Responding to Nov. 7th Financial Times article, ” The G20 must look beyond Bretton Woods II. The discussion of currency valuation as presented by Zoellick is flawed as a result of one very important omission, the accounting for value of GDP. Two points: 1) One of the objectives of Bretton Woods (1946) was to...
From the State Dept. website: “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Hawaii, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Australia October 27-November 8. Secretary Clinton arrives in Honolulu on October 27 where she will meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara to discuss a broad range of issues, including...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InE6Z4a0wrk “State of Aloha captures not just the history of Hawaii, but the spirit of its people.” —Jason Sanders, FILMMAKER Magazine STATE OF ALOHA Documentary feature screening & panel Presented by the Academy for Creative Media Co-sponsored by the William S. Richardson School of Law (Open to the public) Wednesday, October 27, 2010 William...
It’s been nearly a month since my last post and I have not been on vacation. In case you have been wondering, I’ve been focusing on SaveRapanui.org. The situation there has grown from bad to worse, and I’ve been moderating the website for Santi Hitorangi and Susano Hito as they have been very busy...
As another year has gone by where many have reflected upon the benefits and disadvantages of Hawai‘i statehood, many have continued advocating for sovereignty and independence. What that means for the citizens: both Kanaka Maoli and residents; both Kingdom-era subjects who supported the monarchy and those who supported the Republic; for those whose families...
The following is from Dr. Keanu Sai’s website HawaiianKingdom.org. I met with Keanu a couple weeks ago, shortly after the Olelo taping that is posted below. Often, when I meet with him, I have this unsettled feeling of falling into a rabbit hole, as if I had descended into Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking...
Every now and again I come across a story that begs to be blogged and may have little or nothing to do with Hawai’i Statehood history. This may be one of them, simply because it is such a beautiful construction and it flies in the face of the Christian Fundamentalism and Capitalism construct so...
Craig Howe’s introduction of “The Value of Hawai’i” describes how he and Jon Osorio, the co-editors, came up with the idea of this book on one of their regular morning jogs as a means to help frame the upcoming debates in Hawaii’s upcoming 2010 elections. The content and themes of this compendium of Hawai’i...
That Hawaii’s governor Linda Lingle (R) should so curiously veto HR444, and rest the decision of Civil Unions on the people in a referendum seems an obvious attempt at building a Republican base. It is absurd that civil rights should ever be put through a referendum– rights are to protect minorities, referendums are to give...
Although I never had the opportunity to meet Chief Justice William Richardson, he was one of the first people to have made the interview list for the film “State of Aloha.” As a background figure to Hawaii’s larger than life Governor John Burns, Bill Richardson played a supporting role in the early years of...
Having just compiled an original study breaking down a precinct-by-precinct analysis of Hawaii’s statehood plebiscite, it is important that we come to understand the process through which the state continues to assert that 94.6% of Hawaii’s population voted for statehood in 1959. This posting follows an earlier series of posting critical of the plebiscite....
Are the U.S./S.Korea fabricating a story about North Korea attacking the Cheonan? On March 26, 2010, forty-six South Korean sailors were killed in an explosion that sank the Cheonan, a South Korean Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). The ship’s primary mission was coastal patrol, with an emphasis on anti-submarine operations. An...