3 million new Europeans

 El Mundo reports that Spain is granting citizenship to three million illegals. The Sanchez government has blocked the Extranjeria (the department normally dealing with foreigners), and the police have been charged with issuing identity documents. Many are Hispanos from Colombia and Venezuela, others from Spain's  African former colonies. They are all sure votes for Sanchez and the Socialists. 

Why they keep selling on credit to the USA?

 I am an Israeli water engineer of a curious nature. Some of my clients are not paying (yimach smam - a Hebrew curse), and I wonder if I should continue working with them. Thinking from a global perspective from my 3 m by 2 m cave, I wonder why America can keep trading with a persistent current-account deficit that reached $1.12 trillion in 2025 — 3.6% of GDP. By trading partner, the largest bilateral deficits are with China (~$270 billion), Mexico (~$157 billion), Vietnam (~$113 billion), Ireland (~$80.5 billion), and Germany (~$76.4 billion). America is more indebted year by year, yet it makes no difference. Maybe its military strength explains this kind of imbalance. Israel, fortunately, is a structurally strong country with a large savings account. We can do without foreign assistance.

Pic.: Mongol taxman collecting tribute.

Kissinger: Order above Peace

 
I am rereading Kissinger's World Order. He died at 100 on November 29, 2023, but the book was written in 2014. He was against negotiations with HAMAS for peace; he advised reaching some acceptable mechanism for co-existence. Trump is following his advice in fighting the Ayatollahs: he is not interested in peace, but in workable rules for maritime passage through the Hormuz Strait and controlling the development of nuclear power. Even these limited aims are very difficult to agree on for the Shia clerics, as they are waging the war of vengeance for the assassination of Abu-Bakr 1600 years ago.

Growing force on the left

Being an ancient Israeli, with only a few more years to live, American politics has little relevance to me. But the Mamdani phenomenon cannot be looked over: it portends real change. Meisner writes:

This revolution kicked off last year when Zohran Mamdani was elected as the mayor of New York City. He is a Muslim Indian, born in Africa. This is notable in many ways, one obviously being racial, the other religious, since America is traditionally Christian and the historical enemy of Christians had been Islam. He will be a key figure going forward. He is already commanding great influence as he endorsed the above candidates as well as other non-White neo-liberals around the country. He is building a coalition which may well catapult him into the White House in the future.

Only years ago, America became predominantly Latino et al. Yet, against the ethnic vote, Trump took the presidency. So, American politics is fluid. 

 

The Secret Science of Biology

I used the Fable AI model to write a wastewater treatment report, and it was lying and complicating things. It made things difficult. I moved to Sonnet, which is - so they say - a less capable model, and it explained to me that sewage treatment is a biological area, which is a subject prohibited by Fable's rules. 

What is so secret and sensitive in biology? Then I remembered the question in the Senate nomination of Judge Sotomayor: What is a woman?  The fat woman answered: I don't know, I am not a biologist. Therefore, she cannot know. Science and common sense are so controversial that even the powerful Anthropic is fearful of treading on them.

I illustrate this short reflection with a picture of a woman from Google. Is she a woman? I do not know.

PS.: Why should the question of who is a woman be so sensitive? Homosexuals believe they are women and will fight to be recognized as such. Who wants to oppose hysterical people for a definition? Not Sotomayor. 

Secrets are secrets to take advantage of others, and the biggest is paternity. Human females dissimulate their fertility status (monkeys publicize it), making genetic paternity uncertain. Males will fight and kill to ensure paternity, which is not only vanity. Kingship depends on paternity; when it is in doubt, civil wars follow. King Charles III of Britain was married to Diana and had two sons. The second boy apparently is not his, and he divorced her. The secret (if true) can destroy the whole dynasty. Fable is right; biology is a taboo subject. 

Maximum Alert

 The internet warns that Israel entered a state of maximum alert, although the regular Pikud HaOref is silent. President Trump called the Iranian leadership cookoo and suspended further negotiations. 
MSN

Trump: "If we make a deal with Iran, I'm not sure that will stick because I've found them to be very dishonorable people."

“They said to us, please don't kill us during the funeral. I said I won't, and we didn't do anything then they attacked three ships.

Summer Nausea

It is the classic "natsu-bate" (夏バテ) scenario. Lack of appetite and lethargy during the hot & humid summer. There must be a word for it in Hebrew, but I don't know it.