Russia lost to China

The latest news in the chess world is that Russia has lost in dominant position and China is the new champion. The Chinese were never very good in chess, while the Russians ruled since ever. What happened? I imagine that Russian domination was based on Jewish brains, and now that the most Jews have left Russia, well, I do not have to spell it out.

Yesterday Roman Abrahamovich, the Russian Jewish tycoon, an associate of Vladimir Putin, was kicked out of England and he asked for an Israeli passport. As a Jew, he has the automatic right to Israeli citizenship. I hope he brings his yacht (pic) and his money and that the rest of Russian Jews will follow him.

Flying Bomb Falls on My Project in Netivot

I slept very badly tonight, every hour I had to go to the bathroom, and could not take my mind off of my Tofu - soy milk factory project in Netivot. The city has received several missiles from Gaza but what really worried me is that I had submitted an Autocad file full of errors. Now I am going to work on it. I have several urgent projects and I am late on them.The pic must be an illustration.

WHEN I'M SIXTY FOUR

The Beatles's song about old age, from a time when sixty four was "old age" and unlovable per definition. Having reached 64 and many more, I feel that the song is is not right, sixty four is not old. Well, it was written by McCarthy when he was 15, an age when even a girl of twenty is considered old. I sure was of that opinion. But times have changed...                                                                                  ....for good. The Apollo Club below is a male choir in Minneapolis. Shockingly "privileged" Northern European faces, you don't see such pics anymore in the media. Hear! no one said "Fuck" even once. Look! no one is caressing his genitals nor pushing forward his pelvis. Most unusual in today's popular music scene.                                  

Morocco Expels Irani Ambassador

Morocco, a leading Arab country, has broken its diplomatic relations with the Persian regime. Interestingly, I have not read that it was the love of Israel that made the Moroccans to throw out the ayatollahs. Even the Persians did not suggest that Morocco is obeying Zionist dictates (The say the relations are normal). The French daily Le Monde writes:

« Il peut s’agir d’une volonté de rendre la politesse à Washington après le geste américain en faveur du Maroc dans le cadre de la dernière résolution sur le Sahara occidental, tout cela dans un contexte où les tensions régionales et locales sont exacerbées et poussent partout à des reconfigurations. »

that is, Iran is arming the Polisario rebels (pic), an act considered unfriendly by the Moroccans.  I recognize my beloved 23 mm WWII Russian antiair gun in the pic.

Bubble Territory

Think:

"Years of low interest rates have manipulated the stock market higher and created an imbalance that is disproportionate relative to the general economy. When the market does get hit with another crisis or bear market, it's going to be more painful than normal given its relative size to the economy. We are in bubble territory."

Since TASE (Tel Aviv Stock Exchange) has fallen 20% behind NASDAQ, since we are considered a geopolitical risk, should we have a quiet year, we are bound to recoup the gap and more. I was always optimist, but in the last two weeks I was attacked by doubt and vacillation. Old age is no picnic.  

The Chosen People

Lynn wrote a comprehensive analysis on Jewish intelligence  and just to save you time, I'll go to the conclusion, which is that persecution was the main factor in developing the IQ differential between the Jew and other peoples. Where it was cruel and persistent, like Germany, there Jews are most intelligent, and where there was none, like Ethiopia, Jews are exactly like the surrounding population.

Lynn analyses European Jewry as it was before the Holocaust, that is, he is studying a people that no longer exists. In the same way, he could study the IQ of the late Beothuks of Newfoundland. He makes some mistakes in identifying prominent persons as Jews or non-Jews, but those errors do not change the conclusions. He also deals with Mizrahi Jews as a coherent group, which is not. Baghdadi Jews (pic) were (they have all moved to Israel) and are different from Moroccan Jews and so on. Lynn   is superficial and probably wrong when writes that Mizrahi Jews never excelled. How much do we know about Baghdad before the Mongol invasion and destruction?

In spite of the deficiencies, the work is worthy and contains interesting observations. For example, the marriage permits like in Frankfort and Prague, did limit the number while enhance the quality of the city's Jews. So they had fewer Jews but they were even smarter.

Since the explosive advance of genetics in the last decade, we have a much more precise instrument for population analysis. Lynn's methodology is obsolete, based on hypothetical "Who is a Jew?" lists, totally unscientific. In my opinion we should leave Lynn and even the Intelligence Quotient concept behind and move on to genetics, and analysis based on genes. 

Who moved my city?

Yesterday afternoon the temperature in the shade was 44 Celsius. At arrival in Ariel University, it was 38.5 (Ariel is in Samaria, at about 400 m over sea level). We are only in May while the highest temperatures in Israel are in August-September. My hometown, Kever Benjamin, used to have a temperate Mediterranean climate, but I feel that suddenly it has been transported to the hottest spot on Earth. Where may we be now?

According to NASA (see satellite pic), the highest land skin temperature ever recorded is in the Lut Desert i.e. Dasht-e Lut (دشت لوت‎, "Emptiness Plain") measuring 159.3 F (70.7 C). How did our enemies move a 80,000 strong Jewish city so far without we noticing it? At night?

Already we are feeling the beginning of a drought. According my estimate, this summer there will be insufficient water for urban supply and irrigation. Already the Water Authority is asking to shorten showering times. Two minutes, they say, is enough.