which take 10–20 years to show up. These include infertilityand cancer [4].
Gianfelici said [4]: “Our town experienced drasticchanges before and after soy. I’ve seen people die from cancer at age30. I have witnessed pregnancy problems and a significant increase infertility problems. I have seen an increase in respiratory diseases, ashas never been seen before.
“GM soy has been a death sentence for humans andfor the environment. No money can compensate for the damage that hasbeen caused – the contamination, the deaths, the cases of cancer andmalformations.”

Scientists corroborate birth defects & threatened by organised mob

Reports of birthdefects in glyphosate-sprayed areas of Argentina gained scientificcredibility in 2009, when senior Argentine government scientist Prof.Andrés Carrasco went public with his research findings, fully published ayear later [1], that glyphosate causes malformations in frog andchicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agriculturalspraying (see [5] Lab Study Establishes Glyphosate Link to BirthDefects, SiS 48). “The findings in the lab are compatible withmalformations observed in humans exposed to glyphosate duringpregnancy,” said Carrasco [6], “I suspect the toxicity classification ofglyphosate is too low ... in some cases this can be a powerful poison.”
At a recent conference, Carrasco, professor anddirector of the Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, University of BuenosAires Medical School and lead researcher of the National Council ofScientific and Technical Research (CONICET), said a frequent result ofmalformations in human embryos is miscarriage. He said that it was nownot unusual for women in GM soy producing regions of Argentina to haveup to five miscarriages in a row [7].
The research findings of Carrasco and hiscolleagues were not welcomed by some sectors of government and industry.After he announced them, four people from Argentina’s crop protectiontrade association CASAFE were sent to try to search his laboratory andhe was “seriously told off” by Lino Barrañao, Argentina’s science andtechnology minister [6].
Things took a violent turn in 2010, when anorganized mob of thugs attacked people who gathered to hear Carrascotalk in La Leonesa, an agricultural town that has become a centre foractivism against agrochemical spraying of soy and rice crops. Threepeople were seriously injured. Carrasco and a colleague shut themselvesin a car and were surrounded by people making violent threats andbeating the car for two hours [8]. Witnesses said the attack wasorganized by local officials and a local rice producer to protect theeconomic interests behind local agro-industry. Amnesty International hascalled for an investigation.

Revolutionary ruling ban agrochemical sprays

Based on Carrasco’sfindings and other reports of health problems from spraying, theEnvironmental Lawyers Association of Argentina petitioned the SupremeCourt of Argentina to ban the use of glyphosate (see [9] Glyphosate Herbicide Could Cause Birth Defects, SiS43). But such is Argentina’s dependence on the GM soy farming modelthat Guillermo Cal, executive director of CASAFE, said [6] a ban wouldmean “we couldn’t do agriculture in Argentina”. In addition, thecash-strapped Argentine government relies heavily on tariffs levied onsoy exports and is protective of the industry.
No national ban on glyphosate has yet beenimplemented. But in March 2010, just months after the release ofCarrasco’s findings, a lawsuit brought by sprayed residents resulted in aregional court banning the spraying of agrochemicals near populatedareas of Santa Fe province [10]. The ruling was revolutionary in that itimplemented the precautionary principle and reversed the burden ofproof [11]. No longer do residents have to prove that agrochemicalspraying causes harm, but the government and soy producers have to proveit is safe.
Viviana Peralta, a housewife, instigated thelawsuit. She and her family were hospitalized following aerial sprayingnear her home. Her newborn baby had turned blue and Peralta herselfsuffered respiratory problems. Peralta said, “When I saw my baby likethat, I said [11], “Enough. This cannot go on.” ”

State commission reports birth defects up fourfold in ten years

Shortly after theresidents’ court victory, a commission of the provincial government ofChaco state reported that between 2000 and 2009, the rate of childhoodcancers tripled in La Leonesa and the birth defects increased nearlyfourfold over the entire province [12]. These staggering rises indisease coincided with the expansion of the agricultural frontier intoChaco province and the resulting rise in agrochemical use. Thecommission identified the main problem as glyphosate and otheragrochemicals applied to “transgenic crops, which require aerial andground spraying (dusting) with agrochemicals”.
A member of the Chaco commission, who did not wantto be identified due to the “tremendous pressures” they were under, said[13], “all those who signed the report are very experienced in thesubject under study, but rice and soy planters are strongly pressuringthe government. We don’t know how this will end, as there are manyinterests involved.”

Embryonic defects at well below legal exposure levels

Speaking at aconference, Carrasco noted the irony that Argentina’s people aresuffering from the production of a commodity (GM soy) destined forEurope, which European consumers do not want [7]. Europe imports around38 million tonnes of soy per year [14], much of which is GM soy sprayedwith glyphosate. Because of consumer resistance to GM, most of it endsup hidden in animal feed.
Carrasco found malformations in frog and chickenembryos injected with 2.03 mg/kg glyphosate – nearly ten times lowerthan the maximum residue limit (MRL) for glyphosate allowed in soy inthe EU (20 mg/kg) [15]. Soybeans have been found to contain glyphosateresidues at levels up to 17mg/kg [16].
Defenders of glyphosate may say that these figuresdo not show a risk to consumers, because embryos are designed to keeptoxins out. However, studies show that the added ingredients (adjuvants)in Roundup make cell membranes more permeable to glyphosate, increasingits toxicity to cells [17, 18].
Even without soy, glyphosate is all around us.Apart from its use in agriculture, Roundup is marketed to home gardenersas safe to use around children and pets. It is sprayed on schoolyardsand verges by local authorities. The myth of Roundup’s safety persistsdespite two court rulings forcing Monsanto to withdraw advertisingclaims that Roundup is biodegradable and environmentally friendly [19,20].

Long list of peer-reviewed studies document glyphosate toxicities

In reality, theresearch of Carrasco’s team is the latest in a long list ofpeer-reviewed studies showing dangers to health and the environment fromglyphosate. Many of these studies are collected in a new reportco-authored by nine international scientists [21], “GM Soy: Sustainable?Responsible”. The report challenges claims of sustainability for GM soyand the glyphosate herbicide on which it relies. Published by GLS Bank,Germany and ARGE Gentechnik-frei, Austria’s GM-free industryassociation, the report has been released together with the powerfultestimonies of Argentine people affected by glyphosate spraying on GMsoy [22].
Carrasco remains humble about his study, saying[11], “The origin of my work is my contact with the communitiesvictimized by agrochemical use. They are the irrefutable proof of myresearch.” So the final word on the claimed safety of glyphosate andother agrochemicals sprayed on GM soy must go to Peralta. She said [11]:“I do not know about chemistry, I did not go to university, but I knowwhat my whole family has suffered. To people who are not familiar withthis model of agriculture, I say: Do not trust these companies. Rejectagrochemicals. Do it for the life of your children.”

References

1. Paganelli A, GnazzoV, Acosta H, Lopez SL and Carrasco AD. Glyphosate-based herbicidesproduce teratogenic effects on vertebrates by impairing retinoic acidsignalling. Chem Res Toxicol, August 9. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx1001749
2. Gianfelici, D.R. 2009. La Soja, La Salud y LaGente.http://zatega.net/zats/libro-quotla-soja-la-salud-y-la-gente-quot-dr-dario-gianfelici-27052.htm
3. Branford, S. 2004. Argentina’s Bitter Harvest.New Scientist, April 17, 40-43.http://www.grain.org/research/contamination.cfm?id=95
4. Dr Darío Gianfelici, Interview by Darío Aranda,August 2010.http://www.gmwatch.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12484:reports-dario-gianfelici-interview
5. Ho MW. Lab study establishes link to birth defects. Science in Society 48 (to appear).
6. Webber, J., Weitzman, H. 2009. Argentina pressedto ban crop chemical after health concerns. Financial Times, May 29.http://www.gene.ch/genet/2009/Jun/msg00006.html
7. Prof. Andrés Carrasco, speaking at the GMO-FreeRegions Conference at the European Parliament, Brussels (September16–18, 2010)
8. Amnesty International. 2010. Argentina: Threats deny community access to research. 12 August 2010. http://bit.ly/cJsqUR
9. Ho MW. Glyphosate herbicide could cause birth defects. Science in Society 43, 36, 2009.
10. Romig, S. 2010. Argentina court blocksagrochemical spraying near rural town. Dow Jones Newswires, March 17.http://bit.ly/cg2AgG
11. Dario Aranda, Interview with Viviana Peralta,instigator of the lawsuit, August 2010.http://www.gmwatch.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12486:reports-viviana-peralta-interview
12. Comision Provincial de Investigación deContaminantes del Agua. 2010. Primer informe. Resistencia, Chaco. April.Report available in original Spanish: http://www.gmwatch.eu/files/Chaco_Government_Report_Spanish.pdf or in English translation: http://www.gmwatch.eu/files/Chaco_Government_Report_English.pdf
13. Aranda, D. 2010. La salud no es lo primero enel modelo agroindustrial. Pagina12, June 14.http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-147561-2010-06-14.html
14. Cert ID. Cert ID Certified ‘Non-GMO’ Soy Mealand Other Soy Products: Volumes Available from South America. PortoAlegre, Brazil, July 14, 2008.
15. Pesticide residues in food – 1997: Report.Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on PesticideResidues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Groupon Pesticide Residues. Lyons, France, 22 September – 1 October 1997.http://www.fao.org/docrep/w8141e/w8141e0u.htm
16. Pesticide residues in food – 2005. Report ofthe Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues inFood and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group on PesticideResidues, Geneva, Switzerland, 20–29 September. FAO Plant Production andProtection Paper 183, 7.
17. Haefs R, Schmitz-Eiberger M, Mainx HG,Mittelstaedt W, Noga G. Studies on a new group of biodegradablesurfactants for glyphosate. Pest Manag. Sci. 2002. 58, 825–33.
18. Marc J, Mulner-Lorillon O, Boulben S, Hureau D,Durand G, Bellé R. Pesticide Roundup provokes cell division dysfunctionat the level of CDK1/cyclin B activation. Chem Res Toxicol. 2002, 15, 326–31.
19. Attorney General of the State of New York,Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau, Environmental Protection Bureau.1996. In the matter of Monsanto Company, respondent. Assurance ofdiscontinuance pursuant to executive law §63(15). New York, NY, Nov.False advertising by Monsanto regarding the safety of Roundup herbicide(glyphosate).
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Monsanto-v-AGNYnov96.htm
20. Monsanto fined in France for “false” herbicideads. Agence France Presse, 26 Jan 2007.http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4114.cfm
21. Antoniou M., Brack P, Carrasco, A., Fagan, J., Habib, M., Kageyama, P.,Leifert, C., Nodari, R., Pengue, W. 2010. GM Soy: Sustainable?Responsible? GLS Gemeinschaftsbank and ARGE Gentechnik-frei. Downloadfull report and summary from: http://bit.ly/9D9J2k. At the time of writing, the full report is available in
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AWARD WINNING FILM TO SCREEN IN SAN FRANCISCO












What -
Hawai`i - A Voice For Sovereignty by filmmaker Catherine Bauknight


Where - AIM International Film Festival, Bahai Center, 170 Valencia St In San Francisco

When - Tuesday, October 12th At 2:45 PM

Who - Hawaiian Patriot Leon Siu will be there in person commenting on the film afterward.
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Learning how site works

Yesterday I did nothing for a while, then cleaned my room. It was looking like a bad teenager lives in there. I discovered I can get my favorite radio station on the internet. I practice being excited about things like this because I don't take anything for granted. It is the Hopi station from Hotevilla, AZ, Hopi Nation. I spent a lot of years sitting in pickup trucks on construction projects listening to local radio stations. This was my favorite of all time. Where else can you hear a play list like this: A soft spoken Hopi lady talking about the chill in the air blowing through the corn harvest for about 10 minutes. This followed by Guns n Roses, Michael Jackson (Billie Jean), traditional native flute, Bob Marley, Spanish Colonial fiddle tune, Native drumming, Garth Brooks, a couple of Native country singers and Native Roots, a native reggae group. Perfect. I love country singers from any rez - lots of drums a half beat behind the guitars. Non country Indian favorites: Here Comes Junior Frybread, Driving In My NDN Car and Too Lazy To Work, Too Nervous To Steal. I try not to listen to news about unsterilized medical equipment in a clinic exposing hundreds of Hopis to HIV and hepatitis, and how a Native Alaskan is chosen to be exploited on one of those bachelor programs. He will think it's cool, then go home and regret the whole experience with bottle blondes with fake body parts.

A few hours were spent with IRS papers, and getting them to the UNM student attorney. Universities with law schools have student tax attorneys who help people like me. Lucky thing that is.

I also did some Agent Orange research until I got angry. Anger causes stress which makes me feel ill - and it doesn't bother the offenders at all. I searched for evidence of people I knew in high school still being around. I found everyone I looked for, well employed, right on Kauai. I already knew one lives in Florida, one on Hawaii Island and a couple live in Honolulu. I found them all, but one. He went to Vietnam in 1967, a victim of the John Wayne marine roundup. He sent me a bright pink satin pillow cover embroidered with hearts and arrows like it was 1942. For a moment, I felt like Mrs. Miniver. He was a helicopter gunner. They have an average life expectancy of three minutes in a battle situation. Anything in the air was bombarded with Agent Orange. Even the mechanics who stayed at the basis got really sick from the residue on the aircraft. I know he made it back home. I try to imagine being poisoned by death and chemicals in Vietnam and coming home to more exposure to the same poisons. I remember thinking when he left the island that the Marines ought to pay him like a real important specialist. I remember him scaling the wet slippery rocks with slick red mud at Waipahe slippery slide. Someone from, say, Cincinnati, Ohio would not be able to do that. I remember his tiny grandmother sitting on the front porch smoking little green cigars. The house was surrounded with big green trees and flowers. When he saw the poison falling on the forest and the Vietnam civilians, did he think of her?

I continued to write to him, but left the island before he came home. During the summer of 1967, I was 16 and drifted off into new local friends who were home from college on the mainland. That was one of the summers of continuous spraying above where I lived. It was hard for us to imagine what was going on in Vietnam. There was no television on Kauai. It all seemed surrealistic and remote. We had radio news. We had Vietnam soldiers on R&R. We had the Garden Island paper. When I was in California later in 1968, my girl friends who had graduated from high school before me, were dealing with their boyfriends coming home. No one knew what was happening. The men were sick mentally and physically. They were falling to the ground if a car backfired. They were screaming in the night. They were punching at my friends if they touched them when they were sleeping. I have never heard anyone talk about the trauma to the young women. At 18 years old, I skipped the whole generation. My first boyfriend was 29 years old and European. I did not know the war had been in my own backyard.

In 1980, I was driving the Alcan Highway in Northwest Territories. A big storm hit. There were a few cabins on the road with instructions to leave $10.00 in case anyone needed to spend the night there. The doors had no latches, and I had no gun because it is illegal to travel into Canada with firearms. I had my Siberian Husky. There was major brown bear activity in the area. To keep my brain from freaking out I lit a candle and wrote a letter to one of my friends from those summers in Wailua. I sent it general delivery to Kapaa, but probably there were too many people there by then for it to be delivered. A year later, my mother from Hawaii drove the Alcan Highway to Alaska alone, fishing and camping through Canada, the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska. I guess it's a genetic problem.

Today I am going to figure out how to follow this site properly. So far success has been accidental in nature. I have two posts to research and answer and will do that this evening.

I discovered the link between the Navy and UofH. I also found an article written by a Puerto Rican concerning a sort of underwater Star Wars project in Puerto Rico and Kauai. Time frame? Like these two places covered the whole mainland - at the expense of those who live there. I also found a story about a 2005 student protest concerning these operations during which they occupied the UofH chancellor's office. That would be exactly where my sister was working as assistant to the chancellor, but I do not know how major universities are set up. Maybe there is more than one chancellor. I went to the University of Alaska which doesn't count. It seems I am still looking for reasons she did not know what happened on Kauai. Still stupid after all these years.

The new UofH president came from University of California, Santa Cruz. This is a school that is so liberal in nature that it makes Berkeley look far right. They have no letter grades, etc. If any fraternization were to occur between the school and the military, the whole place would be burned down to the ground. ROTC is not permitted on campus, etc. In fact, no public high school in any upper income area of northern California permits ROTC or any type of recruitment on campus. The parents would go nuts. I tried to go to high school in California in 1966 and in 1968. I didn't last long there, but I saw this double standard. I remember Joan Baez being thrown off campus in 1966 when she turned an English class into a platform for anti war "propaganda." MORE HYPOCRISY. White people with money did not want any anti war sentiment around, but did not want their children gathered up and sent off to be killed "for their country." Poor things.

The chill that was coming across the Hopi rez in AZ yesterday is in northern New Mexico today. The trees on the big mountains and at the house are turning gold. In September I start to feed a cup of rice bran to the horses. The fat makes their coats come in soft and thick. They have no shelter here except big cottonwood trees by the river. By November they will look like big sheared beavers. Some people make fun of this, but they are never shivery in winter. Horses from open Navajo range can survive any weather - 115 degrees with no shelter, and 20 degrees below zero in the wind with no shelter. No water too. The ones who eat when they do not have water don't make it. The ones who don't eat until they have water survive.

Donkey stud chaos is over. He disappeared some time yesterday. I hope no little mules pop out next fall. That would be a lot of work with a baby just in time for winter. I can hear him heehawing back at his place. He is calling to my mares who are ignoring him.

Just heard some talk radio about censorship on the rez and how Hopis and Navajos need to do their own reporting. This sounds familiar. A Dine woman from Window Rock called and announced a new small radio station is starting up just off the rez because the tribal government is censoring all the news coming over rez stations. The only news there is CNN generic. This woman also stated that all previous small rez stations have been "gobbled up by the religious people." They are trying to do live streaming at 89.9. It is KNIZ.org. It's hard to say Hopi and Navajo in the same sentence. There is a white guy on the Hopi rez who keeps moving the fences into Navajo territory. This is because there are valuable resources there. My Dine former significant other has a ranch that backs up onto Hopi territory. I have never taken orders very well, but after about 2 years I learned that when he told me to get into the pickup, something was happening. "GET IN THE PICKUP." Ok. The rez boundary was far off, but somehow the Navajo "telegraph" got the message about trouble to ranch headquarters. In a flash everything got real quiet, riders would show up, others would mount up and they all headed out with rifles. Nobody but the riders knows what happens out there.

The Mormon missionaries would show up at my place on the rez when I first moved there. I was selling hay and I had an electric fence up around the hay shed and hogan to keep out the open range horses. Those pale sick looking guys would actually jump the hot wire which was almost never hot. The first time I saw that, I waited until the second one was straddling the wire, opened the door and said, "That fence is hot." He jumped all right. Later I found out the Mormons regularly talk people out of their children by telling them they can educate them and give them "opportunity." Many of the kids were taken to old Mexico and worked as migrant farm labor. When they tried to escape they could not get back across the border - no papers and they were taken for Mexicans. Many were lost in Mexico. That happened to my former significant other, but he was pretty smart. When they asked him what kind of place he wanted to go to, he told them he wanted to go to a family with a swimming pool. At 10 years old he figured a family with a swimming pool wouldn't be farming. He was right. Later when he got back home, a rancher from Utah saw him riding broncs and offered him a job. He was told to pack up and someone would be back for him in a couple of days. Turned out the man owned a huge cattle ranch that spanned from Telluride Colorado down to Arizona. Those were some of the last big cattle drives in history down from Telluride through The Valley of the Gods to where the cattle were shipped out. In 2002, we went up to the ranch headquarters where he had worked over 30 years before. The ranchers son immediately recognized him. A lot of the ranch had been sold off due to rich people and real estate brokers inflating property values up by Telluride. Taxes were too high. There was a 9mm handgun on a side table by the front door.

I guess I have seen enough about what happened on Kauai. Sometimes searches come up with site summaries referring to remaining toxicity on Kauai. But the site is not found. Imagine that. If only someone had told me! I would have known that I did not have to move my daughters 19 times while they were growing up. As long as I was in a mold free, uncarpeted house in a place with no row crops and malathion mosquito abatement, I was as good as I was going to get. I learned that the brain of a 15 year old child is still developing in the frontal lobe. This is where the cognitive area is and where extensive IQ testing in a Harvard Study in 1985 showed deficits in my brain. It has been scientifically proven that dioxin causes this brain damage including brain atrophy. At the same time I was found to have anti myelin and anti smooth muscle antibodies also proven to be caused by dioxin exposure. The myelin sheath covers every nerve in the body including the brain. This is the cause of constant pain of neuropathy. Smooth muscle is the intestinal tract which metabolizes all nutrients needed for survival. It is also the liver. What else I don't know. These chemicals are all estrogen hormones (E2). They were originally developed to promote plant growth, but were found to kill plant growth in higher applications. Monkeys developed endometriosis and other reproductive problems when exposed to dioxins. Just like me. I also had ruptured ovarian cysts with internal bleeding and "primary ovary failure." Low E2 (scientifically proven to be caused by dioxin exposure) plus high FSH results in "primary ovary failure." A paper by an Egyptian doctor states that his study indicates the failure is more attributable to the relationship between E2 and FSH hormone than the low E2 hormone. Makes sense to me. In the 80s I developed toxic shock syndrome on a remote location in Alaska. Then multiple esophogeal ulcers the next year. No source ever identified for either of these. Most of this started in the early 1970s. Some in the 1960s. Some in 1980s. If Harvard had known about the extensive dioxin exposures, the study results could have been used in a constructive way to help all the people who were poisoned.

Sometimes symptoms are transient. For a long time I had no spatial orientation - could not tell if I was standing in a line unless I touched the person in front of me. Once I could not see chalk writing on a green board in a college class - teacher was writing and I could not see anything. I walked around the amphitheater room in case there was a glare or something. Still could not see the writing. Picked up my books and left. That math class was in a science building. In about 48 hours I got really sick. Maybe it was the chemicals coming from the science labs. The delay in illness caused a problem for years figuring out what was going on. It was all crazy. My daughters were 8 and 10 then. I had to draw maps from their school and daycare to where I was going or I would forget how to get to where they were - no matter how many times I went there. Once when I was trying to apply for food stamps, a worker came out to the front counter with an aerosol can of disinfectant and sprayed down the whole counter (and me) so she wouldn't "catch" what I had. The Lysol spray made my brain stop working completely, I could not give her my address or telephone number, she decided I was lying about everything and denied my application. Then I had to drive to pick up my daughters. Now I see a few veterans brave enough to talk about these same kind of insane experiences.

I have always thought my brain somehow compensated for these problems. Gradually each problem improved. That had the effect of leaving me even more confused. Had it really happened?

I believe I survived so far by orneryness. I also credit doctors in remote Alaska clinics who were from town going crazy trying to figure out what was going on without lab results and no team of specialists. I remember an older doctor in a hospital in Sitka (where my daughter was born) physically pushing another doctor out of the way who was saying nothing was wrong with me. That doctor had me in surgery quickly to remove a massive blood clot connected somehow to an ovary. I also had a retained placenta in a hospital that did not have oxygen in the rooms yet. They wanted to take me to Mt. Edgecomb Hospital which is a very well equipped Alaska Native hospital, but they wouldn't let me in.

Note: Mt Edgecomb Hospital is the best Native hospital in the state. It is accessible by boat and air only. No bridge. This is where the famous Sarah Palen "bridge to nowhere" was located. This is not nowhere.

Nothing hormonally related was working properly in my body. I also remember a doctor in California putting a stop to a truly evil stepmother's attempt to have me permanently committed to a mental institution including taking my daughters away so none of this would cost her any more money. She was on the way to being arrested for demanding copies of all my medical records so she could give them to a specific doctor. The doctors' personal attorneys and the hospital's attorneys had recorded the telephone conversations. One of the doctors was not taking any new patients, but he saw me for over a year - every week - just to protect me from them. He did not know what was happening to me, but he believed it was medically, not psychologically, oriented. This horrible wife of my father liked to buddy up to me, find out who my doctor was, call them and tell them I was just trying to get drugs. Later, the blood vessels in my eyes started breaking during blood pressure spikes related to neuropathic pain issues - or something. I was so dehydrated from intestinal failure that no one could get an IV in me. That still happens now.

One of the medical theories of the course of disease after exposure is that the endocrine system is disrupted. The pituitary gland is not working properly which runs the whole deal. And the hypothalmus part of the brain is not working properly either. Someday I will try to figure out what they are talking about.

Around that time I saw the first pictures my sister was sending all over the place of herself (of course) and a bunch of other dumb haoles sitting around on the ground in a circle with their arms up in the air wearing mokihana leis around their necks with more on their heads. Apparently, she was the special head kahuna, and had learned this from a secret source. She and the stepmother were hooked up big time. The stepmother claimed to be a practicing witch who could control clouds, people, and (I guess) the entire solar system. This was around the time I was told yogis in India can drink glasses of poison without trouble. Clearly, I was spiritually bereft. Why my father's jesuit catholicism tolerated this nonsense was and is a mystery to me. My sister would fly to California and go to gem shows at the end of the day to buy up suitcases full of cheap crystals and other stuff to take to Hawaii to sell in her new age shops. In the 80's it was easy to sell spirituality to vacant yuppies who thought they were enlightened by secret Hawaiian stuff. Good God. Now in her expansive biography on her web site, she states she ran "three bookstores on two islands." Exactly the type of person my Dine man was terrified to be near. I saw a newsletter from her shop in 1989 advertising that the stepmother was selling ($$$$) seats to a special channeling of the dead in Hawaii. This gives me the chills even to type it on here. I learned enough to block that darkness. Whenever I encountered that type of person at health fairs, I asked them about some of their specific behavior. Without exception, I was told that they would be asked to leave their group.

If my grandpa had been around he would have kicked all their butts and made sure I had a couple of good horses to ride. Now I have horses who are very polite to everyone, but go after people who might be aggressive towards me. I appreciate having 1,100 pound guard animals.

For this bad haole behavior, and many other reasons, I tolerate heavy discrimination loaded on to me - right up until I get threatened, then I defend myself. I find now that I'm getting old, I look somehow defenseless. That opinion doesn't last long. I still don't make a good victim. 30 or 50 years ago, my fine Spanish horse would have eliminated that problem. But the roots of everything have been lost to some.

Right now I am being plagued by my haole Need To Know Why. I am reminded of my Dine man's irritation with this behavior. His short to the point dismissal was this: "It's just like that."


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545 vs. 300,000,000



Subject: 545 vs. 300,000,000



Thought you might find this interesting !!

Read this,- - - - let it sink in,- - - - VOTE in November

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be – please read
it!!
(all the way to the end)

The article below is neutral, ....not anti---republican or democrat.
Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel has hit the nail
directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis
must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one
of us every day.

It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT
THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND
THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

545 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then
campaign against them..

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are
against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and
high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations.

The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme
Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are
directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems
that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem
was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional
duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private,
central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They
have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a
congressman,or a president to do one cotton-picking thing..

I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's
responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that
what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con
regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker,
who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole
responsibility
to the House of Representatives for originating and approving
appropriations and taxes.

Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader
of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can
approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it
over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace
545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts --of incompetence and
irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not
traceable directly to those 545 people.

When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of
the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they
want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan
not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire
and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they
can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from
whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the
belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy,"
"inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an
oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power..

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are
their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it........ Is up to you.

Sales Tax


School Tax


Liquor Tax


Luxury Tax


Excise Taxes


Property Tax


Cigarette Tax


Medicare Tax


Inventory Tax


Real Estate Tax


Well Permit Tax


Fuel Permit Tax


Inheritance Tax


Road Usage Tax


CDL license Tax


Dog License Tax


State Income Tax


Food License Tax


Vehicle Sales Tax


Gross Receipts Tax


Social Security Tax


Service Charge Tax


Fishing License Tax


Federal Income Tax


Building Permit Tax


IRS Interest Charges


Hunting License Tax


Marriage License Tax


Corporate Income Tax


Personal Property Tax


Accounts Receivable Tax


Recreational Vehicle Tax


Workers Compensation Tax


Watercraft Registration Tax


Telephone Usage Charge Tax


Telephone Federal Excise Tax


Telephone State and Local Tax


IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)


State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)


Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)


Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax


Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax


Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)


Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax


Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes


Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most
prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the
world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians? ' I hope this goes
around THE USA at least 100 times!!!
YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD - - !!!

PS If you do the right thing and pass this on - which is entirely up to you
-
please do the right thing and highlight and delete any addresses you
receive
with it.

Thank You


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AKAKA BILL FINALLY CLOSE TO PASSING?

The Akaka Bill—also known as the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act—has endured a number of setbacks and false starts since it was first introduced 10 years ago.

In February, the US House of Representatives passed it. Five months later, Senators Akaka and Inouye agreed to tweak the bill to gain state support, removing language that fake Hawai`i state Governor Lingle and Attorney General Mark Bennett said gave too much power to the Native Hawaiian governing entity.

US President Obama has said he’ll sign it if it lands on his desk, meaning the Senate is the final hurdle.


This week, the bill got a high-profile endorsement from the American Bar Association (ABA), which sent a letter of support to all 100 Senators.

“Our courts have upheld Congress’ power to recognize indigenous nations,” reads the letter. “Native Hawaiians have the right to be recognized by the Congress [and] this right is not in conflict with the rights of others.”


In a statement, Senator Akaka said he’s “optimistic” there will be a vote during the post-election “lame duck” session.
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