1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel. ⬇️
The greatest evil on earth is not ideology, or any specific religion; it is not left or right politics. There is one thing & one thing only behind all of our misery: commerce, currency, business, money which has the greatest influence & fuels greed, consumption, & competition.
“Ruination Day”: The new Economist cover amid Trump’s tariff war.
Trump has launched a global trade war, calling it a “Liberation Day.” As an economist, I know a thing or two about tariffs. So here are some predictions of what we should expect if this tariff war continues.
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Happy birthday, Olivier Messiaen!
I was lucky to have recorded three albums with major works by him-two of them by the wonderful
@PENTATONEmusic
… by the way on the next album, there is a work by a student of him…..
I will no longer be posting on this account. This is because Elon Musk has made this site unpleasant to use and because I do not want to be associated with his product. Thank you all for years of community, laughs, music, and learning.
If you are a Holocaust or Genocide Studies scholar or institution and are at the Other Place, can you drop your handle in the comments?
I've created a Starter Pack over there but it is a work in progress!
https://t.co/n7WdchefNB
🚨 BREAKING: Putin's spy chief Nikolay Patrushev says Russia helped Trump win the Presidential election and makes a veiled threat that Trump must now deliver the agreed-upon quid pro quo.
Convincing ordinary South Koreans to back lethal aid for Ukraine is tough when Europeans, with North Korean forces at their gates, seem unwilling to act, downplaying the threat. If the threat isn’t real for Europeans, why should it be for South Koreans? The issues are linked
@siricho4 There's been an enormous exodus out of Twitter to Bsky the last few days. Whole communities are regrouping there and there are "starter packs" growing to find your old communities. Hopefully, the musicology accounts will regroup like the old days here