Twist in Tehran

A troupe led by director Hossein Parsai performs “Oliver Twist” based on “Oliver!”, a British musical, at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on December 18, 2017. 

Iran is a modern, secular country.  Is it logical that it has been ruled by obscurantist clerics in the last thirty years? Or is it a temporary anomaly that will end soon?

The Zs think they invented sex

The Zs are wrong!

The CIA brought back to life in Iran

Once, the CIA organized a revolution in Iran and defeated a Communist-leaning regime. Today, another revolution is under way to expel the Ayatollahs. These good news follow from Donald Trump replacing the cowardly defeatism of Obama. Iranian papers are obsequious to the USA. Trump is a miracle.

Nikki Haley presented a week ago the remains of the Iranian rocket fired at the Saudi capital. I have seen the collection of remains of Saddam's Scud missiles but this thing is at least five times fatter.

Tehran delenda est.  

Amadeus, the most beautiful scene

2017 A Good Year

In the year 2017 my savings increased 24% in US$ terms, which is average in NASDAQ but good on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, that increased only 3%. The problem with TASE was/is TEVA, an important component of the index, that lost half of its worth during the year. The best performing stock was Frutarom (3-400%) and Ashtrom, a building company. Ashtrom is something of a mystery, its founders and owners are dead and it is managed by unknown insiders. This is not an unknown configuration in Israel, with most of its institutions established by communes fifty-hundred years ago, that continue to operate and grow with its original members long dead and forgotten. The Kever Benjamin water company is like that: it was founded by a handful of farmers to finance a borehole to provide water for irrigation. That was when it was a small settlement in the Dameseq province of Turkey, and it developed into a large water and sewage corporation.  It is owned by the original families and managed in total secrecy. The water is drinkable.

2017 was a year when all the family was healthy and we increased by two newborn boys. Peace reigned in Israel.

I continued teaching in the university, lectured in a Water Congress and completed about forty - fifty projects. I have about then signed contracts to start working on. Although I am very old and obese, I managed to have an active sex life; specifically, I ogled lots of female bottoms in the street. The neighborhood was gentrified and the Cofix store nearby is selling cheap red wine (20 sheqel = 6$ a bottle). Most drinkable. 

Under the Pressure of January First

Two workdays more and thousands of official permits and licenses end and have to be renovated. Clients are pressuring me to complete their submissions to be in time. The more they pressure, so grows my internal resistance and less I can work. I want to work but my mind wanders.

Then this afternoon we have the "Pidyion Ha-Ben" (The Redemption of the First Son"). It is a Jewish ceremony said to be in memory of God killing the evil Egyptian's first sons (and first born calves too). God had declared unambiguously that all firstborns belongs to him, although as a special favor to the Jews, he is ready to accept money from the Jews instead of the circumcised babies. Therefore, a silver coin is paid to a Cohen, a descendant of the priestly line, to redeem the child. The Bible also states that a firstborn ass may be redeemed with a lamb.

Any person called Cohen can perform. I suspect that explanation whitens the real source of the ceremony, which is the Western Semite ritual sacrifice of the first born boy to God.They burned them alive in the "Tophet". There was a large Tophet near Jerusalem, in Guy Hinnom (Gehenna), the Valley of Hinnom, but the largest known was in Tunis, in Carthage. I am a first born son, I was redeemed, thanks to the Almighty God.

Kfar Chabad

Two Kfar Chabad institutions are adding wings. This morning I went to see both. Or Sameach (Happy Light) is an educational institute for problematic youth. The site is green, clean, impeccable. Order and discipline reigns. Everybody is very busy. Today's menu includes eggplants and fried fish-balls in breadcrumbs.

De Luxe Bordello

I have to record shortly that today I was looking for the address of the site of my next job, a large bakery, and found myself in a luxurious "hotel" which resulted to be a whorehouse. Nice blonde Russian girls. The bakery is in the same building, it has the same street address. Very discrete. Clients waiting in the lobby. Next time I may feel compelled to investigate it more deeply. Pic.: The back of the hotel, from below. The dry palm branches must have served for a "succah", the Feast of the Tabernacles ("Succot"). The red pipes are part of the sprinkler system, the over-anxious firefighters must have demanded it for the temporary roofing.

Kevin MacDonald creates a new blood libel

Ron Unz's miscellany website publishes an article by archi-antisemite Kevin MacDonald  blaming the Sacker family in particular and the Jews in general for the despair of American working class (pic from TIME) and the shortening of their lives. Unz is a Jew, which is not surprising, given the suicidal tendencies of the American Jews. But MacD's accusations are very serious and the conclusions, frightening.

I met the Sackler brothers at the opening of the Sackler School of Medicine, in Tel Aviv University's campus, a monstrous angular building, some twenty years ago. Now we are inaugurating  the Med School at Ariel, another bombastic architectural nightmare.  I  remember the Sacklers's bio saying that they made their money as publishers of scientific journals. I always wondered if science was profitable to the point of donating dozens of med schools all over the world.

I was not surprised by the Sackler making money selling painkillers. What does surprise me  is the craving of Americans for them, similar to the Russians universal craving for alcohol. They need chemical courage to go to work and need to numb their senses to work their eight hours and then return to their lonely homes Life for people without faith is unbearable, a "vale of tears". The West needs the "Good News", which is the real meaning in Hebrew (Aramean, Greek) of the New Testament. We Jews survive thanks to our faith in God and the mitzvot (Commandments). American Jews, most of them, are condemned to Hell on Earth. Specially if MacDonald keeps publishing calumnies.

UN Vote on Jerusalem: We Are Taking Names

United Nations's scorecard on Trump's Declaration that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. We are taking names. For the record.

Now we must turn around this resolution. I am sure we can do it. As the despicable Jew-hater K.MacDonald writes: "Jews are an incredibly successful and influential group."  

Were the Samaritans - Kushim (Blacks)?

Blogger Bernard Leeman writes: Since 1985 I have writing books and articles (all free on academia.edu) arguing that the reason why nothing has been found in the Egyptian Delta/Israel/Palestine confirming the history of the biblical Old Testament up until the 586 BC destruction of Jerusalem is that the Hebrew Captivity took place in modern day Sudan, that Moses was from Nubia, the Exodus passed down through Ethiopia to Southern Arabia and the Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah were between Taima in northern Arabia and Yemen in the south. I used evidence from the Ethiopian epic Kebra Nagast, Kamal Salibi’s work on place names in West Arabia, Chaim Rabin’s “Ancient West Arabian”, Sabean (Sheban) inscriptions in Ethiopia, archaeology in Nubia, and DNA. Now, a second look at DNA has strengthened my argument. 5% of Jews as a whole possess a special DNA marker known as the Priestly gene, which indicates descent from Aaron, brother of Moses. 43% of Ashkenazim (“European”) and 53% of Sephardic (“Oriental) priestly Jews have that gene. Here is map of the distribution of the priestly gene. It seems the probable origin is Nubia and that its bearers moved to South West Arabia. Later, it appears to support the Old Testament and other accounts that the Samaritan Jews of the Kingdom of Israel were from the northern Hijaz and deported to the Black and Caspian Sea area. Samaritan in Hebrew is “Kushi” and it also means “Black African”. The group with the highest percentage of the priestly gene is the pagan-Hebraic Lemba of Southern Africa – 9% for the general population and 58% for its priesthood, the Buba.

I recommend visiting Leeman's site. He is a very interesting man. 

The best remedy is work

To stop working increases mortality.

Social Security eligibility begins at age 62, and approximately one third of Americans immediately claim at that age. We examine whether age 62 is associated with a discontinuous change in aggregate mortality, a key measure of population health. Using mortality data that covers the entire U.S. population and includes exact dates of birth and death, we document a robust two percent increase in male mortality immediately after age 62. The change in female mortality is smaller and imprecisely estimated. Additional analysis suggests that the increase in male mortality is connected to retirement from the labor force and associated lifestyle changes.

It's early morning here. Time to work on that Kalansuwa Commercial Center project.

Amadeus - Don Giovanni Scene

Scandinavian leadership

TEVA's new Danish manager is sacking 14000 employees. The man has testicles, leadership qualities. Goldman Sachs raised its rating to buy from neutral: "TEVA has turned a corner with its announced $3bn of cost cuts by 2019 " analyst Jami Rubin wrote in a note to clients Friday. "While we acknowledge there is skepticism on the path forward … we believe we are in the early innings of a credible turnaround led by a competent management team."

Maybe I shall recoup my considerable TEVA losses. 

Waiting for AVA

I work on Autocad and having experienced Artificial Intelligence assistants in Google, Yahoo and Ali Express, I am waiting impatiently for a similar assistant in CAD engineering design machine. I am getting older and slower and make more mistakes, I would welcome assistance. Already "she" has a name - AVA , like Ava Gardner - and a face (friendly but utterly stupid. I don't like her. I'd prefer an Ashkenazi looking girl or even an old engineer master guru like the one at the beginning). Apart from her mulatto face, she has nothing else. Those idiots on Soul Machines doesn't know that no one wants to watch black girls - not in porn nor in CAD assistant role. I wonder why most financial announcers on TV are colored, they perorate financial babble with astonishing self-confidence, except that in real life no investor would let them to operate even cash register. 

"AVA is also something of an intercorporate conglomeration, powered by IBM Watson’s cognitive platform and Soul Machines’ patented Human Computing Engine (HCE), with design information processed by Autodesk software. The Soul Machines HCE is a “virtual nervous system” that uses neural networks in combination with other biologically inspired models of the human brain." Who cares? Make her work.

The Saudi Dictator

Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes, near Paris, was recently bought by Crown Prince Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.

Other 500 million dollar investments of the Saudi ruler are the largest yacht in the world, and an unique Leonardo de Vinci painting.


Bin Salman is considered a modernizer but these foreign investments make no sense if his mind is busy planning his country's future. To whom can be Bin Salman compared? Chauchescu built a fantastic palace while Romania starved. Just now nobody else comes to my mind.

Arabia has an important industrial base operated by foreign manpower. I have seen here sacks of poliethylene produced by a Saudi Petrochemical firm. They have a large desalination industry: the capital Riyadh is supplied with desalinated water pumped from the sea over a distance of 467 km. Water is provided almost for free. The service is uncertain: in Riyadh tap water is available once every 2.5 days, while in Jeddah, every 9 days.

The Saudi army is superbly equipped but is failing in the war against barefooted Houthis. No wonder: Who would put his life in harm's way to defend Bin Salman's French palace?

P.S:  As Jews and Zionists,what should be our attitude towards the Saudi Dictator? We are a decent, democratic, humanist society. We should try to minimize our contact with these Bedouin thieves and murderers, rich as they are. We may be poorer and weaker, but we must maintain a minimum of self-respect.

Riyadh under attack

The interception was recorded and published on the net. I counted six PAC-2 Patriot missiles fired against the Burqan-2H (SCUD) ballistic missile. One Patriot destroyed it but they fired five more for the fun or as a defensive shield against the debris (they can afford it). It is rather unsettling that Al Ansar (the Houthis - pronounced Phooties - (who heard about them two years ago?), a rag head mountain gang, possess the capability of firing WMD.

Trump vetoes the world

US to UN: "It won't be forgotten."
Left: Nikki Haley. Wonder woman. Wiki: She was "always called Nikki, which means 'little one,' by her family". Father Ajit Singh Randhawa and mother Raj Kaur Randhawa, are emigrants from Amritsar District, Punjab, India.

An Israeli Engineer

In the past, I had worked with Chaim Krichly in several interesting industrial projects. I foundr him reticent which accounted for regular Ashkenazi eccentricity. Well, nobody is perfect (from "Some like it hot"). Now I have heard his story. As a member of the elite parachute battalion, at age 18 he was shot in the head. He re-trained himself and graduated and established a successful engineering studio. What most surprised me is his age: he is approaching eighty. The retirement age in Israel is 67, but no one retires ever. A role model for me.

Plymouth Rock landed on them

Antimetabole is a literary artifact meaning "turning about” - repeating a phrase in reverse order.

• “Eat to live, not live to eat.”- Socrates
• “The great object of [Hamlet’s] life is defeated by continually resolving to do, yet doing nothing but resolve.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
• “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.” Malcolm X, “Malcolm X” (pic)

A Gift from Heaven for China

The Shuval (Heron) robot airplane can stay in the air for two days. It can visit far away places or fly over a target for long periods. It is practically noiseless, has no signature. It was sold to the Indian Armed Forces which crashed it on Chinese soil. Now the Chinese are busy back-engineering it.  Its secrets - probably, gone.

Crypto monies vs A general surrender of sovereignty

Bitcoin and other crypto monies enable smuggling resources out from a country, which is illegal everywhere. Most of all, the USA is fanatically cracking down on foreign accounts and virtual money sanctuaries like Seychelles, Panama, etc. The old Swiss banks surrendered years ago. America is firmly decided to follow money transfers all over the planet and collect all the taxes it deems its right. America, the country of the free, the colony that rebelled against the British crown's tax collectors. Now, please ask me if tax-crazy America will allow free and anonymous flow of resources, letting those saucy taxable goodies escape between its grabbing fingers? 

No way!

I bet they are sitting in secrete conclaves pondering the most effective method to control and tax the crypto flow. They will never surrender their monetary sovereignty. Anarchist initiatives like the crypto coin will be corralled and made to pay. Do you people out there in the blogosphere know which crime is the most severely punished? No, it is not fucking some Hollywood actress/prostitute. May be calling a Negro, Negro? Wrong again. It is printing counterfeit dollars. Bitcoins.

P.S.: I am not saying that crypto coin is fake money, I am saying that once it is taxed it will be no better than a bank transfer. Much worse, in fact, because the bank or the Western Union is insured.

America wasting millions of little Einsteins

A week ago, the whole blogosphere that I visit was laughing and mocking the New York Times article about the millions of potential little Einsteins the country was wasting. What the NYT writes, the HaAretz (our local Palestinian fishwrap, in high Hebrew) writes and twice magnified. The article at the left is titled "The Lost Einsteins of America". It is not only pure nonsense but also irrelevant for our little country that has no significant population of Asians, Hispanos, African Americans - nor White non-Jewish Americans.

Why they do this? First, it must be because it is cheap page filler, it comes ready made from the mouth of the Master.  Second, because the article is strongly subversive as it implies that the Government is purposefully destroying the minds of those millions of little Einsteins, that is, the Government is the enemy. This message is avidly absorbed by the local subversives and it re-enforces their gut feeling that the Government of Israel, specifically Bibi Netaniyahu, is evil. The article, laughable and irrelevant as it is, is a political propaganda weapon.

P.S.:  Give me a reason why the Israeli intelligentsia is so worried about the minds of millions of little American Black, Hispano, etc. einsteins going to waste?   The late Ayatollah Khomeini said that America is the Big Satan while Israel is the Small Satan sitting in its brain. He was wrong, Israel has no mind of its own, it is America that sits in its brain. America is so pervasive in the minds of HaAretz writers that they imagine they are the Big Satan and not the miserable small satans they are. They feel nothing of their own buy deeply mourn the tragedy of millions of little African einsteins that never existed nor will.

Symmetric people

I think Ancient Greeks, as seen through their representations in stone and bronze sculpture (other materials didn't survive), were more beautiful and symmetric than the people I meet on the street.

Fluctuating asymmetry is of course a measure of health and intelligence, so humanity is less perfect today that then. The Woodley Effect, as measured by fluctuating asymmetry, shows over 160 years (6.4 generations) 0.16 IQ points drop/decade.

Pic.: Zeus

Synecdoche

Meditate on Shelley's synecdoche in his poem Ozymandias:

“Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them.”

“The hand” in the above lines refers to the sculptor who carved the “lifeless things” into a statue.

“Mocked” in Shelley’s context means, “made, fashioned” rather than “derided.” The sense of the word originates in the German “machen (gemacht)” and survives in engineering usage today in terms like “mock-up” for a crude prototype.

Or "The hand" refers to Ozymandias?

The Other Cryptos

New ways of encrypting information are emerging. The IOTA is one of them. It is based on sensor generated information (internet of things). It is an European startup, for a change. The message of IOTA seems to be that no information is worthless.

Emergency phone line for depressed Palestinians

Trump declaration that Jerusalem is Jewish caused widespread depression in the Arab world. We should establish an emergency phone line for Palestinians with suicide thoughts. Why waste good ammunition on them?  Alternatively, we could buy ads on Ramallah Times: "How to connect correctly the wires of a suicide vest". Pic.: Wired.

Beta Decay

We are approaching the end of the tax year and I rebalanced my portfolio. My goal is to balance my losses with my gains, in order to cover my tax debts on the winning shares with the tax credits of the losing shares. Since tax here is 25%, the relation has to be one to four.

Since this year I had few losses, now I am thinking that the whole exercise was useless. It had been better to pay full tax and not to try to rebalance. Why? The first issue is beta slippage. 

The  second issue is the high cost of selling and buying stock through the bank.  Several times in the past I demanded and received a reduction of the percentage taken by the bank, yet it seems to silently return to its former shark bite share. The Poalim bank is the most expensive, and of course, also the most profitable bank in this country. I cannot change banks because of my managing partner, Giveret j. (aka wife).

On the other hand, it is important to meet the banker at least twice a year, because his job in the bank depends on the work he does, that is giving advice to the clients of the bank. It is good that he profits from my relationship, so he may be inclined to help me when I need him.

Another Project

                                                                                                Working hard on a new project. Yesterday on site.

James Flynn on Cognitive Decline

"There was a wonderful study by the OECD where they gave a test of working memory – what a pity it wasn't a test of analytical ability, but it wasn't – and they divided the countries into those like France, where 80% of people retired between 55-65, and those like Sweden and Switzerland, where 80% were still in work, and the loss on working memory in France for that age was twice as great. Which tells us that, if you kept exercising your brain at work, your working memory held up better."

I am much older than the subjects tested. But I keep working like a dog and blogging daily.  And I enjoy it. Most healthy old people in Israel I know is working.

Bitcoin's ancestors

The bitcoin was intended to solve a very real problem of transferring assets illegally that is, smuggling out or transferring money in a way that the authorities cannot know.  I faced this problem several times in my life (I am a twice-refugee).

I remember that while in Stalinist Hungary, our relatives in Argentina wanted to send help to us. Dollars were out of question, as its possession was a crime in Hungary. So they sent used cloth with something sewn in the seams. Another way was to send Gillette blades in letters. The blades were unavailable in Hungary and could be traded for food. Philately was another way: rare stamps could be traded in Hungary and viceversa, one who had to send out money from Hungary, could buy rare stamps and send it hidden in a letter (under aluminum paper  or something like that). Art was also used, small paper drawings by famous artists could be hidden in ordinary letters and packets. And historic documents.


The ancestors of the bitcoin had intrinsic worth, they were useful in themselves or were valued collection items. The bitcoin has no use nor collection value, it is a naked resource transfer medium. It exists  because the internet is free and the states cannot monitor the traffic. Taxes and death are certain, so its current tax free condition cannot endure. When the states figure out how to tax it, the crypto will deflate like a punctured balloon. See pic.

Argentine submarine disappears - Britain suspected

The San Juan submarine disappeared in the South Atlantic, near the Falkland islands. One of sailors sent, before the incident, a whatsup message: "British helicopters are seeking us. Yesterday it was the Chileans. There is much activity in this area."

Squeezing the brain how to say "Good Bye"

Japanese people are intelligent and strongly inhibited. They cannot be rude even if the want to. The language has no verb equivalent to "must" to express obligation, so the poor Japanese must torture his brain to say, for example, "Bye, I have to go". The newspaper Japan Times explains:

"Conditional forms are commonly used to express obligation, as if to make up for the nonexistence of a verb for “must.” In fact, the Japanese way of saying “something has to be done” is more like “it’s no good if it isn’t done.” If I have to leave now, for instance, I announce this by saying, 行かなければならない (ikanakereba naranai), or shorter, 行かなきゃ (ikanakya), which is literally, “It’s not OK if I don’t go.” Using two negations, I leave through the back door, as it were.

Even the well known farewell formula さようなら (sayōnara) is derived from the if-construction 左様なら(ば) (sayō nara ba). It’s meaning? Well, so long, “if that is how it is.”

 You have to live long time in Japan to get the meaning of their tortuous circumlocutions.

No body to talk to

We all knew that it was happening, but had no way of proving it. If true then it was so bad that we thought it was better to treat it as forbidden knowledge, tabu. May be by not mentioning it, it will go away. Yet, more and more studies are giving the same results and it is being published in respectable scientific journals:

"Piagetian trends indicate that a decimation of top scores may be accompanied by gains in cognitive ability below the median. They also reveal the existence of factors that have an atypical impact at high levels of cognitive competence. Scandinavian data from conventional tests confirm the decimation of top scorers but not factors of atypical impact."

Notice that in this key paragraph, there is no mention of IQ nor anything remotely associated with race, immigration, biological differences. One can read it and keep pretending that IQ does not exist and humans are equal and interchangeable.

Piaget here does not refer to a Swiss clock but to a psychological theory stating that children are BORN with a basic thinking mechanism and they develop their capabilities according to their basic potential and of course, the environment. Therefore, Piagetian trend is a codeword for cognitive capabilities trend, and the trend is (1) fewer individuals in the higher ranges, and (2) IQ increase in the retard class. I understand this means that geniuses - notably Scandinavian geniuses - are disappearing and the moderately imbeciles are multiplying. It may be relevant that as of 2016, Statistics Sweden reported that a third of the population is from foreign background.


Soon there will be nobody to talk to. Soon only AI robots and Trismagistus judeophobius will be reading this blog.

Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem

PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE

From the time when American Negroes were slim and modest and did not use bad words. I was slim too, oh tempora oh mores!

The Soros Plan

Hungary's government has fomented a furiously antisemitic public debate about the Soros Plan. George Soros says there is no such plan. Well, he may not consider it a "Plan", but the article he published in 2015 appears to propose some kind of organized EU action to receive one million refugees per year. He wrote:

"...The operational and financial arrangements developed by the EU should be used to establish global standards for the treatment of asylum-seekers and migrants. This is the fifth piece of the comprehensive plan. Finally, to absorb and integrate more than a million asylum seekers and migrants a year, the EU needs to mobilize ..."

I cannot blame the Hungarians for interpreting the above as a diabolical plan taken from the Protocols. Soros had donated  400 million dollars to re-educate and liberalize Hungarians rooted ultra-nationalist, xenophobic and antisemitic convictions. He failed most dramatically: today, Hungarians are more rabidly anti-Jewish than ever before. Soros would have been more popular in Hungary if he gave his money for rebuilding synagogues and yeshives in Hungary and in Israel. The Jewish fate hit Soros very hard. He had not realized that he cannot escape his Jewish identity and our bitter Jewish fate.

The Jews from the Future Have Landed

They have just arrived and already are living off the produce of the land. They know what they want and they are demanding it forcefully. They have strange names: Arbel and Gaffen.

Hanukkah as it should be

Not KosherKosher

To light candles in Hanukkah is not kosher (ritually perfect) because the miracle it celebrates was about one day oil lasting eight days. So it has to be oil and not candles. What kind of oil? In those times, only olive oil was used. May one use eating olive oil sold in the supermarket? No, only highly refined olive oil, like the one used in the Temple of Jerusalem, can be used. In the past, I used olive oil but my wife disliked the practice because it smells and candles are cleaner. Between authenticity and peace at home, I choose peace.

What do Neural Networks see?

 Above: What you see. Below, what the neural network (AI) sees. Very Interesting.

Israel preparing to fight the next war - abroad

TZAHAL completed a week-long exercise in Cyprus, refining its ability to fight outside of Israel's borders. Logistics and medical forces also participated in the exercise. A senior officer said that it was a "practical" test for the challenges the IDF will face in the next war.

Half of Cyprus is occupied by Turkey. Who was the "enemy"? What next war?

New Hope in TASE

TASE the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is changing directors in hope it will recover from the disastrous decision in 2010 to change its classification from developing to developed nation. Anat Guetta is TASE's next hope. She is from Libyan Jewish extraction. Which demonstrates that we Austro-Hungarians have lost the control of Israeli finance.

Anat, for those interested in these things, was the name of a forgotten Hebrew fertility goddess, the counterpart (wife) of Yahoo. That was before he become sole King of the Creation.

Jews Arrogantly Continuing To Exist, Prosper

Initial efforts to eliminate Jews as a people first occurred during the latter half of the sixth century BCE.

Jerusalem, December 6 – Despite thousands of years’ worth of efforts to eradicate them and demonstrate the world does not want them, Jews persist in arrogant defiance of popular will by remaining in existence, and in many cases doing well, reports indicate.

Initial efforts to eliminate Jews as a people first occurred during the latter half of the sixth century BCE, historians note, and have continued on and off until the present, but have seen only mixed success at best, owing in part to what scholars call a conceited attitude on the part of Jews as individuals and as a community not to bend to the manifest preferences of those around them that they disappear or be destroyed by violence if possible.

“It’s unheard of for anyone to sustain arrogant defiance for so long,” remarked Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a leading proponent of efforts to convince Jews to consent to extermination, by force if necessary. “It has to give, since arrogance is one of those flaws that eventually destroys you. So it has to be merely a matter of time before the entire flimsy edifice of Jewish pride comes crashing down. Perhaps we can even install a countdown clock in Tehran to help anticipate that day.”

Others noted the antidemocratic implications of Jewish insistence on continuing to exist, let alone reestablish an economically advanced sovereign state in their historic homeland. “This goes against the will of the majority of nations,” argued Mahmoud Abbas, a noted practitioner of democratic norms. “The Jews make a big deal of maintaining ‘the only truly democratic state in the Middle East,’ when in fact the very existence of that state violates the democratic principles they invoke in the process. The arrogance and hypocrisy are astounding, and the international community has not done enough to counter it. By the way, any solution that involves sidelining me and my cronies or depriving us of our economic fiefdoms is a non-starter.”

Part of the problem, analysts explain, lies in the piecemeal nature of the efforts to force Jews to acquiesce to the will of the majority. “It takes concerted effort to overcome such powerful arrogance,” noted Maurice Papon, who studied French WWII policy. “Only the Nazis managed to induce much of Europe to get rid of Jews, and even then they were only able to destroy about a third of them. Then the survivors went and built a state that’s an economic and technological powerhouse. We can’t let that accomplishment go to the Jews’ heads – what does it say about the rest of us?”

Good. Copy/Paste from Source

A Rainy Day in Tel Aviv

After years of nudging, the American President accepted Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State. Thanks, Mr Trump.

TASE, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange dropped in anticipation of widespread protests and violence in the chaotic Middle East. The NASDAQ also dropped a little but probably for other reasons, such as rotation to companies expected to profit from Trump's reduction of taxes.

I worked all day on the Rehovot project, the regulators demanded the detailed design of a garden fountain and a fish pond. The things exist and are fifteen years old, documenting them is absolutely useless. If the regulators happen to dislike the design, the owner will need to destroy or rebuild them. This is the same regulator that once demanded from me to hire a lifeguard for a hotel jacuzzi.

Currency Speculation

The Marker has an article today about taxing the bitcoin. The government considers the bitcoin a taxable object, so any transaction has to be invoiced and charged 17% VAT (מע"מ). Purchase/Sale profits are taxed at 25%. Since bitcoin transactions are anonymous and evade the bank system, they are invisible for the taxman and the tax cannot be enforced.

The Marker says that it would make sense to consider the bitcoin a currency. FOREX profits are normally taxfree. The problem is that the crypto has no Central Bank and it grows wild in the internet sphere.

My insight is that today the only profit that escapes taxation is currency speculation. Soros made his fortune betting against the British pound, and our Fishman lost the Alliance tire factory by being careless in his speculation against the Turkish lira. Macro-theoretically, it would be enough to look at the foreign trade deficit of a country and interest rates to predict devaluation, but of course economic theory is useless in this field too.

In current environment of competitive devaluation, what is to be done? I have to think.

Chip Stocks Falling

Breaking a two year trend, chip stocks tumbled this morning. I had just rotated from General Electric to Nvidia and others in the cloud and the artificial intelligence sector. The robot analysts say that it is because of fear of oversupply (?!). I think that it was Donald Trump who caused the debacle by reducing the taxes in America, so that the robot investors sold chips and moved to areas that would benefit from the tax cut. Anyway, the sheqel is so strong that in dollar terms I am winning. 

Emma Cline about Teenagers

She wrote a book about two teenagers involved in a Charles Manson-like cult and sold it for two million dollars. Now her own bizarre sex life is coming out, which for this old Jew is quite shocking. She had been actively seeking porn adventures and casual sex for years, all registered in her computer. She had planted the spy program on her own computer to spy on her boyfriend who occasionally used it. 

In the pic she looks like an angel. I hope she is not Jewish, although she may be because writing successful porn books is a Jewish trait. 

Privatizing Building Permits

The minimum time required in Israel for a building permit is about two years, while in many cases, like the famous Jerusalem Towers, it took ten years and complicated Jerusalem's major, chief engineer and the architects (several successive designs were submitted following the Committee's capricious demands). Some of them spent two weeks in jail suspected of offering and/or requesting bribes. The major was condemned because it was discovered that the entrepreneur had donated money to the Major's favorite philanthropy. So the Government decided to privatize the permitting process. Several engineering groups are being examined to become authorized "Examiners" (בודקים). One of these groups needed an expert in water/sewage and I was invited to join. The fruit plate was in front of me on the meeting table. The pic was taken BEFORE I started to examine it more closely.

The authorization process is managed by the Chemical Laboratories Office on the British model (they all traveled to London to learn how it works there). I easily passed the first exam. The next day we met in a 14 store apartment building complex (106 units) under construction, but when they climbed the very dangerous temporary stairs to the roof (there was no lift yet), I remembered my idol Nero Wolfe. The genius never left his office and employed young Goodwin for the dangerous footwork.

Hungarian Freedom-Fighters of 1956: Not Antisemites

Russian propaganda presents to this day the Hungarian "Counter-Revolution" of 1956 as basically antisemitic and intending to re-establish Horthy's fascist regime. A recent book (in Hungarian) elaborates a synthesis of the work of Bela Kovrig, a Hungarian sociology researcher, who collected some 1500 questionnaires with data on the fighters that escaped to Austria after the failed revolt.

The demography of the refugees is remarkable: more than half are single men in under 25. 70% declared having taken part in the fighting. One third were students, a quarter workers and 20% professionals. Kovrig estimated that 10% were antisemitic, the rest followed the principle of "Keeping the Revolution Clean" - meaning no antisemitism should be allowed. They tried to create, as far they had a post-revolutionary political program, some kind of Social-Christian regime like that of West Germany at those times.

While the picture that emerges from Kovrig's questionnaires is clear and I believe representative of the actual fighters that escaped to Austria, in later phases of the process there was a re-emergence of older Fascist elements. I remember my parents during those times: we lived in fear. So much so that they left all their possessions - apartment, silver objects inherited from my grandparents, family photographs and who knows what else - and undertook a very dangerous escape from Hungary in war.

War-in-War against the Sufis

Within the long war between the Sunni and the Shi'a branches of the Islamic world, there is an ongoing war against the Sufi interpretation. The massacre that took place in the Sinai last week, more than 300 worshipers gunned down in a mosque, was a Sunni attack against the Sunni (Sufi) people. The Shi'a, in their own sphere, also exterminate the Sufis and destroy their mosques and shrines.


In Lybia, the rebels bulldozed the shrine of al-Shaab al-Dahmani, a revered Sufi sage. In Mali, they demolished mausoleums and libraries in the ancient Saharan town of Timbuktu which were UNESCO world heritage sites. Sufi worship halls have also been turned to rubble in Iran, where the Islamic government is has jailed thousands of Sufi followers. In Egypt, Sufi shrines have been torched and the Sufi chanting ritual called zhikr has been banned.

The Sufis are targets of the fundamentalist Islam that sees their kinder, gentler interpretation of the religion of Mohamed as a challenge to their own rigid orthodoxy. Sufi practices, like the whirling of the Mevlevi dervishes in Turkey, first practiced by Rumi himself, employ music, dance and spiritual recitation to awaken the God who Sufis say is asleep in the human heart. The poems of Rumi in translation are well known and loved in the West. What is unknown is the the bloody persecution of his followers in our days of resurgent, hardened, fanatic Islam.

I think that the pacifist, inner-orientated, purification-seeking philosophy of the Sufi is doomed. The stiffening of the Islam will lead toward its unification and toward a new round of clashes against the Christian world. The contact with this hardened Islam has already induced a hardening of Israeli Judaism, and in the long term, I presume, it will cause the resurgence of a hardened Christianity in the West.

(On the other hand, I always have another hand, the hardening of Israeli Judaism may have internal causes; and the hardening of Western Christianity may never happen.)

300 Sufis Killed in a Sinai Mosque

Discarded shoes of victims remain outside Al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt. a day after attackers killed hundreds of worshippers, on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo)

The killers as well the 300 victims were Sunni fanatics. Why then? The attackers follow the strict Wahhabi (Saudi) line while the mosque follows the Sufi tendency. The Sufi are strict Muslims with a penitential, ecstatic, mystical orientation. Sufi means rough, woolen garb, while Saudi princes prefer white galabiya (long shirts) with golden decorations. Reason enough for exterminating each other. Although, who needs reasons? A good war needs no cause (Nietzsche).

The first fully rational beings on the planet

"The first fully rational beings on the planet will surely be artificial intelligence machines" (author).

We should not fear machines that are more intelligent and rational than ourselves, just as we discovered that there is nothing frightening about locomotives that run much faster and are a thousand times more powerful than we are. Someone could build a machine capable of leveling towns, but none one did it. I have a premonition that thinking machines will be used to help seduce women and other sexual activities; after all, everything living organisms do is for reproduction.  

Protest

Manifestación, Antonio Berni, 1934. Foto: Gentileza Malba, Argentina.

Mnangagwa, the "Crocodile," sworn in as Zimbabwe president

Mnangagwa, the "Crocodile".

What can I add? except that I am impressed by his name and his avatar, the crocodile.

"Bibi" sounds babyish to me. It does not even approach the alarming neural impact of "Mnangagwa the Crocodile".