Friday, July 31, 2015

The Iran "Deal"

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My co-host on Midrats posts two videos that are well worth watching here . "A deliberate attempt to circumvent the Constitution ......
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Friday Fun Film: "Flat Hatting"(1946)

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The adventure of flying can be taken too far. Here's a short cartoon so advising:
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Disaster Economics: Risk Taking and Risk Aversion

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We've all heard the pleas from people who have lost everything in a disaster. Most of these cries come from those who went into the di...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Final Chapter of NYTimes "The Outlaw Sea" - "A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes"

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Ian Urbina finishes up his four part series on "The Outlaw Sea" with A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes :...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

‘Sea Slaves’: Forced Labor for Cheap Fish - The New York Times

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The third installment in Ian Urbina's excellent NY Times series "The Outlaw Ocean" is up at ‘Sea Slaves’: Forced Labor for Che...

Well, yeah - "China’s New Islands Are Clearly Military, U.S. Pacific Chief Says "

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Kevin Baron of DefenseOne reports "China’s New Islands Are Clearly Military, U.S. Pacific Chief Says" : “I believe those facil...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

China Checking

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An interesting article from The Economist especially since the U.S. Pacific Command tweeted about it - Small reefs, big problems: Asian ...

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: The Shadow "The Man Who Murdered Time"

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About the Shadow here .
Friday, July 24, 2015

Friday Fun Film: "Friendship Begins at Home" (1949)

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Yep, it's summer and the world is a mess. So, what better than a film about the problems of being a teenager in the post-World War II er...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

That "JV" Team? Well, "FBI chief calls ISIS bigger threat to U.S. than al Qaeda"

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CBS News has a video: FBI chief calls ISIS bigger threat to U.S. than al Qaeda FBI Director James Comey credits social media with help...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Emergency Waste Disposal

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One disaster can quickly escalate in to many more if some basic sanitation needs are not taken care of - especially dealing with human waste...
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CSIS South China Sea Conference

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Given the importance of the events happening in and around the South China Sea, it is good to see that you can view or listen to the Cente...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Sea Piracy and Similar Stuff

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Captured pirates respond to a survey "warships are a primary deterrent" to their going back to their previous field of work, repo...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Interesting Series at the NY Times Reporting on the Unregulated (Often Deadly) Aspects of Part of Life at Sea

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The first two articles by Ian Urbina covering some of the less pleasant aspects of life at sea are up at the NYTimes as a series on "T...

Man on the Moon

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July 20, 1969. A nation - a world - glued to televisions as science fiction became science reality:
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Saturday Is Old Radio Day: "The Kraken Wakes"

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Five part series, each segment about a half hour. Melting ice caps, global climate change, population reduction - it's all here. Oh,...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Friday Fun Film: "Navy Wings of Gold" (1964)

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Today our younger son will put on his "Navy Wings of Gold" - joining his older brother in that fraternity. Very happy for hi...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Isis in the Sinai claims Egypt's vessel 'rocket attack and destruction'

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ISIS in the Sinai claims to have takena missile shot at an Egyptian "frigate" and destroyed the ship, as reported by the Internati...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Disaster Prep Wednesday: Storm Death Numbers

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Our friends at the National Weather Service keep track of storm-related deaths. Kind of interesting, and by no means representative of the d...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

The Iran Deal: Sanctions Lifted with Threat of More Sanctions

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So there is an Iran nuke deal Iran and world powers capped a decade-long dispute by reaching a historic deal early Tuesday for Tehran t...