Lucky Strike

Stock market news live updates: Stocks slide to end April with steep losses, S&P 500 drops 8.8% in the worst month since March 2020

I spent the last two months selling stock to help my daughter R to buy a large apartment in Hod Hasharon. This Friday I finished transferring her the sum agreed upon, and voila, immediately, the NASDAQ and the S&P fell precipitously. That's luck. Apartment prices in Israel, especially in the center, are astronomical. One million dollars is the average. The price of the same 50 km from Tel Aviv is only half or a third. I hope to be rewarded with another beautiful grandkid. 

 

The Lauder Yavne Kindergarten - Budapest 2022

 

End of "semester". The next Hungarian Jewish generation. 

So few...

Shanghai in Quarantine

Shanghai has been closed for two weeks and now the panic of the Coronavirus has spread to Beijing, which is being half-closed down.  That and the cherem of Rusia will cause a world recession. 

I had a bad three-day illness caused by Pesach food and a grandkid's panic attack. And the Russian Standard. Once stopped, it is most difficult to re-establish my working routine.  

Russia Mentioning Nuclear Weapons

 
Western arming of Ukraine is worrying Russia and they are AGAIN (*) mentioning the fact that they have nuclear weapons and are ready to use them. This is a serious development. If they do, NATO may also use its weapons and we will have a third world war. Once broken the nuclear virginity, the world becomes a frightening balagan. And that will lift the barrier to everybody using nuclear arms. The Germans are terrified and should be.

(*) Moments before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine, he shot a stern warning to the rest of the world. Any country that interfered, he said, would, quote, "face consequences greater than any you have faced in history." He also bragged about Russia's nuclear arsenal and, several days later, Russia's deterrent forces, including nuclear weapons, on high alert.

20,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel, mostly women and children. The Bennet Coalition is falling apart, as was predicted.  

Chinese sage meets Jewish Uberchochem

 I am re-reading Henry Kissinger's book "On China". He was back from Beijing and reporting to President Geral Ford (pic) about his high-level conversations with Mao Tse-tung. Mao was then 82 y.o., sick, semi-senile, and with speaking difficulties. He asked Kissinger "Do you have something to make my speech clear?"  Since Mao spoke in metaphors and allusions, Kissinger reported that Mao was interested in American assistance to inform the world about China's peaceful intentions. The rather simple-minded Omaha-born, Eagle Scout Gerald Ford was probably left wondering about Chinese subtlety and Jewish Talmudism.

Another conversation with Mao:

Chairman Mao: Your Secretary of State has been interfering in my internal affairs. 

President Ford: Tell me about it. 

Chairman Mao: He does not allow me to go and meet God. He even tells me to disobey the order that God has given to me. God has sent me an invitation, yet he (Secretary Kissinger) says, don't go. 

Secretary Kissinger: That would be too powerful a combination if he went there. 

Chairman Mao: He is an atheist (Secretary Kissinger). He is opposed to God. And he is also undermining my relations with God. He is a very ferocious man and I have no other recourse than to obey his orders.

Secretary Kissinger: We are very glad. 

Chairman Mao: Yes indeed. I have no other way out, no way at all. He gave an order (Secretary Kissinger). 

President Ford: To God? 

Chairman Mao: No, to me. 

When the meeting broke up, Mao repeated his beloved little joke:

Secretary Kissinger said that he was glad that the Chairman obeyed his orders, i.e. not to go to heaven. President Ford said that he hoped to straighten the Secretary out so that the Chairman could go to heaven, but he and the Secretary added that they hoped that this would not be soon. Chairman Mao indicated that he could not go since he was under orders from the Secretary. Secretary Kissinger said that he would maintain those orders. 

The Goy did not imagine that the Chinese have Heaven (Tian) but no Hell, so he  "straightened" Kissinger allowing Mao to die soon. While Kissinger understood perfectly and tried to play along with the Chairman. Ford famously was so dumb that he "could not chew Bazooka and walk down on the staircase at the same time". 

Quinquennial Plan

The seven-year project was completed a year ago and its objectives were achieved. The last and current year my life goes on by inertia. The sciatica attack has been left behind, and a stronger medication has normalized my blood pressure before my kidneys and eyesight could be harmed. In summary, probably I'll not die in the near future and I need to formulate a five-year plan пятилетний план. 

I am starting to think about the goals.   

Tiangong

China has built a space station that has been offered for use to all humanity.  China also has a vehicle exploring the dark side of the Moon and another one on Mars. It is a very impressive technological achievement. As the European nations are sinking into ugly, murderous wars, China soon may become the ONLY country exploring the universe. 

The Russian Mir space station was launched fifty years ago and the International Space Station is three times larger than the Tiangong (Celestial Palace), but China is coming ahead very fast. As the International Space Station will retire after 2024, the Tiangong is likely to become the only operational space station in the world. Bai Linhou, the deputy chief designer of China's space station, said that China's space station is an inclusive one and has been designed in a way that foreign astronauts can adapt.