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Hawaii's false missile alert looms large in close Democratic primary
Fox News ^ | August 11, 2018 | Adam Shaw and The Associated Press

Posted on 08/11/2018 1:32:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Hawaii Gov. David Ige is facing a tough Democratic primary Saturday night -- and January’s false missile alert could be a deciding factor in voters’ minds.

Ige faces a primary challenge from Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, and she is using the January false alarm as a key campaign issue -- particularly the fact that it took 38 minutes to correct the alert.

Officials mistakenly sent an a warning of an imminent missile attack, promising “THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” to cellphones, radios and televisions on January 13. The move sparked panic across the state before officials corrected it, especially because it was at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.

Ige was partly blamed for the error and took responsibility for it, but also pointed to human error as the ultimate cause for the chaos....

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Hawaii; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2018; democrats; hawaii; korea
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1 posted on 08/11/2018 1:32:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Hawaii keeps electing one buffoon Communist Democrat Governor after another and expecting competence. We should’ve kept the bases and cut them loose 60 years ago.


2 posted on 08/11/2018 1:36:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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This’d be a different country if the Philippines and/or Cuba had voted to stay with us.


3 posted on 08/11/2018 1:42:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I’m visiting my Navy son here on Oahu and it’s so funny how the politicians or their acolytes are standing with their political signs on the street corners waving at folks as we drive by! 😂
4 posted on 08/11/2018 1:43:19 PM PDT by SaintDismas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Q rumor is that it wasn’t a false missile alert. It was a live shot from Norks.

Is there any proof of that?


5 posted on 08/11/2018 1:45:46 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Professional

Well I’m pretty sure the one nuclear test site was destroyed by our space-based “rods from God” and that brought Kim to the table. Does Q mention that?


6 posted on 08/11/2018 1:47:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I used to play tennis with a group of Filipinos. They are wonderful guys who all served in the US Navy, but I never learned who they favored in Presidential races. They kept their politics private.


7 posted on 08/11/2018 1:49:21 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Worked with many Filipinos for years.

They vote D and like big gubmit, esp the jobs and entitlements.


8 posted on 08/11/2018 1:53:40 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The sheer size of the Philippines would’ve prevented their statehood. With 100 million people, they’d have been entitled to 1/3rd the membership of Congress (although adjusted, would be 1/4th as the population of the U.S. would exceed 400m) or about 145 House members, most of them representing breathtakingly poverty-stricken areas and many of those would be Mohammadan Communists.

We’re fortunate the Filipinos wanted independence.

The South wanted Cuba to be a slave state. Of course, with the politics there, had Fidel been around if it had been made a state, he’d have just been another Democrat political boss, probably running the state from his lifetime Senate sinecure until going out feet first.


9 posted on 08/11/2018 1:57:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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10 posted on 08/11/2018 2:05:26 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Where are the Obama-Creamer audio tapes?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes, the Knights of the Golden Circle desired Cuba as another slave state but Spain still held possession of her when that idea was floated and Cuba wasn’t to become US territory until near the turn of the century, 47 years after the civil war broke out. The Philippines is only 5.5% Muslim versus 80.5% Roman Catholic and 10.8% Protestant.


11 posted on 08/11/2018 2:05:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Wasn’t Hillary in Hawaii that day or some of her minions?


12 posted on 08/11/2018 2:06:44 PM PDT by Sontagged (TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
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I spent part of a day there on my way back to the mainland from Korea. What a beautiful place! Like being in a dream.


13 posted on 08/11/2018 2:09:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I work in Emergency Management. I have the codes to trigger mass notifications. The “events” are generally pre-written. For example, the template for a Mass Casualty Incident is already written by with tags that say [location] [type].

You have to go through a process that says...”Do you really want to do this? (More than xxxx recipients.)”. You have to say yes at least three times and the default is “No.”

I am not suggesting Q was right.

I am suggesting that the person who triggered this meant to do it.


14 posted on 08/11/2018 2:42:54 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

And us peons will NEVER get to know.


15 posted on 08/11/2018 2:44:00 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Professional

Norks not involved at a Rogue sub lost by Argentina, used a TLBM (Tube Launched Ballistic Missile) developed by Israel at Kauai but the White Hats knew it was coming. When the alarm went off per Snowden an automated procedure to dump all of the data contained in the data center on Oahu executed and our team vacuumed it up as it flew through. White Hat Destroyer shot down the missile which was low flying, not ICBM trajectory or class.

Nork launch at US would provoke immediate response, and they had nothing to do with it


16 posted on 08/11/2018 2:52:07 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good connection to Israel Mossad told me that they were involved as far as targeting or unknown but it was not a “natural” event


17 posted on 08/11/2018 2:53:30 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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Hillary, Obama and others were there indeed and they knew the “missile” launch would not make it to Oahu as the device was at the edge of it’s design range and not from NK as that is too far from start to finish for a TLBM. No record at all that the Norks have ever successfully launched an ICBM as we know it


18 posted on 08/11/2018 2:56:02 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 100American

If you ever get a chance read “The Fist of God” by Frederick Forsyth.


19 posted on 08/11/2018 2:59:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Vermont Lt

[I am suggesting that the person who triggered this meant to do it.]

I could easily believe that. Or to say, I don’t think it was an accident, either.


20 posted on 08/11/2018 3:02:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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