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How Colonialism Set the Stage for Maui's Destruction by Fire
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Posted on 08/14/2023 6:37:38 PM PDT by cuz1961

How Colonialism Set the Stage for Maui's Destruction by Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy94eVvUl_4&t=97s&pp=ygU8aG93IGNvbG9uaWFsaXNtIHNldCB0aGUgc3RhZ2UgZm9yIG1hdWkncyBkZXN0cnVjdGlvbiBieSBmaXJl

Runtime 21m 19s.

Well,,, that didn't take long.

Climate change and white supremacy , the 2 sides of the new mobocrat coin of the realm.


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KEYWORDS: colonialism; hawaii; maui; mauifire; millionsforukraine; nocommment; pineapples; thebakedtater; whatascumbag
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To: cuz1961

It is interesting to observe that the New World Order politicians now treat rural areas of the country like colonies, to be regulated and exploited like the European colonies.


41 posted on 08/14/2023 8:54:09 PM PDT by Eva
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To: 1066AD

They did, IIRC several times. But that was before the US acquired significant interests there.


42 posted on 08/14/2023 9:09:06 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: cuz1961

Let me guess.

White supremacy bad.

The happy savages were better off without the awful advances of white man’s technology.


43 posted on 08/14/2023 10:45:25 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Skywise

Just like all the government mismanagement was responsible for all the California wildfires as they refused to effectively manage the undergrowth in the forests.


44 posted on 08/14/2023 10:50:07 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: metmom

This is a case where the natives were nearly wiped out merely by the white man showing up. The native Hawaiians nearly disappeared by the 1890s. Even today there are still, probably, fewer native Hawaiians alive than there were in 1778.

Nothing to do with technology, or violence. Just biology.


45 posted on 08/15/2023 12:07:25 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

Sugarcane is presently a cash crop only because of the cash coming from uncle sugar. A lot of little guys getting their 10%.


46 posted on 08/15/2023 2:51:07 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: buwaya

Michener’s book, “Hawaii”, is very good. Even the movie was well done. A lot of focus on the missionaries and their business endeavors.

When I lived there, my last name was the same as an early missionary family there. There’s a lot of hate there. I had to say I was no relation. (Most likely I was, considering the history, but I never said so.)


47 posted on 08/15/2023 3:45:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

I agree with enthusiasm re Michener.

Interesting re the name. I will not speculate.


48 posted on 08/15/2023 4:14:27 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: AndyJackson

True re sugarcane. Nearly all in Florida-Louisiana. This is a very old mercantilist boondoggle.


49 posted on 08/15/2023 4:16:34 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

Topography, more than anything else is the reason the fire was so devastating, in addition to the wooden buildings. People want to live near the coast/beach and the land there is flatter, and is used for agriculture and ranching. It’s the western side of the island with tall mountains behind it, so more likely to be affected by tropical storms.


50 posted on 08/15/2023 8:38:53 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Angelino97

Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos were imported to the islands to work on the plantations, which were owned by Whites (often intermarried with royal or noble Hawaiian families). Hawaii had a strong Republican Party into the 1960s. The Japanese had been the largest ethnic group earlier in the 20th century and they came into their own in the 1960s. Japanese Americans came to dominate the Democratic Party and the new state’s politics. I’d don’t know if that the economic situation is similar. Whites are certainly made to feel second class on “Kill Haole Days” in schools, but I don’t know if that’s generally true. It’s also not just the Japanese who are harassing White kids in the schools.


51 posted on 08/15/2023 8:55:07 AM PDT by x
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To: cuz1961

Tourism is to blame. I don’t think you had fires this bad when pineapple and sugarcane dominated the economy.


52 posted on 08/15/2023 8:57:13 AM PDT by x
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Tourism is to blame

That also ties into the Global Warming agenda of restricting travel.

53 posted on 08/15/2023 8:58:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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