DOES WIKIPEDIA HATE HAWAIIANS?
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MAKE-BELIEVE ENCYCLOPEDIA PILES ON WOUNDED MOLOKAI
MAINLAND REPUBLICAN DEVELOPERS TAKING OVER HAWAII PAGES FOR PR?
Many People Take These Fictitious, Biased, Bigoted "Articles" To Be Factual
There is no fact-checking on Wikipedia. A bunch of amateurs crib stuff from real reference works, lard in their own unlettered opinions and stuff from their personal agendas, and voila, instant truth. Not.
There have been many instances in the recent past when politicos and corporate types posted blatant PR and propaganda as objective fact, or altered other people's posts to remove facts they found embarassing on Wikipedia. Now they are taking over whole sections of the fauxyclopedia, and really workin' it.
I caught them out recently, in browsing the Hawaii pages on Wikipedia. Posted below, you'll see the glaringly obvious editorializing (and my response, which was immediately deleted). You never hear bullshit like this in Hawaii unless it's from one of the rich right-wing racist Republican assholes that the Party sends over here with lawyers, guns and money, attacking Hawaiian rights in the Courts and in their tame pet corporate Mainland-owned local newspapers and halls of government. I never could quite understand why they would bother. Now I know. Hawaiians and Hawaiian rights stand in the way of the final and fatal over-development of this former paradise.
At best, Hawaiians could demand, and maybe even get, input on design and a piece of the action on any major development in Hawaii, especially "up the country," on the less-"developed' neighbor islands, and along the shorelines of all the Isles, which are supposed to belong to all of us.
At worst, the Hawaiian people and their friends throughout Hawaii and the world could put a stop to potentially any big project. The unresolved issues of Hawaiian sovereignty, Hawaiian homelands, and the right to revenues from government owned and managed former Crown lands give force to any argument against development.
The fact is, nobody but a few greedy pigs wants to see Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Maui or the Big Island of Hawaii turned into another over-crowded, polluted, over-priced, drug & crime-infested, diminishing quality of life nightmare like much of the main island of Oahu, where roughly 900,000 of the State's approximately 1.2 million people live, in a mini-L.A. Yes, everybody would like jobs, and housing, and government services. But not at the expense of their whole way of life on the outer islands.
If "sustainability" and "green" this and that are anything but buzzwords, they need to be applied here. If Hawaii can grow in a way that doesn't resemble an inoperable cancer, local people will consider it. If the unique way of life here can be preserved alongside a little higher standard of living, some development might even be welcome. But not the kind of grotesquely inappropriate nonsense that Asian gangsters and their flacks on Wikipedia and in our corporate media and government are trying to shove down Molokaians throats now. Read it and weep. Is this any way to run a utopia?
WIKIPEDIA:
Molokai - culture
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[MY RESPONSE ON WIKIPEDIA, SINCE CENSORED]:
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*NOTE: While a few Molokaians may oppose any and all development in principle, most were willing to arrive at some compromise with the new, foreign owners of the old Molokai Ranch. The foreign investors' proposal for a super-luxury international resort and millionaires' housing development was judged largely inappropriate for the character of the island and its' people by a majority of the people themselves. It could have meant the destruction of the environment and the society of the Friendly Isle, and it might have eliminated the reasons people come to this small, quiet island in the first place. It was these investors who refused to consider any compromise, and who then shut down the Ranch, the island's largest employer, and threatened to shut down its' water system, which provides most of the area's drinking water, in violation of their agreements and obligations to the State of Hawaii and its' people.
The Molokai Times
"Crisis: Community entreats group to evaluate, provide for needs of belabored West End"
Honolulu Weekly
"A Report From Molokai p.1"
"A Report From Molokai p.2"
"A Report From Molokai p.3"
Honolulu Advertiser
"Ranch's fate determined by billionaire"
The Maui News
"Conglomerate never intended to operate MPL"
As to the "fact" that most people in Hawaii regard the people of the "Friendly Isle" as unfriendly to "Westerners;" and that Molokaians oppose "Westernization;" and that unemployment on Molokai is due to "lack of Westernization:" These are opinions, not facts. These are opinions one never hears expressed here in Hawaii. These are opinions contradicted by facts the author himself cites in his own article. The population is itself 21.3% "Western:"
"15.65% White, "0.43% African American," "Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.22% of the population"
The population is also "18.70% Asian", and "30.87% from two or more races". "34.35% are Pacific Islander", which includes every island in the Pacific, not just Hawaii.
Molokai is, like all of Hawaii, ethnically and culturally mixed. Western influences have largely dominated: The first language of nearly everyone born in the State of Hawaii is English. The local "patois" is Pidgin English, with elements of Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Chamorro, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Ilocano, Okinawan, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc. Most people on Molokai wear the same kind of clothing, live in the same kinds of houses, drive the same kinds of cars, do the same kinds of jobs, attend the same kinds of schools, worship at the same kinds of churches, serve in government and the military, and observe the same customs as most people the rest of the State, and much of the Mainland (at least the warmer parts). They could hardly be more "Westernized." What many object to on Molokai, and throughout the State, and the Mainland, and the World, is over-development, and attempts to achieve it by undemocratic means, including forced unemployment.
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WIKIPEDIA:
Molokai - Towns & Villages - Maunaloa - economy
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[MY RESPONSE ON WIKIPEDIA, SINCE CENSORED]:
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*NOTE: While a few Molokaians may oppose any and all development in principle, most were willing to arrive at some compromise with the new, foreign owners of the old Molokai Ranch. The foreign investors' proposal for a super-luxury international resort and millionaires' housing development was judged largely inappropriate for the character of the island and its' people by a majority of the people themselves. It could have meant the destruction of the environment and the society of the Friendly Isle, and it might have eliminated the reasons people come to this small, quiet island in the first place. It was these investors who refused to consider any compromise, and who then shut down the Ranch, the island's largest employer, and threatened to shut down its' water system, which provides most of the area's drinking water, in violation of their agreements and obligations to the State of Hawaii and its' people.
The Molokai Times
"Crisis: Community entreats group to evaluate, provide for needs of belabored West End"
Honolulu Weekly
"A Report From Molokai p.1"
"A Report From Molokai p.2"
"A Report From Molokai p.3"
Honolulu Advertiser
"Ranch's fate determined by billionaire"
The Maui News
"Conglomerate never intended to operate MPL"
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MOLOKAI WATER STORY I.
"MOLOKAI: ATTACKING THE HEART OF HAWAII"
MOLOKAI WATER STORY III.
"MOLOKAI HITS A DRY PATCH"
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MAKE-BELIEVE ENCYCLOPEDIA PILES ON WOUNDED MOLOKAI
MAINLAND REPUBLICAN DEVELOPERS TAKING OVER HAWAII PAGES FOR PR?
Many People Take These Fictitious, Biased, Bigoted "Articles" To Be Factual
There is no fact-checking on Wikipedia. A bunch of amateurs crib stuff from real reference works, lard in their own unlettered opinions and stuff from their personal agendas, and voila, instant truth. Not.
There have been many instances in the recent past when politicos and corporate types posted blatant PR and propaganda as objective fact, or altered other people's posts to remove facts they found embarassing on Wikipedia. Now they are taking over whole sections of the fauxyclopedia, and really workin' it.
I caught them out recently, in browsing the Hawaii pages on Wikipedia. Posted below, you'll see the glaringly obvious editorializing (and my response, which was immediately deleted). You never hear bullshit like this in Hawaii unless it's from one of the rich right-wing racist Republican assholes that the Party sends over here with lawyers, guns and money, attacking Hawaiian rights in the Courts and in their tame pet corporate Mainland-owned local newspapers and halls of government. I never could quite understand why they would bother. Now I know. Hawaiians and Hawaiian rights stand in the way of the final and fatal over-development of this former paradise.
At best, Hawaiians could demand, and maybe even get, input on design and a piece of the action on any major development in Hawaii, especially "up the country," on the less-"developed' neighbor islands, and along the shorelines of all the Isles, which are supposed to belong to all of us.
At worst, the Hawaiian people and their friends throughout Hawaii and the world could put a stop to potentially any big project. The unresolved issues of Hawaiian sovereignty, Hawaiian homelands, and the right to revenues from government owned and managed former Crown lands give force to any argument against development.
The fact is, nobody but a few greedy pigs wants to see Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Maui or the Big Island of Hawaii turned into another over-crowded, polluted, over-priced, drug & crime-infested, diminishing quality of life nightmare like much of the main island of Oahu, where roughly 900,000 of the State's approximately 1.2 million people live, in a mini-L.A. Yes, everybody would like jobs, and housing, and government services. But not at the expense of their whole way of life on the outer islands.
If "sustainability" and "green" this and that are anything but buzzwords, they need to be applied here. If Hawaii can grow in a way that doesn't resemble an inoperable cancer, local people will consider it. If the unique way of life here can be preserved alongside a little higher standard of living, some development might even be welcome. But not the kind of grotesquely inappropriate nonsense that Asian gangsters and their flacks on Wikipedia and in our corporate media and government are trying to shove down Molokaians throats now. Read it and weep. Is this any way to run a utopia?
WIKIPEDIA:
Molokai - culture
" Moloka{{okina}}i has a reputation in Hawaii as an island where westerners are not welcome. There have been numerous attempts in Moloka{{okina}}i to stop development of hotels and other tourists resorts by the largely indigenous population opposed to westernization. In frustration the Molokai Ranch, the island's largest employer, decided on March 24th 2008 to shut all operations, resulting in a layoff of 120 workers. The Ranch cited community opposition to its plan of developing a multi-million dollar beachfront estate. The lack of westernization has resulted in the highest unemployment in all of Hawaii. "
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[MY RESPONSE ON WIKIPEDIA, SINCE CENSORED]:
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*NOTE: While a few Molokaians may oppose any and all development in principle, most were willing to arrive at some compromise with the new, foreign owners of the old Molokai Ranch. The foreign investors' proposal for a super-luxury international resort and millionaires' housing development was judged largely inappropriate for the character of the island and its' people by a majority of the people themselves. It could have meant the destruction of the environment and the society of the Friendly Isle, and it might have eliminated the reasons people come to this small, quiet island in the first place. It was these investors who refused to consider any compromise, and who then shut down the Ranch, the island's largest employer, and threatened to shut down its' water system, which provides most of the area's drinking water, in violation of their agreements and obligations to the State of Hawaii and its' people.
The Molokai Times
"Crisis: Community entreats group to evaluate, provide for needs of belabored West End"
Honolulu Weekly
"A Report From Molokai p.1"
"A Report From Molokai p.2"
"A Report From Molokai p.3"
Honolulu Advertiser
"Ranch's fate determined by billionaire"
The Maui News
"Conglomerate never intended to operate MPL"
As to the "fact" that most people in Hawaii regard the people of the "Friendly Isle" as unfriendly to "Westerners;" and that Molokaians oppose "Westernization;" and that unemployment on Molokai is due to "lack of Westernization:" These are opinions, not facts. These are opinions one never hears expressed here in Hawaii. These are opinions contradicted by facts the author himself cites in his own article. The population is itself 21.3% "Western:"
"15.65% White, "0.43% African American," "Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.22% of the population"
The population is also "18.70% Asian", and "30.87% from two or more races". "34.35% are Pacific Islander", which includes every island in the Pacific, not just Hawaii.
Molokai is, like all of Hawaii, ethnically and culturally mixed. Western influences have largely dominated: The first language of nearly everyone born in the State of Hawaii is English. The local "patois" is Pidgin English, with elements of Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Chamorro, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Ilocano, Okinawan, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc. Most people on Molokai wear the same kind of clothing, live in the same kinds of houses, drive the same kinds of cars, do the same kinds of jobs, attend the same kinds of schools, worship at the same kinds of churches, serve in government and the military, and observe the same customs as most people the rest of the State, and much of the Mainland (at least the warmer parts). They could hardly be more "Westernized." What many object to on Molokai, and throughout the State, and the Mainland, and the World, is over-development, and attempts to achieve it by undemocratic means, including forced unemployment.
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WIKIPEDIA:
Molokai - Towns & Villages - Maunaloa - economy
" == Economy ==
The major employer in town was Molokai Ranch that owns about one third of the island's land. Ranch had a small 22 room hotel, gas station, golf club and cattle-rearing businesses around the town. But in April 2008 company was forced to close all those businesses because of the opposition of the community to any, even minor, developments on the island. Molokai Ranch to quit island[http://starbulletin.com/2008/03/25/news/story01.html] "
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[MY RESPONSE ON WIKIPEDIA, SINCE CENSORED]:
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*NOTE: While a few Molokaians may oppose any and all development in principle, most were willing to arrive at some compromise with the new, foreign owners of the old Molokai Ranch. The foreign investors' proposal for a super-luxury international resort and millionaires' housing development was judged largely inappropriate for the character of the island and its' people by a majority of the people themselves. It could have meant the destruction of the environment and the society of the Friendly Isle, and it might have eliminated the reasons people come to this small, quiet island in the first place. It was these investors who refused to consider any compromise, and who then shut down the Ranch, the island's largest employer, and threatened to shut down its' water system, which provides most of the area's drinking water, in violation of their agreements and obligations to the State of Hawaii and its' people.
The Molokai Times
"Crisis: Community entreats group to evaluate, provide for needs of belabored West End"
Honolulu Weekly
"A Report From Molokai p.1"
"A Report From Molokai p.2"
"A Report From Molokai p.3"
Honolulu Advertiser
"Ranch's fate determined by billionaire"
The Maui News
"Conglomerate never intended to operate MPL"
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MOLOKAI WATER STORY I.
"MOLOKAI: ATTACKING THE HEART OF HAWAII"
MOLOKAI WATER STORY III.
"MOLOKAI HITS A DRY PATCH"
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Labels: developer cutting water supply, hawaii, Maunaloa, Molokai Ranch closing, Molokai Water Story
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