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Posts by Léon Cornelissen
“American planners underplayed cultural differences in Serbia, a Balkan country whose national day celebrates not a victory in war, but a glorious defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1389.”
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“Time’s up
Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
Scenarios now range from bad to awful”
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RIP Desmond Morris; Explored Humans’ Animal Instincts in ‘The Naked Ape’
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/s...
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“The lyrics are not exactly Omar Khayyam, but they are sharper than plenty of popular hip-hop tracks.
‘Hey Loser, come closer, I’m the exposer/Fake billionaire, your whole empire a poser’ is not a bad put-down.”
economist.com/culture/2026...
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“Traders were hopeful on Friday, when Brent futures fell 9 percent to about $90 a barrel, the lowest settlement price since the second week of the war.
But for those who needed an actual tanker full of oil, the price on Friday was higher: almost $99 a barrel.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/b...
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Understatement du jour: “Even if Mr Trump is to be believed—and he has not always been a reliable witness during the war— …”
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Geweldige presentatie gisteren in een sfeervolle locatie. Mooi ook even aandacht te vragen voor de vergelijking van Drake: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_e... [Engelse wiki versie is veel beter dan de zéér zuinige Nederlandse]
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Kabinet legt de rechtse rekening veel te veel neer bij gewone mensen.
Ook de Raad van State waarschuwt vandaag:
D66, CDA & VVD laten kapitaal en vermogen buiten schot, waardoor werkenden eenzijdig de prijs betalen!
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Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
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I can't stop laughing in the slightly unhinged manner of a man noticing that a member of his firing squad just farted.
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Hoogstens onrechtstreeks…
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Alles voor de #fophef en akkerbouwers zijn geen boeren.
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“And yes, ships transiting the Gulf of Hormuz will probably end up paying large tolls to vicious theocrats.
Are you tired of winning yet?”
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“After three years working in the catacombs, Mr. Dollet added, he is still shocked at some of the things he sees.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...
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Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
This is actually real. My God.
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“And also... I don’t think Trump has ever said ‘glory be to God.’
That doesn’t sound like him.
That sounds almost as if Pete Hegseth wrote this post, which maybe in some sense he did.”
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Biruté Galdikas, 79, Who Worked to Save Wild Orangutans in Borneo, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
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Schiller: mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
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The was not a speech. It was a Dada cut up poem.
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“The oil crisis is about to get physical.
And once the crisis gets physical, there will no longer be room for jawboning the markets.
So prices will have to rise to whatever level destroys enough demand to match it to the available supply.”
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De gedachte achter het ESG-raamwerk was dat transparantie leidt tot verduurzaming van het bedrijfsbestuur. Na twee decennia blijkt dat transmissiemechanisme niet te werken, schrijft Vinke.
esb.nu/esg-transpar...
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“Het zit ’m niet eens zozeer in het interieur van zo’n kroeg, in de perzische kleedjes.
Ik weet dat ik het uiteindelijk niet van het decor moet hebben.
De kracht van die foto’s zit in die koppen.”
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“Hearing people say ‘THU-ro’ reminds her, she said, of the scene in the film ‘Manhattan’ when Diane Keaton loftily pronounces Van Gogh not ‘Van Go,’ the way most English speakers say it, but the Dutch way — ‘Van Gough,’ as in ‘cough,’ but more phlegmy.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/b...
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LOL
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