San Francisco-On-The-Hadas

Hadas is the name of the only "river" near my beloved city of Kever Benjamin. Hadas is a winter stream that flows from the pond behind the Ushiland Shopping Center (pic), receives the treated wastewater of the Kfar Saba WWTP and flows on to feed the Yarkon River.

The only thing common to San Francisco and my place is the rejection of development: the Municipality will invent the most bizarre reasons why no new buildings may be built nor apartments added to the existing ones. The recently elected major "froze" two important projects in the downtown that already had their permits, and wove that no new developments - approved or not - will pass. The obvious result of this policy is an immediate jump in real estate prices. As owner, it benefits me, but on the other hand, I would love my daughters buying and settling near. Prices are not yet at the infamous San Francisco range (after all, this is a town bordering with knife-wielding savages), where hi-tech millionaires can only afford a mobile home, but we are not far.

Frightened by the financial media talk about recession and crash, I had been looking for investable real estate nearby, and a 4-room 40-years old apartment costs about 700,000 dollars. And going up fast.

I am wondering if current prices are... cheap. Maybe I should take a 25 year mortgage and buy. The bank doesn't care that my probabilities of being alive in 2044 are nil, they would love to lend me the money, just ask dear J. 

River Mismanagement and Sinking Cities

Let's forget the damming of China's big rivers and the channeling of the high Himalaya flows to feed Beijing. They don't appreciate criticism. Let's look at the Mekong. Soon there will be no Mekong as we knew it through old Vietnam War films.

The big cities in the world are sinking. Tel Aviv is not so big but the Coastal Aquifer below is overpumped and buildings have to be reinforced and/or collapsing. Jakarta's subsidence is 20 cm a year. Much already is flooded. Manila, Dhaka, Saigon, Venice, etc. and nearer to us, Alexandria. If the icebergs keep melting, most coastal cities will have problems. Much infrastructure will be needed, more work for the water engineers of the next generation.

I know, we the Jews will be blamed for all these problems. So let pre-empt them: YES! We did it! 

Huszar Aladar the Chief Sheriff of Hungary

The Polish Jewry had been "liquidated", the Germans had already lost the war and the Russian army was approaching and Eichmann was organizing the deportation, yet Hungarian Jews lived in the illusion that the evil will pass them. Now I see that they had some basis for hope, since many decent Hungarian politicians and churchmen courageously protected the Jews. One of them was Huszar Aladar, pic., his title was Fo-Ispan, which means Chief Sheriff. He ended in Dachau.

The EU is emitting a memorial Euro with the pic of the Losonc synagogue. My Grandfather Duved came from there. He suffered a lot when the Hungarians (Horty) demanded he prove his Hungarian roots going hundred years back. Or be expelled to fascist Slovakia. Anyway, he was deported with the whole family to the poison gas chambers of Auschwitz. If I had a son I would have called him David. His name lives on through David Libermann of Melbourne.

BTW, the Neolog Synagogue in the bill is NOT our synagogue. We belonged to the extreme Orthodox community.

Israel starts to evict Philippine families

Many Philippine caretakers had affairs or found partners in Israel and have children born and raised in Israel. Up to now, the Supreme Court forbid for humanitarian reasons the expulsion of these children and their mothers. Those who care understood that the our Judge-Gods are not for the people but for hyper-altruistic humanism, and worked to elect sober ones. We are seeing some changes. Judges who are not slaves to the foreign media but take into account the survival needs of this embattled country. 

Our next client

A recent Israeli research says that the emergence of the Islamic State was not consequence of a natural drought in Northeast Syria, as I presumed, but the over-exploitation of upwater flow by the Ataturk Dam. It makes sense.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will use former Sudanese and Egyptian water. They'll fight. We shall sell weapons to our Ethiopian blood-brothers. Pic.: Gondar. 

J explains White Replacement

It is the notion … " the “white race” is being squeezed out of existence through its own low birth rate, miscegenation and more prolific reproduction by non-white people."  (From The Economist.) 

Fair enough, but not enough. The question is if (a) there is a basis to it and if so, (b) is it bad? The statistics of the last hundred years surely confirm the trend.  Humanity is brown and the "white" (I prefer the classic Chinese description of 'colored people' or the people with colored eyes and hair) are getting scarcer. I love multi-colored girls (Sadly, only in past tense) and not attracted to big butted African girls, so - for me - it is a (notional) loss.

Is the fear of replacement bad? Taken to the extreme of racism, it is. The Nazi Party, professing its iron will to save the colored eyes people, attacked its neighbors - who were more "white", "pure" and colored than they were, the Polish and Ukrainian peoples. (And Ashkenazi Jews, who are lighter-colored than most Germans, you didn't know that.) Ten million Germans died. How you save your race exterminating your own race? The Nazis said one thing and did exactly the opposite. Ergo, racism is bad, causes people to harm themselves.

More than, I don't know. The girl in the pic resembles my cousin in Australia.

Greenland: Israel should outbid Trump

President Trump is floating the idea that America should buy Groenland. The island is very big and cold, and peopled by some 50000 seal hunting esquimaux. Why should Trump have it? We are a small country and very hot, we need a cold place for our summer dachas. It is worth more for us. We could subdivide it and sell plots for young couples and retirement homes. We could industrialize the seal business.