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.