Comments on: Mariana Islands community groups to sue US Navy over at risk wildlife https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/03/03/mariana-islands-community-groups-to-sue-us-navy-over-at-risk-wildlife/ Independent Asia Pacific news and analysis Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Patrick Flaherty https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/03/03/mariana-islands-community-groups-to-sue-us-navy-over-at-risk-wildlife/#comment-233 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 01:45:09 +0000 http://asiapacificreport.nz/?p=10841#comment-233 Marianas Island Training and Testing (MITT)
In August 2015, the Navy authorised the expansion of Mariana Island Range Complex (MIRC), a project that earned “A Finding of No Significant Harm” (FONSH) status, according to the Navy’s Environmental Assessment.

The 500,000 sq-nautical-mile training and testing area around the Mariana Islands was doubled and now includes nearly a Marianas Island Training and Testing (MITT)
In August 2015, the Navy authorised the expansion of Mariana Island Range Complex (MIRC), a project that earned “A Finding of No Significant Harm” (FONSH) status, according to the Navy’s Environmental Assessment.

The 500,000 sq-nautical-mile training and testing area around the Mariana Islands was doubled and now includes nearly a billion square-miles; an area larger than the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico combined.

billion square-miles; an area larger than the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico combined.

billion square-miles… Typo?

google search > square miles on earth = The total surface area of Earth is about 197 million square miles

I haven’t read the rest of the article and will not because now this site seems dull.

]]> By: D. L. LePage https://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/03/03/mariana-islands-community-groups-to-sue-us-navy-over-at-risk-wildlife/#comment-232 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 23:57:01 +0000 http://asiapacificreport.nz/?p=10841#comment-232 Have you ever looked back on the history of the white man and felt helpless shame at the genocide they perpetrated on the tribes of the Native Americans? Killing them, driving them out of their lands, stealing their children?

Have you ever been disgusted by the number of “treaties” the government signed and broke because they wanted something

And let’s not go into the shame of slavery.

There is right and there is wrong. We know what it is. The government knows what it is. “Testing” weapons on an inhabited island is WRONG. Apparently the government decided we need newer things to be ashamed of. Well they did it. I’m ashamed. “Greatest country in the world” then why do they have so many things in their past that I’m ashamed of. The greatest country on the world would be one where the actions taken I am never ashamed of.

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