The best mosque in Europe

 

The mosque of Cologne-Ehrenfeld. Architecturally, it is nice. The nicest churches in Hungary are former mosques of the Turkish occupation time. People are unaware that Hungary was an Islamic country. Like Spain. 

America is ending Globalization

 
China has painted itself into a corner. People now have weakened immune systems, and cannot stop the Zero COVID policy without massive deaths. 

No one is buying Chinese high-tech products. 

Xi is focused on stability and defense. He changed the list of promotions minutes before the vote and did not allow his left-hand partner to see the actual list to be voted on. Loyalty to Xi is the main requisite for advancement. 

Israel will prosper. 

Wuuttke said there used to be many "liberal" officials in the CCP who supported deepening reforms and embracing the market. But after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, these different voices may no longer exist, and almost all major decisions need to be set by Xi Jinping, who has already stated that he would rather sacrifice economic growth to achieve national security and economic independence. . He also said there was no sign that China would soon relax its "zero policy" to prevent and control the new crown epidemic.

Excess Males in China

Conrad Hackett

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Most male-biased sex ratios at birth around the world from 2000-2020 (UN data) China: 115 boys per 100 girls Azerbaijan 115 Armenia 114 Vietnam 111 Albania 111 India 110

A few years ago the internet was full of speculation about the gender imbalance in some populations. War and civil unrest were to be the obvious results. That did not happen. There are 35 million more men in China than women.  This caused women to be overly privileged. Chinese women are beautiful on the outside, but very nasty on the inside...demanding and money hungry.

US Navy vs EPA

“The Navy is contesting an $8.7 million fine for Clean Water Act violations and alleged deficiencies at its Pearl Harbor–Hickam wastewater treatment system, arguing the penalty levied by the state Department of Health (DOH) is legally prohibited because the state is barred from seeking punitive damage,” Stars And Stripes reported. “DOH fined the Navy in September for 766 counts of discharging undertreated sewage into the ocean between January 2020 and July 2022, in addition to 229 counts of operational and maintenance failures at its Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam wastewater treatment plant.”

This is just the latest in several ongoing drinking water and wastewater treatment issues surrounding the Navy. Officials were recently reprimanded for their role in allowing fuel from a Hawaiin bunker to enter and contaminate local drinking water supplies, and consumers are currently suing the government as a result. And recent revelations suggest sailors are routinely subjected to jet-fuel-contaminated drinking water aboard Navy vessels as well.

We had a similar issue of a military airport spilling fuel and contaminating the aquifer. I don't know how it ended.

Israeli Arabs: Crime and Terrorism misexplained

 
Taubcenter writes: Another factor that contributes to the high rate of crime among young men in Arab society involves the emerging trends in the Arab marriage market. The average age difference between a bride and groom in Israeli Arab society is six years. Since cohorts below age 18 are smaller than those aged 18-22, this means that starting from around 2026 the number of men at the normative age for marriage will be about 5–10% greater than the number of Arab women at the normative age for marriage. This ratio does not even take into account the phenomenon of polygyny in Arab society, found primarily among the Bedouin population, which itself reduces the number of women available for marriage to never-married men.

However, in the population pyramid above I don't see that cohorts below 18 years of age are SMALLER than age 24. On the contrary. The boys are having a growing choice of younger marriageable girls.

Racist environmental crimes in Jackson, Miss.

 

The Jackson, Miss. sewage treatment plant operates a high flow rate dewatering tubes system to contain and dewater 92,000 dry tons of biosolids. This is the world's largest project using geotextile tubes. This approach saves the city over $3 million in solids handling costs due to the decreased volume of material to be hauled. The plant discharges into the Pearl River and is in permanent contravention of its permit.  

Currently, Jackson City has no drinking water supply. The media says it is an environmental racist crime.  

BTW, I have relatives who left Hungary and settled in Mississippi and were in the supermarket business. The Klein Scholarship Fund helps Hungarian students.  

Thanksgiving

I am aware of my age and condition, yet I only realize my situation by looking at my old friends.  Today died Alejandro Alaluf and found a sad story about his wife Sarita. We all made aliyah at the same time and spent half a year in the Kfar Saba ulpan. Alejandro married Sarita Gelbard and opened a dental clinic here. In the clip (pic), I cannot recognize the sexy redhead I knew then. Forty years in the same village, and they never invited me. Now she is very ill, secluded at home, looking demented. At the start of the COVID-19 epidemy, she panicked and paid 13,000 sheqels (3500 US$ then) to a "friendly" neighbor for a dozen of masks. I feel blessed am still living, healthy and working; my wife and the family are all right. I  have survived virtually all my male friends, yet I am still far from the average life expectancy of Israeli males. As Solon answered king Croesus if he considered him "happy" and living a good life, 

I count no man happy until his death, for no man can know what the gods may have in store for him. (Herodotus, I.32)