Mariana Islands
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Sep 11, 2026
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
On the same day, the eleventh of August, the special personnel who formed the part of the investigating group to be sent from the United States were selected and ordered to California with instructions to proceed overseas at once to accomplish the purpose set forth in the message to General Farrell.
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
The main party departed from Hamilton Field, California, on the morning of thirteen August and arrived in the Marianas on fifteen August.
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
On twelve August, the Chief of Staff sent the Theater Commander the following message.
Dennis SayersNARRATOR
Quote, For MacArthur, signed Marshall.
Gary KentHOST
Jesuit missionaries would arrive and begin spreading their brand of Christianity among the Chamorro.
Gary KentHOST
Then in 1565, the Spanish crown formally claimed Guam along with the other Mariana Islands as part of their empire.
Gary KentHOST
The Spanish built forts along the coastline, including Fort Soledad, which protected the Yumatak Bay settlements.
Gary KentHOST
But then came the Spanish-American War.
Fred GalvinHOST
They definitely didn't lose wars.
Fred GalvinHOST
And we led them after incendiary bombs on most major cities across mainland Japan, planes that were launched from China from aircraft carriers to the-- on the eastern coast of mainland Japan from long-range bombers bombing from the Mariana Islands.
Fred GalvinHOST
We beat them into submission, and within three and a half years, we had an unconditional surrender.
Fred GalvinHOST
Much different than how we fought in Afghanistan, which I would submit was a failure due to senior leaders, due to members of Congress failing the American people and American service members.
David MaidmentGUEST
And well, for the whole continental United States at that time.
David MaidmentGUEST
Later, it's been extended to the Marianas Islands and Puerto Rico and Alaska and Hawaii and so on.
David MaidmentGUEST
But yeah, I'm...
David MaidmentGUEST
That's a big turning point for hydrology in this country, and it inspired a research program called the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology, which is a substantial effort now.
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
It's already happened.
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
You can do things, for example, in the territory of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, which are North American territories.
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
Chinese can come without visas a tener niños ahí y son ciudadanos automáticamente.
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
Emilio,
Andrea LinaresHOST
¿Sería esta una alternativa?
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
If the Congress could fail on the issue without having to change the Constitution.
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
Look, at this moment, as I say, the citizens of Samoa, America, are not citizens, but the people who live in the Mariana Islands are citizens.
Emilio GonzálezGUEST
So there are things that the Congress can do.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Boys' achievement was also behind girls in this year bracket.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
These figures include most Pacific countries, but not Papua New Guinea, the French Islands, the Marianas, Guam or American Samoa.
Johnny BladesHOST
Universities in Solomon Islands and the Philippines are exploring a partnership to boost nursing education and support health system development.
Johnny BladesHOST
This proposal comes under the Philippine Pacific Health Initiative, or PHILPAC.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Boys' achievement was also behind girls in this year bracket.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
These figures include most Pacific countries, but not Papua New Guinea, the French Islands, the Marianas, Guam or American Samoa.
Johnny BladesHOST
New Zealand First has announced more of its immigration policy ahead of Aotearoa's general election in November.
Johnny BladesHOST
The party says it will bring in a 24-month amnesty for overstays to self-deport, with no restrictions on applying to return.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Boys' achievement was also behind girls in this year bracket.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
These figures include most Pacific countries, but not Papua New Guinea, the French Islands, the Marianas, Guam, or American Samoa.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
A sleep researcher
Wairatui Leepo-TaylorHOST
says the community buy-in in Samoa for research on sleep and youth mental health well-being is overwhelming.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Boys' achievement was also behind girls in this year bracket.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
These figures include most Pacific countries but not Papua New Guinea, the French islands, the Marianas, Guam or American Samoa.
Kaya SelbyHOST
A sleep researcher says the community buy-in in Samoa for research on sleep and youth mental well-being is overwhelming.
Kaya SelbyHOST
A study requested by the Samoan Ministry of Health looks into how sleep and circadian rhythms could help address anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges among Pacific youth.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Yeah.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
So this is all to do with seabed mining and a US proposal to open up, um, ocean around the Marianas to deep sea mining and selling off parcels of seabed, I guess you'd call it, um, for lease for mining purposes.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
So this-- there's a whole bunch of environmental groups involved here.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Two of these are based, uh, f- in the Marianas.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
At the center of the lawsuit, they're disputing a finding from the US National Marine Fisheries Service that says the proposed mining lease sale was not likely to adversely affect threatened or endangered species or their critical habitat.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Um, they argue that they reached that conclusion without adequately considering what could happen after the leases are awarded, so they only thought about giving out the leases in preliminary surveys, but they didn't consider exploration testing, et cetera, that could follow.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Um, for the two plaintiffs from the Marianas though, this lawsuit is also about the cultural relationship between the people of the Marianas and the ocean.
Christina PersicoCORRESPONDENT
Uh, this has only just been filed this week, so we will have to see where this goes.
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