DEFCON 2 - Second Earthquake Hits Chile As Western Navys Go On Red Alert to Counter Chinese Naval Offensive. VIP Generals Meet In Hawaii As Freaked Out Defence Secretary Conducts Emergency Diplomacy. (take a good look at Hagels facial expression and this top VIP lack of shaving -photo below). 4500 sailor in 18 Nations gather in Indonesia to prepare for Disaster Relief Exercise and Counter Chinese Navy manoeuvres. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Hours ago 7.8 hit Chile. This follows on yesterday 8.2 TSUNAMI WARNING IS BACK IN AFFECT in Chile. Not in NZ where CD appears to have gone for a nap. E.g. told us no threat this morning turns out we missed a bullet while Chathams was half an hour away from having the entire island population evacuated. The Chile Tsunami alerts come before the current major earthquakes as nation has been rocked for months. Also follows on from Tsunami alert in Fiji March 27 coinciding with up coming US NZ Navy exercise of Tsunami hitting Pacific nation. Coincidentally follows on from Southern Katipo exercise of amphibious operation against Pacific Island led by PM who wont step down and is backed by specially trained militia. Indonesia will host the 2014 Komodo multilateral joint exercise to improve naval cooperation capabilities in disaster relief, in Riau Islands province, the Navy revealed on Friday. Participants from 18 countries will bring 28 warships and 4,500 sailors, director of the joint exercise, Commodore Amarullah Octavian, said on Friday. “Batam and Natuna have been designated as the joint exercise area,” he told a preparation meeting at Swiss-Belhotel Harbour Bay.Amarullah, who is Sea Combat Task Force chief of the Indonesian Navy Western Fleet, said the multilateral joint exercise would be held in early April 2014 at the latest. The Indonesian Navy was currently preparing details of the multilateral joint exercise together with other stakeholders, he added. The exercise will focus on naval capabilities in disaster relief, but we will also pay attention to the aggressive stance of the Chinese government by entering the Natuna area,” said Amarullah. Oddly the exercise in fact includes China (note Reuters has called the joint nation search for Malaysian Airlines a diplomatic war where powers cooperating are also using the exercise to assess each others capacities) Will also include 1800 Special Forces training in counter terrorism. Meanwhile US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel will host a security Conference in Haiwaii. The meeting in Honolulu is said to be focused on building multilateral security cooperation and partnerships between military and civilian agencies to improve humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts. It will also look at the botched regional responses to flight MH370 and logistical issues that hampered early relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines last year held as US troops had just completed an amphibious civil disaster operation in the Philippines only days before hand. China, traditionally suspicious of US-ASEAN dealings, is watching Honolulu for signs of talk-creep. The state-run Global Times has already decided the meet is a ruse: At the Summit, the US will also play up Chinas aggressive stance on the East and South China Sea disputes, warn of Chinas establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone in the South China Sea and increase ASEANs threat perception vis-a-vis China. Photo: Defense talks: (From left to right with blue caps) Defense Minister of Indonesia Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Permanent Secretary for Defense of Thailand General Nipat Thonglek, Deputy Prime Minister and National Defense Minister of Laos Lieutenant-General Douangchay Phichit, and Deputy Prime Minister and National Defense Minister of Cambodia General Tea Banh participate in a tour on Wednesday at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is in Hawaii to host a meeting of defense ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on April 1 to 3* thewire/global/2014/04/another-earthquake-hits-chile-this-time-measuring-78/360074/ thejakartapost/news/2014/04/01/batam-host-naval-joint-exercise.html *Subsequent press article also show Hagel visiting amphibious carriers and aircraft capable of transporting relief aircraft like the Osprey.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:08:57 +0000
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