#bigisland — Public Fediverse posts
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Why You Should Stop for Lunch at Hawaii Island’s Volcano Garden Arts and Café Ono https://www.allforgardening.com/1939291/why-you-should-stop-for-lunch-at-hawaii-islands-volcano-garden-arts-and-cafe-ono/ #BigIsland #CafeOno #GardeningHawaii #hawaii #HawaiiIsland #HawaiiVolcanoesNationalPark #IraOno #volcano #VolcanoGardenArtsAndCafé
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Todays video looks at how the large mountains on the Big Island of #Hawaii influenced Hurricane #Lala's sharp track changes including its jump north near South Point into the lee of the island #HurricaneLala #BigIsland https://youtu.be/arTdBD59I2M
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Libraries hold a special place in my heart, for reasons both intellectual and sentimental.
Librarians are guardians of knowledge, champions of freedom, and friends of the people. They are community members, dedicated to helping connect poor people with relevant information, so they can improve their minds, educate themselves, and access job resources.
After I became a #whistleblower in 2023, and was made #homeless , this notion was challenged.
Librarians would block my access, call the police, and have me arrested. If you find this hard to believe, please see my whistleblower website. The PDF linked, has an appendix giving the “receipts” ( documents to corroborate my account ).
http://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
I had applied to be a board member of the libraries in Hawai’i after attending their meetings, and saw some corruption there.
Scroll to the bottom of this page, and see the photo of the board members. How many native Hawai’ian faces do you see? Any Japanese or brown folks?
https://folkhawaii.com/about-us/
Their former Director of Membership, Bobby Gebbia, lied in court, before the judge and cameras, saying I was a board member, though I was not granted a membership.
In Hawai’i, librarians appear to be part of the occupying forces, whitewashing colonialism, insidiously taking over and erasing the true history of Hawai’i, which I heard from talking to local old timers.
250 years ago, Hawai’i had not heard of Jesus, and had its own deities, ( Goddess Pele, the creator, Kaneloa, etc. )
Then Captain James Cook invaded, and 90% of the natives were wiped out.Then Samson Dole attacked with soldiers, threw out the natives, turned their land into plantations, and turned the natives into day laborers on the plantation, on their own land.
Contrary to popular belief, Hawai’i is not a part of the USA, but a belligerently occupied territory,
1887-1897: Hawaiʻi Rebelled against the USA.
Hawaiʻian people did not choose to be part of the USA.
King David Kalākaua was forced to sign what is called the "Bayonet Constitution". Queen Liliuokalani asserted that Kalākaua's life was threatened: "He signed that constitution under absolute compulsion."Now Hawai’i is full of churches, their own gods are vanishing from memory, thanks to the “librarians”. There’s poverty, a drug epidemic, and seething discontent on the streets. Hawai’ian people are heavily overpoliced, thrown into jail without cause, and denied #justice in the #courts of the occupiers ( #USA ).
All this is hidden from the casual tourist, content to visit a golf course on the sacred land, that has been bulldozed, and be served drinks by little brown people ( usually from the Marshall Islands, Hawai’i locals have mostly left for minimum wage jobs in mainland America ).
Billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey, “own” huge chunks of the land.
Chinese billionaire, Eva Liu, has controlled the Punalu’u Black Sand beach, with a sweetheart deal ( $1 ), and is proposing erasing this natural landmark, spawning site of the endangered Saddleback Turtles, and building resorts there, in the name of “development”.
In 2022, the Hawai’ian people had a setback in court.
( Hawaiian Kingdom v. #Biden ; December 14, 2022 )Librarians have been instrumental, in manipulating minds, and pushing through these insidious #imperialist agendas, and disenfranchising and displacing the local people.
#Earth #environment
#library #libraries #librarian #librarians #liberty #hawaii
#bigisland #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism
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911 service is currently down in #Hawaii County #BigIsland
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LIVE: Hurricane Lala hits Hawaii’s Big Island
More than 200,000 utility customers were without power across Hawaii at midday on August 16 after Hurricane Lala brushed the Big Island before being downgraded to a tropical storm. #Hawaii #BigIsland #hurricanelala #tropicalstormlala #hurricane #tropicalstorm #weather #extremeweather #live #Reuters #news Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Keep up with the latest news from around the world:
http://fllics.com/en/video/live-hurricane-lala-hits-hawaiis-big-island/
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As southern half Of #BigIsland #Hawaii faces potential of #Hurricane #LaLa impacts , I worry about tourists and islanders alike who will be on their own in deep water as state and local authorities seem very ill equipped to even communicate clearly at this point about emergency #evacuation plans and restoring potentially paralyzed power resources . This tropical storm is likely going to drop two feet of rain, and is first hurricane expected to make landfall in three decades and the interviews I've seen with ill prepared local officials are EMBARASSING
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Attention #BigIsland, #Hawaii: We just finished the first weekend of this year's Shakespeare in the Park, "The Comedy of Errors." Just one more weekend to catch the funniest show in Hilo!
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Hilo is more than a stopover on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Hilo International PHTO → Ellison Onizuka Kona International PHKO
While I'm still figuring out where my next multi-leg journey will take me, I thought: why not see if the Cessna 172 can fly over Mauna Kea? Its service ceiling is 14,000 ft, and Mauna Kea stands at 13,803 ft.
So, I packed some oxygen and took off. After a wide circle around the volcano and the slowest climb of all time (100–200 ft/min), the altimeter maxed out at 15,000 ft, leaving me with a comfortable margin over the summit.
#XPlane #XPlane12 #XP12 #FlightSim #MaunaKea #BigIsland #Hawaii #USA #Hilo #PHTO #Kona #Kailua #PHKO #Cessna #Cessna172 #C172 -
Wildfire near the resorts - stay safe everybody! #Waikoloa #Kohala #BigIsland #Hawaii
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Security camera footage from Captain Cook captures the moment a 6.0 earthquake hit at 9:46 Friday night off the western flank of Maunaloa on the Big Island.
📽 Hawaii News Now
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Where to Go in Hawaii When You Want to Slow Down https://www.hawaii-guide.com/blog/hawaii-slow-paced-neighbor-islands?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Hawaii #Travel #Maui #BigIsland #Kauai
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Hilo is more than a stopover on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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#kilauea #BigIsland #Hawaii #Volcano We’re stranded in our VRBO near the volcano. Sounds like a jet engine.
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Tropical Waterfall
This waterfall as far as I know, has no name. I say that because this waterfall is man made on the side of a road at the Waikoloa Village golf club in Waikoloa Village.
Some people might say that this has a lesser value or meaning because it is man made. But to me that just devalues the beauty that man is able to create.https://pixels.com/featured/tropical-waterfall-bill-gallagher.html
#TropicalWaterfall #BillGallagherPhotography #Hawaii #Waterfall #RocksAndMoss #Green #BigIsland #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Beauty
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Here's what to know as the scope of damage from #Hawaii's #floods becomes clearer
By AUDREY McAVOY and GENE JOHNSON
March 23, 2026 at 3:18 pm PDTHONOLULU — "The worst #flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.
"Crews continued to assess the destruction Monday, but authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged, along with some schools and a hospital.
"No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued. Rain continued to the southeastern part of the state and a section of the #BigIsland was under a #FlashFlood warning.
"Gov. Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, homes and a Maui hospital in Kula. He called it the state’s most serious since flooding since 2004, when floods in Manoa inundated homes and a University of Hawaii library.
"On Oahu's North Shore, famed for big wave surfing, the waters rose quickly after midnight Friday as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week earlier. Raging waters lifted homes and cars. The storm prompted evaluation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu — though they were later lifted — and more than 230 people were rescued from the rising waters.
"Some residents fled on surfboards as water reached waist or chest high.
"Farms around the state reported more than $9.4 million worth of damage as of Monday, according to a survey conducted by Agriculture Stewardship Hawaii, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other organizations. Oahu farmers reported more than $2.7 million in crop damage.
Winter storm systems brought severe deluges"Officials blamed some of the devastation on the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short amount of time.
"Parts of Oahu received 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 centimeters), the National Weather Service said. That was on top of another recent storm that had dumped vast amounts days earlier. Kaala, the island’s highest peak, got nearly 16 inches (40 centimeters) late last week, on top of 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) between March 10 and 16.
"Winter storm systems known as '#Kona lows,' which feature southerly or southwesterly winds that bring in moisture-laden air, have been responsible for the deluges in the past two weeks. The intensity and frequency of heavy rains in Hawaii have increased amid human-caused #GlobalWarming, experts say.
"The worst of the storms appeared to be over by Sunday afternoon."
Read more:
https://www.kiro7.com/news/heres-what-know/HLBMHPBESQ3W7IEY663UG4LVU4/ -
Sadly, some librarians in Big Island, Hawai'i are on the side of fascism. Being a librarian is a sacred calling, not a paycheck. A librarian should be champion of freedom, a guardian of knowledge, an embedded member of the community helping those in the most need, get the educational resources they need to help themselves. All librarians I ever met were up to that. Until I turned #whistleblower :
https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
#BigIsland #Hawaii #library #libraries #librarian #librarians