Muddy Waters

Saudi Arabia drops the price of oil to keep market share and eliminate shale and other competitiors. It will inhibit phasing out motor cars. It will kill wind and sun generation. At $30 a barrel, Venezuela and Iran’s economies collapse. My Israeli oil and gas shares already lost half of their worth. 

On the other hand, cheap oil stimulates world economy. Add costless credit and prosperity may be ahead. Spring is near and with it the demise of the flu epidemy. If I were less tired and depressed, I would start collecting shares.

All The Best. 

It is starting to bite

There is less traffic in the streets because people has heard that a pestilency is out there. I have been closed in my office working all day on the Munier project, that now has been completed. It is a cake factory and the owners are stressed because their other business - an events hall - is dead, no one is reserving dates for fiestas. I am starting to work on two new gym projects. Tomorrow, Sunday, I have to supervise two exams in Ariel University. The semester starts the 17th.  Life goes on.

High emotions in Israel

MK Dichter: This is going to be a tragedy. Deputy Defense Minister warns against a government supported by the Joint List party. Dichter is former head of the Mossad, the Organization for Special Activities.

"And this is being committed by three Chiefs of Staff, two Hausers and Hendels, and one Ivette Liberman. People whose hatred of Netanyahu drove them insane and they're willing to sell the State of Israel to its enemies just to get the Prime Minister out of his chair. It's sad, shameful, and dangerous." Bezalel Smotrich is a national/religious leader.

The head of the opposition, the one who is planning to form a coalition government with Arab anti-Jewish parties because his blind hate of Netaniyahu, Benny Gantz, said that "a political assesination is around the corner".

Pic.: The United Arab List, formed by three anti-Jewish fractions. The Arab (Palestinian) population of Israel (25% of the total) voted uniformly for the Arab List. Politically, they are a solid undigested  ethnic block of the conquered native population. This is a typical sitution of a "diverse" society - each ethnic votes for his own candidate. 

Israel Closed

El Al suspended flights to the USA. The travel and tourism industries are paralyzed.  I am following the corona disease on the net, but I am still unconvinced that the world is not over-reacting. It seems to me a common cold like we have every winter. The Chinese government brutal reaction has alarmed the whole world, if they are taking such extreme measures then humanity must be facing something terrible. Maybe the Chinese leadership wanted to be seen this time as honest and transparent, not as like with the SARS epidemy. The worst is the bourse's volatility, I wonder if it is a good time to buy on the cheap. My people went hysteric when I suggested it. I cannot even consult with a god, since the mosques are closed (pic), the Chief Rabbi forbid kissing mezuzot and even the Pope is sick. Well, I have to work and finish this Munier project. 

Schweizerische Kreditanstalt in Argentina

Before the era or Peron, there was a short time when Argentina established a committee to investigate Nazi affairs in Argentina. Now a list of money transfers from the Swiss Bank (today called Credit Suisse) to known Nazis in Argentina was discovered, and it is probable that much of it is money extracted (*) from Jews under the Nazi regime. The pedantic German recordkeeping is turning on the criminals - eighty years after.

(*) Not figuratively. Gold dentures. 

Celebrating Purim and the end of Coronavirus!

Winter has officially ended in Kever Benjamin Village. Temperature over 27 degrees Celsius. Heat kills all flu virus, so bye bye coronavirus! 

Pigs and Dogs Puzzle

Richard Feynman and his wife were having a holiday in Guatemala. The wife joined a tour and he was bored in the hotel room. He wondered about the strange figures in the tourist magazine. The Mayan numbering system appeared to be based on the number nine, while the Mayan calendar was still a mystery. Feynman recognized its multi-cyclical nature based on cycles of 240 and 365 days and that very afternoon solved the riddle. Now that I have told you the key, you can easily verify it on the Mexican calendar stone (at the right). Fortunately, still there are ancient riddles waiting to be solved, and here is one.

Three thousand years ago the people in the Middle East  had a board game, the first in the world. Recently a complete set of figures was unearthed (see pic) but the board could not be found. The game set consists of colored stones, something must be related to the color in the game. The two main animal figures are pigs and dogs. Considering the shapes and numbers of the stones, it appears that the game is based on number four. 

Anybody spending a lazy afternoon in a hotel room? Could you retro-engineer this game?