2020/10/29

A woman has been decapitated and two more killed in another islamic attack in France

the man had entered the city by train early on Thursday morning and made his way to the church, where he stabbed and killed the 55-year-old sexton and beheaded a 60-year-old woman.

has been named as Brahim... a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant... arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in late September, when authorities placed him in coronavirus quarantine before releasing him with an order to leave Italian territory. He arrived in France in early October,

One of the three victims has been named by Brazil’s foreign ministry as Simone Barreto Silva, a 44-year-old woman who worked as a carer for the elderly.

the perpetrator had shouted the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar”... “Thirteen days after Samuel Paty, our country can no longer be content with the laws of peacetime to counter Islamo-fascism.”

A major attack was carried out by a Tunisian man on Bastille Day in Nice in 2016. He drove a truck into a crowd, killing 86 people.

The Redemption of Vanity

Anyone familiar with Strebe’s work and her interest in both science and philosophy will not be entirely surprised at this innovative new presentation. Her previous work, called Sugababe, was also a multi-year undertaking. It involved creating a living replica of the ear of Vincent van Gogh, grown from tissue-engineered cartilage, using cells from a male descendant that she says contained natural genetic information about the artist, and mitochondria from a female descendant of the artist’s mother.

2020/10/26

Beethoven: String Quartet No.15 in A minor op. 132

Assai sostenuto - Allegro Allegro ma non tanto Molto adagio Alla marcia Allegro appassionato

Esmé Quartet

2020/10/25

As we can realise European and islamic cultures are absolutely and definitely incompatible

The 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, headquartered in Saudi Arabia, on Friday condemned the “ongoing practice of running satirical caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad” and “will continue to decry justification for blasphemy of any religion in the name of freedom of expression.”

2020/10/24

Xenakis: Jonchaies

Xenakis magnifies and extrapolates each textural idea until the aural surface of Jonchaies is a teeming collage of exaggerated sounds and timbres.

2020/10/22

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Adapting one of the most groundbreaking and powerful books of our time, Capital in the 21st Century is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, shining a new light on the world around us and its growing inequalities. Traveling through time from the French Revolution and other huge global shifts, to world wars and through to the rise of new technologies today, the film assembles accessible pop-culture references coupled with interviews of some of the world's most influential experts delivering an insightful and empowering journey through the past and into our future. Studiocanal

15 BILLION trees are chopped down every year -- 476 every single second

That's our rainforests, jungles, and woodlands being decimated to make space for ever more cattle, palm oil, and soybeans. But today we have a unique opportunity to change it. Right now the EU is considering a new law to ban any products linked to deforestation. If the law passes, the EU is such a massive market that it could force the world's biggest companies to change, transforming the global supply chain, and helping to save our woodlands, wetlands, and mangroves

2020/10/21

Jail bankers who allow money laundering

should Democrats win back the Senate next month, he would use his new position as committee chairman next year to scrutinize the lack of prosecutions and those banks that blatantly allow dirty money to flow through the institutions.

2020/10/20

Francebeheading: weapons not tears!

The government is under pressure, with one senior opposition figure criticising Mr Macron's approach and calling for "armes et non des larmes" - weapons not tears.

2020/10/19

Beethoven's Quartet Nr.10

Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet Nr.10 Eb major Op. 74

"The Harp"

1. Poco Adagio – Allegro 2. Adagio ma non troppo 3. Presto – Più presto quasi prestissimo 4. Allegretto con variazioni Danish String Quartet

2020/10/18

Samuel Paty: a teacher at 'the very heart' of his profession

The father of the family, in his forties, was known for his commitment to his students. "He was very committed to his job," which he "loved very much," says Martial. "He really wanted to teach us things. From time to time, we would have debates, we would talk.”

2020/10/17

A chechen refugee decapitated a teacher in Paris

The main suspect is alleged to be an 18-year-old born in Moscow and originating from Russia's southern region of Chechnya, the source said. The detainees reportedly include the parents of a pupil at the school where the murdered teacher was working.

2020/10/10

Bach: Musical Offering in C minor, BWV 1079

Barthold Kuijken - transverse flute

Sigiswald Kuijken - violin

Wieland Kuijken - viola da gamba
Robert Kohnen - harpsichord

2020/10/08

Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature

After enduring almost three years of scandal, observers had predicted the Swedish Academy would go for a safe choice this year, with Canadian poet Anne Carson, Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke, Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Japanese bestseller Haruki Murakami and perennial contender Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright, named as possible winners. Of the 116 previous Nobel literature laureates, 15 were women, and the last black African writer was Wole Soyinka in 1986.

2020/10/07

Russian journalist dies after setting herself on fire

A Russian journalist died on Friday after setting herself on fire in front of the local branch of the interior ministry in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, a day after her apartment was searched by police, her news outlet said. Prior to her self-immolation, Irina Slavina wrote on her Facebook page: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.”

2020/10/06

Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah

Much of the Amazon could be on the verge of losing its distinct nature and switching from a closed canopy rainforest to an open savannah with far fewer trees as a result of the climate crisis, researchers have warned.

2020/10/05

Bach: French Suites

The title is misleading: the English Suites are more ‘French’ in character than the French Suites, which are more characteristic of the Italian style. ‘By design the composer is here less learned than in his other suites,’ remarked one early biographer, ‘and has mostly used a pleasing, more predominant melody.’ Just so, and the same is true of the pair of suites BWV 818 and 819 which fall outside the collection but belong with it in terms of style. To all of them Yuan Sheng brings considered tempi and precise articulation in the mould of Tureck. To Bach at his most uncomplicated, Sheng brings the virtues of simplicity and clarity