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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 us 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.
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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
And for a quick audio visual brief on :
Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqPPVrohQE
Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2VXQfkPEc
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NAMAZU ADDRESSES THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD
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
And for a quick audio visual brief on :
Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqPPVrohQE
China Focus :
Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2VXQfkPEc
China Uncensored :
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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 refused a request for arbitration of territorial dispute with the Philippines. China has 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 most 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 throughout the coming weeks 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 the issues if your are just now tuning in this discussion of global naval challenges.
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IN THE NEWS:
Norfolk trial begins for Somalis who fired on Navy ship
By Scott Daugherty
The Virginian-Pilot
February 21, 2013
The Virginian-Pilot
February 21, 2013
Armed with AK-47s, a group of Somali men in a small skiff opened fire in 2010 on a 609-foot Navy ship off the coast of Africa.
Prosecutors argue the men were pirates who mistook the amphibious dock landing ship for a commercial vessel.
Defense attorneys, however, claim they were merely lost at sea and trying to get the ship's attention.
A jury trial for five of the men started Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Over the next week, prosecutors are expected to call to the stand sailors who were on the Virginia Beach-based Ashland at the time of the incident and a Somali man who was on the skiff and is now cooperating with authorities.
Prosecutors argue the men were pirates who mistook the amphibious dock landing ship for a commercial vessel.
Defense attorneys, however, claim they were merely lost at sea and trying to get the ship's attention.
A jury trial for five of the men started Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Over the next week, prosecutors are expected to call to the stand sailors who were on the Virginia Beach-based Ashland at the time of the incident and a Somali man who was on the skiff and is now cooperating with authorities.
Link to Full Story: http://hamptonroads.com/2013/02/norfolk-trial-begins-somalis-who-fired-navy-ship
Three Chinese vessels pursue Japanese fishing boat near Senkakus
The captain of a Japanese fishing boat said three Chinese government vessels chased it through Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands on Feb. 18.
"I never dreamed they would do something so outrageous," Zensho Naka, 54, captain of the No. 11 Zenko Maru, said.
The Japan Coast Guard has confirmed that three Chinese vessels approached the fishing boat in the East China Sea, but it has not determined whether the approaches constituted pursuit.
According to coast guard officials, three of China's Hai Jian marine surveillance vessels entered the contiguous zone outside Japan's waters to the north-northwest of Uotsurishima island, the largest of the Senkakus, late on the night of Feb. 17.
On the morning of Feb. 18, the three vessels made successive intrusions into Japan's territorial waters east of Uotsurishima........"
Link to Full Story: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/AJ201302210082
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SCROLLING DOWN FROM HERE:
- YOU WILL FIND THE FOLLOWING POSTS:
- NAMAZU CONTINUES HIS ADDRESS
- STOP MODERN IMPRESSMENT SUE YOUR HEADHUNTER
- 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
- 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
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- WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY PARKED YOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?
- WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY PARKED YOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?
- 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.
The captain of a Japanese fishing boat said three Chinese government vessels chased it through Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands on Feb. 18.
"I never dreamed they would do something so outrageous," Zensho Naka, 54, captain of the No. 11 Zenko Maru, said.
The Japan Coast Guard has confirmed that three Chinese vessels approached the fishing boat in the East China Sea, but it has not determined whether the approaches constituted pursuit.
According to coast guard officials, three of China's Hai Jian marine surveillance vessels entered the contiguous zone outside Japan's waters to the north-northwest of Uotsurishima island, the largest of the Senkakus, late on the night of Feb. 17.
On the morning of Feb. 18, the three vessels made successive intrusions into Japan's territorial waters east of Uotsurishima........"
Link to Full Story: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/AJ201302210082
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SCROLLING DOWN FROM HERE:
- YOU WILL FIND THE FOLLOWING POSTS:
- NAMAZU CONTINUES HIS ADDRESS
- STOP MODERN IMPRESSMENT SUE YOUR HEADHUNTER
- 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
- 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
- WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY PARKED YOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?
- WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY PARKED YOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?
- 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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