The EPA took filtered water samples from Newark homes earlier this month and found that several of them had lead levels exceeding the federal threshold of 15 parts per billion.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Flint, Now Newark, What Tomorrow? Lead Contamination
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Thanks to the Ayatollahs
Illustration: The Portuguese Fortress of Macau. The military hardware was purchased from the British. I admire British products and spent days in London and Manchester awed in the industrial museums. The Economist of today has an intelligent article about the disastrous decline of Britain. I am a lifelong Anglophile and wish it would be different.
Friday, August 14, 2020
Vino Formosa Rosso
Thursday, August 13, 2020
The send balloons by the wind, we down them.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Thinking about Kamala
I follow from afar American politics but it was Steve Sailer's note that revealed to me who is Kamala Harris, probable VicePresident and subsequently (Biden is 77) possible President. She is a woman whose education and political career was focused on racism that is the legendary victimization of American Blacks. She perceives reality through the lenses of race relations, and it is worrying to put this limited and obsessed person in charge of a world power like the United States. And specially now, when the country finds itself in competition/war with a larger and homogeneous power, like China.
Pic.: Kamala with her first political patron, her first step in her career. According to state records of the time, members of the committee had to be "selected from persons with experience in management of hospital services, risk management insurance or prepaid health programs, the delivery of health services, the management of county health systems, and a representative of recipients of service.”
Brown’s decision to appoint Harris raised eyebrows in political circles. “Both boards are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards for personal service,” said Brett Granlund, a former California Republican state assemblyman who worked closely with the commission while Harris was on the board. “The boards are considered plumb appointments as they require no work, no policy credentials, and are paid the equivalent of a full-time [state] senator for arriving at a one- to two-hour meeting each month.”
Granlund said the appointment seemed brazen at the time because of the relationship between Harris and Brown. “Screwing the speaker has its rewards,” he said. “Stevie Wonder could have seen through that play.”
She is not unattractive.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
The Secret Sharer
Itzhak Suary is the de-facto leader of a complex group of Israeli enterprises, and it is buying up large businesses that are in temporary trouble because of the corona virus crisis. The group was founded in the sixties by an Israeli financier called Guttwirth, he dies without children and will. The directors, quietly, continued the management and development of the group so successfully that today it comprises many businesses. Suary is an Iraki Jew, accountant, that now "owns" de facto "half" (metaphorically speaking) of Israel.