Thursday, November 28, 2024

ICL: To buy more or to sell all?


ICL is the worst stock in the savings portfolio. For months, if not years, I have wondered whether to continue holding it. Now, I'll try to make a decision. I woke up feeling bad, but after eating breakfast, I was my regular self.

ICL's website does not even mention fertilizers. Potash prices are constantly falling, so the company is trying to rebrand itself as a specialty chemicals producer.That is worrying. It describes the company as:

At ICL, we believe in DIB - Diversity, Inclusion and a sense of Belonging. We are proud to have many talented key female executives, and our employees include multicultural and multigenerational individuals, LGBTQ, and people with disabilities.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Kowtowing to the Great King

 The Greeks of the Antiquity refused to follow the Great King's Court ceremony of slavish kowtowing. But the tradition has not disappeared, see the high officials of the Persian Air Force being received by the Great Ayatollah. 

Sacrifice to Baal

 Following historical tradition, the Lebanese sacrifice to their god (the Baal). Thanksgiving for the "victory".

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Back in Beaufort

 


ZAHAL forded the Litani River in Lebanon and is moving forward to conquer the Beaufort again. Young people will pass their milium swimming in the Qaroun reservoir. 


...but they signed a ceasefire. Just this night at 0400 AM. So it will be the next time.


Monday, November 25, 2024

Looting the Enemy

Looting the enemy's weapons is perfectly legitimate in war. And loot is arriving from South Lebanon. 
 

Voyager 1 still alive

On October 16, NASA beamed a command to Voyager 1 to turn on one of its heaters. The spacecraft responded by ghosting Earth.

It actually took the agency two full days to notice the issue. That's because Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, and being almost 25 billion kilometers (15.3 billion miles) away, it takes nearly 23 hours for a message to get there – even at the speed of light – and another 23 hours for a response.

On October 18, Voyager 1 missed its scheduled return call. NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scanned for the signal and eventually found it on a slightly different frequency band.

It seems that the heater triggered Voyager 1's built-in fault protection system. If an instrument tries to draw too much power, this mechanism will automatically shut off other, non-essential systems to conserve energy. 

Sunday, November 24, 2024

We are under attack


For the record: This Sunday morning there were two alarm calls.Hezbollah was bombing our area.