Storm

 We are having a winter storm. The air conditioner has been repaired and refilled with gas. 

NASDAQ - Shaking and Unsure of itself

 My daughter bought a nice apartment and I am participating in the payment. Just now, when I'll need to sell, the NASDAQ is oscillating madly. I am feeling faint, my legs are wobbling. 

Sexual Selection Among Humans (II)

 

Sexual Selection in Humans

Lynn presents an evolutionary theory for this difference: In order to acquire females, who sexually select for status, males had to reach the top of their group’s hierarchy and attain more resources than other males, through the cognitively-challenging means of solving novel problems and creating successful alliances with other males. This would have strongly selected for intelligence. Source

China vs USA

 In Nevada, conservationists and Indigenous activists are camped at the site of a proposed open-pit lithium mine as the project is challenged in court. A rare wildflower has a second mine in the state at a standstill. Maine’s mining laws, some of the strictest in the nation, will make it nearly impossible to extract lithium from a large deposit there without changes by the legislature. And the future of a lithium mine in rural North Carolina is in the hands of a seven-member county board with power over zoning. (from POLITICO).    

China is extracting from its own mines (pic) and its mines in Africa. The USA is developing mines in Chile and Argentina. 

Lithium is a strategic mineral. I don't know what to add. 

UNILEVER falling 15%

 The popular brand of Ben and Jerry Icecream, in a PC nervous breakdown, decided publicly to boycott sales in Judea and Shomron. We are, naturally, very angry because of this aggression and doing everything to make them change the policy. B&J belongs to the Unilever conglomerate, so our defense has escalated up to this very powerful international corporation. And it is suffering and getting the message. I have no idea how it is done but its shares are falling 15% at this very moment.

Dissent in the Coalition

The governing coalition proposed a law (something related to the army) in the Knesset (Parliament) and suffered a reverse. An Arab member of the coalition Jida Rinawi Zuavi voted against the law, saying that hates the way Israel treats the Badawi nomads, and in general, that Israel exists.  The head of the Meretz party, Nitzan Horovitz, promised to discipline the rebel. It is a miracle that the coalition, containing such hostile, antiZioist elements, survived till now. Could the Soviet Union survive if Goebbels was its Defense Secretary?