12/17/2012 Station Identification and Notice Board


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MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2012

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THE BLOG POSTINGS TODAY INCLUDE:

HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM: Backgrounder with links related to China's suite against Japan for control of the disputed Senkaku Islands. 

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IN THE RECENT NEWS:

Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari has expressed the readiness of Iranian naval forces to extend their presence to international waters, including the Atlantic Ocean, to protect the Islamic Republic’s interests.

http://presstv.com/detail/2012/12/16/278359/iran-navy-to-extend-presence-cmdr/h

CHINESE SHIPS ENTER JAPAN'S TERRITORIAL WATERS ONE DAY AFTER FILING SUIT WITH UN TRIBUNAL FOR SOVEREIGNTY OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS

Naha (Japan): A Chinese ship entered Japan's territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands on the East China Sea on Sunday.,Source:  the Japanese Coast Guard . The maritime surveillance ship entered the area at around 7:40 am and departed about 50 minutes later.

 Opinion: The timing and duration of this intrusion was planned to bolster the Chinese claim of "effective administration" over the area. Their Ocean Surveillance Service vessels are similar in function , service and design as our medium endurance Coast Guard cutters. Use of such vessels better serves a claim of "effective administration" than using an actual naval vessel. Use of such lightly armed ships and short on scene times are designed to insure detection by Japanese Coast Guard forces but avoid actual confrontation. By insuring detection but avoiding confrontation they are building a record of presence in the disputed zone that is verifiable by the very defendant's records in the on going recently filed international court case. The tactic is pure thug state, state craft but we suppose it's preferable to Chinese behavior relative to Vietnam where the Chinese just open fire when it suits them. http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/chinese-ship-enters-japan-s-territorial-water-near-senkakus_817035.html

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Chinese Navy to 'actively maintain' peace in Indian Ocean

SOURCE: The Economic Times (INDIA)
Sunday, December 16, 2012

BEIJING (PTI): Chinese Navy has said it would "actively maintain" peace and stability of the Indian Ocean and called for establishment of a "code of conduct" for the navies of different countries to carry out maritime security cooperation to respect their sovereignty and interests.

OBSERVATION/OPINION: This looks like a response to India's recent announcement that they would take an interest in the South China Sea. "Actively maintain peace" sounds like a much more dominant role than  "Take an interest in". China has no Indian Ocean Coast. Like India's concern with shipping bound to and from India passing through the South China Sea, China has commerce that moves through the Indian Ocean. So China should "take an interest in" the security of the Indian Ocean and the PLAN has participated in international anti piracy operations there. However it is not likely that India will view this announcement by China as anything other than aggressive. The Indian Navy is competent to assure the security of the Indian Ocean, especially with cooperative participation by the United states, the nations of the EU , and yes even China with the stubborn problem of piracy. But China is sounding like it demands the lead role on the Indian Ocean, a place where it has no coast line. China may have the numerical advantage in hulls over India, but India isn't building its first air craft carrier, its been operating them for years. More over India is a real democracy that has conducted itself honorably and if directly threatened by China would draw the support of Western World and Japan. We think in a direct fleet to fleet shooting contest the Indian Tigers would send the dragons to the bottom of sea.   http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/chinese-navy-to-actively-maintain-peace-in-indian-ocean_817135.html

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OIL RIG ARRIVES IN CUBA FOR EXPLORATION

HAVANA — A Norwegian-owned platform arrived in waters off Cuba's north-central coast for exploratory drilling by the Russian oil company Zarubezhneft, authorities said Saturday, renewing the island's search for petroleum after three failed wells this year.

http://www.komonews.com/news/business/Oil-rig-arrives-off-Cuba-for-new-exploration-183713331.html

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CHINA OPENS A LEGAL BATTLE FRONT 

ONE OF TWO INTERNATIONAL LEGAL CASES WE WILL BE FOLLOWING

China submits East China Sea claims to UN

04:46 AM Dec 15, 2012

BEIJING - China provided the United Nations (UN) with detailed claims to waters in the East China Sea yesterday, apparently padding out its legal argument in an ongoing territorial dispute with Japan.

The Foreign Ministry said it submitted documents claiming waters extending beyond its 200-nautical-mile (370-km) exclusive economic zone.

It said geological features dictated that China's claim extended to the edge of the continental shelf off the Chinese coast, about 200 km from Japan's Okinawa island.

China had pledged to make such a submission shortly after this dispute with Japan flared again in September. Taiwan also claims the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. 

http://www.todayonline.com/World/China/EDC121215-0000046/China-submits-East-China-Sea-claims-to-UN

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NEWS WATCH

INTERNATIONAL COURT WATCH: Two important case have been submitted to international tribunals in the last few weeks. Both have the potential for game changing impact on International Law. The first case filed was that of Argentina against Ghana for enforcing an American writ against two of her war ships and seizing them for creditors. Under well established rule of international law warships are immune from seizure for national debts. Yet a U.S.District court issued a writ for seizure of government assets in favor of a certain U.S. creditor of Argentina that a court in Ghana honored against two visiting Argentine war ships. At issue is the long standing international prohibition against the seizure of war ships against a nation's national debt. In the instant case Argentina settled the debt with all other creditors but one American investment firm refused to participate, and filed suit in an American court. That plaintiff has aggressively pursued any and all Argentine government assets including war ships. If the international tribunal rules for the creditors, an established basic principal of international law over 500 year sold will be up ended. Debtor nations could be rendered defenseless as creditor nations seize their defense equipment as collateral against debt. If that is the ruling in this case Argentina never specifically pledged such collateral, so international tribunals could impose seizure on national assets without limit on behalf of creditors, which given who the plaintiff is, an investment corporation, would literally give large lending institutions the right to effectively disband nations and national governments if a government defaults on a loan. Amazingly a United States Federal District Court set this in motion.

Who is the world's biggest debtor nation? The United States of America, yes we could emerge as the most potentially damaged party in this case.

 The second case is China v. Japan filed just days ago in a UN tribunal. China maintains that it is the rightful sovereign over the disputed Senkakus Islands. The defense treaty between the United States and Japan specifically includes these uninhabited islands as part of Japan's homeland that the United States is obligated to defend. China has some evidence of Chinese administration over the islands prior to 1914. Certain agreements signed by the United States prior to the final peace treaty with Japan specifically agreed that Japan had to return all seized territories acquired after 1914. China says these pre-U.S. /Japan Peace treaty agreements with the other allies are controlling and that the Senkakus were slipped into the treaty at a time when China was engulfed in civil war and couldn't attend or effectively monitor the negotiations. The Chinese argue that the Pottsdam Agreements put certain limits on the subsequent peace treaty. If the Chinese argument wins out a precedent is established in international law where international tribunals may void portions of  two party and multilateral treaties. A Chinese win also reinforces the Chinese position that the Communist ruled mainland is the legitimate successor of the Republic of China and not Taiwan. The "Republic of China" was the actual U.S. Ally in WW II. This would rule out the Taiwan claim on the islands and coupled with our long ago acceptance of the Mainland in the U.N. security counsel seat reserved for the "Republic of China", strengthens China's claim on Taiwan as a "break away province". Yet a win for China at court would be a short term for the United States, getting us off the hook in terms of defending some rocks for Japan. However in the longer term it would mean even bigger trouble. China claims all of the China Sea to the "First Island Chain. That means they claim almost to the beach line of the Philippines and  Vietnam. China has limited its type and frequency of provocations relative to the Philippines a formal U.S. military partner. Unfortunately, former U.S. enemy Vietnam wasn't treated so well, there in at least one instance, China has simply opened fire on the Vietnamese. If the court decides China has a legal point relative to her dispute with Japan which has a different legal basis than her illegal claims to the entire "First Island Chain"; China is likely to become emboldened. The court could well rule for China against Japan never intending to reward aggressive behavior by China. Unfortunately, such a ruling could well be interpreted that way by both the Chinese leadership  and China's neighbors. The Chinese leadership has acted very imprudently in even asserting their claim, which with a few possible minor exceptions relative to some specific islands or shoals is totally contrary to established international law. Their use of force policies relative to pursuing the claim by bullying their neighbors has manifested a brinkmanship that makes statesmen question the mental capacity of China's senior communist leadership. Anything that emboldens China to even greater aggression 
brings the real possibility of a naval shoot out between the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army's Navy (PLAN) and naval elements of Japan, the Philippines, India and the U.S. Pacific fleet much closer.

 We will be monitoring these cases as they are argued very closely and reporting here both on this page (The Station ID and Notice Board) and in our News Section.

IN THE BLOG AND NEWS THIS PAST WEEK

HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM?

 China is ratcheting up the maritime pressure on Japan over the disputed ownership of the Senkakus, Japan's southern most uninhabited islands. Twice this week we reported incursions into the area by Chinese government vessels, now its aircraft. This is today's lead post.

 THE PLOT THICKENS IN THE WAR IN TEXAS:

Two days ago the  Subject of the lead post was "The War in Texas" which is actually an update from a story we first brought to your attention back in March. The plot is thickening as now the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security is under investigation and once again all threads, roads and waterways seem to lead right back to the banks of the Rio Grande, where the Texans call for a "persistent Coast Guard" presence and are still ignored. . 
Apparently the Mexican Druggies known as the ZETAS have been offering members of the Customs and Border Protection service "the bullet or the bribe" and it appears they found some takers. It also appears that the watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security, the Inspector General's Office has some sort of institutional memory lapse/perception deficit in its investigative department relative to events in Texas. Actually as mariners we are aware of numerous perception deficits within the DHS OIG office, starting with anything having to do with enforcement of the Jone's Act by DHS agencies like the CBP  or USCG.

Once again we are grateful for the contribution of guest blogger Vic Socotra. If you missed this informative posting just scroll down past the station identification and notice boards for Wednesday and Tuesday (Station ID starts at the sailing vessel with the green sails.)

API SPECIAL REPORT:  

Israel, Iran vie for control of Red Sea

The Red Sea is becoming an arena of confrontation between Israel and Iran, with Sudan and Eritrea key targets in a strategic contest that's likely to intensify.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/12/11/Israel-Iran-vie-for-control-of-Red-Sea/UPI-38951355251958/#ixzz2ErfncprE

Three Chinese government ships enter Japanese waters near Senkakus

Jiji

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. — Three Chinese marine surveillance ships entered Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea on Wednesday afternoon, the Japan Coast Guard said.

It was the 16th time for Chinese government ships to cross into the Japanese waters since Japan purchased three of the five uninhabited islets in September, effectively nationalizing the chain, which is also claimed by China, where it is called Diaoyu.

Story by Japan Times: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121213a7.html

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Chinese flotilla patrols waters near Diaoyu Islands

A flotilla of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy patrolled waters near the Diaoyu Islands on Monday after returning from a training exercise in the west Pacific.

The patrol marked the first time for China to confirm its naval operations in the waters near the Diaoyu Islands on the very day when the Navy warships conducted such patrol.

http://www.diplonews.com/feeds/free/11_December_2012_17.php   click on this link for full story.

Opinion: It is unfortunate that this news appears immediately after our blog on the subject predicting that outrageous behavior has already endangered reaching a peaceful solution. These are naval vessels, war ships, are a serious provocation considering that all sides so far used lightly armed Coast Guard service vessels to provide presence and challenge in the area. Until now, exactly when the tensions needed to be reduced.

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NAMAZU GIANT CATFISH, KNOWN AS THE EARTH SHAKER, FORMER JAPANESE DEMIGOD, ALBUM COVER MODEL, AND OUR OWN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT AND SOCIETAL COMMENTATOR. LEGEND, AND STAR OF STAGE ,SCREEN AND OUTER SPACE.

We are always learning new things about our favorite catfish. We recently discovered that Ms Oh Land who wrote and recorded the "Namazu Theme" http://www.youtube.com/watch?=HSj7GtUnKXk   has a friend in New York who is a graphic artist and has had a show with something of a Namazu theme that included his impersonation of Namazu in his "Fishboy apparition." During this exhibit Ms Oh Land and the artist presented a "performance art" exhibit on the Namazu theme. We will try to get our Namazu fans more information on this as soon as possible. We of course learned all about Namazu's Cajun cousin "Jack" first hand in his earliest posts. We are only starting to get a grip on the fact that the big guy has some serious New York art and music world connections that have been working on his latest image morph since at least 2008.
Watch this space on the Notice Board for future developments. Namazu may be a catfish the size of Japan but clearly he is way more hip and sophisticated than we ever imagined when we hired him as an analyst and commentator.  

Below is a link to YouTube's Top Tracks for MS Oh Land.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgqm07tk4M&list=ALYL4kY05133oXyNOujcom4b656Ywou9Td&index=4

MS Oh Land, clearly a Namazu fan

    Link to the Album Fauna below:      

http://www.amazon.com/Fauna/dp/B007IVXB96/ref=sr_shvl_album_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1354425470&sr=301-2

We now provide an index to all of Namazu's First person essays in our "INDEX AND SEARCH SECTION". 

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Our second most popular serialized feature  is now in the Maritime Literature Section. Click on "Maritime Literature " in the page listings on the right and scroll past the book offerings

SPACE AS AN OCEAN

                                   

LESSONS FROM THE AGE OF EUROPEAN MARINE EXPLORATION FOR THE SPACE AGE.  From the Book "PROTOCOLS" (c) 2012 by American Admiralty Books
 . The entire series in chronological order of appearance is now posted in the MARITIME LITERATURE SECTION.                                          

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In case you missed the earlier posting..........

AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS:

  READ LIKE A CATFISH: THE NAMAZU SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR 2012

  Develop the unique, "in depth", "Catfish Perspective" by reading these books that relate to Namazu's 2012 postings. Grab an Oh Land album and listen to what the catfish listens to.                                               

JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! GIVE THE GIFT OF "IN DEPTH UNDERSTANDING" A BOOK FROM THE NAMAZU 2012 READING LIST! 

  
      Click on book cover link to learn more or to order

The Genesis of Justice : 10 Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the 10 Commandments and Modern Morality and Law [Paperback]. Relates To Namazu's 

12/6/2012 blog:  "WHERE IS THE MERCHANT IN THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AMERICAN WAY?"

NEW FEATURE: NAMAZU ON MUSIC (Sort of)

The Rock Star who dedicated a song to the big guy, Namazu!   MS Oh Land's music is available through Amazon and we, the staff highly recommend it. Below is a link to a YouTube music video of the "Namazu Theme"with the lyrics as a streaming text. Particularly when you read the lyrics you know MS Oh Land was writing about our Namazu. .  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfL_vGX6YbE

 The link above will take you to a YouTube version of Namazu by Oh Land which provides the Lyrics as streaming text. Below, the album cover icons link you to MP3 , and CDs of music by Oh Land available from Amazon.  

 Album         single              album

MP3 and Cloud Players are the latest thing in music recording and replay. Click on the blue link below to learn more about them or to order one. 
MP3 and Cloud Players 


Oh Land's music has been called "whimsical meets electronica, with a little bit of mystery mixed in". Others call it "unique and ethereal". One of the best ways to catch music these days whether you like Namazu's blonde bombshell and talented friend, or prefer Willie Nelson  (Our staff like both) is with an MP3 or Cloud Player. Some of the singles you can play on these things go for as low as 99 cents. The blue link above will take you to the Amazon counter where they sell these devices. The Blue link below will take you to all of the Amazon MP3 downloads available. Remember when you link to Amazon for your music via our links you help support Namazu, our free infotainment features like Listen to the Ocean, and free on line books like Space as an Ocean, The News Service and so much more. We make nothing from most advertising unless you use our links. Using our links doesn't add a penny to the price of Amazon products but unless you use them the blog doesn't make a penny. This is an experimental service in the public interest, an encyclopedic reference of all things maritime, it requires a full time staff and must eventually pay for itself. Please think about us when you are thinking of purchasing anything via Amazon, it matters where you link in. 

American Admiralty Books Link to MP3 Downloads 

The link below takes you to Amazon CDs and other non MP3 and Cloud Player choices.

American Admiralty Books Amazon Music Link

The link below takes you anything and everything else Amazon has to offerAmerican Admiralty Books Amazon Shop By Department Link

PERIODICALS:

Editor's note: Recently Namazu wrote about maritime periodicals in general and one in particular, naming his favorite periodical and article in recent months. We did not realize that he had so much interest in naval affairs. Here is Namazu on maritime periodicals. Nearly all of the various maritime periodicals are available via hot links to their free E-versions in our NEWS SERVICE section. Namazu seriously recommends reading the periodical in our NEWS SERVICE SECTION but stated that he has a favorite maritime periodical that is far more than a subscription, it is for members, the U.S. Naval Institute. Namazu urges all of our maritime professional readers to join the Naval Institute and join him in reading the PROCEEDINGS "cover to cover" every month.
He also describes his favorite article from 2012.

Direct fron Namazu:
 " To the human mind lacking in the catfish perspective one might think that life at the bottom of the Sea of Japan is quiet, dark, and just about completely out of touch with the life of the surface and the coastal zones. But those of you who read some of my earlier material know that I was well aware of surface life early on, since the debris of war at sea, and the wreckage of ships caught in storms often led to trash descending from what I once considered the "sky" onto my living room floor. Periodic trips to the surface similar to whale "spy hopping" clued me in to humans and their shipping. On annual morphs into other forms I began adopting human characteristics and visited coastal communities and learned quite a bit more. Printing came much sooner to China and Japan than it did to the West, but it was thousands of years before anyone was putting out really reliable and timely periodicals on maritime subjects. Then one day in 1874 about a year after its founding I discovered the U.S. Naval Institute and ultimately the U.S.NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS. 

THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE'S PROCEEDINGS IS MY NUMBER ONE PICK IN MARITIME PERIODICAL READING.   http://www.usni.org/ 

 This publication accepts well written, properly researched and logically reasoned articles from naval, and maritime professionals from the U.S. sea services and other navies, coast guards, marine corps, and merchant marines around the world.  There are a lot of maritime periodicals out there. You can link into most of the really informative ones that publish E versions in the American Admiralty Books NEWS SERVICE, but my number one choice, the maritime periodical that I never miss and always read cover to cover every month is the NAVAL INSTITUTE's PROCEEDINGS.

My number one favorite article in recent months was CLOUD COMBAT Thinking Machines in Future Wars by Lieutenant (Jg) Matthew R. Hipple.page 49 of the July 2012 issue. I've seen the march of human technology since the very beginning. Mr. Hipple's grasp of the the very visible future of the technological potential impact on naval warfare dovetails with my thoughts on the economic future of America expressed in the 'NAMAZU FULLY LOADED' series. I described how technology is going to reduce the labor force needed to create the World's wealth and how things will have to change when the bulk of mankind can only find intermittent employment at best. In CLOUD COMBAT  Mr. Hipple first paints a detailed picture of future developments in the growth of autonomous technologies in war and then confronts the questions of how to both exploit the advantages of these technologies and yet not  remove so much of the human element from the targeting loop that war degenerates into a simple mechanized slaughter. He doesn't propose to have all of the answers for where the human mind must be in the targeting and attack decisions loops of the future, but he introduces us to the issue and forces us to think seriously about it. Mr. Hipple's description of the related technological "progress" raises our sense of urgency about the issue. Finally,  he comes down squarely on the side of making progress on these technologies and adapting them to war fighting. I have to credit him with my favorite quote in at least the last five months from the many fine PROCEEDINGS articles:

"Change is inevitable, and the warfighter who refuses to stop living by the sword will die by the gun."

" I join our Chief Editor Johnas Presbyter in urging every maritime professional, but especially every Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, USPHS, and Merchant Marine professional out there, commissioned, warranted, enlisted, licensed or unlicensed to join the U.S. Naval Institute and read religiously the PROCEEDINGS. Consider giving an annual membership to your new grad NROTC student, Midshipman, Cadet, newly commissioned ensign, or newly licensed Third Mate. A catfish spends a lot of time quietly on the bottom, then once in a great while makes quite a show on the surface. That is the entire legend of "Namazu the Earth Shaker".  If you want to develop the 'Catfish Perspective", if you want to think like a catfish, you have to read like a catfish and catfish worth their salt are devoted readers and subscribers to the Naval Institute Proceedings":    http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings

" There are many other important maritime periodicals out there. Most have links in our NEWS SECTION, and I will address them over time. But during the Holiday rush I wanted you to know my favorite and to suggest to all of my many fans to consider the gift of a USNI membership this season to any maritime professional in your family of circle of friends"

                           Click on the link below to contact the Naval Institute
                                                    http://www.usni.org/

                                           

 THE NAMAZU READING LIST IS NOT REVIEWED BY THE AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS EDITORIAL STAFF OR BOARD. THESE RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS ARE THE SOLE OPINION OF NAMAZU THE EARTH SHAKER

                                          

THE VOTES ARE IN AND THE CATFISH SPOKE HIS MIND, THE AAB AND NAMAZU AGREE ON THE BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Winner Is.....................

THE WAY OF THE SHIP: AMERICA'S MARITIME HISTORY REINVISIONED 1600 -2000

  by W. Jeffery Bolster and Alexander Keyssay (published 2007)

 American Admiralty Books gives this history a rare "recommended" rating meaning that we think every marine professional should have this volume in his or her personal professional library. Click on the link below the book cover image to read more or to order.

                                                           

http://www.amazon.com/Way-Ship-Americas-Reenvisoned-1600-2000/dp/0470136006/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353904516&sr=1-1&keywords=THE+WAY+OF+THE+SHIP

Check it out in our MERCHANT MARINE INTEREST SECTION or read about it at Amazon via the link above

THE NAMAZU PICK FOR MARITIME COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF TH E YEAR

Illustrations, photos, drawings, plans histories and more on the schooner designs of William Burgess, Cox and Stevens, Samuel Crocker, the greats of  American schooner design  A reference work for yacht designers, and nautical historians ,and a work of art for the rest of us. If you have a serious sailor on your Christmas list  just click on the book cover icon link below and put one of these babies in your Amazon shopping basket.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Schooner-Yachts-Rudolph/dp/0764340891/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353900463&sr=1-1&keywords=GREAT+AMERICAN+SCHOONER+YACHTS 

           Check it out in our sailing and boat building sections or at Amazon via the link above.


READINGS RELATED TO NAMAZU POSTINGS:

 In this first installment Namazu reminds readers that oil isn't the first commodity to drive the global economy. In the ancient past other commodities have had serial central roles. The first step in understanding the role of oil in the global economy is understanding the rise and fall of predecessor central commodities. Namazu suggest that if you weren't actually alive and involved in ocean shipping for the last 3,000 years that the following books can help you to see the global economy from the catfish perspective: Click on the book cover icons to read more about, or to order the books.

   SPICE THE HISTORY OF A TEMPTATION by Jack Turner



 SALT: A WORLD HISTORY by Mark Kurlarshy      


  THE DEVILS MILK, A SOCIAL HISTORY OF RUBBER                                              
                                                 
                                                                                        
   CLAY, THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF HUMANKIND'S RELATIONSHIP WITH EARTH'S MOST PRIMAL ELEMENT by Suzanne Staubach

The one commodity that is presently driving the world economy and which Namazu sees as having a shift in its center of gravity towards the United States driving a strong economic recovery in the next several years is of course oil. To better understand the global oil based economy Namazu suggests the following.

AND THEN THERE IS OIL THE SUBJECT OF NAMAZU FULLY LOADED PARTS 1 &2: THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND OIL TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT AND THE NEAR FUTURE 

Start with this primer : OIL 101  by Morgan Downey

(The Book covers are not hyperlink Icons a single hyperlink is at the bottom of the book covers, This link takes you to "THE QUEST" and all of the other hyper links can be found by scrolling down from there)

Then get deeper into the skull duggery:

 


                                             

     





  CLICK ON THE "QUEST "ICON FOR THIS BOOK AND FIND THE LINKS TO THE REST BY SCROLLING DOWN AT THE" QUEST" SITE.




COASTAL ZONE EROSION AND PROTECTION

Click on the hyperlink below to read a description or to order

http://www.amazon.com/Mitigating-Shore-Erosion-Sheltered-Coasts/dp/0309103460/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353899953&sr=1-11&keywords=Coastal+Zone+Erosion+and+Protection

                                   
 BAYOU FARWELL by Mike Tidwell the story of the rapidly eroding Louisiana coast , the disappearing environment and human culture. Available as a book or on Kindle click on the above icon and then click on the book cover icon in Amazon to read excerpts.

                                           

Coastal Building Codes and Design:

                                             


 This completes the 2012 Namazu Reading List. There are 21 books and one monthly periodical a reading pace of a little less than two books a month on average.  One is a table top book that we all agree is far more than a table top boob of great photography but an important contribution to nautical history and design, but being a large table top book you don't have to read it quickly. If you complete all of Namazu's suggested readings you'll be well poised to fully understand his 2012 and early 2013 writings. But there will be a 2013 READ LIKE A CATFISH READING LIST. Don't be too concerned about being a year or so behind the giant catfish. The truth is we are all 3,000 years behind this nearly immortal sage. 

TO DEVELOP THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX AND INSIGHTFUL CATFISH PERSPECTIVE.....

YOU HAVE TO READ LIKE A CATFISH!   GO DEEP!  GO AMAZON VIA  AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS!

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