10/25/2012 Station Identification and Test Pattern (2)


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Barque:  ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT II, Named for the Oceanographer
Photo by Hans Georg Schroder

THURSDAY  OCTOBER 25, 2012

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SPACE AS AN OCEAN. Excerpts from the Book PROTOCOLS.
The final installment, the conclusion appears today. The series in its entirety is now available to read in the MARITIME LITERATURE SECTION. 
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News Break;
We report this strange news from North Korea simply because we came across it in our daily headline reviews, its not exactly naval or maritime in character but it is military and definitely points to the type of instability , even mental illness that we are facing with the North Korea Leadership. 

Kim Jong-un purge of 'disrespectful' senior offices resulting in extreme executions and disappearances

A high-ranking military official in North Korea has been executed - by being obliterated with mortar rounds, it has been reported.Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of a number of military officials for drinking alcohol or having sex during the mourning period after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo claimed.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/397750/20121024/kim-jong-un-mortar-rounds-execution-military.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------------NEWS FLASH: HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM?
Yesterday, into Japanese territorial waters

-Three Chinese government ships entered territorial waters off disputed Tokyo-controlled islands early Thursday, the Japanese coastguard said. The maritime surveillance ships entered Japan's 12-nautical-mile territorial waters around the islands in the East China Sea shortly after 6:30 am (2130 GMT Wednesday), the Japan Coast Guard said in a statement. The Chinese ships were off Minamikojima, one of the islands in a chain known as the Senkakus in Japan and the Diaoyus in China.

 
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/15214540/chinese-ships-in-disputed-waters-japan-coastguard/


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The National Anthem today is presented with all of the words as written by Francis Scott Key. We have previously presented the mostly forgotten final stanza, but there is more. Click on the link below for the Star Spangled Banner as you have never heard it before. Everything else has been a pale shadow of the original. All words appear in print as well. We are going to run this version for a while and then repeat it often. America, you need to hear this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiyKiUCiKcE