2. U.S. presses China on military intentions
3. Maori model could restore local pride
4. Chinook.
5. A letter to Micah Kane, DHHL Director
6. Blue Planet's "Green" Environmental Summit - a response from henry
curtis - other viewpoints to follow
7. OHA v. State, Supreme Court questions abuse of Hawaiian - comment
8. Saying "NO!" To Sellouts On "Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With
Hawai`i's Future"
9. 1st round temaru 20 tong sang 27 -- tahiti sovereignty update
10. Free Hawai`i TV - "Help Stop The Ceded Land Sell Out"
11. Extreme Home Makeover - Hawai`i Version - On "Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future"
12. KU I KA PONO COMM MTGS SCHEDULE
13. HI Superferry: China's JHSV equivalent military fast ferry
14. Next Up: UH-Monsanto
15. Photos of the Buddhist Relics at KCC
1. Disappeared News - 2 new articles
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:04:01 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES - www.disappearednews.com
1. New York City's proposed traffic solution for 1931
2.Will Congress cave in to Bush on the Protect America Act?
3.More Recent Articles
4.Search Disappeared News
New York City's proposed traffic solution for 1931
I wonder if they appointed a technical committee to come up with this.
Honolulu isn't even thinking about what to do about the traffic. We
haven't even taken the first baby steps. (click for large) 2-Level
Streets to Speed TrafficProposed Development Of 2nd Ave. in Manhattan,
N.Y. City This artist's sketch illustrates the two-level highway to be
built in New York for relief of traffic....
Will Congress cave in to Bush on the Protect America Act?
by Larry Geller There seems to be a misunderstanding in the media about
how the House voted not to extend the Protect America Act for another 21
days. Although Bush and the media are excoriating the Democrats, all 195
Republicans who voted on the matter voted against it. So while the Senate
has already capitulated to Bush and voted to grant retroactive immunity
to the phone companies that....
More Recent Articles
* War on dissent
* B-2 Bomber visits Oahu again, not first time as reported
* Superferry gone early, what to write about now...
* Super-contraband-ferry
* Commemorative Superferry pictures
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2. U.S. presses China on military intentions
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:11:56 -0500
From: DLIMay7@aol.com
The GALL of these Evil Empire reps is unbelievable! The biggest and
baddest state-sponsored terrorists in the world are issuing warnings to
other upstarts, "Don't mess with us"?
On the other hand, I do believe the local resistance in Iraq, Afghanistan
and elsewhere have already answered the Imperialist Bully, and quite
convincingly at that!
Peace & Imua, Danny
-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Kajihiro <keboi@aol.com>
Sent: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 5:26 pm
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080216/FOREIGN/516926133/1001
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3. Maori model could restore local pride
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:21:03 +0000
From: Ana <uriohau@gmail.com>
more maori in oz stuff and spin here,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=252&objectid=10491857
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4. Chinook.
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:44:49 -0800
From: Tia Ballantine
TEACH US AND SHOW US THE WAY
We call upon the earth, our planet home, with its beautiful depths and
soaring
heights, its vitality and abundance of life, and together we ask that it
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the mountains, the Cascades and the Olympics, the high green
valleys and meadows filled with wild flowers, the snows that never melt,
the
summits of intense silence, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow
in our
rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields and we ask that
they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the land that grows our food, the nurturing soil, the
fertile fields,
the abundant gardens and orchards, and we ask that they
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the forests, the great trees reaching strongly to the sky
with earth in
their roots and the heavens in their branches, the fir and the pine and
the
cedar, and we ask them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon the creatures of the fields and forests and the seas, our
brothers and
sisters the wolves and deer, the eagle and dove, the great whales and the
dolphin,
the beautiful Orca and salmon who share our Northwest home, and we ask
them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
We call upon all those who have lived on this earth, our ancestors and
our friends,
who dreamed the best for future generations, and upon whose lives our
lives are
built, and with thanksgiving, we call upon them to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
And lastly, we call upon all that we hold most sacred, the presence and
power of
the Great Spirit of love and truth which flows through all the Universe,
to be with
us to
Teach us, and show us the Way.
--Anonymous, Chinook.
--From: The Essential Mystics: Selections from
the World's Great Wisdom Traditions. Andrew Harvey, ed.
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5. A letter to Micah Kane, DHHL Director
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:27:01 -0700
From: monets001@hawaii.rr.com
Fellow Native Hawaiian Micah Kane, trustee
DHHL, State of Hawaii
Hawaiian Homes Commission
1099 Alakea St. #2000
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 February 17, 2008
Alo-ha Director Kane and DHHL commissioners,
In his book "The Audacity of Hope" presidential candidate Barack Obama
describes Hope as a compelling human force that can overcome persecution,
suffering and pain. Hope is a compelling emotion humans share with no
other creature. The U.S. Congress gave native Hawaiians hope in 1921 by
enacting the Hawaiian Homes Act. This Act gave you a job; but more
importantly, it gave Hawaiians hope. In 1993 USPL 103-150, the Apology
Bill, gave Hawaiians hope again. This time it allowed Hawaiians to dream
of being free from foreign oppression. Unfortunately, State and local
politicians, administrators like you and your staff, police and
prosecutors and the lower courts did not realize the ramifications or the
extent of the trust obligations implied in the Apology Bill until January
2008. Hope drove Martin Luther King. Hope is a life raft in an ocean of
despair. Hope drove the Kamoku family to oppose you. Over the years, you
have contributed to hopelessness. You have refused to provide a life raft
to the drowning.
On January 31, 2008 the Hawaii Supreme Court gave you your instructions.
It clearly defined your trustee obligations under the law. It ordered you
to do no harm to native Hawaiians, your beneficiaries. To breach the
trust/beneficiary fiduciary responsibility violates the law. Yet, you and
your agent Kumu Vasconcelles continued, that afternoon at hearing, to
relentlessly and lawlessly pursue the Kamokus whose only "crime" was to
bruise your ego. You dashed their hope. You may have even killed. The
high court's order was in affect on the day of the hearing before Judge
Ibarra.
I have and will continue to try to bring hope to the Kamoku family. On
the other side, I will do everything I can to dash your hope. You hope
that I will quit my assault on DHHL, you and your staff. Your hope can
only be realized when you restore hope to the Kamoku family. It is and
has been in your power. You had the power to withdraw or quit your
assault on the trust beneficiaries, yet refused. Now you are hostage in
your own building, surrounded by people who like Lokelani Lindsey's staff,
will if given the chance to testify under oath, expose your crimes for all
to see.
To provide the Kamoku family with hope, I will do all that I can to allow
those people to witness against you and your co-conspirators. Your reign
of terror is near an end. I hope you realize that. It is not too late to
change.
On February 15, 2008, I went to your fancy offices at "ali'i place" to
file my application for Hawaiian homeland. I clearly stated on the
application that I am NOT more than 25% Hawaiian. James Kamoku and I have
agreed that we will file a lawsuit only if his family is evicted. We are
not being vindictive, we just believe that what is good for the goose,
should be good for the gander. It is also a matter of HOPE. I got the
ball rolling just in case; with the option to withdraw. The Federal Court
has already "certified" my Hawaiianess. The complaint will seek an order
allowing ALL HAWAIIANS to get on the ceded lands, even after mom or dad
die. James will go after you and others for conspiracy, breach of
fiduciary, fraud, an audit and perhaps theft and some good old time in the
can too. It would be justice served.
On the morning of the 15th, as I got out of the elevator at on the 20th
floor, I saw you walking away, a cell phone in your ear, then you made a
left turn past the reception area. I asked to see you. Vicki made a call
and then said you were "not in". I asked to see Francis Apoliona.
Francis told Vicki he did not want to talk to me. I made it clear to
Vicki that I was there, a beneficiary, who wanted to speak to my trustee.
Again you refused. That was the second time I went there to talk to you.
When Alfred Spinney wrote and said "bad things" about you, you pursued him
and the Kamoku family with vigor, holding your bogus hearings and getting
your dogs to chase down the game. You and your buddies laughed about it
at the office. You should have been more careful.
On the morning I filed my application at your office, as I left my boat I
noticed a small, black rock along the breakwall near my boat, moving. It
was an octopus as black as the lava rocks, completely out of the water,
crawling among the rocks hunting aama crab. Its tentacles searching the
crevices. The sea creature snagged a crab then dragged it into the water.
I thought, today, we go on offense.
I have been saying things about you too. I am certain you do not like it.
I came to your office twice to see you. Both times you hid from me.
What's up with that Brah? You hide like the crab. The octopus will use
every legal tentacle to get the crab. We still offer Mamalahoa and
compromise. We hope you take it. You can still do the right thing. The
other side of Mamalahoa is conflict. James is a free safety. He is the
last line of defense when the enemy gets into the backfield. All of the
team's hope is on him. James is good at what he does. He never gives up
on the play. I like the ball. I like to catch it or carry it.
Like Hawaiians, over the years, black people have been oppressed by mean
and vindictive white, people of color (ignorant or misguided Hawaiians),
and foreigners who are without the breath of life (ha-ole); yet the black
people still had hope, Obama is that hope. Unlike black people, Hawaiians
are the original people of these islands. The courts and congress
recognize that and have given us special status because the United States
committed wrong and they want to correct that wrong. To do that, they
apologized and now the Hawaii court has reinforced the implications of the
federal acts. It starts with the apology, then the corrective acts. You
must do that. It might make you feel good to do something good for
someone other than yourself. I hope you do the right thing in this
instance.
The Supreme Court has given you guidance. Take their instructions. It is
your way to right the wrong, the power is in your hands, and ball is in
your court. I hope you see the error of your ways. It is your only hope.
Read the book, it is a guide out of hopelessness. Let it inspire and
guide you. Our reason to hope relies on you.
A'ohe han nui ke alu'ia...
No task is too big when done together by all
Sam Monet
1741 Ala Moana Blvd. #98
Honolulu, Hi 96815
258-1611
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6. Blue Planet's "Green" Environmental Summit - a response from henry
curtis - other viewpoints to follow
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:57:40 -1000
From: Henry Curtis <henry.lifeoftheland@gmail.com>
Aloha,
Blue Planet's "Green" Environmental Summit (Ihilani Resort, O`ahu, April
3-5. closed to the public)
Background
Blue Planet first proposed state funding for a concert (HB 646 - 2007,
author Rep Morita) ''The Blue Planet Festival will bring world-class
entertainers to join local musicians at an event powered entirely by
clean energy sources.''
Life of the Land noted at the Legislative hearings that claiming to use
clean energy and using biofuels from unknown sources is not the same
thing.
The Outdoor Circle objected to the Blue Planet Festival proposal to
remove 15 shade trees at Magic Island that would block views of the stage
(www.outdoorcircle.org/blog)
The Blue Planet Brocure is interesting (download at
www.blueplanetsummit.org/index.php?sc=brochure&pg=aa). It states that the
Hawaii NGOs attending will be: Dr. Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey,
Ramsey Taum, Kelly King (Pacific Biodiesel) and Paul Hanrahan (President
and CEO, AES Corp: owner of 180 MW coal plant in Kalaeloa) and goes on to
say:
''The first event of its kind, Blue Planet Summit 2008 will gather
luminaries from various disciplines to share ideas and to find new,
workable answers. The Summit will also celebrate achievements and
recognize real accomplishments to inspire people around the world with
the power of human imagination to solve our energy crisis.''
In reaction to emails by Hawaiian activists, we have been led to believe
that three NGOs have been added: Nature Conservancy (adaptation is the
answer to climate change), the Kokua Foundation and Sierra Club.
The rest of the community will not be able to attend, participate, etc.
Sort of like President Bush's Climate Summit. The way to handle local
groups is to bring in big names from elsewhere.
Henry
--
Henry Curtis, Executive Director, Life of the Land, 76 N. King Street,
Suite 203, Honolulu, HI 96817. phone: 808-533-3454. cell: 808-927-0709.
Web Site: http://www.lifeofthelandhawaii.org/
email:henry.lifeoftheland@gmail.com
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7. OHA v. State, Supreme Court questions abuse of Hawaiian - comment
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:56:45 -1000
From: Scott Crawford <scott@aloha.net>
How about Hawaiian national lands?
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8. Saying "NO!" To Sellouts On "Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With
Hawai`i's Future"
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:01:41 -0800
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>
Aloha `aina,
A few days ago we announced on http://FreeHawaii.Info a brand new Stop
Akaka Bill website (http://StopAkakaBill.com)
Since then thousands of people the world over have visited the site and
learned what this bill, federal recognition imposed on native Hawaiians,
would actually do should it ever become law.
Of course, the outcome would not be good.
You'll find short videos, a section explaining why Hawai`i is not part of
the US, a true and false quiz and a section that answers what you can do
to help prevent this bad idea from ever becoming law.
Whether you want to educate yourself and your `ohana or learn how to
explain in simple terms to others why this legislation would be so
dangerous, visit http://StopAkakaBill.com
In short, http://StopAkakaBill.com is a quick and easy way to discover the
truth about the plan to legitimize the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian
Nation, and exactly who would benefit from it and why.
This coming Saturday at noon "Why The OHA Settlement Is A Bad Deal," will
be presented at Kamakakuokalani, the Center for Hawaiian Studies at
University of Hawai`i Manoa campus on O`ahu about the recently proposed
ceded lands settlement crafted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
Be sure and attend if you live on O`ahu to learn the facts about why this
is pure sellout. If you live elsewhere, we'll keep you up to date on Free
Hawai`i TV.
If you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network, please
email this to a friend and see below how you can help us continue our
work.
Fact from fiction - that's what we're committed to bringing you each week
on Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.
MONDAY, February 18th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, February 22nd At 5:30 PM -
Hawai`i Island - Na Leo, Channel 53
TUESDAY, February 19th At 6:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, February 20th At 6:30 AM -
Maui - Akaku, Channel 53
"Modern Konohiki - A Visit With Ke`eaumoku Kapu"
"What is the destiny in your life?
"What is the history of this place and is there a place suitable for me?"
These are questions that drive the spirit of Ke`eaumoku Kapu, modern day
warrior and protector of the `aina.
A former construction worker building houses and highways, Ke`eaumoku's
first awakening came during the 1993 Onipa`a March in Honolulu.
The second occurred when he found himself actually making concrete parts
for the H-3 freeway, which eventually caused the desecration of ancient
sites in Halawa Valley on O`ahu.
Needing to earn money to feed his family, he kept asking himself, "Is what
I'm doing pono, is it just? Is the knowledge I'm acquiring through the
corporate system legitimate, based on my life as an island person and
Kanaka Maoli?"
Soon thereafter he walked in, quit his job and dedicated the rest of his
life to answering the question, "Is there a way to create just with the
unjust?"
Today he and his wife run no less than five associations dedicated to
serving those threatened with losing their family land to corporate
development.
Don't miss Ke`eaumoku as he leads us through his own awakening that took
him from someone whose life was run by US corporations to the warrior he
is today who sits on the County of Maui Cultural Resources Commission and
the Native Hawaiian Historic Preservation Council. See for yourself how he
realized the "contemporary management system has nothing to do with our
upbringing as Kanaka Maoli," and the words he lives by - "we must do
whatever we can because our land is at stake."
THURSDAY, February 21st At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, February 22nd At 8:30 AM -
Kaua`i - Ho`ike, Channel 52 "Hidden In The Forest - A Visit With Dr. Baron
Kaho`ola Ching"
Deep in a rain forest in Nu`uanu Valley sits one of the most remarkable
sites in all Hawai`i.
Imagine a place lost in time and space to the modern world - Kaniakapupu.
A palatial summer residence for Kauikeaoli, Kamehameha III, Kaniakapupu
was built over one hundred seventy years ago spanning twenty thousand
acres.
Ka La Ho`i Ho`i Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day, was celebrated on the
site in 1843 with over ten thousand guests attending.
Several key documents in Hawaiian history were drafted there and many of
Hawai`i's future rulers visited the residence as children.
Then time swallowed up and forgot Kaniakapupu until one day a few years
back Baron cut through thick bamboo forests to rediscover it for himself.
What he saw stopped him in his tracks.
Since then, Baron has overseen the caretaking of this astounding place
that time forgot.
Whatever you do, don't miss our visit with Baron to Kaniakapupu. One of
the most unique places in all of Hawai`i, you'll go with us hiking through
dense rain forest as we come face to face ourselves with the ancient
residence and artifacts left untouched for almost two centuries in this
incredible voyage of rediscovery that is sure to take your breath away.
SATURDAY, February 23rd At 8:00 PM - O`ahu - `Olelo, Channel 53 "Hale
Halawai - Monument To Activists - A Visit With Soli Papakihei Niheu"
People were concerned about longtime Hawaiian political activist Soli
Papakihei Niheu.
In poor health and living in an old one-room structure in Waimea, his
friends knew he needed something better.
So they decided to act. They collected contributions, both money and
materials, and soon had enough resources to build him a new house.
That's when Soli stepped forward to let them know he didn't want a house.
Instead he wanted the one thing missing in Hawai`i that's common
throughout most other islands in the Pacific - a hale halawai.
Similar to the Maori marae in Aotearoa, (New Zealand,) hale halawai is a
formal meeting place to receive and host visitors from far and wide,
through Hawaiian protocol and hospitality.
Soli saw his hale halawai as a place to host sovereignty movement
activists from all over Te Moana Nui - The Polynesian Triangle.
Because Soli had dedicated his life to serving others, they knew they now
had to do the same thing for him.
So they built it for him.
In our moving and highly inspirational visit with Soli, you'll hear him
tell his story and see the pictures for yourself of how his hale halawai
became reality. Surviving two earthquakes and many other challenges, Soli
persevered in his vision of having both a monument to his heroes, the
early pioneers of the sovereignty movement, as well as a place for today
to teach the young.
Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to
discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants
in the hopes of inspiring viewers to do the same.
Please consider a donation today to help further our work. Every single
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9. 1st round temaru 20 tong sang 27 -- tahiti sovereignty update
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:41:31 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>
FLOSSE LOSER IN TAHITI POLLS, TO SUPPORT TONG SANG
PAPEETE, Tahiti (Tahitipresse, Feb. 11, 2008) - The day after his most
humiliating political defeat in a 30-year career, Gaston Flosse announced
on an Internet blog Monday that former political party lieutenant and now
new rival "Gaston Tong Sang will be elected president of (French)
Polynesia". During an interview posted on Christine Bourne's blog Tahiti
Today, Flosse said his pro-France, pro-Tahiti autonomy political party
would support Tong Sang, the upset winner in Sunday's second round of
general election voting. Bourne is a former political commentator for a
local French language daily newspaper. However, Flosse denied he had any
intention of "throwing in the towel" following his defeat. That major
upset left him and his Tahoera'a Huiraatira party with only 10 of the 57
seats in the French Polynesia Assembly. The upset winner for the second
time since the Jan. 27 first round of general election voting was Tong
Sang, whose eight-party pro-France, pro-autonomy coalition won 27 seats,
while incumbent French Polynesia President Oscar Temaru's coalition won 20
seats.
Pacific Islands Report briefs for: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
www.pireport.org.
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10. Free Hawai`i TV - "Help Stop The Ceded Land Sell Out"
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:46:30 -0800
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>
FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS
FREE HAWAI`I TV
THE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK
TODAY'S VIDEO COMMENTARY -
"HELP STOP THE CEDED LAND SELL OUT"
Valuable Hawaiian Lands Are About To Be Traded Away By The Office Of
Hawaiian Affairs.
Watch & Learn What You Can Do To Stop Them.
To View Visit http://FreeHawaiiTV.com
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11. Extreme Home Makeover - Hawai`i Version - On "Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future"
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:29:17 -0800
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>
Aloha `aina,
A big mahalo to everyone who submitted testimony or turned out yesterday
at the Hawai`i legislature to protest the attempted give away of valuable
ceded lands to the "state" government by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
This travesty is outrageous for two reasons.
First, the lands they would give up are worth millions, and they never
consulted the Hawaiian community before secretly negotiating the deal
behind closed doors.
Second, it's not their land to give away.
How can one bunch of US bureaucrats give something to another bunch of US
bureaucrats if it's stolen property to begin with?
Stay tuned to Free Hawai`i TV for breaking news. We'll keep you posted on
what you can do to kokua - to help stop this theft in it's tracks.
By the way, if you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting
Network, please email this to a friend and see below for how you can help
us continue our work.
Mahalo nui also to everyone who let us know how much you enjoyed our new
show with Ke`eaumoku Kapu.
We continue this week with yet another new Voices Of Truth, and it's one
we've wanted to bring you for some time.
Soli Niheu, a long-time activist who lives on Hawai`i island, needed a
new house and got one.
But this wasn't your typical home makeover. He wanted and got the one
thing he felt was missing in Hawai`i - a hale halawai.
See for yourself why we're so pleased to bring you Soli's story, and why
he's such an inspiration for us all this week on Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.
MONDAY, February 11th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, February 15th At 5:30 PM -
Hawai`i Island - Na Leo, Channel 53
TUESDAY, February 12th At 6:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, February 13th At 6:30 AM -
Maui - Akaku, Channel 53
THURSDAY, February 14th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, February 15th At 8:30 AM -
Kaua`i - Ho`ike, Channel 52
"Modern Konohiki - A Visit With Ke`eaumoku Kapu"
"What is the destiny in your life?
"What is the history of this place and is there a place suitable for me?"
These are questions that drive the spirit of Ke`eaumoku Kapu, modern day
warrior and protector of the `aina.
A former construction worker building houses and highways, Ke`eaumoku's
first awakening came during the 1993 Onipa`a March in Honolulu.
The second occurred when he found himself actually making concrete parts
for the H-3 freeway, which eventually caused the desecration of ancient
sites in Halawa Valley on O`ahu.
Needing to earn money to feed his family, he kept asking himself, "Is
what I'm doing pono, is it just? Is the knowledge I'm acquiring through
the corporate system legitimate, based on my life as an island person and
Kanaka Maoli?"
Soon thereafter he walked in, quit his job and dedicated the rest of his
life to answering the question, "Is there a way to create just with the
unjust?"
Today he and his wife run no less than five associations dedicated to
serving those threatened with losing their family land to corporate
development.
Don't miss Ke`eaumoku as he leads us through his own awakening that took
him from someone whose life was run by US corporations to the warrior he
is today who sits on the County of Maui Cultural Resources Commission and
the Native Hawaiian Historic Preservation Council. See for yourself how
he realized the "contemporary management system has nothing to do with
our upbringing as Kanaka Maoli," and the words he lives by - "we must do
whatever we can because our land is at stake."
SATURDAY, February 16th At 8:00 PM - O`ahu - `Olelo, Channel 53
"Hale Halawai - Monument To Activists - A Visit With Soli Papakihei
Niheu"
People were concerned about longtime Hawaiian political activist Soli
Papakihei Niheu.
In poor health and living in an old one-room structure in Waimea, his
friends knew he needed something better.
So they decided to act. They collected contributions, both money and
materials, and soon had enough resources to build him a new house.
That's when Soli stepped forward to let them know he didn't want a house.
Instead he wanted the one thing missing in Hawai`i that's common
throughout most other islands in the Pacific - a hale halawai.
Similar to the Maori marae in Aotearoa, (New Zealand,) hale halawai is a
formal meeting place to receive and host visitors from far and wide,
through Hawaiian protocol and hospitality.
Soli saw his hale halawai as a place to host sovereignty movement
activists from all over Te Moana Nui - The Polynesian Triangle.
Because Soli had dedicated his life to serving others, they knew they now
had to do the same thing for him.
So they built it for him.
In our moving and highly inspirational visit with Soli, you'll hear him
tell his story and see the pictures for yourself of how his hale halawai
became reality. Surviving two earthquakes and many other challenges, Soli
persevered in his vision of having both a monument to his heroes, the
early pioneers of the sovereignty movement, as well as a place for today
to teach the young.
Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to
discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants
in the hopes of inspiring viewers to do the same.
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12. KU I KA PONO COMM MTGS SCHEDULE
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:48:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Kekahuna Keaweiwi <kekahunakeaweiwi@yahoo.com>
No offense to the people with koko........this is Americans supporting
Americans!
Just like all the people who sign up for the kau inoa that we see on tv.
No matter what anyone says....you support this settlement, OHA, AKAKA BILL
KAU INOA.....you American. And when you go behind the peoples back and
wheel-n-deal, you lie to the tupunas`....you acting just like an
American.....mahaoe.
.....nough already!!! Please all you groups that get funded by OHA...and
OHA too...be honest and malama the people. if you continue to be part of
the hewa...the people who get offended and react in
negative....not-so-nice ways back to you is understandble.
If you kanaka maoli....and you know our ways....be proud of who you are
and for your true country!!! But, if you proud of being American....then
leave our people and our aina alone....don't mahaoe.
No matter if you a native Hawaiian National or an American.....if you get
koko, then you know it is mahaoe to be playing this OHA/State of HAwaii
game.
Foster
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"kanikapu@yahoo.com" <kanikapu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Aloha aina,
My understanding is that OHA has contracted Ilio to do community
education. However, we need to be aware or BEWARE that community education
should have come first followed by input and feedback from the Lahui..
Community education is pretty much a one way dialogue in this case,
designed to convince... Them telling us what they did for us and answering
any questions we may have, to pacify.
OHA exists because of US therefore doesn't it make sense that we should
have input on the design and construction of this settlement for back
bread on stolen lands, IF we had come to the conclusion as a Lahui, that
we collectively agreed to "consent" to letting OHA receive some bread to
alleviate the impacts of the overthrow while we still wait for the bigger
picture of reconciliation, restitution, reparations or whatever?
I heard that Ilio is getting big bucks from OHA to hold these meetings,
still troughing it..
andre
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"Manu C. Kaiama" <ckaiama@hawaii.edu> wrote:
aloha e kaleikoa ma,
i do not know. i have not been a part of ilio for years now. my
concern is that ku i ka pono's original vision was to bring hawaiians, no
matter what your politics, religion, mea mea, together to unify for
"justice." to utilize the name now to do work for oha is hewa for me
personally. perhaps i am incorrect and ilio is not doing work for oha, if
so, e kala mai....i still really care about many of those warriors, just
can't participate anymore.
manu
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Date sent: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:36:41 -1000
From: Kaleikoa Ka'eo <skaeo@hawaii.edu>
Aloha,
For clarification.
Are these forums under 'Ilio'ulaokalani? OHA? 'Ilio'ulaokalani in
support of OHA? Or has 'Ilio'ulaokalani taken up the PR campaign for OHA?
Kaleikoa
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Manu C. Kaiama wrote:
isaac,
would it be too much to ask that ilio not use the "ku i ka pono" name for
such activities?....that movement is long dead with your board's current
goals.
mahalo,
manu
ps...saying the you didn't know about these activities is not good enough,
if it comes in the name of ilio, you, too, are responsible.
malama oukou!
Date sent: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:21:33 -1000
From: "Isaac D. Harp" <Imua-Hawaii@Hawaii.RR.Com>
Send reply to: Hui_Pu@yahoogroups.com
I didn't know about these forums either and I am still an 'IlioBoard
member...
Some 'Ilio Board members have decided to support Kau Inoa, while
others like myself oppose Kau Inoa. I believe that Kau Inoa will be used
to further US visions of erasing their unlawfulhistory in Hawaii.
Othersmay feel that future OHA and federal funding may be jeopardized if
they don't follow Pinocchio, ah, I mean OHA...
Isaac
----- Original Message -----
From: Lc
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:55 AM
i didn't know vicky folks were going to do these forums. there are
other opportunities to discuss the public trust lands settlement bill.
lc
----- Original Message ----- From: Vicky Takamine
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 8:45 AM
Aloha Kakou, Can you please forward this schedule out to
everyone..we're holding community meetings to talk about several bills,
resolutions going through the legislature.
GMO Kalo SB 2895
Bioprospecting Report to the Legislature
OHA Settlement Proposal
Con Con
I've attached a schedule of the meetings, some of the venues have
yet to be confirmed but I want to get this out asap so people can look out
for our notices...
Mahalo!
--Manu Ka`iama
Kamakakuokalani; 2645 Dole Street
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96822
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13. HI Superferry: China's JHSV equivalent military fast ferry
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:50:06 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>
HI Superferry: China's JHSV military fast ferry
Chinese military fast ferry above.
There has been a lot of information come out in the past month on the
JHSV. I will publish a survey of that. For now, I just wanted to get this
out. China's equivalent JHSV military fast ferry. This is what the
Neocon's are worried about:
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2008/01/Australia%27s-role-in-China%27s-naval-expansion.aspx
Aloha, Brad
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14. Next Up: UH-Monsanto
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:00:17 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
...unless, from the demilnet perspective, it's Naval University-Manoa...
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MONSANTO U: AGRIBUSINESS'S TAKEOVER OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
By Nancy Scola, AlterNet
Posted on February 15, 2008, Printed on February 17, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/76804/
I've startled a bug scientist. "Yeah, now I'm nervous," said Mike
Hoffmann, a Cornell University entomologist and crop specialist who spends
his days with cucumber beetles and small wasps. But he's also in charge of
keeping the research funding flowing at Cornell's College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences. What have I done to alarm him? I've drawn his attention
to the newly released FY 2009 Presidential Budget.
Like more than a hundred public institutions of higher learning, Cornell
is what's known as a "land grant." Dotting the United States from Ithaca,
N.Y., to Pullman, Wash., such schools were established by a Civil War-era
act of Congress to provide universities centered around, "the agriculture
and mechanic arts." Congress handed each U.S. state a chunk of federal
land to be sold for start-up monies, and for the last 150 years, it has
funded ground-breaking research on all things agriculture, from dirt to
crops to cattle.
The land-grant system has been, in short, a high-yield investment. The
scientific research that has come out of land-grant labs and fields have
aided millions of farmers and fed millions of Americans. And the
land-grant reach doesn't stop at ocean's edge. Oklahoma State, the Sooner
State's land grant, says that the public funding of land-grant research
"has benefited every man, woman and child in the United States and much of
the world."
That was until America's land-grant system met George W. Bush. Tucked into
the appendix of his latest national budget is a nearly one-third cut in
the public funding for agriculture research at the land grants. The size
of the cut is surprising, but not its existence -- it's part of a
multiyear drive by the Bush administration to completely eliminate regular
public research funding. In a press briefing last week, a USDA deputy
secretary illuminated the Bush administration's rationale for the
transition to competitive grant making: "That's how you get the most bang
for the buck."
Wallace Huffman, an Iowa State agro-economist, is deeply unimpressed with
Bush's "bang" approach to land-grant research. "There's a sense in the
president's office that you invest in research like you invest in building
cars," Huffman told me last week. Land-grant school officials are
similarly skeptical. In a survey, Kansas State argued that the loss of
regular funding would upend education. Minnesota complained that cuts
would undermine ongoing research projects. North Dakota simply asked,
"What is the future of ag research?"
Good question. A reasonable answer? The future of agricultural research at
America's land-grant institutions belongs to biotech conglomerates like
Monsanto. And it seems likely that it's a future of chemical-dependent,
genetically modified, bio-engineered agriculture.
In stark contrast to how the federal government and many states are
wallowing in red ink, the St. Louis-based Monsanto boasted more than $7
billion in annual sales in 2007 -- simply the latest in four years of
record-smashing profits. And so when our president says that the time has
come for public land-grant institutions to get cracking at "leveraging
nonfederal resources," you can be sure that Monsanto's ears perk.
But, it doesn't take a presidential invitation to get Monsanto to sink its
roots in the land-grant system. Those roots are already planted. Iowa
State's campus boasts a Monsanto Auditorium and the school offers students
Monsanto-funded graduate fellowships on seed policy with a special focus
on "the protection of intellectual property rights." Kansas State has spun
off Wildcat Genetics, a side company whose purpose is the selling of
soybean seeds genetically engineered to survive the application of
Roundup(R) -- the result of a decades long relationship with Monsanto, the
pesticide's maker.
But don't get the wrong idea about Monsanto's land-grant activities. By
that, I mean, don't think the company is the only multinational biotech
conglomerate firmly rooted in American land-grant soil.
Head on down to Texas A&M. There you'll find the a chair for the "Dow
Chemical Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering." Similar
chairs exist at West Virginia State and Louisiana State. The agricultural
college of the University of California at Davis is funded in part by
DuPont and Calgene.
The University of California at Berkeley's Plant and Microbiology
Department entered into a $25 million/five-year quasi-exclusive research
agreement with the Swiss-based Novartis, which then became Syngenta, which
now funds the land-grant research group on soybean fungi. In 2005, Purdue,
Indiana's land-grant school, developed an application of the so-called
Terminator gene pioneered by Delta Pine and Land Co.; school officials and
researchers later took to the hustings when the public resisted the idea
of self-sterilizing plants.
But the agricultural industry's relationship with the land-grant system is
not an entirely new development. In 1973, former Texas agricultural
commissioner and activist Jim Hightower lamented the situation in his
landmark report, Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of America's Land
Grant College Complex.
But the world of agriculture is today a far, far different place than when
Hightower wrote.
For one thing, in the early 1970s Monsanto was still a decade away from
genetically modifying its very first plant cell. For another, back then
the federal government was still committed to providing steady research
funding.
And, importantly, it was neither possible nor profitable for our nation's
bastions of higher learning to be players in the global agribusiness. But
intervening tectonic shifts in American public policy help us to
understand why a public institution like Purdue would fight so darn hard
to defend a biotech advance like the Terminator gene: in a manner of
speaking, they own the thing.
Jump ahead to 1980, when the U.S. Supreme Court under Warren Burger
decided that, as long as they'd been tweaked from their natural state,
living organisms from seeds to microbes or Terminator genes could be
patented just as if they were a new cotton gin or tractor blade. And in
that same year, Congress gave universities a kick towards the marketplace
by encouraging institutions to file patent claims on the discoveries and
inventions of their faculty researchers -- no matter if their work was
funded in whole or in part by taxpayer dollars.
The summed effect was that, suddenly, a public institution like Purdue had
a great deal of motivation for working with Delta Pine and Land Co. to see
if they might make a buck off their biotech invention in the marketplace.
What's more, the policy shift made it so individual lab geeks themselves
stood to profit, eligible for a large slice of whatever windfall their
discovery generated.
As the biotech industry has since exploded, the impact on the land-grant
system is perhaps not unexpected. "Researchers want to be at both the
cutting edge of science and the cutting edge of the marketplace," says
Andrew Neighbour, until recently the director of UCLA's office on the
business applications of faculty research. (The entire University of
California system functions as that state's "land-grant institution.") And
so the advent of patentable and profitable plants (and animals, for that
matter) has meant a shift in research focus away new knowledge and towards
the creation of marketable products.
The land-grant institutions find themselves in a pickle. "On the one
hand," says Paul Gepts, professor of agronomy and plant genetics at UC
Davis, schools pushed into the free market have developed the habit of
patenting research and found a taste for private business deals. But on
the other hand, "they have a public role where the information they
produce should be available to all."
As things stand, "public universities," says Dr. Gepts, "are a
contradiction."
This embrace of patents and profits means that land-grant agricultural
research centers today are not playgrounds of academic collaboration they
once were. "Things have changed enormously," says William Folk, a plant
geneticist at the University of Missouri. "When I started in the '70s," he
recalls fondly, "meetings were filled with people criticizing each other
and sharing ideas." But today, he says "if you have an idea that has any
potential commercial value, you're reluctant to share."
Not surprisingly, school administrators argue that a negative reading of
the cozy relationship between agricultural researchers and biotech
corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta is hogwash. When asked, Neal Van
Alfen, dean of the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, acknowledges that about 20 percent of the $165 million annual
research budget is contributed by industry. But Dean Van Alfen is quick to
add, "It forms just one part of who we work with." Research conducted in
conjunction with industry interests, he insists, is simply one chunk of
"an awfully large amount of work."
But numbers and percentages don't tell the whole story, because of the way
that industry engages in the land-grant system. In short, they skim.
Here's how it works: (a) federal and state governments hand over taxpayer
money to build and sustain the basic infrastructure, without which
research can't hope to take place, then (b) the biotech industry injects
some smaller amount of much-needed cash into the system, and then (c)
agribusinesses skim off and patent the most promising (and potentially
profitable) discoveries that rise to the top.
Still, administrators argue, scientific professionalism keeps industry in
check -- a researcher who fudges his or her findings to curry industry
favor is in for a short career. But that line of reasoning misses the real
concern. What's alarming isn't that global agribusiness conglomerates like
Monsanto, Dow Chemical and DuPont are getting the answers they want from
our land-grant entomologists, agronomists and plant geneticists.
It's that at public institutions, private interests are the ones asking
the questions.
What must be kept in mind is that land-grant researchers are generally
expected to bring to the table their own research funding, and the
situation can already be fairly dire. When UC Davis' Paul Gepts comments
on how his institution's support is limited to a base salary, I attempt a
lame joke: "They give you a desk too, right?" Yes, he responds, but a
phone is another matter.
Faculty researchers are so hungry for funding that, says Missouri's
William Folk, "if companies want to entice researchers to work on their
projects, all they have to do is wave a bit of money." "The availability
of funds, he says, "makes an enormous difference in what we can do."
"We're opportunists," Folk says, with compassion, of himself and his
fellow researchers, "we go after money where it might be."
When it comes to how industry-university relations shape academic
research, UCLA's Andrew Neighbour is the person to talk to. While an
administrator at Washington University in St. Louis, Neighbour managed the
school's landmark multiyear and multimillion-dollar relationship with
Monsanto. (Note: WashU is a private institution.) "There's no question
that industry money comes with strings," Neighbour admits. "It limits what
you can do, when you can do it, who it has to be approved by."
And so the issue at hand becomes one of the questions that are being asked
at public land-grant schools. While Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, et al.,
are paying the bills, are agricultural researchers going to pursue such
lines of scientific inquiry as "How will this new corn variety impact the
independent New York farmer?" Or, "Will this new tomato make eaters
healthier?"
It seems far more likely that the questions that multinational biotech
conglomerates are willing to pay to have answered run along the lines of
"How can we keep growing our own bottom lines?"
I put it to Dr. Folk. "The companies are there to make money, no doubt,"
he responds.
What suffers for falling outside the scope of industry interest? Organic
farming, for one. The Organic Farming Research Foundation was founded in
the 1980s after, Executive Director Bob Scowcroft tells me, farmers
interested in weaning themselves from chemical dependence approached their
local land-grant outreach agents for help for pest management. As
Scowcroft tells it, their advice was invariably in the spirit of, "Well,
sure, I can tell you what to spray."
OFRF began arming land-grant researchers with modest grants but found that
academics interested in conducting organic-related research faced
obstacles beyond funding.
"Coming out of the organic closet could be the beginning of the end of
your career," says Scowcroft. Looking outside biotech agriculture is, he
says, "like throwing 30 years of the Green Revolution in your boss's
face." Today, says John Reganold, an OFRF grantee and apple researcher at
Washington State University, academics interested in organic farming "just
don't have the money to do what we need to do."
Also the subject of minimal industry attention: so-called orphan crops,
like sorghum and cassava, which feed millions of people in the developing
world but aren't considered patentable or profitable. UC Davis' Paul Gepts
is working to breed a disease-resistant variety of the East African common
bean, an important protein source for AIDS sufferers. He's turned to an
English charitable group for funding, and all involved have agreed to
resist patenting the plant -- once a useful variety is developed, the
science will be left in the public domain.
While it's clear that funding cash is the carrot used by agribusiness to
entice researchers into asking the questions industry is most interested
in having answered, there is a stick involved: corporately held patents
used to block them from asking others.
That's certainly been Paul Gepts's experience, when he thought he might
tackle the question of gene transfer in Mexican maize varieties. The
question, though, is a sensitive one for Monsanto, as one of the arguments
against transgenic crops is the difficulty in containing their spread --
raising the specter of a threat to the world's biodiversity. As the maize
he was interested in was patented by Monsanto, Gepts asked the company for
some samples. Their response: no way.
When I asked Gepts for his take on Monsanto's motivation for the refusal,
I hadn't yet finished the question when he answered: "Avoiding scrutiny,"
he said. Missouri's Folk seconds the contention that such private claims
on science impede research, saying, "Our ability to do science is
constrained by the patents held by agribusiness."
All this said, it's not fair to say that there hasn't been resistance
against public land-grant schools mutating into institutions of private
science. After Novartis had become involved in UC Berkeley's Department of
Plant and Microbiology, the school ordered an internal review by the
academic senate, which ultimately deemed the relationship "a mistake."
Lawrence Busch, a Berkeley faculty member who headed the review said at
its conclusion: "I think it is high time for serious discussions of what
the devil we want our universities to be."
When Mike Hoffmann -- the Cornell entomologist I startled by sharing
Bush's proposed budget cuts -- recovers from his shock, he offers his take
on "what the devil" our universities should be. The principle that should
guide Cornell, Berkeley, Missouri and our other land-grant institutions is
simple, he says: public funding for the public good. The mission of
America's centers of agricultural learning is, he concludes, "to produce
new knowledge for the public benefit. That's why we have the land-grant
system, and I think it's pretty important."
Nancy Scola is a Brooklyn-based writer who has in the past served as the
chief blogger at Air America, an aide to former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner,
as he explored a run for the presidency, and a congressional staffer on
the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
(C) 2008 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
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15. Photos of the Buddhist Relics at KCC
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:55:43 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
james and i also visited the stone sculptures outside the gallery.
photos of these are at the end of the slide show. they're fabulous. go
see them at Kapiolani Community College. the buddhist relics are there
until tomorrow.
ringsels: generic term for "Buddhist relics", although in common usage,
these terms usually refer to a kind of pearl or crystal-like bead-shaped
objects that are found among the cremated ashes of Buddhist spiritual
masters.
If you can't see the pictures in this email, click here to see it in a
web browser:
http://olympus.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=bhucg3l.8753bva5&x=0&y=nv2lfs
Lynette has shared photos with you.
Buddhist Relics 2.17.08
(1 album)
It was good to visit with them. Everyone should go.
- Lynette
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