The Legionella Problem

Now I am designing a hot water system for a Moroccan cake factory (no kidding, מפעל עוגיות מרוקאיות) and I want to have a permanent circulation system so there will be immediate hot water in every faucet. It will be a solar system like shown on the pic. The problem: It is a food factory and the Ministry of Health may ask for a Legionella control system. I'll have to maintain the water always hotter than 60 Centigrade and maintain a certain level of active chlorine in the water? All over the world they are celebrating the new year, the new decade, but here you have me battling this problem. Kever Benjamin, December 31, 2009 23.15 Hours.

Have Happy New Year Resolutions

Life and Death in the hands of a Serial Homosexual Rapist Archbishop

During the "Proceso" dictatorship of Argentina, the relatives and friends of people who had disappeared found that the Catholic Church had intimate contacts in the repression apparat (basically, the Navy and the political police units) and was able to find and free "desaparecidos". If my memory serves me well, Monsenor (Archbishop) Storni was one of the most effective. It is difficult to describe the power over life and death wielded by this high priest in Argentina 1975.

Now I read that Edgardo Storni had been investigated for allegations of sexual abuse on 47 young seminarists and that today he was condemned for violation of Gunther something, a seminarist. The influential Archbishop was, apparently, a serial male rapist. Under Argentine law, he may not be tried because of his age (over 70).

The Next Big Thing on TASE

It appears that the next big thing on TASE (TEl Aviv Stock EXchange) will be the life sciences sector. There are about 10 research startups on the bourse and they have shown very good performance in the econd half of 2009. Yesterday COMPUGEN shares jumped 75% as some kind of research agreement was signed with Pfizer. This is a firm, like all of them, that has not sold a pill and lives from refinancing to refinancing. Compugen CEO Tzatzkes Axselbrad said that a short-term financial target for the firm is to achieve cash flow breakeven by the end of 2011, based largely on research revenues under milestone and revenue sharing collaboration agreements.

I was there at the birth of this industry but it did me no good. Fifteen years ago I was invited to the inauguration of the Maus Computer Laboratory at Tel Aviv University. Senor Marcos Maus was then an 80 plus years old Holocaust survivor who had made money in Mexico and supported the lab. I tried to understand on what was Maus's money spent and what they were supposed to be doing there, and one guy explained me that they were modelling how large molecules organize themselves - on the computer. The whole place didnt look anything like a laboratory or anything I was used to, it was a lightless bunker with a couple of computers and a coffee corner. Those were the days of DOS and there were funny outprints stuck to the walls. I asked one of the students lazying around what they were looking for? and he said new drugs.

I was very skeptical. I suspected that Maus had been sold a fake project (I suspected that the "Chair of Jasy Jewry Studies" and so were all fake). Yet Maus, the caricature of a miniature (1.40 m maybe) carrot-head Polish Jew (he died soon after), was happy there taking pictures with his grandchildren. He insisted on speaking Yiddish to his family and everybody. I could not have imagined that underground bunker where a few students spent time playing PacMan as the seed of Compugen and a whole industry on TASE. It seems that Maus was much smarter than me and could see the future better. I am afraid of these luftgescheften, yet big money is being made by them.

Think J, think. You do awake twenty years late, but there is so much money on the life sciences table that you may yet pocket some. For your grandchildren.

The Necessary Hegemony in the Nile Basin

Dr Elisha Kaly who sat next table to me at Tahal, launched the idea that Egypt being so rich in water, it could sell us some to irrigate our Negev desert. Forget it. Egypt is becoming a country that can survive only as a regional military hegemon. It is a very poor country that produces nothing but tourism to earn foreign currency. It needs hard currency to buy food. With a population of 100 million and current (ie pharaonic) irrigation techniques, it needs 100 billion cubic meter water per year to become selfsufficient in food. But it has not that amount of water. Its sole source is the Nile, with about 55 billion cu m. So needs tourist money to import food. Any regional war or internal trouble will dry up the tourist flow and cause famine. Political stability can be maintained even in famine (Ucraine, 1930).

The Nile's annual flow is 84 bill.m3, of which 10 billion evaporates from Lake Nasser (for an Israeli, with a total inflow of 1.8 billion, this is an incredible waste). Like thieves in the night, Egypt divided up the Nile with Sudan - 75% for me, 25% for you. The other eight riparian countries were cut off. The Nile flows into Egypt via Sudan from Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Eritrea. Egypt has threatened its upstream riparian countries with war if the Nile waters were to decline as a result of irrigation projects in those countries. The threat is synonymous with Egypt decreeing that upstream countries in the Nile basin must not engage in irrigation projects to feed their hungry population so that Egypt’s water allotment is preserved. As a case in point, Ethiopia provides around 55 billion m3 of the Nile’s annual flow, or around two thirds of the flow to Sudan and Egypt. Ethiopia has 200,000 irrigated hectares out of a potential 3.7 million hectares of irrigable land. With a population nearly the size of Egypt, and facing problems in sustaining, Ethiopia will need to develop a large portion of this land for agricultural use. If Ethiopia irrigates only 500,000 hectares, for example, the flow of the Nile to Sudan and Egypt will drop by 6.25 billion m3 per annum.

Global warming, man made or not, will mean less rain and increased evaporation in the Middle East. Hunger in Egypt’s nine upstream riparian countries, combined with Egypt’s own economic plight, make it reasonable to predict that some kind of military hegemony will be necessary to avoid chaos and conflict. If Israeli water technology could be applied in Egypt, there would be more than enough water to go around. Lynn and Vanhanen assigned an IQ of 83 to Egypt, making that technological jump unexpectable.

Post Scriptum: Gadi Evron and others have commented on the above, and from the feedback I get the feeling that I have not established with clarity the coming hegemony's chain of inevitability. My reasoning is as follows:

Lynn and Vanhanen established that two parameters:

(a) IQ as a biological constant, and
(b) the technological - economical level,

are strongly linked, that is, the second is a consequence of the first. Therefore,

(1) Egypt lacks the capability to adopt water efficient food production technologies, and

(2) it is dependent on natural water supply to feed its 100 million inhabitants.

Egypt's sole source of water is the Nile, which is disputed by nine different African countries. It follows that

(3) Egypt can feed its people only by inhibiting the development of the Nile basin's irrigated agriculture,

which necessarily requires

(4) military hegemony.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

We in Israel have escaped this chain thanks to God's grace and the high IQ some of our people was born with, which allows us to manufacture water from the sea and to produce food in artificial environments with a fraction of the water used in Egypt.

Now, let me proceed one step ahead. What kind of military hegemony needs Egypt to ensure that the Nile is not used upstream? Upstream riparian competitors of Egypt are even in worse state that Egypt itself, so they is no local autoctonous pressure to push ahead with irrigated agriculture. They are barely functioning entities that are unable to organize large scale irrigated agriculture projects. The initiative and the executive capability must come from outside development factors, like the World Bank and large NGOs. Fortunately for Egypt, the World Bank has been castrated and abandoned the environmentally disputed irrigation project area. And NGOs are focused on imbecile small scale appropriate technology projects, like rain collecting and hand pumps. So there is no real competition for the Nile's waters. Its hegemony can be maintained on a very low key way, without military intervention.

What kind of military power is needed by Egypt to enforce its hegemony? I think the French model is the best: it is the Foreign Legion in Chad, Senegal, etc.

Israeli Hydrocrats

Mekorot delenda est.

More later.

Update: I dont know. I am afraid of them.

Kapustnik

From my table: The world-renown Russian kapustnik cake a la J's wife.

Jewish Hotties

The demand for my water engineering services is getting momentum, people is pressuring me to work on their projects and lately the post has improved and cheques are arriving. Just now I have this man waiting at the other side of the internet: the Ma'atz (National Roads Company) bulldozers and asphalt carpeting machines are advancing like the Wehrmacht toward his property and he needs detailed drawings. The man has a "kombina" (arrangement) with the road contractor that he will moonlight his equipment and personnel to build the man's private pipeline on the roadside. I should be preparing the drawings but my mind is on other things. I am glad no one can read my mind. Or can they?

Liver Cancer

Following my mother's death of liver cancer, the note below calls my attention:

Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd. (TASE:CFBI) has completed the recruitment of patients for the Phase I/II clinical trial of its CF102 drug for the treatment of liver cancer, after the safety committee reviewed the interim results and gave the go-ahead to continue the trial. The second stage of the trial will test the safety and efficiency of CF102 in higher dosages than in the first stage. The trial will take place at the Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson Hospital) in Petah Tikva, following the successful completion of the Phase I trial in the US on the basis of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational New Drug (IND) application.

Liver cancer is one of five most prevalent forms of cancer in the world, affecting 450,000 new patients each year. It is most frequent among people with hepatitis B or C, as well as among alcoholics. The company estimates the market potential for a treatment like CF102 at $850 million, and believes that it will rise to $1 billion in 2010.

Can-Fite has already undertaken two clinical trials of CF102 for liver cancer and for Hepatitis C. Can-Fite's share rose 4.5% on the news, but then fell back to a gain of 0.3% to NIS 0.65, giving a market cap of NIS 141 million. (from Globes).

Two years I had CanFite options, but it was disappointing and sold them with small profit. I suspect anyone can arrange these trials and build a company worth 150 million. How do I know if this is a bona fide company?

Zetland Discovers Vinland

Aguanomics makes a flashback of his trip to the Salton Sea, where he discovered America (as it is, not as imagined). He wrote:

For a long time, I have wanted to drive AROUND the Salton Sea, e.g., the east side of the Sea. Yesterday, we decided it was a good time to do that. When we got to the South end of the Sea, what we saw astonished me!

In an absolute DESERT, we are growing alfalfa. The fields go to the horizon, and there are hundreds and hundreds of stacks of alfalfa. This is in a place where the summer temperature reaches 120-125 degrees! And they are growing it by flooding fields. And without water, the land is absolutely barren. This is where 20% of all California's water is used.

I know that the Imperial Irrigation District is one of our favorites so you should enjoy this insanity.

Note that 15% of California's water is used to grow alfalfa. The Imperial Valley uses 7.5% of ALL water in California. Zetland poses the right question (which is half the solution): So why do farmers grow alfalfa?

Because they only pay $17/AF of water (recall that urban consumers pay over $1,000/AF for water)... Modesto Irrigation District's farmers pay $23.50 per acre for the basic allotment of water, then $11.75 per acre-foot. Didja see that! If you use enough water, you get more at half price! Those rates are not just crazy low, but the decreasing block rate structure makes them uneconomical (and perhaps criminal, given the current drought).

Thanks Zetland, it is a most powerful note. I liked the word "criminal". You are one of us, it's water flowing in our veins. Now let me be the impertinent old water fool that I am and ask, you have had it now on your blog for one year, what did you do with it?

The UN condemns Israel for Planning to Raise Water Prices

That the United Nations is shamelessly antisemite is above question. Yet I am shocked once and again when see what they write about Israel. For example, the UN water site features a very small note on the dramatic drought in the Hassakah region of Northern Syria, where 400,000 hungry people has escaped and lives in freezing refugee camps. Side by side, you can read a large and detailed article about the terrible disaster caused by the Israeli Government sadistic rise of the price of the water. "Research conducted by the National Insurance Institute of Israel (NIOI) estimates that the price increase would cause a 0.3 percent increase in the poverty rate in Israel and that poorer sectors would be particularly hard hit." "Yedid, an NGO working to empower poorer sectors of society, is concerned the water price increase will widen the gap between rich and poor and increase poverty. “For people in the lower tenth [of society, financially] in Israel, this 50 NIS is crucial for buying needed medicine or food. This will harm the elderly, the working poor, people living on pensions, the unemployed, handicapped and more''.

Gentlemen of the United Nations! Two billion people all over the world have no drinking water at all, for any price, yet the United Nations water site writes extensively and condemns Israel for planning to increase the price of the water and so estimatively increasing Israeli poverty rate by 0.3%. The lack of balance and focussing on Israel is grotesque, absurd, antisemitic.

ON THE OTHER HAND, it occurs to me that the UN focusing on minuscule water events in Israel and not on the Biblical disasters elsewhere, may be less a consequence of innate antisemitism and more of innate laziness. We Jews produce fantastic amounts of literature and documents, in all languages and in high journalistic quality, for and against everything related to us, since we are a people deeply immersed in ourselves. Say I am the editor of that poorly written UN sponsored water internet site. I am in desperate need of content, of publishable material, all the time. There is almost nothing about the mass human disaster in Hassakah, moreover, no one knows where Hassakah is and no one ever heard of the place. A million Hassakeans may die of deshydration and be buried one by one in inaccessible mountain cemeteries, yet not a good picture nor a document fit to publish will be available. On the other hand, there are excellently written articles freely available on Israel, written by the always chattering Israelis from the left and the right, full of fascinating accusations of Israeli government crimes against humanity such as planning to increase the price of water. One NGO antigovernment Israeli went as far as to calculate the impact of the proposed measure on poverty (0.3%) and its disproportionate effect on oppressed racial minorities. (The fact that Beduins do not pay for the water is always forgotten, our Government keeps supplying them for fear of UN criticism). It is clear that we Jews ourselves are the origin of much of focusing on ourselves.

Bonesmen Seen in the Middle East

The bones of Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos were stolen from the grave. Dr Neophytos Loizides, from Cyprus' School of Politics and Philosophy said: “This incident has triggered intense political and public debate as to the motivation behind it at a time when efforts to resolve the conflict in Cyprus are at a critical juncture." His family stated that '[ό]που κι αν βρίσκεται η σορός του, η φωνή του θα ακούγεται [[w]herever his body may be now, his voice will be heard]'. Papadopoulos kept his silence at his new home on Yale's Crypt crystal vitrine.

учатся учатся учатся

By the year 1968 I had stopped going to classes and spent my time reading the Encyclopedia Britannica (some 22 volumes and the yearly additional tomes) in the library of La Plata's Bosque. I had not inscribed myself in an exam for two years. Since I was so much ahead in my studies, no one noticed except my ultra-rich uncle Ivor. After a short discussion where I demonstrated that nothing of what I was supposed to study would ever be useful in life (I used him as my model: he was a carreer officer of the Austro-Hungarian K-und-K army, yet made his millions in the pharm business during the war in Argentina, when German firms like Bayer were shut out), he cut me short saying that I could come to collect an open Buenos Aires - USA ticket with a fat traveller cheque book attached if I finished my degree by September 1968.

To allow me concentrate, he gave me the keys to one his secret garconniere apartments. Among the luxuries in the place I found a box of six jugs of Old Monk Scott whisky, and many books, all which (whisky, books) I finished in a couple of days. Then I started a learning diary, to time myself and learn how to learn effectively. That is the grandfather of this learning blog. I had ten exams (out of a total of 33) to finish my studies, and I had less than a two weeks to prepare each one. I discovered that I was less distracted when tired. So I adopted the marathon method, studying three or four days without interruption, maintaining myself on cigarettes and bencedrine. I could not talk, I was trembling, became impotent for a while, but my girlfriend Dorli Koehler did not abandon me - German girls are very faithful, the best. By September I had passed all the exams becoming the first of my class in graduating. Most graduated two or three years later.

The учатся учатся учатся slogan is attributed to Lenin, and it was painted on the walls of my Gorkiy elementary school. It means: Learn, learn, learn. Repetition, Lenin knew, is the key to learning.

Charles Murray Amazed by What He Saw

Charles Murray has been doing some field research and here is his report:

I’ve been marooned in Paris the last three days, waiting for a plane home after the snowstorm. Last night, having been struck by how polyglot Paris has become, I collected data as I walked along, counting people who looked like native French versus everyone else. I can’t vouch for the representativeness of the sample, but at about eight o’clock last night in the St. Denis area of Paris, it worked out to about 50-50, with the non-native French half consisting, in order of proportion, of African blacks, Middle-Eastern types, and East Asians.

Mark Steyn and Christopher Caldwell have already explained this to the rest of the world—Europe as we have known it is about to disappear—but it was still a shock to see how rapid the change has been in just the last half-dozen years.

Great minds work alike. When I was stuck at San Diego, Calif. airport, I too spent the time collecting data and making statistics. I found that only about 10% of the presents looked "Old Americans", that is, how I remember Americans used to look in my youth (sample: Benjamin Franklin, John Bunyan).Most people in San Diego looked nondescript, brandless, olive skinned European. It is true that artificial lighting made everyone look alike and they all dressed, had haircuts, walked and talked with an entonation that was standard. In my sample, Americans were shorter than I thought (about 1.65 m average all genders) and less obese.

I also tried to identify, classify and count people with character ie personality. Faces at San Diego were vanilla bland, featureless. I find that many Ashkenazi, German, Japanese and Chinese faces are strong, expressive, intelligent; most European historical portraits radiate willpower and character (see "Mangan"), but I met none of them at San Diego.

Jewish Sex Machine

I have been writing all night an Incredibly Boring, Extremely Complicated Bill of Quantities while the factory owner and three contractors are sitting in Netanya and waiting for it to appear on their fax machine. Yet I am here in an escapist fantasy trip. I wouldn't hire a fat, lazy, completely unreliable bullshitter like myself. They did, ergo they deserve to suffer. The intended title was the Fax Machine but Sex Machine has a better sound. I am in no mood to wish you a Merry Christmas. Have one anyway without my wishing so.

Follow Up: Yesterday we had the meeting with three contractors, the Persian Jew brothers (the owners), the project manager, the chief architect and the usual sidekick people. We started with one building - plumbing contractor clan from Uhm-El-Fahm, and I explained the design and answered the questions. Then two other contractor groups were admitted, but I was silenced and only the Project Manager spoke. He had understood the design and explained it better than I did. When I tried to inject a word (after all, I am the author of the design) he humiliated me pointing out grammatical mistakes (I had no time to correct my Hebrew) and technical faults (some signs were too small on the plot). The meeting ended everybody feeling wonderfully after a difficult task well done, except this blogger who was excluded from the fiesta and felt most dejected. One Persian analphabet advised me to return to elementary school to learn some Hebrew. (I have books published in Hebrew, yet yesterday I was left opening and closing my mouth like a fish on the dry). I should not write about these bitter experiences, I should present myself as always successful, just as everybody else does.

Beard comment: The Persian was suffering from alopecia, his beard showed hairless spots and his eyebrows have fallen. He said it was mental stress and it will grow back. The project estimate is 4 - 5 million US$ and they are shitless out of fear. Sorry, courageously proceeding onwards.

Hot sexy israeli girl

Bar Rephaeli, of course. Thanks Ferdinand.

Know Your Enemy

The disgusting Israeli organization called Peace Now has opened a hotline for informers - the "malshinon" (from Israeli slang "to inform on somebody"). Peace Now encourages people to call and denounce anything wrong done by Jewish settlers in Samaria, such as building anything. This ugly organization is financed by the Norwegian government that has supported the organization with “millions of Kroner over the past seven years – totaling, in today’s money, over $1.2 million.” The European Union itself as an entity has donated at least NIS 451,600 ($119,000) to Peace Now, and the British government, another generous patron, has provided more than NIS 540,000 in funding for its “Settlement Watch” project. Another Scandinavian nation, Finland, is also a patron. One woman from Ofra settlement informed on herself because she took out a chicken from the freezer. But it is not a joke.

In the Army there is a saying: לא תהיה תקומה למלשין
that is, the informer will not raise from the dead (when the Moshiach comes). There are variations of the the same.

Connecting the Left and the Right Brain

I too believed that magnetic manipulation of the brain was a scam, till discovered Brainsway, an Israeli company developing medical instruments to treat addictions. I do believe in stock exchange graphs.

Money is something white people have in unlimited quantities

Exactly.

The Emerging Mechanism to Exploit White Americans

I read it first in Mangan's Blog: In America, a permanent class is being created that takes out more from the State than puts in. This new class is well organized, has conquered the Government and is tirelessly creating new mechanisms to transfer resources from the working and producing class to the parasite class. If the parasites become majority and theState is ruled by democratic voting, the situation may be irreversible. Marx never imagined such a social setting.

An anonymous commenter down here writes:

White Democrat voters are either comfortably rich (and it will take a long time to erode their wealth) or in professions that benefit directly or indirectly from government largesse (teachers, trial lawyers, college faculty, etc.) If you combine them with minorities and those who pay no income tax (overlapping categories) you are getting perilously close to having a permanent majority in favor of taxing the "rich" to pay for all the goodies, as long as there still are any rich left. The ultra rich are unconcerned - they can afford advisors to design elaborate tax shelters, so "rich" in this context means anyone who actually works for a living.

A second Anonymous writes:

What went on in Copenhagen was what Tom Wolfe memorably called "mau mauing the flack catchers". As Ronduck said, Obama comes from the breed of "community organizers" who are used to extorting the Man, so he is entirely comfortable with this procedure (the operation known as the whiteman'smoneyectomy), even though there is some role reversal (the fox is guarding the hen house). Since Obama has already given away trillions to all and sundry, what are a few trillions more? Where Obama is from, money is something white people have in unlimited quantities but are unwilling to share with the darker peoples, so boring details like inflation and deficits and so on can be left to his Jew advisors - they know how to deal with such details. Obama is now the Big Man that his father wished to be and never was.

There are at least 10,000 papers in Social Sciences and Economy published per year in America, yet I never saw any reference to this development. The State, in 2010, expropiates about half of the country's resources through direct and indirect taxes, and channels these resources toward maintaining the State mechanism, toward maintaining vital institutions such as the Army, schools, hospitals, but most of the money is paid back to the public (not to the ones taxed, of course) as transfer payments. It would be relevant to see a study what proportion of the resources are vacuumed from the taxpayers's pockets and channeled to feeding the parasites. The American State is the most complex organism in existence and it can be assumed that the channeling is carried out by indirect and mixed means, making it difficult to identify and quantify the net flow. It would be interesting to discover how this mechanism is behaving lately.

On the other hand (I always have many hands), it is not self-evident that the inherently less capable majority is able to manage a complex monster as the American State in its own interest. It is easier to believe that they would be the exploited ones. I dare to go one step ahead and say that it is easier to believe that the extremely capable minority (let's call them "The Jews" for short, although real Jews make up only about ten to twenty percent of this elite) is manipulating the State in its interest. I would think that this second situation is the natural one, yet in a democracy (the rule of the majority) as America, the first situation may be the existing one. Or something in the middle, which would mean that the American State is being operated against "The Rich", as defined by Anonymous: people that works for a living.

Internet Zahav Will Double Soon

Internet Gold Golden Lines Ltd. (IGLD) is an Israeli internet provider and just competed raising about 80 million dollars for future investment. The share lifted today 7.5% and I think that we are just starting. There is a big fight going on for Israeli telecommunication companies and two or three groups will emerge winners, the rest will be gobbled up. All will appreciate. I have some of this.

The generalopinion is that in 2010 foreign investors are going to flood TASE and prices will rocket. I think we are under observation and being followed, and a sudden rush in is possible. Israeli banks and financial companies are relatively cheap. May be.

I am not taking new commissions. I want to clean the table till end of January, take one week off and think on investing in a small company. I am too old and have to take risks and make money fast.

One of my clients showed me the proposals he received for the job I just won, and it appears that I am not cheap at all. Has he fabricated the proposals to make me believe that I have cheaper competitors? I think so. I am convinced I work for peanuts and others charge more than I do.

New World Chess Champion

Boris Gelfand. Is it necessary to say he is a Jew? An Israeli Jew? The world's intellectual elite is collecting here. American Jews should think over where they want their children and grandchildren to grow up. I am happy with the decision I made in 1976 to stay in Israel (I came as a tourist). It is improbable that in Argentina I could have the daughters I had. All of them are working and studying very seriously. My daughter in the Technion is studying Architecture, and I can see that she is being trained very well. I have one daughter in Katza, a Kever Benjamin high school. I find the teachers much stressed and harassed by the management and are pushed to demand too much from the students. Classes are from 0800 till 1530 and they get lots of homework. Over 95% of Katza students graduate, but they are only the third or fourth in the country. The Ostrovsky School of the neighboring town of the Phoenician Glass Factory is number one. Katza is number one in Israel in the percentage of students who volunteer for frontline fighting units. Ostrovsky is number one in fighter pilots. They must be very patriotic, I dont know, I only see them studying too much. Today I realized that my daughters maintain themselves, pay their rents, pay their tuitions and refuse to accept money from me. I also left home at 16 and never accepted money from my parents (I always made much more I needed) but conditions were favorable in my time in La Plata. On the other hand, I think environment does not affect people like me. I am indifferent to people's opinion and self-motivated. I grew up in the lowest lumpen barrio of Mataderos in Buenos Aires, and till age 21 (when finished the MSc) I used to live in the dirtiest "pensiones" sharing rooms with semi-criminal lumpen. One year I lived in a whorehouse on Calle Nueve esquina 48 of La Plata, the owner was a old Russian Jewess called Boles and later his son entered the building business and became rich. It did nothing to me except to access more sexual experience than middle class Jewish boys, to acquire a lifelong passion for lunfardo (Buenos Aires's thieves language) and for turn-of-century tango, when it was the whorehouses's music. People is shocked by my Spanish, as I spontaneously use expressions typical of jails and not heard in polite society. Also my tastes are unrefined and gross: I like the commonest street food (shwarme be-pitta) and drink the cheapest vodka (Perfect), I like to dress at home, at the office and even at meetings coloured cotton underwear (which I use one over the other, in lieau of shirt), workers blue cotton pants with many pockets and construction workers high shoes (they hold the foot, are antislip and very light). I have fights with my wife who forces me to undress and dresses me up in uncomfortable formal suits. I cannot blame my environment for that.

Pat Buchanan on Global Warming

If this blog had an Irish Rabbi, Pat Buchanan would be it. The man is one head above all of us and teaching us the truth week after week. From his last shi'ur (weekly lesson):

If you would know what Copenhagen is all about, hearken to this nugget in The Washington Post's report from the Danish capital:

"Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi—who is representing all of Africa here—unveiled his proposal Wednesday for a system in which rich countries would provide money to poor ones to help deal with the effects of climate change. ...
"Zenawi said he would accept $30 billion in the short term, rising to $100 billion by 2020. ... This was seen as a key concession by developing countries, which had previously spurned that figure ... as too low."

There was a time when a U.S. diplomat would have burst out laughing after listening to a Third World con artist like this. But not the Obamaites. They are already ponying up.

The time Pat is talking about was forty years ago. It was better then.

Feminist sayings

Why men prefer virgins? They cannot take criticism.

Why men masturbate? To make love to someone they love.

How long it takes for men to change the toilet paper roll? No one knows, it never happened.

Why God created man first and woman, second? Experiments are done on rats.

What is the difference between man and vibrator? Man has credit card.

Why smart men are like dinosaurs? They were extinguished millions of years ago.

Why piles are better than men? They have a positive side.

Why men are like soap operas? They end when things start to get interesting.

And men and microwave ovens? At first one thinks they can do anything, but they are good only for warming.

99% of the men give a bad reputation to the rest.

Rabbi Melamed Retracts

The fight between Rabbi Melamed of Har Bracha and the Minister of Defense Echud Barak was won by Barak. Melamed, after emmitting courageous fighting words, retracts. Soldiers cannot refuse orders. Rabbi Shapira's message about sister Wisdom says exactly the opposite of what everybody understood at the first reading. The Oracle of Delphi is alive and well and open to consultations in Jerusalem.

The Bonemen Did It

The Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca was killed in the Spanish Civil War, but now it has been discovered that his tumb is empty. Who stole the Poet's bones? The only secret society practicing these macabre arts is Harvard's Skull&Bones. Is there any Bonesman out there who could check if Garcia Lorca's bones are still at the left of Pancho Villa's skull in the front vitrine of the secret crypt?

Comment: Looking at the picture, do you have the impression that Federico Garcia Lorca was homosexual? He was.

Exceptional catch in Ecuador

This month 7000 tons of dorado were cought in Manta, Ecuador, when regularly they fish only 700 ton. The Pacific Ocean near Ecuador is exceptionally warm and white fish is now very abundant. Ecuador is in a special position on the planet and is being clearly affected by global warming. I like dorado.

Parasha Me-Katzeh ("At the end...")

At the end of two full years, it came to pass that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, good looking and fat; and they fed on the tall grass. And, behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the river, horrible and skinny; and stood by the other cows near the riverbank. And the skinny cows devoured the fat cows and Pharaoh awoke.

Thus starts this week's chapter. What does it mean? That dreams are messages from the future? That by the right interpretation of dreams the future can be controlled? I would like to hear Rabbi Melamed's (pic), the leader of the rebellion (see note below), this week's "shi'ur" (lesson).

Jewish Priests Are Readying for War

We have a very bad split here in Israel. The Government has decided to evacuate part of Northern Samaria, and has ordered the Army to prepare the action. There was a feeling of dumb silent resistance, as the Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazi said that this was not the Army's sphere but of the Border Guards, and there was passive resistance among the soldiers too. Last week the priests found their voice in Rabbi Eliezer Melamed of Har Bracha settlement (see his pic in a former entry) and he has clearly and publicly instructed Jewish soldiers NOT to follow orders and to take no part in the evacuation.

Then the Minister of Defense Echud Barak publicly issued a strong and menacing warning to any soldier disobeying orders. The public is in a state of shock and waiting till the confusion and fog clears up and we can see where each leader and party stands. Today things started to take shape, as the Head of Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, Rabbi Yaakov Shapira (pic), issued a message seconding Rabbi Melamed. Shapira is the most prestigious of all heads of yeshives (religious schools). He is not only a "luminary" in the Torah, but son of a leading priestly family. His message, written in the Jewish priestly style, reads thus:

To the heads of the Yeshivot, may the Almighty watch over you.

"Say to wisdom, you are my sister".

As the Holy Torah is our sister, a sister to all of us, I allow myself to write you these brief words in order to strengthen those who are already steadfast in their beliefs.

The eyes of myriad Torah scholars are turned to their teachers everywhere, particularly with regard to the current issue, awaiting their opinion with unwavering loyalty.

They recoil at the thought that any rabbi, teacher, educator, or yeshiva head could be prevented by limitations imposed from outside the Torah world, from saying what he thinks about an issue, and expect that erroneous impression to be changed.

Such an impression might, G-d forbid, lower the ascendancy of Torah, which must be inherently independent of other forces. Despite differences of opinion here and there, the honor of Torah is above all. From an educational point of view, moreover, we all surely agree that it is forbidden to minimize the Torah's power or to give the impression that the Torah is not entirely independent.

Therefore, I back all the Torah-true decisions you make, and truly wish you G-d's help in your efforts to quell the flames that were ignited and to stoke the smoking coals around them, this in order that the coals of Torah scholars do not scorch their surroundings. May you strengthen one another's resolve, for the sake of His nation, His Torah, and his Land.

For those wondering about Rav Shapira's sister, the one called Wisdom, I translate: The Priest says that the Torah (the Jewish Law), i.e. the Priests, are superior and independent of the Army, and no impression should be allowed that a soldier should obey its officer if the Law (his Rabbi) says otherwise. No Jewish soldier is allowed to participate in the evacuation of a Jewish settlement.

We are not at the end but at the very beginning of a long war. If Echud Barak mismanages this rebellion, and the Arabs stay quiet and let us fight among ourselves, this could be ugly.

Tamil Ethnocentrics

According to Kevin Macdonald, we Jews are the most ethnocentric people in the world. We have a patented genetic strategy, which features the moral and physical destruction of our hated rivals (the MacDonalds). And we have been following to the letter this strategy for the last 4,000 years. Yet I am a bit worried that the strategy may not be working as intended, since we Ashkenazi Jews (pic.: sample) are no more than 6 - 7 million individuals today, while the MacDonalds are over about 200 million in the USA alone and a billion world over.

It is so refreshing to find someone proudly ethnocentric yet not Jewish nor MacDonald. She calls herself FeministX and maintains a blog dealing with... herself. She likes to take pictures of herself and to post them on the internet, she analyzes with full detail her thoughts and feelings, her relations with the New York lumpen she seems to work with. Now we, her fans, have been informed that she is an Iyer, a member of an esoteric Southern Indian Tamil Brahman clan. I have never heard of them, but she explains that they have the highest average IQ of all humanity (except maybe the Jews), and they have got proportionally more Science Nobel Prizes that any other population. I had been convinced that the Parsis were the world smartest people, but have never heard of the Iyers. Are the Iyers so smart as she says? It seems improbable. My argument: No one seems to hate them. Not even in their native South India. Yet a small clannish people, if too smart and occupy high positions in society (the Iyers are judges, high public servants, university teachers, etc.) naturally bothers people. People, if black-skinned, are even more disliked, even in India. And the Iyers are very dark, yet they have no enemies. Ergo, they cannot be so smart as she says.

On the other hand, I have much to learn about non-European peoples. When my Mother was dying of liver cancer, I could not get any Israeli, Phillippine or Romanian nurse to stay with her. I offered them triple salary, yet they escaped after seeing my yellowing Mother and hearing her complains and demands. She was in a very bad mood, dying. Then appeared this small Tamil woman, and I was shocked by her ugliness and monkey-like shape. My Mother hated having ugly people around her and kill me, but she was ugly as sin. Having no choice, I hired her and to my surprise, she stayed on the 24 hours a day job till the very last minute. She came from a Christian family, spoke excellent English, was extremely clean and hard working, and astonishingly intelligent. She memorized in no time the dozens of different pills and injections my Mother was receiving, with their complex schedule. She catalogued the amazing quantities of remedies my Mother had accumulated, wrote a catalogue and guide for herself, and suddenly everything was ordered and under control. She did not became confused by Mother's moods, she did her job in a methodical way till the very moment of my Mother's death, keeping her clean and fed and fully cared for. I have no idea if she was an Iyer, but sure she was a special person. To be honest, I never got used nor became comfortable in her presence, yet I developed a sincere appreciation and gratitude toward her. She dressed black silk and cried in my Mother's funeral. I gave her a disproportionate amount of money for a foreign nurse in this country. What else could I do?

Ecuador Without Electricity

As predicted by this blogger a year ago, Ecuador entered a period of unsufficient electricity caused by global warming and the disappearance of the high Andes glaciars which Ecuador's hydroelectric plants. Although it was obvious to see the problem coming (French scientists published the results of their measurements a decade ago, I understood it in the moment I saw alfalfa grown at 5000 meters), it took Ecuador by surprise. The government is in total panic, they begged Colombia to sell them electricity, but they hate Correa the Chavista. El Comercio writes:

Andrade aseguró que había tal nerviosismo en el Régimen que el Cenace cambiaba continuamente los niveles de entrega de energía de acuerdo con la situación en el embalse de la central Paute. Pese al escenario negativo, Albornoz insistió en volver a la normalidad el martes pasado, lo que no pudo concretarse y devino en su inminente salida del cargo. De acuerdo con funcionarios cercanos al ex Ministro que pidieron la reserva, los técnicos no entregaron datos reales al presidente Correa por temor a ser removidos de sus puestos. “Si decíamos que los cortes irían hasta febrero nos botaban”, indicó una fuente.

The Electricity Chief Andrade saud that the Government's anxiety is so high that they are changing their instructions according to the level of the Paute reservoir (pic, in good times). Albornoz had promised that last Tuesday all will return to normality. That did not happen and he was fired. High functionaries say that they cannot report the real situation to President Correa. "If we tell him that this will last till February, he will fire us."




"The country belongs to all of us. The women belong to all of us." Anti-Correa poster.

Investment Opportunity

Globes reports: Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov said that the visitor arrival statistics point to the continuing trend of recovery from the economic crisis. He pointed out that there is also what he called "unprecedented" demand from entrepreneurs to invest in hotels.

37 entrepreneurs recently replied to the Tourism Ministry's invitation for grant allocations to establish new hotels and to return buildings once used as hotels to their former use. The Tourism Ministry allocated 300 million NIS to providing grants for entrepreneurs within the framework of the 2009-2010 work plan for this dual purpose. An extra 100 million NIS will be allocated to this program next year in line with demand.

For the first time, the program allows entrepreneurs to receive a grant for converting buildings previously used as hotels back to their former status as well as refurbishing old hotels and, in addition, improves the efficiency of the grant application procedure.

The Tourism Ministry will give priority to requests from areas that are already in tourist demand and/or with a shortage in hotel rooms, such as Jerusalem, Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee area, Nazareth, and Acco.

I am involved in this construction business and I am helping people to get State land, ecological subsidies and so on. I could do it better than them! Getting State finance for hotel business is an opportunity. In the past, ancient hotels were renovated and later sold as apartments. Or the Herzliya Marina aparthotels (pic), that are now superexpensive luxury apartment houses. It has been completely forgotten that they were allocated sea-front real estate and subsidized finance by the State for another purpose.

Yanqui Go Home!

Kever Benjamin City has been enriched by an American oleh hadash (new immigrant), who has assumed the sacred mission of improving the environment of this corner of the Holy Land. He is an American architect, a true Zionist, an idealist of the old race. "I know I am called naive, a dreamer..." he says. The man is a famous professor, a hero of the American environmental architecture scene. In his lectures he predicts the coming end of fueled vehicles, and the urgent need to think about the problem of tens of thousands of abandoned gas stations. He wrote an award-winning paper about transforming these stations into "green" sanctuaries, all over the world. I am afraid if the stays in Kever Benjamin City, cars will be outlawed and we shall have to ride asses, as our ancestors. The use of energy-guzzling lifts will be forbidden since staircases are available. Street asphalt will be broken up and the city reforestated. The original fauna of wild jackals, rabid wolves, poisonous snakes, pest-carrying rats, Anopheles mosquitoes, will be reinstated. Please, America, take him back!

The case of the poultry house on the flood plain

A former client of mine (remember the turkey farm, in a Persian Jews village) is building a new, enormous poultry house (1.2 hectares) in the middle of a verdant artichoke plantation (pic). The terrain is plain and there is no natural drainage. I spent the morning walking around and learning the land with him, his halfwit brother, the obese contractor and his sidekick, followed by half the village that had to know what my client was up to.

The contractor insisted that I design a pumping station, but convinced him that it was unfeasible, that the volume of the rainfall to be evacuated in a 1:10 year rain would be in the order of thousands of cubic meters. And that the regulators dislike pumping solutions because they are eventually sabotaged to spite the neighbor and flood his land. I found a natural wadi (creek) hidden by overgrown weeds, which after deepening could convey the surface runoff to a dry river. When the crowd visualized the engineering solution, it turned tensely to see what my Client would do. The creek to be improved is about 150 meter distance from the new poultry house, and the pipe or channel to it will cross his neighbor's plot. I felt it may be something of a problem. Additionally, the deepening of the creek would need the aproval of the village council (the ruling organ of the moshav, a cooperative kind of settlement) because it is public land.

The man phoned the secretary of the village offering as a gesture of public service to improve the drainage system of the village, for exampe, by deepening the creek. The Secretary by name of Naim thanked him. Regarding crossing the neighbor's land, there was a coded debate about historic division lines, where the road had passed in their father's time, they tried to visualize imaginary limits and ended by convincing themselves that they are in their right. Tomorrow they will order the cement tubes and after Shabbat, the building will start.

I returned home with a cheque in my wallet. They are days when life is bearable.

The Food Factory Project

Two Iraqi Jewish brothers are erecting a new food factory that will be at the European Union's standards. They bought an existing industrial building in Netanya and I am designing the water and wastewater systems. I gave such a ridiculously low proposal that the project manager said that something is wrong: Or I my price is too low, or the other consultants (electricity, safety, air conditioning, etc.) are asking too much. Now that I am doing the project I see that I am cueless and need a business manager.

Landing in Israel

As the plane settled down at Ben Gurion airport, the voice of the Captain came on:

"Please remain seated with your seatbelt fastened until this plane is at a complete standstill and the seat belt signs have been turned off."

"To those of you standing in the aisles, we wish you a Happy Chanukah."

"To those who have remained in their seats, we wish you a Merry Christmas."

Self Portrait in Green Bugatti

Miracle in the Holy Land

A draft report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opens, "Since the beginning of 2008 it appears that Israel has been acquiring safe haven status".

Israel, Safe Haven? This miniature, embattled, hated country a safe haven? We must be doing something right.

Tell Barak he is not my Boss

Ehud Barak, Israel's Defense Minister, invited the rabbi of Har Bracha to talk over their differences. The rabbi sent him the message that you cannot order me, I do not work in your place. The difference is about Har Bracha being one of two West Bank yeshivas which encourage Israel Defense Forces soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate settlements. The other one is the Alon More yeshiva headed by rabbi Levanon, a very intelligent man. Har Bracha is the place where the Israelites erected their first altar in Eretz Israel, it is one of the highest mountains in Samaria. I do design work for both settlements, and I rather like the people and I definitely like the place.

The Chacaltana Glacier is No More

The high Andes glaciers are disappearing. The Chacaltana in Bolivia (which once was a ski resort) has dried up. Ecuador, which depends on glaciers melting for its electricity (and agriculture) has started buying it from Colombia. The High Andes produce little, so the economic disruption is bearable, except for the Indian communities. From 1970 to now these communities have grown and strengthened (in Bolivia they took over the country), which may have happened in part by the improvement of the climate in their areas. They had more water for irrigation (thanks to melting glaciers) and new agricultural lands (upper mountain valley, now accessible) as well as better roads and motor vehicles. Those newly enlarged populations will find themselves soon in the capital's barrios.

Taxes and Death

...are unavoidable. Pravda (!) illustrates this ancient truism: A German student Alina Percea auctioned off her virginity on the internet, and was ordered to pay taxes for such an endeavor. I strongly recommend to any Israeli girl interested in this type of transaction to register as "Atzmait", give a tax receipt (חשבונית מס) and pay the מע"מ (VAT = 16.5%) on any (monetary) income. Dont mess with Israeli tax people.

Tel Aviv as a Financial Center

I quote Shani, the Finance Ministry Chief, who spoke this morning at the Israel Business Meeting in Keysaria. "I'm not sure Tel Aviv can become a global financial center like New York or London, but if we manage to bring over 500-1,000 Jews with experience in portfolio management, that will give a significant push. In that case, we would not make do with exchange traded funds, but there would be people here who understood how to manage money in the big world." I think that in Wall Street there may be a few Jewish underemployed money managers. The salaries here are not to Wall Street level, but the weather is much better.

The Permitting Business

It is early morning here and wish to register a thought: as a consulting and design engineer, over thre quarters of my time workload is permiting, getting permits for people who wants to build something. Last week I finished the fire, water, sewage and drainage permits for a 4 floor building, and it was a long and difficult battle that lasted.... TWO YEARS! Yesterday I sent to print a 50 pg long environmental impact assessment for a Cochinese (Indian origin Jew) in the Negev who want to install solar power on his chicken coops - and make use of the subsidy offered by the State for the project. It took me two months of work on-off to collect the information and to organize it. In the blog note of yesterday, about the Tamp Bay desalination project, I noticed that the hardest part was the permitting, the actual building of the plant was considered a cakewalk.

What do I learn from this situation? One is that I am good at writing these elaborated documents and justifications, and giving presentations convincing my colleges who work for the permitting insitutions, that make up the permitting process. Second, there is a demand for these services, I could easily build up a large office. I would like to reflect on the general impact of this new situation, that you have to spend ten years to get the permit for building say a pyramid while the actual contracting the slaves and building materials and so on takes half of that time and effort. But I have no time to think and nothing clever comes to my tired brain. A good day to all.

The Tampa Bay Desal Project

Tampa Bay area decided fifteen years ago to embark in an ambicious project: to solve its growing water scarcity by building the world largest ocean desalination plants. These days, apparently, the plant is starting to produce water. There are several lessons to be learned: enormous ego issues are involved in water projects, desal is more difficult than imagined, the American water engineering industry is in worse shape than realized.

After the long formulation period, the project was given to an American-Israeli company called Poseidon. Barely a year after Poseidon won the bid, its subcontractor, the Boston-based Stone & Webster, one of the world's largest and most respected engineering firms, declared bankruptcy. In December 2000, Poseidon hired Covanta to take over. A year later, Covanta filed for bankruptcy.

Considering that the Government would be better at managing the project than a private firm, Tampa Bay Water's board bought the plant from Poseidon -- even though Poseidon insisted it was on track to complete it. Critics such as state Sen. Ronda Storms, a former board member and Hillsborough County commissioner who opposed buying the half-finished plant, say the move was about ego and control and put ratepayers at enormous risk. After the purchase, ratepayers -- not Poseidon -- were on the hook for cost overruns and other problems. And while it got rid of the solvent company, Tampa Bay Water stuck with the bankrupt company, Covanta, to finish the plant.

The board's position was that Tampa Bay Water's access to cheaper financing than the private companies would save taxpayers millions. Most important, the agency was ultimately responsible for making sure the region got the fresh water it needed. Poseidon had already jumped the most significant hurdle, environmental permitting. The board didn't expect that it would be hard to finish the plant.

In 2003, the plant produced its first 3 million gallons of fresh water, then plant's 10,000 reverse-osmosis membranes began to clog. Under the original contract, Poseidon would have been responsible for fixing the membranes. Instead, the taxpayers were on the hook. Tampa Bay Water ultimately hired American Water Pridesa (since acquired by Spain's Acciona Agua), which spent four years and $32 million on remediation.

We arrive to Dec. 2009 and the plant starts to operate. The original cost estimates have been forgotten. In my humble opinion, any new difficulty may cause the plant to be abandoned. To transfer it back to the Israelis is unthinkable. Ego is involved, as the Senator Storms already has established.

Setting the Just Price

The Price Tag policy has been started. Obama has forced Netaniyahu to stop all development in Samaria and Judea, and bulldozers are on their way to destroy "illegal" homes and synagogues. The Samarian pioneers have adopted a clear counter-policy: for every home destroyed, for every vineyard uprooted, they will exact a price to be paid by the Government. They have very good psychologists and economist among them, even Nobel Prize Prof. Amann is with them.

As a first step, last night the mosque of Kafr Yossif Palestinian village was burned down. A graffiti message was left on the wall: "Price Tag". It is Friday, the Muslim prayer day, and in all mosques of the world "Vengeance" will be preached. Obama has no idea with whom he has opened an account. It promises to be an expensive business for all.

HBD Books about Strategy for Revolution

The antisemitic right in America is seriously thinking about an action program for a revolution. They are serious, thinking people and their debate takes place - as far as I can see - on the internet. The only precedent I see of the mental environment they live in is the revolutionary movements before the Russian October )or is it November?) Revolution. Some of the internet comments are like Lenin's article "What is to be done". HBD Books, for example, evaluates the possibilities of organizing a revolt based on the American White proletariat.

Kevin MacDonald talks a lot about “white rage”, but it’s coming from those who can’t do much about it. Sure, they can vote, but in the end of the day that can do nothing but slow things down. Voters in California rejected affirmative action and giving government service to illegals but the courts overruled them. Striking down miscegenation laws, desegregation, busing, abortion and gay marriage in a handful of states all came through the courts. The genotypic IQ of whites in West Virginia (see illustration) is probably similar to that of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq and the Deep South will get there in a generation. If they were Muslims these whites would pick up guns and fight to live in the kind of society they want. As things stand, they don’t have the brain power to march through any institutions.

He thinks the masses are impotent, cannot do anything without leadership. Exactly what the Bolsheviks were saying. Exactly what MacDonald is saying.

Ecuador's Central Bank: We Cannot Go On

The President of the Directory of Ecuador's Central Bank resigned with all the higher personnel because they were not willing to go on carrying out the President's orders. The Bank had 800 million dollar reserves safely deposited in a large international bank. The President ordered to repatriate those reserves and channel them as a loan to some govenment companies. In the Ecuadorian context, the order meant to transfer Ecuador's national foreign currency reserves to the Presidential pocket. I was surprised that Ecuadorian functionaries have a red line, but they have one and this is it.

Prof.Kevin MacDonald Reads HaAretz!

Fantastic! Prof. Kevin MacDonald, the chief ideologue of Jew-hating of our times, the Alfred Rosenberg of the Myth of the Twenty First Century, reads the same Israeli fishwrap I do! I am starting to suspect that he is secretely learning Hebrew to read it in Hebrew too! If Prof. MacDonald desires to learn first hand about Jew-hating, the could come to Israel and accept a job as visiting professor in any of Israel's seven universitites. He has the credentials and teaching experience for that. In the University of Haifa he could meet Prof. Ilan Papo, the bastard who started the worldwide boycott of Israeli universities. In the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he could discuss in the cafeteria "The Invention of the Jewish People" with its rabid author. At the Tel Aviv University's Social Sciences he would feel more at home than at home in the UCLA. But the Beer Sheba University of the Negev may be uncomfortable for him, MacDonald may be treated as a pallid, compromising, vacillating WASP intellectual, too soft-mannered and fair for the extremist climate of the desert.

The fact is that MacDonald is coming around to the realization that American Jewish organizations are NOT for the invasion of America by Third-World masses, that it has been a long time that they stopped favouring free immigration. Jews are sensitive to their environment, they are increasingly aware that Third World peoples are fanatically anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, and that it will be very bad for them if they take over the United States. If they had doubt about it, after the Durban Hate Jamboree they have none.

Since Jews are as impotent as the WASPs in stopping the flood, they are carefully trying to establish good relations with the newcomers. MacDonald describes these desperate and hopeless efforts, these contacts with Latino groups, with Islamic mullahs, with African American church leaders. It is understandable that MacDonald only saw the dangers that America's demographic change represent for his own tribe, the White Protestant "Old" Americans, and had no patience at all with the Jewish perspective. Yet, the future for American Jews in a Third World dominated America is much more dangerous that for Old Americans. If South Africa is the model, then Whites will surely suffer, but life for Jews will be impossible. If Paris, Amsterdam or Stockholm represent the future, then American Jews will have to get used to build their synagogues as fortified bunkers with armored carriers guarding the street corners.

British and American antisemitism during the twentieth century was more of a defensive attitude against real Jewish competition, and it was mild, almost an energizing challenge. but Third World antisemitism is emotional, religious, impervious to reason or self-interest. I maintain email contact with Latino friends in the USA, they are shockingly uneducated and specifically about Jews and Israel, and frequently they send me antisemite material without realizing that it touches me personally. The more American Jews meet this new hate, the more they will hurry to take the plane to Israel. Ende gut, Alles gut. All is well that ends well.

Nechasim (Properties)

I am accumulating the Nechasim ve-Binian stock. In average I am making 14% paper profit, but I expect more. The paper behaves very regularly (see YTD graph) but this morning I bought at 3% higher than yesterday and it ended the trading day 4% below. Why? Day traders are cutting pieces of profit from my skin.

Quantifying Sovereign Risk

After the 2008 worldwide financial panic crisis, people are obsessed with the probabilities of sovereign default. Yesterday it was pointed out that Greece is very near of the breaking point, today it is Spain (the Bolsa de Madrid fell 2%). According to the CMA Sovereign Risk Monitor, at least ten other countries are in risk: Venezuela, Ucrania y Argentina (over 50% probability of default), Pakistán, Dubai y Letonia (30%); Island (23,4%); Lituania (19,3%); California (18,4%) y Rumanía (17,2%). This uncertainties and risks offer beautiful opportunities for speculation. I would like to have time, free time, to study these situations. but I am working like a mule.

Illustration: A Republic of Haiti Bond. It has a collector worth of 100 dollars. Never paid back a cent.