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1. How to Buy Non GMO Food

1. How to Buy Non GMO Food
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:28:05 -0700
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>

if the tinyurl comes thru unclickable, this is the web address for the
article.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/HowtoBuyNon-GMFoods/index.cfm
>
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Kathy Roberts wrote:
>> http://tinyurl.com/46bxpz
>> How to Buy Non-GM
>>
>> Buying non-GM not only helps address you and your family's health
>> concerns, it also can influence the decisions of food manufacturers,
>> distributors, and retailers. Food manufacturers worldwide have switched
>> to non-GM ingredients to appeal to consumer demand--make a change or lose
>> the customer. We're at the top of the food chain and we can move the
>> market.
>>
>> The Non-GMO Shopping Guide - How Products Qualify, click here
>>
>> To learn what foods and food ingredients have been genetically modified,
>> click here.
>>
>> Look through our tips for avoiding GMOs when shopping, click here.
>>
>> To learn more about eating non-GM in restaurants, click here.
>>
>> To find local sources of organic food and GM-free meats, click here.
>>

From annie.rowan@gmail.com Sat Apr 5 20:21:55 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:30:23 -0700
From: Annie Elfing <annie.rowan@gmail.com>
To: flyinflourine@yahoo.com, lavender_pert@hotmail.com,
synesthetictatertot@hotmail.com, leah bevis <leah.bevis@gmail.com>,
Tara Jean Keppel <tarajeank@gmail.com>, welford@hawaii.edu
Subject: Fwd: 10 things to know about McCain

Dear MoveOn member,

For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there
are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks.
His carefully crafted positive image relies on people not knowing this
stuff^×and you might be surprised by some of it.

Please check out the list below, and then forward it to your friends,
family, and coworkers. We can't rely on the media to tell folks about the
real John McCain^×but if we all pass this along, we can reach as many
people as CNN Headline News does on a good night.

Click here to tell us how many people you can pass it on to^×and to see
our progress nationally:

http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/?id=12407-8891774-epWGK1&t=231

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet
he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1

2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq,
Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will
make Cheney look like Gandhi."2

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted
against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush
for vetoing that ban.3

4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support
Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4

5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in
Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill
last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5

6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires.
The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes!
Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing
foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6

7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to
be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his
being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's
hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign
manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog
group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his
campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8

9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent
years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley,
believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a
"false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing
preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment
for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a
"false cult."9

10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0^×yes,
zero^×from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be.
Please help get the word out^×forward this email to your personal
network. And if you want us to keep you posted on MoveOn's work to get
the truth out about John McCain, sign up here:

http://pol.moveon.org/mccaintruth/?id=12407-8891774-epWGK1&t=232

Thank you for all you do.

^ÖEli, Justin, Noah, Laura, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Sources:
1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April
3, 2008
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html

"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/

2. "McCain More Hawkish Than Bush on Russia, China, Iraq," Bloomberg
News, March 12, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF28rSCtk0ZM&refer=us

"Buchanan: John McCain 'Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi,'"
ThinkProgress, February 6, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/06/buchanan-gandhi-mccain/

3. "McCain Sides With Bush On Torture Again, Supports Veto Of
Anti-Waterboarding Bill," ThinkProgress, February 20, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto/

4. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18,
2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/

5. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council(R) Nonpartisan
Congressional Scorecard," February 2008
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=act_learn_scorecard2007

"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN,
October 3, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/03/mccain.interview/

6. "Beer Executive Could Be Next First Lady," Associated Press, April 3,
2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-S1sWHm0tchtdMP5LcLywg5ZtMgD8VQ86M80

"McCain Says Bank Bailout Should End `Systemic Risk,'" Bloomberg News,
March 25, 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHMiDVYaXZFM&refer=home

7. "Will McCain's Temper Be a Liability?," Associated Press, February 16,
2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4301022

"Famed McCain temper is tamed," Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/27/famed_mccain_temper_is_tam
ed/

8. "Black Claims McCain's Campaign Is Above Lobbyist Influence: 'I Don't
Know What The Criticism Is,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/02/mccain-black-lobbyist/

"McCain's Lobbyist Friends Rally 'Round Their Man," ABC News, January 29,
2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4210251

9. "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam," Mother Jones Magazine,
March 12, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-s
piritual-guide.html

"Will McCain Specifically 'Repudiate' Hagee's Anti-Gay Comments?,"
ThinkProgress, March 12, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/12/mccain-hagee-anti-gay/

"McCain 'Very Honored' By Support Of Pastor Preaching 'End-Time
Confrontation With Iran,'" ThinkProgress, February 28, 2008
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/28/hagee-mccain-endorsement/

10. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra
Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/

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From weerkhr@pacbell.net Sat Apr 5 20:23:03 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:40:36 -0700
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@pmx12.its.hawaii.edu
Subject: Co-Creating Heaven on Earth

This is being forwarded around. I made some modifications, mostly for
spelling. Anyone else want a go?

Kathy

PROPOSED PEACE PLAN
(first draft)

(request) IMPROVE WORDING, IDEAS THEN PLEASE
CIRCULATE FAR & WIDE

Please send to all military for them to sign.
Please send to all nations for them to sign.
Please translate to all languages.
Please feel free to change, negotiate or modify.

WORLD PEACE PLAN

1. There will be great amnesty.

2. All military will refuse to fight with one another.

3. All countries will refuse to fight with one another.

4.All people of all nations will refuse to fight with one another.

5. All military and nations will negotiate a world peace treaty that
all will sign.

6. There will be GREAT UNDERSTANDING for the guilty parties.

7. There will be GREAT LOVE for all people of the world.

8. There will be GREAT HELP for those in need of protection, therapy
and deprogramming...etc.

9. There will be GREAT FORGIVENESS for all so this plan will succeed.

10. There will be no GREAT WAR; therefore, there will be an end to
war on GREAT EARTH.

11. All nations will keep their present borders.

12. The world's nations, military, and federal peace officers will
provide real protection for secret societies, devil worshippers, and
organized
crime combatants who wish to surrender.

13. There will also be real protection from all nations for the
family members of these surrendered combatants.

14.There will be a free-will-oriented DEPARTMENT OF PEACE IN EACH
NATION to create great insight into solving problems in a peaceful
manner.

Help to create "heaven on earth" ............. anonymous

__._,_.___

From tiaballantine@earthlink.net Sat Apr 5 20:23:09 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:22:12 -0700
From: Tia Ballantine <tiaballantine@earthlink.net>
To: cwuhm-l@hawaii.edu
Subject: [CWUHM-L] Hawaii: Celebrate Reading Festival April 12

CELEBRATE READING
APRIL 12, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
University of Hawai`i-Manoa: Campus Center and Kuykendall Hall

FREE!
Teens and adults are welcome!

* * * * *

The 11th annual CELEBRATE READING: Literature Festival on Oahu begins
with a performance reading at 9:00 a.m. and offers three 45-minute
break-out sessions before closing, after a final reading, at 2:00 p.m..
This intergenerational festival affords conversation between writers and
readers (age twelve and up) and the opportunity to participate in various
writing workshops. Sixteen visiting and local authors will discuss their
work, and co-facilitators will lead open conversations on works by
Cynthia Kadohata, Khaled Hosseini, Laurie Halse Anderson, Walter Dean
Myers, Mary Larson and Ralph Fletcher.

Teachers and students can discuss Shakespeare and theater adaptations
with UHM drama directors and a dramaturg, the craft of the journalist
with Jim Lynch, the Pidgin short-story with Darrell Lum and Lee Tonouchi,
and fantasy writing with Kate Elliott. Patricia Wood will be on hand to
describe making an international splash with a first novel.

Poets will have the opportunity to discuss the art of editing poems with
Manoa Journal senior editor Frank Stewart. Please send a poem or two now
to fstewart@hawaii.edu, making sure they are clearly marked as material
for his 10:55 a.m. Poetry Editing Workshop at Campus Center 306.

Two young poets, Sage U'ilani Takehiro (Honua) and Ann Inoshita (Manoa
Stream) will read alternately from their books and welcome discussion of
each poem. Readers and writers of poetry of the age of 12 and up are
invited to attend either of these session at Campus Center 307, 10 a.m.
and 10:55 a.m..

Those interested in performance poetry can catch a performance by young
Jamaica Osorio during her father's story-telling sessions and also attend
a workshop led by Kealoha at Campus Center Ballroom, 10:55 a.m. or at
Campus Center 310, 10:55.

Smaller festivals will be held on Lana'i (April 10), Moloka'i (April 11),
and Maui (April 14). For further information, please consult the Hawaii
Writing Project website at www.hawaii.edu/hwp.

To register, just write to Lorna Hershinow at hershinow@gmail.com.

See you there!

* * * * *

From weerkhr@pacbell.net Sat Apr 5 20:24:01 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:29:06 -0700
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@pmx11.its.hawaii.edu
Subject: What Foods Contain Free Glutamic Acid

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http://www.msgtruth.org/avoid.htm

What Foods To Avoid?

[avoid.1.jpg]

Food manufacturers are hiding MSG so you don't know where it
is. Lately, food manufacturers mention a "clean label" when
referring to soy sauce and other processed flavor enhancers
that already contain MSG in the form of glutamic acid. Food
manufacturers use these ingredients so they can claim "no
added MSG". Hence a "cleaner" label. They know it's in
there, they are just hoping you don't.

See exactly how food manufacturers are trying to use free
glutamic acid without telling you about it: Food Product
Design article

In the lastest pro-MSG "news" article in the Wall Street
Journal - everything old is new again as the writers try to
make "umami" (the name for the flavor enhancing effect MSG
has had since it was isolated in 1908) seem like something
newly discovered. What is truly appalling is that in the
article, MSG is said to be something consumers are trying to
avoid, and at the same time, the writers tout "umami" foods
while at the same time admitting that they are high in the
glutamate - the business end of MSG. The makers of MSG,
Ajinomoto, accurately point out that what makes an "umami"
food is it's glutamate content. The "chefs" in the article
KNOW that diners are trying to AVOID MSG in their food.
These "chefs", like Jean-Georges Vongerichte are actually
trying to INCREASE the use of MSG, not decrease it, and they
find that OK because the food has a "Clean Label". The
recent Cambell's soup commercial where "sea salt" is used
instead of regular salt leads one to assume that "umami"
figures into their motives. At least the Wall Street Journal
has done us all a favor and let us in on what they are
planning for your dinners. You may want to pass on their
"umami bombs". And note that they don't think they can even
come close to the MSG hit young men take when they eat
Doritos. The "umami" pushers will continue to add straight
MSG to Doritos, because they are afraid of a "riot" should
the young men get less glutamate in their "umami bomb"
snacks.

Just because the tongue can detect sugar, fat, and salt as
well as the presence of protein - because even bound
glutamic acid is typically found on the outer surface of a
protein molecule, is not a mandate to add simple sugar, trans
fat, and an unbalanced amount of free glutamic acid to all of
our foods at the expense of other nutrients. Tell a diabetic
they can eat as much sugar as they want in any food simply
because their tongues were designed to taste it and let us
know what they tell you, after they are done laughing at your
ignorance.

The most blatant example of a so-called "clean label":

Unilever appears to be in trouble in Vietnam for marketing a
product called Knorr Dam Dang as a substitute for MSG.
Unfortunately for Unilever, product was actually tested and
found to have 30% MSG in it. Despite clearly misleading
consumers in Vietnam, the company representatives argue that
they are legally allowed to do this due to current labeling
laws allowing it.
Vietnam news story.
Vietnam News Update

MSG by any other name.......

In Japan, MSG is labeled as ã^Â¢ã^Ã^ßã^Ã^Îé^Å¸
or Ajinomoto
In China, MSG = wie jing
In the Phillipines, MSG = Vetsin
In Thailand, MSG = phong churot
In Germany, MSG = Natriumglutaminat
In Europe - MSG = E621, but avoid E620-625 as
they also contain glutamate
In the US - "umami", MSG, glutamate, free
glutamic acid

See also:[ MSG and Aspartame ]
[ MSG as Crop Spray ]

The following Fast Food menu items contain MSG:

bullet The Following McDonald'sÂ® Items:
Grilled Chicken Filet
Hot and Spicy Chicken Patty
Grilled Chicken Ceasar Salad
Grilled Chicken California Cobb Salad
Seasoned Beef
Sausage Scrambled Egg Mix, Sausage, and Sausage Patty
French Fries - a "seasoning" made from beef, wheat and
milk, processed to break down the proteins into free amino
acids like glutamate) is added to the oil the fries are
precooked in. US laws allow "natural flavoring" to consist
of "protein hydrolysates" containing free glutamic acid.
(That's why they do it - to free glutamate to act like MSG so
they can declare a "clean label" while misleading the
consumer.)
bullet The Following Burger KingÂ® Items:
Breaded Chicken Patty
Spicy Chicken Patty
Breaded Tendercrisp Chicken
Chicken Tenders
BK Chicken Fries
Garden Veggie Patty - contains hydrolyzed corn, soy and
wheat - which contains free glutamate
Sausage Patty
Ranch dipping sauce
Ken's Fat Free Ranch Dressing
bullet The Following KFCÂ® products:
Roasted Ceasar Salad (WITHOUT dressing and croutons)
Crispy Ceasar Salad (WITHOUT dressing)
Roasted BLT Salad (WITHOUT dressing)
Crispy BLT Salad (WITHOUT dressing
Hidden Valley - The Original Fat Free Ranch Dressing
KFC Creamy Parmesan Ceasar Dressing - contains parmesan
cheese - very high in MSG naturally
KFC Garlic Parmesan Croutons Pouch - contains parmesan
cheese - very high in MSG naturally
KFC Famous Bowls - Mashed Potatoes with Gravy
Gravy
KFC Famous Bowls - Rice with Gravy
Rice
Seasoned Rice
KFC Snacker - Chicken
KFC Snacker - Honey BBQ
Honey BBQ Sandwich
Double Crunch Sandwich
Crispy Twister
Oven Roasted Twister
Oven Roasted Twister (WITHOUT sauce)
Tender Roast Sandwich
Tender Roast Sandwich(WITHOUT sauce)
Original Recipe Chicken (its in the marinade - it's
literally soaked in MSG and salt)
Extra Crispy - MSG is in both the marinade AND the
breading
Colonel's Crispy Strips
Popcorn Chicken
Chicken Pot Pie
Boneless HBBQ Wings
Boneless Fiery Buffalo Wings
Sweet and Spicy Boneless Wings
Hot Wings
Green Beans (yeah, this shocked us too)
Mashed Potatoes with Gravy
Potato Wedges

bullet Chick - fil - AÂ® we'll examine this menu next, but
we're not optimistic, the Chicken Sandwich has MSG in it.

The best advice to anyone visiting a Fast Food establishment
if you have to:

AVOID all CHICKEN items
AVOID all SAUSAGE items
AVOID all PARMESAN products
AVOID all Ranch dressings - stick to oil and vinegar
Italian
AVOID Croutons
AVOID KFC altogether - we're not kidding
AVOID Dipping Sauces
AVOID Gravy
AVOID TOMATO AND MUSHROOM soups

Certain food companies described in the Wall Street Journal
article are experimenting on how to put more MSG in your
MSG-free foods. We recommend you avoid ANY and all products
from the following food companies - since they will NOT have
a label that will alert you to the presence of free glutamic
acid. Blatant misleading advertising.

Nestle'
Campbells
Frito-Lay
Unilever
Dairy Management Inc.
The Mushroom Council
Ajinomoto Food Ingredients
Senomyx

The following foods contain MSG or its business end - the
free amino acid glutamate - in amounts large enough to cause
reactions in those sensitive to it.:

bullet Taco BellÂ® - seasoned meat - contains autolyzed yeast
- which contains free glutamate
bullet Other menu items that contain soy sauce, natural
flavors, autolyzed yeast or hydrolyzed protein which can
contain up to 20% free glutamic acid - the active part of
MSG.
bullet Hamburger Helper Microwave SinglesÂ® (targeted
towards children)
bullet DoritosÂ®
bullet Campbell'sÂ® soups - all of them - based on their
commitment to add "umami" (read - MSG) to their products
bullet PringlesÂ® (the flavored varieties)
bullet Boar's HeadÂ® cold cuts and most of their hotdogs
bullet ProgressoÂ® Soups - all of them
bullet LiptonÂ® Noodles and Sauce
bullet LiptonÂ® Instant soup mix
bullet Unilever or KnorrÂ® products - often used in homemade
Veggie dips.
bullet KraftÂ® products nearly all contain some free
glutamate
bullet Gravy MasterÂ®
bullet Cup-a-soupÂ® or Cup-o-NoodlesÂ®
bullet PlantersÂ® salted nuts - most of them
bullet AccentÂ® -this is nearly pure MSG
bullet BraggsÂ® Liquid Aminos - sold at Whole Foods
bullet Hodgson Mill Kentucky Kernel Seasoned FlourÂ®
bullet Tangle extract (seaweed extract) - found in sushi
rolls (even at Whole Foods) Seaweed is what MSG was first
isolated from.
bullet Fish extract - made from decomposed fish protein -
used now in Japanese sushi dishes - very high in free
glutamate.
bullet sausages - most supermarkets add MSG to theirs
bullet processed cheese spread
bullet MarmiteÂ®
bullet supermarket poultry or turkeys that are injected or
"self-basting"
bullet restaurant gravy from food service cans
bullet flavored ramen noodles
bullet boullion - any kind
bullet instant soup mixes
bullet many salad dressings
bullet most salty, powdered dry food mixes - read labels
bullet flavored potato chips
bullet restaurant soups made from food service soup base or
with added MSG
bullet monopotassium glutamate
bullet glutamic acid
bullet gelatin
bullet hydrolyzed vegetable protein (found in many processed
AMERICAN foods, like canned tuna and even hot dogs)
bullet hydrolyzed plant protein (found in many processed
AMERICAN foods, like canned tuna and even hot dogs)
bullet autolyzed yeast (found in many processed AMERICAN
foods, read labels)
bullet sodium caseinate
bullet textured protein
bullet beet juice - it is used as a coloring, but MSG is
manufactured from beets and the extract may contain free
glutamic acid - Yo Baby - organic baby yogurt has just
changed the formula to include beet extract
bullet yeast extract
bullet yeast food or nutrient
bullet soy protein isolate
bullet soy sauce
bullet Worcestershire sauce
bullet Kombu extract
bullet dry milk and whey powder
bullet "natural flavors" - may contain up to 20% MSG
bullet carageenan
bullet dough conditioners
bullet malted barley
bullet malted barley flour - found in many supermarket breads
and all-purpose flours including: King Arthur, Heckers, and
Gold Medal flour
bullet body builder drink powders containing protein
bullet Parmesan cheese - naturally high in free glutamate
bullet over-ripe tomatoes - naturally high in free glutamate
bullet mushrooms - naturally high in free glutamate
bullet Medications in gelcaps - contain free glutamic acid in
the gelatin
bullet Cosmetics and shampoos - some now contain glutamic
acid
bullet Fresh produce sprayed with Auxigro in the field. (Yes
the EPA approved this. It appalled us too.)

Be aware it is not just the brand names mentioned, but many
similar products to the ones listed also contain MSG. You
must read labels. These product names were given as examples
of the many products that contain MSG.

Four good rules of thumb are:

bullet The more salty a processed food is, the more likely it
is to contain MSG or free glutamate.
bullet The more processed a food is, the more likely it is to
contain MSG or free glutamate: powdered stuff that used to
be food is likely to have added MSG because the original
flavor has been degraded.
bullet The more ingredients in a packaged food, the more
likely MSG is present. Read labels carefully if a food has
more than five ingredients.
bullet Do not trust something simply because it is in a
health food store and the label states it is natural or even
organic.

The next wave of hastily approved "MSG replacers" you may
wish to avoid will be Senomyx.
According to the New York Times April 6, 2005 article "Food
Companies Test Flavorings That Can Mimic Sugar, Salt or MSG":

" Since Senomyx's flavor compounds
will be used in small proportions
(less than one part per million), the
company is able to bypass the lengthy
F.D.A. approval process required to
get food additives on the market.
Getting the Flavor and Extract
Manufacturers Association status of
generally recognized as safe, or
GRAS, took Senomyx less than 18
months, including a 3-month safety
study using rats. In contrast, the
maker of the artificial sweetener
sucralose spent 11 years winning
F.D.A. approval and is required to
list the ingredient on food labels."

And Senomyx DOESN'T have to be labeled as such.
It will be grouped under "artificial flavors".
They still don't believe the consumer should know
what they are eating. In fact, that is exactly
the strategy. Here is one last quote from the
NYT article to leave you with:

"We're helping companies clean up
their labels," said Senomyx's chief
executive, Kent Snyder.

Mr. Snyder, that is EXACTLY what we are afraid
of.

For more Information:
MSG and Aspartame
MSG as Crop Spray

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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:31:26 -0400
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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:53:08 -0700
From: Kaleo Patterson <kaleop@mac.com>
To: KahiwaL@cs.com
Cc: Kaleo Patterson <kaleop@hawaii.edu>, kauahi@hawaii.rr.com, cdexk@yahoo.com,
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Subject: RE: April 20th and April 30th

Hui kala mai,

My apologies, this project was designed for the poe haole, education and advocacy with UCC, was initated on east coast, Cooper Brown and others actually, the phrase Hawaiian Restoration is being pulled from President Grover Clevelands use of the phrase, speeches and documents, and his efforts to restore the Queen.

The other emphasis is on pule, some say related to a joke attributing that Cleveland called for a National Day of Prayer for Hawaiian Restoration, for years many believed it to be true, the issue remains unclear. We decided to take the plunge and make it happen, sounded like a great idea.....so we decided we can pray....and so we visited Cleveland's birthplace and burial site two years ago, and this will be our third year to stir things up..... in New Jersey especially.

Cleveland was anti-imperialist, and anti-expansionist in his policies and thinking, we want to show that there were people, leaders during the days of the overthrow who were supportive of Hawaiian Restoration and connect these things with U.S. policies (imperialism) today.

This project is being picked up by churches across the the U.S. the hope is to keept he education on the church apology and Hawaiian History alive. We are realizing that unless we commemorate and do active education, every new generation develops without the knowldege we worked so ard to bring forward......today in Hawaii we have many pastors and kahu who do not know about the apology, or the history.....

In our visits to New Jersy last year.... very few people knew anything about Clevelands role with Hawaii. There is new interest developing now about Clevelands support of Hawaii, of course we are being attacked from the right as well for misinterpreting Cleveland. It will be a battle to develop this education project so that the light shines on the side of true justice and reconciliation.

Again, no intentionality to conflict, with the Ka la Hoihoi ea, this day is realted to a day of prayer and it is possible to link the two ...... we began this project to focus on Cleveland and Liliuokalani and to develop a national education project primarily directed at na poe haole, and the religious community. Your support will go a long way in moving the work forward.....

The legislative effort was forwarded to governmet officals in New Jersey, our strategy is to educate in New Jersey, as a result of the resolution last year, we are getting calls from New York, where cleveland was mayor and governor....

This year we are going to check out the New York action, and look for ways we can continue to provide education and community interest.... Can you join us this year we will be leaving Hawaii on April 22, to visit first in NJ then Iin NY...return May 3/4. We invite anyone who desies to work on this project to join.

Our event in Hawaii consists of a puleceremony at Mauna Ala....to clear the path, before we travel.... churches in Hawaii are encouraged to do education and pule in their worship services, and focus on setting aside April30 as a day of prayer......

I am very open to suggestions you may have, let's work together. My deepest apologies for not conferencing with all of you.

Kaleo Patterson

>>APRIL 30TH Hawaiian Restoration Day of Prayer
>> Cleveland Liliuokalani
>
>Kaleo,
>
>Your Hawaiian Restoration Day of Prayer really conflicts with "my" annual Restoration Day celebrations that some of us have been carrying out at 12 noon of every July 31 (the "real" Restoration Day) on the summit of Mauna Kea.
>
>This also conflicts with Dr. Kekuni Blaisdell's (and others) annual celebration of the "real" Restoration Day held at Thomas Square.
>
>While I realize that there is a degree of "legislative" bias involved - having two "Restoration Days" may be or will be confusing to Hawaiians and others.
>
>Can there be some kind of eventual resolution to this conflict?
>
>Thanks.
>
>ku ching
>
>
>
>

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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:10:01 -0700
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Subject: The Eagle And The Condor House panel threatens to cut historical
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http://www.indianz.com/News/2008/008025.asp
House panel threatens to cut historical accounting
Friday, April 4, 2008
Filed Under: Cobell | Politics

Key House lawmakers said on Thursday they are considering reducing, or
even eliminating, funds for the Bush administration's historical
accounting in hopes of sending a message to the judge handling the Cobell
trust fund case.

Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Washington), the chairman of the House Interior
Appropriations subcommittee, said he agreed with Judge James Robertson
that a complete accounting of the Indian trust was impossible. But he was
upset that the Interior Department's fiscal year 2009 budget seeks $56.4
million to continue the effort.

"To me, it's just a big waste of money," said Dicks. "I'm for cutting it
out."

Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas), the panel's ranking Republican, wasn't ready
to take the money out of the upcoming budget. He said he was worried that
doing so would make the federal government look bad in the long-running
case, which Robertson hopes to resolve this summer after 12 years of
litigation.

"I think that there may be reason to continue it, but at what level?" he
asked. "If we're funding something at $55 million that's impossible,
maybe we should only try $5 million of an impossibility."

Rep. Jim Moran (D-Virginia), on the other hand, eagerly supported Dicks'
contention that Indian landowners aren't owed any money for the handling
of their trust assets and funds. He said a litigation-driven project that
the subcommittee funded -- without consulting Indian Country -- uncovered
just "one error" in the accounts of the five-named plaintiffs in the
case.

"This isn't working," he said of the historical accounting effort. Of the
plaintiffs' recent request for have $58 billion restored to the trust, he
said "that's never going to materialize."

Special Trustee Ross Swimmer cautioned the subcommittee against cutting
the historical accounting out of the budget. He said that would impact
the administration's stance in the litigation "very negatively."

"It would be almost considered by the court as being in contempt,"
Swimmer told lawmakers.

Swimmer, however, said the government has considered asking Robertson for
some sort of court order that would put a halt to the accounting. In
December 1999, Judge Royce Lamberth, who was removed from the case at the
request of the administration, issued a decision that required Interior
to fulfill its duties under the American Indian Trust Fund Management
Reform Act of 1994.

"That's certainly a consideration and it has been brought up a few
times," Swimmer testified. "We have discussed that."

At the same time, he said the ongoing efforts of the Office of Historical
Trust Accounting can be used to prove that Indian beneficiaries -- as
well as tribes that have filed their own cases -- aren't owed any money.
He also invited lawmakers to consider amending the 1994 act.

"There's no question that the judge would welcome Congress clarifying
what the act actually required in terms of historical accounting,"
Swimmer said. "That has yet to be done, it's never been done, and that is
one of the reasons that's led to this [situation]."

The subcommittee has repeatedly tried to eliminate funds for the
accounting, change the scope of the accounting and settle the case. But
other members of the House -- mainly those that belong to the bipartisan
Congressional Native American Caucus -- beat back one such effort in the
summer of 2002.

At the time, the Bush administration denied asking for the provisions at
issue even though former deputy Interior secretary J. Steven Griles had
encouraged the subcommittee to consider limiting the government's trust
duties during a hearing earlier that year.

A second attempt in the summer of 2003 led to a one-year hold on the
accounting. This time, the White House acknowledged it was behind the
"time out" and the Congressional Native American Caucus was unable to
defeat the appropriations language.

The House Appropriations Committee ended up adopting a report with
language that closely tracked the testimony Griles gave at a hearing
earlier in 2003. Griles is currently serving prison time for lying to
Congress about his dealings with a convicted tribal lobbyist.

Robertson has scheduled a hearing on April 28 to weigh further issues in
the case. He plans to start a trial on June 9 to address the remedy
available to the plaintiffs. He expects the proceeding to last a couple
of weeks and he has said he hopes to issue a final decision in the case
later this summer.

Plaintiffs' Filing:
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF EQUITABLE RESTITUTION AND DISGORGEMENT (March
19, 2008)

Historical Accounting Decision:
Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (January 30, 2008)

Trial Order:
Cobell v. Kempthorne (April 20,2007)

Relevant Links:
Indian Trust: Cobell v. Kempthorne - http://www.indiantrust.com
Cobell v. Norton, Department of Justice -
http://www.usdoj.gov/civil/cases/cobell/index.htm

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From palolo@hawaii.rr.com Sat Apr 5 20:28:17 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:42:04 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
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Subject: [kaleimailealii] Fw: OHA Needs To Be Transparent And Accountable
For Funds It Manages

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Office of Hawaiian Affairs Needs to Be Transparent and Accountable for
Funds It Manages
By Mililani Trask, 4/4/2008 12:47:02 PM

This is a partial transcript of testimony by Hawaiian attorney Mililani
Trask on HB266, HD1 ~ Relating to Hawaiian Affairs/Ceded lands made on
Feb. 23, 2008, at the Hawaii State Capitol.

I wanted to point out that when you take a look at transferring lands and
moneys to OHA you have to also ask, you have the fiduciary responsibility
to ask, will these properties be cared for in behalf of the beneficiary?

Members of the Legislature, without coming to Ways and Means, without
going to House Finance, without making anything public, the Office Of
Hawaiians Affairs has now created several Limited Liability Corporations.

This past year lands on Kauai were transferred into Hiileialoha. This
past year the Waimea Falls Park on Oahu was transferred into Hiileialoha.
Few weeks ago a half a million dollars went in there now weâ^À^Ùre
waiting for another $4.2 million transfer.

I have brought for the Legislature the corporate documents of
Hiileialoha, which demonstrate that upon the dissolution of this
corporation all of the assets, lands and moneys will be transferred to
non-profit corporations.

This is a mechanism to withdraw lands finances that are assets of our
people into private corporate mechanism and I wanted to also inform you
that in the last year Hiileialoha has formed three subsidiary
corporations.

Only now are they in the Legislature with a bill to ask you to legalize
this. Have you taken a look at this corporation?

I know that you have not received the valuation reports for any of these
parcels. I doubt whether any was done. I can tell this because Iâ^À^Ùm
hearing your questions. You wonâ^À^Ùt get them and we didnâ^À^Ùt either.
Is this the way the Legislature looks after the Trust Property of our
peoples?

Iâ^À^Ùd like to point out to you that in the last several months
thereâ^À^Ùs been a public and most embarrassing display. Allegations and
evidence now surfacing of gross mismanagement of funds at OHA, failure to
account for the amounts that have been reimbursed for travel to the
mainland. Nepotism. Violation of the state procurement laws and violation
of other contractual requirements that state agencies are required to
abide by.

This is in the public forum. There has not been any response from the
Attorney Generalâ^À^Ùs office and I donâ^À^Ùt think that we will see one.
That is why today when I come I have to ask you to consider two
alternatives. If youâ^À^Ùre going to proceed to transfer land and money
put it into an escrow account or receivership, we need to have an audit
of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs both a fiscal audit and a management
audit.

In the alternative, the easier thing to do is hold the measure for a
year. Call for the audits and we need both a fiscal audit and a
management audit. And if these audits shall come forward and satisfy the
legislature that these mechanisms for holding lands and funds are legal,
then perhaps you can consider transferring $200 million dollars of assets
to a state agency that your legislative auditor already told you had no
master plan for the Hawaiian peoples.

That is why Iâ^À^Ùm asking that you call for an audit now we need two
audits and Iâ^À^Ùm asking that in the interest of protecting our peoples'
assets, that you not take this transfer.

I am going to leave with Representatives Barbara Marumoto and Cynthia
Thielen copies of documents that I believe raise some pretty serious
legal problems with OHA. Most of which have already been made public.

Iâ^À^Ùm going to leave with you the corporate documents of Hiileialoha.
Iâ^À^Ùm going to leave with you the corporate contracts for Hoakea LLC
this was something created by OHA for a media campaign with Barbara
Tanabe. Take a look at it. The first contract for $1.1 million dollars.
Second contract $90,000. Third contract $100,000 later crossed out and
changed to $250,000.

These are contracts that state on their face â^À^Üfor a campaign that
will come into effect after the Akaka bill passes." Given the fact that
the Akaka bill hasnâ^À^Ùt passed why have all of these millions of
dollars been transferred out of the Trust without anything, any
monitoring of Ways and Means and House Finance.

Iâ^À^Ùm also leaving with Representatives Thielen and Marumoto all a
whole list of grants given out small grants for purposes that purport to
be Hawaiian governance. The problem was I couldnâ^À^Ùt find them reported
in the OHA annual statement.

Thirdly, documents that will set forth thousands of dollars reimbursed to
staffers, weâ^À^Ùre not able to present receipts for items such as a
$1,000 dinner at Tony Romaâ^À^Ùs in Seattle Washington. How does this
protect the assets of my peoples. Please look at this. Please send it to
the auditor.

And finally for your viewing pleasure several of the Hoakea contracts.
Iâ^À^Ùm bringing this to you because Iâ^À^Ùm trying to show you that
weâ^À^Ùre not in a position to turn over 200 million dollars worth of
lands and proceeds to this state agency without getting some
accountability. There isnâ^À^Ùt a rush. There is a great need to get
accountability here.

And let me ask you chairs especially if youâ^À^Ùre able to come up with a
valuation reports of any of these parcels. I would appreciate receiving a
copy of it. Having served as an OHA trustee and looked at many of these
parcels directly I havenâ^À^Ùt been able to get thee valuation I
havenâ^À^Ùt been able to get the formulas uh they wontâ^À^Ù tell me what
the 200 million dollars is based on and itâ^À^Ùs a totally different
figure from what I was working with in 1998 to 2000. Completely a
different figure. We need to find out whatâ^À^Ùs behind the figures and
we need to get some accountability.

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From palolo@hawaii.rr.com Sat Apr 5 20:28:24 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:42:29 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
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Subject: Fw: MAUI ISLAND PLAN - DRAFT

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Subject: MAUI ISLAND PLAN - DRAFT
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 21:26:49 -1000

Aloha,
Here is the Draft of the Maui Island Plan that will be reviewed
by the Maui General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) for the
next 6 months beginning at its next meeting on Thursday, April 24,
at 5pm in the Kanoa Senior Center in
Spreckelsville.
Subsequent meetings will be held in different Maui Island districts.

On the maps, note that the red lines around several of the urban
communities are the proposed "Urban Growth Boundaries".

Dick Mayer 878-1874 dickmayer@earthlink.net

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DRAFT - MAUI ISLAND PLAN

http://www.mauicounty.gov/departments/Planning/gp2030/index.htm

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From disarmnow@jonahhouse.org Sat Apr 5 20:43:49 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:06:32 -0700
From: Jonah House <disarmnow@jonahhouse.org>
To: welford@hawaii.edu
Subject: Tom Lewis Presente! (corrected version)

Tom Lewis-An Artist-Activist
By Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
On April 4, 2008, the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Pahl (FYI -this is mother Pauline's family name) Lewis died of natural causes at his home Austin Street home in Worcester, Massachusetts. His commitment to justice and peace flowed out of his love and art and began with civil rights, continued with opposition to the Vietnam War, the nuclear arms race, and the current US War in Iraq. He was arrested many times for nonviolent civil disobedience, serving more than 4 years of his life in jail for his acts of conscience, including a multi-year sentence for his part in the burning of draft files in Catonsville, Maryland in 1968.
Tom was born on Saint Patrick's Day in 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is survived by his daughter Nora Marie Borbely-Lewis, his mother, Pauline, his brothers Don and John, and his sister, Paula Ann Scheye. When he was 17, his family moved to the suburbs of Baltimore where Tom won a football scholarship to Saint Joseph's Xavierian High School. Upon graduation, he joined the National Guard "because we never had an anti-war discussion in any Catholic school I attended. I didn't even know what a conscientious objector was."
In a 1997 interview in The Catholic Radical Tom said that it was during his military service that he started "a slow process of waking up to the problems of war." He said, "We did ABDC (Atomic, Biological, and Chemical) training^Å. When a tactical nuclear weapon was shot, we were trained to go to ground zero immediately after the weapons exploded to clear out any surviving enemy. The theory was that the radiation hadn't fallen to the ground yet. At worst, you might lose some hair and if it were too dangerous, the badge you were wearing would turn a particular color."
Simultaneously, Tom was developing into a talented artist who became involved in the liturgical movement of the early 1960s. He took courses to improve his skills and found work in churches that were looking for new forms of sacred art. This work also brought Tom into contact with dynamic clergy and the works of people like Tielhard de Chardin. In his own words, Tom "had the opportunity to listen, talk to, and question people in the liturgical renewal."
About this time, a friend named Fred Nass took Tom to a German bar (FYI - this was the Deutches House, a German gasthoust, in Baltimore, no longer existing.) saying, "I want you to meet this priest I know." The priest was Philip Berrigan (a World War II veteran, Holy Cross College graduate, and Josephite). Of the meeting, Tom said, "I was very impressed with how human this person, Phil Berrigan, was; how he was willing to sit down and eat some pretzels, drink a beer, and talk about some important things. This was pretty different from other people in the Church I had known^Å I was touched by how human and knowledgeable and special he was. It was through Phil that I started to wake up to civil rights issues and nuclear issues." Phil would also be the one to take Tom to New York City to visit the Catholic Worker house on Christie Street where they met Dorothy Day.
But Tom also stresses that his art itself drew him to activism. He described this dramatic examples of how that happened: " I heard about a demonstration at Gwen Oak Amusement park in Baltimore (where Black people were barred), so I went there to do some sketches. I was hoping to get some in the Catholic press because they had been using some of my artwork^Å. I thought they might want some civil rights drawings. I was there sketching with the group all around the demonstrators and as the demonstrators were hauled to the police van, the people I was standing with got uglier and uglier, yelling at the demonstrators, throwing little rocks and firecrackers. I had this awful feeling that even though I was sketching, I wasn't really separate from them. Even though I was there as an artist, a reporter, I really wasn't separate from the crowd and what they were doing. I was frightened by that, and stepped back, looked over the at the legal support demonstration. It was very clear
that
anyone who sat down or got near the people at the entrance would be dragged away and arrested. So I went over to carry a sign in the legal demonstration. I think it said, 'Jim Crow Stops Here.' This was quite frightening to do for the first time. I think I was in a cold sweat the entire time."
Following this demonstration, in 1964, Tom joined the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) where he met "a wonderful Black organizer" named Walter Carter who "had the patience to move people along slowly." With Carter's help, Tom started joining marches and was eventually arrested in a protest for housing integration. Tom and five others, three of whom were black, attended a public open house at a Baltimore apartment complex. When told by the manager that rentals were only open to whites, Tom and his comrades sat down and refused to leave. Six hours later, after many management threats, including one to fumigate the apartment, they were arrested.
It was only natural that Tom would become involved in opposition to the Vietnam War with friends like Phil Berrigan, but added to those relationships was the fact that his own younger brother was sent to Vietnam. By 1968, Tom would be a central character in two draft board protests, The Baltimore Four and The Catonsville Nine, which would capture the imagination of the entire country. He would eventually serve three years in jail without being deterred from his commitment to peace.
Since moving to Worcester in the late 1970s, Tom has been a leader in the peace movement. He organized a long and successful campaign to end work on the MX nuclear missile at GTE in Westboro. He vigiled at the plant faithfully for years and was arrested there 4 different times. In 1989, after civil disobedience at the GTE plant, he and his 4 codefendants were acquitted by a Worcester jury of six who agreed with Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan who said, "There are times and situations where civil disobedience is not only justifiable, but may actually be a duty." The MX contract was withdrawn and the plant converted to civilian use.
Tom was also a participant in two demonstrations which involved symbolic damage to nuclear weapons and a nuclear weapons carrying destroyer. These protests called "Plowshares actions" after the Prophet Isaiah's call that swords should be beaten into plowshares, often resulted in long jail sentences. Tom was unafraid of those consequences and continued to participate in nonviolent civil disobedience until his death.
Remarkably, Tom continued an active career as an artist even during his jail terms. He was never seen without his sketch pad. He made countless sketches of inmates and jail scenes, as well as woodcuts, paintings, etchings, and murals. He illustrated a number of scripturally-based books about resistance to war. In the foreword to Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J.'s book The Nightmare of God, the author describes Tom's art as "^Åa poignant and powerful witness to the survival of the endangered conscience^Å. He heals the ancient split between ethics and imagination." And although Tom could well have made a comfortable living teaching art classes full time, he chose to live among the poor in a such a way that he was always free to go to jail for nonviolent civil disobedience. Tom said that prison keeps "our minds sane and our direction clear^Å The nuclear age is calculated to dull our senses with false security and an illusion of hope, a hope which in fact is death. I believe that t
o stay
alive, one must risk or enter jail for non-violent resistance to the Nuclear Beast. Otherwise we are dead before the very first strike is made."
Tom also challenged other injustices besides racism and war. In 2005, Tom was arrested with 6 others at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC to call for an end to genocide in Darfur. He was also arrested years earlier protests nuclear power at Seabrook New Hampshire and, last January, protesting against torture and calling for the closure of the US prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. After that, Tom traveled with a collective of international artists to protest the construction of the Israeli wall inside the occupied West Bank. With his typical artistic calm, he taught Palestinian children his technique of non-toxic etching and printing in Ramallah.
On top of all this, Tom's home, christened Emma House after a deceased African American women who once lived there, has been home to many other activists, friends, and even the homeless. Tom also helped out when he could at the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker across the street.
Despite his focus on serious issues, Tom was also known for a fine sense of humor. Just after his codefendant Father Phil Berrigan was sentences to six years in jail for his part in the Baltimore Four, the judge asked Tom if he had anything to say before sentencing. Tom said, "No, your honor." The judge pressed him, "These are serious charges, Mr. Lewis. Don't you have anything to say?" Tom said, "No, I've said all I want to in my testimony." But, when the judge persisted, "You could be sent to jail for years Mr. Lewis, are you absolutely sure there's nothing you want to add?" Tom began to suspect that the judge wanted to scapegoat Phil as the priest mastermind of the protest and hoped Tom would make a last minute appeal for mercy, so Tom said, "Since you press me your honor, there is one quote which is important to me." The judge leaned forward and said, "Yes, yes." Tom straightened up and said soberly, "You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. That's
from
Laurel and Hardy, your honor." The furious judge gave Tom six years too.
When asked in 1997 what sustained him through all these years, Tom said simply, "My faith and my art." He also credited his father's deep love for the Bible. Long-time peace activist Elizabeth McAlister said that when she met Tom in 1967 she knew that he was "thoughtful, committed, and real." She said "Tom is moved by conscience and friendships." His brother Don said today, "Tom did everything possible to share his love with us, his family, but he belonged to a much wider family community." His Catholic Worker friend, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy said, "Tom epitomized fidelity. As a young man he saw the truth of the evil of war and stayed with that truth all his life, even when it cost him to practice it." Her husband Scott said, "Tom was a saint, plain and simple. He's finally able to practice his art with all the masters in a place where there is no violence, war, or injustice. His joy is well-earned. He will be enormously missed."
Tom was in an Alexandria, Virginia court on Good Friday this year for his part in protests at the Pentagon. His case was dismissed and he was set free. His spirit was set free yesterday.

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ï»¿ Auwe!

OHA is throwing kukai into the faces of the Kanaka Maoli who abolish
their birthright for mere pebbles while they trade their aina for equal
federal recognition as that of the 50 percenters.

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Office of Hawaiian Affairs Needs to Be Transparent and Accountable
for Funds It Manages
By Mililani Trask, 4/4/2008 12:47:02 PM

This is a partial transcript of testimony by Hawaiian attorney
Mililani Trask on HB266, HD1 ~ Relating to Hawaiian Affairs/Ceded
lands made on Feb. 23, 2008, at the Hawaii State Capitol.

I wanted to point out that when you take a look at transferring
lands and moneys to OHA you have to also ask, you have the
fiduciary responsibility to ask, will these properties be cared for
in behalf of the beneficiary?

Members of the Legislature, without coming to Ways and Means,
without going to House Finance, without making anything public, the
Office Of Hawaiians Affairs has now created several Limited
Liability Corporations.

This past year lands on Kauai were transferred into Hiileialoha.
This past year the Waimea Falls Park on Oahu was transferred into
Hiileialoha. Few weeks ago a half a million dollars went in there
now weâ^À^Ùre waiting for another $4.2 million transfer.

This is a mechanism to withdraw lands finances that are assets of
our people into private corporate mechanism and I wanted to also
inform you that in the last year Hiileialoha has formed three
subsidiary corporations.

Only now are they in the Legislature with a bill to ask you to
legalize this. Have you taken a look at this corporation?

I know that you have not received the valuation reports for any of
these parcels. I doubt whether any was done. I can tell this
because Iâ^À^Ùm hearing your questions. You wonâ^À^Ùt get them and
we didnâ^À^Ùt either. Is this the way the Legislature looks after
the Trust Property of our peoples?

Iâ^À^Ùd like to point out to you that in the last several months
thereâ^À^Ùs been a public and most embarrassing display.
Allegations and evidence now surfacing of gross mismanagement of
funds at OHA, failure to account for the amounts that have been
reimbursed for travel to the mainland. Nepotism. Violation of the
state procurement laws and violation of other contractual
requirements that state agencies are required to abide by.

This is in the public forum. There has not been any response from
the Attorney Generalâ^À^Ùs office and I donâ^À^Ùt think that we
will see one. That is why today when I come I have to ask you to
consider two alternatives. If youâ^À^Ùre going to proceed to
transfer land and money put it into an escrow account or
receivership, we need to have an audit of the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs both a fiscal audit and a management audit.

In the alternative, the easier thing to do is hold the measure for
a year. Call for the audits and we need both a fiscal audit and a
management audit. And if these audits shall come forward and
satisfy the legislature that these mechanisms for holding lands and
funds are legal, then perhaps you can consider transferring $200
million dollars of assets to a state agency that your legislative
auditor already told you had no master plan for the Hawaiian
peoples.

That is why Iâ^À^Ùm asking that you call for an audit now we need
two audits and Iâ^À^Ùm asking that in the interest of protecting
our peoples' assets, that you not take this transfer.

I am going to leave with Representatives Barbara Marumoto and
Cynthia Thielen copies of documents that I believe raise some
pretty serious legal problems with OHA. Most of which have already
been made public.

Iâ^À^Ùm going to leave with you the corporate documents of
Hiileialoha. Iâ^À^Ùm going to leave with you the corporate
contracts for Hoakea LLC this was something created by OHA for a
media campaign with Barbara Tanabe. Take a look at it. The first
contract for $1.1 million dollars. Second contract $90,000. Third
contract $100,000 later crossed out and changed to $250,000.

These are contracts that state on their face â^À^Üfor a campaign
that will come into effect after the Akaka bill passes." Given the
fact that the Akaka bill hasnâ^À^Ùt passed why have all of these
millions of dollars been transferred out of the Trust without
anything, any monitoring of Ways and Means and House Finance.

Iâ^À^Ùm also leaving with Representatives Thielen and Marumoto all
a whole list of grants given out small grants for purposes that
purport to be Hawaiian governance. The problem was I couldnâ^À^Ùt
find them reported in the OHA annual statement.

Thirdly, documents that will set forth thousands of dollars
reimbursed to staffers, weâ^À^Ùre not able to present receipts for
items such as a $1,000 dinner at Tony Romaâ^À^Ùs in Seattle
Washington. How does this protect the assets of my peoples. Please
look at this. Please send it to the auditor.

And finally for your viewing pleasure several of the Hoakea
contracts. Iâ^À^Ùm bringing this to you because Iâ^À^Ùm trying to
show you that weâ^À^Ùre not in a position to turn over 200 million
dollars worth of lands and proceeds to this state agency without
getting some accountability. There isnâ^À^Ùt a rush. There is a
great need to get accountability here.

And let me ask you chairs especially if youâ^À^Ùre able to come up
with a valuation reports of any of these parcels. I would
appreciate receiving a copy of it. Having served as an OHA trustee
and looked at many of these parcels directly I havenâ^À^Ùt been
able to get thee valuation I havenâ^À^Ùt been able to get the
formulas uh they wontâ^À^Ù tell me what the 200 million dollars is
based on and itâ^À^Ùs a totally different figure from what I was
working with in 1998 to 2000. Completely a different figure. We
need to find out whatâ^À^Ùs behind the figures and we need to get
some accountability.

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From kahiwal@cs.com Sun Apr 6 06:39:53 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:16:54 -0400
From: kahiwal@cs.com
Reply-To: livingnation@yahoogroups.com
To: livingnation@yahoogroups.com, economics-hawaii@googlegroups.com,
hawaii-independence@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [livingnation] RE: The Present Tragedy of the Hawai'i Economy -
It's probably going to get Worse!

>Saturday, April 05, 2008 The feds have intervened so badly in our economy,
>we need something different
>by Larry Geller
>
>The Star-Bulletin editorializes today that *Federal action is needed to
>stabilize airline
>industry*<http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/05/editorial/editorial01.html>
>*,* but they stopped short of suggesting what that action might be.
>
>I have a couple of suggestions:
>
>1) Stop the war in Iraq
>2) End the subsidies to hugely profitable oil and energy companies, tax
>their windfall profits while prices remain high
>3) Quit antagonizing Venezuela and instead "make nice"
>4) End harassing passengers with overbearing search tactics at airports
>
>You might have a few ideas of your own in mind.
>
>As to federal intervention, the feds intervened already, ending whatever
>"free market" existed in Hawaii and giving us abnormally high air fares that
>negatively affected the economy. Here's a snippet from a Maui News article
>containing comments by economist Paul Brewbaker, *Aloha's departure leaves
>interisland market
>muddled<http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/502127.html>
>*:
>
>Aloha and Hawaiian were "near perfect substitutes" for each other, Brewbaker
>said.
>
>They flew similar planes, on similar routes from similar terminals.
>
>State decisions reinforced their special status. The Department of
>Transportation, which owns the airports, provided them with adjacent
>terminals with (in Honolulu) parking nearby and elevators providing direct
>access to the ticket counters and baggage claim areas. Competitors got less
>attractive digs.
>
>They were such twins that, back in the days when interisland customers could
>buy coupons, the two would sometimes accept each other's coupons and settle
>the accounts in the back office later.
>
>In that environment, which Brewbaker calls a "noncollusive duopoly," they
>reached a pricing "kernel" at $60 as an average price for a passenger's
>flight segment.
>
>Because they were not collusive, they cooperated not by fixing prices but by
>arranging schedules that did not unduly aggravate each other.
>
>But after Sept. 11, 2001, Sen. Dan Inouye arranged an antitrust exemption
>for Aloha and Hawaiian, and that allowed them to reach a new equilibrium,
>because it made it less likely that a new third, outside threat would arise.
>
>
>The new equilibrium settled at $90 a trip.
>
>In comes go!, entering a shrinking market:
>
>Leroy Laney, professor of business and finance at Hawaii Pacific University,
>said Tuesday that it was obvious that Hawaii could not support three
>interisland airlines and that it might not even support two. The market is
>so small (and has been shrinking) that fixed overhead costs made it
>difficult for either of two airlines to get enough business to get into
>profitable territory.
>
>So back to the Star-Bulletin editorial.
>
>Working on the factors that produce high fuel costs (to the extent that's
>possible, should oil supplies be peaking) might be helpful. Artificially
>propping up a business fated to fail might not, unless the state determines
>that having two or more airlines is so very much in the public interest (in
>which case maybe we need a state-run airline?).
>
>The anti-trust exemption didn't help, in the end it may have hurt. $90
>wasn't the worst of it, one airline followed the other upwards, tit for tat.
>
>It's not just airlines. The actions of our federal government work against a
>variety of business interests (excluding oil, pharmaceuticals, tobacco,
>etc.). You'd think, if corporations really ran this country, they'd be
>getting together about now and pushing for change. Or even for regime
>change.
>
>Small and large businesses in Hawaii might think similarly. Imagine having
>leaders in the Chamber of Commerce or Small Business Hawaii who were willing
>to work at the root causes of business failure here?
>Technorati Tags: Hawaii <http://technorati.com/tags/Hawaii>, Aloha
>Airlines<http://technorati.com/tags/Aloha%20Airlines>,
>recession <http://technorati.com/tags/recession>,
>oil<http://technorati.com/tags/oil>,
>peak oil <http://technorati.com/tags/peak%20oil>
>

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From tepaatu@gmail.com Sun Apr 6 06:40:28 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:16:53 +1200
From: CHOOK <tepaatu@gmail.com>
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Subject: [mana_wahine] FW: Stepping Back From Anger

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From: "Artemis Goldberg" <panthertracker@myself.com
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Stepping Back From Anger Argument

When we find ourselves in an argument, we may feel like we are losing
control of emotions that have taken on lives of their own. When we can
become aware that this is happening, taking a deep breath can help us
step
back from the situation. Once we can separate ourselves from the heat of
the
moment, we may find that the emotional trigger that began the argument
has
little to do with the present situation, but may have brought up feelings
related to something else entirely. Looking honestly at what caused our
reaction allows us to consciously respond more appropriately to the
situation and make the best choices.

We can make an agreement with our partners and those closest to us that
asking questions can help all of us discover the source of the argument.
The
shared awareness can result in finding simple solutions to something
physical, like low blood sugar or even a hormonal surge. Maybe we are
taking
ourselves too seriously, and we can just laugh and watch the tension
dissolve. We could also discover that perhaps we are addicted to the
excitement that drama brings and the chemicals that our body creates when
we
are angry. But there may be a deeper issue that requires discussion,
understanding, and patience. The more we allow ourselves to step back and
examine our reasons for arguing, the easier it becomes to allow real
feelings to surface and guide us toward solutions that improve our lives.

When we can be clear about our feelings and intentions and communicate
them
clearly, we have a far better chance of getting what we want than if we
lose
control or allow our subconscious minds to manipulate the situation. We
might take our frustrations out on the people closest to us because we
feel
safe and comfortable with them, but misplaced anger can cause more harm
than
good. Arguing for what we truly believe can empower us and help us to
direct
our passions toward greater life experiences. Truly knowing our reasons
for
arguing enables us to grow emotionally in ways that will affect our whole
being.

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From realworldeducators@yahoo.com Sun Apr 6 06:40:52 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Raquel Rios <realworldeducators@yahoo.com>
To: network@edliberation.org
Subject: [edliberation] Real World Pilots Advice Column

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From weerkhr@pacbell.net Sun Apr 6 07:51:02 2008
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:09:08 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@pmx12.its.hawaii.edu
Subject: Excellent Article on Brain Inflammation and Depression

Also gives very good info on brain inflammation, immune activation, and
depression in general.
http://tinyurl.com/yulex5

From KahiwaL@cs.com Sun Apr 6 08:54:12 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:15:47 -0400
From: KahiwaL@cs.com
Reply-To: Economics-Hawaii@googlegroups.com
To: livingnation@yahoogroups.com, economics-hawaii@googlegroups.com,
hawaii-independence@yahoogroups.com
Cc: pfh@googlegroups.com
Subject: [FWD: Lawns are Un-Eatable!]

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Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 01:26:10 -1000
From: Clarence Ching <kauila3339@gmail.com>
To: "KahiwaL@cs.com" <KahiwaL@cs.com>
Subject: Lawns are Un-Eatable!

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http://www.alternet.org/environment/80531/

Go for an 'Edible Estate': The Case Against Lawns

By Fritz Haeg, Metropolis Books. Posted April 4, 2008.

Why do we dedicate so much property to something that requires precious
resources, endless hours and contaminates our air and water? Editor's
Note: The following is an excerpt from Edible Estates: Attack on the
Front Lawn from Metropolis Books.
The front lawn is so deeply embedded in our national psyche that we don't
really see it any more, at least for what it actually is. What is that
chasm between house and street? Why is it there? Or rather, why is
nothing there?
I grew up surrounded by a lawn. This is a common American phenomenon.
Perhaps the first growing thing most of us experience as a child is,
indeed, a mowed grassy surface. How are a child's ideas of "the natural"
affected by this? Of course, there is nothing remotely natural about a
lawn. It is an industrial landscape disguised as organic plant material.
As a teenager I passed many weekend afternoons mowing the lawn and I
loved it. The more overgrown the lawn, the greater the sense of
satisfaction as you roar over it to reveal that crisp trimmed surface and
fresh grassy smell. I suppose most of my outdoor time as a youth was
spent on a lawn. It is the first defensive ring between the family unit
and everything beyond. It is the border control that physically and
psychologically keeps wilderness, city, and strangers at a safe distance.
The English Estate
The lawn has its roots in England and is the foundation for any proper
English landscape. In spite of the unnatural repression of all other
plants, a lawn of mowed grass makes some sense in England, with its
regular rainfall and cool climate. Animals grazed, lawn games were
played, and the wilderness had been civilized and kept at bay with the
crisp line where the grass ended. The front lawn was born of vanity and
decadence, under the assumption that fertile land was infinite.
The English estate owner in Tudor times would demonstrate his vast wealth
by not growing food on the highly visible fecund property in front of his
residence. Instead this vast swath of land would become a stage of
ornamental green upon which he could present his immense pile of a house.
Look at how rich I am!
Similarly, the plumage of the male peacock advertises well-being and
virility, and when he fans his feathers, he shows he can spare the
enormous energy necessary to put on such a phenomenal display. The better
the display, the healthier the peacock, and the more likely he is to
attract a mate. In the case of the English estate owner, the expanse of
green signals financial health and power.
This obsession with the lawn is, I believe, almost entirely a male
phenomenon. It is an enticing and toxic stew of male seduction,
aggression, and domination. Whether intended to attract a mate,
demonstrate wealth, impress his friends, or control every bit nature that
surrounds him, the lawn is covered with the fingerprints of masculine
tendencies.
Once that fertile farmland in front of the English estate had been turned
into a sterile monoculture, where did the cultivation of food happen? Out
of view, of course, hidden in a remote section of the property where
visitors and the lord of the estate would never see it. This was perhaps
the beginning of the notion that plants that produce food are ugly and
should not be seen. Today the idea has played itself out at an industrial
global scale, with our produce grown on the other side of the planet. The
only landscape worthy of the public eye is made of ornamentals, trimmed
within an inch of their lives, inhospitable to other creatures, always
the same and never changing with the seasons.
The Birth of the American Dream
Even if you have never seen Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the hills of
Virginia, you know it well. It is still the de facto prototype for the
American home. You may recognize its prominent features in many
contemporary housing developments: the Palladian windows, the
white-columned portico, the red brick facade, and the vast green lawn
that dominates the landscape around it. Jefferson's house is very much in
the tradition of the English estate.
Master of all it surveys, wilderness at bay, anchored on the lawn, the
illusion of absolute independence-this is still the model for most
Americans' real-estate fantasies. Jefferson had a well-documented love
affair with his kitchen garden, which was really more like a small
domestic farm. He kept a detailed diary of its growth and evolution
through the seasons and years. He lavished upon it devoted attention and
care. It seems to have been one of the great passions of his life. And
yet, where did he locate it?
The house is clearly the focus of the site, on top of the hill and the
center of all power. But his beloved garden is hidden from view, to the
side and slightly down the hill. The lawn and flowerbeds are laid out in
soft decorative curves, a pleasing complement to the house and obviously
meant for pleasure. The hidden productive garden, however, is terraced on
a long straight bed, divided into a grid, crops arrayed neatly in rows.
With that binary division between sterile ornamental pleasure and
pragmatic secluded production, Jefferson reinforced an attitude toward
our national landscape that we are still living with today. Roll out the
lawn and hide the crops!
Given Monticello's early influence, how would American neighborhoods look
today if Jefferson had decided to plant his food in front of his house
instead? The world wars left many farms across the United States
short-handed. The federal government embarked on a campaign to encourage
Americans to do their part by growing food on their own property. First
called war gardens and later victory gardens, they quickly became popular
across the country.
By the end of World War II, over 80 percent of American households were
growing some of their own food. Within months after Victory Day this
activity quickly subsided. With its demise went the widespread knowledge
among most Americans of how to grow their own food. In Schrebergärten in
Germany today we see some evidence of what a neighborhood of victory
gardens might have looked like. These community gardens were first
developed as a social program in nineteenth-century Berlin.
Residents were allotted plots in green belts at the periphery of the
city, giving them the opportunity to seek respite from the confines of
their urban lives by traveling a short distance to work in a food and
flower garden. On each plot they would construct a small cottage, and
many relocated to these tiny shelters after the city was bombed during
World War II. Visiting these gardens, which can still be found throughout
Germany, is like stepping into either some agrarian past or a utopian
future.
Each yard is a diverse and abundant display of food growing. Most of the
gardens are meticulously groomed and maintained to such an extent that it
becomes clear this is not just about sustenance; they are also meant to
be delightful pleasure gardens. In this otherworldly neighborhood of
gardens, modest human quarters are subservient to the land that feeds the
residents.
Back in the United States, the introduction of the leisure weekend, the
abundance of fresh water, the production of industrial pesticides, the
availability of the lawn mower and cheap gas, and the rise of home
ownership with the explosion of new suburban housing developments in the
1940s and '50s all set the stage for the unfurling of the great American
lawn as we know it today. Its puritanical aspects seem suited to the
Eisenhower years of good manners. Is there a connection between landscape
and hairstyles? Trimmed grass and crew cuts seem like obvious companions.
Nature is not something you surrender to; rather, if you use enough
industrial force, you can bend it to your will. This premise and the
assumption that land and natural resources were in infinite supply are in
part what gave us today's lawned landscape.
Hindsight and Foresight
It's easy to be the Monday morning quarterback when we evaluate what
previous generations have handed down to us. Coming out of a depression
and two world wars, our elders had every right to celebrate the comforts
and conveniences of industrial progress. Its hidden long-term costs and a
blind faith in its capacity to solve any problem created a sense that
things could only get better.
This is an optimism we have lost for the moment, as we are coming to
terms with the limits of our resources and land. Now that we know more
about what constitutes a healthy life for future generations, it's time
for some questions. Before we spread out farther, how do we want to
occupy the space we have already claimed? Why do we dedicate so much
property to a space that has so minor a function and requires many
precious resources and endless hours to maintain, while contaminating our
air and water?
The American front lawn is now almost entirely symbolic. Aristocratic
English spectacle and drama has degenerated into a bland garnish for our
endless suburban sprawl and alienation. The monoculture of one plant
species covering our neighborhoods from coast to coast celebrates
puritanical homogeneity and mindless conformity. An occasional lawn for
recreation can be a delight, but most of them are occupied only when they
are being tended.
Today's lawn has become the default surface for any defensible private
space. If you don't know what to put there, plant grass seed and keep
watering. Driving around most neighborhoods you will see lush beds of
grass being tended on narrow unused strips of land. In the United States
we plant more grass than any other crop: currently lawns cover more than
thirty million acres. Given the way we lavish precious resources on it
and put it everywhere that humans go, aliens landing in any American city
today would assume that grass must be the most precious earthly substance
of all.
Yet the lawn devours resources while it pollutes. It is maniacally
groomed with mowers and trimmers powered by the two-stroke motors that
are responsible for much of our greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrocarbons
from mowers react with nitrogen oxides in the presence of sunlight to
produce ozone. To eradicate invading plants the lawn is drugged with
pesticides and herbicides, which are then washed into our water supply
with sprinklers and hoses, dumping our increasingly rare fresh drinking
resource down the gutter.
Meanwhile, at the grocery store we confront our food. Engineered fruits
and vegetables wrapped in plastic and Styrofoam are cultivated not for
taste but for appearance, uniformity, and ease of transport, then sprayed
with chemicals to inhibit the diseases and pests that thrive in an
unbalanced ecosystem. The produce in the average American dinner is
trucked 1,500 miles to reach our plates. We don't know where our fruits
and vegetables came from or who grew them. Perhaps we have even forgotten
that plants were responsible for the mass-produced meal we are consuming.
This detachment from the source of our food breeds a careless attitude
toward our role as custodians of the land that feeds us. Perhaps we would
reconsider what we put down the drain, on the ground, and in the air if
there was more direct evidence that we will ultimately ingest it. The
garden began behind walls, a truce, a compromise, between human need and
natural resource.
In most languages the word "garden" derives from the root "enclosure."
The garden walls protected human cultivation from the wild threats in the
untamed expanses. Now that a wilderness unaffected by human intervention
no longer exists, the garden walls have fallen. The enclosed, cultivated
space protected behind the house is no longer a worthwhile model. The
entire street must be viewed as a garden, and by extension the entire
city we are tending, and beyond. We have intervened on all levels of
environmental function, and with no walls remaining we have taken on the
role of planetary gardener by default.
Edible Estates
The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front
lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. Food grown in our front
yards will connect us to the seasons, the organic cycles of the earth,
and our neighbors. The banal lifeless space of uniform grass in front of
the house will be replaced with the chaotic abundance of biodiversity. In
becoming gardeners we will reconsider our connection to the land, what we
take from it, and what we put in it. Each yard will be a unique
expression of its location and of the inhabitant and his or her desires.
Our Planet
Most of us feel like we don't any have any control over the direction in
which our world is headed. As always, the newspapers are full of daily
evidence for concern. Unlike the challenges of past generations, however,
these struggles are no longer just localized or broadly regional; they
are an interlaced web of planetary challenges. How, then, do we respond
in the face of the impossible scale of issues such as global energy
production, climate change, and the related political aggressions and
instabilities that accompany them? One thing we can do is act where we
have influence, and in a capitalist society, that would be our private
property. Here we have the freedom to create in some small measure the
world in which we want to live.
Our Climate
We grow a lawn the same way anywhere in the world, but when we grow our
own food we have to start paying attention to where we are. We experience
our weather and climate in a personal way: they have a direct impact on
us. The subtleties of sun, wind, air, and rain are meaningful.
Our Government
A functioning democracy is predicated upon an informed populace of
citizens who are in touch with each other. A democratic society suffers
when people are physically out of touch. An Edible Estate can serve to
stitch communities back together, taking a space that was previously
isolating and turn it into a welcoming forum that re-engages people with
one another.
Our City
There was a time when the effect of a town on the land around it was
clearly in evidence within a radius of a few miles. For the most part the
town depended on the materials, food, trades, and other resources that
were available in the immediate region. The detritus of that consumption
would stay within that same sphere of influence. Today the entire story
of the impact of any city has become invisible because it is global.
Cheap factory labor, foreign oil, circuitous water distribution systems,
industrialized agriculture, and remote landfills all contribute to a
general ignorance of the effects that daily human life has on the planet.
What happens when you graft agriculture onto a city? The more we keep
ourselves in touch with the byproducts of our daily lives, the more we
are reminded of how it is all connected. Edible Estates puts that
evidence back in our cities and streets, back in our face.
Our Street
Edible Estate gardens are meant to serve as provocations on the street.
What happens when we share a street with one of these gardens? The
front-yard gardeners become street performers for us. Coming out the door
to tend their crops they enact a daily ritual for the neighbors. We get
to know them better than those who have lawns. We talk to them about how
their crops are doing. They often can't eat everything they are growing,
so they offer us the latest harvest of tomatoes or zucchini. We go out of
our way to walk past the garden to see what is going on. Just the act of
watching a garden grow can have a profound effect. When we observe as
seeds sprout, plants mature, and fruit is produced, we can't help but be
drawn in. We become witnesses, and are now complicit and a part of the
story.
Our Neighbors
What happens when an Edible Estate garden is not welcomed by the
neighbors? Why do some people feel threatened by it? Anarchy, rodents,
plummeting property values, willful self-expression, wild untamed nature,
ugly decaying plants, and winter dormancy are some of the reasons that
have been given. More to the point is a general sense that Edible Estate
gardeners have broken some unspoken law of decency.
Public tastes still favor conformity when it comes to the front yard, and
any sort of deviation from the norm signals a social, if not moral,
lapse. The abrupt appearance of such a garden on a street of endless
lawns can be surprisingly shocking, but after the neighbors watch it grow
in, they often come around. Perhaps the threats evoked by this wild
intrusion into the neighborhood will eventually be a catalyst for
questions. How far have we come from our the core of our humanity that
the act of growing our own food might be considered impolite, unseemly,
threatening, radical, or even hostile?
Our House
Private property and in particular the home has become the geographic
focus of our society. When we take stock of the standard American
single-family residence, it becomes quite clear where the priorities are.
It is within the walls of the house that the real investment and life of
the residents occur. The land outside the walls typically receives much
less attention, and can even become downright unwelcoming. Any activity
in the yard will typically happen in back, where there is privacy. We are
obsessed with our homes as protective bubbles from the realities around
us. Today's towns and cities are engineered for isolation, and growing
food in your front yard becomes a way to subvert this tendency. The front
lawn, a highly visible slice of private property, has the capacity to
also be public. If we want to reintroduce a vital public realm into our
communities, those with land and homes may ask what part of their private
domain has public potential.
Our Dirt
Just the act of spending an extended period of time outside with our
hands in the dirt is a profoundly deviant act today! There is no rational
or practical reason to do it. We can get anything we need at the store,
right? The mortgage company refers to the physical house we live in as
one of the "improvements" to the property. Pretty landscaping may be
considered another improvement. But as far as the bank is concerned, the
actual fertility and health of the dirt in our front yards has no
economic value. Wouldn't it be great if a chemically contaminated lawn
made a property impossible to sell, while organic gardening and thirty
years of composting would dramatically increase our property values?
Alas, today you can chart the exact economic stratum of any residential
street based exclusively on the state of its chemically dependent front
lawns.
Our Food
In the process of making the Edible Estate gardens I have encountered
some interesting reactions from people on the street. Some actually find
it strange and a bit unseemly to ingest something that has grown in your
yard. Yet most of us don't think twice before eating something grown
under the most mysterious of circumstances on the other side of the
world.
What you don't know can't hurt you; out of sight out of mind. The act of
eating is the moment in which we are most intimately connected to the
world around us. We ingest into our bodies earthly matter that grew out
of organic and environmental cycles happening all the time. We are all at
the receiving end of dung and corpses decomposing, rainfall and
evaporation, solar radiation, and so forth. What happens when the source
of our food is far away and hidden from us? In moving food great
distances, we pollute and expend precious energy, but perhaps more
important, we lose visible evidence of our humble place in the big food
chain.
Our Time
It is easy to romanticize gardening and food production when your life
does not depend on what you are able to grow. An Edible Estate can be a
lot of work! A lower-maintenance garden might be full of fruit trees and
perennials well suited to your climate, but a more ambitious front yard
might be full of annual vegetables and herbs that are rotated every
season. Either way it demands a certain amount of dedication and time.
Do we have enough time to grow our own food? Perhaps a better question
is: How do we want to spend the little time that we do have? How about
being outside with our family and friends, in touch with our neighbors,
while watching with satisfaction as the plants we are tending begin to
produce the healthiest local food to be found? It may be harder to defend
the time we spend sitting in our cars or watching television. But for
those who just can't be bothered, what if all the front lawns on an
entire street were turned over to urban farming teams? Each street would
be lined in a series of diverse crops. The farmers would sell the
produce, and give what was left over to the families whose yards they
tend. When buying a house, depending on your taste, you could decide if
you wanted to live on artichoke avenue or citrus circle or radish road.
Our Modest Monument
Edible Estates has no conventionally monumental intentions; it is a
relatively small and modest intervention on our streets. The gardens are
just beginning when they are planted and they continue to evolve. With
just one season of neglect some gardens may disappear entirely.
Politicians, architects, developers, urban citizens, we all crave
permanent monuments that will give a sense of place and survive as a
lasting testament to ourselves and our time. We were here! These
monuments have their place, but their capacity to bring about meaningful
change in the way we live is quite limited. A small garden of very modest
means, humble materials, and a little effort can have a radical effect on
the life of a family, how they spend their time and relate to their
environment, whom they see, and how they eat. This singular local
response to global issues can become a model. It can be enacted by anyone
in the world and can have a monumental impact.

From mreitz@pacbell.net Sun Apr 6 08:56:25 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:55:38 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Reply-To: kaleimailealii@yahoogroups.com
To: kaleimailealii@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [kaleimailealii] Fw: OHA Needs To Be Transparent And
Accountable For Funds It Manages

...the concept behind these moves is actually a good one for
Hawaii...unfortunately the people behind it-and the suspect outcome-don't
appear to be, in the least...

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Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 6:42 PM
To: kaleimailealii
Subject: [kaleimailealii] Fw: OHA Needs To Be Transparent And Accountable
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Subject: OHA Needs To Be Transparent And Accountable For Funds It Manages

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Office of Hawaiian Affairs Needs to Be Transparent and Accountable for
Funds It Manages
By Mililani Trask, 4/4/2008 12:47:02 PM

This is a partial transcript of testimony by Hawaiian attorney Mililani
Trask on HB266, HD1 ~ Relating to Hawaiian Affairs/Ceded lands made on
Feb. 23, 2008, at the Hawaii State Capitol.

I wanted to point out that when you take a look at transferring lands
and moneys to OHA you have to also ask, you have the fiduciary
responsibility to ask, will these properties be cared for in behalf of
the beneficiary?

This past year lands on Kauai were transferred into Hiileialoha. This
past year the Waimea Falls Park on Oahu was transferred into
Hiileialoha. Few weeks ago a half a million dollars went in there now
we're waiting for another $4.2 million transfer.

Only now are they in the Legislature with a bill to ask you to legalize
this. Have you taken a look at this corporation?

I know that you have not received the valuation reports for any of these
parcels. I doubt whether any was done. I can tell this because I'm
hearing your questions. You won't get them and we didn't either. Is this
the way the Legislature looks after the Trust Property of our peoples?

I'd like to point out to you that in the last several months there's
been a public and most embarrassing display. Allegations and evidence
now surfacing of gross mismanagement of funds at OHA, failure to account
for the amounts that have been reimbursed for travel to the mainland.
Nepotism. Violation of the state procurement laws and violation of other
contractual requirements that state agencies are required to abide by.

This is in the public forum. There has not been any response from the
Attorney General's office and I don't think that we will see one. That
is why today when I come I have to ask you to consider two alternatives.
If you're going to proceed to transfer land and money put it into an
escrow account or receivership, we need to have an audit of the Office
of Hawaiian Affairs both a fiscal audit and a management audit.

In the alternative, the easier thing to do is hold the measure for a
year. Call for the audits and we need both a fiscal audit and a
management audit. And if these audits shall come forward and satisfy the
legislature that these mechanisms for holding lands and funds are legal,
then perhaps you can consider transferring $200 million dollars of
assets to a state agency that your legislative auditor already told you
had no master plan for the Hawaiian peoples.

That is why I'm asking that you call for an audit now we need two audits
and I'm asking that in the interest of protecting our peoples' assets,
that you not take this transfer.

I'm going to leave with you the corporate documents of Hiileialoha. I'm
going to leave with you the corporate contracts for Hoakea LLC this was
something created by OHA for a media campaign with Barbara Tanabe. Take
a look at it. The first contract for $1.1 million dollars. Second
contract $90,000. Third contract $100,000 later crossed out and changed
to $250,000.

These are contracts that state on their face "for a campaign that will
come into effect after the Akaka bill passes." Given the fact that the
Akaka bill hasn't passed why have all of these millions of dollars been
transferred out of the Trust without anything, any monitoring of Ways
and Means and House Finance.

I'm also leaving with Representatives Thielen and Marumoto all a whole
list of grants given out small grants for purposes that purport to be
Hawaiian governance. The problem was I couldn't find them reported in
the OHA annual statement.

Thirdly, documents that will set forth thousands of dollars reimbursed
to staffers, we're not able to present receipts for items such as a
$1,000 dinner at Tony Roma's in Seattle Washington. How does this
protect the assets of my peoples. Please look at this. Please send it to
the auditor.

And finally for your viewing pleasure several of the Hoakea contracts.
I'm bringing this to you because I'm trying to show you that we're not
in a position to turn over 200 million dollars worth of lands and
proceeds to this state agency without getting some accountability. There
isn't a rush. There is a great need to get accountability here.

And let me ask you chairs especially if you're able to come up with a
valuation reports of any of these parcels. I would appreciate receiving
a copy of it. Having served as an OHA trustee and looked at many of
these parcels directly I haven't been able to get thee valuation I
haven't been able to get the formulas uh they wont' tell me what the 200
million dollars is based on and it's a totally different figure from
what I was working with in 1998 to 2000. Completely a different figure.
We need to find out what's behind the figures and we need to get some
accountability.

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From palolo@hawaii.rr.com Sun Apr 6 11:56:16 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:00:25 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
To: Kepalo <dekepalo@gmail.com>, sabine <sad27@cam.ac.uk>, welford@hawaii.edu,
Ruth Hsu <rhsu@hawaii.edu>, Evernw@aol.com
Subject: Fw: Lawns are Un-Eatable!

just goes to show you how differently we approach this issue. as james
always reminds me, we really did 'come to serve'. so we cut the grass at
pohukaina and kaniakapupu because we believe that the alii there need to
be 'tended'--someone ought to malama them. and the only way we can think
of to do that visually, is to cut the grass and tend the area where they
still reside. so i wonder if what we're doing is trying to extend their
control over the areas where they once lived. is that, for example, what
iolani palace is? got me thinking. there is so little left that we can
actually do, and i've been thinking of the 'service' as something that i
can control, an extension of my own self-determination. and maybe in the
process, we visually (emotionally, culturally) extend their influence as
a form of resistance to state?
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To: palolo@hawaii.rr.com
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:53 AM
Subject: Fw: Lawns are Un-Eatable!

----- Original Message ----- From: Clarence Ching
To: KahiwaL@cs.com
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:26 AM
Subject: Lawns are Un-Eatable!

http://www.alternet.org/environment/80531/

Go for an 'Edible Estate': The Case Against Lawns

By Fritz Haeg, Metropolis Books. Posted April 4, 2008.

From ehukekahu@earthlink.net Sun Apr 6 12:00:32 2008
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:10:21 -0700
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: kaleimailealii@yahoogroups.com
To: List Servs <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>,
Hawai`i Nation <hawaii-nation@yahoogroups.com>,
Living Nation <livingnation@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] Free Hawai`i TV - "A Demand For Answers"

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS
FREE HAWAI`I TV
THE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK
TODAY'S VIDEO COMMENTARY -

"A DEMAND FOR ANSWERS"

Is The OHA Audit Connected To The Ceded Lands Settlement & Akaka Bill?

What Does The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Have Up It's Sleeve?

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From imiola@hawaii.rr.com Sun Apr 6 12:00:48 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:55:15 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>
Reply-To: kaleimailealii@yahoogroups.com
To: klma civic club <kaleimailealii@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: living nation <livingnation@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] kalani english: hawai'i paying a double colonial
cost? why don't they come out and be honest that the real problem is
colonialism and creating dependent on freebies instead of strong vibrant
self-sufficient economies??

MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, March 31, 2008) - American
states are footing a bill for hundreds of millions of dollars for
services to migrants from U.S.-affiliated islands in the Pacific - a tab
that the federal government is supposed to pick up, but has failed to, a
Hawaii state senator told Marshall Islands and U.S. officials in Majuro
at the weekend. Nearly one-third of the 70,000 Marshall Islanders and
about 25 percent of the 107,000 Micronesians now live in America,
escaping stagnant economies, dismal public schools and limited health
care by using visa-free entry privileges under a Compact of Free
Association to move to locations as diverse as Kona on the Big Island of
Hawaii to rural northwest Arkansas. The increasing out-migration to
America - though the actual numbers remain small on a global scale - have
sparked increasing debate in the U.S. about how to pay for services
provided to newly arrived islanders. "The federal government has not
honored the
Compact of Free Association," said Hawaii state Sen. Kalani English at an
oversight hearing in Majuro held by U.S. House Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on Asia, Pacific and Global Environment Chairman Eni
Faleomavaega, D-American Samoa. "Even though they are supposed to be
treated as U.S. citizens, federal law says 'Oh no,' so states are forced
to pick up the burden. Our estimate is it costs $91 million a year to
provide services to all freely associated states, or FAS, citizens in
Hawaii and we only get back $10 million from the federal government."

Pacific Islands Report briefs for: Monday, March 31, 2008

The following news briefs were prepared by Pacific Islands Report, the
daily online news publication of the Pacific Islands Development Program
at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. For the full Report, please
visit: www.pireport.org.

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From ehukekahu@earthlink.net Sun Apr 6 12:01:16 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:38:22 -0700
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: kaleimailealii@yahoogroups.com
To: List Servs <ehukekahu@earthlink.net>,
Hawai`i Nation <hawaii-nation@yahoogroups.com>,
Living Nation <livingnation@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] Secret Deals Selling Hawaiians Out On "Voices Of
Truth - One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future"

Aloha `aina,

Just when we thought the ceded lands bill was dead, a few members of the
House of Representatives in the Hawai`i legislature have gone out of
their way to keep it alive.

It seems their plan is to use a bill lingering from last year with the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs as the subject, gutting the wording and
replace it with the ceded lands settlement.

At the same time OHA has been transferring millions of dollars worth of
beneficiary lands and money into their private corporations.

Lands on Kaua`i were transferred into their Hi`ileialoha limited
liability corporation, as was Waimea Falls Park on O`ahu. A few weeks ago
a half a million dollars went in and word now is another $4.2 million
transfer will soon occur.

All this without consulting anyone, including beneficiaries or even a
master plan.

We'll have more, fast-breaking details about all of this in the next few
days on Free Hawai`i TV. Be sure and tune in for all the latest updates.

And by the way, 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.

But if you smell a rat in all of this, here's how you can help stop this
backdoor dealing.

Send an email to the following legislators and let them know you want the
ceded lands settlement stopped now -

repsay@Capitol.hawaii.gov, repsouki@Capitol.hawaii.gov,
repchong@Capitol.hawaii.gov, repcaldwell@Capitol.hawaii.gov,
repboshiro@capitol.hawaii.gov, repfinnegan@Capitol.hawaii.gov,
repmeyer@Capitol.hawaii.gov, reppine@Capitol.hawaii.gov,
repthielen@Capitol.hawaii.gov, testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov

And while you're at it, send an email to these reps to demand the audit
of OHA (SCR138 SD1) to proceed -

repito@Capitol.hawaii.gov, testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov,
senbaker@Capitol.hawaii.gov, sentsutsui@Capitol.hawaii.gov,
repkaramatsu@Capitol.hawaii.gov, repsay@Capitol.hawaii.gov

You don't have to live in Hawai`i to help out here.

In fact, we ask you forward this info to everyone you know who cares
about Hawai`i and its people.

It's a way you can help make a difference this week along with all of us
right here on Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.

MONDAY, April 7th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, April 11th At 5:30 PM - Hawai`i
Island - Na Leo, 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."

TUESDAY, April 8th At 6:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, April 9th At 6:30 AM - Maui -
Akaku, Channel 53
"Eyes Of The Kupuna - A Visit With Aunty Pele Hanoa"

Imagine living next to a beautiful black sands beach, a place you've
lived your entire life.

Nature is at your door. The ocean, the beach, endangered turtles use the
area coming ashore to breed.

Now also imagine tour buses pulling up next to your home and brining one
thousand tourists a day. That's right, one thousand tourists every single
day.

Tourists who harass the turtles, steal the sand for souvenirs, leave
litter, and behave obnoxiously.

How would you like to put up with that every day of your life?

Aunty Pele does.

Born and raised in Punalu`u, she's a prime example of old Hawai`i -
staying on the land where you were born, because you were taught from an
early age to malama the `aina - care for your ancestral land.

All around her things are changing - and not for the better.
Multi-national corporations building developments on the shore and then
stealing the water from agricultural lands for their projects.

Yet none of this stops her.

Be sure and catch our visit with Aunty Pele. You'll be as inspired as we
were by this remarkable kupuna who stops at nothing and whose message is
one you'll long remember - "We accepted everyone who came to Hawai`i. Now
they should reciprocate by protecting and caring for what we have."

THURSDAY, April 10th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, April 11th At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i
- Ho`ike, Channel 52
"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.

SATURDAY, April 12th At 8:00 PM - O`ahu - `Olelo, Channel 53
"Continuing The Quest - A Visit With Earl Louis"

Living his entire life of 43 years in Punalu`u, on Hawai`i Island, Earl
has seen a lot of changes.

Located in the district of Ka`u, he tells us Punalu`u sees more
development and tourists practically every day.

A fierce advocate for preserving the last uninhabited coastline on
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GOVERNMENT STAKES CLAIM TO EVERY CHILD'S DNA

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60643

Government stakes claim to every newborn's DNA
'We now are considered guinea pigs, instead of human beings
with rights'

April 03, 2008

By Bob Unruh
(c) 2008 WorldNetDaily

An Orwellian plan that has state and federal governments
staking claim
to the ownership of every newborn's DNA in perpetuity is
advancing under
the radar of most privacy rights activists, but would turn
the United
States' citizenry into a huge pool of subjects for
involuntary
scientific experimentation, according to one organization
alarmed over
the issue.

"We now are considered guinea pigs, as opposed to human
beings with
rights," Twila Brase, president of the the Citizens' Council
on Health
Care, a Minnesota-based organization fami liar with the
progress in that
state.

She warned ultimately, such DNA databases could spark the
next wave of
demands for eugenics, the concept of improving the human race
through
the control of various inherited traits. Margaret Sanger,
founder of
Planned Parenthood, advocated for eugenics to cull those she
considered
unfit from the population.

In 1921, she said eugenics is "the most adequate and thorough
avenue to
the solution of racial, political and social problems," and
she later
lamented "the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of
human
beings who never should have been born at all."

Lawmakers in Minnesota recently endorsed a proposal that
would exempt
stockpiles of DNA information already being collected from
every newborn
there from any sort of consent requirements, meaning
researchers could
utilize the DNA of more than 780,000 Minnesota children for
any sort of
research project whatsover, Brase said.

"The Senate just voted to strip citizens of parental rights,
privacy
rights, patient rights and DNA property rights. They voted to
make every
citizen a research subject of the state government, starting
at birth,"
she said. "They voted to let the government create genetic
profiles of
every citizen without their consent."

The result will be that every newborn's DNA will be collected
at birth,
"warehoused in a state genomic biobank, and given away to
genetic
researchers without parent consent - or in adulthood, without
the
individual's consent. Already, the health department reports
that 42,
210 children have been subjected to genetic research without
their
consent," Brase told WND.

She said although her organization works with Minnesota
issues, similar
laws or rules and regulations already are in use pretty much
all across
the nation.

The National Conference of State Legislatures, in fact, lists
for all 50
states a s well as the District of Columbia the various
statutes or
regulatory provisions under which newborns' DNA is being
collected.

Such programs are offered as "screening" requirements to
detect
treatable illnesses. They vary as to exactly what tests are
done but the
Health Resources and Services Administration has requested a
report that
would "include a recommendation for a uniform panel of
conditions."

Further, <http://dodd.senate.gov/> Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.,
is on
record proposing a plan that would turn the program into a
consolidated
nationwide effort.

"Fortunately," he said at the time, "some newborn screening
occurs in
every state but fewer than half of the states, including
Connecticut,
actually tests for all disorders that are detectable. ...
This
legislation will provide resources for states to expand their
newborn
screening programs..."

His plan specifically would provide millions of dollars for
educating
and training health care professionals in "relevant
technologies," and
set up standards for updating tests and maintaining the
quality of test
results.

So what's the big deal about looking into DNA to hunt for
various
disease possibilities?

Nothing, said Brase, if that's where the hunt would end.

However, she said, "researchers already are looking for genes
related to
violence, crime and different behaviors."

"This isn't just about diabetes, asthma and cancer," she
said. "It's
also about behavioral issues."

"In England they decided they should have doctors looking for
problem
children, and have those children reported, and their DNA
taken in case
they would become criminals," she said.

In fact, published reports in the United Kingdom note that
senior police
forensics experts believe genetic samples should be studied
because it
may be possible to identify potential criminals as young as
age five.

"If we have a primary means of identifying people before they
offend,
then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger
people are
extremely large," Gary Pugh, director of forensics at
Scotland Yard, was
quoted saying. "You could argue the younger the better.
Criminologists
say some people will grow out of crime; others won't. We have
to find
who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society."

The United Kingdom database already has 4.5 million genetic
samples and
reportedly is the largest in Europe, but activists want to
expand it.
Pugh said that it is not possible right now to demand
everyone provide a
DNA sample, but only because of the costs and logistics.

One published report cited the Institute for Public Policy
Research,
which is suggesting children from 5-12 in the United Kingdom
be targeted
with cognitive behavioral therapy and Pugh has su ggested
adding the
children in primary schools, even if they have not offended,
to the
database.

There, Chris Davis of the National Primary Headteachers'
Association
warned the move could be seen "as a step towards a police
state."

But Pugh said the UK's annual cost of $26 billion from
violent crime
makes it well worth the effort.

Brase said such efforts to study traits and gene factors and
classify
people would be just the beginning. What could happen through
subsequent
programs to address such conditions, she wondered.

"Not all research is great," she said. "There is research
that is highly
objectionable into the genetic propensities of an individual.
Not all
research should be hailed as wonderful initiatives."

It can identify some tendencies for potential problems, and
that is one
of its downfalls, she said.

"It lends itself to be the beginning of discrimination and
prejudice,"
she said. "People can look at data about you and make
assessments
ultimately of who you are."

Further, the invasion of privacy is huge. DNA is the most
intimate
identifier that exists, she said.

"This, however, says our DNA is not ours but the
government's," she
said. "It says our values, our ethics, belief systems have to
be
[subjected] to the interests of the government."

Right now various states obtain DNA under different plans,
and keep the
information for varying time periods. In Minnesota, the
legislature is
working on legal authorization for the state government to
take it
without consent, keep it forever, and use it for whatever
purposes the
state desires - all without obtaining consent or even letting
people
know.

A mandatory sample of a newborn's DNA also pulls back the
veil on
information about the parents as well, Brase told WND.

"It's like they're collecting information on the whole
family," she
said.

The Heartland Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening is one
of the
organizations that advocates for more screening and research.

It proclaims in its vision statement a desire to see newborns
screened
for 200 conditions. It also forecasts "every student ... with
an
individual program for education based on confidential
interpretation of
their family medical history, their brain imaging, their
genetic
predictors of best learning methods..."

Further, every individual should share information about
"personal and
family health histories" as well as "gene tests for recessive
conditions
and drug metabolism" with the "other parent of their future
children."

Still further, it seeks "ecogenetic research that could
improve health,
lessen disability, and lower costs for sickness."

"They want to test every child for 200 conditions, take the
child's
history and a brain image, and genetics, and come up with a
plan for
that child," Brase said. "They want to learn their weaknesses
and
defects.

"Nobody including and especially the government should be
allowed to
create such extensive profiles," she said.

The next step is obvious: The government, with information
about
potential health weaknesses, could say to couples, "We don't
want your
expensive children," she said.

"I think people have forgotten about eugenics, the fact of
the matter is
that the eugenicists have not gone away. Newborn genetic
testing is the
entry into the 21st Century version of eugenics," she said.

"This is in every state, but nobody is talking about it.
Parents have no
idea this is happening," she said.

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Subject: [livingnation] Climate Change mitigation harming Indigenous peoples

FYI. Those interested in climate issues should contact my
bud Linda. She also works on no war/ no warming stuff.

Mike

From: lindaschade@earthlink.net

*http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/unu-iph040108.php

Public release date: 2-Apr-2008*

Contact: Terry Collins
terrycollins@rogers.com <mailto:terrycollins@rogers.com>

416-538-8712
United Nations University <http://www.unu.edu/>

Indigenous peoples hardest hit by climate change describe
impacts

Biofuel production, renewable energy expansion, other
mitigation
measures uprooting indigenous peoples in many regions

*Indigenous peoples have contributed the least to world
greenhouse gas
emissions and have the smallest ecological footprints on
Earth. Yet they
suffer the worst impacts not only of climate change, but also
from some
of the international mitigation measures being taken,
according to
organizers of a United Nations University co-hosted meeting
April 3 in
Darwin, Australia.*

Impacts of climate change on indigenous people worldwide
include:

* In tropical and sub-tropical areas, an increase in diseases
associated with higher temperatures and vector-borne and
water-borne diseases like cholera, malaria and dengue fever;
* Worsening drought conditions and desertification, leading
to more
forest fires that disrupt subsistence agriculture, hunting
and
gathering livelihoods, as well as serious biodiversity loss;
* Distinct changes in the seasonal appearance of birds, the
blooming
of flowers, etc. These now occur earlier or are decoupled
from the
customary season or weather patterns;
* In arid and semi-arid lands: excessive rainfall and
prolonged
droughts, resulting in dust storms that damage grasslands,
seedlings, other crops and livestock;
* In the Arctic, stronger waves, thawing permafrost and
melting
mountain glaciers and sea-ice, bringing coastal and riverbank
erosion;
* Smaller animal populations and the introduction of new
marine
species due to changing animal travel and migration routes;
* In Boreal Forests, new types of insects and longer-living
endemic
insects (e.g. spruce beetles) that destroy trees and other
vegetation;
* In coastal regions and small-island states, erosion,
stronger
hurricanes and typhoons, leading to the loss of freshwater
supplies, land, mangrove forests and dislocation
(environmental
refugees);
* Increasing food insecurity due to declining fish
populations and
coral bleaching;
* Crop damaging pest infestations (e.g. locusts, rats, spruce
beetles, etc.), and increasing food costs due to competition
with
the demand for biofuels;
* Extreme and unprecedented cold spells resulting in health
problems
(e.g. hypothermia, bronchitis, and pneumonia, especially for
the
old and young).

As well, indigenous people point to an increase in human
rights
violations, displacements and conflicts due to expropriation
of
ancestral lands and forests for biofuel plantations (soya,
sugar-cane,
jatropha, oil-palm, corn, etc.), as well as for carbon sink
and
renewable energy projects (hydropower dams, geothermal
plants), without
the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous people.

Specific instances of indigenous people being harmed by
climate change
mitigation measures include the case of a Dutch company whose
operations
include planting trees and selling sequestered carbon credit
to people
wanting to offset their emissions caused by air travel. In
March 2002,
its project was certified by the Forestry Stewardship Council
(FSC) and
from 1999 to 2002 over 7,000 hectares of land were planted in
Uganda.

The Ugandan Wildlife Authority (UWA), responsible for
managing all
national parks, forced indigenous people to leave the area.
Forced
evictions continued to 2002, leading indigenous people to
move to
neighboring villages, caves and mosques. Over 50 people were
killed in 2004.

Meanwhile, indigenous peoples in Malaysia and Indonesia have
been
uprooted by the aggressive expansion of oil palm plantations
for biofuel
production. Likewise, nuclear waste sites and hydroelectric
dam-building
displace indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories.

Participants in Darwin, Australia will hear first hand the
impact of
climate change on indigenous peoples and how they are
adapting to a
warming world. They will also explore factors that facilitate
or
obstruct the participation of indigenous peoples in
international
processes and deliberations related to reducing emissions and
emissions
trading.

Entitled the International Expert Meeting on Climate Change
and
Indigenous Peoples, the event is being organized by UNUï¿½s
Japan-based
Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in conjunction with
the UN
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNFII) and the North
Australia
Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA).

(Papers / documentation are available online at

www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/EGM_CS08.html

<http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/EGM_CS08.html>)

Specific objectives of the meeting:

* Exchange information on the effects of climate change;
* Draw attention to the impact of climate change on
indigenous
peoples, their livelihoods, cultural practices and lands and
natural resources;
* Identify options and advance plans to address migration and
many
other issues faced by indigenous peoples due to climate
change;
* Identify international institutions interested in
partnership with
indigenous peoples;
* Highlight good practice models; and
* Identify information gaps and prescribe a way forward.

The meetingï¿½s final report will be to be submitted to the
seventh
session of the UNPFII.

ï¿½Indigenous peoples regard themselves as the mercury in the
worldï¿½s
climate change barometer,ï¿½ says UNU-IAS Director A.H.
Zakri. ï¿½They have
not benefited, in any significant manner, from climate
change-related
funding, whether for adaptation and mitigation, nor from
emissions
trading schemes. The mitigation measures for climate change
are very
much market-driven and the non-market measures have not been
given much
attention. We hope this meeting will help address that
imbalance.ï¿½

Adds Dr. Zakri: ï¿½Most indigenous peoples practice
sustainable carbon
neutral lives or even carbon negative life ways which has
sustained them
over thousands of years.

ï¿½There are at least 370 million indigenous people
throughout the world
living relatively neutral or even carbon negative life
styles. While not
a large number when compared to the world population of 6
billion, it
does have a substantial impact in lowering emissions. Compare
this to
the impact of the United States, with a population of 300
million --
only 4% of the worldï¿½s population ï¿½ but responsible for
about 25 percent
of world greenhouse gas emissions.ï¿½

The meeting will also hear how indigenous people are adapting
to
changing climate conditions.

In Bangladesh, for example, villagers are creating floating
vegetable
gardens to protect their livelihoods from flooding. In
Vietnam,
communities are helping to plant dense mangroves along the
coast to
diffuse tropical-storm waves.

Additional background follows.

----------------------------------------------------------

A brief overview of climate change effects on indigenous
people:

Africa

There are 2.5 million kilometers of dunes in southern Africa
covered in
vegetation and used for grazing. However the rise in
temperatures and
the expected dune expansion, along with increased wind
speeds, will
result in the region losing most of its vegetation cover and
become less
viable for indigenous peoples living in the region.

As their traditional resource base diminishes, traditional
practices of
cattle and goat farming will disappear. There are already
areas where
indigenous peoples are forced to live around
government-drilled bores
for water and depend on government support for their
survival.
Deteriorating food security is a major issue for indigenous
peoples
residing in these drylands.

Asia

In Asiaï¿½s tropical rainforests, a haven for biodiversity,
as well as
indigenous peoplesï¿½ cultural diversity, temperatures are
expected to
rise 2 to 8 degrees Celsius, rainfall may decrease, prompting
crop
failures and forest fires.

People in low-lying areas of Bangladesh could be displaced by
a
one-meter rise in sea levels. Such a rise could also threaten
the
coastal zones of Japan and China. The impact will mean that
salt water
could intrude on inland rivers, threatening some fresh water
supplies.

In the Himalayas high altitude regions, glacial melts affect
hundreds of
millions of rural dwellers who depend on the seasonal flow of
water.
There might be more water short term but less long term as
glaciers and
snow cover shrink.

The poor, many of whom are indigenous peoples, are highly
vulnerable to
climate change in urban areas because of their limited access
to
profitable livelihood opportunities and will be exposed to
more flood
and other climate-related risks in areas where they are
forced to live.

Central and South America and the Caribbean

This very diverse region ranges from the Chilean deserts to
the tropical
rainforests of Brazil and Ecuador, to the high altitudes of
the Peruvian
Andes.

As elsewhere, indigenous peoplesï¿½ use of biodiversity is
central to
environmental management and livelihoods. In the Andes,
alpine warming
and deforestation threaten access to plants and crops for
food,
medicine, grazing animals and hunting.

Earthï¿½s warming surface is forcing indigenous peoples in
this region to
farm at higher altitudes to grow their staple crops, which
adds to
deforestation. Not only does this affect water sources and
leads to soil
erosion, it also has a cultural impact. The uprooting of
Andean
indigenous people to higher lands puts their cultural
survival at risk.

In Ecuador, unexpected frosts and long droughts affect all
farming
activities. The older generation says they no longer know
when to sow
because rain does not come as expected. Migration offers one
way out but
represents a cultural threat.

In the Amazon, the effects of climate change will include
deforestation
and forest fragmentation and, as a result, more carbon
released into the
atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. The droughts of 2005
resulted
in western Amazon fires, which are likely to recur as
rainforest is
replaced by savannas, severely affecting the livelihoods of
the regionï¿½s
indigenous peoples.

Coastal Caribbean communities are often the center of
government
activities, ports and international airports. Rapid and
unplanned
movements of rural and outer island indigenous residents to
the major
centers is underway, putting pressure on urban resources,
creating
social and economic stresses, and increasing vulnerability to
hazardous
weather conditions such as cyclones and diseases.

The relationship between climate change and water security
will be a
major issue in the Caribbean, where many countries are
dependant on
rainfall and groundwater.

Arctic

The polar regions are now experiencing some of Earthï¿½s most
rapid and
severe climate change. Indigenous peoples, their culture and
the whole
ecosystem that they interact with is very much dependent on
the cold and
the extreme physical conditions of the Arctic region.

Indigenous peoples depend on polar bears, walrus, seals and
caribou,
herding reindeer, fishing and gathering not only for food and
to support
the local economy, but also as the basis for their cultural
and social
identity. Among concerns facing indigenous peoples:
availability of
traditional food sources, growing difficulty with weather
prediction and
travel safety in changing ice and weather conditions.

According to indigenous peoples, sea ice is less stable,
unusual weather
patterns are occurring, vegetation cover is changing, and
particular
animals are no longer found in traditional hunting areas.
Local
landscapes, seascapes and icescapes are becoming unfamiliar.

Peoples across the Arctic region report changes in the
timing, length
and character of the seasons, including more rain in autumn
and winter
and more extreme heat in summer. In several Alaskan villages,
entire
indigenous communities may have to relocate due to thawing
permafrost
and large waves slamming against the west and northern
shores. Coastal
indigenous communities are severely threatened by
storm-related erosion
due to melting sea ice. Up to 80% of Alaskan communities,
comprised
mainly of indigenous peoples, are vulnerable to either
coastal or river
erosion.

In Nunavut, elders can longer predict the weather using their
traditional knowledge. Many important summer hunting grounds
cannot be
reached. Drying and smoking foods is more difficult due to
summer heat
undermining the storage of traditional foods for the winter.

In Finland, Norway and Sweden, rain and mild winter weather
often
prevents reindeer from accessing lichen, a vital food source,
forcing
many herders to feed their reindeer with fodder, which is
expensive and
not economically viable long term. For Saami communities,
reindeers are
vital to their culture, subsistence and economy.

Central and Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, Central Asia
and
Trans-Caucasia

Survival of indigenous peoples, who depend on fishing,
hunting and
agriculture, also depends on the success of their fragile
environment
and its resources. As bears and other wild game disappear,
people in
local villages will suffer particular hardships. Worse,
unique
indigenous cultures, traditions and languages will face major
challenges
maintaining their diversity.

Indigenous peoples have noticed the arrival of new plant
species that
thrive in rivers and lakes, including the small flowered
duckweed which
has made survival difficult for fish. New bird species have
also arrived
and birds now stay longer than before.

Changes in reindeer migration and foraging patterns, sparked
by
fluctuating weather patterns, cause problems also in this
region, whose
indigenous people have witnessed unpredictable and unstable
weather and
shorter winters.

North America

About 1.2 million North American tribal members live on or
near
reservations, and many pursue lifestyles with a mix of
traditional
subsistence activities and wage labour. Many reservation
economies and
budgets of indigenous governments depend heavily on
agriculture, forest
products and tourism.

Global warming is predicted to cause less snowfall and more
droughts in
many parts of North America, which will have a significant
impact on
indigenous peoples. Water resources and water quality may
decrease while
extended heat waves will increase evaporation and deplete
underground
water resources. There may be impacts on health, plant cover,
wildlife
populations, tribal water rights and individual agricultural
operations,
and a reduction of tribal services due to decrease in income
from land
leases.

Natural disasters such as blizzards, ice storms, floods,
electric power
outages, transportation problems, fuel depletion and food
supply
shortages will isolate indigenous communities.

Higher temperatures will result in the loss of native grass
and
medicinal plants, as well as erosion that allows the invasion
of
non-native plants. The zones of semi-arid and desert shrubs,
cactus, and
sagebrush will move northward. Finally, fire frequency could
also
increase with more fuel and lightning strikes, degrading the
land and
reducing regional bio-diversity.

Pacific

Most of the Pacific region comprises small island states
affected by
rising sea levels. Environmental changes are prominent on
islands where
volcanoes build and erode; coral atolls submerge and reappear
and the
islandsï¿½ biodiversity is in flux. The region has suffered
extensively
from human disasters such as nuclear testing, pollution,
hazardous
chemicals and wastes like Persistent Organic Pollutants, and
solid waste
management and disposal.

High tides flood causeways linking villages. This has been
particularly
noticeable in Kiribati and a number of other small Pacific
island
nations that could be submerged in this century.

Migration will become a major issue. For example, the people
of Papua
New Guineaï¿½s Bougainville atoll island of Cartaret have
asked to be
moved to higher ground on the mainland. The people of
Sikaiana Atoll in
the Solomon Islands have been migrating primarily to Honiara,
the
capital. There has been internal migration from the outer
islands of
Tuvalu to the capital Funafuti. Almost half of Tuvaluï¿½s
population now
resides on the Funafuti atoll, with negative environmental
consequences,
including increased demand on local resources.

Warmer temperatures have led to the bleaching of the Pacific
Island ï¿½s
main source of survival ï¿½ the coral reefs. The algae that
help feed
coral is loosened and, because the algae give them colour,
the starved
corals look pale. Continued bleaching ultimately kills
corals. Coral
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From mauibrad@hotmail.com Sun Apr 6 12:03:18 2008
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:39:54 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>
To: mauibrad@hotmail.com
Subject: HI Superferry: MIT Masters Thesis on this issue

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008

HI Superferry: MIT Masters Thesis on this issue

I was reviewing the Break Even Analysis on this, see:

Part 1:
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2007/11/hi-superferry-break-even.html
Part 2:
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2007/11/hi-superferry-break-even-analysis.html
Part 3:
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2007/11/hi-superferry-break-even_21.html
Part 4:
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2007/11/hi-superferry-break-even_22.html

In that process, I came across the following thesis again. I actually
mentioned it in my testimony on Act. 2 to the Belt Collins BA's, but I
think it went 'in one ear and out the other.' This thesis is about
selection of type of ferry vessel based upon things like route,
conditions, speed, engine power, fuel consumption, etc. It is exactly
what was not done appropriately here.

A very interesting MIT Masters Degree thesis on ferry selection. I cite
it here:

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/36092/1/41094021.pdf

LEONIDAS M. TH. KAMBANIS File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat...break even
analysis...'Superferry
II'......dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/36092/1/41094021.pdf

Aloha, Brad

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