The Truth About Demolition of Arab Houses in Israel

The article in the fishwrap HaAretz today analyses why the Arab sector building is almost universally illegal according to the country's law and why the enormous budgets appropriated for the Arab sector are not used and at the end of each fiscal year, return to the State. On the graph we see that only 9 Arab municipalities used more than 40% of the State budgets,and and on the left end, 3 used up less than 10%. 

This validates my personal experience, when I was working in the Water Administration. My Dept. had a budget of about 250 million dollars to be "lent" for public water and sewage projects in the Arab sector. Half of each loan was a grant, not to be paid back, and the rest … too. I mean they never paid back and the loan was recycled annually and then erased. Yet we never succeeded in spending more than half of the budget, due to lack of suitable, bankable projects. The Arab sector had no working municipalities and city engineers able or interested in talking to us, and the sewage flew on their streets as in the Middle Ages.

Regarding the illegal construction going on, the issue is that according to the law, each building has to have a municipal permit, and almost none has. The Arab municipalities are a chaos, there is no one to submit a plan and if even if submitted, since there is no city planning at all, cannot be approved legally. The law say that illegal buildings have to be destroyed, and in the Jewish sector, they are. In the Arab cities and villages the Law is silent, not applied, but the people is worried from a strong rightist government may be willing to confront the issue. 

The article comments that Representative Achmed Tibi (right), trying to neutralize the menace, had formed a political alliance with Moshe Gafni (left pic), from the ultra orthodox sector, and both camps  - Arab and Haredi - are de facto political allies. 

Anyway, Ariel University is graduating hundreds of Arab civil engineers and in a few years the Arab municipalities will catch up and regularize their planning situation. In general, the Arabs have advanced much in the last decade in Israel. They have entered the universities are working in the general economy and making money. 

The Russia-China War and the Lin Piao Affair

It has been forgotten that in 1970 there were battles between Russia under Brezhnev and China under Mao. The Chinese were no match for the Red Army. Mao had been particularly irritated by the Soviet Communist Party disputing his ideological supremacy and turned   China away from the Socialist camp and invited Nixon to banquet in Peking. A fraction in the Chinese Party felt Mao was mad, and had to be eliminated.

Lin was in charge of defense in the Politburo. He wanted to build up the army. He believed that the US and Japan were China's major enemies. Mao turned against Lin who suddenly felt so insecure that took a plane to Moscow. The plane exploded in flight.

My point is that the Chinese dictatorial regime invites conspiracies. A dictatorship, historically, invites coups and golpes-de-estado. The world will never hear about internal tensions but they must exist today as then.

Are Uyghurs White?

The above graph by a Chinese science group shows that Uyghurs are about half and half. They were White 3600 years ago, when they left those famous redhead mummies, and then there was mixing with Northeast Asians. About 700 years ago there was an injection of Europeans, probably females brought in by the Mongol conquests. The forced sinization going on today can be seen as the dilution and absorption of an ethnic group. Of course, there is nothing sacred about an admixture that coalesced in historical times, yet...  (Applying Prof. Maersheimer methodology of realism, Uyghur volunteers had joined the Islamic State and were no friends of the Jews, so the Chinese State is working for me by repressing those dangerous, barbarian fanatics.) 

Ancestry makeup and variations in admixture proportion within XJU. (A) ADMIXTURE results of XJU with West Eurasia, South Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia Siberia populations at K = 4 (in order https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/96943814/msx177f2.tifto show a full picture of Eurasian populations, all populations of the four major ancestries (including representative populations) were included.). Proportion of each ancestry in XJU was highlighted with a pie chart. Height of the bar is proportional to admixture proportion.

Happy New Year from Manchukuo (1930)

I was watching Prof. John Maersheimer's lectures about power policies,  and if China's rise will necessarily be opposed - militarily - by the USA. His answer is yes, it is inevitable. America has consistently all along its history engaged and destroyed potential peer powers such as: Indian nations in the continent, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, the Soviet Union, etc.

If China succeeds in rising, the Tibetan Lama Kingdom and the sinization of the Turki (Uyghur) nation reflects the future of its neighbors. The Chinese most hate the Japanese and the question is what will Japan do? With its sinking population, defanged of imperial ambitions, it may find a niche as a barbarian tributary state. (Postcard 1.1.1930). India is also nervous about a giant neighbor.

Maersheimer says that America is interested in the Middle East only because the oil is here. The power trying to dominate this area/resource is Iran. It follows that its clerical regime will have to change, it is something of a miracle that the mullahs still are in power thirty years after. If archeologists are right, priestly rule was common in the Mesopotamian States of the antiquity, a temple being the focus of the settlements. But in our days there are no other states ruled by God's Representatives on Earth. Our main interest is to keep Iran far from us. In this anarchic world (no one answering 911) we need to be part of a regional system. Who is the enemy of Iran? We should be their friend.    

Alignment of Forces in the Eastern Mediterranean

As if we had not enough problems with internal politics, now we are sliding into a regional confrontation initiated by Erdogan. Turkey will send troops to Libya at the request of the UN-backed government in Tripoli as soon as next month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today.

Libya's internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has been struggling to repel a months-long offensive by General Khalifa Haftar's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which has been supported by Egypt, Jordan, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and France.

Last month, Turkey and the Tripoli-based GNA leader Fayez al-Serraj signed a defense cooperation deal and a separate one on maritime boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, where Turkey is locked in dispute with regional rivals Greece, Cyprus, Egypt and Israel over access to waters rich in natural gas.

All this "plonter" was caused by Hillary Clinton and Obama, who destabilized the comic-opera dictator of Lybia, Colonel Khaddafi and caused his bloody decapitation. Why did she do that? Khaddafi had dismantled his nuclear project and was doggishly obedient of his masters. Even the stupidest Neocon could have predicted the chaos that followed his exit. Americans do not learn: Jimmy Carter ordered out elected "dictator" Tachito Somoza, not a bad man and slavishly "our", causing twenty years of Sandinista chaos and civil war. 

The Van Lake Migrant Trail

This night seven people drawned and 64 were rescued when a boat carrying migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan sank in Turkey’s Lake Van. The winter weather is harsh in those parts, they must have been desperate to intend to reach Germany by that route. Europe will have to build a wall too. 

Star Wars Over Israel

"Red alert" air raid sirens sounded Wednesday night in Gaza border towns, interrupting a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

The alerts sounded while Netanyahu gave a speech at a Likud primaries conference in Ashkelon. The Prime Minister was escorted off the stage and taken immediately to a bomb shelter.

"The person who fired at us last time is not with us," Netanyahu said afterwards, adding that, "the one who fired now should start packing his belongings."

Halil Battanney (pic) appears to be the person in reference. It may be fake news, who knows why his pic appears on the internet? I do not know. We shall have to wait only a few days to know.

Kever Benjamin City (Kfar Saba, where I live) has been ranked number two among Israel wealthiest cities (Tel Aviv is number one). Apparently, we are well off. This morning I drove to Kalansuwa, a large Arab city 30 km north of Kfar Saba, and was shocked to see that the industrial area has no sewage system and the workshops have large plastic reservoirs for water, because there is no pressure in the pipes. The city is ruled by the largest and best armed clan. Elected by democratic vote, of course. Most people pay no municipal taxes (the arnona) nor water bills.  The Arabs I work with are very competent, buy as a collective they are unable to organize themselves effectively.  

Simmering Confrontation with Turkey

Turkey and Turkey dominated Lybia signed a maritime accord declaring the East Mediterranean their property (Map left below). We condemned the declaration as “illegal”, but  that doesn’t mean we are sending battleships to confront Turkey. Greece, which is a close ally of Israel and is at odds with Turkey over a host of issues, called the accord absurd because it ignored the presence of the Greek island of Crete between the coasts of Turkey and Libya. Greece's claims in the map right. Many countries are dividing the seas among themselves. China did it with the South Sea. Without an hegemonic power, as was the US, the world is sliding towards a catch-as-you-can-catch situation. Bad. 

People Wants to Stop Development

Because of mass protests against the new gas development ten kilometers away from the coast, the Ministry of Environment stopped the launch of production at Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field. Phantom fears of unknown contamination and global catastrophe have paralyzed a very important project. It could not happen in China. 

醉翁谈录

Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee

Just around the corner

There's a rainbow in the sky

So let's have another cup o' coffee

And let's have another piece o' pie!

Trouble's just a bubble

And the clouds will soon roll by

So let's have another cup o' coffee

And let's have another piece o' pie

Let a smile be your umbrella

For it's just an April show'r

Even John D. Rockefeller

Is looking for the silver lining

Mister Herbert Hoover

Says that now's the time to buy

So let's have another cup o' coffee

And let's have another piece o' pie!

China Assimilates Uighur Females

From an Australian paper:

Han Chinese men had been assigned to monitor the homes of Uighur women whose husbands had been detained in prison camps. The reports came out after an anonymous Chinese official gave an interview with Radio Free Asia, confirming the program but denying there was anything sinister about it.

As part of the “Pair Up and Become Family” program, Han Chinese men stay with and sleep in the same beds as Uighur women. According to the Chinese Government, the program is designed to “promote ethnic unity”.

J reflects: Does the Pair Up program take into account what will happen when the Uyghur husbands complete their education and return home and find a Chinese man in the bed with their wives? Or that scenario will never happen? 

Real Money

A humbling thought. What is wealth? A big house in Tel Aviv? The sale of 1.5 percent of Aramco was oversubscribed 4.65 times and the total worth of the company approaches 2 Trillion US dollars. Owner: Saudi King. 

Why are Israeli teenagers so stupid?

The question, formulated more politely as "Why Israel failed in the PISA exams?", is the title of an article in today's fishwrap HaAretz. Prof. Irit Keinan * (from "Women Make Peace" movement), one of the top mandarins of the educational establishment, observes the paradox of Israel's very high investment in education and the very poor results. She writes that it should not be like that, since she KNOWS that children fail in exams because of poor facilities and lack of teaching equipment. And in Israel, education is well budgeted. The government school is frequently the only building in Bedouin tent encampments in the desert.

She discovers the solution to the paradox in the "bizarre alliance" between the right-wing political indoctrination and liberal multiculturalism. Ah! this may be an important insight! But no, she goes on protesting against the politicians in education, and proposes more humanities. To understand the idea, I try to identify the politicians in education and yes, the Minister is a politician, but under her, the bureaucracy is "technological", "professional", career-administrators with Ph.D.s in Education. What is what she wants? Whom she hates? Only she knows. **

Regarding humanities, yes, the latest directive is to emphasize mathematics, and a fifth advanced math subject has been added to the curricula. Is she against it? It is unclear.

I should moderate my criticism of the article because it provides a clear answer to the title question, why are Israeli teenagers so stupid and cannot match Equatorial Guinea *** PISA ranking. It is because Israeli educational leaders are confused and stupid. ****

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*   She has a nice smile.
** May be she does not.
*** Equatorial Guinea does not participate in the PISA.
**** There is another possibility, but it would invalidate the gist of my criticism. May be Israelis are not very bright, could that be possible? 

Melasma: The Sign of Death

Looking in the mirror I saw a brown blotch on my right cheek, in the same place where there was an identical blotch on my Father's cheek. It is melasma, also called hyperpigmentation, and it does not hurt nor causes any harm. Most elderly Jews in my street have more blotched skin than I do, but for me it is just the beginning. It signals an hormonal change: meaning, surprise!, I am getting older. Not dead yet, but already I am carrying on my face the dark sign of my decease. Be ready! On this optimistic note, I leave and sit at the sabbath table with my replacements. 

Israeli Mandarin Prof. Yaron is far from stupid, yet ...

Sammy Peretz reports in The Marker  (Hebrew) about the speech of a High Mandarin, Prof. Amir Yaron, Chief of Bank Israel, about Israel's public investment criteria. The Bank wants to select investments that most increase the GNP, and it has calculated the yields of investments in three key sectors: Infrastructure (each shekel invested  in roads and so increases the GNP by about five shekels), education (better equipped school facilities, highly qualified teachers, more pre-kindergarten hours and so) produces six times its cost, and investing in making the bureaucracy more efficient (more computers, more regulators and consultants, etc.) costs very little and each shekel yields ten, so he says. He prefers infrastructure, like Tel Aviv underground trains project (pic), even if it yields the less of the three investment alternatives, because it is well defined, is highly visible and reduces the time spent driving at rush hours. Who can disagree?

Yaron notes that Israel's population is one of the most educated of the world, and Israel's education budget is among the highest of the world in terms of GNP. Yet the latest PISA results show that Israeli students are among the worst, ranking lower than third-world countries. He wonders "What are those students doing all those years in school?" It is obvious that they are not learning, and we do not know how to spend  in education to achieve results.

He is aware that something is not working as it should, yet he repeats that unproved, untrue relationship between investment in education and economic development. Why? He knows that spending even more in education will produce no results, yet he increases year after year the Ministry of Education's budget to the point that Israel is number one in spending (and the last in PISA exams).

I shall not comment on investing in the bureaucracy. Yaron must well know that investing in regulatory agencies does not increase the GNP but reduces it. That is obvious except for those whose salaries are an item in the Budget, say, Prof. Amir Yaron. 

The Celestial Empire

The most important historical issue is the rise of China as a great power, possibly the greatest ever. Australia is in China's hemisphere and the nearest Western outpost, and is worried. Kevin Rudd, an Aussie sinologist diplomat, says that the Chinese people feels humiliated (it was colonized in the past) and to maintain relations on a rational, non emotional basis, the West should apologize.

On the other hand, John Mearsheimer, an American public intellectual, sees the situation in black and white: It is war and Australia must be part of the Western alliance. China knows only tribute-paying barbarians and enemies. Both speakers are very impressive.

I have been many times in China and like it. The first Israelis in China were TAHAL experts, they travelled in secret under different passports because we had no diplomatic relations. I wanted very much to go but they sent Dr. Moshe Mizrahi instead. He was the first to introduce Israeli heifers and establish a dairy farm. I was so bitter that attacked the project, saying that Chinese lack the lactose enzyme and will vomit the milk. I was wrong, of course, and the local milk industry has developed tremendously since. We could have maintained our primacy but did not. New Zealanders are there.

China was known then as facing famine, and the question was if they could feed themselves. What they did was to forbid second child. I told my counterpart that it was a very wrong policy, and I think I was right. Today they are in need of those unborn babies. I told them that Chinese poverty is a temporary aberration, they were a hardworking intelligent people, and Chinese prosper everywhere they are. They were very afraid of the future. And yes, they feared Western colonization and division of the country.

They have good reasons to fear the West and Japan. But they are easy to live with, should the West let them to. Whites (and Blacks even more, but they lack intelligence) have aggressor genes and cannot stay quiet.

Tacit Corollary: (1) Both American and Australian thinkers assume as certain that China and America are in (cold) war, (2) China's economic size equals America and will be two times larger in twenty years. It is unsaid that for America, it would be advantageous to precipitate the confrontation as soon as the conditions become propitious. 

In the Stress Lab

I spent four hours today in the Stress Laboratory of Civil Engineering Dept. with Michael aka Zack (pic). He is another of the elderly Russian Jewish geniuses that found refuge in the University of Ariel.







The subject is boring - the distribution and propagation of stresses in structures - but he added probability calculation which made it more intriguing. The students followed  Zack's "experiments" without much enthusiasm. Probabilities always fascinates me. 

The Solgar Military Drone

The Turkish military industry, and industry in general, is developing fast. The new drone can fly 10 km and shoot 200 bullets with good precision. It is impressive because the platform itself is light, unstable in the air and each shot causes a reaction that changes the position of the drone. Turkish industrial products are low tech but effective, and most importantly, inexpensive - we have many JCBs in the construction industry. Turkey disputes maritime rights with Greece, it is a latent shooting war. Bibi said that we are allied to Greece since Turkey nixes our gas pipeline near Cyprus. 

My Clients are Better than I am

The Regulator sent me a list of 25 demands: another interceptor, ten more non-return valves, two pumps instead of one (extra safety) and so on. I said OK we shall do it. My Client said NO, we shall not, we shall fight the expensive, senseless demand of this bureaucrat person. On second thought, he is right. I give in too easily. 

The Red-Hot Competition for IQ 100 people

From Deutsche Welle (Germany's Official Propaganda Medium, like the BBC):

Germany is most in need of electrical engineers, metal workers and mechatronics engineers, cooks, nurses, aged care workers, computer scientists and software developers. The government has been looking to draw people who qualify from Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil, India and Vietnam, among others. 

Labor Minister Hubertus Heil sought to allay concerns among immigrant-wary sections of the population, telling the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper that the recruitment drive "is not about uncontrolled immigration, but about qualified people who we need so that our country can remain economically strong in the future."

This comes after Germany accepted more than a million Syrian refugees a year ago. Today the competition is not for mineral or other resources, but for working people. This is a totally new situation: People is not inexhaustible cannon fodder, but a scarce resource.  Argentina has about a million German descendants, mostly from the 19th Century, why are they unmentioned? 

Chinese Pre-History (and Post-History)

It is impressive how one is able to follow the linear progression of the numerous small villages in the Yellow River basin to larger political units and ultimately to the emergence of the enormous PR of China today. On the Western side of the Euro-Asiatic landmass, the parallel processes of empire formation were interrupted and re-started several times and no such continuity is evident. May be I am wrong, since Greek is still spoken and Latin (what is French if not Latin?) is the main European language group. The pic shows a pottery mask from a Neolithic site on the Yishui River (Hebei) village (8000 years BP). I think those civilizations appeared 2 -3 thousand years later than our Middle East settlements.

The Xi regime in China is in transition. It is possible that I may visit the large plaza in front of the Forbidden City - without Mao's mausoleum in the middle. Mao was a disaster for China, his mummy has to go. Arthur Waldron says that China's state enterprises are losing money, and taxation is very weak, so foreign investments are financing the regime. Stop the investments and stop foreign trade - the regime is g.o.n.e.

Gorbachev did the right thing in peacefully dissolving the Soviet Union, says Waldron. Everybody knew that the system was dysfunctional but its collapse could have involved civil wars and according to Yakovlev, about 70 million dead. One may wonder how the Chinese regime will mutate into a democratic, elected government, one ruling with the consent of the governed. Six months of civil disorder in Hong Kong indicates that the Chinese people rejects dictatorship, however mild it is for the average Han citizen. 

Venezuela: Ruined by Unearned Wealth

Three billion barrels of proven oil reserves, and people sleeps in the car at gas stations for days waiting to buy gasoline: that is Venezuela today. No one can beat Venezuela's socialist government mismanagement. The official price has not been changed in the last 18 years, and thanks to phenomenal inflation, its price is something of 0.1 cents/gallon - if you get it. There is no war in Venezuela but a third of the population has escaped and became refugees. 

Forty years ago, Venezuela became exceedingly wealthy thanks to the Saudi Oil Embargo (an act of war against Israel fighting for its existence in 1973). That incredible bonanza ruined them: they lost the habit of working and are unable to return to a honest, productive economy. Wealth is more destructive than poverty. 

Jews Becoming (Again) a Race

An idea is circulating that to combat antisemitism the Jews should be declared a "race" in America, with the effect that every anti-Semitic expression or comment would be automatically classified as a "racist" attack. And there is nothing a more serious crime in America than being a racist or being accused of racism. The punishments are draconian.

How could we suddenly be declared a race when for 70 years we the Jews and the liberals the world over had been fighting the very concept that race exists, and that we Jews are a separate, identifiable, race ? Technically, it can be done because race is such a vaporous concept that everything can be a race. The question is: Is this good for the Jews? I have to think it over.

Pic.: Kautsky: the Father of Communism/Social Democracy wrote about the question a hundred years ago. He says we are not. And nothing will come out of Zionism. 

TAHAL Shares Jump 63%

Tahal, my alma mater, lost money in Romania, and its African clients do not pay in time. It has contracts signed in Angola (pic. Quiminha) but no money to carry them out. Tahal's owner, KARDAN, has been trying to sell it for years but there was no buyer. Yesterday they bagged an offer for 12 million US$ from Shikun VeBinui group, and the bourse's reaction was electric. I own some, till yesterday, was worthless. The purchase agreement contains a seller's loan for 12 million, so apparently no money changed hands. The international agricultural development business is not profitable. 

Trump is a Genius

Trump orders review of EPA water rules because “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times”. I have the same thought every time in the toilet. Being a professional even calculated the volume of water and the flow velocity to carry away different objects. Human dirt is sticky and flexible, and 7 liters in the Niagara will not sweep it away. I have a collection of "green" ecological issues that are counterproductive, including the new regulation that requires Green Certification. Trump is a builder, he must have come in contact with this expensive absurdity, but never talked. Trump is like the child who cried: "The King is Naked". I like him. 

“People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once. They end up using more water,” Trump said, complaining that water flow in other fixtures has slowed to a trickle. “You can’t wash your hands practically, there’s so little water comes out of the faucet, and the end result is you leave the faucet on and it takes you much longer to wash your hands, you end up using the same amount of water.”  

The New York Times has identified 53 separate rules that have completed the rollback process at the agency, and 32 more that are still in the works.  GOOD JOB MR PRESIDENT! 

Israeli Space Agency: Send the Women to the Moon

I seem to have read that some Israeli space agency recommends sending the women to the moon. Probably I have misread the article, but have no time to read the small print as the bourse is boiling.

Anyway, it is a good idea. 

The Gothár Scandal creates an Explosion of Antisemitism in Hungary

Peter Gothár is/was director of the Katona Theater in Budapest and a drama teacher. A year ago he was fired from his job because sexual harassment of an actress. A year later, now, the affair became public, and the Government decided to defund the theater. 

What is the point of punishing the theater? Their aim is to frighten the intellectual-artistic world. The sex-maniac instead of hiding in shame stepped forward and made full confession:  “A year ago, I approached a female co-worker of mine in the theatre in a morally inexcusable way. A few days later, I apologized and was forgiven.” The University of Theatre and Film Arts, where Gothár is a professor, stated that Gothár himself requested an ethical examination. 

Apparently he kissed an actress, no physical violence took place, but for some reason, months later, the actress denounced with the theater management. (The most dangerous thing for a man is to kiss a woman and let her go unfulfilled. She will ruminate the episode and take revenge.) The extraordinary thing is the Orban Government reaction of defunding the theater, and the media reaction of vicious anti-Semitic comments. Like many in the Budapest artistic milieu, Gothar is one of Budapest's hidden Jews, born a Christian whose only connection to the Jewish people is a vague knowledge that his parents (or one of them) had been persecuted by the Nazis. Jews are hated so much in Hungary that the Government digs up people's grandparents identities and if they discover "Jewish blood", it will not allow them to forget and hide their unwanted origin. Why is Mr Gothár and others like him still in Europe?

Flint Water Poisoning: The Jews Did It

I am following the Flint fake water poisoning from its very start, but did not expect that it would lead to blaming the Jews. Although I know that in the end everything bad is blamed on the Jews (nowadays, the Zionists).  

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Passaic, N.J. Branch on Wednesday published a Facebook post claiming that African-Americans "are dying so that Jews can live."

In the post, NAACP Passaic shared a Disclose.tv article titled "Israel gets $50 billion while America cannot afford clean water for Flint."

The article focuses on the town of Flint, Michigan, which has been "terribly affected by the presence of contaminants in their drinking water and yet the people who live there have not been deemed worthy of federal funding."

It claims that the Democrats have tried to push to give $400m to Flint for "the worst public health crisis the United States has endured in recent memory," but were rebuffed by Republicans. It then claimed Israel had "demanded" the US increase its budget to $50 billion.

"For some this refusal is only more upsetting because while the United States apparently cannot give money to its own citizens in their time of desperate need, they have sent $30 billion to the state of Israel over the last ten years," the Disclose.tv article wrote.

Commenters on NAACP Passaic's Facebook page pointed out that the Facebook post is anti-Semitic, and that anti-Semitism is not the way to solve Flint's water crisis.

Queefing ... in French

The phenomenon is well known to me but I did not know that it had a name (or many). Like the one who did not know that he was speaking in prose...

In French... La terminologie utilisée pour décrire ce phénomène varie grandement, allant du jargon médical à des termes bien moins châtiés, aussi bien en anglais qu’en français : vents vaginaux (vaginal winds), vaginal air (air vaginal), bruits vaginaux (vaginal noise), noisy vagina (vagin bruyant), pets vaginaux (vaginal fart, queefing, queef), flatulence vaginale (vaginal flatus), colpophony (colpophonie), chattering vulva (littéralement, vulve bavarde), frout (contraction de foufoune et de prout), voire « pet de fouf ». Flatus vaginalis et le garrulitas vulvae (littéralement, bavardage de l’utérus) sont deux termes latins également rencontrés dans la littérature médicale internationale. Autant de termes cités dans l’article de Gérard Amarenco et ses collègues urologues de l’hôpital Tenon (Paris) et celui publié par des médecins belges en 2017 dans l’European Journal of Obstetrics and Reproductive Biology.

This is a learning diary, and although I am old old, keep learning something new every day. The pic show a Paleolithic Venus recently discovered in France.