Danny & The Juniors "Rock 'n Roll is Here to Stay"

                                                                                                                                                         Danny Rapp died of a gunshot (suicide) in a hotel in Arizona. The Juniors lived to late seventies.

The New Judaism

From Reuter:

Extinction Rebellion, which uses civil disobedience to highlight the risks posed by climate change and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species, is midway through a new two-week wave of actions in cities around the world.

Activists thronged the financial heart of London on Monday, unfurling banners, addressing passersby by megaphone or blocking streets around locations including BlackRock, the Bank of England, Bank of China and Barclays.

At BlackRock, volunteers glued themselves to the doors while others staged a mock dinner party with rolled-up banknotes on their plates. Police said they arrested more than 90 people.

The arrestees included Rabbi Jeffrey Newman of the Finchley Reform Synagogue, who was arrested near the Bank of England praying, singing and wearing a prayer shawl for the first day of the Jewish festival Sukkot.

It is amazing how Reform Judaism has transformed itself into an anti-capitalist anti-modern messianic movement. For some reason, it has decided that fire, that is, burning wood, coal and similar fuels, is sinful; that Nature's animals are sacred and hunting, breeding and eating them is against God's will.  It has developed a new set of ritual purity - kashrut - laws, that include taboo against wearing furs (in the original it was mixed textiles), intensively fed animals (in the original, pigs other unclean species), etc.

Yet, this new religion does not seem more arbitrary or crazy than the original one.

Quote:  Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.  Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs. There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for all of us. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.

Increasingly it seems facts aren’t necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief.”

Pic.: Ecocide by Kantor. What I see? The Devil trying to seduce that innocent Swedish virgin girl. The pic could be hanged in any Church.

Long and Boring Holiday

Succot in Kever Benjamin. Yesterday had dinner in the sukkah of my daughter. The grand children happy playing with a dog.

Today too hot to go out so I slept late and then entertain myself  preparing a long, long, detailed Bill of Quantities for a processed egg factory.  Boring. 

I try to imagine the quantum universe we are living in. Apparently it is like balls on strings, many balls on many strings: the balls can move freely to the right or to the left each on its string (the string being time, the balls are quanta that can move to the future or back). The situation at the start defines all the possibilities, knowing the starting situation one can know all the possible situation in the future. One can move the balls on the string left or right, time is meaningless. The whole game is meaningless.  

The Hunt for 859 Escaped ISIS fighters

"Jelal Ayaf, co-chair of Ayn Issa camp, said:

- 859 people escaped from the foreigners section

- Sleeper cells emerged from inside 'open' IDP section". 

Many of the escapees are Europeans. It may be hypothesized that the Kurds opened the prison doors and let them go.

The hunt is on for these terrorists trying to go home in Europe and re-start their careers in mischief making.

America's Strategy in Syria

Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Al-Faisal said: “The situation in Syria, we really don’t know where the United States is, for example, is it in or is it out?”

Poor Saudis. They don't understand America's permanent strategy the world over. America has no other goal but to foment chaos and strife,  America wants having them all at each others throat, uncertain and desperate, all seeking its favor. Peace and harmony are dangerous, they could unite... against the primus inter pares. Like the Saudis today, they should be wondering what is what America is trying to do, in which side it is, how could we avoid its anger? 

Back to Analog Computing

Trying to understand how D- Wave quantum computers work, realized that they are not digital computers but analogical machines. It is like כלים שלובים  a machine of multiple communicating vessels where the system settles in a stable configuration which is the solution. Annealing, they say, heating the metal up and then let it cool down slowly, eliminating internal stresses. The solution is reached faster than calculating (digital computation). Imagine a river flowing down from a mountain. It is almost impossible to calculate its course, but the river selects it without effort, instantly. It seems to me simple, and more primitive than a digital computer, but that is because I do not understand anything of what I am writing, may be. 

Weapons Made-in-Nigeria

A group of Nigerian fighters. I recognize the weapons: they are the same to those sold in the Jos market. Ibo made. In my post-independence times, firearms were forbidden and very rare.