No specific topic or genre. Just what may be on your playlist this evening... The thread link is... Capital Cities - Safe and Sound, live at Lollapalooza Brasil 2014
Elon Musk seems tired and cranky. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in a four-week trial stemming from his lawsuit alleging that OpenAI abandoned its mission and should be blocked from taking the company public later this year. read more
The world's largest container carrier plans a new service linking Europe with isolated Middle East ports, using trucking across Saudi Arabia and smaller vessels in the Persian Gulf instead of transiting the blocked Strait of Hormuz.
From watching too much Nordic noir, I have learned the key lessons to Scandinavian safety: Stay out of the deep woods, avoid all "rustic villagers," flee every solstice or equinox ritual, and run screaming from any creature (human or otherwise) wearing antlers in the wrong anatomical location.
More than two months into a conflict that has failed to deliver a decisive military or diplomatic win, President Donald Trump faces the risk that a standoff with Iran will drag on indefinitely and leave an even bigger problem for the U.S. and the world than before he launched the war.
Trump says he is reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war
www.politico.com
... President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war.
"I'll let you know about it later," he said before boarding Air Force One, adding that "they're going to give me the exact wording now." ...
Trump says he will raise tariff on autos from European Union to 25%
www.reuters.com
... "Based on the fact the European Union is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal, next week I will be increasing Tariffs charged to the European Union for Cars and Trucks coming into the United States," Trump wrote in a social media post.
"It is fully understood and agreed that, if they produce Cars and Trucks in U.S.A. Plants, there will be NO TARIFF."
Trump told reporters the higher tariff would force European car makers to move production to the U.S. more quickly.
"We have a trade deal with the European Union. They were not adhering to it. So I raised the tariffs on cars and trucks to 25%, that's billions of dollars coming into the United States, and it forces them to move their factory production much faster," he said at the White House.
The European Commission swiftly rejected Trump's claim that Brussels was not complying with last summer's trade deal and said it would keep its options open to protect EU interests if Washington breached the terms of the agreement. ...
OK, one from the Imagine Dragons before they became the IMAGINE DRAGONS ...
Imagine Dragons "It's Time" Peak Performance (2012)
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How often do you see the drummer of a group play the violin in a song?
Trump Wants to Be One of History's Great Men'
politicalwire.com
... "Though Trump has long compared himself to America's two greatest presidents, we were recently told by two people who are in a position to know such things -- a senior administration official and a longtime Trump confidant -- that the president had, in private conversations, begun thinking about himself less as a peer of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and more as an addition to Hegel's immortal trifecta."[emphasis mine]
Said the confidant: "He's been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live.
He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn't do, because of his sheer power and force of will."
"The tendency to self-aggrandize is as fundamental a feature of Trump as his sculpted hair and overlong red ties.
But it has become even more important in setting his priorities and steering his actions as he hurtles through his final term in office.
He no longer has to worry about the judgment of voters and can instead focus on what he's decided really matters: ascending to become one of history's so-called great men and leaving an enduring -- and, in many cases, physical -- imprint." ...
Verve Pipe - The Freshmen (1997)
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(wish there were an HD version available ....)