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History of efforts to create a Hawaiian tribe from January 1, 2022 through April 30, 2022; including efforts to create a state-recognized tribe and efforts to get federal recognition through Dept. of Interior regulation, executive order, or Congressional legislation; and efforts to get local and international recognition of an alleged continuing independent nation of Hawaii. 2/16/22 news re Congress multiyear stalemate over reauthorization of Indian programs re whether to include Native Hawaiians. Hawaii legislature resolution seeking to remove President McKinley's name and statue from the high school bearing his name is defeated in committee for second consecutive year.

INDEX OF NEWS REPORTS AND COMMENTARIES FROM January 1, 2022 and continuing

January 1, 2022: OHA monthly newspaper includes article describing OHA's package of bills to be submitted to the state legislature [increase payments from ceded lands revenue; force every government agency to take account of impacts of projects and regulations on racial disparities]; also a pullout 20-page annual report for fiscal 2021 showing assets of $765 Million

Jan 13: Reader commentary in Honolulu newspaper urges support for astronomy on Mauna Kea and says "I was stunned that race and religion would be included in a state legislative working group’s recommendation that a proposed Governing Entity be comprised predominately of Native Hawaiians. ... Then what? Will only Native Hawaiians be allowed above certain elevations? Will other races be permitted on certain dates if they present SafeDNA QR codes?"

Jan 14: Russia Today [Russia propaganda newspaper]: "The Red Hill US naval base in Hawaii is facing the anger of its neighbors and many of the soldiers who live there, after a jet-fuel leak poisoned the water supply of O’ahu Island. ... the locals aren’t surprised, but they’re sick of their colonizer. Their campaign is demanding that the Navy leave the island."

Jan 15: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, writes a twice-monthly blog post entitled "Ke Aupuni Update." In this edition he says "This week we remember our Day of Infamy. On January 17, 1893 the United States, without provocation or warning, landed a company of fully armed marines to overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom. It was a blatant act of piracy that with each succeeding illegal act (“Annexation,” “Statehood”), grew into today’s U.S. military industrial criminal enterprise known as “The State of Hawaii”." Etc. etc.

Jan 20: Opening day at the 2022 legislature features speeches by Democrat and Republican leaders pushing a grant of $600 Million to Dept of Hawaiian Homelands to help reduce the backlog of 28,000 families waiting for decades to get houses and free leasehold government land in racially exclusionary ghettos.

Jan 20: Hawaiian Kingdom blog [Keanu Sai] reports that a federal judge has issued an order of default against the State of Hawaii in lawsuit Hawaiian Kingdom v. Biden. "Before the Hawaiian Kingdom can file a motion for default judgment, the Court needs to first transform itself into an Article II Occupation Court so that it has jurisdiction over the case."

Jan 21: UH regents voted 7-1 to approve Mauna Kea Master Plan; document limits the number of summit telescopes to nine by 2033, and calls for greatly increased race-based participation and control of access and cultural activity at the summit.

February 3, 2022: PBS-Hawaii television broadcasts a one-hour "Insights" panel discussion regarding whether the name and statue of President McKinley should be removed from McKinley High School because of his role in persuading Congress to approve the "illegal" 1898 Treaty of Annexation between the Republic of Hawaii and the USA. Link to the video is included, and also link to Conklin's major webpage on this controversy including all testimony from hearing in state legislature a year ago.

Feb 12: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, in his blog "Ke Aupuni Update says "With disasters like Red Hill; un-bridled tourism; relentlessly rising housing costs; increased homelessness; record numbers fleeing Hawaii as economic refugees; covid deaths and draconian lock-downs; and so forth … the notion of a Free Hawaii is becoming mainstream." Siu also describes his work at United Nations and international video panel discussions.

Feb 16: Several programs benefitting all Indian tribes have had multi-year delays to be reauthorized because Democrats demand Native Hawaiians continue to be included while Republicans refuse to include them. [This could be seen as a proxy battle over the possibility of reviving direct legislation to give federal recognition to a Hawaiian tribe, similar to the Akaka bill 13 year battle from 2000 to 2012.]

Feb 26: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, in his blog "Ke Aupuni Update" says "Watching the insane invasion of Ukraine I cannot help but think about the United States’ unprovoked invasion of our country in 1893. Thanks to the wisdom and courage of Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaiʻi did not turn into a bloody battleground, but the American pirate enterprise that resulted has inflicted untold pain, suffering and deep loss to the Hawaiian nation for the past 129 years."

March 12, 2022: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, in his blog "Ke Aupuni Update" discusses 3 items of "Good News": U.S. Navy forced to close Red Hill fuel storage tanks; Legislature poised to appropriate $600 Million for racially exclusionary Hawaiian Homelands; Resolution introduced in legislature (same reso that failed in 2021) to change the name of McKinley High School and remove McKinley's statue.

March 26: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, devotes his entire "Ke Aupuni Update" blog entry to bemoaning the DEFEAT of the resolution in the legislature that would tell the Department of Education to remove the name and statue of President McKinley from the school. Siu promises this is not the end of that effort.

April 9, 2022: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, devotes his entire "Ke Aupuni Update" blog entry to describing a film about a native Hawaiian with leprosy who defied the Provisional Government in 1893 by resisting capture and quarantine at the leprosy colony until he eventually died of the disease. Says ethnic Hawaiians are rediscovering and celebrating their heroes, and spreading their stories among indigenous people elsewhere.

April 11: A Democratic-led bill to strengthen the policy of tribal consultation has hit a snag in Congress, leaving some supporters wondering about its future. The delay is due to concern over whether Alaska native corporations and ethnic Hawaiians should be included along with the mainland tribes.

April 20: A confrontation early this year at Waianae Small Boat Harbor between state officers and the leader of a Hawaiian sovereignty group triggered a series of events leading to the arrest last week of a Windward Oahu man for allegedly threatening to behead three people, including the Waianae harbor master. ... and stating his intent to overthrow Hawaii’s government.

April 23, 2022: Leon Siu, who imagines himself to be Foreign Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, devotes his entire "Ke Aupuni Update" blog entry to reviewing the 50-year history of Hawaiian independence activists at the United Nations advocating for getting the U.N. to rescind its 1959 removal of Hawaii from the list of non-self-governing territories eligible for decolonization. Siu says other nations have evolved from saying "so sorry" to "is it possible" to "how can we help".

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FULL TEXT OF ITEMS LISTED IN THE INDEX, FROM MAY 1 through August 31, 2021

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Ka Wai Ola [OHA monthly newspaper] January 2022, Vol. 39, No. 1, page 10

OHA’s 2022 Legislative Package

by Nina Ki, Letani Peltier and Sharde Freitas, OHA Public Policy Advocates, Ka Wai Ola, January 1, 2022

Another exciting legislative session is just around the corner with opening day on Jan. 19, 2022. Although the details have not been finalized, House leadership has announced their intent to continue enabling remote meetings and testimony to enhance public participation in the legislative process, although they anticipate that with reduced pandemic restrictions, the State Capitol may be re-opening to the public soon.

OHA’s Public Policy team is looking forward to utilizing the lessons learned from the last legislative session as we continue to advocate for the lāhui at the legislature in 2022. Public Policy has been hard at work preparing for the coming legislative session. From July through September, Public Policy advocates met with approximately 50 community organizations to discuss ideas and issues to help develop OHA’s 2022 legislative package. These important conversations yielded over 125 potential legislative concepts, which Public Policy then refined into a proposal for approval by the OHA Board of Trustees.

Ultimately, the Board of Trustees (1) approved the drafting and submission of a Public Land Trust focused bill to the 2022 legislature; and (2) approved the measure entitled Building Back Pono: Addressing Socioeconomic Disparities in the Post-COVID Era to be included in the 2022 Legislative Package.

The Public Land Trust – Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaiʻi 1980, enacted section 10-13.5, Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, to implement the Office of Hawaiian affairs’ pro rata share and provide that “[t]wenty per cent of all funds derived from the public land trust . . . shall be expended by the [Office of Hawaiian Affairs] . . . for the purposes of this chapter.” The State of Hawaiʻi has formally recognized that “twenty percent of all funds derived from the public land trust” must be set aside to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the betterment of the conditions of Native Hawaiians and to serve as receptacle for reparations to the Native Hawaiian People. However, based on independent audits and the state’s own accounting, OHA has determined that the amount currently received falls woefully short of the 20% owed to Native Hawaiians. OHA seeks to prioritize holding the State of Hawaiʻi accountable with this measure.

Building Back Pono: Addressing Socioeconomic Disparities for a Post-COVID-19 Era – The goal of this measure is to ensure that future developments do not amplify socioeconomic divides in Hawaiʻi as we build back smarter beyond the pandemic. The current environmental review process considers social welfare, economic welfare, and cultural practices – but does not include a specific analysis of whether an action will exacerbate existing socioeconomic disparities. Past projects that have impacted vulnerable communities or widened socioeconomic divides include the Keaukaha, Waimānalo Gulch, and Kahuku windmill controversies. By adding a socioeconomic disparities analysis to the environmental review process, this measure seeks to encourage decision-makers to consider whether a proposed project would unfairly impact disadvantaged and vulnerable communities.

Public Policy would like to extend its mahalo to everyone who participated in the legislative outreach process. The ʻike that was shared is invaluable; it helps Public Policy to better understand the various issues in the Native Hawaiian community and will help to inform Public Policy’s advocacy for years to come.

** Note from Ken Conklin: The January OHA newspaper includes a pullout section for OHA's annual report for 2021 [actually fiscal 2021 which runs from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021]. Annual report [20 pages] can be separately downloaded here:
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Highlights: General statement of fundamental cultural principles from which the budget is allegedly derived, and list of money given to specific projects/institutions.
Total assets $765 Million.
Approved budget $52 Million
Spending Limit [under policy adopted a few years ago regarding how much can be used from the assets] $63 Million, including $15 Million legislative appropriation in lieu of 20% of ceded land revenue, and $3 Million legislative appropriation from state general fund.

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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/01/13/editorial/island-voices/column-dont-let-tunnel-vision-eliminate-astronomy-on-maunakea/
Honolulu Star-Advertiser Thursday January 13, 2022; EDITORIAL | ISLAND VOICES

Column: Don’t let tunnel vision eliminate astronomy on Maunakea

By Pat Dunlap Evans

I’m not an astronomer, nor do I work for an observatory but, by chance, I read the Mauna Kea Working Group (MKWG) draft report and was so dismayed by its unconstitutional tenets, I decided to respond.

While I deeply value the cultural heritage of Hawaiians who descend from long-ago Polynesian explorers, I also treasure the contributions of those who arrived here from Japan, China, Portugal, Africa, Mexico, the Americas, and beyond. We are all immigrants here, and the result is an aromatic melting pot.

That’s why I was stunned that race and religion would be included in a state legislative working group’s recommendation that a proposed Governing Entity be comprised predominately of Native Hawaiians.

Just how might potential members prove their “Native Hawaiian-ism?” Will the state conduct DNA tests and provide SafeDNA QR codes? How much Hawaiian blood is enough? After all, many who boast of Hawaiian heritage have mixed ancestry.

Let’s strive for the best and brightest.

According to the 2020 census, Asians comprise the largest racial group in our state, while whites are the second-largest group. In Hawaii County, where the proposed Governing Entity would preside, whites make up 34% of the population, Asians 21.2%, and Native Hawaiians 12.8%. If race should be the determining factor, then the Governing Entity should be 34% white, 21% Asian, and 12% Native Hawaiian. But that thinking is as prejudicial as the MKWG proposal that the group be predominately Native Hawaiian. Instead, such an important governing body should be composed of the best and brightest candidates from Hawaii’s diverse populations.

Although the MKWG report provides an extensive view of one brand of indigenous religion, other Hawaiians may not share these views. Regardless, no one religion should prevail in government, nor be used as an excuse to destroy the state’s vigorous astronomy industry.

Maunakea is a magnificent resource that should be cared for by all, including those who construct gigantic telescopes near her summit. Like many, I urge the environmental protection of Maunakea, but I also urge our state and county authorities to prevent trashy shacks from being built on the treasured mountain’s flanks by protestors who claim that the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will do Maunakea harm.

Astronomy benefits Hawaii, America, and the world.

Most puzzling is the report’s apparent disdain for Hawaii’s astronomical observatories. Without including any scientific or economic data about the impact of astronomy in Hawaii, the authors who dominated this draft with religious doctrine seem determined to remove all telescopes from Maunakea. Then what? Will only Native Hawaiians be allowed above certain elevations? Will other races be permitted on certain dates if they present SafeDNA QR codes?

Rather than have yesteryear thinking dominate a governing body, University of Hawaii (UH) should remain the ongoing overseer of Maunakea. UH’s astronomy programs are known worldwide, and the education and eye-opening discoveries of the magnificent instruments atop Maunakea have answered key questions about our universe.

Removing astronomy from Maunakea will have a devastating impact on the Big Island’s economy. These international observatories have poured billions of dollars into Hawaii ever since UH’s 2.2-meter telescope began operations in 1970 to help reinvigorate Hilo’s economy. That forward thinking worked.

In a footnote, the MKWG said its report did not address the TMT. However, if a tunnel-visioned group is allowed to govern Maunakea, the next move will be to prevent TMT from being built. The Hawaii Supreme Court affirmed in 2018 that the $1.43 billion project can be constructed, and most Hawaii citizens support the TMT, according to statewide polls. To keep America competitive in the field of astronomy, TMT must and will move forward.

Yes, Native Hawaiians should be honored for their rich heritage, but no one religion or race should determine the fate of Hawaii’s mountains or our prestigious astronomical observatories.

Pat Dunlap Evans is an author who lives in Waikoloa, Hawaii island; her upcoming novel is set in Hawaii and draws on global competition for discoveries in astronomy.

** Ken Conklin's online comment: FINALLY this newspaper publishes a reader commentary affirming my own two fundamental principles of civil rights: All humans are equal in the eyes of God regardless of race; and all citizens should be treated equally under the law by our government, regardless of race. Of course the race-supremacist anti-American secessionist gang of ethnic Hawaiian telescope opponents will be besieging this newspaper demanding to publish their usual nonsense in reply -- which they have already published a bazillion times without opposition.

Hanalei395 online comment: "How much Hawaiian blood is enough? After all, many who boast of Hawaiian heritage have mixed ancestry." A typical come-back crack from a non-Hawaiian who doesn't get it, ..... and never will.

Ken Conklin online reply to Hanalei's comment:

As a field representative for Census 2000, I interviewed many hundreds of randomly selected people in their homes gathering data about race, income, employment, etc. It was shocking when several Caucasian-looking men with Caucasian surnames, or Asian-looking men with Asian surnames, identified themselves as "native Hawaiian" and, when I asked for their additional ethnicities, they got angry and said "Full native Hawaiian."

We always hear that Hawaiian culture says "honor your ancestors", but these low-quantum "native Hawaiians" who clearly had most of their ancestry from Europe or Asia were disrespecting -- actually trashing -- all their European/Asian ancestors. Indeed, even an allegedly 100% NH actually has 99% of ancestry from outside Hawaii, because no humans were in Hawaii before 2000 years ago, but ancestors go back many thousand yrs.

Hanalei says the commentator "doesn't get it and never will." No, that's what's true about Hanalei and his ilk -- doesn't get it and never will.

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https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/545970-hawaii-us-navy-anger/
Russia Today [Russia propaganda newspaper] January 14, 2022

Hawaiians Stand Against US Navy

The Red Hill US naval base in Hawaii is facing the anger of its neighbors and many of the soldiers who live there, after a jet-fuel leak poisoned the water supply of O’ahu Island.

The locals only found out they’d been poisoned after thousands of people ended up in hospital because of a cover-up. Naomi Karavani got in touch with Kawena’ulaokala Kapahua of the O’ahu Water Protectors to learn more about the environmental disaster impacting his community. He goes over the timeline of the Navy’s poisoning of his community, the impacts of jet fuel contamination in the water, the callous response from the US government, and much more. This isn’t the first time this base leaked jet fuel into the island’s water supply so the locals aren’t surprised, but they’re sick of their colonizer. Their campaign is demanding that the Navy leave the island.

https://soundcloud.com/rttv/redacted-tonight-hawaiians-stand-against-us-navy-cryptoland-chicago-teachers-take-action

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http://freehawaii.blogspot.com/2022/01/ke-aupuni-update-january-2022.html
Free Hawaii blog Saturday January 15, 2022

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JANUARY 2022

Approaching Critical Mass…

This week we remember our Day of Infamy. On January 17, 1893 the United States, without provocation or warning, landed a company of fully armed marines to overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom. It was a blatant act of piracy that with each succeeding illegal act (“Annexation,” “Statehood”), grew into today’s U.S. military industrial criminal enterprise known as “The State of Hawaii”.

Remember January 13, 2018? That’s the day we all got a text alert stating that there was an incoming ballistic missile threat to Hawaiʻi. The text advised residents to seek shelter, and concluded: "This is not a drill."

And how about whats going on at Red Hill today? And other deadly poisons and contaminants that the U.S. military or the U.S. government or the State of Hawaiʻi are not telling us about? These are alarms sounding telling us we must take control of our own safety and wellbeing.

The existential threats we face today are rooted in that 1893 Day of Infamy. The conspiracy was driven by sheer greed: the white insurgents in Hawaiʻi willing to sell out their country to make tons of money; and America’s craving to extend its imperialist tentacles into the Pacific. As we know, the combination was toxic then, but even more toxic now, with the extreme stakes of world dominance involved and extreme weapons of annihilation to brandish at each other.

The good news is, this confirms that the only way to protect our beloved Hawaiʻi is to completely restore Hawaii as an independent, neutral country. It is only as an independent country that we can order the removal of the U.S., its criminal enterprise, its military bases and its weapons of war from our islands. It is only as an independent country that we can decide for ourselves what is best for our nation and our people and build a peaceful, sustainable, thriving and happy nation.

As unbelievable as it may seem, with the collapse of U.S. credibility, shifts in global influencers and priorities, growing public sentiment for matters of justice and increasing awareness of the “Hawaiʻi situation”, we are approaching critical mass to unlocking the door to restore Hawaiʻi as an independent country. Stay tuned! Eō!

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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/01/20/hawaii-news/hawaii-house-leaders-vow-to-clear-hawaiian-home-lands-backlog-raise-minimum-wage-and-decommission-red-hill/
Honolulu Star-Advertiser Thursday January 20, 2022 ** Excerpts related to racial entitlements

Hawaii House leaders vow to clear Hawaiian Home Lands backlog, raise minimum wage and decommission Red Hill

By Dan Nakaso

Leaders in the state House of Representatives set a high bar Wednesday on the Opening Day of the new legislative session by proposing $600 million to help clear the backlog of Native Hawaiians waiting to get into livable homes, raising Hawaii’s $10.10 an hour minimum wage and demanding the Department of Defense remove its fuel and tanks at Red Hill and decommission the system.

The marker laid down by state House Speaker Scott Saiki was met with applause, especially with the pledge to provide the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands with a one-time infusion of $600 million.

State Rep. Gene Ward (R, Hawaii Kai-Kalama Valley), an advocate for helping Native Hawaiians — especially to get them housed on their ancestral lands — then rose on the House floor and expressed his gratitude to Saiki. Ward said he would “mark this day as a historical day for the people of Hawaii” — 100 years after the Hawaiian Homes Commission was founded. Ward called the Opening Day of the new legislative session for the House “a new day for the people of Hawaii, particularly the Hawaiian community that’s on the wait list that is now 28,000 people strong. Thank you for what you’re doing …. Thank you speaker, mahalo, mahalo. This is a day that’s going to go down in history.”

Saiki called it a “historic piece of legislation.”

With tourism arrivals rebounding faster than expected — along with tax revenues — House Finance Chairwoman Sylvia Luke (D, Punchbowl-Pauoa-Nuuanu) told reporters “there is an opportunity for us to do great things this year and we shouldn’t miss that opportunity.”

In addition, Saiki addressed other Native Hawaiian cultural issues and said, “The House will expand community-based efforts to restore fish ponds and loi; repatriate cultural artifacts; teach financial literacy; and provide cultural training to the military.”

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** Ken Conklin's online comment:
$600 Million for houses for the 28,000 families on the DHHL waitlist. Hmm ... Checking my math. That's $21,429 per house. In Hawaii realestate market that might be enough for a 2-hole outhouse like my grandparents had in rural Michigan. But will the money simply be handed over to the waitlisters? Of course not. It must be filtered through a huge bureaucracy and given to construction contractors to build roads and water lines on the racially segregated ghettos where houses can only be "owned" in leasehold.
Here's a better idea. According to OHA's latest annual report, on June 30, 2021 OHA had assets of $764,820,000. So let OHA pay the $600 Million, and they'll still have $165 Million to play with. Then the $600 Million which the legislature wants to squander on DHHL can be used to provide tax reductions for our hard-pressed taxpayers, or books and toiletpaper for our schools.

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https://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/clerk-enters-default-for-state-of-hawaii-officials-in-hawaiian-kingdom-v-biden-and-u-s-files-response-to-judicial-notice-of-civil-law/
Hawaiian Kingdom blog [Keanu Sai] Posted on January 20, 2022

Clerk Enters Default for State of Hawai‘i Officials in Hawaiian Kingdom v. Biden and U.S. Files Response to Judicial Notice of Civil Law

Yesterday, the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Hawai‘i entered default for the State of Hawai‘i, Governor David Ige, Securities Commissioner Ty Nohara, and Director of the Department of Taxation Isaac Choy, in federal lawsuit Hawaiian Kingdom v. Biden.

In talks with Hawaiian Kingdom Attorney General Dexter Ka‘iama, the State of Hawai‘i Attorney General’s office requested an extension of time to file a response to the Amended Complaint that was filed on August 11, 2021. It was mutually agreed that the filing of a response was due no later than January 10, 2022.

The entry of default against the State of Hawai‘i and its officials prevents them from participating in the proceedings, and, more importantly, an entry of default is an acceptance of the allegations made against them by the Hawaiian Kingdom to be true. The next step is for the Hawaiian Kingdom to file a motion with the Court for default judgment so that it can grant the relief as stated in the Amended Complaint.

Before the Hawaiian Kingdom can file a motion for default judgment, the Court needs to first transform itself into an Article II Occupation Court so that it has jurisdiction over the case.

The Hawaiian Kingdom’s Motion for Judicial Notice of Civil Law on Juridical Fact of the Hawaiian State and the Consequential Juridical Act by the Permanent Court of Arbitration is critical for the Court to transform itself into an Article II Occupation Court, similar to Federal Article II Courts that were established in occupied Germany from 1945-1955.

The Hawaiian Kingdom did not file a Motion for Judicial Notice but rather a Request for Judicial Notice of the Civil Law. It was the Court that transformed the Request into a Motion and gave a timeline for the United States to respond and the Hawaiian Kingdom to reply to that response. A Request for Judicial Notice is considered by the Court alone. The United States filed their response on January 14, 2022, and the Hawaiian Kingdom is preparing to file their reply on January 28.

Instead of refuting the information provided in the Motion for Judicial Notice, the United States argues that it is the legitimate sovereign over the Hawaiian Islands because the “United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, and Hawaii entered the union as a state in 1959.” From this position it then argues that this “Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the courts of the state of Hawaii have repeatedly ‘rejected arguments asserting Hawaiian sovereignty’ distinct from its identity as a part of the United States.”

The Hawaiian Kingdom views the actions taken by the Court regarding the Motion for Judicial Notice as a matter of due diligence on the part of the Court, and, therefore, will be responding to the United States arguments and show why it is without merit.

The legal status of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent State predates, not postdates, 1898. The United States fails to address in its filing that President John Tyler on July 6, 1844, explicitly recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent State by letter from Secretary of State John C. Calhoun to the Hawaiian Commission. This was confirmed by the arbitral tribunal in Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom: “In the nineteenth century the Hawaiian Kingdom existed as an independent State recognized as such by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and various other States, including by exchanges of diplomatic or consular representatives and the conclusion of treaties.”

On January 17, 1893, by an act of war, the United States unlawfully overthrew the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom. President Grover Cleveland entered into an executive agreement with Queen Lili‘uokalani on December 18, 1893, in attempt to restore the government but was politically prevented from doing so by members of Congress. The failure to restore the government, however, did not affect the legal status of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign and independent State under international law.

In Texas v. White, the Supreme Court stated that a “‘state,’ in the ordinary sense of the Constitution, is a political community of free citizens, occupying a territory of defined boundaries, and organized under a government sanctioned and limited by a written constitution, and established by the consent of the governed.” The Supreme Court further stated that a “plain distinction is made [in the U.S. Constitution] between a State and the government of a State.”

Therefore, when the rebels seized control of the Texas government and joined the Confederacy in the Civil War it did not affect or change the State of Texas under the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court’s position is consistent with international law where the “state must be distinguished from the government. The state, not the government, is the major player, the legal person, in international law.”

According to Judge Crawford, “Pending a final settlement of the conflict, belligerent occupation does not affect the continuity of the State. The governmental authorities may be driven into exile or silenced, and the exercise of the powers of the State thereby affected. But it is settled that the powers themselves continue to exist. This is strictly not an application of the ‘actual independence’ rule but an exception to it…pending a settlement of the conflict by a peace treaty or its equivalent.” There is no peace treaty or its equivalent between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the United States.

In its reply, the Hawaiian Kingdom will expound on the legal presumption of continuity of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State under international law, why the United States cannot invoke its internal law as a justification for not complying with international obligations, and distinguishing the institutional jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from the subject matter jurisdiction of the Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom arbitration tribunal, when it acknowledged the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a juridical fact.

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https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2022/01/21/hawaii-news/maunakea-plan-approved-uh-regents-vote-7-1-document-limits-the-number-of-summit-telescopes-to-nine-by-2033/
Hawaii Tribune-Herald Friday January 21, 2022
Maunakea plan approved: UH regents vote 7-1; document limits the number of summit telescopes to nine by 2033
and
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2022/01/21/hawaii-news/maunakea-plan-approved/
West Hawaii Today Friday January 21, 2022
Maunakea plan approved

By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY Hawaii Tribune-Herald

The University of Hawaii Board of Regents on Thursday approved a new Maunakea Master Plan despite opposition from some community members.

The plan — titled “E O I Ka Leo (Listen to the Voices)” — replaces the previous draft that was approved in 2000 and attempts to reduce UH’s footprint on the mountain and address concerns that the university has not sufficiently engaged Native Hawaiians in land management decisions.

Greg Chun, executive director for UH’s Center for Maunakea Stewardship, said during the meeting that the new plan sets a commitment to have no more than nine astronomical facilities on the summit lands by 2033, a promise that the previous plan did not make. One of those facilities may or may not be the Thirty Meter Telescope, Chun said, as the new plan does not require that the controversial observatory be built. That year also is the same year that UH’s lease of the summit lands from the state is set to expire. Chun said that having an up-to-date management plan is required for UH to receive a lease extension beyond 2033.

“This plan is based on the idea of ‘let’s make better use, and smarter use, of what we have,’” Chun said. Chun said the new plan was formulated based on community input, extensive meetings with Native Hawaiian and other community members, and the results of a 2020 Department of Land and Natural Resources study assessing UH’s stewardship of the mountain.

But despite this, public testimony at Thursday’s meeting was largely negative. Dozens of testifiers commented via livestream, nearly all of which denounced the plan and urged the board to reject it, and for UH to relinquish management of the mauna. “Do you own your home?” asked testifier Tara Rojas. “If you rented out your home, would you let your tenant do whatever they wanted with it for 50 years?”

Fellow testifier Bianca Isaki said the legitimate concerns of community members are instead being used as statistics to validate decisions that they oppose. She and several other testifiers pointed out the irony of the plan being titled “Listen to the Voice” when they have been repeatedly demanding that the university cease development on the mountain for decades.

Others pointed to the Red Hill water contamination problem as a warning for how development will damage Hawaii’s environment. “Aloha ‘aina will defeat the (Institute for Astronomy), aloha ‘aina will defeat UH, aloha ‘aina will defeat Manifest Destiny!” said testifier Kaleikoa Kaeo.

One of the few positive verbal comments at Thursday’s meeting was from John O’Meara, chief scientist for the W. M. Keck Observatory, speaking for all of the Maunakea Observatories. But even he, although broadly supportive of the plan, said the observatories wanted more details in the plan about opportunities to form partnerships with indigenous communities.

Meanwhile, nearly 300 pages of written testimony were submitted to the meeting, about 100 of which were an in-depth document by Big Island resident E. Kalani Flores commenting about the management failures of the university. “Why should members of the public including Kanaka Maoli engage in this process when input and comments are systematically dismissed and ignored?” stated Flores’ letter, a sentiment echoed by many testifiers.

The written testimony was more balanced, with several letters expressing support for UH’s continued management of the mountain and the eventual construction of the TMT.

Most of the regents acknowledged the criticism. Board Vice Chair Alapaki Nahale-a, said he has, as a Native Hawaiian, experienced the same hurt and frustration that the testifiers expressed. “I view Maunakea as my ‘ohana,” Nahale-a said. “Home, to me, is when I can see Maunakea. So I care how she is treated.” Nahale-a said that, if and when a better option for management of the mountain presents itself, he will “be the first person to say UH should step aside.” But until then, he said, it is still UH’s duty to manage the mauna as best it can.

Kauai regent Robert Westerman said that the plan is still not perfect and will not satisfy everyone, but it can be improved with community input. “To do nothing is worse than not having a plan that’s perfect,” Westerman said.

UH-Hilo Chancellor Bonnie Irwin said that the eventual update of the university’s Comprehensive Management Plan, scheduled for this year, will include more language to hold UH accountable.

Ultimately, the board voted 7-1, with three members excused, to adopt the plan. The sole negative vote came from Oahu regent Diane Paloma, who said she believed the plan needed further opportunities for discussion.

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** Ken Conklin's online comment:
My written testimony regarding the Mauna Kea master plan is the most recent new item on my website; Google the following phrase
Hawaiian thinking carefully 439

Here are four fundamental principles of civil rights in Hawaii, each stated in a single sentence. The draft proposal of the Mauna Kea Master Plan openly and shamefully violates the first two principles, and was created by a racially and politically stacked Working Group most of whose members oppose the third and fourth principles. These principles are easy to agree upon but sometimes difficult to implement when special-interest groups demand special privileges not granted to others.

1. Equality before God: All humans are equal in the eyes of God regardless of race.

2. Equality under the law: Government should treat all people equally under the law regardless of race.

3. Unity with America: Hawaii is the 50th State of the USA, whose laws rightfully have jurisdiction here.

4. Unity of Hawaii: The people and lands of Hawaii should remain unified under the single sovereignty of the State of Hawaii, not divided along racial lines.

Using religion or race as a basis to demand political power in Hawaii is just as unacceptable as jihad in the Middle East, fascism in Europe, or white nationalism in South Carolina. Equal treatment under the law means there should be no special rights or government entitlement programs for one race preferentially or exclusively.

Objections to telescopes on Mauna Kea based on culture or religion are unacceptable both legally and morally. Mauna Kea is indeed a sacred place -- not only for Native Hawaiians, not only for all the people of Hawaii, but for the entire human race. It will help us explore and understand our origins and the beauty of the cosmos. It will bring us knowledge to guide our descendants as they navigate among the stars, just as ancient Hawaiians used the stars to navigate across the ocean.

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https://www.pbshawaii.org/should-mckinley-high-school-change-its-name/

INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAIʻI

Should McKinley High School Change Its Name?

There is a renewed effort to change the name of McKinley High School on Oʻahu and remove the statue of its namesake, President William McKinley, for his role in the illegal annexation of Hawaiʻi by the United States. Supporters of the campaign want the school to revert to its original name, Honolulu High School. Opponents say changing the school’s name would be a slight to its alumni.

Air Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2022 7:30 PM

Tonight’s panelists include: Amy Perruso, Hawaiʻi State Representative; Ron Okamura, Principal McKinley High School; Kainoa Azama, Chair Honolulu Youth Commission; and Chance Naʻauao-Ota, McKinley High School Alumnus.

Join the discussion on INSIGHTS – Should McKinley High School Change its Name? You can email a question in advance or during the program at insights@pbshawaii.org. During the broadcast, individuals may join in on the live discussion by phone on Oʻahu at 808-462-5000 and from the Neighbor Islands at 1-800-238-4847; or by leaving us a question or comment on our livestream at PBS Hawaiʻi’s Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pbshawaii

** Embedded video runs one hour; also available on Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/pbshawaii/videos/347994090310766

** See Conklin webpage from Thanksgiving 2020 "McKinley High School in Honolulu, regarding school name and statue -- Open letter to students, alumni, teachers, administrators, staff, community, and Board of Education explaining why the school's name and statue deserve to remain in place, and why a Hawaiian secessionist demand to remove them should be strongly rejected." Includes major addendum on March 20, 2021 about a hearing in the Hawaii House of Representatives Committee on Education regarding a resolution urging the Department of Education to remove the name and statue of President McKinley from the high school. Text of the resolution is provided, along with files containing all the written testimony, video of the hearing, news reports, and full text of Ken Conklin's oral and written testimony.
https://www.angelfire.com/big11a/McKinleyHSNameStatue.html

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Free Hawaii blog SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2022

Have you noticed?

With disasters like Red Hill; un-bridled tourism; relentlessly rising housing costs; increased homelessness; record numbers fleeing Hawaii as economic refugees; covid deaths and draconian lock-downs; and so forth … the notion of a Free Hawaii is becoming mainstream. More and more people are beginning to realize that the current US-run State of Hawaii is harming, not serving and protecting the people of Hawaii.

It used to be mainly Kanaka Maoli who felt the brunt of the oppressive policies of the U.S. But now, everyone is learning what it’s like to be treated as expendable pawns in our own land.

The outrageousness of the Red Hill disaster has even the State of Hawaii and its congressional delegation demanding the storage facility be shut down and removed. (Hmmm... sounds like us 40 years ago demanding the US Navy stop bombing Kahoʻolawe!) Then, the state being told by the Pentagon to ‘go pound sand’ was a huge slap in the face! Now, maybe they’ll wake up and see that it’s not just Red Hill… Like it or not, under the present, “strange form of occupation”, America’s interests, not Hawaii’s interests, are paramount. They have their priorities, and our safety and well-being are obviously not at the top of their list.

Trip to New York

I was in New York the last week of January, renewing friendships with diplomats assigned to the UN and with others connected to the UN. It has been nearly two years since I had to evacuate from Geneva, then two days later, from New York because of the covid lockdowns. It was a challenge the past two years to maintain interaction by remote… For diplomatic matters, there's simply no substitute for meeting face to face... However, we managed to keep communication lines open, so that even with some shifts in diplomatic personnel over the past two years, we are able to pick up from where we left off...

Of course, we have not been dormant on the international scene. In fact, appearing by remote on webinars, pod-casts, virtual panels and press conferences, we were able to actually broaden our reach and increase exposure of our situation.

Our efforts and of those on the ground in Geneva (Alaskan Ambassador Ronald Barnes and Dr. Alfred de Zayas) spurred the adoption of Resolution 48/7 by the UN Human Rights Council last October. Resolution 48/7 urges concerted international action to end colonialism. Besides those places seeking decolonization, this measure will bolster our efforts for the UN General Assembly to rescind their 1959 endorsement of Hawaii as a State of the United States. Without this UN endorsement, the United States’ fraud is exposed and its claim to Hawaii collapses.

With Aloha ʻĀina and Kapu Aloha, the campaign to Free Hawaii continues to gain momentum and gather strength.

PLEASE KŌKUA
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• Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at:
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** SUMMARY AND SIGNIFICANCE: Several programs benefitting all Indian tribes have had multi-year delays to be reauthorized because Democrats demand Native Hawaiians continue to be included while Republicans refuse to include them. [This could be seen as a proxy battle over the possibility of reviving direct legislation to give federal recognition to a Hawaiian tribe, similar to the Akaka bill 13 year battle from 2000 to 2012.]

https://www.indianz.com/News/2022/02/16/im-not-gonna-give-up-on-any-natives-key-lawmakers-urge-unity-on-indian-country-priorities/

Indianz.com online newspaper February 16, 2022

“I’m not gonna give up on any Natives”
Key lawmakers urge unity on Indian Country priorities

By Acee Agoyo, Indianz.Com

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Key members of Congress are urging Indian Country to stay united as they look to break through a long-standing and controversial impasse on Capitol Hill.

During a meeting of the National Congress of American Indians on Monday, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) discussed efforts to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act. The law, commonly known as NAHASDA, expired in 2013 and Congress has yet to reauthorize it.

In their Congressional Fireside Chat, Young and Moore explained one of the reasons for the near decade-long holdup. They said some lawmakers are trying to exclude Native Hawaiians from NAHASDA. “They wanted me to give up on the Hawaiian Natives,” Young said in reference to those lawmakers’ efforts. Young said he has refused to go along with the effort to remove Native Hawaiians from NAHASDA, which helps Native communities exercise their self-determination when it comes to housing funds. “I’m not gonna give up on any Natives,” he said, warning that it could lead to further efforts to diminish the trust and treaty responsibilities of the U.S. government. “Once you throw one group under the bus, they’ll throw another group under the bus,” Young added.

Indianz.Com Video: Protecting Tribal Lands and Supporting Tribal Economies #NCAIECWS2022 Moore, who also has been working to reauthorize NAHASDA, offered additional context to the long-running debate. She said Republicans are behind the attempts to exclude Native Hawaiians from updates to the law.

“We are not separating Native peoples and allowing other people to define who’s Native and who’s not,” said Moore, who credited Young with fending off the Republican effort. “I think that’s the importance of bipartisanship,” Moore added. Though the pair did not name any names on Monday, Moore in the past has singled out one Republican for holding up NAHASDA. And so has NCAI, which is the largest inter-tribal advocacy organization in the United States.

According to Moore, NCAI and other Indian policy experts in the nation’s capital, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has been trying to exclude Native Hawaiians from NAHSDA. His effort goes as far back as 2016, based on publicly available documents that chronicle the behind-the-scenes drama

The Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker law and lobbying firm, which has been working for Indian Country clients for decades, previously said Lee was holding up NAHASDA “based on the Senator’s belief that the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant is unconstitutional.” But Lee isn’t alone, as Republicans in the House also have been trying to remove Native Hawaiians from NAHASDA. In 2014, for example, a group of Democratic lawmakers objected to a GOP-led version of the bill that left out indigenous people in the 50th state.

During NCAI’s winter meeting, which took place virtually due to COVID-19, Young noted that the House, in the past, has passed bills to reauthorize NAHASDA. He traces the delay to the U.S. Senate, which was under GOP control during the 114th, 115th and 116th sessions of Congress — or for six years of the debacle. “That’s been held up in the Senate,” Young, who is the longest serving member in his chamber, said of NAHASDA. “We’re working to try to get it done again. It’s the right thing to do. It works well.”

In a new era in D.C., where Democrats control the legislative and executive bipartisan group in the Senate is hoping to end the impasse. Their version of NAHASDA maintains the Native Hawaiian program that has been at the center of controversy for nearly a decade. “Since it was first signed into law in 1996, NAHASDA has provided billions in federal dollars to tribes and Native communities in Hawai‘i and across the country,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. “Our bill continues this bipartisan tradition and extends NAHASDA for another decade, giving Native communities the resources they need to help more Native families find safe, affordable housing.”

“The United States must live up to its trust and treaty responsibilities to tribal communities when it comes to housing,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the vice chair of the committee. “Our NAHASDA legislation reauthorizes and enacts much needed reforms to streamline housing and related infrastructure projects in Native communities.” “As our country moves forward from the COVID-19 pandemic, we must ensure that Native communities, including tribes in Alaska, are part of the recovery and passage of this bipartisan legislation will ensure that.” Murkowski added.

After introducing the bill last summer, Schatz and Murkowski, who provided pre-recorded video updates to NCAI on Monday, are taking action to further their work on NAHASDA. Their committee is due to advance S.2264 at a business meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

William J. Ailā Jr., the chair of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, thanked the lawmakers for keeping the Native Hawaiian program in their bill. He also said American Indians and Alaska Natives rallied to the cause. “I would like to acknowledge Senator Schatz, Hawaii’s congressional delegation, and Senator Murkowski for their diligent efforts to bring this legislation forward and we send aloha to our American Indian and Alaska Native cousins for their continued support of Title VIII,” Aila said in reference to the section of NAHASDA that includes Native Hawaiians. “The proposed improvements to the program will provide much needed stability and assist DHHL with the creation of more housing units and additional housing services,” Aila said of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the state agency where the housing agency is based.

Through their work in the Senate, Schatz and Murkowski have already seen success in breaking through another legislative impasse of importance to Indian Country. Last week, they announced a bipartisan version of a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. As with NAHASDA, Congress has failed to update VAWA since 2013. And as the 117th session of Congress is in its second and final year, Schatz and Murkowski have stressed their cooperative efforts to advance Indian Country’s agenda. “Your leadership of the committee has done so much to provide opportunities to our tribal nations as well as safety during a time this time and throughout our careers,” President Shannon Holsey of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, who serves as NCAI’s Treasurer, said of Schatz and Murkowski.

As for the executive branch, the Biden administration is supporting efforts to reauthorize NAHASDA. Secretary Marcia Fudge, who leads the Department of Housing and Urban Development, has been stressing the importance of Indian housing programs since coming on board over a year ago. “Through #NAHASDA, Tribal communities have received the resources necessary to develop affordable housing and invest in infrastructure that meets each community’s unique needs,” Fudge said in a post on social media last October on the 25th anniversary of NAHASDA.

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs business meeting to consider S.2264, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act, is scheduled to start at 2:30pm Eastern on Wednesday. The meeting will be immediately followed by a legislative hearing on four Indian Country bills.

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Free Hawaii blog SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Time to Free Hawaiʻi

Watching the insane invasion of Ukraine I cannot help but think about the United States’ unprovoked invasion of our country in 1893. Thanks to the wisdom and courage of Queen Liliuokalani, Hawaiʻi did not turn into a bloody battleground, but the American pirate enterprise that resulted has inflicted untold pain, suffering and deep loss to the Hawaiian nation for the past 129 years.

Today, most of the world is denouncing Russia’s violent attack against Ukraine; and rightly so. The defiant kū’e of Ukranian aloha ʻāina is truly inspiring. But back in 1893, despite our treaties of friendship and trade with the major powers of the world, not a single country rose to object to the United States’ aggression against Hawaiʻi or the 1898 “annexation”. That’s because many of those countries themselves were engaged in overseas conquest, subjugation and empire building.

The Russian attack on Ukraine could easily flash into a wider European conflict. It could also embolden China to attack Taiwan. If that happens, we in Hawaiʻi will be in extreme danger. U.S. military bases and assets in Hawaiʻi (particularly on Oahu) makes Hawaiʻi the most important strategic target for China (or Russia) to take out. And the attack on Hawaiʻi will not be by ‘conventional weapons’ as we have seen used ever since World War II. It would be thermo nuclear warheads, each one many times more powerful than Hiroshima, carried by unstoppable intercontinental, submarine launched or hypersonic missiles. It will be over in minutes and very few, if any of us, will survive.

The harm the U.S. military poses for Hawaiʻi far outweighs any ‘protection’ it offers. The continuing military build-up, the fuel contamination from Red Hill, the false alert of an incoming missile, the expansion of arms storage in Hawaii, make it abundantly clear that there are no measures in place to safeguard the people of Hawaiʻi.

We can no longer allow the U.S. to use Hawiʻi for it’s own selfish interests. The only way to protect ourselves and our future is to Free Hawaiʻi from the U.S. occupation, restore our independent, peaceful, neutral country and demilitarize our islands.

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Free Hawaii blog Saturday March 12, 2022

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - MARCH 2022

The tide is turning

Big Victory at Red Hill
Good News! The US Navy apparently de-contaminated the fuel-tainted water from its wells… enough to start moving personnel and families back to their on-base housing in areas surrounding Pearl Harbor (Puʻuloa). Then, the US Pentagon announced that they will empty and decommission the 80-year-old, decaying and leaking 200 million-gallon fuel storage tanks. And Hawaii’s congressional delegation announced $250 million earmarked for the clean-up. It’s up to us to make sure the job is done thoroughly and that contamination and threats in other areas are also neutralized.

$600m for Hawaiian Homes
Good News! The state Legislature is on the verge of appropriating $600 million for construction of homes on Hawaiian Homes lands. That, along with the regular appropriation of about $75 million would help make a dent in the years of neglect and malfeasance that has 28,000 applicants still on the waiting list of the 100 year-old program.

Reso for McKinley Name-Change
Good News! The resolution to change the name of McKinley High School was introduced to the State Legislature by Rep. Jeanne Kapela. House Resolution 24 (HR24) will soon make its way through a series of legislative hearings.

House Resolution 24 is titled: URGING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CHANGE THE NAME OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL BACK TO HONOLULU HIGH SCHOOL AND REMOVE THE STATUE OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY FROM THE SCHOOL PREMISES.

You can view the text of HR24 here:
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2022/bills/HR24_.htm

As you can see, it is very well written. With vigorous lobbying and strong public support, it should pass. But we can’t take it for granted. We need your help to:
tell your legislators to support this measure;
get your friends to do likewise, and sign the online petition (see link below)
submit testimonies supporting HR24 at the committee hearings.
We’ll keep you posted on hearing dates.

This resolution prompts the DOE Superintendent to recommend to the Board of Education (BOE) the McKinley name-change and statue removal. At that point, we expect the BOE (which has the final say in the matter) will approve the actions.

PLEASE KŌKUA
Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort
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• Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net
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All proceeds are used to help the cause. MAHALO!

Malama Pono, Leon Siu, Hawaiian National

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** Note by Ken Conklin:
The outrageously anti-American text of HR24 is available at
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HR&billnumber=24&year=2022
In 2021 the same House committee on education heard the same reso, then named HR148. It was so controversial there were 211 pages of testimony, mostly in opposition, including my own 10-page testimony at the top. The reso was reluctantly deferred [killed] because the committee members, nearly all of whom probably supported it, couldn't stand the heat. The file containing all 211 pages is at
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/Session2021/Testimony/HR148_TESTIMONY_EDN_03-18-21_.PDF
2022 is the second year of the 2-year-long legislature, so the committee members remain the same. Bills not passed in their first year carry over to the second year; but resolutions do not carry over and must start over again, with a new number, if re-intriduced.

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Free Hawaii Blog Saturday March 26, 2022

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - MARCH 2022

Reso for McKinley Name-Change... Blocked!

Disappointing news. Even though there were many powerful testimonies by people like the HSTA’s President and their legislative lobbyist (both McKinley faculty), the Chair of the Honolulu Youth Commission, organizations like the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and many individuals, who spoke eloquently in overwhelming support of HR 24 and HCR 26, the Education Committee did not pass the measure.

Rep. Jeanne Kapela, who sponsored the resolution really went to bat for us, but the other committee members, incredulously, refused to vote for this simple measure to urge the State Department of Education to consider changing the name of McKinley High School.

This means a group of aging, stuck-in-time, selfish McKinley alumni and principal are forcing future generations of students to be saddled with the stigma of the genocidal white supremacist, racist, imperialist William McKinley. It’s like… “Yeah, people say McKinley was a bad guy, but we don’t wanna change the name, so everyone will have to just live with it.”

Shame on the Education Committee members! All the resolution was asking them to do was urge the DOE to recommend the name change to the Board of Education. It wasn’t demanding or ordering the name change. The legislature passes resolutions like this all the time … some of which are accepted, rejected or even ignored… no big deal.

There must be a serious political reason lurking in the background to cause the legislators to back away from a no-brainer issue like this!

Could it be the powers that be actually know that if they support changing the name of McKinley, it wouldn’t stop there, and soon the entire Fake State of Hawaii would unravel? Hmmm maybe that’s it. Or are we giving them too much credit?

Anyway, the battle over McKinley is not pau. What would boost us over the top is an internal uprising, of current students and recent grads of MHS, demanding that the DOE not force any more students to be branded with such an offensive name. That would be a major step to a Free Hawaii.

Malama Pono,
Leon Siu
Hawaiian National

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** NOTE BY KEN CONKLIN:

Text of the resolution, history, committee hearings, pdf of all testimony submitted to each committee, YEAs and NAYs, committee reports:
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HR&billnumber=24&year=2022

The committee on EDN [i.e., the committee chairman] recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The recommendation was not adopted [i.e., the RESOLUTION WAS DEFEATED! THE VOTE WAS 7-4 AGAINST IT.]. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, Kapela, Belatti, Ganaden; Ayes with reservations: none; 7 Noes: Representative(s) Clark, Costales, Hashimoto, Quinlan, Takayama, Yamane, Okimoto; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Gates, Ohno.

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Free Hawaii blog, SATURDAY, APRIL 09, 2022

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - APRIL 2022

Recovering Our Mo`olelo

Earlier this week I was at a movie industry screening in Hollywood for a soon-to-be-released Hawaii film, The Wind and The Reckoning. I was asked to represent Hawaii in the pre-screening protocol (possibly a first for the Hollywood film industry). An association of native Americans in film were among the key sponsors for the screening. We were welcomed by the Tongva (the tribe that inhabited that whole area before the coming of the Spanish colonizers) and by a dozen other nations of Turtle Island. Our ʻoli of mahalo and aloha were chanted by na kumu hula Kealiʻi Ceballos and Lilinoe Kaio.

The Wind and the Reckoning tells the powerful, heart-wrenching story of Kaluaikoolau (Koʻolau), who in 1893, refused to be sent to the leper colony at Kalaupapa and, with his wife and son, escaped into the kuahiwi (mountains) of Kauai, resisting capture until the provisional government stopped pursuing him. He died a few years later in the mountais, in peace and dignity as a free kanaka. During those tumultuous years between the “overthrow” and the “annexation”, Koʻolau became a huge national hero and symbol of kūʻē and freedom for Hawaiians. Well into the 20th Century the bravery of Koʻolau and his ʻohana was celebrated in Hawaii and by people around the world.

But at the Q&A after the screening, those who participated in the making of the film, and audience members who grew up in Hawaii said they never knew the story of Koʻolau until this film. I was called upon to explain.

I shared with the audience that this ignorance of our heroes is not a mystery. It is evidence of the success of a protracted program to deliberately erase from Hawaiiʻs children, the memory of their nationality, culture, language and moʻolelo (stories). And the equal success in replacing them with an American identity, heroes, stories and culture. I said, not only had we lost our government and our lands, but the greatest tragedy is we were indoctrinated to forget our moʻolelo... our stories, and the heroic deeds of our kūpuna. I said that learning our history, reviving our language and culture, and regaining our stories like the Koʻolau rebellion, are serving to restore our national identity and feeding the momentum to free Hawaii.

Fifty years ago, we started to ask questions and protest the injustices; we began to dig into what happened; we began to revive our language and culture and celebrate the legacy of our great voyaging traditions and the genius of the loko iʻa (fishponds) and the loʻi (taro farms). We revived the knowledge of our chiefs, kings and queens, and national heroes like Opukahaʻia, Haʻalilio, Kamakau, Malo, Nawahī, Kaulia, and many, many more. Not to mention the 39,000 of our kūpuna who signed the Kūʻē Petition, contemporaries of Koʻolau standing with true aloha ʻāina.

Fortunately, we are steadily recovering our moʻolelo and finding this great legacy to stand on and move forward!

SIGN THIS PETITION
Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! He was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major hub of America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too!
TinyURL.com/AlohaOeMcKinley

Malama Pono, Leon Siu, Hawaiian National

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https://www.indianz.com/News/2022/04/11/tribal-consultation-bill-hits-snag-on-eve-of-historic-action-in-congress/
Indianz.com April 11, 2022

Tribal consultation bill hits snag on eve of ‘historic’ action in Congress

By Acee Agoyo

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Democratic-led bill to strengthen the policy of tribal consultation has hit a snag on Capitol Hill, leaving some supporters wondering about its future.

H.R.3587, the Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for Effective Consultation with Tribes Act, was supposed to be advanced by the House Committee on Natural Resources last week. But when the notice for the markup was released, the bill was noticeably absent from the schedule.

The absence was all the more glaring because Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Arizona), the chairman of the legislative committee with jurisdiction over Indian issues, had previously announced April 6 as the markup for the RESPECT Act. At a press conference at the U.S. Capitol a week prior, he highlighted the “historic step” being taken in the Democratic-controlled Congress.

“This is the first time in Congressional history that a bill — a specific bill requiring tribal consultation — will come before the full committee,” Grijalva said on March 28. “But I know this time is right,” Grijalva added. “Our country is finally starting to take meaningful steps in reckoning with its colonial past and its many crimes against Indian Country.”

Yet it appears the reckoning will have to wait. When asked to explain why the RESPECT Act disappeared from the schedule, Democratic staff on the committee pointed to a potentially divisive issue that could derail the bill’s chances in the 117th Congress.

“At the behest of the National Congress of American Indians, we are postponing the markup to discuss their concerns regarding the possibility of including Alaska Native Corporations and Native Hawaiians in the bill,” Democratic staff told Indianz.Com.

The National Congress of American Indians did not respond to a request for comment about the “concerns” attributed to the nation’s largest inter-tribal advocacy organization. But two Indian law and policy experts in Washington, D.C., confirmed the nature of the disagreement that could imperil the RESPECT Act.

According to the two experts, the concerns indeed center around the potential inclusion of Alaska Native corporations (ANCs) and Native Hawaiian organizations in the bill. Should the bill become law, federal agencies would be required to consult with these non-governmental entities in the same manner as Indian nations. “They put ANCs in there, on parity with tribal governments,” one Indian policy expert with close ties to Capitol Hill told Indianz.Com.

H.R.3587, as introduced by Grijalva on May 28, 2021, does not mention Alaska Native corporations or Native Hawaiian organizations. They weren’t discussed for possible inclusion at a hearing on the draft version of the RESPECT Act last year and they weren’t brought up at the more recent press conference either.

But the second Indian policy expert said Grijalva planned to unveil a new version of the RESPECT Act with Alaska Native corporations and Native Hawaiian organizations on the morning of the April 6 markup. This person credited NCAI for raising concerns on the eve of the session, even if it meant delaying consideration of the otherwise historic bill. “They are watching out for Indian Country,” the person said of NCAI, whose membership includes tribal governments from the state of Alaska.

With eight months left in the 117th Congress, time is quickly running out on Indian Country’s legislative agenda. The RESPECT Act is seen as one way to ensure that the U.S. government lives up to its trust and treaty responsibilities and upholds the nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. “Making the tribal consultation process a law is long overdue and it would be a step in the right direction to ensure tribal nations’ sovereignty is protected and our voice is at the table,” Chairwoman Amber Torres of the Walker River Paiute Tribe said at the press conference on March 28.

A number of federal agency consultation policies include Alaska Native corporations, which were created following passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. But tribal leaders frequently point out that these for-profit entities are not the same as tribal governments. Alaska, in fact, is home to 229 federally recognized tribes.

The distinction erupted into a major law and policy showdown during the final year of the Donald Trump administration. Almost every single tribal organization, representing nearly every single tribe in the continental U.S. and Alaska, objected to the inclusion of Alaska Native corporations in an $8 billion COVID-19 relief fund.

Tribal nations, though, found themselves on the losing end of this particular dispute even after Democratic President Joe Biden came into office. In June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the definition of “Indian tribe” utilized by Congress includes Alaska Native corporations. The Department of the Treasury subsequently distributed about $500 million in leftover COVID-19 relief funds to these for-profit entities.

A subsequent law, known as the American Rescue Plan Act, set aside another $20 billion in COVID-19 relief for tribal governments. Only this time, the definition used by Congress was tied to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act, meaning that only federally recognized Indian nations qualified for the funds.

Notably, the original version of the RESPECT Act is also tied to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act, which became law in 1994. The statute requires the Bureau of Indian Affairs to publish a list of every federally recognized tribe “annually on or before every January 30.” The list, which was most recently published in the Federal Register on January 28, does not include Alaska Native corporations.

Native Hawaiian organizations aren’t listed, either. Attempts to extend the policy of self-determination to the original sovereign government of Hawaii have repeatedly faltered in Congress.

Legal and policy disagreements aside, an entirely different development on Capitol Hill is influencing a renewed sense of bipartisanship when it comes to Indian Country’s legislative agenda. The recent passing of Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) is leading lawmakers of both parties to find ways to pay tribute to his legacy, which included strong support for Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Before his passing at the age of 88, Young had not signed on as a co-sponsor of the RESPECT Act in the 117th Congress. He had not co-sponsored prior versions of the bill that had been introduced by Grijalva as far back as 2010 either.

But one Indian law and policy expert said Young — who was known as the Dean of the U.S. House of Representatives for being the longest serving member in the chamber — had been approached about signing onto H.R.3587. According to this person, no decision had been made before his untimely passing on March 18. His final appearance before the House Committee on Natural Resources, of which previously served as chair, was just the day prior to his death.

“The history of Alaska and Hawaii go back a long way actually, to pre-statehood,” Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawaii) said at what would have been the markup for the RESPECT Act on April 6.

Instead, the session turned into a lengthy tribute to Young, whose achievements had been celebrated by the U.S. Congress a week prior. Lawmakers, Democratic and Republican alike, shared stories of the many ways in which they collaborated with the former Congressman from Alaska on a wide range of issues, especially ones affecting Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians in the last two states that joined the union. “Don embraced that when he got here — only 14 years after statehood,” Case said in describing the “special relationship” between the 49th and 50th states. “He was always a friend of Hawaii.”

With the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs being led by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the unique partnership endures when it comes to Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. But supporters of the RESPECT Act told Indianz.Com that they aren’t sure there’s enough time — or energy — to hash out any potential concerns about the inclusion of Alaska Native corporations and Native Hawaiian organizations into the bill. “Not certain why they put ANCs in there to begin with,” one person said. “NCAI is going to have to settle this,” the person added, expressing fears of what might happen to other pro-tribal legislation if the issue lingers on Capitol Hill.

The RESPECT Act, in its original form, is otherwise supported by tribes and tribal organizations across the country. “We did not sign a treaty giving away our land for nothing,” said Matthew Fletcher, the director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law. “We signed treaties that ensured a continuing government-to-government relationship on an equal basis with the United States.” “So, I strongly support – and so does history and the law — the enactment of the RESPECT Act,” Fletcher, a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, said at the press conference on March 28.

Even non-Indian organizations, many of them with legislative agendas that line up with Democratic priorities, are supporting the bill. A letter released by the House Committee on Natural Resources was signed by 19 conservation, environmental and public lands groups, including the Alaska Wilderness League.

“H.R.3587 will rightfully guarantee that federal agencies properly consult Indian tribes in policymaking by adding important standards and requirements for government-to-government consultation, including when to initiate consultation and how to carry out consultation,” the March 29 letter reads.

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https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/04/fbi-arrests-miske-witness-after-waianae-harbor-confrontation/
Honolulu Civil Beat Wednesday April 20, 2022

FBI Arrests Miske Witness After Waianae Harbor Confrontation
Lindsey Kinney faces a federal charge of interstate transmission of threats.

By Ian Lind

A confrontation early this year at Waianae Small Boat Harbor between state officers and the leader of a Hawaiian sovereignty group triggered a series of events leading to the arrest last week of a Windward Oahu man for allegedly threatening to behead three people, including the Waianae harbor master.

Lindsey Kinney, 43, was detained last week by the FBI and faces a federal charge of interstate transmission of threats via the social media platforms Instagram and Facebook. The charge, found in 18 US Code 875(c), carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

An affidavit by FBI Special Agent Wyatt Tacket, submitted in support of the criminal complaint, alleges Kinney posted threats to his Instagram page, saying he would cut off the heads of three people. The names of those targeted by these threats were not disclosed in the affidavit or the criminal complaint, but “Victim 1” was identified as the Waianae harbor master, “Victim 2” as his wife, and “Victim 3” as “a close friend” of the couple.

The Harbor Incident

Waianae harbor master Joseph Simpliciano, reached by telephone at the harbor office on Monday, acknowledged his involvement in the incident but declined further comment, saying he was unaware of Kinney’s arrest or the charges against him.

During a Thursday morning hearing, Magistrate Judge Rom Trader granted a motion filed by prosecutors, and ordered that Kinney be held at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu without bail until trial.

Kinney’s threats were part of long rants posted to Instagram and Facebook on Jan. 17, less than two weeks after Simpliciano, accompanied by armed Department of Land and Natural Resources enforcement officers, attempted to serve a written warning on the owner of a small sailboat, demanding it leave the harbor or be cited.

The boat owner, identified as Sam Lilikoi, was told to leave because he allegedly had already racked up about $30,000 in unpaid fees owed the state due to unauthorized mooring in various small boat harbors, as well as “disposal and demolition fees” for a sailboat he had owned that was previously impounded by DLNR’s Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation.

According to Tacket’s affidavit, Lilikoi is the leader of a “paramilitary group” whose members, “identify themselves by military titles/ranks, describe their efforts as ‘operations,’ don military uniforms, (and) carry illegitimate military documents.”

On social media, Lilikoi claims the rank of colonel, and touts his current status as “commander” of Occupied Forces Hawaii Army, a small group that says it doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the state or federal governments.

On its website, the group claims to be made up of “lawful military combatants” representing the “Country of Hawaii” which it believes has been occupied under martial law since the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown in 1893.

Threatening Posts

Lindsey Kinney “characterizes himself” as a member of the group, according to the affidavit.

As DLNR agents approached the small sailboat, which Lilikoi refers to as the Occupied Forces’ “warship,” he shouted for them to stay away, calling them “traitors” and their actions illegal, while livestreaming the scene, according to the affidavit.

Soon after the Waianae incident, Lilikoi posted a video to his Facebook page asking his followers to identify the names and residences of the state employees, including Simpliciano, who appeared in the livestream video.

Kinney responded on Jan. 17 via his @can’t.stop.cowboy Instagram account by posting the social media profile photos of Simpliciano, his wife, and their friend, next to the beheading threats. The threatening posts jumble together religious and violent imagery, conspiracy theories, Freemason references, anti-government statements and repeated mentions of beheading. In a subsequent video, Kinney echoed a Q-anon-like conspiracy theory, accusing the Department of Land and Natural Resources of being “part of a human trafficking ring,” and stating his intent to overthrow Hawaii’s government. “After I take there (sic) heads I will be king,” Kinney wrote.

Simpliciano, who spent 17 years in the Army, told FBI agents that he and his wife took the threats very seriously. “They were at their highest threat level, locked their outdoor gates, kept loaded firearms ready and staged at the front door, and rehearsed security procedures with their children due to the threats and Kinney’s association with Michael Miske,” the FBI affidavit said.

The Miske Connection

Lindsey Kinney made headlines in July 2020 when he told Hawaii News Now he had turned down an offer of $50,000 from Honolulu business owner and alleged racketeering boss Michael J. Miske, Jr., to kill Jonathan Fraser, who had survived a 2015 automobile crash that took the life of Miske’s son and only child, Caleb.

Later, Kinney said, he also turned down another cash offer to remain silent about Miske’s attempt to hire someone to carry out the murder. Miske, who was arrested along with 10 co-defendants in mid-2020, has been charged with four counts of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy for allegedly directing and financing the murder-for-hire scheme resulting in Fraser’s death.

Almost a year after Fraser disappeared, Kinney was drawn into an ambush at Kualoa Ranch, during the filming of “Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom,” where Kinney was working as a stagehand. Miske and several associates confronted Kinney, and several shots were fired at Kinney as he ran from the scene.

Miske and his half-brother, John Stancil, are charged with assault and attempted murder in aid of racketeering based on their participation in the Kualoa ambush. It is the basis for Count 8 in the 2nd Superseding Indictment handed down by a grand jury in July. Kinney’s threats and erratic behavior, bordering the delusional, make it virtually impossible for him to be called as a witness against Miske or his remaining co-defendants. However, two others who took part in the Kualoa attack, Jacob “Jake” Smith and Harry Kauhi, already have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors, as is Norman Akau, who also was working at the site and witnessed the ambush.

Akau, Kinney, Smith and other Miske associates were members of the Kaneohe-based Nakipi Motorcycle Club. Miske is alleged to have utilized the club and certain of its members in the drug-trafficking and racketeering activities of his organization. Akau was a founder of Nakipi, and Kinney served as the club’s “enforcer.”

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http://freehawaii.blogspot.com/2022/04/ke-aupuni-update-april-2022-why-are-we.html
Free Hawaii blog Saturday April 23, 2022
KE AUPUNI UPDATE - APRIL 2022

Why Are We At The UN?

Did you know that Hawaiians have been advocating at the UN for nearly 50 years? Starting with Kawaipuna Prejean who in the 70s teamed up with AIM (the American Indian Movement) and native leaders from around the world to confront the UN for its deafness to indigenous voices. Over the years, many other Hawaiians followed, including: Poka Laenui, Mililani Trask, Bumpy Kanahele, Kekula Crawford, Kaiopua Fyfe… They all contributed profoundly to the creation of bodies like the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the UN Expert Mechanism for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and the drafting of the landmark, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

In 2006, I began attending UN sessions on a regular basis, using a diplomatic approach, to inform the international community about what really happened here in the Hawaiian Islands and where we want to go.

Keep in mind: We are not at the UN to seek “recognition” from the UN or to join the UN. We are there to cause the UN to stop being complicit in the United States’ false claims, and illegal presence in the Hawaiian Islands.

Initially, as we related our story and our desire to free Hawaii, diplomats, experts and officials at places like the UN, would say, “You have our condolences... we wish you all the best...” In other words... “Good luck in taking on the U.S.!”

Then, as we persisted, a few years later, their response started to shift to, “Do you really think it is possible?” Some trial balloons went up... like when Pakistan, in a human rights review of the USA, suggested that the political status of Hawaii, under international law, may not yet be settled. Coupled with recent international court rulings the diplomatic community began to see flaws in the U.S.’ narrative. Hmm, maybe it is possible...

A few years ago we turned the corner and the response became, “How do you think we can help?” Since then, our discussion with various international actors has been to find a way to discredit and remove the claim that the Hawaiian Islands is part of the United States.

Two years ago, we identified and developed a strategy which we are now pursuing. It focuses on what the United Nations did, not what the United States did.

In 1959 the UN General Assembly, passed UNGA Resolution 1469, accepting (without verifying) the U.S. report that the people of the Hawaiian Islands voted and gave their consent to become part of the United States.

Our plan is to encourage the UN General Assembly to review the procedure it used in the adoption of Resolution 1469. In doing so, the UN will discover for itself that the Hawaii statehood vote was a scam and that the UN General Assembly was tricked into adopting Resolution 1469.

Thus, the UN would be obligated to correct their error and rescind Resolution 1469. At that point, the U.S.’ claim of legitimacy to Hawaii evaporates! The UN and none of its members will recognize the U.S. claim to the Hawaiian Islands as legitimate. By default, the Hawaiian Kingdom springs forward from its 130-year dormancy and enters a period of transition as the U.S. makes a peaceful orderly and graceful withdrawal from our islands.

The Hawaii Nation Rises! Hoala hou Lāhui Hawaiʻi!

P.S. The rescinding of UNGA Resolution 1469 will also nullify Alaska statehood.

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