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Peoples of the World... Pacific Islands

This one came out the rainy day file :S just appreciation of other culture I guess... (Set to Lilo and Stitch!!)

Tsunamis and Earthquakes Hit the Pacific Islands

Tsunamis and Earthquakes strike the Philippines, American Samoa, and other Pacific Islands. Story Links: Typhoon Ondoy, Markina River Raging By mag.ma Typhoon Ondoy September 26, 2009 mag.ma MODIS Rapid Response System rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov Quake, tsunami near American Samoa kills at least 22 www.cnn.com LA lifeguards clear beaches latimesblogs.latimes.com Indonesians shaken and struggling after devastating earthquake www.latimes.com Officials: 3000 People Trapped due to Indonesian Quake english.chosun.com Second earthquake hits stricken Sumatra www.guardian.co.uk Mudslides Bury Villages in Rural Sumatra Valley online.wsj.com Rescuers head for Indonesia, UN waits for official food request www.channelnewsasia.com Obama offers support for Samoa, Indonesia www.google.com Help for Typhoon Ondoy Victims www.google.com Why is Ondoy popular right now? whatthetrend.com Why is Indonesia popular right now? whatthetrend.com Donate to help children in the Philippines secure.unicefusa.org Help the Philippines Weather the Storm www.wfp.org Red Cross www.redcross.org.ph Follow Rocketboom and Molly on Twitter twitter.com twitter.com

Pacific Island, 1949

A film about life on the small island of Likiep in the Marshall Islands in Polynesia. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

Man vs. Wild - Pacific Island - Bear's Enema

More adventures, more survival, more Bear! Catch the season premiere of Man vs. Wild, Wednesday, January 13th @ 9pm E/P only on Discovery! Check out Bear's Top Ten Gross Eats at dsc.discovery.com As a last resort, Bear gives himself an enema with fetid water to keep himself hydrated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Tuvalu Island in the South Pacific

threatened to disappear due to global warming and sea-level rise (BBC News - 22 Jan 2008)

350 Islands for Change

Sign www.oxfam.org.nz/feeltheheat climate change petition. In Auckland, Pacific Islanders wade out into the sea and hang up 350 T-shirts on a giant washing line, signifying that the Pacific Islands are being hung out to dry. Each shirt has the name of a different island printed on it. The event is part of the 350 International Day of Climate Action, a global call to bring greenhouse gas pollution back down to a level that is safe for survival.

SAMOA The South Pacific Islands

Oceania Islands. Music By Pacific Soul & Jamoa Jam.

Taqa-na-ika origins of Fijians. Pacific Island oral tradition of their AFRICAN Origins.

TRADITIONAL STORY FROM FIJI TELLING THEIR ORIGINS AVAILABLE TO READ BELOW. NO THEORIES ARE PRESENTED HERE—ONLY FACTUAL EVIDENCE THAT EXISTS. Dr. Runoko Rashidi is a Historian who was respectful enough to visit the Fiji islands and ask the indigenous Fijians themselves about their oral traditions of where they came from. This oral tradition is eagerly and disrespectfully attempted to be dismissed as POSSIBLY being a hoax by Western linguists and anthropologists, supposedly started by the missionaries in the 1800's, even though the claim is without sufficient evidence. Meanwhile, the scientific industry still continues to ignore and hush Fijian accounts while replacing it with a fabrication of carefully selected and carefully omitted genetic, cultural, linguistic, and archeological data, in an attempt to carefully piece together a false "South East Asian Origin" that appears credible; while genetic, cultural, linguistic, and archeological data linking them to the rest of Cushite peoples in Africa, are neglected, hushed, and hidden safely away in the lower bunkers of European Museums. There are MANY versions of the Fijian account that mention places of origin and In Africa many of us still know those places. Here is one version of the story told to me by Fijians who have been careful to keep it. 1ST ARRIVALS: Boat= Rogovoka/Lolopeau (From Egypt) "This boat/canoe belonged to the Yavusa Malea who also named the boat for themselves as Lolopeau. This is the largest vessel of the ...