HAWAIIAN REFORESTATION PROGRAM FOUNDATION

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HAWAIIAN REFORESTATION PROGRAM FOUNDATION

Excellent article on the suffering imposed upon the commoners by ali’i during the sandalwood trade.

The kingdom was passed on to Kamehameha III along with a huge debt of $500,000 owed to the American traders. The pressure on the king was great. In December 1826, the kingdom’s first written law, a sandalwood tax, stated that every man was required to deliver one-half picul of sandalwood to the governor of the district to which he belonged, or to pay, in lieu thereof, four Spanish dollars, on or before September 1, 1827. Every woman 13 years and older was required to hand weave a 12 foot by 6 foot mat, or a quantity of tapa cloth of equal value. All the taxes collected were applied to the kingdom’s sandalwood debts. Again commoners were forced to abandon their crops, and food shortages plagued the islands. The accessible sandalwood was all gone, making it more difficult to locate trees with adequate heartwood to meet the new tax requirements.

Unjust demands caused so much toil for the commoners, carrying the heavy wood down the mountain trail, that they pulled up the young sandalwood trees, so that their children would not be forced to live the same life.

FOXNews.com – Science – 2005 Ties for 2nd Warmest Year Ever, But Cause Still Uncertain

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FOXNews.com – Science – 2005 Ties for 2nd Warmest Year Ever, But Cause Still Uncertain

Crucial quote:

“The carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is distributed pretty evenly around the globe and not concentrated in the Arctic, so it doesn’t look like we can blame greenhouse gases for the overwhelming bulk of the Northern Hemisphere warming over the past 27 years,” Christy said. “The most likely suspect for that is a natural climate change or cycle that we didn’t expect or just don’t understand.”

The Rest Of The Story

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On January 17, 1893, the Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown, and replaced by a Provisional Government. This Provisional Government concluded an annexation treaty with the United States, that was submitted to the Senate on February 15, 1893 by President Benjamin Harrison. After Cleveland’s inauguration the following month, the treaty was withdrawn from consideration on March 9, 1893.

Cleveland was a friend of Liliuokalani’s, and upon taking office, worked diligently to restore her to the throne. On March 11, 1893, Cleveland called upon Blount to undertake a secret investigation into the overthrow. This investigation by Blount lasted from his arrival in Hawaii on March 29, 1893 until the submission of his final report on July 17, 1893.

This report was blistering in its disdain for the actions of Minister Stevens and the landing of U.S. troops during the revolution. The firm contention was that it was only through the direct action of the U.S. that the Queen was overthrown.
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Welcome Lana!

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Everyone please welcome our latest contributor, Lana Robbins, aka Ululani, aka Super ‘Oiwi Supremist Chick! :D

If you haven’t seen the flames on http://www.hawaiiankingdom.info, suffice it to say that she’s completely convinced that those who are antagonistic to her point of view are by definition, racist. Quite ironic, considering her own evident racism (http://realhapas.com).

Anyway, those are the basics – hopefully a light roasting here will serve to entertain our dear readers.

Oh, and to start off, let me apologize to Lana for my incorrect but understandable assumption that someone who inherits property from their parents is fairly well off – apparently she was below the poverty line while she was going to school at Kamehameha, and I assumed that anyone who could will land in Hawaii to their children had to be well off. Her parents must have made a killing in the stock market when she was in college! :)