"Israel has one of the best armed militaries in the world, and they need an additional infusion of ten billion dollars to fight off a group of ragtag Arab concentration camp escapees on paragliders?
Friday, October 20, 2023
Nazism resurgent
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Argentina slides into the Yuan zone
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
About honesty
A Citibank employee tried to claim several dishes on expenses, saying he had eaten them all himself.
The banker later admitted he had shared the food with his partner and was fired by Citibank.
A judge ruled in the bank's favor in a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit.
The banking giant Citibank has won an employment lawsuit against an employee who was fired after claiming expenses for food and drink for his partner during a business trip and misleading the bank about it.
The former analyst Szabolcs Fekete had sued the bank, accusing it of unfair dismissal after being fired last year for gross misconduct over the expenses claim. He initially said he had consumed two sandwiches, two pasta dishes, and two coffees by himself during a business trip to Amsterdam but later acknowledged his partner had shared some of the food.
People managing money needs absolute honesty and integrity. I am glad that strict Victorian morals are still effective in the USA.
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Under siege
***I'm editing this post the more I find - if number appears, it's the relevant section in the paper***
The right side of the paper has the Arabic word/expression and the left side show how to pronounce it in Hebrew. For example, row no.40 says in Arabic:
"Ana mish fahem" (Arabic - "I don't understand") and then to the left it says "Ani lo mevin" - (Arabic letters but Hebrew meaning).
Here is the list:
Stop
Don't move
Come here
Go
Raise your hands and open your legs
Drop your weapon
Take your pants off
Lay on the floor
Don't talk
where is... (unclear)?
?
Walk forward
Don't look back
Where is/are the weapon/firearm?
How to use (this) weapon?
Shut up / silence
Where is the road?
How to access to?
Move fast
Move up/climb
I will kill you
You are wounded
Do not make any problems
Calm down
You are a hostage
Everyone, move here
Who is in charge in this Kibbutz?
What is the Kibbutz name?
We have hostages
We will kill the hostages
How to use the tank?
I want a doctor
Treat him
We want food and water
We want to call
Where are the car keys?
Men (move) here
Women (move) here
Kids (move) here
I don't understand
Stay here
Who speaks Arabic?
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Yehudit and Shmulik (Shmuel) Weiss are still missing. These docs were found next to the shelter in their private home. House was full of bullets and destruction.
Well, ‘take your pants off’ does kinda confirm their intention to commit sexual violence, does it not?
Above: A Hamas dictionary forgotten in a kibbutz home. Occupants disappeared.
There is a war going on in the South and occasionally, the booms of rockets and anti-rockets exploding in the sky above. I may have lost a few clients in the South, including Kfar Aza and Ashkelon, buy I am still fully occupied. My problem is the fact that I am working from home, and I have an irrepressible bored woman here who is bothering me all day. One of my sons in law is in the army in the Northern frontier, the other is in a logistics branch somewhere in Israel. I am not worried, what unexpected may befell on me at age 77? So, I keep working and sending out bills.
Friday, October 13, 2023
The USS Gerald Ford fighting planet
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Argentina evacuating
Monday, October 9, 2023
The Bank of Israel defends the shekel
The BoI announced that is selling US dollars to the limit of 30 billion. It means that the local currency is under attack by speculators. They will not succeed.
The country is emerging from the shock that the frontier was undefended, and the frontier villages were open. Kibbutz Beeri (Beeri was the pen name of Berl Katzenelson, a leftist Zionist) not only was open and hosting vacationing visitors. Its neighbor, Kibbutz Re'em was holding a big trance all-night party. The revelers were caught at 6 AM drugged and tired when attacked but some were able to run to the nearby trees. 240 of them were killed on the spot. A massacre. One "militant" who was taken prisoner explained that they had prepared this surprise attack for a year, and were ready to fight ZAHAL, but it only appeared after 5 hours.