Flower children in Israel

Not long ago it was the Age of Aquarius and many Jewish flower children sang with Rav Karlebach and settled in Israel.  One Dati-Leumi Aquarian turned up as a client, they live in a Hungarian-speaking moshav and tried to work the land in the highest, purest, Earth-friendly, ecological husbandry. Very nice idealist Americans. 

They refused to connect with the municipal services and built a wetland to recycle the water. They have ducks swimming in the black stinking pond and goats to graze the polluted swamp grass. They are paying religiously the municipal sewage fees although they never used the service. They decided to clean up that overflowing eco swamp and connect the house to the mainline. That requires planning and permits, my trade. 

When in Berkeley, California, in 1970, I befriended on the street a traveling group of "hippies", something resembling the "Hair" movie. Being the serious idiot I was and am, I failed to avail myself of the free sex they were famous for, and dropped off and continued my travels with the Greyhound bus.  

Cities are sinking: Solutions.

HO CHI MINH CITY: Nguyen Van Cu is a construction engineer whose specialty is raising homes. That means he has been busy of late. He recently put the finishing touches to a house he had lifted by more than two meters. A few years ago, he raised a 6,000-tonne church. The Mekong delta is sinking and Saigon is subsiding 8 cm per year. The cause is overpumping the aquifer but mostly the rising of the sea level. The idea of rising buildings is interesting. 

Epidemy in Israel

 

The COVID19 virus has been mutating for two years and now new and effective variants are infecting everybody, from the government mandarins to the last nomadic goatherd. Hospitals are full and there is nothing to do. The plague is on us, again. 

This morning I checked my BP and it was normal. It has to be measured twice and the second is always lower. All my childhood (male) friends are dead. Their goyishe kids (over fifty y.o.) keep writing me. 

Are we stupid?

 "...the Covid-19 vaccine is linked to the excess mortality, and months of vaccine injury reports were now spilling over to actuarial data - which is beginning to show, among other things, that younger, working-age people began dying in greater numbers as vaccine mandates hit - for a disease which primarily kills older, non-working age individuals...." A long article in Zero Hedge

The rise of the English

 I am reading about the formation of the world's first stock company of London merchants that eventually took over India. Their advantage in the existing world commerce was solid union, they had faith in each other, could work at large distances and long term, could work with large capital. Except for the Dutch, no one could compete. 

Mosaic rises 9%, ICL rises 5% in NASDAQ. ICL was falling for weeks but I estimated that the market is wrong, and see, my opinion on ICL is being fulfilled. 

Fear in Stockton

 

I remember Stockton as a nice town in the Central Valley of California. That was 1969. Now fear and insecurity reign. A food truck owner panicked and drew his 38" gun and shot the uniformed firefighter captain. The killer is an elderly mulatto and the captain was a Latino. Not young gangsters on drugs. Insecurity itself kills. 

All eyes on the NASDAQ

 

Left, the TASE 35 index today. Opens 1030 AM and after a few operations, it stops breathless, watching what the leader, the NASDAQ will do. At about 16 here that is 0900 AM in New York, the Yanquis wake up and their machines start trading. After a couple of minutes, Tel Aviv feels the winds coming from the East Coast and starts trading again. We are followers.