Monday, September 30, 2013

Hornfischer at the Marine Corps University

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Author James Hornfischer asks me to let you know that he will be speaking Thursday, 24 October, at 3pm, delivering the Erskine Lecture, disc...
Friday, September 27, 2013

On Midrats Sunday 29 Sep 13, Episode 195: "The Pacific Pivot Ground Element"

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Please join us live on Midrats this Sunday, 29 Sep 13 at 5 pm Eastern U.S. for Episode 195: The Pacific Pivot Ground Element : What is the ...

Friday Fun Film: "Our First Line of Defense"

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Will Governmental Agencies Seek to Regulate Environmentally Incorrect Nature as "Pakistan quake island off Gwadar 'emits flammable gas'?"

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Environmentally insensitive plate tectonics is polluting the atmosphere as it shakes the planet, doing more damage than -say - a couple of h...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

America's Cup: To the Wire

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Wing-sailed multi-hulls! ORACLE TEAM USA, Emirates Team New Zealand in winner-take-all race for the 34th America’s Cup : After staging an i...
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Putin says: Greenpeace activists "lawbreakers" "not pirates"

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Greenpeace photo The Times of India reports "Greenpeace activists 'not pirates' but broke law: Putin" : Russian Pre...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Oil and Gas Shortages? Not so Fast . . . "World hydrocarbon supply ‘relatively boundless'"

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Okay . . . here's a bit of perhaps optimistic news from the Oil and Gas Journal : World hydrocarbon supply ‘relatively boundless,’ SEG t...
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Eco-Pirates? "Russia to Investigate Seized Greenpeace Ship for Piracy"

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Greenpeace photo Russia to Investigate Seized Greenpeace Ship for Piracy : Russian authorities said Friday that a seized Greenpeace ic...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

EPA Rules on Coal Burning Plants: An "ideologically driven fight to tear the capitalist heart out of western civilization"

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Earth's Ice Age No mincing of words in this Investors Business Daily Editorial, "New Rules On Power Plants Will Kill Coal Indu...
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Sunday Sept 22, 2013 on Midrats: Episode 194: "DD214, Unpacked Boxes and the road ahead"

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Please join us at 5pm (Eastern U.S.) on Sunday 22 Sep 13 for Midrats Episode 194: "DD214, Unpacked Boxes and the road ahead" : Wh...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Friday Fun Film: The Kingsbury Thrust Bearing - 101 Years

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No, it's not the exciting Navy film I'm looking for (though I understand the Naval Academy has the 16mm film in its library) and it...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Thursday Safety Show

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Ah, here's one of the rare ones, "Safety in Offices" -
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Oh, great another "trans-national" maritime security threat acts up: "Greenpeace assails oil rig in Russian Arctic"

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BBC News - Greenpeace assails oil rig in Russian Arctic Greenpeace activists have launched an attempt to board a Russian oil platform ...

A Christmas Suggestion for the Navy Geeks in Your Life

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Looking for that special gift that will have that certain special warship/navy geek in your life sitting on the floor oohing and cooing like...
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The Argument: "Why America Invaded Iraq"

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You never seem to get it from the mainstream news and "entertainment" sources, but there was a rationale behind our ."humanit...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

A Time to Mourn

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Well, even a blind hog . . .: "U.S. and Russia Reach Deal to Destroy Syria’s Chemical Arms"

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NYTimes reports "U.S. and Russia Reach Deal to Destroy Syria’s Chemical Arms." Aside from the fact that what is to be destroy...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Sunday Ship History: The Korean War

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60 years ago . . .
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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Saturday's Film: Building Thule AFB - "Operation Blue Jay"

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America's front line in the 1950's on Danish "soil" in Greenland: My dad was flying out of there back in the day.
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Friday Fun Film" "Service and Citizenship"

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Another film from Coronet: Hmmm. Service. Responsibility. "... [A]ll part of earning the rights we enjoy." So ... quaint . ...