Polynesian History and Asia Pacific History under attack 2012 by Western extremism - A Look back after over 10 years

A founder Thor Heyerdahl of white-washed propaganda in Polynesia, claiming they were a former white Native race from South America who conquered Meso-American Empires and sailed to Polynesia

Ever since Transnational Navigation has been claimed to be a quest of "Greater than most Men" a person with the explorer gene, a colonizer of the world, the Pacific Islander and Polynesian History has been under the scope of jealousy. In the 1990's much of the time the only thing that could be found on Polynesia were half-page summary resourced from an Encyclopedia or by a travel guide. Around the early 2000's, internet information sites like Wikipedia grew to popularity by giving the impression that truth and knowledge was the goal of it's website. However by 2005 Polynesian and other Asia Pacific Islander areas were being slandered about with their histories white-washed into a European vs Asia Pacific or regional combat scenario and the references used many a time were News articles and old racial western ethnographic studies, even some referencing Thor Heyerdahl in modern origin studies. 

The War of Words 2012 as it was once called, spread far passed Wikipedia and Yahoo Answer and forum sites. Those ugly tactics using the power of repetition to make falsehoods a fact, race-baiting, fear mongering, fabrication of issues, controlling the narrative, misrepresentation, demonizing, and gaslighting, started showing in major News like FOX News, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Sky News Australia, WION (British-Indian News), VOX, RNZ.co.nz, AL Jazeera, and Yahoo News, all propagating, provoking, and slandering to not only stay afloat in an online post-newspaper route world, but some more than others, to help fuel populist political movements and Coalition objectives. 

"It reminds people of when religious academia competed with new Sciences in the 19th century, thats how bad it is now. Only the new religion is Politics. They give it for FREE, imagine that.. what in the west is free? Free History lesson, Free News, ... of course its free right, because its radical crazy dust wrapped in click-bait titles, comes with an extra wire to plug into your brain. And if that wasnt enough an algorithm will do a follow-up to make sure you too are a proud citizen of Nutzville and a happy brain washed zombie"

"How far passed wikipages has it gone? We're seeing selective study groups in various western University now, people in Anthropology and genetic studies"

"It started with lies in 2005-2010, then a few more lies, then some stitching and switching about history, then Media supported the lies and vice versa in 2012, then came open Political backing that sturred the whole mix together into one big decade long crap storm around 2016. This is all because of the need for money and power and the Asia Pacific is a major influence these days"

"One of the most embarrassing exhibitions was by racist Thor Heyerdahl who boasted to have well studied Polynesian cultures, without ever stepping foot on the beaches first. Who writes a History of a place they've never really been too? We've seen British white extremism in New Zealand attempt the exact same thing, writing and making documentary on The Red Headed Race of New Zealand while also rewriting events like The Maori Wars and The Treaty of Waitangi"

10 years later looking back on 2012

Looking back on 2012, most didnt know or see what was happening in the United States but as the years progressed, more campaigns arose from far-right and right-wing extremists on 3 major areas in the West. Those areas being the USA, Australia, and the United Kingdom. 

The UK over the last 10 years has been through major upheaval with radical racism and political schemes targeting Immigration, China, the expansion of the EURO currency, and the influence of The European Union itself. By 2016, a Tory BREXIT was on the table with Borris Johnson (now former PM) and Nigel Farage at the helm blaming anyone and everyone (including Immigrants and Labor Party Socialism) for all of Uk's problems. BREXIT today has led to trade being stifled along with the UK economy while their neighbor the Republic of Ireland looks to have a much more promising future with the European Union. 

In the USA, populist movements spread and right-wing extremesim moved inside the GOP under Trump 2016 (now former POTUS), VP Mike Pence, Majorie Taylor Green, Kari Lake, Lauren Bobert and others that led eventually to election fraud, attacks on Immigrants, Mass-shootings, escalation of Police violence, stolen classified documents, and an attempted coup during the January 6th attacks on the United States Capitol. Much of the last 10 years of instability and corruption in the USA has fueled the increased efforts by other nations for the need of de-dollarization with new applications to BRICS. 

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (replaced by Labor Party Anthony Albanese) was accused of a self-coup who took over several political positions for which he was not appointed for and supported Anti-Immigration policies, Trade Wars against China, and wished Australia to violate long standing Non-proliferation agreements in the Asia Pacific with ASEAN Nations condemning proposals. The former PM Scott Morrison was also blamed for riots and protests in Australia from 2019-2021 who had implimented COVID-Lockdowns on citizens and denied Climate Change, using an 'El Nino' term to describe weather chaos. (Wikipedia has changed its El Nino wikipage to match media headlines) The Melanesian Solomon regions signed a military security pact with China over Morrison's actions in office (Papua and Vanuatu may follow).

List of Youtube Channels attacking Samoan History 

Roam and Relax 'The Most isolated island in America' 

Geography Now 'Geography Now! Samoa' 

La Mancha Media 'America's Forgotten Colonies' 

Passenger Paramvir 'Inside the Worlds most OBESE Country: Samoa'

Many of the fake history youtube channels found are merely making content for views and subs and dont care really about whats being posted, most taking summary from wikipedia. However, some channels purposely do attack Samoa's image and historical standing. Much of the online historical propaganda on Samoa has come from British-New Zealanders who support the National Party (Loyalist political party to Britain). 

TMBW Related articles:

Samoan History and related events Timeline

The Maori Wars - The New Zealand Wars

New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi 1840

Notes: 

This article was started in late 2011 and finished in 2012 then became a 10 year back track of events and may again be added too in the future. 

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Her Honorable Majesty Chomolungma never gave her consent to the name Mount Everest: She's a Goddess not a man

It was about a century ago when a few people boasted to others back home that they had measured the greatest Mountain in the world. The renown and Ancient Mountain's proper name is Chomolungma (Komo'lungma or Qomolungma) meaning something to the effect of "Goddess Mother of Mountains". Most people will admit that the title "Mount Everest" is a severe down grade, not to mention a gender change, from the title "Goddess Mother of Mountains", named so by Tibetan scholars. The British who claimed to have rediscovered the already discovered mountain named it unofficially after Sir George Everest aka. "The Mount Everest".

Technically also the highest mountain is not even Mount Everest, possibly one of the 14 hardest, but not the largest. Chimborazo which is located in the South Americas is technically the "Highest point on earth" by measurement. In Polynesia, Mountain Mana Kea or Mt. Mauna Kea in Hawaii is actually the "largest" in the world in mass, measured from the depths of the Moana Pacific Ocean. With that data in mind, the first people to climb the Largest Mountain in the world might have been the Hawaiians, or the Guamese where Mount. Lamlam sits at 37,820 ft. and is the "Tallest".

The only reason Great Chomolungma has repeatedly been through the claim frenzy over the last hundred years is because of the people trying to mount it's summit, while spamming in eng. speaking networks, and texts, the new name of "Mount Everest". This British use of a foreign name though has been seen as disrespectful to many Asians and Tibetans who without their permission and without the help of the great Nepal Sherpa people (professional climbers who guided even Sir George Everest on his first summit), no foreigner could in the past or today, reach the top and return back safely. 

Post References

[-] hypertextbook.com "Height of the Tallest mountain on Earth"
[-] Atul Thakur "Life, and death, beyond Chomolungma" Times of India
[-] Time Magazine "Call it Chomolungma"


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Hone Heke and NZ propaganda -The New Zealand Railways Magazine 1935: Discussion on the NZETC content

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What's interesting about this is first off, it's written in 1935, almost 100 years after the Maori Wars events, and nothing about this volume 10 issue 9 article on Hone Heke is academic. The descriptions of his features and manner are well written, but the title alone "A Chivalrous Rebel", describes him far more than any other words written within the article, demoting his actual role in Aotearoa New Zealand History.

As we all know, the British Imperial presence in New Zealand and around the rest of their trade sphere, either in the Asia Pacific or in South Africa in the 1800s, is fully dependent on foreign alliances within regions they wished to do business. Never have the British been in a position of military dominance over Catholic powers or their German neighbors, and the Treaty of Waitangi grants sovereign powers to British by their Allied Maori hosts. The High Chief Hone Heke is not "The Rebel", he is the host and owner of the land in which the first New Zealand Government offices are taking shape.

This 1935 issue 9 of The New Zealand Railways Magazine volume 10 in NZETC is an odd thing to collect. The online site is filled with versions of Maori History just like this one.

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Albert Wendt NZ Western Samoan Writer: Is this guy even Samoan?

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The Page below is written by Albert Wendt, a controversial NZ Samoan writer who has seemed to distort some facts in his book -Title: ‘Guardians and Wards’ : (A study of the origins, causes, and the first two years of the Mau in Western Samoa.) The funny thing is we can't really say he distorted the History, because he labeled himself a "Novelist & Poet", not a Historian or academic. There is a part where Albert Wendt writes "A colourful American Adventurer" referring to US. American agent Steinberger. A Samoan King rank of Malietoa of Western Samoa, made a speech back then and called the US. American agent for the President of the United States Steinberger an honorable man and specifically called him not an adventurer or schemer type of man.

An account of Samoa's Malietoa's opinion

on US. American Steinberger

NZ author Albert Wendt's writing on 

US. American Steinberger

He's misleading the reader to think Europeans held all motives hand-in-hand, a European community, close to what's in Wikipedia today in summary of Samoa. The first World War is to occur only a generation away. The US. American President at that time was General Ulysses S. Grant from the US. American Civil War who fought Confederate States and British suppliers. And Steinberger was a Presidential Agent with Naval title working directly under the US. President's command, who gave Western Samoa gifts of weapons, payback for supplying arms to the Southern Confederates. Mr. Grant also held meetings with Native American nations and Ireland during his political years in influence. 

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American Samoa is not a "Colony" of the United States - Discussion on History and Status

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In a discussion between Pacific islander students, one in college from New Zealand and the other from American Samoa going to UTA, the American Samoan History came up in discussions, which has also been discussed in higher official conferences over the Trust Regional or Protectorate status of the area.

The American Samoan student contacted TMBW to research and give more information to the public on politics in American Samoa, or at least clear up a few small details since there seems to be some floating misinformation out there. Below is an article over the UN to take American Samoa off the UN Colonies List, however, Eastern Samoa (American Samoa) doesn't have or ever had, a Colony status, and politically American Samoa is often referred to simple as having a "special relationship" with The United States. 

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Testimony at United Nations Decolonization Committee

by Fili Sagapolutele

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (The Samoa News, August 18, 2016) – During a Senate committee hearing this week some senators insisted that using the word “colony” does not apply at all when its used to label American Samoa which has a special relationship with the United States and that the term "colony” should be removed from any United Nations documents.

As Samoa News reported several times, Tapa’au attended the seminar to observe whether or not there are decolonization strategies worth considering by the trust region or territory after Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale presented American Samoa’s official position at last year’s Caribbean seminar. At the Senate committee hearing, Tapa’au informed Senators that he attended the Pacific seminar to find out issues that would be beneficial to American Samoa.

On June 22nd, the UN committee passed a resolution on the question of American Samoa with regard to the implementation on the granting of Independence to colonial countries and peoples.

Tapa’au explained that the UN committee must understand American Samoa’s special political status with the United States of America and it’s differences compared to other Trust Territories. Tuaolo then explained more on the specific characteristics, Tapa’au then said that to his understanding, that there are more issues than just the protection of land, natural resources, and culture. The History as to the development of the region played a large role in the beginning relationships.

Editor "Eastern Samoa signed a Treaty and agreement in 1839 supervised the second time over by Samoan Council and The President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. Also details have been worked on overtime. These types of political matters are not well known to the wider public. On average, citizens of the west can say they know of only 3 major events in history, other than that, even their own heritage or origins in most cases is a mystery. They can not be expected to understand Samoan or Asia Pacific or Pacific Islander History"

Another concern of Tuaolo and other Senators is the UN committee’s action that would affect the Senate, who’s 18-members are traditional leaders selected by County leaders. Tapa’au emphasized that nothing the UN committee resolution or other issues deals with the US. Senate.

Tuaolo asked if Tapa’au told the UN committee that American Samoa is not a colony and that additionally the UN committee should be told not to discuss American Samoa anymore and to “Leave us alone”.

And while he didn’t deliver a speech at the Pacific seminar this year Tapa’au said officials there had asked him several times about the regions political future and the response was always the same. Senator Magalei Logovi’i says the word “colony” continues to come up over the years and that this has also been the case in the previous administrations of former Governors Tauese P.F. Sunia and Togiola Tulafono. Magalei, and they asked if there is a way to make sure that this continued annoyance does not come up again in the future. Tapa’au responded that he posed the same question to the UN committee and he is waiting for an official reply.

He told Senators the US State Department’s answer to the UN committee when it comes to American Samoa is that this is an "Internal issue of the US government and not under the UN committee’ purview". Upon arrival at the Pacific seminar Tapa’au said he went looking for a US Government representative but the USA no longer sends representation to these types of meetings because to them the matter is closed, and the USA agrees that American Samoa is “an internal issue” when it comes to it's political status.

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Former Committee Meeting

The US State Department in a Nov. 2, 2006 letter, responding to then Congressman Faleomavaega Eni’s request for the federal government’s official position on American Samoa before the UN committee, states in part that the status of the insular areas, including American Samoa, regarding their political relationship with the Federal Government was an "Internal United States issue", and not one that came under the purview of the Special Committee.

Additionally, the Special Committee had no authority or right to alter in any way the relationship between Samoa and the United States, and those Trust-territories, and no right to Mandate or engage the United States in negotiations of their political status.

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Samoan Mau Movie Project? From New Zealand?

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We saw in Facebook a page that said "The Samoan Mau Movie Project" and the only problem was that it was from New Zealand, and who knows who's idea it was. Some of the History in it looked like it was taking notes from Wikipedia and from some pro-British websites in New Zealand. 

Isn't that like if a Catholic writer wrote a Christian or Mormon History? Or like a Nazi German writing British History. Why would a Euro-New Zealander want to make a movie about Western Samoan history? There's a few reasons I can think of ...and they aren't nice or purely academic reasons. 

Even if you're Samoan and live in New Zealand and want to make a movie, the information available from New Zealand is one sided. AUT.. what can they provide? The New Zealand Government is the main source of history and that's really telling you something bad. In the USA the academics who attend Universities (ex. Harvard, Yale, SMU, Berkeley University) earn their credit through published works, career position, historical organizations and society, and points are openly and fiercely debated throughout their careers. 

In New Zealand the 'NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage' actively keeps a website of NZ history on the top Google searches. At this time under National Party PM John Key the NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage doesn't seem to like it's New Zealand Socialist, Democratic Socialist, or Labor Party History, H.E. Holland, Maori Wars History, and at times wants to be seen as a "Pacific Colonial Power". It's suggested leaving the project alone for a good long while until a good group of minds can create a REAL history version, not some dramatic tragedy.

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Top 5 lies of New Zealand History: Pacific Eyes on Education

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1. New Zealand is not the only official name for the nation. The agreed upon official native name for the region is Aotearoa. The name New Zealand is from the Dutch Netherlanders (Dutch Expedition) from Abel Tasman who was lost in Polynesia and thought the area was South America connected to 'The Magellen Strait", trying to rename it after himself (Abel Tasman Passage). The British however supported the name New Zealand only because at that time the true history was not well known. A similar naming scenario happened in the United States where Spanish explorers thought they had landed in India and called the natives....Indians. The Strait of Magellan was rumored in Europe to be a navigational short-cut to Asia-China during the Spice trade and was highly sought by all Euro-trade merchants. 

2. New Zealand never administered the nation of Western Samoa officially who at that time in the late 1890s-1920s could barely administer themselves. The Western Samoan government had both British and German relations but Imperial Britain by the end of World War 1 was severely weakend so NZ-Brit loyalists became a proxy for overseas British interests. New Zealand historians use the Treaty of Versailles 1919 as proof of administration under a League of Nations Class C Mandate. The mandates and other punitive measures in the Treaty led to the British-England being invaded by Germany in 1940 causing thousands of deaths. The USA also did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles and refused being a member of the League of Nations which was disbanded in 1946.

3. Most of the New Zealand History on Tonga is not historically accurate. A published work without political influence documenting Tonga in the 1800s remains the descriptive first-hand accounts of Mr. William Mariner who witnessed a Tongan internal entitlement War, not just for new entitlement, but to change the Monarch. The book can be found online today in 2016, "The Tonga Islands - Mariner". William Mariner (1791–1853) lived in Tonga from November 1806 to around 4-6 years who then published the book "The Tonga Isles". 

4. During the World Wars the nation of New Zealand was not a military power. The nation was even over looked by the Japanese Navy in WW2 and were not important enough to attack. Bombing Pearl-Harbor in Hawaii 1941 and Australia at Darwin 1942 were the main concerns for the Japanese Air-force and Navy in the second World War. New Zealand at the time had no true Navy fleet only outdated wooden trade ships, merchant ships, converted vessels, or borrowed HMS British vessels. The weapons in New Zealand at that time were all imported. New Zealand manufactured no heavy arms or had an Air-force of any kind other than gifted second hand planes by British RAF and had low troops numbers in comparison to other military. British Navy were defeated by the Germans by World War 2 and NZ relied on USA military protection as did Australia (both nations still do today). NZ Parliament enacted RNZAF officially in 1937 but the nation was in a state of economic Depression. The best contribution to the World Wars were the elite Maori allied soldiers who were deployed to help defend against the pressures of a German Invasion of Britain.

5. The New Zealand Capitol was not originally in Wellington City. During the Maori Wars the Capitol of New Zealand was retreated twice. The Capitol was first set-up in Kororareka City, then Maori invaded Kororareka City. The Capitol was then moved to Auckland City and Auckland was invaded as well by their own Maori neighbors in the Gulf regions for good reason. At the end of the Maori Wars it was moved to Wellington City as a neutral location and not in the sole access of only Auckland. The NZ Capitol remains today in Wellington City.

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- League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles 1919 

- Samoan History and Related events Timeline 

- Abel Tasman 1642 - Maoriland first Encounter 

- The Maori Wars or New Zealand Wars

- Black Battle of Britain Day 1940 

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Treaty or Deed of Cession of Manu'a Samoa of Tutuila: Wikipedia

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summary of Samoan History and the Cession of the Tui Manu'a

We recently reviewed a summary on American Samoa in Wikipedia trying to see what the cliff-notes version of Eastern Samoa was. At first it seemed pretty lay-back, very general information until the summary went into the more detailed history. I don't know what we were expecting since wikipedia history always seems to be twistedly wrong, but we didn't expect it to be so radically misleading.

When we entered the American Samoa Wikipedia history it said that "Eastern Samoa ceded to the USA in 1904", that Eastern Samoa signed a Treaty of Cession, and the wikipedia summary just left it at that, no explanation.

American Samoan Government has more than once proclaimed their status and has brought this issue to the United Nations regarding their special relations with the USA. The United Nations has supported decolonization since it's founding and helped gain Independence for 80 former nations in colonial status and for over 750 million people. Senator Magalei Logovi’i stated the word “Colony” continues to come up over the years and that this has also been the case in the previous administrations of former American Samoan Governors Tauese P.F. Sunia and Togiola Tulafono and that it is simply a continued annoyance says administrations. Tapa’au responded that he addressed the same to the UN Committee and that American Samoa should not be listed and simply wish to be left alone. The US. State Department’s answer to the UN committee, said - when it comes to American Samoan politics, this is an "Internal issue of the US government and not under the UN committee purview".

Council Samoan Politics before the 1900's 

In Samoa titles do retire and the people have never incorporated a European-style monarch where the title system does have major differences. Samoa who has an ancient past has gone through many titles with entitlement reformed to take in votes. 

Interpretation of Cession? or Deed of Cession?

A Cession which is an english word is interpreted as "retire" and has no relavance to Samoan lands or its surrounding ocean claims. Wikipedia authors have taken a single word like cession and used it to mislead the nature of the overall Trust regional proceedings. Wikipedia has also called it a "Deed of Cession" without producing an actual Deed and uses the photo of a Fijian Treaty as a false reference. False Deeds have in the past been used by Anglo-British in Aotearoa New Zealand to encourage and create unrest and in this case seems to be used as a means to attempt to undermine Eastern Samoan or American Samoa's history and political standing.

A reference was made in Wikipedia on the main summary of American Samoa using a book written by Dan Taulapapa McMullin 2005, an author who is New Zealand-Samoan and not acquainted with Eastern Samoa (American Samoa). He is also a transgender Artist and never claimed to be an absolute authority of Pacific History. The New Zealand Samoan author Albert Wendt has proclaimed to the public that he is a "Novelist". He too has never claimed to be an authority on Pacific History.

"Wikipedia seems to base most of its information off summary like those written online in Britannica Encyclopedia which is a foreign resource of information. Wikipedia mentions nothing about US. Colonel Steinberger , the H.M.S. Barracoutta ship affray, over the return of the US. Presidential Agent Colonel Steinberger, that too is not in Wikipedia History, but is in other references online and in The Library of Congress"

"What was interesting was the way the US. Navy presence and American Representation were portrayed, as invaders. Wikipedia misleads the readers into a White American vs Samoan History, portraying a Colonial type of history. These types of summary were not in the USA before the 1990s and have appeared with Neo-Anglo politics"

Mishandling and Resolve 1950's

In the 1950-60s agreements made between the USA and Eastern Samoa were revised in more detail and organized through US. Departments so that there wouldn't be mishandling of future relations. Political parties in the USA campaign candidates and change administration. The United States moved all dealings and power under the Department of Interior so that issues with Trust regions couldn't be burdened upon by new US. administration changes.

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- Deed of title Cession of American Samoa and Tui Manu'a

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According to American Samoa - 1930 reference, The Matai of Eastern Samoa approved the appointments of a Governor Sebree and Captain Governor Tilley, and the Eastern Samoan officials were satisfied with the selection of representatives sent to handle US. Affairs.

The reference given in this blog is "American Samoa - Hearings before The Commission Appointed by the President of the United States- Sept. 1930" & "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant 1874"

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The Difference between Samoa and American Samoa Explained? Or more misinformation

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Youtube Channel ExhibitEarth

We found recently a Youtube Historian who did a post on the Samoan nation, and we do have to warn you..its bad, its... really bad. When I say bad, we don't mean bad editing no, its bad as in it's created this racial motive as to why Samoa is the way it is today, with most of the misinformation coming from wikipedia. Its funny and then it's not funny because its another British guy. We've come across a lot of this historical misleading of a European vs Samoan History, and we've decided to at least review it and refute it. The soft playing African music is funny though.

All these conflicts which happened in the the late 1800's in Samoa led to the first World War. The first World War in the Pacific started in Western Samoa 1914 when the British broke the Tripartite Convention Treaty of 1899 and attacked an Imperial German Radio station through a New Zealand proxy force, for other parts of the World the World War started in 1917. The German Imperial Navy then killed over 1,000 British Royal Navy at the battle of Coronel in the Pacific 1914 November 1st, stopping first in Samoa to get information, and with hopes to ambush the New Zealand force. So, not racially motivated.

Also people who haven't read through United States history, are not aware that the USA was just barely born...barely..who's White House was burned by the British Empire in the second War of Independence, and who almost lost the American Civil War 1861-1865, and who at one point thought they had. People see the industry around them in the USA and many get arrogant, and don't understand that Trust territories or allies, or whatever you want to call them, were needed and have respectable histories themselves.

A little advice to readers, if for some odd and strange reason you want to write or create a national history of a foreign nation, don't. Its just going to be added to the idiots rack and questioned if it was purposely made to support a supremacist ideal.

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The British and Malietoa retreat H.M.S. Barracouta: Western Samoa

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Theres a problem here, being that theres different versions of the Battle of Mulinuu - Massacre of the British. Some British writers calling it a native rebellion, some saying only 4 British were killed but 8 fatally wounded, which really means 12 were killed. An account says 11 were killed, many wounded.

Whats interesting is that the Battle is all about the British reinstalling their beloved Malietoa King of Samoa, but the thing is, it's not a British style Monarch and the British writers or the NZ public at the time don't seem to understand that it's the Samoan counsels that entitle. The same Samoan counsels that seem to have ordered the attack on the Barracouta, so theres no real winning here, even if Malietoa had 2,000 British blue-jackets under his command, he would have lost his own face, and be deemed a true traitor, with his family being killed or exiled. 

Lies upon lies. I wasnt even there and from research its clear how chow the Battle went down. At the beginning, most say they came ashore with 50 men, that number has been established, and they probably had a few scouting the area. According to an article, as the talks commenced, an argument ensued, and shots were fired. A report seems to have come from one of the British scouts that the Barracouta's men were being surrounded, and after the fighting had started soldiers and guards began to take cover.

Now at this point theres only one place for the Barrcouta's crew to go after the fighting starts, which is back to the ship, being that the Western Samoans are armed to the teeth each with revolvers, and the US is backing them as their new arms dealer. Yet in one version, the British writer says things like "the natives wouldn't put down their arms", well of course they wouldn't put down their arms, they had the British blue-jackets and crew surrounded. It seems that even though the Western Samoan Taimua and Faipule Government, the Eastern Samoan Government, and the United States Government are all agreed that the British are not welcome, its the British writers who still seem to not get the picture. The British writers don't want the NZ or Australian public to know that they, the Brits, are the idiot-Rebels in yet another fight they can not win. 

Not only that, the British writers seem to quickly over look the fact that the Captain Stevens, supposedly a decorated British soldier, has taken "political hostages", one being an American Colonel and personal Agent to the President of the United States. 

Accounts of the battle say that the Barracouta's men just went to the ship. Well, in battle thats called a retreat, they retreated to the ship and I suspect they did that retreating with hostages. It was a hostage situation, the 3 prisoners were from the meeting. 

The argument in the meeting must have resulted in a hostage taking situation, they didnt just leave casually or run for cover so swiftly, out running a Samoan warrior being impossible for a blue-jacket British. As they were talking, the report came in of  them being surrounded, and when they felt discussions souring, 3 hostages were taken, a cowardly move which let them retreat safely back to the Barracouta ship. The British men who died on the spot were most likely on the outer flanks, being clipped off, men away from the center body of the main Barracouta crew as they moved backwards, which is why the numbers shot are so low. All accounts do say that the Barracouta Ship stayed overnight, because the ship itself was most likely surrounded by Samoan vessels,  no where to go. So all night you have no firing, the battle just stops, even with accounts saying there were 3 prisoners (hostages). 

After a night, it seems the Samoan Counsels settled to let them live. It would seem the Malietoa at the time would have had some impact on this outcome. 

I can just see what the News headlines back then could have been "The Royal Navy defeated by Samoa, then retreats in a cowardly hostage situation", that couldn't have been very good for that Imperial image or for that Malietoa rank. 

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Chapter 15: McDONNELL'S TARANAKI CAMPAIGN (1866) - A discussion of the first Paragraph

AT THE CLOSE of Major-General Chute's campaign on the West Coast there was a brief cessation of active military operations, and the settlement of the confiscated lands was begun, but occupation was precarious, for Ngati-Ruanui, Te Pakakohi, and Nga-Rauru were only waiting their time. Areas totalling about 50,000 acres, mostly open land, south of the Wai-ngongoro, were laid out in military settlements; the townships were Kakaramea, Mokoia, and Ohawe. Many of the Military Settlers took up the occupation of the sections to which their period of service entitled them—there were chiefly men who had already had farming experience—but the majority in the end disposed of their grants and left the district.

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DonttreadonMe76 - Ya I'm reading this first paragraph and I understand its an opening to the Chapter 15 written by James Cowan, F.R.G.S. - it conflicts itself. He's leading the reader to an outcome before he even describes what happened. Not only that... he's calling the Maori lands "confiscated lands", then says it's "precarious". Meaning its not actually confiscated, at that point its in unforeseen process.

Then in the very last sentence of the first paragraph it says "but the majority in the end disposed of their grants and left the district". That means the land scheme later on failed and people jetted out, yet the British author dances around the actual outcome. James Cowan is a dooshbag.

Here's what's been told of the 1866 British Taranaki land schemes... The British were losing and a bunch of them aristo-nuts got together to try and fix the problem. Guess what they came up with. They tried to give these bogus land grants to British military, but there was no promise to protect the people once they got there. The region they gave the buyers was hostile disputed territory. Means they set-up their own military buyers, hoping the individual British military buyer would have to not just financially fund, but personally campaign his own resistance against the opposing forces.

Thats pretty f*cked up really - so desperate as to setup your own people, British men with families, hoping by chance that a good win might possibly come out the chaos.

"This is what they call...sacrificing a Pon in the game of Chess."

They were also calling themselves in Auckland (Allied Maori, Colonials, and Imperial British) "A Government", before they'd even won the war, the Maori Wars are going on in 1866, far from over, just starting.

A straight-up fight with the Taranaki Maori was already failing, and the worst part is they weren't even united. So not only was the land scheme of 1866 set-up a certain death trap for individual buyers, but then people like the author James Cowan, skips over the deathtrap part, and writes it as some super cool way to seem in charge.

Its like a bank trying to sell someone's house, but when the owner comes home with a gun and shoots the intruder, the bank seller puts on the sign "Gone to lunch, thanks for your business".

So what happened was "the majority in the end disposed of their grants and left the district", but why didnt James Cowan just say the Imperial British lost (for gods sake they tried to setup your own brotherly people and the author still sticks up for them). It seems the NZ author James Cowan was an imperial doggy boy trying to brown nose - sniff royal crack. ruff ruff, to get recognized as a writer.

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The Origins of Rugby researched further by Pacific Sport Historians: A Forgotten History

Northern Native Americans seen playing their

Multi-Regional games which included over a hundred participants

The game of Rugby has in the past 180 years far out grown the few catholic teams who used to compete against each other in schoolyard grounds, becoming even more internationally beloved within the last 40 years of Asia Pacific Pacific Islander participation. The Asia Pacific nations, including Australia and Japan have become Rugby centers who compete aggressively with their Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, and Maori neighbors. Aotearoa New Zealand's All Blacks team has been the top international team in Rugby for over 30 years, with no end in sight, growing super crops of island players who Haka a pre-game welcome. In 1884, the first Aotearoa New Zealand Rugby team toured Australia winning all 9 matches.

With the "game play" of Rugby attracting fans who yell for their teams the "History play" has attracted sport historians, and although there is a belief the game originated in Western Europe, it has been well knocked that the game comes from North American regions.

It seems impossible really, the game of International Rugby coming from the Northern Americas when the national sport is American-rules Football, but we didn't say it came from the wagon loading Pioneers, Traders, or the Colonial American people, but Rugby does have a large percentage of it's origins from the Americas, a much greater percentage than from Britain or France. Historical studies have found that Native American clans played various sports from far reaching regions with the clans having some relations with one another, some with intermarriage, reaching from the US. Eastern regions to Canada. In fact, just about every popular national sport in the western-sphere comes from a fair selection of Native American invented games even basketball, which is a variation from a Native Meso-American game (South American Natives), kicking a ball on a stone paved court about 50-100 yards long into a decorated hoop who's popular name is called 'Aztec Ball' or 'Mayan Ball'. The modern game of Soccer is another extension or variation of the same Native Meso-American court game replacing the hoop goals with easier to target ground netted goals.

The beloved game of Rugby has it's origins from Native American games such as "Lacrosse" (A French Catholic name for the Native American game). The Northern Native American Lacrosse game created the famous Stand-off in modern sports. The stand-off is a starting point, a face-off between two or more people who push or combat for the ball to start the game or restart the game. The Lacrosse stand-off in Rugby is called the Scrum, a unique feature of the sport that evolved from one-on-one play to team scrumming.

Meso-American goal Chichen Itza

photo by Karyre Thor Olsen

The Meso-American stone courts still stand today and 

are extremely similar to modern indoor sporting courts. 

What all these games have in common with each other is "Catholic History". The Spanish Catholics connected to early Meso-America. The Spanish landed in the Americas in the year 1492. French Catholics connected to North America and Canada, who then connected with the Scottish-English. The game came with Euro-missionary Jesuit scholars back to European homelands around the 1600's, who relayed new world experiences. From there, the Catholics played in private schools. Britain became a unified Scottish-English nation in 1706 to fight off the royalist Catholic influences, however education remained in Great Britain from the New American frontier. The British Union Jack flag was sworn around 1801.

In the 1840's, Catholic founded Oxford University sport trends began circulating. It was around 1845 to early 1860's that the Americans heard of a sport called Rugby, which they thought was similar to Football, and had no clue, it too, was a game originating from the New World Americas.

"It wasn't just sports that came from the Native Americas, so many food trades came from the Americas even the potato that is now spread across Europe came from the Native Andes' of South America. The traditional English Breakfast today (which is not from England) is a Catholic meal of overseas trades consisting of eggs from a Southeast Asian chicken breed brought by the Catholics, baked beans are from South America, tomatoes are from South America, and the Italian-German Catholic sausage is an imported product. The modern British pig is not indigenous to the British isles (most native British pigs are endangered or extinct). There is other research into more British imports of foreign domesticated animals such as Dog breeds from Rome, brought by Captain William John Gill 1800s"

The English Catholic Breakfast

The traditional Native Americans still play without pads in Lacrosse and have a slimmer goal to score points. The physical side of the old game though may never return to it's former glory unless a newly athletic Native generation picks-up where the Ancestors left off. Canada's favorite game of Ice Hockey is an extended game from Native America, first played as Field Hockey in the grass then later played on ice courts. The Field Hockey version can be seen in the Blockbuster hit movie "The Last of the Mohicans".

Catholic Oxford University Rugby

On a website called rugbyhistory.com the origins of Rugby is credited to a single man, a William Webb Ellis, a man who went to Catholic Oxford University. The sports history though doesn't hold up, extremely simple, claiming he ran with a ball, and Rugby was magically born. The Rugby rules of England also started with an unlimited number, a familiar Native American rule of the game. 

In 1839, Arthur Pell claims to have made the "Cambridge Rules Rugby", simply another renaming of the game already in place with some added flair. Australia too has other several variants of the sport played in the AFL, founded first as the VFL or Victorian Football League.

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Anglo-New Zealand Propaganda of Polynesia 001: An Ocean of lies

 A list of Colonial and Racial Propaganda from New Zealand on the vast region of Polynesia, which continues still today from some Anglo-NZ writers

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[-] Redheads Part 1 of Skeletons in the Cupboard series [Link to Youtube]
[-] Redheads Part 2 of Skeletons in the Cupboard series [Link to Youtube]

A short series with quite a few topics within, but mainly points out that the Polynesians were not the first people in New Zealand, and that a Redheaded race colonized the Pacific first and then taught Maori how to become the Maori they are today.

[-] Celtics - The First peoples of New Zealand [Link to Youtube]

[-] Celtics and Pyramids of New Zealand [Link to Youtube]

[-] Celtic Pre-Maori Heritage sites of New Zealand [Link to Youtube]

Media works on Celtics being the first peoples of New Zealand and not Polynesians, as well as Celtics being responsible for the many structures found on heritage sites.

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The British royalist use of the term Rebel in America and New Zealand 1700-1860

When dealing with several English American versions of history, British nationalistic versions, or Ethnic Anti-Native interpretations, the term "Rebel" has been used politically during conflicts, and has lazily been parroted, or intentionally passed on by revisionists. 

Pacific American Historian "In many well known areas of Western History, from the Americas to New Zealand, the term 'Rebel' is so grossly used, apart of a step by step military play book used by the British Royalists, learned from the real Imperial Powers east of theirs. In 1763, the Ottawa Native American confederation under Chief Pontiac has been at times labeled a 'Native rebellion', by English Historians. 

This is really so ridiculous, calling the Legal owners 'the rebels', on land inhabited by their ancestors for thousands of years, and who by the way, the British could not navigate the American land without a guide. The real reason for using the label 'rebel' in war is to argue that an attack was murder. Under British Law at that time, a person could be legally shot on a wall or publicly hung for murder, and calling War a murder case was a dishonorable Royal tact, used when they began to loose. Although not all European immigrants in America were from Britain in the 1700s, who may have been Spanish, German, Irish, Polish, or French, they were still considered  without rights, and if were against the British crown, they too were labeled a rebel. 

There are several history versions still using the title 'Pontiac Rebellion', a war lost by the British, and a war which inspired the American Independence. Native Americans were so loved for their heart and warrior soul, and known for being Anti-British, that at the famous Boston Tea Party, the Colonials dressed up as Indian warriors, a mockery to the Brits. 

The New Zealand Wars or Maori Wars has the same labeling tact in their history, again a play book bulletin point, checked off, as the British Royalists used it there. As the Maori Wars progressed, and British lost, the 'rebel' label appeared in pro-British newspapers, one pro-Auckland paper being The New Zealand Herald."

As history makes its way in 2014, the Pacific Historians continue to point out these word plays, and who make corrections, rewriting a truer version in English language. 

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The Polynesian origins in South Asia and Southeast Asia reviewed 2014

A recent academic review in 2014 of "Where do Polynesians come from", as to the general Southeast Asian region, debates a late theory of "Out of Taiwan", never official or agreed upon. Many academics make it a note that the Lapita complex is a "bad name and bad theory", being incredibly misleading and the theory filled with misinformation. The Lapita have never been an actual people or culture in the pacific, the name was chosen, and by who and why is a question asked many a time.

Pacific academic said "In the last 20 years, at least no longer do western academics include religious links to lost Jewish tribes, pyramid building aliens from outer space, or Indians from South America, as those theories had attracted considerable embarrassment."

Reviewing the Lapita Pottery Theory
The Lapita pottery is debated to have had its original uses, from a Southeast Asian trade network, linked to the famous intercontinental Spice Trade. The Spice Trade is dated to to have spun its networks at 6,500 years ago, running into the west, through Indian Ocean and Arabian seas, and on into Southeast and Northern Africa. This history of the Spice Trade and it's brief appearance in the outer-Pacific, mistaken for a "Lapita culture", exhibits no relationship to the actual origins of Polynesian origins, being that the genetic results are much older than the pottery.

A proposal claims the pottery supported brief trades that interacted with the Spice Trade routes, which networked through the Maluku island groups, Melanesia, and parts of Polynesia, which then expanded and then disappeared over time with market fluctuations. It's also favored the export trade from the outer pacific, and not an import trade, ended in the pacific because of weather and War.

Greatest Polynesian Expansions 10,000 years ago
The Southeastern region of Sri Lanka, Nepal to Thailand, and the areas of Singapore, and Suluwesi Indonesia have been a great focus on being the areas of first Polynesian expansions. The central region of Indonesia in Southeast Asia or "Sundaland" has been the latest focus of Polynesian origin for the last 60 years.

At the end of the last ice-age 12,000-9,000 years ago, ocean levels significantly elevated, warming ice-caps. The safest dates to give the largest Polynesian expansion into Northern East Asia and the outer Pacific islands is 8-10,000 years during the very late Holocene-era, fueled again by a dramtic climate change. However, the last expansion does not prove to be the "first" Pacific wave in Asia, and climate change has seemed to have only encouraged an already migratory and colonizing path from the Southeast Pacific. Melanesia and Papua have also been genetically proven to have connected and separated within the last 10,000 years.

Genetics markers of the first Polynesian Origins
Archaeological finds and genetic markers in Southeast Asia, date first settlements and early expansions, at least 44-50kya, flowing across major landscapes. Anthropologists use the genetic track of "The Polynesian Motif B4a1a1", along with several other Haplogroup R11 and B to trace exploratory routes into Central Asia. The older Polynesian lineages in ancient mainland East Asia, have since fused over the centuries with other older Malayo-Polynesian expansions and Southeast Asian descendants, creating a modern East Asia. 

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History theory and Mythology on The Egyptian-Greek Lion's Gate in Greece 1600BC. - The War against the Titan's Altars

Citadel at Mycenae in Greece △ 

Schliemann excavated Agamemnon 1876

History of this period 1600 BC has had its various interpretations, with the Barbary Lions always an attraction. The southeastern Mycenae Indigenous were at one point over run at their borders by Minoan raider clans, who had gained territory around the island of Crete and the edge of southwestern Turkey. The Minoans are written as a clan under Titan Kings, a clan who engaged in battle and provided slave trade for human sacrifice (Altar sacrifice) and consumption (blood drinking and cannibalism). The settlement of Kronoses on the island of Crete, is believed to be where Greek mythology takes these "Horrors of Titans" from. These Titan Kings ordered the invasion of the mainlands, with Minoans as accomplices, only to sacrifice fleshy gifts upon Altars and sell left over women to market, a commercial Kingdom of blood and terror.

Greek Mythology on Titans
The birth of Zeus, a half son of  "Kronos of the Titans", and a half son of Greece has been told to bring about a new age of Greek Revolution. Kronos who in mythology attempted to eat Zeus and his siblings is trapped after Zeus is strong enough, and is then pushed back into Tartarus. 

The Egyptian-Greek Alliance and the Lion's Gate border

An Egyptian-Greek alliance was formed to combat the Titan Kings, who won, and who then fortified the area and created a new and massive border, with parts of the borders and their citadels still standing today. In Southeastern Greece at the native grounds of Mycenae is where one of the "Lions Gates" faces a citadel on high defending the region. The gate is uniquely Celt-Greek construction, with large local grey stones from local quarry. Above the Lions Gate entrances are the sculpted the emblems of power, marked for all intruders. The two lions are what history calls "The Barbary Lions", which are throne figures also residing in Carthage (a city under the Egyptian Pharaoh) of Northern Africa.

On the Lions Gate emblem, the sculpted border gate displays two standing Lions mounted on a Minoan Altar, signifying "The Titan-Minoan stamp-out and a Titan-Minoan defeat"△. One Lion is theorized to represent the Greek Macedonian Kingdom and the other the Carthage realms, who are then both tied to Pharaoh's Egypt. The first Lion's Gate is in eastern Greece, while the second Lion's Gate citadel is based on the edge of western Turkey, just past the assumed civilization of Troy, showing a successful border alliance. The Lion's Gate in western Turkey still has its heads attached in the site Hattusa.

Lions are a symbol of Egypt, which are seen to be based around great King Solomon's thrown, signifying its pharaoh relations to Egyptian houses. In Egypt, the highest house of Pharaohs inside the palace protect a gilded Lion throne chair. The Throne of the Pharaoh was royally crafted as "A seat which is hoisted by Lions". On each side on the bottom of the chair is where the Lion figures are crafted. The Pharaohs throne on its side profile shows beautifully the back and front legs of the chair, creating Lion bodies. 

The famous British story of "Aslan The Lion and the Witch in the wardrobe", or "The Chronicles of Narnia", are based on this era of a once Egyptian-Greek War against Altar sacrifices.

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Reviewing a Romanticized Roman-Greek system and it's Fall: The Rise of Persia in the West

An 18th-century Romanticized painting of The Martyrdom 

of Saint Agnes in the Roman Forum

Its still a wonder why Ancient Rome is continually portrayed as a founder of Democracy and Republicanism unless the definition of a "Republic" defers in some way across the west. A Republic Government by definition is an authority ruled by its elected  representatives of a citizen body. This simple stated definition of a Republic disrobes any chance of Ancient Rome being more than a region of Imperial territories and Clan Politics exercising social and commercial tyranny. From beginning to end, the region remained without legal justice and if there was a sign to be hung on Rome's entrance, it would say "The Roman Realms" in big letters, and below it "Only a private army is needed here to make laws".

According with some dates, the Roman Republic began in 509 BC and lasted until 27 BC. The dates are surprising which stretches for almost 500 years. In the year 499 BC, 10 years after the non-Roman Republic remained, the Greek city of Ionia was invaded by Persia. The Magi of Central Asia had taken over the Zoroastrian religion in 500 BC and Persia advanced west. Xerxes invaded Tharce in 481 BC and in the year 480 BC, Sparta revolted shortly in a losing battle (a myth still written as history). The Persian Empire who for this particular invasion of Greece, became a large alliance of confederated Kingdoms, Clans, and companies with regions of influence, began to border Egyptian-Greek areas in Southern and Southern Eastern Greece.

In the year 405 BC "The Great City of Athens", a city maintained by Egyptian and Greek governors, falls to The Great Persian alliance. Spartans who are often mentioned as anti-Persian in History, were according to resources the mercenary who had helped plan and put down their Egyptian-Greek Athens neighbors, whom they hated, ever since Egyptian-Greek houses founded its southern coastline. After an established presence in Greek lands, Alexander The Great sided with Persia, as did many Hebrew Jewish aristocrats and local provincial governances. Alexander's name itself is taken from "Cyrus The Great", and in the year 332 BC, Alexander attacks Arabia in Syria, then who campaigned in Palestine. In the year 324 BC, Alexander marries 80 top officers including his Generals into Persian aristocratic houses. 

These winning parties of Persian power later created the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire throughout Rome's supposed "Republican and Democratic History" overruled the Western Roman Empire in Italy. A Senate was created for the overseeing of "public affairs", a club of governors who answered to royalty and militant power, the same governing set-up that was once in Great Athens, but who used to answer to Pharaoh's Egypt.

Almost 300 years later in 44 BC, Cleopatra takes over Rome killing Julius Ceasar (The Julie') in what's called "The Ides of March". The Goddess like Cleopatra then has a dominating power until 27 BC when Octavian finally comes to influence after the death of General Antony.

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