Vomitabile

The Italian President's word for the President of France.  

"Vomitabile" is an Italian adjective meaning "vomit-inducing." It describes something so repulsive that it makes you feel nauseous. 

It's a strong term to express revulsion in Italian.

The Most Serious Military Threat Since Cold War

 

Pic.: Pitt speaking in the Parliament.

The British leader, Starmer, said that the U.K. Faces Most Serious Military Threat Since Cold War, and declared a state of war against Russia and ordered the strengthening of the army. 

On the other side of the Atlantic, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned of a crack in the bond market and said the U.S. should be stockpiling military equipment instead of Bitcoin.

As Victor Davis Hanson writes in "The Father of All," war is not caused by material reasons. "It is time to smack the asses of unruly children", said Xi justifying China's attack on Viet Nam. 

The West is rearming. 

Alarming.

The Soul-Sapping Grind of Re-planning a Grocery Store in Bureaucratic Israel

 
For ten days, I have been working (WORKING!) on updating a supermarket in an industrial zone in the periphery. The Client is going crazy, they want it - yesterday! I am fed up; I have other projects waiting. And really, I do not need the money. I am an old-old man who works because that is the only thing he knows. Better people than I are resting in Punta del Este or are long dead. 

Are we living in the inferno?

 YOU MIGHT think it would be impossible for the inferno in Israel and Gaza to burn hotter. Yet Binyamin Netanyahu is fuelling three simultaneous emergencies: a humanitarian one in Gaza; a torching of support among European allies; and a constitutional crisis over who controls the security services, army and courts. The pressure on Israel and its institutions is almost unbearable for the country. A culminating moment is probably imminent. 

Quote from The Economist. I respect The Economist's journalists. But living here, I don't see what they see. Should I believe The Economist, or my shortsighted eyes?

P.D.: Only a month ago, The Economist thought Israel was full of hubris, victorious and expanding.

Commandment

 
 Benedixitque eis Deus, et ait: Crescite, et multiplicamini; replete terram et subicite eam. Et dominare piscibus maris et volatilibus caeli et universis animantibus, quae moventur super terram. Primus homo Adam, sicut dixit, potestatem habuit super omnia regendi.

See the original Hebrew text. 

Mysterious Message

 

Investment reflexion

Gold (zahav in Hebrew) is mentioned 400 times in the Bible.  Silver (kesef) is mentioned 300 times.

Nvidia is not mentioned even once. 

Photo: Hanukkah Gelt.