Credit Suisse Shaking and Quaking

The Swiss Bank giant has lost money and top personnel in 2021 and is downsizing. I have no sympathy for Swiss banks that destroyed the bank accounts of the Jews trapped in Nazi-occupied countries and never tried to find their legal inheritors after the war. Pirates, their reputation is gone. When they lost their secret list of depositors, harming many Israelis and Jews, that was the beginning of the end. When in a fit of wokeness hired a Senegalese to manage the bank, who wrecked the bank, I concluded that they have lost their cold Lutheran minds, and the bank is doomed. So it is. Its shares are collapsing, it lost 21% in the last week, underperforming the S&P 500 by a huge margin. Further, the same trend was observed over the last ten days (-24%) and one month (-22%). This ugly giant is kaputt. The Swiss still are the wealthiest people on Earth and will not starve. 

How the world changes! I wanted to illustrate this note with a caricature of a Swiss Gold-mining Gnome, but they have totally disappeared from the internet. Apparently, the Zurich gnomes became toxic and offensive and google has erased their memory.  

Mythical Weapons?

 

In Quora, someone destroys the myth: nuclear weapons are just big incendiary bombs. Nothing to fear.

"The power of nuclear weapons has been used as a boogeyman for so long that the actual power of a nuclear detonation has almost no relation to their actual destructive power. No nuclear power can afford to actually use one in combat because it would expose the mythical nature of nuclear weapons.

Well then, how dangerous are nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons, if they weren't their own category, would be classified as incendiary weapons. They set stuff on fire. They set a lot of stuff on fire. In fact, they can set things on fire as far as two miles away from the actual detonation. Besides this, nuclear detonations are very bright, and capable of blinding people 20–30 miles away. This is only constrained by the curvature of the earth. They also create hurricane-force winds as the air around the detonation expands and contracts. If you are outside and unshielded and within a mile of a nuclear detonation, you are going to die.

Which brings us to our next point. Modern cities are just not that vulnerable to incendiaries. Modern city centers and industrial areas are made of concrete and steel. Most of the damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was done because almost all the buildings were made of wood and paper. The initial blast set the city centers on fire which spread and ended up burning down most of the city.

 This leads to the most surprising revelation about nuclear detonations: If you are not outside, you stand a good chance of surviving even within the blast zone. Nuclear blasts are mainly line-of-sight killers. The vast majority of “radiation” created by a nuclear detonation is infrared radiation, or heat the same as a gas stove or fireplace makes. Unless the building you are in is collapsed by the wind or you fail to leave if it catches on fire or you happen to be in front of a window with a direct line of sight to the detonation, you are probably going to be fine.

Most of the radiation is Thermal or visible; AKA heat and light. This radiation goes out in straight lines (line of sight) for a fraction of a second. This is relevant because this radiation is only there for a fraction of a second and then is gone leaving only its effects. A small amount of alpha and beta particles (hard radiation) are also produced. This radiation is also absorbed by the first solid object it runs into. The amount of energy transferred depends on the distance from the explosion by the inverse cube law. Radiation follows the inverse cube law, which means that the effects drop off very quickly.

the nuclear wasteland around Chernobyl never happened, much less lasted for thousands of years. Some plants and animals did die from the fallout, but not all of them or even most of them. The exclusion zone around Chernobyl has become a de facto nature preserve. The forest is lush and the wildlife is thriving. A few people who owned property in the exclusion zone have moved back in and seem to be doing just fine."

I conclude that our MAMADIM are efficient against nuclear weapons. I am sitting in one. A final comment: nuclear bombs need maintenance, and after a few years, will not explode.  Pic: Aftermath of the Nagasaki attack. Lesson: Avoid building houses of wood and paper. Concrete structures such as the chimneys survived undamaged by the bomb.

Red Heifers Arrive

The red heifer is first mentioned in the Book of Numbers 19:3 when God tells Moses and Aaron:  "This is the ritual law that God has commanded: Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid."

The red heifers were actually imported from Texas and they look healthy. Soon the sacrifice ritual will take place somewhere in Israel, and the resulting ashes will serve to purify the priests. 

Tell me we are not going bananas...

On the other hand, Israel's GNP reached 50,000 dollars per year. Source the World Bank. About 5 times the per capita of Argentina, and 10 times the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Bananas or not, but very rich. 

Working in Barkan

 I drove this morning to Barkan, a settlement in Samaria with a very large industrial area. My Client is a catering kitchen, probably the largest in Israel. The manager is a very active, much-tattooed Sepharadi Jew, who has developed a small kitchen into the large business it is now. I am his adviser from the beginning, ab-ovo - and he has improved and enlarged the operation, added gluten-less and non-allergic products - all alone. He is the example that one man can make a difference. In my time, Singapur was searching for this type of professor, they offered money to equip any laboratory he wanted and hire all the help he needed. They were right, the right man can create a full industry. 

Pic.: Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

From linear production towards a circular economy

 

ICL paid a 3% dividend. I am studying if to continue investing in it and found that they have re-invented their boring business of mining potash as a specialty minerals manufacturer. Their website proclaims that they "have changed from linear production towards a circular economy" and have a multi-diverse staff - homos, SM specialists, eunuchs, dwarves, and Fijians. I wonder why an honest mining company hired a woke PR department to lie for it. 

I was rather depressed these days because my cheese factory project was rejected (it is a returning client, all the layouts are in my archive, and used the old one), and now have to submit it anew. But five minutes ago, phoned the vice president of a large conglomerate client and told me that their Harish project is a disaster - it was planned by some other engineer - and they want me to go and save them. I pretend to have no ego, I work for the money, yet it feels good. My clients stick with me for life. 

The Wall Street Twitter I follow is convinced that China is collapsing because of the zero COVID diktat. I have no explanation for why they are doing that to themselves. OK, the virus IS a bioweapon, but they have vaccines. 

 

TASE: What's going on?

 

Israel is going through its best economic times, it is growing at the record-breaking rate of 10% per year. The rest of the world is starting a recession cycle but Israel seems to be unhurt. But the bourse is falling like a dead duck. Industries that I regard invincible, like ICL, Kenon and the banks, are being valued cheaper by the day. Theoretically, there should be a correlation between the economy and stocks. TASE is a puppet of the NASDAQ, that pulls the wires, but Gadzooks!, why?

Say Black without saying Black

 

Some Scottish or Irish person wrote a little book correlating IQ with the wealth of the Nations. I cannot name him because that would activate a switch in Big Brother's computer mind and I would be written in his Book of Reprehensibles. In the last twenty-something years from that event, many mathematically-minded seekers of truth either/or godless apostates have elaborated on its conclusion, testing thousands of hypotheses and clever statistical methods.  The latest and probably the most comprehensive is George Francis and his table on the left. I don't care about repeating his obvious conclusion, I only wish to say that reading his paper, it is almost impossible to discover what he is talking about. For example, the two variables, Ancestry-adjusted UV radiation and % tropical population. What is he trying to convey with Ultra Violet Radiation adjusted for Ancestors? and Tropical populations? Read the title of this note. BTW, what is "age heaping"? It seems to indicate the percentage of inhabitants of the nation studied that could read a hundred and fifty years ago. 100% of the Jews could read and write (too much) at least since Joseph enriched the Pharaoh, but that doesn't count. (Malignant Anglo bureaucrats registered Jews arriving in Staten Island as analphabets and retarded, because they couldn't read or speak their lingo).