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Report on Oct. l0, 2009 protest at Pohakuloa Training Area
At l0 AM, Saturday, Oct. l0th, prior to going to the main gatearea of Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) wegathered at Mauna Kea State park, l mile east of the main gate along anew section of Saddle Road. Aperson who arrived from the Kona side reported that at the PTA maingate, there wereabout l7 pro America empire, "Win the War" flag wavers. They hadabout 25very large American flags lining both sides of the PTA main gate on theMauna Loa side of the highway. Oneguy was even dressed as a George Washington minuteman.
Our peace groupdecided not to get in any shouting match or confrontation with the proAmerica empire group. We decided to set up on the opposite (Mauna Kea)side of thehighway fronting the main gate. We were l4 in number. When we arrivedat the main gate area, we first joined hands in a pule. Basecommander Lt.Col. Warline Richardson came across to greet us andphotograph us. We put up the Hawaiian flag, and peace symbol flags andset up our large plywood signs saying: Stop the war, End occupation,The Kingdom Lives, No Strykers, Radiation Cover-Up. Stop the Bombing.We had lots of smaller signs too about Depleted Uranium radiationhazards, the war, etc. Once set up we stayed about45 minutes being taunted and insulted in the name of freedom by variouspeople on a bullhornacross the street. Occasionally they sang the Star Spangled Banner andGod Bless America. Though we had our own sound system in the truck, wedecided against a verbal dual across the highway. Andrew Walden,former editor of the right-wing newspaper --The Hawaii Free Press,which has since folded, appeared to be the leader of the right wing proAmerica empire group.
Our peace group had decided ahead of time we would only stay 45minutes at the maingate and then go closer to were troops were blasting away with bigcannons (l55 howitzers) toward Mauna Loa, about 5 miles west of themain gate area. The pro America empire group stayed at the maingate. As we drove west from the main gate, we could see severalgroupings of what appeared to be 4or 5 howitzers each with tentcoverings and 50-l00 troops in each group We stopped at about the 42mile marker near one of the howitzer groups closest to the Saddle Roadand set up our signs, flags, etc for another hour. We had 2 radiationmonitors operating and we did get slightly elevated readings whenmilitary trucks or machine gunner humves drove by kicking up dust, butnothing close to the 4-5 times background readings of May 29, 2007 withdust devils come directly off the Davy rockett DU impact ranges towardus at Mauna Kea State Park where we were protesting that day.
Following the protest we had a picnic at Mauna Kea park, talkedstory, and headed home.
This was the second time our protest at PTA generated a pro Americaempire showing.About a year ago there was a similar showing at the old main gatearea.PTA now has this big new highway and new main gate area. The road fromHilo to Kona has been pushed north hugging the slopes of Mauna Kea,which actually enlarges PTA's training area. It is still not clearwhere the route of the new Saddle Road will go from the 42 mile markerwestward to the Mamalahoa Hwy. Will it follow the existing old SaddleRoad or cut south through the the Army's newly acquired 24,000-acresfor the Stryker maneuver area? I understand those plans are due to beannounced shortly.
There will be a Peace organizing meeting on Monday, Oct.l2th from 7-9PM at the Keaau Community Center where we can discuss andevaluate the protest as well as plan for future activities. Pleasecome and pass the word to others. We need to enlarge our ranks.Mahalo.
At l0 AM, Saturday, Oct. l0th, prior to going to the main gatearea of Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) wegathered at Mauna Kea State park, l mile east of the main gate along anew section of Saddle Road. Aperson who arrived from the Kona side reported that at the PTA maingate, there wereabout l7 pro America empire, "Win the War" flag wavers. They hadabout 25very large American flags lining both sides of the PTA main gate on theMauna Loa side of the highway. Oneguy was even dressed as a George Washington minuteman.
Our peace groupdecided not to get in any shouting match or confrontation with the proAmerica empire group. We decided to set up on the opposite (Mauna Kea)side of thehighway fronting the main gate. We were l4 in number. When we arrivedat the main gate area, we first joined hands in a pule. Basecommander Lt.Col. Warline Richardson came across to greet us andphotograph us. We put up the Hawaiian flag, and peace symbol flags andset up our large plywood signs saying: Stop the war, End occupation,The Kingdom Lives, No Strykers, Radiation Cover-Up. Stop the Bombing.We had lots of smaller signs too about Depleted Uranium radiationhazards, the war, etc. Once set up we stayed about45 minutes being taunted and insulted in the name of freedom by variouspeople on a bullhornacross the street. Occasionally they sang the Star Spangled Banner andGod Bless America. Though we had our own sound system in the truck, wedecided against a verbal dual across the highway. Andrew Walden,former editor of the right-wing newspaper --The Hawaii Free Press,which has since folded, appeared to be the leader of the right wing proAmerica empire group.
Our peace group had decided ahead of time we would only stay 45minutes at the maingate and then go closer to were troops were blasting away with bigcannons (l55 howitzers) toward Mauna Loa, about 5 miles west of themain gate area. The pro America empire group stayed at the maingate. As we drove west from the main gate, we could see severalgroupings of what appeared to be 4or 5 howitzers each with tentcoverings and 50-l00 troops in each group We stopped at about the 42mile marker near one of the howitzer groups closest to the Saddle Roadand set up our signs, flags, etc for another hour. We had 2 radiationmonitors operating and we did get slightly elevated readings whenmilitary trucks or machine gunner humves drove by kicking up dust, butnothing close to the 4-5 times background readings of May 29, 2007 withdust devils come directly off the Davy rockett DU impact ranges towardus at Mauna Kea State Park where we were protesting that day.
Following the protest we had a picnic at Mauna Kea park, talkedstory, and headed home.
This was the second time our protest at PTA generated a pro Americaempire showing.About a year ago there was a similar showing at the old main gatearea.PTA now has this big new highway and new main gate area. The road fromHilo to Kona has been pushed north hugging the slopes of Mauna Kea,which actually enlarges PTA's training area. It is still not clearwhere the route of the new Saddle Road will go from the 42 mile markerwestward to the Mamalahoa Hwy. Will it follow the existing old SaddleRoad or cut south through the the Army's newly acquired 24,000-acresfor the Stryker maneuver area? I understand those plans are due to beannounced shortly.
There will be a Peace organizing meeting on Monday, Oct.l2th from 7-9PM at the Keaau Community Center where we can discuss andevaluate the protest as well as plan for future activities. Pleasecome and pass the word to others. We need to enlarge our ranks.Mahalo.
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Jim Albertini
Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
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Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760
phone: 808-966-7622
email: JA@interpac.net
Visit us on the web at: www.malu-aina.org
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO WITH BARKING SANDS {KAUAI} AMONG OTHER MILITARY BASES HERE IN OUR ISLANDS.AND TO MAKE THING WORST ,THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY !
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Pollution a legacy at old missile sites
By Mead Gruver
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites in the rural United States this past week, residents in some of these communities are still grappling with another legacy — groundwater pollution from chemicals used to clean and maintain the weapons.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is identifying and cleaning up dozens of former nuclear missile sites in nine states.To date, the corps has spent $116 million at 44 former Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic missile — or ICBM — sites and 19 former Nike anti-aircraft missile sites from the early Cold War. The missile sites include 14 in Kansas, 10 in Nebraska, seven in Wyoming, seven in Colorado and two in Oklahoma. California, New Mexico, New York and Texas have one contaminated site each.Total cleanup costs are projected to cost $400 million, according to corps spokeswoman Candice Walters.The problem is a chemical called trichloroethylene, or TCE, which was used to keep missiles clean and ready to rumble on short notice. Long before environmentalism went mainstream, the men who maintained the missiles didn't think twice about dumping used TCE into the silos' blast pits.Plenty of potential problemsThe Associated Press
updated 8:56 a.m. HT, Sat., Oct . 10, 2009
Exposure to high concentrations of the chemical could cause nervous system problems, liver and lung damage, abnormal heartbeat, coma and death, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. TCE also may cause cancer, other government agencies say.TCE may have polluted many more missile sites than the corps is aware.The corps has evaluated a total of 395 former ICBM and Nike missile sites since the Formerly Used Defense Sites, or FUDS, program began in the early 1980s. But the corps didn't identify TCE as a high priority until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted a drinking water standard for the chemical in 1989."As new contaminants are identified, then we have to go back and look at some of the sites we have and say, 'Ooh, maybe this is something we should be looking for,'" Walters said.One advocate for more aggressive cleanup of TCE said the FUDS program is too underfunded for the corps to look harder for the chemical."They don't look too hard for new contamination because if they do, they have tell people they have to clean it up," said Lenny Siegel, executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight at the Pacific Studies Center in Mountain View, Calif.The FUDS program gets $306 million a year for cleanup work at more than 9,000 former defense sites nationwide that is projected to cost $17.8 billion, Walters said.Deciding which contaminated missile sites to clean up depends in part on how many people nearby could be exposed to TCE, said Jeff Skog, TCE remediation manager for the corps office in Omaha, Neb. "So it sort of depends on what's available during any given year and how high on up the list it is for priority projects," he said.The most common use for TCE — especially in decades past, before it was identified as toxic — was as a degreaser and lubricant. TCE also has been used in model airplane glue, whiteout and dry-cleaning chemicals."It's a rather remarkable chemical," Siegel said. "But the evidence is it's bad for you."The National Toxicology Program has determined that TCE is "reasonably anticipated" to be a human carcinogen and the International Agency for Research on Cancer has said that TCE is "probably carcinogenic" in people. Large-scale studies of health effects from TCE in drinking water however have been inconclusive.In southeast Wyoming and northern Colorado, the corps has identified TCE pollution at 11 former Atlas D and Atlas E missile sites that were overseen by F.E. Warren Air Force Base before being decommissioned and sold off in the mid-1960s. Most of those sites are remote, making them low priorities for cleanup.One site north of Fort Collins, Colo., is close to a river. An environmental group says a planned reservoir that would partly cover the site could contaminate the Poudre River and municipal water supplies downstream."If the TCE plume gets to the river, it will be a dangerous chemical pollutant that the water providers have to deal with," said Gary Wockner with SaveThePoudre.org.The city of Cheyenne has been using four water wells about 10 miles west of town and eight miles east of the second ICBM site that was built in the American heartland. The wells are located within an unusually large, eight-mile-long plume of TCE within the Ogallala Aquifer.TCE was first detected in the city wells in the 1990s but levels mostly remained below the EPA's drinking water standard of 5 parts per billion. Aeration at the city's water treatment plant broke down the TCE and made it undetectable in the city's drinking water, said plant manager Bud Spillman.Since last December, however, two wells have had TCE as high as 40 ppb — eight times the EPA standard — prompting the corps to install a filter on one well. Meanwhile, the corps has been looking at more elaborate cleanup measures including pumping contaminated water from the aquifer at a cost of up to $15 million, Skog said.Hank VanGoethen, who lives west of Cheyenne, said he's not convinced that drinking his well water for 27 years did him any harm. TCE in his well recently increased from 4.5 ppb to 28 ppb, he said, prompting the corps to install a filter on his well earlier this year.He said he drank bottled water for months until the work was finished."So far it hasn't cost me anything but aggravation, waiting for them to get it done and watching them do it," he said. "It was definitely a government job."
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Aloha Pono!
Eo Lono! Makalii (the Pleiades) is on the rise and soon it will be time to celebrate Makahiki. And, boy, do we have a lot to celebrate!! We also have a lot to prepare for in the coming months. Blessings to you and all your loved ones for the support you have given to the many efforts to protect Hawaii nei.
Hoomaikai Haloa: Taro Protected on Maui!
Last week the Maui County Council unanimously approved a ban on all genetically modified (GMO) taro and the mayor has committed herself to signing it. This means now two of the four counties in the Hawaiian Islands have GMO-free taro. This is a huge victory for Hawaii's taro farmers and taro in Hawaii.
Mahalo nunui to every one of you who bothered to show up at a hearing, make a phone call, send an email, or forward an alert along. You made this victory possible. And we thank you.
Take a moment now to share this appreciation. Send a note to the Maui County Council and Mayor Tavares to thank them for their courage and leadership. They are an inspiration to elected officials everywhere for their thorough consideration of this decision.
Eo Lono! Makalii (the Pleiades) is on the rise and soon it will be time to celebrate Makahiki. And, boy, do we have a lot to celebrate!! We also have a lot to prepare for in the coming months. Blessings to you and all your loved ones for the support you have given to the many efforts to protect Hawaii nei.
Hoomaikai Haloa: Taro Protected on Maui!
Last week the Maui County Council unanimously approved a ban on all genetically modified (GMO) taro and the mayor has committed herself to signing it. This means now two of the four counties in the Hawaiian Islands have GMO-free taro. This is a huge victory for Hawaii's taro farmers and taro in Hawaii.
Mahalo nunui to every one of you who bothered to show up at a hearing, make a phone call, send an email, or forward an alert along. You made this victory possible. And we thank you.
Take a moment now to share this appreciation. Send a note to the Maui County Council and Mayor Tavares to thank them for their courage and leadership. They are an inspiration to elected officials everywhere for their thorough consideration of this decision.
cut + paste to email:
michael.molina@mauicounty.us, gladys.baisa@mauicounty.us, joseph.pontanilla@mauicounty.us, jo_anne.johnson@mauicounty.us, danny.mateo@mauicounty.us, sol.kahoohalahala@mauicounty.us, bill.medeiros@mauicounty.us, wayne.nishiki@mauicounty.us, michael.victorino@mauicounty.us, mayors.office@mauicounty.gov
Hana Hou: BLNR lands in court again over failed Mauna Kea plan
The hui of organizations and individuals who have successfully upheld the legal protections for the sacred summit of Mauna Kea for more than 15 years, have returned to court. This time to challenge the Hawaii Land Board's decision to adopt the University's new plan for more telescopes on the mountain. Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Sierra Club, KAHEA and Clarence Kukauakahi Ching are working to make sure the law is followed and the natural and cultural resources of the summit are fully protected.
Mauna Kea is one of the most sacred conservation districts in the islands. The law does not allow construction in a conservation district unless all of the natural and cultural resources are fully protected by a comprehensive management plan. Unfortunately, the hastily approved management plan written by the University fails to adequately ensure cultural practice and public access, protect resources, or control harmful construction.
Ensuring government follows its laws is expensive. The Mauna Kea Legal Defense Fund needs your support. Please click here to give $1, $5, or even $20 to this important effort. With each of us giving as we can, we will continue to ensure that the irreplaceable mana of Mauna Kea is better protected.
Read up:
Conservationists, cultural practitioners appeal BLNR decision on Mauna Kea plan The Hawaii Independent, October 1, 2009.
Mauna Kea Plan Sparks Suit The Hawaii Tribune Herald, October 2, 2009.
Hope Floats on New Obama Ocean Policy
They say more than 400 people showed up (tho, we counted more!) for the White House listening session on U.S. Ocean Policy held in Honolulu last month. They heard directly from the people on the immense range of issues facing the Pacific: commercial overfishing, minerals mining, open ocean aquaculture, aquarium trade, self-determination, and the need to protect traditional and customary cultural practices.... just to highlight a few.
Though the needs of the Pacific are diverse, the theme common to most of the testimony given that day was: respect and consultation. A successful U.S. ocean policy will be one that respects indigenous knowledge and consults with the community on how to proceed.
"You should come to us first, before you make any decision, because we are the ones that will have to live with that decision. And either we can be a part of it and help to make it work or we will be alienated from it and it will fail." -- testimony presented at the Honolulu Listening Session of the Ocean Policy Taskforce.
If you were one of the many who did NOT get a chance to present their oral testimony to the taskforce, then please take a moment to submit it to them now on their website: www.whitehouse.gov/oceans. Follow developments in the Ocean Policy debate on our blog.
Jump in on the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
Over 20 events are planned on October 24th throughout the Hawaiian Islands to support the world-wide call for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to 350 parts per million. Find the event in your moku and go, make friends and make change! More than 200 million people in the Pacific are expected to be among the first climate refugees, if U.S. climate policy is not drastically and immediately improved. There is no need to wait for another disaster to advocate for climate justice now. Learn more about this global movement atwww.KAHEA.org and www.350.org.
Hauoli Makahiki Hou,
Marti (and all us guys at KAHEA)
kahea-alliance@hawaii.rr.com
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Hope Floats on New Obama Ocean Policy
They say more than 400 people showed up (tho, we counted more!) for the White House listening session on U.S. Ocean Policy held in Honolulu last month. They heard directly from the people on the immense range of issues facing the Pacific: commercial overfishing, minerals mining, open ocean aquaculture, aquarium trade, self-determination, and the need to protect traditional and customary cultural practices.... just to highlight a few.
Though the needs of the Pacific are diverse, the theme common to most of the testimony given that day was: respect and consultation. A successful U.S. ocean policy will be one that respects indigenous knowledge and consults with the community on how to proceed.
"You should come to us first, before you make any decision, because we are the ones that will have to live with that decision. And either we can be a part of it and help to make it work or we will be alienated from it and it will fail." -- testimony presented at the Honolulu Listening Session of the Ocean Policy Taskforce.
If you were one of the many who did NOT get a chance to present their oral testimony to the taskforce, then please take a moment to submit it to them now on their website: www.whitehouse.gov/oceans. Follow developments in the Ocean Policy debate on our blog.
Jump in on the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
Over 20 events are planned on October 24th throughout the Hawaiian Islands to support the world-wide call for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to 350 parts per million. Find the event in your moku and go, make friends and make change! More than 200 million people in the Pacific are expected to be among the first climate refugees, if U.S. climate policy is not drastically and immediately improved. There is no need to wait for another disaster to advocate for climate justice now. Learn more about this global movement atwww.KAHEA.org and www.350.org.
Hauoli Makahiki Hou,
Marti (and all us guys at KAHEA)
kahea-alliance@hawaii.rr.com
blog.kahea.org
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Star Bulletin - "Water worries sugar workers"Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. has been diverting every drop of water out of the East Maui watershed, over 100 streams for over 100 years. The employees are worried about their jobs, but their employer has had no compassion for the hundreds of farmers who were forced to abandon their lo`i lands because of the massive dewatering, abusive practices that have been going on for many decades. We need balance here. The time is past when agribusiness can be allowed to ignore and run roughshod over constitutionally protected rights. HC&S has been a bad corporate citizen in so many ways, its unprofitable operations propped up by millions of taxpayer dollars in federal subsidies and exemptions from environmental laws to keep it afloat. HC&S needs to account to the public for its ongoing noxious activities -- cane burning that blankets Paia and Kahului households and businesses, permissible only because of exemptions from environmental laws; and robbing the people of water on such a massive scale as to be one of the largest, if not the largest, private diversions in the U.S. -- permissible only because of the state's heretofore reluctance to enforce the law. We need to support the Commission on Water Resources Mangement (CWRM) in its efforts to the right thing, to do its job after decades of complicity and negligence on the part of this state of Hawaii.
xxx Mahealani
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Water worries sugar workers
HC&S employees are opposed to a state commission's plan for stream flow on Maui
By Allison Schaefers
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 09, 2009
Union employees at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., soon to be Hawaii's last sugar company, have formed a group to ensure water from the East and West Maui streams is available for irrigation.
Members of Hui o Ka'Ike held a news conference yesterday at HC&S seeking help to stop the state Commission on Water Resource Management from passing a recommendation that returns 50 percent of diverted water to the Waihee River and three streams.
Willie Kennison, Maui division director for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said the recommendation would set a precedent influencing East Maui's stream management.
Commissioners will hear final arguments on West Maui's stream use during a contested case hearing at 9 a.m. on Thursday at Iao Congregational Church. While public comments will not be allowed at the morning hearing, comments will be taken later that day at Paia Community Center during a 5 p.m. fact-finding meeting on water management of 19 streams in East Maui.
"Our main concern is receiving a sufficient amount of water so that HC&S can remain a viable company," said Kelly Ruidas, a 12-year employee of HC&S. "The economic impact would extend past HC&S' 800 employees to the many Maui businesses that rely on all of us for their survival."
HC&S union members and management are united in their efforts to stop Commissioner Lawrence Miike's recommendation from advancing, Kennison said. However, another group, Hui o Na Wai Eha, has been just as vigilant in its efforts to restore water to the mouth of the Waihee River and the Iao, Waiehu and Waikapu streams. Na Wai Eha means the four waters.
The environmentalists, taro farmers and residents who make up Hui o Na Wai Eha say that dry streams disturb the region's natural environment, impede farming and harm nearby wildlife. Earthjustice filed a 2004 petition to force major water users like HC&S and the Wailuku Water Co. to restore the streams.
About 100 supporters marched last Friday to draw attention to the upcoming case, said Earthjustice attorney Isaac Moriwake.
"This will determine Maui's water future for decades to come," he said. Off-stream diverters have a responsibility to steward resources, he said.
Allen Doane, chief executive officer of Alexander & Baldwin, of which HC&S is a division, said earlier that the company is striving to improve its subsidiary's performance and expects to decide HC&S' future by year's end. A lot will ride on water supply, Kennison said.
"They can't continue to operate if they don't divert the water because there simply isn't enough rainfall," he said.
Moriwake countered that HC&S and the Wailuku Water Co. have alternatives, such as pumping nonpotable wells, that avoid stream diversion. "The big diverters take everything and leave the public with a trickle," he said.
Union employees at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., soon to be Hawaii's last sugar company, have formed a group to ensure water from the East and West Maui streams is available for irrigation.
East Maui Water Rights Part 1 Ed WendtEast Maui Water Rights Part 1 Ed Wendt. Produced by Wendy Osher and Frank W Pulaski III Written by Wendy Osher Camera and Edited by Frank W Pulaski IIIEast Maui Water Rights Part 2 Bush Martin and Terry AkunaEast Maui Water Rights Part 2 Bush Martin and Terry Akuna Produced by Wendy Osher and Frank W Pulaski III Written by Wendy Osher Camera and Edited by Frank W Pulaski IIIEast Maui Water Rights Part 3 Landmark DecisionEast Maui Water Rights Part 3 Landmark Decision Produced by Wendy Osher and Frank W Pulaski III Written by Wendy Osher Camera and Edited by Frank W Pulaski IIIMaui Water 21Mar07 part 1Isaac Moriwake, an Earthjustice attorney, explains the results of the Waiahole case on March 21, 2007, on Maui
In 1843, Hawai`i was a recognized independent nation.Hawai`i had treaties with 25 world nations and had 96 legates and consuls throughout the world, including in the US.But US covert and overt activities led to the 1893 invasion of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the US immediately recognized those who overthrew the kingdom without the people's knowledge.Using that backing, they created the bogus "Republic of Hawai`i" against the people's wishes.All legal attempts to annex Hawai`i to the US failed because the citizens of the Hawaiian Nation then overwhelmingly protested and sent their anti-annexation petitions to Washington, DC.In covering up the hoax, Congress was forced to pass the Newlands Resolution declaring that the majority wished for the annexation of Hawai`i without a lawful treaty.That's how Hawai`i became unlawfully annexed, and ultimately a fake state.
Stop the hawaiianindependence.com phony vote!
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BALLOT ISSUES AND CANDIDATES'
ISSUES:
Adopt the RESTORATION CONSTITUTION -- YES or NO
Candidates:
A. PRESIDENT:
* MARK CASTRO
* FREDERIC MARK IKAIKAKUUKAINAOKAMANAOKEALOHA "KAINA" YASUHARA
I am Frederic Mark Iaikakuukainoakamanaokealoha “Kaina” Yasuhara
I was born in Honolulu on July 30, 1955 at Kapiolani Maternity Hospital.My family name is Haili, fron Johnny and Anne Haili, Island of Hawai’i. I was adopted by the Yasuhara family of Honolulu. Because of my adoptive family’s commitment to Christian music, we moved to the mainland until July, 2007, when I came back hometo Hawai’I for good. I have done extensive community service work for our Hawaiian community, including working for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs which I recently left to work full time to achieve our independence. I am for full independence, OHA is not. My commitment to our Kingdom and its peoples is to work tirelessly to achieve the restoration of our Kingdom’s full and independent governance of our ‘aina. I had initially submitted to be a Vice President candidate several months ago when I left OHA. It was suggested to me that I run for President, therefore I have.
To me, there is no alternative to the Full Independence of our Kingdom. Our Nation must continue By and For Kanaka Maoli. I will devote the remainder of my life towards uniting the Hawaiian people as we move forward to restore our government and governance over our Islands. The election process beginning August 1st is our last and best hope to avoid the destruction of our culture and the permanent loss of our freedom.
If elected I will move quickly to establish town hall meetings throughout the Islands and U. S. to hear the desires and needs of our people. The government must listen, not preach. These meetings will be made immediately available to all of our people on YouTube, the Kingdom government website and on free CDs. We must listen and hear each other, this is the key to our unity, our freedom and our prosperity.
Please participate and cast your vote. Also please pass the message of Full Independence, and Election Ballots, on to other Kanaka Maoli.
Mahalo nui loa, malamo pono
Kaina
B. VICE PRESIDENT
* ROBERT MICHAEL KELI'IKANAKA'OLE--O--HAILILANI--O--KELI'IKOA "BOBBY' EBANEZ
To Hawaiians and Hawaiians at heart, Kanaka Maoli is the correct word and meaning for Hawaiians. We never lost our resolve to restore our Kingdom from the injustice of the World's greatest and democratic country, called America. If America believes in freedom, than America should do the right thing, and let us, Kanaka Maoli's restore our Hawaiian Kingdom. The correct history is posted everywhere, for people to read, a good site with excellent & accurate history of Hawaii, is on FREEHAWAII.COM My name is Robert Michael Ebanez, born in the Hawaiian Kingdom, in the year of 1957,in a small sugar plantation town of Pahala Ka'u Hawaii, on the Big Island. My father is Filipino, and worked on the sugar plantations in the Hamakua coast and then at Ka'u Sugar Company, that was once owned by Charles Bishop of Bishop Estate. My mother was Hawaiian,her mom was Rose Angeline Ka'iakoiliokalaniKaliko'iliahiokalani Kanaka'ole the grand daughter of Keli'iKanaka'ole I. I am a candidate because of my passion for justice and equal rights of our Kanaka Maoli and non- Hawaiians. It is for my children,their children, kupuna, the sick,the weak and the handicap, for generations to come,to live a far better life than today, in Hawaii's troubled past history, that I, as a Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) must lead to unite all the great leaders today as one to build a Nation, we can all, ...... be proud of. Aloha no, Robert M.. Ebanez Keli'iKanaka'ole o Haililani o Keli'ikoa
LIVE ALOHA--MALAMA THE 'AINA".
This is an alert to whom it may concern, of what appears to be a scheme to co-opt the Hawaiian independence movement in order to line the pockets of certain ‘carpetbagger’ businessmen of highly questionable reputation.
Primary Players:
Richard “Kamahele” Figueroa, President and CEO of FullOn Holdings, Inc.
Thayer Lindauer, Esq., Attorney for FullOn Holdings, Inc.
Silent Partner:
David W. McQueen, IOC Holdings (gambling investments in Bahamas), Diversified Global Finance – Prospective investor for FullOn Holdings’ ethanol production project.
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Richard “Kamahele” Figueroa
Kanaka maoli, born and reared on the Big Island. He appears to have lived away from the islands since he left Hawaii for the military. He is probably in his fifties, is a U.S. citizen and currently resides in Cambria, on the central coast of California, near San Simeon.
Figueroa is President and CEO of a corporation called FullOn Holdings, Inc. and is a self-proclaimed entrepreneur in pursuit of large US government contracts and other grandiose business schemes.
FullOn Holdings, Inc. is a corporation that is registered through the normal regulatory agencies.
It is also registered as a minority owned business (to access minority status advantages in government bids).
Figueroa claims that FullOn has applied to the U.S. Department of Justice for registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Maybe it got lost in the Washington bureaucratic maze, but as of yet, there is no record of this filing with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Thus, FullOn Holdings, Inc. as a U.S. corporation and Richard Figueroa as its CEO is required by law to report to and comply with all the regulations of the IRS, the State of Hawaii, the U.S. Justice Dept., the Securities Exchange Commission and several other government agencies.
The Board of Directors of FullOn Holdings, Inc. consists of Figueroa, his wife, his daughter and one other woman. Figueroa calls all the shots, the others are rubber stamps.
The house on Laukahi St., overlooking Waialae, being used to court potential participants in the Hawaiian election (and as offices for Full On’s businesses), is not owned by Figueroa or FullOn as people are being led to believe.
The house has been foreclosed upon and is a month to month rental at way below market price.
The house was rented off Craig’s list from a person claiming his brother in Australia owned the house. Actually the title is in the name of the sister in law, not the brother. The bank found out about Figueroa’s occupancy when it came to inspect the house for the foreclosure. The bank people were surprised that Figueroa’s office staff was there.
The house was intended to be living quarters for office staff brought in from California. FullOn’s actual operations were to be based in a suite of offices in Waikiki, but Figueroa would not (could not) provide the management company with proper financial statements. Thus, the office is in the house.
The original staff brought in to manage FullOn’s businesses and the Hawaiian election are no longer working for Figueroa and are owed thousands of dollars in back pay and out of pocket expenses.
http://www.hawaiianindependence....
Figueroa/FullOn Schemes
Since 2005, Figueroa has surfaced in Hawaii with at least the following business schemes:
• Modular Housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Figueroa claimed he was securing a huge contract from DHHL to produce and construct “15-30 thousand” homes for new Hawaiian Homes awardees. He claimed to have secured 13 acres on Hawaii island and was in the process of raising $5 million for start-up costs. Contract value to FullOn: $100+ million.
• Shipping of initial manufactured houses (while plant is being built in Hawaii), and hauling construction materials to Hawaii (sand, gravel, cement from Mexico; lumber, steel, etc. from U.S.). This entailed plans to secure a decommissioned U.S. Navy LST to do the overseas hauling. – Contract value to FullOn: $?? million. (As a philanthropical side project, he was to donate the money to secure another decommissioned naval vessel to house a rehabilitation and technical training facility for half-way house inmates, drug programs, juvenile offenders, etc.)
• Shipping garbage from Hawaii to the U.S. Presumably using the same LST, Figueroa claimed his company FullOn was bidding for a City and County of Honolulu contract to ship O’ahu’s garbage to the West Coast to be transported to large land fills in Oregon and Wyoming. Contract value to FullOn: $20+ million a year.
• Underwriting the Native Hawaiian Bank. This is the bank that Bumpy Kanahele had been trying to start for a number of years. The plan was that Figueroa/FullOn would provide the money to purchase a distressed bank in Minnesota, then use its federal ‘licenses’ to operate the Native Hawaiian Bank in Hawaii. Value to FullOn: $?? million.
• Importing Venezuelan Oil. Figueroa planned to import Venezuelan crude oil to Hawaii to take advantage of Hugo Chavez’ offer to sell island nations oil at a deeply discounted rate. The catch was that Hawaii would have to be an independent nation to utilize the discount. And find a way to refine the “heavy-sour” crude into usable products. – Contract value to FullOn: $100+ million.
• Ethanol Production. Figueroa’s current project is to build a plant (or plants) to process sugar cane into ethanol. His targeted customer is the U.S. military. The feed-stock (raw bio-supply) is to come from the two sugar plantations still in operation in Hawaii as well as other lesser sources. – Contract value to FullOn: $100+ million.
Though each scheme had/has the potential to earn tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, it appears that thus far, none of Figueroa’s projects have actually materialized. Many seem to be outright fabrications or at best, the pursuit of pipe dreams.
The pattern seems to be, to string people along, using them as bait to attract finances for his various schemes.
This has left a trail of people in Hawaii and in the U.S. feeling misled, frustrated and used by Figueroa and his failed schemes. Also, like his many unfulfilled business propositions, Figueroa has failed to come through with his offers to help with charitable projects.
Hawaiian Independence.
Figueroa’s most ambitious and audacious scheme is his crusade to personally create a “Sovereign Independent Hawaiian Government.”
Figueroa started on this track while “helping” Bumpy Kanahele pursue the Native Hawaiian bank and the scheme to import Venezuelan oil. At that point, Figueroa began to realize that Hawaii, as an independent nation (outside the jurisdiction of the U.S.), could be very advantageous for his various schemes.
In June 2008, Figueroa launched a website that announced that he and Kanahele and the Nation of Hawaii were calling for a “constitutional convention” to be held in September 2008.
Within days, Bumpy Kanahele completely disavowed any connection whatsoever to Figueroa.
Figueroa then indicated that he would proceed with his plan to “unify the factions” to create a new government and that his company, FullOn Holdings, Inc. would bankroll the effort. http://www.hawaiianindependence....
Figueroa set out to woo the support of what he calls “the factions” — the various Hawaiian national governments and other prominent leaders that have been in the movement for some time.
After meeting with them, Figueroa heavily name-drops via emails, conversations, presentations, etc., implying that these leaders support him and his process; even though not one leader has joined Figueroa.
Figueroa is actively seeking to build a registry of “Native Hawaiians” to hold an election to create a new government as stipulated by the strange constitution that he (Figueroa) and his lawyer concocted. His insistence on implementing his seriously flawed election process indicates that Figueroa is being motivated by factors other than sheer patriotism.
Figueroa’s run-in with Bumpy over nation building, and failure to recruit long-time independence leaders indicate his independence process is seriously flawed. Yet, Figueroa’s MO of grandiose schemes, and his insistence in pursuing his process strongly suggests his real goal is to reap substantial financial rewards for himself by showing his investors that he (FullOn Holdings) can deliver Hawaii as an independent nation.
FullOn Business Schemes Contingent on Hawaiian Independence.
Figueroa/FullOn’s newest project is the large-scale production of ethanol. He apparently has big plans to receive a large military contract for this fuel.
It appears that the finances for Figueroa’s proposed ethanol production is contingent upon his being able to deliver Hawaiian independence. Apparently, no election, no nation, no money.
Therefore, Figueroa is under pressure to perform and has been putting all the money he has (and what he has been able to scrape together from friends and family members) to fund his Hawaiian nation.
Figueroa’s main goal is to hold an election that will ratify his constitution and the members of the government. To hold an election he has been to build a registry of Native Hawaiians. Thus far few have actually committed to his proposed election process.
Every Hawaiian, particularly prominent ones, that Figueroa meets is automatically considered a new recruit, and Figueroa uses that person’s name to impress and attract others. Still very few have signed up to participate in Figueroa’s election.
Figueroa has now resorted to acquiring names of Hawaiians surreptitiously from civic club membership rosters and from marketing lists off websites such as : 123freetravel.com, sun-sentinel.com, dailypress.com, latimes.com, classifieds.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com. This is how he claims to have “over 200,000 names!” He is stealing or buying names!
To buy more directly, Figueroa made an offer on his website to give FullOn stocks to people who sign up for the national election. Perhaps someone (like his lawyer) pointed out that buying an election is patently illegal. The offer was soon removed.
Buying voters, manipulating people by waving money around, name-dropping and making enticing, ‘too good to be true’ promises is the work and style of a con-man.
FullOn Attorney, Thayer Lindauer
Mr. Thayer ‘Ted’ Lindauer is Figueroa’s lawyer. He lists addresses in Edwardsville, Illinois and Cambria, California.
Lindauer is supposedly the legal mind behind Figueroa’s FullOn Holdings’ effort to establish Hawaii as an independent nation. To this end, Lindauer claims expertise in constitutional and international law.
Actually, his expertise is in business law; particularly the business of network marketing (i.e. multi-level marketing) which is regarded by law enforcement as one of the sleaziest “businesses” just a cut above the Nigerian inheritance scam. Lindauer’s reputation is that he is one of the best in field. In lawyer terms that means sleaziest of the sleazy.
Lindauer has been implicated numerous times in investigations of shady business dealings of the lucrative multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes. But he has been able to escape being convicted. He is a very good MLM lawyer.
But a cursory glance at the “constitution” he drafted for Figueroa reveals a document so replete with mistakes, contradictions and trivialities that one wonders how the constitutional and international lawyer that he claims to be could possibly write this drivel.
That is because he is not a ‘constitutional lawyer.’ Furthermore, his experience in ‘international law’ is only from his multi-level marketing scams, which also tend to be multi-national marketing scams.
Given his background of business activities, it’s not likely that altruism is Lindauer’s motive in this 2009 Hawaiian National Elections, or Sovereign Independent Hawaiian Government (or what ever they are calling it this week). Like Figueroa, Lindauer’s incentive is to make a lot of money off this sovereignty, Kingdom of Hawai'i National Election stuff.
The Investor, Dave W. McQueen
McQueen may or may not be an innocent in the Figueroa/FullOn Kingdom of Hawai'i National Election/Ethanol scheme, but he provides the incentive (money) because he apparently controls the large pool of funds from which FullOn intends to draw.
McQueen’s email address is with a company called IOC Holdings.
IOC lists its HQ as Grand Rapids, Michigan, but its main activities seem to be located in the Bahamas and its website (stagnant) indicates that they are a gaming (gambling) company called Isle of Capri, but says very little more.
The first phone number listed on the website is no longer in service, the second has a recording machine identifying the business as International Opportunity Consultants. Either way, it is I.O.C.
McQueen leads an affiliated company called Diversified Global Finance which purports to be domiciled in Auckland, New Zealand.
Complaints are beginning to surface that Diversified Global Finance is a ponzi scheme on the order of (but nowhere near the scale of) Bernie Madoff. http://forums.registeredrep.com/...
It is McQueen that Figueroa and Lindauer are trying to impress and reel in.
It appears that the first increment of their funding for the ethanol project is contingent upon convincing McQueen that FullOn (Figueroa/Lindauer) is getting the Hawaiian nation together (dialoging with “the factions,” getting people registered, etc.). The rest of the funding is to be released after they pull off a “Kingdom of Hawai'i National Election” (now purportedly scheduled for August 2009).
Summary: Follow the money…
Keep in mind, that none of these three actually live in Hawaii. None are Hawaiian nationals.
Figueroa who has been away from Hawaii for the greater part of his life is a U.S. citizen, not a Hawaiian national. The other two, besides being U.S. citizens, until recently have been complete strangers to the islands.
Yet, incredibly, they claim to be working for the best interest of the Kanaka Maoli to reestablish the Hawaiian Kingdom. What’s wrong with this picture?
Well, it could happen… that these sharks, these lifelong scammers, have suddenly developed such empathy for the Hawaiian people that they are compelled to champion the cause of independence because of an overwhelming sense of compassion and justice. But it is highly unlikely.
Their plan to build a new nation is so clumsily sophomoric (if not idiotic) that it has no chance of success. Therefore, it is more likely that these three are advocating Hawaiian independence for self gain…to line their own pockets in the process.
Just as many other sharks have come to Hawaii over the years, they are not motivated by some altruistic desire to do good, they are attracted by the smell money. They are really “carpetbaggers.” (google this term)
As we have seen in the past with the sugar plantations under the territory, and tourism under statehood, when money is the motive, we the people will get trampled in the feeding frenzy of greed that ensues.
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Specific analysis of Figueroa’s election process and “constitution” yet to come…
Disclaimer:
Please note that the information contained in this document is what I believe to be true. They are my own conclusions and opinions derived from what has either been said to me, or that I have personally witnessed, or that which has been documented with e-mails, or through research and inquiries. I do not wish for anything that I state here to be considered libelous or slanderous. If any individual feels that I have misstated any thing in any way, I am receptive to being corrected if it can be so justified and validated.
Leon Siu
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This website is the support website of The Kingdom of Hawai’I National Election Office and is sponsored by FullOn Holdings, Inc. an Hawaiian corporation owned by Native Hawaiians, Richard Kamahele Figueroa, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Fullon Holdings is active in the alternative fuels and modular housing industries.
The National Election Office is the sponsor of the currently ongoing election whereby Native Hawaiians seek to restore the government of Hawai’i which was overthrown by the United States by military force in 1893. In 1898 the United States unilaterally annexed the Hawaiian Islands into the United States. On the ballot is the adoption of a new Restoration Constitution and the election of a President and Vice President. A Legislative election is scheduled for early 2010.
When the government of The Kingdom of Hawai’i is restored, the new government will seek to join the General Assembly of the United Nations and to negotiate a Treaty of Peace with the United States defining the relationship between the Native Hawaiian people and the United States.
The restoration of the Kingdom’s government is for the purpose of obtaining justice for Native Hawaiians in multiple areas of concern to us, including property rights, housing, cultural preservation, employment, education, political participation, protection of sacred lands and finding the Native Hawaiians victimized by the systematic adoption genocide affecting tens of thousands of Native Hawaiian children from 1893 into the 1960’s.
The Hawaiian Independence movement is not about seceding from the United States, it’s about obtaining long delayed justice for Native Hawaiians. The intended Treaty of Peace between The Kingdom and the United States requires the approval of a majority of voting Native Hawaiians worldwide and may include continued statehood, territorial status or full independence.
As the United States Supreme Court has recognized, the United States has the power to control the Hawaiian Islands as a military occupier, but the Native Hawaiians are still citizens of the Kingdom and owe their loyalty to the Kingdom, not to the United States. Only a Treaty of Peace can change this reality.
In 1901, less than 10 years after the invasion of Hawai’i the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Cross v. Harrison, 16 How. 164, 14 L. ed. 889. The Court cited former Chief Justice Marshall from the case of American Insurance Company v. Canter, 26 U. S. 1 Pet. 511 (1828) as follows:
“One of the ordinary incidents of a treaty is the cessation of territory. It is not much to say it is the rule, rather than the exception, that a treaty of peace, following upon a war, provides for the cession of territory to the victorious party. It was said by Chief Justice Marshall ……….’The Constitution confers absolutely upon the government of the Union the powers of making war and of making treaties; consequently that government possesses the power of acquiring territory, either by conquest or by treaty’. The territory thus acquired is acquired as absolutely as if annexation were made, as in the case of Texas and Hawaii, by act of Congress".
The position of the National Election Office on behalf of Native Hawaiians and the Kingdom of Hawai’I is contained in the balance of Chief Justice Marshall’s ruling in the American Insurance case, as follows:
“The usage of the world is if a nation be not entirely subdued, to consider the holding of conquered territory as a mere military occupation until its fate shall be determined at the treaty of peace. If it be ceded by the treaty, the acquisition is confirmed and the ceded territory becomes a part of the nation to which it is annexed, either on the terms stipulated in the treaty of cession or on such terms as its new master shall impose. On such transfer of territory, it has never been held that the relations of the inhabitants with each other undergo any change. Their relations with their former sovereign are dissolved, and new relations are created between them and the government which has acquired their territory. The same act which transfers their country transfers the allegiance of those who remain in it, and the law, which may be denominated political, is necessarily changed, although that which regulates the intercourse and general conduct of individuals remains in force until altered by the newly created power of the state.”
The independence movement of the Native Hawaiian people is non violent and transparent We have not been subdued by the United States and never will be. We seek the support of all peoples and nations of good will, including the United States and its people, in achieving justice for our people. Richard Kamahele Figueroa - 09/15/2009
