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Nuclear threat in the Pacific: It’s not what you think

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Nuclear threat in the Pacific It's not what you think

Radiation is contaminating the Pacific Ocean and it’s not from a nuke launched by North Korea. It’s from tests done by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946-1958.

Mushroom Cloud

The Los Angeles Times has an article which does a yeoman’s job describing the origin and nature of the situation and how it affects the original inhabitants of these small Pacific atolls.

“High radiation levels found in giant clams of Marshall Islands near U.S. nuclear dump”

What we need to do here is to consider how far reaching the threat is both within and beyond the Marshall Islands which lie some 2,700 miles southwest of Hawaii in the tropical North Pacific Ocean.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser article:

“Coast Guard ends one search, responds to Chinese-flagged fishing vessel in Marshall Islands”

Grounded Chinese Fishing Vessel

Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircrew flies over the 308-foot Chinese-flagged commercial fish carrier Ou Ya Leng No. 6 on Taka Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Jan. 3, 2019 MHT.

The Coast Guard said the Ou Ya Leng No. 6, a fishing ship targeting squid, was operating in Marshall Islands territorial seas.

This Chinese fishing vessel ran aground about 400 miles east of Enewetak and Runit Atolls with Bikini Atoll about halfway in between. That is where the major blasts occurred during U.S. nuclear testing in the 1940s and 1950s.

Runit Dome

Recently Chinese Maritime Militia vessels have been harvesting giant clams in disputed areas of the South China Sea. If they were doing the same in waters contaminated by radioactivity in the Marshall Islands, that could turn out to be a long-term spread of contamination in which the Chinese got more than they bargained for by poaching in Marshall Islands sovereign seas.

Giant Clam

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is part of the former United States Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. So are Federated States of Micronesia and Palau. Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are still current U.S. territories in the Western Pacific.

Marshall Islands and Pacific

The capital of RMI is Majuro Atoll.

Majuro Atoll

Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site is on Kwajalein Atoll.  This is just a few hundred miles south of the contaminated areas from the nuke tests.

Kwajalein

Some 500 miles northwest of Enewetak is the U.S. territory of Wake Island which contains missile defense systems that guard against North Korean launches.

Wake Island

It is not possible to say exactly where ocean currents could take radioactivity leaked from the faulty storage dome. It is even conceivable that it could reach the shores of all the Hawaiian Islands.

Map of Ocean Currents

The people of the Marshall Islands continue to be endangered from radioactivity resulting from American nuclear tests in the decade and a half after World War II.

Sensitive United States military installations in and near the Marshall Islands are also potentially threatened.

Hawaii could be at risk as could Guam and CNMI. If Hawaii Emergency Management Agency does not yet have a threat assessment and risk mitigation strategy, now is not too soon to start preparing one.

U.S. Department of the Interior, Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs along with United States Indo-Pacific Command need to apprise the public of all that is being done to contain radioactivity in the Marshall Islands.

In the early 1980s, soil from Enewetak Atoll was flown to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii for analysis. Tell us what has been done since then.

With the nuclear bombs being detonated on Bikini Atoll, some may wonder in retrospect whether the small speck of land barely above sea level was named for the scanty swimsuit. Actually, it was the other way around. Those marketing the swimsuit wanted to attribute to it an “atomic” impact.

Bikini Bomb

Let’s hope we have moved beyond the callous insensitivity that sought to make money without respect for those who suffered radiation sickness and those who were permanently dislocated from their homes on a formerly idyllic atoll surrounded by deep blue skies and deep blue waters. For those still living and their descendants, there is no going home because their home was destroyed.

Bikini Island Cemetary

NOQ Report will continue to monitor this developing threat of nuclear contamination in the Pacific Basin.

Bikini Island

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Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib: The anti-Semitic intellectual terrorists in Congress

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Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib The anti-Semitic intellectual terrorists in Congress

The constitutional republic that our founding fathers envisioned was as close to being perfect as any man-made system in history. But its effectiveness was predicated on the idea that Americans would be active participants in governing. It takes sober, cognizant American voters to hold our representatives accountable. We must be aware of who we put in office and what they’re doing for – or against – the people and the nation.

But that’s not happening enough in America when it comes to Congress, at least not to the degree that it should. Instead, we have tribal warfare going on between the two major political parties which enables people to sit back and stop paying attention. All they know is they’re going to vote blue or red. Many have no idea who they’re actually voting for when they go to the ballot. They simply look for the letters (D) or (R) next to a candidate’s name.

If there’s anywhere that this practice needs to be reversed immediately, it’s in Michigan’s 13th District and Minnesota’s 5th District. These are the places that voted for Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. It’s understandable as they’re reliable Democratic strongholds, but at the very least they need to get people who don’t hate America to run as Democrats against them. Getting them to vote for the Republicans would be nice, but even sane Democrats are better than these two clowns.

Their latest foray into the realm of complete disregard for the truth happened today at a press conference in which the dynamic duo systematically dismantled reality. Their lies were so thick and so obvious, it’s the type of publicity the representatives themselves hope their constituents don’t hear. Their targets weren’t their home districts that they’re serving so poorly. Their target were the rest of the nation and the nation of Israel. They want their hatred to be known as long as it doesn’t hurt them in 2020.

It’s time to make their constituents aware of the blind hatred and unhinged rhetoric coming from these two Congresswomen’s mouths.

Commentaries like this need to reach the masses, particularly the Congressional districts that voted for these representatives. This is why we push so hard for financial contributions to this site. Getting messages like this in front of the right people is imperative if we’re going to keep our republic. Your donations directly contribute to educating the people who need to hear this the most.

The best way to categorize people like Omar and Tlaib is as “intellectual terrorists.” That is in no way a jab at their religious beliefs; the phrase can be used against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, David Axelrod, Saikat Chakrabarti, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, or anyone who essentially firebombs the truth for the sake of promoting their political agenda and pressing a false narrative.

Terrorism is defined as “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.” The left is always talking about words being violent. If so, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are clearly terrorizing America.

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The Democrats’ Israel test: Do they side with common sense or radical anti-Semitism?

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The Democrats Israel test Do they side with common sense or radical anti-Semitism

Every few weeks, there’s a new test for the Democratic Party that is forced to the forefront by someone in “The Squad” – Representatives Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley. One or more of them does or says something unhinged, then all eyes turn to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as well as major Democratic candidates for president to see if they’re on the side of the radical progressives who have become the face of the party.

Invariably, these are manufactured choices. They’re not prompted by a pressing issue that was in the spotlight before, but the actions of the freshmen Congresswomen turns them into news. We saw this with AOC’s claims that the world is going to end in 10-12 years if her massive Green New Deal isn’t implemented yesterday. The popularity of the $50-$100 trillion proposal among the Democratic base prompted many in the party to embrace it. But prior to her claims, there had been common sense talks of how to change our energy policy over time in a pragmatic fashion that didn’t include banning air travel or mitigating damage from cow flatulence.

Next, we saw the Democrats blink following clearly anti-Semitic Twitter posts by Omar. At first, it seemed like Pelosi was going to do the right thing as she drafted a resolution condemning any anti-Semitism coming from Congress (though it didn’t name Omar directly) but ended up pushing forward a worthless resolution essentially saying all bigotry from any member of Congress was bad.

The group played their fiddles in unison to bring about the notion that migrant detention facilities are like “concentration camps” while simultaneously panning legislation to improve conditions at these facilities. It was a stark display of contradiction on their part until they made it clear they’re not trying to make conditions better. They’re trying to eliminate the facilities and incarceration of migrants altogether. Again, the Democrats were stuck looking torn over how to handle The Squad, agreeing with them in principle but legislating against them.

Today’s manufactured crisis within the party pertains to Israel. Last week, Tlaib and Omar were blocked from their trip to the Middle Eastern nation because their intentions were to incite anti-Israel groups with varying degrees of attachments to both the BDS movement and terrorist organizations themselves. To try to paint Israel as purely racist, Tlaib bluffed by cordially requesting to see her 90-year-old grandmother who lives in the West Bank. To her dismay, the request was quickly approved. She backtracked after her bluff was called.

Democrats in the House have a choice: Acknowledge that Israel is right to block this particular trip or follow The Squad in promoting the idea that Israel hates Muslims. These are two very distinct narratives that offer no middle ground. Keep in mind, they could have traveled with a huge Congressional delegation earlier in the month, but chose not to. Instead, they had an agenda and an itinerary presented to Israel that made it clear their intentions were to exacerbate problems and fuel anti-Israel tension. They even announced in their itinerary that they were traveling to “Palestine,” not Israel.

This is standard operating procedure for The Squad: Create an issue that drives a wedge between sensible Democrats and the radical progressives. They’re taking names, or to be more specific, their handlers at the Justice Democrats are taking names. Who is going to support the radical progressive agendas of extreme climate change “solutions,” full-blown open borders, and complete detachment from Israel as an ally?

It is crystal clear who is setting the Democrats’ agenda. As The Squad keeps pushing the party further to the left with each manufactured issue they present, will Democrats have the guts to stand up and tell their puppetmasters to back off?

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Ilhan Omar compares Israel blocking entry to South African apartheid

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Ilhan Omar compares Israel blocking entry to South African apartheid

Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar did what she normally does. She played the race card, or more specifically, the Islamophobia card against Israel. To do this, she compared Israel’s blocking of her and Representative Rashida Tlaib to the apartheid blocking of a black Congressman by South Africa 44-years ago.

There are several holes in this narrative. First, her claims that only she and Tlaib were blocked because they are Muslim and the rest of those traveling with them were not blocked is a bald-faced lie that takes advantage of how the block was reported. The news was that the two Congresswomen were blocked, but in reality the trip itself was denied by the Israeli government. That means everyone traveling with them, not just the two Congresswomen, were not allowed entry based on the itinerary they presented to the Israeli government.

Second, this trip, which they claimed was to “Palestine” and included an itinerary that had them exclusively visiting anti-Israel factions, was singled out. None of the potential travelers were blocked from entry, as Israel demonstrated this morning when they allowed Tlaib to enter to see her 90-year-old grandmother in the West Bank. But Tlaib, of course, declined her own request because it was a bluff, a political stunt.

Third, the Representatives’ continued attacks on Israel as well as their support for BDS and Hamas is demonstrably a threat to the nation of Israel. This is unambiguous and has not even been denied by the Congresswomen because they know it to be true. In fact, they’re proud of their opposition to Israel’s right to exist.

If you can find a time when Ilhan Omar isn’t being disingenuous or blatantly lying, it’s only because she isn’t speaking at that moment. Her hatred for Israel and America are clear. She must be voted out in 2020.

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