How to Tie an Afghan Turban

 Ask President Ashraf Ghani.

“I … strongly support holding elections at the earliest possible time,” Ghani said. “My greatest honor will be to hand over authority to my elected successor." He carries his American passport in his pocket as not to lose a split second to fly off as soon as the time arrives. 

Leftist Ruins Political Alliance

The Netanyahu Government succeeded, after a decade of secret negotiations, to establish complete and open diplomatic relations with the Gulf Emirates. The relations would greatly benefit the Arabs as their gas and oil could reach European markets bypassing the Cape and the Suez routes. KATZAA, the Israeli Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company, suddenly became a profitable and vital part of the international oil trade routes. I did some work for KATZAA in its preparations for the new traffic. 

Then the power changed hands and the MInistry of Environment fell into the extreme leftist hands of Zandberg. To start, she nixed Katzaa's permits and accused it of having submitted untrue environmental risk reports. She maintains that the agreement with the UAR may harm the Red Sea coral populations. The corals are in Egyptian and Saudi waters, not in Israel.    

Abandoned

 

Rohail Paradis, an Afgan national who worked as a military translator for the American forces, has been beheaded by the Taliban. It was to be expected that Afgan collaborators will be treated worse than the French girls that slept with German soldiers in Paris. The Americans are evacuating them but maybe not fast enough.  

Artistic swimmers

Germans. Bronze medal. The gold went to the Chinese. 

 

I wish I was there

Australians. They are the best. The new California.
 

Stressful projects

 

I accepted a failed project, rejected by the regulator because of the potential contamination of a water reservoir. The installation designer pretends it is not his work and does not answer, everybody is panicked. Till now I have no original designs, and I am not going the visit the building in this canicula  and suffocate in the deep, obscure, airless tunnels under old Tel Aviv. In fact, I felt trapped. After sleeping a night, I feel I can do it. But still feel tired and depressed. 

The Kentler Experiment

 

Starting in the 1970s psychology professor Helmut Kentler conducted his "experiment." Homeless children in West Berlin were intentionally placed with pedophile men. These men would make especially loving foster parents, Kentler argued.

A study conducted by the University of Hildesheim has found that authorities in Berlin condoned this practice for almost 30 years. The pedophile foster fathers even received a regular care allowance.

Helmut Kentler (1928-2008) was in a leading position at Berlin's center for educational research. He was convinced that sexual contact between adults and children was harmless.

Is it harmless? The Ancient Greeks thought so.  Plato wrote that having a male model builds the character of the youth.