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US LEADERS WERE THE REAL BARBARIANS

Posted by Free Hawai`i on November 5, 2009 at 3:35am
Princess Ka`iulani was not a barbarian.President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt were the barbarians. Hawaiians never murdered innocent Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Filipinos and Cubans. McKinley and Roosevelt annexed Hawai`i against the will of the Hawaiian people.Hawaiians were never allowed to vote for or against the annexation resolution.The resolution also canceled the treaties Hawai`i had with 20 nations and was against Asian immigration to Hawaii and the US. When you read the Hawai`i annexation resolution, you will determine who the real barbarians were.Historical documents never fantasize and never tell lies.Eric Po`ohinaKailua, O`ahu
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He Hoailona: Paternalistic people

Posted by Kaapuikinaea on November 5, 2009 at 3:30am
As I was thinking of something to write about re: any Hawaiian issue, I was pointed to MW re: a discussion that demonstrated the constant paternalistic attitude displayed by people. You've seen the type, professing to be on our side but always feel like we're not really intelligent enough to decide for ourselves what's best for us. If this isn't a sign I was waiting for then I don't know what is.This goes back to what I've mentioned previously about this guy named Gordon who told me that Hawaiians really didn't plan things out if they decide to do away with tourism. He said that for the fact that he adores the Hawaiian islands which he admitted to because he sees it as his own fantasy island, plus the fact that these Haoles have an innate nature to come out as the hero in these situations where they actually see themselves as the solution or have the authority to have the solutions to our problems. In reality, who the fuck cares about them? Hawaiian issues should matter to Hawaiians for Hawaiians to resolve in order to benefit HAWAIIANS! The key word is - Hawaiians!Yet I still see this on going problem & have heard similar stories from Cree and other i digenous people where these Haoles feel that only they have the answers to our issues. I've witnessed this time & time again when, if presented with a new problem they weren't aware of, they initially shrug it off. Later when they realize the severity of the issue, rather than fully understanding the entire scope of the problem, they immediately try to give recommendations. But how can they when they don't understand how grave the problem may be.The bottom line to this is that they feelthey have some sort of stake in all this. In the case of Gordon, he professed to like Hawaii (Oahu). And from what I saw here on MW that sparked me to blog this, was that they were adamant about staying, never leaving. This is what they do and how they do it. They come off as the best solution to our problem but oh yeah, they love it in Hawaii & continue to live the way that they'd want & this is the consolation prize. Fuck that!It sickens me to no end to constantly encounter these people whether they're online or if it's in person. In my case it's both. Maybe the fact that I'm more exposed to ignorant outsiders in their land it allows me to be exposed to them more. But I am so tired of having these people do this.We didn't ask for your help! We could care less of what you have to say because what it will come down to is that WE will decide what is best for US. That means HAWAIIANS will decide what is best for HAWAIIANS!
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Kahea Update: Drum for our Sacred Cultural Sites throughout Hawai'i Nei on Nov 7th Saturday at 6pm

Posted by TK on November 4, 2009 at 4:32pm
Kahea Update: Drum for our Sacred Cultural Sites throughout Hawai'i Nei on Nov 7th Saturday at 6pmTK posting for Ann Marie Kirk - contact her at haweaheiau@gmail.com for more information.Drum for our Sacred Cultural Sites throughout Hawai'i NeiSaturday, November 7th, 2009 at 6pmAloha,The kahea, the call, from Hawea Heiau complex to drum for the proper protection, respect and care for all our sacred cultural sites in Hawai’i nei andthe call to drum to honor our kupuna and their presence at all these sites has been heard throughout Hawai’i and worldwide.The kahea has brought a ripple effect reaching supporters from many places in the world. It is a simple kahea with no expectations. All those who chooseto participate are given the freedom to choose their special place and to focus on creating a positive environment to ask the ancestors for guidance.Those who support our effort will use the pahu, their ipu, ohe pu or whatever instrument they need to join us and this can be as simple as tapping gently over their heart,but most importantly they come with the beat of their hearts, the beat that unites us all as Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians.We also unite together and drum to let the State Historic Preservation Department hear that throughout our islands we have lost faith in their ability to properly protectand respect our precious and priceless cultural areas. A change must come.In less than a week we have received responses from many that the beat of the drum on Saturday, Nov. 7th will be taking place in sites around the world including:Bora Bora, TahitiAotearoa (New Zealand)AustraliaGuatemalaMexicoAt Union Square New York City, New YorkSan Francisco, CaliforniaOjai, CaliforniaNew MexicoColoradoOregonNative American Tribes drumming with us include:ShumashAnisnebeAt 6pm on Saturday, as the drumming begins, wherever you are, and even if you are by yourself at your sacred site, please know you are not alone but united with someone else in Hawai’i nei, or around the the world. As Auntie Nani and Auntie Louise sound the pahu for our kupuna iwi ‘o Naue on Kaua’i, the sound of drums will reverberate through Union Square in New York City and the sound will unite us with our friends in Mexico who will be drumming with us. We will all be connected at all our sacred sites.In Guatemala, when they heard about the kahea, they emailed us to let us know they will drum too, “ . . . in Guatemala many of our sacred sites are also in danger. Together we can have a strong voice.”And to quote Auntie Louise from Kaua’i, “The drums will beat to unite us all in our belief and cause. We will be drumming to make sure they receive proper protection, care and respect.”Please feel free to contact us after the drumming takes place on November 7th to share your thoughts and feelings about what this has meant to your cultural and sacred site.Our kupuna are with us always, in the sky, the land, the sea and in our hearts and we will fight to make sure they know we are with them and we have not forgottenhow important they are to all of us - Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian.Aloha,Ann Marie Kirk, Liveable Hawai’i Kai HuiChris Cramer, Liveable Hawai’i Kai Hui, East O’ahu HistorianKaleo Paik, Cultural Keeperhaweaheiau@gmail.comDrum for our Sacred Cultural Sites throughout Hawai'i NeiSaturday, November 7th, 2009 at 6pmHaweaThe drums of Hawea were silenced,Years of neglect caused its demise.A once prominent wahipana,Reduced to rubble and ruin,Scarred pohaku caused by ignorance,Left in a pile of disgrace.A pohaku canvas paintsThe history of those long gone.Sacred `aina used, as was pono,To build a kauhale, heiau,sSacred enclosures for our people,To come and pay respect.The essence of the spirit within HaweaCalls out to be heard.The vibration echoing the pulseOf those who have made a stand.For the sanctity of the Pahu,The drum to unite us all.By: Linda Kaleo-o-kalani Paik August, 2009Please forward to others. Mahalo.
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Murders on Mau'i

Posted by Kau'ikeaouli LaBatte on November 3, 2009 at 3:42pm
Apparently, homicides are becoming more and more on our beautiful island. Can anyone speculate on the reasons behind them? Sure, the economy has had people on edge for quite some time now, and the scene dealing with drugs is just as bad, if not worse than it was a few years ago. But murder? How far are people here on Mau'i willing to go?The Mau'i News has recently been posting editorials of past and even recent events of men being prosecuted here for the charge of murder of their own wives and girlfriends. If this isn't hard enough on the families, both , the victim, and the accused, how does it affect the public to be reading about it?who knows the true reasons behind the madness of these people. Whatever the reason, has our island home become so mismanaged with individuals and lost the family values that were once so abundant here that the cost of someone's life is taken thru the hands of another? This island used to be so bountiful with pride and love, shared by all who thrived here. I remember friends and families alike sharing and giving together with no thought of reward. Perfect strangers reaching out to help someone they had never met before, simply because that person needed a hand. And here we stand, in the present, families turning on one another, abuse, seperation, homelessness, MURDER... when will we begin to open our eyes and look back to where we once stood.... together?Our island, as well as we, as a community have lost our way. Our island has grown immensely with hotels and rich housing,forcing the general population, we, the local community, either out of state to where we can afford to live, or to drastic measures of crime and such just to be able to make a living. It's no wonder that the violence rate has sky-rocketed in the past two years. Jobs aren't very available either and I personally see the despair that many of these struggling famalies go through, it's a wonder how we still stay together.I hope that one day we can reach back to how many of us were raised and pass that on to our future generations. This is how it should have always been, not teaching violence and influencing crime. when you really take a look at the full spectrum of it, maybe you too will see just how far we have set ourselves back.
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IDENTIFYING THE HEART AND SOUL OF KOHALA

Posted by HALE O KEAWE-A-HEULU aka: NAIHE on November 3, 2009 at 9:00am
Last night I got a phone call from a Global Cultural Analyst requesting an interview with me about North Kohala on Wednesday, November 4th at 9am. I trust the group that this person represents because they GET THE WORD OUT to those that can help communities like ours and even yours too. Our attitude is KEEP KOHALA, KOHALA - you know what that means: UNCHANGED for the most part.Briefly, here is an overview of what the research is all about and then some questions to ponder. The questions are designed to enhance or expand the view of one’s own community and not given to be specifically answered, but more of ideas to hold as you think about where you live.Overview:A 501 (c) 3 non-profit group for Social Ecology and Public Policy committed to growing public policy out of the natural systems within every community has made a grant to focus on researching the social and economic criteria under which heart and soul are maintained over time-- through economic instabilities, through development pressures, through restoration and recovery. The geographic area of North Kohala has been chosen because of the 40 year history of citizen activism in preserving and enhancing their sense of place through the commitment to citizen empowerment.The social and economic criteria identification includes how heart and soul has been handed on in the culture over this 40 year period. The presence and strength of cultural attachment to the land, place and social kinship relations is important to understand. Also the project will identify what processes the community has developed to absorb outsiders into their culture, in order that they become a contributing member of North Kohala.Researching heart and soul in this geographic area is enhanced by the recent outstanding community effort to produce the North Kohala Community Development Plan. This plan lays out a road map for the present and future accomplishments in the geographic area in order to control their physical, biological, social, cultural and economic environments.Discovery Questions:Why do you live here?Why do you stay here?What would make it better?What do you think are the heart and soul elements of your community?What do you see as the actions that have historically enhanced heart and soul?What have been some impediments in the past that hampered the development of heart and soul?How were they overcome or processed?What are the current impediments that are or could potentially hamper the growth of heart and soul?What do you see as the current actions that are enhancing heart and soul?Probably the process of developing the NKCDP would rank high.NOTE: NKCDP = North Kohala Community Development Plan. Also, our grassroots group has just found out about the OPALA BILL 112 which passed Legislation under Cindy Evans - it gives developers rights under this Ag Bill to override any other laws protecting land issues - WTH? We are at work to attempt to amend this OPALA AG BILL - it came out in the last 1.5 months - we found out when anonymously someone sent out packet of information regarding what this bill does. MAHALO TO THAT ANONYMOUS PERSON WHO HAVE EXPOSED WHO ON THE BIG ISLAND AND OUTSIDE OF OUR ISLAND HAVE PUSHED THIS THRU WITH CINDY EVANS' HELP.
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Nalu

Posted by Ululani on November 3, 2009 at 9:00am

For my family and friends who like know:

One of my cousins on my paternal MAUI side just gave birth to her first baby. She named him Nalu.Nalu as in"Wave, surf; full of waves; to form waves; wavy, as wood grain" orTo ponder, meditate, reflect, mull over, speculate."Pupuka o ia! Though a perfect name as in succinct and TO THE POINT LOLFor those who know it fits perfectly with our Maui line LOL As in Paia, Kaupo, Hana, and Lahaina. Maui people are STRONG people and do not take crap from anyone. Same for Moku o Keawe people too (LOL) Fortunately my maternal side is from Moku o Keawe while my paternal side is from Maui which can be good... or bad depending which side one stands on as in either my good side... or my bad side LOLWell just last month I RANDOMLY discussed our mo'okuauhau with my cousin. I asked her if she knew because I do not assume that people do not know. I do not insult their intelligence unlike some people LMAOI think that when I told her what I told her the name NALU came to her which I think is SO COOL LOLI didn't make any suggestions nor did I say "Nalu." I just asked her if she knew our paternal mo'okuauhau then bam. (Her father is my father's brother.)I actually told her and her two sisters because I didn't know if they know and since they have children (Hana and Hokulani) I wanted the kids to know that they are SPECIAL as ALL oiwi children are SPECIAL in some way --- despite what some stupid and/or lame people try to imply LOLNALU!!!!He hapa Hawaiian.I love the inoa and 1) I live along a lake 2) One of my offices is along a BEACH and 3) I have a pool so I am ALWAYS near water. I love it.BTW I replanted more veggies in my veggie gardens: Eggplants, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, zucchini, yellow squash, collard greens, hot peppers, basil, oregano, cilantro, etc. I have some dry lo'i too. When I have time I will try to post some pics but it may be awhile. (I am replanting/replenishing two of my raised bed veggie gardens this weekend.)BTW my younger brother added to his tats. I have four and he has about 12 LOLBTW some people continue to look at me and ask me for help (offline.) Even with serving on boards. My husband knows that I do not like or want to serve on any boards because of politics which brings out the best and the WORST in people LOL Every time I say I do not want to get involved some people ask me for help. WTH LOLBTW I have two more pending deals which means that I can send another check to one of my OIWI-based causes that I believe in soon. In one of my tag lines even though I do not write it in English LOL it is succinct: "The branches grow because of the trunk. "" --> "Without our ancestors, we would not be here."So many good things. So many blessings --- ESPECIALLY the very recent birth of baby Nalu!Latahs!P.S. I am not reposting his picture here but for those on my Facebook his picture is on my wall. It is a baby mana thing LOL Perhaps when he is about five years old I may post his baby pictures but I do not post recent pictures of children. For example pictures of my nieces and nephew that I post are at least four years old lmao


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Biography of Joseph Nawahi - November 1, 2009

Posted by G. Leimomi Ah Sing on November 2, 2009 at 12:30pm
In today’s world, who knew that the kingdom had a man who understood the perils of bestowing power to imperialistic foreigners and acted to prevent this from actually occurring? To have such an antagonist in their midst, it’s no wonder that little is known about Nawahi during a time when foreigners were plotting to take over the kingdom. Here was a man born during the times of great conflict as well as mass immigration (1842-1891) and who understood the mechanical workings and maneuvers of law. The idea that Nawahi supported Queen Emma as moi over Kalakaua makes sense as to why kanaka were upset over Kalakaua’s victory. By not supporting Kalakaua, I believe he sent a message to kanaka that perhaps Kalakaua could be manipulated by these foreigners even though the film suggested that Kalakaua’s dependence on foreigners was because of national debt. Besides being a story about a man whose life ended too soon, it certainly entertains a bunch of what-ifs had Nawahi lived to his senior years. What if Queen Emma was moi; what if she succumbed to the foreign pressures; what if Nawahi was able to rid foreign rule by citing laws that pointed to illegal treaties, illegal constitutions, etc. Would we be in our current dilemma?The Q&A after the film did very little to provide insight, but became a platform for some to attack the funding sources for this film such as the Cooke Foundation and OHA. Let’s face it! Until there is a Hawaiian organization or governmental body not operated by the State of Hawaii nor funded by missionary descendants, there is no money to fund projects such as this. Through the granting process, the Cookes and/or OHA could have turned down the request; therefore shelving this project. Perhaps the woman who was so adamant about these funds being secured should have coughed up the $10,000 herself (I’m making this figure up) or concentrated on the content of this film!
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Noho Hewa : Check it out

Posted by Pono Kealoha on November 2, 2009 at 7:38am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“NOHO HEWA” Events Calendar for November and December 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Anne Keala Kelly, producer/director of “Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i,”
will be interviewed by Basima Farhat on The People Speak Radio on Tuesday, November 3rd,
3pm Hawai’i time. The show streams live and is archived at www.thepeoplespeakradio.net.
Thursday, November 5th
“Noho Hewa” will screen at Maui Community College, Ka Lama, room 103 at 6pm, followed by
Q&A with the filmmaker. This event is sponsored by the Ho’okahua Project, Ko’a and the
Hawaiian Studies Dept. DVDs will be available for sale at this event and 10% of the proceeds
will go to the Ho’okahua Project.
Thursday, November 19th
“Noho Hewa” will screen at Honolulu Community College, Bldg 2, room 201 (the Loui room),
10am.
Saturday, November 21st
“Noho Hewa” will be shown at UH Hilo, 2 and 7pm. The 2pm screening will be followed by a
panel discussion with the filmmaker and Hawai’i Island activists from 3:30- 4:30. The film will be
screened again that evening at 7pm and will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. (Location
on campus TBD, check website for details).
December 3rd
“Noho Hewa” will be featured at the African Diaspora Film Festival at the Riverside Theater in
New York City (120th and Claremont), 6pm, followed by Q&A with the filmmaker. More shows
will be added in New York and other east coast venues, so please check for updates at
www.nohohewa.com .
“Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i, “winner of the Best Documentary Award at
the Hawaii International Film Festival (2008), is available on DVD. Buy your copy today at
www.nohohewa.com. For more information contact Keala at nohohewa@gmail.com.
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HAVE YOU SEEN ONE YET? - ON VOICES OF TRUTH - ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I'S FUTURE

Posted by Free Hawai`i on November 1, 2009 at 9:42am
You might have started to see them already – brand new UnKau Inoa shirts.It’s the wearer’s way of saying, “I took my name off” of the Office of Hawaiian Affair’s phony Kau Inoa list.Want to know where to get one? Visit UnKau Inoa.org and click on “Order UnKau Inoa T-Shirts.”Send us a photo when you wear it to UnKauNow@UnKauInoa.org and we’ll add it to the others for everyone to see.Show your UnKau vow now with an UnKau Inoa t-shirt.Mahalo to all who let us know how much you enjoy “Understanding The Land,” our interview with Jerry Mauhili. Jerry’s message about the future of our `aina is both timely and inspiring. Don’t miss it this week on Hawai`i’s award winning Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.MONDAY, November 2nd At 6:30 PM – Maui – Akaku, Channel 53MONDAY, November 2nd At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, November 6th At 5:30 PM – Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53THURSDAY, November 5th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, November 6th At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52SATURDAY, November 7th At 8:00 PM – O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53“Understanding The Land – A Visit With Jerryl Mauhili”How do you create sustainability to survive only from the land? Hamakua resident and third generation Hawaiian homesteader Jerryl Mauhili shows us how cultural practices from the past can lead to food sovereignty today. Passing his specialized knowledge on to younger generations, he plants for today, but harvests for the future – Watch It HereVoices 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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Protest Stryker vehicles at Hilo Veterans Day Parade November 7th‏

Posted by Pono Kealoha on October 31, 2009 at 9:47pm
Aloha kakou...
Sharing a message from Jim Albertini on the Big Island. He isprotesting Stryker vehicles or any combat weapons being part of theHilo Veterans Day Parade on November 7th. Please read hiscommunications below.

Aloha Kale and all,
Please ask Col. Richardson (warline.richardson
@ us.army.mil) and Hilo Veteran parade officials (c/o Wendel Kaehuaeawkaehuaea@yahoo. com) to avoid fueling a protest by not bringingStryker vehicles or other combat weapons to theNov. 7th Hilo veteransparade. (See letter below.)
Mahalo.
Jim Albertini
Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O.Box AB
Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760
phone: 808-966-7622
email: JA@interpac. net
Visit us on the web at: www.malu-aina. org

CENTER FOR NON-VIOLENT EDUCATION AND ACTION
Malu 'Aina Farm
P.O. Box AB
Kurtistown, Hawaii 96760
Phone 808-966-7622 email ja@interpac. net http://www.malu- aina.org

Lt. Col. Warline S. Richardson October 30, 2009
Commanding Officer
Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA)
P.O. Box 4607
Hilo, Hawaii 96720

Dear Col. Richardson:

I have received a report that Stryker urban assault vehicles from PTA,recently returned from Iraq, will be in the Nov. 7th Hilo Veteransparade. Including Stryker vehicles in the parade is a provocativeaction that glorifies war disguised as honoring veterans. I urge thatStrykers and other combat weapons be kept out of the parade. To paradethese killing machines through our peaceful streets desensitizes youngand old to the horrors of war.

As you know, basing Strykers in Hawaii has been a major controversy.Their use of Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq contaminating thatcountry forever is equally controversial, and likely related to theGulf War Syndrome that has effected the health of hundreds of thousandsof disabled U.S. veterans and millions of Iraqi citizens The fact thatthese Strykers are currently doing live-fire training at Pohakuloa,known to be contaminated with DU, risks spreading that contamination,endangering the health and safety of troops and the citizens of thisisland. Bringing these Strykers, that may be contaminated with DU, downthe streets of Hilo adds insult to injury.

Our organization supports veterans being given the best possiblemedical care but we are opposed to U.S. illegal wars of aggression thatkeep producing more and more disabled veterans. It's time to end theseU.S. illegal wars and the illegal U.S. occupations of Iraq,Afghanistan, and Hawaii. If your goal is to truly honor vets, take themoney you would spend to transport the Strykers to and from downtownHilo and use it for their medical care.

With gratitude and aloha,

Jim Albertini
President

cc: government officials and the media
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Turning the Table on Quiet Title Actions!

Posted by J. D'Alba on October 31, 2009 at 2:57pm
To follow is a letter I sent today to the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation concerning Quiet Title Actions. As Uncle once told me: "Live by palapala, die by palapala!"Aloha Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation:Your efforts to assist Native Hawaiians are applauded and greatly appreciated. I do have a question. While you provide assistance in the defense of Quiet Title Actions, why are you not offering to represent Kanaka Maoli in the prosecution of Quiet Title Actions to seek return of their land?There are so many documented cases where Quiet Title Actions have been improperly used used against Native Hawaiians to convert their aina. Universally in those actions, the chain of titles are corrupted. Isn't it time to turn the tables and use this mechanism, which is rarely used outside of Hawai'i Nei, to return the aina to its rightful owners? Pono e pono.Mahalo for allowing me to share my mana'o.We are the people we've been waiting for!Malama pono,Aloha Ke Akua,J. D'Alba
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Hawaiian Civic Groups - "Hawai'i A Voice For Sovereignty"

Posted by J. D'Alba on October 31, 2009 at 9:21am
Catherine Bauknight's Film is reaching out to the world to enlighten them of the issues facing the Kanaka Maoil and Hawai'i Nei. If anyone is connected to a Hawaiian Civic Organization, or can refer me to someone who is, please contact me at jpulehu@hotmail.com. We are interested in discussing screening the film on Oahu and elsewhere as well as a mutually beneficial fundraising effort.
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"HAWAI`I A VOICE FOR SOVEREIGNTY" WINS FILM & VIDEO AWARDS

Posted by Free Hawai`i on October 31, 2009 at 8:48am
"HAWAI`I A VOICE FOR SOVEREIGNTY" WINS FILM & VIDEO AWARDS

Catherine Bauknight's feature documentary film, "Hawai`i A Voice For Sovereignty", has been awarded the Best Documentary Feature Film and Best Environmental Film awards at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
"I'm incredibly happy to have received recognition from such a prestigious film festival in New York.", Bauknight says. "These awards are certainly of importance to the film, but more importantly, to the Hawaiian people. They have put a lot of their heart and soul into this documentary to get their message out to the world for sovereign rights in their homeland.

"To have a venue such as New York appreciate the importance of the Hawaiian culture, their relationship to the land, and their concern for the environment, is outstanding.

"The world is becoming aware of the Native Hawaiians and the importance of their magnificent culture! Aloha Ke Akua," she stated.
Earlier this year, at the Maui Flm Festival, Bauknight's film was presented with The Audience Award - Best Hawai`i Film.


Next be screening will be Nov. 4, 2009 at the American Film Market in Los Angeles for worldwide distribution.
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WHY IS THE SWINE FLU VACCINE BEING PUSHED? ...at least ask the question.

Posted by Donna Burns on October 30, 2009 at 7:35am
Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda BlitzTo Counter Growing Criticism from Scientific and Medical CommunityBy Richard Gale and Dr. Gary NullURL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15860Global Research, October 29, 2009Progressive Radio Network - 2009-10-26President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating fully. This echoes the way media debate was manipulated during the Vietnam and Iraq Wars. Instead of debating whether we should even be fighting those wars, the media debated only whether we were using the correct military strategy.Increasing numbers of scientists and doctors are issuing harsh criticisms of the Government’s plan to vaccinate (forcibly if necessary) virtually the entire U.S. population with what they claim is a poorly tested vaccine that is not only ineffective against swine flu, but could cripple and even kill many more people than it helps.The CDC’s public relations campaign has been running “scare” ads that portray swine flu as a full-blown “pandemic” responsible for snuffing out countless lives, and which, unless stopped by universal vaccination, could kill millions of American citizens. But scientists and health officials throughout the world have called the governments claims unjustified and deliberately misleading.For example, Dr. Anthony Morris, a distinguished virologist and former Chief Vaccine Office at the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), states that “There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza” and that “The producers of these vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway.”And in November 2007, the UK newspaper The Scotsman, made public warnings by the inventor of the “flu jab,” Dr. Graeme Laver. Dr. Laver was a major Australian scientist involved in the invention of a flu vaccine, in addition to playing a leading scientific role in the discovery of anti-flu drugs. He went on record as saying the vaccine he helped to create was ineffective and [that] natural infection with the flu was safer. “I have never been impressed with its efficacy,” said Dr. Laver.We hear the assumption being made by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that the number of deaths from the H1N1 virus is at pandemic levels and now a “national emergency.” One would assume that with all of its resources, the New York Times’ October 26 front page story on the CDC’s statistics would be accurate: 20,000 hospitalizations and 1,000 deaths due to the swine flu. However, this is all fiction. And it is a fiction solely based upon the CDC’s own contradictory statements and actions.Our independent investigations into the clinical trials and statistical studies of influenza vaccines reveal glaring discrepancies. Let us not forget that it is this same New York Times, with its “star” reporter Judith Miller, who led America into believing that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, tried to purchase yellow cake uranium from Niger, and had dealings with al-Qaeda. And let us also remember that it is the same CDC and health officials in Washington, including President Ford and his top health advisor Joseph Califano, who pushed through and propagandized an untested vaccine during the 1976 swine flu scare, which resulted in thousands of severely neurologically damaged Americans and about 500 reported deaths. Aside from permanent paralysis, many of these vaccine victims also underwent torturous processes for many years to get the government to recognize their illnesses and help cover their costs. Not only was the CDC’s prediction and vaccination campaign for the 1976 flu season a total disaster, it also turned into a deadly scandal, witnessed across the United States on 60 Minutes when Dr. David Sencer, then head of the CDC, confirmed that the vaccine was never field tested, that there were only several reported incidents of H1N1 infection and none of these had been officially confirmed, and then lied about the CDC having no prior evidence that the swine flu vaccine could cause severe and permanent neurological damage. The end result from the 1976 debacle cost the government $3.5 billion in damages, two-thirds were for severe neurological injury and death directly due to the CDC’s vaccination campaign.Therefore, being anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine is not the most urgent issue. What is critical is whether or not there is legitimate, sound science to support either position; in this regard, the vaccine manufacturers and our federal health agencies have failed in the past, and continue to fail today. And they fail dismally. There is absolutely no evidence for sound-scientific protocol or anything resembling a gold-standard behind the swine flu infection statistics and vaccine efficacy and safety clinical trials to support Obama’s and his health advisors’ claims. Instead, the reports on hospitalizations and deaths due to the H1N1 virus are grossly distorted. What we are really witnessing is “official” science and statistics that are little more than propaganda.One unfortunate development over the years is the notion that there is such a thing as a “flu season.” The truth is that we move annually into periods where there are dramatic increases in flu-like causing pathogens, however, the majority of these are unrelated to any strain of influenza virus. There can between 150 and 200 different infectious pathogens—adenovirus, rhinovirus, parainfluenza, the very common coronavirus and, of course, pneumonia—that produce flu-like symptoms, and worse, during a “flu season.” For example, how many people have heard of bocavirus, which is responsible for bronchitis and pneumonia in young children, or metapneumovirus, responsible for more than 5 percent of all flu-related illnesses? This is true during every flu season and this year is no different. Furthermore, all flu vaccinations, including the swine flu, are useless for protecting people from these many prevalent infectious organisms.If we take the combined figure of flu and pneumonia deaths for the period of 2001, and add a bit of spin to the figures, we are left believing that 62,034 people died from influenza. The actual figures determined by Peter Doshi, then at Harvard University, are 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from flu. Even more amazing, among those 257 cases only 18 were confirmed positive for influenza. A separate study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics for the flu periods between 1979 through 2002 revealed the true range of flu deaths were between 257 and 3006, for an average of 1,348 per year.The recent CBS Investigative Report, published on October 21, is one example. After the CDC refused to honor CBS’s Freedom of Information request to receive flu infection data for each individual state, the network performed independent outreach to all fifty states to get their statistics. Their report contradicts dramatically the CDC’s public relations blitz. For example, in California, among the approximate 13,000 flu-like cases, 86 percent tested negative for any flu strain. In Florida, out of 8,853 cases, 83 percent were negative. In Georgia and Alaska, only 2.4 percent and 1 percent respectively tested positive for flu virus among all reported flu-like cases. If the infectious-rate ratios obtained by CBS are accurate, the CDC’s figures are significantly reduced and agree with earlier predictions that the H1N1 virus will be simply an unwelcomed annoyance. So we are in the midst of an enormous medical hoax, a design and purpose that has yet to unfold completely, that will nevertheless reap huge revenues for the vaccine industrial complex.Another example is a recent alarmist report issuing from Georgetown University, also usurped by federal health officials and their multimedia comrades to fuel a campaign of fear and panic. The report announced that over 250 students were infected by swine flu when in fact none of these students were tested for H1N1 infection. The university’s figure was based solely on a count of student visits to the health clinic and calls into an H1N1 hotline.This is not the first time the CDC’s predictions for influenza strains have been overstated and miscalculated. In an interview on Swedish television, Dr. Tom Jefferson, head of vaccine studies at the prestigious international Cochrane Database Collaboration, after reviewing hundreds of influenza studies and statistical analyses, has said the WHO’s and CDC’s “performance is not very good.” And in an ITN News interview last month, Jefferson called the swine flu pandemic a “juggernaut they [the WHO, government agencies and vaccine makers] created.” For the 1992-1993 season, the prediction was off by 84 percent. For the 1994-1995 season, it was off 43 percent for the primary strain and off 87 percent and 76 percent for two other strains. The Laboratory Center for Disease Control’s study comparing vaccine strains with the strains appearing during the 1997-1998 season found the match was off by 84 percent. Again Dr. Jefferson in a Der Spiegel interview remarked,“there are some people who make predictions year after year, and they get worse and worse. None of them so far have come about, and these people are still there making these predictions. For example, what happened with the bird flu, which was supposed to kill us all?... Swine flu could have even stayed unnoticed if it had been caused by some unknown virus rather than an influenza virus... An influenza vaccine is not working for the majority of influenza-like illnesses because it is only designed to combat influenza viruses. For that reason, the vaccine changes nothing when it comes to the heightened mortality rate during the winter months.”Our review of all clinical trial studies conducted by the H1N1 vaccine makers for pre-licensing in the American market—CSL, Novartis, Sanofi-Pasteur, Medimmune and now GlaxoSmithKline—reveals they were poorly designed and feebly executed. Any professor in molecular biology or virology would fail a graduate student who presented a paper relying on research conducted in the manner of the studies the vaccine corporations submit to the FDA. Nevertheless, it is this lack of sound randomized, double-blind controlled placebo studies, particularly for inactivated virus vaccines, that our government is declaring definitive and is using to justify mass vaccination of our population.Last week, Switzerland’s health authorities rejected Novartis’ new swine flu vaccine, Celtura, being targeted for women and children, because the company’s studies were insufficient to guarantee its safety. In addition, the new Novartis vaccine, which uses a cell base from dogs, was found to be contaminated with canine-specific bacteria. The Swiss newspaper, Tagesanzeiger, also noted there remains some suspicion that Novartis’ new vaccine may be a repackaging of an earlier 2008 vaccine responsible for killing almost two dozen homeless people during an illegal clinical trial in Poland. This is the same Novartis whose Fluvirin H1N1 vaccine being distributed in the US relied only on a hasty clinical efficacy and safety trial enrolling only a small number of health adults. Novartis likely remains unperturbed. The Swiss pharmaceutical giant has reported a $6.1 billion profit so far this year and expects to boost sales for the final quarter with is swine flu vaccine.In July, the CDC announced it would cease testing and counting H1N1 virus infections. Their public reason was simply that they are convinced there is a pandemic and, therefore, accurate monitoring was unnecessary. On August 30, the CDC declared the states should report influenza and pneumonia-associated hospitalizations and deaths together, not singling out actual cases of H1N1 infection if there happen to be any actually confirmed from a laboratory. This has always been the CDC’s policy, and the 36,000 figure of annual flu deaths repeated ad nausea on their website and spewed from the media’s health pulpits for several years straight, does not distinguish between pneumonia, influenza and other flu-like pathogenic deaths. Perhaps it would make very little difference because the current rapid diagnostic tests for the H1N1 virus can range in only 10-50 percent accuracy.Elsewhere in the world, particularly in Europe, civilians are increasingly rejecting the H1N1 vaccine. Recent polls in Germany and Austria show only 13 and 18 percent respectively willing to take the shot. In Sweden, four vaccine related deaths have been announced and almost 200 healthcare workers have reported becoming more seriously ill from the vaccination than they might have from a flu infection. In the US, anywhere from 90-99 percent of adverse events go unreported.If people would simply shut off the CDC’s supported propaganda noise being blasted across the airwaves and newspapers— the spectacle of newscasters being inoculated, interviews with government health officials or private doctors and academics receiving consultation fees from drug makers, and the drivel of the New York Times—and simply do their homework, Americans would wake up and realize the hoax behind the swine flu pandemic. All of the information is before us. Nothing is hidden. All the contradictions and hypocrisies are contained within the massive vaccine industrial complex—including the government health agencies and professional medical associations. The lie is too large for them to not expose themselves if we simply look.Richard Gale is the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio Network and a former Senior Research Analyst in the biotechnology and genomic industries.Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest running public radio program on nutrition and natural health and a multi-award-winning director of progressive documentary films, including Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made in the USA. Dr. Null is also the plaintiff on a law suit against the FDA to prevent the launch of the swine flu vaccine until safety studies have been thoroughly conducted.
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MUFI

Posted by Donna Burns on October 30, 2009 at 7:10am
say AMEN...you are about to be railroaded. Ok, ok...so thousands of iwi will be dug up to make way for the rail.Big deal. Thousands were dug up at Mokapu (Mo'okapu to some). What's the beef? Don't we NEED RAIL? The city went and build a WHOLE other city...in Kapolei...and NOW they gotta figure out how to fix that quagmire with another bandaid. Trouble is...this bandaid will hurt a lot more than you think.Nobody is taking the time to think. Why the heck build a second city...if all you are doing is transporting them to the FIRST city. Hah? Why accomodate more population, when we can barely support the population we now have? Hah? IS ANYBODY THINKING? Definately NOT Mufi.Thanks to Lee Cataluna, we get an accurate description of HOW Mufi does it TO US. Wake up you guys, or we will be saying...AMEN for the last time. The removal of our 'iwi is bad enough, but this rail system is an accident waiting to happen.---------------------------------By Lee CatalunaAdvertiser ColumnistPart pep rally, part Pastor Wayne Cordeiro. Mayor Mufi Hannemann sure knows how to put on a rousing show.The "State of Rail Transit" speech yesterday was a half-hour evangelism on the reality of rail, an affirmation that this is going to happen and it's going to happen now. At least at the live event, it was a sermon to the choir because attendance was by mailed invitation only. No would-be town-hall hecklers allowed. The taped half-hour show was televised to the public last night.As the believers filed into the auditorium, the mayor's train playlist boomed over the sound system: "Last Train to Clarksville," "Locomotion," "Midnight Train to Georgia," "The Love Train," even some UB40 and 95 South train-related tunes. C'mon ride the train, ride it. It's hard not to tap your toe to that one.The event opened with a slick video showing a local mom trying to get everybody fed and out the door on a weekday. Eggs, toast, coffee, nice Kapolei house, the mama saying wearily that she has to get up at 4 every morning to make it into town before the traffic. That is the price her family has to pay, she says, but it is too high a price.Somebody say "amen."Then comes the New Age happy music signaling the future. Hannemann appears on the screen seated on the magic train.He smiles and waves to happy passengers, including a girl carrying her surfboard and an old lady with a walker. A rainbow appears above the train. "This is not a virtual dream, folks, " Hannemann says on the video, and then he walks on stage, "this is our reality."Hoo da slick.Earlier in the day, the mayor held a rehearsal to make sure all the tricky technical elements went smoothly for the live speech. Of course it went smoothly. He's MufiHannemann. If he doesn't become governor, he can open a show in Waikíkí.But did we really need the State of the Rail show? Will any nonbelievers be converted by this? Do they need to be? Voters already registered support for rail. Isn't it OK for there to be doubters and detractors and people asking tough questions?The take-away message of all the slick staging was that rail is way past the "I think I can" phase and firmly on track to reality, let there be no doubt, come what may. The concession of an anticipated delay was slid in there toward the end, but followed by more talk of hope and commitment.Everybody say amen. Or else.Reach Lee Cataluna at lcataluna@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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