[PJMedia] Meir Har-Zion, an iconic Israeli military figure, died at 80 on March 14. He never pursued a political career and you probably havent heard of him. Indeed, his military exploits were mostly confined to a three-year period in the 1950s. Yet his fame in Israel never wore off, and a 2005 poll ranked him 15th out of the 200 greatest Israelis of all time.
Moshe Dayananother iconic Israeli figure who was a chief of staff, defense minister, and foreign ministercalled Har-Zion the finest of our commando soldiers, the greatest Jewish warrior since Bar Kochba, referring to the leader of the 2nd-century-CE revolt against Rome. It was Dayan who had Har-Zion appointed an officer even though he had never undergone officers training.
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A skinny little guy who looked like he belonged in a library, not on a battlefield...and those 10-lb. brass huevos probably made him walk a little funny too. Basically Israel's Audie Murphy.
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Scientists say man-made climate change has fundamentally altered the currents of the vast, deep oceans where investigators are currently scouring for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, setting a complex stage for the ongoing search for MH370. If the Boeing 777 did plunge into the ocean somewhere in the vicinity of where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean, the location where its debris finally ends up, if found at all, may be vastly different from where investigators could have anticipated 30 years ago. Unless it was sucked out of this universe by a black hole, of course.
The search of 8,880 square miles of ocean has yet to turn up signs of the missing flight.
Even if the fragments captured in satellite images are identified as being part of the jet, which Malaysian officials say deliberately flew off course on March 8, investigators coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority will still have an enormous task to locate remaining parts of the plane and its flight recorders. Among the assets deployed in the search--including a multinational array of military and civil naval resources--are data modelers, whose task will be reconciling regional air and water currents with local weather patterns to produce a possible debris field. "Data marker buoys" are being dropped into the ocean to assist in providing "information about water movement to assist in drift modeling," John Young from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority told a press conference in Canberra on Thursday.
While longer-term climate shifts are unlikely to play into day-to-day search and rescue efforts, these large climate-affected currents--among them the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the world's most powerful ocean system--are an essential factor in oceanographers' understanding of the literal undercurrents of search operations.
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Makes complete sense to me. Warming causes things to expand, so the Earth is getting bigger. But the surface area is proportional to the square of the size, so the area to be searched is getting bigger faster. Given our finite search assets and our planet's ever-increasing surface area, it is no wonder we have not found the plane. It's just science, biotches. QED.
OK, I think I need to go lie down now 'cause my brain is over-heating.
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They've had enough time now to manufacture some fake debris and spread it to be found where they want it to be, so everyone can quit searching and go home.
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I'm sure global warming caused folks to adjust all sorts of data and maps that shouldn't have been changed and are now causing problems with folks who think a map is just a map and not a politically motivated document. Beyond that I seriously doubt it.
What's amazing is the map in the article shows the 'wreckage' way, way, farther South than I would ever have guessed. I can't imagine a scenario where the plane would have been that far off course without Al Queda and others claiming credit for taking it down.
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USG spends $1.2m on airliner search, $10m on FLOTUS China vaca.
I'm not sure diverting naval and air assets away from the Persian Gulf, North Arabian Sea and eastern Africa are going to help any at this point. Especially if there are enough other nations' assets in place.
Where the US strength here is in SIGINT, imagery and technology. I don't know what we're supplying SIGINT/image-wise. I do find it interesting that the Chinese (who supposedly have the greatest interest here) are waiting three days to release their info.
If the Daily Mail is to be believed, the Malaysians (unsurprisingly in my experience) are not exactly working with celerity; the FBI team is currently enjoying the same down-time in Kuala Lumpur as their counterparts did in Tripoli. Quantico is still waiting for the pilot's 'erased' hard drive to show up. And that's likely already been bitched by the Malaysians. No doubt POTUS is a tad busy to make a (low-cost) phone call or two.
And for the record, ten million is a bit much for Lady Arugula's trip to China. Comparing it to the cost of search, however, is weak sauce.
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I do find it interesting that the Chinese (who supposedly have the greatest interest here) are waiting three days to release their info.
Possibly more revealing than simply "interesting."
With regard to airlift and costs for the China vaca; keep in mind over 70 courteours accompanied the great queen. An undetermined number of USG vehicles were also flown over in C-17's. You do the maths my friend. I doubt $10m USD would touch it.
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Possibly more revealing than simply "interesting."
It's always revealing, meneer. That and the circumstances are what make it interesting.
With regard to airlift and costs for the China vaca; keep in mind over 70 courteours accompanied the great queen. An undetermined number of USG vehicles were also flown over in C-17's. You do the maths my friend. I doubt $10m USD would touch it.
I'm quite aware of the arrangements. It would've been relatively the same whether Lady Arugula flew to Melbourne, Tokyo, or Kinshasa. And yes, it's both excessive, disgusting, and unnecessary. And that is something domestic politics needs to deal with.
Comparing the trip with the US' involvement in the Indian Ocean search, however, is not exactly... grounded in reality.
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