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All patterns are tested and professionally edited before they are released, and I make every effort to make sure that all patterns are perfect. However, it is possible for errors to slip through. Below you'll find a list of known errata. LUXA TEE Page 3, second column, fifth bolded Row should read: |
UME SHAWL Page 4 Lace Pattern Written Instructions, Row 3 should read: Row 3: K1tbl, p2, *k2tog, (yo) twice, ssk, p2; repeat from * once more, k3, k2tog, yo, k1, k2tog, k2 (24 sts) |
TRAVERSE SWEATER Pattern corrected and updated December 22, 2013. If you acquired the pattern after this date, your pattern is correct as it is. An update was sent via Ravelry with the new pattern version if you got the pattern before this date. Page 6 under Collar Short Row Shaping, Row 3 should read: In the print book, Woodsmoke & Ash: Knits for Men, the gauge is missing from the pattern. The digital book was updated on January 19, 2015. Gauge: 21 sts/36 rows = 4 in/10 cm in Stockinette stitch with smaller needle; 21 sts/26 rows = 4 in/10 cm in color work Stockinette stitch with larger needle |
PUSSYWILLOW MITTS Under Forearm, Round 3 should read: And under the thumb, row 3 should read: |
FLOW Page 3, in the Increasing Section, Row 2 should end with a stitch count of 22 stitches, not 21. |
PEMBROKE In the independently-published version of the pattern, Row 15 was originally missing several yarn over's in the chart. The corrected row is: |
SHILSHOLE In the hood section, the instructions for picking up stitches should read: Pick up and knit 11[14, 15, 16, 16, 13, 13] sts along right diagonal edge (about 2 sts for every 3 rows), knit across sts on needle, pu and knit 12[15, 16, 17, 17, 14, 14] sts along left diagonal edge (about 2 sts for every 3 rows), stopping at BO edge. (56[68, 70, 76, 80, 80, 82] sts) |
CALICO The key on Page 4 was missing the symbol used in Row 1 of Chart 1. It should be described as: The original Knitscene magazine version (Summer 2013) is missing the WS row descriptions in the key. On the key where it reads "ssk," it should read, "ssk on RS rows, ssp on WS rows." Where it reads, "k2tog," it should read, "k2tog on RS rows, p2tog on WS rows." |
ESCALIER CARDIGAN Under Gauge on page 2, Gauge Needle was listed as Needle A. Gauge Needle should be Needle B - recommended US #8/5 mm. |


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Posts Tagged 'Australia'
We've been following young Ben Hartnett for a couple of years now, and this 18-year old university student from Southeast Oz is well on his way to becoming the next big talent in sailing video. He shot this tasty big-wave video at Sandringham Yacht Club with three boats training under Victorian Institute of Sport Geoff Woolley. He told us more about the shot:
We were just in a rib and because the waves were so big we were completely soaked after 2 minutes of filming. About 5 minutes into the shoot my main camera (canon 7d) copped a full wave and well. That was the end of that camera's life. But luckily I had the gopro to use for the rest of the time on the water.
Ben shares his photos on Instagram and you can get in touch with him (or if you have the balls to try something fresh, hire him for your next regatta) at the SailingShack Facebook Page.
- Tags: Australia, ben hartnett, sailing shack
April 24th, 2015 by admin
This Southport, Australia departure was discussed in the forums last year when it happened, but our friends at Voiles et Voiliers posted some great shots of the action and we figured we'd share one up. Name of the boat? Jeux De Guerre. Translation? Wargames.
Head over here for more info, and go to the V&V page to find out what happened. If you don't get the title, we hate you because you're young.
April 15th, 2015 by admin
Some days, you just gotta stay home. This dude on Sydney Harbour had one of those days, but at least the Manly Ferry folks had some fun!
- Tags: Australia, crash, Sydney Harbour
March 3rd, 2015 by admin
Seve and team on Gotta Love It 7 may have clinched their record-setting 8th JJ championship, but the fight for the podium is still on during this final day of broadcasting for the 2015 18 footer Worlds. Will Howie Hamlin get the first US podium in more than a decade after winning race 6 on Saturday? Clicky play and tune in live above. Nic Douglass did some killer interviews with Howie and most of the boat park yesterday – click here for that noise.
- Tags: 18 foot skiff, Australia, JJ Giltinan, sydney
February 21st, 2015 by admin
Nic Douglass spins up the final radio show of her twenties, guiding you through the big names of sailing last week. Happy Birthday to one of sailing's most enthusiastic cheerleaders, and be sure to check out the show if you dig match racing, one-design racing, extreme 40s, and the pointy end of the JJ Giltinan fleet. Here's the guide:
"Sailing news in sixty seconds" (03:05)
Mat Belcher, Australian Sailing Team (05:58)
David Chapman, MC38 Ginger (13:45)
Jason Waterhouse, Red Bull Racing (21:23)
Ian Williams, GAC Pindar 2014/15 WMRT champion (29:06)
Scott Babbage, Gotta Love It 7 (37:00)
Howie Hamlin and Team America (40:38)
Seve Jarvin, Gotta Love It 7 (45:02)
John "Woody" Winning, Yandoo (47:48)
Michael Coxon, Thurlow Fischer Lawyers (51:05)
"Sailor Girl rap" (55:48)
February 16th, 2015 by admin
Every February means the 18 Footer Worlds, and for the second year in a row, it's all being streamed live on Youtube. Head over to Nic Douglass' Youtube page for some great interviews with the teams earlier in the day and her Facebook Page for content throughout the week, and click the player above to see if Seve Jarvin and the Gotta Love It 7 boys can break the all-time record and take their 8th JJ Giltinan title.
You'll have an hour or two of great live HD racing action every night for the next week, all anchored by fun commentary from our ultra-knowledgeable friends Killo and Heeley. Full entry list here.
- Tags: 18 foot skiff, 18 footers, Australia, gotta love it 7, live, sydney
February 13th, 2015 by admin
From dinghy sailor to america's cupper, you've been waiting for this one for weeks! It's the final Moth Worlds 'Real Reel' from Sorrento, Australia. Now you can finally hear from Bora Gulari's mouth just how CNN destroyed the top US foiler's Worlds hopes, see what's fun, exciting, and hilarious about southeast Oz, and learn about the natural habitat of the eastern longhaired bogan. Meet 'roos, kiwis, and even a brit or two. Laugh, cry, and laugh again with the best 20 minutes we've ever seen on dinghy racing…all thanks to Petey Crawford with support from Sperry.
And if that's not enough, here's the Sailing Anarchy Ultimate Guide to the Moth Worlds: Your index to 50-odd videos, 6 days of live coverage, 7 gorgeous photo galleries, and plenty more. Go. Now.
- Tags: Australia, burling, gulari, moth, outerridge, sorrento, victoria, World Championship
February 10th, 2015 by admin
Andrew "AMAC" McDougall is always a good chat, and we grabbed him at the end of the Moth Worlds to talk about his umpteenth win as Grand Master (and ignore the fact we thought he won Master as well – that honor went to the newly-turned-45 Dave Lister). We also took the time to learn the essential bits of what is a far more interesting development – the soon-to-be-revealed Waszp. At less than the cost of a one and a half Lasers, this fiberglass and alloy 'foiler for the masses' might just provide the engine for an explosion in sailing that we've not seen since the Hobie 16 or the Laser itself. Reality or hype? Listen to Amac and decide for yourself, and get psyched for next week's "Moth Worlds: The TV Show" from Penalty Box Productions with support from Sperry. We're not done yet.
January 30th, 2015 by admin
The wheels are dangling by a single bolt on the bus that is the ultra highly anticipated Moth Worlds. Despite sailing just one light-air, low-riding race in the finals the fleet has been bloodied from top to bottom with the carnage spilling over to a humbled race committee who is feeling the pressure and has used their one life-line in hopes that they can salvage a regatta that's been slipping away from them.
A few boats again didn't make it home after sailing yesterday, a two-time world champ got taken out by a press boat, another ended up tangled in the rig of a moored yacht, and one boat dropped a rig without a single race to show for all the effort, and with just two days to go, the pressure is on to do everything possible to get in three a day on Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile, the Anarchy team went hunting for two elusive species in Southeast Oz: Bogans and kangaroos. We"ll have more on that when our regatta recap/Reality TV episode next week
Peter Burling's dominant performance, both in the heavy and in the light, means he has a nice cushion at the top of the leaderboard. Following up his unforgettable four-bullet performance in breeze-on conditions on Sunday to own the right side of the course, keep it on the foils and secure a handy third place finish in race 1 of the gold fleet, Burling has now opened up an eleven-point lead over now second-placed Josh McKnight. Japanese Nacra 17 Olympic hopeful Hiroki Goto relied on a special 'samurai' foil and some smooth moves at the top mark of the second lap to gybe inside of Chris Draper and take his first ever worlds race win. While Burling, Bora and Hiroki were both happy to be interviewed live aboard M/V Anarchy during the postponement that followed, several other skippers weren't so stoked to race in non-foiling conditions with just 7 of 80 starters getting around the race track within the time limit. After a three-hour postponement to wait for breeze, the RC finally pulled the plug and called off the day's second race. With Murphy's law in full effect, a perfect 12-15 knots built in the late afternoon sending several Moths back onto the course for a beautiful sunset sail.
Following up 'Super Sunday' and 'Mellow Monday' was 'Terrible Tuesday' at the Moth Worlds. With northerly breeze and it's associated twenty miles of fetch combining with blinding rain and poor visibility to wreck the race course, the race committee was eager to get a race off but gun-shy of sending the fleet out into controversial conditions after the reaming they had taken in social media the day before. At three o'clock, after four hours of postponement, a competitors meeting was held under the marquee with the decision to race or not coming down to a show of hands amongst the sailors. Silver fleet voted almost unanimously to hit the shower and then have a rum in lieu of sailing while gold fleet wanted to get a race off. Almost exactly the opposite as Monday, as soon as the decision was made to go racing, the conditions deteriorated again with northeasterly breeze well into the 20's and an opposing flood tide at the height of it's flow creating a virtual minefield of short, choppy waves for the Moths to contend with. Just getting out was going to be a dilemma with the lee-shore boat park, heinous conditions and a large mooring field full of peril. The media, spectators and other competitors watched on in anticipation to see who would be the first one to go out and with little surprise it was Moth builder Andrew 'A-Mac' McDougall who led the charge on what was truly a boat-builders day. About 30 Moths followed and what ensued was complete and utter chaos with Moths crashing in every direction, carbon bits exploding and of course, the Bora incident. With half the fleet in the water and the other half afraid to bear away and put the bow down, RC was again in a bind and made the call to go in for the day. The sail back to the beach was just as hectic with as many sailors needing assistance to get back in as those that were able to sail in. The Emirates Team New Zealand boys were amongst the dozen chase boats that stayed out for an hour until all boats could safely make it back to the beach, several of them having sustained too much damage to foils, wands and other bits to sail in under their own power.
The predicted front came through on the lay day, the Club has brought in a class-recommended technical advisor to prevent more gaffes on the RC boat, and the weather should allow for some solid, (if wet and low-vis) racing on the final days of the regatta. We're looking forward with cautious optimism and will continue to bring it all to you live from Sorrento. Check the thread for the latest.
Sander Van Der Borch photos, with big thanks to Sperry Top-Sider for their support.
- Tags: Australia, big breeze, moth worlds
January 14th, 2015 by admin
That's double gold medalist Shirley Robertson and her CNN Mainsail producer offering the first of many apologies to top US mothie and Luna Rossa Challenge team member Bora Gulari (Detroit, Michigan) after her media boat collided with his foiling moth. Shirley's media boat destroyed the rudder gantry of Bora's Mach 2 during the carnage-filled pre-start to an aborted race yesterday while the CNN crew were facing the other way; they were filming a pre-start lineup with Nathan Outerridge and Paul Goodison.
CNN took Bora's foils to shore and then left him when help came along; Bora went into survival mode, with a club rescue RIB nearly running him over in an attempted recovery in wind-against-tide nastiness. Finally, the ETNZ rescue boat came over and helped the American and his boat get to shore (along with helping about a dozen others, while event rescue boats milled about in some confusion).
While CNN may be used to being ridiculed, we're pretty disappointed in Robertson, who we know is a passionate, experienced sailor. Given how lightly the responsible RIB got off (no injuries to Bora), Shirley would have certainly won our respect had she stood up and taken responsibility and assuring Bora that she would do what it took to get his boat back up to snuff. Instead, she tried to divert blame from her, implying that the sailboat ran into her powerboat. We understand that lawyers have made honesty something of a relic, but we would hope Shirley knows better. Apparently not.
In contrast, Regatta Chair Peter Osbourne and the entire SSCBC team have been transparent and communicative, and this morning, we got a phone call assuring us that Bora would not be out of pocket for a penny. That's how it should be done. Top photo credit to Petey Crawford, rescue shot to Sander Van Der Borch.
Racing is cancelled for Wednesday, with 30-40 knots on Port Philip Bay. Join us right here on Sailing Anarchy for all the live video action on Thursday and Friday as the Worlds Finals is packed into 2 short days.
- Tags: Australia, Bora Gulari, CNN, crash, mainsail, moth worlds, shirley robertson, sorrento
January 13th, 2015 by admin
There's nothing quite like low-riding in a foiling Moth, but at least it wasn't all like that for day one of the Moth Worlds. Watch for yourself as Nath Outteridge throws down the gauntlet for this incredible fleet after three qualifying races. It's all Aussies and Kiwis in the top 4, with Luna Rossa's Chris Draper mixing it up with the 5th place in 4-9 knots of breeze on Port Philip Bay. Detroit's finest sits in seventh, with one more day of qualifying ahead.
Our first On-The-Water Anarchy/Perpetual Shit Show Production coverage in quite some time was about as we expected for day 1; technical issues, low framerate, and grey backdrops didn't subtract from the fact that we have finally been able to bring you our favorite event in sailing, live and in (mostly) HD resolution. And we promise to keep getting better, so long as you keep watching. Start with the player above – all four hours of it (we won't get mad if you skip forward, we promise), with big thanks to our 14-year old Optimist-sailing first-time cameraman Charlie Hiam, everyone at the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club, Line Honors Yacht Racing Outfitters, and of course the fun-loving folks at Sperry.
G.Love brings you some title love.
- Tags: 2015 moth worlds, Australia, carbon, Foiling, mach 2, moth, sorrento, World Championship
January 10th, 2015 by admin
Clean Report
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER, SKIP TO THE VIDEO BELOW. Sander Van Borch is already loading up more awesome shots here, and a title shout out to some boys that did for hardcore music what the Mothies do for sailing. And of course a huge thanks to Sperry, who've been supporting Olympic youth sailing in the US for years, and now they're learning to love the Moths like we do.
I got off the water steamin' mad yesterday; no matter how prepared we seem to be (and there's no doubt this is the most ambitious coverage we've ever done), tech issues always pop up and bite us in the ass. In this case we had inverter issues, but it's always something! Fortunately, our backup to the backup plan – streaming 540p video on battery power – worked, meaning there is zero doubt that foiling, dinghy, AC, and really anyone who loves sailing will be able to watch all of the McDougall + McConaghy Moth Worlds completely live starting today. And if we can get our shit together, it will all be in 720p HD quality. If not, deal.
I stormed off down the beach with about 30 bucks worth of vodka in an icy glass, and within 100 meters, I'd been called over to look at the latest aero fairings on 49er star Simon Hiscocks Mach 2. Within moments, all my anger was gone. "Shock" and his childlike glee at putting together a really cool piece of carbon fiber porn knocked it all out of me. Then he – a goddamned olympic medalist – told me that "it's just absolutely incredible to be bullshitting on the beach and racing up the line with these guys all around me – when do you ever get to do that?" as he gestured towards Glenn Ashby, Dean Barker, Loick Peyron, and any one of dozens of other legends of the sport on the beach around us. Think about that for a second: An Olympic medalist is completely blown away because he's never been to anything quite like this. And he's not getting paid for it; he's doing it because racing the Moth has made him love sailing as much now as he did when he was a child.
I walked the beach for another hour, talking to another dozen guys and gals about their boats, the conditions, the class – and I walked away with one overarching impression: Moth Worlds really is a window into the future of the sport. It's not necessarily because foils are going to somehow dominate the world – though with Amac's new one-design "Wasp", they might (and we'll have MUCH more on that soon). What makes this event special is the fact that it attracts the people that will lead the sport for the decades, and they – along with everyone else here – bring a youthful energy to the beach that is palpable, uplifting, and leaves everyone walking away with a smile and a great outlook for the future of sailing.
The Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club knows it; their Opening Ceremony was one of the funniest and most welcoming we've ever heard, including a confetti canyon and dozens of local kids frolicking in the veggie-derived bio paper snow, and despite being a pretty posh place, there are more crazed kids sailing random boats off the beach than we've seen at any club. The members – even those who don't know much about sailing – are out in force, volunteering or just adding to the massive spectator crowd. It is a scene that needs to be seen to be believed – and that's why we're so glad to bring it to you live.
Our singlehanded ocean racer Ronnie's been on a crash course learning what these boats are all about, and without further ado, here's the official SA FORM GUIDE for the 2015 Moth Worlds.
The Ballers
The podium at a Moth Worlds is perhaps the most difficult place for a sailor to reach. Here's what we think it might look like.
Nathan Outteridge - The name literally needs no introduction. Olympic Gold medallist in the 49er three years ago, two-time Moth World Champion (defending world champ in Hayling last year), and AC 72 skipper onboard Artemis, Outteridge has clearly established himself as being arguably the best high-speed sailor on the planet. That one-in-a-million freak of nature who can squeeze 100% out of any boat and be cool as ice on tactics and in the face of advertsity, Nath is the complete package, the hometown favorite and the smart money.
Peter Burling – Every sport has their superstar of a generation, and if Nath is "it" for the skiff world, Burling's day is coming. At just 24 years of age, he has competed in two Olympic Games, winning 49er Silver in London 2012, won two 49er Worlds and skippered an AC 45 to a commanding win in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup in 2013. Just like Outerridge, Pete is also a hot-commodity in the America's Cup scene, earning the position of heir-apparent to the helm of Emirates Team New Zealand. Blazingly fast in the Moth, big and strong and talented beyond belief, Peter Burling will be a Moth World Champion one day; we just don't know if that title will be awarded this week or further on down the road.
Josh "Yoshi" Mcknight – If a guy like Nathan Outteridge is the Iceman in this fleet, then Josh McKnight is Maverick. Like Maverick, he's cooler than the underside of the pillow, but also happy to stir the shit and create a little conflict when he can. Josh won a tough world champs in Garda three years ago and plenty thought it was a bit of a fluke, but in the intervening years, he's proved as fast as anyone over the long haul. McKnight has raw boat speed and talent to spare, while his one weakness may still be a touch of youthful arrogance. Sticking to the basics on boat set-up (he told us that much of the work in the boat park is probably just mental masturbation) and just doing massive amounts of sailing, young Yoshi is a potential World Champion if he can sail a smart regatta.
Bora Gulari – America's fastest foiling helm and the two-time American World Champion in the Moth, Bora is something of a public enemy hear in Sorrento, though you'd never hear the polite Aussies ever say it. With Australians like Nath, Josh, Babbage, and the rest of the all-stars leading a 97-boat home nation team into this Moth Worlds, no one wants to see an American walk away from 'straya with the goods. With arguably more hours in a Moth than anyone else, hundreds of hours of development on rig, foil, and ride control and an aerospace engineers intuition, the Detroit-based Luna Rossa sailor is always a factor. He's also never lost a Moth Worlds to Nathan…
The Top Ten
Tom Slingsby – A 5-time Laser World Champion, Laser gold medalist and strategist aboard Oracle Team USA during their historic win in AC 34, 'Slingers' a god on the tactics, ultra-fit, able to hike for ages. He's got plenty of time training in Oz recently, and there is no doubt in our minds that Tom could walk away with his first Moth Worlds.
Blair Tuke – Sailing alongside Peter Burling to win Olympic Silver in the 49er, and also in the AC 45's, Extreme 40's and Moth's, Peter is also well in line to become a superstar for a generation. Reportedly well on the pace, don't be surprised to see Blair mixing it up at the very front of the fleet.
Scott Babbage – Obi-wan Kenobi in the Moth, the the current Class President has put a million hours into the boat and has been within striking range of the title on countless occasions. With a huge fleet racing in highly varying conditions that Babbs knows well, he's got the experience and race craft to manage a big fleet and finally secure the elusive Moth World title…if he can just close the deal.
Chris Draper – The Luna Rossa skipper and Olympic medalist has the speed, tactical prowesse and experience to win in any fleet, but may be hampered by lack of time in the boat due to other commitments.
David Lister – A-class stalwart and Moth aficionado, Lister sails a fully one-off boat that he built with his own two hands. With as many hours in the Moth as anyone and boat speed as his tactical trump card, David is a threat to the podium whenever he lines up. And his foils are all over the fleet;
Paul Goodison – A 3-time Olympian in the Laser with a Gold medal to show for his efforts, Goodison is the naturally gifted sailor that will sail near the front of any fleet that he sails in. Reportedly on-form, Goody will look to improve on his 12th place Worlds finish from last year, with more time in the boat.
Andrew McDougall – The Builder and developer of the Mach 2 and the only guy who's ever been able to successfully produce a mass-market Moth, AMAC defies physics and medicine, and can easily win races despite being old enough to be some of the fleet's grandpa. In fact, Amac seems to look younger every year, and be having more and more fun to boot.
The Dark Horses
Iain Jensen - The Artemis wing trimmer and 49er Olympic Gold medalist crew offers the total package, and can sail with the best of 'em when he's on point.
Chris Rashley – Immensely experienced in the Moth and ultra successful over the years, the 2014 Worlds runner-up won the pre-Worlds practice race. Rashie blew out a spinal disk and was laid out in the middle of the street just a week ago, but some steroid injections and a bit of rehab combined with an attitude harder than an Ice Road Trucker might just see this light-air speedster performing at the top of the fleet…or laying in a hospital bed..
Rob Gough -A super fast all around sailor with tons of experience in the Moth, many within the class have them as their biggest dark horse to break into the top 5. A popular pick among the fleet, strong, heavy, and no-nonsense.
Glenn Ashby – The 8-time A-Cat World Champion and Emirates Team New Zealand wing trimmer knows how to make a boat like a Moth go fast, but lacks experience compared to the front runners. The nicest guy you'll ever meet, Glenn Ashby is the sentimental favorite amongst his competitors to score an unlikely podium finish.
There are battles throughout the fleet; Youth champions, masters champions, women's title – and we've only mentioned a handful of the sailors, constrained by space and time from giving everyone their due. in a fleet where sailors like Route du Rhum winner and ocean sailing legend Loick Peyron, current Mini Transat champ Benoit Marie, and Emirates Team New Zealand helmsman Dean Barker blend in with the masses, you know you're in for a special regatta. We sure do.
- Tags: Australia, Foiling, form guide, moth, moth worlds, sorrento, World Championship
January 9th, 2015 by admin
Big thanks to Hamish Nicol for a great writeup from the Melges 24 Nationals in Adelaide, Oz. For more info, check the South Australia FB page.
After two days and with 5 races completed the 2015 Melges 24 Australian Championships are at their mid-point with competitors enjoying crash/bang/wallop racing followed by so much free sponsored beer at the dockside and wine in the club that the sponsors themselves cannot remember what happened and why they did it.
PRO Rogers is taking the piss because he keeps promising steady 15kt sea breezes that never show. The 14 competitors have seen everything from light Northerlies disappearing to nothing, to howling 20-25kt Southerlies with 2 meter swells to launch off. Add in the bushfires on the way over (now thankfully out), gear breakages and involuntary swims, and the fleet now expects tempests, locusts for the next few days.
The front of the fleet has a familiar look to it at the halfway stage with Chris Links-fresh from Wild Oats Hobart win-helming Cavalinho to several wins with Olympic Gold Medal winner Nathan Wilmot calling tactics. Adelaide favourite and former AC and 505 man Ronnie Duessen is following closely in second overall with his Red Mist's red coachwork unmissable in the grey surf. Johnno Bannister's Penultimate Challenge is in third crewed by a team of Mornington Peninsula hot shots. Another local boat Adrenaline is in 4th overall. Having been second after the first day Luke Stephen's team had to survive a swim and a wild broach avoiding Red Mist.
The teams now prepare for an already breezy day three, re-examining their gear (two forestays failed on day 2) or perhaps breakfasting on Glenelg's famous pie floater.
- Tags: adelaide, Australia, Melges 24, national championship
January 9th, 2015 by admin
We're not quite sure how we missed this one; a really cool rendering of a monohull AC foiler concept that must have been done by a five year old with a really nice computer. Or not. From the Trickle Down thread.
- Tags: America's Cup, Australia, rendering, vaporware
December 30th, 2014 by admin
Wild Oats XI is on fire in the light breeze off the SE tip of Oz; she's a good 20 NM ahead of Comanche as they enter the Bass Strait at sunrise. With building breeze and a free direction (and with Jimmy Spithill on the American boat), don't count 'em out just yet, and don't forget about the other monsters well to the West in potentially much better conditions; here's a great Morning Report from the Sydney-Hobart radio team including some info from Comanche navigator Stan Honey. There's only one place on the web to get all the latest info in one spot; hit the thread. Andrea Francolini photo.
UPDATE: Here's a hearty SA shoutout to the boys on ADA (Assistance Dogs of Australia) Celestial, the Rogers 46 currently leading all handicap categories overall, and a crew which includes at least one On-The-Water Anarchy past staffer and OG Anarchist. Get 'em, dingo! A few boats have withdrawn, including the Perpetual Loyal 100′er, which claimed delaminating bow sections for the stop.
- Tags: Australia, sydney-hobart race, wild oats xi
December 26th, 2014 by admin
Check out these portraits of the men at the top of the 5 Supermaxis on this year's Sydney-Hobart line. Andrea Francolini's shots continue to up the bar in creative photocoverage of this race; check his page here.
- Tags: Australia, sydney, sydney-hobart race
December 25th, 2014 by admin
Nicole Douglass continues to push the boundaries with her 'Adventures of a Sailor Girl' show, with the embedded show above perhaps her most ambitious yet; it's got Ken Read, Tom Slingsby, Nathan Wilmot, Morgan Larson, and plenty more of the cream of the crop at last week's Extreme show and tomorrow's big race. We dig what Nic's doing for the sport, and we are extremely glad so many of the racers are taking the time to get online with young personalities like Nic who are spreading the word…keep it up, boys and girl.
We're also excited to hear that Douglass's show will be live for something like 7 hours on Boxing Day right through the start of the Hobart Race, so start your morning (or your Christmas dinner, if you're in the US) with Nic's Hobart Race show starting at 0800 local on the 26th; that means Christmas Day for the rest of the world, and the radio show will start at 1600 on the US East Coast.
December 24th, 2014 by admin
There's something special about a pretty drawing, and Francois Chevalier has long been the world's most interesting racing yacht illustrator. He and the Anarchists over at the ChevalierTaglang blog have knocked up not only this awesome drawing of Comanche, but all 5 of the Supermaxis contesting this year's Hobart.
They've even got analysis, and thanks to SA'er 'nuttyrave', you can check it out here.
December 17th, 2014 by admin
Succumbing to the same fear that spurred the creation of what has been dubiously called the 'biggest spinnaker ever built' for the Perpetual Loyal, Jim Clark's big native was seen today sporting her own monster mega-kite, an answer to the 10-degree advantaged soaking power that shot the old Speedboat out the back of Wild Oats XI's skinny ass last year. While the window for a loose-luffed kite on boats these fast is extremely narrow, if those deep downwind angles are required, the fat girls are going to need every advantage they can get to stay in touch with the low-drag hull of the silver arrow.
The first problem? Big ratings hit, which means the decision to carry or not will be a last-minute one. The bigger problem? The 100-foot tall warrior head looks far more like the Rolling Stones' own Energizer Bunny than it does a fearsome warrior. But the motherf*%ker can play, can't he?
Longtime SA'er 'gybe-ho!' coined the new sail's name, forever now known as "Big Keef"in the continuously enjoyable trash-talk thread.
For a great look at a couple who's really growing on us, head over to this Channel 7 sitdown with Clark and supermodel wife Kristy Hinze on whether the decidedly not fat-bottomed girl will race down to the Customs House on a jet or on a supermaxi.
- Tags: Australia, comanche, perpetual loyal, Sydney-Hobart, WIld Oats
December 15th, 2014 by admin
This is NOT some high-end riggers supply drawer. It's not the remains of four skiffs crashing into each other, either. Nope – it's the meat in the middle of the modern Mach 2 Moth – the junction between flight and control. With canting rigs added to the already silly amount of controls on the world's fastest dinghy, racing a Moth at the top end is tougher than it's ever been. Meanwhile, racing around the bay is easier than ever, thanks to the same advancements that are helping the front of the fleet, like Zack Maxam, from whom we stole this shot.
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Topic: UN Security Council
Chavez Agonistes
Hugo Chavez is reportedly refusing to take phone calls from Colombian president Alvaro Uribe. Uribe's foreign minister can't get a shout back from his Venezuelan counterpart either. The stonewalling from Caracas comes in the wake of Chavez's other call on November 8, in his weekly media program, for the Venezuelan army to "prepare for war." Chavez has been making this kind of call for several months, but last week he also moved 15,000 troops to the border with Colombia. Uribe has responded with 12,000 troops deployed on his side of the border and a request for the UN Security Council and the Organization of American States to rein in Chavez.
The issue, according to Chavez, is the October 30 agreement by Colombia to allow U.S. forces to use its military bases for counter-narcotics operations. Contrary to Chavez's formulation of the matter, this does not involve a new introduction of American forces into the region. Our forces operated from Ecuador until August 2009 and continue to operate from El Salvador. Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, reelected in April after doing a "Chavez" on his country's constitution, decided to let the basing agreement with the U.S. expire in August, and we negotiated the agreement to use Colombian bases this summer. So why is Chavez so frantic about what is, in effect, a shift of bases rather than a change in U.S. military posture?
Because he knows U.S. forces fighting the drug war in Colombia would have a pretext to pursue FARC guerrillas into Venezuela — as FARC was pursued by Colombian troops into Ecuador in 2008 — and that from Colombia, as opposed to Ecuador, American forces would be in a position to do so. It's merely sound analysis to project that with U.S. forces using multiple Colombian bases, FARC will be increasingly pushed across borders. Venezuela's is already hospitable; it would be extremely inconvenient to Chavez to try to close it, especially given the reliance of Hezbollah, the protégé of his great friend Iran, on its ties to FARC and the drug trade. Such developments would also interfere with Chavez's own policy of supporting FARC as a means of weakening the center-right, U.S.-friendly Uribe government.
Ironically, the preference of many in the Obama administration for stand-off, cross-border raids and aerial attacks — as demonstrated in Pakistan — only strengthens the perception in Central America that the shift to Colombian bases will herald U.S. intervention of that kind. The U.S. preoccupation with forcing Honduras to take Manuel Zelaya back has reinforced, meanwhile, the impression that Obama will act in Latin America with a reflexive, high-handed cynicism.
Chavez would be quite correct, even without these factors, that U.S. forces based in Colombia are an impediment to his regional plans. He fears attack because he knows a valid pretext exists for attacking his territory. His antagonism should not stop us, but we had better be prepared for the actions it will prompt, and keep our own purposes and strategy clearly in mind.
Israel Derangement Syndrome
The basic formula of IDS is that almost any negative consequences which derive from Arab attacks on Israel are blamed by enlightened elites not on the attackers themselves, but on Israel, especially when the Jewish state's response to being assaulted does not take the form of absolute and total moral perfection as defined by the UN and the Guardian's editorial board. IDS in its more subtle forms is so pervasive it largely escapes notice. But it's still worth noting, once in a while. Here are a couple of examples from recent days:
1. Reporting on a conversation in which Joschka Fischer claimed that Israel would attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year, Nouriel Roubini, an NYU business professor, declared that
if such action were to be taken by Israel the consequences outlined above would be the clear outcome: a major global recession, wars throughout the Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Israel, etc.) and a major increase in geopolitical instability.
In other words, a litany of catastrophes would befall the world not because Iran is in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and three UN Security Council resolutions, is developing nuclear weapons, waging war against America, Israel, and Lebanon through proxy forces, and has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the state of Israel. None of those items inform the moral calculus. No, Roubini's argument runs, Israel is to blame, because not allowing itself to be destroyed would upset global harmony. Nice.
2. The Gaza Fulbright scholars. Reports ABC News:
Seven Palestinian scholars may lose their prized Fulbright scholarships to attend American universities because Israel won't let them out of the Gaza Strip.
So Israel is now responsible for ensuring the educational opportunities of Gaza students? The young soldiers of the IDF, according to this logic, must be put in harm's way at the crossing points of Gaza — which are Hamas' favorite ambush and attack sites — so that seven people may leave a territory into and out of which they would be able to freely travel any day they wished if Hamas was not engaged in a terror war against Israel. The point is not that limitations on Palestinian educational opportunities are a good thing; it is that such hardships have their origins not in Israeli cruelty, but in Palestinian violence. As someone once said, the Jewish state is expected to act like the only Christian nation in the world.
There are dozens more examples. But there is a group of people on whose behalf anything is rarely said. They are the Palestinians who detest the manner in which Hamas has imprisoned them in Gaza. These people have no spokesmen, not even among the western reporters who derive so much smug satisfaction in imagining themselves the champions of the voiceless. By falsely incriminating Israel and thereby apologizing for Hamas, such journalists only prolong the suffering of Palestinians. IDS hurts Arabs, too.
Lebanon Recriminations
To add to Eric's great post below, and to the thoughts of Michael Young and David Schenker, I think it's appropriate, in the midst of the false denouement of the latest crisis, to take a moment and look at the dreadful behavior of the United Nations.
Remember UN Security Council Resolution 1559? It was passed way back in 2004, and it required the disarmament of Hezbollah. It was ignored. Then there is UNIFIL, the special UN blue-helmet force that, since the end of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, has sat in southern Lebanon doing little other than timidly dissuading Hezbollah from rebuilding its infrastructure in plain view on Israel's border. When Hezbollah wants UNIFIL to leave, UNIFIL will leave. Before the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, UNIFIL did even less, and in one famous case actually collaborated with Hezbollah in the murder of Israeli soldiers. The 2006 war ended under the auspices of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which authorized an "enhanced" UNIFIL that was tasked with preventing Hezbollah's re-armament. That resolution was violated before its approval made it into the morning papers, and continues to be ignored with impunity by everyone from Iran and Syria to UNIFIL itself; Hezbollah today is better-armed than it was before the 2006 war.
Whatever else one wants to say about the Doha meeting, at least it didn't involve the United Nations.
Doh! (As in Doha)
Yesterday's Qatari-sponsored agreement among Lebanese factions represents a major victory for Hezbollah and Syria. After all, both parties finally got what they had long demanded: Hezbollah will receive eleven seats in the cabinet-one more than it needed to secure veto power over all governmental decisions. The agreement also spells a major loss for the Bush administration, which had long demanded that Hezbollah submit to the will of the Lebanese majority and confirm General Michel Suleiman as president without such preconditions.
Of course, this didn't stop the State Department from trying to sell the agreement as a "positive step." During his press conference yesterday, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch argued that the agreement advanced UN Security Council Resolutions 1559 and 1701, saying that there is "quite a bit of language" in the agreement regarding Hezbollah's disarmament. Moreover, he said, the agreement signified that the "moral plane" had shifted against Hezbollah's favor, catalyzing progress-however slowly-on this critical issue.
Yet Welch's optimism is confounding. Indeed, the agreement says nothing at all about Hezbollah's disarmament. Rather, it calls for "dialogue over strengthening state authority over all parts of Lebanon"–in other words, dialogue over an issue that was supposed to have been resolved after the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war! Moreover, it calls for "defining the relations between the state and the different political groups in the country"–a process that will now lean heavily in Hezbollah's favor, given its strengthened position within the Lebanese cabinet. Finally, there's good reason to doubt that security and military powers will be "solely in the hands of the state" and that this authority will be spread out "over all parts of the country so that outlaws will have no safe havens." Again, this is something that was supposed to have been in place following the 2006 war, but which Hezbollah has long evaded thanks to its military superiority and sustained support from Iran and Syria.
But perhaps the most troubling aspect of the "Doha agreement" is its transience: it will expire prior to the 2009 parliamentary elections, lasting just long enough for Hezbollah to exert substantial influence in drafting a new elections law. As a result, the agreement sounds eerily similar to the "Mecca Accord" that Hamas and Fatah signed in February 2007, which heralded an era of "national unity" governance-that is, until Hamas seized Gaza four months later. Indeed, we have seen how Hezbollah and Hamas both resort to violence in lieu of political compromise (h/t Noah Pollak). These short-term agreements are an integral part of that strategy.
McCain Is Losing the Iran Debate
Two thoughts on the Obama-Iran-appeasement controversy:
1. It seems to me that it's a victory for Obama. The Iran debate is being defined as one of diplomatic engagement versus diplomatic isolation, with Obama presenting himself as the bearer of a new strategy while McCain is portrayed as obdurately insisting on the approach of the Bush administration. This, of course, creates an unsavory political problem for McCain, in which he is said to represent a third Bush term. But it also allows the recent history of Iran diplomacy to become completely fictionalized.
Over the past six years, we have seen almost exactly an Obama approach to Iran, save for Obama's promised "presidential diplomacy" (which sounds more like a graduate school course than a national security strategy, but I digress). From 2002 to 2006, the EU-3 (Germany, France, the UK) and the IAEA attempted to dissuade the Iranians from their nuclear program through high-level diplomacy, and when that saga of fruitlessness was finally handed over to the UN Security Council, Russia and China saw to it that the only sanctions passed would illustrate nothing more than the ambivalence and impotence of the international community.
So it seems to me that McCain should be making a bigger deal over the fact that the western world has indeed been deeply involved in attempting to deal with the Iranian nuclear program through almost exactly the kind of diplomacy that Obama says has yet to be tried. McCain should emphasize the fact that the Iranians have not only been unmoved by this "diplomatic offensive," but have used the negotiations in order to buy time for nuclear development.
2. Why is McCain allowing himself to be dragged into a debate about presidential-level diplomacy, when the more important question — and the question whose answer is more politically favorable to McCain — is whether diplomatic engagement will actually get anything accomplished? McCain should be asking Obama what concessions he realistically thinks he's going to get from the Iranians upon going hat in hand to Tehran. UN Security Council sanctions have done virtually nothing to impede Iran, nor have EU diplomacy or IAEA reports. Russia and China continue to stand as the major impediments to the kind of UN sanctions that might so cripple Iran that it would give up its nuclear development. The hard question for Obama, who says he wishes to pursue "tough diplomacy," is how he proposes to get these two stalwarts on board. The question of whether the President should go calling on Assad and Ahmadinejad is an important one, and it says a lot about a person's understanding of foreign policy and the Middle East. But ultimately it is a diversion that does no favors for McCain.
No Indigenous Enrichment
Writing in yesterday's Washington Post, Ray Takeyh attacks the Bush Administration's decision to support a new incentive package for Iran. According to Takeyh,
As President Bush addressed the Israeli parliament last week, denouncing negotiations with recalcitrant regimes as the "false comfort of appeasement," his diplomats, in conjunction with their European counterparts, offered Iran another incentive package to stop enriching uranium. Even though they are making another effort to disarm Iran through mediation, the administration's approach is hopelessly defective. Beyond insisting on onerous conditions that are unlikely to be met by any Iranian government, the United States and its allies still hope that Tehran will trade its enrichment rights for inducements. If Washington is going to mitigate the Iranian nuclear danger, it must discard the formula of exchanging commercial contracts for nuclear rights and seek more imaginative solutions.
There may be plenty of good reasons to criticize the new incentive package–though its exact details are not yet known–and there are obvious partisan reasons, in the midst of an electoral campaign, for Takeyh to accuse the administration of hypocrisy. The fact is, the U.S. administration has agreed to enhance the incentives package because Europeans have so persistently claimed that Iran will concede on enrichment only if there are solid U.S. incentives on the table (an oblique admission of failure on Europe's part, after six years of dialogue with Iran). But the U.S. is not only offering incentives in the delusional hope that somehow Iran will relent under a mixture of pressure and temptation. The U.S. and its European allies assume that the offer will be presented and either accepted or rejected before the IAEA releases its expected report–due by June 3. A further Iranian rejection–which Takeyh himself anticipates, given statements by Iran's Supreme Leader to this extent–will provide grounds for additional consensus-based sanctions at the UN level, or at least at the EU level. It may not be much of a strategy, but it is something, and it is hardly appeasement–given that the incentives, once trumped by Iran, will make it easier to tighten sanctions.
What's the alternative?
Takeyh says that 'it is time to discard the formula of "suspension for incentives" for one that trades "enrichment for transparency." He is proposing, in other words, indigenous enrichment, but under tight international control–something along the lines recently suggested by William Luers, Thomas Pickering, and Jim Walsh in the New York Review of Books.
There is no ideal solution to the nuclear standoff with Iran. But to suggest that, because Iran got away with its violations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and is set to cross the nuclear threshold sometimes soon, we have no choice but to concede and hope for the best, does not seem to be the preferred alternative to the current course. After all, there is no tight control regime. Iran may have several undeclared clandestine facilities at work. Iran's history of nuclear deception makes it harder to believe that what we see is what we have–we may concede on enrichment and transfer of technology and still get an Iranian nuclear bomb.
But beyond the risks of letting enrichment happen in Iran's specific case, the lesson learned from this debacle would be for other countries to trump the NPT as Iran did and go along the path of nuclearization. Iran would be rewarded for violating the NPT and for ignoring successive UN Security Council resolutions. We would forego our principles and handsomely reward bad behavior–a practice that, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, may well be called "appeasement": "to buy off (an aggressor) by concessions usually at the sacrifice of principles."
We're the Real Enemy
Last year, barely a month after the UN Security Council had approved Res. 1747, instituting new sanctions against Iran, Austrian energy giant, OMV, signed the biggest energy deal to date ($22 billion) with the Islamic Republic.
The deal was the focus of attention at yesterday's OMV annual shareholders' meeting. Questioned about the soundness–moral and otherwise–of his company's natural gas deal with Iran, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer replied that "The details are to be negotiated" and there is "no foreseeable result" regarding the implementation of the deal, according to a Jerusalem Post article. OMV potentially faces obstacles and pressures from the UN and the U.S.
However, added Ruttenstorfer, things might change. According to the Post, Ruttenstorfer thinks "time is an ally." Not, as you might hope, because he believes that with time a new, non-oppressive regime might rise in Tehran. No, the kind of political change OMV hopes for is in the U.S., so that OMV can proceed unhindered in its lucrative deal–even if such a deal will strengthen an oppressive regime with hazardous nuclear ambitions.
The Austrian government owns 31.5 percent of OMV. It's regrettable that a nominal U.S. ally did not oppose OMV's deal with Iran. For some in Europe, evidently, the real threat to European interests is not Iran but America.
Things Get Worse in Lebanon
Things continue to heat up in Lebanon. This week Hezbollah gunmen seized control of large parts of Beirut, and today shut down the "Future News" television station , run by Saad Hariri, leader of the government-supporting majority party in parliament. Clashes have erupted between the Shi'ite terror group and militia forces loyal to the government, with Israel radio reporting at least 10 dead. As Noah Pollak reported below, the current battle began with the government's decision to shut down Hezbollah's private telephone network, which it set up with Iran; and to fire the head of security at Beirut's airport, who is loyal to Hezbollah. The group's head, Hassan Nasrallah, declared the government's steps to be
a declaration of war and the launching of war by the government against the resistance and its weapons for the benefit of America and Israel.
Let's hope he's right. This high-stakes game may be Lebanon's only hope for regaining its sovereignty, ending tension with Israel once and for all, rolling back Iran's advances in the region, and building some form of coherent democratic life in the country. For decades, the country has acted as a staging ground for first Palestinian then Iranian-backed Shiite terror, with the south being transformed into a terror-state within a state. After the 2006 Lebanon war, the UN Security Council resolution 1701 called for "the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that . . . there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese State." For Hezbollah, however, to disarm is to commit ideological suicide, so the only long-term solution is that they be disarmed by force.
Of course, if the government loses such a war, Lebanon as a whole turns into an Iranian satellite. This is not something the West can sit back and watch. With the U.S. distracted by an election, eyes will be turning to France, the former colonial power which still has deep ties in Lebanon. Let's see what Sarkozy can come up with.
Giving Away the (Nuclear) Store
A Reuters report states that the Bush administration will, within a month, send to Congress a pact on civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia. The agreement will take effect within 90 legislative days unless Congress votes it down. The President discussed the arrangement with Vladimir Putin at their summit earlier this month in Sochi.
Should the United States cooperate with Russia on civilian nuclear technology? In general, that's a wonderful concept. In this particular case, however, the idea is fundamentally flawed. The Bush administration apparently thinks the proposed deal would support Russia's plan to enrich uranium for Iran. "We can't isolate ourselves from Russia and then expect that these are the proposals that are going to be the solution to the Iranian nuclear program," says an unnamed State Department official.
I, on the other hand, am all for isolating ourselves from counterproductive concepts. There will one day be a solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, but it will not run through Moscow. Moscow, we should remember, is a huge part the problem. It has been blocking effective action against Iran at the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN Security Council, it has supplied the reactors at Iran's Bushehr generating station and delivered its uranium fuel, and it has sold Iran air-defense systems to protect its nuclear sites. And all this against the express wishes of . . . the Bush administration. So why does the President think the Russians are going to be any more cooperative in the future? I have stared into Putin's soul and seen–among other things–an unrepentant proliferator.
Moscow's fuel bank proposal is tailored to help Tehran. Iranians will undoubtedly end up working at the Russian facility. As they do so, they will pick up critical expertise that can be used back home in covert locations. So why should we help Iran obtain advanced nuclear technology? President Bush needs to come up with a better explanation if he wants to ink this stinker of a deal.
A False Iraq Analogy
Discussing Iran on "Hardball," John McCain explained that the case for war against Iran would be hard to make with the American people because of a "credibility gap" generated by the WMD flop in Iraq. According to Reuters,
Senator McCain said he would have to make an "even more convincing argument that it was necessary to do so because of our failure to find weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
One cannot but concur with Senator McCain that among the arguments voiced to shield Iran from Western pressure–including, possibly, a military strike–there's the analogy with Iraq. Former chief UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter made that argument recently in The Guardian:
Iraq had been placed in the impossible position of having to prove a negative, a doomed process which led to war. I am fearful that the EU-3 is repeating this same process, demanding Iran refute something that doesn't exist except in the overactive imaginations of diplomats pre-programmed to accept at face value anything negative about Iran, regardless of its veracity. The implications of such a morally and intellectually shallow posture could very well be disastrous.
One must be mindful of the kind of arguments our allies and friends across the Western world consider serious and legitimate–though Ritter and the Guardian may not necessarily qualify as either. But Senator McCain should also know that this analogy is false.
Firstly, the IAEA says very clearly that the Iranian nuclear program looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. Is it not, then, a duck? As IAEA director general, Dr. Mohammad El-Baradei wrote in November 2003,
Iran's nuclear programme, as the Agency currently understands it, consists of a practically complete front end of a nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining and milling, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, heavy water production, a light water reactor, a heavy water research reactor and associated research and development facilities.
Iran was given over five years to prove otherwise. So far, Iran has failed to reassure the international community on the nature and aims of its nuclear program. The passing of three UN Security Council sanctions resolutions against Iran–two unanimously, one with Indonesia abstaining–indicates that the entire international community is concerned about Iran's motives for such a reckless pursuit of nuclear power.
So how, you ask, is Iran's case different from Iraq's? Precisely because of the absence of an existent Iraqi weaponization program. In Iran, the evidence is in plain sight. IAEA inspectors are currently monitoring a program that (even in its publicly visible parts) should make everyone anxious, especially in light of the fact that Iran concealed its existence for at least eighteen years and procured its initial blueprints and technology A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. According to the IAEA's report of February 22, 2008, Iran did not deny having received from Khan the designs for a nuclear warhead in 1987. It only lamely protested that it did not ask for them. Doesn't this admission, coupled with the subsequent two decades of concealment, comprise grounds for further suspicion?
Iran also has an advanced ballistic missile program with links to North Korea, a nuclear power with a strong record of proliferation, as well as operational missiles that can strike as far as Israel and southern Europe, and it is developing longer-range ones, too: up to 4,000 miles.
Missiles with such range make sense, strategically, only if they carry unconventional warheads. In its most recent report, the IAEA cites evidence of Iranian designs for a nuclear warhead for Iran's existing missiles, notably the Shihab-3 (based on a North Korean design).
inally, there is the mountain of circumstantial evidence which, in light of Iran's history of concealment and deception, should put all doubts to rest: the fact that Iran does not need to enrich uranium, since the fuel for its reactor at Bushehr is being supplied by Russial; that fact that Iran's nuclear power infrastructure does not require a heavy water facility, like the one Iran is building in Arak. Such reactors are useful only for producing plutonium, which Iran has no use for as a reactor fuel. The only conceivable reason Iran has for trying to produce plutonium is to make nuclear weapons.
There is, in other words, a very long list of reasons why Iran is not Iraq. Senator McCain is right to be cautious in his statements. But one hopes he is aware of the difference and, when the time comes, will not abide by this false analogy.
Iran Wants What?
In a 20-page letter dated Monday and released yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki threatened legal action for losses his country sustained due to UN Security Council sanctions on its nuclear program. "The Islamic Republic of Iran and its citizens have the right to resort to legal actions to seek redress against the sponsors of these unlawful actions," the letter, addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, states.
The sponsors of the sanctions, Mottaki maintains, "should, as a minimum step, admit their mistakes, apologize to the great nation of Iran, correct their behavior, and above all, compensate for all the damages they have inflicted on the Islamic Republic of Iran." The demand for compensation is apparently directed to the United States, Britain, France, and Germany.
Secretary-General Ban did not comment on Mottaki's letter. I suspect he did not want to dignify it with a response, but let me take this opportunity to address the fundamental point raised by the Iranian foreign minister. If the United Nations has no authority to impose sanctions or take action against Iran, as Tehran maintains, then it is up to every member of the international community to decide what to do. Iran's proven violations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and its failure to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency are justifications for the use military force. Why? Because nuclear weapons are inherently dangerous and, therefore, automatically raise the right of self-defense, which every member state of the UN retains.
So go right ahead, Mr. Mottaki: make our day by de-legitimizing the UN. I hope that the United States can peacefully convince your nation to give up its nuclear program. But, if we can't, then we have no choice but to end it by any and all necessary means.
Europe's Energy Submission
The energy deal that Swiss energy utility company EGL signed with Iran last week has triggered criticism both inside and outside the Alpine nation. Outside Switzerland, the most forceful complaints came from the U.S. and Israel–coming as it did barely two weeks after UN Security Council Resolution 1803 was passed, it clearly sent the wrong signal to Tehran. Europeans are not giving due weight to the strategic worries behind the new round of sanctions and prefer to increase their dependence on Iranian energy than add pressure on Tehran.
Inside Switzerland, though, the criticism focused more on the outfit chosen for the occasion by Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, who was in Tehran to witness the signature alongside her Iranian counterpart, Manuchehr Mottaki. Swiss politicians were outraged by the fact that Calmy-Rey –a longtime advocate of women's rights–chose to wear a veil and appear "submissive." Many of her crticis later recognized she had no choice. This brings up a further question, though: why is submissiveness necessary to deal with Iran?
A look at European energy options might offer an answer: Europe's main natural gas suppliers is Russia. Tehran, with its readiness to welcome foreign energy companies for joint ventures, is an ideal alternative. It sits on the second-biggest known reserves of natural gas in the world and, unlike other Middle Eastern countries, is willing to share profits in exchange for the technology and investments needed to develop its vastly undertapped resources.
Of course, the trade-off–quite apart from the obvious implications for the sanctions' regime and the ability of the West to put pressure on Iran– is that Iran's regime benefits from access to Western technology. But it may be recalled that earlier this year Turkmenistan shut off its gas supply to Tehran–a move that caused severe gas shortages inside Iran in the middle of an unusually harsh winter. Iran, in other words, despite its giant gas fields, is a net importer of gas and is thus vulnerable to external pressure. Selling Iran technology and joining its national gas and oil companies to develop its energy resources will help Iran become a net exporter and will make its regime's economic and political fortune. Deals like the one signed by EGL, in other words, prolong this regime's shelf life and all that comes with it, nuclear ambitions included.
Europe's economic engagement with Iran, especially in light of Russia's stricter oil policies, makes sense. Except for Iran's nuclear program and the spoiling role it plays in just about every crisis Europe wishes to solve in the Middle East. The answer to the above dilemma is long term and demands. For the time being, European temptation by Iranian oil must be understood within this context: Europe is not yet in a strong enough position to forego such deals. In this sense, Swiss politicians were right to call Calmy-Rey's choice of the veil submissive. Submissiveness might be the only option Europe has in this situation, unless Iran's behavior–and its regime–can be changed.
Tehran's Big Deal
Swiss energy giant EGL just disclosed what is perhaps the biggest energy contract with Iran in recent history–between 28 and 42 billion dollars, according to its spokesman, who insisted that the exact figure not be revealed. Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey visited Tehran to crown the deal. Calmy-Rey–photographed wearing a veil alongside her male Iranian counterparts–praised Iran's cooperation with the IAEA and generally speaking scored a great own goal for the international community's efforts to push Iran into compliance with UN Security Council resolutions 1696, 1737, 1747 and 1803.
Faced with international criticism, Calmy-Rey was adamant that Switzerland was not violating any law. True–but what kind of signal does a Western foreign minister send by going to Iran to bless a business deal two weeks after the UN adopted a sanctions resolution? Switzerland has slapped the world in the face. Europe, apparently, should not shy away from Iranian markets. Business, after all, is business.
The next weeks and months will tell whether European business will follow suit or if this is a lamentable one-off. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana-a nuclear physicist by training and the man officially appointed by the UN Security Council to negotiate with Iran-defined Iran's nuclear program as a "strategic threat" to Europe on Sunday during a conversation with David Ignatius at the Brussels Forum. Asked by Steve Erlanger of the New York Times whether George W. Bush's description of a nuclear Iran as "intolerable" was shared in Europe, Solana laconically and bluntly responded "Yes!" Barely a day later, Calmy-Rey was in Tehran, dressed so as not to offend her hosts, to sign a giant deal. Clearly, Switzerland begs to differ. And if the Swiss view were to take hold again in Europe (Europe remains Iran's biggest trade partner, let's not forget), it would not be long before that threat either materializes thanks to European technological sales and funds–or before someone acts upon the operational consequences of the world "intolerable."
Samantha Power: the Salon Interview
It might be time that I downgraded my opinion of Samantha Power from someone who I believe holds naive and mischievous opinions on the Middle East to someone who for the most part simply doesn't know what she's talking about. She gave a must-read interview yesterday to Salon.com.
What is the biggest foreign policy challenge for the next president?
The next president is really going to have to walk and chew gum at the same time, because no long-term peace in the Middle East is possible until we get some kind of modus vivendi in the Arab-Israeli situation.
Remarkable. Neither the Iraq war, nor the Iranian nuclear program, nor North Korean nuclear proliferation, nor the situation in Pakistan, nor the ascendant Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis, in Power's assessment, is comparable to "the Arab-Israeli situation." This is, of course, the view of the world one gets from watching too many Christiane Amanpour specials on CNN; but it is also one that has virtually no currency among serious people.
You recently wrote in Time magazine that the U.S. needs to "rethink Iran." What did you mean?
…To neutralize the support Ahmadinejad has domestically, we need to stop threatening and to get in a room with him — if only to convey grave displeasure about his tactics regionally and internationally — and then try to build international support for measures to prevent him from supporting terrorism and pursuing a nuclear program. If we're ever going to actually put in place multilateral measures to contain Iran, the only way we're going to do that is if we do it in a more united way with our allies.
To this, one can only reply: "Donny, you're out of your element." For starters, Ahmadinejad essentially has no domestic popularity in Iran. He is aggressively detested by everyone in the country with a reformist cast of mind, and he is widely blamed for crippling the Iranian economy through his imposition of some of the most half-baked centralized planning that exists in the world today. This Washington Post piece delves into Ahamadinejad's domestic unpopularity; this piece from the Asia Times discusses his abysmal poll ratings. If Power thinks that we're going to get anywhere with Iran by undermining Ahmadinejad's "domestic support," let me be the first to inform her: he doesn't have any domestic support to begin with.
But that's just a nitpick. The real swindle here is Power's implication that the U.S. has yet to pursue a multilateral strategy for dealing with the Iranian nuclear program, a fascinating rewriting of history. Between 2002 and 2006, the Bush administration delegated Iran diplomacy to the EU-3 (France, Germany, and the UK), specifically in pursuit of the cultivation of an international consensus against Iran's nuclear program. The EU-3, working extensively through the IAEA — another of those international bodies that Power believes has been sidelined by the Bush administration — demonstrated nothing more than the ease with which it could be repeatedly manipulated and thwarted.
By the summer of 2006, the matter was handed over to the UN Security Council, another multilateral lever. The Security Council has since then produced a series of wrist-slaps on Iran. Power's complaint — that the U.S. hasn't acted multilaterally — is a fantasy. The real problem with the past six years of Iran diplomacy is that the multilateral channels through which our diplomacy has found expression have proven themselves utterly incapable of dealing with the problem. But I suppose it's much easier to give interviews to credulous Salon reporters and pretend that we never tried, rather than confront the much thornier problem — that we have been trying, and failing.
Samantha Power believes that people like me, who raise perfectly legitimate questions about her judgment and knowledge of the Middle East, are trafficking in "fabrications" and a "smear campaign" against her and the Obama campaign. In everything I've written about her, including this post, I have always linked to what Power herself has said, so that readers could judge for themselves whether I've treated her fairly. Is it a smear to accuse someone of a smear, when none has been committed?
UPDATE: Michael Young weighs in here: "the egghead smells a foreign policy post."


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Alternative to My company is live broadcasting video podcasts now... audience participation is good for business and all that. Flash Media Live Encoder?
Alternatives to Flash Media Live Encoder for Windows? [more inside]
Any chance of getting metadata for streaming media to display on PS3?
Is there any way to get metadata to show up when using the PS3 as a streaming media player? [more inside]
How to set iPhone bookmark to radio stream?
How do I make an icon-based bookmark to an online radio stream on my iPhone? [more inside]
Where can I stream the Academy Awards tonight?
Where can I stream the Academy Awards tonight? [more inside]
How to search Hule and Netflix at the same time?
Is there a site that searches all the flat-rate streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, and now Amazon prime) for a particular movie/tv show? Or, better, that's like Instant Watcher for more than Netflix? I realize I can search all the sites separately.
Looking for Netflix or similar in Japan.
Does anyone know of a Netflix or Hulu type streaming video service that is accessible outside of the U.S., in Japan specifically? No doubt Japan has its own such services, but I am considerably less than fluent in Japanese, so I am looking for English and English subtitled films/television. Also, I wouldn't be able at this point to navigate the Japanese services' websites, so I probably am looking for a U.S based service that allows overseas access. Thanks a lot.
It would be rad if my iPhone could stream podcasts instead of downloading them to the hard drive. [more inside]
Help an American overseas watch the SuperBowl!
Anybody know of any live streams of the Super Bowl tonight that will be available online? [more inside]
Tunes in The Cloud
How can I listen to my music, anywhere? [more inside]
Help me make an online TV channel for user-submitted content a reality.
Attempting to create an online "television" for a massive online course that would rotate through content created by the course participants. Similar idea to betamaxmas but will probably include static visual content like Flickr feeds as well. Hoping to not have to build this completely from scratch but coming up blank on all searches. Read on for the dirty details [more inside]
What size is the average movie download in gb?
Netflix streaming movies - What kind of load should I expect on my service (in gb) for an average movie? I have Comcast and have a pretty healthy limit, but I don't want to start pushing it.
How can I stream DVDs from my Synology NAS to my TV?
How can I stream DVDs from my Synology NAS to my TV? I want to keep the extras, so I don't want to just rip it to avi or anything.
I assume I need a device that will browse the NAS and mount the DVD and play it, but every streaming device I've found seems to just play simple videos.
Commentary is half the value in any DVD, so if it isn't possible to do this I'd need to have some way to rip the DVD to a video file using the audio from the commentary.
streaming and saving live video
I need to record one of these broadcast feeds tomorrow morning (PDF link). What's the best way to go about this? I'm on a Mac, and I won't be home when it begins. How much hard drive space should I have available?
Apple Box or Apple Cable
I want to stream Netflix and iTunes videos to my TV. I have a 4th gen iPod Touch. Is there any reason to get an Apple TV rather than just one of those Apple component or composite cables? [more inside]
Legal live-TV online?
Is it possible to create legal online service live-streaming over-the-air TV channels in US? [more inside]
It is wired thing
What is the best "wired" home-network solution? A NAS drive connected to my router or a powerline ethernet adapter that allows me to connect an ethernet cable to the computer in my bedroom? [more inside]
Lazy way to play games on TV?
A bunch of us nerds like to play PC games together on the living room television, but I'm getting tired of lugging my computer from the office to hook it up in the living room! What would be the easiest/cheapest way achieve the same results while leaving the PC in its place? [more inside]
Dead simple streaming from Mac to PS3?
Dead simple streaming from Mac to PS3: what are your success stories? [more inside]
What Would Jeff Spurgeon do?
I'm looking for the best stand-alone streaming audio player with has a dead-simple interface, will play WQXR's webstream, and, really, really, a dead-simple grandparent-compliant interface. [more inside]
My Dark Twisted Media Fantasy
I have long held a fantastic dream of what I want my home theater
setup to be. I've tried several times, in several different ways, to
realize this dream - but there is always something. There's always
something that doesn't work right - that makes my final implementation
lacking in some fundamental way. I'm starting to give up hope. So -
I'll tell you what I want and what I've tried - and I want you to tell
me if there's another way. I can't be alone here. [more inside]
iTunes movies streamed without an Apple TV?
How to make an iTunes-purchased film stream to my Xbox 360 or PS3? [more inside]
Can I feed multiple AirPlay/AirTunes streams from one computer?
Using AirPlay/AirTunes (or Rogue Amoeba's AirFoil), is it possible to play multiple audio streams from one "jukebox" to multiple Airport Express devices? [more inside]
A cost effective music solution
What is the most cost effective way to have tons of music (piracy is not an option)? At the least I want something that lets me listen to music on my iPad offline because it is a WiFi only model. [more inside]
Cantonese language streaming media please!
Recommendations on streaming media or movies in Cantonese to improve my comprehension? [more inside]
See You Down-Streaming
What is required to make streaming videos? [more inside]
Secure streaming of live video, 24/7, pre-existing camera infrastructure. Can this be done?
Secure streaming of live video, 24/7, pre-existing camera infrastructure. Can this be done? [more inside]
Slingbox + Phone/iPad?
slingbox-filter: considering getting a slingbox to throw TV to my ipad/droidx/remote computers [more inside]
What's the easiest/cheapest way to set up a home surveillance camera that will notify me and stream video for remote viewing/recording if somebody enters my home while I'm gone?
What is the easiest, cheapest, most effective way for me to set up a single motion-triggered surveillance camera at home to verify whether I have a creepy situation going on while I'm gone? If triggered, I want it to alert me remotely, stream video for remote live viewing, and ideally record to the cloud rather than locally for later viewing. I'd like an easy web/desktop interface to control it all. Have you tried one of those kits from X10 for this and did it work well for you? [more inside]
I can see you but I can't play you!
I've just successfully installed Win7 onto an older but servicable PC in order to use it as a streaming media player in another room. Problem is that although it can see all of the shared files, folders and drives on my main machine it keeps telling me I don't have the correct permissions whenever I click on them - but permissions are set to 'Everyone' and another machine (a netbook) I do the same thing with can see and play everything perfectly... can anyone offer any help or suggestions please, I'm at my wit's end! Thanks in advance!
What is the best / cheapest Netbook (or other device?) for this music server-ish application?
What is the best / cheapest Netbook (or other device?) for this music server application? [more inside]
Why does my laptop crash when watching streaming videos?
Why does my laptop crash after watching streaming videos (BBC iplayer / Youtube) for about 40 minutes? How would I go about investigating / fixing it? [more inside]
Where can I stream old Simpsons episodes?
Is there a good place to stream episodes of The Simpsons? [more inside]
What's the best way to stream audio or video straight to my TV?
I want to be able to stream music or video straight from my PC to my TV and stereo system. What's the best way to do this? Will a WD TV Live work, or are there other options? [more inside]
Roku or Seagate or WD?
Roku or Seagate or WD? [more inside]
How do I stream my music from iTunes to my iPhone?
How to stream from iTunes to iPhone (now that Simplify Media is shutting down)? [more inside]
Do Androids stream my electric beeps?
[Yet another Android app question]
Android music app choices look to be slim. Looking for recommendations for playback, streaming and recording apps. [more inside]
can you stream online radio on your phone while walking?
Using your smartphone, can you listen to online live radio while walking around your city? I'm trying to do this (with my iPhone, in Paris) and it only works if I stay in one place; if I move more than about 500m, it usually disconnects. I'm curious to know if others have the same experience so that I can determine if it's my carrier, the phone, the city, or just general limitations of 3G GSM networks. (Note: I'm not talking about Pandora or Spotify; I'm referring specifically to live radio streams which can't buffer minutes ahead). [more inside]
Simple video archiving and streaming for a theater
I'm looking for a DIY live video archiving/local-streaming solution for a small theater. [more inside]
I once had a banquet of streaming radio, now I have only crumbs.
What is at fault for Last.fm and Pandora's terrible reliability on my Android phone, and is there anything I can do about it? [more inside]
Listen to USA vs Australia stream
Equiped with nothing but an iPhone, how might I listen to the USA vs Australia friendly match that's due to start in a few hours? English language is a must, but I don't care what flavour.
I'm interested in streaming sports from around the world in Canada; what are my options?
I'm interested in streaming sports from around the world in Canada; what are my options? [more inside]
BBC I-Player Time Ending Soonest
I want to see what BBC I-Player programs will be unavailable to watch the soonest. [more inside]
TV without cable.
I want to ditch cable and opt for things like the Xbox360 and/or AppleTV for the kids to watch the equivalent to DisneyTV, Nik and Cartoon Network. [more inside]
T.V. for the ipod
Streaming t.v. on the ipod? I recently discovered Justin.tv and have been watching news with their ipod app. Recommend me some other apps (or roundabout ways of viewing shows) for the (jailbroken) ipod [more inside]
Footie For Me? For free?
Where can I watch live online streams of World Cup matches? Note: I am in Canada. [more inside]
Lala is DEAD!
Okay Apple has killed something beautiful named Lala. Need help finding a replacement. Requirements inside. [more inside]
Internet defibrillated the radio star (NEW!: lacks sense of entitlement)
Seeking an embeddable player that plays from your set list on 'random', so that fans can visit repeatedly and treat it like radio. paid is okay. [more inside]
Now that Lala.com is shutting down, what are some good alternatives?
Now that Lala.com is shutting down, what are some good alternatives? [more inside]
How can I stream the same Pandora music across my network?
I have a couple networked PCs throughout my house, and would like to synchronize the audio from a streaming service like Pandora or Last.Fm throughout. [more inside]
Will wifi or widi do?
How do I put together an HDTV DVR that can wifi stream programs and movies to multiple home TV's? [more inside]


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