Information from a highly reliable source—a person of high integrity who is on Maui and is involved with the emergency response—has confirmed the situation on Maui is far worse than what is being reported.
This from thegatewaypundit.com.
The source last week said the Maui government is covering up the deaths.
The source had just returned from a big meeting on Oahu convened to coordinate the response to the disaster. The source said that there are 2000 people missing and that FEMA estimates at least 1-2000 dead on Maui, especially Lahaina. It was essentially burned to the ground and the residents were told to shelter in place. Many are probably dead.
It is no surprise that Hawaiian authorities raised the death toll yesterday to 106. No doubt, that number will continue to rise.
The source said that Maui authorities will not declare human remains as another countable death unless the body is complete. Seriously? When a corpse is made so by being incinerated merely finding teeth will be a challenge.
All human remains are to remain in place until a team of 6-7 forensics specialists can determine no foul play. No foul play, HELL the whole damn sad situation is foul play. And their work will take weeks, so the bodies will either rot, or be stripped by maggots/vermin.
This is a catastrophe beyond imagination and the response of the State government has been appalling.
Surprisingly, local rescue workers have high praise for the FEMA response team. They are doing the work the State government refused to do.
Instead of transparency it looks like the outside world is being fed disinformation by the local government in order to down play the scope and scale of the disaster.
The following from Aislyn Greene on afar.com.
Is there ever an appropriate time to discuss secession?
Below are excerpts from an article published September 2, 2021, in which a Hawai’ian scholar explains the multifaceted Hawai‘i Sovereignty Movement, which is pushing for the United States to return land taken during an 1893 coup d’état that overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy.
Another U.S.-instigated coup d’etats, who woulda thought?
The Sovereignty Movement comes out of antimilitary activism in the 1970s. It started to encompass a resentment of the U.S. military in the fight to reclaim Kaho‘olawe Island in the mid-1970s. The movement continued to build and is marked by the commemoration in 1993. [Many] different organizations came together to commemorate 100 years since the illegal overthrow of the Queen and the taking of our Kingdom government in January 1893.
What’s at stake here is 1.75 million acres of land—close to half of the lands of the archipelago—and the right of the Hawai‘ian people to their own government. But the sovereignty movement is not one monolithic energy source. The Hawai’ian people do not agree among themselves about what form that sovereignty should take.
There are some people who claim that the Kingdom government was a part of this family of nations in the 19th century. They believe that [the Hawai‘ian] government was entitled to international protection—and still is—and that America’s presence here is as an illegal occupier in the same way that Germany illegally occupied countries during WWII. [Those who believe this think the] U.S. must be compelled to give us our country back, restore our lands, and probably pay a huge lease fee for all of the lands it has used.
There are other people in the sovereignty movement who believe a return of land will never happen and so the Hawai’ian people should pursue a relationship with the United States that allows them control over some of their lands, if not all of the remaining lands that haven’t been used for other things. They call for the U.S. to federally recognize Hawai’ians as a Native people, and to restore lands for their people to farm, build on, and basically prosper from.
And there is still another group of people who say that neither restoration of the kingdom nor federal recognition are good ideas, and that Hawai‘i is entitled to decolonization under the terms that were laid out by the U.N. in the late 1940s for territories that were under the control of foreign countries. Under U.N. and international guidelines, they are entitled to a vote about whether they want to remain part of the United States or have the full restoration of their independence.
Many of the people who support that say that this would give us a period of time [to decide what we want to do]. During this time, we would require the United States to give us the money to conduct the education, to do the community work and the kinds of things that would strengthen our cultural claims as well as our political ones.
The belief and the cultural value [tying] all of the sovereignty movements together are the belief that the Hawai’ian people are bound to the islands, to their land.
Aloha ʻāina is this deep belief that our people are genealogically linked to the ʻāina, to the land. That our ancestors gave birth to the land and gave birth to us, and that we have responsibilities to the ʻāina to protect it. That under our people’s governance, for 1,000 years or more, we cared for the land, we nurtured it, we made it productive, it fed us.
We think of the land as sentient, and this is why people were willing to risk their lives to save Kaho‘olawe from harm in the 1970s.
—as told to Aislyn Greene.
