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Friday, September 1, 2017

Vol VI No. 666 Part 1a

Hālona Fukutomi shared a link — with Kauluwehiokalani Eli and 95 others.
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Sunday, September 3, 2017 ‘Iolani Palace Grounds, 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. 12 Noon: Interfaith Service begins 3:30 p.m.: Tribute to Lili‘uokalani through hula and oli Featuring the collabor…
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Laulani Teale
Daniel Inouye should be deified as a god of settler colonialism. People can burn money and crack candy Pueo eggs and destroy small native plants and smash tiny heiaus and stuff in rituals to honor him. There could be a holiday where everyone kisses each other's butt - or just have one giant Uncle Sam figure with a huge ass, and a ritual game where the natives are paid off to be stepped on so it can be kissed. How you figga?
I have been told by many continental native friends (though, note, never by front-line activists, who know better) how "lucky" we are to have had a "champion of native rights" like him, here.
Give me a break.
Sure, he got a lot of money for Hawaiian programs, some of which I have worked for and with (I am a health person). You know how he got that money? DEFENSE bills. Militarizing the living daylights out of our 'aina. Filling our lands with unexploded ordinance and depleted uranium. Filling our reefs with bombs. Making us a target for North Korea and everywhere else. Etc etc. And then he would hide money for Hawaiian programs in those big-ass defense bills. That's how.
Why Hawaiians? Simple. I think part of him probably wanted to be one, like any good colonizer. He wanted our mana for his own power. That is for sure. He was raised to understand the value and power of our mana, and he wanted control of that power, on a very deep level. But the colonial paradigm is one of rape and pillage, not one of assimilation to the host culture (that is integration, as opposed to colonization. Yeah - they are different).
You think it is an accident that H-3 was designed to connect two massive points of imperial power (Pearl Harbor at Pu'uloa and KMCAS at Mokapu), across a sacred line exactly aligned on the precise latitude of the Ka'aba in Mecca (Google Earth. Look it up), cutting right between THE Hale o Papa (at her birthplace!) and a great ancient men's heiau, both known for legendary healing and battle, which must be connected to each other in order to function but now have a damn freeway between them, plus utterly destroying Kukuiokāne Heiau, which oversees all the great lands of Kāne'ohe?? And then there is Hāʻiku. And Mōkapu. And Pu'uloa. It is like the guy was shooting pool with sacred sites, seeing how many he could knock into the pocket in one shot.
I am glad he advocated for Leonard Peltier. I so want him to be free too. But was Inouye sincere? Maybe. It is after all a classic colonial trait to be all into advocating for indigenous peoples of lands other than the specific one you are occupying. Same with AIRFA, pretty much. Sure, it was a good move. People deserving religious freedom is a duh. But it was not a move that gave a single bit of power to challenge or damage his own power structure, right?? Think about it. My relations, beware when someone "gives" you rights that are already yours. Because that is how they control those rights - and control you.
Oh and did I mention he was a ruthless mobster who had people taken out regularly? Including people I loved. And no he was not the only one. I am sure some of the others involved will read this. Hi!
So I vote for Dan Inouye for the first time ever. I vote for him as God of Hawaii Settler-Colonialism, deity of two-faced manipulation, Destroyer of Shrines, patron god of all ass-kissers and faithful Upholders of Perpetual Dependency.
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Chandell Asuncion ...and it's not even 8 am yet. #WomansOnFire
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Kapohuolahaina Moniz Pa He truly lived up to his nicked name the One Armed Bandit...like a slot machine... Yet in the end who really won..Rest in Grace if thy will.
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Pono Kealii Daniel Inouye is a traitor to Hawai'i, one of many Hawaiians who chose to collaborate with the enemy occupier and oppressor and, in the case of Inouye, Thurston, Dole, Akaka and others committed high treason.

Death does not absolve them of their crimes.
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Luke Satsuma I wanna save this somehow in physical form. I have heard people (including a teacher in a Hawaiian class) championing Mr. Inouye as like the best thing to happen to kanaka.. so much double speak with the state though. They say one thing while doing the opposite and then pretty intelligent people are still fooled. But seriously, do a lot of people really think that? I've only heard the negative stuff usually
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Kioni Crabbe Danny boy turned Hawai'i into one of the largest military bases and biggest targets.. The other one is that Faka'akaka. Did nothing for our poe.
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Josephine Keliipio notice? that as long as he was in Congress, Hawaii became more and more dependent upon the US for its food and supplies? He could have done something to reverse that but he didnt want to.
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Bob Keller Funny he never learned the negative effects of war after losing his arm...
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Pete Sayer why did nobody really protest the airport name change ? shoulda been Duke Kahanamoku,...... .just sayin
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Jack John Tolkenton I highly encourage everyone who wants a detailed analysis of the military/tourism symbiotic strategy of US Imperialist colonial control written by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez titled "Securing Paradise-Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippine...See More
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Mai K Hall I couldn't agree more 👏🏽👏🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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Candace Fujikane Inouye also advocated for the $3 billion in military aid every year to Israel in its operations massacring Palestinians: on the same day that the US condemned Israeli bombing of a UN school, the Israelis received munitions from a US stockpile in Israel. I have an article that looks at Inouye's role in Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians on academia.edu.
Academia.edu is a place to share and follow research.
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Kamuela Vance Viveiros From what I understand the entire world is under military rule under these rules of war. That's why when america infiltrates another country they take hostages and their laws govern any resistance forces which are seen as the enemy. The UN is in on it for a one world gov't. https://archive.org/.../The%20Lieber%20Code%20Of%201863...
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Christopher Kasak Sounds like a good party idea. Discoverer's Day?
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Lā K. Ea save this for election season
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John Martin Read The Dark Side of Paradise by Jim Albertini.
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Honu Lafitaga YUP das why his name on everything. #1 Colonized Colonizer #dafuckatahere
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Deborah Ward Inouye was a strong proponent of the TMT, and arranged to stop scholarships to Hawaiian students at uh so TMT could claim to be giving the scholarships.
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Christopher Kasak Yes, there is a reason DKIST bears their name on Haleakala
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Leslee Engler Mahalo for your teaching
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Noa Helela Whenever I have to fly anywhere it freaks me out so much that our airport is named after that psychopath. Way to curse everyone on their flights. Ulgh.
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Paul-Kealoha Blake lol.. Champion? Aloha Laulani.. he was a primary influence as I grew up, and he single handedly (pun intended) put Hawaiian values and and traditions on the auction block for political influence and personal gain.
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Deldrene Herron Kanaka has the numbers to shut down this fake state. Educated kanaka with the political will can reverse the illegal military occupation. Problem is Americanization of our Hawaiians, half who are tribal brainwashed, won't give up their toys, homes or...See More
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John Martin Decolonization begins with the minds of the colonized....free your mind and your ass will follow.
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Ku'ulei Perez We have truly deserving leaders who have passed who deserve more recognition, never Inouye.
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Danielle Beirne Laulani Teale you are really the mediator, negotiator, make everything pono kind of a gal and that is the image stuck in my mind, aka ano huli ika mana'o keia manawa, are you angry, pissed off or carrying on a legacy to teach the generations still to be born...I have just been amazed at your humble, compassionate spirit!!! Lol
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Leith Anderson He was also known as "The one armed Bandit"
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John Takami Morita Don't forget Dan Inoue wanted to convert to Judaism! He got his power by doing the dirty work for Israeli Zionists.
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Arvid Youngquist My nephew who watches a lot of DC Comic or other graphic novel films once repeated to me a line from a movie based on Hell Boy (part 1 or 2), about funeral orations. The Greeks apprarently ask if the dearly departed had passion. It depends a great deal on many here the passion be wieghted in favor of the host culture, but most officials and lawmakers seem to subscribe to the notion represented in another film based on the George Orwell novella, Animal Farm. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal. It's true about those of us in organized labor as well as those of us who might be for right to work. In many ways I admired Sen. Dan K. Iouye and asked him to run for US President twice in Feb. 1980, I believe the year VP Walter Mondale took the nomination for the Democrats and fell victim like Jimmy Carter in a landslide defeat, or like George McGovern of South Dakota, who actually was a fighter pilot in WWII. As good a speaker as Sen. Inouye was, there was an comparision published a few years back that compared the Congressmen and the Senators at the US Capitol. It said most all of the oratory and debate was in the high school level. Average was at the 8th grade level. Not a reflection of their lower education, but a commnon sense desire to communicate at the lowest common denominator. It ranked former Senator and future President Barak H. Obama as speaking some where in the range of 8th-9th grade and Sen. Daniel Akaka at about the 10th grade level, which ranked him at the highest level of oratory and language that is poetry to the ears. That figures because he did teach music in school and and was a musician as well. Which reminds me of a video I took at Bishop Museum when Sen. Inouye sponsored a Family Event at the Museum and the couple was visiting the tent housing the school children demonstrating smaller racing robots. A little girl in a pink T-Shirt came up to the Senator and struck up a conversation. Let me see if I can locate the video and I will send it to you. You might get a kick out of it.🤔🤔🤔
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Mahealani Victorino You know what, when mapuana hepa wanted to adopt a newborn baby from western samoa, and the US wouldn't let the baby into the country I wrote to all of our senators and congressman. Patsy Mink wrote a letter to INS on our behalf, akaka wrote a letter, abercrombie didn't even bother to answer me, but daniel k inouye CALLED INS HIMSELF. That baby, a newborn when he was adopted, languished in western samoa until he was almost a year old because of red tape. after inouye's, he was home in 10 days. Senator inouye never had to do that, we were nobodies. but he went out of his way for the regular folk, who could give him nothing in return. I honor senator inouye, i admire him tremendously and I will always stand up for him.
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Millicent Cummings I appreciate your writing/thinking more and more as time goes by. I appreciate HOW you think and write more and more as time goes by. I appreciate you more and more as time goes by. Mahalo, Aloha, Eo.
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Lynda Williams I too appreciate your posts for their intelligence and inspiration! 
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Summer Yadao I'm so grateful for you Laulani for shining light on things I wasn't fully aware of, mahalo mahalo! Love you! 
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Do you remember Alan Simpson―the former co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Commission who infamously referred to Social Security beneficiaries as “greedy geezers,” and Social Security itself as “a cow with 310 million tits”? Well, he’s back.
In a discussion about the debt ceiling this week on CNBC, Simpson used the same stale talking points that he’s been using since he was a U.S. Senator over two-decades ago:
“Do something with the solvency of Social Security”
“Change the retirement age to 69”
“Go to a chained CPI”
Cuts, cuts and more cuts. That’s the Wall Street model for “saving” Social Security.
But you and I know that Social Security has $2.8 trillion surplus. Social Security can pay out 100% of benefits owed for the next 17 years and 75% of benefits owed after that. If the wealthy pay their fair share, we can extend the lifespan of the trust fund and expand benefits for millions of individuals.
Tell the policy makers in Washington that when they return next week and begin their work on the debt ceiling, they better keep their hands off Social Security!
Alan Simpson―the co-chair of the Simpson-Bowles Commission―is at it again. He’s resurrecting his stale talking points that cut Social Security: Raising the retirement age, implementing a benefit cutting chained CPI, and questioning Social Security’s…
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Dee Thomas Hey, give me back my money, with interest- happy to let them do whatever they are going to do
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Aina Aipa Happy Aloha Friday Braddah Steven🤙🏾
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Lomi Lomi Kaomi Abundant and safe ALOHA Friday! Akoni Apana
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You are a banker Robin danner! Trying to sucker your own people into loans they can't afford to pay and now they suffer trying to get out of that debt. Anything which is part of her ideas is not thought out well, or let's say thought out perfectly to benefit hers. Wake up!
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Chachi Mahalos fuck bankers and the banks. thug robbers
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Malia Temana Laka What now?
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Mana MauriOra Its called a SELL OUT n they sell their soul to the highest bidder to do their bidding........
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Ka'iulani Kahakeli'i Yes, mahalo
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Any ideas how to get rid of this stem borer? Joseph Dunsmoor Punohu Kekaualua
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Nalani Kaneakua Eatm 😜
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Nalani Kaneakua What kine plant?
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Johnny Gordines cut it out and kill it.
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Kumu Kaee Ah Loo Medicine plant worms are killing the plants.
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