Jewish Hell

Old Kohn dies and the Celestial Court interrogates him: 

- Did you pay your taxes? 

- You see... 

- Were you faithful to your wife? 

- In principle yes but... 

Kohn, we see you are not a bad character, but we cannot admit you to Heaven. Take the lift to level minus 30 to the Jewish Hell. 

Kohn arrives and the Reception Commission greets him. 

They take him to gourmet restaurants where uniformed devils pour vine in his glass, a limousine tour with a devil guide, a night club with a female devils show, to the beach full of beautiful girls. 

- Is this Hell? 

- It was when we arrived, seventy years ago.

From the Ankh-Morpork Times

 "Well, I reckon this is another case of mysterious spontaneous combustion, just like reported yesterday."

"I am not not sure that one was very mysterious" he said. "Old Mr Hardy decided to light a cigar and forgot he was bathing his feet in turpentine."  Someone had told him this was a cure for athlete's foot and, in a way, they had been right. 

"That's what they say," said the man, tapping his nose. "But there's a lot we don't get told."

"That's true," said William. "I heard only the other day that giant rocks crash into the country every week, but the Government hushes it up."

"There you are. then," said the man. "It is amazing the way they treat us as if we're stupid."

"Yes, it is a puzzle to me, too," said William. 

Kfar Saba rejects Development

My town has declared itself against development and industry, and the gas burning electricity plant project was defeated. The buildings are already in place, so this is confusing. What is certain is that the Spirit of San Francisco has spread to the Sharon region and the population wishes a "green", pastoral village. NIMBY is Kfar Saba.  According some economists, zoning regulations favor local property owners, increasing the prices of real estate, creating something they call "rent". 

The Disgrace of Being Born White

Ancient Greeks met Africans (Ethiopians) and became aware of ethnic differences. In "Ethiopica", a story, Chariclea, the daughter of King Hydaspes and Queen Persinna of Ethiopia, was born white (by effect of the sight of a white marble statue during her pregnancy). Fearing accusations of adultery, Persinna gives her White baby daughter in adoption to an Egyptian, who passes her on to Charicles, a Pythian priest. Chariclea grows up in Delphi to be the Pythia, the oracular priestess.

We learn that being born White is a big disgrace Ethiopia. Her exotic background (and her capacity to enter into trances) made her the oracle of the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi. As the Pythia, she had to keep her virginity, but was seduced and escapes. More inter-racial sex and the story has a happy end. 

Black Cube (Not the Ka'aba)

 

Black Cube. We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Asian intelligence

 

"A country with an IQ of 115 can expect to have a GDP per capita (PPP) of about $100,000. This is higher than every other country with the exception of Qatar, Macau, Luxembourg, and Singapore. The first country is oil rich, the second one runs on gambling, and the last two are tax havens, none of their economies can be emulated by larger countries." Murray says that Korea should have a 100,000 dollar per capita economy. Because Koreans are talented. 

It seems farfetched. Japanese, who are more or less identical to Koreans, have never reached European economic levels. North Korea cannot feed itself although they have developed advanced weapons. They are intelligent but something does not allow them to reach their potential.  

PS: The World Bank estimates Japan's GDP around 40,000 US$ somewhat less than Austria and Belgium. South Korea is in the same league. If China develops to Korean levels, as it appears to do, it will become invincible. America may sink into civil strife and chaos due to its mutually hostile populations. 

 

"Defund-the-Police" led to More Police

Since George Floyd's agony, American media went crazy with protests and demands to defund, dissolve and neuter the police. Politicians dissociated themselves from the killers because Black Lives Matter. The media constructed an imaginary reality, a theater, a farce, it was all fiction. Police budgets were increased everywhere, no policeman was fired, more then one was silently advanced. Everyone understands that the name of the game is to repress the crazies and the excitable races while appearing doing the opposite. George Floyd  was sanctified and is worshipped. Only the evil-doers are unimpressed. 

George was in the car with his girlfriend, the White woman Courtney Ross. Malcolm X tells in his autobiography that he received 7 years in prison for a first, minor robbery, only because his crime of  pimping a White girl. Interestingly, the media never mentioned nor pictured Courtney. George was described as saintly family man, dedicated to his Black wife and two Black children. Courtney was never seen on the media. 

Police-Horse Brutality in Jerusalem

The quarantine worked and today we had a very low number of COVID infected persons. Except in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, where they ignore secular Government orders. They follow only God's commandments. The authorities instructed the police to be humane and kind in imposing the curfew, but police horses are incorrigible brutes. Police-dogs were not employed. I heard that the police-camel corps are held in reserve. Camels have big teeth but their worst weapon is halitosis. They belch and birds drop dead from the sky. 

Zoom Fatigue

 I noticed that much of the information in Zoom meetings gets lost and people acts as if did not hear. Myself am tired of zoom and cannot switch back to work - only after a pause. I feel old and exhausted. Zoom requires focus and produces stress. I see people leaving in the middle and not coming back. Maybe I shall get used to it. 

Paris: Chechen Student Decapitates Teacher

Trying to explain the concept of "Freedom of Expression", the teacher presented in class a picture of the Prophet Mohammed. A Chechen student, scandalized, decapitated the sacrilegious unbeliever. 

Un professeur d'histoire-géographie a été assassiné, décapité ce vendredi aux alentours de 17h près d'un collège de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, dans les Yvelines. D'après nos informations, la victime avait montré des caricatures de Mahomet dans le cadre de son cours d'éducation civique, initiative signalée par des parents d'élèves.

25% of the French population is Muslim. How nice is to live in Kfar Saba where there are no such murderous ethnic/religious/political tensions. 

35 Km of Gas Pipes Dug Up and Stolen

 Argentina breaks all records of corruption.  A State owned company laying down a gasoduct from Bolivia, dug up 35 kilometers of its own pipes already under earth.  Five were found (pic), the rest has disappeared.  Source Pagina 12. The management is being investigated. Probably they have been reused in another part of the project, you cannot sell them on eBay. The Government was charged for the "new" pipes. That is my opinion based on personal experience as a former provincial employee.  

Two days in Quarantine

The last two days I could not get myself to work. The medical cannabis business called my attention and bought 5000 sheqels of Kannbit shares, a pharma startup that grows grass near the Dead Sea and has contracts to supply Britain. Israel is not exporting (permits!) and the business fills the contract with Uruguayan produce. It is working for the permit and hoping for prosperity.  

We are babysitting grand-daughter Noia, 4 years old, a freckled redhead - and we had a nice conversation. We had never spoke because her older sister, her mother and my wife - all deranged - always sabotage me. We examined my new anti-pigeon windmill and the dead tree in the "garden", she carried water to the plants and enquired what they eat, I told her about the bats living in the fig trees in our street and she asked how big are they, we observed the forms of passing clouds and so.  

Now I am trying to make some order in my projects.

Ayodhiya Rebuilt

 Gandhi put India back into preindustrial obscurantism and superstition, but Hinduism has found itself and India is industrializing and prospering. Narendra Modi is a Hindu leader with efficiency and drive, who at the same time, is attentive to religion. Seconded by the Yogi Adityanath he is rebuilding the temple of the God Ram. In the East Aryan epic Ramayana,  Ram is passed over by his father the King and exiled, but after many adventures he takes his rightful place. A blessed era follows. 

After almost a week of holidays and corona quarantine, it is difficult for me to restart my daily work routine. I had a good night sleep, in the early morning drunk a charged coffee that sent me back to bed till midday. it must be difficult for others too, as no one called. It is important to work every day given that it is so easy to lose the habit. 

Gandhi and his homespun loincloth

In these eventless corona quarantine days, I am reading Naipaul's "A wounded continent" about India. In merciless phrases, he deconstructs the Mahatma (Big Soul) Gandhi and Bhava, his saintly successor. Hinduism seeks spiritual perfection and disdains this world, and accepts defeat, misery and dirt, believing that they refine the soul.  Naipaul hates Hindu philosophy and would clearly prefer the racial policy of the British Raj instead of the Hindu caste system. But the Brits got exhausted after 300 years of dealing with fakirs and retired to their misty island. 

The Unmentionable Secret of the Africans

 

A mysterious "ghost population" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say. The DNA from this group makes up between 2% and 19% of modern West Africans' genetic ancestry. The fruitful interbreeding took place 43000 years ago. 

The ghost may not be so mysterious. No scientist will win a Nobel Prize for discovering the ghost, in fact, no one dares to touch this subject. The accepted theory is that humans are one race, all equal. Of course we are one species. But let's carry out a mental operation of listing the features that differentiates the phenotype of the Asian-European people (Lets call them AE) and the Africans (call it Afr). Make the substraction AE - Afr = what do you get? Don't you see it? Source. 

No Bourse Crash in View

 As more activity moves online, business will become more dominated by firms with the most advanced intellectual property and the biggest repositories of data; this year’s boom in technology stocks gives a sense of what is coming, as does the digital surge in the banking industry. And low real interest rates will keep asset prices high even if economies remain weak. (The Economist).

Pic.:Krach de la Bourse de Vienne le 9 mai 1873. Dessin publié dans le Illustrierte Zeitung du 21 juin 1873

Accelerated Destruction of war materiel

Azerbaijan social media accounts now claim to have destroyed up to 250 tanks and armored vehicles of the Armenians. They also claim to have destroyed another 150 military vehicles, such as jeeps or supply trucks, and to have neutralized 270 artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers. Baku also asserts it has hit more than 60 air defense systems, including the claims it struck an S-300 system – and to have smashed eight armories and 11 command and control centers.

As for the Armenians, they also claim to have destroyed whole divisions’ worth of Azeri material. Some 127 drones have been shot-down, as well as 16 helicopters, 17 planes and four larger Smerch rocket launchers being hit, the Armenian side says. They also claim to have destroyed 416 Azerbaijan military vehicles.

The side that achieves air supremacy will start to advance and take territory. The question is if Turkey or Russia will make good the ongoing losses. This destruction cannot continue for more than another week. 

Ex Minister Avigdor Liberman said that Israel’s official line is t try to stay publicly as far away from that mix as it can. But Liberman said that while Jerusalem should say little, it is very much in Israel’s interest for its position to be made clear. “Azerbaijan is our friend, and friendship is tested in times of crisis,” he said. “I recommend very strongly that we preserve our friendship with Azerbaijan.” 

Optimists We Are

Which is the most optimist people in the world? Of course, the Jews. Having no idea how big the baby boy's member will be when grown up, we shorten it.

The Devil Let Loose on Earth

The idea is to rewild the world. Pic. The carnivorous Tasmanian Devil.

Stirling Motor Explained

Seen in Tel Aviv

Turkey vs Russia

From The Economist: "...if Armenian territory is under attack, Russia has no option but to defend Armenia.” Turkey and Russia are already tangled up in two proxy wars, in Libya and Syria. They run the danger of fighting a third one in the Caucasus."

Decarbonization

Apparently, the movement is serious. "Green" metals such as copper and the platinum group are in demand and will become more valuable. Which are the Israeli mining enterprises in which I should invest? The metals are mostly in South America, and Africa. Pic. Zimbabwe platinum mine. Karo Resources from Cyprus is investing.

Israel is not Alone

We always follow the American example, generally ten years later. But now we seems we have syncronized with California, the authorities cannot impose order and chaos rules. Quote from Bloomberg:

"Pontes is now the county executive officer of Shasta County in Northern California and goes to work in thin socks, but another crisis has found him. “You cannot get closer to total disobedience of any kind of law,” he said, referring to the local response to Covid-19 strictures. “What’s happening up here is full-on anarchy.” Then he listed for me a few of the things that had happened recently: The county sheriff had announced that he wouldn’t enforce the state’s pandemic restrictions on social gatherings and businesses. People who had never before attended county board meetings were accusing local officials of treason. The county’s health officer, who had the unhappy job of imposing the state’s Covid rules on the citizens of Shasta County, was now receiving so many threats that Pontes had brought in a new threat-assessment team; he’d also ordered the bushes cut back away from her house, installed a security system and floodlights, and ordered police patrols of her neighborhood. “She still doesn’t feel safe out there,” he said. “At all.”

Civil Revolt in Israel

The people of Israel cannot suffer further isolation and quarantine and is rebelling. Thousands of leftists are protesting against Netaniyahu, as if he personally is to blame for the epidemic. The religious sector is continuing its mass meetings and mass prayers, confident in the effectivity of communal prayer. The Arab sector is disorganized and powerless to impose self-discipline. Today 8500 new infected were added; the hospitals are full and rejecting more corona diseased. The epidemic is out of conrol and Israel is the "reddest" country in terms of infected per capita. My general impression is that the people is very nervous, businesses cannot continue closed and are desperately searching for a solution. Today I had a 4 hour ZOOM meeting, everybody much stressed. I made a big mistake, I am getting old. The people on the streets are desperate and frightened. I too am frightened.