We are living on DOSADI

The DOSADI experiment is a Frank Herbert sci fi book of a toxic planet where the population is concentrated in one City with advanced technology that produces eatable food, while the unfortunate rest is eking out a marginal living in the poisonous environment of The Rim. The City is under permanent attack by Rim infiltrators that are trying to get into the fortified, walled City. The book represents faithfully the current state of Planet Earth.

People on the Rim is so desperate to get into an advanced City that they are willing to pay 10,000 USdollars per year (see this sting operation), are ready to become sex slave/marry any creep, are ready to walk a thousand miles (from Honduras) and risk their lives, etc. - for just escaping from their Rim horror and get into the City.

Unfortunately the book does not develop this subject, it focuses on racial conflict inside the City. 

More facts about Flint Water Emergency

I am always learning new facts about the Flint water contamination with lead. It appears that Flint Water workers did not steal the buffer chemicals as prejudiced I  had presumed. Somebody had decided not to use them. A critical cost-saving decision made by Flint not to use corrosion inhibitors, especially when water previously supplied by Detroit did contain them, should have raised concerns. Evidence to demonstrate that inhibitors were unnecessary was a minimum common-sense requirement.

"Ignorance among utility personnel and water quality engineers of the importance of corrosion control management and its subtle linkage to decisions made elsewhere in the treatment plant unfortunately also played a role in this story of unintended consequences. "  (Now, what is the meaning of this sentence?) 

By not adding a corrosion inhibitor, Flint was going to save about $140 per day. 

My present understanding is that somebody made the stupid decision to save the buffer cost. Was it taken by the EPA in the capital or was it the utility personnel? I think it must have been a low level decision. May be they really stole the money for the buffer.  

Cat Lady

Amalia Kahana Carmon died and nobody noticed it. She had been a celebrated Hebrew writer, Prize Israel in Literature, Prize Bialik and many others. Born in kibbutz Eyn Harod during its heroic period, a descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, she was a failed product (*) of the Zionist movement. Balaban, in the anti-Semite fishwrap HaAretz, compares this silence with the international media lament for another writer of her generation, Amos Oz, who died a days ago. Balaban suggest that the media silence was mandated (by whom?) for her feminist opinions. But she had no such opinions, she was born in another time (she was 98 y.o.) but yes, biologically, she was a female. If we can call a childless cat lady so. Look at that horrible cat.

(*) In my world, a Jewish woman with no children because of her lifestyle, is a failure.  

Live Long

Let's talk about something relevant. The average age of death in Kever Benjamin City also known officially as Kfar Saba is 84.4 years. This is the Israeli city where people lives longest. Yes, I can confirm that the streets are full of old people being pushed by Philippine and East European caretakers. The average life expectancy in Israel is 82.4 while in Japan (the longest in the world) is 83.7. I am not sure that the differences are significative seeing my mother  in-law living at 86 and being fed with tea spoon some industrially processed baby food supplied by Kupat Holim.

My life plan was to work till 74, but things being so, I may have to change my plans. I am unable to imagine myself spending ten years doing nothing productive.



Pic.: Kfar Saba Jews.

Overpumping in Tehran

Iran is an arid country undergoing a severe dry spell. Overexploitation of the aquifer causes the capital Tehran to sink. Cars fall into large holes that appear suddenly. Building collapse. Natural disasters are always attributed to God's fury against the leaders, followed by popular purification movements. ISIS with its return to medieval Islam appeared after a long drought in North East Syria.  

The Black Man is Sexier

We have to recognize that there is unavoidable competition among different varieties of one species, and in the case of mammals, competition among males for fertile females.

Black men are taller, more muscular, stronger than other varieties, and they have the largest sexual organs. They are also more aggressive and daring, and able to improvise brilliant conversation easier than introspective, timid, intellectual peoples. They also have superior sense of rhythm and music, deeper and more masculine voice. Apparently, in their evolution, they underwent strong sexual selection, and acquired the genes that make the girls want them.

Therefore, for the white man there is only one way to compete with the black. Avoiding competition on the dance floor. The rest will be left unsaid. 

Dysgenic Trends in Iceland

The minor allele of one of these SNPs, rs192818565, is associated with reduced education. It is known to tag the H2 haplotype of a common inversion on chromosome 17 that was shown to exhibit characteristics consistent with having been positive-selected (23). It has subsequently been shown that H2 is also associated with reduced intracranial volume (24, 25) and neuroticism (26). Combining our male and female data, the minor allele of rs192818565 is significantly associated with more children (P = 5.2 × 10⁻³) and having children earlier (P = 2.2 × 10⁻³). This is thus a striking case where a variant associated with a phenotype typically regarded as unfavorable could nonetheless be also associated with increased “fitness” in the evolutionary sense.  Source. 

G. Cochran writes that we are seeing in front of our eyes evolution of IQ, so it follows that there are differences among living populations, and also we shall discover them in dead - historical  - populations.  I think all the debate about dysgenic trends in Western populations is finished and we should focus on how to digest this knowledge.

The Communist Party (see Yefim Lysenko's case) and the Left fought and are fighting the idea of IQ evolution. The Nazis with their fake Race Science provided them with a powerful alibi (and constituency) that inhibited the advance for a hundred years.  The whole thing is very badly positioned in the West and we can only say, like Galileo, that "eppur si muove".

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P.S.:  Continuing the above point, let me observe that there are many illustrations of the above dysgenic trend. Just to mention one:

Two oil paintings by renowned Icelandic painter Gunnlaugur Blöndal (1893-1962), were removed from the Central Bank of Iceland after one staff member complained. Blöndal  painted most of his nudes in the 1930's and 1940's. The removal of the painting has caused some uproar as it only features a bare breasted woman and because Blöndal is one of Iceland's most celebrated artists. 

"Certain warning lights start blinking when people are offended by what we call classical imagery," says director of the National Gallery of Iceland, Harpa Þórsdóttir.