Tier Jude

Old men spend time reworking memories. Maybe the human animal - feeling its end - resumes what happened, conciliates itself with the inevitable and makes ready for death. My Father used to refer to himself "Tier Jude" (Jewish Animal), as they were called by the SS soldiers while marching to the Bor copper mines. Hereby I assume the "Tier Jude" title.

After a few weeks pause, I resumed my water+Nescafe fasting. I am going to the country club every day and my body is definitely improving. Today I took a painkiller and walked one hour on the elliptical treadmill. My heart peaked at 90 pulses a minute and then went down in a few minutes. In swimming I am doing a pool width (25 m) under the water. A few years ago I could swim one length (50 m) under the water, and fifteen or so years ago I could go and almost swim back under the water.

Amazingly, fasting does not reduce this Jewish Animal's libido. The exercise room has about five rows of machines, so when I am walking on my elliptic threadmill machine my eyes are fixed and hypnotized by the oscillating buttocks of the (very fit) girls in the row ahead of mine. Then I go to the pool full of semi-nude teenagers and young mothers. The women are aware their bodies, they show-off, they giggle and water-play with each other and with their children. There are also swarthy youngsters shouting in Arabic and performing violent horse-play acts in the pool: I dont like them. Toothless animals are afraid of young wild lions playing around. I use to chat with the Arabs sweating in the sauna - they are fat and "buena gente" (good people).

This week I am starting to expand my business. Why? No amount of money could change my daughters: they will not produce grandchildren before they think they are ready (which I fear may be too late). They seem to me typical secular left-wing Tel Aviv young women, slim, brilliant and full of energy. Only a religious education would have made them marry young and make children, but I missed that. So, Tier Jude, what now? Well, my body will think up something. It always did.

Getting into debt

I had been offered a small business loan from some State fund. There are various ways of repayment but basically it is based on 8% p.a. fixed interest in shekels. Since the shekel is inflating at 3% p.a. it comes to about 5 - 6% p.a. net interest rate. I think it is exorbitant, excessive - what small business makes more than 6% on its investment? Since my business is based on my personal work, time and not capital is my limiting factor. The repayment is considered a business expense - does that make it attractive? The truth is that more than half of these loans get unpaid, and the small businesses do not survive. Since the State is the guarantor, banks do not persecute the debtors, who are not there anymore. I know serial loan-takers who have gone through several businesses and enjoyed the experience. In would call thses 8 - 10% rates "hard money" (even if they are State promoted loans). It is well known in America:

"Some people do call us hard money lenders and loan sharks, and I take offense at that," said Don D'Ambrosio, whose company, Oxygen Funding Inc. in Lake Forest, advances cash against a company's billings. "We really do help a lot of businesses.

"The mortgage for young couples is also about 7 - 8%. What young couple can pay these interest rates? However, since real estate has become so expensive, with 30 - 100% increase in the last two three years, it would have been and exellent deal to get in debt and buy real estate. Most probably we are facing a controlled inflation inthe coming years, so getting in unindexed debt makes sense. But one needs much courage. If the worse comes to worst - what happens? Loans can be rescheduled (we called that "bicicleta" in Argentina). In the past 50 years inflation was a given, all the currencies lost value. One can bet that it will be so in the future.

Don't

I Have Seen The Future and It Looks Like ...

... the Ninth Circuit (California). The blogger Walter Olson writes about ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is being energetically enforced in Israel (Dont say nothing! I know that formally we are not in the Ninth Circuit jurisdiction, but our raving-mad bureaucracy is firmly convinced that we are. I am not kidding: They quote from it all the time.).

The Chipotle Mexican Grill heralds its “Chipotle Experience,” in which customers can watch their food being made behind a glass partition. Now a Ninth Circuit panel (including famously liberal judges Stephen Reinhardt and Dorothy Nelson) has ruled that the “experience” violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, to quote the AP, “because the restaurants’ 45-inch counters are too high. The company now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.” The ruling arrives just in time for the ADA’s 20th anniversary, which, as the Washington Post notes, is serving as the occasion for a virtual binge of new regulation-making by the Obama Administration and Congress.

I wrote about the new requirements to receive "Rishayon Esek" (the permit to open a business - a shop or a factory) or a "Heyter Bniyah" (a building permit) in Israel, which now include a permit from the Police and a thing called תוכנית נגישות that is an access plan for people with disabilities. I am already qualifying myself to be included in the register of expert engineers in this revolutionary area.

I am always working on things I dont believe in. Not that I could define in what exactly I believe. Always harassed and stressed, I never had the luxury of thinking out what I would really like to do in life. "J, imagine you get paid for doing something you really believe in. What would you do?" I would like to work in TAU's Institute of Math, thinking about how everything operates following probabilities. But I "have to" make money serving the bureaucracy, leaving the mystery of probabilities to another generation. Pity, the Institute has excellent air conditioned offices, with a view to a monstruous red penis-shaped "outdoor sculpture".

Each morning a new opportunity

I am well positioned to make money in the cleantech startup industry and have made several starts in the last ten years, always to let go the project because (1) I lacked the persistance required and (2) new golden opportunites captured my attention. What is startling that every morning new opportunities arise and knock on my door. Now it is this article in Globes about some Anglo-American Pond Venture Partners that is searching for Israeli clean tech initiatives to invest in. I have a poor opinion of this my sector, almost totally based on subsidies generated by the AVATAR people (i find the film Avatar as the essence of the Earth loving environmentalis antiglobalist movement). Yet the money is claiming for investable ideas that look reasonable and have technical background. I am good at formulating these kind of projects and writing the brochures, but I am abysmal in following it up. I need a framework, which I hope will create as from August 2010. According to Globes,

Pond made its first investment in Israel about a month ago in Emefcy Ltd., which is developing solutions for generating electricity directly from the treatment of wastewater using microbial fuel cell technology. Emefcy raised $5 million from Pond and current investors. (Let me comment, I have a fat file with the concept of generating electricity from wastewater, but the yields are very low and the whole idea makes no sense from the economical point of view. I have written in this blog about the project. It makes much sense if it is subsidized, which it is. Yet I am not following up the idea).

Richard Irving says that high tech in Israel resembles high tech in Silicon Valley. "I know a little less about the local industry, but it appears to face a cash shortage even though there are professionals here. We think that this is an excellent time to look for opportunities here," he said.

Pond's advisor in Israel is Adv. Ayelet Torem from the Amit Pollack Matalon & Co. law firm. She helps find investments and develop relations with relevant parties in the industry. She and her colleague Adv. Ian Rostowsky represented Pond in its investment in Emefcy.

I imagine that by giving the names of the contact persons they are saying to people out here: "Come, make the phone call, we are expecting you". Yet I am so busy with my projects that never have the time for it.

Something wrong

This morning I was called to give instructions to the contractor building a project of mine (see pic). Going around I noticed with horror that the original infrastructure - that was in very bad condition and drippping sewage on the machines - was no more, and it had been replaced by brand new shiny HDPE piping, with the original factory smell. The new piping is physically excellent but the design is absolutely crazy and disfunctional. The management is unavailable, they will not aknowledge that they made changes or tried to improve the infrastructure since I was there and made the design (that was approved by the permitting authorities). I need to explain to them that the approved design related to the situation as I found it, and now there is a completely new situation, so a new design and new approval process is required. But my feeling is that they dont want to talk to me or the contractor o generally they hate having to deal with anything physical. They are managers, they have MBAs, they can type on computers, and basically they dont feel like it is their job to leave their airconditioned tenth floor offices. I feel they want me and the contractor to avoid bothering them. Basically, a new design is required, and it must include partial dismounting of the new system and addition of a new one. I am thinking how to solve the problem. They will not want to pay for a new design and for the additional construction work. They will try to blame me. What a summer.

Is the US dollar inflating or deflating?

That such a simple question cannot be answered easily reveals the environment of confusion and uncertainty we are living in this July 28th, 2010 Anno Domine. If I look at my portfolio on TASE, I have more or less made up my losses and the trend is strongly upwards. On the other hand, if I want to buy an apartment for my married daughter, Kever Benjamin apartment prices are high and rising. One small apt. in the bldg. is on the market for 400,000 dollars. Two years ago it was about 150 - 220,000 dollars. There is a squeeze in the Israeli real estate market just now, as construction was almost stopped in the last three years (I think it is because of the numerous much-publicized corruption trials going on: starting with ex Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for his activities as mayor of Jerusalem, against the local IRS boss, the Minhal Mekarkaey Israel, against ten or more mayors, and against the heads of several planning committees (which are paralyzed because their reform is being approved/debated/no one knows what). Illegal foreign workers are being expulsed in their hundreds of thousands (there are new ones infiltrating from Sudan and all of Africa). The system is paralyzed and few building starts are being reported. The shekel is stable against most currencies and strenghtening against the dollar.

Common sense says that America will inflate the dollar to pay back its foreign and internal debt, but the experts are warning of deflation. Confusing.

Haredim: Not what you imagine

The Bible mentions women going out to dance among the vineyards of Shilo. I have done work in Shilo, they are haredi (ultra-religious) yidn. I wouldnt imagine them kusher maydeleh going out into the fields to dance, yet there they are.

What happens when nothing is happening

In the last three weeks I have not lost weight, I have not advanced in the writing of my "prestige enhancing" article, I keep dragging myself on the streets always in severe pain, feeling angry, exasperated, tired. Yesterday an angry client phoned me because the firefighting design I made contained items he felt were expensive and unnecessary (he even accused me of bringing up suggestions like sprinklers and thus planting ideas in the minds of "stupid" firefighter's "stupid" permitting engineer). He also found a reference to a "dairy factory" instead of his line of business, a mistake that he insisted proves that I did no work but cut and pasted from a former project (He assumes that an engineer invents the wheel four times for each new car). I was so angry I left everything and went to the pool to swim and watch girls under the water and that also had its usual effect on my body system. I am not advancing, nothing is happening, the summer is unbearable.

According to the zen, things happen in the times when it seems to us that nothing is happening. Hope it is, because I am not feeling happy. Pic: Zen Mentos.

Non lethal antisemitism

A study has shown that Jewish boys are very successful in top universities (Ivy League) and this fct bothers the antisemite right. Steve Sailer made a nice analysis of the issue which is now evolving on the right wing net. The situation is that Jewish boys and girls are getting into the top institutes, something that has been observed with shock and awe everywhere Jews are more than 1% of the population such as Germany in 1860, Hungary 1920, the USA in 1910, the USSR in 1950, leading to the establishment of mechanisms to limit Jewish admittance. Now it is well known that Harvard and other Ivy League universities had a gentlemen agreement to limit Jewish admissions for decades - till the Civil Rights movement broke down racial discrimination in America. In Hungary there was the Numerus Clausus limiting Jews to 5% of the universities. The net effect of these anisemite measures was that Jewish boy went in masse to Vienna, Zurich, Paris and got better education that they would have received in the shitty local schools. In the USSR, when the universities in the big cities were closed to Yevrey holding passports, they went to study in remote universities in Siberia. Apparently Steve Sailer and his followers are starting to agitate for some kind of Numerus Clausus in the Ivy League, and on the basis of similar precedents, I feel they have a good chance to succeed and limit the admission of Jews. Paradoxically I feel that this antisemitism is not bad for Jews, being blatantly and unjustly discriminated will make them feel Jewish, and they will come to study in Israeli Universities, which are in my opinion better than many of the USA. For a change, I dont feel menaced by the imposition of Numerus Clausus in the USA. In fact, this Israeli Engineer is for it.

One aspect that is bothering Steve SAiler and his acolytes more than having 20% Jews in Harvard, is the feeling that Christian White Americans - specially those of the lower classes - can no longer get into those schools. Even taking into account their average IQ, there should be more of them inthe Universities. Since there are not, there may be some discrimination against them, or more probably, they dont feel the need to make the effort to get into top universities. The sons of my friends that are in those places say that American boys are lazy. I am not there and have no first hand opinion, although I personally have never met a lazy WASP. On the contrary. In any case, this is very bad. A country cannot be led by foreign ethnics. I think there should be some kind of mechanism to push low class small town Christian Americans through the universities, even if they are unwilling and not so bright.

I think this issue should be discussed (in a way of not causing offense to the majority). American Jews should not fight against the return of a mild kind of Numerus Clausus, - it is not about trying to expulse or exterminate them. It is a legitimate White American ethnic issue that needs to be solved.

Motzee Lechem

Today I was working in South Tel Aviv. The entire workforce of this bakery is African, I presume from Senegal, as they spoke something sounding like French and they seem to know how to make excellent French baguette. South Tel Aviv is another county, like Lagos, specially in this very hot summer day. K will understand what Motzee Lechem stands for.

Living and Making Money in Russia

Yesterday's note on driving habits and Dr Erik Falkenstein insight on risk in investments (see Falkenblog) led to "the old joke about the Russian peasant who has no cow when his neighbor has one. One day he finds an elf in the forest who promises to grant him any wish. His wish - "Kill my neighbor's cow."

This old joke (which represent, I believe, human real behaviour and not only in Israel's roads) is Falken's insight. He assumes that investors in the markets behave like, say, Russian peasants, and not like the greedy and risk calculating businessman the economic theory presumes us to be. Therefore, classic economic theory does not work. He is trying to think out a theory that fits real human behaviour. I have a more modest goal, which is to profit from this understanding of the "Kill my neighbor's cow" insight.

Anyone has an idea where and how can I apply this? How do Russians make business? How did Jews living among Russian peasants made business with them? (Russian intellectuals were convinced that Russian peasants were incapable of lifting themselves out of poverty, that is what Dostoyevskiy wrote, and that they were exploited by the Jews that lived among them. The painting of old Russian countryside, when Russians still had many children, is by Vladimir Makovskiy.).

(Nota Bene: I am familiar with Russian peasant types from age zero, and I mean real Russian mujiks. They are good, extremely generous and friendly people. No doubt they would enjoy seeing that their neighbor's cow dies. They would dance of joy seeing the Jew's cow to die. Later they would feel guilty and go to ask for penance from the orthodox pope. I am not judging anyone.)

Falken Tzodek

Tzodek means that he is right. Falkenstein maintains that people does not optimize their profits, that is, they are not motivated by pure self interest or greed, but they are watching what others do at the sides and are trying to harm their neighbors, that is, their motivation is jealousy or some feeling of spite. I was just driving back from Dr Rasputin's clinic when I noticed once and again that the other cars in the street were taking idiotic risks and doing incredible maneuvers such as suddenly accelerating at full gas and then changing directions, just as if they were in some kind of competition with me. What the other drivers do seems to me crazy and purposeless, since the next traffic light is in view and it is changing to red, so in twenty or so meters we will have to stop. At end of their effort, I arrive at the red light and the other fellow is at my left, not even one centimeter ahead of me. He risked a lot and "won" nothing at all. There are a few drivers like myself who calculate the distance ahead and the tempo of the changing lights, and try to drive the car maintaining a steady momentum. I have a pendant (a light-reflecting object that I received in a Koln trade fair) and I always try to minimize its oscillations. Other drivers are motivated by "road rage" and furiously try to get ahead of the other fellow near them. Their behaviour is pointless, meaningless, profitless (as well as risky) to me. Now, the insight that most people drive to feel better or superior to the other fellow is important. Falken is working on some kind of equation based on this insight, that eventually will help him to optimize fund management, but how can I translate the same insight into money for J? That people behaves irrationally is no news for stock speculators.

Anger

The summer is very hot in Israel. A week ago I hit with my foot knuckle the bed's angle, and since then I am in severe pain. My dear wife would not look at it and when I asked for empathy/compassion/human companionship, her reaction was full of hate: "Magia lekha!" - You deserve it! Next day a fish bone penetrated deep in my tongue as I devoured my daily 200 g or so boiled fish portion. I asked my daughter to take a look and she said "Go away!". Eventually the bone went away alone. I am bitter, lonely, feeling bad in this suffocating heat.

Shabbath Meditations

I hope K will not be offended if I copy part of a comment that has suddenly came to surface from deep inside him. Myself have thought out this problem while still a child (before my Bar Mitzvah) but arrived to the opposite conclusion of his, and put the problem in the back of my mind where it has been for fifty years or so. K writes:

The prophetic words of the Wannsee Protocol have always echoed in my mind. The plan for the final solution was laid out - the able bodied will be taken for hard labor on roads, etc. where most will die of natural causes (i.e. be worked to death). But, the Germans understood, those that, like my father, refused to die would be the ones who threatened their plan the most:

Der allfällig endlich verbleibende Restbestand wird, da es sich bei diesem zweifellos um den widerstandsfähigsten Teil handelt, entsprechend behandelt werden müssen, da dieser, eine natürliche Auslese darstellend, bei Freilassung als Keimzelle eines neuen jüdischen Aufbaues anzusprechen ist. (Siehe die Erfahrung der Geschichte.)

" The possible final remnant will, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most resistant portion, have to be treated accordingly [i.e. exterminated], because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act as a the seed of a new Jewish revival (see the experience of history.)"

"Den widerstandsfähigsten Teil" -That's what I am - and what my children are - the most resistant part...".

Eichmann, who wrote (but did not sign) the meeting's protocol, wrote like the concientious Austrian K-und-K low rank bureaucrat he was. Eichmann's genius was in perceiving that the efficient extermination of the Jews was an issue of coordination of bureaucracies (almost a logistic problem). The Jews had been mass exterminated before Eichmann was employed, as about 2 - 3 million Jews in ByeloRussia had already been killed by shooting, and the Polish ghettoes had been liquidated gradually. But Eichman did it vith no application of violence. Eichman did believe what the protocol says, because later in his life he wrote that Israel is the most terrible catastrophe that could happen to humanity. To him personally sure it was the worst of all possible catastrophies. It reminds me to the joke that an ant crossing a stream on a leaf starts to sink. He cries out: "The world is ending!". The elephant from the side says: "No, only an ant is sinking!" In this case, it was only a catastrophe for mini-Adolph. The big Adolph had killed himself before.

My mother always thought that the best and the brightest did not come back from Auschwitz and never thought herself special at all. She thought that Icig her younger brother and the adored boy in her family of many girls, was the very best - and he was killed on arrival. The first selection on arrival to Auschwitz was done by Dr Joseph Mengele himself, and he sent the pallid yeshivebocher of my uncle with his blond payes, to the the other side. The boys of the family (Shloyme, Moyshi) confronted Mengele and tried to take Icig come with them, but he was not tall (there was some kind of measuring) nor robust looking enough and an hour later he was dead. Conclusion: no darwinian selection of the fittest, but being in the right place at the right time. Good luck and good health. That's all.

Entertainment

Swedish passtime.

More of the Swedish thing.

Jewish Continuity

HaAretz writes about activist revival in Californian campuses on the Anti Viet Nam War style. What is interesting is that one third of the volunteers are Jewish (Jews are maybe 1% of the population in the protest age groups). So anti-Israeli activism has become a way of congregating young Jews around something they like. You couldnt get those young Jews into the synagogue, but you can get them volunteer to stand in front of caterpillars in Gaza or sailing anti-blockade ships against the Israeli Navy. Paradoxically, it is a successful Jewish continuity activity, where young Jews meet their life partners and give rise to the new generation of California Jews. Something like the ferociously anti-Zionist (and anti-Jewish) Communist party of Buenos Aires of my generation. They are now wealthy doctors living in Boca Raton. Hi Cacho.

Expansion

J's Diary Entry July 23, 2010: I have been in pain for a whole week, pathetically dragging myself to the car, and thinking. I am flooded with work orders and I can never arrive to the things I set myself to do. Like writing that article on probabilistic design. This is a permanent situation for me. So I have to reduce my workload and reject most of my Clients, or alternatively, expand. Already I have explored this second route and found a larger place and have interviewed assistant engineer candidates. I have made a budget with detail of how much I am risking and talked to my wife (she is panicked, she had always pushed me down).

The business plan includes expanding the engineering design and consulting services to include new non-conventional markets such as (1) public safety (Israeli Police has established its permitting section and they started demanding drawings and reports), (2) fire fighting (part 1 of the new regulations are out and the second part coming, now they require computer modelling which I know how to do), (3) odor and air pollution modelling (they require EPA's AERMOD model which I have - there are only 2 or 3 Israelis competing for these market), (4) Legionella prevention (I have the technology and it is a large markets in hotels and even municipal systems), (5) environmental measurements (people here is in panic with the low level radiation danger - interesting note in Mangan's - , the radon pollution, the gases and particles emmitted by synthetic materials such as carbon paper, etc.) and an everexpanding demand for papers to be submitted and approved by the regulators. The Building Permitting process is being reorganized in Israel - no one knows how it will work but one thing is sure: instead of reducing bureaucracy, it will demand more studies and expert opinions, creating new niches and opportunities. And so on. For some years I have wanted to expand into the manufacture and sale of environmental thingies, such as passive air and water samplers, but never had the time. There is a large market for these cheap monitoring instruments not only in Israel but in Europe.

Since I am not going to live forever and probably not much more anyway, the idea is to develope a going environmental/water concern, and to sell it in a few years from now. There is a very large demand for investable platforms in the Israeli pure-tech (or some other fancy name, money managers believe that this is the next bonanza).

There is only one real point to ponder and it is my age. I am past retirement age, people of my age are already retired and enjoying endless holidays, or working one or two days a week in a semi-voluntary basis. I dont need to be rich - what would I do with the money? Invest in TASE?

But... this night I had another spontaneous nocturnal emmission. I interpret this unusual phenomenon as my body is healthy and feeling the need for action. That I am living below my capacity.

Is it pathetic to start new business and miscellaneous ventures at an age when my friends are in old peoples homes?

The Dog Rises

Globes writes that "The Black Bat", "Abrasha", "Eved HaShem" (this handle may mean The Servant of HaShem - God -, or One Praying to Ha Shem), "Popoff", "Smelling Gas", "The Saudi Sheikh", "The Goddess of Justice", "Ish Tamim" (A Man of Purity, or Innocent), "Ha Kol Me Shamayim" (Everything comes from Above, or God's Voice), "Paul the Octopus" and other pseudonymous forum personae are emerging from their underground holes and congregating in the Kever Benjamin oil well (choose the pic showing the well at night).

These are people endowed with large doses of excess optimism. Their main feature is the lack of dispersion of their investments.

Touche. The Dog (because on the internet you never know if you are talking to J or his dog) will be there this afternoon in its way to the country club. With a bottle of יין ביכורים new wine. I bought (a few, too few...) two years ago Gvaot Olam partnership's shares at 1 shekel (on the advice of the mysterious NOMAD), today it is 10 shekel.

Israel, Not the One Shown

I am working on the design of a factory making yiddische delicacies - kind of pasta pocket filled with meat (it reminds me to Chinese food served in steamed baskets or varonikes). What is remarkable is that all the workers (one hundred?) are Africans. Some are pitch black Sudanese refugees, others are Ethiopian immigrants (see the cross tattooed on the forehead of the Ethiopian "Jewess"). The owner and his mother are the only people I recognize as yids on the premises. I notice a dramatic change in the factories in Israel, the workers are turning all black. I estimate that there must be around one million Africans silently and diligently manning the factories in this country. This is what the early Zionists did not want to happen. On the other hand, I remember my desperate search for a caretaker for my agonizing mother. How thankful I had been finding that devilishly ugly but very kind Ceylonese lady. As always, I end this short note with ambiguous feelings. I dont know if I am for or against.

Stop The Press! Oil Found in Kever Benjamin!

Givaot Olam partnership has been drilling in Kever Benjamin (see my former posts on the subject). This afternoon they announced that there are commercial quantities of oil in Megged 4 well. I pass that well every time I go to Samaria. it is the same geological formation as Kuweit and Saudi Arabian fields, all connected so we shall pump out and get rich with the same oil they have. Or usedd to have before we dry them out. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is UP !

White Nights

White Nights is the title of Menachem Begin's description of his travails from the day it was arrestged in Vilna to the day he arrived to Eretz Israel. He spent many months in the Arctic Gulag (in the Artctic you can read the papers at night) and after being liberated, months walking and travelling through the Soviet Union. His analysis of the Soviet Union (all from the view of a political Zionist leader) was that it was condemned to collapse - he wrote that in the fifties. The CIA and the Rand Institute, with unlimited resources, had the contrawry opinion, and even one day before Gorbachev dissolved the USSR, they sostained that it was rock solid. How a Polish Jew almost dying of hunger could see reality correctly and how is that the CIA, that had interviewed millions (yes) of people returning from the Soviet Union and could build statistical tables of how many hours had one to stand in qeue in each town to buy bread, had no idea of what was going on? I am no Begin but after seeing that 1.30 m tall apparition with the two months old skeletal baby hanging from her teat, I can clearly see the end of "the occupation" of Yehuda and Shomron. 2 meter tall secret policemen are no match for the young people on the hill's determination. Two meter tall secret policemen are afraid of showing their faces, they are paid employees aka mercenaries, and they will do what their bosses will say. And their bosses already have lost and a new generation is waiting for the turning point to move in to their offices.

But the White Nights I am talking about is not the Arctic nor the Shomron. Unexpectedly, I had a so-called nocturnal emission (?) at night, while reworking ing in my memory a young mother I had been watching at the swimming pool. I am not a young man and this things dont happen to me anymore. They shouldnt. But I had eaten the smelling rotten fish, I had reduced my physical activities (because of my painful leg) and slept more than my regular hours. I'll have to think what to do after I complete my fast and start eating regularly. Also, as I am working less, I am taking an assistant engineer. Already I received hundred CVs.

Gozne de los Tiempos

Today is the "gozne de los tiempos" - the hinge of the times. Today it was announced that China has surpassed the USA as the world major energy consumer. From now on, if someone wants to protest the exploitation of Earth's non-renewable resources, the pollution of its air, the extreme weather and so on, the address is Beijing and not San Francisco. AVATAR's greedy corporation is ... Chinese, and the Navi monkeys, they are us. The anticolonialist movement started in Bandung has now completed its mission, white imperialism has been defeated and now colored peoples are colonizing white lands. Our European, American and Israeli freedom fighters soon will have to start fighting for freedom - their own. I think white liberalism is dead, although it does not know it yet and it may take a few years that times have changed.

Tzimtzum

Tzimtzum means contraction in Hebrew. In the Zohar it refers to God that, in the beginning, had to contract itself to make space for the creation. In my case, I had an avalanche of desperately urgent job orders, and decided to reject most in order to free up space and time for new ventures and developments.

Chinese Ideas

大辨不言 大仁不仁 大廉不嗛 大勇不忮

ta pien pu yen, ta jen pu jen, ta lien pu hsien, ta yung pu chi.

The greatest discrimination is unspoken,
The greatest goodwill is cruel,
The greatest honesty does not make itself awkward,
The greatest courage does not spoil for a fight.

Watson traslates it as follows:

Great Discriminations are not spoken;
Great Benevolence is not benevolent;
Great Modesty is not humble;
Great Daring does not attack.

My Mother's Prayerbook

It is Tisha Be Av and I was reading (praying?) from my late Mother's Hebrew-Hungarian old prayerbook. The Hungarian is so antiquated that it is almost unintelligible for me, and I am not a modern Hungarian speaker. The scan is the page of half Kadisch, transliterated into German-Hungarian in Ashkenazi pronunciation.

Not yet dead but already reborn

Today is Dia del Amigo in Argentina and an old (in all senses) friend sent me a pic taken at his marriage (He married at 18). My first reaction: How like my number three daughter! The same angry expression, the same hair, the same everything. I dont think anyone could recognize me from this pic, but she could be identified in the street. I am reborn and living in her. I feel pity.

The Bell House

Who is the architect that designed this bell? I have never seen it working. Mysteries of Kever Benjamin street art.

Science!

I thought K was some kind of lawyer yet he has refuted my estimate of Kwacsek's ethylic content (pic). From my familiarity with lawyers and judges, I know they couldnt care less for physical reality, even if they were cognitively able to comprehend it. They live in another universe where physical reality is meaningless. One of my clients sent me this morning a letter from the Municipality's Legal Department, saying that the lab analysis of its industrial sewage showed a deviation of 3000% so they will close the factory. 3000! A terrible polluter! I wrote the answer: The factory takes with utmost seriousity בשיא הרצינות the lab results, and they משתפים פעולה עם שלטונות איכ"ס we fully cooperate with the environmental authorities. However, it would be nice to have information where the sample was taken, as the factory's outlet seems sealed and unopened recently. Also how many samples were taken, if it is statistically significant? Also 3000% seems much but in absolute terms is less than half a miligram per year. A few drops of lubricant or a small piece of plastic contain much more than the factory's yearlong "pollution". And so on. I know that anything I write is useless, the judge takes the regulation and it says 0.001 PPB and the regulator says the factory was 3000% more - well, next case! To make things much worse, I practice a special style which many feel is sardonic or sarcastic, and she may suspect that my over-serious and over-scientific phrases are, in fact, a way of poking fun of her.

Anyway, K is in possession of a working mind capable of thinking in quantitative terms. We should have such judges here. He has demanded scientific reproduction of my experiment, including the protocol of imbibing of 350 ml of Kwacsek vodka. I post the pic of the elements so HE can repeat the experiment and report on his results.

The 9th.of Av Fast

Tomorrow we fast. The Tisha be Av fast is less severe than the Yom Kippur fast. We dont learn Torah, we sit on low stools or on the floor, we go shoeless, we sing lamentations and fast 25 hours. By now I am so used to fasting that I shall make it two days.

In pain

The bourse is in free fall.
My personal bank account is in "minus".
I am in severe pain and working from home. The shameful details: I had convinced myself that Kwaczek Chech vodka was only 25 proof. Maybe one bottle was and the next batch was 55%. At night, I rised to go to the bathroom and I waked up crying out loud (crying like crying) in white pain. There is no blood nor inflamation. Only pain as frozen.
Old fools shouldnt drink.

Will Netanayahu End like Videla?

Has Ve-Halillah! God Forbid! Although the logic of the events say: May be. I lived through all the steps that brought about the Argentine repression in the seventies and am alive and alert in two thousand ten, when Videla and other high military and police functionnaires are spending the rest of their lives in jail. From a perspective, it is absolutely amazing. I am not a political person, and I was among those curious Argentine citizens who went to watch the military coup in Plaza de Mayo, as the tanks surrounded the Casa Rosada and the generals walked in unopposed. I cant say I was against the coup, however shameful it may sound now. Argentina seemed to us then a chaotic mess "ruled" by an affable but inefficient provincial lawyer. Videla and his collegues appeared as purposeful, patriotic, highly moral leaders that took over for a short time to clean up the corrupt public administration. Believe me or not, but till then I had never heard about the SIDE, the state security service.

There was no opposition, but after a year or so, the Army started to feel under attack and reacted most violently. I became aware of it when for some reason I stopped my car in front of a 5 meter tall wall in Belgrano, which I didnt know what it was. They shouted me to put the inside light on and move on. I obeyed immediately. Later I learned that it was the Naval Hospital and people have been shot for stopping their cars in front of the wall.

Journalists disappeared. Then the military attacked institutions that to me appeared inoffensive but according to military communicados, were the hotbeds of diabolical (they meant it literally: the Antichrist in person was involved) conspiracy against LA PATRIA. One morning INTA's Institute of Economical Research was surrounded by combat equipped soldiers and everybody taken into custody. I had friends there. Another morning battle-ready units attacked (I am not exaggerating, these were Argentine military combatting the international Zionist conspiracy as they have learned in their Cursillos) the University of Buenos Aires's Faculty of Mathematics. I burned all my books. I had a collection of books on Lysenko, some of them in English and other languages, and even in my naivete I understood that Argentine soldiers engaged in patriotic/Catholic war against dangerous subversive armies had no time for Talmudistic explanations. I burned all my books. Then I got a well paying job in Nigeria and forgot Argentina. Then I made aliyah.

Slowly the things that had happened in Argentina (in my absense) are coming to light. The SIDE and the security organizations went amok and lost all sense of proportion. They killed people without legal process, threw them out of helicopters over the Rio de la Plata, maintained secret prisons in the Escuela de Mecanica (it is next to my Club Obras Sanitarias de la Nacion), they took the babies born in prison. For a long time in Israel I maintained that the Army had been attacked and they were only reacting to subversion. Videla and the police were in my opinion highly moral and decent fellows. But they lost the sense of proportion, they felt the courts were corrupt and slow, that secret "justice" was necessary because they were fighting a war against an insiduous cruel foreign enemy.

Time works slowly and eventually even this not-too-bright blogger started to understand. Argentine military had won the "guerra sucia" and continued to live in their paranoid illusory world. But it is very dangerous to lose touch with reality because reality does not lose touch with itself. General Galtieri, absolutely delusional, surprise attacked the British Empire. I dont know what he was thinking, possibly his evluation of British power was based on the 1806 Invasiones Inglesas and the undisputable fact (in the Circulo Militar and the Circulo de Armas) that the English have lost it. Fortunately, Argentina is a large country with no enemies, enjoys a wide large margin of security and the British are good sports, and after defeating effortlessly the whole Argentine army, they didnt go for the jugular and didnt occupy Buenos Aires. I think they didnt cut even diplomatic relations. I am not sure that we have the same luxury in the Middle East.

The Plaza de Mayo grand mothers kept searching for their granchildren and started to find them. The mood changed, the world changed and Videla was brought to trial. It was a shock for him and me too, to a certain point. Pinochet - the collegue from the other side of the Andes - was jailed in London. A Spanish judge sent an internet search notice for Videla. Thing he did in good faith appeared now as the most bestial of crimes. He was condemned and he, who imagined himself being the Saviour of the Nation, was a condemned and hated criminal.

What I am seeing here is that we have a Secret Service that is feeling under attack. They demanded from the Ministry of Justice to allowed to maintain their anonimity, and they cannot be photographed nor identified. They have this poor bum in prison for days, without allowing him to talk to a lawyer. No one knows where he is - in fact, he is in a secret prison. His poor wife - not a beauty - is going from one place to the other with her two months old baby hanging from her teat trying to save her husband. The more I think of it, the more I dont like it. This could end years from now with Bibi Netanyahu finding himself in a prison in some foreign land, returned to Israel to be tried and judged, and ending his life in jail. That is the cold logic of the events. I voted for Begin, and voted for Bibi, and dont like it. The Secret Service is starting to lose touch with reality. What is happening now in Israel would never happended under Menachem Begin, a ridiculous charicature legalist (we called him a small Polish lawyer, what he was). Begin was a lawyer and spent incredible amount of time on examining legal minutiae. In this moment I think that we need a small-time schtetl lawyer and not an heroic commando (like Bibi and Barak) to lead us. Maybe I shall change my opinion later.

Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

Reading the antisemite press, you would never imagine that Jews won only 25% of Nobel Prizes. Yet for every smart Jew there are at least three equally or more clever non-Jews out there. All the vast satirical literature is non Jewish. Jews are absent in The Satiricon. Those witty Romans were worse than antisemites, they ignored us.

So it is unsurprising to discover CATO's Mitchell. As they said in Brooklyn: He is good and not even Jewish.

A Plaything of Zionist Lesbians

David Hoste is going crazy: Now he writes about a Zionist lesbian violating American taxpayers, Palestinian goat herds and Nordic beauties (pic). He has become the village idiot, like the one we love to watch (feeling guilty and with a sense of pity) while drinking extra-cool beer out of the freezer at the club. Thanks Mangan for the pointer. Thanks Hoste for providing us entertainment. Lohan is really girl worth looking at.

A tree planted on the water

A tree planted on the water will send its roots to the source and the heat will come but its leaves will be fresh. (Yirmiyahu). Shabbath lesson.

Ugly people

Two days ago I was present at the Petach Tikva Court and saw the people involved in the case being debated in the next room, that is, "the security affair". Slowly the background of the affair is coming into the light, and they confirm my first impression: these are ugly people at the margin of society.

Perlman is accused by the Shin Bet (the Secret Service) to have murdered two Arabs in Jerusalem (twenty years ago!) and of an attempt to murder others. Perlman felt that was being entrapped and taped many conversations with his "employer" that are clear incitments to murder. In tapes released Thursday, a Shin Bet agent can be heard encouraging Perlman to murder Islamic Movement head Sheikh Raed Salah and to carry out “a small fireworks display” in an Arab village. Perlman rejected both suggestions.

The Shin Bet went beyond attempts to get Perlman to talk about himself, crossing into incitement to murder. The Shin Bet took advantage of Perlman's misery (he was unemployed and his wife gave birth) and set up a fake "business" that "employed" Perlman and paid him a salary.

Apparently there were no real Jewish terrorists so he police had to invent them. Like there is no real racism nor discrimination, so the left wing has to find discrimination in the lower academic performance of the protected ethnics. (Since exams are anonymous, it is difficult to discriminate even if one wanted to. And our terrorized teachers would never risk failing a protected ethnic. In my opinion, ethnics just dont show up or leave the exam paper blank.) The whole secret police affair reminds me of a comment that the Okhrana WAS the Tzarist opposition since at certain point the leader of the opposition in the Duma as well most of the anti-Tzarist deputies were in the Secret Police's payroll. The pic shows Father Gapon, who organized the workers demonstration known as "Bloody Sunday" (Russian: Кровавое воскресенье) where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard. Father Gapon was agent of Sergei Zubatov of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police. Bloody Sunday was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime, and can be considered the start of the October Revolution.

Addenda: The achievements of our Secret Service are not very far. A Secret SErvice man assessinated Kasztner Rezso. Rabin's killer had been in the employment of the Service. The Secret Police's discovery of a dangerous terrorist cell in Hebron was considered a super-achievement, marred only by its founder and leader's self-identification as "Agent Champagne" and his documented revelations that the cell had been created and financed by the Secret Sevice and the people of Israel could enjoy on TV their bizarre ceremonies and childish "ideological material" written by the experts of the Service.

Then our Secret Service had the wonderful idea of developing the Hamas, a religious welfare society attached to mosques, into a political movement, to counterbalance the Fatach, Arafat's Palestine Liberation Movement. It is like the Okhrana founding the Bolshevik faction in order to divide and weaken radical left, only to find themselves facing a more effective and compact revolutionary organization. Which soon took over, killed the Tsar and most of Okhrana functionnaires. Haud ignota loquor.

Bullshit

Dianekes Pontikus analyses a study of the genetic links between Ashkenazi Jews and Ethiopian Jews. And finds it!

Sure we are all sons of Adam and Eve and we are all genetically related. But Ethiopian Jews did not exist a hundred years ago, they were invented by Feinberg and in the 1990s, converted to Judaism by Rabbi Eliahu and brought to Israel to increase the number of his "Sepharadi" (Spanish !!) voters.

How these people hates us! Here you have a XXI Century race scientist writing about Nordic Poles and Baltics (recently converted to Judaism) being, in fact, closely related to Ethiopians and Kenyans (also recently converted to Judaism).

Imbeciles Semper Imbeciles

An article in HaAretz, how nice that 50% of the Israeli young people get an academic degree. that 20 years ago it was 25%, so what a great progress we made. So the fact that each imbecile with IQ 80 spends four years doing basically nothing in a university, makes him/her something better? Will he be more productive? Or in addition to having lost four yeas from his life, he thinks of himself as a person entitled to an airconditioned office job and will never accept any other kind of work? Is Israel better off, more productive, more competitive, more happy for handing a diploma to half of its population? Egypt, our neighbor, produces 5 times more degree people a year than we do. Are we (I mean, Israel) worse for it or better? I say, we are better off because most Egyptians strive for a State job, and will not - say - breed chickens to sell us cheap or carry heavy iron cannons in the sand to shoot us.

Another imbecile article writes about the advance Israel made towards the ideal of total equality. I dont know how they can say that, when about one third of Israeli Jews are refugees from an equalitarian regime, the Soviet Union, where equality more or less existed and was fanatically pursued. Societies where equality was taken seriously became poor in no time, see Russia and China. That is what we want for us? Maybe be not, but the main issue bothering the media is that a manager is paid a million dollars a year or that Bronfman earned 100 million dollars with his investment in Discount Bank. The envy is torturing them and they cannot sleep from worry.

Another issue constantly harped on is that Jews are leaving mixed Arab Jewish towns like Acco, Haifa, Beer Sheba, Nazaret Ilit. Those cities are sinking to their natural Middle East level. The injustice seems to bother the media people. Somehow no one eve mentions that the Iraki Jewish fishmonger escaped Irak becuase he was beaten as a child in Bagdad streets and today the Arab fishmongers in the shuk are menacing him. He does not want to live among hostile Arabs, he wants to live in a Jewish country, among Jews, and that he fears Arab pogroms. There were several Arab pogroms against Jews in this country lately, but they are unmentionable. Arabs dont make pogroms, they are victims. In the meanwhile Jews are avoiding Arabs like the pest but the media talks about discrimination and racism.

All in all, Israel is my country and it is quite livable, specially if I close my ears to the media.

"Parasha Bithonit" - a Security Affair

A year ago I was invited to Givat Harel where there was a large plot of land with drip irrigation system, that was not dripping nor irrigating. I built a model of it and run it through the computer and of course, it could not work - there was 8% slope and contour differences of up to 32 meters. Water pressures were crazy. I made a new design and it is working. I hope I will get a few bottles of the new wine.

The farmer sued the first design engineer and today at 12.30 the Judge Riva held the audience and I was invited as a professional expert witness. I was requested to leave the hall but I heard that they had settled at 50% of the demand. Most of my time was spent sitting in the corridor waiting to be called in, but the Judge was not interested in me as I had submitted my opinion in writing and no one was opposing it. She talked non-stop except for ordering me out.

While waiting, there was a big noise going on in the neighboring court room, with about 40 photographers outside, much police and border police, and young men looking like Secret Police (Shin Beth). Also a crowd of people from Samaria and another crowd of Arabs. I asked a Sh.B. person what was going on, and he said it was the "parasha bithonit". Then an ugly small (maybe 1.30 m tall) black Yemenite woman with a miniature baby hanging from her chest came out and the journalists crowded her. I tried to catch a few words but I couldnt make sense.

The security affair in question was Perlman (pic) who was arrested yesterday suspected of murdering Palestinians in 1998. The Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court on Thursday (today - ah! that was what I saw!) extended his remand by six days.

After Pearlman was arrested, the head of the team of Shin Bet security service investigators, identified only as Adam, banned him from meeting with his lawyer for three days. Such a step is taken only in extraordinary circumstances, when the Shin Bet fears that a suspect's meeting with a lawyer might obstruct the investigation.

"The Israeli public is about to witness one of the most embarrassing affairs, which exposes the methods used by security services who employed improper means to get the suspect to link himself to acts to which he has no connection," said Pearlman's lawyer, Adi Keidar of Honenu. Security sources said Pearlman had been in contact with the Shin Bet for several months in 2002, apparently indicating that Pearlman had been working for the Shin Bet at one point.

My comment here will be the most superficial but I left (for a pasta factory project) with a very clear impression that I had never seen so many deformed and ugly people in one place. Perlman's wife is a thin small swarthy woman, to the point of charicature. She was dressed like a Gypsy, with long skirt and the miniature baby hanging from her chest. The Arabs looked most unhealthy and walked like paralysed from legs down. The Court speaker, who came out to meet the journalist, was a good looking young man, later he was revealed as an Arab speaking to the Arab crowd. I am rather tall but nothing exceptional, yet there was no one of my stature nor anyone looking normal. The Court policemen (who asked people for their phones to make sure they did not take pictures - idiotic, as there were three dozen photographers with equipment around. BTW, the pic above was not taken by me.) were fat, ugly, violent and impolite. The Shin Beth people looked around like they owned the place, self importantly cruising about the crowd. They did not answer me when I talked to them (I am an old curious Jew always bothering unknown people in the street with questions). All in all, the astonishment that the "parasha bithonit" was about these ugly, stupid looking, small people. One imagines "terrorists" and "right wing extremist" and "Shin Beth" as giants, well, maybe not giants, but people of an average look. These were lumpen.

The End of Swiss Banking

Credit Suisse’s offices in Germany were searched Wednesday as part of an investigation into accusations that its employees might have helped clients evade taxes, prosecutors in Düsseldorf said. Now the police is sifting through the files that were seized. The searches were prompted by data contained on a compact disc the authorities recently purchased from an informant. They paid more than 2 million euros for the disk.

UBS, the largest Swiss bank, avoided prosecution in the United States last year after admitting that it had helped clients evade taxes from 2000 to 2007. It paid a $780 million fine and agreed to disclose the account details of more than 4,700 clients.

Mapping the Underworld

I spent the morning mapping the plumbing of the "Bell" (פעמון) building in Kever Benjamin city. Hot, hot, hot.

GI

General intelligence evolved to solve non-recurrent problems, that in a stable environment like a farming village in Ukraine has not much of a value. GI is vital for a persecuted people, that was expulsed form one country after the other (pic: expulsion of Jews from Frankfurt, 1624), from one profession and then from the new one it had acquired. Jews were permanently learning how to survive in a new environment, learning a new trade or new - yet permitted - industry. GI was vital for Jewish travelling salesmen, who faced a new situation each time they visited a farmer.

Common people are perfectly capable when faced with traditional problems, like finding its way our of a forest or feeding a baby, but they are lost when faced with a new problem like answering a test or writing a professional article. Evolution did not prepare them to deal with new situations. I read this in Kanosawa. So, if one wants to evaluate the IQ of an unknown person, without submitting him to a formal IQ test, one should watch him solving a problem he never met before. Maybe operating a new cell phone would do.

Remarkable

Singapur is booming. Gross domestic product expanded at a 26 percent annual pace in the second quarter. The Government predicts GDP rise of 13 to 15 percent in 2010.

Singapur has a rotten tropical rainforest climate, with temperatures ranging from 22 to 34 °C. Relative humidity is 90% in the morning and 60% in the afternoon.

Singapur is one of the most diverse countries in the world. 42% of the population are foreigners (from China, Malaysia, Philippines, North America, Middle East, Europe, Australia and India). From the residents, 74.2% are Chinese (from several origins), Malays 13.4%, Indians 9.2%, Eurasians, Arabs and others 3.2%.

There are Affirmative Action type programs in Singapur but apparently they are "sensitive" aka they are not discussed in public. Example taken from a Parlamentary debate:

Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools nurture the best talents that will form the next generation of leaders in the various fields. There is a misunderstanding of the role that SAP schools play in Singapore.

What did he say? Better take a look at Miss Singapur.

Naturaleza Muerta

I still have three large salmon heads in the freezer (pic) from my Friday's booty. I lost 27 kg in three months including a three-week break-fast (Rasputin was vacationing in Moscow). Yesterday I swam 20 pool-lengths = 500 meters. I feel light and tired.

It is very hot here and I am working little. Little means in my case only 8 - 10 hours a day. Yesterday I took the second exam (Moed Beth) and I tried to help the panicked infelices. The students were absolutely paralized by fear. I never saw such a thing. It is only a bloody exam! I felt very uncomfortable. Now I want to take time to finish the article on probabilistic design of water infrastructure/plumbing. In dealing with the bureaucracy it is vital to have a good professional name, so they are less afraid to sign the permits, and my collegues are mostly retired or brain dead (or just dead), and there is a new generation שלא ידע את יוסף - that is from the Bible, a generation that knew not Joseph. The goal is to refresh my professional authority.

Fresh Views on the Marmara Fiasco

One old Israeli general said: We should have let pass the ships to Gaza. What would have happened? Gaza has no port for big ships like the holiday ship Marmara so the 600 peace activists would have boarded small fragile boats to gent on the beach. Now the Hamas government would have 600 young Turks to feed and entertain for weeks. There are no hotels in Gaza, and the water and food would have make them sick in mass. The thousands of heavy sacks of cement had to be transferred to the land on small boats. Any volunteers? Turks are Muslims but not of the same sect that Gaza Arabs, so they wouldnt pray together. Turks are a different ethnic group and they look down on Arabs, and they mutually and sincerely hate each other. Turks speak no Arabic nor English, so after one or two days of "sightseeing" in Gaza Strip, they would start to feel like going home. There are no Israeli soldiers in view nor Arabs to save. Hamas is strict and deeply religious, no nightclubs nor whoring nor nothing in Gaza. Soon they would be standing in line to be allowed into Israel and visit Tel Aviv. The Turkish government would have to organize a plane to take them home. This would have been the last Turkish flotilla to Gaza.

Instead, Israel made heroes of them.

A gólya

Gardonyi writes:

A levegő őszszel tele van utazó madárral: a darvak, vadludak, a vadkacsák, fürjek, pacsirták mind utazók olyankor. Az erős öregek vezetik őket.... Szegény madarak nem érzik jól magukat Afrikában. A mi hazánk az ő hazájuk is. Szomorúan áll a Nílus meg a Kongó vize partján és Magyarországra gondol.

It is about melancholic storks in Africa that remember Hungary.

The Eye of Time

Salvador Dali (1949).

Diamond Broche.

Cognitive Bias

Evolution has given us an excellent mind, fine tuned to survive in past environments. The mind may cheat us on purpose, in order to give us better survival chances. The mind may also make mistakes from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms, or from the misapplication of a mechanism that is adaptive under different circumstances. Some interesting biases I have:

Normalcy bias – the refusal to plan for, or react to, a disaster which has never happened before.
Outcome bias – the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made.
Planning fallacy – the tendency to underestimate task-completion times. (That's me!)

The Greening of Detroit

Detroit, America's first big city reconverted to prairie, is one-third Muslim. The city is in its sixth day of mourning for the death of Fadlallah, a mullah listed by the US Government as a terrorist for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine corps barracks in Beirut (241 soldiers were killed). The pic is an "before and after" image of the St. Cyril neighborhood in Detroit, that captures the idea of vast tracts of urbanized land returning to nature. Progress, some will say.

Cranes over Kever Benjamin

Driving home from Dr Rasputin's clinic, I counted thirty cranes at the entrance to Kever Benjamin city and ten on the right side, at the Phoenician Glass Factory settlement. It seems to me a lot. We have also cranes of the migrating kind (pic). Nice.

No safe heaven

Falciani. His motto: "Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence." I would never give my money to keep to this man, just on the base of his face and his jacket. He stole and sold the names of about 24000 Swiss bank account holders all over the world. The people are now being investigated as potential tax evaders. Swiss banks are Swiss cheese, full of holes. There is an open niche for Israeli banks, as I always maintained.

The Kwaczek Theory of Ashkenazi Intelligence

Shabbath morning here. Woke up at 0600 AM and hungry, so I took one salmon head out from the freezer and put it to boil with paprika. In the meanwhile I entertained myself weighing a 350 ml bottle of Kwaczek vodka and calculating its composition: apparently it contains only 25% ethyl alcohol and not the 40% printed on the glass. Then I was shanghayed by wife to the Kever Benjamin Country Club. On the pedalling machine, zipped through TV stations to settle on Austrian TV. Very high brow, those Austrians must have high IQ. Since the Kwaczek vodka originates in the Chech-Austrian border and I assume it has co-evolved with us Oberlander Jews, it follows that the native population of Kwaczek also co-evolved with us.

In the long co-existence (Kevin MacDonald would call it competition) with us, they became very intelligent and learned to produce Kwaczek for us, and we too had to evolve and develope ultra-high IQ in order to maintain our middle class positions (doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers, etc.). I presume Kwaczek peasants were ethnic Austrians, Chech and Sudeten Dutch, who are quite intelligent (probably because they co-evolved with us Oberlander Jews). Now that the Jews are gone (they were seen last entering Auschwitz gas chambers) and the Sudeten Dutch and Ostreicher have moved back to their motherlands, the natives are left alone and without our stimulating competition. In a few generations they will retrograde to their original (brutish) state. We too shall lose our adaptation to Kwaczek. BTW, Kwaczek is being exported only to Poland, Austria and Israel, apparently because it is there where Kwaczek adapted people live. I presume Kwaczek vodka could be marketed also in New York.

While swimming and trying to watch under the water the woman in the next line (she noticed it and asked me what hour it was. Unfortunately I was not wearing a watch in the swimming pool.), I reflected about Kever Benjamin City's rich. I became friendly with the bored girls of the private banking section, and being as I am - sickly curious and over-sociable (i.e. a chattering inquisitive old fool), I use talk to them and with the clients waiting there. Yesterday I met one I befriended there, one whose printout I had furtively seen (he has ten million shekels invested in long term Israeli government bonds), where of all places? In the "shuk". Friday 2 PM is the paupers hour, when the sellers (all religious Iraqi and Persian Jews) are stressed and want to close and go home to wash for the Shabbath prayer. The unconspicuos Iraqi synagogue is behind the shuk (my son in law took me there). I was negotiating the purchase of five salmon heads when I met this rich man also bargaining for devalued merchandise. People believes that the rich can be found in the expensive bars and restaurants of Tel Aviv. They are wrong. In Kever Benjamin - very wrong.

Surprising Discovery About Kwaczek

I am drinking Kwaczek and wasting my time (and yours).

How did I meet this exotic ethilic essence and why I am loving it so?

Kwaczek, according to my resident spies, is a local product of a small hamlet in Moravia. My ancestral roots are in Moravia. My ancestors may have started drinking it while following Julius Cesar's legions buying up slaves for Roman latifundists (OK, recruiting manpower for agricultural enterprises in Italy). They had been imbibing Kwaczek for two thousand years and their body had evolved to take it. I am genetically engineered to drink this vodka. It is like the neolithic diet theory: since our ancestors fed on semi-wild whole cereals, we are adapted to it and we get sick eating fine milled white flour bread. I am made for Kwaczek and Kwaczek is made for me, other drinks make me sick. Let fair Scotts drink whisky, let terrible Germans drink beer, let Hungarians cry over their Tokay, let industrious Chinese drink rice wine, let muscular Ibos drink palm wine - for me, it is Kwaczek. I consider them all jolly good drinking buddies and blood relatives, and I have drunk (and vomited) with all of them, yet I shall not deny: I am a Kwaczek Jew.

Shabat shalom. Le-Chaim!

Friday Night in the Kasbah of Hebron

Casa de Expositos

Casa de Expositos (pic) was a benefic institution in Buenos Aires, established to pick up and to feed the babies abandoned by their mothers. These institutions existed since the Roman times, when Augustus established the Alimenta. The most famous was the one in Paris, which was called the Maker of Angels, as more than 90% of the abandoned babies did not survive the year in the place. Many years ago I spent the summer vacations working as Jefe de Guardavidas (Chief Lifeguard) in the Monte Hermoso (near Bahia Blanca) beach, and one of my girlfriends was a yellow-reddish haired practicing Catholic (a virgin and religiously puritanical, to my sorrow) Spanish girl who led a group of "huerfanas" vacationing in the place. I was looking at the old picture, and the 5 - 7 years old huerfanas were healthy, good-looking European girls making funny faces to the camera. Today, the existence of a Casa de Expositos is inimaginable, because the total disappearance of the phenomenon of abandoned babies and in general, the dearth of babies in our modern society.

Girls today do not get pregnant and do not give birth to babies with the ease and naturalness of those times. Today, I see it in my daughters and their friends, they have to complete college and the military service even to start considering what they are going to do. A college diploma is useless to get employment, so they have to go to the university to have a trade and to start working and earn some money. When they are feeling that their situation has stabilized, they start to look seriously for a partner to have a baby, and they discover that their ovaries - after 200 cycles of preparation for pregnancy and abortion, are in bad shape and incapable of fertilization. With expensive medical help, one old ovule may be induced to reproduce, and she may have one or two precious, priceless children. Or as about half of middle class European girls - none.

Nature (I mean that thing out there on the other side of the door) is indifferent. Those who ignore her end up dead, genetically dead as well as dead dead. But why are these good, dutiful daughters being punished for? They studied and worked, they did their military service, they made efforts to achieve the minimal social and economic conditions for assuming the heavy responsability of bringing a child to this world and to ensure him a "normal" upbringing? They are not like those irresponsible primitive lumpen that produce three and even four children that she cannot properly care for. (sarcastic tone here) Oh, Horror of horrors! That child may grow emotionally deprived and without violin lessons, Oh, no! What an irresponsability! My wife's PC fishwrap, HaAretz, loves to horrorize its readers with stories of mothers being denounced by their neighbors or the teachers for caring improperly for their children. Recently a mother in Beith Shean was jailed for a month for not feeding her children a nutricious diet as prescribed by the State and (More horror coming here!) for beating them for bad behaviour! Armed antiterror SWAP units surrounded the criminal mother's home and police social workers (yes, Israeli police has social worker units) took away the children.

Once every two months the TV shows a documentary about a young mother (generally Palestinian, but not always) that gives birth in the closet and abandons the newborn. The camera shows going to jail accused of murder (punishment up to twenty years) for the most heinous and "unnatural" crime of a mother trying to kill a human being. As said, generally they are Arab girls, a fact that the film tries to hide and present the case as a middle class Ashkenazi occurance.

The consequence of all this is that girls are very careful NOT to get pregnant nor produce babies. The more dutiful the girl, the less chances that she will have a baby in her life.

And what about the boys? Nature gave us some privileges, such as being able to worrilessly enjoy sex, and to disappear, leaving the girl with the "peckele". Boys used to spend their youth in joyful, irresponsible chase after girls. Should he impregnate a girl, his innocence was assumed because boys are supposed to be like that, while her culpability and low morals were obvious to all as demonstrated by the very existence of the baby. In my times, it was very difficult to prove paternity in court, and if it was, the fine was minimal, as we boys had no money. Only if violence could be proved - and how could it be? - the boy was trapped - into marriage.

That was a long time ago. Paternity is now transparent, it cannot be hidden. Legions of police agents search all over the world for boys whose sperm was used to create a baby, they find him and force him to assume the legal and economical responsability for his "action". There is no escape nor hiding place. Israeli family courts - "manned" by "cougars" - show an astonishing hate towards men in general and towards fertile men - fathers - in particular, and take ferocious revenge on them. It is only too common that a divorced father is condemned to pay an alimony larger than his income, and the duration of the debt is 22 years (after completion of army service, when the child is considered selfsustaining). If he cannot pay, well, he goes to jail - just like that. (And his debts keeps gathering interest and penalties in the meanwhile). The State is uninterested in the man's difficulties or unemployment - the common phrase heard in family courts (I am not making this up) is: Why didnt he think before? Of course, the fear of falling into the hands of the legal cougars turns any man into a chicken, and Israeli boys are extremely reticent of entering into any close relationship with woman, and divorced fathers rarely have a second child.

(An aside: The cougars who dominate the Israeli public life - from Chief Justice Miss Beinisch to the lowest free lance journalist - are passionate in defaming and criminalizing any man-woman relationship, while homosexual relationships are not only presented as "normal" but glorified.)

Israeli boys dont believe when a girl says that she is on pills, they insist on condoms. No one donates for AI, although it is legally anonymous, because a sperm detective can easily locate the genetic father and the courts always put the welfare of the child before the "father". All European countries, including Israel, import not only foreign workers, but foreign sperm. The IQ of donors belongs to another chapter that I shall write after finishing my glass of Kwaczek, an excellent Chech vodka. Making men think too much is bad for the demography.

Shabbath is coming so I shall resume. To survive, we have to make babies cheaper, and making them less of a responsability. Girls and boys should never be held criminally responsible for making a baby. Paternity research should be forbidden, except when requested by the father and the results should never cause him economic penury. Girls should not study in universities (the rule should be made informal and exceptions allowed) and they should not be encouraged to dedicate their lives to advance professionally. Females should earn half of what men earn for the same job, so they are not encouraged to work but rely on men for their social and economical status. Females should be protected and maintained by society when they get pregnant (that is one rule that lately is being adopted in most Western and Israeli societies). Unmarried elder females are "personae non grata" in family courts and in general (Israeli religious courts are like that). Freedom should be given back to men and females, including freedom to change their identities, run away and ignore their unnatural paternity uber-responsability. No mother nor father is responsible to bring up their children in a middle class standard - the State should re-establish Casas de Expositos to take care of any baby with no questions asked. Ever. So there would be no need of foreign workers and the army would have enough soldiers.

Human life is overvalued. We are transient diploid phase chemical machines, animals that can easily and cheaply be mass bred, which is obvious to all of us with experience in animal husbandry. Only minds far removed from natural reality and with no technical knowledge of how things work can keep chattering crap about our divine, eternal souls. In spite of our mastery of animal husbandry, we have made human babies so expensive and valuable that, paradoxically, they are becoming very scarce. For some reason the law of supply and demand dont seem to work in this market. But that discussion is for after another glass of Kwaczek. I hope the reader realizes how important is - not the least for my country - to have a growing population. It is a question of life or death. Genetic death and dead death.

An Army of Orange Clowns Touring South Africa

Title and pic copied from Der Spiegel. File under German Ethnic Problems.

Germany's Ethnic Problem

Copied from Deutsche Welle today's edition (DW is the German State Official Organ):

With one in three young children born in Germany coming from an immigrant background, Germany is quickly becoming even more diverse. There's a lot of work ahead in solving the problem of Germany's ethnic underclass.

Immigrants are Germany's future, according to Maria Boehmer, the government's commissioner for integration, and yet foreigners living in Germany still face immense hurdles to successful integration.

"We must make integration more compulsory during this session of parliament," Boehmer urged Wednesday in Berlin during the government's eighth public report on people with an immigrant background living in the country. Boehmer advocated better access to education for immigrants and an acceleration of the naturalization process.

The article has the sane tone of the strong and stable Germany that has emerged in this third millenium. It is shocking for me because I am so used to read about immigration on hysterical American blogs, all of them accusing the Jews of having brought about the current demographic change in America. Prof. Kevin MacDonald (which I stopped reading) has even concocted the theory that Jews are waging a genetic war against American White people and have conspired to change the country's ethnic composition. He has written books on the subject. Yet here we have Germany, a country that behaves very decently towards its Jewish minority, but allows zero point zero Jewish influence on its policies (there is no Jewish Hollywood nor Jewish Wall Street in Germany and Jewish lobbying is restricted to ecclesiatical - synagogue - subsidies).

Shocking. Deep demographic change in Germany and no Jewish conspiracy! MacDonald: Explain!

The pic shows the face of today's Germany: Paul, the Octopus Oracle. Good teeth, too.