Extreme Heat Waves and What the Palestinians Have Learnt from Them

Nothing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Really. They keep rejecting modern agricultural technologies and writing nostalgic tales about "baladi" (village) agriculture, the neverland when man was synchronous with nature. At the fellah level, the poor fellow sees and believes that hi-tech Israeli agriculture works, and tries to imitate it, but in Ramallah the very idea is taboo.

Psy War at Its Brightest

"The Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water," Netanyahu stated. "Israel stands with the people of Iran, and that is why I want to help save countless Iranian lives."

He noted that "Iran's meteorological organization says that nearly 96% of Iran suffers from some level of drought" and that Iran's Environmental Minister had warned that "50 million Iranians could be forced out of their homes due to environmental damage."

"Millions of Iranian children are suffering due to mismanagement and incompetence, and the theft of vital resources by the Iranian regime."

"The Iranian regime shouts: 'Death to Israel!' In response, Israel shouts: 'Life to the Iranian people!'"

Source: Benjamin Netaniyahu.

From now, it is not Allah retaining rainfall from the dry land of the poor Iranian farmer, it is the cruel and tyrannical clerics that pretend to represent Him. Israel is willing to make it rain in abundance, it is the bad ayatollahs's fault that we are not allowed to.

Observe the Islamic Republic of Iran's Meteorological Organization map: There are almost no green points left in Iran. Of course, the map was faked by the Mossad to frighten the Ayatollahs. If not, it should have been.

The fact is that a bad climate change is coming to Iran, and if they do not wake up -  a Hassaka-like religious-revival will surprise them. 

Celebrating Fun in Tel Aviv

The annual gay parade in Tel Aviv. Are we decadent?

Argentina Decides It Belongs to the Third Shit-World

Israel was shocked and humiliated this week when Argentina decided that its futbol team, lead by the semigod Messi, will not arrive to Jerusalem to play us. The Argentinian Foreign Ministry had acceded to the Palestinian authority's diplomatic request.

On the other hand, Argentina has negotiated and received a 50 billion dollar loan facility at the International Monetary Fund. There was a run on the peso and if they had no access to finance, the speculators would have destroyed the country in a year. Everybody knows what is the meaning of the monstrous debt to the IMF: the immediate drastic reduction of public spending, unemployment and misery, deflation and sale of national resources to American and other foreign capitals. Argentina has a very long and very unhappy history of indebtedness to the IMF. No nation that accepted the IMF debt-slavery ever escaped from the shit-hole.

Improductive Week

I am feeling ill all this week. On Saturday night I drank some red wine and felt terrible. Lower back pain to the extent that barely could stand and walk. I got also a bad cold and it developed to a hard ball under the right mandible. I behaved quite stupidly and when T. did not arrive at time, I left without waiting a minute.

In fact I should be feeling well, at long last I owe no more declarations to the taxman and the family is well. I am prospering and flooded with work orders that I cannot fill. Watching the young women at the university and knowing that I am untouchable for them, makes sad and depressed.

Another Victory

The Start-Up MediaMind made Exit and pocketed millions. The partners to the triumph raise the SMALL bottle of beer. Herzl, who was a member of the dueling German student unions, wrote that the contribution of the Jews to their culture was "the SMALL glass of beer".  We maintain that tradition.

Another Jewish History Ends. The Germans Killed It.

Monsanto is/was a very old and large agricultural chemicals (toxica) and genetically modified seeds company. It is being bought by the German concern Bayer. So disappears another Jewish family's name from history. Although it could be constructed as another case of Germans vs. Jews, this is definitely NOT a story of antisemitism. It is another story is triumph of the German industry over American chemicals. Bayer never was antisemitic, during WWII when they were excluded from South America, it partnered with and made rich my Buenos Aires uncles.

Monsanto ("Holy Mountain") is a small village in the Portuguese mountains, where Spanish Jews found refuge when expelled by the Catholic Kings. “The Monsanto family was a longtime Sephardic family that fled the Inquisition. Isaac Rodriguez Monsanto eventually emigrated to America, later bringing over his brothers and sisters. The family became prosperous merchants, shippers, fur buyers, and bankers in New Orleans, despite the Code Noire. Furthermore, they practiced their Judaism openly, but some in succeeding generations abandoned their ancestral faith. In 1896 Olga Mendez Monsanto married John Francis Queeny, hard-driving chemical entrepreneur. He and his son Edgar Monsanto Queeny created the Monsanto Chemical Company. Fast forward one hundred years, and Monsanto is a large multinational corporation. 

Yet Monsanto's very name induces a range of negative reactions in the public – from disgust, to concern, to fear over its power on the food we eat. Bayer will rid itself of the Monsanto name, a chief lightning rod for environmentalists’ opposition to agricultural technology. Although few are aware of the Jewish connection of Monsanto, it is good that the name will be heard no more.