Posts Tagged ‘pacific’

Palestine, israel, the US, and How the South Pacific Countries Are Selling Their Votes

“The United Nations General Assembly has voted by a huge majority to declare a unilateral US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “null and void”. At an emergency session of the General Assembly on Thursday, 128 countries voted in favour of a resolution rejecting US President Donald Trump’s controversial decision on December 6. Nine countries voted against, […]

Operation Pacific Eagle in the Philippines: Washington’s New Colonial War

In the first part of this MPN exclusive, we speak to Ka Oris of the New People’s Army and Professors William I. Robinson and Roland Simbulan about the new U.S. intervention in Asia, which raises the Philippines to the same level as Syria and Iraq for the Pentagon’s war plans. In the second part, we […]

US Nuclear Waste, Equivalent To 2,000 Hiroshima’s, Pouring Into Pacific Ocean

A concrete dome holding radioactive waste of 42 nuclear explosions is leaking into the pacific ocean, veterans have warned.   The Enewetak Atoll was used by the US government to test 30 megatons of weapons – equivalent to 2,000 Hiroshima blasts – in the 1950’s. Express.co.uk reports: More than 8,000 people would later work to clean […]

Flaunting British Neo-Imperialism in Asia-Pacific

By Joseph Thomas For over a century, the British Empire exerted control over Asia-Pacific, outright colonizing India, Burma, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia while influencing and encroaching upon greater China, Siam and beyond. It exploited the people and natural resources of the region, fueled conflict as it waged war with rival European […]

Radioactivity still lingering in the Pacific Ocean from nuclear bomb tests more than 50 years ago

(Natural News) A study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment revealed that radioactivity remains persistent in the lagoons of remote Marshall Island atolls in the Pacific Ocean where the United States carried out a total of 66 nuclear weapon tests between the 1940s and 1950s. A team of researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) noted […]

NAFTA Negotiations: A Clever Ploy to Resurrect the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

December 14th, 2017 By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World One of the key selling points of Donald Trump’s campaign, refusing to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (or TPP) once he was in office inspired a measure of confidence in the newly elected president. However, next up on the political chopping block is another contentious […]

Japan wants to push a million tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean

Japan has still not come to a consensus on what to do with a million tons of nuclear water six years after their primary nuclear power plant in Fukushima was rocked by a tsunami. The water stored in 900 large, dense, packed tanks on site could spill if another major natural disaster […]

TPP Now ‘Comprehensive & Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership’

Above Photo: ARRT!/ Flickr Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. On November 11th, the TPP-11 countries announced reaching an agreement on reforms that have been negotiated since the United States exited the deal. The most evident one is […]

3 US aircraft carriers to stage drills in W. Pacific as Trump visits Asia – officials

The exercise will include the USS ‘Nimitz,’ the ‘Ronald Reagan,’ the ‘Theodore Roosevelt,’ and their accompanying warships, several US officials told media. It will be the first time that three US carrier strike groups have exercised together in the region since 2007. Trump happy with S. Korea buying more US arms as he fuels North […]

All Eyes on the Pacific Ring of Fire as Major Geological Events Trigger Concern

Terence Newton, Staff WriterWaking Times  It’s well-known that the world’s billionaires are spending a good chunk of their loot on preparations for the end of the world as we know it. They’re building luxury underground bunkers, stocking up on military-style hardware, buying up the world’s most precious farmland, and banking seeds to restart society […]

North Korea Warns It’s About To Detonate H-Bomb Over The Pacific

Kim Jong-un has made another threat directed at President Donald Trump claiming he will detonate a deadly H-Bomb over the Pacific. The threat from North Korea was in response to Trumps earlier warning that America would “totally destroy” North Korea if the regime attacked the U.S or its allies. The North Korean leader also threatened to “tame” […]

Pacific Northwest Resident Documents Metallic Fibers Falling from Sky

Buck Rogers, Staff WriterWaking Times As the term geoengineering creeps evermore into public consciousness, people are being persuaded that weather modification schemes will play an important role in public safety as a response to climate change. Most people are behind the curve on this issue, though, as independent journalists and private individuals have for […]

Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over, Or Worse…

The fallout from the Fukushima disaster has affected Pacific ocean life permanently. The disaster has been brushed over by authorities and those who have overseen the clean-up operation, but the nuclear disaster has had long standing catastrophic effects on sea life in the Pacific ocean. The ocean was flooded with highly radioactive waste as a […]

Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific

  The ground up plastic is turning up in sea salt that people are eating now. Via: National Geographic: Water, water, everywhere—and most of it is filled with plastic. A new discovery of a massive amount of plastic floating in the South Pacific is yet another piece of bad news […]

US Pacific Fleet chief bluntly affirms he’d launch nukes at China on Trump’s orders

     The US Pacific Fleet chief said he would obey a hypothetical order to launch a nuclear strike against China if the president chose to give it. The remarks follow the director of the CIA’s recent assessment that Beijing poses a major threat to the US in the long run. Commander of the US Navy’s […]

Japan About to Drop Radioactive Fukushima Wastewater in Pacific Ocean

We live in a post-Fukushima world and it’s about to get worse… Sometimes it’s easy to blot out from our minds that the March 2011 Fukushima catastrophe that occurred when a major tsunami flooded Tepco’s nuclear cooling reactors following an earthquake was the worst radioactive disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986. Similar to Chernobyl, […]

Fukushima To Dump 770,000 Tons Of Deadly Nuclear Waste Into Pacific Ocean

Fukushima will dump 770,000 tons of deadly nuclear waste into the ocean, which experts have warned will cause “apocalyptic” numbers of people to die.  According to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) chairman, Takashi Kawamura, the decision has already been made to put the lives of millions of fish, humans and animals at risk by dumping […]

Lemuria in Australia & the Pacific

The most important questions we can ask are about ourselves, not only as individuals, but as a species.  Where did we come from? How did we get here? A question that has bedevilled us for as long as we can remember is: Where and when did we take the step from savagery to civilisation? Mainstream […]

Japan To Dump Deadly Fukushima Nuclear Waste Into Pacific Ocean

Japan has announced plans to dump 920,000 tons of deadly Fukushima nuclear waste into the Pacific ocean, saying that they can no longer contain the waste on land. Following the major tsunami in 2011 that resulted the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant shutting down, the constant leaking of radiation that has occurred in the aftermath has […]

Pacific Northwest Proving Grassroots Action Against Fossil Fuels Works

Above Photo: The Pacific Northwest is proving that grassroots action against the fossil fuel industry can work, and the strategies they’re using can be used anywhere. The region has seen a tsunami of fossil fuel infrastructure proposals in the last few years—from coal export, oil-by-rail, liquefied natural gas, and more. “And what we have seen happen very […]

The Pacific Northwest Is Proving Grassroots Action Against Fossil Fuels Can Work

Above Photo: The Pacific Northwest is proving that grassroots action against the fossil fuel industry can work, and the strategies they’re using can be used anywhere. The region has seen a tsunami of fossil fuel infrastructure proposals in the last few years—from coal export, oil-by-rail, liquefied natural gas, and more. “And what we have seen happen very […]

Mass die-off in the Pacific as hundreds of sharks wash up on the shores of San Francisco

(Natural News) Ohia.org reminds us that sharks are both scavengers and super -predators, who greatly assist in keeping the ocean’s ecosystem balanced. Sharks eat fish that are the “weakest, sick or dead,” and also “maintain prey species diversity” by keeping other predator species in check. A decline in shark populations not only threatens fishery operations, but can also indicate deeper problems within our […]

Record-early Eastern Pacific storm,Tropical Storm Adrian

     Comment: Meanwhile, recently in another part of the Pacific – Tropical Cyclone Donna becomes Category 5 storm, worst May storm on record in South Pacific Tropical Storm Adrian kicked off a record early start to the 2017 eastern Pacific hurricane season Tuesday several hundred miles off the southern Mexican coast, but appears destined for […]

Stories Of Resistance And Resilience From The Pacific Islands To Canada

Above Photo: Raising Our Paddles This May, a delegation of Pacific Islanders who are fighting climate change from the front lines of impact, are headed to one of the dirtiest fossil fuel extraction sites on the planet: the Canadian tar sands. These Pacific Climate Warriors are disappointed that Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has deliberately […]

The Encirclement of China is Well Underway: France Prepares to Lead EU Missions in the South China Sea

JCPOA not violated up to this moment: Senior official

Tehran, July 13, IRNA – A senior member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team has said that the process of implementation of the landmark nuclear deal of July 14, 2015, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was satisfactory so far and stressed that the deal was by no means violated up to this […]

U.S. confirms purchase of Iranian nuke materials for $8.6 million

U.S. and Iranian officials confirmed on Monday that the United States had completed a $8.6 million taxpayer-funded purchase of Iranian nuclear materials, a deal undertaken by the Obama administration to keep Iran in compliance with last summer’s nuclear agreement. Abbas Araghchi, a top Iranian diplomat and negotiator of the deal, announced on Iranian television that the […]

Abandoned South Dakota Town Costs Less Than Average Home

The abandoned town of Swett, South Dakota is back on the market for less than the price of one single-detached home. Yahoo! Real Estate reports Swett’s listing price is just a mere $250,000. The town comes with the local bar, a home, a garage and tire shop and six acres of prairie. Swett’s peak population […]

Whistleblower Manning rushed to hospital, reports claim attempted suicide

     Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning was taken to a hospital in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas after reportedly attempting suicide in the maximum-security military penitentiary, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents. Manning was transported to the hospital Tuesday, according to CNN’s crime reporter Shimon Prokupecz. By Wednesday, she had been released from […]

Turkey claims Gaza sea blockade ‘largely lifted’ via reconciliation deal, Israel disagrees

     Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says the Gaza blockade has been “largely lifted” via a Turkish-Israeli peace agreement. The first ship with aid to the area is set to depart later this week, he added. Early reports that Israel and Turkey reached an agreement to normalize ties emerged on Sunday. The deal will put […]

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