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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 57:25

In a coordinated effort between several federal and local government agencies and private contractors, more than 400,000 tons of toxic and hazards waste are planning to be removed from Lahaina and transported to the temporary debris storage site in Olowalu. The toxic and hazardous waste includes high levels of household waste, asbestos, arsenic, lead, and other toxins. Meanwhile an emergency declaration remains active which allows for side-setting and ignoring various federal, state, city laws and ordinances as part of toxic and hazardous waste removal efforts and any future development to rebuild Lahaina. Excluded or marginalized from the any of the actions, from waste removal and storage which would desecrate sacred sites, to the planned development, which will recolonize Lahaina, are some of the lineal descendants and other Kanaka maoli working to defend and stop the harm to Mother Earth in the Hawaiian Nation. Guests: • Ka'io Martin Cruz and John Cruz, creators and organizers of the People's Community Council of Maui. Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

S5 #3 | We Are Not Americans w/ Healani Sonoda-Pale (Ka Lahui Hawai'i)

The End of Tourism

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 45:12

My guest on this episode is Healani Sonoda-Pale, a Kanaka Maoli Human Rights advocate for Self-Determination and a Water Protector who has been organizing at the intersection of the indigenous struggle for liberation and environmental protection in Hawai'i. She is a member of the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative and the spokesperson of the Ka Lahui Hawaii Political Action Committee. Healani was born and raised on the island of O'ahu where she resides with her family.Show Notes:The Beauty of the Pandemic Shutdown in Hawai'iThe Fallout of the Lahaina Fires in West MauiNo ControlsManufacturing the AuthenticReopening for Tourism in the Midst of CatastropheLocal Schism: Those in Favour and Those AgainstThe Tourism at the Heart of the Housing CrisisKa Lahui Hawai'i Political Action CommitteeThe Water Crisis in OahuDecolonizing Tourism is an OxymoronSolidarity with Kanaka MaoliHomework:Healani Sonoda-Pale InstagramKa Lahui Hawai'i | TwitterOahu Water Protectors | Red Hill Community Representation InitiativeTranscript:Chris: [00:00:00] In the first season of the podcast I spoke to Hokulani Aikau and Vernadette Gonzalez about the attempts to decolonize tourism in the Hawaiian islands. And following that Kaleo Patterson. Who offered a deeper historical and cultural background into the ongoing us occupation of Hawaii. The military industrial tourism complex, and some of the traditional forms of hospitality that Hawaiians have engaged in. Since then, and especially because of the wildfires that spread through west Maui this past summer. Listeners have asked again and again, to return to the islands, to host the voices of those. They're now struggling with another catastrophe. Who are offering resilience and resistance. In the face of these enduring consequences. And as such, I welcome.Healani Sonoda-Pale to the pod. Thank you for joining me today, Healani.Healani: It's my pleasure to be joining this podcast and to help [00:01:00] spread the message about tourism in Hawai'i. Chris: Healani, could you do us the favor of elaborating a bit on where you're speaking from today and how the world looks like for you?Healani: Okay. So I'm a Kanaka Maoli woman, born and raised in Hawai'i on the island of O'ahu. I have been in the Hawaiian movement for liberation and self determination for nearly 30 years. I am a student of Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask, and I am on the front lines of many, many issues. The issues that we face today are, many of them are a consequence of tourism.The desecration of cultural sites. The degradation of our beautiful beaches pollution, traffic, overcrowding, the high cost of living in Hawai'i, the extremely high cost of housing in Hawai'i. These are all because of tourism. This is happening to Hawai'i. [00:02:00] As a result, direct result of the tourist industry, which Hawaii relies on.And in Hawaii, we have two businesses. We have the military industrial complex and the tourist industry. Those are the two worst industries to rely on, number one. And they are the most exploitive and extractive industries to have. They do not enhance our way of life here on, on these islands in Hawaii.They do the opposite. They have brought many of us to the brink where we are now, most of us living paycheck to paycheck. The average cost of a house in Hawaii is a million dollars.I believe Honolulu is the number one or at least the top three most expensive cities in the United States to live in. So tourism is a plague in Hawaii. It is a plague upon this place and it has caused us to [00:03:00] struggle on a daily basis, not just financially and not just socially, mentally as well. Having to deal with tourists on a daily basis in Hawaii is frustrating, so that's kind of like the space I'm coming from. I am involved with the water issue, protecting our water, which is now something that is a huge issue. I'm very much involved in the Red Hill issue. I'm involved with protecting Iwi Kūpuna, which is our traditional Hawaiian burials. I'm involved with the repatriation of our land. Again, another big issue. It never ends because the, the economic, social pressure to take and take and take until there's nothing left is relentless. So that's the space we're coming from. So you talked about COVID, right? You started this podcast in the beginning of COVID and COVID was an eye opener for a lot of people in Hawai'i. When COVID happened, [00:04:00] the state of Hawai'i shut down and tourists weren't allowed here during our shutdown.I believe it was like a year and a half. It was beautiful. Even though we were living in the middle of a pandemic, our beaches were empty. There were no lines at the stores. There was no traffic. Even the air we breathed seemed cleaner. The water we swam in, in the ocean, didn't have this sliminess on it, from tourists with suntan lotion swimming in it all day, right?So the fish came back. Even the plants and the land was happy. I mean, it was a beautiful time. Even though it was sad because we were living through a pandemic, it was a beautiful time for us as Kanaka because we got to see Hawai'i without tourists. And that really opened the eyes for people who usually are not as [00:05:00] critical of tourism, as many of us have been so more people in Hawaii started saying, especially Kanaka Mali, well, how do we move forward without tourism?But when the state opened up again, tourism came back and it came back with a vengeance.When you look at what was happening on social media and, you know, what people were posting and across all the islands, we saw some frustration. We saw people posting about interactions they were having with tourists at sacred sites and beaches. People were more aware that tourists were there after COVID because we were able to enjoy our beaches, enjoy our islands without them.And then when they came back, it was not only dangerous because we live 2, 000 miles away from the nearest continent. So, they were bringing in the COVID. I mean, from the time of [00:06:00] Captain Cook, tourists, visitors, explorers, missionaries, they have been bringing in diseases when, when Captain Coke arrived in 1778. We didn't have any immunity to these diseases, and so now, I think for a lot of residents here in Hawai'i, our eyes have been opened on what we have to give up for tourism.We have to sacrifice not only our beautiful island life, but a way forward that doesn't include commodifying who we are as a people, our culture, everything. The state's been talking about diversifying the industry here in Hawai'i, right? They wanted to look into agriculture was one. They've never seriously taken that up. And they always fall back on tourism.Chris: And why do you think that is? Because it's just so easy.Healani: Because they've invested. It's a multi billion dollar business. There's hotels. Waikiki [00:07:00] is loaded with hotels. It's business interests. It's those that have been in control of the tourist industry, wanting to keep control of that and wanting to keep their financial interests protected and keep going.So that is, that has been a problem. And of course we have strong lobbyists here in Hawai'i for the tourist industry. It is an industry that is supported by taxpayer dollars. It's one of the few industries we give millions of dollars of our money. It's a private industry supported by taxpayer dollars.So it's a private industry that we support that exploits not just our resources, our culture, but they have really degraded our way of life here. They've made everything so expensive that most of our people, most of the indigenous people of Hawai'i have moved away because they can't afford to live here.Chris: And you know, I'm curious [00:08:00] in this regard, to what extent do you think that this Government money and government decisions played a part in these wildfires that passed through West Maui in August, you know, like reading and researching for this interview and seeing what's been shared online and social media, the term management and mismanagement continues to arise in and among social movement activists.And I'm curious to what extent you think that either government action or inaction or the tourism industry had a part to play in what happened this past summer.Healani: The Lahaina Fires. was so tragic and the tragedy continues months after. The suicide rates are on the rise in Lahaina. Families are still displaced, thousands of them. They were just [00:09:00] a few days ago, I had posted about it. They were just given again, eviction letters. The last time I was in Maui was there.The first set of eviction letters that went out. So they're being housed in hotels, 7,00-8,000 of them; families that have lost everything, in hotels. And now they're being told to leave to make way for tourism, to make way for tourists. That's the enormity of the pressure that tourists, tourism brings with it. The pressure to a piece and to serve and to put tourism first.Just going back to my childhood in school. We were basically brainwashed into thinking we need tourism. Without tourism, we wouldn't have jobs. There would be no money, you know? So it's been kind of ingrained in us. And that's why I think COVID was super important because it was an eye opener for a lot of us.Because they saw really [00:10:00] what was possible, a world without tourism. And so the pressure to support, to push tourism, to... "they always say, we want to support small businesses," but it's really not about small businesses. It's about those huge, multinational corporations that have invested millions.into this industry and have supported and lobbied for their industry, for the tourist industry. That's what it's really about, to a point where they really don't care about the people, the residents of Lahaina. They're literally traumatizing these families again and pushing them around to make room for an industry that we all pay to support.And the Lahaina fires is a result of corporations, land grabbing by corporations of [00:11:00] tourism gone wild, literally. The whole culture of Hawaii is about making sure tourism is going to be okay in the future. We're one big resort. That's what we are.Hawaii is one big resort. Everything is catered for tourists first. It's always tourists first, residents last. And kanaka maoli not even considered, like we're not even in the equation, except when they want us to dance hula, and when they want us to chant, and when they want us to teach tourists how to make leis. So the whole Lahaina situation is very complicated.Tragic, and it continues to be tragic. Over a hundred people died in those fires. And Lahaina is like a real big hub for tourists, and has been. It's like the Waikiki of Maui. So having that burned down, I think, was a big loss for the tourist industry on Maui. [00:12:00] So they are trying every which way to bring that back. In fact, today they're going to unveil the strategic plan for the next few years for Maui, which again, is just a slap in the face. It's insulting to the people of Lahaina. They're actually having it in West Maui. It's insulting to the people of Lahaina to have now a discussion about how to move forward with tourism while they're still displaced. There's thousands of families that don't know where they're going to be next month.There are thousands more that don't have access to clean water, don't have jobs, that have multiple families living in their homes and they're going to have a big presentation on tourism today. That's what we have to deal with.There is a mythology that's been built around the tourist industry that basically tells us, you know, [00:13:00] we need tourism. We need tourism. For some reason, we won't be able to survive without tourism. So that's the culture of Hawaii. And that's what I've grown up in. One of the things that is concerning about tourism is the fact that there's never been an environmental assessment or environmental impact study done on the effects tourism has on Hawaii .There are no controls. There's no control of how many people will be allowed in, how many people will be allowed at a certain beach, how many people will be allowed to swim and hike up to a sacred pond.There's nothing like that. It's like a free for all here in Hawaii when it comes to tourism.With tourism comes a thriving sex trade. So we have a number of brothels that, of course, are illegal, here in O'ahu. And a real epidemic with a [00:14:00] high number of missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women and girls. Hmm. This is the average characteristics of a victim of a missing girl is 15 years old native Hawaiian.And that's you know, that's the reality here in in Hawaii. So tourism is one of those industries that has a lot of low paying jobs. People have to work two to three, sometimes four jobs to survive here in Hawaii because Hawaii has the highest cost of living and one of the highest in the United States and it's really a struggle to make a living off of the tourist industry.Once tourism gets a foothold in your community, then it's very difficult to get tourism out. And right now, I'm in the midst of a struggle with keeping tourism out of East Maui.[00:15:00] They're expanding tourism into rural areas because they want to make these real authentic experiences for tourists.And they want to provide cultural experiences for tourists now. And the last couple years, the Hawaii Tourism Authority has done something called destination management, which is where they give money to non profits to host tourists in these real authentic settings, where they get to work in the taro patch or they get real cultural experience hiking or storytelling or something like that and in exchange these non profits get paid.The reality of this Destination Management Program that they always give Hawaiian names to -Aloha Aina, Kahu Aina -the reality of these programs [00:16:00] is that they're actually community bribes.Residents are less tolerant of tourism these days, especially post COVID. And so these programs, like the Destination Management Programs that they're now doing, and have been doing for a couple years are community bribes that help residents swallow the bitter pill of tourism. And that is pretty much how this whole thing kind of plays out.Whatever financial benefits we get out of tourism, they're short lived and they aren't sustainable. And in fact, they threaten a sustainable and livable future for residents here, especially Kanaka Maoli.Chris: Do you see any parallels between the quote return of tourism following the COVID-19 lockdowns and later after the fires? Was anything learned by the inundation of [00:17:00] COVID carrying tourists?Healani: Yeah, so I see parallels between what's happening with tourism post COVID and what's happening with tourism post-Lahaina fires. And what's very clear with the government here, the local government has made very clear is that tourism, no matter the cost, in terms of our health and safety, comes first.And that has been shown over and over. While, when they opened up tourism, the COVID numbers went up. And because, of course, people are bringing COVID in. And that put the numbers of people in the emergency rooms and in our hospitals that went way up. We don't have the capacity and we still don't have the capacity to serve thousands and thousands of residents and tourists at the same time.In terms [00:18:00] of medical health care. And so we, you know, we're in a really tight spot for that, you know. So we were really struggling because our hospital and our medical system was overrun.We had sick tourists and we had sick residents. And when you look at the numbers, it was the Native Hawaiians and the Pacific Islanders who were not just catching COVID more, but also dying from COVID more often than others. And with Lahaina, same thing. Instead of waiting, holding off on reopening Lahaina and Maui for tourists, they opened it up super early.In fact, they opened it up a month ago, for tourism. They opened up line up for tourism and families are still suffering. Families don't know what's going to happen next month, where they're going to be living next week. There's [00:19:00] thousands of displaced families still in Lahaina, yet the pressure to open up to tourism is so immense that they did it anyway. So what happened with COVID and the Lahaina fires is that they really show that what they're prioritizing.They're not prioritizing the health and safety of, of the residents, let alone Kanaka Maoli residents. They're prioritizing business interest.Chris: Mm. Hmm. Really just showing the true face, the true nature of the industry. Right. And then not in any way surprising why locals, both residents and Kanaka Maoli would be so upset and so angry, not just with the industry, but with tourists as well when they arrive having no understanding of this. Right. And so my next question kind of centers around locals there, workers, especially. And in this particular article, It says that, "as tourists returned to the [00:20:00] island, displaced residents are still in need of long-term solutions for their future, most notably in terms of long-term affordable housing. Currently. Quote, "a coalition of 28 community groups have staged what's being called a 'fish-in' on Kaanapali beach to help raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of the Malai wildfires. Wearing bright red and yellow shirts, the protesters have pledged to fish along kind of poly beach. An area usually crowded with sunbathers in swimmers, around the clock 24 7, in order to bring awareness to these issues. And so in terms of strategy and solidarity, How have local people and organizations responded in the context of these last few months.Healani: Yeah. Many locals work in tourism. So a lot of people in Hawaii felt that the reopening was too fast, too early. There were other ways they could have dealt with. They always use the term 'affordable housing,' they always use that to [00:21:00] develop. Here they use small businesses to justify prioritizing tourism. So, their whole justification for opening up to tourism early, in Lahaina, was to support small businesses. But there are other solutions. We all know that. They give billions of dollars to Israel and to Ukraine for a war that has nothing to do with us, to other countries who are doing whatever they want with it. But when it comes to this whole issue of tourism and the displaced families, they could have supported these families and for at least a year supported these small businesses like they did during the pandemic, but they chose not to.There's other solutions they could've used, but for them, opening it up was more important than making sure families were okay.So, there is a split between some residents who feel they need tourism and some [00:22:00] who don't. And it's usually, again, business owners who rely on tourists for their livelihood. And like I said before, any kind of benefit we get from tourism is really short lived and the effects of tourism, not just on our environment, but on our society and on our economic system is more detrimental than beneficial.I'll give you an example tourism fuels people from other places wanting to buy a second home here. Tourists come to Hawaii, they see how beautiful it is, they love the beaches, of course. We have like really good weather on a daily basis. So when they come here to visit, they wanna buy a second home here.⌘ Chris Christou ⌘ is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Right now we have a housing crisis in Hawaii, and the reason for this housing crisis is because we have [00:23:00] tens of thousands of empty homes. In fact, we could put all the houseless people that are in Hawaii right now into these empty homes. And we would still have thousands of homes left over. And that is one of the reasons why number one, we have one of the, like the highest housing costs. The average house right now sells for a million dollars.It could literally be a shack on a piece of land. It'll sell for a million dollars in Hawaii. It's because of the demand for housing here in Hawaii. And it's because of the fact that a lot of the housing that we do have are usually second homes. And lots of times they use it for short term housing rentals as well. And I just want to clarify the numbers for the short term housing rentals. There's about 30, 000 residential housing units that are being rented to tourists, instead of residents, instead of locals, instead [00:24:00] of Kanaka Maoli, so that's part of the problem here. We don't have a housing shortage.We have a shortage of housing rentals or landlords that want to rent to residents.So, what we gain from tourism doesn't even come close to what we are losing from tourism, from the tourist industry.Chris: Uh, Wow. . It's just a. It's incredible. How so much of this, this desire to vacation, escape, have fun, rest, make money "passive income" lead so much to the detriment of neighbors, of what might otherwise be neighbors in our midst. And I know that, I think I've read the other day that there's this group Lahaina Strong, that was asking for government intervention. Is that right? Healani: Yeah. So they've asked. Yeah, that's a, that's a good point. [00:25:00] Lahaina Strong, one of the lead groups in Lahaina, have asked for the mayor and the governor to intervene and to ask short term housing rental owners to provide long term housing solutions for those, the displaced families. And that hasn't happened yet.It's been months. It's been September, October, November, over three months. And these families, their future is still up in the air. They don't even have reliable housing. So again, it just tells you what the priorities of the state is. Honestly, I don't think they're going to get what they want.Chris: Thank you, Healani and for being a witness to all this and proceeding accordingly. I'd like to, if I can ask you a little bit more about your political work. If I'm not mistaken you're a spokesperson for Ka Lahui Hawai'i Political Action Committee. Could you explain a little bit about [00:26:00] this organization? What the name means, how it was formed its principles, goals, and actions, perhaps. Healani: Okay, so yes, I am the spokesperson for Ka Lahui Hawai'i, and I am part of the Komike Kalai'aina Political Action Committee, which is a national committee of Ka Lahui Hawai'i, which means the Hawaiian Nation.We are a native initiative for self determination and self governance. We were formed in 1987 by Kanaka Maoli, Indigenous Peoples of Hawaii, as a response to the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and as a way forward for our people to seek out justice and to create our own way forward by creating our own nation.I have been with Kalahui Hawaii since 1993. And I [00:27:00] joined after watching Dr. Haulani-Kay Trask do her speech on the grounds of Iolani Palace, where she proclaimed that we are not American. And that was an eye opener to me. And I joined Ka Lahui and I transferred to the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, became her student. A lot of the work that we've done has been nation building. We are a nation in exile, literally. We take stances on issues a lot of times. And the issues we've been doing has been from water issues to intellectual property rights, to land rights, to tourism. The issues we cover is literally anything that affects us as a, as a people and as a nation. So we cover a wide [00:28:00] spread of issues. Most recently it's been the water issue that we've been really focused on. And when you look at the water issue, again, you see the disparity there. We are in a water crisis on the island of Oahu. We are encouraged to practice conservation measures. However, the tourist industry, hotels with pools and fountains and large golf courses, which have to be watered daily, are not being told the same thing. They are the exception. They continue to waste water while on O ahu are concerned about the future.Of our children and grandchildren because we're not sure if number one, there will be clean water and number two, if there is clean water, there'll be enough clean water for everyone in the future, but the hotels in the tourist industry, they don't care. They have swimming pools and[00:29:00] golf courses.Tourists are not told to come here and conserve water. You know, in fact, they waste water in the tourist industry and you can see it. Are you seeing how they waste it? It's pretty visual and obvious. So Ka Lahui Hawaii has been active On the front lines with Mauna Kea issue, and we have treaties with other Native American nations. We've gone to the U. N., our past Keaāina, our governor, Merilani Trask helped to draft UNDRIP, which is the U. N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which is one of the most important documents that have come out from the U. N. for Indigenous Peoples and has reasserted all of our rights to self determination.There's about 400 million indigenous peoples around the world, and UNDRIP [00:30:00] is important to every single one of us.Chris: Well, thank you for, for that and the work that you do with Ka Lahui, Healani. I'll make sure that the requisite websites and links are up on the homework section and the end of tourism podcasts for our listeners. Now, in my interview withHokulani Aikau and Vernadette Gonzalez, they spoke of various projects within the tourism sector, undertaken by indigenous Hawaiians to uncover and share with tourists or visitors, the histories of the people and place so often ignored by the industry. Now in order to do this, to educate, many people work within the confines of the structures and the systems we already have, that is to decolonize tourism, for example. Now if we weren't limited by those current structures and systems. How would you personally want to proceed hosting the other, the foreigner? How would you want them [00:31:00] to proceed towards you and your people? How might you imagine such relationship to unfold? Healani: Yeah. Yeah. Decolonize tourism. That's an oxymoron. I don't believe in decolonizing tourism. The nature of tourism, it's like colonization. The nature of tourism is to exploit, is to extract everything it can from a place and from a people and it commodifies, things that to us are spiritual, to us are sacred, tourism commodifies it all. To decolonize something that was not created from indigenous peoples is impossible.We can decolonize our world. But we cannot decolonize systems of [00:32:00] oppression because they're set up to oppress us. And so that is, I don't know what to say. It's like I said before. You know, they keep changing the name, you know, Hawai'i Tourism Authority even though they have leadership that is Kanaka and they're trying to be culturally sensitive and they are doing, you know, destination management practices kind of thing and working with nonprofits and cultural groups.It's still tourism. It's still a business that wants to benefit from our land, from our water, from our culture, from our people. And when we talk about decolonization, when we talk about working against systems of oppression, it's really about us rebuilding our own systems that counter their systems.So it's all systemic, right? It's like a system of power that benefits one group [00:33:00] over the other. It stems from colonization, which is a system of power that is working against us. So to counter that, we have to create our own systems. We actually have to reconnect and recreate our old systems. So Franz Fanon talks about this. When colonization happens, what they do is they compartmentalize our world.So, you know, where we see the world as living, as where we see ourselves as part of nature, and part of this living system where there's balance. We give and take from the land. We take care of the land, the land takes care of us. In our cosmogonic genealogies as Kanaka, it tells us basically our universal perspective on all life, which is basically we are related to all the animals and plants and to the islands itself, because what it does is it recites the birth of every [00:34:00] living thing in Hawaii that was here during the time we were here, before Captain Cook arrived, but it connects us to this world and it tells us our place in it. And when colonization came, what they did was they ripped our world apart.And they separated us from nature. They separated us from our ancient beliefs. They separated us even from our belief in ourself. And many Native people, I'm sure can relate to this, but it's like living in two worlds. We live in a Hawaiian world, and we live in the Western world. We act a certain way in the Western world because of the way it's organized. And in our world, it's different. So, it's important to understand that we cannot infiltrate a system. Without the system infiltrating us. We're going to change before the system changes because these systems have been in place [00:35:00] for centuries.So I don't even want to answer the question about hosting foreigners or others because that's not even something that's on my radar. I don't imagine tourism in my future or in the future of our Lāhui, or in the future of our people. Kalahui, Hawai'i has taken stances against tourists and tourism. It's not worth what we have to give up to host foreigners. And I could go on for hours with stories of our people, putting themselves at risk, saving tourists in the ocean, and not even getting a word of thanks. Having tourists pee on our sacred sites, having tourists throw rubbish on our beaches. It never ends. So I think it's cute that they want to decolonize tourism. It's a multi billion dollar business. You cannot decolonize tourism unless you take [00:36:00] the aspect of capitalism out of it. It's like decolonizing money. How are you going to do that? It's like you need to build systems where you can sustain yourself and your people outside of these capitalist and outside of these corporate systems of power. Healani: Yeah, so what I would want to say to those who want to stand in solidarity with Kanaka Maoli, with the Native people of Hawai'i, I would say stay home. Help us spread the message that we do not want or need visitors to come to our islands. As the Native people of Hawai'i we're building our own food systems, we're bartering. We're trying to move forward as a people away from these other systems, away from tourism, away and out from under military occupation.It's a struggle that we're in. I think for those that are listening, it's important for you to[00:37:00] spread the word about the struggle that Native Hawaiians are going through in our own homeland and our struggle for liberation and to support us in whatever way you can. So I think it's important to support us from afar, I would say.And if you're here anyway, like if you end up coming anyway, then support. Don't just come here. Give back. Help out a Hawaiian organization. Help out a Hawaiian on the street. 40 percent of all houseless in Hawaii are Indigenous Hawaiians. And we only make up 20 percent of the population in our own homeland. 50 percent of the population in Hawaii's prisons and jails are Hawaiians.We have low educational attainment. We die from diseases that other people usually don't die from. We have probably the highest suicide rates in Hawaii. High infant mortality rates. So this isn't our paradise. But we have to make it a paradise for tourists. And that's something we can't continue to do.The reality of the [00:38:00] situation is that it's destroying our future right now. And you look at what happened to Lahaina, and that's all because of unsustainable development, high cost of living, corporations running amok, diverting the rivers, water being diverted to hotels and golf courses, instead of letting water just flow freely from the ocean, from the mountains to the sea.So that's what we're dealing with, and if you are thinking about coming to Hawaii, please, please think again and just support a Hawaiian organization in their struggle to reclaim what we lost. We did something around tourism. It's a survey that we gave to tourists who are here anyway, right? So that is our pledge for tourists if they are gonna come here. And we've had it out for a few years. We've tried to get like the airlines to push it out and stuff like that to raise awareness. Now they're doing more of that, which is good. [00:39:00] And I appreciate that. But ultimately, we don't want people to come here.Healani: That would be the end goal because Hawai'ians are displaced on our own land.This is our mutual aid that we set up to help families of Red Hill who still don't have clean drinking water, which is nuts. And this is two years after, right? So if they want to help with that, we appreciate that. Chris: I'll make sure that our listeners have all of those available to them when the episode launches.Healani: Because we're basically providing services to the residents, but Yeah, that's pretty much it. I can't believe people think they can decolonize tourism. It's freaking nuts.Chris: Yeah. I keep coming back to this notion that, you know, [00:40:00] part of colonization of our minds and the wars against us tend to stem from a war against the imagination and a war against us being able to imagine other worlds and just things completely differently. And I also think that when people don't have examples to follow of what that might be like to, to imagine things differently, and then also to not have the time to do that.You know, people tend to fall back on kind of simple alternatives, I guess.Healani: I think it could be useful for a little while, but it's like, we've got to work towards not sustaining it, but dismantling it, somehow getting rid of it.I mean, look at what everything that's happened to Hawaii, COVID, Lahaina fires. Our wildfires are like happening more and more. We have more on this island now than we've had before. It's just a matter of time before we have our own huge fire that's going to be devastating on this island.Chris: [00:41:00] I'm very grateful for your time, and I can tell very clearly that you're one of those people that's offering an example for younger people on how things might be different. So, I'd like to thank you for your time, your consideration. And I'll make sure, as I said, that all of these links are up on the End of Tourism website when the episode launches and and on social media as well.Healani: Awesome. Thank you so much. You have a good day. Get full access to ⌘ Chris Christou ⌘ at chrischristou.substack.com/subscribe

HiP 069 The Story Behind “Aloha Oe” and “Kanaka Christmas”

Hawaii Posts

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2023 1:03

In this musical episode, I debut a new track I produced, Queen Lilioulkalani's (Lee-Lee-U-O-Ka-La-Nee) Aloha Oe, I produced a version of the song in a Country Hawaiian style. Big Mahalo to my house musician Luis Caldera for his masterful interpretation. Then as Christmas approaches I review all of the Christmas themed highlights from my podcasts this month. Most of which includes music, events and activities that can be enjoyed all the way up to and through Christmas Day. I will play for you the Hawaiian style version of The Night Before Christmas complete in its humorous pidgin style. Of course we have our 7 day forecast for the Weather, Surf, Night Sky, Concerts, Events, and World Day calendar

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"En mis libros intento acomodar la lengua a los ritmos del mar"

Vidas prestadas

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2023 54:48

Juan Bautista Duizeide nació en Mar del Plata y vive en una isla del Tigre. Como piloto de ultramar navegó el Atlántico, el Pacífico, el Mar del Norte y el Báltico. Estuvo a punto de naufragar a unas cincuenta millas de Tierra del Fuego, Entre otros libros publicó la novela Kanaka y el libro de cuentos Noche cerrada, Mar abierto. Compiló además antologías dedicadas a relatos marinos: Cuentos de navegantes y Abordajes literarios. Su último libro es Vuelta encontrada, publicado por Leteo, la misma editorial que publicó sus cuentos. En este volumen, una serie de relatos y poemas conforman una obra que puede también incluirse dentro del género novela. El protagonista es un personaje conocido para los lectores de Duizeide, el capitán Gonzaga, pero ya en el crepúsculo de su carrera. Las narraciones van hacia el pasado, hacia los mares y puertos que lo construyeron, hacia la singularidad de los hombres que conoció en cada barco. Cielos, aguas, colores, aves, sonidos, luces. Todo barco es una máquina de contar historias, escribirá en uno de los capítulos. Todo barco es un monasterio y un manicomio, dirá también. Y algo más: Todo barco es una cárcel de ilusos reclutados por la libertad. En la sección En voz alta, Paola Vicenzi leyó “Escribir” de Leila Guerriero Paola Vicenzi nació en Buenos Aires en 1972.Es escritora y correctora de textos. En 2017 obtuvo el Premio MGE de Editorial Random House por su autobiografía La otra vida de papá, y en 2018 fue reconocida con el Primer Premio de la Revista Literaria Guka por el microrrelato Monstruo. En 2019 publicó la novela Recién ahora, que aborda el tema de la infertilidad. En 2020, la serie de relatos Cuarentena en Buenos Aires y el libro de microficción Camino inverso. En 2021 su obra “Equis Equilibrio” fue galardonada con el XXVI Premio Vargas Llosa de Novela, otorgado por la Cátedra Vargas Llosa de la Universidad de Murcia Y en Mesita de luz, Facundo Pastos nos contó que está leyendo "Bahía Blanca” de Martín Kohan, “Ovejas” de Sebastián Ávila y “Higiene sexual del soltero” de Enzo Maqueira. Facundo Pastor es periodista, abogado y productor. Comenzó su carrera redactando crónicas deportivas y luego se desempeñó como cronista de radio y TV. Se especializó en investigaciones judiciales y policiales. Su programa Documentos América recibió un Martín Fierro y el prestigioso premio en el New York Festival. Actualmente conduce Pastor 910 por radio La red y el noticiero de la tarde en A24. SU último libro es Emboscada, una investigación que reconstruye, con ritmo de novela policial, cómo se armó la emboscada que terminó con la desaparición de Rodolfo Walsh. Con este libro fue nominado al Premio Rodolfo Walsh a la mejor obra de no ficción de género negro en la Semana Negra de Gijón. En la sección Bienvenidos Hinde habló de “Un enorme parasol de tela verde”, de Martín Prieto (Eduner), “La pez”, de Gabriela Larralde (Emecé) y “La crisis de la narración”, de Byung-Chul Han (Herder) y en Libros que sí recomendó “Reflexiones sobre la cuestión antisemita”, de Delphine Horvilleur (Libros del Zorzal) y “Porque demasiado no es suficiente”, de Mariana Enriquez (Mi historia de amor con Suede) de Montacerdos Y en los Libros del estribo, agradeció la recepción de los ibros de Nicolás Jozami: “Galería de auxilios” (Ediciones del Callejón), “La joroba del Edén” (Cartografías ediciones), “Las leyes de la ausencia” (Babel editorial) y “Hueso al cielo” (Alción editora) y “Dos Garbo, cine y demonio”, de Margarita Fernández (Luz Fernández Ediciones)

Episode 429 "Love For Lahaina"

Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2023 94:57

In this episode of Native Opinion, we do a deep dive into the fires which eliminated the town of Lahaina, in Maui, Hawaii. From the loss of life, to greedy venture capitalists looking to acquire more land from the Kanaka Hawaiian people who have already lost so much. We also look at the politics involved, and try to bring a perspective that was never shared by Main Stream news media outlets who only sought to elevate Kanaka loss and assess blame. *WARNING* This is a very emotional episode.This podcast episode is sponsored by Mohegan Trading Post, a Native American gift store. The holidays are coming! Check them out for great gift ideas!

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Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick - Season 6, Episode 4

Momus: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 67:13

Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi) joins Lauren Wetmore in conversation about Māhealani Dudoit's fundamental text, “Carving a Hawaiian Aesthetic,” published in the first issue of ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal – He ‘oia mau nō kākou', which Dudoit co-founded in 1998. Broderick, an artist, curator, and educator from Mōkapu, Oʻahu, champions the text, saying “Kānaka ‘Ōiwi don't have a lot of writing about our recent stories of art, so the few texts that do exist become more significant with time because they function as rare points of reference that we can all share when we're reconstructing our own histories.” Broderick discusses challenges faced by Native Hawaiians around stories of their art within institutional settings and the role of writing in his own practice: “I'm an artist, but I have to write now because the work that I make, no matter how understood it is by the communities that I'm a part of, if it's not written about it doesn't really exist for a certain audience … Writing for me is a way to no longer have to waste time explaining what I already know.”On the occasion of this episode and especially following the fires in Hawaiʻi, we encourage listeners to visit the Puʻuhonua Society and consider making a donation.This episode has been generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.

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DEEP DIVE: Hawaii on Fire, Directed Energy Weapons, and Hidden Agendas Unveiled

Red Pill Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 87:12

You think you know the full story of the devastating Hawaii wildfires? Think again. This isn't just another tale of nature gone wild. It's a wild time to be alive, and it's time to wake up from the mainstream slumber. In this eye-opening episode of the Adams Archive, We dive headfirst into the blaze of confusion and conspiracy surrounding the Hawaii fires. Including documents that prove the government has been working on directed energy weapons capable of causing a terrible wild fire since before 1975. We then go deeper into the modern applications of this technology and who is behind them... could it be the same organizations looking to take over the sacred Maui land? Join me as we unearth the hidden secrets and questionable narratives that the 'powers-that-be' would prefer you to ignore. What were those government-funded experiments all about? Why are so many conspiracies suddenly becoming realities? And most importantly, how long can we remain oblivious to the shadows that lurk behind these tragedies? All the Links: Https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams Substack: https://austinadams.substack.com Full Transcription: Adams Archive. Hello, you beautiful people and welcome to the Adams Archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today on today's episode, we are going deep into a recent topic that has come up as a result of the devastating fires in LA High. Hawaii. Now, if you don't know anything about this, you've probably been sleeping under a rock for the last week, but that's okay. I'll catch you up to speed. Uh, so basically what's been going on is there's been horrific, horrific wildfires that have been spreading across a specific island in Hawaii, and not just any island, but one of the most affluent areas that there is. Now, as a result of this, you know, there was, uh, a lot of conversations being had about a specific topic, but. The first conversation to have is, it's terrible. It's horrific. All of these people are losing their livelihood, uh, potentially hundreds if not thousands of people have lost their lives. I've seen video after video of, of men, women, and children escaping from their cars and running into the water on the side of the road to escape from these horrific fires. So my heart goes out to all of them. My heart goes out to the island. My heart goes out to the people of Hawaii. Uh, what a terrible tragedy that this is, but something has come up as a result of this that has directed the conversation into something that makes people believe that maybe this wasn't the organic fire I. That were being sold, that it was, a lot of people in Hawaii itself are coming out and saying that they, they don't believe that narrative. And we've seen this happen in California. We've seen this happen now in Canada with, with smoke going all over the United States to where, you know, I, I woke up here and look outside on certain days and you can barely see the sun. It's, it's, it's a wild time to be alive. And so now another time. In Hawaii. So one only has to wonder how much of an anomaly is this? We, we, I cannot recall this many devastating wildfires at any given time. Now, what the mainstream narrative will tell us is that it's climate change, right? It's because you drive your vehicle to work every day and you fill it up with gas instead of our electric vehicles, which, you know, we create the batteries from, you know, coal and, and other fossil fuels. But, um, I digress. That's what we're talking about today. What this led into a conversation about was now being called a conspiracy, which is the idea of directed energy weapons, which I will dive into you with you. I didn't believe, I didn't understand this. I didn't know this was a thing. There's very few conspiracies that we go into, conspiracies that we go into that I don't have a clue going into it. And I took a deep dive into this over the last 24 hours and have been really, uh, Learned a lot about how longstanding these military operations and government funded science, uh, scientific experiments have been happening for, and I'm blown away. I I had no idea that this was going on. So I'm gonna take you through my findings. We're gonna walk through what's happening in Hawaii, uh, and we're gonna read it from the accounts of some, some people that were there, some accounts of people who have broken this stuff down. But the longer you stick around, the deeper. We get, all right. As always, leave a five star review. Hit that subscribe button. If you're here with me for the first time, I appreciate you. If you're here with me for the second time or however many times after that, go ahead and leave a five star review. Um, uh, it's literally the only way that you can give back to what I'm doing here today at this time, and that's all I want from you is if you know I'm putting a lot of work into this, if you can. Show that you appreciate that by just going in there, leaving a five star review. I hope that you enjoyed our silent weapons for quiet wars deep dive that we did last week, that we tied up with a bow. Uh, if you go to my Instagram, the Austin J. Adams, and you go to the most recent video on there about silent weapons for quiet wars, you can actually comment silent weapons onto that and I will automatically send you the documents and both of the deep dives. Alright. Before we get into all of that, I am going to dive into, or, or just jump into a, a video that has gone viral across the entire United States, because so many people are hungry, hungry to hear the, the narrative of the people and not the narrative of the propaganda that we're being sold. So stick around for that. But first, let's jump. Into it, the Adams archive. All right. The very first thing that we're gonna jump into today is going to be a musician by the name of Oliver Anthony. And if you have not heard this song yet, you have been living under a rock. Alright. In the last six days from this video being posted from a no-name artist, Oliver Anthony is now a one of the biggest country stars that there is. Okay? Six days, 10 million views. Wild to see how something in, in a time where, you know, we hear about the, the Renaissance time and, and, and the, you know, cultural movements of art and how art truly speaks to the times that people were living in and, and what, what the soul needs to be quenched when it's thirsty during those time periods. And I think that this song is one of those times I think that, that the American people are so thirsty, so, so, Fed up with the mainstream narratives, with the mainstream news corporations, with the, with the mainstream politicians. They're so fed up with it that it was just absolutely perfect timing for a song like this to come out. So, I'm gonna start your day off right? Let's go ahead and listen to this song that's been stuck in my head for five straight days. Joe Rogan posted this song about 36 hours ago, and I'm actually the number one comment on that post, giving a quote from this song that I love of has over 12,000 likes. Just my comment on this Joe Rogan post. But, um, Uh, there's some really amazing parts to this, so I'll, I'll give you a few of my favorite parts, but let's go ahead and, and listen to this because Oliver, Anthony just crushes this and I'll set the scene for you. I'll actually go ahead and, and show this on my screen for you as well. Uh, What I'm gonna pull up for you is actually the music video that he did in a, just a, a surrounded by trees in the woods. A deer stand in the background, three dogs at his feet, and what this like, awesome looking guitar in his hands. Um, so here we go. This is Oliver Anthony, rich Men north of Richmond. I've been selling my soul working all day overtime, hours for bullshit pay so I can sit out here and waste my life away, drag back home and drown my troubles away. It's a damn shame. What the world's gotten to for people like me, people like you wish I could just wake up and it not be true, but it's, oh, it's living world with and so. These richmen. Know through Richman, Lord knows all wanna have total control. Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do and they don't think you know, but know that you do because your dollar ain't shit. And it's tax to know him calls a I wish politicians. Look out for miners and not just miners on an island somewhere. Lord, we got folks in the street. Ain't got enough in the heat and the whole beast. Milk and welfare. But God, if you're five foot three and you 300 pounds, taxes don't. Not to pay for your bags of fudge round, putting themselves six feet in the damn country. Does. Is keep on kicking them down, Lord. Hits a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me, people like you wish I could just wake up and it not be true, but it is. Oh it is living in the new. These rich men know the rich men. Lord knows they all just wanna have total control. Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do, and then don't think you know, but I know that you do. 'cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxing. No hand calls. I've been selling my soul working all day overtime, hours for bullshit pay. Ooh. And if that doesn't speak to your soul, son, you have not been paying attention. God, that's amazing. All right, so Oliver, Anthony, as I just said, has had some incredible, incredible songs come out, but none other than that one right there that has just spread like wildfire across the entire psyche of the American public. And there's a few lines in there now. You know, I'll give you some, some context here. The rich men north of Richmond are the politicians, right? That's Washington dc. Some of the other parts that I found to be, you know, the comment that I made, That was the number one comment on Joe Rogan's Instagram of this post was that I wish politicians would look out for minors, not just minors on an island somewhere, calling out a number of politicians who were seen on Epstein's Island's flight logs, including our very own president. Bill Clinton, I believe it was some 17 times, bill Clinton was on the flight logs and 21 times or 21 times he was on the flight logs 17 times that he was logged into the White House. Epstein was, while Bill Clinton was in office, right? And, and, and so he talks about inflation, right? Your dollar ain't shit. It's taxed to no end. We talked about that in our last episode. The salesman that comes up to you and tries to sell you this idea of the government, and it just doesn't make sense today with all these frustrations that we have and all, all of the, all of the totalitarian control that he's referencing. They just, they just want total control. And he perfectly articulates this in the song and captures the, the essence of the American frustration in, in, in three minutes and 10 seconds perfectly. And as a result, this man now gets his due. He will be one of go down as, as one of the most famous country artists. Ever, I believe with a, you know, the, the, the songs that he's singing right now just resonating across state lines, county lines. Right. And, and there was some, you know, I posted that on, on Joe Rogan's. Video of this and, and some people were arguing about whether it was minors with M I N O R S or m I n E R S, right. I wish politicians would look out for minors, not just minors on an island somewhere. And what I believe that he was referencing and, and you know, we won't know for a little bit until the actual. Lyrics of this come out, but, and what a lot of people seem to think is that he, he's talking about m i n e r s. I wish politicians would look out for minors. I wish politicians would look out for the, the blue collared workers, the people doing overtime, hours, just trying to make ends meet. And, and again, I think this just perfectly encapsulates what we've been missing in the public. And, and speaks to the frustration, speaks to the, the angst of the American people. And, and the, the, the, the. Wanting to rid ourselves of the grossness. That is the, the hands of the politicians on everything that we do. Right? So I just wanted to play that for you. Start this thing off. Right. We'll move into the next topic. Right now, but I hope you enjoyed that song. I hope you go follow Oliver Anthony, uh, on YouTube, on Instagram, anywhere that you can find him. Um, go, go look it out or go, go listen to him. Go follow him. Pretty incredible stuff. Alright, let's move on to our very first topic of the day. But man, that song just hits home. Alright, uh, here we go. So this is the video. Of a news anchor who is showing the Maui wildfires, which is now the deadliest wildfire in American history. Let's watch this video. Maui where we have just learned that this is now the deadliest wildfire in modern US history and just behind us, this is the remnants of a house burned in another blaze as the entire island is battling ideal conditions right now for wildfires. What we know about this tragedy is already unbearable. Nearly 100 dead, more than 2000 homes and buildings destroyed. We are still so far from understanding the full toll, and we'll explain why tonight. This is the overhead view of the sweeping devastation in La Hana. We now know that only 3%, 3% of those homes have been checked for bodies. Just next to where we're broadcasting tonight, we have two cars incinerated by the wildfires. That right there was a Tesla. You can see what's left of the front row seats in the distance. That was a lush green hill. Now scorched to its core. It shows the power of these wildfires. The governor has been warning that the death toll will go up, and there are still so many residents who escape the flames but are now searching for their loved ones. And tonight, angry at officials and a warning system, they say failed them. MG Room, third room. Third MGM Tonight. This is what it looked and felt like. Escaping the LA wildfire. Oh, no guys. No, we, we. This new video showing the sheerer panic as a family stuck in a line of cars, had minutes to escape before the flames engulfed the road out. This is a disaster. That drive through hell is how Rafa Ochoa and his family made it out alive. I knew it was bad and it was moving fast, and it was moving fast, really fast. It got it got to our homes within seconds. With the fast moving fire, closing in on his home, Ochoa heroically grabbed both his kids and his friend's children. Their parents were at work and scrambled everyone out. Did you hear any alarms? Did you get any kind of warning? No alarms, no warning. Nothing. No. That's something that will come up in a little bit about the To police. Police rolling by telling us to evacuate or anything. Warning the desperation of those chilling moments. Now turning to anger. Where were you guys too? To try and get us out. Evacuate us. You know, we're mad. We're mad. No, we didn't just lose our homes. We lost our town. Lost history. You know, our kids are traumatized. You guys messed up real bad. Hawaii emergency officials have said sirens on the island weren't activated during the fire. Wow. The other alerts by phone crazy and broadcast were having seen that storm. Uh, we have, we have doubts. That much could have been done with a, a fiery, um, fast moving fire like that. The scale of the devastating loss now unprecedented in modern times, the deadliest wildfire in the US in more than 100 years, claiming at least 93 lives, just so you know, 3%. That's what's been searched with the dogs 3%. When we pick up the remains and they fall apart. And so when you have 200 people running through the scene yesterday, I don't know how much more you want me to describe it, that's what you're stepping on as FEMA and the governor survey, the damage search teams with cadaver dogs that just arrived to Maui yesterday. Now scouring the ruins of historic Lana again today. Are you saying we're just at the beginning of this disaster? So for the first few days we had done searches in the streets. Now the guy that you hear talking is the police chief. Uh, let me see if I can get his title up here. But he's the police chief of Laina of Hawaii, um, in Maui. Now, this man. If I'm not mistaken, I, I believe it is this man right here. There's some questions around this man, because apparently, and let's, let's double check first from some of these articles that I have up here, but apparently Yep. That's the same guy. The guy running the show in Maui right now during these wildfires is the, this, the police chief in Maui is the same guy who ran the show during the Vegas massacre. Something even crazier about this police chief is that he is a federal agent with a top secret clearance according to LinkedIn. Hmm. Now what would a man with a top secret clearance, a federal agent finding himself in the midst of two of the biggest crises in American history? One being the largest massacre, I believe, the largest mass shooting of any ever. And now the largest death toll, the deadliest wildfire of any in US history. What are the odds of that? What are the odds of that? How many police chiefs are there out there, and how did he find himself moving from Vegas to now Maui as the police chief? The same guy who ran the show during the Vegas massacre. Interesting. So let's go ahead and let's look a little deeper into that because the police chief, the one answering all the calls, the one talking to all the news media, coordinating every single part of the narrative here is the same exact guy. The same guy that did it during the Vegas shooting. And if there's a, you know, Hamm's razor. Would tell us if I'm, if I'm using that correctly, right. The least, the, the most likely scenario is the likeliest, right? It's like the, the one that involves the least moving parts. Sometimes that can be used in a different way. It's like, what? What is the likelihood that the same man. Right. Well, the, the, the most likely scenario here seems to be telling us that it's not a coincidence that this man was there in both instances, because statistically speaking, that just shouldn't be the case. Right. So let's go ahead and read more about this individual. So let's start back at the Vegas investigation. If you recall. What ended up happening with that is they spent years of investigations tearing the guy's history apart. This says and spent millions of dollars, and they still had no idea what his motive was, why he was there with the guns, or that anyone anywhere was aware of it. Somebody else said the, that a reminder of the Vegas coverup, a high ranking Saudi aristocracy. Aristocrat got drunk and drugged and started shooting from their, her hotel window into a crowd. The United States helps cover up, but asks for the punishment of the guy, which the Saudis agree upon, and do it. Hmm. So they point to the Wikipedia, ar, or Wikipedia pages of the Las Vegas shooting. And if you recall, let's go ahead and just read this real quick. A 64 year old man from Nevada Open Fire on the crowd attending the 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Vegas Strip from the 30 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. He fireboard a thousand bullets, killing 60 people, and wounded at least 413. Wow. The ensuing panic brought the total number of injured to approximately 867. About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. How convenient The incident is, the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in American history. It focused attention on firearm laws in the us, particularly with regard to bump stocks. Ooh. Hmm. Says the 64 year old former auditor in real estate businessman who had been living 80 miles of northeast of, uh, northeast of Las Vegas in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada. Yeah, that sounds like who's gonna shoot 400 people. Had a long-term girlfriend and had no known children. He was son of Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI's most wanted list between 1979 and or 1969 and 77 Pex only inter uh, interactions with law enforcement were traffic citations. Hmm. Yeah. Interesting. So same guy who was the police chief during this time. Right. Let listen what the governor of Hawaii had. Oh, alright. Jumping ahead of ourselves first about preserving. So let's go ahead and read a little bit about what people are saying about the Hawaii situation because some people are pointing to what the mayor. Uh, in, or I'm sorry, the governor is saying about the land already, right? They're saying that a lot of people seem to think that this is some type of land grab. So let's see what we have here. It says the governor of Hawaii already having ideas for the land being Laina moving forward. I'm already thinking about ways for the state to acquire that land so that we can put it into workforce housing to put it back into families or to make it open spaces in perpetuity as a memorial to people who were lost. We want this to be something that we remember, uh, after the pain path. Okay? I gotta tell you guys, I am so frustrated with investors and realtors calling the families who lost their home offering to buy their land. How? Dare you do that to our community right now. Frustrated hearing since yesterday that multiple families that I know personally were reached out and offered money from investors and realtors. Shame on you. Shame on you. If you are a Maui realtor contributing to that, karma's gonna come and get you. Hmm. Here is another video had to say about the fires of the destruction of Laina. It does appear like a bomb and fire went on. It does appear like a bomb and fire went on. All of those buildings virtually are gonna have to be rebuilt. It will be a new Lana in its own image, its own values. It's gonna be billions of dollars. We are so coordinated with state, county, and federal support that it took less than a quarter of a day, six hours to get the approval from the president to bring those resources in. This was, of course, a shock to see a hurricane and its winds. I think that we're seeing this for the first time in many different parts of the world. I've been contacted by several governors across the country to share their experiences in a time where global warming is combined with strengthening students. So let's just go over a few of the red flags there. It is the very first time that anything like this has ever happened. Hmm. Very interesting. They want to acquire the land as quickly as possible and turn it into government subsidized housing. And also there's been discussions around turning Le Hana into some sort of smart, connected city, right? You recall some episodes that we did on the 15 minute cities where basically it's just completely under totalitarian control exit. He said, very coordinated bomb and fire went off. All right. There's the other one. A bomb and fire went off according to the governor of Hawaii, why would you use the word bomb in a wildfire? I, I wonder how many, how many other wildfires you could go find where the governor of the state mentions bombs? Hmm. All we will need to rebuild is billions of dollars in its own likeness and own image with its own values. What does that even mean? And it's so coordinated with state, county, and federal support that within less than six hours, they got six hours, got approval from the president to bring resources, hurricane type wind that just happened to be the same time as the bomb, like fire governors calling to share their experience. So we start the press conference out with bombs and explosions, then set up how we're gonna get some smart cities in Hawaii and then we end it with 2030 propaganda of global warming. Right? Yep, exactly right. So we see all of these things coming together and, and we're gonna get into eventually how people are thinking that this actually happened. I wanna set the stage for you, right? The governor is saying bomb like fires. He's saying the immediate resourcefulness of the federal, state communities coming together to fund this operation, to buy out this land. Now, this land wasn't just, isn't just a piece of Hawaii. This land was originally a, a piece of land that is one of the most sought after pieces of land in Hawaii, in Maui. Um, the, these waterfront properties are worth tremend, like billions of dollars combined, and they would not sell the property to the government no matter how many times they came to them. Right. Now there's certain amendments within the Constitution that would allow them to, under certain circumstances, to basically take over this land by purchasing it at a fair price, uh, without the consent of the owners. And so let's watch one more video, maybe a couple more on this, and then we'll move into the actual directed weapons. It looks like there's a fair amount of videos actually on this, but I don't want to go too, too deep into other people's stuff. We'll do our own deep dive here, but I do wanna set the stage for you now. There's a guy named Matt Kim, who does a pretty good video on this that we'll go ahead and watch, and then we'll go from there. Several wildfires have broken out on the island of Mau. What's going on in Maui? There is a lot to unpack, so try to keep up. Several wildfires have broken out on the island of Maui, creating mass devastation and destruction, most notably, the town of Laina. This is not the people's fault, and our hearts go out to those affected. Why is Laina significant? It was once the capital of the kingdom of Hawaii. Prior to the forced US annexation and the eventual move to Honolulu, Lena is filled with native property and business owners that have dug their heels in and have refused to sell their properties to conglomerates such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and Oprah Glob Prime oceanfront property, still owned and managed by the natives. So what caused this destruction? Short answer, no one knows. All government agencies, local and federal have vehemently stated that it is unknown. However, there are two competing theories online. One environmental, the perfect combination of a major hurricane, 200 miles off the southern shore of Maui, combined with northern pressure to create massive dryness and winds were too diabolical. Something the conspiracy theorists call A D E W Direct Energy Weapon. And you will find that that's not just the conspiracy theories. That's articles from back from 1979 that we're gonna read that talk about directed energy weapons, so not just the conspiracy theorists. These are articles from like the Washington Post in the seventies talking about the Soviet directed energy weapons. What? I had the same response. So I started Googling the first article that pops up when you Google Maui. D e w is from Newsweek. It starts like this. The devastating wildfires in Hawaii have brought a new conspiracy theory from climate change deniers who suggest that the destruction was orchestrated by the federal government's direct energy weapons. Ugh. Anytime a propaganda media article starts with conspiracy theory by climate change deniers makes me wanna believe it more. Mm-hmm. Next article, fact checked. False. Wait, what? I thought the facts were unknown. How can we rule out trending theories as impossible already? Joe Biden just announced that the federal government will provide aid to those that lost their homes. That means homeowners who lost their houses and properties can now loan money from the federal government at a low interest rate. Your super valuable property that is skyrocketing value. You can now get a new mortgage courtesy of Uncle Sam. There are also countless efforts by the people to send aid and support to devastated areas. This would be great, except local residents are now saying that they're having difficulty delivering such aid and only FEMA and Red Cross aid is being allowed in roadblocks everywhere. No one allowed in or out. Hmm. And Maui is an island surrounded by water next to one of the largest US military bases. Local residents are saying that they received no advanced warning and that they only evacuated once. They saw the thick black smoke at their doors. Now that's an interesting concept that a lot of people are starting to talk about in some of these videos is that, that the, they said that, uh, some of the residents in this area said that every single Saturday at the first of each month, they do their emergency warnings every Saturday without fail, and all of the sudden there's a huge wildfire, wildfire that is creeping up to their doorsteps. And they don't, they aren't notified at all until the smoke is seeping through their doors. And if you recall, there was a false, like nuclear text message claiming that there was a nuclear bomb headed towards Hawaii at one point where they falsely stated that from a military individual who pressed the wrong button, now all of a sudden they don't know how to find the right button when there's a, a cata catastrophic fire coming and creeping up to the people's doors all around an entire island killing. Tens and hundreds of people, right? As they said in that article, there's only 3% of houses that have been searched so far, and there's 93 deaths. Let's do some math, right? 93. Let's multiply that times three. That's, uh, two hundred and seventy nine, two hundred eighty. Multiply that by 10, that's 2,800 deaths, potentially based off of the 3% rate at 93 deaths. That's just the math, right? And maybe there's more people, and maybe there's less people, but the off of the 3% math that we can do right there, that's what what we're probably looking at around a thousand people, more than that, right? That are dead as a result of this. And some people are asking why. Even the people that are on the the island are very, very skeptical of who and what caused this. And they, they don't seem to be convinced that it was a hurricane or a random fire. Right. It's like less than 3% of fires are caused by non manmade ways, and we're seeing this in every single wildfire instance. We're seeing that there's multiple locations being targeted that like a singular time that causes this massive, massive fire right around the time that there's extremely high winds, right? You cannot tell me that that's a coincidence. You cannot, I don't believe you. All of these wildfires happening simultaneously in all these weird areas coming together perfectly at the right time when there's a massive amount of winds. I don't believe you. So a lot of people seem to be very skeptical as well, especially when you have back to back, to back to back. You see California on fire. We see Canada on fire now. Maui on fire. Completely unrelated circumstances, and all of them seem to have to do with climate change according to, like he said, the most frustrating part about this, one of the most frustrating parts about this is that these fact checkers come out and say that, oh, it's absolutely can't be directed energy. Weapons fact check. False, not true. You don't know. You have no idea. Why are we ruling out the idea? Nobody's saying no. You know, it's, it almost shows the blame, right? It, it almost shows that, that they're so scared of this narrative when it could be Russia, it could be China, it could be any number of different countries that are targeting us with these weapons that they've been developing for over 50 years. But you want to immediately write it off, and that makes you look more guilty than anything. Alright? Um, Here we go. Let's go ahead and watch this. Let's go ahead and read this article here. Let's exit out of that video. Alright. There's another portion of this, and again, this comes from a video on Twitter from Paul's corner 21, and it says, many are speculating that the fires could have been intentionally set to disenfranchise The natives who owned the historic ocean from properties that were devastated in the blaze. Others believed the fires were started to level the area to make way for 15 minute cities promoted by the likes of the World Economic Forum. Hmm. Interesting. Even more people are curious why there are brick and mortar buildings burnt into rubble while surrounded by trees. That's kind of weird. So let's look at this video. Uh, mentioning some of the, the ideas around this and didn't flood them, didn't give them, you know, crazy, you know, other things. But it caused fires. It caused fires, and not only on Maui. But it caused fires in the most precious parts of real estate in Maui. Laina Front Street is worth billions. The Hawaiians that have been holding out and the Kanaka have been holding out for years not wanting to sell their property in Laa due to these big million dollar companies. It is not a coincidence, I don't believe how in the most precious parts of Maui, Kula, Laina, and that the locals that are standing strong and do not want to give up Oprah Winfrey's fucking view up in Kula that the Hawaiians are holding out on that the fire was going to the ho, the Hawaiians and the Kanaka that was holding right there on Front Street. Hmm. Interesting. So specifically targeted areas that seem to be worth lots of money where people were digging their heels in. Right now, when we get to what these directed energy weapons are and who is developing them, one of the largest names is Lockheed Martin, and when you look into who's the largest shareholders of Lockheed Martin, the list goes like this. State Street, 14% State Street, 14% of Lockheed Martin, Vanguard 9%, and BlackRock 7%. The very same companies that this man is claiming are going and after these properties and have been trying to buy them out. He didn't name them by name, but he's talking about those companies going to buy them out and take over this property, right. Now another conversation that comes up is around 15 minute cities. So the idea here is that Hawaii and the different islands of Hawaii have been used for test experiments, right? You wanna go back into shock testing and economic, uh, data mining and all of those things that we talked about in silent weapons for quiet wars. These are perfect areas. Each of these islands is its own economic institution, which can be leveraged and utilized in ways that you cannot imagine for data mining, right? You can release viruses, you can release, uh, uh, you know, you can make toilet paper scarce. You can do whatever that you want within these individual islands and use it as a way to leverage the data that you are, that you are getting because there's no other outside factors coming into these areas, right? And each one of them is their own control group. So that's why they're looking at Hawaii. And Maui specifically being a big part of the 15 minute city rollouts, right? The one that the World Economic Forum has been bragging about for so long, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Oh, and to get you there, we just have to burn down your current city with directed energy weapons. Maybe here's a video, maybe not, not a video. It's a picture of a video. It says, new mind-numbing conspiracy theory about this is from politics and Ed on Twitter around 15 minute cities is Maui fires in Hawaii, where supposedly set so they rebuild into 15 minute cities. Disgusting. It says, Hmm. Well, and you go back to what the governor was saying and the governor was saying that, you know, it will be a new. City it will be a, it will have its own culture. It will have a new feel to it, right? Hmm, hmm. Lemme go ahead and read this to you. This article that he's referencing, this is the, the Federal Agency concerned with weather modification activities are the departments of Agriculture, commerce, defense, and Interior. Plus the Environmental Protection Agency, the national, uh, aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. The Department of State is also interested in the effects on other countries of weather modification efforts. Uh, And some states also conduct weather modification programs in 1977. The federal government will spend about $20 million compared to 3 million in 1963 for such activities as fog, cloud and precipitation modification, ball and lightning suppression, uh, amite amyl, lation of severe storms and hurricanes, and other related activities. Most of the information gathering and analysis asked for the study required by the SS 1383 has already been performed recently by the federal government. During the past year. The domestic council through the Environmental Resources Committee, subcommittee of Climate Change, has completed an extensive study of the role of the federal government in weather modification. Hmm, maybe I don't know, causing such type of hurricanes so that you can then spark these types of fires with that much wind. That's interesting. Hmm. Yep. And we'll go into that in just a minute, right? It says that, uh, and yet others have put forward the theory that wildfires could have been started by environmentalist arsonists to justify climate change. Talking points already put out by the likes of the New York Times, which the New York Times claimed the n Maui fires are already one of the deadliest wildfires in modern US history. How did it happen? In a state defined by its lush vegetation, the explanation is straightforward as the planet heats up. No place is protected from disasters, says the New York Times. And yet no fact checkers coming here to say, well, actually nobody knows what happened here. Right. We don't know if this is from climate change. We have no reason to believe that. Yet you're jumping to conclusions while calling other people conspiracy theorists. Hmm. Sounds like you're directing the narrative. And there's some, there's some really horrific videos of people, uh, trying to get out of these, uh, uh, these fires. Right. The wildfires started Tuesday. Have, starting Tuesday, have scorched over 2000 acres of land, including most of the town of Lahaina, a rich cultural and historical area of the Hawaiian Island. Though the cause of the fires have yet to be officially determined, when the establishment makes a decision to quash conspiracy theories and questions, before all the facts are in, there's reason to be suspicious. And now you might say space lasers. Directed energy weapons. That sounds like something from Star Wars and you might be correct, but also this is something that we as a culture, as a species, have been studying since the sixties and have been implementing since very close to that. So let's go ahead and figure out what are directed energy weapons. What are these space lasers that people are referring to that could have started this fire? That's a good question. I'm glad you asked. Let's jump into it. So to to reference a few other things that mention this. This isn't the first time that this has come up. There's a Reuters article that says, Russia uses new laser weapons in Ukraine. Zelensky mocks wonder weapon. Now this was May 18th, 2022. And it says Russia dips into its secret laser arsenal. Russia on Wednesday said it was using a new generation of powerful lasers in Ukraine to burn up drones, deploying some of Moscow's secret weapons to counter a flood of western arms. Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018 unveiled an intercontinental ballistic missile, underwater nuclear drones, a supersonic weapon, and a laser weapon. Lulu is known about the specifics of the new laser. Putin mentioned one called Pervet per per pervet. I don't dunno. I don't speak Russian. Named after a Midieval Orthodox Warrior monk, Alexander Pervet, who perished. Im Mortal Kombat. Yuri Borisov, the Deputy Prime Minister in, in charge of military development told a conference in Moscow that Pervet was already being widely deployed and they could blind satellites up to 1500 kilometers above Earth. He said there was already more powerful systems than Pervet that could burn up drones and other equipment. Bov cited a test on Tuesday, which he said had burned up a drone five kilometers away within five seconds. Great, and, and I want you to notice that keyword burned up. It is thermal. This action of this laser is just heating this up to the point where it burns it, right? That that is written by Reuters. Right? We are not talking about conspiracy theories. We are talking about a technology that is here today, right now that most of you are not aware of, that you should be horrified of. Because if this type of technology exists, imagine the implications of this when there's riots in the street for, I don't know, authoritarianism. Hmm. So just wanted to start this off with, this isn't all that crazy? Right? And if you still don't believe me, let's go back in time to Nikolai Tesla. Nikolai Tesla had created what he had as a theory of technology, which he called a death Ray. Let's go ahead and watch this short clip about it. An Israeli arms company known as Raphael Advanced Defense Systems reveals details of a laser defense system capable of shooting missiles from the sky with a pulse of energy, the futuristic military hardware. Is called iron beam. The concept of iron beam is that it's essentially a high energy laser that is designed to rapidly heat up the target that it's aimed at. We're talking about aircraft, drones, missiles. Anything that could launch an attack on a city could be literally destroyed in the sky by I and D. This sounds very much like Tesla's death, Ray. This is exactly the kind of technology that Tesla was talking about in the 1920s and thirties of using these beam weapons to shoot down missiles and projectiles. The war department sided with Einstein and Oppenheimer's atomic bomb, not with Tesla. But now what we're seeing is that Israel is developing this. Iron beam technology because they realized that atomic weapons were far too destructive. Is it possible that Tesla developed a time viewing or time travel technology and that he became aware of these developments? Tesla was once quoted as saying, the present is theirs, but the future for which I have really worked is mine. Did Tesla in fact see into the future might Iron Bean be proof that plans for the death Ray not only existed, but also may have even been confiscated and carried out by the United States government? There are those who believe that Nicola Tesla was not only in contact with extraterrestrials. But was sent here to earth by them to fulfill a mission and usher in a new age for mankind. One of the big questions is who is Tesla? Is he, in a sense, an avatar, an enlightened being that comes to the earth to help humans? No one really knows exactly what's going on, but I think all great artists and Tesla saw himself as artists, feel that they're instruments of a higher purpose, and Tesla certainly felt that he was working. Along those lines, there is an agenda for humanity. There is a plan, and in every generation, whatever power it is that's behind the plan sends to earth certain specific souls who are by birth more inclined and able to be receptors to the higher knowledge. Interesting. But that just starts the conversation right now. There's a whole deep dive that we could do into Tesla, which is super interesting in all of the technologies that he built and some of the things that they actually referenced there, which I seem to be, that's pretty interesting, right? The idea that there's these enlightened, uh, individuals who are these, you know, uh, satellite or, uh, re satellite, uh, boxes or, you know, that take in the, the, the technology ideas and, and implement them in, in the world, right? What percentage of people, there's like a handful of people who have really changed the dynamic of the technology of our world as we know it today, for literally everybody. And this could be one of those instances only, maybe it was put under wraps for quite a long time, because I have articles here from the sixties, okay? One of these articles. Let's go to this one first, which is dated 20 May, 1979. Death Ray weapons bid to outlink salt arm efforts. This conversation about direct energy weapons is not new. Nikolai Tesla had this idea way back in the thirties. It was discussed as a death ray weapon in 1979 in the literal, what was it? The Washington Times. Try and see who, uh, who actually published this article. Um, but no, here it is. This was the one that I was thinking of. Um, There's, there's article after article after article, and this is a sanitized version, and I, I pulled all of these articles from the ccia that discuss these direct energy weapons, so you can go to cia.gov, the reading room there and search direct energy weapons. I sifted through some of the articles there. This is what I found to be some of the most interesting. Alright, so the very first page of this one, right, released in 2013 about direct energy weapons from the C I A released again 2013. The very first page is denied, right? Still under wraps. They still will not release some of this information, right? So if you don't believe that these things are real, you need to wake up because the c i A has has had this on their website since 2013, right? Soviet's push for Beam Weapon is the name of the article. It says, U S S R developing charged particle device aimed at missile defense, exploring high energy lasers as satellite killer. It says, Soviet Union is developing a charged particle beam designed to destroy US intercontinental. In submarine, uh, ballistic missile, nuclear warheads development tests are being conducted at a facility at Soviet Central Asia. So all the way back in during the Cold War, they had these, these types of weapons that they were developing, right? This is nothing new, but yet they want to call you a conspiracy theorist for even discussing them, right? This article is named Soviet's Push for Beam Weapon. Another article is named Death Ray. Weapons Bid to Outlink Salt, warm, uh, salt Arms Efforts. Another one is, A literal letters back and forth between Soviet, uh, Soviet Union, um, discussions that were being had within people that were recently declassified. Another one of these articles is Soviets are developing their own star war system, right? But yet you are a conspiracy theory for even talking about directed energy weapons. And that one, that's the one I was referencing that was from the Washington Times. C i a Soviets are developing their own Star War system. So let's go in chronological order here, starting with the one from 19, let's see, 1960. Where was it? The one that was released in 2013. This is the very earliest one. A charged particle beam, uh, in projects, atomic part or. Sorry, this some, some of this is like typewriters type stuff, so it's not fully copied over. Um, a charged particle beam weapon focuses and projects atomic particles at the speed of light, which could be directed from ground-based sites into spaces to intercept and neutralize reentry vehicles. According to u s officials, both the U S S R and the US are investigating the concept of placing charged particle beams devices on spacecraft to intercept missile warheads in space. This method would avoid problems with propagating the beam through the earth's atmosphere. Because of a controversy within the US intelligence community, the details of Soviet directed energy weapons have not been made available to the president or the National Security Council. Recent events have persuaded a number of US analysis to that directed energy. Weapons are nearing prototype testing in the Soviet Union. They include detection of large amounts of gaseous hydrogen with trace of tritium in the. Upper atmosphere. The United States Air Force Block 6 47 Defense support system early warning satellite with scanning radiation detectors and infrared sensors have been used to determine that on seven occasions since November, 1975, tests that may have been related to development of a charge particle D beam device have been carried out in a facility in Semial tins, some Russian area ground testing of a small hydrogen fluoride high energy laser, and detection of preparations to launch the device on board of spacecraft. Some US officials believe the test of the anti-satellite laser may be related to recent Soviet activities on the demand. SST Space Station tested a new far more PO powerful fusion post magneta hydrodynamic generator to provide power for a charged particle beam system At. ASR in Kazakhstan near the Caspian Sea. The experiment took place late last year in an underground chamber in an area of natural salt formations in the desert near asr. Interesting. And now there's even some, uh, actual images that were on this, not copied over super well. Um, but it says, debate scene on charged particle work. So even back in the seventies, this was being discussed, right? It talks about the energy levels required, it talks about, uh, could be perfected. Project was abandoned at some 0.3 or theoretical blocks to this in-house research. Just reading you some of the headlines here and some of the underlying parts. It says through open sources, they learned that the Soviets had long since solved some of the problems that they ran into in tours Stinging. Hmm. And they give some diagrams, like this is, this goes pretty deep into this for, you know, it's like 8, 9, 10 pages long. Some of it redacted, the first and the last pages. Um, but again, I'll include all of this in the sub stack as well as, uh, the Instagram posts on this for you. So that was the very first one. The next article pops up and says, now this one is 26 pages, some of which are redacted. This was the National Intelligence Council in 1985. It was a letter from David Abshire, the Ambassador to Mission nato. It says, dear David, following up on a recent conversation in London, I have checked into where Washington stood in the preparation of unclassified fact she'd done Soviet efforts in the s t I field. You'll be glad to know that state, uh, that state is putting the finishing touches on such a paper, and I'm told you should have it fairly soon. In the meantime, I thought it would be, uh, you'd be interested in two unclassified articles done by agency analysts. Although these papers do not have any official STA status, they contain much excellent information that should prove valuable for use on background information. I very much enjoyed your presentation and was glad that we had a few minutes to chat. I had to stop in Brussels sometime this fall, and we look forward to seeing you at that time. And this goes into, the Soviet directed energy weapons. And it's 24 pages. 24 pages about this, about these lasers. The key judgment says the Soviet Union is believed to have inter uh, to be interested in the development of directed energy weapons. For ballistic missile defense and anti-satellite applications, the Soviet Union has been engaged in research on the directed energy weapons technologies for as long as the United States, Soviet efforts are under the leadership of some of the finest scientific minds in the U s Ss r in directed energy technologies, the Soviets are in a, in a comparable or highly competitive position with respect to the United States, uh, the Soviets are believed to have progressed beyond the stage of pure or basic laboratory research, hostile Soviet reactions to the US Strategic Defense initiatives in lobbying against the S d I by high level support Soviet scientists. Hmm. Now just give you the outline. It says number two. Uh, page two is about laser weapons management resources, technology, advanced developments, particle beam weapons, which is differentiation, microwave weapons, Soviet responses to the s d I and bibliography. So one of the things that we've discussed before about this is the Havana Syndrome. Havana Syndrome was something that people believed was being targeted by the Soviet Union onto certain politicians of these types of weapons from the microwave weapons that are potentially being discussed within this document on page 13. See if we can pull that up for you here. But this is, this is nothing new. It's just the application that people are now waking up to, how this can be leveraged. So multiple articles. Since the seventies have been talking about this, and there's one, so one, one question I have was like, okay, can yes, these are real, can they be used to create fires? So I, I did a little bit of research on that. It's like, okay, of course it makes sense that if all they're doing is heating something up and they're, they're being utilized to, uh, further thermal uses and that's how they're d destroying these types of missiles and, and everything at a very, uh, very tactile or tactical and, uh, very accurate way. Could they be used in, in the same way that we're talking about here, right? Could, could they be used to start fires? I couldn't find much on that because it just seems so obvious. But I did find this from the US Department of Agriculture and it says laser ignition device in its application to forestry, fire and land management. It has a laser ignition device for controlled burning of forest logging slash have been developed and successfully tested the devo. The device which uses a kilowatt class carbon dioxide laser, operates at the distance from 50 to a 1500 meters, right? We're not talking about these directive wet energy weapons, but this is an example of how this has been used in the past to create controlled burnings. Acquisition and focus control are achieved by the use of a laser range fire finder and acquisition telescope. Additional uses of the device include back burning, selective undergrowth removal, safe ignition of oil spills. A truck mounted version will be operational by fall of 1987 and an airborne version by the summer of 1988. All right, so there's that to further discuss that. Now let's get into what the actual conspiracy theory is here. It's the same thing happened to us in Paradise, California. November 8th, 2018. Somebody said our homes were le uh, leveled to ash, but most of the trees were still standing. Houses, steel buildings turned to ash. Cars, trucks flipped inside or flipped upside down, but still the gas tanks were still intact. We were hit back in Paradise 11 eight of 2018 by directed energy weapons. Looks the same as paradise did. Maui looks to be the same cars burned out even the glass windows. Some of the cars in Maui had large holes in the hood of the cars and trucks. Looked like a direct energy attack to me, but trees next to the cars still had leaves on them. This, in my humble opinion, is another attack on their towns. Agenda 21, burn the people off the land and take everything away from them. The winds came up as soon as the fire started, just like in paradise and many mountain communities in Northern California. Prove me, I'm wrong. Learn what's happening. Our towns are under attack. None other than the new world order, taking everything away from us, burning our towns down. No early warning system in place tells me they wanted lots of casualties. Deaths, just like in paradise. We had no warning at all. They aren't playing. They're dead serious. Hmm. Right. And says the first day of every month somebody commented, they test the emergency sirens to make sure that they work. It's crazy that they didn't work in an actual emergency. And then somebody commented back from the C N N article that they said they didn't even try to activate the sirens. Hmm. So somebody says here that less than 1%, 1% of Hawaii wildfires are natural. They had four burnings all at once. It says they still have no official cause of the fire. The fear of a land grab amongst the locals is real. Most of the homes and lots were not properly documented, like most of La Haena, which was part of its charm. But we fear that land will not go back to locals, but instead, LA Hana will become w Kiki 2.0 and be developed like nowhere else on Maui. The way Lana was built could have never supported the government's idea of smart city, which they desperately want. Every official from the mayor, governor General, fema, red Cross, et cetera, has said the same thing. It looks like a bomb went off. It looks like a war. I conclude this. The lack of warning and the incompetence is alarming all on its own, but there is a bigger agenda here for Laina, Maui, Hawaii, and states, everywhere. Hmm. Very interesting. We live in buildings made with and full of accelerants. Well, that's pretty true. Very interesting. Uh, here we go on, it says, do direct energy weapons exist that can cause wildfires? Right. That's the question I've been asking myself. The question I've been asking myself through all of these wildfires is, can this be done in this way? Can it be a weapon? Do directed energy weapons exist that can cause wildfires? The answer is yes. Does the US government have the ability to use these resources? The answer is yes. Does the government have reasons to cause such events to create the appropriate circumstances for their narratives and to justify their policy changes? They say most certainly, yes. Can we prove that this event was caused by the government? No, we cannot. We do not have the tools or the knowledge to prove this. Now, we need to wait till there's more information, a whistleblower or some other thing. At the moment, all that we can do is ask questions. The media and the mainstream thinking will tell you that doing so is bad, but don't think there's anything wrong with that. We should always question authority, right? And that's, that's some of the most concerning parts about this, is like, this doesn't even, this doesn't even have to be like, if you wanna, let's, let's make this a more, let's make it a more palatable conversation. Maybe it is in the government. Maybe you look at Vanguard, maybe you look at State Street, maybe you look at BlackRock. Maybe it's them, right? Maybe the same people who were willing to release a virus into our country and to the world killing hundreds of thousands of people for profitability by enforcing mandatory vaccination, would also be willing to, I don't know, kill a thousand people and start a few fires to take over an entire island. Maybe they would do that for profitability. Maybe we should just be asking ourselves that question. Right. Is there, is there one of these corporations that you trust enough to know that they would not do this thing? I don't think that I trust them enough to, to believe that there's no way possible that they would do this. This seems very feasible to me from what we've learned about these companies and corporations and, and even our own government over the last I. Three, four years. Right. It seems very plausible that this was a possibility either by our government or by these corporations, which is, you know, truly in the oligarchy that we live in the same thing, right? Those corporations that I just mentioned own the politicians. So whatever they wanna do, they'll do through funding. That's just the way that our pay to play government works. Hmm. Alright, so let's get into the next conversation. Let's, let's lis, let's listen into the own words of our Secretary of Defense in 2020, where Mark Esper confirms that these weapons exist, confirmed that they will be weaponized to create fires just like this one. Here we go. Cyberspace conference. Thank you to the Air Force Association for hosting an important event that brings together the world's finest aerospace leaders and professionals. I. First and foremost, I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the United States Air Force for 73 years and counting you have provided. Our nation with force in particular has maintained uncontested air superiority for decades with persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and precision airstrikes. Anytime, anywhere. However, our near peer rivals China and Russia seek to erode our longstanding dominance and air power through long range fires, anti axis, aerial denial systems, and other asymmetric capabilities designed to counter our strengths. Meanwhile, in space, Moscow and Beijing have turned a once peaceful arena into a war fighting domain. They have weaponized space through killer satellites, directed energy, weapons, and more in an effort to exploit our systems and chip away at our military advantage. Furthermore, our competitors and adversaries exploit cyberspace to undermine our security without confronting. Okay. If you didn't hear that, let me play it again for you, where he says that these companies could weaponize long range fires and killer satellites. Yet were conspiracy theories for bringing this up in a time where, I don't know, it appears that there was long range fires seek to erode our longstanding dominance in air power through long range fires, anti axis, aerial denial systems, and other asymmetric capabilities designed to counter our strengths. Meanwhile, in space, Moscow and Beijing have turned a once peaceful arena into a war fighting domain. They have weaponized space through killer satellites, directed energy, weapons, and more in an effort to exploit our systems and chip away at our military advantage. So these things have been happening for quite. Some time, right? Directed energy weapons, these killer satellites as he calls them this. Why do you think Trump implemented a space force? It wasn't for the, the comedic relief. It was because there is a real threat of countries and companies weaponizing satellites to create fires, to create, uh, explosions, to accurately target infrastructure, to accurately target, I don't know, real estate on an island that they want to take over by force in order to implement totalitarian smart cities. Maybe it's that maybe. Now what, when we look into the logistics of this and, and some of the, the things that might come up when we discuss the idea of those satellites is that in order for it to cause such a thermal, uh, reaction as we would see to start these fires simultaneously would be that the problem would be the atmosphere, the amount of, of energy that it would require to overcome the atmosphere when going from a satellite into the area that it's going to, to, to cause this fire. But why not extremely high altitude aircraft? Right? Maybe we can prove this through, uh, the, um, radar, uh, where it shows the, the aircraft that was flying over, right? Something like that may, I don't know. I don't know what it is, but it, it satellites seem unlikely. High altitude aircraft seems much more likely. 'cause then you don't have to deal with the atmosphere causing an eruption with the, the amount of energy that's being relayed. Uh, but here's. Now let's go into some other sources of this, talking about these directed energy weapons that a allegedly, according to the fact-checkers at Snopes do not exist of defense, spends about $1 billion annually developing directed energy weapons, such as high energy lasers and high powered microwaves. These weapons can disrupt or destroy their targets at the speed of light. For example, d o D has developed high energy lasers that have successfully shot down drones, but speed isn't their only advantage. They're also less expensive for use than traditional weapons like guns and missiles. Despite those potential advantages, d o D has had trouble getting these technologies out of the lab and into service. The Army has developed a detailed transition plan to support moving these weapons into the next stages of development. We recommended that the Navy and the Air Force develop similar plans that comes from the government accountability organization or office giving information on these very things that allegedly don't exist. Here's another video coming from Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin produces systems that do everything from detect the threats to identify the threats, determine whether it's a threat to the aircraft, and then employs the appropriate weapon, in this case, a laser weapon system. What we're hearing from our customers is that they need a layered, multi-domain defensive approach that can be integrated across platforms to neutralize these threats across all those domains. Imagine an aircraft equipped with a laser system with the capability to be able to neutralize a threat at the speed of a lightning strike. The precision of a surgical scalpel with the magazine to deal with a swarm and with the scalable effect. To be able to address that threat, providing an effect all the way the one end from simply deterring it for a short period of time, all the way up to completely neutralizing and defeating that threat. Now this video looks literally like something outta Star Wars. We were able to integrate our laser weapon system Athena into the classified C two network, and receive cues from the radar on the range in order to execute the full kill chain. I love how these people are just like Helios laser weapon system builds on 40 years of combat system, do lasers that, you know, maybe it could cause the takeover of the planet for everybody that I know and love and I'm really excited about it. And these lasers make things really hot and uh, it could. Kill everybody. So me and Stan at the office have been really working hard on this project for quite some time now, and we're really excited to roll it out. That's what's weird to me about all these things is like, what would it take from a societal humanistic perspective for people to just like throw up their hands and be like, you know what, maybe I shouldn't work at Lockheed Martin. Maybe I shouldn't work for the, you know, the, the, the literal military i

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APEX Express – 8.10.23 Kiki in the Constellation: Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Tonight's show features host Kiki Rivera. Storyteller for Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, bringing you an EPIC Talanoa. Kiki features Vernon Kapuaʻala of Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae, Hawaiian Football federation. Show Transcript: 08-10-23 Kiki in the Constellation: Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae [00:00:00] Apex Express Asian Pacific expression. Community and cultural coverage, music and calendar, new visions and voices coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view, it's time to get on board the Apex Express.Apex Express Asian Pacific expression. Kiki: Good evening. You are tuned into apex express. We are bringing you an Asian American and Pacific Islander view from the bay and around the world. I'm your host Kiki Rivera. Storyteller for empowering Pacific Islander Communities, bringing you in EPIC Talanoa. Community and cultural coverage, music and calendar, new visions and voices coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view, it's time to get on board the Apex Express. Kiki: Tonight, we're talking to Vernon Kapuaʻala of Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae. Uh, Hawaii national football team, improving the resiliency and wellbeing of native Hawaiians through football. Keep it locked on apex [00:04:00] express. Before we bring on Vernon to talk about the Hawaiian national football team. I'll tell you a little bit about myself, because this is the first time we're meeting. I was born Kiana Rivera. But now I go is Kiki. I was born and raised on the island of Oahu Hawaii. In the district known as Lualualei. It's very hot, dry there's lots of farms and it very visibly present military. My home was overlooking the beautiful valley and two giant Naval radio towers. Which was which when I was little, I was told that the radiation could give me leukemia. Luckily, I didn't get the leukemia. Um, I was also raised by many native Hawaiians. I, myself am Samoan Filipino, but where, and who I was raised by greatly contributed to my identity. There are lots of different opinions about Hawaiiʻs statehood and to each their own. And I acknowledge [00:05:00] that. I come from a family of settlers that benefit from. From America, from being American. And at the same time, I recognize that I was born on an illegally overthrown kingdom. So there's part of me that doesn't feel like an American citizen. However. If you ask my mom, she'll proudly say that she's an American. But for myself and many others like me, the story of Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae is a story of hope. To me. It's a story of liberation. So enough about me, let's hear from Vernon Kapuaʻala. of Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae. VK: My name is Vernon Kapuaʻala. I am the president and CEO of Hui, Kanaka Powawae, which, translated in English is Hawaiian football, Hawaiian Football Federation. Our primary responsibility is managing,[00:06:00] Hawaiian national teams. Aloha. Well, Vern, you already said Hawaii National Teams. Tell us a little bit about what that means. So we, um, the idea of forming Hawaiian national teams came out of a dream, something that was in, the imagination. And really got, really got pushed, out into what is now the manifestation of that imagination and that idea and that dream. , One from a sense of kuleana, one from, the question of , what can I do? How can I serve our La Hui, , in a greater capacity? , so the concept of of Hawaiian national teams was birth. Some of the problems that that plagued, native Hawaiians, I mean, we could have a whole show about the [00:07:00] problems, but the one that really kind of stuck out, as maybe the common denominator in, you know, the high rates of teen suicide and the high rates of diabetes and all of those lists that, you know, aboriginal Hawaiians are at the top of. And it kind of came back, at least from our perspective to identity. And, you know, for youth identity is already, is already a tough issue, right? But even more so now in, in this day and age . we kind of looked at the history of things , and in learning that history, learning about what the Hawaiian Kingdom was like pre 1893, , and then what it became, , By 1993, right. When, when Clinton had the, believe it was 93, the apology resolution. Right. Apologizing for the illegal overthrow. What was happening in, in the kingdom era? What was happening pre [00:08:00] 1893? , our identity was at its strongest then as Hawaiians, because we as governing our country, we was leading in governing and governance in Oceania. We had trade, we had commerce, we had treaties. We were thriving. You know, the people had universal healthcare for free. . We had, specialty healthcare for, women and babies, , and pregnancies and those things. We were leaders, not to mention the only brown country in the world at the time. And so our identity as Hawaiians, and when I say Hawaiians, I mean Hawaiian citizens, Hawaiian nationals, our degree of patriotism as Hawaiians and for Hawaiian Kingdom was at its highest. And then from there you can see the decline, right? So coming back to , this yearning that will grab ahold of most Kanaka, I imagine [00:09:00] of , what I can do for my La Hui. I find myself in a place of, managing a lot of what we grew up playing as soccer, right? Americans call it soccer and managing leagues and, , various competitions scouting for the US youth national teams. It's our identity. We are not only struggling with our identity, we've lost it there's no connection for a lot of us to. That period and that heightened sense of who aloha. Right? Of aloha in the sense of not love of the land, but love of country. Right. , and , it came together. I was in this space where , we were serving and affecting a lot of youth and a lot of ohana throughout Hawaii. But we decided, we wanna start shifting our focus to, to kanaka youth. And we wanna impact them. [00:10:00] We wanna change, the recipe that is being used currently by a lot of native Hawaiian organizations who are doing good work. Everybody doing work, all work is contributing, you know, all things work together for the good and. For us, we feel that national identity, patriotism is missing from the recipe, of what we trying to do as, as a la hui to better our lives. Right. And so for me, it just made sense. What better way than using football? Using football to reclaim reinstill or actually instill if they're youth, This sense of pride of country, of nationality, we felt we needed a symbol. What was gonna be the symbol that we could, as the La Hui get behind and [00:11:00] support, there's nothing really in Hawaii to support on a in an international platform, in a, in an international space. You get fans of, uh, , they go bows, right? Rainbow warriors, you get fans of, of high schools, which is high school sports in this, in terms of what we speaking on is huge. Right? But nothing about country to country. Mm-hmm. Except, except for those who may identify as Americans. Kiki: So before we go there, what is national football or what Americans know as soccer? What is that looking like right now? VK: In terms of Here in Hawaii or just on a, on a global scale? Kiki: On a global scale. VK: So if you didn't know. association football is the term that was used when fifa, which is the governing body of the sport [00:12:00] globally. They're the ones that control the FIFA World Cups, also and futsal, which is the indoor version of football and, uh, beach soccer. Interestingly enough, they called that one soccer. Um, , and, It's, it's the largest, the World Cups is the largest sporting event in, in all the world. Ha. It happens every four years at the senior level, um, every two years at the youth levels. what you're talking about is country versus country, right? You're talking about, um, in case you didn't know, , right. Argent. National finally won his first World Cup with Argentina this past, , world Cup. And so we talking about sporting from country to country. And currently , the largest, uh, spectator base, the largest participation base, um, in terms of people playing football in the world, um, is massive, . [00:13:00] Another reason why for me, being that this was my sport and deciding national teams was the best vehicle for all of this is because it's how every country in the world supports and shows its patriotism is in football. Every country in the world is gonna have a football team, whether they're recognized by FIFA or not. , they're gonna have a football team. , and you cannot say the same for every country in terms of other sports and then you start to talk about the Olympic side of things, right? There's Olympic sports and all of those things. But you know, for sure, um, every country will have a football team. And, uh, if Hawaiian Kingdom was still in effective control of its country, we would have a football team. Um, association football was first played, eh, right in around 1900, 19 0 3, [00:14:00] 0 4. In that, in that those years, um, Duke Kahanamoku played association football, um, found a picture online of him with the, his, Kamehameha School's teammates. Um, it was a, it was a small league that I believe had. Kamehameha School participated, uh, Honolulu, was it Honolulu College, which eventually became Punahou. I dunno if I got that fact right. And then this group of, of Scottish Scotsmen who kind of formed the league and they had a little, a little three team league going, um, and it was called the Hawaiian Association Football League. And so I used, I kid around with people all the time. I tell , we would've been playing football already. Well, what you mean because we were that progressive as a country, right? We were back, back to when we had [00:15:00] electricity before the White House. Right? We were progressive and we were heavily influenced by the British, right? In terms of many aspects of governing, of, , trade and commerce, and it would've eventually been, you know, the English accredited with the, with the invention of the sport. So it was just a matter of time and right there shows it, right? Those scotsmen brought it here, started a league and introduced Kanaka to football. And so in terms of that on a global scale, , it's celebrated. It's heavily supported, just, it's heavily participated in, and for us, for, for Hawaiian football and, and having this identity and this pride, to me it doesn't get any greater than that any greater than representing. 'cause that was, that was what I had in my head. It's like, oh, imagine walking out on the field. Of course I was on the team, right? So we walk in on [00:16:00] the field and, we did an international walk and we meet in the center and they played the national anthems and we sing in Hawaii and the Hawaiian flag is being raised right? And then whoever, I don't even know who was playing in that dream, which really doesn't matter, right? The fact is we was there representing our country, playing on the biggest. Platform ever. . Global football. Right. And so if we look at that from the perspective of building awareness, perhaps. Mm-hmm. For those that may not know what happened after 1893 in Hawaii up until now, why, uh, why Kanaka struggle so much? Not just with identity, but with everything. Why? Why socioeconomically we're the lowest race or we, we at the bottom, [00:17:00] essentially, we went from being the top to the bottom. Mm-hmm. And it happened to us systematically. Right. And by design. Right, because that, that kind of, that kind of decline that happens that way doesn't just accidentally happen. So you're reclaiming the narrative. Mm-hmm. . By building a national. Hawaii national identity on the field. Mm-hmm. You open up the audience even more and you engage a greater audience, say with, with indigenous people, with, , Hawaii nationals like myself, who want to participate in rooting for their country, but don't, , feel like they can identify with. The U.S. So you're giving us something to cheer for as well? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's beautiful. We'll be back right after this break. Here's some new music from the beautiful soul tree. [00:18:00] Keep it locked on 94.1 KPFA. Kiki: Welcome back. You are tuned into apex express on 94.1 KPFA and 89.3. KPFB in Berkeley and online at K P F a [00:21:00] dot O R G. You've just listened to Funky Thang by Soultree off of their album Gem. You can follow Soultree on Instagram at soul tree music. And you can also follow their music on apple and Spotify and all the different platforms. So during the interview, I learned that my use of the word indigenous was controversial and I was corrected very graciously. But it reminded me that there are multiple realities. We live in balance as humans and as a person who lives at the intersections of being queer trans Pacific Islander, living in the diaspora. I think it's only fair to keep an open mind and heart for those varying definitions and how it lands or doesn't land. On our bodies. Anyway, Let's get back to this conversation with Vernon Kapuaʻala Kiki: can you describe a little bit what's happening with football in Oceania? VK: In terms of what's going on in Oceania, Oceania is enjoying, some growth, in the sport. Many of the countries in Oceania didn't become members of FIFA till , late sixties to the late seventies in that area. So really, really young in terms of. The development of the game, um, the development of the players, and certainly in terms of where they stack up against, the rest of the world. out of the six confederations Oceania is pretty much at the bottom of it all. the, the big boy, if you will, currently in Oceania is New Zealand. which makes sense in many ways being that they're the largest country in Oceania, well in the confederation and, most developed. In, in, in many other ways, right? So they have the population, they have the economy, they have, um, a lot of things going for them in terms of ability and resources to, to develop sport. whereas once you start [00:23:00] going down, through the rest of the islands, Tonga and Samoa, both Samoa is Western and American. Fiji, you know, economies change, uh, resources start to dwindle. We think it's expensive going from, from Hawaii to the states or anywhere else for that matter. But it's just as expensive for those countries to travel just within. Oceania. So if you can imagine their national teams have to spend a lot of money and need a lot of support just to get through to the other countries to get their qualifying matches in and some cases some of the countries in Oceania from what I hear, really struggle and sometimes end up not even being able to participate for whatever reason in a particular set of qualifiers or whatnot. And so certainly with not without its challenges, um, however they all get to field [00:24:00] national teams. They all get to compete for the chance to qualify into a World Cup. Um, and the road for most of them is super tough cuz it always goes through New Zealand. In terms of who, who usually ends up either with a birth into the World Cup, whether it be the U 17 World Cup or the U 20 World Cup. The Men G 20 World Cup, , New Zealand was the number one out of there. And I believe Fiji's U twenties qualified as well. So there was two Oceania teams in the U 20 men's World Cup, which, I mean, think about that, right? That's, that's a World Cup. That's the world stage. And they, they got to be there competing, representing their country. And so when it comes to Oceania, um, with regards to Hawaii, We would be in Oceania because that's where we belong. We're a [00:25:00] oceanic country, right. Pacific. Sure. But when you break it all down, everybody like looked to the states. Right. Actually, we looking the wrong way. We, we, we belong the other way. Right. So, you know, we've had, we've, we've been able to have some communication over the years with Oceania. It's leadership and, talking about the idea of, or the dream of also one day becoming full FIFA members. It would be as part of Oceania, we would become what would be the 12th full member of, of Oceania and a lot of the countries and their federation presidents were very, uh, keen as, as they would say on the idea of, of Hawaii being part those. And for them it's a no-brainer when you talk to [00:26:00] all of those, like we, we have a great relationship with Maori football and when we talk to them, it's a no-brainer where Hawaii belongs in terms of global football. Do we belong in Oceania? , all that alone, if that could officially one day happen, like official recognition by FIFA in as part of Oceania, wonderful. We gonna go there anyway and compete. We gonna go there. It's gonna start with Maori football, but eventually we're gonna get with, um, and hopefully two. You know, um, Tahiti comes to mind right away. Tahiti is, uh, keen on, on competing with us. We are gonna start developing, relationship with them, which is interesting, right? Cuz when you talk about other connecting , our culture's connecting in terms of Maori, and, Tahiti. We've had other hoku, right? Hoku right away should pop into everybody's minds if they know about, the connections of the cultures. But to do it through football, it's his story And it's gonna be historic when we get there and actually do it so football growing, we want to become part of Oceania and official capacity, be capacity, but until then we just gonna, like everything else Hawaiian football is doing now, we just exercising our right to football, so in terms of actually reaching fifa, that's a tough one because there's things out of our control. You know, we actually communicated with fifa, in our official capacity, via letter, asking if they would recognize recognize Hawaii as a country. That is under occupation. And, long story short, we got two response. The first time they said no, we went back again and then they said no again. Yeah. Bob, several interesting things about our communications with fifa, number one, US soccer was, was carbon copied on [00:28:00] all the communications, so was Oceania, and so were all the Oceanic members. So everybody knew we were doing this. And so, okay, back to the long story short part, they said no the second time, but it was less a no and more, uh, not at this time. So there was a, there was an open-endedness about it, And essentially it came down to, uh, our argument, the United Nations fifa, none of them can recognize a country like officially recognize a country. , they basically were saying we would need to be recognized country of the United Nations. And our argument came back as the United Nations they know what our ability to recognize a country, countries recognize countries via treaties, which we have lots of them, right? Which is still in full force in effect. And so they said, well, basically a more competent body makes this ruling. The answer for now is gonna be no. So we [00:29:00] took that as we are gonna have to get to some type of world and international court, probably the court of arbitration for sport, which FIFA uses and the International Olympic Committee uses to settle disputes between international organizations and private entities, et cetera. And we had an opportunity to do it. This was back in 2018 to go to court. But after looking into it, number one, you're going to court with FIFA who has endless resources and we have nothing. And at the time we never, even, at the time, we didn't even have a program, a team. It was still just an idea. And we was like, yeah, let's go join fifa. You know, it was this crazy kind of whimsical. Thing and we threw ourselves into it for a few months, what is important is that this manifests so that we can start affecting, coming back to what the mission vision is, [00:30:00] is long-term impact through football. Generational impact, on the Hawaiian community, using football. Eventually they're gonna see us. And maybe as soon as July in Aotearoa when we go there and compete against Maori football during the FIFA Women's World Cup, which is hosted this summer by New Zealand and Australia. Coming back to, to Oceania would not only complete things for us, but complete it for the rest of Oceania as well. Not in a way of oh, they need us to to anything, but to me it would just strengthen. It would just further strengthen. Other Oceania countries to see the return of, of Hawaii, I think. Anyway, to there. Also keep in mind when we're talking about Oceania, we're talking about the Marshallese and we're talking about Kirabati Tuvalu and, and on and on and on. Micronesia, federated states, all of that, right?[00:31:00] We can go on and on and on, but , the biggest difference is we are not asking America for permission because we don't belong to them. They just happened to have effective control of our country. So our return and our membership to FIFA is not, contingent upon the United States permission. So with this framing the only people that's stopping FIFA is fifa.So here's the thing, this has to do with the obvious might and power of the United States, or stand up to the United, keep in mind, the US was the one who led the charge to basically go and scoop up all set bladder and all the rest of that corruptness. That was in fifa. That was the FBI driven. The FBI went in there and raided all those guys, cleaned out fifa. And hopefully for the better. I don't know. Um, but that corruption and scandal, that ran rampant [00:32:00] through FIFA for many years. It was a US who went in and did that. And so I get it when not everybody, you know, in other governments and governing bodies and people of authority think about having to stand up against the United States. I get that. Will FIFA do it? I don't know. Mm. But you put us in a court, a competent body. We're gonna win that argument. There's nothing that can be said. The history has been proven again in the legal realm, in international law, in all of that. It's undisputable, if FIFA is to do the pono thing, then we we'll be members./ Kiki: That is Vernon Kapuaʻala, Allah talking about the Hawaiian national football team and their strive for recognition as a sovereign nation. And the struggle. Of qualifying for FIFA. We're going to take another music break. Here's one from the bay area, Filipina, rapper, and singer Klassy, featuring The Bar called One Take. Off the album. [00:33:00] Good Seeds produced by a beat rock music. And then you're going to hear another one from soul tree. Keep it locked in. Kiki: Thanks for joining us on apex express. That was ain't that serious by the artist's soul tree. And before that was one take by Klassy, you're listening to your new friend, Kiki Rivera, bringing you a conversation with Vernon Kapuaʻala of Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae The Hawaiian national football team. That's unifying the lāhui Hawaiʻi. by reminding us of Hawaii's complex history. Braddah Vern is going to let you know how you can support their mission from wherever you are. VK: So they start supporting us by simple things like retweeting our, the release of our CREs or, or resharing, our national team, swag fundraiser just simple things like that. Of course we are a nonprofit organization, so support financially, we welcome that. And we have means for you to do so on a small scale and on a large scale. And so we welcome all small, big, and small. Contributions, uh, to the organization. The work is, is great. The work has, you know, tripled and maybe even quadrupled just in the last year when we actually named our inaugural national team rosters until recently when we [00:42:00] traveled our U 16 teams to California to participate against American youth soccer teams. Because for us, anytime we leave the islands, it's international. And you can see the effect, the powerful effect, the, the team, the. On the field has to everyone who's watching, including myself now. And I, this is like, I saw this, I saw this in the dream, but it wasn't like tho that moment when we're going there and just looking at the team and it took a while like it, and I don't think I even really felt the full effects of it yet, but , it was palpable, what that meant. And the only sad thing for me about it, it's not super sad, but we had on small contingency of ohana who didn't follow, who was watching and getting all into it. Right? Like normal parents at youth sport games, right? [00:43:00] Come on, just yelling. Right? But they were like, let's go Alapa. Let's, right. Na Alapa, we, we refer to our national teams as Na Alapa. It's an ode to, um, the Alapa Regiment, which was the elite warriors, uh, Kalaniopuu, elite warriors. And they , they were known and revered and admired for their superior athleticism. And so using national teams and also, you know, club teams and whatnot, have nicknames. Um, and so we decided we, we wanted to refer to our what is undoubtedly recognizable by anyone who con that's the athleticism of our, of our Kanaka and Kalaniʻopuʻu's. You know, basically Navy Seals was referred to as the Alapa regimen, so, so Alapa, um, to hear the parents yelling and cheering on the Alapa. And encouraging in only ways that mothers can encourage their daughters on the field. Um, you know, uh, was was something, and then I think about all those fans that followed Argentina to the final at this past men's FIFA World Cup. Cause anytime Argentina scored, you just heard the stadium erupt in California. I heard the sidelines erupt both our team and the parents whenever we would score, which on the wi, which on the girls side was pretty often. Um, and then you, you multiply that. Wow. That's incredible. Right? And that's, that's where the support of not just those. In the country, those in the islands, but those in the diaspora, right. That going come in. We, we had one who lives in San [00:45:00] Francisco come up to watch the girls, the girls team, cuz she had a connection there to play. And I'm like, man, imagine if, if the rest of the, the diaspora knew that we were coming to Northern California to play with the Hawaiian national team. Who else might have shown up to support? And certainly right as things go and grow and, and, and with your kokua, Kiki and your, your access to network, we'll be able to let everybody know where we gonna be playing, when we gonna be playing and when they can come support national teams. So support, you know, financially support by learning the history of the Hawaiian kingdom. And that's why we calling it national teams and then support by coming and. And wearing the swag, right. Wearing the knowing where we gonna play and, and, and if it's nearby coming by and watching. So all of those things like would, I would find so [00:46:00] incredible and, and I would be so honored to have that. We we're starting to gather players now from the diaspora who are finding out and reaching out and asking, how do I try out for the national team? That's starting it. Starting That was gonna be my next question. Yeah. That, so if you, you want me to segue into that? Yes, please. So our most recent one via social media, maybe Instagram, not sure. Um, who is, uh, kanaka and actually playing with, um, I guess has Filipino nationality and that's playing with the, um, No, sorry. And I don't, I don't know if it's Guam Nationality Guam or Chamorro. I, I, I know that Chamorro is a people, but anyway, she's playing with the Guam U 17 national team, which is a na this is the part that really tickles my fancy, [00:47:00] is she's reaching out to, to try for the Kanaka, for the Hawaiian national team, which is not recognized while already playing for the Guam national team, which is recognized. Right. It's like, it's like, I, I, I'm so honored by that. But, so that's one. We had a boy who, um, Ohana lives in Boston Plays club there recently. Um, verbally committed to Louisville, uh, men's soccer, which is a, a pretty big D one college on the east coast. Right. Uh, and he got ahold of this and he. Contacted our technical director, Ian Mark, about I, I want to try out for the team, how do I try out for this team? Like he wants to be on this team that's going to Aotearoa Right, can do I have to fly there? He's like asking all these questions and sadly we have to tell him, well, this team is, is set [00:48:00] for the most part, but the cycle starts again in August and runs till next July. Um, and so those are just a couple of examples. Um, we currently have, uh, a player, Ryan Merchant who lives in, , Washington, uh, used to live on Maui, we know the Ohana, , for many years now. And he actually was selected for our 18 men's team, which is going to Aotearoa, so he flies back for our national team camps. And, um, and activities. Uh, I think he's been back for all but maybe one or two because of school, um, conflicts. But that's how much this means to him to have been selected. And, and the parents are just trying to make, [00:49:00] go through craziness to make it all happen for him to participate and, and pull his, his end of the load, right. Of being part of this team. So those are some examples about the diaspora. We are, we will be opening our, um, our national team registry. We worked on one. It include. You know, we'll gather basic information and it will include some questions about your history and references and and whatnot. Um, for players, number one. And then also for, um, we welcome volunteers and, , um, you people with skills. We need help. We need help across the organization. As I mentioned before, the, the workload is growing enormously. And so we, we are finding that we needing people, , volunteers, we needing skilled volunteers like [00:50:00] administratively and, and tech wise , and all kinds of stuff. Not to mention, you know, on the ground. , another thing we are looking at doing this coming cycle, which again, the, when I refer to a cycle, it's a cycle of programming that runs from August 1st to July 31st is, follows the school year. Cause it, it, it's, it's simple. International football follows the calendar year. We didn't wanna upset things too much with regards to access to our players and whatnot. So we decided to follow the school year like most American sports do. Um, just cuz it was simpler. Um, we didn't wanna cause too many waves, right? Because we were already causing waves in other ways, with our organizational mission and vision but so when I reference the cycle, that's what I'm talking about. And we, and, and, and every year essentially younger players come in, we start 'em right around, we start looking at them [00:51:00] around eighth grade, uh, freshman year. Uh, we start forming teams with, um, freshmen, sophomores, and, and then we're just trying to build those teams into what gonna end up becoming our U twenties or G 20 threes and our full teams and. So one of the things we were able to do this past May in, um, Northern California when we connected with, um, um, Ian, our technical director, his, his, all his boys back there, um, they're gonna actually start helping us to run scouting events in California. So we'll be able to at least start scouting in the diaspora, like our staff, our technical staff, Ian and our coaches on the ground in the states looking at players in the flesh right there on the field. So we excited about that piece. It's something we've done throughout the [00:52:00] islands for the last two years, which is what got us to this point with these selections. And we're realizing, you know, it's great for players to reach out and let us know. Uh, we also gonna have to get eyes on them and, and. And at the end of the day, determine Right. If it's worth them coming out to events here in Hawaii, you know what I mean? So, Well, thank you so much for all the things that you folks are doing, for us nationally , it is such a, an honor to know you folks and to be part of this. So, Mahalo, you're welcome Mahalo Vern. All right. So for native Hawaiians on the continent, I would like to know how you feel about the mission of Hawaiian football. Knowing something like this exists while being so far away from the Homeland. I do feel like it's part of my [00:53:00] kuleana, my responsibility. To bridge the nation of Hawaii. From the continent, wherever you are to the INR. So what are your thoughts? Email me at K Rivera. That's krivera@KPFA.org. So for me, I'm not so much into sports. Right. But what I, what really attracted me to Vern and his partner, Trish, is how they frame Hawaiian sovereignty as something that Is already present and has to be remembered and reclaimed and. I agree. If we, and by we, I mean, Hawaiian nationals and or Pacific Islanders in the diaspora. Are going to quote K Trask. By saying we are not American. Then how are we practicing? How are we practicing our own sovereignty? How are we practicing liberation? Not to sound too cheesy, but to see it, we have to believe it right. And I think we can knock a pool. Bye. Bye. Is about being it about practicing. But that also takes so much unlearning and re-evaluating all the creature comforts that come with American citizenship by way of fake statehood. So, what are we willing to give up for true AI? For true sovereignty. Anyway. I leave you with that. For more information about Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae. I visit Hawaiian football.com. Or kanakapowaewae Instagram, where you can find all their latest news, including their trip to Aotearoa to play the Maori team and watch the FIFA women's world cup. Exciting stuff. Mahalo Vernon, Trish, and the crew of Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae and Mahalo to you, our listeners. For more information about empowering Pacific Islander communities also known as epic. Visit our website at https://www.empoweredpi.org/ And on Instagram as at empowered PI. And on Facebook. As at elevate your voice. It has been a wonderful honor to serve as epic storyteller and bringing you this story of how a football team is finding political recognition. Educating and grounding youth in culture and health through the sport of football. Not soccer. Football. A story like this is a reminder that we are. In fact. Hashtag. Empowered PI. This is Kiki Rivera for Empowering Pacific Islander communities. Keep being the change you want to see. Apex express is produced by Miko Lee, Paige Chung, Jelena Keane-Lee. Preeti Mangala shaker, Swati Rayasam, Hien Nguyen, Nicki Chan, Cheryl Truong And myself. Kiki Rivera who produced tonight's show for the very first time. Thanks to the team at KPFA for their endless support. Have a good night. Aloha. The post APEX Express – 8.10.23 Kiki in the Constellation: Hui Kānaka Pōwaewae appeared first on KPFA.

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EP 17 Season 1 Bonus: Kekuhi Keali`ikanaka`ole on how we find family in `āina

Land and People

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2023 67:21

Bonus Episode Season 1: Dr. Clay Trauernicht and Melissa Chimera talk with renowned chanter, dancer, songwriter and educator Kekuhi Keali`ikanaka`ole about the intimate connection between humans and the Hawaiian landscape as practiced in Hawaiian lifeways. Her perspective is that of a descendent from the legendary Kanaka`ole family, most notably her grandmother Edith Kekuhi Kanaka`ole, one of Hawai`i's first educators who made language and dance accessible to all. She talks about connecting conservation science to Hawaiian thought and understanding through her work with Hālau `Ōhi`a and the ways in which we might connect more deeply with the creatures and plants which surround us. Visit https://www.kekuhi.com/ for more information on how you can enroll in programs and learn directly from Kekuhi.

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Meet the Australian South Sea Islanders reconnecting with their Pacific heritage

Sistas, Let's Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2023 29:25

Descendants of Australia's South Sea Islander community are reclaiming their identity, learning the stories of their ancestors and re-connecting with extended family via social media.

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3/9/23, Thursday, Hour 1: Baptism, callers, Hake News

Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 60:00

TOPIC: Baptised by water? Jesus baptized in the spirit, history of baptism, Denny from Bulgaria: trans man returns to the father, Patrick from Denmark: biblical question, SUPERCHATS, Mr. Kanaka from Japan: No mercy, HAKE NEWS

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KA OLELO KANAKA

Ka Alala

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 55:01

Ua hui aku la au me ko'u hoa aloha (Keoki Faria) e kamailio ai no ka olelo waha, ka olelo kakau, ka olelo kula a me ka olelo makuahine. He akamai no hoi o Keoki i keia olelo kanaka. E ao mai mai ia ia mai.

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The Conversation: Tours may begin for Maunaloa viewing; The cultural significance of Pele and the volcano

The Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2022 34:00

Department of Transportation Ed Sniffen declares Maunaloa has slowed enough to make viewing route safe; Lanihuli Kanahele of the Kanaka'ole Foundation explains cultural significance of Pele and Maunaloa; Hawaiʻi Theater for Youth presents The Pa'akai We Bring

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Culture of Kanaka Solutions - Kimo Leong

Culturised With Makani Tabura

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 31:40

My name is Kimo Leong, owner of Kanaka Solutions we Spread Aloha n Malama. Da Po'oof NA KANE KOA O MAKUA a LaHui who has Malama Aina our AHUPUA'A Kaniana cave to Ke'awa'ula. WILD WEST was starting to be jus dat ENTITLED people outside our 96792 community started feeling like they could come Camp ,throw parties n make bonfires. We noticed they jus had no respect for da Aina n da area they was in. Da KAPUNA put a lot of work in to protect what we see today and dat is $$$$ has not touch dis part of da coast line n da beauty of MAKUA. Today our local fishermen fish n local OHANAS come n enjoy our AHUPUA'A.Da LaHui we patrol EVERYNIGHT no camping or bonfires Only ACTIVE FISHING.Some do not agree with what we do but it's our Kuleana to MALAMA.I just a Hawaiian sharing our culture n spreading dat Aloha to Da World rather its working in da film industry or surfing world Da best way to teach is hands on from a Hawaiian not a HAOLE or a outside one kanaka with KOKO. To Learn more about Culturised visit: https://www.culturised.com/ Culturised is a https://www.wikiocast.com/ production.

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Satsang

Enlightenment Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2022 49:45

Swamiji reads the Yogarudh by Gurunath Siddhanath, an amazing devotional poem based on the Bhagavad Gita. Then shares the spiritual teaching of Huna of the Hawaiians, or Kanaka, and the inner truths that can be leaned from each. www.EnlightenmentTV.com

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Dr. Kanaka Rajan: Computational Neuroscience

RadioBio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2022 15:53

We are still discovering the mysteries of the brain and one way to do that is to use tools such as computers. On this episodes of RadioBio, we speak with Dr. Kanaka Rajan, a computational neuroscientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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HAAP Ep. 24 - Manaʻo Monday on the ʻoli "E Homai" & Aunty Edith Kanakaʻole

Hawaii Abroad Audio Podcast #HAAP

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 10:51

This Manaʻo Monday episode highlights the ʻoli "E Homai", which teaches us to request knowledge from above and grant it to us. Plus it shares some background of Hawaiiʻs own mana wahine (strong woman) that definitely made a huge impact and legacy in the Hawaiian culture.Resource shared in this episode:Foundation - https://edithkanakaolefoundation.org/Hula Festival - https://www.merriemonarch.com/ Recorded ʻoli with words - https://youtu.be/HhbhZh7xpzU

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HAAP Ep. 24 - Manaʻo Monday on the ʻoli "E Homai" & Aunty Edith Kanakaʻole

Hawaii Abroad Audio Podcast #HAAP

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 10:51

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Culture of Wahine and ʻAha Wahine, Mehanaokalā Hind

Culturised With Makani Tabura

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 33:44

Mehanaokala Hind is a Kumu Hula and cultural practitioner skilled in hula, oli, and ceremony. She descends from the hula lineage of Kumu Hula Leinaʻala Kalama Heine and earned the rank of Kumu Hula in 2009 when she completed the ‘ūniki rites set forth by her Kumu. She has been trained in mele oli from some of Hawaiʻiʻs master chanters. Mehana brings a breadth and depth of relationships with Native Hawaiian communities, leaders, schools and organizations that is hard to match. She has committed her life to teaching the lāhui to chant and hula the wisdom of their ancestors. Mehana was also instrumental in the starting of the ʻAha Wahine and Lāhui Kanaka movements. To Learn more about Culturised visit: https://www.culturised.com/ Culturised is a https://www.wikiocast.com/ production. #hula #kumu #wahine #native #hawaiian

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Mo'olelo 27. Ke Kanaka Mahi'ai Pōmaikaʻi - Emmalani Foster

Aloha Mo'olelo

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 2:38

Kākau ʻia na Lilinoe Andrews Kaha kiʻi ʻia na Brook Kapukuniahi Parker Heluhelu ʻia kēia moʻolelo e Emmalani Foster

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Ku : The God of War

Mythlok - The Home of Mythology

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 5:53

In Hawaiian mythology, the god of war was Ku, who was also regarded as the god of prosperity. Unlike other gods, humans were sacrificed to Ku as part of the worship rituals. He was also the guardian of King Kamehameha I, who built various statues of him at various locations, including his home at Kamakahonu. Ku is revered as a living god by many Native Hawaiians and place a lot of importance to Ku in their daily lives. He is also among the 4 primary gods of Hawaiian mythology who is responsible for the well being of all believers and the Hawaiian islands.In the animal kingdom, Ku is believed to have the forms of Kanaka or man, Lo (Hawk), Niuhi & Mano (Shark) and Moa (Chicken). In the plant kingdom, he is also known to have the forms of Lele, a type of vine, Ohia Lehua, a flower, Ulu which is the breadfruit, Niu, a coconut tree trunk, and Noni, a fruit. In traditional depictions, he is represented as having a wide grimace with rows of teeth, bent legs ready to pounce, strong arms and thighs and a long headdress that is meant to incite fear. Some feathered god images or akua hulu manu are considered to represent Ku.Read the full article at https://mythlok.com/ku/

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Alice Kanaka, Autor of The Cardinal & The Crow

Focus on Success

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 60:00

Alice Kanaka has been reading everything she could get her hands on since she could hold a book and writing stories about the world around her. Her youth was a series of moves across the United States, accompanied by her sibling sidekick and her books. After studying abroad in England and Spain and a short stint working for Club Med, Alice packed her bags once more and went to teach in Japan. Her story continues along the same vein, adding languages, kids and cats into the mix. Open one of her mysteries to see the world through her eyes. You won't be disappointed.

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Alice Kanaka, Autor of The Cardinal & The Crow

Focus on Success

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 60:00

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S01E11 | The Kanaka Has Landed

Rabbit Holes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 90:41

Kawika lands on Maui and unites with Sarah for the first time in the same room since the premiere episode. Together they parse the surge of scam culture on Maui and the weekly oddities of the world. ~Community Announcements~ Aunty Geri Kuhia Tribute Concert in Torrance, CA - Canʻt attend? Please donate to the "Aunty Geri Kuhia Educational Grant" online! Ticket Link: www.auntygeri.eventbrite.com Annual Native Hawaiian Convention July 19-22, 2022! Website: https://www.hawaiiancouncil.org/convention ~Topics~ Maui's Ukraine benefit concert is sold out! Mahalo and keep donating to UNICEF to support Joe Biden & Kamala Harris release their tax returns Police use copyrighted music to fight live video coverage on social media Is Netflix nearing its end? Ezra Miller, common criminal Aloha With Love Premieres on Up Faith & Family TV May 1st Manawa Kau is Casting for upcoming movies and streaming series. Submit your self-tape: https://forms.gle/oi7kqC712meuaVp57 Listen to Rabbit Holes on Newsly and get Premium 30-Days FREE https://newsly.me/ PROMO CODE: RABB1TH0LES Stay Connected with the show and our hosts: Rabbit Holes FB: https://www.facebook.com/RabbitsOnSunday IG: https://www.instagram.com/RabbitsOnSunday Kawika Hoke FB: https://www.facebook.com/kawikahoke IG: https://www.instagram.com/kawikahoke Sarah Rodriguez FB: https://www.facebook.com/mothermauitv IG: https://www.instagram.com/mothermauitv Rabbit Holes is Produced for Manawa Kau by Kawika Hoke & Sarah Rodriguez ©2022

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Episode 99 : Rachel Kanaka'ole (Photographer, Musician)

Drive Safe, Text When Home

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 74:40

Oh hi hello there! Today I bring you an episode with a person I talked to! I had a great time talking to Rachel! I met her at a show and the eventually found out on instagram that she is an awesome photographer and a musician! Her music is so cool and her pictures are insane! So we talked about all of that and how she started! That is one of my favorite things to find out, I love hearing everyone's path to get to where they are now! Thank you so much for coming on Rachel, I had a great time! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drivesafetextwhenhome/support

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Monday, April 11, 2022 – Celebrating the legacy of Edith Kanakaʻole

Native America Calling - The Electronic Talking Circle

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 56:09

Edith Kanaka'ole (Kanaka Maoli) was an acclaimed composer, chanter, hula dancer and educator. Her work in Hawaiian cultural and language revitalization helped strengthen Indigenous Hawaiian culture, science, identity and sovereignty. Her image will be featured on U.S. quarter coins in 2023. We take this hour to learn more about the legacy of “Aunty” Edith Kanaka'ole. […]

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Mo'olelo 19. He Lāhui Kanaka ʻŌiwi Anei Ko Hawaii Nei? - Emmalani Foster

Aloha Mo'olelo

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 4:10

Kākau 'ia e William H. Wilson Kaha ki'i 'ia e Brook Parker Heluhelu ʻia kēia moʻolelo e Emmalani Foster

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Monday, April 11, 2022 – Celebrating the legacy of Edith Kanakaʻole

Native America Calling

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 56:09

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Abrapalikalkku Pinnil- Kanaka Durga

Radio Mangalam 91.2 FM

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2022 54:30

Abrapalikalkku Pinnil- Kanaka Durga

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Studio Interview Dogwood Gaming

Beamable Game Dev Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2022 35:43

Josh sits down with the some of the team from Dogwood Gaming. Learn about thier lastest project Ashes of Kanaka. https://dogwoodgaming.com #gamedev #indiegamedev BEAMABLE ► Main - https://www.beamable.com ► Twitter - https://twitter.com/Beamable ► LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/beamable/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BuiltOnBeamable ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/beamable/

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310A. Lytton has burned - SAIT helps Kanaka Bar build back right

Green Energy Futures

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 4:00

In June 2021 Lytton, British Columbia burned to the ground in the middle of a Canadian record-setting heat dome event. As the world looked on in horror, Melanie Ross and her team at SAIT Green Building Technology program decided to offer to help. Now they are working with the Kanaka Bar Indian Band to find the lowest emissions, most fire and climate impacts resistant model for rebuilding homes in the town. Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio Podcast Learn more in our blog at www.greenenergyfutures.ca

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Indie Video Games with Dogwood Gaming

Half Full Gaming Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 58:17

Dogwood Gaming - Indie Game Studio DJ is joined by special guests Sam and Tyler of Dogwood Gaming to discuss the handful of video games that their team has made. We talk about Ashes of Kanaka, STATIC, Private Detective Punch Drunk, and K'nife Fight, all available on STEAM. We also discuss their Kickstarter for the Ashes of Kanaka remake in Unreal Engine. Thanks for listening, and be sure to share us with a friend. Dogwood Gaming Links: Website: https://dogwoodgaming.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dogwoodgaming Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ashesofkanaka/ashes-of-kanaka Half Full Reviews Links: Website: https://www.halffullreviews.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HFR

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Episode 31 - Local Heroes

Unsung Sluts Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2022 74:13

We're Back, Bitches!!! We've missed you all so much. A lot has changed in our lives! We get you caught up with our slutty selves and then dive into the stories of some women who made huge impacts in our local communities. Esther Clark Short (1806-1862) https://vancouverfamilymagazine.com/bit-history-esther-short/ https://history.columbian.com/short/ https://history.columbian.com/short/ Esther Clark Short Stacie at Esther's Grave Pioneer Mothers Statue in Esther Short Park Entrance to Esther Short Park Clock Tower at Esther Short Park Picnic in Esther Short Park Old Sketch of Fort Vancouver Map of Esther's Land The Witness Tree Amos Short shot two men, Dr. David Gardner, and a Kanaka, a Hawaiian man, employed at Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver, near this Witness Tree, a boundary marker for both the Short's homestead and H.B.C. Fort Vancouver. (later U.S. Military Reservation). Biddie Mason (1818-1891) https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/index.html https://www.nps.gov/people/biddymason.htm Biddy Mason One of Biddy's Properties First A.M.E. Church Biddy Mason Park Biddy Mason Park Tabitha's Fucked Up Little Dog, Froggy Tabitha's Excellent Stick & Poke Tattoo on Stacie's Ankle (Freshly Poked) Demi-Girl Announcements: If you're struggling while social distancing, please know you are never alone. Call the Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) to speak with a trained crisis counselor. Your life matters to us and we're here for you, 24/7. Visit www.suicidepreventionhotline.org for more information. Support for Domestic Violence - https://www.thehotline.org/help/ Resources for Domestic Violence Help during COVID_19 (Albany, NY, but nationwide info as well) - https://cbs6albany.com/news/coronavirus/resources-available-for-domestic-violence-victims-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic Please send us an email about the Unsung Sluts (Amazing Women doing Amazing Things) in your own lives at: Email - unsungslutspodcast@gmail.com If you are our listener in Kazakhstan, please send us an email!! Follow Unsung Sluts Podcast on: Instagram: @unsung_sluts_podcast Twitter: @unsungsluts Facebook - Unsung Sluts Podcast Website - www.unsungslutspodcast.com Please leave us a 5 Star review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps us out. (Theme song "Liverpool Sluts by Sigmund Droid)

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11. Kū-A-Kanaka: Education with Aloha

Hawaiʻi Rising

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2022 37:47

Meet Krisha Zane, the EA Ecoversity Administrator at Kū-A-Kanaka, LLC. Kū-A-Kanaka is a native Hawaiian women-owned and -operated social enterprise headquartered in Hilo on Hawaiʻi Island that founded EA Ecoversity, a Hawaiian culture-based higher education and career training program that provides blended online and offline learning in an atmosphere of aloha. EA Ecoversity offers a tuition-free, personalized program designed for Native Hawaiians ages 15-30 with a flexible micro-credential model. Website: www.kuakanaka.com Tags: Hawaii, Hawai'i, Hawaiʻi

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Padmashri awardee Gond tribal artiste Gussadi Kanaka Raju to teach his art

Ch Sushil Rao

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2022 9:04

Little did the 71-year-old man with rhythm in his body imagine that something that he got himself immersed in would fetch him the Padmashri award in 2021. “I have myself got recognition but there is a desire in me to teach people the dance and explain to outsiders how what goes into it,” Kakanaraju says. He wants to set up this facility in his village – Marlavai in Jainoor mandal of Komarambheem Asifabad district. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chsushilrao/message

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“Kanaka” Joe of San Juan Island

Death in the Northwest

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2021 30:41

This weeks episode takes place in Stevie's hometown of San Juan Island 119 years before she was born! Follow along while she tells the tragic story of the Dwyers and “Kanaka” Joe Nuanna. Source: https://www.historylink.org/File/20993 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/deathinthenwpodcast/support

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Dr. Kanaka Rajan

Stories of WiN

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 46:36

In this episode, Dakota interviews Kanaka, a Computational Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai who studies how abstract cognitive variables underlie learning, memory, and decision-making.

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Episode 25: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents- Isabel Wilkerson Part 1

The Fake Ass Book Club

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 37:29

Welcome back to the Fake Ass Book Club!!! Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" was so heavy, Moni and Kat had to break it in half. Forgiveness please for our hosts as they struggle to pronouce words in English, Hindi and forget Einstein quotes, smh!. They also discuss if the N-word should be deleted from the lexicon. This episode is extra racey, so strap in, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Cheers! *Trigger Warning: Explicit language Also suicide is a serious matter if you or someone you love needs help please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255. *Bacon Rebellion- https://www.worldhistory.org/Bacon's_Rebellion/ *Boondocks' Uncle Ruckus- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFvO2XHZNc *Quote: Albert Einstein * “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” There are 8 Pilars of Caste according to Isalbel Wilkerson: We listed the first 4 below, we will list the other 4 in part 2 ONE: Divine Will and the Laws of Nature In the Hindu creation myth, The One created the highest caste from his mouth; the warrior caste from his arms; the merchants and traders from his thighs; the servants from his feet. The untouchables are below the feet of the servants. In the Biblical story of Noah, we have the story of the children of Ham, cursed to be slaves because his son Ham (who had black skin) had seen Noah naked. These tenets in both cultures led to a belief in a Great Chain of Being, a permit willed by God. TWO: Heritability (Moni mispronounced this one on this episode...apologies) In India, children inherited their castes from their fathers. In Virgina, children inherited the caste of their mother. This was enacted into law in 1662 by the Virginia General Assembly. This broke from the order known in the English legal precedent in order to keep blacks in the lowest caste. White men could increase their wealth by impregnating slaves without the danger of mother or child making claims against the upper caste man. Members of the lowest caste “may neither ear nor wed his way out,” concluded a scholarly study of caste (titled Deep South) in 1941. THREE: Endogamy and the Control of Marriage and Mating Endogamy is the means by which people may only marry inside their own caste, an “Iron-clad" foundation of any caste system, from ancient India, to the early American colonies, to the Nazi regime in Germany.” (p. 103) Endogamy produces a world in which the castes are entirely separate, unlikely to know or empathize with each other. “‘Caste,; write Bhimrao Abedkar,the father of the anti-caste movement in India, ‘means an artificial chopping off the population into fixed and definite units, each one prevented from fusing into another through the custom of endogamy.'” (p. 110) Virginia outlawed interracial marriage in 1691. The Supreme Court overturned these laws in 1967, though alabama kept its law on the books until 2000. The sentiment that ‘God ntended the races to be separate continued into (and beyond) the middle of the 20th Century. FOUR: Purity versus Pollution The observation of rules of purity can be seen in social customs in India as well as the U.S. An upper class person in India had to cleanse himself if he drew too close to an Untouchable. Books from segregated schools in Florida could not be stored in the same locations. From water fountains to railway platforms to morgues in hospitals, there were rules to keep the white upper classes separate from the blacks. Particularly egregious was the sharing of water sources (beaches, pools, lakes).How much lowest caste blood made a person polluted? Only in the U.S. was that amount a single drop: “a system based on racial absolutism.” (p. 121) In our Northwestern states, the prohibition had a more complicated formula: “Oregon defined as nonwhite any person ;with 1/4 Negro, Chinese or Kanaka blood or more than 1/2 Indian blood.'” (p. 124) In 1922 the Supreme Court ruled that ‘white' referred to light skin but to Caucasian blood. This allowed people from Asia to be excluded from the upper castes as well as people of African origin. But for African-Americans escape from the Bottom Rung was impossible. “Their exclusion was used to justify their exclusions. Their degraded station justifyied their degradation. They were consigned to the lowliest, dirtiest jobs and thus were seen as lowly and dirty, and everyone in the caste system absurd the message of their degradation.” (p. 129) Caste Study Notes found online at www.fgcquaker.org taken from the book Caste. thefabpodcast@gmail.com IG: thefabpodcast (fakeassbookclub)

Episode 42: It's Not All Just For Show (w/ Ryan Menehune of Kanaka Kustoms)

The Riton Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 35:00

On this episode of the Riton Podcast, Eric Hickman guest hosts Ryan Menehune with Kanaka Kustoms. Listen to the origin story from one of our great friends and how successful he has made himself. https://www.kanakakustoms.com/https://www.instagram.com/kanaka_kustoms_llc/Be The Riton RevolutionThe Riton Podcast is produced on Location at Riton Studios in Southern Arizona. For ideas on topics and future guests email us at marketing@ritonoptics.comHost: Brady SpethProducer: Chris KlokCo Producer: Emily Phillippi

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Daniel Mana'ai Anthony

RoundBlock

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 105:51

I had the honor of talking story with not only Daniel Anthony but fellow Kanaka farmers Kaueahu Nahoi not just about food independence but about life and choices that must be made now to insure a better tomorrow.

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Modeling Memory with RNNs and Curriculum Learning w/ Kanaka Rajan - #524

This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2021 47:08

Today we're joined by Kanaka Rajan, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai. Kanaka, who is a recent recipient of the NSF Career Award, bridges the gap between the worlds of biology and artificial intelligence with her work in computer science. In our conversation, we explore how she builds “lego models” of the brain that mimic biological brain functions, then reverse engineers those models to answer the question “do these follow the same operating principles that the biological brain uses?” We also discuss the relationship between memory and dynamically evolving system states, how close we are to understanding how memory actually works, how she uses RNNs for modeling these processes, and what training and data collection looks like. Finally, we touch on her use of curriculum learning (where the task you want a system to learn increases in complexity slowly), and of course, we look ahead at future directions for Kanaka's research. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/524.

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A heart full of ancestors

Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2021 53:04

Museum curator Imelda Miller on the history and vibrancy of Australian South Sea Islanders

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A heart full of ancestors

Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2021 53:04

Museum curator Imelda Miller on the history and vibrancy of Australian South Sea Islanders

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Wine with Tanna

Wine with Teacher Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 37:22

A VIRTUAL GOLDEN TOUR INTERVIEW. Thank you to Tanna, proud Byellee and Kanaka woman, from @teachingwithtanna for being such a beautiful soul! In this episode we discussed: Journey into teaching Teaching teenagers Mob Monday and First Nations Advocate Cross Curriculum *Priorities* Authentic First Nations Resources Performative Activism Allyship and White Saviours Check out Tanna's resources at teachingwithtanna.com Thank you to sponsor, A Plus Teaching Resources.

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Dr. Kanaka Rajan, Computational Neuroscientist & Assistant Professor at Mt Sinai

Lady Scientist Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2021 89:54

Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D. is a Computational Neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai in New York. Her research seeks to understand how the brain functions; how it learns or makes decisions. We dive into Dr. Rajan's approaches these brain 'themes' in this interview. She also walks us through the contrasts between the fields of neurobiology and artificial intelligence, and opens our minds to how our understanding of the brain has advanced over time. We learned so much and we hope you do too! Links for Kanaka: Wikipedia profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaka_... Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/rajankdr https://www.rajanlab.com This episode is sponsored by Kendall Investor Relations: https://www.kendallinvestorrelations.com HDSA Team Hope Walk: https://washington.hdsa.org/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ladyscientist... Buy Us a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LSPodcast All links + merch: https://www.ladyscientistpodcast.com

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Protecting Mauna Kea Update and Music

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 59:13

Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation) is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho'opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. Our guest addresses the November 8th, 2019, the University of Hawaii action assuming title over the Mauna Kea lands and the university supporting a new memorandum prohibiting the Kanaka access the Mauna Kea, the thousands of Indigenous Hawaiians and supporters gathered at Mauna Kea, and the scores of arrest since earlier this year which includes those peoples' daily risking and facing arrest and mass incarceration, plus more. The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast Thursdays from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Thursdays 5pm-6pm); and WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH. Click here for archived American Indian Airwaves programs on the KPFK website within the past 60-days only or click on (below) after 8pm for today's scheduled program. Soundcloud Apple Podcast Google Podcast iHeartRadio Spotify Podcast Stitcher Podcast Tunein Podcast

30. The Mentality That Holds Us Back (as Kanaka) with Guest- Tiare Lawrence

Beyond The Reef

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2021 36:28

In this episode: Tiare Talks on breaking dependency with Tourism Creating Self sustainabilityThe mentality that holds kanaka backHow she uses her voice for needed change and educatethe need for food securityInfiltrate the walls of leadership in government, business, organizations to make needed changeHer vision for Maui 20 years from now THE ONE THING Wahine can do Connect with Tiare: https://www.instagram.com/tiare_lawrence/Connect with Uʻilani: https://www.instagram.com/uilanitevaga/Free Priced outta Paradise Workshop- June 17th 7pm HST: https://www.facebook.com/groups/413247756494703/COMMUNITY Platforms:https://www.instagram.com/kakoo_haleakala/https://www.instagram.com/saveolowalu/

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Rescuing and Fostering Dogs w/Rocky Kanaka! Episode 16

LET'S DO THIS TOGETHER?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2021 53:35

Rocky Kanaka is an Emmy nominated host and a YouTuber that shares his love and passion for rescuing and rehabilitating dogs through his entertaining YouTube videos! He talks about what got him started to pursue his passion and why it's important to him and what we can do to do our part as well!

Kauka O Na Kanaka: Emergency Medical Physician and Writer for Vice, Darragh O'Carroll, MD

The Holoholo

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2021 52:00

Dia dhuit & Aloha Friends! On this episode we sat down with Emergency Medical Physician, Darragh O'Carroll. Hear about Darragh's journey growing up in Hawaii, practicing medicine for the first time in Los Angeles, and writing as his creative outlet for Vice Magazine. Thanks for tuning in! xx Insta: @dardager Read his article in Vice Magazine : https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/contributor/darragh-ocarroll Sound Wizard: Aren Souza Contact: helloholoholo@gmail.com ~Holoholo is brought you by Flux Hawaii, a quarterly lifestyle magazine that reorients how people think about Hawaii, showcasing the vibrant arts, culture, and community that can be found in the isles. Pick up it's newest issue on newsstands now. Find it online at fluxhawaii.com~ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theholoholopodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theholoholopodcast/support

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కనకధారా స్తోత్రం

Amma Stotralu

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2021 6:58

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SRI KANAKA DHARA STOTRAM 11

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 3:38

Namaskaram!! Welcome to Aadhyatmika Nidhi channel! Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram is a great work by Adi Sankarar who is also known as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sireesh has explained the 11th song of Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram along with its connotation. https://chat.whatsapp.com/JMHH3sp5wSi6SvAcT5Pm0B Regards, SIREESH.N.M AUTHOR AT EVINCEPUB PUBLISHING

SRI KANAKA DHARA STOTRAM 12TH AND 13TH

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 3:23

Namaskaram!! Welcome to Aadhyatmika Nidhi channel! Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram is a great work by Adi Sankarar who is also known as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sireesh has explained the 12 and 13th song of Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram along with its connotation. https://chat.whatsapp.com/JMHH3sp5wSi6SvAcT5Pm0B Regards, SIREESH.N.M AUTHOR AT EVINCEPUB PUBLISHING

SRI KANAKA DHARA STOTRAM 14TH AND 15TH

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 3:25

Namaskaram!! Welcome to Aadhyatmika Nidhi channel! Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram is a great work by Adi Sankarar who is also known as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sireesh has explained the 14 and 15th song of Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram along with its connotation. https://chat.whatsapp.com/JMHH3sp5wSi6SvAcT5Pm0B Regards, SIREESH.N.M AUTHOR AT EVINCEPUB PUBLISHING

SRI KANAKA DHARA STOTRAM 16TH AND 17TH

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 3:57

Namaskaram!! Welcome to Aadhyatmika Nidhi channel! Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram is a great work by Adi Sankarar who is also known as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sireesh has explained the 16and 17th song of Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram along with its connotation. https://chat.whatsapp.com/JMHH3sp5wSi6SvAcT5Pm0B Regards, SIREESH.N.M AUTHOR AT EVINCEPUB PUBLISHING

SRI KANAKA DHARA STOTRAM 20TH AND 21ST

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 3:55

Namaskaram!! Welcome to Aadhyatmika Nidhi channel! Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram is a great work by Adi Sankarar who is also known as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sireesh has explained the 20th and 21th song of Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram along with its connotation. https://chat.whatsapp.com/JMHH3sp5wSi6SvAcT5Pm0B Regards, SIREESH.N.M AUTHOR AT EVINCEPUB PUBLISHING

SRI KANAKA DHARA STOTRAM 18TH AND 19TH

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 4:03

Namaskaram!! Welcome to Aadhyatmika Nidhi channel! Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram is a great work by Adi Sankarar who is also known as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sireesh has explained the 18and 19th song of Sri Kanaka Dhara Stotram along with its connotation. https://chat.whatsapp.com/JMHH3sp5wSi6SvAcT5Pm0B Regards, SIREESH.N.M AUTHOR AT EVINCEPUB PUBLISHING

Speak Life Now Radio Show

Imagine That Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2021 28:00

Never give up. President Biden, VicePresident Harris, Ananda Gordon. Phil 4:8-9 Harmony

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Nanati Baduku (Class / Lesson): Revathi ; Adi ; Annamacharya

South Indian Classical (Carnatic) Music Archive: Classes / Lessons

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021 28:38

Notations -> http://www.shivkumar.org/music/#n Pallavi: nAnATi batuku nATakamu kAnaka kannati kaivalyamu Charanam 1 puTTuTayu nijamu pOvuTayu nijamu naTTa naTimi pani nATakamu yeTTa neduTagaladI prapaNcamu kaTTagaTapaTiti kaivalyamu Charanam2: kuTicEdannamu Shoka cuTTeDidi NaTu mantrapu pani nATakamu voDigaTTu konina vubhayakarmulu gaTidATinapuDE kaivalyamu Charanam3: tekadu pApamu tIradu puNyamu naki naki kAlamu nATakamu yeguvane ShRI vEnkaTEShvaru Telika gakhanamu mItiti kaivalyamu Meaning: http://www.annamayyakeerthanalu.in/2011/09/lyrics-of-annamacharya-keerthana-nanati.html This day to day (nAnATi) life (batuku) is a drama (nATakamu) What is seen yet not seen clearly (kAnaka kannadi exactly means something which is seen yet not seen; for instance an object at a far off distance) is liberation/salvation (kaivalyamu) To be born (puTTuTayu) is truth (nijamu), to die (pOvuTayu literal meaning is to go; to leave) is truth. All the work (pani) in between these two (naTTanaDimi) is a drama. That which is right in front (yeTTa neduTagaladI) is the world (prapaNcamu). That which is the ultimate last (kaTTakaDapaTidi) is liberation. To partake/relish (kuDicEdi) rice/food (annamu), to wrap around (cuTTeDidi) a cloth/saree (kOka), this conjured-in-the-middle (naDamantrapu) work (pani) is a drama. When one crosses beyond (gaDidATinapuDE) the above mentioned dual duties (vubhayakarmulu) only then there is liberation. takadu - does not get cut papamu - sin tiradu - no completion of ; not enough of punyamu - good deeds naki naki - is something to laugh about (in tamil : 'nagai' - to be laughed at) kalamu - time ; because of time; bound by time natakamu - drama yeguvane - the one who is a higher place; the only higher place Shri vengateshvaru - Lord Sri Venkateswara gaganamu - akasam; sky; the universe mididi - beyond the skies and the universe kaivalyamu - salvation/ liberation (Our sins don't dwindle. Our good deeds don't extend. In between these, we do something and that is the much laughable drama. Beyond these there is one and only one Lord Sri Venkateshwara. Beyond the universe He is there and that is where the liberation is)

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For The Love of The Mauna, Part 1

All My Relations Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2020 46:11

This special three part series is a story about land, culture, and connections to place—it's the story to protect Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii. Kanaka Maoli people have been fighting to stop the construction of the thirty meter telescope (TMT) since 2014, and in the summer of 2019 a resistance camp at Pu’u huluhulu was established on the Mauna. Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth from the sea floor to its summit. For Native Hawaiians, it is considered the most sacred, deeply honored in their creation story and time honored traditions. The destruction and ongoing desecration from tourism and the existing 13 telescopes on the Mauna has been devastating to the mountain’s fragile and unique ecosystem, and is a blatant disrespect to Kanaka cultural beliefs.In this series we’ll listen to leaders in the movement to stop TMT and protect Mauna Kea, hear the history of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, about the sacredness of the land, the personal power of being in the movement, and bring us up to speed on what is happening now. Central in the series are kapuna and scholar Dr. Auntie Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, scholar, poet, and activist; Jamaica Osorio, activist, educator, and cultural practitioner; and Lanakila Mangauil who discuss the health of the natural environment and its connection to fundamental rights as Indigenous peoples. This first episode gives us the background and story of the beginning of the TMT fight and the cultural foundations of Mauna Kea. “We take care of the land because without the land we have no culture. Our culture cannot exist without these places.” - Lanakila Mangauil +++All My Relations is Listener SupportedBecome a PatronFollowDr. Noe Noe Wong Wilson, Executive Director of The LĀLĀKEA FOUNDATIONJamaica Osorio on InstagramLanakila Mangauil on InstagramAll My Relations on InstagramSupporthttps://www.puuhuluhulu.com/https://www.protectmaunakea.net/donateMusic and Ole’s"E HŌ MAI"https://www.puuhuluhulu.com/learn/protocol“Kū Haʻaheo e Kuʻu Hawaiʻi”Composed by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu from “Kūhaʻo Maunakea” (Kanaeokana)”@kanaeokanaInterludes byMasa Kobayashi @thefunstreetEpisode artwork inspired by the four maidens, the goddesses of the snow-covered mountains, Poliʻahu, Waiau, Kahoupokane, and Lilinoe, drawn by Ciara Sana. Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/amrpodcast)

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WCC Podcast, Ep 05: "Turn It On"

Specialty Coffee Association Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 45:43

This week, we're excited to release the fifth episode of the World Coffee Championships Podcast.“Turn It On” tells the stories of the World Coffee Roasting Championship and the Cezve/Ibrik Championships, two competitions with incredibly close-knit communities at their heart. Along the way, co-hosts Anna Oleksak and Sara Al-Ali lead us through stories about navigating subjectivity, all kinds of development, and the lengths we go to for coffee (and love) through interviews with Trish Rothgeb, Sylvia Gutierrez, Lee Yiming, Yuan Jingyi, Sergey Blinnikov, and Turgay Yildizli.Special Thanks to Our Series Sponsor, Victoria Arduino This series of the WCC Podcast is brought to you by Victoria Arduino. Born in the early twentieth century amid social and cultural transformation, Victoria Arduino broke with tradition and focused on progress, a mission it carries forward today. Victoria Arduino advances coffee knowledge and innovates across design, technology, and performance to produce machines that nurture coffee professionals' passion for espresso excellence. For more information, visit victoriaarduino.com. Victoria Arduino: Inspired by your passion.Special Thanks to Our Episode Sponsor, Loumidis PapagalosThis episode of the WCC podcast is made possible with support from Loumidis Papagalos. For over a century, Loumidis Papagalos has been evolving ibrik coffee tradition in Greece, offering unique moments to true coffee lovers. In 2020 Loumidis Papagalos celebrates its first 100 years, always nourishing passion around ibrik coffee and supporting its way forward. To learn more visit nestlenoiazomai.gr/loumidis. Loumidis Papagalos, the true expert in coffee!We'd like to thank Anna Oleksak and Sara Al-Ali, our co-hosts for this episode, and our interviewees for their time in sharing their stories about the evolution of the World Coffee Roasters Championship and the Cezve/Ibrik Championship, in order of appearance: Trish Rothgeb, Sylvia Gutierrez, Lee Yiming, Yuan Jingyi, Sergey Blinnikov, and Turgay Yildizli. Thanks also to our roaster participants in James' “How would you roast…?” game—Valentina Moksunova, David Rosali, Chad Goddard, Ariel Bravo, and Marian Aguilar—and to Lobotryasi and Specialty Turkish Coffee for audio permissions. For a full list of those who helped across the entire series, a year-long effort, click here. Series 01 of the World Coffee Championships Podcast is a coffee documentary series produced by James Harper of Filter Productions for the Specialty Coffee Association. Learn more about this episode of the World Coffee Championships Podcast, made possible with the support of Victoria Arduino and Loumidis Papagalos, including a full transcript and credits at sca.coffee/sca-news/listen/wcc-podcast/05-turn-it-on

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S2E7 Hawane Rios / Musician / Artivist

Artivism NOW!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2020 59:34

Hawane Rios is a musician / dancer / activist from Big Island Hawaii, and Mauna Kea. To support the cause of Kanaka'a Maoli people and their native lands donate to or follow these: Venmo - @Hawane-Rios Instagram -@hawanemusic, @protectmauna, @puuhuluhulu Website - hawanerios.com Websites about Mauna Kea kahea.org puuhuluhulu.com standingabovetheclouds.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/artivismnow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artivismnow/support

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Devi Arati with Vani Devi

Mantra, Kirtan and Stotra: Sanskrit Chants

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 3:41

Vani Devi sings the Devi Arati. You can find it in Yoga Vidya Kirtan booklet under the number 314 . Devi Arati, beginning with Maiya Jaya Mangala Murati, is a wonderful hymn for the worship of the Divine Mother, Amba Gauri, the radiant Divine Mother. This song is typically sung at the Arati, i.e. at the light ceremony for Durga, Kali, Devi, Lakshmi, Saraswati or Parvati. But you can also sing the song like a kirtan, like a bhajan just like that. Sing along and let your heart be touched. Here is the text to sing along: Devi Ar(a)ti Maiya Jay(a) Mangala-murati, Maiya Jay(a) Ananda-karani Tumako Nishi-dina Dhyavata, Tumako Nishi-dina Dhyavata Hari Brahma Shiva Ri, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 1 // Manga Sindura Virajata, Tiko Nriga-mada Ko, Maiya Tiko Nriga-mada Ko Ujjvala Se Dou Naina, Ujjvala Se Dou Naina, Chandra-vadana Niko, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 2 // Kanaka-samana Kalevara, Raktambara Raje, Maiya Raktambara Raje Rakta-pushpa-vana-mala, Rakta-pushpa-vana-mala Kanthana Para Saje, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 3 // Kehari-vahana Rajata, Khadga-khappara Dhari, Maiya Khadga-khappara Dhari, Sura Nara Muni-jana Sevita, Sura Nara Muni-jana Sevita, Tinake Dukha Hari, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 4 // Kanana Kundala Shobhita, Nasagre Moti, Maiya Nasagre Moti, Kotika Chandra-divakara, Kotika Chandra-divakara, Rajata Sama Jyoti, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 5 // Shumbha-nishumbha Vidare, Mahishasura-ghati, Maiya Mahishasura-ghati / Dhunra-vilochana-nashini, Dhunra-vilochana-nashini, Nishi-dina Mada-mati, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 6 // Chausatha Yogini Gavata, Nritya Karata Bhairű, Maiya Nritya Karata Bhairű, Bajata Tala Nridanga, Bajata Tala Nridanga, Aru Bajata Damaru, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 7 // Bhuja Chara Ati Shobhita, Shankha-khappara Dhari, Maiya Shankha-khappara Dhari, Mana Vanchhita Phala Pavata, Mana Vanchhita Phala Pavata, Sevata Nara-nari, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 8 // Kanchana Thala Virajata, Agara Kapura Bati, Maiya Agara Kapura Bati, Shri-malaketu Mẽ Rajata, Shri-malaketu Mẽ Rajata, Koti Ratana Jyoti, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 9 // Yah(a) Ambe Ji Ki Arati, Jo Koi Nita Gave, Maiya Jo Koi Nita Gave, Kahata Shivananda Svami, Kahata Shivananda Svami, Sukha-sampati Pave, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 10 // Om Jay Ambe Gauri, Om Jay Ambe Gauri Om Jay Ambe Gauri, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 11 // Glory To The Mother Of The Universe, Glory To The Mother Of The Universe, Glory To The Mother Of The Universe, Om Jay Ambe Gauri // 12 // For more kirtan and mantra vocal recordings click here. All seminars on mantra and music can be found here. Further information about yoga, meditation and ayurveda can be found on the internet pages of Yoga Vidya. Folge direkt herunterladen

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Devi Arati with Vani Devi

Mantra, Kirtan and Stotra: Sanskrit Chants

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 3:42

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566: Creating Computational Models to Determine How the Brain Accomplishes Complex Tasks - Dr. Kanaka Rajan

People Behind the Science Podcast - Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 41:11

Dr. Kanaka Rajan is a computational neuroscientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In her research, Kanaka builds mathematical and computational models of the brain to better understand how the brain works. Her goal is to determine how the neurons and synapses of the brain work together to create complex processes like learning, memory, and decision-making. Running is a passion for Kanaka, and going for a run often helps her think more clearly. In addition, she enjoys sketching urban scenes and scientific themes. She received her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Anna University in India, her M.S. in Neuroscience from Brandeis University, and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Columbia University. Kanaka conducted postdoctoral research as a Biophysics Theory Fellow at Princeton University before accepting her current position. She has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including the Sloan-Swartz Theoretical Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brain and Behavior Foundation Young Investigator Award, Understanding Human Cognition Scholar Award from the James McDonnell Foundation, Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, and Friedman Brain Institute Research Scholars Award from the DiSabato Family Foundation. In our interview, Kanaka shares more about her life and research.

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LOCKDOWN

Life on the Outside

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 24:18

Kenneth, Kanaka, and Jarret talk about what a lockdown is like in prison. Why does a facility go on lockdown? And how long before the confinement lifts? All three storytellers are out now, but their experiences in prison while serving life sentences are as tangible as the present moment.

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Kanaka Durga Amma vari Kushmanda Avataram | Samskruthi

Samskruthi

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 14:33

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Manua Kea, TMT, and COVID-19 Update in the Hawaiian Nation

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Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 55:40

Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai'i's renowned songwriters and activist; founder or co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, general cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho'opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho'opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 Billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project. Our guest address the November 8th, 2019, the University of Hawaii action assuming title over the Mauna Kea lands and the university supporting a new memorandum prohibiting the Kanaka access the Mauna Kea, the thousands of Indigenous Hawaiians and supporters gathered at Mauna Kea, and the scores of arrest since earlier this year which includes those peoples' daily risking and facing arrest and mass incarceration, plus more. The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves podcast on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Turnin, and iTunes. Broadcasted programs on KPFK within the past 60-days can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/ Artist Webpage: https://www.weshoyot.com/

Ep. 26: Rocky Kanaka

We Don't Deserve Dogs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020 64:03

Dog rescuer extraordinaire Rocky Kanaka! He has 1.6 million subscribers on his YouTube channel because he will do ANYTHING for dogs. He’s also the host of the new podcast from The Dodo, An Animal Saved My Life. He blows Dr. Lisa and Richie’s minds with the amazing story of how his dog saved his life! This episode was brought to you by Sun Basket, which is a meal delivery service full of fresh organic produce and clean ingredients, prepackaged for a perfect recipe for 2-3 people. They're offering WDDD listeners $35 off your order when you go to sunbasket.com/dogs and enter promo code DOGS at checkout. We Don't Deserve Dogs is produced by The Podglomerate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HOMEWARD BOUND w/ Rocky Kanaka and Kylie Boardman

Bad Science

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2020 45:52

Can two dogs and a cat find their way to their owners? Can they outsmart a mountain lion?! The answers to these burning questions and many more await you inside this episode. Ethan is joined by two wonderful guests: Kyle Boardman and host of the new podcast from The Dodo "An animal saved my life", Rocky Kanaka. That podcast comes out on Thursday so check it out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Farmers Save Lives - Food Security with Hanale Bishop

Kū I Ke Aloha - Stand In Love

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 9:12

Episode 3: Farmers Save Lives - Food Security w/ Hanale Bishop Show notes: •Hear philosophy of heart and hand from Hanale Bishop, Kanaka ‘Ōiwi taro farmer and poi maker as well as where to source local, organic nourishment during these movements towards the realization and actualization of a food secure Hawai'i... •Hanale Bishop/Homestead Poi in partnerships with the Reppun ʻohana, Kākoʻoʻōiwi and Melissa of 808Organics to make sure people can source all local and organic produce. Things are continuing to evolve, so keep aware of his future movements on IG and FB, you can find him on IG as @hanalebishop and on FB as HanaleBishop/Homestead Poi. •Hoʻokuaʻāina/Wilhelm ʻohana - Raw kalo orders will continue as usual. Be sure to order at least three days prior to the day you'd like to pick up. To order, text the kalo hotline at 351-1666 with your name, total pounds you'd like to order and the desired pickup date. Their crew will confirm your order via text message. •Ahiki Acres and Rose of Bear Claw Farm - at the Waimānalo Health Center during their usual Wednesday from 3:30-5:30pm. There's also a temporary food security pick-up location being set up with the Waimānalo Market Co-op, to have direct farmer to consumer transactions, Wednesdays and Saturdays 10-10:30am, a small window, and this starts Wednesday 3/25. You can pre-order and pre-pray at http://ahikiacres.com and http://bearclawfarm.com •Farmlink, if you check out their website http://farmlinkhawaii.com and set up your own account, you can order and arrange for home deliveries, which is super critical for some kūpuna. •Hale Ke Aloha ʻAi Pono - offering kūpuna meals @halekealoha •GoFarms http://gofarmhawaii.org for island wide food security locations •HoʻouluʻĀina is also offering their superb and healing foods and lāʻau lapaʻau to community in need, you can contact them to source for your own ʻohana as well as helping with distribution to others in need. You can follow them on IG and contact them via email, aina@kkv.net, leave them your name, phone number and info on how you support. • Support this movement: https://www.patreon.com/kuikealoha

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Barriers: Stories about what stood in our way

The Story Collider

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2020 38:32

This week we present two stories from people who were faced with barriers to their education. Part 1: Eager to succeed in her Physical Chemistry class, Shaniece Mosley is thrown off by a professor's attempt at a compliment. Part 2: Lelemia Irvine struggles to get through his PhD program as he's constantly told that his identity as a Native Hawaiian is incompatible with academia. Shaniece Mosley has been a teacher for eight years, and currently teaches chemistry, AP Chemistry, and science research at Midwood High School in Brooklyn. After attending Northeastern University and SUNYAlbany, where she received a B.S. in Chemistry, she attended Pace University where she earned an M.S. in Secondary Science Education. A former New York City Teaching Fellow, Shaniece is now an MƒA Master Teacher. She enjoys spending free time with her husband Dan and their 2 year old son Greyson. Lelemia Irvine, PhD, EIT, is kupukaaina, a lineal descendant from the aboriginal families that sprouted out of the land of Waiʻanae, Oʻahu. Dr. Irvine is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaiʻi at West Oʻahu. He is now at his dream job as a professor but the road to get there was not a breeze. Dr. Irvine is the first Kāne Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian male) to earn a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2019. In his doctoral research, he studied the physics of stormwater within a bioswale using predictive and computational approaches. As far as we know, presently there are less than 10 Native Hawaiians with a PhD in any engineering discipline in the world. Dr. Irvine is a self-described Rain Farmer, a term he coined, when his father, who has dementia, ask him “boy, what you studying in school?”. As a rain farmer, he seeks to connect sky to aquifer thru the physics of fluids and indigenous engineering ways of knowing. Dr. Irvine shares his personal journey as an empowerment tool for others to co-navigate and constellate the village of higher education systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ka launa kanaka ʻana

Ka Alala

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2020 26:25

He mau manaʻo e noʻonoʻo ai. I koʻu wahi manaʻo, he mea maʻa iā kākou ka hoʻolauna maikaʻi ʻana i kāu ka kākou mau ipo hou i ka ʻohana. Pēlā nō koʻu ʻohana, a pēlā wau i hana ai mai kinohi mai, eia naʻe ʻaʻole like ka hana a kaʻu wahine. E lohe ʻia ana ka moʻolelo ma kēia lola nei. Eia kahi, ʻokoʻa ka launa ʻana o ka koʻu wā ʻōpio a ʻokoʻa ke ʻano o kēia mau lā.

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KANAKA

Life on the Outside

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2020 26:23

Maria Kanaka Luna got locked up in 1995, went to county jail, then hit the penitentiary in 1996 and 23 years later she was released. Freedom didn't settle in right away for Maria. She was picked up by ICE and still faces deportation. But that won't stop her from enjoying her freedom. She works at Homeboy Industries, advocates for people still inside, and wants to learn how to milk a cow. Each day is a blessing and Maria is soaking it all in.

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BI 054 Kanaka Rajan: How Do We Switch Behaviors?

Brain Inspired

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2019 75:24

Kanaka and I discuss a few different ways she uses recurrent neural networks to understand how brains give rise to behaviors. We talk about her work showing how neural circuits transition from active to passive coping behavior in zebrafish, and how RNNs could be used to understand how we switch tasks in general and how we multi-task. Plus the usual fun speculation, advice, and more.

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Kanaka Express Episode #3

MAʻA Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 56:39

Host Kale Gumapac interviews guests Dr. Keanu Sai

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From Rwanda to Oneonta: Denis Muganza '17

My Oneonta Life

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2019 10:07

Denis Muganza: Oh, I remember going back home and people, I was in the plane and people are like, wait, are you that guy who wraps in the, you know, it was cool, like it's, if someone yelled my name across a airport in Brussels, which is weird but interesting, you know,Host: welcome to my Oneonta life, a podcast about everything Oneonta. I'm your host Jared Stanley. On this show we discovered the stories and experiences of the people who make SUNY Oneonta the place we like to call home. [inaudible]Host: music is a huge ingredient in the college experience just as much as pizza pulling all nighters, spring break. For some students, music plays a much larger role in their life. It's part of their personal identity and is the driver of who they want to be and where they want to go in life. Today I'm introducing you to Dennis Muganda, a musical artist from Kigali, Rwanda, and a 2017 graduate of SUNY Oneonta. I got to know Dennis during his time at Oneonta and learned about his life as an international student. His aspirations as a musician and what he was going to miss most about his college experience. Dennis's time at Oneonta started with his trip to campus, which was a bit longer than the typical Oneonta student when he boarded a plane from Rwanda heading across the globe to the United States.Denis Muganza: It was my first time in the United States and the first place I Atlanta doors and JFK and you know, I went to New York city and it was the biggest city I'd ever been to and towns, a little overwhelmed. And then the next day I was in Oneonta, which was a huge contrast and I didn't know how people were going to, if people were meant to be nice to me or you know, if they're going to think of me as a foreigner and not to want to be friends with me, but it all turned out great.Host: Adjusting to life in college is a challenge for most freshmen students. And even more so as an international student, even though Dennis is from across the globe, he and many other Oneonta students have one thing in common, a love for music. Back in Rwanda, Dennis began his music career when he was 13 years old when he produced his first song by age 17. He was an avid performer and event organizer and formed his own music label, dark matter entertainment.Denis Muganza: I just wanted to increase my chances of succeeding really. So I did everything that I could and like starting recording studio days and not the same as here cause I'm here. Oh, every other student has a recording gear, you know. Whereas there, um, not everybody is privileged enough to have a recording Mike or you know, any of the interface or even a laptop, you know. So I had that. Then me and my friends just tipped in like 10 bucks every, every month. Five of us that add up to 50 bucks. Believe it or not, they could actually rent a room this big, you know, you know, I ended up for a month, you know, so it was like, of course not in the best neighborhoods, but we'd still go and get every sound soundproof displays ourselves, camera and everything. And Hey man, the recording studio, I knew it was a lot of funHost: as a student. Dennis looked for ways to become involved in the campus music scene, but he found a lack of diversity in music styles amongst student musicians.Denis Muganza: As much as I like all genres of music, everybody on campus seemed to have a similar style. They all had the guitar that they just pop out and start playing and singing a little bit like, um, some version of John Mayer, the most part at least that was the stereotypical on the Ontario musician, you know. So I was personally a little bit disappointed cause I, I didn't hesitate. I went to all the clubs, I went to the music industry club, I went to the songwriters club and that's all they saw. And they felt like a, not fit in, but they said this is New York even though it's Oneonta, New York is New York, which is where hip hop, hip hop came from. New York, you know, at least anyway, they will can tell you that New York, LA is probably where hip hop came from. So it has to be some rappers out here.Host: Fast forward three years and Dennis has a large list of accomplishments. He was cofounder of the Oneonta hip hop collective and had the opportunity to open for international artists. Big Sean during Oneonta's fall concert.Host: his biggest accomplishment is releasing his first album African and has been touring throughout New York state and Canada.Denis Muganza: and it was fun, successful. Um, I remember at the time we only got maybe two dozen people at each show, but I've noticed since I went back to Montreal again, I got 50 more people than I got 10. That's the whole point of doing this store is trying to gain a larger following. I remember going back home and people, I was in the plane and it's, people are like, wait, are you that guy who wraps in the, you know, he was cool. Like it's someone yelled my name across a airport in Brussels, which is weird, but it's interesting, you know, so it's good to see that at least I'm having some sort of impact. Um, I'll say that I'm not where I wish I was. I wish that I was graduating and didn't have to worry about getting a job because my music was that popping. But unfortunately, you know, I'm not there yet, but I'm not discouraged. I think everything is a work in progress. It's a step by stepHost: graduation, a time to celebrate accomplishments and to reflect on his time spent here at Oneonta. What's the best way to do that by creating an Anthem to own [inaudible]Denis Muganza: I love college. I love taking every weekend. I love chilling on the evening. I acknowledge that I'm here for a reason. All this knowledge I'm receiving, but this book that I've been reading saw wrong and I noticed now this thing in my dorm man. Then I'll be gone, gone from this place where I say I be long, but nowDenis Muganza: it's cause of Oneonta. It's very homey and people when you get here sort of and belong and just have your own unique perspective and I felt the need, especially being slightly outside, um, average person who comes to Oneonta, I felt they needed to sort of tell my story and how I thought about it. And if you say a song, it's really from a senior's perspective, it's not from the whole freshmen. I'm so excited to be here type of thing. I tried to go for a nostalgic sound, so I was trying to make a song that people can listen to many years after. We know we all leave. So I hope I did that.Host: with a couple of weeks to graduation. Dennis is trying to figure out what the next step in his life will be. It's an issue all students have to deal with. But as an international student he has to figure out where his next destination will be. Just,Denis Muganza: yeah, I got a letter from immigration that said, Hey, your student visa expires May 30th you got a two month grace period. So it's like I might end up in a job here. I might end up anywhere in the world. I might just go back home. What I'd like to do the most is actually stay here cause I feel like, especially in the music industry in New York, New York city in particular, there's so much potential and they feel like I have the drive and determination to make something big. But regardless, I feel like no matter where I end up, I'm still gonna make it in my own way. And especially cause the world is so, it's a different world nowadays. You know, it's so globalized. It doesn't really matter where you are.Host: with Snapchat and Instagram, students will stay connected long after graduation. The memories of college and the relationships made will last a lifetime. Any parting words for Oneonta?,Denis Muganza: That's too much to put into like a sentence or two and this, there's a lot of emotions I felt here. You know, I've been, I've had some of the greatest times in my life. You'd like things I never thought were possible have happened here. Like, take me back to 2011 you know, there's no way I'd have thought that I'd opened for this people. And how many years? Five, six years ago. Oneonta has given us the opportunity to be anything we want to be. Yeah. Just keep it up, I guess, do it for the next generation.Host: So where is Dennis in 2019? He's back in Rwanda and he's performing under a new stage name Kanaka. To learn more about Dennis Muganza, visit his kanakarw.com. I'm Jared Stanley. See you next time.

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