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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Pentagon Wants To Bomb The Hell Out Of This Tiny Pacific Island
Pagan island is a biologically diverse, 10-mile-long island anchored by two volcanoes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, an independent government associated with the United States.
The island, nearly three-quarters of the way to the Philippines from Hawaii, is home to wildlife that includes an endangered fruit bat, endemic birds, huge spiders, lizards, and a rare tree snail. The island has been mostly uninhabited since 1981, when its population was evacuated because of volcanic eruptions.
It is one of the most habitable islands in the Mariana chain, says Michael Hadfield, a biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who spent time on the island documenting the wildlife on behalf of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hadfield, a self-described conservational biologist who also administers the website SavePaganIsland.org, wrote in an op-ed that Pagan Island is a biological treasure house."
It may also be the next U.S. bombing target.
The Pentagon Wants To Use Pagan Island For Target Practice
The island, nearly three-quarters of the way to the Philippines from Hawaii, is home to wildlife that includes an endangered fruit bat, endemic birds, huge spiders, lizards, and a rare tree snail. The island has been mostly uninhabited since 1981, when its population was evacuated because of volcanic eruptions.
It is one of the most habitable islands in the Mariana chain, says Michael Hadfield, a biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who spent time on the island documenting the wildlife on behalf of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hadfield, a self-described conservational biologist who also administers the website SavePaganIsland.org, wrote in an op-ed that Pagan Island is a biological treasure house."
It may also be the next U.S. bombing target.
The Pentagon Wants To Use Pagan Island For Target Practice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/pagan-island-marines-military_n_7342168.html
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The Pentagon Wants To Bomb The Hell Out Of This Tiny Pacific Island (Original Post)
Cheese Sandwich
Jun 2015
OP
williesgirl
(4,033 posts)1. NFW
peecoolyour
(336 posts)2. Target practice?
We're not good enough already at blowing shit up?
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)3. Maybe it's just about using ammo and weapons so we can buy more?
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)9. Probably...
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)4. Why can't the Pentagon bomb Texas for practice?
It's a win-win.
Paka
(2,760 posts)6. I'd rather they wouldn't bomb anyplace.
How's that for a win-win.
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)5. What? There isn't enough of Eniwetok left to take coordinates on? . . .
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)7. One wonders?
why this cannot be done with simulation and virtual reality?
Quackers
(2,256 posts)8. I was with you until
It said huge spiders. Now where's that detonator?
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)11. LOL
Flying Squirrel
(3,041 posts)18. DUzy n/t
Scuba
(53,475 posts)10. How's the MIC gonna sell us more bombs if we don't use the old ones?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)12. I suggest another target
That pig farm in Crawford Texas.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)13. Well...
If they can limit the bombing to the "huge spiders"
then I'm all for it!!! Otherwise leave the island alone.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)14. Our tax dollars hard at work.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)15. They haven't dropped enough in Iraq and Afghanistan FFS?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)16. Of course, it has to be done, because the military knows best. The giant spiders are the first wave:
Fascism, Racism, Communism, Every Other -ism, Starship Troopers and Giant Alien Bugs. Would You Like To Know More?
https://thereelseal.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/fascism-racism-communism-every-other-ism-starship-troopers-and-giant-alien-bugs-would-you-like-to-know-more/
Bombing that island is hateful, IMO.
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation...
Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves....
~Derrick Jensen
Major Nikon
(36,828 posts)17. At least they aren't bombing the moon