olelo will be showing a film on parents for rigteousness tomorow and august 2nd at 4;00pm please watch for parents and childrens all people who ar sick and are of any thing disturbance or of serious means of prayers call me at 808 696 9151 and also any one in need of serious more help call my pastors at 528-4044 they will bne willing to help you need referals on where to get resources ask me i know all the info, take care and god bless you all.
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Homelessness should never be a crime. That is like calling the VICTIM... the CRIMINAL.Donna-----------------------------What's the Meanest City?by Dollars and SenseJuly 15, 2009http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/07/whats-meanest-city.htmlLos Angeles is #1, according to The National Law Centeron Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) and the NationalCoalition for the Homeless (NCH) -- #1 in criminalizingthe homeless. The two organizations released a report onMonday analyzing how cities target homeless people, suchas laws against sleeping, eating, or sitting in publicspaces.[moderator: the full report may be found here-http://nlchp.org/content/pubs/2009HomesNotHandcuffs1.pdf]The report, titled "Homes Not Handcuffs," includesinformation about 273 U.S. cities. It also ranks the top10 U.S. cities with the worst practices of criminalizinghomelessness. Top 10 lists are always easier for themainstream media to comprehend, so that's been the storyfor the few media outlets that have covered the report(Reuters reporter Steve Gorman's article is the bestwe've seen so far; it's also republished on CommonDreams).The full report explains how the growing numbers ofurban homeless have been targeted for criminalization,how their civil rights have been violated in some cases,and detailed summaries of legal cases against some ofthe most abusive anti-homeless laws.And in case you want to know, the "Top Ten MeanestCities" are:1. Los Angeles, CA2. St. Petersburg, FL3. Orlando, FL4. Atlanta, GA5. Gainesville, FL6. Kalamazoo, MI7. San Francisco, CA8. Honolulu, HI9. Bradenton, FL10. Berkeley, CABerkeley???On June 12, 2007, Berkeley's City Councilunanimously passed the "Public Commons for Everyone"initiative to "clear the streets of aggressive anddisruptive behavior." This law targets a wide rangeof behavior, including lying on or blocking thesidewalk, smoking near doorways, having a shoppingcart, tying animals to fixed objects, littering,drinking in public, public urination and defecationand shouting in public. ... Osha Neumann, anattorney who defends homeless individuals, toldIndybay.org that homeless people are frightened bythese measures and many are thinking about leavingtown. He also indicated that funding for meals andother services for homeless people have beenreduced, and there are not enough shelter beds.
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With the upcoming attempt at fake state of Hawai`i celebrations next month, it’s more important than ever before for everyone to know the truth – Hawai`i was never legally annexed to the US according to both international and US laws.Hawai`i was and still is an independent country today under belligerent US occupation.No one knows this more than Tane. One of Hawai`i’s most prolific and outspoken chroniclers of today’s Free Hawai`i movement, Tane’s mana`o, his thoughts and words, can be found on the Internet educating the world and proclaiming the truth.So it should come as no surprise that we’re pleased to feature him as our guest this week. We think you’ll agree he’s an independent thinker indeed on Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.MONDAY, July 20th At 6:30 PM –Maui – Akaku, Channel 53SATURDAY, July 25th At 8:00 PM –O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53“An Independent Thinker – A Visit With Tane”While countless thousands have read his thoughts online, not as many have seen the man behind those words. Writing in a way that captures both the spirit and the times, Tane is the conscience of today’s Hawai`i National movement. He reminds us of who we are and where we need to go. Now see him for yourself in this fascinating interview. You’ll understand why he’s one of the premier voices of our generation calling for a Free Hawai`i – Watch It Here.MONDAY, July 20th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, July 24th At 5:30 PM –Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53“Kukaniloko – Birth Of A Nation – A Visit With Tom Lenchanko”One of Hawai`i's oldest sites dating back to 1060 AD, Kukaniloko was a birthing place for high ranking ali`i. Today it's known as a portal where people from all over the world are drawn by an ancestor's calling – to link back and touch family members long since gone. Tom's demonstration of how various stones in Kukaniloko were used, including the birthing stones is not to be missed. A breathtaking visit to a special place where the ancestors await - and time stands still - Watch It Here.THURSDAY, July 23rd At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, July 24th At 8:30 AM -Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52“Can Of Worms – A Visit With Chris Kauwe”Long-time Kaua`i resident Chris Kauwe is never one to leave something alone that needs resolving, whether it’s fish-pond preservation or stopping the Superferry. A cultural activist, practitioner and accomplished media producer, Chris thinks nothing of opening a can of worms and diving straight in. You’ll see what we mean - and become hooked on his message yourself - Watch It Here.Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants. We hope you'll be inspired to do the same.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.And for news and issues that affect you, watch Free Hawai`i TV, a part of the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network.Read more…
any one who wants thier childrens back come and see me i will direct you to a place you can trust to help an advocate for you to get your childrens back. please look in you tube we will be there in olelo and i guess you tube.need to call them at 6978384 we meet every sat at the waianae sattelite from 12-4pm olelo will be showing july 19th and august 2nd 2009 at 4:00 pm on channel 54 please watch this if intested thank you .
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HONDURAS SEEMS FAR FROM OUR EVERY DAY LIVES...but what happens in one country, can happen anywhere. We all think we are safe here in Hawaii, but the FACT of the military presence here assures that we could be a target. We were a peaceful and neutral nation but since 1893, have been dominated by the presence of an outside country that CLAIMS it believes in freedom and justice, but what they really mean is....ONLY FOR THEMSELVES. All others don't seem to count.Donna------------No Justification for CoupBy Bertha OlivaMiami HeraldJuly 15, 2009http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1143103.htmlAs a Honduran human-rights activist, it has beendisturbing to hear the drumbeat of voices in the U.S.media justifying what is taking place in my country.While the Organization of American States, the UnitedNations and heads of state from countries across thepolitical spectrum worldwide have condemned the coup,commentators in The New York Times, Washington Post andThe Wall Street Journal have called it a ''democratic''coup, while others have blamed exiled President ManuelZelaya for it happening in the first place.U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fl., has joined the chorus aswell, introducing a resolution in support of the defacto regime in the name of ''the Honduran people,''just days after the coup leaders murdered peacefulcitizens on the streets of Tegucigalpa.The events that have unfolded in Honduras are aforceful and illegal overthrow of a democraticallyelected government. To justify this act by adding theadjective ''democratic'' to the coup is not only anoxymoron, but a blatant inaccuracy.Many in the United States have declared that theproposal by President Zelaya to hold a nationalconsultation on constitutional issues was so dangerousthat he somehow brought the coup on himself. To set therecord straight, what was scheduled to take place onSunday, June 28 was not a vote on Zelaya's ability tocontinue in office, but a nonbinding survey on thepossibility of holding a constitutional assembly.To purposefully misconstrue this as an aggressive,''anti-democratic'' act is to stretch the truth to itsbreaking point, in the service of a pre-determinedposition against the Zelaya government's policies orpolitics.When our fragile democracy and millions of lives are atstake, what is truly dangerous is for influentialopinion leaders in the United States to imply thatcertain kinds of democratically elected governments''deserve'' overthrow. In a society based on Rule ofLaw, there are various mechanisms available for anopposition to make claims against a sittingadministration. Kidnapping a president at gunpoint andspiriting him over the border is not one of them anddeclaring marital law is not one of them. Even the toplegal military advisors to the de facto regime inHonduras admitted that their actions were -- and are --illegal.My experience as the director of a human-rightsorganization that has represented the families ofHondurans ''disappeared'' for more than 20 years informmy fears of a return to the horrors we lived in thelast century. Unfortunately, these fears have provenjustified.The last few days have been an uncanny repeat ofatrocities that we thought were left behind in the1980s: forced detentions, murder and violent repressionof peaceful protesters, media censorship and suspensionof constitutional rights. The situation has garneredswift reproach from Human Rights Watch, AmnestyInternational and other prominent watchdog groups, butthe stifling of dissent has only intensified inside thecountry.President Barack Obama and Secretary of State HillaryClinton have spoken up for democracy and human rightsin condemning the actions of the coup leaders. Now theUnited States must put its money where its mouth is byformally recognizing what happened as a coup d'etat andsuspending all aid to and trade with Honduras until thelegitimate president is restored to power.Honduras is deeply dependent on the United States,which is the market for roughly 70 percent of itsexports. U.S. trade and aid are the backbone of oureconomy. If the U.S. does not cut ties with Honduras,it is sending a clear signal of tacit support for thosewho took power illegally as well as the abuses of powerwe have seen in the week the regime has been in place.Actions speak louder than words. The U.S. government isuniquely positioned to play the deciding role inwhether or not Honduras is returned to democracy orplunged into dictatorship. Along with my fellowcitizens, I pray that this is a moral and politicalresponsibility that the Obama administration will notignore.____Bertha Oliva is director of the Honduran Committee ofFamily of the Disappeared Detainees (Comite deFamiliares de Detenidos Desparecidos en Honduras --COFADEH) in Tegucigalpa.
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As you watch this video, notice the man behind Kahu? Kaleo Patterson. That is what people who don't respect Makua REALLY think. It is just a backdrop to their continued effort to demoralize, to desecrate, and futher wound the pu'uwai of Kanaka Maoli. Shame on those who self-appointed themselves to givethe ok to the military to continue the occupation of Makua and all our sacred islands. Shame on them.Donna---------------------Makua Valley cultural sites protected by Army...a videohttp://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090718/NEWS01/907180341/Army+reaches+out+to+Native+Hawaiians+on+Makua+ValleyBy William ColeAdvertiser Military WriterMAKUA VALLEY — The Army presented a different side of itself yesterday, one that's attempting to reach out to Native Hawaiians as it seeks a return to live-fire training in the cultural resources-rich Wai'anae Coast valley, where legal action has prevented bullets from flying and bombs from exploding for the past five years.The Army flew five Native Hawaiians, with varying constituencies, out to the valley in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to describe its efforts at balancing training needs with stewardship of a valley.Makua has 121 archaeological sites and more than 50 endangered animal and plant species. Local media also were invited along."The Army is made up of folks who have the same type of values, the same type of beliefs, that you have," Col. Matthew Margotta, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Hawai'i, told the group.Margotta admitted that the Army might have been heavy-handed in the past in dealing with cultural issues, but he said that is changing. Makua is a special place in the heart of Native Hawaiians and "the Army, all of us, recognize that," Margotta said.cultural adviserMargotta brought on Annelle Amaral in February as a Native Hawaiian cultural adviser.A Native Hawaiian Advisory Council was created within the garrison with the president of Kamehameha Schools among its members.The Army has earmarked between $15 million and $16 million from $75 million in federal stimulus funding to go to Native Hawaiian businesses. "Were we doing this a few years ago? No," Margotta said.The Army's new public-relations effort coincides with the completion of an eight-year environmental study required under a 2001 court settlement agreement.Malama Makua, the community group that brought the suit, said it will fight on in court because the study is flawed.No live fire has been allowed since 2004 in the 4,190-acre valley because the Army had not finished the study. This week, the approximately 6,000-page document was completed. Now, the Army is seeking a return to combined-arms live-fire exercises involving helicopters, artillery, mortars and 150 soldiers, as well as convoy live-fire training.The Army would like to conduct up to 32 Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercises, or CALFEXes, a year, or up to 150 convoy exercises.Margotta said those exercises won't start any earlier than Aug. 31, which is the target for short-term fixes to internal roads that sustained storm damage in December. The Army received $6.9 million for road repairs.Margotta also made a case for training in Makua by saying that without it, soldiers have to make it up at 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island or on the Mainland — keeping them away from families for weeks or months more.The required training takes about a week at Makua. When soldiers go to Pohakuloa, larger units usually are sent, and that requires the use of ships for equipment deliveries, air transport for troops, and more time overall.'Something is missing'Margotta said the Army's four main training areas in Hawai'i — Schofield, Makua, Pohakuloa and Kahuku Training Area — are like an interlocking puzzle.Schofield is considered too small and would have training conflicts as a combined-arms training facility, the Army said. No live fire is allowed in Kahuku."You've got four pieces in the puzzle and you take Makua out, you've only got three pieces," Margotta said. "Something is missing. What will end up being in that gap are soldiers and their families away from each other."U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawai'i, in 2007 strongly advocated that the Army give up Makua, saying the service had spent millions to unsuccessfully defend in court the use of a training range that could be replaced at Pohakuloa and was ill-suited in particular to training using eight-wheeled Stryker armored vehicles.Margotta said the Army can balance training needs with cultural resource protection in Makua.paying a visitLast year, Schofield received $1 million to clear Makua sites of old unexploded ordnance for cultural access, and for next year it's expected to receive the same amount.The Army also said nearly $6 million is spent annually in Makua on natural and cultural resources management.Kahu Kaleo Patterson, one of those who made the trip, said Makua is very special to his family, who had kuleana, or responsibility, in the valley in the old days."It's very encouraging to see how much you folks have done as caretakers of the valley," Patterson told Margotta.Christopher Dawson, a Native Hawaiian business leader, and Leimomi Khan, with the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, also visited Makua.But Wai'anae resident William Aila Jr., a member of a Hawaiian group that has butted heads with the Army before over training and access, said the group doesn't have a thorough understanding of the issues faced in the valley.His group, Hui Malama O Makua, was not invited yesterday."If we were able to give some historical context, the thought processes of those (invited) Hawaiians would be a lot more balanced," Aila said.Reach William Cole at wcole@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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Aloha kaua e to all 3,831 Maoliworld Members Out There,We at Aloha Nui Distributors have wonderful news to share with every single one of you about the documentary film "Noho Hewa." The dvds for this outstanding documentary film will be available at the end of August, maybe sooner. If you and your ohana would like to be on our pre-order list and would like to secure a dvd copy of this documentary film, please feel free to contact Aloha Nui Distributors at 808.489.7065 or just reply to this blog and i will personally make sure that on the day that it is ready to distribute, you will personally get a call from me. The dvds will be sold for $20.00 a peice. For the Hawaiian language, hewa means “wrong” and noho means “to occupy”. This documentary is a contemporary look at Hawaiian people, politics and resistance in the face of their systematic erasure under U.S. laws, economy, militarism, and real estate speculation. It is a raw, unscripted story that makes critical links between seemingly unrelated industries, and is told from the perspective of Hawaiians.The second thing that i want to tell every single one of you is that the "Noho Hewa" t-shirts are available right NOW!!! They come in either black or sand colors. The small, medium, large, and extra large are $22, 2XL is $23, and 3XL is $24. We look forward to getting these vital products into your hands, before the FAKE State will reveal and share there plans of continuing their "beligerent occupation" for the next 50 years on Hawaiian soil on August 21st, 2009 at the Convention Center from 10am-6pm. Now is the Time, for all of us to come together, so we can end the overdue presence and stay of the military bases, which violates international law and that puts us in harms way with other countries around the world, that know and understand the abuse, oppression, and manipulative practices of the united States of America. Mahalo Nui to you all for your diligence, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment, and dedication to turn dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, because "No lie can live forever." A hui ho. Malama pono. Mahalo nui!Bruddah Kaleo
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A Brief ReportFiguring Out Figueroaor How You Figah Figah-roa?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.------Richard “Kamahele” FigueroaKanaka 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.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=3Figueroa/FullOn SchemesSince 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.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1Figueroa 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 LindauerMr. 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. McQueenMcQueen 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/forum_posts.asp?TID=8115&PN=2It 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.###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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Good article that shows how supercilious Americans are. The WASP Americans have a hard time accepting a non-white as president of their WASP country even if his mother was a white woman. These are the same people that allowed a non-elected white president, Bush-Cheney, to commit war crimes in their name and prevented him from being impeached during his eight-year term.If they question Obama's birth; then they should accept the truth of Hawai'i and give it back to the Hawaii nationals. For over two hundred years, the U.S.A. has lived a lie and created a myth that many believe as facts.Let's see how far they really want to go with this. We can establish Hawai'i not being a part of the U.S. and is still a foreign country under the U.S. belligerent occupation. That's the Pandora's box they don't want opened. It's the easiest and simplest way to invalidate Obama's eligibility but at the expense of giving up Hawai'i which the U.S. government doesn't want to lose even if it is ill-gotten.They can't have it both ways. Meanwhile U.S. President Obama is still serving his term; representing the U.S. as Head of State who succeeded a president that was not legally voted in by the people but appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Thus you have 9 years of illegitimate rule in the U.S. and U.S. Americans still are not outraged enough to fix things. This is hilarious and U.S. Americans' false-pride and complacency is unravelling their country. Meanwhile they live an imitation of life and keep building a lie upon a lie.Today, the U.S. is all screwed up. Ever wonder why Palin was set up as vice-President candidate? The powers that control the government, wanted Obama to win in establishing a more likeable and charismatic leader to do its bidding which Bush failed to be creditable for them.All the credible candidates would not go along with their agenda; so they got them out of the way and produced the candidates that they wanted the people to vote for. This deeper shadow government, the oligarchy, manipulated as to the candidates it would support and which they controlled the image of the candidates so people would vote for their preferred person. This illusion of a democratic republic has been manipulated to place their selected candidates to run against each other for the highest offices and insures either way that their candidate wins. Obama would be a better image for America than McCain would; thus Palin (being a weak candidate) was paired with McCain to insure Obama's win.This pre-ordained election gave U.S. Americans a sense of a democratic process that they felt they were exercising albeit illusionary. Meanwhile the people are fastly holding on to their blinders and in denial as to who runs the government.Tane(fyi...I find Tane sums up and brings clarity to just about every issue...this was was so good, had to post)Donna
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For my family and friends who like KNOW what I think and ask me to write what I think LOL:* I should mention that people like Pomaikaiokalani are excluded from what I am referring to. He does not brag or boast about his ali'i bloodline and he is out DOING things for the Kingdom and/or for some of its people --- covertly or overtly. This also excludes Akahi Nui because he is trying to force people to RECOGNIZE as in you beddah recognize the HAWAIIAN KINGDOM... while the self proclaimed QUEENS are what... DRAMA queens LOLI don't give a rip what others think of me. The ONLY people whose opinion matters to me is MY kupuna. What THEY think of me is the only opinion of me that matters. I may be blunt but one thing that I ALWAYS do is bow down to them. ALWAYS.Well Kalani (aka motuAHINA) and I were discussing some things. One of them was Maoliworld. One thing that I have noticed is that some people are SO quick to fight for their right to BE ali'i... and want to be ali'i... yet do not take on the RESPONSIBILITIES that come with it. They only want to be RECOGNIZED for basically doing NOTHING but BOAST AND/OR BRAG.They even step on our elders' bones. Some name some names to try to ELEVATE THEMSELVES. Some even BLEACH their bones in order to try to elevate themselves.Okay... am I supposed to be IMPRESSED?My lines run deep on both my maternal and paternal lines. SO??? Most Hawaiians descend from alii'i.Thus an inherent problem with us oiwi. Some are SO quick to want to be ali'i... yet not fulfill the RESPONSILITIES that come with BEING ali'i.Some even go as far as to STEP ON THE BONES of our kupuna.Yes... there were SOME ali'i who SOLD US OUT. SOME ali'i STILL SELL US OUT.No names need to be mentioned but for GOD'S sake... stop trying to elevate yourself by trying to act like ali'i.Instead BE ALI'I because *you* will not get anything but some other oiwi laughing AT YOU.Of course these few are kings and queens alright... as in a king or queen of a VILLAGE OF ONE i.e. DEMSELVES LOLSo when looking in the mirror... ask oneself... why are Hawaiians so DOWN AND OUT? Why is the Hawaiian Kindgom DISRESPECTED?The reason is looking AT YOU. A reason is YOU.YOU disrespect the Hawaiian Kingdom and everything GOOD that it stands for. In return OTHERS (i.e. non-oiwi) DISS THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM. Bad energy begets BAD energy. Ali'i are nothing without makaainana. Nothing! BTW plenny ali'i had babies with makaainana. No names necessary because I don't believe in stepping on their BONES... and yes the place where I live is 95% Caucasian yet I still think this way LOLThus a challenge BEING Hawaiian. Imagine what B.S. our mo'opuna will be going through.In the meantime I have a pending deal with a commercial referral. I will be getting a 25% referral fee. I've written about it at FB. When I get it I plan to donate to Aha Punana Leo again and I plan to give some to my nieces and nephew. I hope it does not go to da pilau!Latahs!
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HEWA ...FUCK USA: THE REAL TERROR IN TERRORIST !!!July 15, 2009USS Hawai'i to arrive in Pearl Harbor on July 23 for statehood celebrationsBy William ColeAdvertiser Military WriterThe USS Hawaiçi, the first of the new Virginia-class submarines expected to be homeported at Pearl Harbor, is scheduled to arrive July 23 at the sub base to pomp and 50th statehood anniversary ceremony.A U.S. Pacific Fleet schedule of band performances said a ceremonial band will be on hand at 10 a.m. for the sub’s arrival. A host of state officials, including Gov. Linda Lingle, the ship’s “sponsor,” are expected to greet the Hawaiçi and its crew.The arrival of the state’s namesake submarine also will be feted as part of statehood celebrations. Details for public viewing of the submarine’s arrival have not yet been released.The approximately $2.5 billion submarine is capable of supporting a variety of missions, including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, actions involving special operations forces, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and mine warfare.There are 16 older Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines based at Pearl Harbor. The 377-foot Hawaiçi will be followed by another Virginia-class sub, the Texas, in the fall.U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaiçi, previously said the USS North Carolina also would be based at Pearl. Pearl Harbor and Groton, Conn., initially will be the home port for all new Virginia-class submarines, the Navy said.Commissioned May 5, 2007, the Hawaiçi was the third Virginia-class attack submarine built. The sub and its crew left the Naval Submarine Base at Groton on May 13 for Pearl Harbor.Cmdr. Ed Herrington, the sub’s commanding officer, said on a USS Hawaiçi blog that the ship spent about nine hours last Friday passing through three sets of Panama Canal locks and a large lake on the way to the Pacific.“The locks are challenging for any ship and especially for submarines,” Herrington said. “We don’t have bow thrusters on submarines, so fitting a 7,600-ton submarine into a 110-foot-wide canal is to say the least interesting. My line handlers topside have to haul in these very heavy cables to secure the boat to the lock and do so as the ship is drifting within feet of the canal walls. If they don’t get the lines over quickly the ship could stand into trouble. Luckily on USS Hawaiçi I have a very talented and strong group of line handlers topside and they got the lines over efficiently and with plenty of time to spare.”Although Hawaiçi is a new submarine, it was the sub’s third trip through the Panama Canal, Herrington said. Three sailors received their “Dolphins,” or submarine warfare pin, during the transit.For those who want to read about the sub’s progress, the blog is at: http://usshawaiissn776.blogspot.com/.The Hawaiçi is part of a new Navy emphasis on the Pacific, with a planned shift that will position 60 percent of its attack subs in the Pacific, and 40 percent in the Atlantic.By the end of 2009, 31 of the Navy's 53 fast attack submarines will be homeported in the Pacific Ocean, with 22 in the Atlantic.The Navy said dozens of countries, including North Korea and Iran, have quiet diesel electric subs, and more than 180 foreign submarines operate in the Pacific within reach of critical chokepoints and navigational sea lanes.Attack submarines can defend against other subs, shadow carrier strike groups, conduct covert surveillance as nations like China become increasingly territorial, and launch Tomahawk cruise missiles.The new Virginia-class subs have the ability to maneuver closer to shore, and have lockout chambers for up to nine commandos.
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This article was written by Keala Kelly the filmmaker who produced NOHO HEWA. Read carefully as it explains everything. AFTER THAT...please JOIN free hawaii for all the latest updates! Sign the peition and learn the facts about our history. There are two 2 petitions we are asking people to sign. One is on free hawaii site, one is...here:http://www.PetitionOnline.com/18932009/petition.htmlFrom Native Hawaiian to Native American?Originally appeared in the Hawai'i Island Journal, Native Americas Journal and Indian Country Today.As the Akaka Bill drives forward in Congress, Hawaiian voices are urging a closer look.by Anne Keala KellyJust days after the U.S. Senate web site posted yet another draft of the Akaka Bill (6 and counting) dated June 27th, the handful of Hawaiians who had access to its location got the clearest sense of what federal recognition legislation actually boils down to.A bill that, in its initial form, gave some autonomy to Hawaiians has at last been stripped down to mean total control will belong to the Department of the Interior and a select few Hawaiians. Many Hawaiians still don't understand the process of federal recognition despite four years of questions, disagreements, and an apparent lack of support for the bill outside of the homesteads. And presently, homesteaders are the only members of the Hawaiian community being targeted for "education" about the bill by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA).The legislation, as written, sets up a "Hawaiian governing entity" that takes its orders from the Department of Interior (DOI), the secretary of which changes with each new administration. At present, the DOI is being sued by American Indians who allege that they were robbed of billions of dollars throughout the 20th century; that agency is responsible for holding Indian land assets in trust. Although they have been ordered twice by a federal court to come up with a full accounting of those assets, the DOI appears to have misplaced the records.The Akaka Bill also sets into motion a land claims settlement that some say will extinguish Hawaiian rights and claims to the crown and government lands of the Hawaiian Kingdom, referred to as "ceded lands."The questions surrounding the bill have consistently remained the same: What does it mean to become a "Native American?" Does federal recognition address the present day issues Hawaiians are faced with as a people: desecration of sacred sites, the out-migration of Hawaiians because they cannot afford the jacked-up cost-of-living that comes with being "American" in Hawai'i, and the short walk from the neighborhood block to the cell block taken by so many young Hawaiian men and women.Then there are historical issues like the dismemberment of an independent nation state known as the Hawaiian Kingdom. The list could go on, and the questions outnumber the answers.During the July 4th holiday week, Senator Daniel Inouye met with Governor Linda Lingle and the board of the CNHA in Honolulu to reaffirm their commitment to push this bill through before the Senate goes into recess in August. And the trustees at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) will have made another trip to Capitol Hill by the beginning of August, the third such trip taken by almost every trustee since May.With so much riding on whether or not Hawaiian people undergo the conversion from Native Hawaiian to Native American, one would think that the Hawaiian leaders and elected politicians in Washington D.C. might slow down the race to pass this thing long enough for Hawaiians to actually read it. But that doesn't appear likely."Ninety-nine percent of Hawaiians don't know what's in this most recent draft of the bill," said Haunani-Kay Trask, a professor at the Center for Hawaiian Studies, UH-Manoa. "Structurally, the whole point of self-determination means that the Hawaiian people determine their future. They don't allow the feds or the state to determine it - that would be state determination, not self-determination. Our people are so colonized, though, 27 military bases, six million tourists a year . . . that'll change your thinking."OHA is the only Hawai'i state agency with an office in Washington D.C., which Trask believes was the plan all along. "They're gearing up to federalize themselves. What they are doing isn't representative of democracy - this isn't a Hawaiian agency, it's a state agency becoming a federal puppet."With so much confusion over the details of the actual legislation, many find the lack of restraint on the part of legislators and OHA trustees to be alarming. Combine that with the few community meetings being staged to sell this legislation only to homesteaders, and Hawaiians as a people begin to take on the appearance of steers being herded to the slaughterhouse.The CNHA and the State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations (SCHHA-pronounced shaw) only held two poorly publicized meetings on Oahu. And at those meetings, which lasted two hours, they used a thick reference booklet called "Lawsuits & Legislation: The Arakaki Suit & Akaka Bill Explained," and a power point presentation. The presentation is also found in the booklet and is itself confusing, with odd statements like: " 'Indian' is a legal term for U.S. Indigenous or Native - It does not describe a cultural affiliation or people - It is a term of art - Even Indians are not Indians!'"Most "American" Indians do not call themselves Native Americans. Sherman Alexi, renowned writer and filmmaker, has expressed that sentiment a number of times, saying he regards the term "Native American" as "a product of liberal white guilt."Didi Lee Kwai, elementary school teacher and homesteader in Papakolea, attended one of the two meetings on Oahu and was disappointed in the presentation. "One problem was that they didn't allow a chance to ask questions," said Kwai. "People talk about the plenary power of Congress over Hawaiians that this bill gives, but what the hell is that? They are not giving us all the information - we don't hear the real consequences, and that is that we are giving up a nation." Kwai adds, "The real question is what do they [the United States] want? OHA's commercials talk about what Hawaiians will lose, but they never talk about what America wants to get out of this."Kwai, who said she is selling her homestead, went on to say, "Just common sense based on the history of the U.S. and the way they break treaties, like they did with the Hawaiian Kingdom, means Hawaiians should not trust the U.S. If they say we have to buy the homestead land fee simple, how many can afford that? I can't."Also slipped into the CNHA booklet is another booklet called the "CNHA Policy Brief: The Economic Impact of Native Hawaiian Federal Recognition." It manages to detail terrifying threats that have been brandished like guns since the U.S. Supreme Court's Rice v. Cayetano decision of February 2000, allowing non-Hawaiians to vote for OHA trustees.The booklet asserts that without federal recognition it is likely that the Arakaki lawsuit, which challenges the validity of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act as race-based, will succeed, which would supposedly put an end to OHA and the Hawaiian homesteads. The booklet says that in the event of a victory for Arakaki, "homesteaders will face eviction . . . programs that benefit scores of organizations and thousands of individual Native Hawaiians will be eliminated." It then lists nine state and non-profit organizations that receive federal grants adding up to over $59 million per year.In a nutshell, page two of the CNHA Policy Brief lays out the specifics used by state agencies like OHA and SCHHA to push the Akaka Bill. The logic they invoke, however, requires that Hawaiians must literally surrender all of their claims for the bargain basement price of $59 million, give or take a few million. And that's with no assurance that the federal obligations to Hawaiians will be maintained.The fact remains that nowhere in this or any other version of the Akaka Bill is any one Native Hawaiian entitlement protected. In other words, right now, before any legislation is passed, before any lawsuits are adjudicated, Hawaiians have: some federal dollars out there, some say the only legitimate claim to land in Hawai'i, and their legal, cultural, and political identity not as Native Americans, but as Native Hawaiians, which itself defines more accurately their historical reality.Referring to Section 7 of the bill, instructing the creation of a roll, Kekuni Blaisdell, independence advocate, said, "A roll is a term used in Indian Country. To me this newest draft of the bill puts us in the state of federal Indian ward-ship and makes it clear that we are wards of the United States. This means that we ultimately lose all title of our lands to the United States."Mililani Trask, member of the United Nations' Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, specifically calls into question the process OHA has used with this bill and new changes in the wording. "First of all, our people have not had hearings," said Trask. "And the newest draft has narrowed the definition of Hawaiian. Where it once allowed for all Hawaiians, it now states that you must show your qualification in three different criteria and the only Hawaiians who could do that with ease are Hawaiian homesteaders."Specifically, Trask is referring to Section 3 Part 7 of the bill, requiring Hawaiians to prove their lineage via 19th century Hawaiian Kingdom records and 1920 homestead eligibility. Trask's concerns include the absence of anything in the bill that allows for a process of appeals, and its manner of empowering the federal government to choose the process."In the first bill, native genealogists certified the roll; in this bill, it says adults will certify it, but it doesn't say who," said Trask. "At this time, there are only a handful of Hawaiians who are in receipt of state and federal funds. And they are the service agencies and organizations that are all members of CNHA. So, only those with the funding are going to be able to organize."An example of what Trask and others are talking about is the current effort being made by the SCHHA and CNHA. Between those two non-profits and the Hawai'i State Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL), some Hawaiians see the way trust money is changing hands as highly questionable.When the Chair of the CNHA, Ray Soon, was still the Director of the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL), he initiated the transfer of $150,000 of trust assets to SCHHA. Micah Kane, a leading Republican who played a key role in Linda Lingle's gubernatorial campaign, completed the transfer when he became the DHHL director. Once transferred, the money was allocated to lobby for the Akaka Bill. SCHHA then hired the CNHA to put together a plan. So the money literally went from Soon's old job to his new job. Robin Danner, president of the CNHA and the Vice Chair of SCHHA, was also on both the giving and receiving end.The distrust many Hawaiians have for state agencies like OHA and DHHL, and monolithic non-profits such as the CNHA, stems in part from this mode of shifting Hawaiian money. More recently, questions have arisen regarding Danner, who appeared on the Hawaiian political scene about four years ago after she moved from Alaska to Kauai. Although she is Hawaiian, she lived much of her life in Alaska and worked with Alaska Natives in the Arctic region who, along with the oil industry, have been lobbying to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling.The Alaska connection to Native Hawaiian specific policies and law making in Washington D.C. is an area of analysis just beginning to happen in the Hawaiian community. More often than not, the dog that wags the federal tail that creates legislation pertaining to Hawaiians is shielded by distance and political/legal double-speak. But given the confusion over who is doing what and why, a genealogical sense of how Alaska State interests are connected directly to the Hawaiian predicament and the push to federally recognize Hawaiians may be helpful.The Akaka Bill, which has undergone more facelifts than Cher, has recently reportedly been renamed the Akaka /Stevens bill. A Republican from Alaska, Senator Ted Stevens is a longtime friend of Senator Inouye, and the one responsible for every congressional initiative to open drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He helped usher in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), which divided all Alaska Natives into two groups: those who have corporate relationships with the oil industry and those who do not. Some Alaska Natives now have money, but most have very little, and in addition, they lost their hunting and gathering rights in many areas of Alaska. ANCSA did for, or rather, to, the Alaska Natives what the Akaka Bill promises to do: extinguish all native title to land.Why bring any of this up now? Because Alaska oil dollars made their way into the Hawaiian community as financial support for the CNHA's efforts to lobby for the Akaka Bill. Last September, some of that money was used to pay for the CNHA's "1st Annual Native Hawaiian" conference in Waikiki, a gathering which itself became a lobbying effort for the Akaka Bill.Between all the members of CNHA, that organization controls virtually all of the Native Hawaiian federal dollars that flow to Hawaiian non-profits. So, the force with which CNHA, SCHHA, and OHA have pushed for this bill has come under criticism in the Hawaiian community as being nothing more than a handful of well-established Hawaiians preserving their own bank accounts over the well-being of all Hawaiians.Asked what he thinks Hawaiians should do in response to the bill, Blaisdell said, "Hawaiians have to denounce and reject this for what it really is. It's locking us into chains forever, and our descendants after us - we have no right to do it. Our colonial history is just a brief moment in the long course of our existence that reaches across the Pacific Ocean."Noenoe Silva, Asst. Professor of Political Science, UH Manoa, echoes what Blaisdell said. "I read what Clyde Namu'o said in the OHA paper ["… Hawaiians find ourselves at a historic crossroads, with our very existence hanging in the balance." June 2003]. He is suggesting that our identity as a nation is threatened, but it would take more than a few lawsuits to extinguish that. The Turks occupied Greece for 400 years and do the Greeks think of themselves as Turks? Of course not."Best known for recovering the anti-annexation Ku'e Petitions of 1897 - signed by more than 20,000 Hawaiians - and publishing them in 1998, an act of scholarship that literally changed the way Hawaiians view themselves historically, Silva doesn't see how Hawaiians can have self-determination in this situation."Is any American legislation worth giving up title to our land? Through this process, the U.S. is hoping to extinguish our title, but even if they succeed, Hawaiians will fight." Silva adds, "If we lose that, we lose everything. I understand that we need funding for education and healthcare, but we can use our land to generate our own funding. We must take care of our 'aina."The recent leak of a "confidential" document from OHA suggests that there may be justification for the scores of Hawaiians who say that they do not trust OHA. Dated March 11, 2003, the "Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Public Land Trust," was chaired by Boyd P. Mossman and included Rowena Akana, Dante Carpenter, Linda Dela Cruz, Colette Machado, Oswald Stender, and John Waihe'e IV.In this document lies some of the most clear evidence of OHA's intent, that being to negotiate a "global" land settlement that would "likely entail a full and final resolution of all claims which could be made on behalf of Native Hawaiians." Number 10 of the Recommendations states: "A new inventory of ceded lands is not recommended because of cost and time. There is enough information available to provide a reasoned decision for purposes of negotiations." This despite the contentious legal and political arguments over the state having failed to keep accurate accounts of the crown and government lands that are now referred to as ceded lands.The lack of the state's adherence to their fiduciary responsibilities to the Hawaiian people on the matter of the ceded lands is similar to that of the Department of Interior's rip-off of assets belonging to the American Indians. And given that OHA believes a new inventory is unnecessary, it's surprising that they gave $1.5 million last year to the Center for Hawaiian Studies, UH-Manoa, to conduct a survey of the ceded lands.A member of Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific, Terri Napua Keko'olani, plainly expresses what many Hawaiians feel about their political situation. "All we got is ea, and that is our sovereignty."
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FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTSFREE HAWAI`I TVTHEFREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK"FIGHTING FOR CONTROL"Would You Believe There's A Huge Behind-The-Scenes Struggle Going On For Who Ends Up In Control In Hawai`i If The Akaka Bill Passes?Who Are The Players & What's At Stake?What Should You Do? Watch & Find Out.Read more…
If you consider to Buy essay, you should be aware that buy essay papers online you risk getting a zero grade due to plagiarism. MacDonald's review of the limited amount of evidence available to him in 1991 suggested that while individual US and allied UN service personnel, civilians and reporters did complain about, seek to intervene against or publicize human rights abuses, their efforts came up hard against a series of obstacles. US military and civilian authorities in Korea and Washington knew about such atrocities but were reluctant to take action in light of the political costs involved and the importance of ROK troops to the occupation. Given the limited number of UN officials and US civil assistance groups on hand in the North, MacArthur, himself sympathetic towards and keen to make use of ROK forces, considered human rights violations as unavoidable. With American authorities in Washington, Tokyo and Korea unwilling, unable or slow to act, National Security Council and US Army civil affairs directives for the occupation (which required occupying forces to respect human rights, prevent ‘unwarranted reprisals’ and win the hearts and minds of North Koreans) went unenforced. Infected by a ‘Gook syndrome’ born of cultural ignorance, ingrained racism and political prejudice, some US troops and auxiliaries colluded in the abuse and repression, helping turn the occupation into a grotesque parody of liberation.In his contribution, Cumings builds on Macdonald's work in at least two ways. First, he provides more detailed evidence concerning American knowledge of ROK atrocities during the occupation. Second, he documents divisions within the US political and military command structure between, on the one hand, those officials within the State Department (who were unhappy with such behaviour and sought to restrict ROK authority in the North) and, on the other, those within the UN Command in Korea – including MacArthur himself – and at Supreme Command, Allied Powers (SCAP) in Tokyo (who at best turned a blind eye to ROK excesses). In addition, Cumings argues that US military advisors and Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) members accompanied many ROK units in the North and that they were at least accessories to violations of the Geneva Convention. What is custom essay writing? It is a professional service carried out by educated writers! Try our custom essay writing and receive custom written essay! Endorsing MacDonald's conclusion that, as the legally constituted occupation authority, the UN Command – and therefore Washington – had to ‘bear the ultimate responsibility’ for the behaviour of US, UN and ROK forces during the war, Cumings includes in his indictment those writers on the subject who he believes have helped whitewash the past.
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In the course of explaining London's dealings with Washington and characterizing trans-Atlantic negotiations, Peter Lowe also argues that the Korean War marked ‘an important watershed’ in the Anglo–American relationship. Where in the summer of 1950 His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington, Oliver Franks, could convince himself that commitment of its forces would confirm Britain's global strength and influence in American circles, three years of conflict in practice ‘demonstrated a gradual decline’ in its role, driving it to the periphery of Washington's vision. As Lowe puts it: ‘Fundamentally it was a matter of power: the Americans had plenty of it and the British did not.’ This interpretation illuminates one paradox in the British stance: while both Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had long been keen to have the United States take on ‘full responsibility for containing communism’ (an objective which Lowe believes was realized during the Korean War), they were less eager to have Washington exercise the authority such responsibilities bestowed. The resolution entertained by British leaders – that the United States would be responsible, in Lowe's words, for providing the ‘muscle and energy’ while Britain furnished ‘sagacious guidance, gained from experience’ – perhaps offered London some imaginative consolation; if so, however, it was not for the first time. In need of college essay editing help? Our college essay editors are reliable! Get college essay editing service at our site! Plagiarism-free editing! More importantly, it may also have served to deaden the real pains attendant upon the British commitment to the American-led campaign: in spite of the short-term gains in public popularity at home, the Attlee government would suffer serious internal divisions as an indirect result, while the economic costs of the associated, US-sponsored rearmament programme may have delayed post-war economic recovery.Whatever political or economic pain afflicted the British was, of course, as nothing compared to the suffering experienced by Koreans in the course of a devastating conflict in which the savagery characteristic of civil wars was compounded by ruthless political vendettas and the mass destruction inherent in the application of advanced weaponry. It is to some of the most painful aspects of perhaps the least studied, and to outsiders least understood, phases of the conflict – the UN occupation of the North between October and December 1950 – that Bruce Cumings devotes his contribution to this volume. As Cumings points out, the occupation of the North has been largely lost, if not to Korean memory then certainly to those official and orthodox histories of the war which have, in Jon Halliday's words, sustained ‘one silence’ about the subject. Here Cumings adds to his prodigious work on the origins of the conflict a detailed account of the occupation, documenting and confirming Daily Telegraph journalist Reginald Thompson's first-hand assessment: that ‘few people can have suffered so terrible a liberation’.
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In his contribution, Peter Lowe summarizes some of the latest scholarship dealing with the relationship between Stalin, Mao and Kim Il Sung, particularly for the light it throws on North Korean behaviour in 1950. Rather than being the pliant instrument of Communist expansionism controlled by Moscow, as in traditional accounts, such work confirms that Kim had his own agenda and had to work hard to win the support of a cautious Stalin for his reunification plans. Essay writing service for busy students: do not skip your opportunity to try Essay writing service with discount of 5%! Unique offer! Only following the North Korean setbacks in the wake of UN landings at Inchon did Kim, backed by Stalin, turn to an equally cautious Mao for assistance. Lowe's primary concern, however, is with another aspect of the war, which has also generated scholarly discussion, particularly since documentary materials became available under the British thirty year rule: the ways in which the conflict affected Anglo–American relations.Lowe focuses on four issues: the debate over the crossing of the 38th parallel in the autumn of 1950; the role, influence and objectives of the UN Commander in Korea, General Douglas MacArthur; the deadlock in the armistice talks during the autumn of 1952; and the subsequent prospects for both an end to the conflict in Korea and a broader East–West détente. In common with other historians, he finds British policy to have been informed by a complex of motives. In backing Washington's decision to use armed force in Korea (and subsequently to cross the 38th parallel) under the umbrella of the United Nations, for example, London not only sought to defend the UN Charter, support collective security, punish unprovoked aggression and resist Communist expansion (explanations cited by policy-makers at the time and thereafter). Perhaps to a greater degree, both Labour and Conservative governments were also motivated by the conviction that the future viability of the Atlantic alliance – and Britain's status within it – necessitated British support, diplomatic and military, for American action. This support was not, however, unqualified: qualms about distraction, over-commitment and a potentially wider war in Asia, the motives and behaviour of General MacArthur, and the influence of domestic American politics in general (and an isolationist Republican right wing in particular) all informed thinking in Downing Street and Whitehall. Compounding the difficulties experienced by a Truman administration under pressure from both its political opponents at home and its military adversaries and allies in Korea, the resultant British anxieties, dissatisfaction with and occasional alarm about US policy only added friction to the Anglo–American alliance.
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