US port in Gaza

President Biden has announced today his intention to build a temporary port in Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. Here is what I suggest Benjamin Netanyahu should reply:

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President Biden,

I applaud your initiative to help innocent civilians in Gaza. This action is a model to be followed by all nations in the civilized world, indeed around the globe. Israel will do all in its power to provide whatever help might be needed to accomplish this noble goal.

Please note that Israel is currently in a state of war with Hamas, the political leaders of the Palestinians in Gaza. To avoid any confusion and ensure the smooth going and success of your endeavor, please provide the plan of action which will guide the United States. The plan must describe in detail the specific means and methods by which the United States will distinguish between Palestinian civilians and Hamas fighters. I shamefully admit that Israel and the IDF haven't been able to do so. If you have difficulties in conceiving this plan, I respectfully suggest consulting the UN specialists in the field who seem to be very knowledgeable in this respect, since they've been requesting for months now that Israel follow these guidelines in its rules of engagement. When you have possession of these criteria, please let us know, we're still scratching our heads.

I will submit your plan of action to the Knesset's approval. This plan is very important for the maintenance of good relations between our great countries. Without it, Israel must consider any aid offered to the Palestinians in general as aiding and abetting a declared enemy of the State of Israel who currently presents a clear and imminent danger to its security, and indeed, to its very existence.

Sincerely,

Benjamin Netanyahu,

Prime Minister of Israel

(Israel is a small country in the Middle East)

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The Ethics of the Society of the Snow

In Netflix's Society of the Snow Roberto, one of the survivors of a plane crash in the Andes, says to Numa:

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[Roberto coughs]

‘Cause my faith…

Sorry, Numa.

…isn’t in your God. Because that God tells me what I’m supposed to do at home. But he doesn’t tell me what to do on the mountain.

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Just a few lines of script, perfectly expressing Ayn Rand's revolutionary idea that ethics is not a social arbitrary convention, but an existential human issue. All other systems of morality tell man how to behave towards others or towards god(s). Rand views ethics as a guide to action, objectively needed in all circumstances, regardless of whether they're at their downtown office or alone on a desert island.

Javier Milei speaks at Davos

By who knows what miracle, the President of Argentina Javier Milei was invited to speak at the World Economic Forum, by Klaus Schwab himself - the promoter of world's worst ideas, such as The Great Reset. Milei's speech was in total opposition to every single tenet the WEF holds. They will probably regret inviting him for the rest of their lives.

Key notes from his speech:

[The detractors] say that capitalism is evil because it's individualistic and that collectivism is good because it's altruistic. Of course, with the money of others.

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Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause.

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The problem is that social justice is not just, and it doesn't contribute to general well-being.

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In other words, capitalist successful business people are social benefactors who, far from appropriating the wealth of others, contribute to the general well-being. Ultimately, a successful entrepreneur is a hero.

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This is how we come to the point where, by using different names or guises, a good deal of the generally accepted ideologies in most Western countries are collectivist variants, whether they proclaim to be openly communist, fascist, socialist, social democrats, national socialists, Christian democrats, neo-Keynesians, progressives, populists, nationalists or globalists. Ultimately, there are no major differences. They all say that the state should steer all aspects of the lives of individuals. They all defend a model contrary to the one that led humanity to the most spectacular progress in its history.

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Therefore, in conclusion, I would like to leave a message for all business people [...] from around the world. Do not be intimidated by the political caste or by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges. You are social benefactors. You are heroes. You are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we've ever seen.

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Great speech! Go Milei! 😃🥳🥳

Javier Milei - man of the century?

I haven't been so excited and optimistic in a very long time. What Javier Milei, the President of Argentina, is planning to do is absolutely fantastic! I cannot believe that this is being said, proposed and actually acted upon in today's rotten culture that engulfs most of the planet. Some of the issues he will address:

- Prepare all state-owned companies to be privatized

- Authorize the shareholder control of Aerolineas Argentinas to be partly or completely transferred to private parties

- Deregulate satellite Internet services

- Eliminate price controls on prepaid healthcare plans

- Repeal the current Rent Law that limits price increases in a bid to normalize the real estate market

- Repeal the current Land Law that limits ownership of land by foreigners in a bid to promote investments

- Scrap the current Supply Law that allows the government to set minimum and maximum prices and profit margins for goods and services of private companies

- Eliminate the Economy Ministry’s price observatory to “avoid the persecution of companies”

And this is only the beginning. More to come. But what I'm excited most about is that he grounds his economic reform on solid philosophical foundation:

"Those ideas that failed in Argentina are the same ideas that have failed throughout the planet because everywhere they have been tried, they've been an economic failure, they have been a social failure and a cultural failure."

"And on top of that, it has cost the lives of millions of human beings. It is a doctrine that some would call left-wing socialism, communism, fascism, and what we like to call collectivism."

"It's a form of thought that dilutes the individual in favor of the state and is the basic foundation of a caste model of thought, which is based on the premise that the State is more important than the individuals that make up that nation."

I get goosebumps just by rereading this. It is absolutely remarkable that a President of a major country has the clarity of mind to see that communism and fascism are but the two sides of the same collectivist coin. And on top of that, to have the courage to lay it as foundation of his political platform. If he manages to get this passed either by decree or by Parliament, and by miracle to avoid being crushed by the mob of protesters or assassinated by some maniac, Argentina will very soon become the best place to live on Earth. I'm starting to learn Spanish. 👌👍🥳

PS Javier Milei was once compared to Trump. It should be obvious now that the comparison is ridiculous. Trump cannot even pronounce 'ideology' and probably confuses it with 'idiocy'.

Slowly but surely, BBC is becoming the worst news outlet

The BBC has recently published this piece titled "Video shows stripped Palestinian men detained in Gaza". I thought "Oh, my God, this is Israel's version of Abu Ghraib! 😱". But, no 🙂. This is only BBC's version of "Nothing really happened, but since Israel's doing it, let's make a horror story out of it".

Check it out:

... a video has emerged on social media showing dozens of Palestinian men detained by Israel.

The footage, verified by the BBC, shows them stripped to their underwear, kneeling on the ground and being guarded by Israeli soldiers

dozens of men are lined up on a pavement and appear to have been told to remove their shoes

Yes, indeed, all of that is true, less the intended drama. These guys might have raped and killed, and decapitated babies, and the BBC reports that they have been ordered to remove their shoes??!! That's it, BBC! I'm switching to CNN!

Climate change catastrophic predictions

International Cryosphere Climate Initiative says:

1. "... the most catastrophic and wide-ranging impact of our disintegrating cryosphere is on the entire Earth: sea-level rise from melting glaciers and ice sheets".

From melting glaciers maybe. But ice sheets? Really? Here is a sixth grade science problem: In a glass there is water and a floating ice cube. What happens to the water level after the ice melts?

2. "... if global average temperatures settle at 2 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial baseline, the planet could be committed to more than 40 feet of sea-level rise"

Oh my God!!!! 😱 40 feet??!!! That's horrible! We must act now! And by now I mean right now, before we read the next sentence: " — a melt that would take centuries and reshape societies across the globe." Oh, centuries... How many? They don't say. I guess as many as needed to prove them right.

Who is funding these jokers? A quick search provides the answer: ICCI is funded by CCAC - Climate and Clean Air Coalition. Hm, more jokers. How do they get their money? Another search: UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme. God! Search again: "The Environment Fund, established already in 1973 by the UN General Assembly, is the core financial fund of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)". And what is this fund?? "... the main source of unrestricted funds, provided by Member States". Unrestricted???!!! Who are the Member States? "UNEP went from having a Governing Council of 58 Member States to an Environment Assembly, with universal membership that encompasses all 193 UN Member States." Noooo! Canada IS a member of the UN! So, I am the one funding all the jokers above. They might be the jokers, but I guess the joke is on me. 🥺

Panne de courant

Today in Montreal there was a "generalized power outage" affecting hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Hydro Québec explained that a safety switch was automatically activated, the cause of the activation is being investigated.

That is what they say. Here is what actually happened. And what will happen tomorrow.

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It takes him about .3 seconds to figure out what the truth is, and another .2 seconds to decide to go against it. The President of Hydro Québec knows that all the other six people sitting at the table have already done the same, reached the same conclusion and took the same decision. But the meeting must go on. They must go through the motions, dance the dance. There is time to be spent, forms to be filled, a back to watch, an ass to cover. "It's going to take about a couple of hours" he says to himself, reaching for the pot of fresh coffee. In front of each participant sit hard copies of two documents. A two page request from the Government of Québec to have 5000 new electric vehicle chargers installed across the province, and the 450 page feasibility study from Hydro Québec's Technical Department. He read the study's first two paragraphs and knew right away that it's just a copy-paste of the study they produced in the winter. He never read it, but there's no need to, he knows exactly what it says. It says that there's no fucking way in hell the grid is going to hold when the temperature goes above X or below -Y. It's only the X and the Y that the Head of the Technical Department modifies in each new revision. Does he actually calculate those figures or he just subtracts 1 from each end every six months or so? Probably the latter, there's no reason why he wouldn't just go through the motions as well. So, most likely he did not take into account the new requirement to have most chargers installed "particularly in disadvantaged areas". It doesn't matter, no one can blame him. After all he's the one who's going to take the fall. He always does and he doesn't seem to mind. Of course, it's easy for him, he's a techie, he can't be cancelled. At least not yet. For us, on the other hand, it's not that simple. We have to tread lightly not to upset that delicate balance between a hefty bonus and the wrath of the Head of the newly created Bureau of Social Justice. Hm... why do I think of it as a delicate balance? This is not even a balance, let alone delicate! It's not like they have approximately equal weights! This is a no-brainer. I have to find another metaphor... Only twenty minutes have passed. At least another hour and a half to go. The lady presenting the Power Point mumbles something about racial inequalities. He reaches again for the coffee pot. Ninety... very... looong... minutes.

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"My fellow citizens," says the Prime Minister of Québec, "the power outage we have experienced yesterday is only a warning nature gives us, a preview of what's to come. Global Warming... um... I mean, Climate Change isn't just a nuisance, it is an existential threat to mankind! Quebec is leading the global fight against it and we will not relent!" Hurrah! burst into frenetic applause the little imaginary loyal subjects in His head. "We have seen the future, and the future is electric!" Hurrah! they go again. "Quebec will invest $2.7 trillion gazillion into alternative energy and we will forbid internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030!"

"Tabarnak" say the Quebecers, "Aux prochaines élections, je vote pour la séparation"