Paris: Chechen Student Decapitates Teacher

Trying to explain the concept of "Freedom of Expression", the teacher presented in class a picture of the Prophet Mohammed. A Chechen student, scandalized, decapitated the sacrilegious unbeliever. 

Un professeur d'histoire-géographie a été assassiné, décapité ce vendredi aux alentours de 17h près d'un collège de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, dans les Yvelines. D'après nos informations, la victime avait montré des caricatures de Mahomet dans le cadre de son cours d'éducation civique, initiative signalée par des parents d'élèves.

25% of the French population is Muslim. How nice is to live in Kfar Saba where there are no such murderous ethnic/religious/political tensions. 

35 Km of Gas Pipes Dug Up and Stolen

 Argentina breaks all records of corruption.  A State owned company laying down a gasoduct from Bolivia, dug up 35 kilometers of its own pipes already under earth.  Five were found (pic), the rest has disappeared.  Source Pagina 12. The management is being investigated. Probably they have been reused in another part of the project, you cannot sell them on eBay. The Government was charged for the "new" pipes. That is my opinion based on personal experience as a former provincial employee.  

Two days in Quarantine

The last two days I could not get myself to work. The medical cannabis business called my attention and bought 5000 sheqels of Kannbit shares, a pharma startup that grows grass near the Dead Sea and has contracts to supply Britain. Israel is not exporting (permits!) and the business fills the contract with Uruguayan produce. It is working for the permit and hoping for prosperity.  

We are babysitting grand-daughter Noia, 4 years old, a freckled redhead - and we had a nice conversation. We had never spoke because her older sister, her mother and my wife - all deranged - always sabotage me. We examined my new anti-pigeon windmill and the dead tree in the "garden", she carried water to the plants and enquired what they eat, I told her about the bats living in the fig trees in our street and she asked how big are they, we observed the forms of passing clouds and so.  

Now I am trying to make some order in my projects.

Ayodhiya Rebuilt

 Gandhi put India back into preindustrial obscurantism and superstition, but Hinduism has found itself and India is industrializing and prospering. Narendra Modi is a Hindu leader with efficiency and drive, who at the same time, is attentive to religion. Seconded by the Yogi Adityanath he is rebuilding the temple of the God Ram. In the East Aryan epic Ramayana,  Ram is passed over by his father the King and exiled, but after many adventures he takes his rightful place. A blessed era follows. 

After almost a week of holidays and corona quarantine, it is difficult for me to restart my daily work routine. I had a good night sleep, in the early morning drunk a charged coffee that sent me back to bed till midday. it must be difficult for others too, as no one called. It is important to work every day given that it is so easy to lose the habit. 

Gandhi and his homespun loincloth

In these eventless corona quarantine days, I am reading Naipaul's "A wounded continent" about India. In merciless phrases, he deconstructs the Mahatma (Big Soul) Gandhi and Bhava, his saintly successor. Hinduism seeks spiritual perfection and disdains this world, and accepts defeat, misery and dirt, believing that they refine the soul.  Naipaul hates Hindu philosophy and would clearly prefer the racial policy of the British Raj instead of the Hindu caste system. But the Brits got exhausted after 300 years of dealing with fakirs and retired to their misty island. 

The Unmentionable Secret of the Africans

 

A mysterious "ghost population" of now-extinct ancient human-like creatures interbred with early humans living in West Africa, scientists say. The DNA from this group makes up between 2% and 19% of modern West Africans' genetic ancestry. The fruitful interbreeding took place 43000 years ago. 

The ghost may not be so mysterious. No scientist will win a Nobel Prize for discovering the ghost, in fact, no one dares to touch this subject. The accepted theory is that humans are one race, all equal. Of course we are one species. But let's carry out a mental operation of listing the features that differentiates the phenotype of the Asian-European people (Lets call them AE) and the Africans (call it Afr). Make the substraction AE - Afr = what do you get? Don't you see it? Source. 

No Bourse Crash in View

 As more activity moves online, business will become more dominated by firms with the most advanced intellectual property and the biggest repositories of data; this year’s boom in technology stocks gives a sense of what is coming, as does the digital surge in the banking industry. And low real interest rates will keep asset prices high even if economies remain weak. (The Economist).

Pic.:Krach de la Bourse de Vienne le 9 mai 1873. Dessin publié dans le Illustrierte Zeitung du 21 juin 1873