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THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 2012
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GRAPHIC ARTIST AND NAMAZU IMPERSONATOR IDENTITY FOUND:
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." The name of the artist is Eske Kath and he comes from Ms Oh Land's homeland. His exhibition took place in New York where he and Ms Oh Land presented a "performance art" exhibit on the Namazu theme. We have a link to that performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXaPwsgBv0
During the performance Ms Oh Land sings the Namazu theme acapella. Mr. Kath dressed as Namazu destroys some little houses, then....well you have to see it. It also helps if you understand the Namazu the Earth Shaker legend. Mr. Kath also did a solo performance in Namazu costume called "The Namazu Equations". Our links take you to a YouTube video of the joint performance art exhibit. We haven't yet found a similar video of the artists solo performance But we have found illustrations of his Namazu related art work and a point of purchase for you, see our related blog post following the station ID . Namazu, he's not just about earthquakes anymore!
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.
If you want more detail after the video click on the INTRODUCTION page in the right hand margin.
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We offer our Opinion on the Release of the Argentine Navy Training Vessel, The tall ship LIBERTAD by a UN Tribunal.
We introduce you to graphic artist and Namazu fan Eske Kath and if you have a spare $4000 for a really neat image of our favorite giant catfish we tell you were to find them.
IN THE BLOG SPACE YESTERDAY: Don't Miss NASA's SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION LAB'S presentation on WORLD OCEAN CURRENTS THE BLOG POSTINGS MONDAY INCLUDED:
THE BEAR ON ICE: Russia's ever expanding claims in the High Arctic.
GOT PIRATES?: Our Editorial policy on pirate coverage and our advice to commercial and recreational mariners----------------------------------------------------------------------------IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK
THE UN TRIBUNAL RULED IN FAVOR OF ARGENTINA AGAINST GHANA IN THE SEIZURE OF THE NAVAL TRAINING SHIP LIBERTAD. A DECISION ON THE OTHER SHIP COULD BE DELIVERED AT ANY MOMENT. STORY AND LINK POSTED LATE YESTERDAY SCROLL PAST STATION ID.
NEW COAST GUARD BILL WILL REQUIRE CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES TO SHUN DEALINGS WITH VESSELS BELONGING TO TERRORIST STATES OR NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THE UNITED STATES Classification societies such as the American Bureau of shipping and Lloyds Classification Society provide load line certificates and other important safety certifications to ships often required for port entry in many jurisdictions. The new Coast Guard Bill on the President's desk, as yet unsigned, would automatically eliminate U.S.recognition of certificates issued by classification societies that do business with the shipping of designated "terrorists countries" such as Iran.
Full story in POLITICO: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/maritime-bill-targets-terrorist-states-85258.html
CHINESE NAVY VISITS SYDNEY
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Chinese navy ships returning home from counter piracy operations off the northeast African coast have arrived in Sydney as they prepare for training exercises with the Australian navy.
The visit and training exercises are part of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australian and China.
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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. HOWEVER YESTERDAY THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL RULED IN FAVOR OF ARGENTINA IN THE CASE OFHER NAVAL TRAINING VESSEL. A DECISION IN A SECOND CASE OF ANOTHER WAR SHIP SEIZED BY GHANA PURSUANT TO AN AMERICAN WRIT TOOK PLACE LATER AND NO DECISION HAS BEEN HANDED DOWN YET. Had the international tribunal ruled for the creditors, an established basic principal of international law over 500 year sold would have been 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 Potsdam 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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. |
GRAPHIC ARTIST AND NAMAZU IMPERSONATOR IDENTITY FOUND:
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." The name of the artist is Eske Kath and he comes from Ms Oh Land's homeland. His exhibition took place in New York where he and Ms Oh Land presented a "performance art" exhibit on the Namazu theme. We have a link to that performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXaPwsgBv0
During the performance Ms Oh Land sings the Namazu theme acapella. Mr. Kath dressed as Namazu destroys some little houses, then....well you have to see it. It also helps if you understand the Namazu the Earth Shaker legend. Mr. Kath also did a solo performance in Namazu costume called "The Namazu Equations". Our links take you to a YouTube video of the joint performance art exhibit. We haven't yet found a similar video of the artists solo performance But we have found illustrations of his Namazu related art work and a point of purchase for you, see our related blog post following the station ID . Namazu, he's not just about earthquakes anymore!
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=301-2We 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 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
. 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 PROGRAM:
THE NAMAZU SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR 2012
(The short Version) 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!
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?"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.
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
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 offer American Admiralty Books Amazon Shop By Department Link
PERIODICALS:
Editor's note: . 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 periodicals 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.
THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE'S PROCEEDINGS IS MY NUMBER ONE PICK IN MARITIME PERIODICAL READING. http://www.usni.org/
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 BOOK OF THE YEAR:
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 |
READINGS RELATED TO NAMAZU POSTINGS:
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.
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
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| Click on the hyperlink below to read a description or to order |
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 book 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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