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Aloha kakou he Hawai'i, PAU!
Last night, in my past near eighty years as a concerned Occupied Hawaiian National of the United States of America, I watched my second Presidential Address to the Congress of the United States of America by President Donald J. Trump.
The censure of Democratic Congress in chorus and the choreographic rudeness of denying Republicans tells me the iole (rats) of the "Carroll Swamp", Rome, MaryLand are aware that their habitat is threaten to be drained and have moved to higher ground in Congress. Although it was during hours of darkness, I could see the smiling face of the domineering Statute of the Goddess Persephone enjoying the orchestrated controversy below her feet.
I have always been aware of opposition between Political Partys' but never to the extent that is before President Trump and his Cabinet. This dissent is Cancer (canceled) to "One Nation under God with Liberty and Justice for All". Now, I really understand why God was removed from the "Pledge of Allegiance" but remains "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the phony Corporation Currency of the United States of America. The Pledge is real but unfortunately its People have become only as good as its Corporate Currency.
Last January, two of our younger grand daughters (8 and 9) took wife and I to see the animated movie "Trolls" where I learned a "life lesson of what happiness should be". The essence of the story of Trolls is based two animated creatures, the Trolls who's way of Life is to hug each other every half-hour in mahalo, and the Bergens" who have been indoctrinated that their "happiness" is based upon devouring the Trolls because the Bergens existence is based upon not being happy and the Trolls (happiness) are detrimental to their existence.
As I watched the entire Address of President Trump my focus was not at President Trump's message but of the messages that the Democratic Congress Choir and the half-life Republicans were emitting through out the peace seeking World? I thought to myself how far would a 3 minute hug or a Polynesian honi-honi go instead of 15 second hand-shake?
For me what I witnessed past Monday was no different than the Trolls vs. Bergens. I have finally realized that at the least of my existence is based upon "quality of two and not quantity of many". I believe it all started with "Two Trees" in the Garden, Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Tree of Life, then the Lord created a companions of "Two", a Man and Woman, whom they created "Two Brothers", Cain and Abel. The Word of the Lord also references "Two" animals, as Goats on the my Left known of the animal kingdom as being most intelligent (Knowledge) but stubborn, and Sheep on my Right known to be cooperative (Life). For my review of Congress, Congress is congregation of knowledgeable stubborn people!
(Just as in Matthew 25:32, "And before him shall be gathered all nations; and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. Matthew 25 :33 And he shall set the sheep on his Right hand , but the goats on the Left".)
Then in the Crucifixion there were "Two Thieves" one on the Lord's Left in Denial to his end, and the other on His Right asking "remember me" in Acceptance.
Then as the Lord spoke onto His Disciples as in (Matthew 22:35) "Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him and saying", (Matthew 22:36), "Master, which is the great commandment in the law"? (Matthew 37), "The Lord said unto him, "Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind". (Mathew 22:38) " This is the first and great commandment". (Mathew 22:39) "And the second is like onto it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself". Once again, "Two"!
As I witnessed President Trump's Address on Monday, what I saw of Congress I thought I was watching a re-run of Sunday Night's Oscars. Nothing but overwhelming amount of people who advocate and practice "Oneness" to the max. The word President comes from the root word "to Preside". It means to preside over and not be under. Before setting foot in the Oval Office, the President-Elect must place his hand on a Bible and swear to uphold and defend the existing laws of the United States of America and not dwell upon opinions of those who failed to get elected.
There are three Branches of Constitutional Government for the sole purpose running the "People's Need" not ruining it. I
recommend all have your mo'opuna take you to see "Trolls" to learn what "true happiness" is about. If the animated "Bergens" learned it, surely us "Superior Beings" can do it too? If "Trolls" is not available, you can begin by at least hugging someone every day! "IF" is also more than a "Two" letter word? (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Alo-ha is the breathe of ke Akua,
pilipo
Hawaiian National (Made in Hawai'i 1936)
Coalition of Hawaiian Nationals - NOW !
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Fwd: Civil Beat - Millicent Cummings: Science, Religion and Spirituality on Mauna Kea
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From: Lynette Cruz <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:10 PM
Subject: FW: Civil Beat - Millicent Cummings: Science, Religion and Spirituality on Mauna Kea
Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:10 PM
Subject: FW: Civil Beat - Millicent Cummings: Science, Religion and Spirituality on Mauna Kea
Fyi. good one.
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Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 5:52 AM
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Community VoiceBut on a positive note, one extremely beneficial thing to come out of these proceedings is the record left behind to educate those who claim to love Hawaii. Na Leo TV has recorded every hearing, a veritable library on the subject of how colonialism, bigotry and racism still operate.
Science, Religion And Spirituality On Mauna Kea
With so much at stake, the TMT project most certainly begs more than just a question or two.
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To the dismay of so many Native Hawaiians, environmentalists and supporters around the globe, the condition of Mauna Kea is grim.
This once pristine mountaintop, the highest on the planet measured from the sea floor, has become an Industrial Park in the middle of one of the most sacred sites in all of Polynesia. There are 13 telescopes already built in this Conservation Zone where a thousand years of ceremony and the bones of ancient ancestors reside.
Most were constructed with the assurance that no more would be built and that some would even be decommissioned. None have been taken down thus far and the proposed TMT, (Thirty Meter Telescope), would be the largest and most destructive of them all.
Christian Cosmology, Politics and Science, have often expressed empirical and colonialist attitudes frequently dismissive of differing perspectives. When profits are involved, the sanctity of Nature and the Kapu, (Protected, sacred, forbidden), of Sacred Sites is simply ignored.
Millicent Cummings has been attending the contested case hearings on the TMT. She wrote this commentary and drew this cartoon.
Millicent Cummings
The Mayor of Maui, Alan Arakawa, said in a recent interview regarding certain sacred stones in Iao Valley, “It’s very simple, there’s no such thing as sacred rocks. The Monarchy … declared Christianity the religion of Hawaii … (Thou shall have no false god before me). There are no sacred rocks in that religion.”
Exposing his blatant disregard for Kanaka Maoli, a culture protected by State Constitution, he simultaneously offended both non-Christians and Christian Hawaiians who still revere the Aina the same way their pre-contact ancestors did. It revealed an ethnocentric attitude, severely inappropriate for a so-called “Representative. ”
Unfortunately, this blatant bigotry is a disturbingly frequent attribute that has reared its tiresome head throughout these costly Contested Case Hearings — $2 million of taxpayer monies have been spent thus far on a case that is hardly closed.
The Materialist worldview that stones are useless, useful, or highly profitable, but never sacred, has led to unmentionable crimes against humanity and their environments. Through its lens, human lives could be considered mere collateral damage, and what sustains their lives as a mere resource, instead of a basic human right.
Meanwhile, it is unscientific to continue refuting the interconnectedness of life and living systems. What is done to the land, is in fact done to the people. This isn’t some antiquated, native mumbo jumbo but rather, a scientific fact based on generations of keen, repeated observation.
Nevertheless, for many astronomers, businessmen, governments, police and others, this “property’” is simply a resource to be utilized, profited from and even destroyed if necessary. This self serving conclusion comes with a sense of entitlement, as well as a reputation for bypassing State, Federal and secular regulations, safety measures, legal permitting process’ and local protocol with the host culture. In fact, they don’t appear to even acknowledge the concept of a host culture, viewing the Kanaka Maoli much like a pirate might see the booty of a just and legal conquest.
Unfortunately the illegal overthrow and subsequent occupation of the Kingdom of Hawaii was and remains, neither just, nor legal. Even 130 years later, the native cultural, spiritual and environmental aspects of the whole, unified story are deemed secondary to the Western narrative.
The questionable EIS, (Environmental Impact Study), barely touching upon the cumulative effects of this project, is a perfect example. It has never been able to meet the requirements of the eight criteria set up to protect this Conservation Zone in an Historic Precinct, as the law requires.
Stretching the truth and even lying outright to conceal that fact, has been a notably rampant occurrence. It continues to move forward without a permit knowing full well that if the Hearings Officer votes in its favor, a scenario much like Standing Rock in North Dakota will unfold on Mauna Kea. With so much at stake, this project most certainly begs more than just a question or two.
Why for example, is the TMT Corporation so confident that the lease will be extended to justify an otherwise foolhardy investment of $1.4 billion? The lease runs out only a few years after the building’s completion.
Why is the DLNR, (Department of Land and Natural Resources), and the OMKM, (Office of Mauna Kea Management), who have already had scores of complaints regarding their mismanagement of this Sacred place, being given jurisdiction to desecrate any further? There have been issues with oil, mercury and hydraulic fuel leaks and spills as well as industrial trash on the mountain.
And how is it that so many of the previous telescopes were not even permitted until after they were built, while Native Spiritual Practitioners must apply to the DLNR for a permit to build even the smallest ahu (altar)?
Indeed, many other questions await those who look deeper than the daily news. Due process has not been observed in these hearings wrought with gag orders, procedural defects, plagiarized and falsified testimonies by TMT proponents, and numerous other illegalities.
But on a positive note, one extremely beneficial thing to come out of these proceedings is the record left behind to educate those who claim to love Hawaii. Na Leo TV has recorded every hearing, a veritable library on the subject of how colonialism, bigotry and racism still operate.
It is also a testament of how the “Protectors” continue to practice their Love of the Land regardless, fighting “To the last Aloha Aina” for what sustains the life and livelihood of both native and foreigner alike. They have done this under unfathomable duress and continue to do so with admirable and even saintly Aloha.
In terms of land management, time has witnessed and will attest to their irrefutably superior knowledge. The Protectors are not fighting “progress” but rather, fighting to protect the water and land for both this and the next seven generations.
The issue has never, in its insanely contentious history, been about the ineptitude of the Kanaka Maoli to grasp the genius of Haole Science, but rather, quite the reverse.
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Millicent Cummings is a Protector, musician, artist, writer and mother.
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