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Iguanas likely crossed the Pacific millions of years ago on a record-setting rafting trip
The Vindicator 22 Mar 2025
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Is the Pacific Northwest’s best new Afro-Caribbean restaurant ... in Eugene?
The Oregonian 21 Mar 2025
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Pacific launches first Regional Centre of Excellence under the Pacific Policing Initiative (AFP - Australian Federal Police)
Public Technologies 21 Mar 2025
The Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) is "By the Pacific, For the Pacific" and represents a comprehensive effort to bolster law-enforcement capabilities and ensure the safety and security of communities across the Pacific region.
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Explaining how the Council forecasts load growth for the Pacific Northwest power system (Northwest Power and Conservation Council)
Public Technologies 21 Mar 2025
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UNESCO Opens Nominations For Its 2026 Memory Of The World Regional Register for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Public Technologies 20 Mar 2025
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Ancient iguanas ‘sailed 5,000 miles across the Pacific’
The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2025
How did the iguana cross the Pacific Ocean? The question has for years puzzled scientists trying to work out how the reptiles, which originate in North and South ...
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Lodi News Sentinel
20 Mar 2025
'Anti-transgender event' at University of the Pacific sparks protest
Lodi News Sentinel
20 Mar 2025
"I'm growing increasingly concerned with the outright rhetoric of transphobia and bigotry" ....
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Masdar completes five solar and wind projects in the Pacific
The National 20 Mar 2025
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has completed five new solar and wind projects in Pacific island nations as part of the UAE-Pacific Partnership Fund (UAE-PPF), helping the countries save more than US$1 million in diesel fuel imports.
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From erasing the stories of Navajo “code talkers” on the Pentagon website to demolishing a “Black Lives Matter” mural in Washington, President Donald Trump’s assault on diversity across the United States government is dismantling decades of racial justice programs. Delivering on a campaign promise, the Republican billionaire made it one of his first acts in office to terminate all federal government diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, which he said led to “illegal and immoral discrimination.” The crackdown on DEI initiatives at the Pentagon has been broad, ranging from a ban on recruiting transgender troops — a move stayed by a court this week — to removing vast troves of documents and images from its website. Earlier this month, Civil War historian Kevin M. Levin reported that Arlington National Cemetery had begun to wipe its website of the histories of Black, Hispanic and women war veterans. “It’s a sad day when our own military is forced to turn its back on sharing the stories of the brave men and women, who have served this country with honor,” Levin wrote on his Substack. “This insanity must stop.” – ‘Woke cultural Marxism’ – References to war heroes, military firsts, and even notable African Americans were among the swathe of images and articles marked for deletion, according to a database obtained by the Associated Press. Among the more than 26,000 items marked to be removed were references to the Enola Gay, the US aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 — apparently because the plane’s name triggered a digital search for word associated with LGBT inclusion. Other content removed by the Pentagon included stories on the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the first African American military aviators, and baseball legend and veteran Jackie Robinson. Responding to a question on those and other removals, the Pentagon on Wednesday said it saluted the individuals, but refused to see “them through the prism of immutable characteristics.” “(DEI) is a form of Woke cultural Marxism that Divides the force, Erodes unit cohesion and Interferes with the services’ core warfighting mission,” said Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot. He added that in “rare cases” that content was removed that should not have been, it would be restored — as was the case with the articles on Robinson and on Navajo “code talkers” — but defiantly stood by the purge as a whole. – ‘Erase history’ – Not everyone has been convinced by the Pentagon’s explanations around the purge. Descendants of the Native Americans who played a vital role for US forces in World War II said they had been shocked to discover their ancestors’ heroic contributions had been effectively deleted from the public record. “I definitely see it as an attempt to erase the history of people of color in general,” said Zonnie Gorman, daughter of military veteran Carl Gorman. Carl Gorman was one of the young Navajo “code talkers” recruited by the US Navy in 1942 to test the use of their Indigenous language, whose complex structure made it an almost impossible-to-crack wartime code. Several web pages detailing the role of the group, whose contribution was key to the United States’ victories in the Pacific between 1942 and 1945 in battles such as Iwo Jima, recently disappeared from the Pentagon’s site. For Gorman, a historian, the action was an insult. “From the very beginning, we are very invisible in this country, and so to have a story that was so well recognized for us as Indigenous people, that felt good,” she told AFP. “And then this is like a slap in the face.” – Chilling effect – The US president’s move to end DEI programs has also affected more than just the federal government. Since he won last year’s election, several major US corporations — including Google, Meta, Amazon and McDonalds — have either entirely scrapped or dramatically scaled back their DEI programs. According to the New York Times, the number of companies on the S&P 500 that used the words “diversity, equity and inclusion” in company filings had fallen nearly 60 percent compared to 2024. The American Civil Liberties Union says Trump’s policies have taken a “‘shock and awe’ approach that upends longstanding, bipartisan federal policy meant to open doors that had been unfairly closed.” US federal anti-discrimination programs were born of the 1960s civil rights struggle, mainly led by Black Americans, for equality and justice after hundreds of years of slavery, whose abolition in 1865 saw other institutional forms of racism enforced. Today, Black Americans and other minorities continue to disproportionately face police violence, incarceration, poverty, homelessness and hate crimes, according to official data. - Jamaica Observer
Jamaica Observer 20 Mar 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) \u2014 From erasing the stories of Navajo .
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‘Hate has no home here’: University of the Pacific students protest Turning Point USA event
Recordnet.com 20 Mar 2025
Tensions ran high at University of the Pacific on Wednesday night as dozens of community members and students protested a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ event. The event, titled "The Truth About Transgenderism," took place in Pacific's Long Theatre.
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Crossroads of Competition: China in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands (CSIS - Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc)
Public Technologies 20 Mar 2025
Statement before the ... in Southeast Asia and the Pacific ... in the South China Sea" ... CSIS does not take policy positions, so the views represented in this testimony are my own and not those of my employer ... Beijing's Goals in the South China Sea.
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Dramas onboard, in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean Ep. 43 (Sailing La Vagabonde)
Rumble 19 Mar 2025
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Martin McDonagh making his new film in The Pacific
RTE 19 Mar 2025
The Banshees of Inisherin writer-director Martin McDonagh has brought together an all-star cast for his new film Wild Horse Nine, which is currently in production on Easter Island/Rapa Nui, the Chilean territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
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