Depressed

 

Red Cat

 

On the Wall Country

"The wall country will become the world's first testing ground for population shrinkage, which is crueler than the rat utopia experiment, at least it has been utopian..." (from Twitter)

Google Translate is a very big thing. I am reading conversations in Chinese and they are very interesting. As a Hungarian Jew, I am an overseas Chinese, as they called me in Kai Feng. The tweets are venomously anti-Xi. They all must be Formosan. 

The Unspeakable Secret Is Out

 Another argument for basing racial/subspecies taxonomy classification on archaic hominin DNA. We have that ability now. We didn't have it prior to 2010. Listen up people, it's rather easy: Euros have Neanderthal; Asians, Oceanians have Denisovan; Afros have Australopithecines

The quote is from a Chinese Twitter. I already knew the first two things but always heard that Africans carry genes from a mysterious, unknown hominin. This is the first time I see this mysterious animal named. What, who are the Australopithecines? The wiki says

"Australopithecina or Hominina is a subtribe in the tribe Hominini. The members of the subtribe are the extinct, close relatives of humans and, with the extant genus Homo, comprise the human clade. While none of the groups normally directly assigned to this group survived, the australopiths do not appear to be literally extinct (in the sense of having no living descendants.)" 

Clear, it is not. Even I could not make it more obscure and confusing. Didn't you say they were extinct? If they are not extinct, they must be alive. If they are alive, where are they? Who are they? Apparently, no one dares to identify them. Less than no one, me.

To make it more confusing, a pic illustrates the wiki article. The cute boy holding up a fossil is NOT a descendant nor a relative of the extinct/nonextinct Australopithecines. Stock Photo - corpus reconstruction of Lucy, female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis, living 3, 2 million years ago in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, Moesgaard Museum (MOMU) (Henning Larsen Architects), a museum dedicated to archaeology and ethnography, located in Hojbjerg, a suburb of Aarhus, Jutland Peninsula, Denmark, Northern Europe. 

Nancy

Pelosi: "When I was a little girl, I was told at the beach if I dug a hole deep enough we would reach China. So we've always felt a connection there."

Me: "When I was a little boy, I was told that Mao could order the Chinese to jump all together, and all the Americans would fall off the Earth." I didn't worry because I lived in Hungary, and was a member of the Communist Pioneers protected by the glorious Soviet Union.

Kissinger Says "No War with China"

The Wall Street Journal writes today:

 Xi Jinping appears to be preparing for an even more consequential onslaught against Taiwan. Mr. Xi’s China is fueled by a dangerous mix of strength and weakness: Faced with profound economic, demographic and strategic problems, it will be tempted to use its burgeoning military power to transform the existing order while it still has the opportunity.

Yet, Kissinger had studied Chinese mentality and strategies, and says that the Chinese prefer to accumulate small psychological advantages till the actual war becomes unnecessary. I think that the WSJ is wrong, no war is expected. 

America is going "woke" in a totalitarian mode. It gives the impression of chaos and decadence. Lecturers are required to demonstrate in actual deeds that they feel for the poor and the Black. That they have empathy toward the so-called underprivileged. It is like the "Perach" program in our universities, only that it is for students. Judging by the results, the Democrats are good for America and us. Watching the White House Spokesman, that cute ma'divine, it goes against what I would expect. But peace, prosperity and victories in foreign affairs - facts are facts.  

The Brits Are Our Friends

 

I am a subscriber to The Economist since 1960 when I started to earn money. I interrupted my subscription when I felt they were focusing too much on the Jews and Israel, always negatively. Renewed tentatively my subscription around 2005 and since then I feel it is fair to us. The picture from its latest edition shows a Jewish boy landing from Ukraine in Israel. I had never seen such a nice, positive representation of a Jew in The Economist or any international media. Good!