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Opening Statement before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety & Licensing Board by Jim Albertini

Posted by Pono Kealoha on January 12, 2010 at 8:35pm
public and press viewing via web stream: http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=65044.Oral Argument on Standing and Contention Admissibility: In the Matter of U.S. Army Installation Command (Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii, and Pohakuloa Training Area, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii), ASLBP No. 10-895-01-ML-BD01.Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:00 AM Hawaiian Standard TimeThis webcast event will be available for archive viewing for 90 days after the event date. A transcript of this proceeding will be available within seven days after this event at http://ehd.nrc.gov/EHD_Proceeding/home.asp.=============Opening Statement before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety & Licensing Board by Jim AlbertiniDocket #40-9083University of Hawaii, Hilo CampusLibrary Building, Videoconference Room LRC 361Administrative Judges for Oral Arguments:E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman, Dr. Anthony J. Baratta, Dr. Michael F. KennedyJanuary l3, 20l0Aloha Kakou --A warm greeting to you all In Rockville, Maryland and others viewing via the internet wherever you may be.Before us is the issue of the U.S. Army's request for a license to possess Depleted Uranium (DU), not only at sites in Hawaii but at numerous other sites around the U.S. Let me translate that is simple terms. A license to possess rubbish is a rubbish dump. A license to possess depleted uranium is a nuclear waste dump.For the record --my name is James V. Albertini. My physical address is l7-339 Helenihi Place in Ola'a (Kurtistown), Island of Hawaii which is the same physical address of Malu 'Aina Center For Non-violent education & Action. My phone # is 808-966-7622. The Center for Non-violent Education & Action is a 50l (c) (3) non-profit all volunteer organization. I am the president of the organization which grows food -- fruits and vegetables, fish and eggs on its 22-acre organic farm. Most of the food we grow is shared freely with people in need. Some is marketed to carry on educational work for peace, justice and protecting the environment. I am here both as an individual and representing the organization which is very much concerned about military contamination in Hawaii and around the world.My home and our organization are located approximately 25 miles from Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA). I planted the first banana trees and the beginning of more than 50 varieties of fruit, 30 varieties of taro and other vegetables, 30 years ago. Malu 'Aina farm has been my home ever since. On cool nights, with winds coming off the mountains (and the cocqui frogs not chirping), I can hear the live-fire shelling and bombing at Pohakuloa. If the wind carries the sound I wonder if it's also carrying the poison dust of Depleted Uranium --DU. On an island we are all downwind. The same can be said of the planet.Let's cut to the chase. Recently 6700 tons of sand from Kuwait contaminated with DU at Camp Doha, a U.S. Army base there, has been shipped to Boise, Idaho for burial. Poor Boise, but what's good for Kuwait should be good for Hawaii. Instead of seeking a license for the depleted uranium to remain in place at Schofield and Pohakuloa, the military needs to learn a lesson that all of our mothers teach us from small kid time -- clean up your mess. The Army needs to clean up in Hawaii as it did Camp Doha, and in such a way so as to not contaminate other communities, if that is even feasible. Maybe you have room in Rockville, Maryland.On Hawaii island, our organization published a map (put map on screen) documenting 57 known present and former military sites totaling over 400 square miles (250,000-acres) that may contain live arms and other military toxins and should be considered military hazard areas. Most of these sites remain unfenced and with no signage about unexploded ordnance and other hazards.Instead of cleaning up, the military is expanding its mess that now involves radiation contamination at Schofield, PTA, and possibly other sites in Hawaii, especially Makua Valley. For more information on this military mess in Hawaii I refer you to "No Peace in Paradise," Haleakala Times, May 8, 2007 by Kyle Kajihiro. Also the book --"The Dark Side of Paradise --Hawaii in a Nuclear World" co-authored by myself and others.In September of 2009 the West Hawaii Today daily newspaper on this island conducted a poll. Approximately l,000 people responded to the question: Do you believe the army about depleted uranium on Pohakuloa? l4% --l35 votes said they believe the army and are not concerned about their health. 48% --445 votes said they want independent testing for DU, and 36% --339 votes said they do not believe a word the army says.The NRC's job is to protect the health and safety of the people and not to put a burden on the people to prove that we have been harmed by military depleted uranium. This basic human right and legal principle is recognized in environmental law --that the proponent (in this case the U.S. Army) is required to study the possible impacts before actually impacting the public by training, etc. Environmental Impact law recognizes the premise that the cart (the impact) comes after, not before, the horse (the study). The Army has it backwards. It's impacted us and now it doesn't even want to do good science to see what the impact might be.I'm a taxpayer and I have overall financial and other responsibility for our non-profit organization. I want the organic food we grow, and the air, land and water in Hawaii and around the world to be healthy, not contaminated with chemicals or military radiation. As a taxpayer, my taxes have unfortunately helped pay for the mess, and my taxes will have to help clean it up. That constitutes legal standing to me.On July 2, 2008, The Hawaii County Council passed resolution #639-08 by a vote of 8 to l. The resolution urges the U.S. military to address the hazards of depleted uranium at the Pohakuloa Training Area. The only nay vote was by a retired Army Colonel. The resolution calls for 8 action points but number one is "Order a complete halt to B-2 bombing missions and to all live firing exercises and other activities at the Pohakuloa training Area that create dust until there is an assessment and clean up of the depleted uranium already present." The other 7 actions call for monitoring, funding, reports, meetings, search of records, etc. By the way, according to the Army Stryker EIS, between 7 million and l4.8 million live-rounds are fired at PTA annually. Everything from small arms, to heavy artillery, rockets, missiles, and bunker busting bombs.My preference is for no military license to possess DU here or anywhere. International law says DU weapons are WMDs and illegal. I want PTA shut down, decommissioned, cleaned up and returned to its rightful owners -- the independent nation of Hawaii. A first step toward that end, or in any license to possess DU, is a halt to all live-fire and other activities that create dust at PTA. There needs to be a thorough independent assessment (thorough testing and monitoring) of the entire l33,000-acre PTA base for DU contamination (not simply l,000-acres spot checked). After the assessment, clean up needs to be completed. Given the military's history of lies (example --Army doing nerve gas testing instead of weather testing in Hilo's watershed), and the use of DU for ballast and in penetrator weapons (put document of various DU weapons on screen), there is reason to believe there is far more DU contamination at PTA than the military wants us to know. This is all the more reason we need independent, comprehensive good scientific data, which to date is missing. If the military has nothing to hide, prove it by transparency which at present is terribly lacking.My Response to NRC Question One --How the Army downplays inhalation hazard of DU oxide?First I would like to concur with submissions sent to you Oct. 30, 2009 by Cory Harden quoting Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD, Dr. Mike Reimer, and Dr. Marshall Blann with criticisms of the Army's air monitoring and characterization studies --what's at PTA and how much of a hazard.How does the Army fail to acknowledge the inhalation hazard of DU poison dust? The Army has made numerous unreliable safety claims without any studies done, data and reviews. Examples.l. August 27, 2007 Hawaii Tribune-Herald news article headline "DU found at PTA"Material doesn't pose a health dangers" Army says. This is the date the Army claimed they discovered DU at Pohakuloa.2. Aug. 30, 2007 Army News Army.Mil/News"DU found at PTA poses no threat to the population of Hawaii, civilian or military." Col. Matthew Margotta, Commander, US Army Garrison.Same article "Today DU is not used in military training, but in the 50s and 60s it was used anytime you needed a heavy weight," said Greg Komp, Senior health physicist, Office of the Director of Army Safety, Washington, D.C.3. April 24, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser "DU poses no Health Risk" Army says4. Aug. 4, 2008 Honolulu Star-Bulletin "DU --NO Risk to public Army contends."Let me make an analogy: Army Garrison Commander Col. Margotta says that quote "DU found at PTA poses no threat to the population of Hawaii, civilian or military." end quote. He said those words 3 days after DU was confirmed to be present at PTA. What was his assurance based on? No studies were done. No data produced. No peer reviews. Nothing. Zip. Zilch.The analogy I want to make concerns cigarettes. The few DU pieces found (the cigarette) are not the major concern. Since only a few DU pieces were found , much remains unaccounted for.The unaccounted for DU may have been exploded and burned by 40-50 years of bombing and the DU particles scattered by the winds. Like a cigarette butt in an ash tray is an indication of smoking. With cigarettes, it's the smoking of the cigarette that is the health threat. With DU it is the inhalation of insoluble DU oxide particles that is the main possible health threat, danger, risk, etc. The Army found a few chunks of DU from the Davy Crockett DU spotting rounds at PTA out of several hundreds, perhaps more than 2500 rounds that were fired. It's not what they found that is my main concern although that should be cleaned up. It's what they didn't find. Where is the rest of the 292 pounds or perhaps more than a half ton of DU from the Davy Crocketts? Possibly vaporized by 40 years of bombing and carried with the wind?I'm going to cite a recent statement by Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD, MPH, 24 yrs. in the Army medical core, consultant to the WHO, Maui County Public Health Officer, but speaking as a private citizen.Dr. Pang said, "the Army previously assured us that soldiers exposed to high levels of inhaled DU oxides developed no illnesses. This has been reviewed by a group of independent researchers sponsored by the VA who showed that problems like tumors (benign and malignant) were ignored. Were other symptoms ignored as well in their obsession to "prove" safety? Because of this the Army has publicly lost credibility on the issue of DU health risks."Concerning PTA, Dr. Pang contends that this NRC process needs to be similar to an Environmental Impact Statement process. The users (the Army) need to investigate and show the impact on health, etc. The onus is on the Army to guarantee (within reason) the safety of their actions. The citizen should not have to show, and prove, harm. The NRC is the regulator, charged to protect public health. Now for some specifics.I have always said and continue to say that we should follow the analogy of cigarettes. Until lit and inhaled cigarettes are not bad for you. When smoking is over there may be no more harmful effects but looking for ashes in the ash tray is evidence that someone previously smoked, was previously at risk for health effects. Looking for evidence of DUoxide dust NOW at PTA is evidence of a higher previous exposure. How much previous DUoxide dust and its effect PREVIOUSLY occurring is anyone’s guess. I hope that whatever was done previously does not occur again. This is the primary objective - but our government agencies make vague commitments. They will say that since we did not show harm previously they are free to use DU weaponry however they choose in the future. They are depending on our short memories to violate rules and principles set forth today.Next the issue was raised if CURRENT levels of DUoxide dust are harmful. The two basic principles are to show 1) if PTA levels are higher than background and 2) if this excess level is related to health effects (attributable risk).1) For the first principle for medical reasons I want to focus on inhalable radioactive compounds, especially the non-soluble DUoxides. While the test is not specific for DUoixdes the comparison between Kona readings (zero elevated of 20,000 cpm readings) and Kilohana (Saddle Road/Mauna Kea Park) (4 of 500 cpm readings) is statistically very significant (P less than .0001 by Fishers exact test). This needs to be further investigated and is a “smoking gun” till proven otherwise.2) Even if the above elevated radioactivity were due to DUoxides, what is the associated health risk? I don’t believe that this is known for inhaled DUoxides. Because of the much slower clearance from the body extrapolations cannot be made to soluble uranium forms. Dr. (Rosalie) Bertell, (PhD in Canada) would also argue about nano-toxicity from the nano forms of expended DU weapons. The military and its collaborators have repeatedly and publicly cited the friendly fire studies as the key guarantee of safe threshold levels for inhaled DUoxides. Not only has that study been shown to have seriously flawed methodology - but the manner in which it was used to mislead has damaged the credibility of all involved.For a group of agencies which cited such tainted and flawed science to demand that the community shows good science to prove our case of harm is arrogant and against the principles of EIS. The Army says DU stays in the impact area, but they have only turned up a few pieces of the 300 to over l000 ponds of the Davy Crockett. Where is the rest? Where is the proof that's it's in the impact area?Dr. Helen Caldicott, MD founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility (23,000 doctors) and founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War which was awarded the l985 Nobel Peace prize says quote DU "aerosolized particles that are inhaled... translocate to the thoracic lymph nodes, and are also deposited in bone, kidneys and excreted in semen where almost certainly the uranium can cause birth defects. It also causes bone cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphoma, and kidney cancer." end quoteI personally know three people within l8 miles of my home with lymphoma cancer. Two have died within the past year and a half, the other is in an advanced stage. Two of the three were close friends active with our organization. When family and friends die prematurely of cancer we too are harmed emotionally. It is not an easy thing to see friends die. According to the National Cancer Institute, State Cancer Profiles, the Island of Hawaii has the highest cancer statistics of all the Hawaiian islands. The cause is unknown. Could it be linked to DU from PTA? Possibly.According to very recent figures coming out of Iraq, there is a 5-6 year latent period from exposure to cancer development there. The figures are now skyrocketing --6 years after the Shock & Awe of March 2003. In some cases increasing l800%.The Davy Crockett DU at PTA, and possibly other DU used there, has been bombed and burned for 45 plus years.My Response to NRC Question Two -- Provide details of the May 29, 2007 monitor spike of 75cpm at Mauna Kea State ParkOn May 29, 2007 our Malu 'Aina peace organization sponsored a protest of the opening ceremony of the first section of the realigned Saddle Road from the Mauna Kea Access Rd to Mauna Kea State Park, a distance of approximately six miles. Our protest concerned several issues, one being the facilitating of more military live-fire training by rerouting the road in a northerly direction through a mamane forest which is a critical habitat for the endangered Palila bird.On May 29, 2007, Guenter Monkowshi was conducting radiation monitoring with his gammascout monitor. The meter was new and set on alpha/beta/gamma. The same monitor had been used the prior month in South Kona for 20,000 minutes of monitoring and saw no spikes above 40cpm according to Dr. Pang's analysis of the data. On May 29, 2007, his meter had been running for an hour with normal background around l5cpm readings. At about ll AM as I recall, the winds began to pick up coming directly from the south toward the park where about 2-3 dozen of us were peacefully protesting. I would guess the wind gusts were 20-30MPH or even more at times. There were dust devils with suspended dirt clearly visible in the air and Guenter's monitor spiked at 75cpm. I was standing next to Guenter and saw the meter. Over the next 2-3 hours at various points along saddle Road there were 3 other spikes in the 40-60s range. That's 4 spikes in a few hundred minutes and should be a smoking gun signal that requires more investigation.These readings emphasize the importance of looking for spikes not mere averaging. State of Hawaii Department of Heath radiation chief, Russell Takata, has gone to take measurement is various spots on the Kona side. He only kept his meter on for 5 minutes at each site. That will not likely catch a spike. Longer periods of air monitoring are key.In essence, my conclusion is that we were at the wrong place at the wrong time, meaning we were in the path of a radiation plume. Three months later, the Army confirmed DU was present on the range located l and l/2 miles from the park in line with the direction of the winds coming directly at us on May 27, 2009. Some form of radiation caused our monitor to spike, not once but 4 times in a relatively short time period. We were at PTA. The winds were coming off the impact ranges where DU was later confirmed to have been fired. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is likely a duck. President Obama recently talked about the failure to connect the dots. Whatever went into our monitor on May 29, 2007 likely went into our lungs. The burden is on the Army to rule out DU oxide. The burden should be on the Army to prove no harm. The Army says no harm has been shown but that's because they haven't looked and don't want to look. Same from Vietnam with Agent orange. Same with Gulf War syndrome.High wind gusts are common in the Saddle area between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea.The predominant trade winds are from north east to south west, but often by early afternoon the winds shift blowing from the west or south. At night, the winds generally come down off the mountains. (Wind conditions can be seen at the link below. http://www.weather.gov/data/obhistory/PHTO.htmlAlso see American Meteorological Society Journals Onlinehttp://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=Evolution of Katabatic Flow on the Island of Hawaii by Jiuhua Feng and Yi-Leng Chen l0 August l990The Army doesn't even know the # of DU Davy Crockett spotting rounds fired at PTA. The Army's records are poor to say the least. The range is from 7l4 to possibly over 2500. From about 290 pounds of DU to over a half ton. And that's just for Davy Crockett. Then there is Greg Komp's (Office of Army Safety's) statement that "in the 50s and 60s it (DU) was used anytime we needed a heavy weight." Then there was the 70s, 80s, and 90s when DU was NOT prohibited in training. Connect the dots. There could be tens of thousands of DU rounds fired at PTA, including DU bunker busters. There could be tons, tens of tons of DU at PTA.We likely won't know from Army records. But with thorough proper independent testing and monitoring we should learn the truth. What we need is good science. And we don't have that at this point from the U.S. Army and we won't get it from the U.S. Army. It must come from truly independent sources.My Response to NRC Question Three -- concerning visits to Mauna Kea ParkMauna Kea State park is presently across the street from Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA). Prior to May 27, 2007, the day of the high spike radiation readings, the Saddle Road traveled through the PTA base for about l2-l4 miles and still does now west of the main gate area.Prior to May 27, 2007, the road came within l/2 mile of the eastern most range (I believe Range l0) at PTA where DU has been confirmed. On that section of the road which was used by the public for 4 decades, there were signs posted "Live artillery overhead" or "live-firing overhead".For 30 years while driving the cross island Saddle Rd highway, I and family and friends, would always stop at Mauna Kea State park to picnic and use the rest rooms. In years past I spent several nights at the cabins in the park, including nights when it was hard to get any sleep because of live firing taking place at PTA.Over the years I've participated in numerous Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) cultural and religious ceremonies at Mauna Kea Park and nearby at the Hawaiian ahu (altar) located at the junction of Saddle Rd and the Mauna kea access road. I have also gone to the summit of Mauna Kea for numerous ceremonies while elders and others who couldn't handle the high altitude gather and stay at Mauna Kea Park and conduct ceremonies there.Over 30 years I've hiked both Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualalai mountains extensively, hiking to the summits and other trails in the Waiakea Forest and to King Umi's temple.Years back I probably traveled the Saddle Rd cross island once a month. In more recent years it's less. On average we have 3 yearly healing ceremonies for the land and protests of live-fire training at PTA, another couple ceremonies on Mauna Kea and other trips cross island and occasional hikes that results in travel through the Saddle Area. Mauna Kea Park is always a stopping point or rallying point, although we go to other places along Saddle Rd for live-fire protests. We have built an Hawaiian ahu on the PTA base at Pu'u Ka Pele where we have placed ho'okupu (offerings) for the healing of the land. The duration of the visits for ceremonies or a rally is roughly 2-4 hours, longer if we are hiking in the area.I have also attended a military press briefing on PTA and was transported to the firing range to observe howitzer live firing. I also organized a group briefing and tour of PTA for visiting students, Hawaiian, and environmental activists during the Stryker EIS process.There have been reports of animals with tumors downwind of PTA. A hunter friend, Luna Hauanio phone 808-3l5-0677 who has hunted extensively in the Pohakuloa area and the normal down stream air flow area from PTA toward Hualalai and Keahou mauka has informed me of numerous abdominal and throat tumors in pigs, goats and sheep hunted in the area. Luna Hauanio worked work 22 years with the sheriffs department and is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) very much concerned about traditional and customary rights and hunting which is important to many people for subsistence.My Closing StatementFor most of this hearing we, the petitioners, have responded to questions from you, the judges. Now I have a question for you to ponder. How far are you this minute from PTA live-fire training areas where DU presence is known? I suspect the answer is around 5,000 miles to Rockville Maryland. There is something wrong with this picture. You in Rockville, Maryland are preparing to judge if we who live on this island having standing and if our contentions about military depleted uranium on our island home have any merit.The Army's application for a DU license doesn't say a word about DU moving off site. It's all neatly packaged and stays in the bombing impact area? Yeah right.Around l980 the Knolls Power Lab technitions monitoring atmospheric radiation picked up the DU oxide from Colonie, NY over 25 miles away. Nine days after the Tora Bora bombings in Afghanistan, and Shock and Awe DU bombings of Bagdhad, the sophisticated radiation monitors at Aldermaston in England recorded a big persistent spike of radiation lasting several days. Everyone in the northern hemisphere has legal standing when it comes to DU, and maybe the southern hemisphere as well. We're all in this together.If you --the NRC license the Army to possess DU on site, and citizens turn up DU off site, you will have a lot of poison DU egg on your face. But we the residents of Hawaii will be breathing and eating the poison dust. That's why if you are going to issue a license it better be with strict transparent monitoring and testing done with the guidance of Dr. Lorrin Pang and Dr. Mike Reimer to insure the confidence of the community. And all the live-fire and other activity that creates dust must be stopped until there is a comprehensive assessment of the entire PTA base for DU contamination. Military maps of PTA have written on them in capital letters: "ALL OF PTA SHOULD BE CONSIDERED A DUD HAZARD AREA." The same is true for DU. All of PTA should be considered a DU hazard area and any activity that may disperse that DU should be prohibited.DU can travel off base from wind, fire, explosions, vehicles, and rain. The NRC may not be able to prohibit wind, fire and rain, but it can prohibit explosions and vehicles on PTA.On average, the bases across the US covered by the Army's license request correlate with higher cancer incidences, same as Viegues in Puerto Rico and other sites with DU contamination, especially Iraq and Afghanistan. The cancer rate in the province of Babil, south of Baghdad has risen from 500 diagnosed cases in 2004 to 9,082 in 2009 an increase of l800 percent.See http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazi090110.htmCancer - The Deadly Legacy Of The Invasion Of IraqDr. Helen Caldicottt has said: "The incidence of childhood cancer in Basra (Iraq) has increased 700% since (DU) weapons were used there in 1991 and the incidence of severe congenital malformations has also risen 700%.Uranium particles will contaminate the cradle of civilization for eternity inducing more and more cancer, especially in children, genetic diseases and congenital malformations.Such US military policy is beyond a war crime."According to the National Cancer Institute web site - here is the overall cancer rates for the counties were Davy Crockett spotting rounds have been used.(http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/map/map.noimage.php)NRC list:Fort Benning, Georgia (* Chatahoochee County- 2nd highest category in state)Fort Campbell, Kentucky (Christian - lowest)Fort Carson, Colorado (El Paso - 2nd highest)Fort Hood Texas (Bell - 2nd highest)Fort Knox Kentucky (Meade- 2nd highest)Fort Lewis Wash. (Pierce- 1st highest)Pohakuloa/PTA Hawai'i (1st highest)O'ahu (2nd highest)Fort Riley Kansas (Geary- no data)********fyi: Jefferson Proving Ground (Jefferson/Ripley - 2nd highest)Yuma " (Yuma - 4th highest)Aberdeen " (no data)I am well aware that if this appeal by citizens falls on deaf ears of the NRC for action to protect public health and safety, I will have participated in a proceeding that can be categorized as a fraud.You, the NRC are suppose to be the regulator of the nuclear industry. Don't fail us like the Wall St. and Mortgage banker regulators failed us. You job is to protect the public health against the military/nuclear industrial complex. Put the burden where it belongs, not on the citizen to prove harm, but on the military/nuclear industrial complex to prove that it is safe. They have not done so.A note on conflict of interest: Wall St. Bank regulators got rich off the very banks they were later charged to regulate but failed to do properly. Is the same true of the Nuclear industry regulators-- the NRC? As ordinary citizens we do what we can to speak truth to power, realizing the deck is stacked against us, as these proceedings certainly demonstrate in a manner that is crystal clear.In any event, the actions that are warranted remain:l. Stop all live-fire and dust creating activities at PTA and support the other 7 points called for by the Hawaii County Council in Resolution 639-08 and resolution 70l-08 naming Dr. Lorrin Pang as the official county representative on the DU issue with the Army. The points in Resolution 639-08 all support the precautionary principle.2. The entire PTA base needs to be thoroughly tested and monitored independently with guidance from Dr. Lorrin Pang and Dr. Mike Reimer.3. A thorough clean up and decommissioning of these military complexes is necessary to protect our health.4. There needs to be transparency and community input throughout the process. Otherwise there will be a vote of no confidence by the community as the WHT poll on PTA already underscores.The Pentagon dirty bombers in paradise must be stopped. The land must be returned (cleaned) to its rightful owners --the independent nation of Hawaii.With gratitude and aloha,--Jim AlbertiniMalu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & ActionP.O.Box ABKurtistown, Hawai’i 96760phone: 808-966-7622email: JA@interpac.netVisit us on the web at: www.malu-aina.org--We cannot hope to end violence against each other until we end our violence against the earth. Wendell Berry=====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
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Don't be a statistic, Become a Warrior again!

Posted by Scott Keawemauhili Wong on January 12, 2010 at 1:43pm
I have recently found that my Hawaiian Chinese body is not in Warrior Shape. I am having a hard time getting in and out of the ocean to do the things that i love like, Surfing and Fishing. So I signed up for Beachbody. The link is below. I hope to be in shape to attend the Lua class that my Brother and Sisters attended.Sign up and we can get our bodies back in shape and not be another statistic.
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ACTION ALERT KUE: We Want Peace!

Posted by Pomaikaiokalani on January 12, 2010 at 4:01am
Message to Secretary of State Clinton: We Want Peace!Sign holding to declare our vision for the Asia-Pacific at Clinton's policy speechTUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 20101:00 - 2:30 pmEast-West Center Imin Conference Center at the UH Manoa campus, East West Road.A Peoples' Vision for the Asia Pacific:We demand peace!End the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, PakistanU.S. Bases Out of Guam, Okinawa, Hawai'i!Free Hawai'iEnd the Israeli Occupation of Palestine!End the torture!End the Korean War!Abolish Nukes!Contacts:Kyle Kajihiro, 808-542-3668Ann Wright: 808-741-1141(Bring your own signs. Or join us in signmaking at AFSC at 11am, 2426 Oahu Ave.)__._,_.___
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I am wondering if anyone out there knows the Hawaiian dialect of Hana, Maui?

Posted by Jonah Kahanu on January 11, 2010 at 11:39pm
In the Hana dialect (Eastern Maui dialect), my grandfather told me daily conversation in the Hana dialect sounded like people saying poems to each other. My grandfather also said it is no where near sounding like the Ni'ihau dialect. I am curious of all of the dialects throughout the islands and hoping to bring back the old dialects throughout. I know in a few dialects, 't' is pronouced instead of 'k' when there is an 'i' before the letter. For instance, "kahiti." In a sentence, "E hele ana wau i te kahakai/kahatai." What great thoughts.
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Your prayers needed

Posted by Jeff Renaud on January 11, 2010 at 3:49pm
I wanted to ask for your prayers for our ohana. Lately there has been dark forces at work attacking my brothers and sisters and myself. I am not sure if someone in the family has cursed us but we need your kokua Christian or Hawaiian.aloha
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The Newlands Resolution - Save The US-Free Hawai'i!

Posted by J. D'Alba on January 10, 2010 at 7:41pm
editorialHarper’s WeeklyJuly 2, 1898Volume 42p. 634It is probable that the issue of the coming elections for Congress is to be imperialism — that is, that all domestic questions are at least to be obscured by the overshadowing and engrossing subject of territorial expansion. Such a campaign will be interesting, and it will certainly excite the imaginations of the voters. That it is probable that the country is at the parting of the ways is evident from the enormous majority by which the House of Representatives passed the NEWLANDS resolution "for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States," the vote being 209 to 91, the affirmative vote being mainly Republican and the negative mainly Democratic, although the statement that the cleavage on this issue goes through the parties may possibly be sustained by the fact that three Republicans voted against the resolution. Speaker Reed, who was ill at home, sending word that he also would have voted no if he had been present, while 27 Democrats, Populists, and Silverites voted for it.It is reasonably certain, therefore, that there is great danger that the country is to enter upon a colonial policy — that is, in our judgment, it is to abandon the independent attitude which it has generally maintained towards the rest of the world, and is to adopt what may be briefly characterized as a simian policy, or a policy imitative of that which has created quarreling European frontiers in Africa and Asia, and which has loaded the workers and producers of Europe with the burdens of militarism.As to what we may be about to do in Hawaii, nothing so monstrous has been proposed to this country since Buchanan, Soule and Mason issued the famous Ostend manifesto concerning Cuba. Every American who believes in the fundamental principle of his government, that government exists by the consent of the governed, will agree that, if we are to have colonial possessions, and to rival the European military powers in this respect, the new policy could not be inaugurated in a worse way than by the adoption of the Newlands resolution.What is the character of this effort to increase the territorial possessions of the United States? As formulated in this resolution it is brigandage pure and simple, and thus far in its history the United States Supreme Court has not found that Congress has the power to seize the territory of distant peoples. We propose to take these islands, simply because we want them, by means of a joint resolution. Chief Justice Marshall held that the power of Congress to acquire territory resulted from the power to make war and the power to make treaties. These powers being conferred by the Constitution, there are implied the power to take security for the future from the country with which we may be at war, and the power to receive possessions from the country with which we bargain. But it will be difficult to find in the Constitution a grant of power to Congress to seize with its legislative grasp a foreign people's domain. We are not at war with Hawaii, and therefore we cannot take the territory as security from a hostile power. It is true that we might take the islands by treaty, and this would be the proper Constitutional method, but the annexationists cannot secure the necessary number of votes in the Senate for the ratification of the treaty which is pending.In other words, if Congress should strictly obey the Constitution, annexation could not take place. Therefore the annexationists resort to a short-cut, and they propose to turn their backs upon the Constitution, as they disregard the facts that this question of acquiring Hawaii has never yet been presented to the people of the United States for their votes, and that not a party platform in the last Presidential campaign suggested the annexation of the islands. At that time, only two years ago, it was admitted by the political managers of both parties that annexation would not be a winning issue. So keenly was this realized that the treaty, still before the Senate, lost so much of the support which it at first commanded that Senator Davis has practically abandoned it. In a word, this effort is, as we have said, to take a snap judgment against the people, and it is probably resorted to because the politicians are now, as they were two years ago, afraid to put the question to the test of a popular vote.The Newlands resolution is, moreover, a legislative assault upon Hawaii, and is contrary to the essential character of our own government. If our republic means anything, it is that the people of every country have the right to govern themselves. They have the right to determine the form of government under which they will live. We have insisted upon this right for ourselves; we have fought for it, and we have won it. Under what system of logic, then, can we reach the conclusion that we may deny to the Hawaiians what we have asserted for ourselves, under the general principle that every people in the world have the right "to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them?" We have set up our own government for our own affairs, and we have neither had the intention to govern others, nor have we the machinery to carry such an intention into effect.Our government has been self-government in good faith; but in the Newlands resolution it is proposed that we shall annex another people's country, and that, until congress shall provide another government, the President, whose powers over his own countrymen are limited by the constitution and by statutes, shall exercise absolute and despotic powers over the inhabitants of Hawaii. Strange as this may seem to those who believe that we have a republican form of government, and that it stands for the right of the people to govern themselves, this despotism is really proposed by Congress in the Newlands resolution in the following words: "Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands, all the civil, judicial, and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons, and shall be exercised in such manner, as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers, and fill the vacancies to occasions."Congress, in other words, enacts that the lands of the Hawaiians shall belong to this country, and that the President shall have the power to remove the officers of the Hawaiian government, and, for a time at least, to exercise despotic powers over the people. Was there ever such a perversion of the principle on which the republic was founded?The excuse for this proposed democratic excursion into absolutism is that the government of Hawaii has consented to it. But neither have the people of Hawaii consented to the pretended cessions, which has really never been made, nor have the people of this country consented to accept it. In the first place, the government of Hawaii is a self-constituted power. It does not represent the freely expressed will of the people of the islands. So fearful were the men who seized upon the powers that in the Constitution, which is wholly the work of themselves and their friends, they inserted the strange provision that Sandford [SIC] B. Dole should be the first President of the republic, and they provided that his successor should not be chosen until 1900.We have no criticism to make on this oligarchy. We are willing to admit that its government of the islands has been and will be better for the people than that of the monarchy was; that, in brief, it is the best possible form of government for the islands, and very much better than could be that of a distant and despotic American President or Congress. But when it comes to the question of annexation, this republic is bound, we think, to refuse a country offered to us by an oligarchy which not only does not represent the people, but which is acting, or attempting to act, against the expressed will of the people. There are in Hawaii 31,019 natives, 24,407 Japanese, and 21,616 Chinese, and most of these are opposed to the rule of the 3086 Americans and to their effort to transfer them to this country. Believe and say what we will against black and brown and yellow men, it has never before been contended that it is in accordance with the spirit of our institutions to seize their lands and to put them under the rule of our President or our Congress.
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Supermarket News Forecasts Non-GMO Uprising

Posted by Tane on January 10, 2010 at 5:32pm
There is good science and bad science and over the years, GMO/G/E has been proven to be bad science with devastating results; a chain reaction to the environment. Their pesticides tilted the benefits from crops to that of hardy destructive weeds that retard the growth of crops; decimating crop production. The wayward effects run into plants animals, water, and human consumption; decimating food source and the production of healthy, edible, crops. Monsanto and similar companies manipulate science semantically to cover up its failure and endangerment to plant, animal, and human life.For complete article; go to:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/emsupermarket-newsem-fore_b_416861.htmlhttp://snipurl.com/u0xvc [Huffington Post]Posted: January 8, 2010 05:26 PMSupermarket News Forecasts Non-GMO UprisingFor a couple of years, the Institute for Responsible Technology has predicted that the US would soon experience a tipping point of consumer rejection against genetically modified foods; a change we're all helping to bring about. Now a December article in Supermarket News supports both our prediction and the role the Institute is playing."The coming year promises to bring about a greater, more pervasive awarenes" of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply, wrote Group Editor Robert Vosburgh, in a trade publication that conventional food executives and retailers use as a primary source of news and trends in the industry.He alerts supermarket executives that, "the growth of the organic (which bans GMO ingredients), local and green product categories reflects a generation of consumers who could be less tolerant of genetic modification."...the prestigious American Academy of Environmental Medicine urged doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets for all patients, based on evidence that GMOs fed to lab animals triggered diseases and disorders.GMO Rejection Will Be WidespreadGenetically modified (GM) foods, however, don't offer a single consumer benefit. The five major GMOs—soy, corn, cottonseed, canola, and sugar beets—are gene-spliced to either tolerate poisonous herbicides, or produce poisonous insecticides. Consumers never clamor for them.We're already seeing the momentum build against genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Dannon, Yoplait, and most dairies have shunned the controversial drug that is now synonymous with "increased cancer risk" in the minds of many consumers. (The recent condemnation of the hormone by the American Public Health Association will help nail its coffin shut.)In the case of GMOs, the proportion of US consumers needed to avoid brands that contain GM soy and corn, etc. is quite small--probably only 5%. That means that the purchasing power (and trend setting ability) of 15 million people or 5.6 million households can turn GMOs into a marketing liability. But when you look at the numbers, no matter how you slice it, they add up to a coming non-GMO tidal wave.
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What is Activism?

Posted by Tane on January 10, 2010 at 5:00pm
It's funny how the Hawaiians and U.S. Americans have a negative view on activism. Don't they know that their country endorsed and was founded on activism? Activism brought changes; some good and some bad. The fact remains; you snooze - you lose. Civil rights never happened without activism. The Ku'e petitions and petitions or pleading with the monarchs was activism. If people complain among themselves and do nothing to stop the corruption; than the problem continues and affects everyone.The problem then becomes oneself for not being active in one's governance. Don't they understand and know what democracy or republicanism is all about? I guess it's true when one says, "They are incapable of governing themselves." Activism is the only way to preserve one's rights. Unfortunately, many don't get it and will suffer from their lack of activism.Voting in elections is being active. Without being active, tyranny and dictatorship takes power. If they want their voices heard; then activism is the only way it can be accomplished. Dictators don't want the people to be active or practice activism; thus, the campaign to discourage activism. People have an obligation and duty to be active; that's the Hawaiian way as Kingdom's subjects and for those U.S. Americans that profess democracy and republicanism. Right now, the U.S. Americans have allowed the corporate oligarchy to rule their country. The sheeple can bleat all they want on the way to the slaughterhouse. The activist cannot be controlled in that manner.Go tell it from the mountain!Will you be a responsible activist?
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DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN ON VOICES OF TRUTH – ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I’S FUTURE

Posted by Free Hawai`i on January 10, 2010 at 12:00am
The race is on for who will control and run the Native Hawaiian Governing Entity should the Akaka bill become law.Actually it’s not much of a race at all since Robin Danner and the Council For Native Hawaiian Advancement practically have it locked up.They’ve had plenty of practice having done it all years before in Alaska.So what are the pieces they’re putting in place to make it happen in Hawai`i? What did Senator Dan Akaka do this last week to help make it all possible? And who will be the winners and losers?Find out these answers and a whole lot more this coming Wednesday on Free Hawai`i TV.Voices Of Truth now airs in Salem, Massachusetts. See our schedule below for airdates and times.We feature Hale Mawae as he shares what life is like as a dedicated Hawaiian cultural artist and activist and how they both fit together this week on Hawai`i’s award winning Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future.MONDAY, January 11th At 6:30 PM – Maui – Akaku, Channel 53MONDAY, January 11th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, January 15th At 5:30 PM – Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53THURSDAY, January 14th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, January 15th At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52SATURDAY, January 16th At 8:00 PM – O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53“Walking In The Dream – A Visit With Hale Mawae”Activist and artist only begin to describe Hale Mawae. Living, eating and sleeping different forms of Hawaiian cultural art is more like it. Hale tells how in living and walking in his dream, he receives a gift of great opportunity, only to realize he must pay it forward. Watch as he reveals what it is & how he plans to do it – Watch It HereWatch Voices Of Truth in Salem, Massachusetts - Channel 3 -MONDAY, January 11th At 8:00 PMTUESDAY, January 12th At 10:30 AMVoices 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.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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Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club needs everyones Kokua to maintain the Ulupo Heiau and Lo'i Botanical Gardens

Posted by Ryan Alena Kaimana Kuhio Kalama on January 9, 2010 at 9:00pm
Aloha Kakou;Be Alert!We, the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club needs everyones Kokua, maintenance assistants, restoration crew, and a preservation group to continue Hawaiian Cultural Awareness. Why do we need to malama our Historical Land Sights? If we don't maintain and monitor the many Sacred Land Sights, our Marshes, our ponds, our canals, our streams, our water falls, our mountains, our hills, our beaches, our little islands off shore, the bays around the Islands, and Historical Land Marks we will loose them to Real Estate and Commercial Industry. Everyone who has concerns for our environment and these valuable land sights are most Welcomed to join the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club in its sincere mission.Individuals who become a member of the Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club will help us continue our many task. We are a Volunteered Concerned Group of individuals who maintain our Ahupuaa, set up educational and training programs, docents of the Ulupo Heiau Lo'i Botanical Gardens, Hawaiian Cultural Practitioners to the Community, fundraisers for Scholarship Programs for those who seek Higher Education, Participates in a variety of Community Events, and supporters in the multiple Out Reach Programs for Families in Need.Our monthly meetings are scheduled every 3rd Tuesday of Everymonth at the Windward YMCA, 1200 Kailua Road, Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii 96734, from 6:00 p.m. through 9:00 p.m. in the Club Room. We begin with our famous Pot Luck Social Hour with new members and special guests, to proceed with Guest Speakers, and then the Board of Directors and General membership business and announcements. We also begin to form our Committees for all the Events to be scheduled. So, anyone who wishes to become a member, participate in the many restoration projects, contribute to the fundraising events, and assist in the Scholarship Fund Committee would be greatly appreciated.So be Alert everyone your kokua is greatly important.Mahalo;Kahu Ryan Alena Kaimana Kuhio KalamaPresident of Kailua Hawaiian Civic Club
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Memorandum and Order, January 7, 2010, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board "DEPLETED URANIUM PROCEEDING, JANUARY 13, HILO, HAWAI’I"

Posted by Pono Kealoha on January 9, 2010 at 5:11am
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PRESS RELEASE
Cory Harden
PO Box 10265, Hilo, Hawai’i 96721
808-968-8965
mh@interpac.net
For immediate release
January 8, 2010, Hilo, Hawai’i
Attachment:
Memorandum and Order, January 7, 2010, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
DEPLETED URANIUM PROCEEDING, JANUARY 13, HILO, HAWAI’I
A legal proceeding on an Army application for a depleted uranium (DU) license will be held Wednesday, January 13, from 9 AM to about 3 PM, by videoconferencebetween Hilo, Hawai’i and Rockville, Maryland.
The proceeding is oral argument on standing and contention admissibility before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear RegulatoryCommission (NRC) regarding hearing requests by four petitioners: Jim Albertiniof Malu Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action, Cory Harden, andIsaac Harp, all from Hawai’i Island, and Luwella Leonardi of O’ahu.
The Army denied having DU in Hawai’i until 2006, when citizen groups obtained information from Army e-mails, then announced the Army found DU spotting roundsthe previous year at Schofield Barracks on the island of O’ahu. The spottingrounds were from a classified Davy Crockett weapon system used in the 1960s. TheArmy acknowledged the find, and later also found spotting rounds at PohakuloaTraining Area (PTA) on Hawai‘i Island. The rounds were also distributed totwelve other states and three foreign countries in the 1960s. There were about75,000 rounds, each about eight inches long and containing about six and a halfounces of DU alloy.
“It’s unclear whether the Army didn’t know, or didn’t tell, that it had DU in Hawai’i,” says Harden. “But it is clear that information about military hazardsin Hawai’i is unreliable.”
Albertini and Harden say that Army searches, reports, and air monitoring plans for DU at PTA are inadequate, so airborne DU from live-fire and dummybombs impacting undiscovered spotting rounds may go undetected. The sameconcerns have been expressed by a geologist, a consultant to Los Alamos NationalLaboratory, and a former Army doctor who is a consultant to the World HealthOrganization, all from Hawai‘i.
Albertini and Harden call for a search of classified and unclassified records by all military forces in Hawai’i for other forgotten radioactive hazards.Harden asks why an Army report cites a 1996 document about a Davy Crockett DUspotting round at Schofield, when the first find was supposedly in 2005.
Albertini says reports of animal tumors around PTA should be investigated, and says the Army has ignored Hawai‘i County Council resolutions concerningDU.
Albertini and Harp say the Army has not fully disclosed the extent of its DU use in Hawai’i. Harp says there are high cancer rates around PTA, says the Armyhas violated Federal law, and calls for removal of DU munitions and waste fromHawai’i.
Leonardi says the Army excavated contaminated soil at Schofield, then transported and deposited it near her home, impacting health in hercommunity.
Due to the limited size of the videoconference room at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, the public may not attend. However the proceeding will appearvia live webcast at
http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=65044. The webstream will be available for
viewing for up to 90 days, and a transcript of the hearing will be posted on the ADAMS system on the NRC website.
A decision on the proceeding is anticipated in February.
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WHY NO AKAKA BILL HEARINGS IN HAWAI`I?

Posted by Free Hawai`i on January 9, 2010 at 12:00am
Senator Akaka had come to Maui to hold a “public hearing” for Maui vets (as they deservedly should get).Yet, for the past nine years Mr. Akaka did not hold one public hearing regarding the Akaka Bill on any of the Islands here in Hawai`i.Sir, you have just rubbed Hawaiian Salt into this gaping wound you have inflicted on many Hawaiians.Hawaiians and residents of these islands demand holding public hearings on all islands!Foster AmpongKahului, Maui
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AKAKA BILL - IF IT'S SO GOOD, WHY ARE THEY AFRAID TO HAVE HEARINGS IN HAWAI`I?

Posted by Free Hawai`i on January 8, 2010 at 12:00am
I still don’t support the Akaka Bill because of the shadiness that is surrounding it. Why aren’t there meetings and Q&A sessions hosted on every Island where the people can come to ask questions and get answers regarding this bill? And if there were, why aren’t there any more? It’s about education- it would be irresponsible of OHA to support this bill without educating the prime group that this bill would affect the most. And if it happened already, it should be happening more....RJ MendozaHilo, Hawai`i
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ANSWER THIS QUESTION. WHY ARE THEY PUSHING THE AKAKA BILL?

Posted by Donna Burns on January 7, 2010 at 6:38pm
The Answer?Because written sneakily INTO the Akaka Bill is a final attempt to OVERTHROW the Kingdom of Hawaii. Haven't you wondered WHY they are pushing so hard? If you think that OHA is a Hawaiian organization...think again. It is made to LOOK LIKE it is, but ever since the Rice vs. Cayetano case, OHA has represented ALL hawaii's residents...not just hawaiians. OHA is a State Agency, so why wouldn't they push the State's agenda? Which is really the Federal agenda of the US.Be concerned. Be very concerned. The Akaka Bill will DO exactly the opposite of what it's purpose is. It will NOT preserve Hawaiian Rights, but rather extinguish them under the Dept. of Interior. It will NOTpreserve land for Hawaiians, but will do the exact opposite...all lands will be lost. It will NOT preseve our culture, bring us revenues, help the future of our keiki.IT WILL DO NONE OF THAT...Wake up...and say NO TO THE AKAKA BILL. It is YOUR children's future they are selling down the river so that a few sell outs can pad their pockets...Watch this video...trust that it is true.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_aKtl6yjk&feature=player_embedded
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OHA is stepping up the B.S. but over one billion viewers look at Youtube everyday. My free tutorial reposted again.

Posted by Ululani on January 6, 2010 at 8:00am
OHA is stepping up the B.S. but over one billion viewers look at Youtube everyday. More people are online looking at Youtube than they are watching television so even though Youtube is FREE... Youtube is VERY powerful so I hope that at least ONE good-seed Hawaiian who reads this will use this to their advantage.No mattah what some pilau people say... the Internet levels the playing field and is AN equalizer especially when it comes to the bullsh*t that some people say about Hawaiians and/or try to do to Hawaiians. The Internet is VERY VERY powerful. More powerful than the local television and more powerful than the local B.S. media. So powerful that it is not taught in schools because to enslave the mind is to enslave the body and/or spirit but I digress. While some pilau people want to try to discourage others from speaking... I ENCOURAGE good-seed Hawaiians to SPEAK THEIR TRUTH irrelevant if others agree and/or disagree. SPEAK YOUR TRUTH!I hope that some good-seed Hawaiians will USE this. I do it for my work. However unless they are Hawaiian too... I do NOT share this with others in my profession AT ALL because it is a shark tank and VERY competitive. In fact some people want to scratch my eyes out LOL Ironically it is only so easy. I will share this with good-seed Hawaiians (only) for FREE because I like to pay/play it forward to some GOOD-SEED Hawaiians:A few hints from my trials and my MANY errors:1. If can... try use one tripod. I put my tripod on a table because I videotape myself. Also... speak while looking right at your camera. It took me about four videos to get used to looking at the camera as though I am talking to my husband.2. If you screw up the words you can always edit it with the free version of Videopad Video Editor which I do because I no speak right all the time.3. Be yourself.4. What video camera should you use? Content is queen so it doesn't matter what video camera you use. Most digital cameras these days have a video option. I use my Casio Exilim EX-Z80 even though I could use my Canon GL-1. Keep it simple. No need be fancy! Just make sure there is adequate lighting. For me that is challenging because I film myself in one of my offices so the lighting isn't great but it will do.5. For other analytical people like me... no analyze too much because it leads to Analysis Paralysis where you going end up doing nothin!6. No be shame! A writer named Elbert Hubbard states it well: "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." If you Hawaiian you going be criticized no mattah what! So you may as well videotape yourself sharing your mana'o because you going be criticized ANYWAY LOL That is the way that I see it when I videotape myself for my work. So what if some people call me a White Washed Hawaiian LOL DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE? LOL Seriously. What matters is what my kupuna think of me. For example after he found out that we flew home to be in the parade for the queen and for the Hawaiian Kingdom on August 21, 2009, Uncle Patrick Kawaiola'a aka "Fat Pat" of Keaukaha called my twin sister and I "mahoe" because we are twins and because we are Hapa Hawaiian and side with our Hawaiian side. THOSE opinions matter to me and coming from Uncle Pat is a very high compliment to me *LOL*To edit your videos then upload to Youtube:Use Videopad Video Editor's free edition to edit your videos then upload to Windows Movie Maker then transfer your videos to Youtube for free. I state this because through many trials and MANY errors Windows Movie Maker can have glitches, missing some codecs files, etc. so won't "save" files. It helps uploading an edited video from Videopad Video Editor INTO Windows Movie Maker. That is THE key to using Windows Movie Maker for the captions, titles, credits, etc.Or just use Videopad Video Editor. This is if you do not want the fancier titles and/or video transitions that Windows Movie Maker offers.Or another option if you have a Mac is the IMovie which is already built into your Mac: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/They are either free or already built into:Videopad Video Editor free version is on the bottom hyperlink:http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.htmlTo download this software: I had to download it to my laptop in addition to my desktops in order to check it and it worked for my laptop too.The link on the bottom works as well as the first red button.They both take you to: http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/vpsetup.exeAn executable file will pop up. (If you worry about executable files scan it with your software to see if it has a virus. I use Firefox as my web browser so it scans it for me when I download any .exe file.)When time to install it though... a window will pop up asking if you want to add other parts to it. Do *NOT* click onto the extras like the sound editor etc. I forgot exactly what they asked if I wanted to install such and such... I think the first option had a square box then "WavePad Sound Editor."Do NOT select those extras AT ALL. Leave those small squares UNCHECKED. Just click "Next" or something like that and it will work fine.To use this software it is VERY simple and EASY: 1. "Add media" You can add pictures/images. You can add your video(s.) You can add more than one video. For example you can use a video of you talking and one of footage of surfing. 2. Wait for it to upload to Videopad. 3. Use the left screen to edit using the little red flag to start where you want it to start and the little blue flag to end where you want it to end. For each clip you click onto the green arrow to put it in the finished product. 4. Repeat this for other areas of your initial video til you have what you want. 5. Click on "Create Movie." 6. Then save it.From here if you want to edit it and add title and credit pages and/or transitions by using Windows Movie Maker or you can just use it and upload it to your FREE Youtube account.Windows Movie Maker: Already built in WindowsYoutube: FREE at www.Youtube.comCombatting the B.S. and KEEPING IT REAL = Priceless

P.S. I am working on a video tutorial of this and yes I WILL nag some people LOL

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FREE HAWAI`I TV - "YOU DON'T QUALIFY!"

Posted by Free Hawai`i on January 6, 2010 at 7:03am
FREE HAWAI`I TVTHE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK"DO YOU QUALIFY?"The Akaka Bill Contains A New Term Against Which To Stand Firm.It Defines Blood Percent - Clearly A Breach Of Trust With Fraudulent Intent.It'll Leave Most Hawaiians Out Beyond Any Doubt.What To Do So It Doesn't Happen To You?Watch & Find Out.Then Send This Video To One Other Person Today.
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