HEROES 영웅 FROM SOUTH KOREA’S SEWOL MARITIME DISASTER AND THEIR STORIES

Park Ji-young, a 22-year-old crewmember of the Sewol, was among them. She lost her life while struggling to ensure that all passengers on the third and fourth floors of the vessel wore life jackets and found their way out.
“I repeatedly asked her why she did not first wear a life jacket. Park just said that she would get out of the ship after making sure that all passengers were out. She said the crew including her would be the last (to escape),” a survivor told media.
“Park pushed shocked passengers toward the exit even when the water was up to her chest.”

Jeong Cha-woong, a 17-year-old student, is also being hailed as a hero. He died after giving his own life vest to his drowning friend and hurling himself into the waters to rescue others.

Kim Hong-gyeong, a 59-year-old survivor, also risked his life to save others.
Kim made a 10-meter-long rope with curtains from the ship and used it to drag up several passengers. Although the water was above his knees, he continued his rescue efforts and saved the lives of some 20 people. He, then, boarded a fishing boat that volunteered in the rescue operations.

Park Young-sup, a 56-year-old fisherman with a 9.77-ton boat, also joined the rescue efforts.
On his way home aboard his ship Wednesday, he received a signal for a rescue request from the local maritime communication authorities and piloted his ship to the scene. Along with other rescue staff, he pulled 27 survivors drifting at sea onto his ship and brought them to safer areas.
“I know what kinds of fears they were having as I myself experienced similar situations,” he told media. “You might feel like you’re on the verge of death. That’s why I hurried all the way to the scene to help save the survivors.” Hundreds of military, police and civilian personnel were mobilized for the frantic rescue efforts. Many fishers in the nearby waters also volunteered in the search for survivors. Underwater rescue operations were impeded by fast tidal currents and poor visibility.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140417000863

WHEN THE LIBERAL POLICY IS ANTI NATURAL EARTH RESOURCES FROM OIL, COAL, OR GAS, THE BHO ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT PUT STAKE IN EXPORTING THE NEW FOUND US ENERGY FROM SHALE EXPLORATION FOR EXPORTING TO EUROPE INSTEAD PUTS THE BHO CHIPS ON A GAMBLING SCHEME FOR SOLAR PANEL POWER–WHICH SHOWS HAVE LED TO UNEMPLOYMENT–BUT SHOULD BE FOR GREATER EMPLOYMENT THROUGH NATURAL RESOURCES BY EXPORTING TO OFFSET THE GROWING RUSSIAN CONTROL OF EUROPE BY A STRANGLE HOLD THROUGH GAS ENERGY–THE SAME LEFTIST LIBERAL POLICIES THAT HAVE STYMIED THE XL PIPELINE THAT WOULD CREATE JOBS–THE SAME DEMOCRATS WHO SEEMS NOT TO WANT JOBS BUT MORE UNEMPLOYMENT BY SUPPORTING SEQUESTRATION

…….events in the Crimea have now added another question: why shouldn’t America use its new-found energy reserves as a weapon? It would be easy enough to do. If Barack Obama were to export more of this gas, he could send world prices to the floor – hurting not just the Kremlin, but the oligarchs who support Putin. Of all the weapons in America’s arsenal, its new energy power is perhaps what the Kremlin fears most.

Russia is, in effect, a giant gas company with a military attached to it. Moscow’s interests are synonymous with that of its state-owned gas concerns, which explains much of its bizarre foreign policy. Why should Putin have protected Bashar Assad when he was gassing his own people? We were reminded of the answer on Christmas Day, when Russia signed a 25-year deal with the Assad regime, handing the state-controlled energy firm Soyuzneftegaz a chunk of the Levant Basin. In this way, Assad’s Syria has joined Putin’s virtual empire.

This is why hawks in Washington are not content with Obama deploying F-16 fighters to Poland, and are urging him to retaliate with robust pipeline politics. A Texan congressman, Ted Poe, yesterday introduced a Bill that would speed up the delivery of American gas to Ukraine and other threatened regions. John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House, is telling Obama his prevaricating over gas export licences has helped Putin “to finance his geopolitical goals”. The fuel hawks are clear: energy has strategic value, and Obama’s failure to use it has emboldened the enemy.

Another weapon the president might deploy is approving the Keystone XL pipeline, which would take oil to coastal refineries, ready for export. Then he could lift the ban on exporting crude oil, which has lingered since the crisis of the Seventies. He could fast-track the 15 gas export terminals still waiting for planning approval, to send supplies to America’s allies. All of these demands have been made, for years, in the name of cheaper energy. The Greens protested, as did those who feared exports would make fuel pricy again. But only now does exporting energy seem like an essential tool of American statecraft – a weapon in a new cold war.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10680902/America-has-a-new-weapon-to-use-against-Russia-the-E-Bomb.html

AS NATO BACKED COUNTRIES LIKE UKRAINE BEING THREATENED BY A RUSSIAN TAKE OVER– POLAND GETS A BOOST WITH US GROUND TROOPS IN THE COMING WEEKS AS WELL AS FIELDING F-16 FIGHTER PLANES WEEKS AGO

US TO DEPLOY F16 TO POLAND

Poland and the United States will announce next week the deployment of U.S. ground forces to Poland as part of an expansion of NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe in response to events in Ukraine. That was the word from Poland’s defense minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, who visited The Post Friday after meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon on Thursday.

Siemoniak said the decision has been made on a political level and that military planners are working out details. There will also be intensified cooperation in air defense, special forces, cyberdefense and other areas. Poland will play a leading regional role, “under U.S. patronage,” he said.

But the defense minister also said that any immediate NATO response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, while important, matter less than a long-term shift in the defense postures of Europe and America. The United States, having announced a “pivot” to Asia, needs to “re-pivot” to Europe, he said, and European countries that have cut back on defense spending need to reverse the trends.

“The idea until recently was that there were no more threats in Europe and no need for a U.S. presence in Europe any more,” Siemoniak said, speaking through an interpreter. “Events show that what is needed is a re-pivot, and that Europe was safe and secure because America was in Europe.”

How likely is such a reversal on defense spending? Siemoniak said there was widespread support at a recent meeting of European defense ministers. “Now they’ll go back to their presidents, prime ministers and ministers of finance, and this will stop being easy,” he admitted. “But the impetus is very strong.”

The strongest impetus, he said, is not even Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, but President Vladimir Putin’s bald lies about Russian actions there and his exposition of a new doctrine allowing Russia to intervene in any country where Russian-speaking populations are, in Russia’s judgment, under threat. This poses a potential danger to the Baltic nations, which are members of NATO, and even more to Moldova, Belarus and central Asian nations that are not, he said.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/04/18/u-s-ground-troops-going-to-poland-defense-minister-says//?print=1F

THE COLORADO RANCH CRISIS FOR RANCHERS RIGHTS VERSUS THE GOVERNMENT PLOT TO TRADE FEDERAL LAND FOR SOLAR PANELS–AS THE BHO ADMINISTRATION AGENDA TO FURTHER FUND THE SOLAR INDUSTRY THAT HAS GAINED NOTHING MORE THAN BANKRUPTCIES AND LOSS OF JOBS AND LOSS OF INVESTMENT AID MONIES USED TO LOAN RISKY VENTURES NOT BY BUSINESS SENSE BUT BY A LIBERAL LEFTIST AGENDA–THUS THE FREE LOVING RANCHER GETS THE BOOT FROM HARRY REID AND THE POTUS BHO FOR THE SAKE OF SOLAR PANELS ANOTHER FAILED AGENDA FROM THE LEFTIST IN CHARGE

The White House held a “Solar Summit” Thursday, continuing to promote subsidies for solar panels just days after a new nonpartisan government report showed restrictions of drilling on federal lands.

President Barack Obama speaks during the Easter Prayer Breakfast, Monday, April 14, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Energy Department announced another $15 million in “solar market pathways” to fund local governments’ use of solar energy. Further, the administration announced at the summit plans for a “Capital Solar Challenge,” directing federal agencies, military bases and other federally subsidized buildings to use solar power.

Solar power took a severe public relations hit after the politically connected California-based Solyndra solar power maker collapsed after getting $600 million from the Department of Energy. But on Thursday, the White House stood firm.

“As part of the president’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, solar energy is helping families and businesses throughout the U.S. access affordable, clean renewable power,” Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said. “The Energy Department is committed to further driving down the cost of solar energy and supporting innovative community-based programs – creating more jobs, reducing carbon pollution and boosting economic growth.”

But a report by the Congressional Research Service found that “all of the above” might not include a commitment to drilling, despite the administration taking credit for the increased oil and gas production overall despite a big uptick in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on private lands.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/17/what-obama-isnt-telling-you-about-the-all-of-the-above-energy-strategy/