#South African Naval Forces

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.8

1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet, defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta. 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India. 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. 1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island. 1709 – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe. 1716 – The Battle of Dynekilen forces Sweden to abandon its invasion of Norway. 1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline. 1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York. 1760 – British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France. 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America. 1776 – Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. 1808 – Promulgation of the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter Joseph Bonaparte intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain. 1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. 1853 – The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade. 1859 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway. 1864 – Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. 1874 – The Mounties begin their March West. 1876 – The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant. 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. 1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. 1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. 1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. 1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22. 1933 – The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town. 1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident. 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. 1962 – Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. 1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. 1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan. 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. 1972 – Israeli Mossad assassinate Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. 1980 – The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20–10 at Lang Park. 1980 – Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the then Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board. 1982 – A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months. 1988 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more. 1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. 2003 – Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board. 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. 2014 – Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers. 2021 – President Joe Biden announces that the official conclusion of U.S. involvement in the War in Afghanistan will be on August 31, 2021. 2022 – Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is shot twice and killed while giving a speech in Nara.

#Events

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The Cape Town part is less cringey here than in Blake’s Odyssey, Blake says they passed Robben Island “where Mandela was imprisoned”, talks about meeting with people who are working to reform the system and provide equal opportunities for Black South Africans, and says that “communication and understanding” will be key to fixing the situation— which they were, in the end.

But the “We shouldn’t have economic sanctions or ban them from sports, international interaction will do more to inspire them to be better” argument he makes when that doesn’t seem to be working with Russia or the Gulf States today but the bans DID help force reforms in South Africa… yeah, Peter Blake was on the wrong side there. And saying that the Boers are stubborn and resist change because their ancestors had to be to settle in “a wild and mostly empty land” is pretty uncomfortable wording. Blake certainly wasn’t pro-Apartheid, but he comes off as way more accommodating and passive about it than Skip Novak, who was smuggling in banned books in his own seabag. Really, the whole situation of the Royal Naval Sailing Association keeping the Whitbread route through Cape Town up to 1985 when so many other sports had already banned and/or distanced themselves from South Africa looks bad in retrospect and would be an interesting subject for an historical article or thesis.

(The crew making comments in the log making fun of Greenpeace also hasn’t aged too well— and given Blake’s environmental work later on, he might have thought the same thing later in life.)

#Looking forward to reading the Steinlager book from 1989 where they DIDN’T stop in South Africa so I don’t have to cringe #Let's Read #Lion: The Round the World Race With Lion New Zealand #Sir Peter Blake #Whitbread 1985

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Film References

CIA: Creche child project, "NASH", Viet Cong; Saigon Police Chief children's system. Ceased practice of amphetamines given to self-defense victim, system at this point nation-wide.

NSA: Junior administrator, "DAMN-YANKEE", writer's codebase project and systems manager. Video games design work, MUSH codebase system to enhance games and theory. Shut down Auckland Scientology and Alcoholics Anonymous Royal Irish Navy draft of FPS players to teachers and police services; system, outed as Yeltsin arms and weapons caches convoy, Jewish underground.

ROTC: Air National Guard Corps, "STALIN", campus drug informant as signal during mass incarcerations facing Queen of England, George W. Bush, Confederate South, Buddhist League Arts, and Blue Dog Democrats, as collaborators with overall backing behind World Trade Center attacks; domination of narcotics trade, through oil expenditures, of US Army necessity for private groweries. End of Marvel USMC tracking of subjects for comic write-ins, and legalization of marijuana under tree surgeon standards, to prevent poisoning.

Homeland Security: Drafted State Police Trooper, "SULLIVAN", deployed against impetus of Pentagon business mercantile; Carnival Cruises, Princess Cruises, Royal Cruises, Adolf's meat tenderizer, Campbell's Soup, Tyson Chicken, Denmark Bounty Leagues, and Firaxis Games. Placed in direct combat action against Andrew Donson, a suicide act intended to place corpse on Apple Systems. Running field action, on MUSH, in Boston, and on foot with family, to liberate trapped soldiers and civilians and criminals, through investment in food and eateries, by Boston Police Department, and Deviant Art hacks of "Swirlyman", alias "Dr. Joshua Golden", real name "Andrew Donson", to liberate "Firaxis Games", for Massachusetts State Legislature. Public Attorney General's suit, and mass dissemination of psychiatric practice of Nation-State of Iran, placed through system; MI-6 Bellevue, shut down, by "Gotham" print.

Mossad Elite Forces: Drafted for action through Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), by elite SIS Hanoi Gestapo team. Revenge for World Trade Center attacks, given as Schulzstaffel trained order; Operatives Charlebois, Williamson, Ahlquist, Monahan, and Gagnon selected, to penetrate South Park Studios writing, forseeing another "Treblinka" event, a Poraujmos; leading to an ethnic purge of Africans, and Latinos, taught to speak Hebrew, by confidence grifts, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. South Park print, followed by precise shot through chess match, at public witness of Queen of England engaging in chess match. "Volund", "Chet", "Crux", "Mercy", and "Dremarian", go under, replaced with duplicate operative team, "Blackwater". Blackwater, executed, for actions during War on Terror.

#4chan

[itsmythang]

Robert Smalls, (born April 5, 1839, Beaufort, South Carolina, U.S.—died February 23, 1915, Beaufort), American war hero and politician who, during the American Civil War, commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from the South and later became the first Black captain of a vessel in U.S. service. He served multiple terms (1875–79, 1882–83, and 1884–87) as a congressman from South Carolina during Reconstruction.

Smalls’s mother was enslaved, and his father was an unknown white man. In 1851 Smalls was taken by his enslaver to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was hired out to work as a hotel waiter, hack driver, and rigger. In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was forced to work aboard the steamship CSS Planter, which operated as an armed transport and dispatch vessel, carrying guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.

On May 13, 1862, Smalls and other enslaved people on board took control of the ship in Charleston Harbor; he picked up his wife and children and others, succeeded in passing through Confederate checkpoints, and turned the ship, its cargo of weapons, and several important documents over to a Union naval squadron blockading the city. Smalls and the others on the Planter gained their freedom, and Smalls became famous as a war hero throughout the North.

In 1863, when he was piloting the ironclad USS Keokuk during the Union’s bombardment of Fort Sumter, the vessel took many hits and was eventually sunk. Smalls’s bravery was rewarded with command of the USS Planter later that year, making him the first African American captain in the U.S. Navy. He fought in numerous battles during the remainder of the Civil War. In addition, after he was removed from a streetcar in 1864 in Philadelphia because he was Black, Smalls led a boycott that led to the desegregation of the city’s transit system.

After the war, Smalls became a businessman, and he rose rapidly in politics. From 1868 to 1870 he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives and from 1870 to 1874 in the state Senate. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1875 to 1879, from 1882 to 1883, and from 1884 to 1887; among his notable actions in the House were his efforts to integrate U.S. Army regiments and his support of a bill that would have required equal accommodations for Black and white people on interstate conveyances. In 1877 Smalls was convicted of having taken a $5,000 bribe while in the state Senate, and he was sentenced to three years in prison, but the case against him was clearly politically motivated. He was pardoned by South Carolina’s governor in 1879.

Smalls spent his last years in Beaufort, where he served as port collector (1889–93 and 1897–1913). In 1895 he delivered an impassioned speech before the South Carolina constitutional convention in an attempt to prevent the disfranchisement of Black voters.

In 1997 the University of South Carolina founded an annual lecture series named for Smalls. The USAV Major General Robert Smalls was commissioned in 2007; according to the U.S. Army, it is the first Army ship named for an African American.

#Black History #General Robert Smalls

[daily-media]

'Difficult days': Evacuees recount risky escape from Sudan's civil war

Even so, those who reached Saudi soil on Monday said they were grateful to be out of a country where the doctors' union has reported that "morgues are full" and "corpses litter the streets."

JEDDAH: Clutching overstuffed suitcases, bleary-eyed civilians described a harrowing escape from violence-wracked Sudan across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, sobbing at memories of air strikes and urban combat.

Wheelchair-bound elderly women and babies asleep in their parents’ arms were among nearly 200 people from more than 20 countries who disembarked from a naval frigate in the coastal city of Jeddah on Monday night after daring and draining journeys to safety.

“We travelled a long way from Khartoum to Port Sudan. It took us around 10 or 11 hours,” said Lebanese national Suhaib Aicha, who has operated a plastics factory in Sudan for more than a decade.

“It took us another 20 hours on this ship from Port Sudan to Jeddah,” he told AFP as his young daughter cried on his shoulders.

“There were many difficult moments, all of which involved fear, tension and anxiety,” said another Lebanese passenger, a woman who declined to give her name.

“We were not sleeping, eating or drinking. We lived through many difficult days.”

Fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15 between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy-turned-rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

At least 427 people have been killed and more than 3,700 wounded, according to UN agencies, and many are now grappling with acute shortages of water, food, medicines and fuel as well as power and internet blackouts.

Late Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Burhan and Daglo had agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire.

Even so, those who reached Saudi soil on Monday said they were grateful to be out of a country where the doctors’ union has reported that “morgues are full” and “corpses litter the streets.”

Saudi Arabia announced the first successful civilian evacuation from Sudan on Saturday, welcoming 150 people including foreign diplomats and officials in Jeddah.

Earlier on Monday, a C-130 Hercules military plane flew dozens of South Korean civilians, among them a small child and a nun in a white-and-blue habit, to Jeddah’s King Abdullah Air Base.

All told, 356 people have been evacuated to the kingdom from Sudan so far — 101 Saudis and 255 foreigners from more than 20 countries, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

Saudi state media has provided wall-to-wall coverage of the effort as well as statements of gratitude from countries whose nationals have benefited.

As the naval frigate approached Jeddah’s port on Monday night, the state-affiliated Al-Ekhbariya channel broadcast images of passengers waving their arms and smiling, while others recorded the scene on their smartphones.

Staring into the camera, a Saudi man waved the green, sword-emblazoned Saudi flag in one hand and his green passport in another, declaring “This is the strongest passport in the world.”

Writing in the private newspaper Okaz, columnist Abdo Khal said Saudi Arabia’s relatively speedy organisation of evacuation planes and boats highlighted the kingdom’s “international value”.

“Definitely this shows an eagerness by the Saudi kingdom to position itself as a central actor in regional crisis situations and to take advantage of the leverage it has over both sides of this conflict,” said Umar Karim, an expert on Saudi politics at the University of Birmingham.

But Saudi officials are coming under pressure to do more than facilitate evacuations, given their close ties to the two generals whose troops are fighting it out in and beyond Khartoum.

“Saudi Arabia is a critical player in the ceasefire diplomacy in Sudan,” Alan Boswell of the International Crisis Group told AFP.

“African and Western governments are looking to Riyadh for help in convincing Sudan’s military to give talks a chance.”

#Sudan #civil war

[dan6085]

Introduction:

Good day everyone, today we are going to talk about the British Empire. The British Empire was one of the largest empires in history, spanning over a quarter of the world's landmass and governing around 500 million people. It was a complex and varied empire that was built on a foundation of military might, economic power, and cultural influence. In this script, we will explore the rise and fall of the British Empire and how it impacted the world.

Part 1: The Rise of the British Empire

The British Empire began in the late 16th century with the establishment of colonies in North America, including Jamestown and Plymouth. However, it was not until the 18th and 19th centuries that the British Empire began to truly expand and become a dominant force in world affairs. The British Empire's growth was driven by a combination of military conquest and economic expansion.

One of the key factors in the rise of the British Empire was the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy was the most powerful navy in the world and allowed Britain to control the seas and protect its trade routes. The navy also allowed Britain to establish a global network of naval bases and colonies.

Another important factor in the rise of the British Empire was the Industrial Revolution. Britain was the first country to industrialize, which gave it a significant economic advantage over other countries. British factories produced goods that were in high demand all over the world, and the British Empire was able to establish trading relationships with countries that wanted these goods.

Part 2: The British Empire in the 19th Century

In the 19th century, the British Empire continued to grow and became even more powerful. The British Empire's control over India, which was known as the "jewel in the crown" of the empire, was particularly significant. India was a valuable source of raw materials and a large market for British goods. However, the British Empire's control over India was also controversial, and there were many protests and uprisings against British rule.

The British Empire also expanded its influence in Africa and Asia in the 19th century. The Scramble for Africa, in which European powers divided up the African continent, saw Britain establish colonies in what is now Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. In Asia, Britain established colonies in what is now Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Part 3: The British Empire in the 20th Century

In the 20th century, the British Empire began to decline. World War I was a significant turning point for the British Empire. The war was a drain on British resources and resulted in the loss of many British lives. After the war, Britain struggled to maintain its economic and political power.

The rise of nationalism in the colonies also posed a significant challenge to the British Empire. Many colonies began to demand independence, and there were protests and uprisings in many parts of the empire. India gained independence in 1947, and many other colonies followed suit in the following decades.

Part 4: The Legacy of the British Empire

The legacy of the British Empire is complex and controversial. On the one hand, the British Empire was responsible for many significant achievements. Britain's legal and political systems, for example, have been adopted by many countries around the world. The English language, too, is now the lingua franca of the world, largely due to the British Empire's influence.

On the other hand, the British Empire was also responsible for many atrocities. The slave trade, for example, was a major part of the British Empire's economy for centuries. The British Empire was also responsible for many crimes against indigenous peoples, particularly in the Americas and Australia.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, the British Empire was one of the largest and most powerful empires in history.

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6195Khz 0458 5 FEB 2023 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from WOOFFERTON. SINPO = 55333. English, s/on @0458z w/Bow Bells int. then ID@0459z pips and newsday preview. @0501z World News anchored by Sue Montgomery. The US has shot down a giant Chinese balloon that it says has been spying on key military sites across America. China's foreign ministry later expressed "strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US's use of force to attack civilian unmanned aircraft". The military is now trying to recover debris which is spread over seven miles . Two naval ships, including one with a heavy crane for recovery, are in the area. East African regional leaders have renewed their call for an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that pits the country’s military against a rebel group that the government has accused Rwanda of supporting. At a summit in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura on Saturday, the leaders of the regional East African Community bloc enjoined an “immediate ceasefire by all parties,” according to a communique issued at the end of the meeting. Pope Francis has told clergy in South Sudan to raise their voices against injustice, on an unprecedented trip to the war-torn country. Travelling with the heads of the churches in England and Scotland, the group are on a three-day "pilgrimage of peace" to the world's newest nation. Dozens of wildfires blazing though Chile caused the government to extend an emergency order to another region on Saturday, as a scorching summer heat wave complicates efforts to control fires that have claimed at least 23 lives so far. More than 1,100 people have sought refuge in shelters while at least 979 people have been reported injured by the raging fires. Protests in Peru persist as Congress denies calling for a new election later this year. Cyprus election draws record 14 candidates, which has split the political right and is unlikely to produce a clear winner, setting the stage for a runoff on Feb. 12. South Korean coast guard vessels and aircraft were searching on Sunday in waters off the country’s southwestern coast for nine fishermen who disappeared after their boat capsized. ‘Electric wallpaper’ using pioneering infra-red technology is being fitted in council homes in Greenford; promising an amazing ability to slash energy bills and carbon emissions. Ealing Council is running a pilot scheme with energy company NexGen Heating to replace the gas heating in 25 homes with special, warmth-emitting panelling on the ceilings. @0506z "Newsday" begins. MLA 30 amplified loop (powered w/8 AA rechargeable batteries ~10.8vdc), Etón e1XM. 200kW, beamAz 160°, bearing 47°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 6312KM from transmitter at Woofferton. Local time: 2258.

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King’s Shilling by Mike Lunnon Wood

King’s Shilling by Mike Lunnon Wood

This is the second book in the series of  four books abut the military . The first one  featured St Marys Lifeboat. Although they are all fiction they are written with such panache and understanding of the subject that they are believable and obviously have had a lot of research devoted to the story.

HMS Beaufort, a naval frigate, is on her way back to Portsmouth after a commission in the South Atlantic. When passing Liberia on the Western coast of Africa she receives a message from HQ in London to divert to Liberia and assist in stemming a revolution that is causing problems as two militant factions are fighting to gain control of the country and the embassies of the UK and the USA are getting worried because the fighting is nearing the Embassies which are close to each other on the border of the capitol.

Whilst the crew of the ship think this revolution can soon be stopped and they can then continue on their way home, they get a nasty shock when they find that there are thousands of fighting warriors, fighting mainly for money, food and women and anything they can steal.

Some of the ship’s crew go ashore and quickly realize they are vastly outnumbered as the Africans turn against them. There are several hundred civilians seeking to escape the fighting and need be taken off by the ship. The Captain seeks help but it is slow in coming due to their isolated situation.

A force of Royal Marines are parachuted in and they help stem the tide of Africans now attacking the Embassies, while preparations are being made to evacuate all the civilians.

The evacuation that is carried out despite the enemy fire power is described in great detail and is not for readers easily upset as it is very graphic in the details.

It is a great story though if you like that sort of thing, but I did get a bit confused with all the abbreviations used and the military terms mentioned, despite having done four years in the RAF, but that was a long time ago.

Review by Brian

[kimroche19]

Review: No Matter What Online, Milnerton Gamers

He was promoted to Durban as a tug master and did some sterling work in shifting lifeless warships in the course of the Second World War. He was later promoted to Pilot at Durban, to Assistant Port Captain, Cape Town in 1960 and Port Captain in 1965 to 1966. 29 September 1939 appointed as Cadet RNR to the Armed Merchant Cruiser Carnarvon Castle.COTTERJOHN WILLIAM PATRICK3COTTRELLPETER1931COURAGEANTHONY2201Royal Marines, England. Reported deceased 1999.COURAGEPHILIP MARK1702COURTCHRISTOPHER PAUL2792Resigned from Safmarine in January 1986 and moved to the U.K. In 1942 he entered the South African Naval Forces as Sub-Lieutenant, serving in minesweepers and motor launches till his appointment as Navigating Officer to South Africa’s first frigate, HMSAS Good Hope. In 1954, he became a Lieutenant-Commander, and his last appointment was fleet communications officer to the South African Navy Chief of Staff.CROOMEKEITH BROWN1816Keith Croome was one other product of Wynberg Boys’ High School. In his second year he was promoted to Senior Cadet Captain and his watch, Starboard Watch, gained the Inter-Watch Sporting Trophy. “A belated thanks in your kind message when Dennis died. I shall all the time love and miss you my beautiful, particular friend Lots o ..... You will be truly missed our particular, beautiful friend We love you T ..... I miss you every day dad and constantly maintain you in my ideas. I love you greater than you'll ever know. However, his proudest memory of the General Botha is of pulling midships oar in the ‘A’ whaler crew. On leaving the Botha Barry joined Ellerman and Bucknall Steamship Company, obtaining his masters in Southampton in 1962, then continuing with ‘City Ships’ on their worldwide routes for an additional 5 satisfying years. Barry then purchased a small yacht in which he, Suzanne and their three month old daughter Veronica sailed out to South Africa. The victims are bought within months from one brothel to another. While they are drugged, they're raped and photos are taken of them, which are used to blackmail them later. Their garments and footwear are taken away, so that they can not escape. Some of those women do not even have breasts yet. In some cases, they are taken to clubs and brothels the place they are saved drugged, overwhelmed and abused. They are kept prisoner and are continually watched. dr gregory hough This was the RFA Tidesurge returning residence from serving on the Beira Patrol in the Mozambique Channel making an attempt to stop the move of oil into Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Needless to say, this did not achieve it’s main goal in any respect.RFA Tidesurge had been launched within the mid-50’s now nicely old-fashioned in many respects. Having been used to somewhat luxurious accommodation on the Safmarine vessels, the accommodation on Tidesurge was abysmal to say the least. 12 Officers dwelling on the identical deck with just two working showers and 3 rest room cubicles. None the much less he stuck it out and his first trip turned out to be really thrilling. 2014 working as Business Development Manager for a development company in the UK.ATKINSONDONALD EDWARD1691After leaving G.B. Served as Area Operations Manager in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Durban. Transferred back to Cape Town in 1983 as Distribution Manager at Head Office and retired as Special Projects Manager in June 1993. In 1957 he met his spouse to be, Gloria and moved to Carletonville the place, while finding out for a mine captain’s certificates, he was posted to Western Deep Level as shift boss. In November 1961 he and Gloria had been married in Krugersdorp they usually moved again to Klerksdorp to start a family, which finally resulted in two daughters, Bev and Cheryl. They lived in Sea Point until 2002, once they all of a sudden and mysteriously dropped contact with the GBOBA and disappeared. Nothing additional is thought about Derek.SMITHRALPH HARVEY1133SMITHDOUGLAS ALEXANDER2187Completed time with Shell UK and relocated to Australia in 1966. Became a Master on coastal tankers earlier than becoming a Contract Pilot in the Timor Sea for FPSO’s. Also runs a small commercial fishing boat.SMITHBEVERLEY ROLAND1436Deceased 1991.SMITHSYDNEY ALWORTH1437SMITHBARRY JESSE2489Life on the ocean wave started as a cadet with Safmarine in 1973. Highlight was engaged on what was then often known as passenger ships, the S.A. In 1979 decided to work closer to house so joined Unicorn.

#dr gregory hough south africa #dr greg hough south africa #dr gregory #dr greg hough #greg hough #dr gregory hough #dr gregory images #dr greg hough images #dr gregory facebook #dr greg hough facebook

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.20 (after 1940)

1941 – A German officer is killed in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers. 1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question". 1945 – World War II: The provisional government of Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. 1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months. 1949 – Point Four Program, a program for economic aid to poor countries, is announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for a full term as president. 1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America, becoming the first president to begin his presidency on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms. 1954 – In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. 1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Catholic. 1972 – Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. 1973 – Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea. 1974 – China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam. 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages. 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1986 – Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Justin Lekhanya. 1990 – Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 of the 96 people on board. 2001 – President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. 2009 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States. 2009 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start. 2018 – A group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others. 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin offensive and begins shelling Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions in Afrin Region. 2021 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At 78, he becomes the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris becomes the first female Vice President of the United States.

#Events

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National pearl harbor remembrance day.

He managed to shoot down between four and six Japanese planes before being ordered to abandon ship. Miller later became the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross. Cook Third Class Doris “Dorie” Miller, who served on the USS West Virgina, took over a 50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun, despite having little to no experience with the weapon.The USS Arizona continues to leak oil to this day, with the black spots often called the “tears of the Arizona.”.Both the USS Utah and USS Arizona were declared National Historic Landmarks in 1989.Not only does Remembrance Day serve as a way to educate American citizens about what happened on December 7 th, 1941, but it serves as a way to honor the 2,403 lives lost in the attack. Just as we strive to preserve the legacies of those are who served throughout the museum, Remembrance Day strives to preserve the legacies of those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor through stories and memorials. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is a prime example of what we hope to do at NVMM. solidly into WWII.ĭecades later, on August 23, 1994, Congress would declare December 7 th as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Flags are flown at half-mast and events are held throughout the country, including at the Pearl Harbor Memorial and Hawaii. Just three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Congress then turned right around and declared war on Germany and Italy, bringing the U.S. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.” No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. Navy battleships, the USS Arizona and the USS Utah, permanently sank.Ĭontinuing in his speech, Roosevelt said, “ But always will our whole Nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. Additionally, 1,178 were injured, 188 aircraft were destroyed, and two U.S. on December 7, 1941, resulted in the deaths of 2,403 civilians and service members. The attack, which occurred just before 8 a.m. ships as possible, so that nothing could hinder Japan’s forces as they conquered the South Pacific. Any attack from Japan was expected to happen in other areas of the South Pacific, which meant that the Pearl Harbor base was left largely undefended. Almost the entirety of the U.S.’s Pacific fleet and hundreds of aircraft were located at Pearl Harbor. The motive behind the plan was to destroy as many U.S. and Japan for some time, the attack came completely as a surprise. Roosevelt following the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. Just one hour after this speech, Congress would pass an official declaration of war on Japan, bringing the United States into WWII.Īlthough tensions had been rising between the U.S. These were the words spoken by President Franklin D. “Yesterday, Decem– a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

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The O’Neill Boston History of Military Support (French Paradis Tradition)

Gene O’Neill: Worked as an economist and psychiatric administration designer in China, under Richard Milhouse Nixon, to design mindfulness hospitals, splitting the Chinese and Soviet causes, harkening the end of the Vietnam War.

Marie O’Neill: “Fullbird” Colonel, US Army, base psychiatric nurse, experiments on xenids captured from Roswell and other downed saucer crashes.

Robert Edwards: Police and social engineering work, as a housing and civilian rights advocate, dealing in police mistreatment of soldiers, pro-war advocates, and psychiatric patients, particularly when medical or foreign activists were involved; always with communists targeted in terms of their base civil needs of assertion and status “grifted through penny”, her signature term for someone taking away something simple to humiliate someone into ceding rightful heir to a “faggot hippie”, another term she coined as a new alignment, placed on a child of a soldier by marriage of fact, not tantamount (a forced bride or groom’s wedding, out of sight of father, mother, or parent of child).

Francis O’Neill: Work in chemistry, psychology, and rare blood sciences, through philosophy and endotropic healing factors of plant toxins, at Boston University, using reprints and modifications of Friedrich Nietzsche, to break Immanuel Kant and Kantian inclined philosophers, for supporting the anti-war cause through psychological shutdowns of reason, the false sign of shutdown from a “fags”, later placed in her structure for them, the Westboro Baptist Church, to “eat shit and die”, the famous Poison Ivy term for an anti-war protestor, as a nominal statement of fact adverb preposition of exposit sentence, noun and fact of reason (ancient Cardinal’s quarter, Benson Catholic Church, Yardale, Vermont, for Jamaican protestors against Peace Acts, 1950s).

James O’Neill: Marksman chaplin’s rifle shot unit, Australian MI-6, specializing at the targeting of African, Hindu, and Mali Malaysian soldiers of wealth and status, supplying the war effort of the South, through the North, for drug sales and “arbor trees”, changed draft statuses, suicide setups and Naval indoctrinations, through “Charles Manson Shifts”, based on the famous case prior to suspicion, incarceration, or arrest of the subject, through a prank letter sent to Steven Charlebois, to get Oliver Stone drafted for being a cadre member of a Jewish Sipophon unit, an anti-war unit for “tolerance protests”, the draft of O’Neill kinsman of African blood, Cassius Clay, for boxing, against his will, inducing Parkinson’s.

Daniel O’Neill: Indoctrination in the Boston University Culminate Columns unit, for undercover journalists tracking columnists, berveistas (bartenders and barristas), and ‘had rags’ (southern Hispanic soldiers, supporting Che Guevera, the talent and trade administration).  Shot a Hispanic journalist, disguised as a Dutch Country cop, on the border to New Mexico, and Mexico, after revealing him as a “narc pipeline”, to Hispanic Mossad, resulting in the label of Che as “KGB”, and his eventual hunt and glorious godfounder murder, by “CIA”, actually rice plantationers from America, with a CIA button and tag, from Gene O’Neill of New York City, confused in the mail (not an Irish Witch, but a Jew with the last name O’Neill, hence easy to trick for Gene Roberts, an old walsh plantation artist from Carolina, South and North at two extremities of fact and meaning).

Evelyn: I can’t remember her married name, which means I’m not supposed to know what she did.

Timothy O’Neill: USMC heavy “lago” unit, scout sniper, took bearings apart and put them in golf balls, inventing modern NSA theory, “phone phreaking”, taking a disused military line or police campus radio, on a “jock set”, then calling through to the proper origin of source, a declassified trick since the 1990s, used to spy on cops with “Mar-a-lago” fictional brokers, for “caluminate corruption”, causing or fostering the psychotic break through hypnosis or harassment, of any Irish citizen, particularly those with Royal, Native, or Carib roots, not counting Hispanics, hunted at “Gourds Send”, for the crime of Che Guevera and the Jewish movements in the American South practicing castration on Vietnam veterans, and their friends and family, the “gook killers” as we’re termed.

Alice Charlebois: The support of Vietnam veterans through hunts for “chung-ko”, martial arts actors prepping for stage and drama movies and films for CIA agent Osama Bin Laden, and scumbags like him, people that want a live action film or filament philosophy.  The placement of knife blades, in cooked candy bars, to pull and draw on “black bands”, actors in “honorable fights”, and the stabbing death of 27 cop informants doing so, as well as the Desert Eagle shooting of several Italian Carabinieri on Revere Beach with CIA tattoos, all framed on Jimmy Bulger, a cop and Mossad double agent, labeled as Irish Mob and IRA through the press because of Alice’s work.

David Charlebois (Self): The support of the War on Terror through the shutdown of pacifist and peaceful forces of drug dealers inside the anti-war movement in Canada, Israel, and the United States, while marijuana was “piped” in by military veterans and retired soldiers, to pro-war advocates in defense attorneys guilds and outside of prosecutor hands, due to the unpopularity of the war with “conviction authorities”, over the war being blamed on eminent domain lawsuits, imprisonment of comic book artists, and support of the rights of the retarded to kill people on “cop orders”, drug dealers for the “numbers racket”, stealing the semen or forcing copulated marriages on bright college kids for being avariously politician, knowing when to make a public stand, instead of a private backstab with a ‘gabba gabba”, a flapping jaw with girls they want to bed (but can’t, they’re Smithers from the Simpsons, they like obese women, not strippers).

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Brazil Hosts the 63rd Edition of Exercise UNITAS

Brazil hosted the 63rd edition of exercise UNITAS, gathering 20 countries, September 8-22. The U.S. Southern Command-sponsored naval exercise carried out annually in different countries of the Americas, in a rotational system, is considered the oldest in continuity worldwide, since 1959. The exercise aims to strengthen the mutual bonds of friendship and cooperation among participating navies and marines, improving the capabilities of naval forces to achieve common objectives, conduct joint maritime operations, and develop greater interoperability among those involved.

Maritime exercises were conducted between the southern coasts of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, in the southeast region of Brazil. In addition to Brazil and the United States, Belize, Cameroon, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Namibia, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, and Uruguay also participated in this year’s edition. In all, UNITAS brought together 5,500 military personnel, 12 Brazilian and eight foreign ships, plus 21 airplanes and helicopters. For the first time, African ships crossed the Atlantic to participate in the exercise.

Among the modern equipment brought by the U.S. Navy were the Bell AH-1Z Viper and Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopters, both aboard the destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82), and a Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. The U.S. fleet also included the amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) and the Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine USS Albany (SSN 753).

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Day 55 - to Kråfjellet, above Ballangen

Bardufoss is a service town on the E6, the main arterial road north south, situated roughly midway between Nordkjosbotn and Narvik. It has a huge motorhome / caravan sales outlet, as big as I’ve seen. It seems a lot of Norwegians have them. These days, especially here where the are no many wild stopover opportunities, they are an alternative to a holiday cabin. There’s noticeably a lot of them on the road at weekends.

But you don’t need to wander very far from any town up here to be in the wilderness, and that was the case today. There’s a newly built floodlit cross country ski circuit, and the track I wanted was behind that.

And there was sunshine, though it is low in the sky these autumnal days so the solar power it gives the van is more limited.

Once above the treeline there were exceptional views. There’s a rough road to the peak, Ristafjell, and for a while I contemplated bringing the van up. It would make a great park up.

Bardufoss is the home of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, and the site of a large military base. UK Royal Naval Commando and Royal Marine units have used Bardufoss as a training base for many years. It is also used as a base for cold weather training for Royal Air Force, British Army and Royal Navy helicopter crews.

There was the option of a sauna at the sports complex I was parked at, which was a more attractive option to my outdoor van shower. It was quiet, but I did a meet a couple of interesting people.

A Norwegian guy who was working in fishing, but in his early 40s he had had so many jobs, that it may qualify for some sort of a record, and all over the world. He had actually worked in Queenstown at the same time I lived there, on a sheep farm. He was about to recommend me a place to ride my bike, near Flam between Bergen and Oslo, where he been working for a friend, driving bikes around. I realised he meant the Rallavegen, one of the most famous mountain bike rides in the world, out of Finse, and it’s glacier. This is where I led two groups when I was working in Lytham, probably 2008 and 2009. Memorable experiences, and incredible riding.

The other guy was South African, from Pretoria, saunaing while his son and friend were in the swimming pool. Back in University days, in Copenhagen, he had married a Norwegian woman. I can’t imagine such a different climate and culture between Pretoria and Tromso, where he now lived. They had a cabin close by, where they spend weekends. It wasn’t long until our conversation got onto sport. He said it had been several years since he had spoken face to face to anyone about rugby and cricket here in Norway.

My next destination is a 5 hour drive away, so I decided to split it, and do half of it today, while listening to Lancashire in the 50 over final on the radio.

I wasn’t sure where to stay, but at 5 pm I was done, wanting to watch the second half of Premiership rugby. I struck lucky, leaving the E6 at Ballangen, and following a single track road between farms to the west, in green rolling hills. I came across parking for hiking on Håfjelltuva mountain massif. It was ideal, and provided a splendid venue for a half hour out just before dark, in a rain shower with a sunlit fjord below.

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Blinken Sells Africa on Ukraine War

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.om), Aug. 8, 2022.--Speaking in Johanesburg, South Africa today, 59-year-year-old Secretary of State Anton Blinken tried to sell the Ukraine War as stopping Russian President Vladimir Putin from “open season” with other countries in Europe and around the world.  Blinken hoped to win support from one of the BRICS nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, who have remained neutral on the Ukraine War.  Blinken was not preaching the Western choir when he tried to convince South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pamdor that the purpose of the U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war was to stop Putin from picking off other countries around the globe.  Pandor wasn’t impressed with Blinken’s arguments, the same one give by Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky, telling European powers that if they don’t send troops and arms to Ukraine, Putin would seize other countries.

Blinken’s talking points fell on deaf ears in South Africa, a major trading partner with the Russian Federation, buying cheap Russian oil to run the South African economy.  Speaking at a press conference with Pandor, Blinken gave the U.S. feeble excuse for giving Ukraine unlimited cash-and-arms to fight the Russian Federation.  Kremlin officials see the war as one between the U.S. and Russia, not Ukraine and Russia.  Trying to be polite, Pandor told Blinken she was equally concerned about the conflict in Gaza as anything going on Ukraine.  U.S. faces stiff resistance in Africa, trying to win over African states to support the U.S. prosy war in Ukraine.  Saying he didn’t want to give Putin “open season” to pick off other countries in Europe and around the globe, Pandor didn’t buy the argument politely telling Blinken that Russia was a partner to South African for many years.

Blinken continues the demonization offensive against Putin and the Russian Federation, telling anyone’s who’ll listen that Putin’s Russian regime is trying to take over the world.  Putin told 79-year-old President Joe Biden for months before the Feb. 24 Ukraine War that that they needed to discuss new security arrangements in Ukraine and Eastern Europe or he would be forced to take “technical military measures” to correct the imbalance of arms shipments going to Ukraine.  U.S. and NATO had been arming Ukraine for years to help Ukraine defend itself from a possible Russian invasion.  Ukraine’s problems with Russia go back to Feb. 22, 2014 when a CIA-backed coup toppled the pro-Kremlin government of Viktor Yanukoych.  Putin was busy at the time hosting the Sochi Winter Olympics.  When the games ended, Putin invaded Crimea March 1, 2014 to protect his Sevastopol naval base.

No one in the Biden administration talks of CIA meddling in Ukraine in 2014, resulting in the coup that chased Yanukovych out of Kiev.  While the events happened during the Obama administration with Biden as Vice President, the U.S. did nothing to push Putin out of Crimea.  So, for the last eight years, the U.S. has been supplying Ukraine with lethal arms to eventually reclaim Crimea and lost territory Donestk and Luhansk, the Donbas area of Southeastern Ukraine. Blinken mentions nothing about the U.S. history in the Ukraine, trying to persuade Pandor to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine.  If the Feb. 22 coup had never taken place, Russia would have no reason to invade Ukraine to stop the flow of U.S. arms.  Putin told Biden that the Kremlin would not accept a “puppet” U.S. regime in Ukraine.  Today’s Kiev regime is bought-and-paid for by the Biden White House.

Blinken’s African trip which takes him to South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, won’t change to many minds.  Russia has been a reliable partner, together with China, over many years supporting African economic development, far more than the United States.  So, when it comes to getting Pandor to condemn the Ukraine War, she wasn’t prepared to toss Putin under the bus.  Blinken can’t possibly think that the theory that Putin intends to go after Ukraine first, then other European countries, plays well in Africa.  If the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup hadn’t toppled the Kremlin-backed government, there would be no “technical military operation” to stop U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine.  Pandor knows that the U.S. pays for the bankrupt Ukraine government and most of its arms.  Selling Africa on the White House or Kiev excuse for the war doesn’t fly.

U.S. foreign policy in Africa would be far more advanced by not insulting the intelligence of African leaders who know exactly what’s happened and what’s going on in Ukraine.  Pandor said she was just as concerned about what’s happening in Gaza than anything going on in Ukraine.  South Africa welcomes U.S. foreign aid and economic development but won’t stop under its BRICS arrangement buying oil from the Russian Federation.  Biden has tried but failed to get other major energy consumers like Brazil, China and India to stop buying Russia oil. Putin has the ability to slide way under the market in selling petroleum around the globe.  Biden thought his U.S. and EU sanctions would force Putin to leave Ukraine.  Well, they haven’t worked, despite creating economic hardship in Russia.  No one in Africa buys Blinken’s “open season” theory in Ukraine and beyond.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news.  He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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"A terrific explosion lifted the ship out of the water"; Recounting South African sacrifice on the HMS Cornwall

“A terrific explosion lifted the ship out of the water”; Recounting South African sacrifice on the HMS Cornwall

This is an image of the HMS Cornwall under attack just prior to her sinking, it was taken by the Japanese attack aircraft. A number of South African Navy personnel were lost with this ship whilst seconded to the Royal Navy during World War 2.

As Simonstown in South Africa was a British Naval base thousands of South Africans in WW2 served in the Royal Navy as well as in the South African Naval…

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