THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese–and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”

― Eric Hoffer

BIRTHDAYS:

1585 Lazaro Valvasensi, Italian organist and composer, born in Valvasone, Republic of Venice. Gaudeamus

1615 Salvatore Rosa, Italian baroque painter, poet, musician and actor, born in Arenella, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Habsburg

1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor

1756 Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer, known as “the Swedish Mozart”, conductor, and pedagogue, born in Miltenberg am Main, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Symphony in C minor, VB 142 (1/3)

1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffmann). Les contes d’Hoffmann – “Les oiseaux dans la charmille”, and “Belle Nuit” Barcarolle

1897 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (co-author of The Threepenny Opera)

1933 Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist ‘European father of the internet’ (Internet Protocol)

MISCELLANY:

SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD THING IF HE’S THE ONE WHO BRINGS IT ABOUT. What IF Ilya is Right and Superintelligence is Near?

A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN BEGINS:

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. A Special Message To Patients: STOP Your Ideological BS (5:59)

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.