The Puna Connection
Sightings from The Catbird Seat
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Excerpts from Land and Power in Hawaii, by George Cooper & Gavin Daws”
Chapter 8
HAWAII: SUBDIVIDING LAVA FIELDS
Hawaii’s real estate boom was brought to the Big Island in 1958 by two mainland businessmen from Denver, Colorado.
Glen I. Payton and David F. O’Keefe organized a Hawaii corporation called Tropic Estates Ltd., which included several local-Asians among its members. In 1958 Tropic Estates bought 12,000 acres of land between Kuristown and Mountain View in Puna from Big Island Democratic politician and businessman Robert M. Yamada. The land was cut up into 4,000 lots, which were put on the market for $500-$1,000 with terms as low as $150 down and $8 a month. The project was named Hawaiian Acres. The lots sold spectacularly well.
The effect of this success was electrifying. A Big Island subdividing boom was on. For the next nine years new large-scale subdivisions were approved one after the other by Hawaii County....
But the developments unique to the Big Island were in the mold of the one in Puna that set off the boom: sizable acreage in remote ares, of little or no real economic use value, subdivided into house lots on which practically no one ever actually built homes....
By the time the Big Island boom came to a halt in the mid-1970s, something like 80,000 lots of this kind had been created–on an island whose population at this time was somewhat less than 80,000....
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How were these Big Island subdivisions promoted and sold? Who were the sales campaigns aimed at? What did the buyers think they were getting? And what did they actually get?
“Along the southern shores of the Big Island, Hawaii, largest of the Hawaiian chain,” read a brochure for one typical development, “lies the historic and legendary lands of Kalapana. This is the setting for Royal Gardens, a fertile area directly adjacent to the Hawaii Volcano National Park with its spectacular attractions, yet only walking distance away from lovely beach and shore areas. Royal Gardens lots are all one acre in size, making it possible for the owners to have a small orchard or truck garden, or a magnificent garden, as well as a home and a haven for retirement.”
Royal Gardens started selling its one-acre lots in the early 1960s for $995–only $100 down and $15 a month, plus 6& interest on the unpaid balance. The development was widely and heavily promoted, locally and on the mainland. For example, in 1961 a Royal Gardens lot was given away as a prize to ABC-TV’s Queen For A Day, plus a trip to visit the place....
At Royal Gardens and elsewhere on the Big Island, people by the thousands, by the scores of thousands, were ready to buy–and even to buy from a distance. A sizable majority, in fact, bought sight unseen: well over half, perhaps as many as two-thirds.
Her there was a loud echo of the classic American story of speculative land development, going back far beyond the Hawaii boom, back to the mainland, back to the original boom in subdivided vacation or retirement house lots–Florida in the 1920s....
One characteristic common to many of these subdivisions was that they were located on land that had virtually no productive value, remote, often essentially waste land, sometimes totally unlivable....
The Big Island version of a Florida development was a subdivision laid out on volcanic lava.
Royal Gardens was an example of this. It covered part of the old Hawaiian ahupua`a of Pulama, which made a kind of boundary from the mountains to the sea between the habitable areas of Puna and the uninhabitable lava fields of Kilauea Volcano....
The US Geological Survey in 1974 rated all areas of the Big Island for vulnerability to volcanic hazard. According the the USGS, Kilauea and its rift zones “must be expected to erupt repeatedly in the future,” and “all areas downslope from volcanic vents should be considered vulnerable to eventual burial by lava flows.”
From 1955 the east rift zone had been the source of most of the Big Island’s volcanic activity. There were several major eruptions within the zone, sending lava flows downslope toward the sea. In 1960 a lava flow covered much of Kapoho, destroying the village of that name. In 1977 an eruption nearly destroyed the village of Kalapana, about three miles northeast along the coast from Royal Gardens, and at one point it seemed as if Royal Gardens itself might be covered with lava. Then, in 1983, 1984, and 1985, a total of seven lava flows entered Royal Gardens, destroying altogether 22 homes, or about one in three of all residences so far built in the subdivision.
Associated with volcanic activity was earthquake risk. Royal Gardens lay entirely within the Hilina Fault Zone, an area that the USGS said was especially prone to surface ruptures because of land movement within the fault....
Beginning in 1971 the US Department of Housing and Urban Development refused to insure residential mortgages in the east rift zone and downslope from it, and in most areas at risk from eruptions of Mauna Loa flowing south and west–meaning that 60% of speculative subdivision lots on the Big Island were excluded from coverage.
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Did lot buyers know what they were getting?
Most of them really did not, at least at Royal Gardens, where at the time of purchase, according to a sample survey done for this book, some 72% believed their lot had fertile soil, and 69% did not know their lot was in a zone of serious volcanic hazard.
In the developer’s public offering statements (required by state law sice 1968), there was no discussion of hazard until sale began in late 1972 of Unit V of the subdivision.
And in none of the Royal Gardens sales brochures on file with the Hawaii County Planning Department and the State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) was there any mention of volcanic hazard. In general these were the two government agencies most responsible for regulating development and sale of Royal Gardens and the two with which the buying public would have had the most contact.
Ther were other omissions as well in the Royal Gardens promotional material:
Lots in the subdivision were being sold with no water lines, no power, and no sewerage. Some roads were county standard, some were not. When the Hawaii County Planning Commission in 1960 granted Royal Gardens preliminary subdivision approval, this condition was imposed: “Subdivider shall notify buyers of land in this subdivision about the use of oil-treated surface for roads [these were sub-standard roads that the County would allow to be built but not permit to be turned over to the County for maintenance at public expense] and the present lack of water and sewer systems and the lack of electrical power. All advertising shall call attention to the above-mentioned modification of standards and the lack of facilities.”
Although public offering statement in general noted these deficiencies, no advertisement for Royal Gardens on file with the Big Island Planning Department or DCCA pointed them out...
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With all this as background, what was the connection on the Big Island between speculative subdividing and politics?
The public record shows that if a large number of Big Island families were buying lots, their political leaders were heavily involved in creating those lots for sale.
Most of the island’s most influential legislators of the 1960s and 1970s were involved with companies doing speculative subdivisions, as partners, corporate officers, shareholders or attorneys....
As for the company that developed Royal Gardens, the following table (Table 16 - not reproduced here) shows that investors included several state legilsators, among them future Gov. George Ariyoshi, who obtaind his partnership share in trade for drafting the partnership registration statement. Another investor was the wife of an associate justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. The parents of County Supervisor Herbert T. Matayoshi, who later became the island’s mayor, invested, as did university agricultural extension agent Yukio Kitagawa, who later became deputy director of the State Department of Agriculture and chairman of the Honolulu Planning Commission. The attorneys who represented Royal Gardens before county agencies included the laws firm of State Sen. John T. Ushijima and an attorney who was simultaneously a part-time judge. Engineer consultants included the former chief of the Hawaii County Department of Public Works, and a former deputy director of the State Department of Transportaion.
As mentioned, lava flows entered Royal Gardens beginning in 1983 and destroyed 22 homes. With this in mind, it is ironic to note that among those who invested in Royal Gardens in the 1960s were several people connected directly or indirectly, then or later, with government response to natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.
Investor Arthur Ishimoto was in 1983 state director of civil defense. Engineering consultant Yoshio Inaba had approve Royal Gardens creation as county engineer. As county engineer he also had some responsibility for Big Island civil defense plans and operations. One of Royal Gardens’ lawyers, George Ariyoshi, was the state’s chief executive when the volcano erupted....
Thus, in a small way, these people in the early 1960s helped to bring into existence a subdivision in a US Geological Survey high-risk zone that was repeatedly hit by lava beginning in 1983, requiring repeated evacuations and continual civil defense help....
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In the mid-1980s, those boom-time subdivisions were a kind of spectacle the Big Island possessed, along with active volcanic craters, snowcapped volcanic peaks, papaya trees growing in lava, and the simple vastness of the island compared to the rest of the state...
The few tourists who actually did venture into a Puna subdivision, particularly those farthest from the county seat of Hilo, might also encounter something else: a close, sometimes hostile scrutiny from people living there.
Beginning in the mid-1970s and continuing into the 198s, many Big Island speculative subdivisions came to have as their major economic use something no one could have foreseen at the time of their creation: the criminal activity of growing marijuana.
Marijuana being an illegal crop, its total value never turned up in the state’s economic data book. Still, by all sorts of accounts, it had come to be very big business in Puna and other districts of the Big Island, as in the state at large. Most estimates of the early 1980s ranked marijuana as the Islands’ third largest revenue producer, behind only tourism and military spending–but as big as sugar and pineapple combined. Newsweek in October 1982 wrote thatt the Hawaii marijuana business “by most estimates...now tops half a billion dollars annually.”...
If the Big Island was Hawaii’s marijuana headquarters, then the speculative subdivisions of Puna were the center of the center. Extrapolating from Big Island police estimates on the percentage of Big Island crop grown in Puna, and from amounts of marijuana seized county by county, Puna in 1982-1983 accounted for about 40% of the total state crop. According to police most of this was grown by people living in the subdivisions...
Although beginning in the late 1970s there was police pressure on marijuana growers, mostly in the form of crop seizures by with occasional arrests, the main response into the mid-1980s was simply to move the principal cultivation areas away from growers’ dwellings and deeper into Puna’s empty spaces.
In 1978 a Big Island realtor placed a general advertisement in a drug culture magazine called High Times. Noting that two and three-acre lots in Puna could be had for as low as $1,500, the advertisement said: “Yes, Hawaii’s Gold Rush is not only in its smoke, but also in its land. On the Big Island [Hawaii], which has gained international fame for its sacred herbs, fantastic land values are still available, but for how long?” “Think,” the ad prodded, “what land prices will do when legalization occurs.”
With the discreet buyer in mind, the ad also said that sellers would finance “with no questions asked,” and there would be “total confidentiality on your purchase.”
Among the consequences of the ad were telephoned death threats to the realtor. In a interview for this book, he said he assumed the calls came from marijuana growers who did not want more people in Puna....
January 14, 2008
Red Hot Lava Menaces Old-boy Scam
Special from Hawaii Free Press, by Andrew Walden
Red hot lava threatening Puna’s Royal Gardens subdivision opens yet another chapter in a long-running saga. A hui of elected officials and state and county engineers in 1961 bought the 1,807 acre site from the Bishop Estate (Kamehameha Schools) for $200,000 after easily obtaining preliminary approval to subdivide from the Hawaii County Planning Commission.
Democrat Gov. George Ariyoshi, then a state Senator, was at the center of the Royal Gardens hui and at the center of the early 1960s subdivision boom on the Big Island. George Cooper and Gavan Daws, authors of the landmark 1985 book “Land and Power in Hawaii,” demonstrate how Big Island subdividers modeled their plans on earlier scams to sell swampland in Florida.
“A (Royal Gardens) brochure described the development as being ‘directly adjacent to Hawaii Volcano National Park with its spectacular attractions.’ Another way of putting this would be to say that Royal Gardens was only 12 miles to the east-southeast of an active volcano ….
“In 1960 a lava flow covered much of Kapoho, destroying the village of that name. In 1977 an eruption nearly destroyed the village of Kalapana, about three miles northeast along the coast from Royal Gardens. Then in 1983, 1984, and 1985, a total of seven lava flows entered Royal Gardens, destroying altogether 22 homes, or about one in three of all residences so far built in the subdivision ….
“With this in mind, it is ironic to note that among those who invested in Royal Gardens in the 1960s were several people connected directly or indirectly, then or later, with government response to natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.
“Investor Arthur Ishimoto was in 1983 state director of civil defense. Engineering consultant Yoshio Inaba had approved Royal Gardens’ creation as county engineer. As county engineer he also had some responsibility for Big Island civil defense plans and operations. One of Royal Gardens’ lawyers, George Ariyoshi, was the state’s chief executive when the volcano erupted (in 1983). The son of two other investors, the Matayoshis, was the Big Island’s chief executive in 1983.”
Other limited partners included judges, senators and representatives, Hawaii county supervisors (council members), a future Hawaii county mayor, and state and county engineering personnel.
Cooper and Daws explain: “Norman Inaba, who brought Milolii Beach Lots Subdivision and Royal Gardens into existence, was among the biggest of Hawaii County’s developers. In 1964 the Hawaii Star-Bulletin described him as ‘the Big Island’s most diversified if not the biggest subdivider with nine developments around the island covering some 7,000 acres.’”
By the end of the boom in the mid-1970s about 80,000 lots had been created on an island with a population of about 80,000. Twelve percent of lot buyers were Big Island residents. This meant that about 25 percent of Big Island families had an investment in the success of the schemes. Another 35 percent were Oahu residents. These local residents were voters who expected to profit from their purchases. They became a political base for the developers and politicians.
This was typical of other developments including Kihei, Maui and Salt Lake Oahu. Elected officials named in development-related corruption scandals often went on to higher office while those who questioned this type of speculative development often lost out.
The first speculative development was Hawaiian Acres -- 12,000 acres subdivided into about 4,000 lots in 1958. The lots sold quickly, inspiring more subdivisions to be formed. On a single day in 1962, just before some changes in the state’s land use law would take effect, the Hawaii County Planning Commission approved 42 new subdivisions totaling 3,500 lots.
In December 1966, the Hawaii County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance requiring paved roads and water lines. This did not end subdivision but rather forced the elected speculators to extract more profit in order to pay for the improvements. The result was developments such as Kona Highlands. Meanwhile sales in substandard subdivisions continued as developers still held many lots.
As many as 60 percent of the Big Island’s subdivisions fall within the U.S. Geological Survey’s “high risk” (Zone 2) and “highest risk” (Zone 1) areas. Volcanic activity along the east rift zone of Kilauea has been frequent since 1955 and constant since 1983. In 1969 a hui of developers attempted to subdivide 6,000 acres of Kapoho. As described by Cooper and Daws, “(Their) planning consultant wrote that the project’s ‘major tourist attractions include…the 1960 lava cone and surrounding lava field providing visitors with an opportunity to experience the awesome forces of nature.’” Although the county Planning Commission supported the application, the state Land Use Commission turned it down.
About 49 percent of Hawaii is today owned by state or federal government. Another 47 percent is owned by large trusts such as Kamehameha Schools or Parker Ranch. That leaves 4 percent for the public. This stands in sharp contrast to the other 49 states. For instance in New Mexico, slightly over 40 percent of land is owned by state and federal government. But the top 40 private New Mexico landowners together own only about 8% of the state. In eastern states, the percentage of land in governmental hands is often below 10 percent and private ownership is even more diversified.
Cooper and Daws quote a 1958 editorial from the Hilo Tribune Herald: “This newspaper goes along with the optimists, confident that the eager buying of land, much of it sight unseen, means that the Big Island is finally coming into its own, and that we are on the threshold of development that has kept Oahu singing with prosperity…Here on the Big Island we don’t much care what brings them in as long as they come and as long as they buy ….”
Some look back on this era with disdain. But they are fooling themselves. Today politicians extract far more from the schemes by staying away from active volcanoes and letting professionals do the developing. After the Hokulia decision was announced in March, 2006, West Hawaii Today editor Reed Flickinger opined: "Hokulia has raised the bar in what can and should be offered to the community by developers. It also serves as a significant benchmark for government officials who are too easily cowed by developers claiming an inability to provide benefits or mitigate impacts because the project would then be ‘no longer profitable’. There now exists proof to the fallacy of that allegation by so many developers."
Today more money than ever is being extracted from developers. Hawaii’s economy remains based on land development rather than the development of the educational and economic potential of individuals. And 10,000 residents left for the mainland last year even in the midst of an economic boom.
REFERENCES
“Land and Power in Hawaii” (Royal Gardens p263-77):
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Power-Hawaii-Democratic-Years/dp/0824813030
Hokulia:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?479bfe1c-3c00-4580-83ee-f6fa950922a7
New Mexico land ownership:
http://members.aol.com/wmpb/CrossLand
Hawaii land ownership:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Housing_Authority_v._Midkiff
Related article:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080113/NEWS01/801130366
Andrew Walden is the publisher and editor of Hawaii Free Press, a Big Island-based newspaper....
HawaiiReporter.com reports the real news, and prints all editorials submitted, even if they do not represent the viewpoint of the editors, as long as they are written clearly....
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?90d744bd-cf41-4150-9940-78eb980780e5
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IMAGES OF GOD’S BEAUTIFUL PUNA, HAWAII
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA!
MORE HAWAIIAN LEGENDS, AIPAC MYTHS, AND BROKEN TRUST CONFEDERACY TALES FROM THE "OFF-SHORE" SOUTH PACIFIC.
ITEM OF NOTE: DATELINE 05/11/01: SHERMAN SKOLNICK'S REPORT.....PRIOR TO 9/11 AND OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT EVENTS IN HAWAII, COLORADO, WASHINGTON DC, AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
PUBLIC SCOPE OF FOCUS: THE SHADOW FIFTH - COLUMN "VICHEY" U.S. GOVERNMENT, AKA, SPECIAL FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC "AGENTS" AND NON PROFIT SPECIAL ENTITLEMENTS, AKA, POLITICAL LOBBYIST, AND THEIR STEALTH POLITICAL INFLUENCE FOR U.S. FOREIGN & DOMESTIC POLICIES, UTILIZING VAST AMERICAN RESOURCES AND LAUNDERED PUBLIC PROCEEDS IN WASHINGTON DC.
SUPPORTING REFERENCES TO THIS FORESIGHTED REPORT:
A] PRIOR TO THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING TRIAL IN DENVER, COLORADO I WORKED FOR A WELLS FARGO COURIER {PONY EXPRESS} AND MADE NUMEROUS PICK UPS AND DELIVERIES TO THE DENVER FEDERAL BUILDING. I WAS STOPPED ON ONE OCCASION IN 1999 BY SECURITY CAMARAS GUARDS SINCE I WAS IN THE WRONG AREA FOR THE STANDARD PICK UPS AND DELIVERIES AT THE DOWNTOWN FEDERAL BUILDING. THE EXTREME MEASURES WERE BEING TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DUE TO THE NATURE OF EVENTS IN OKLAHOMA AS WELL AS THE CHAOS BEING CREATED BY THE NATIONAL MEDIA NEWS VANS AND REPORTERS COMING TO DENVER TO REPORT THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING CASE.
B} I MOVED TO HAWAII IN OCTOBER OF 1999 TO ESTABLISH A SMALL, QUIET, AND UNIQUE ECO-TOURISM B&B BUSINESS IN THE REMOTE PUNA DISTRICT ON THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII. I RECALLED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM THE COLORADO, IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, HAVING FATAL "ACCIDENTS" IN THE VOLCANO AREA REGION IN THE PUNA DISTRICT NEARBY OUR PLACE.
ONE PERSON THAT CAME TO MIND WAS THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING CASE JUDGE RICHARD MASTCH'S DAUGHTER. SHE APPARENTLY WAS REPORTED TO HAVE MET SOME FLY-BY NIGHT CHARACTER IN HAWAII DURING HER SHORT VISIT TO THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII. THEY BOTH WENT TO VISIT THE BIGGEST TOURIST ATTACTION IN HAWAII AT THE VOLCANOS NATIONAL PARK IN THE PUNA DISTRICT. THEY WERE BOTH SUPPOSEDLY RELAXING OR "STEAM BATHING" {IF I RECALL WITH LITTLE CLOTHES FOUND ON HER FROM REPORTS} NEAR AN OPEN AND SUPER HOT TOXIC STEAM VENT CAVITIES AND SHE ACCIDENTLY SLIPPED DOWN THE OPEN STEAM CAVITY AND WAS SCALDED TO DEATH.
THE VOLCANOS NATIONAL PARK AREA HAS SEVERAL PARK RANGERS AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE WITH SAFETY GUIDE BROCHURES, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS DANGER WARNINGS SIGNS POSTED AROUND THE CLOSER STEAM VENT AREAS FOR THE VISITING TOURIST INFORMATION. THESE EVENTS WE FOUND TO BE QUESTIONABLE SINCE THE AREA IS LOCATED AT A HIGH ELEVATION, COLD, RAINY, AND FOGGY ON MANY OCCASSIONS. ONLY A VERY ADVENTUROUS OR STUPID PERSON, YET ALONE A TOURIST, WOULD VENTURE INTO SUCH A DANGEROUS AREA WITH SOME HAVING IRON PIPE RAILS FOR SAFETY FEATURES.
ONCE AGAIN, WE FOUND THE JUDGES DAUGHTERS FATE A VERY STRANGE TALE OF EVENTS WHICH MUST HAVE IMPACTED HER FAMILY AND THE JUDGE'S ABILITY TO PROCEED FURTHER IN ANY HIGH PROFILE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY.
C} IN REFERENCE TO SHERMAN SCOKNICK'S FORESIGHTED REPORT OF EVENTS, PRIOR TO 9/11, THE DISAVOWED HAWAIIAN FRAUD AND CORRUPTION, DOCUMENTED UNDER THE PUNA CONNECTION, REVEALS DOCUMENTED DIVERSION FOR MULTI-MILLIONS OF PUBLIC PROCEED FEMA FUNDS FOR NATURAL DISASTER ROYAL GARDEN ESTATES AND KALAPANA VICTIMS FOR THEIR HAWAIIAN REPLACEMENT SUBDISIVION HOMES {AT LOW INTEREST RATES}.
THIS INCLUDES MISSING DLNR PUBLIC REVENUES, GENERATED BY MASSIVE, ILLEGAL, DIVERSIFIED REGULATED AGRICULTURE VENTURES, BEING CHANNELED AND LAUNDERED INTO UNKNOWN PROJECTS OR PRIVATE ENTITIES WHICH IS BEING STONEWALLED BY HAWAII GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. THE REPLACEMENT SUBDIVISION: KIKALA-KEOKA {SEC. 201G - 170.5}. THE FICTIOUS SUBDIVISION IN THE REMOTE PUNA DISTRICT, WITH VACANT GRID LOCK ROADS AND INSTALLED FIRE HYDRANTS, WAS GRUB AND CLEARED BY OUR FORMER NEIGHBOR / DEVELOPER RELATED TO THE FORMER HAWAII LT. GOVERNOR / GOVERNOR, JOHN WAIHEE LINKED TO THE KAPOHO LAND AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY {LYMAN ESTATE}.
D} THE CONTROVERSIAL {JOINT} PRIVATE / GOVERNMENT PUNA GEOTHERMAL VENTURE, PROJECTED AND SOLD TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY UNDER WAIHEE'S ADMINISTRATION, WHICH WOULD LIGHT UP HONOLULU WITH A UNDERWATER CABLE AND SAVE HAWAII CONSUMERS MONEY, PRESENTLY SUPPLIES LESS THAN 1/4 OF THE BIG ISLAND'S ELECTRICTY SOLD TO HELCO.
E} IN RETROSPECT {JANUARY 2000}......THE INVASIVE SPECIES FOR THE HAWAIIAN COQUI FROG INVASION BEGAN SUDDENLY IN OUR AREA, WHICH INCLUDES OUR FRAUDULENT HAWAII REGULATED PROPERTY SALE, ADJACENT TO THE HAWAIIAN DEVELOPERS PROPERTIES NEAR LAVA TREE STATE PUBLIC PARK, IN PUNA, ON THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII. THE PUBLIC STATE PARK AREA, INCLUDING THE PRISTINE NANAWALE FOREST RESERVE RAINFOREST, BECAME THE MOST HEAVILY INFESTED AREA ON THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII INCLUDING THE ENTIRE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
THE HAWAII COUNTY OFFICIALS AND STATE DLNR WERE NOTIFIED OF THE COQUI FROGS SUDDEN APPEARANCE ON OUR PROPERTY AS WELL AS VERY NOTICEABLE NUISANCE ANIMALS {VICIOUS PACKS OF DOGS AT THE PARK ENTRANCE SCARING THE TOURIST; LOOSE FIGHTING COCK ROOSTERS ON OUR PROPERTY, AND VERY NEW NOTICEABLE "PRIVATE ROAD" SIGNS TO KEEP THE TOURIST AWAY FROM OUR SMALL ESTABLISHED BUSINESS, FROM THE PUBLIC PARK ENTRANCE FROM A PUBLIC HIGHWAY.
THIS CAN ALL BE VERIFIED BY OUR TESTIMONIALS IN THE AREA, AS WELL AS THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S TROPICAL AGRICULTURE RESEARCH DIRECTOR, DR. LYLE WONG, WHO VISITED OUR PROPERTY IN 2000 TO INVESTIGATE THE COQUI FROG INFESTATION ON OUR PROPERTY.
THE DLNR PROJECTED COST TO ERADICT THE HAWAII COQUI FROG: FORTY MILLION DOLLARS, WITHOUT ANY ERADICATION GUARANTEES, IMPACTING: THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR HAWAII REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY, THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND NURSERY BUSINESSES, THE TOURISM INDUSTRY, THE LOCAL BUSINESS AND RESIDENCE, AND THE PRISTINE HAWAIIAN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LANDS FOR THE ECOLOGICIAL BALANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL NATURE IN HAWAII.
AGAIN FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD: "WHAT IF A CRIMINAL CABAL, A WHITE-COLLAR CRIME SYNDICATE, TOOK OVER THE U.S. GOVERNMENT {OR HAWAII}?" AL MARTIN - THE CONSPIRATORS
"WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE DOING WITH A MAMMOTH DRUG-FINANCING, MONEY-LAUNDERING, TAX-EVADING {REAL ESTATE} INVESTOR-FRAUD OPERATION?" JOHATHAN KWITNY - THE CRIMES OF PATRIOTS
".....A PERVASIVE WAY OF CONDUCTING PRIVATE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN WHICH STATE AND LOCAL OFFICE HOLDERS THROUGHOUT HAWAII TOOK THEIR PERSONAL FINANCIAL INTERESTS INTO ACCOUNT IN THEIR ACTIONS AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS YEARS AGO." NEW YORK TIMES - "LAND AND POWER IN HAWAII" - ORGANIZED CRIME / SUBDIVIDING THE LAVA FIELDS {COOPER & DAWS}
ALOHA MAI MO. ALOHA AKU......DO THE FACTS MATTER?
CORPORATE GOVERNMENT WHITE KNIGHTS FOR SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNES IN THE DISMISSED CATBIRD SEAT FROM THE REMOTE SOUTH PACIFIC, IMPACTING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY FOR A CASE OF WAR IN IRAQ.
April 12, 2007
DLNR's Young under fire in
Attorney General investigation
by Nancy Cook Lauer
Stephens Media Capitol Bureau
HONOLULU -- The Attorney General's Office has launched a criminal investigation into the state Bureau of Conveyances, the official repository of all Land Court certificates of title, property liens and matters of record.
The investigation came to light Wednesday when the Senate Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs held a closed-door hearing with investigator Dennis Nagamuma, whom the committee had subpoenaed to testify in the confirmation hearing of Peter Young, chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, which oversees the conveyance bureau.
The closed-door session is the first time a committee has held an executive session for a confirmation hearing, and only the third time subpoenas have been issued for confirmation witnesses. Committee Chairman Russell Kokubun, D-South Hilo, Puna, Ka'u, said he closed the hearing at the request of the attorney general.
The Bureau examines, records and indexes more than 344,000 Regular System and Land Court documents and maps and collects tens of millions of dollars in taxes and fees annually. Hawaii is the only state in the nation with a single statewide recording office.
Details of the investigation were sketchy during the public portion of an eight-hour hearing that resumes today and is expected to continue into Friday. But Young and his deputy, Robert Masuda, both said that Young is not the target of the investigation that started earlier this year.
"Some of our guys started an investigation, and I told them to turn it over to the attorney general rather than have our guys do it," Young told Stephens Media. "I wanted a complete investigation by the attorney general, and we've been cooperating with them in it."
Masuda, under questioning from Sen. Sam Slom, R-Kahala, Hawaii Kai, told the committee that he handed over the investigation reluctantly. Kokubun stopped Slom's series of questions on the subject during the public part of the hearing.
"He was very insistent on having the investigation done (by the attorney general)," Masuda said of his boss. "We argued about this a little. ... I felt that we needed a little more time."
A financial audit of the department last year found problems in the Bureau of Conveyances as well as the Division of Boating and Recreation, which will be the subject of committee scrutiny today during testimony by subpoenaed witnesses. Some witnesses have alleged improper use of money in the state's boating special fund, another area touched on by auditors.
The hearing was a popular attraction. Spectators crammed into the small hearing room and overflowed into the hallways, where dozens more sat -- some munching peanuts -- in plastic chairs arranged around TV sets.
The majority of the testimony Wednesday was positive, and a lot of it came from Young's employees. But union leaders urged the committee not to confirm Young for a second four-year term, saying many good people have left the department, morale is low and staff vacancies remain unfilled.
"During Mr. Young's tenure, we have seen a very contentious labor relations climate between the employees and the administration of the department," said Randy Perreira, deputy executive director of the Hawaii Government Employees Association. "There are tremendous morale issues, and we have endured a large number of grievances and employee complaints during the last four years. We have seen a marked lack of direction, human resource issues in the department, very little resolution of long-standing problems, and in short the department has been quite adversarial and not responsive to employee concerns."
Young's confirmation is by no means a certainty. Kokubun bristled under a witness's accusations of a biased "trial-like" atmosphere. Sen. Clayton Hee, chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee, took umbrage with Masuda's downplaying of employee morale problems, noting the loss of longtime employees.
"Would it be news to you that they left because they did not like Peter Young," asked Hee, D-Kaneoha, Kahuku.
But Young's supporters ran the gamut from environmentalists to agribusiness to developers.
"I am sure that you will receive undeserved negative testimony, testimony that would not have been generated had he kept his head down and not tried to fix the many problems that festered and grew long before his tenure," said retired Big Island Judge Jeff Choi in written testimony.
"Not all the decisions will be popular with some, but overall, I know Peter has the best long-range interests of Hawaii and her residents at heart," said S. Cotta Schoenberg, a Kailua-Kona resident and 40-year friend of Young.
Volcano resident Bobby Camara took a more cynical view while lamenting the sorry shape of the area's parks.
"I am having a difficult time deciding whether or not to support the confirmation of Mr. Young," Camara said. "The system is broken, but I'm not sure it's the fault of Mr. Young. He has worked in government for a while and seems to know the bureaucracy. I'm afraid that if he isn't confirmed, his replacement will not be any more effective and may not know the ins and outs of the operation. The job may simply be too much for any one person to do."
Date Posted: 16:57:55 01/11/07 Thu
Author: Da Little Gray Fox
Subject: THE LUCRATIVE WAR ON TERRORISM
Stich,R. Russell,T.C. Disavow: A CIA Saga of Betrayal. 1995
(http://www.namebase.org/sources/ZS.html )
Aloha CB.....{and Counselors}
If you go to pages 253 & 254, in the above book, you will come across a fella named Robert W. Jinks. He was an California attorney and was involved in a big cover up Napa Valley investment scheme {400 people lost their money} with a fraudulent loan company front called LENDVEST MORTGAGE CO.
This involves a partner named Robert Pitner and Don Hanson and a bankrupted vintage California Winery {Joseph Mattews Winery} with an exclusive B & B business {Hennessey House} in Napa. My friend lives in the area and recalled the incident which was reported in the California news journals.
This also involves fraudulent land investments in Hawaii and the Puna Connection with a California investor mystery title deed front named Robert & Lois Mathias....the front for the Hawaiian Chow Estate {tmk: 3-1-4-1-042} adjacent to the Lava Tree State Public Park {Public forgery - E. O. 3117} and later my new mysterious neighbor, from Wenner's World documented appearance on Public Tax Records with no real estate transactions {Sim Wenner, eccentric wealthy mother of another multimillionaire, Jann Wenner - AIPAC supporter, Rolling Stone, and political environmentalist} protecting the Hawaiian Hui investors front linked to Susan Tius and Mary Loo Woo in collusion with the Broken Trust Legacy associates.
This Hawaiian Connections to California defrauded investors includes: the largest drug bust in San Francisco Bay {58 tons of Marijuana & Hash} which government agencies claim are from Afghanistan by way of Iran, the Middle east, and to the U.S.
This shipment was linked to Robert Pintner and the Napa Valley investor fronts {Attorney Robert Jinks} who was planning to purchase BBRDW from the government seizures, as well as the Hawaii Polo Club {Mokuliea}, and its CIA operations around the Globe!
He was a prospective buyer until the Government Officials found out that he spoke to Rewalds then Attorney, Robert Smith and the deal was immediately canceled for fear of exposure by the rogue Government Agencies {Bill Casey, Bush 41, et al}.
Soon after the 58 ton pot bust in S.F. Bay {Intrepid Venture barge} the Napa Valley investor went "bankrupted" with Robert Mattews Winery, Lendvest Mortgage Co., and other investor fronts which was linked to BBRDW laundering rich Billionaire proceeds and small investors into numerous investment fronts which was actually Government Grand Theft in the name of National Security and the War on Terrorism today!
This was a "win-win" situation for Government Officials since the judicial system made a lucrative spin off business being trumped up by ILLEGAL Commerce and Trade while holding the public accountable at the same time!
Doesn't get much better than this if you are a Politician, Lawyer, or "inside" Government investor in Hawaii, California, and the United States.
You won't believe how many Foreigners from Japan, the Philippines, Asia, Europe, {a lot of Hungarians for some reason in Puna} and around the Globe lost their proceeds or investments from the Puna Connection and manipulated Public Land Records, while being sheltered and protected by Regulated Government Agencies and stonewalled "investigations" implicating former Federal, State, and local officials in diversified Hawaii.
Inouye, the war hero, like Duke Cunningham, becomes "drunken" with Political power, playing the liberal Senator from Hawaii in Washington DC while spinning Political capital agendas with the GOP in Washington DC.
During the Clinton Administrations, the Hawaii Delegates to Congress became the unknown Jack Abramoff's in Washington DC to seek full Government immunity and protection to lobby for ILLEGAL agendas and Pork Barrel the most Federal funds per capital than any other State in the Union while holding the Federal Government "hostage" to extort, bribe, and blackmail more Federal funds for the rank and file Hawaiians which is similar to the Native American Indian Reservation Tribal leaders being the beneficiaries from Federal Regulated mismanagement and abuse to profit and protect lucrative assets for the few.
By all rights, the rank and file Hawaiians, with the World's largest private Charitable Trust, should be the most highly educated and skilled people on this planet but due to the deceptive Hawaii Politicians, Lawyers, and rogue Government "insiders", the rank and file Hawaiians have the highest rate of incarceration and are being shipped off to the mainland prisons more than any other ethnic group in Hawaii......gee....wonder why?
Genocide.....Hawaiian Style while lobbying for more Federal funding programs in Congress?
Ck out the Hawaii - California drug, arms, and land connections documented in the book. The rogue CIA Octopus does have long tenacles with a web of public deceptions and set ups by "inside" government officials - investors, determined to hide their IRAN - CONTRA scandal in Hawaii.
The trading of Illegal arms to Taiwan was supposedly illegal under the new agreements between China and the U.S. while supporting Aghan War Lords against Russian interests while courting the Russian Government toward Democracy values..... so this could be one reason why, like IRAN - CONTRA , Bush (41}, Clinton, and Bush jr. are hiding this from the Public with their diverted bad Karma for the diversified War on Terrorism in the Middle East.
The undiscriminating Government officials were not only targeting the small investors, but very wealthy American Philianthropist, Arab Royalties, and rogue Third World Government laundering their government proceeds {Cambodia, Philippines, and Indonesia} became a way of life for the deceptive Hawaii Delegates to Congress, the Aloha State of Hawaii officials, and the very opportunistic rogue CIA investors and ex military vets finding a golden opportunity from the Asian Golden Triangle into the isolated South Pacific.....some 5,000 miles away from Washington DC.
Like the song says: "If you come to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair".....hey! If you go to Napa Valley, be sure you stop off at a comfort B&B and taste the winery....it could be another CIA Government investor front for rogue "inside" investors and opportunistic lawyers & kick back judges.
If you come to Hawaii, be sure to hide your assets unless you have super wealth and will share it with the Hawaiian hui government investors for special entitlements {Oprah's exclusive B & B on Maui in return for preserving 150 acres of prime Hawaiian lands} with the Broken Trust Legacy associates linked to Government {both Federal and State}.
If you are Ronald Rewald, Rodney Stich, and Arizona reporter Don Bollen, being a Patriot and doing your public citizen duty to help expose blatant and incompetent Government Corruption with hidden regulated monopolies, it has hazardous consequences which conflicts with the War in Iraq!
If you are Brian Tomanaha, Rewald's old lawyer, you become rewarded with a District Judge job in California. {Is this the same Circuit Court for Dancing Judge Stanley Ito from O.J. fame?}
If you are Robert Watada {Hawaii Campaign Commissioner} with his son, Iraq War protester, Lt Efren Watada, you volunteer to serve your country, collect government benefits, and later be reprimanded for not reporting for duty after being assigned to a combat zone, and be rewarded with a lifetime secure State job with lucrative benefits for life in Hawaii!
If you are Duke Cunningham, Tom Foley, Tom Ney, Tom Delay, Scooter Libby, Claude Allen, or any "Inside"Government lobbyist - associate, you retain lucrative Government benefits sitting in Country club jails or just resign back to the private sector, with more government lifetime benefits or huge windows of opportunity as business "consultants" being associated to Washington politics.
Doesn't get much better than this for the average, defrauded American Public Tax Payers in the U.S.
Again, is it "We the little people"....or "WE THE BIG GOVERNMENT"?
I'm confused?
"ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, MARCHING OFF TO WAR" & "PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION"?
SHALOM, YA TA HAY, SAYONARA, MABUHAY, ADIOS, AND ALOHA PUMEHANA FOR THE NEXT BIRD HUNT AT THE SUGARLAND RANCH.....
Ck out the Hawaiian - California Connections documented in Napa Valley.
- da little gray fox with the non profit, no profit coconut crab club {CCC}....a possible tax deductible front?
December 4, 2006
Barnwell takes Hualalai stake
Pacific Business News
Barnwell Industries Inc., a longtime landowner in the Kaupelehu area above Kailua-Kona, has taken a minority stake in the Hualalai Resort.
The company said Monday it paid $3 million to be one of the new owners of the resort after affiliates of Kajima Corp. sold it.
The resort, on the Kona coast just north of the airport, includes the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, two golf courses, and undeveloped residential property.
"We are pleased to have acquired an interest in Haualai Resort, which our majority-owned Kaupulehu Developments partnership began development of in 1984," said CEO Morton Kinzler.
Honolulu-based Barnwell (Amex: BRN) has land holdings on the Kona side of the Big Island and oil and natural gas leases in Alberta, Canada.
September 19, 2004
New mood kills Kona project
By Kevin Dayton, Advertiser Big Island Bureau
KAILUA, Kona, Hawai'i — Developers have been pushing for new projects along the crowded Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway north of Kailua, and last week the community pushed back.
A crowd of more than 180 people pressured the Big Island County Council to kill a major proposed commercial and hotel development there. They heckled supporters of the development, and finally convinced most of the council to vote to bury the project proposed by Clifto's Kona Coast LLC.
That angry crowd and the council vote may signal a sea change in the development atmosphere north of Kona at a time when the real estate market is sizzling and more projects are planned for the area.
John Ray, president of the Hawai'i Leeward Planning Conference, said major landowners watched with "a lot of apprehension" as the Clifto's project was vetoed by Big Island Mayor Harry Kim, and council members last week refused to override Kim's veto.
County Planning Director Chris Yuen said developers should be concerned. He said the handling of the project was a turning point for the county, with Kim refusing to approve Clifto's because it relied on still-tentative state plans to widen the highway.
The highway has been at capacity since 1998, and it isn't clear when the state will begin widening it near the airport. A widening project for Queen Ka'ahumanu closer to Kailua is scheduled to begin next year.
From now on, developers with plans that would increase the traffic on Queen Ka'ahumanu "are either going to have to wait, or build something that is going to help alleviate the situation," Yuen said.
Cliff M. Morris, the managing member of Clifto's, promised to put up $750,000 to pay for planning and other work on the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway widening project to try to speed the project along to offer some relief from traffic jams.
He pledged to turn over a half-mile-long strip of choice beachfront property to the county for a new park, and promised to provide 78 affordable housing units as part of the project, which is twice the amount of affordable housing normally required.
That wasn't good enough for residents furious about the daily traffic jams on the highway. They worried the Clifto's development would dump even more cars on the commuter thoroughfare, and wanted nothing to do with the project.
"Just stop any more rezoning, stop any more construction, and let's just catch up with what we've got," Kailua View Estates resident Dan Olson told the council last week.
Project defeated
The council finally voted 5-4 against overriding Kim's veto of the project. Clifto's was seeking permission to put 390 apartments and condominiums, about 392,000 square feet of retail and commercial space and a 250-room airport hotel on 83 acres north of Kailua.
Morris estimated the total construction cost for the project would have been $160 million to $180 million.
Killing Clifto's hardly solves the traffic problem. Yuen estimated that landowners along the corridor from Kailua to the airport already have the zoning they need to build up to 1,500 new housing units, which would further clog the highway even if the council refused to grant any new rezoning requests.
More projects are on the way. One of the largest is Hiluhilu Development LLC, which is owned by Charles Schwab and local contractor Guy Lam, and is seeking permission to develop 725 acres mauka of the airport.
That project, now known as Palamanui, would include space for a long-sought new Kona campus for the University of Hawai'i, a golf course, 825 homes and about 120 hotel units, said Guido Giacometti, the owners' representative.
Closer to Kailua, the state is considering proposals to redevelop 350 acres in the Honokohau Harbor area, and the Queen Lili'uokalani Trust is also making plans to develop lands the trust owns in the area.
Giacometti said the Palamanui developers are well aware of the public concerns about traffic from Kailua to the airport, and said the existing zoning for the Palamanui property requires the developer to build a mauka-to-makai road from Mamalahoa Highway to Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway.
That new road should help, and Giacometti said the developer hopes the Palamanui project will be better received than Clifto's was.
Ray, who was a county council member in the 1990s, said studies done years ago warned that Kona was headed for major traffic and other problems, "but really, nothing happened" to head off the problems. Ray's organization now represents major Big Island landowners.
Pushing development
Ray doesn't blame the local government entirely because the county was in an economic slump at the time. That meant there was little county money available to cope with the looming infrastructure problems, and there was political pressure on the council to push new development to get the economy moving again.
"Instead of concentrating on catching up, we were concentrating on giving entitlements but falling further and further behind" on road and other public facilities improvements need to serve the new development, Ray said.
Now there is not nearly enough state, county or federal money available to solve the problem, Ray said. He contends the only way to catch up is to approve new developments, tapping the developers for money and other help, and combine those contributions with state and county resources to speed up the necessary highway and other improvements.
Without the new projects, Ray believes the county will never catch up.
The Kona crowd openly mocked Ray when he made those same points to the council, and observers such as Sierra Club spokesman David Frankel are skeptical.
"The development community always says if you allow more development to proceed, our problems will be solved," Frankel said. "But history shows that the more development we allow, the more infrastructure problems we face."
Frankel and Yuen both say the long-term solution is to require developers to build more affordable housing close to jobs so that working people don't need to commute long distances.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Bishop Estate cares more about
hotel than the aina
A lot of attention is being paid to the federal suit brought against the Army Corps of Engineers and Hualalai Development for destroying the shoreline in front of the Four Seasons Resort in Kaupulehu. In all of the controversy about this case, there is one participant that has not been mentioned: Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate owns the land on which the Four Seasons is located.
Is it true that KS/BE has supported Hualalai Development in every way, in every permit process? Why didn't it ever do anything to preserve the shore and the cultural assets?
Through its silence, it has aligned itself with "culturally insensitive" government agencies and developers who have destroyed our shoreline.
As an alii trust, what is KS/BE's moral responsibility to the Hawaiian people, especially since it owns so much land on the island of Hawaii?
Luana Solomon
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
http://starbulletin.com/96/08/26/editorial/letters.html
October 12, 2006
Barnwell shareholder
demands breakup
The company's largest investor wants to sell off
its Canadian oil and gas business
By Dave Segal, Star-Bulletin
Barnwell Industries Inc.'s largest shareholder is demanding that the Honolulu-based company's board of directors maximize shareholder value by looking into selling off the company's oil and natural gas business in Canada.
Greenwich, Conn.-based Mercury Real Estate Advisors LLC, which owns 19.2 percent of Barnwell, said yesterday there remains "substantial unrealized value" in the assets of the company's energy business and in its real estate holdings on the Big Island.
"We believe the company's current corporate structure, egregious executive compensation and disparate business divisions are fundamentally flawed," Mercury said in a letter to Barnwell's board dated yesterday, issued via an electronic press release....
Mercury also demanded that Barnwell hire an investment bank to evaluate strategic alternatives, immediately implement a substantial stock buyback program, and set up a meeting with the seven independent directors on Barnwell's 11-member board.
Alexander Kinzler, president, chief operating officer and general counsel of Barnwell, said yesterday that Mercury had yet to contact Barnwell directly with its demands.
"Barnwell is not going to take any precipitous action based on shareholder comments put in a press release without the courtesy of sending it to the company," Kinzler said. "Shareholders make recommendations to companies and board of directors all the time and we're going to take it under advisement and deal with it in due course in an appropriate manner."
Barnwell was the best-performing Hawaii stock in each of the last two years, with a share price that doubled in both 2004 and 2005 to achieve a gain of more than 375 percent during the period. The company also split its shares twice last year, 2-for-1 in January and 3-for-1 in November.
But so far in 2006, even with the rise of the past two days, Barnwell's stock is down 14.9 percent for the year.
Mercury, in its letter, blasted Kinzler and his father, Chairman and Chief Executive Morton Kinzler, for their "million-dollar-plus salaries," which Mercury said is partly responsible for driving general and administrative expenses to 21 percent of revenue for the nine months that ended June 30.
Barnwell most recently reported Morton Kinzler's 2005 compensation as $1.1 million. He also is Barnwell's second-largest shareholder with 16 percent of the company. Alexander Kinzler's total compensation in 2005 was $1.3 million. He owns 3.6 percent of the company.
The younger Kinzler declined to comment on the compensation issue. However, he said that Barnwell's objective for "a number of years" has been to increase shareholder value and the liquidity of its stock...
Mercury demanded that Barnwell buy back stock using the $10.8 million in cash and cash equivalents on the company's balance sheet, as well as proceeds received from real estate sales from its majority-owned Big Island development.... Equity analyst Dan Pratt of John S. Herold Inc., an energy research and consulting firm in Norwalk, Conn., said yesterday that now would be a good time to sell energy interests in Canada.
Over the last several years there has been a big increase in activity in Canada by royalty trust companies, which acquire oil and natural gas assets and distribute excess cash to shareholders, he said....
http://starbulletin.com/2006/10/12/business/story01.html
October 11, 2006
Barnwell shareholder
urges energy spinoff
GREENWICH, Conn. --Barnwell Industries Inc.'s largest shareholder, Mercury Real Estate Advisors LLC, on Wednesday urged the real estate investor and oil producer's board to evaluate strategic alternatives, including the sale of its energy division.
Honolulu-based Barnwell explores for oil in Alberta, Canada, holds Hawaiian property investments and drills water and geothermal wells.
In a letter to Barnwell directors, Mercury called the company's current corporate structure "fundamentally flawed." Mercury also said it believes "a substantial share buyback program should be put into effect immediately." Mercury holds about 20 percent of Barnwell's outstanding stock.
In its argument for a spinoff of the energy unit, Mercury estimates the value of Barnwell's proven barrels of oil equivalent at about $18 per share.
A Barnwell representative could not be immediately reached for comment.
Mercury Real Estate Advisors is an affiliate of Mercury Partners LLC, a real estate investment management company based in Greenwich, Conn.
Barnwell shares jumped rose $2.01, or 10.6 percent, to $21 in morning trading on the American Stock Exchange. The stock has moved in a 52-week range of $16.82 to $28.25.
July 20, 2006
OHA buys Wao Kele forest land on Big Island
By Rod Thompson, Star-Bulletin
HILO » The Office of Hawaii Affairs has completed the purchase of 25,856 acres of forested land known as Wao Kele O Puna south of Hilo, the agency announced yesterday.
"OHA is acquiring the area to protect the natural and cultural resources on the land, to guarantee that native Hawaiians can continue to exercise traditional and customary activities on the land, and to ensure that OHA can pass it on to a sovereign governing entity," an OHA statement said.
OHA Chairwoman Haunani Apoliona called the purchase a "gifted moment" in increasing the assets of native Hawaiian people. The Hawaiian culture-based Pele Defense Fund asked the Trust for Public Lands to buy the land in February 2005. With $3.35 million of the $3.65 million purchase price supplied by the U.S. Forest Service, the sale to the trust and then to OHA was concluded Friday, OHA announced.
The term "wao kele" refers to the wet, lush middle elevations between the coast and the dry mountain uplands. Although few people lived there in ancient times, coastal dwellers often went upland to collect resources there.
Starting two miles downhill from the present Puu Oo eruption site and stretching another nine miles, Wao Kele O Puna was a site of controversy in the 1980s when a large geothermal energy development was planned in the native ohia forest by True/ Mid-Pacific Geothermal Venture.
Environmentalists and Hawaiians opposed the project, sometimes in demonstrations that resulted in arrests. The Pele Defense Fund sued to halt drilling.
Opponents credited demonstrations and the lawsuit with stopping the project. True/Mid-Pacific said it could not find a usable geothermal resource.
Meanwhile, land ownership shifted. The initially state-owned Wao Kele O Puna lands were traded in 1986 to Campbell Estate. In turn, the state received Campbell's Kahaualea lands immediately uphill.
Advocates of the exchange said it was fair because Kahaualea had better native forest, with fewer invasive non-native plants.
In 1983, eruptions began that covered much of Kahaualea with lava. Preservation of Wao Kele O Puna provides a source of plant and animal life to restore the new lava lands, OHA said.
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562 F. Supp. 82
PUNA SPEAKS, an unincorporated association, on behalf of itself and as
representative of its members, included of which are Audrey Bear-Zuboty,
Barbara Bell, Greg Cameron, Theo C. Ho, Lee A. Jung, Margaret Jung, Heather
Lyman, Greg Owens, Dennis Stout, Marthann Stout, Carl A. Vasconcellos, Glenn
Yasuda, and Thomas Zoetewey, Plaintiffs,
v.
Donald P. HODEL, United States Secretary of Energy, Hideto Kono, Director of
the Department of Planning and Economic Development, State of Hawaii, the
Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH), a Hawaii corporation,
Sidney Fuke, County of Hawaii Planning Director, Hawaiian Electric Company,
Inc., a Hawaii corporation, Susumu Ono, Chairman, Board of Land and Natural
Resources, State of Hawaii, William Yuen, Chairman, Land Use Commission, State
of Hawaii, Barnwell Geothermal Corporation, a Hawaii corporation, and Puna
Geothermal Venture, a Hawaii general partnership, Defendants.
Civ. No. 82-0457.
United States District Court,
D. Hawai'i.
Jan. 14, 1983.
*83 Jack F. Schweigert, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs.
Susan Cook, Washington, D.C., for defendant Dr. James Edwards.
Annette Y.W. Chock, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants Hideto Kono, The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and William Yuen.
R. Ben Tsukazaki, Deputy Corp. Counsel, County of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii, for defendant Sidney Fuke.
James E.T. Koshiba, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Hawaiian Elec. Co., Inc.
William T. Tam, Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Susumu Ono.
John A. Roney, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Barnwell Geothermal Corp.
Bert T. Kobayashi, Jr., Benjamin A. Kudo, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant Puna Geothermal Venture.
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND FOR MANDATORY
INJUNCTION PENDING APPEAL
FONG, District Judge.
By their Motion for Mandatory Injunction Pending Appeal filed November 5, 1982, Plaintiff PUNA SPEAKS, an unincorporated association, on behalf of itself and as representative of its members, came to this Court seeking a mandatory injunction pending appeal restraining Defendants from the operation or continuation of activities with respect to three geothermal drilling and production projects in the Puna District on the island of Hawaii.
The matter came on for hearing on December 20, 1982, on Plaintiffs' Motion, filed pursuant to Rule 8, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, for a mandatory injunction pending appeal. At that hearing, Plaintiffs also asked the Court to reconsider its December 17, 1982 Order Denying Plaintiffs' Motion For Preliminary Injunction. Just prior to the hearing on December 20, 1982, Plaintiffs filed their Notice of Appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
JACK F. SCHWEIGERT, Esq., appeared on behalf of Plaintiff PUNA SPEAKS; JAMES E.T. KOSHIBA, Esq., appeared on behalf of Defendant HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.; CAROL MURANAKA, Esq., appeared on behalf of the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Land and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice for Defendant DONALD P. HODEL, United States Secretary of Energy; ANNETTE Y.W. CHOCK, Esq., appeared on behalf of Defendants HIDETO KONO, Director of the Department of Planning and Economic Development, State of Hawaii, THE RESEARCH CORPORATION, University of Hawaii, and WILLIAM YUEN, Chairman of the LAND USE COMMISSION, State of Hawaii; R. BEN TSUKAZAKI, Esq., appeared on behalf of Defendant SIDNEY FUKE, Planning Director of the County of Hawaii; WILLIAM M. TAM, Esq., appeared on behalf of Defendant SUSUMU ONO, Chairman of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii; JOHN A. RONEY, Esq., appeared on behalf of Defendant BARNWELL GEOTHERMAL CORPORATION; and BENJAMIN A. KUDO, Esq., appeared on behalf of Defendant PUNA GEOTHERMAL VENTURE.
AND THE COURT, having considered Plaintiffs' Motion to be both a motion for reconsideration of the Court's December 17, 1982 Order Denying Plaintiffs' Motion for *84 Preliminary Injunction, as well as a motion for mandatory injunction pending appeal, having considered all of the evidence presented, having studied the various memoranda, affidavits and exhibits submitted by counsel, having heard the arguments of counsel made at the aforesaid hearing, and having studied the authorities cited by counsel and otherwise being fully advised in the premises, makes the following Findings of Fact, and Conclusions of Law and Order...
NOW, THEREFORE,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that Plaintiffs herein have failed to sustain the burden of proof for the relief prayed for.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion, considered both as one for reconsideration and for an injunction pending appeal, is therefore DENIED.
For the complete decision:
www.hawaii.edu/ohelo/courtdecisions/PunaSpeaks83.htm
From The Catbird’s Forum -
Date Posted: 08/19/05
Author: jc and ann shannon
Subject: Hawaiian Public Forgery, Hawaiian Political Constructive Fraud...
Ref.: State of Hawaii DLNR Executive Order 3117, silently executed on January 29, 1982, and the Hawaiian special entitlements using the “PUNA CONNECTION”, lobbying Native Hawaiian Rights and National political platforms in Congress.
Sequence of dates for Native Hawaiian CONSTRUCTIVE FRAUD and special racial entitlements, seeking more vested governmental powers, to defraud the unsuspecting public in the Aloha State of Hawaii....
1970 to 1974 - [George] Ariyoshi runs for statewide office as the Lt. Gov. to John Burns last Administration. Controversial Hawaiian, Larry Mehau, a former political associate and cop, is the Hawaiian connection and political fund raiser/organizer. Mehau is appointed to the powerful DLNR [Department of Land & Natural Resources] board.
1974 to 1978 - Ariyoshi is elected Governor with the Big Island Lt. Gov. Nelson Doi. ... Mehau is appointed to another term with the DLNR. ...
1978 to 1982 - The woman movement is in full peak and Doi is dumped in favor of Jean S. King. Doi is appointed to a Federal judges position to help establish the government for the Marshall Islands. Ariyoshi and King differ on growth and development for Hawaii....Ariyoshi being pro development and business more than King. Mehau is the Hawaiian political organizer and fund raiser but is left off the BLNR appointment, while establishing his Hawaii Protective Security Agency.
1982 to 1986 - Ariyoshi defeats King in the DNC primaries and becomes Governor with his young (34 yrs old) and new Big Island Native Hawaiian Lt. Gov., lawyer, and real estate investor, John Waihee, opening the doors for the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement activist.
With this brief Hawaii political background, the Native Hawaiian Constructive Fraud, during this time frame, in the Puna diversified agriculture district, on the secluded Big Island of Hawaii continues ...
January 29, 1982 - Executive Order 3117, attaching the DLNR state survey map, is executed and deceptively implemented and assigned to the remote Public State Park, in lower Puna, manipulating the Public’s important legal public records with the DLNR Bureau of Conveyance, to secretly regulate, manipulate, control, and protect, exclusive Hawaiian land locked roadway entrances to the public’s private fee simple properties to secretly scrutinize and defraud future invested private assets and proceeds. Executive Order 3117 could also secretly regulate, manipulate, protect, and control, the manipulated public’s legal access, as well as scrutinizing and protecting lucrative and clandestine diversified agriculture cultivation, distributions, and illicit revenues. The powerful DLNR controlled under its jurisdiction: all small boat harbors ... ; small airfields ...; all Public and State Parks and Forestry Lands; and all DOT [Dept. of Transportation] road entrances on the Big Island of Hawaii.
November, 1982 - Shortly after the re-election of Ariyoshi and Waihee, Hurricane Iwa slams into the Hawaiian Islands, requiring multimillions of FEMA Funds to address the destruction and damage.
January 3, 1983 - Within a few months after the election, the sudden eruption and destruction of Kilauea Volcano, in the Puna District on the Big Island of Hawaii, now requires more Federal and State FEMA funds, being authorized and intermixed with DLNR public revenues being deceptively generated by Executive Order 3117 in the economically depressed Puna District and a Public State Park. The vested powers of E.O. 3117 ... authorizes DLNR Treasury funds to be allocated to the Kalapana victims (Waihee’s constituents) and Royal Garden Estate Subdivision (Ariyoshi’s development). Replacement Hawaiian Home Lands funds at low interest rates which were to be allocated for Kilkala-Keokea Subdivision, outside of Kapapana and beneath the same hazardous volcano vent, were being paid to the Hawaiian Developer Estate to deceptively create a fictious subdivision while manipulated FEMA funds were being channeled, diverted, and manipulated, to finally stop the development “due to lack of funds” after investing and bull-dozing the lava fields and water fire hydrant installations giving the illusion of creating a subdivision for the manipulated natural disaster victims.
(See: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/erupt/1983to1986.html)
May of 1990 - the private “outside” family (Hawaiian Airline pilot) living next door to the Hawaiian Developer Estate, who had his official legal access documents suppressed back on June 15, 1981, filed for Federal Bankruptcy (case no: 99-00227) after failing to sell his unknown land-locked property for many years. He loses about $350,000 dollars.
On his testimonial, he offered bribery fees and paid extorted legal access fees to the Hawaiian Developers former subdivision association, which was a fraudulent and illegal access right of way. The Hawaiian Developers Estate, in collusion with the DLNR official (Taguchi) were responsible for his family’s demise. The DLNR land agent, Taguchi, has since been promoted to the State Public Parks division to protect and suppress the fraud in lower Puna. The Federal Trustee, from Las Vegas, Nevada, was elderly, ill, and an “outsider”. His young “assistant” political front, was an attractive young haole, married to an “inside” local, named Mary Lou WOO, from Honolulu, Hawaii.
The legal access documents and manipulation were to be updated and corrected to offer the public a free and clear title in a Federal Public Auction. The suppressed fraud continued with the suppression of the official legal access documents with the silent existence for Executive Order 3117, nullifying and voiding the historic Executive Order 1750, in the Public State Park.
The government SNAFU now includes the manipulation, defrauding, and tampering with all CONSTITUTIONAL Federal Bankruptcy Courts, Federal Bankruptcy Judges, Federal Trustees, Federal Public Auctions, Federal Truth in Lending Laws, Federal Title, Insurance, and Mortgages disclosures, Federal FEMA funds, Federal Agriculture Regulations, and all Federal Inter-Commerce Trading acts, in the Aloha State of Hawaii.
Sept. 1990 - an “outsider” San Francisco developer, at the last minute during the Federal Public auction, outbids the Hawaii huis for the fraudulent Hawaiian property, near the public state park. He invested another $150,000 to remodel the beautiful plantation home and macadamia nut property, but after many years and being harassed and intimidated by the Hawaiian developer and huis, he fails to sell the property and is almost in bankruptcy.
1994 - A mysterious, eccentric, elderly multimillionaire owner, purchases the Hawaiian Developers property, adjacent to the public state park, using a hidden Revocable Trust Title deed as a “front” for the Hawaiian Developers Estate.
1996 - Peter Savio real estate agents “purchases” the deceptive property from the two “fronts”... the multimillionaire and the Hawaiian Developer. They all planned to convert, develop, and profit from the mini subdivision of five one-acre plots, to be called Lava Tree Estates. After several months of initial investments, by Savio, et al. for surveying, and designing, the subdivision is stopped by the Hawaii County Planning Dept, after repeated documented requests for the legal access problem, due to the unknown Executive Order 3117, the unknown suppressed DLNR legal access documents, and the land locking of private fee simple property in lower Puna. This becomes documented “inside” government racketeering, knowing in advance, to the fraud and corruption between the State DLNR land agent, the Hawaiian Developer, and the Hawaii County officials....
... Read the full post in The Catbird’s Forum: at www.voy.com/129276/189.html
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For more history, GO TO > > >
www.hawaii-nation.org/pash.html
http://www.environment-hawaii.org/594board.htm
http://starbulletin.com/97/07/21/news/story6.html
http://www.environment-hawaii.org/591picht.htm
http://www.starbulletin.com/96/07/03/news/story2.html
http://www.middleeast.org/forum/fb-public/1/2152.shtml
www.hawaiidatabooks.com/bigisland/landowner.html
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June 3, 2000
Kamehameha Schools project begins in Puna
By Hugh Clark, The Honolulu Advertiser
KEAAU, Hawaii - The first phase of a Kamehameha Schools East Hawaii campus that will eventually have an enrollment of 2,000 Hawaiian children was launched yesterday in a groundbreaking ceremony south of Keaau in Puna.
The $30 million initial stage of the campus is expected to open for the 2001 school year for students in Grades 6 to 8....
When fully developed, it will be the Big Island’s largest private school. The campus is to be built on 300 acres of former pasture land previously owned by W.H. Shipman Ltd.
Robert Kihune, chairman of the interim board of trustees for the schools, said: “Rather than growing agricultural products, this land will now be raising good and industrious men and women for the betterment of the state of Hawaii.”
“Pauahi (the Hawaiian princess whose estate established the school) is smiling on us today,” said Hamilton McCubbin, chief executive officer of the schools. “She is smiling because we are doing something today that will help better the lives of the Hawaiian people.”
Kamehameha President Michael Chun predicted the school “should be the finest educational facility we can provide for our children.”
Construction will begin in July and take about one year. During a site visit in November by the state Land Use Commission, Kamehameha officials estimated the entire campus would cost about $260 million to build...
Kamehameha opened a temporary East Hawaii campus in Keaukaha in September 1996 on Hawaiian Home Lands property. It has 152 students from kindergarten through the sixth grade.
For more, GO TO > > > Dirty Money, Dirty Politics & Bishop Estate; Vultures in the Sandwich Isles
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And, for the little-mentioned, potential health hazards to “our children” of Puna, GO TO > > > www.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/h2s/hawaii.html
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And, for even more, GO TO > > > www.environment-hawaii.org/692geo.htm
September 12, 2003
ICE STORM
EPIDEMIC OF THE ISLANDS
Pahoa works to erase image as an ‘ice’ haven
by Rod Thompson, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
PAHOA, Hawaii - About 25 Pahoa residents were meeting with Mayor Harry Kim last year, planning how to force drug dealers out of town when one of the participants blurted out, “Look out the window.”
Across the town’s narrow main street, a dealer and a customer were exchanging drugs and money, said gift shop attendant Malia Brown, who was sitting next to the mayor.
Within seconds a police car pulled alongside the drug deal, Brown said. The officer in the car waved to the dealer and customer and drove away, she said.
The mayor was speechless, Brown said.
Pahoa, the former sugar town in the Puna district south of Hilo, turned hippie haven in the 1970s, was becoming a crystal methamphetamine haven. And with “ice” came crime, including violent offenses, a new experience for the small town.
But the community is working hard to change....
Former Puna Sugar Co. supervisor Hiroo Sato, who wrote a history called “Pahoa Yesterday,” said the biggest change in the town’s history was the closing of Puna Sugar in 1984.
Marijuana production filled the gap. “This town had a boom because of it, said Siracusa.
“A lot of businesses that got started, got started on pot money.”...
http://starbulletin.com/2003/09/12/news/story4.html
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For even more on the Drug Connections, GO TO > > >
http://starbulletin.com/2005/09/20/news/index6.html
http://starbulletin.com/2005/09/22/news/index4.html
http://www.hawaiianacres.org/history.html
http://www.healingourisland.com/hl_2005_03.html
http://starbulletin.com/2003/06/13/news/story4.html
http://starbulletin.com/97/08/18/news/story3.html
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=87916
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/hi/pr/2003/0504postadan.html
http://starbulletin.com/98/07/31/news/satnews.html
www.the-catbird-seat.net/DrugVultures.htm
www.the-catbird-seat.net/Henhut.htm
www.drugwar.com/ruppertindex.shtm
July 3, 1996
The Chee Papers
Web of Association Started
with Aiea Real Estate Deal
By Ian Y. Lind, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
How did a local crime figure and the head of a major real estate firm wind up linked to a proposed residential development?
The way was paved when former Waikiki owner Steve Crouch turned to unconventional sources to finance initial stages of the project, his first venture. Details of the resulting deal emerged in court files after Crouch defaulted on a series of loans and was hit with a foreclosure lawsuit.
Crouch, who ran the Masquerade nightclub until it closed in 1990, had bought, bartered and talked his way into majority ownership of four acres of land on Aiea Heights.
When he couldn't get a bank loan to develop the property, Crouch sought help from Gabriel "Gabe" Aio, a longtime friend. Aio, a security coordinator for Matson Navigation Co., also claims a lengthy relationship with Hawaii Protective Association, a private security firm headed by politically influential Big Island rancher Larry Mehau.
The contact got results: Aio took Crouch to meet with crime figure Jesse James Bates, who agreed to help arrange a $300,000 loan in exchange for an exclusive construction trucking contract for the development and a discount on the purchase of two homes, Aio and Crouch said. Bates, in turn, set up a meeting with Bill Chee, president of Prudential Locations Inc., where Bates' wife, Kathleen "Bunny" Bates, worked as a broker.
Aio told the Star-Bulletin he has known Jesse Bates since the two spent time together as teen-agers at the state Youth Correctional Facility in the 1960s.
Bates was convicted of manslaughter and bank robbery in the early 1970s, and later served prison sentences for counterfeiting and armed robbery. He was paroled in 1989 and, at the time of the meeting with Crouch and Aio, was starting a trucking company.
Federal court records in a later drug case say he had also been involved in cocaine distribution since 1990.
Aio and Crouch both say Bates agreed to help, then told them he was in business with Chee....
During the first week in Jan 1993, when the men met for a second time, Chee agreed to loan the $300,000 Crouch requested, plus another $127,000 to pay off other mortgages on the property. Loan documents show that prepaid interest of $143,000 (or 33.3 percent) was added, bringing the amount to be repaid to $570,000. . . .
The loan had several other unusual aspects, court records show:
>> Chee used $427,000 of his own funds to make the loan, but took deliberate steps to conceal his involvement. According to internal company documents later disclosed in court proceedings, Chee instructed loan administrators that "Crouch is not to know the source of the proceeds."
>> Chee approved the loan without a current appraisal, without a credit check, and without knowing whether Crouch or his wife was employed or had any current income...
Allegations of EXTORTION
Thieves last year stole thousands of pages of documents from the Honolulu law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, says senior partner Paul Alston....
He says the theft was part of an extortion scheme aimed at him and real estate executive William S. Chee. The two say they have been publicly accused of "outrageous criminal acts" to "strong- arm" them into not collecting on a bad debt. Copies of stolen documents have been circulated with some of those accusations.
Alston and Chee have filed suits in state and federal courts blaming former Waikiki nightclub operator Steve Crouch and two supporters for the 1995 theft and extortion attempt, which allegedly occurred after Crouch defaulted on three real estate loans....
Chee's attorney, John Komeiji, said former Gov. George Ariyoshi, a member of Komeiji's law firm, sought the help of Big Island rancher Larry Mehau during behind-the-scene negotiations aimed at settling the dispute with Crouch. Mehau was contacted because of Crouch's association with Gabriel "Gabe" Aio, a longtime associate of Mehau's....
Chee is president of Prudential Locations Inc., until recently the state's largest real estate firm, and is president and chairman of Resco Inc., its parent company. Alton is a director of Resco and some subsidiaries, and his law firm represents the companies. Alston and Chee are related by marriage.
Beginning in early 1993, Alston and Chee purchased $1 million in mortgage loans that Crouch and his company, MLC Inc., obtained to fund initial stages of a proposed 19-home development in Aiea Heights....
According to court records, dozens of the stolen documents spilled into view this year when they were included in fliers accusing Chee and Alston of numerous crimes related to the Crouch loans, including fraud, conspiracy and taking part in a money-laundering scheme linked to well-known Hawaii crime figure Jesse James Bates.
Thousands of copies of the fliers, including what purported to be a letter from Bates describing the conspiracy, were passed out on downtown street corners and at a national Prudential convention hosted by Chee at Blaisdell Center. The fliers were distributed by Nolan Crabbe, a contractor who says he is running for the 2nd Congressional District seat....
Crouch, who has filed for personal and corporate bankruptcy, says he obtained copies of the stolen documents late last year when four boxes were left anonymously at his home.
Crouch says the documents show Alston and Chee conspired to put him out of business by secretly buying his mortgages at the same time their company, Prudential Locations, was the project's exclusive sales agent....
Alston rejects Crouch's allegations....
www.starbulletin.com/96/07/03/news/story2.html
(Catbird Note: William Chee is also a Director of Hawaii National Bank - along with Warren K.K. Luke. Warren Luke is also a major stockholder and director of The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, along with Larry Johnson, Colbert Matsumoto, and Jeffrey Watanabe.)
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Attn: Robin Matsunaga (Ombudsman Office Director)
Ref: The Akaka Bill (S 147) and future special ethnic entitlements in multiracial Hawaii.
How foreign money influence in the Hawaiian Islands, allowed by former Public elected officials in Hawaii and the political embedding of former radical Asian Dictatorships, looting their own countries assets and the foreign political influence in Hawaii (Marcos, Rhee, Lon Nol, and Sukarno) and their embedding influence for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Hawaiian Home Land agency, and the very close relationship between the nonprofit Kamehameha Schools / Bishop Estate Trust, which has quietly embedded itself over the years into Public elected Hawaiian governments to retain exclusive PUBLIC subsidized funding mechanisms for perpetual affirmative programs, based on dysfunctional Constitutional Laws in isolated Hawaii.
When the public in Hawaii has legitimate consumer or government complaints, Mr. Matsunaga, against the exposure for potential Hawaiian government sponsored FRAUD, everyone associated to self insulated Hawaiian protected regulated monopolies, otherwise known as embedded HAWAIIAN HUIS (silent investors) are immune and protected from any form of blatant public corruption, under the name of Native Hawaiian Rights, embedded in Public elected Hawaiian Government.
This is the dual Hawaiian government standards that the passage for the very vague intents for the Native Hawaiian Akaka Bill, will allow in the future for the manipulated Public, Tourist, and Federal government programs. The deceptive political vested Hawaiian governmental powers being allocated to a very special entitlement Hawaiian Government who's original purposes was supposedly to serve the public and not government.
This is the silent innovative legal creation for a future separatist Hawaiian government with one set of regulations for the manipulated Public to comply to all Federal, State, and local regulations and one creative set of Native Hawaiian dysfunctional regulations for the special entitlement Hawaiian Government huis, embedded with political KS / BE associates (i.e. Anzai's, Tius, Woo,), associated to Public elected officials (Cayetano, Waihee, Ariyoshi, Akaka, Inouye), and former controversial political associates, appointees, and political fund raisers (Mehau), embedded perpetually into dysfunctional Hawaiian Government.
A good example of this dysfunction in Hawaiian government: If the Public encroaches upon the State Public lands, they will be immediately fined and held accountable to all Federal, State, and local regulations.
However, if the self insulated Hawaii State government (and their embedded Hawaiian huis associated to KS / BE), encroaches upon the public's private lands, the immunity protection and delayed legal process allowed for the State Government officials and their embedded Hawaiian government huis (INVESTORS) is to retain the deceptive control of the encroached Hawaiian private lands, ignore the public's supporting evidence, to now ask for a Hawaiian "leasehold" options purchase for the public's "shaped" Constitutional Rights for the use of an exclusive private Hawaiian roads to the public's private FEE SIMPLE land locked properties in the Aloha State of Hawaii.
This is the ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL conversion and non disclosures allowed by Hawaiian government to market to the public FEE SIMPLE; LAND LOCKED HAWAIIAN PUBLIC LANDS TO BE SCRUTINIZED, RETAINED, AND DEFRAUDED IN THE FUTURE....period!
If the Hawaii Government officials, sees an opportunity to create additional public revenues and fines against the manipulated public, they will become the innovative Hawaiian Io (Hawk), using every public instrument, tool, and department to scrutinize, fine, and generate more public revenues, to be subsidized for the Hawaiian nonprofit organizations and their political huis associated to Hawaiian government.
This is the exclusive over sighted Hawaiian government political special entitlements and regulated monopolies, being allowed by Federal, State, and Local officials, in Honolulu and Washington, to secretly and discriminatory retain special entitlement privacy, protection, and shelter, to regulate and control exclusive Hawaiian private roads to PROTECT silent and vague Hawaiian political and economic agendas in isolated Hawaii.
With the advanced government knowledge to manipulate important public records, (Executive Order 3117 and the Bureau of Conveyance), in the name of Native Hawaiian Rights, to defraud lucrative public revenues (Diversified Agriculture, and FEMA Funds) and the unsuspecting public's private "fee simple" manipulated properties and their invested assets and proceeds, any Public Constitutional growth and development can be deceptively and illegally controlled and regulated, for the Hawaiian huis, regulated monopolies, and their political associates embedded in Hawaiian State and local Governments.
The revised and vague intent for the pending Akaka Bill in Washington, without any authorization or review by the other Native Hawaiian constituents (14 other Hawaiian organizations and counting) and the vast MAJORITY for the 1.2 million manipulated multiracial public in Hawaii, including the huge National social and economic ramifications for the rest of the United States, which would deceptively allow a new and creative Hawaiian political foundation, for a new Native Hawaiian Reservation, for another Native Hawaiian BROKEN TRUST deeply embedded into the Aloha State Hawaiian Government.
The Public elected officials in Hawaii and their political appointees have forgotten that they were elected or appointed to their government positions, which were created by the people, for the people, to serve the people......however, the political Hawaii Ombudsman Office, the political RICO, the political Hawaii ABA, the political Hawaii ACLU, and the political Judicial Branch in Hawaii, seem to have their own exclusive political and lucrative economic agendas, for more special entitlements, hiding perpetually behind ethnic rights, to subsidize the Public revenues for nonprofit Native Hawaiian Affirmation Organizations. (Related attachments from PBS news.)
Let's have lunch in the future, on me, Mr. Matsunaga, and maybe you can explain your illogical Ombudsman Office reasoning for "Setting Aside Public Lands for Who's Public Purposes and Executive Order 3117, now requiring Federal Registry Executive Order 13372, to protect the manipulated and defrauded PUBLIC and the U.S. Constitution in the Aloha State of Hawaii.”
"PRIVATE RESERVE.....NO EAGLES ALLOWED. Hawaii and Iraq two birds of a feather....."
Have you completed your Tour of Duty in the lava fields in Puna, Hawaii?
- The new Royal Order of the Hawaiian Catbird Club (all genders welcome)
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For more on the constitutionality of the Akaka Bill, GO TO > > >
http://starbulletin.com/2005/09/22/news/index2.html
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For the latest from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, GO TO > > >
www.oha.org/content.asp?contentid=410
www.oha.org/content.asp?contentid=422
www.oha.org/content.asp?ContentId=427
www.oha.org/cat_content.asp?contentid=17&catid=26
TO BE CONTINUED...
Meanwhile, back in The Catbird Seat you can check out more of the Puna Connections in the following nests:
TRACKING THE FLOCK OF AIPAC VULTURES
CONFESSIONS OF A WHISTLEBLOWER
DIRTY MONEY, DIRTY POLITICS & BISHOP ESTATE
THE GRAND (AND DIRTY) KO OLINA
THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
PRUDENTIAL: A NEST ON SHAKY GROUND
THE BUZZARDS IN THE HALLS OF JUSTICE
THE VULTURES IN MAUNAWILI VALLEY
VULTURES ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS
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