Antigone à Quebec

Yesterday we went to celebrate birthdays in a vegetarian restaurant, and then the Cinematec Tel Aviv.  Something about an Algerian refugee family: two brothers involved in the Habibi drug gang and the pure, virginal sister, Antigone. She had to take a decision to betray her brothers or be expelled. She decided that family loyalty beats loyalty to Canada's laws. In French: 

Vivant à Montréal avec sa grand-mère, sa soeur et ses deux frères, elle est une première de classe, une jeune fille comme une autre, à l'âge des premiers amours. Mais un jour, son frère aîné, Étéocle, est abattu gratuitement par un policier trop nerveux – et le cadet, Polynice, est arrêté et menacé d'expulsion du territoire. Antigone décide alors de tout risquer pour l'aider à s'évader.

I didn't like it. 

POTASH

 

I started to make real profits on the Stock Exchange with POTASH, when the magical CEO Mr.Doyle created a worldwide monopoly and the price went up to 1000 $/ton. I speculate that we are at the beginning of a similar cycle, as the company that ruined the cartel, Uralkali is being restrained by American sanctions. Belaruskali (Bielorussian potash - 20% of world production) is being punished for political reasons (siding with Putin). I think the conjuncture is so good that is safe to take out a loan to buy ICL. 

The State of Palestine (2022)

 

The Hyksos (Hebrews) of Avaris (Tel Yehudiya)

One has only to look at Ancient Egyptian monuments to understand how monstrous a people they were. Leons with human faces, humans with jackal faces, enormous pyramidal tombs for mummified cats, etc. Their religion was an absurd mix of crocodile gods, and so. Their king married their sisters, ensuring their progressive mental and physical decline. Their myths were pornographic like Kamutef, the sun god who every night inseminated Nut, the goddess of heaven. Every morning, she gave birth to him again in a process of daily renewal. Nut is therefore both the mother and wife of the sun. In royal mythology, the pharaoh hoped to achieve renewal in a similar way to the myth, in which mother and wife were conceptualized identically. The only sensible kings were the Hyksos, immigrant Hebrew pastoralists, who believed in one god and built no grandiose tombs. The natives were absolutely humiliated by being dominated by this small foreign, light-skinned tribe and after 150 years they expelled the Hyksos to their original country in Israel. 

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Is the new Chinese generation lactase tolerant?

 

How the market overcomes the obstacle of lactose intolerance in China?

It is true that Asian people are genetically predisposed to lactase-deficiency (around 85% of people suffer from lactose intolerance in China). Older generations of Chinese who were not used to consuming dairy products in their diets are also mostly lactose intolerant.

But this lactose intolerance in China will not slow down the market. First, because to create new generations of milk drinkers, society and government have taken several measures. Today Chinese babies are born with the ability to make lactase, which is the enzyme needed to digest the milk vector and which is lost as they grow older. Moreover, children do not stop drinking milk as they grow up and therefore continue to produce this enzyme.  Source: A market research consulting

The Israeli model farm near Beijing created this market in China. I was skeptical but Dr Moshe Mizrahi was right - the Chinese will learn to drink milk.  Curiously, the architecture of the ad looks Mediterrranean, Greek maybe. 

Lu Xun, The True Story of Ah-Q

 

Study the revolutionary spirit of Lu Xun, become a pathbreaker in the criticism of Lin Biao and Confucius, 1974

I am reading the complete works of Lu Yun, a radical Chinese writer of the 1920s who became the hero of the Cultural Revolution. His story The Diary of a Madman is rather impressive. The Chinese imperial society was really very bad, but the Maoist was not a paradise. I think they are regaining the balance now.