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SATURDAY APRIL 13, 2013

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IN THE BLOG SPACE TODAY: NAMAZU ON NGOs (revisited) NEWS FROM THE NAVAL INSTITUTE AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW NAVAL WEAPONS
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THE BIG LINKS LOCKER:

UNLOCKING THE MARITIME WORLD: Our mission is literally to  unlock the maritime world by making all English language maritime data easy to find,  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable. We suggest checking our subject pages to your right first, by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest. These pages will bring you to short introductions,  free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click any of the "super links" below that appear most appropriate, the broadest and most general is hyper linked just below. This is an entire web site of nothing but links to maritime websites and blogs of every description.

"The Mother of All Maritime Links": http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html#top 

If you don't find the book you need among those we have reviewed so far or linked to click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below or as provided within our special interest sections which you reach by clicking on their titles listed to your right.

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=admiralty%2C+marine%2C+maritime%2C+boating

We think the following links to major sites aligned with our "Special Interest Pages" can often provide answers to commonly asked questions:

ADMIRALTY or MARITIME LAW:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/admiralty 

Note: The Cornell site when you arrive in the Admiralty section has two tabs : "Overview" and

"Resources". If you are doing legal research the "Resources" tab is a fast route into most relevant statutes, and regulations, Supreme Court Cases, and even some state cases.

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS

WORLD MARITIME NEWS:

http://worldmaritimenews.com/

MARITIME TV: Videos and television broadcasts on all manner of maritime subjects http://www.maritimetv.com/

NAVAL HISTORY:

Naval History Blog, Joint Effort of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Naval history and heritage Command.

http://www.navalhistory.org/

NAVAL NEWS:
USNI NEWS:  http://news.usni.org/author/slagrone  

A NAVAL NEWS CLIPPING SERVICE: NOSI Naval Open Source Intelligence:

http://www.nosi.org/


OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

SHIP RESEARCH: 

SHIPINDEX.ORG

Find publications that mention a particular ship recently or deep into recorded history:  http://www.shipindex.org/  limited free service very reasonable short and long term subscriptions.

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NEWS OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER

NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst

Namazu is our senior maritime analyst and star commentator, many visitors check in just to see what the giant catfish has to say lately. When he has something new we post it in this space. Other wise his stuff is all over the blog postings and an index to his posts is in the INDEX AND FINDING AIDS SECTION..
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IN THE NEWS :

 We ended last week with North Korea rolling out missiles to their coast, cutting hot lines, re-declaring a state of war, threatening the U.S. with a nuclear strike. Things have not improved. China is over flying the Philippines, announcing that it is opening islands that it doesn't own to tourism, continuing to make trouble through out the East and South China Seas. We continue to see the Far East as the number one trouble spot. The Middle East is far from peaceful, but most of the unrest there is from non state organizations, and failing states. Today we explore an idea by the Saudis to bypass the irksome Strait of Hormuz via a canal they propose to build.  In the Far East real major powers are tap dancing on the line between war and peace with major navies, air power, and vast armies coming into play and nuclear teeth already being displayed. The Philippines as we report today is exerting its sovereignty and the Dragon is never happy about that. We think the Far East is more dangerous powder keg but one misstep in either area could be a disaster. The United States simply must have overwhelming naval power or retreat to "Fortress America", our enemies are just too numerous and wide spread for any half way measures. With 66 of 77 strategic materials coming to us by sea we can't afford to protect our sea lines of communication on the cheap.

SCROLL DOWN FROM HERE: 

To read any of the blog posts in day time order.  Whenever it seems you've come to the end of the scroll just look to the lower right and click on the words "Older Posts" 

CLICK ON ANY OF THE SPECIAL INTERESTS PAGES TO YOUR RIGHT FOR:
General descriptions, free videos and links as well as book reviews and book purchase links on any of our special interest page subjects such as ADMIRALTY LAW, AUTHORITATIVE LITERATURE, BOAT BUILDING, etc.

To read more about the China sea issues from sources other than us visit our NEWS SERVICE there are links there to the World's maritime periodicals, news papers, and even "Maritime TV"