TECH HUB AHOY!

One has to wonder, that without Israel's need for tech and military superiority in the middle east, where would it have been in these and other scientific fields without Johnny A-rab wanting it's destruction? 
Fact is, the Arabs have done Israel a very big favor! Is there Arabic for: D'OH ?
(Start-Up, March 1) The British government announced today the launch of a global network of tech hubs, based on the successful model of the UK Israel Tech Hub that operates out of its embassy in Israel. The network was announced today as part of a new Digital Strategy focusing on expanding digital skills in the UK. The strategy includes the creation of five international tech hubs in emerging markets, based on the UK Israel Tech Hub model founded in Israel five years ago. The new hubs will create and develop partnerships between UK companies and local tech firms. Since its creation, the UK Israel Tech Hub has facilitated over 80 bilateral tech partnerships, with a deal value of £62 million.

The UK Israel Tech Hub was founded in the UK Embassy in Tel Aviv in 2011, aimed at promoting tech and innovation partnerships between the two countries. The Hub focuses on several areas with high potential for partnerships, such as online retail and fintech, biomed, cyber, mobility, smart cities, cleantech, educational technologies, creative industries and Arabic online content. The Hub is based at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv and in London. Its Director is Naomi Krieger Carmi and the Chairman is Haim Shani.

HERZOG: A FOGGY BOTTOM KINDA GUY!

Opposition leader Herzog warned on Monday night that Israel should prepare itself for the possibility that Jews may flee to the Jewish State to escape anti-Semitism in Western nations.
“I call on the government to urgently prepare and draw up a national emergency plan for the possibility of waves of immigration of our Jewish brothers to Israel,” Herzog said at a meeting of the Zionist Union Knesset faction which he leads.
Herzog expressed shock and strongly condemned the outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents that have taken place over the last several months in the United States, France and other Western nations.

Herzog is like some bewildered JStreet reject. He's "shocked"? Where's the political nonentity been? The anti-Semitic tomb dwellers arrived a nano second after the Big Bang. And there won't be any need for accommodating a Tent and Trailer City out side Tel Aviv; reason being, most of the Diaspora aren't as brain cell deficient as him.
I tell you though what Herzog is most useful for; making PM Bibi sound like Master of the Universe.

It is I; Herzog the Limited. Please grant me
a whopping big upgrade.

TRUMP SURPRISES!

Nancy Pelosi: sitting in her wee white dress like Miss Haversham from "Great Expectations" at Trump's first big gig. A menopausal muli millionairess with the mentality of a teenage trope queen. Pelosi and her simpleton sisterhood followers proved last night that they are another good reason for being mucho grateful that bitch Hillary got the stuffing she deserved.

I shall sit here until that dreadful Mr Trumpers
 calls and begs my forgivness

HOW MUCH CHICKEN IS IN YOUR CHICKEN?

According to some testing by a Canadian lab, Subway chicken contains less than 50 percent chicken DNA. From another perspective, the University of Guelph food scientist Ben Bohrer said he does not know how the products that the Marketplace investigation tested were made but he explained what is known as restructured products in the fast food industry. Restructured products are in essence ground meat or smaller pieces of meat that were bound together with other ingredients so they would last longer, taste better, and even cost cheaper.
Fighting back, Subway Canada said in a statement that they cannot confirm the veracity of the lab tests' results. The company said that its oven roasted chicken and chicken strips contain only 1 percent or less of soy protein, which it uses to stabilize mixture and texture. The company added that all of the chicken items it offers are 100 percent white meat chicken that has been marinated, oven-roasted and grilled.
"We tested our chicken products recently for nutritional and quality attributes and found it met our food quality standards," Subway said, adding that it will look into the matter with its supplier to ascertain that the chicken it offers to customers meet the highest standards it has set for all of its ingredients and menu items. Mine's a veggie burger, hold the mayo.

Hey! Do  I look like soy sausage?

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

Let's get the dumbest and most arrogant of human questions out of the way a.k.a. are we alone in the universe? 
A model to help get your head around things. If you could count every grain of sand from ever beach and desert on earth, the number would still not add up to the number of stars in the known universe. And if only one advanced tech society existed in every know galaxy in the universe (ours being the Milky Way galaxy with a hundred billion suns, so that's us, folks) the universe would still be filled with billions of advanced life species. 
Now, having got that out of the way...the discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a nearby star has really gotten everyone who has an interest in the possibility of space colonization thinking. Found by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and the ground-based TRAPPIST Telescope, there seems to be at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

The biggest surprise was that three or four of these planets are in the so called Goldilocks Zone - not too far from the star, not too close, not too big for a planet, not too small – a sweet spot where liquid water is stable on the right-sized planet with an atmosphere on which life could develop or survive if transplanted. 
But this very young sun - only 500 million years old, 39 light years away from our Solar System - is an ultra red dwarf; so no sun tans to be had there, then. 
Even if complex life had not yet evolved in the TRAPPIST-1 system, the distance to these new worlds for humans to screw up, is not reachable with anything that we have - or likely to have - for who knows how long.  
Even traveling at near the speed of light, 39+ earth years is still be a bugger of a long, one way journey. Nope, this is for your future robot cousins to contemplate, not we organics. 

A mock up view of the TRAPPIST-1 system. 

LA LA COCK-UP!

There are brilliant films made by many countries - sometimes even American films - which will never get a gong; who mostly struggle for financial backing to be made at all; and then there's the uphill battle to find a distributor.

Meanwhile...the "La La Land" cast was on stage hugging one another in that luvvie, kissy-kissy way of theirs; giving speeches and having an arty-farty orgasm. Then, producer Jordan Horowitz stopped 'em short and announced suddenly that "Moonlight" had won. What a FU! Were the envelop openers coked up?
"Moonlight" the winner, not us "La la" folks?  Painted smiles that only the Tinsel Town prick and prickesses can fake. As the "Moonlight" cast and crew took the stage, chaos ensued. Well, what does one expect from Crew Socialism?

HALF BAKED FRENCH LOAF!

France is home to an estimated 8,250 known hardcore Islamic radicals. However, only 17 submitted applications for deradicalization - and only nine arrived for the programe. Presumably the others couldn't get time off from bomb making class. Not a single resident has completed the full ten-month curriculum.
 I'd like to hear what the first day lesson was:
Gather round class. Relax, put on the blindfold and  think nice thoughts...or perhaps you have a very special lady friend? What is teacher going to ask you to do? Oh, it's called a Trust Game. You simply leap off the fourth floor window sill and some Jewish fellas will catch you in a blanket before you hit the ground. Sounds fun, eh?
"Deradicalizing someone does not happen in six months. These people, who have not been given an ideal and who have clung to Islamic State's ideology, are not going to get rid of it just like that. There is no 'Open Sesame.'" said one hopeful instructor.
"The deradicalization program is a total fiasco. Everything must be rethought, everything must be redesigned from scratch." Senator Esther Benbassa said with the look of the desperate.
Which of the many dim wit bewildered actually thought up this Euro wasting exercise? Memo to  Senator E Benbassa: I guarantee complete success with said death cult followers; and financially speaking, it will be oh so much cheaper: Shoot the fuckers.