Peeping through windows

Last night I strayed randomly into Twitter and the first thing I found is a Haredi young woman exposing her daily emotions. Her "Chamud" (dear) threw her out זרק אותה and she is crying nonstop - on Twitter. Dozens of real and fake commenters are comforting her. Don't say "dropped me" but the relationship has ended. Another one tells that in a similar situation she cleaned the house, took a long bath, masturbated, put on makeup, dressed well, and feeling clean she went to the office.  The next recounts how her ex came out from the toilet with an erection and went directly to put his dick in her mouth. Then said he felt that nothing was developing between them and took off.  These are good clean heymische Jewish girls. Oh, boy, fifty years ago I was an insensitive brute too. Now I am an impotent sensitive old Jew. I spent the night reading Twitter and am tired and unhappy. 

Black Rock's Koesterich on Inflation: Volatile

 

The consumer price index jumped 5.4% from a year earlier, the largest increase since before the worst of the financial crisis, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. It is the largest move since September 1991. On a monthly basis, headline and core prices rose 0.9% against 0.5% Dow Jones estimates. WATCH NOW

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There’s a lot of factor volatility we’re navigating right now, says BlackRock’s Koesterich

Volatile, for me, means it evaporates quickly. For Koesterich means something else, like "Dont know". I think strong inflation is starting. 

Wile E. Coyote. Genius.

 

Wile E Coyote regularly runs off a cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner and finds himself suspended in mid-air. When he looks down and realizes his predicament, he falls into the deep canyon below. Israeli businesses have just run straight off a cash cliff, now that Liberman the Evil Minister has ended all assistance. The economy is now suspended in mid-air. Don't look down!

Israel: Hot

 

It is 40 Celsius outside. We have so much sunshine that photo-electric energy is cheaper than gas or coal. Old people are falling on the boiling asphalt pavement like flies. More or less. 

Israel confiscates (steals?) Hamas' bitcoin treasure

 

Omri Segev Moyal, CEO of the cyber crisis company Profero, explained in a statement how the Bureau was able to locate and seize the supposedly untraceable currency, saying that "Once you go beyond the boundaries of the blockchain to the worlds of exchange platforms, you immediately lose anonymity and then, as in the present case, states and law enforcement agencies are able to locate and freeze the currencies used by criminal and terrorist organizations." The network is completely exposed, you can very accurately track the trajectory of the coins and locate their final destination," Moyal said.

Noa Mashiach, CEO of the Israeli Bitcoin Association, also responded to the seizure in a public statement, saying that "The seizure and forfeiture of Hamas' donations prove that Bitcoin is a safe currency."

"Criminals who make use of this financial system will find out the hard way that the open transaction log, the blockchain, will expose them and allow law enforcement agencies to act against them," Mashiach said.

"This is a significant improvement over anti-money laundering bans and also over international bank accounts, which are hidden behind a wall of bank-client secrecy," she said, reiterating that "Bitcoin is a safe currency, and it is precisely these perceptions that should encourage regulators to adopt and use it, as it makes it possible to expose the bad and do good with the good."

Bottom line: Bitcoin is money on the street and we take it when we want to.

We are not Athenians, so Why Democracy?

Plato defined five political forms:  Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny. He did not recommend democracy, which is the rule of the cognitively challenged masses. Israel's Supreme Court approved the Nationality Law, directed to restrict the immigration of non-Jews. The reason: it is compatible with democracy. Is that a valid reason? Why we need democracy? Is it feasible in a multinational multiracial polity? Our ancestors adopted theocracy, the rule of the cohanim, a hereditary priestly caste, Israel and Judea were for a long time elective Kingdoms, then for a few generations hereditary kingdoms. Those were typical Middle Eastern forms, like the theocracy in Iran and the Hashemite Kingdom in Jordan. Why should we adopt foreign, pagan, Greek forms? 

TASE-NASDAQ tradable differences

 TASE - Tel Aviv in deep red. NASDAQ - New York high. The difference is 8% in TSEM, an Israeli chip factory in Migdal HaEmek.