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AKAKA BILL - WHY WOULD WE WANT IT?

Posted by Free Hawai`i on April 15, 2010 at 6:33am
Indian Country Today - Apr 7, 2010

“Why would any Hawai`i national want to give consent (e.g. Akaka Bill) to giving away what the so-called Native American and Alaska tribes never got for themselves?” asked Foster Ampong, a resident of the Island of Maui.

“The Akaka Bill is raced-based and the ethnic/non-ethnic Hawaiian proponents are in denial, ignorant and/or apathetic to this reality. The opposition by the neoconservative and colonial-thinking paradigm, I dare say oppose the Akaka Bill because of their Eurocentric racism. Period.”

Mikahala Roy, a Kahu or caretaker of Kamakahonu, the first capitol of the Hawaiian Kingdom, said U.S. politicians are trying to push the bill through without input from Kanaka Maoli.

“Kanaka Maoli are a people who carry forward their long ancestral history in oral traditions. Our sacred traditions from the beginning of time through our history as the Kingdom of Hawai`i continue today.

"The illegal American occupation of Hawaii of 117 years is now revealed for what it is – a race to acquire, finally and now lawfully, Hawai`i. Hearings in Hawai`i will bring up the truth of the occupation.”
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46% pass rate

Posted by Ululani on April 14, 2010 at 6:30pm
For my family and hoaloha

Tomorrow I take the prelim exam. I have been in classes to prep for the brokers exam. It's not easy but I do understand the Haole ways, words, etc. Some people including my mom tell me that I relate well to them... which I think is an insult LOL

The brokers exam is really tough though. Only 46% of those who sit for it pass on their first try. FL brokers exam has the lowest pass rate of the states like how some people around the world call the United States... the states. (I write the states because the "state" of Hawai'i is an ILLUSION LOL)

I find it amusing that I want to be a broker/attorney in Florida and the first HAWAIIAN broker/attorney in Florida... but NOT AT HOME in Hawai'i. No make sense in Hawai'i LOL

BTW I noticed what someone wrote about stolen lands but I never respond. How I going respond to dat LOL So I didn't respond because I do not judge those Hawaiians who do what they have to do in order to survive. I do not judge their survival though I realize that some people do... after cashing in their check from the U.S. government.

BTW I do not miss the hypocrisy of home. One of my friends told me. Hawai'i is not the same as where I grew up. I knew this since small kid time. In some ways it has devolved. Unfortunately being fake and lying are rewarded while being honest and truthful are punished. That is just SO wrong LOL

But people make choices. They CHOOSE this. For example like with Palin. At home in Hawai'i it seems to be popular to ridicule a woman's intelligence. I don't miss that mob mentality one bit. Few people say... you know what... das wrong to insult a woman's intelligence yet as expected they laugh about it. Insulting a woman's intelligence is NOT amusing. Home is odd like that. Some people are odd LOL They say one thing then turn around and DO another.

For example insult those Hawaiians/oiwi who have moved away from home yet under their breath they insult the elders who came before us. Where do they think the elders came from? They immigrated from one place to another. Aue some people though LOL


Anyway I have been super busy. I hope I pass! Then I would like to open my own brokerage but not at home in Hawai'i LOL Some people go crazy though when I tell them that I am taking the brokers exam. They immediately correlate it with me doing that in Hawai'i. Some people jump to conclusions das why. That and instead of presuming someone's innocence they ASSUME their guilt LOL It's odd.

Latahs!!!!
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FREE HAWAI`I TV - "SENSATION ABOUT OCCUPATION"

Posted by Free Hawai`i on April 14, 2010 at 6:30am
FREE HAWAI`I TVTHE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK"SENSATION ABOUT OCCUPATION"We've Told You Hawai`i As The 50th State Is Nothing But A Fake.Now There's Someone Running For Governor Who Actually Admits It's Not Legit.Neil Abercrombie Reveals It's All A Phony Deal.He Tells You Why The US Wants To Get It's Hands On Hawai`i's Stolen Lands.What You're About To See You Won't Soon Forget & Sure To Make You Upset. Send This Video To One Other Person Today.
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Ocean Fish Farming Hawaii Part 1-7 LEARN

Posted by Pono Kealoha on April 13, 2010 at 1:03pm
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America: The Grim Truth

Posted by Pono Kealoha on April 13, 2010 at 11:58am
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By Lance Freeman
April 08, 2010
"Information Clearing House" --

Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you’d be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don’t believe for a second that rot about America having the world’s best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I’ve been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and everyone was better than the “good” hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.
This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.
Let’s start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States, the government is bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections. In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government. Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.
Of course, it’s not just the food that’s killing you, it’s the drugs. If you show any sign of life when you’re young, they’ll put you on Ritalin. Then, when you get old enough to take a good look around, you’ll get depressed, so they’ll give you Prozac. If you’re a man, this will render you chemically impotent, so you’ll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you’ll get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you’ll lay awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you’ll need Lunesta to go to sleep.
With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere. Unfortunately, you probably can’t take one. I’ll let you in on little secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal, or the coral reefs of Australia, you’ll probably be the only American in sight. And you’ll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French, Italians, Israelis, Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they’re paid well enough to afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would time to get on a plane and rush back to your job.
If you think I’m making this up, check the stats on average annual vacation days by country:
Finland: 44
Italy: 42
France: 39
Germany: 35
UK: 25
Japan: 18
USA: 12
The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States. This should come as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed. Unless you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss away from poverty. Your jobs aren’t secure. Your company has no loyalty to you. They’ll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits them, then they’ll get rid of you.
Of course, you don’t have any choice in the matter: the system is designed this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States, a university degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world with a crushing debt. Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and find yourself – you’ve got to start working or watch your credit rating plummet.
If you’re “lucky,” you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for a home loan. And then you’ll spend half your working life just paying the interest on the loan – welcome to the world of American debt slavery. America has the illusion of great wealth because there’s a lot of “stuff” around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila, because at least they have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to leave, you can’t, because you’ve got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any American and you’ll get the same answer: because America is the freest country on earth. If you believe this, I’ve got some more bad news for you: America is actually among the least free countries on earth. Your piss is tested, your emails and phone calls are monitored, your medical records are gathered, and you are never more than one stray comment away from writhing on the ground with two Taser prongs in your ass.
And that’s just physical freedom. Mentally, you are truly imprisoned. You don’t even know the degree to which you are tormented by fears of medical bankruptcy, job loss, homelessness and violent crime because you’ve never lived in a country where there is no need to worry about such things.
But it goes much deeper than mere surveillance and anxiety. The fact is, you are not free because your country has been taken over and occupied by another government. Fully 70% of your tax dollars go to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is the real government of the United States. You are required under pain of death to pay taxes to this occupying government. If you’re from the less fortunate classes, you are also required to serve and die in their endless wars, or send your sons and daughters to do so. You have no choice in the matter: there is a socio-economic draft system in the United States that provides a steady stream of cannon fodder for the military.
If you call a life of surveillance, anxiety and ceaseless toil in the service of a government you didn’t elect “freedom,” then you and I have a very different idea of what that word means..
If there was some chance that the country could be changed, there might be reason for hope. But can you honestly look around and conclude that anything is going to change? Where would the change come from? The people? Take a good look at your compatriots: the working class in the United States has been brutally propagandized by jackals like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Members of the working class have been taught to lick the boots of their masters and then bend over for another kick in the ass. They’ve got these people so well trained that they’ll take up arms against the other half of the working class as soon as their masters give the word.
If the people cannot make a change, how about the media? Not a chance. From Fox News to the New York Times, the mass media in the United States is nothing but the public relations wing of the corporatocracy, primarily the military industrial complex. At least the citizens of the former Soviet Union knew that their news was bullshit. In America, you grow up thinking you’ve got a free media, which makes the propaganda doubly effective. If you don’t think American media is mere corporate propaganda, ask yourself the following question: have you ever heard a major American news outlet suggest that the country could fund a single-payer health system by cutting military spending?
If change can’t come from the people or the media, the only other potential source of change would be the politicians. Unfortunately, the American political process is among the most corrupt in the world. In every country on earth, one expects politicians to take bribes from the rich. But this generally happens in secret, behind the closed doors of their elite clubs. In the United States, this sort of political corruption is done in broad daylight, as part of legal, accepted, standard operating procedure. In the United States, they merely call these bribes campaign donations, political action committees and lobbyists. One can no more expect the politicians to change this system than one can expect a man to take an axe and chop his own legs out from underneath him.
No, the United States of America is not going to change for the better. The only change will be for the worse. And when I say worse, I mean much worse. As we speak, the economic system that sustained the country during the post-war years is collapsing. The United States maxed out its “credit card” sometime in 2008 and now its lenders, starting with China, are in the process of laying the foundations for a new monetary system to replace the Anglo-American “petro-dollar” system. As soon as there is a viable alternative to the US dollar, the greenback will sink like a stone.
While the United States was running up crushing levels of debt, it was also busy shipping its manufacturing jobs and white-collar jobs overseas, and letting its infrastructure fall to pieces. Meanwhile, Asian and European countries were investing in education, infrastructure and raw materials. Even if the United States tried to rebuild a real economy (as opposed to a service/financial economy) do think American workers would ever be able to compete with the workers of China or Europe? Have you ever seen a Japanese or German factory? Have you ever met a Singaporean or Chinese worker?
There are only two possible futures facing the United States, and neither one is pretty. The best case is a slow but orderly decline – essentially a continuation of what’s been happening for the last two decades. Wages will drop, unemployment will rise, Medicare and Social Security benefits will be slashed, the currency will decline in value, and the disparity of wealth will spiral out of control until the United States starts to resemble Mexico or the Philippines – tiny islands of wealth surrounded by great poverty (the country is already halfway there).
Equally likely is a sudden collapse, perhaps brought about by a rapid flight from the US dollar by creditor nations like China, Japan, Korea and the OPEC nations. A related possibility would be a default by the United States government on its vast debt. One look at the financial balance sheet of the US government should convince you how likely this is: governmental spending is skyrocketing and tax receipts are plummeting – something has to give. If either of these scenarios plays out, the resulting depression will make the present recession look like a walk in the park.
Whether the collapse is gradual or gut-wrenchingly sudden, the results will be chaos, civil strife and fascism. Let’s face it: the United States is like the former Yugoslavia – a collection of mutually antagonistic cultures united in name only. You’ve got your own version of the Taliban: right-wing Christian fundamentalists who actively loathe the idea of secular Constitutional government. You’ve got a vast intellectual underclass that has spent the last few decades soaking up Fox News and talk radio propaganda, eager to blame the collapse on Democrats, gays and immigrants. You’ve got a ruthless ownership class that will use all the means at its disposal to protect its wealth from the starving masses.
On top of all that you’ve got vast factory farms, sprawling suburbs and a truck-based shipping system, all of it entirely dependent on oil that is about to become completely unaffordable. And you’ve got guns. Lots of guns. In short: the United States is about to become a very unwholesome place to be.
Right now, the government is building fences and walls along its northern and southern borders. Right now, the government is working on a national ID system (soon to be fitted with biometric features). Right now, the government is building a surveillance state so extensive that they will be able to follow your every move, online, in the street and across borders. If you think this is just to protect you from “terrorists,” then you’re sadly mistaken. Once the shit really hits the fan, do you really think you’ll just be able to jump into the old station wagon, drive across the Canadian border and spend the rest of your days fishing and drinking Molson? No, the government is going to lock the place down. They don’t want their tax base escaping. They don’t want their “recruits” escaping. They don’t want YOU escaping.
I am not writing this to scare you. I write this to you as a friend. If you are able to read and understand what I’ve written here, then you are a member of a small minority in the United States. You are a minority in a country that has no place for you.
So what should you do?
You should leave the United States of America.
If you’re young, you’ve got plenty of choices: you can teach English in the Middle East, Asia or Europe. Or you can go to university or graduate school abroad and start building skills that will qualify you for a work visa. If you’ve already got some real work skills, you can apply to emigrate to any number of countries as a skilled immigrant. If you are older and you’ve got some savings, you can retire to a place like Costa Rica or the Philippines. If you can’t qualify for a work, student or retirement visa, don’t let that stop you – travel on a tourist visa to a country that appeals to you and talk to the expats you meet there. Whatever you do, go speak to an immigration lawyer as soon as you can. Find out exactly how to get on a path that will lead to permanent residence and eventually citizenship in the country of your choice.
You will not be alone. There are millions of Americans just like me living outside the United States.. Living lives much more fulfilling, peaceful, free and abundant than we ever could have attained back home. Some of us happened upon these lives by accident – we tried a year abroad and found that we liked it – others made a conscious decision to pack up and leave for good. You’ll find us in Canada, all over Europe, in many parts of Asia, in Australia and New Zealand, and in most other countries of the globe. Do we miss our friends and family? Yes. Do we occasionally miss aspects of our former country? Yes. Do we plan on ever living again in the United States? Never. And those of us with permanent residence or citizenship can sponsor family members from back home for long-term visas in our adopted countries.
In closing, I want to remind you of something: unless you are an American Indian or a descendant of slaves, at some point your ancestors chose to leave their homeland in search of a better life. They weren’t traitors and they weren’t bad people, they just wanted a better life for themselves and their families. Isn’t it time that you continue their journey?




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HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO HELP STOP DESECRATION OF ANCIENT HAWAIIAN BURIALS

Posted by Free Hawai`i on April 13, 2010 at 6:16am
State Historic Preservation Division To Be Questioned In Public Forum On Operational Problems
Representative Lyla Berg is convening a community forum tomorrow in Honolulu to address serious ongoing concerns with the State Historic Preservation Division.

The public is strongly encouraged to attend and voice their concerns.

A highly-critical letter dated March 19, 2010, from the US Department of Interior's National Park Service to Department of Land and Natural Resources Director Laura Thielen placed the dysfunctional department on “high risk” status because of “…significant operational problems…" and "…serious deficiencies identified in audits going back as far as 2002.”

WHEN - Wednesday, April 14, 2010, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM
WHERE - Wilson Elementary School Cafeteria in Kahala - 4945 Kilauea Avenue
MORE INFO - (808) 586-6510
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Kahea from Aunty Puanani Rogers : Help! this is an attack on a Kupuna for trying to protect na iwi kupuna!‏

Posted by Pono Kealoha on April 12, 2010 at 4:17pm
Ku ahu for Naue Ancestors

Help, this is an attack on a Kupuna who protects na iwi kupuna


Aloha kakou,

The story of what these insidious lawyers are trying todo to me should be hitting all the newspapers and tv stations! Can youfolks help?

Thiscase is not about Naue na iwi kupuna, Naue court date is in October,2010.

This is about other na iwi kupuna thatneeded protection against the construction of two huge resortdevelopments in Waipouli, Ahupua`a o North Olohena.

CoconutBeach Development, LLC applied for permits to build on approximately 20acres of land (TMK: 4-3-02:15 and 16 a.k.a. Lot 3 and 4.) Plans for theparcel include the development of six hotel units and 334condominium/timeshare units to be constructed in three phases.

CoconutPlantation Holdings, LLC applied for permits to build on 12 acres ofland in Waipouli Ahupua`a, Kawaihau District, Kauai, Hawaii (TMK:4-3-007:027) Plans for the parcel include the development of acondominium project on approximately 9.73 acres of Lot 6 with 192condominium/timeshare units and 6 hotel units.

Also included inthe case was the Kauai Planning Dept. for granting these permits withoutan EA. My part was to protect the cultural resources at Waipouli asdescribed in Thousand Friends of Kauai& Puanani Rogers v. Dept. ofPlanning, County of Kauai et al., Civil No. 07-1-0007.

We went tocourt to petition for an EA for these two properties. Plaintiffs namedwere Kauai Thousand Friends(KTF) and by their invitation to join them,Puanani Rogers. I applied and requested legal services to NativeHawaiian Legal Corp.(NHLC) in January 2007,. My request was granted andmy assigned lawyer was David Kimo Frankel of Honolulu who would workjointly with KTF lawyers Greg Meyers and Dan Hempy of Lihue. My NHLClegal services contract states: "NHLC will assess the following: Themerits of the claim that the development needs an environmentalassessment and whether litigation can protect traditional and customarypractices."

Court filings and hearing began from January 2007THROUGH Oct 9, 2009. Kauai Thousand Friends and Puanani Rogers weredenied their claims, so on October 9, COCONUT PLANTATION filed theirmotions for Costs in the amount of $7,265.34.

On December 3,2009, theCourt entered its Order Granting the COUNTY OF KAUAI Defendants Motionfor Bill of costs in the amount of $10,187.04.

On December 17,2009,the court entered its Order Granting in Part and denying in partintervenor COCONUT BEACH filing of costs against Plaintiffs in theamount of $21,466.66 with interest at the statutory rate of ten percentper annum. I added it all up and the total came to $38,919.04.

KTFand NHLC will be filing an appeal to stop the construction of the tworesorts.

You have also seen the e-mail from the attorney forCoconut Plantation, Lyle Hosaka, threatening to get a court order toallow him to cross examine me in court regardin my assets. (see hismessage below) No hearing date has been set for that, nor do I know ifthe judge received the bad, nasty lawyers' request to do their nastydeeds.

Meanwhile, I cleaned out my savings andchecking account at Kauai Community Federal Credit Union, not much butwas all I had.

I am veryworried about my real estate assets, I have a house I inherited from myparents. I am thinking of turning over the deed for the house tomy six children. I was told the worse they can do is to put a lien onit. I could also protect the house if I claim a "tenants in common" withmy name and my children's name on that document.

I need helpwith documentsthat I may present to the court that will protect me if and when Irefuse to enter their courtroom. I was told by some people to useConvention IV per Prof. Francis Boyle. I need to research that. I don'twant to step into that courtroom, as a Kanaka maoli and through pastexperience I know that I was discriminated against because I am Kanakamaoli, my political activism and the Naue na iwi case; and because thecourt refuses to acknowledge all traditional and customary rights ofcultural claims, practices and beliefs.

KTF is an organizationthat has no money so they are not feelingany threat, but KTF and NHLC will be appealing the judgment to permitthe building ofthe resorts. KTF members are very concerned about my situation and areoffering to supportand help me as much as they can.

Mahalo a nui for taking thetime to read this long message.

I am praying that the judgmentfor costs may go away if the appeal is granted. I am praying for kokuaand support, not necessarily for money, but for prayers and solutions.

Meke aloha ana`ole,

Puanani Rogers
Ho`okipa Network - Kauai
Ahupua`a O Kealia
SovereignKingdom of Hawaii

Think Kanaka maoli......Think Ahupua`a

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