New Jewish Year

At 2 PM today the country goes into isolation for three weeks. The coronavirus epidemic is raging and each day some 5000 catches it.  There are 50,000 active cases aka sick people. For the younger people is a bad flu, for adults it may take two weeks in bed, for elders like me it means a stay in the hospital on respirator and then a painful death.  As for me, I must be in good shape and healthy since last night I had a wet dream. I am surprised since it is an adolescent exuberance  uncommon at my legendary age. Six signed contracts are waiting - a lot of work - I need motivation. Grandchildren are sick, Shkeddy has the aftosa virus (the hoof-and-mouth disease which I knew as a South American bovine disease), another is allergic to gluten. Friends are not calling and when they do, we have nothing to talk about. 

The TAPLINE: Israel Finds its Niche

 ARAMCO built the TAP oil line between the  pumping stations in Saudia and the port of Haifa, bypassing the expensive maritime route of the Suez Canal. For a hundred years, a TAPline lays unused because political instability of the Middle East. Now, the United States, after a generation of wars has quieted down the area and the TAPline, that never died, is being revived.

Israel, Egypt and Greece are building a gas line to Europe. If the two systems are joined, we have complete secure energy supply to Europe. The loser will be Russia, that will be outpriced from the European market. The winner will be America, having its fingers holding the energy aorta of Europe. Israel will realize its foundational dream of integrating itself into the British (now American) global economic system. BTW, all the troubles of Argentina started when it lost its position as food supplier within the British "imperialist" system.  Till now it cannot find a place in the new system. 

 I am reading secret English reports on the perspectives of the Jews in Eretz Israel after the Mandate. The tone is arrogant even antisemitic. The Jews live from donations and have zero fighting inclination and skill. They did not gave us a year.  

Jews Praying In the White House

 History Made Today. 

Why am I so poor?

 

Median Jews are Well-to-Do.

I am a Median Jew. 

Ergo, should have an income of 100,000 US$ but  do not have it. 

Why?

Race	Median Income
Jewish	$97,500
Asian	$76,260
White	$60,256
Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians	$60,133
Hispanic	$42,491
Black	$35,398

P.S.: I must be Hispanic. Or Black. Am I Black?

Kevin McDonald is Wrong

MacDonald wrote that if not for the expulsion of the Jews from England (in the 12th century), a native middle class could not have  developed.

 Reading Naipaul's Bend in the River about Salim, a Hindu shopkeeper in Stanleyville, I reflected that after the Indian middle class was expelled from East Africa, no native middle class took its place. Fifty years after, natives are not filling their economical niches. The same in Zimbabwe, after the foreign race middle class left, there are no signs of the development of a capable Black replacement.  May be it is too early, could be. 

Old Shatterhand in the Prairie Fire

California and Australia are burning, and people is wondering why. From early childhood I have the vision of the prairie (America's open grassland) burning and killing everything in its way, thanks to Karl May's adventures of Old Shatterhand (a German) and his blood brother Winnetou  (a Mescalero Chief). Once Old Shatterhand found himself downwind from a prairie-fire, in mortal danger. He took his faithful Bahrentotter and killed a buffalo, emptied its insides and sewed himself in the carcass. The fire passed over him  in a few minutes without harming him and, I imagine, afterwards he enjoyed a copious "asado". 

Thus I am not surprised by the fires and don't talk me about climate change. 

Wrong Numbers

 Long-term forecasts are uncertain. But in the long run, the "demographic transition" algorithm shows that global demographic development naturally seeks a stable equilibrium as the population gradually adapts to its ecological niche's limits.

Nonsense.  Populations have suffered tremendous changes in the last thousand years. No equilibrium.