Tango: "Uno"

 Uno busca lleno de esperanzas el camino que los sueños prometieron a sus ansias... Sabe que la lucha es cruel y es mucha, pero lucha y se desangra por la fe que lo empecina... Uno va arrastrándose entre espinas y en su afán de dar su amor, sufre y se destroza hasta entender: que uno se ha quedao sin corazón... Si yo tuviera el corazón... (¡El corazón que di!...) Si yo pudiera como ayer querer sin presentir...

 La parola deriva dal latino discipulus

The kids aren't OK

 Bryan Caplan, daughter and her friend Violent. 

Kissinger on Iran

 At age 100, Henry Kissinger wrote a book on international relations. He dedicated a full chapter to Iran. 

Iran has to decide if it is a country or a cause. 

He quotes Khoumeyni: The war against Satan is eternal, because Satan is eternal. 

Kissinger suggests forming a Sunni bloc plus Israel to balance Shi'a Iran. At the time, the Houthis were still in the remote mountains. Confirming that dangerous enemies are waiting on the margins.

Working after Eighty?

More work orders are coming in; projects I can do. I received a nice dividend and invested in BAZAN. Which, naturally, immediately became cheaper. I have faith in BAZAN, the Haifa Oil Refinery, as diesel is becoming scarce and expensive all over the world. I am watching the humiliation ceremony in the United Nations General Assembly; every leader religiously voices their rejection of Israel and their love for the Palestinians. A Catholic altar was erected in the Extermination Camp of Treblinka, and it is a pilgrimage magnet for Catholic youth. After WWII, the neighbors came and turned the earth looking for gold teeth in the half-rotten bodies. It reminds me of the Cathedral built on the foundations of the Mexican Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan. 

I'll sleep a bit and restart my work.

Ariana Harwicz: Persona Non Grata in Madrid

En la misma semana en la que el plantón de 28 participantes en el Festival de las Ideas de Madrid llevó a la cancelación del patrocinio de la aseguradora Allianz (acusada de financiar al Gobierno de Israel en la guerra de Gaza), la escritora argentina Ariana Harwicz ha denunciado su expulsión del Il Festival Internacional de Arte, Literatura y Humanidades Cultur-Alh que se celebrará durante toda la semana en Granada. Según Harwicz, la dirección del Festival le anunció que no podía garantizar su seguridad ante la presión de grupos de apoyo a Palestina y que, por tanto, suspendía su charla con el escritor Jesús Ortega."Desde entonces, no me han contestado las llamadas ni los mensajes", explica la autora de El ruido de una época. 

She is a celebrated Argentine writer, a fighter for freedom of expression. Local pro-Palestine groups demanded that the Granada Festival of the Arts cancel her. Because she is Jewish. 

Teheran Today

 

One look at this black regiment of witches and we surrender. 

The regime is preparing for a revolt.

Krugman eternal

 
Krugman is one of the very few economists who understood something obvious. Liquidity. I respect him. 

Quote: "Weaponized interdependence was already a well-understood phenomenon in the Sci-Fi literature. The picture at the top of this post is a still from the 2024 film Dune 2, based on the classic Frank Herbert science-fiction novel. The novel is set on the desert planet Arrakis, which is the center of conflict because it’s the sole source for “spice,” a drug crucial to the Galactic economy. In effect, Arrakis is the Strait of Hormuz with giant sandworms, and one way to think about Dune is that it’s a novel about weaponized interdependence — and how such interdependence can escalate into open warfare.

Now I am not suggesting that real-world policy should be dictated by fears inspired by works of fiction. After all, fear is the mind-killer. But the reality of weaponized interdependence is now all around us." Nothing changed; it was always so.