All eyes on the NASDAQ

 

Left, the TASE 35 index today. Opens 1030 AM and after a few operations, it stops breathless, watching what the leader, the NASDAQ will do. At about 16 here that is 0900 AM in New York, the Yanquis wake up and their machines start trading. After a couple of minutes, Tel Aviv feels the winds coming from the East Coast and starts trading again. We are followers. 

Find me !

 

I received a ticket to America with a three-month Greyhound bus ticket rewarding my surprisingly good university diploma. I traveled all over America and Canada and managed to be present at events. For example, I sat in the United Nations when the Israeli representative described the shameful genealogy of the Saudi Royal family. I was in Congress watching how democracy worked. I was at hippy demonstrations at Berkeley. I was at the rainy Woodstock rock festival. I must be somewhere in the pic. I met boys in Canada escaping the draft. I was almost recruited by the Army kiosk at Times Square. I did not like America and returned to Argentina.    

Fatal advice

 by  Alex Tabarrok January 29, 2022 at 7:25 am in 

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In Organic Disaster I wrote:

Sri Lanka’s President abruptly banned chemical fertilizers earlier this year in a bid to become 100% organic. The ban has resulted in reduced production and soaring prices that, together with declining tourism and the pandemic, have created an economic crisis.

Here is the latest update:

Sri Lanka has announced compensation for more than a million rice farmers whose crops failed under a botched scheme to establish the world’s first 100-percent organic farming nation.

…The government will pay 40,000 million rupees ($200m) to farmers whose harvests were affected by the chemical fertiliser ban, agriculture minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said on Tuesday.

“We are providing compensation to rice farmers whose crops were destroyed,” he told reporters. “We will also compensate those whose yields suffered without proper fertiliser.”

The government will spend another $149m on a price subsidy for rice farmers, he added.

About a third of Sri Lanka’s agricultural land was left dormant last year because of the import ban.

A good example of central planning in action. 

Me: And of the fatal advice of the FAO and the World Bank and foreign woke agricultural experts. 

Russia rebuiding

 

Ukrainian troops, armed by Western Europe (left), are preparing for a Russian invasion. Russia is intent on rebuilding the Soviet Union. They moved blood supplies near the border.

Empathy

 This intelligent, sensitive, and unlucky Jewish girl I had been following on Twitter writes: My hope is that investigative journalists will discover that I am fake and free from my suffering. The wind turned her umbrella and her shoulder jumped out of its joint. She writes that she is under painkillers including narcotics. I would love to help and write something encouraging but have no words. She is blocking me too. 

לַיִל

@Lyle_r_y

יש בי תקווה שפיד תחקירים יגלו שאני פייק ויגאלו אותי מיסוריי

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Storm (2)

The storm is still here. NASDAQ continues sliding while other indices are holding. I erased my Twitter account because it consumes time and those intelligent, unlucky, crying girls, longing for a companion, touch me. I cannot help them, I don't know even how to speak to them.   

Storm

 We are having a winter storm. The air conditioner has been repaired and refilled with gas. 

NASDAQ - Shaking and Unsure of itself

 My daughter bought a nice apartment and I am participating in the payment. Just now, when I'll need to sell, the NASDAQ is oscillating madly. I am feeling faint, my legs are wobbling. 

Sexual Selection Among Humans (II)

 

Sexual Selection in Humans

Lynn presents an evolutionary theory for this difference: In order to acquire females, who sexually select for status, males had to reach the top of their group’s hierarchy and attain more resources than other males, through the cognitively-challenging means of solving novel problems and creating successful alliances with other males. This would have strongly selected for intelligence. Source

China vs USA

 In Nevada, conservationists and Indigenous activists are camped at the site of a proposed open-pit lithium mine as the project is challenged in court. A rare wildflower has a second mine in the state at a standstill. Maine’s mining laws, some of the strictest in the nation, will make it nearly impossible to extract lithium from a large deposit there without changes by the legislature. And the future of a lithium mine in rural North Carolina is in the hands of a seven-member county board with power over zoning. (from POLITICO).    

China is extracting from its own mines (pic) and its mines in Africa. The USA is developing mines in Chile and Argentina. 

Lithium is a strategic mineral. I don't know what to add. 

UNILEVER falling 15%

 The popular brand of Ben and Jerry Icecream, in a PC nervous breakdown, decided publicly to boycott sales in Judea and Shomron. We are, naturally, very angry because of this aggression and doing everything to make them change the policy. B&J belongs to the Unilever conglomerate, so our defense has escalated up to this very powerful international corporation. And it is suffering and getting the message. I have no idea how it is done but its shares are falling 15% at this very moment.

Dissent in the Coalition

The governing coalition proposed a law (something related to the army) in the Knesset (Parliament) and suffered a reverse. An Arab member of the coalition Jida Rinawi Zuavi voted against the law, saying that hates the way Israel treats the Badawi nomads, and in general, that Israel exists.  The head of the Meretz party, Nitzan Horovitz, promised to discipline the rebel. It is a miracle that the coalition, containing such hostile, antiZioist elements, survived till now. Could the Soviet Union survive if Goebbels was its Defense Secretary? 

Lactose Tolerance Diffusion

 The gen appeared in South Arabia and Ethiopia and diffused to all Middle East, India, and South Europe. The Corded Ware people did not have it. 

Jews in the Iberian Peninsula

There is a study of the Iberian peninsula genotype and surprisingly it reaches the conclusion that 20% of the paternal lines are Sepharadi Jews. Apparently, people in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Saharawi bedouins are our relatives. The Phoenicians frequented those places. 

Erasing Generous Donors

The hostile, anti-Jewish fishwrap HaAretz demands in its editorial to erase the name of  Steinhardt in the Israel Museum and other public buildings. The billionaire was entered into HaAretz's black list because he bought some non-white people's objects and donated them to the Museum. HaAretz copies every American leftist craziness a year later. Since we have no slaveowners here, the fishwrap makes an effort to find something remotely reproachable and tries to demonstrate that they too are woke and progressive. They are also against the police. Yesterday the Negev Bedouins rioted against forestation projects - they are definitely against planting trees in the Negev desert. They fight to leave the desert - a desert for their goats. Not a word on the violent riot in HaAretz, only a pic of a policeman overpowering a demonstrator with a judo take and forcing him to "kiss" the asphalt. The pic illustrates the Tu Be Svat - the annual celebration of the trees in Judaism - when schools go out to the desert to plant trees. 

Fulfilling Patriarch Duties

My daughter the architect is obsessed with a second, larger home in Hod Hasharon. It is prohibitively expensive, but I promised to help. I love my daughters. I'll sell some stock. The prices are very good and rising. The American inflation reached 7% p.a. so investing in real estate is a reasonable option. Anyway, I expect to die (not this year) of a heart attack and will take nothing with me. Not that I'll be going anywhere. There is no afterlife in Judaism. 

Fourth Vaccination

 

Yesterday I got the 4th vax against the COVID-19 and I'm feeling somewhat depressed/lacking enthusiasm for starting to work. My daughter and husband bought an apartment for a monstrous amount of money, but prices in "central" Israel have increased to unheard-of levels. Higher than anywhere on this planet, and I am not exaggerating. More expensive than Manhattan Central Park. I think the last May riots in mixed towns like Acco, Ramle, Lod (pic) frightened the Jews and they will pay any price to live physically as far as possible from Arabs. The Arabs are worse in many senses than American Blacks, because they are more violent and ideologically hostile. Arabs are ready to die if that hurts Jews. Blacks are not against America, but Arabs hate the State and the Jews. Only the Orthodox save us from becoming a minority.  

Are we entering a bear market?

 

Yahoo Finance, my favorite market commenter, says so. I am trying to understand the graph but it looks to me that NASDAQ is in a prolonged bullish movement with a lot of inertia. NASDAQ has made lots of millionaires lately and also has benefited small fish like me. I am still optimistic and buying. 

[China Lecture Series] 32강 중국의 부상과 한미관계의 미래 : 존 미어샤이머 (John J. Mearshei...

Mearsheimer repeats his thesis but this time he is very explicit. Among other things, he explains how England tried to destroy early America, and why Cuba was not incorporated into the United States (they did not want another semi-African population) and so. He most logically explains why WWIII is unavoidable. I am still frightened.

Hoarding ICL stock

The West has been seriously offended by Lukashenka's smuggling of "refugees" into the EU and is taking action. The American Treasury uses Bielokali to send a message to Lukashenka, and which is good news for ICL's share price. Quote section of the Treasury's "shaming" aka ultimatum: 

 INCREASED SANCTIONS ON THE POTASH SECTOR OF THE BELARUS ECONOMY

OFAC is designating additional entities to limit the financial benefits that the Lukashenka regime derives from potash exports. These designations follow OFAC’s August 9, 2021 designation of the major potash entity in Belarus, the Belarusian SOE Belaruskali OAO.

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As part of the designation of Slavkali, OFAC is identifying a luxury helicopter, EW-001PH, as property in which Slavkali has an interest. Painted in the colors of the Belarusian flag with the state seal emblazoned on the seats, EW-001PH was purchased by and is owned by Slavkali and has been used to ferry Lukashenka between his suburban residence and Minsk.

The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

The best ever/

China copying Israel

Evergrande had been ordered to demolish 39 buildings within 10 days because its planning permit was obtained illegally and had been revoked. The article cited a document allegedly from local authorities in Danzhou, a city in the northwest of Hainan, the island province.

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Chicago descends to chaos

The figures show an incredible collapse of Chicago and the State of Illinois. Taxpayers are leaving and the lumpen is a net tax burden. The situation is insolvable, desperate. America is changing fast. 
 

Bloated

I cannot get myself to work seriously, I feel Bloated ... It's that too-full feeling you get in the belly after you eat a bit too much. I slept intermittently and now cannot focus. I Ate rice boiled in fat chicken soup and boiled Argentinian merluza fish. Tasteless. Spent yesterday taking my wife to the hospital, she has nothing. Tomorrow I'll be better.