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Alaska Races For Governor, Senator To Hinge On Absentee Ballots
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Alaska independent Bill Walker maintained a slim lead in the governor's race over incumbent Republican Sean Parnell on Wednesday, while Democratic Sen. Mark Begich trailed Republican challenger Dan Sullivan after a fierce campaign in which Begich sought to distance himself from President Barack Obama.
But with absentee ballots and some early ballots yet to be counted, both races remained too close to call.
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Walker had 48 percent of the vote to Parnell's 46.6 percent — a 3,165-vote lead out of nearly 224,000 cast. Sullivan had 49 percent to Begich's 45.3 percent, and a lead of 8,149 votes.
Absentee ballots must be received by Nov. 14, and officials have until Nov. 19 to count them.
Begich noted Tuesday night that he had trailed on election night in 2008 too, but eventually defeated incumbent Ted Stevens when all the votes were counted.
"We've seen this play before," Begich told supporters. "It's gonna be a long night. It might be a long week…. I'll take a win however it comes."
Walker, a former Republican running for governor as an independent, said his campaign would send observers to monitor election officials' count of the absentee ballots and of the remaining early votes.
In a statement Wednesday, Walker said he and his running mate, Democrat Byron Mallott, were "humbled that so many Alaskans have put their trust in us…. We are invigorated by the optimism and dedication of so many Alaskans across party lines to move our state forward."
Early in the race, Parnell was considered likely to win, but two developments ate away at his chances.
After the primaries in late August, Parnell faced two opponents: Walker and Mallott. But the challengers realized they were destined to lose a three-way race, so they joined forces. Not long after Labor Day, the Walker-Mallott unity ticket was unveiled.
Parnell was also hurt by the daily drumbeat of bad press about a wide sexual abuse scandal in the Alaska National Guard, of which the governor is commander in chief.
Allegations of sexual assault and official stonewalling in the Guard were first reported in the Anchorage Daily News a year ago, when a group of Guard chaplains disclosed that victims of sexual assault had been coming to them for years.
Many of the women said they had been raped by fellow Guard members. Some said they had been drugged and assaulted. The chaplains said they reported the allegations to Parnell in 2010, but nothing resulted from their conversations.
A scathing, 229-page report by the National Guard Bureau Office of Complex Investigations released in September found that complaints by some sexual assault victims before 2012 were not properly documented, that victims were not referred to victim advocates, that their confidentiality was breached and that, "in some cases, the victims were ostracized by their leaders, peers and units."
Parnell spent the last two months of the campaign defending his actions in the spreading scandal.
In the Senate race, Sullivan, a former state attorney general, spent months attacking Begich as a tool of the Obama administration, a senator who voted with the president "97 percent of the time" and who cast the deciding ballot in favor of the Affordable Care Act.
For his part, Begich rarely uttered the president's name unless prompted by a voter at a campaign event. But he told anyone who would listen that he voted with popular Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, his Republican counterpart, "80 percent of the time." (Finally, Murkowski sent him a cease-and-desist order after an ad presented the duo as a unified team.)
About that deciding Obamacare vote? Begich had a tart response, telling Republican challengers that "every senator was the 60th" deciding vote if that senator was an incumbent Democrat.
"I was No. 6 in the vote, if you want to be technical about it," Begich said at a town hall meeting in the waning weeks of the campaign. "Because it's a role call vote. A. B. C. I was No. 6."
The race was the most expensive in Alaska history, with more than $40 million in outside spending alone, because it was one of a handful viewed as crucial in deciding control of the U.S. Senate.
Before the polls had closed in the Last Frontier on Tuesday night, however, the Senate had already gone over to Republican hands. As of Wednesday, the GOP had won 52 seats, and three more states — including Alaska — remained to be decided.
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Washington State's Old Pot Laws Go Up In Smoke
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
SEATTLE — The first customer to buy legal pot — for partying, not medicinal reasons — here in Washington's biggest city was a retired 65-year-old woman who overnighted on a sidewalk to ensure her place in hemp history. Deborah Greene accidentally bought twice as much as she'd planned to Tuesday.
Cannabis City's second customer was the ACLU attorney who drafted the initiative legalizing weed in Washington state. Alison Holcomb bought two two-gram bags of O.G.'s Pearl, a strain with a particularly high level of THC, after declaring that Washington was "moving marijuana out of the shadows."
The third customer was the interesting one. Before he opened his wallet at Seattle's pioneering pot purveyor, City Attorney Pete Holmes said he was "buying the marijuana to use it. Let's just leave it at that."
And after his historic transaction had ended? Holmes decried the "failed war on drugs." By selling marijuana in the open, he said, "we're going to shift this to a legal, regulated and completely daylight system."
"This is how we're going to get away from criminal elements that have profited," the blue-suited lawyer promised as he watched the festivities inside the steamy little store in Seattle's industrial SoDo neighborhood. "This is how we'll have better ways for controlling youth access. This is how … the message about the cultural shift, about responsible use by adults, is going to get across."
Washington and Colorado voted in November 2012 to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older and to create state-licensed systems for growing, selling and taxing it. Colorado simply broadened its medical marijuana system — at least for starters — and began sales Jan. 1.
But Washington's Initiative 502 created a marijuana economy from scratch, along with a system to regulate it. More than 300 official stores and hundreds of licensed growers and producers are expected statewide when the system is fully operational.
Legal retail sales arrived this week with a whimper, not a bang. Only 25 stores had been licensed by Monday, and only about 30 percent of the expected pot plants had been approved for cultivation. About half a dozen retailers opened their doors Tuesday, with hundreds of people lining up outside — not the thousands who had been expected. Still, the fear of shortages loomed.
"It's important that we recognize we are in short supply," Holmes told a thicket of reporters who oozed onto busy 4th Avenue South while documenting the moment. In Seattle, "we've got only one store, and there's going to be other bumps in the road as we veer away from the failed war on drugs toward a regulated system."
James Lathrop had planned to open Cannabis City at "high noon." But you know what they say about plans. At 11:40 a.m., he and Holcomb jumped the gun, grabbing a pair of outsized red scissors and snipping the police tape that festooned the store's low-key entrance.
"I declare this war over," he said, grinning. "It's time to free the weed."
Free the weed, not free weed.
A computer glitch kept the cash registers silent until well after the promised 12 p.m. start, however.
Greene, Lathrop's first customer, did not seem to mind. She had planned to purchase two bags, one for consumption and one for posterity. But she walked out with four, about $160 poorer. For a woman who says she smokes "about a bowl a month," her new supply will last a very long time, she said.
"I'm really excited, relieved and happy," Greene said, her face flushed from the mid-80s heat. What she liked best about legalization, she said, were "the choices. It's the quality. It's like a candy store, like chocolates. You can never get enough."
Although Lathrop didn't kick off legal sales in Seattle until afternoon, stores in farther-flung parts of the state started selling at 8 a.m., the first moment they possibly could.
Cale Holdsworth got the coveted first spot in line at Top Shelf Cannabis in Bellingham by arriving about 4 a.m. Holdsworth, 29, manages the parts department at an RV dealership and was on vacation Tuesday, visiting relatives in the last city before the Canadian border.
He arrived early because he wanted to show his support for legalized marijuana. Back home in Abilene, Kan., he said, he consumes the illegal kind on a regular basis.
"I feel it's something people should have the choice to do or not do on their own," Holdsworth said, adding that marijuana use is "a very serious topic." "One obviously has to look at one's finances. It costs money. And we don't need people driving when high."
Holdsworth didn't have to worry much about the money part. As one of Top Shelf's first 50 customers, he got the door-buster price of $10 a gram plus tax and walked out with 2 grams in neat, child-proof packaging.
"This is a great moment," he said before heading back to his relatives' house to puff. "I'm thrilled to be part of this."
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Washington State Issues First 24 Licenses For Recreational Pot Stores
SEATTLE — The emails landed just after 1 a.m. Monday, bearing good news for Washington state's first round of legal recreational pot proprietors: Your license has been approved.
Actually, the official notices sounded a lot more, well, official than that and a lot less celebratory, as the Evergreen State became the second in America after Colorado to allow pot sales for legal partying.
"Dear Licensee," read the electronic missive that landed in chiropractor Tim Thompson's email box at 1:17 a.m. "Effective immediately, your account on the Washington State Liquor Control Board's Marijuana Traceability System is active on the LIVE system."
Thompson and his business partner plan to open the doors of Altitude, their eastern Washington retail establishment, at 8 a.m. Tuesday. An additional 23 retail stores were licensed along with Thompson's, although it is unclear how many of them will actually sell weed on Day One.
Tuesday is the earliest that the retail stores can open, to expected long lines and product shortages as the system groans to life. Once retailers were officially licensed, they were able to order marijuana for their stores.
"Following a 24-hour quarantine period," the liquor control board said in a written statement Monday, producers "may begin transporting products to retail stores. Marijuana retailers may begin selling marijuana at their discretion following receipt of product and entering it in to the traceability system."
The two dozen licenses issued Monday represent the first of 334 expected to be granted throughout the state, in an allotment process that takes into account population, geography, and the readiness of an applicant to go into the pot business.
Thompson was asleep when his license landed in the wee hours. But he says he's "really excited" to get Altitude off the ground.
"We're putting the finishing touches on everything," Thompson told the Los Angeles Times. "We got our first order in and hopefully will receive it in the morning. We're due to open at 8 a.m. We're expecting not to serve everybody.
"We're telling everyone, we're going to limit it to 200" customers a day, he said. "If we didn't have a product issue, we could see 1,000-plus people a day."
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Federal Judge Overturns Oregon Gay Marriage Ban; Licenses Issued
SEATTLE — A federal court judge in Oregon has thrown out the state's same-sex marriage ban, saying it is unconstitutional and discriminatory, placing gays and lesbians "at a disadvantage … without any rationally related government purpose."
No sooner than the ruling was out, proponents of same-sex marriage said that marriage licenses were issued in Multnomah County, home to Portland.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act last summer, not a single federal judge has ruled in favor of state same-sex marriage bans.
"It's a surreal exciting moment not just for Oregon but for our nation," said Ben West, one of the plaintiffs in the case, along with his partner, Paul Rummell. "It's a beautiful moment for all families and all communities. I'm proud to be an Oregonian, Paul's future husband."
In February, the state's Democratic attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, said she would not defend the ban in court.
In Oregon, proponents of same-sex marriage have also gathered enough signatures to place a measure on the ballot to overturn the ban if the courts did not accomplish that first.
"The importance of Judge (Michael) McShane's decision cannot be overemphasized," said David Fidanque, executive director of the ACLU of Oregon. "Our federal Constitution does not allow any state — or its voters — to deny same-sex couples equal protection under the law simply because of who they are and who they love. This type of discrimination is wrong, and it's also unconstitutional."
"With this advancement of civil rights, gay and lesbian Oregonians are now equal under the law," said Lee Ann Easton, an attorney who, with co-counsel Lake Perriguey, filed the Geiger case.
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Obama To Visit Site Of Deadly Washington State Landslide
SEATTLE — One month after the Washington state landslide that killed at least 34, President Barack Obama is planning to survey the destruction firsthand.
Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday that Obama will travel on April 22 to the site of the mammoth slide that closed State Route 530 and destroyed dozens of homes, prompting a major disaster declaration from the White House.
The president is scheduled to meet with families of the dead and missing, first responders and recovery workers, Inslee said.
"From the earliest days following the slide, the president has closely monitored events in the area and shown his concerns for the victims and their families," Inslee said in a written statement announcing the visit. "He and his team have been important partners in the response effort, and I believe this visit will strengthen those ties as we face the tough work ahead."
The death toll from the March 22 landslide continues to rise. On Tuesday, the Snohomish County medical examiner's office said it had received a total of 34 victims, up from 33 a day earlier, and has positively identified 30 of them.
Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, both Democrats, expressed gratitude Tuesday for the president's upcoming visit — and for the federal government's support in the form of disaster assistance and an extension of the April 15 tax filing deadline for those affected by the slide.
"We are confident that President Obama will see what we have seen," the senators wrote in a joint statement, "the tremendous resolve and determination of the people of Oso, Darrington and Arlington in the face of tragedy."
Among the difficult issues facing Snohomish County and the small towns along the Stillaguamish River is whether it will be possible to rebuild the demolished town of Oso, which had a population of about 200 when the hillside came crashing down on it 2 weeks ago.
There are also questions surrounding how much longer searchers will continue to look for the remains of the 12 people still missing, who range in age from 2-year-old Brooke Spillers to 91-year-old Bonnie J. Gullikson, both of Arlington.
Photo via Marcus Yam/Seattle Times/MCT
Coast Guard Blasts Shell For Ignoring Risks Over Arctic Rig In 2012
SEATTLE — A Coast Guard investigation into the 2012 grounding of the Kulluk, an offshore drilling rig operated by Royal Dutch Shell in the harsh Arctic, blasted the oil company for legal violations, poor management and taking undue risks, according to the final report released Thursday.
The Kulluk ran aground 15 months ago on New Year's Eve after breaking free of its tow lines during severe weather and was beached for several days on a remote, rocky shore in southern Alaska.
Although the company has invested an estimated $5 billion in recent years in offshore oil exploration in the Alaskan Arctic, the Kulluk's problems were among the difficulties that kept Shell from offshore drilling in 2013 and forced the company to abandon any renewed drilling efforts this year.
During a lengthy investigation and nine days of hearings, the Coast Guard found that Shell decided to tow the rig out of Alaskan waters and head for Seattle in questionable weather in part to avoid millions of dollars in tax liability.
On Dec. 22, 2012, the day the Kulluk's troubled journey began, the chief of the vessel that towed the rig e-mailed the Kulluk's tow master with serious misgivings: "To be blunt I believe that this length of tow, at this time of year, in this location, with our current routing guarantees an ass kicking."
The 152-page report also detailed "a host of mechanical problems that had occurred on previous voyages," faulted the company for its inadequate towing plans and criticized the route chosen.
"The investigation has revealed that the tow planners did not recognize the risks, nor adequately plan for a towing evolution of such a unique vessel during the height of winter in the Gulf of Alaska," the report said.
Although the towing plan addressed possible individual problems, the report said, it "did not account for multiple and compounding events. An example of this compounding of events would be the failure of the towing equipment followed by a failure of vessel propulsion."
Which is precisely what occurred when the Kulluk went aground.
Kelly op de Weegh, Shell's spokeswoman, said in a brief written statement that company officials are reviewing the lengthy report, "appreciate the U.S. Coast Guard's thorough investigation" and "will take the findings seriously."
"Already," she said, the company has "implemented lessons learned from our internal review of our 2012 operations. Those improvements will be measured against the findings in the USCG report as well as recommendations from the U.S. Department of Interior."
Critics of offshore drilling in the Arctic pointed to the Coast Guard's findings as evidence that such industrial activity should not occur in a remote region with harsh conditions and vulnerable wildlife — regardless of its deep oil reserves.
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EPA Moves To Protect Alaska's Bristol Bay From Proposed Open-Pit Mine
SEATTLE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took the first step Friday toward possibly halting construction of the largest open-pit mine in North America, declaring that Alaska's Bristol Bay — home to the most productive sockeye salmon fishery on Earth — must be protected from what could be irreversible damage.
"Extensive scientific study has given us ample reason to believe that the Pebble Mine would likely have significant and irreversible negative impacts on the Bristol Bay watershed and its abundant salmon fisheries," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told reporters Friday in announcing the agency's decision.
"It's why EPA is taking this first step forward in our effort to ensure protection for the world's most productive salmon fishery from the risks it faces from what could be one of the largest open-pit mines on earth," she said. "This process is not something the agency does very often, but Bristol Bay is an extraordinary and unique resource."
Conservation groups hailed the decision to use provisions of the Clean Water Act to potentially stop Pebble Mine as a victory for the critical ecosystem, for Alaska Natives who depend on the salmon fishery for their survival, and for the commercial fishing industry.
Chris Wood, president of Trout Unlimited, said in a written statement that "it is difficult to overstate the significance" of the EPA announcement. "If the EPA follows the science and follows through on this, it will rank as one of the most significant conservation achievements of the past 50 years."
Tom Collier, chief executive of the Pebble Limited Partnership, vowed that his company would fight the EPA and prevail.
"I think we'll drive a stake through this notion that there ought to either be a veto or restrictions placed on this project before we even file our application for a permit," Collier said. "We don't think they have the authority to do a veto before a permit has been filed."
Pebble Mine is a potential source of gold, copper and molybdenum, but the low-grade deposits are located at the headwaters of the Bristol Bay fishery next to a national park.
Whether to allow the mine and its promise of jobs to go forward has been a fraught proposition even for Alaska Republicans, because it pits three of the state's biggest industries — fishing, mining and tourism — squarely against each other.
Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, could not be reached for comment Friday morning. But he called the EPA's January scientific assessment of the damage from Pebble Mine "little more than a pretext for an EPA veto of the state's permitting process."
And Alaska Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat, gave a mixed grade to the EPA's announcement that it would initiate Clean Water Act protections.
"While I am a strong supporter of responsible resource development — including mining — I have said the Pebble Mine is the wrong mine in the wrong place," Begich said in a written statement Friday.
"However, I am skeptical of federal overreach," he said, "from an administration that has already demonstrated it does not understand Alaska's unique needs."
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EPA Report Blasts Alaska Mine Plan
SEATTLE — The largest open-pit mine in North America, proposed for Alaska's wild and remote Bristol Bay region, would have a devastating effect on the world's biggest sockeye salmon fishery and the Alaska Natives and fishermen who depend on it, according to a federal report released this week.
After completing three years of scientific study, conducting eight hearings and sifting through more than a million public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded Wednesday that the proposed Pebble Mine could destroy up to 94 miles of streams where salmon spawn and migrate and up to 5,350 acres of wetlands, ponds and lakes.
Even using the most modern mining technology, the study said, polluted water from the mine site could affect fish in up to 51 miles of streams.
Piles of mining waste "higher than the Washington Monument are likely to be in place for hundreds and thousands of years, long beyond the mine itself," said Jeff Frithsen, senior scientist with the EPA's research and development office.
The failure of these so-called tailings dams, which would be used to hold back toxic waste from the mining of copper, gold and molybdenum, "would have major catastrophic impacts on fish and fish habitats impacting large areas for decades," Frithsen told reporters.
In 2010, tribes and others in Bristol Bay, a region about the size of Ohio with more brown bears than people, asked the EPA to protect the watershed. But the agency said it first needed to study the potential effects of the proposed mine.
Bristol Bay is home to what a University of Alaska Anchorage study described as "the world's most valuable wild salmon fishery," which "typically supplies almost half of the world's wild sockeye salmon." The multiplier effect of harvesting, processing and retailing Bristol Bay salmon, the report said, was worth $1.5 billion across the United States.
Under the Clean Water Act, federal environmental officials have the authority to prohibit, limit or restrict the disposal, discharge or long-term storage of mining waste into waters within the United States.
But Dennis McLerran, who heads the EPA office that oversees the Pacific Northwest, emphasized Wednesday in a call with reporters that the study is just that — a peer-reviewed analysis that will inform his agency's future actions.
"We have not made any decisions with respect to regulatory actions," McLerran said. "That comes next, and a response to the tribes is what we're most concerned about developing next. … We have no set timeline on that."
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, questions the EPA's intentions. "This report is little more than a pretext for an EPA veto of the state's permitting process," he said, adding that every permit application "deserves scientific and public scrutiny based on facts, not hypotheticals."
John Shively, chief executive of Pebble Limited Partnership, which is developing the controversial mine, called the EPA's study a purely "political document" done in haste — one that ignores the modern engineering and mitigation measures the group would need to include to get permits.
"About 90 percent of our tailings are not toxic," Shively said in an interview. "They're just dirt. There isn't a way even under the worst possible circumstance that we could destroy that fishery. It's just not possible."
But environmental and Alaska Native groups lauded the study's conclusions and called on the EPA to act immediately.
"It's the worst possible place to do this type of mining — the headwaters of the Bristol Bay fishery next to a national park," said Melissa Blair, Alaska program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association. "We can look at this technically and say the risks are too great and (mining) shouldn't happen. It's not worth trading the fishery."
The EPA's assessment notes that "up to 15 more mines could be developed if Pebble is allowed," Blair said. "Pebble would be the tip of the iceberg. Next to the national park, an industrial mining district could be developed that's much larger than just Pebble."
Shoren Brown, executive director of Bristol Bay United, called the report "a smoking gun for the Pebble Mine." The group is a coalition of sport and commercial fishing interests and Alaska Native corporations.
"The science that we've been waiting for, for three years, is now absolutely in," Brown said. "The only question is what this agency and administration are going to do now that we have thousands of pages of documentation that says this mine will cause huge impacts to the world's greatest wild salmon fishery."
Jason Metrokin, chief executive of the Bristol Bay Native Corp., becomes well nigh poetic when he talks about the region. "God's country" is how he describes it — home to moose and caribou, mountains and one of the nation's largest lakes.
Between 40 million and 60 million salmon return to the region every year, he said. Native culture and well-being depend on them, and so does the commercial fishing industry.
"Large-scale hard-rock mining will have adverse impacts," Metrokin said. "Can there be a future mine in the Bristol Bay region that doesn't have adverse impacts? We don't know. All we know is that there is one project proposed."


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[Viewpoint] Tough diplomacy or regime change?
Was it just aimed at North Korea's attack on the Cheonan? Doubtful. I sensed something else as I watched the four-day South Korea-U.S. joint naval exercises dubbed "Invincible Spirit" - which ended on Wednesday - and the new financial sanctions on North Korea. I couldn't help thinking of OPLAN 5030.
In July 2003, U.S. News and World Report revealed the outline of an operations plan for regime change in North Korea. OPLAN 5030 reportedly included three objectives.
The first was to carry out unexpected military drills for several weeks to drive North Korean residents into bunkers until they ran out of food and resources. The second was to deploy advanced RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft near North Korean airspace to induce a response from the North Korean air force and drive them to deplete their fuel. The third was to destroy the funding network of Kim Jong-il.
The moves of the United States in the last few weeks have followed that operations plan. The strength of the joint naval drill exceeded the exercises that the United States carried out at the time of the Panmunjom Axe Murder Incident in 1976.
This week's exercise was a comprehensive one, including every maneuver possible at sea, while reconnaissance flights over the Korean Peninsula by the RC-135s stationed in Okinawa have been taking place since May. It was an unprecedented event.
A more serious sign is the number of drills. South Korea and the United States plan to hold joint drills every month from now on. North Korea is not a regime that stands by with its arms folded when its neighbors hold a military drill. It is a military-oriented nation that feeds off external threats. Pyongyang has to at least pretend to amp up its war readiness, with blackouts, shelter exercises or military drills of its own.
The Team Spirit exercises are the proof. From 1976 to 1993, with the exception of 1992, Korea and the United States held annual military exercises, including aircraft carriers. With as many as 200,000 troops participating, they were the largest military drills in the Western world.
However, Pyongyang considered Team Spirit a real threat, taking it as practice for a nuclear war and an act of aggression by the United States. In fact, Pyongyang responded hysterically. The first Team Spirit drill was the direct cause of the Panmunjom Axe Murder Incident.
In 1984, Kim Il Sung confessed to Erich Honecker - general secretary of Germany's Central Committee of the Socialist Unit Party - the pain the exercises caused. "Whenever the enemies have a TS drill, we have to mobilize the workers and make a military response. So we are struggling with a lack of labor for one-and-a-half months every year," Kim reportedly said.
Pyongyang wasted a tremendous amount of money organizing exercises in response to the Team Spirit drills. The argument that the drills even helped ruin North Korea is certainly convincing, similar to how the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative consumed the energy of the Soviet Union.
New financial sanctions against North Korea are about to be implemented. Now, both hard and soft power are being used to pressure Pyongyang. The parallel moves are what Pyongyang calls "tiered sanctions." The target of the financial sanctions is the North Korean leadership.
In an ideal world, trade sanctions put civilian welfare in jeopardy while financial sanctions pressure leaders. This time, the method has evolved. All the United States has to do is select a target and notify financial institutions in a third country to have them freeze the funds. The United States no longer needs to name a specific bank, as it did in 2005 during the Banco Delta Asia incident, to prevent resistance and potential withdrawals.
Under the new "stealth" system, foreign financial institutions are likely to cooperate more positively. A government official explained, "The financial sanctions by the United States are like pouring water down an anthole. You either come out of the hole or get drowned in it."
It is ironic that the Obama administration, which campaigned against the foreign policy of the Bush administration, is following an operational plan drafted by neoconservatives. Bush's rhetoric was, "We will not reward wrongdoing," but today it has changed to, "We will make you realize what you did wrong."
The officials who learned lessons from dealing with North Korea during the Clinton administration are occupying key White House positions now. How far is Washington willing to go? Will it stop at "gunboat diplomacy" to induce the denuclearization of North Korea, or will it then push for regime change? At present, it is hard to discern Washington's exit strategy. But if we don't want to be played once again by North Korea's hard-line provocations or appeasement tactics, we'd better have our own realistic exit strategy. The real aftermath of the Cheonan incident is about to begin.
*Translation by the JoongAng Daily staff.
The writer is editor of foreign and security affairs at the JoongAng Ilbo.
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Students Demand Free Tuition, Cancellation of Debt as Campus Unrest Surges
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By Ray Nothstine, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Friday, November 13, 2015
A student walks by a college notice board on campus at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015. More than 1,000 students, professors and staff at Yale University gathered on Wednesday to discuss race and diversity at the elite Ivy League school, amid a wave of demonstrations at U.S. colleges over the treatment of minority students. | (Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)
After the Missouri president and chancellor were toppled by student protesters claiming a racist climate on campus, some emboldened activists are seeking new demands nationally, including cancellation of student debt and free tuition.
Reuters and other media outlets reported that some college students participated in a Million Student March Thursday.
The movement not only calls for debt cancellation and free tuition, but $15 an hour minimum wage for student workers. A website promoting the hashtag #millionstudentmarch confirms the demands.
Keely Mullen, the national organizer for the Million Student March, struggled Thursday to explain to Neil Cavuto who would pay for the free giveaways. Mullen told Cavuto that the "1 percent" could pick up the tab.
Cavuto pressed her asking, what if the one percenters leave the country? to which Mullen replied: "There's always going to be a one-percent in the U.S."
At the University of Missouri in Columbia, a popular professor offered his resignation Wednesday after students demanded he postpone an exam because of alleged racial incidents and protests on campus. The administration did not accept his resignation.
The students claimed Dale Brigham, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology, did not offer a "safe environment" and some students claimed they felt "threatened."
When asked by some in the class to postpone an exam, Brigham responded by email:
"If you give in to bullies, they win," wrote Brigham. "The only way bullies are defeated is by standing up to them. If we cancel the exam, they win; if we go through with it, they lose."
A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015. More than 1,000 students, professors and staff at Yale University gathered on Wednesday to discuss race and diversity at the elite Ivy League school, amid a wave of demonstrations at U.S. colleges over the treatment of minority students. | (Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)
The email reportedly "offended" some students and Brigham later apologized.
At Ithaca College in New York Wednesday, some students held a "solidarity walk" demanding that President Tom Rochon resign. Students have claimed, similar to claims by students at the University of Missouri, that Rochon has been too slow to respond to reforms on race at campus.
An organization called People of Color at Ithaca released a statement Wednesday reiterating their call for Rochon's resignation:
"Experiences that people of color have at IC show that our reality, our United States, our bubble, our campus is not conducive to all but to a select few. Many do not agree with this statement. To them, Ithaca College is a diverse community.
Diversity and inclusion here at Ithaca College is nothing more than an image," the statement read.
Claremont McKenna College Dean Mary Spellman resigned and apologized Thursday after she sent an email that sparked a hunger strike and protests among students. Spellman reportedly authored an email in which she told a Latina student she would work hard to serve those "who don't fit our CMC mold."
Yale University continues to be wracked by controversies on campus that erupted over an email about sensitivities to Halloween costumes. The eruption occurred after some minority students were offended when Erika Christakis, Yale lecturer and associate master Silliman College, called for students to "look away" at offensive costumes and not be a part of promoting campus censorship.
A video of minority students verbally attacking and berating Christakis's husband, Nicholas, a Yale professor went viral. One student demanded Christakis immediately step down from his position.
Calls for resignation and dismissals are not only being made against white professors and administrators. At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, some students are calling for the dismissal of African-American Professor Carol Swain, who is known for her outspoken Christian worldview.
"Swain's apostasy is that she has made politically incorrect statements about radical Islam and her traditional Christian beliefs, statements that the petitioners deem intolerant and which the University, therefore, must not tolerate — tolerance, of course, being a one-way street," reads a post at National Review.
Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted out his support to protesters Thursday, saying, "I'm listening to the #BlackOnCampus conversation. It's time to address structural racism on college campuses."
Damon Linker, writing in The Week Wednesday noted of the current campus unrest:
"There's something happening here, and what it is is abundantly clear: Whereas the campus unrest of the 1960s began with a series of protests at the University of California, Berkeley in defense of free speech, campuses are erupting today for the opposite reason — because a shockingly large number of current college students (51 percent in a recent poll) believe speech and expression should be curtailed in the name of keeping those students safe from emotional harm."
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The GroundTruth Project is a non-profit media organization that supports a new generation of digital storytellers to tell the most important stories of their generation. GroundTruth seeks to build the capacity for freedom of expression in the United States and developing countries around the world by building reporting teams that work together across different media platforms and cultural backgrounds. The work these top, emerging journalists produce is distributed to a wide audience through GroundTruth's unique network of editorial partners, including PRI The World, PBS NewsHour, FRONTLINE, NOVA, The Atlantic and others. GroundTruth focuses on issues of social justice including human rights, freedom of expression, emerging democracies, the environment, religious affairs and global health.
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Sennott's deep experience reporting internationally led him to launch The GroundTruth Project in 2014 and to dedicate himself to training the next generation of international journalists for the digital age. GroundTruth is a non-profit based at the PBS flagship, WGBH in Boston. Sennott is also the Co-Founder and Executive Editor of GlobalPost, an award-winning news website which merged with Public Radio International's The World in 2015 and is also based at WGBH. Sennott recently completed the one-year Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
At GlobalPost, which launched in 2009, Sennott sought to produce a new, online source of original international reporting at a time of diminished foreign coverage by traditional American media. Sennott built a stellar team of editors and correspondents who went on to win honors from the Overseas Press Club, the Polk and Peabody awards as well as the RFK Award for Human Rights Reporting. GroundTruth has also been recognized for its excellence with an Edward R Murrow Award for its reporting in Afghanistan and the Online News Association award for investigative reporting for an ICIJ series on the World Bank. Sennott also served as a correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE on two documentaries on Egypt and the Arab Spring, one of which received an Emmy.
Before joining GlobalPost, Sennott was a longtime foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe. He served as the Globe's Middle East Bureau Chief based in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2001 and as Europe Bureau Chief based in London from 2001 to 2005. He is the author of two books, "The Body and The Blood" and "Broken Covenant," and a co-author of two others.
In 2005, Sennott was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. In the fall of 2006, he returned to the Globe newsroom as a Staff Writer for Special Projects where he did pioneering work in multimedia. His print reporting has won numerous journalism prizes including the prestigious Livingston Award for National Reporting and the Foreign Press Association's "Story of the Year," and he was named a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center. Sennott has served as a juror in the "International Reporting" category for the Pulitzer Prize. He also sits on the boards of the Overseas Press Club Foundation, the International Press Institute, and the Frontline Club of London.
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So we've been working away behind the scenes to develop a shiny new brand for the interiors arm of our business, and we're very excited to finally unveil At Home with Hostmaker!
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We are celebrating our announcement with a pop-up space in Clerkenwell for London Design Festival; an Open House that is a celebration of the incredible work our designers do, and is a curation of some of our favourite British creatives and craftsmen.
For the Open House, At Home with Hostmaker invites the travel-curious and style-conscious on a journey through three rooms with three distinct personas. A daring and theatrical approach is at the heart of each display, with the rooms – all inspired by travel – showcasing three of the team's favoured interior personas. The Botanist offers sanctuary in its abundance of foliage, hessian and blooms; The Bold intrigues with deep moody hues and comforting sumptuous textiles; and The Artisan allures with its rustic imperfections.
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Hunger-strike by Lafarge employees enters eighth day
A hunger strike by 12 employees of cement manufacturer Lafarge against the closure of a site in Frangey has entered its eighth day with workers saying they will not stop until the plan is abandoned.
But a union call for employees at other Lafarge sites to hold a one-day solidarity strike on Monday was largely ignored.
In May, the group announced the Frangey site would close at the end of 2012 because of high production costs. It was first opened in 1930 and provides work for 74 people.
A spokesperson for Lafarge said it would ensure all employees would find jobs elsewhere within the company and would be given help with finding homes and moving costs.
The hunger strikers, dressed in orange and yellow work clothes, have set up a camp outside the group's headquarters in the Parisian suburb of Saint Cloud. The strike has attracted a lot of media attention and figures on both sides of the political divide have given their support.
On Monday, Manuel Valls, a candidate for the Socialist Party primary election, visited the strikers.
The Frangey factory is the town's largest employer and provides work for around 500 people in the community.
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Top 15 Zulu Cultural And Historical Sites
Posted on November 29, 2014 February 19, 2019 by Carri Wilbanks
The Zulu people are one of the best-known cultural groups in South Africa because of their rich artistic traditions, their historical military prowess, and their legacy in shaping modern South Africa. If you want to know more about the Zulu people (and thus more about South Africa) start by visiting these top 15 Zulu sites for cultural and battle history.
Sources: SA-Venues.com, Rorkesdriftvc.com, TripAdvisor.com, RoughGuides.com, SouthAfrica.net, Shakaland.ahagroup.co.za, Sahistory.org.za, ShowMe.co.za, Wikipedia.org
This article originally appeared on AFKInsider.com.
1. Ulundi
Ulundi was once the capital of the Zulu Kingdom, but is better known as the site of the final battle of the Anglo-Zulu War — the Battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879 — during which the Boers were defeated. Visitors to Ulundi can see Zulu King Cetshwayo's royal residence (reconstructed) and learn about Zulu history in the small museum there. Ulundi is located between Nongoma and Melmoth off Route 66.
2. Eshowe
The name Eshowe likely comes from the isiZulu word "ishongwe" which means milkbush. In 1860, King Cetshwayo built a kraal at Eshowe and the town became his headquarters. Eshowe is historically significant as the site of a siege that lasted from Jan. 22 to April 3 in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War. Nearby is Fort Nongqai which was constructed after the Anglo-Zulu war and now houses a cultural museum.
3. Isandlwana Battlefield
On Jan. 22, 1879, the Ango-Zulu War began with a battle at Isandlwana. The Zulu humiliated the British with this initial victory by completely wiping out their camp. The site now has monuments to the fallen British and Zulu fighters.
4. Rorke's Drift Battlefield
The battle at Rorke's Drift occurred at virtually the same time as the Isandlwana Battle on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23, 1879, but the outcome was very different. Even though the Zulu heavily outnumbered the British, they were unable to penetrate the British fort and were killed with gunfire. The site has a small museum and there is also a famous art center nearby.
5. Ondini Historical Reserve
Ondini offers many attractions for people interested in Zulu culture. The KwaZulu Cultural Museum has an impressive collection of beadwork, and also provides visitors with a great overview of Zulu history and culture. There is a reconstruction of Zulu King Cetshwayo's royal kraal and also Anglo-Zulu battle sites around the area.
6. Shakaland Zulu Cultural Village
Visitors to Shakaland can experience Zulu culture firsthand through a day tour, or by staying overnight in hut lodging. There are several tours available which, depending on the program, include documentary videos, music and dancing shows, a beer drinking ceremony, and traditional food.
7. Gingindlovu
Gingindlovu is famous as an important battle site of the Anglo-Zulu War. During the battle on April 2, 1879, the Zulu army of about 10,000 men was defeated by the British. The site is also important culturally as it is the place where Cetshwayo struggled with his brother Mbulazi for the Zulu throne and won. Visitors to Gingindlovu can also enjoy wildlife in the nearby Amatikulu Game Reserve.
8. Empangeni
Empangeni is located off of R102 and R34 to the west of Richards Bay. It was originally established as a Norwegian mission in 1851, but the mission was later moved to Eschowe. Even though the town is now modernized, it still retains its old-style charm and is a good place to get acquainted with Zulu hospitality. The Empangeni Museum features many displays on Zulu culture and history.
9. Hluhluwe
Hluhluwe is a village located just west of Lake St. Lucia off of R22. The nature in the area is stunning, featuring many wetlands and game reserves. Culturally, Hluhluwe is important as the home of the Zulu kings Shaka and Dingiswayo. Shaka is said to have made the first conservation laws. The first game reserve — the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserve — was established in the country in 1895. Visitors to Hluhluwe can go to the DumaZulu Traditional Village where cultural shows are performed and traditional food is served.
10. King Shaka's Grave in KwaDukuza
King Shaka is credited with unifying the many tribes of the area into the Zulu Kingdom. He founded the town of KwaDukuza in 1820 (also known as Stanger). The name means "Place of the Lost Person," apparently because of the labyrinth-like layout of the huts. It was here in KwaDukuza that King Shaka was killed by his half brothers Dingane and Mhlangana. He was buried in the town, and a monument has been erected next to his grave. There is also a small museum near the monument where visitors can learn about Shaka, his reign, and the Zulu Kingdom.
11. eMakhosini Ophate Heritage Park
Called the 'Valley of the Kings', this is where you will find the burial places of a number of early Zulu kings. Also within the park is Mgungundlovu, the Royal Residence of King Dingane and kwaMatiwane. This residence is where Voortrekker leader Piet Retief and his men were killed, and buried. Make sure to visit the Spirit of eMakhosini monument. A guide will accompany you to the monument.
12. eNdondakasuka
This was the location of the battle between Prince Cetshwayo and his brother Prince Mbuyazi, which is recorded as possibly the bloodiest battle in Zulu history. The battle followed the path of a stream in the valley, now known as Mathambo (the place of the bones).
13. Gqokli Hill Battlefield
Located about 10 kilometers south-west of Ulundi, this is the site of an epic battle between King Shaka and Chief Zwide of the Ndwandwe community in April 1818. The strength of Zulu forces were concealed from the Ndwandwe, and heavy casualties were inflicted.
14. King Senzangakhona's Grave, Ulundi Area
The father of King Shaka Zulu, King Zenzangakhona is buried in the Ulundi Area at esiKlebheni. There is no onsite information but you can have the services of a guide from the nearby Mgungundlovu Interpretation Centre.
15. Fort Pearson and the Ultimatum Tree
Although there never was a fort as such, it was named after Colonel Charles Pearson, who led one of the columns to invade Zululand in 1879. The site itself was initially just trenches and tents. The Ultimatum Tree is so named as it was under the tree that delegates of King Cetshwayo were told to pay taxes to the British government and return the cattle they had stolen by January 1879, or war would follow.


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LT wheels get bigger, in size and popularity
Kathy McCarron
The demand for larger-sized aftermarket wheels has grown significantly as the popularity of SUVs and CUVs surges.
AKRON—Light trucks, SUVs and CUVs are continuing to grow in popularity in the U.S., prompting a surge in larger-sized aftermarket wheel demand.
The current trend for light truck wheels is "bigger and bigger and bigger," said Nick Chin, director for American Force Wheels. "Everybody's going bigger. Everybody's going wider."
The popularity of large wheel sizes coincides with demand for increased load requirements, according Joe Podlovits, director of brand management, The Wheel Group.
"First and foremost, we are seeing increased loads on wheels, which is continuing just from payload for 3/4- and 1-ton trucks. So we're constantly working to stay ahead of that curve," Mr. Podlovits told Tire Business.
He surmised that the LT wheel demand is due to the popularity of light trucks in the U.S. Unlike the Canadian market, where light trucks primarily are used as work vehicles, the U.S. market has embraced light trucks as family vehicles.
• This story appeared in the June 19 print edition of Tire Business.
"I think first and foremost, trucks have become not necessarily a work vehicle any longer. They've become very plush. The interiors are much nicer, they are smoother riding vehicles, they're more family-friendly than they've ever been. So I think that's a piece of it," he said.
"The second side that we see, just across the country, is that there is a lot more people that are outdoors, meaning they are now pulling campers, they're pulling trailers, they've got toy haulers. We're also seeing the overland segment driving significant numbers. So all these things typically require a pickup truck base, and then you're bolting accessories onto that. So it's really become a family vehicle much more now than it's ever been."
Miami-based American Force and Ontario, Calif.-based The Wheel Group have been increasing LT wheel production to meet the growing demand.
"We've maintained a steady and constant growth for the last four years. Even though there are new competitors on the scene, we haven't seen any hiccups on our end as far as our growth. The whole industry is growing," Mr. Chin said.
He attributed the growth in demand to consumers wanting bigger wheels and more lip in their wheels.
"It's been going in this direction of the last three years, I would say," according to Mr. Chin. "But right now, it's been really exploding, especially since there are so many people from the manufacturers' standpoint that have been going after the market.... Even the stock vehicles are coming with larger wheels."
American Force's main business is truck wheels, but nearly 50 percent of its sales comes from LT wheels, he said.
"That (LT wheel) category has been growing in the U.S. exponentially. I would say we've seen a healthy increase on that probably in the last eight to 10 years," said The Wheel Group's Mr. Podlovits.
"We got four different brands that cater to Jeep and light truck. So we've increased the number of designs significantly, along with fitments as well. "So we've opened up our fitment base to accommodate everything from a stock vehicle to a leveled vehicle all the way up to a lifted truck or what we would consider an extreme-lift, which is where you get to these over-sized wheels of 12- to 14-inches wide and up to 26-inch in diameter," he said.
The Wheel Group builds an array of wheels, from trailer to heavy truck sizes. Light truck wheel business is about 65 percent of overall sales, Mr. Podlovits said, with a "tremendous increase" in LT wheel sales over the past few years.
"We're noticing more people are willing to run wider widths on stock or leveled trucks than they ever have in the past. So that's created a need for us to build wheels with different profiles, different offsets or back spacing to accommodate the request from the customers."
And that means more size proliferation, he admitted.
"Unfortunately, we build way more SKUs than we'd like to but again, we want to make sure we've got a very, very broad base coverage, " he said.
Both companies have seen an increase in competition in the light truck wheel market.
"I think everybody sees the opportunity for truck. The companies that have traditionally sold passenger car (wheels) have moved into the light truck market just because the opportunity is there," Mr. Podlovits said.
Continued demand
The demand for bigger wheels is expected to continue for the next few years, Mr. Chin predicted.
"Actually, it will probably even grow further because of the new vehicles that are coming onto the market (such as the Ford Ranger truck).... So with the new vehicles coming in, I think that is going to revitalize the whole scene. There are so many new options."
Mr. Podlovits agreed the growth trend will continue.
"Interest continues to get strong. Vehicle manufacturers are watching the number of units that they are producing each year, and that continues to increase. We're seeing more people moving into not only light truck but even into the SUV/crossover segment. So that's a good indication that typically the light truck is always in lock-step with that by percentage."
The regions of the country driving the aftermarket LT wheels popularity is the Sunbelt region, from California to Florida, and the so-called Bible Belt of southeastern states, according to Mr. Chin.
Advice to dealers
Mr. Chin noted the proliferation of larger-sized wheels require installers to be properly trained on fitments.
"Work with the manufacturers and be educated properly on not just design and trend but also fitment," Mr. Chin advised dealers.
"You want to make sure that when someone is doing custom wheels that they get exactly what they are looking for. Not just the look, but also that they are not going to have any technical issues, like fitment and turning and rubbing and stuff like that."
"Many, many other wheels that we notice in the market that are especially less-expensive wheels, they are not made to fit correctly," noted Mr. Podlovits.
"They look nice, but they don't fit correctly, or the other problem is they fit correctly but they have no aesthetic value to it.
"So we're trying to find that perfect recipe on what we believe is aesthetically pleasing to the customer, for ultimately it's a fashion piece, so the customer is really the judge of what they feel is the best looking product out there for them."
Mr. Podlovits said his company focuses on safety as well as fitment with the larger wheels.
"The payload is increasing literally every single year on some of these (vehicles). We really try to stay above the curve on that. One of the key factors that we always look at is the load rating on the wheel.
"Traditionally a load rating has always been tested by using an OEM tire, which is what the specification calls for. We test on a 37-inch tire, which will achieve a higher load rating beyond what most vehicles will actually use."
He encouraged dealers to research the wheels they sell.
"So really just vetting out the quality of the wheel, vetting out the company that is building the wheel and vetting out the distribution channels of these wheels. If it's very hard to find distribution of a wheel, there's typically a reason why," he said.


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Sea Shepherd UK's fast boat MV Spitfire arrives back in the UK after being held in the Faroe Islands
At 6am this morning (25th January 2017) Sea Shepherd's fast boat MV Spitfire finally arrived back in the UK having been released by the Faroese Police following Sea Shepherd's successful appeal to a Danish Judge in Torshavn, Faroe Islands on the 24th November 2016.
MV Spitfire sailed direct to the Danish Faroe islands from Dunnet Bay in the North of Scotland – clearing customs at Torshavn harbour on 16th August 2014 for 90 days of patrol duties on Operation Grindstop 2014 to save pilot whales and dolphins from being killed in the drive hunts (called 'grindadráp' in Faroese) in which approximately 800 to 850 small cetaceans each year.
MV Spitfire on trailer at Scrabster Harbour having cleared customs 25th January 2017
One month later on the 17th September 2014 a Danish Special forces RHIB pursued Spitfire and the Faroese Police seized the boat the next day at the request of the Faroese Prosecutor following Captain Jessie Treverton's successful drive of a pod of over 200 dolphins away from the killing bays near Tórshavn.
On the 7th October 2014 a Danish Court hearing in the Faroe Islands ruled the seizure of the MV Spitfire was illegal and the boat was ordered returned to Sea Shepherd U.K. However, the Faroese prosecutor immediately appealed the court's decision and the trial and appeal was not heard until 24th November 2016
Since then Sea Shepherd UK have been awaiting the boats release and this afternoon at 15:40hrs MV Spitfire finally cleared UK Customs at the port of Scrabster on the North coast of Scotland within sight of where the boat left over 2 years previously. MV Spitfire is now back in the possession of Sea Shepherd UK crew.
Sea Shepherd UK is now submitting the boat for inspections by authorised engineers to determine if any damage has been caused to the boat during it's 861 days held by the Faroese government before full servicing of the boat prior to future campaign duties.
Background story links on the MV Spitfire case:
28th November 2016 - Spitfire appeal case win
2nd August 2016 - Sea Shepherd Captain Returns to the Faroe Islands to demand Landmark Trial Court Date
17th September 2014 - Spitfire Seizure on Opreration Grindstop 2014


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