Thursday, February 21, 2013


2/21/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board


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

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2013

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If you want more detail after the video click on the INTRODUCTION page in the right hand margin.

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THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS PERFORMED  BY"MADISON RISING":
Click on the link below the flag to get your day off to the right start!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C7i9kdEf8

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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 readily locateable  available, evaluated when possible, and affordable.We suggest checking our subject pages first by clicking on the subject section most like your particular interest to your right. These pages will bring you to free links, free videos, book reviews and book lists on the subjects. If that doesn't answer your question come back here and click on:

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

We may never complete our goal of reviewing and evaluating all books in print on maritime subjects. We urge you to read those we have reviewed but if you don't find what you need click into the Amazon general search engine via the link below. Every day we try to make it easier for you to discover what you need in our pages but until we have finished construction the several links below assure you a "portal into the maritime world."

GENERAL MARITIME BOOK SEARCH :

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/

GENERAL MARITIME NEWS
WORLD MARITIME NEWS:
http://worldmaritimenews.com/

OCEANOGRAPHY: The Scripts Institute

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Given the Impact and the continuing nature of our series on the China Seas problems including "HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM" and Namazu's "ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD" we've decided to maintain this space devoted to related videos and expand on it when we find short videos that help explain points made in our previous postings. These videos will always be easy to find being right here while as time passes it becomes more difficult to find the widely scattered posts. OF COURSE THE BEST SOLUTION WOULD BE TO BECOME A DAILY READER BUT WE ARE AWARE THAT EVEN THE MOST RELIGIOUS DAILY READER OCCASIONALLY SUFFERS A LAPSE. Some times it can be a little difficult to understand a post in these continuing series if you just joined us or lapsed in your readings. Fear not most of never would have gotten through High School much less college without CLIFF NOTES and CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. We will provide you with videos along those same lines so you can feel free to drop in at any point in our continuing serial posts and still be able to understand what has been written prior without having to search for and read dozens of prior posts. Kick back click on the video provided guilt free, there are no tests here. Think of it as SERIOUS MARITIME ISSUES ILLUSTRATED.


RECOMMENDED VIDEO:
THE SOUTH CHINA SEA , TROUBLED WATERS

Click on the link above the chart for a short video that will bring you up to speed on the rapidly deteriorating situation in the South China Sea. Similar issues are developing in the East China Sea between China and Japan. If you haven't been able to read all of our postings in the HOW FAR WILL THE DRAGON SWIM series or all of NAMAZU's on going "ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES" this short video will bring you up to speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-CDMSOGaRY
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And for a quick audio visual brief on :

East Asia - China - Why China's territorial claims are unjustified (historically) 


Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqPPVrohQE



China Focus : What's Behind China's Escalation of Island Disputes:



Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2VXQfkPEc 

China Uncensored : China Prepares for War

CrossTalk: China vs Japan Islands Dispute






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NAMAZU ADDRESSES THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD
NAMAZU, giant Japanese catfish former demigod, turned maritime analyst

  Namazu's on going theme, his "ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD continues but the naval news is overtaking him. This series started back on January 29, 2013 and continues. In this series Namazu is proposing that all of the English speaking nations form a "naval union" to combine and coordinate their  sea power in order to respond  to the multiple challenges that the English speaking sea powers face. Since January 29th, the Chinese have repeatedly violated Japanese territorial waters, "painted" Japanese war ships with fire control radar, brought suite to the UN over the islands of others that they claim, and used a veiled threat delivered by a colonel in a military  academic institution to threaten Australia with a nuclear strike if Australia should take up arms with the United States in support of the defense of Japan. The same colonel, echoing less direct sentiment from the senior leadership stated that it is a national goal of China to push the U.S. Navy and all U.S. influence out of the Western Pacific and bottle up the western most part of the U.S.  fleet in Pearl Harbor. He specifically mentioned that the complete eviction of the U.S. influence from the region moist specifically included Australia. At least a few public figures in Australia are just now starting to reevaluate public policy pronouncements to the effect that "Australia doesn't have to choose between the the United states and China". Check in with us this week for continuing coverage of events in the China Seas which the U.S..infotainment media just seems blissfully unaware of and for the next installment from Namazu. Check the video links above for videos that will help you catch up with th eissues if your are just now tuning in this discussion of global naval challenges.

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IN THE NEWS:








Nigerian Pirates Demand $1.3 Million Ransom for Release of Kidnapped Sailors


BY  ON 

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Pirates who kidnapped six foreign sailors from an oil servicing vessel off the Nigerian coast on Sunday are demanding 200 million naira ($1.3 million) for their release, police said on Tuesday.

One Russian, three Ukrainian and two Indian sailors were taken when gunmen stormed the Armada Tuah 40 miles (65 km) off the coast of oil-producing Bayelsa state.


Editors Note: Pirates take ships every week. This taking is a bit news worthy because its not off of Somalia and the type of vessel taken was not a conventional ship but a service vessel providing support to the search fro off shore oil.



Royal Split – A Palace Rift in Persian Gulf Bedevils Key U.S. Navy Base - WSJ.com

A rift within the Bahrain royal family is playing into the hands of hard-line Islamists and eroding American influence – raising U.S. concern over its primary naval base in the Persian Gulf, reports the WSJ. Bahrain’s king and his predecessors nurtured Western links for decades, notes the WSJ. But a previously-marginalized hereditary line within the royal family, the Khawalids, whose power base includes the hard-line Islamist movement, has grown in prominence, gaining control of some of Bahrain’s key institutions. Although there is concern among palace insiders and western observers that the Khawalids could eventually take over the line of royal succession, officials don’t believe that will happen soon, writes the paper. Officials admit that some conservative elements within the royal family are suspicious of U.S. motives in Bahrain. A former Director of National Intelligence and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command this month urged the Pentagon to move the Fifth Fleet’s headquarters out of the island country, notes the WSJ.

 A Palace Rift in Persian Gulf Bedevils Key U.S. Navy Base - WSJ.com

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/02/17/2792848/egypt-soccer-protests-hit-restive.html#storylink=cpy

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SCROLLING DOWN FROM HERE:

  • YOU WILL FIND THE FOLLOWING POSTS:
  • IRAN TO DEVELOP NEW NAVAL BASE ON PAKISTAN BORDER
  • JAPAN'S STRATEGY TO DEFEND HER SOUTHERNMOST ISLANDS
  • A PARTICULAR VIEW OF AUSTRALIA AND CHINA FROM AUSTRALIA
  • AUSTRALIA IN THE CROSS HAIRS
  • WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY PARKED YOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?

  • For recent blog posts beyond the last one above move your cursor over to the dated posts in the right hand column and look for the titles below 

  • ARREST MADE IN ALASKA DOUBLE MURDER OF TWO COAST GUARDSMEN
  • NAMAZU LINKS: THE NATO NAVAL CHANGE OF COMMAND
  • NAMAZU REPORTS: INDIA MOVING INTO #4 DEFENSE SPENDING SPOT
  • "HAVE ARMED SECURITY GUARD'S FINALLY SCUPPERED SOMALI PIRATES?"
  • "USS GUARDIAN SALVAGE EFFORT UPDATE"
  • "NAMAZU CONTINUES HIS ADDRESS TO THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD, A DESCRIPTION OF TH E CANADIAN COAST GUARD"
  • HOW FAR WILL THAT DRAGON SWIM? PHILIPPINES ASK JAPAN FOR $110 M LOAN ON 10 PATROL BOATS"
  • LIFE BOAT ACCIDENT, AN ANALYSIS
  • NEW BOOK RECOMMENDATION  ON THE 2/11/2013 NOTICE BOARD
  • THE RETELLING OF THE EVACUATION OF MANHATTAN ISLAND ON 9/11/2001 (With videos of the evacuation by boat and the video on the famous extraction under fire at Dunkirk. To older blog posts beyond this point you have to shift the clicker to the right hand column and click on the desired date.
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