THE ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN GULLIBLE BACK HOME ON RADIO

Ken Schoolland's international monster hit is coming home to radio where it all started once upon a time. The book now translated in over 50 languages has just received the George Washington award for literature, one of many for author, economist and Hawaii Pacific University professor Ken Schoolland. Although dubbed as "A Free Market Odyssey", The Adventures Of Jonathan gullible go beyond the principles of economics. It's a "how to" for critical thinking and a survival guide to world citizenry with universal relevance. The first Turkish edition has recently sold out in a matter of weeks and the book/cd set in Polish has been a best seller in that country for some time.

Schoolland narrates the episodes soon to air on the Hawaii Radio Project website http://www.thehawaiianlonegunman.com/ . The Gullible cannon will also be available via podcast worldwide http://www.hawaiiradioproject.podcastpeople.com/ The dramatized readings will kick off just in time for the holidays on December 1st. An exclusive interview with Ken Schoolland is to precede the adventure at ThanksGiving.

DUMBESS FAULCKIN' HAOLE O DA YEA' AWARD

It has been talked about and a long time coming but Da Dumbess Faulckin' Haole O Da Yea' Award is officially hea' as of Monday 22 October 2007 with da publication o dis pikchah of Geoff Morris, on da front page o da Honolulu Star Bulletin.

Many ovah' da years had shown uncommon creativity, valor and perseverence from Linda Lingle, da governah and her red t-shirt elucubrations on tax payers' time, her impeccable command of "Hav v v v aii", da official pronunciation in da Lingle adm., to Keith Haugen, da great albino ali'i from Mil"V"aukee, da only au"t"entic Hawaiian troubadour in Waikiki.

Now in da "mos'-pathetically-contrived-localism-uttered-by-some-guy-so- faulckin'-white-you-can-almost-see-through-him" category, da winnah....Da guy in da picture. Congratulations!!!

You, sir, are da Dumbess Faulckin' Haole O Da Yea'.

Shaka brah'.!

VANUATU BOYCOTT

another bullshit postcard from paradise: Vanuatu tourism office "tanna" island

The outrageous manner in which Vanuatu authorities have handled the rape of a 70 year old American tourist in September 2007 sends quite a different message: No woman is safe in the Pacific where macho "chief" mentalities still rule. Forget it if you're a woman and a foreigner to boot in paradise in the middle of the sea. The magistrate Court has just released on bail a man accused of raping the woman on the island of Tanna. Under new revised statutes on "forceable sex without consent" he could face life imprisonment. Despite the nature of his crime he has just been released into the community because living conditions in the Tanna jail are substandard (!) He is to appear for arraignment on October 27th. According to Vanuatu police superintendent John Taleon, he was released on condition that he agree not to leave the island and interfere with prosecution witnesses. One could argue that if his comings and goings are monitored, he is unlikely to go anywhere. But that's hardly the point. Violence against women is an everyday occurrence in Vanuatu as it is throughout the Pacific. The Vanuatu Women's Crisis Center has been clamoring for years for a change in attitudes among authorities that tend to hold women responsible for crimes committed against them. Now the problem has been internationalized and Vanuatu still doesn't get it and chances it won't. Why anybody should want to spend money in Vanuatu is anyone's guess. Why they shouldn't couldn't be any more obvious.

TEMARU, WHADDA HECK'S NU?

South Pacific Forum 2007, Tonga. Oscar Temaru is re-hashing independence, the decolonization of Tahiti Nui (French Polynesia), the Pacific and all that lies beyond his presidential mandate. It's as if he never left. Except that now, critics who less than a year ago were literally raising the roof over O.T.'s racist diatribes have become strangely meek since the mind-blowing alliance with the main pro-french party and the blessing of its boss Gaston Flosse.

It was the coalition to topple Gaston Ton Sang, disciple fallen from grace that put the pariah Temaru's ass back on the throne. Yeah, that same Oscar who went down for the count in January 07 through a no-confidence vote was back on top in September as head of the country with the same cronies back in tow. Of course voters have no say in these back alley parliamentary shenanigans. The outrage of a year ago has toned down considerably. One blog traditionally vitriolic towards the Tavini, the UPLD and generally all things Temaru describes his rant at this year's forum as "same tune without the hate". It's the story of the bank robber in the Mickey Mouse mask who shot the cashier. At least she died smiling. "Without the hate!?" Temaru whose closest allies include New Zealand's Tame Iti as of this writing in custody under suspicion of aiding and abetting in the training of maori pro-independence paramilitary factions under that country's new anti-terrorism law (funding sources unknown) has built a political career on divisive hatred. His return to the Pacific forum sends a message to all who like him feed off the gesellschaft. He is seen from Honolulu to Noumea as a voice of the oppressed. The oppressed don't care much about the details of a complex process that would make actual decolonization of the Pacific virtually impossible without the "colonizers" willing participation. It's the old Stalinian concept of "nation" cemented with ethnicity that resonates among the masses and that's what Temaru and others exploit with ever increasing vigor. The cult of irreconcilable differences has turned the Pacific into an unfriendly place to visit and a dangerous one in which to live. Oscar even warns of trouble ahead, instability, maybe social unrest, who knows...But...there's always January. Oh, you didn't know?. There's going to be another vote. We'll see if there's any truth to the old "once bitten, twice shy, thrice..." How does it end again?

TEMARU @ TONGA: BRAS D'HONNEUR TRANSPAC

Un an deja et a nouveau siegeant au forum du Pacifique au nom du peuple qu'il est cense representer tonton OT y remet de son couplet-refrain independance. C'est quand-meme pas la gro-grosse surprise, surtout que cette fois on ne peut l'accuser d'etre revenu sur de vagues promesses de ne pas en parler. Aucun engagement necessaire grace a cette voodoo-science a laquelle le petit peuple est tenu de croire sans poser de questions. A l'exception de Jean-Christophe Bouissou qui n'a cesse de remettre en question l'enigme qui a mene a cette recidive infernale, il reigne parmi les pundits de Polynesie francaise un magnanisme deconcertant surtout de la part de ceux qui il y a quelque mois denoncaient les propos racistes et xenophobes de celui qui se fait passer pour Mandela et decrire dans un journal Hawaiien comme liberateur. En meme temps que Tame Iti est arrete par les autorites neo-zelandaises sous suspicion de complot terroriste et que Sina Brown-Davis continue a se degosiller a Melbourne contre l'axe du mal Washington-Canberra-Paris-Auckland, Oscar Temaru vient refaire son bras d'honneur transpacifique aux grands applaudissements des soit-disant nationalistes animes de la meme ferveur separatiste. Une fois mordu, deux fois timide, la troisieme fois stupide. En Janvier tout le monde!

COFFIN JOE KICKS OFF HONOLULU CHINATOWN'S SPOOKFILMFEST '07

WELCOME TO THE "HAWAII RADIO PROJECT"'S "PANORAMIQUE"

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Rogerio Araujo's "Garage Cinema" kicks off this year's "Hollowierd Festival" with one of the world's least known spooksters on celluloid. Brazil's own Ze Do Caixao (COFFIN JOE). What Wood, Romero and Carpenter dared on safer grounds, Ze Do Caixao did under much riskier circumstances, risking deportation, imprisonment and worse by just mentioning or alluding to the status quo of a militaristic society anchored in Catholic tradition, that of the Brazilian junta of the 1960's. Stay tuned!!

PACIFIQUE, OCEANIE ET MECONCEPTIONS FATALES

Si le crime contre la jeune Akirina suscita l'emoi a Tahiti, il fut loin de defrayer la chronique au-dela de la Polynesie et de la presse francophone.

La violence contre les femmes en Polynesie francaise et les crimes racistes contre Caucasiens a Hawaii ont un point notoire en commun. Le refus d'en reconnaitre l'existence et leur caractere culturel; le refus d'admettre que dans certaines societes la brutalite est monnaie courante. En Pf ainsi qu'a Hawaii, les adeptes du status quo hesitent A alimenter toute polemique pouvant porter atteinte a l'industrie du tourisme alors que les mouvements nationalistes et independentistes y trouvent excuse pour remettre le colonialisme en cause.
La perpetuation des fleaux devient ainsi possible grace a l'inertie officelle et la complicite d'un public qui ne s'exprime qu'en prive. On encourage ainsi violeurs et tabasseurs a s'identifier en tant que marginaux ethniques a perpetuite. Dissuades ainsi d'assumer toute responsabilite tout devient pretexte a elucubration physique envers une societe victimisante et donc meritante.

A Hawaii une des campagnes nationales non localisees est celle contre le racisme. Celle pour la prudence au volant, le port de la ceinture ou la conservation sont adaptees "couleur locale". La campagne "Don't Teach Hate" par contre est curieusement absente du palmares. Cette lacune est symptomatique d'un dilemme dont il est difficile de s'extriquer. Le racisme a Hawaii ne provient pas des communautes euro-americaines. Cela pose un probleme, celui de reconnaitre publiquement la violence comme produit de certaines valeurs traditionelles. La politique du blame contre le colonialisme, le mercantilisme, la pornographie et l'acohol est un des pires fleaux dans la lutte contre la violence et le racisme. Si l'alcohol libere le monstre, il ne le cree pas. Les theses simplistes tuent les femmes de Polynesie et continuent a faire d' innocentes victimes de crimes haineux a Hawaii. Elles le font avec autant d'aisance et d'efficacite que l'apathie publique et la reluctance des elus a admettre l'existence de ces problemes sociaux, par soucis du decorum et surtout par correction politique.