The TAPLINE: Israel Finds its Niche

 ARAMCO built the TAP oil line between the  pumping stations in Saudia and the port of Haifa, bypassing the expensive maritime route of the Suez Canal. For a hundred years, a TAPline lays unused because political instability of the Middle East. Now, the United States, after a generation of wars has quieted down the area and the TAPline, that never died, is being revived.

Israel, Egypt and Greece are building a gas line to Europe. If the two systems are joined, we have complete secure energy supply to Europe. The loser will be Russia, that will be outpriced from the European market. The winner will be America, having its fingers holding the energy aorta of Europe. Israel will realize its foundational dream of integrating itself into the British (now American) global economic system. BTW, all the troubles of Argentina started when it lost its position as food supplier within the British "imperialist" system.  Till now it cannot find a place in the new system. 

 I am reading secret English reports on the perspectives of the Jews in Eretz Israel after the Mandate. The tone is arrogant even antisemitic. The Jews live from donations and have zero fighting inclination and skill. They did not gave us a year.  

Jews Praying In the White House

 History Made Today. 

Why am I so poor?

 

Median Jews are Well-to-Do.

I am a Median Jew. 

Ergo, should have an income of 100,000 US$ but  do not have it. 

Why?

Race	Median Income
Jewish	$97,500
Asian	$76,260
White	$60,256
Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians	$60,133
Hispanic	$42,491
Black	$35,398

P.S.: I must be Hispanic. Or Black. Am I Black?

Kevin McDonald is Wrong

MacDonald wrote that if not for the expulsion of the Jews from England (in the 12th century), a native middle class could not have  developed.

 Reading Naipaul's Bend in the River about Salim, a Hindu shopkeeper in Stanleyville, I reflected that after the Indian middle class was expelled from East Africa, no native middle class took its place. Fifty years after, natives are not filling their economical niches. The same in Zimbabwe, after the foreign race middle class left, there are no signs of the development of a capable Black replacement.  May be it is too early, could be. 

Old Shatterhand in the Prairie Fire

California and Australia are burning, and people is wondering why. From early childhood I have the vision of the prairie (America's open grassland) burning and killing everything in its way, thanks to Karl May's adventures of Old Shatterhand (a German) and his blood brother Winnetou  (a Mescalero Chief). Once Old Shatterhand found himself downwind from a prairie-fire, in mortal danger. He took his faithful Bahrentotter and killed a buffalo, emptied its insides and sewed himself in the carcass. The fire passed over him  in a few minutes without harming him and, I imagine, afterwards he enjoyed a copious "asado". 

Thus I am not surprised by the fires and don't talk me about climate change. 

Wrong Numbers

 Long-term forecasts are uncertain. But in the long run, the "demographic transition" algorithm shows that global demographic development naturally seeks a stable equilibrium as the population gradually adapts to its ecological niche's limits.

Nonsense.  Populations have suffered tremendous changes in the last thousand years. No equilibrium. 

Trigger Level in Lead Concentration in Water

 

On October 10th (Hey, we are September 13 !)  EPA announced the long-awaited proposed revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule (LCRR) which was promulgated nearly 30 years ago under the Safe Drinking Water Act. There are some meaningful and significant changes in its nearly 350 pages. A combination of regulation and public awareness regarding lead risks has been effective and, as the proposal points out, the median blood lead level among children in the US has decreased by 95% since 1976. However, even low levels of lead can pose risks to children’s developing brains and bodies and lead can also be harmful to adults.

Replacement activities would be tied to concentration thresholds differently. Though the Action Level (AL) would remain at 15 ppb, the proposal introduces a new Trigger Level of 10 ppb. The primary goal of the Trigger Level is to provide utilities with an opportunity to identify treatment issues before a monitoring violation occurs.

I have not read the 350 pages but seems to me that there are no meaningful nor significant  changes.