Adar

 This is the first day of the Jewish month of Adar, where weird and counter-intuitive things tend to happen. Keep your eyes open, the wind is changing.

Pro-Palestinians Attacking Pro-Israeli Peace Rally in Malmoe Sweden

Rally in Malmoe on the 25th of January 2009. The Pro Israelis had to flee the streets of Malmoe. Eggs, bottles and fireworks were thrown at the pro Israeli group by pro Palestinians demonstrators

IDF soldiers

UN Ambulance Picking up Freedom Fighters in the Gaza Strip

Jan 12 2007

Kristallwoche Continues

Brett, January 17th 2009, 10:36 pm 

The week of smashed up shops with alleged Jewish ownership and supposed links to Israel continues.   More at Harry' Place

The root causes of the Gaza conflict in less than 6 minutes

Neighborhood Bully

Gaza War Protest

San Francisco, January 10, 2009

Hamas Uses Human Shields

Save the Gazans

THE SECOND COMING

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

    

    Yeats

Attack on Mumbai Chabad

I was going to write something on this act of murder by Muslims against Jews and Hindus, but instead I will just post a picture of the interior of the Chabad House in Mumbai, where six people died for being Jews.    Again.  

Mumbai

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:33    Mumbai time
The large red sign over the double-width entrance to the Leopold Café, a popular tourist spot, still boasts that the restaurant had been in business “since 1871.” But the steel shutters were pulled down over the entrance on Friday afternoon, sealing the site of one of the first deadly assaults on Wednesday night. The attackers stood at the entrance and raked the diners with heavy fire from assault rifles.

The power of the rounds is still visible from three that missed the diners. They struck the thick concrete pillars on either side of the entrance and penetrated more than an inch deep, leaving red stains.

Through a gap at the top of the shutters, the darkened restaurant can still be seen. Half-eaten meals still sit on tables and napkins lie on tables and chairs, as though the diners had disappeared suddenly into thin air instead of falling before a hail of bullets.

No sign of the fallen remains visible

By KEITH BRADSHER

Keith Bradsher, a Times correspondent, is sending The Lede  updates from his Blackberry as he watches a commando operation taking place at the Nariman House

EKKK IT"S IKE!

It looks like hurricane Ike could, might hit Florida on Tuesday September 9, 2008 at a cat 3 or 4

we will know more by Sunday. Everyone is checking their supplies and gassing up their cars. I am ready, I just need some extra cat food, oreo cookies and beer. I like to drink beer and eat oreo cookies during a hurricane.

HURRICANES!

I am betting on Ike, I think Florida will get hit next week, Sept 10 ?

When hurricanes collide!

The Fujiwhara Effect

The Fujiwhara effect describes the rotation of two storms around each other. It's most common with tropical cyclones such as typhoons or hurricanes, but also occurs in other cases. When Tropical Storm Iris was approaching the Windward Islands on Aug. 23, 1995 and Hurricane Humberto was close behind, they drew close enough together to begin a Fujiwhara dance. The effect is thought to occur when storms get about 900 miles apart. As Humberto chased down Iris, Humberto began to lift northward over Iris while Iris slowed down and turned a bit to the south. Iris became a hurricane just as this "dance" began but both storms were weakened by their passion for each other. As they weakened other forces in the atmosphere broke them apart and sent them on their separate ways. About 8 days later, Iris, now a hurricane with 110 mph winds, was moving northward east of Bermuda. This time Tropical Storm Karen scooted in behind Iris. But Karen was a much weaker storm with winds of only 45 mph. As the storms moved closer the Fujiwhara effect began. But Iris' strength dominated and poor Karen was flung around Iris to the north and Iris absorbed Karen right into its circulation while barely flinching. Storms involved in the Fujiwhara effect are rotating around one another as if they had locked arms and were square dancing. Rather than each storm spinning about the other, they are actually moving about a central point between them, as if both were tied to the same post and each swung around it separately of the other. A good way to picture this is to think of two ice skaters who skate quickly towards each other, nearly on a collision course, grab hands as they are about to pass and spin vigorously around in one big circle with their joined hands at the center. To complete the effect, the entire system - the two storms and the central point between them - must move off in a single direction while the storms continue spinning about each other. The effect is named after Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara who was the Chief of the Central Meteorological Bureau in Tokyo, Japan, shortly after the First World War. In 1921 he wrote a paper describing the motions of "vortices" in water. Water vortices are little water whirls that spin around. Whirlpools are water vortices.

Paul Kennedy

Aug. 14, 2008

Column one: Georgia, Israel and the nature of man

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST

In their statements Wednesday on Russia's invasion of Georgia, both US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice openly acknowledged that Russia is the aggressor in the war and that the US stands by Georgia.
This is all very nice and well. But what does the fact that it took the US a full five days to issue a clear statement against Russian aggression tell us about the US? What does it say about Georgia and, in a larger sense, about the nature of world affairs?
Russia's blitzkrieg in Georgia this week was not simply an act of aggression against a small, weak democracy. It was an assault on vital Western security interests. Since it achieved independence in 1990, Georgia has been the only obstacle in Russia's path to exerting full control over oil supplies from Central Asia to the West. And now, in the aftermath of Russia's conquest of Georgia, that obstacle has been set aside.
Georgia has several oil and gas pipelines that traverse its territory from Azerbaijan to Turkey, the main one being the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Together they transport more than 1 percent of global oil supplies from east to west. In response to the Russian invasion, British Petroleum, which owns the pipelines, announced that it will close them.
This means that Russia has won. In the future that same oil and gas will either be shipped through Russia, or it will be shipped through Georgia under the benevolent control of Russian "peacekeeping" forces permanently stationed in Gori. The West now has no option other than appeasing Russia if it wishes to receive its oil from the Caucasus.  More at JPost.com