Russian-American Company - Alaska, Hawaii and California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_triangle_(US_politics)
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http://rrparks.mcn.org/fortross/Russian%20American%20Company.htm
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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CALIFORNIA SETTLEMENTn 1803, 1806 and 1808 Baranov had appointed Timofei Tarakanov, a talented promyshlennik, to lead large Native Alaskan hunting parties to California. Between 1808 and 1811, Baranov sent his deputy Kuskov on a series of expeditions to reconnoiter possible settlement sites in "New Albion," a name used by the Russians after Sir Francis Drake’s designation of California. At Bodega Bay, called Rumiantsev Bay by the Russians, on the Sonoma Coast north of San Francisco Bay, Kuskov established a temporary base and set about exploring the surrounding territory. He examined several sites, and in 1811 selected a cove and promontory up the coast from Bodega Bay as the best location for the colony. Although it lacked the deep-water anchorage the Russians enjoyed in Bodega’s outer bay, the proposed site had overall advantages in soil, timber, water supply, and pasturage. In addition, its relative inaccessibility from Spanish-occupied territory gave it an advantage in terms of defense. Kuskov submitted his recommendations to Baranov, and preparations began for founding a settlement.

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23856
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California Admission Day September 9, 1850

http://www.superpages.com/states/AK/
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The largest state in the U.S., much of Alaska remains unspoiled and untamed, earning it the nickname "The Last Frontier." The land was purchased from Russia in 1867, but didn't become an organized territory until 1912. In 1959, Alaska was admitted as the 49th state in the U.S.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_owned_Hawaii_before_the_US
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Answer Hawaii taken over by US in 1898.

Hawaii was independent and "owned" by Hawaiians until the US annexed, without approval by Hawaiian leadership, Hawaii on July 7, 1898.
The last two leaders before US takeover were:
1874-1891- King David Kalahua, who died in 1891 and was replaced by
1891-1893- Queen Liliuokalani.
She protested the US intention to takeover Hawaii made known in 1893. But
this was to no avail. On July 7, 1898 the US annexed Hawaii and in 1900
it was declared a US Territory. In 1959, the same year as Alaska, Hawaii
became the 50th US State.

http://www.hawaiiforvisitors.com/monarchy/princess-victoria-kaiulani-cleghorn.htm
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Protesting the Annexation of Hawaii When Princess Kaiulani heard the Hawaiian Kingdom had been overthrown she traveled from England to New York City, Boston, and Washington DC to prevent the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. She made speaches and participated in negotiations, and she even met with President Grover Cleveland. Her efforts to prevent the United States from annexing Hawaii were not successful. On July 4, 1894 the existance of a new Republic of Hawaii was declared and Sanford Dole was inaugerated as its president. Hawaii became the U.S. Territory of Hawaii when it was formally annexed in 1898 by the United States.

The Death of Princess Kaiulani
The princess returned to Hawaii and her beloved Ainahau estate 1897. In 1898 she became ill after she was caught in a storm while horseback riding on the Big Island of Hawaii. She returned to Oahu but her health never recovered. Princess Kaiulani died on March 6, 1899, at the age of 23, the year after the United States annexed Hawaii. It was said that her beloved flock of peacocks at Ainahau screamed in unison at the moment she died.

http://thetruthisfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/the-us-southwest-was-stolen-from-mexicans/
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Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821 after ending years of war against colonial imposition and crimes by the Spanish invaders. The war left Mexico drained out which contributed to neglect its Northern territories known today as the United States “Southwest.” The original name of that land is Aztlan and Chicano descendants from the original inhabitants still use that name today.
While Mexico was at war with Spain, thousands of white colonists, cattleman, adventures, and mercenaries, were coming from other parts of North America that had been already invaded and occupied looking for land and gold they could find and obtain “by any means.” These mercenaries fixed their eyes and interest in what is today “Texas,” placed themselves in land plots, and later enlarged their population so that by 1835 there were more white foreigners than native Mexicans in the area.  In 1836 the white foreigners occupied most of the territory by force, declared “independence” and called the stolen lands “Republic of Texas.” This bandit’s act caused the war between Mexico and the United States for the first time until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed between the two countries on February 2, 1848. Mexico lost the land the whites called “Texas” but subsequently the rest of the Northern territories which eventually became part of the whole mass land known today as the US “Southwest.”
The land stolen from Mexico is bigger than Germany and France combined and considered to be among the riches in the world where an abundance of gold was found after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. The native Mexicans were forced to become US citizens or leave the area one year after the Treaty was signed.

http://www.hawaiilink.net/~ems/Pila/AAOK_files/v25.Russians%20on%20Kauai.html
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May 21 

Lietenant Podushkin dressed him [Kaumualii] in his uniform with epaulets, hats and cutlass.  In this solemn dress he went ashore with the flag, and accompanied by all the people went to his house and raised the flag there, while a salute was fired from the ship.

(Pierce, 1965,p.126.  Report, Filip Osipov to Main Office, about September 1818, Reviewing Operations in the Islands,p. 126).

“He [Schaffer] went ashore and to the Company house and ordered me to unload the schooner.  He obtained a storehouse from the king.”

(Pierce.  1965.p. 98 Report, Timofei Tarakanov to Lietenant-Captain Hagemeister, at Sitka, Feb. 12, 1818, Reviewing Departure of the Il’mena from California, and Proceedings on Oahu and Kauai.).

May 25/26

I selected a place in the Waimea valley for building houses for the factory [Russian word for factory translates “trading post” and for setting out gardens.  The king gave us a stone building for a store.  I placed the promyshlennik [hunter] Aleksei Odnoriadkin in charge, over several Russians and six Aleuts.” 

(Pierce., 1965. p. 176. Schaffer Journal,).

June 24

“Taboo.  The Russian flags flew over Kauai just as on Russian holidays.  The kings assigned three houses on the shore as dwellings for our Russians. I lived and slept at the king’s until the factory was built.”

http://www.hawaii-inns.com/history/index.htm
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1897               In protest to the annexation of Hawaii to the U.S. a Japanese warship arrives in Pearl Harbor.  The U.S. Congress debates the annexation treaty over the next three years.  About 40% of the Hawaiian population was Japanese at this time.

6/14/1900        A Territorial Treaty is signed with the United States.  The population then stood at: 30,000 Hawaiians, 10,000 part Hawaiians, 27,000 Caucasians, 26,000 Chinese, 61,000 Japanese.  There was a major concern that the Japanese would try to incorporate Hawaii due to the high number of Japanese immigrants.  The total population was at about 151,000 at this time.

12/7/41           The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor believing that the Hawaiian Japanese would remain loyal to Japan, fortunately, they did not.  But unfortunately many were interred in holding facilities in California.  This was a very dark day for the Japanese immigrants.  

8/21/1959        Hawaiian statehood was voted in by all the registered voters of Hawaii in a general election.  It was felt by many that Hawaii as a State would be less vulnerable to invasion.   At the time there was great enthusiasm and many parties proclaiming  Statehood for Hawaii. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-American_Company
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History
The 20-year renewable charter and accompanying ukase (edict) granted the company monopoly over trade in Russian America, which included the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and the territory down to 55° N latitude. Under the charter, one-third of all profits were to go to the emperor. A further ukase (edict or proclamation) by the Tsar in 1821, asserted its domain to 51° N latitude but this was challenged by the British and the United States, which ultimately resulted in the Russo-American Treaty of 1824 and the Russo-British Treaty of 1825 which established 54°40′ as the ostensible southward limit of Russian interests.^[4] The only attempt at enforcement of the ukase of 1821 was the seizure of the U.S. brig Pearl in 1822, by the Russian sloop Apollon. The Pearl, a vessel of the maritime fur trade, was sailing from Boston to Sitka. On a protest from the US government the vessel was released and compensation paid.^[5] A later lease to the Hudson's Bay Company of the southeastern sector of what is now the Alaska Panhandle, as far north as 56° 30' N, followed in 1838 as part of a damages settlement due to treaty violations by the Company's governor, Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, in 1833.
Under Alexandr Baranov, who governed the region between 1790 and 1818, a permanent settlement was established in 1804 at Novo-Arkhangelsk (today's Sitka, Alaska), and a thriving maritime trade was organized.

The company established Fort Ross in Sonoma County, California in 1812.

The company constructed settlements in what is today Alaska, Hawaii, and California. Fort Ross, on the California coast in Sonoma County just north of San Francisco, was the southernmost outpost of the Russian-American Company.

http://english.pravda.ru/history/04-04-2007/89041-alaska-0/
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Russia made huge mistake when it sold Alaska to USA for only 7.2 million dollars

04.04.2007

Russia made huge mistake when it sold Alaska to USA for only 7.2 million dollars

Russia and the United States signed a treaty selling Alaska to the U.S. for $7.2 million on March 30, 1867. The deal was considered a great achievement of diplomacy at the time.

The Russians began exploring the northwestern coast of North America in the first half of the 17^th century. By and large, Russia discovered the region, and thus owned it for the next 126 years.

http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm/discover-alaska/FAQs/15
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When and how did the United States come to own Alaska?

The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867. This is a summary of how that came to pass. American political leaders had expressed interest in acquiring Alaska as early as the 1840s, during the height of the nation's fascination with its "Manifest Destiny" to expand its control across the continent. American traders and whalers were frequent visitors to Alaska's shores, and many spoke highly of its resources. Exploratory steps were taken in 1860 to determine whether Russia would sell Alaska to America. But the question had to await the conclusion of the Civil War. In 1866, a year after the war's end, the Czar's advisors indicated that the Russian-American Company, the semi-official arm of the Russian government that managed the Russian colony in Alaska, was nearing bankruptcy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_the_Americas
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California

Main article: Fort Ross, California

Near Bodega Bay in Northern California the outpost of Fort Ross was established in 1812. The Russians maintained it until 1841, leaving the region.^[2] Fort Ross is now a Federal National Historical Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. It is preserved—restored in California's Fort Ross State Historic Park 50 miles north of San Francisco.^[3]
The Spanish concern about Russian colonial intrusion prompted initiating the upper Las Californias Province settlement, with presidios (forts), pueblos (towns), and the California missions. The Mission San Francisco de Solano (Sonoma Mission-1823) specifically responded to the Fort Ross presence by the Spanish. After independence the Mexicans also responded, with the El Presidio Real de Sonoma or Sonoma Barracks, in 1836 with General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the 'Commandant of the Northern Frontier' of the Alta California Province. The fort was the northernmost Mexican outpost to halt any further Russian settlement southward. The restored Presidio and mission are in the present day city of Sonoma, California.
In 1920 a one-hundred pound bronze church bell was unearthed in an orange grove near Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. It has an inscription in the Russian language (translated here): "In the Year 1796, in the month of January, this bell was cast on the Island of Kodiak by the blessing of Juvenaly of Alaska, during the sojourn of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov." How this Russian Orthodox Kodiak church artifact, from Kodiak Island in Alaska journeyed to a Roman Catholic Mission Church in Southern California is unknown.

http://explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-RussAmCo.htm
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In 1839, the Hudson's Bay Company signed a long-term contract to supply Russia's Alaskan posts with various goods, including food and lumber, from their settlements in the Pacific Northwest, as well as a new post established in Hawaii. But that is another story...


http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_carlyle10.htm
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A 48 minute documentary well worth watching.

It's Dutch but almost all of it is in spoken English with Dutch subtitles so we English speakers don't miss much.

Exposed: The Carlyle GroupShocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy

I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government and the first family.


Perhaps the naive will be shocked. The foreign policies of nations have long been linked to the business aspirations of their corporations (ex. Hudson's Bay Co, East India Company...etc.) . It is completely normal. Where the investment dollar goes the soldiers follow. I have tacked on below another item I post repeatedly, the confessions of war hero Smedley Butler. Anyone who knows a soldier might consider printing it out for them.

More shocking than this video is the one I helped edit "The War on the Third World, What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy" by Frank Dorrel. http://www.addictedtowar.com. It has been shown to perhaps a million people so far and is starting to be shown in movie theatres in the Los Angeles area. For decades people have killed and been killed for the private profits of an elite they are not even aware of. I highly recommend that list members buy a copy and show it to as many people as you can.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wise_Use
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The so-called "Wise Use" movement is an industry-front and anti-environmentalist organization founded by Ron Arnold in the late 1980s, primarily dealing with timber and mining issues in the western US.
It inspired a number of spin-off groups, including the "Share" groups in the Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.), which give the appearance of being grass-roots community organizations, but are in fact organized and funded by major corporations. (For example, the "B.C. Forest Alliance" was chaired for its initial period by an executive of Burson-Marsteller.) This type of "fake grass-roots" group led to their description of the advocacy as being an astroturf campaign.
"Wise Use groups are often funded by timber, mining, and chemical companies. In return, they claim, loudly, that the well-documented hole in the ozone layer doesn't exist, that carcinogenic chemicals in the air and water don't harm anyone, and that trees won't grow properly unless forests are clear-cut, with government subsidies. Wise Use proponents were buffeted by Bush's defeat and by media exposure of the movement's founders' connections to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church network (tainted by charges of cultism and theocratic neo-fascism), but the movement has quickly rebounded. In every state of the US, relentless Wise Use disinformation campaigns about the purpose and meaning of environmental laws are building a grassroots constituency. To Wise Users, environmentalists are pagans, eco-nazis, and communists who must be fought with shouts and threats."