Success in Eastern Turkestan

Recently released Chinese census data show that in 2020, Xinjiang’s #Uyghur population aged 0-4 was only 36% the size of that aged 5-9, notes @fuxianyi of @UWMadison. https://bit.ly/3ANy8rV

Pic: Uyghur fighters in Idlib, Syria. But the Uyghurs are going and soon gone. China has defeated its Muslim terrorism. A success for the Chinese and a lesson for the rest of us. 

Arik Einstein z"l

The Deep State plans to police Israel

From the Jerusalem Post: 

If the Israeli government won’t protect Jews at the Kotel [Western Wall], then perhaps Jewish Agency security teams need to be placed there.”

The Jewish Agency was the pre-State organization established by the British Mandate to serve as the native executive arm of the Colonial government. This system of indirect rule mightily helped the British colonialists to avoid frictions with the natives and was intended, theoretically, to become the nucleus of future self-government. The British had a vast and successful colonial experience and these intermediate bodies, supervised by British political officers, permitted efficient rule with very few colonials. For example, India was ruled with the help of traditional rajas and princes, while Nigeria was ruled by a dozen Emirs and Obas and so, controlled by their British political secretaries. Nigeria had then about 30 million inhabitants, ruled by about 3000 colonial officers, most of them from India. And the country was peaceful, infrastructure was built and finances were healthy. A paradise.

The Brits half-organized the Jewish Agency and gave it some powers, such as selecting the Jewish immigrants. They also tried to create a parallel Arab Agency, but the Arabs were unable to work together and they had no literate manpower to operate the Agency. 

After the Independence of Israel, the pre-State organizations lost their raison d'etre. The paramilitary armies were integrated into Zahal (by force), and so on. When I arrived in Israel, the bureaucracy that dealt with immigration was the Jewish Agency (I received a collapsible bed, a kerosene heater, and other basic home accessories.)  I was offered a job in the Hativat HaHityashvut (the settlement division) of the Jewish Agency and I was surprised that these pre-State organizations did not disappear but continued to fulfill State functions. 

The Jewish Agency still exists and stands ready - no, is hungry - to recover its governmental function. Israel is becoming more and more Orthodox and discriminates against Reform immigrants. American immigrants tend to be "woke" and vocal in their demands for gender equality and privileges for colored immigrants (such as Ethiopians). Now the Jewish Agency offers to police Israel to ensure American woke "rights', such as non-profiling American Blacks, and protect American non-Jewish sects. Rightist Israel and woke American Jewry are moving apart and fighting for primacy. The Jewish Agency, partly financed by American Jewry, still holds powerful para-governmental functions and operates - in a way - as a Deep State. It is not secret and not conspirational but aspires to protect the American way in Israel, and I mean their crazy woke extremist females. I do not write "women" because American Supreme Court does not know what a woman is because they are not biologists. And I do not wish to offend or insult Americans by calling any one of them a "woman". 

Bottom Line: I did not know that the Jewish Agency has security teams. I learn every day.      

James Thompson on Reality

Thompson writes:  

I do not wish to accuse my readers of being economists, sociologists or anthropologists, but I am willing to bet that some of you think that the way your parents brought you up, and the schools and community you were raised in, had a big influence on your later achievements in life.

A reasonable belief, but probably a mistaken one.

In fact, it is likely that all that matters is who your parents were, by which I mean your blood parents. Furthermore, conceiving you was the big step, and the rest was due to your being kept alive, and little more.

Pic.: Fate cutting the thread of life. The Greeks imagined three Moirai - spinners -: Clotho, Lachesis, and Anthropos, cutting short the length of human life. 

I want it

 

While I am healing from the COVID-19 attack, a Bavarian firm selling native volk stuff sent me an ad. They must have a very intelligent AI because I want it. When arrived in Vienna in 1956 after the Hungarian Revolution, we refugees were presented with used items, very clean and well kept. I loved my Alpine dead-goat-skin pants (aka lederhosen) and at this senile stage of my life, long for one.

I also wanted an American surplus military jacket but did not get one. My uncle lent me his but it had side openings that let the cold in. It was uncomfortable and wondered how American soldiers used it in winter. 

Another Backdown in China

 

A rare backdown. Beijing cancels China's first Covid vaccine mandate after less than 48 hours. The capital's residents had called the requirement an illegal limitation on their freedom and questioned how effective the vaccines are against omicron.

I think the backdown is a show of strength. But it also shows that they are a big bunch of crazy hypochondriacs.

The perfect present for Beijingers: Black lights—those lights that emit ultraviolet light—can quickly become a favorite tool in the hands of the right hypochondriac. When ultraviolet light shines, several everyday materials absorb that light and reflect it back. These materials include bodily fluids like urine and blood. If you have that friend who is obsessed with keeping their bathroom clean or is perpetually fearful that the family pet has peed somewhere in the house, this little high-tech flashlight can be a big help.

Ice Cream on Crete