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Fear of Mu21c - the top 261
This is the conclusion to #FearOfMu21c, a crowdsourced attempt to find the most popular singles of the 21st century. An index post explains further.
108 people put in their lists of singles, awarding 10 points to all of them, 11 points to the top five, and 12 points to the favourite. Contest runner Arron has wrangled these together, broken ties, and compiled a full chart. It's below the cut.
Hear it all! Spotify playlists of the top 250 in chronological order by release date... and the top 50 in countdown order
266 pts
1 - 1 thing - Amerie
223 pts
2 - Paper planes - MIA
215 pts
3 - Hey ya! - Outkast
212 pts
4 - Can't get you out of my head - Kylie Minogue
198 pts
5 - Biology - Girls Aloud
194 pts
6 - Crazy in love - Beyoncé ft Jay-Z
188 pts
7 - 212 - Azealia Banks ft Lazy Jay
186 pts
8 - Dancing on my own - Robyn
176 pts
9 - Back to black - Amy Winehouse
175 pts
10 - Umbrella - Rhianna ft Jay-Z
11 - Freak like me - Sugababes
154 pts
12 - Video games - Lana Del Rey
150 pts [inc 10 in bonuses]
13 - BOB (Bombs over Baghdad) - Outkast
143 pts
14 - Get ur freak on - Missy Elliott
15 - Overload - Sugababes
142 pts
16 - Take me out - Franz Ferdinand
137 pts
17 - Hurt - Johnny Cash
18 - Bad romance - Lady Gaga
133 pts
19 - All my friends - LCD Soundsystem
132 pts
20 - Feel good inc - Gorillaz
131 pts
21 - Since I met you - The Avalanches
22 - The fear - Lily Allen
124 pts
23 - Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
24 - We live here - Bob Vylan
121 pts
25 - I bet you look good on the dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
120 pts
26 - Toxic - Britney Spears
114 pts
27 - One more time - Daft Punk
113 pts
28 - Mr brightside - The Killers
29 - Destroy everything you touch - Ladytron
112 pts
30 - Time to pretend - MGMT
31 - Do you realize?? - The Flaming Lips
110 pts
32 - Stan - Eminem
33 - Call me maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
106 pts
34 - Crystal - New Order
105 pts
35 - Christine / Tilted - Christine and the Queens
102 pts
36 - Pure shores - All Saints
101 pts
37 - Roscoe - Midlake
38 - Tightrope - Janelle Monaé
100 pts
39 - Blank space - Taylor Swift
40 - Chaise longue - Wet Leg
41 - Song 4 Mutya (out of control) - Groove Armada
94 pts
42 - With every heartbeat - Robyn
93 pts
43 - Fell in love with a girl - The White Stripes
92 pts
44 - Make me feel - Janelle Monáe
45 - Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
46 - Witness (1 hope) - Roots Manuva
91 pts
47 - Ms Jackson - Outkast
48 - Theme from sparta f c #2 - The Fall
90 pts
49 - My girls - Animal Collective
50 - Chewing gum - Annie
51 - Milkshake - Kelis
83 pts
52 - Archie, marry me - Alvvays
53 - Blackstar - David Bowie
82 pts
54 - Bad guy - Billie Eilish
55 - Where are we now? - David Bowie
56 - Seven nation army - The White Stripes
57 - King kunta - Kendrick Lamar
58 - Wildfires - Sault
81 pts
59 - Blinding lights - The Weekend
60 - The rat - The Walkmen
80 pts
61 - Green light - Lorde
62 - Somebody that I used to know - Gotye ft Kimbra
63 - Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers ft Q-Tip
64 - Pagan poetry - Björk
65 - This hell - Ria Lina
66 - I don't feel like dancing - Scissor Sisters
67 - Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
73 pts
68 - Alright - Kendrick Lamar
72 pts
69 - You want it darker - Leonard Cohen
70 - Heartbeats - The Knife
71 - Seasons (waiting on you) - Future Islands
72 - Losing my edge - LCD Soundsystem
71 pts
73 - Uptown funk - Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars
74 - You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve - Johnny Boy
75 - Sunrise - Pulp
76 - I love it - Icona Pop ft Charli XCX
70 pts
77 - American boy - Estelle ft Kayne West
78 - Out of time - Blur
79 - Boys in the better land - Fontaines Dc
80 - Portions for foxes - Rilo Kiley
81 - Work it - Missy Elliott
66 pts
82 - Come on, let's go - Broadcast
64 pts
83 - Everything is embarrassing - Sky Ferreira
62 pts
84 - House of jealous lovers - The Rapture
85 - The look - Metronomy
61 pts
86 - No one knows - Queens of the Stone Age
87 - Get lucky - Daft Punk ft Pharell Williams and Nile Rodgers
88 - Royals - Lorde
89 - Burn the witch - Radiohead
90 - The show - Girls Aloud
91 - Hung up - Madonna
92 - Bulletproof - La Roux
93 - Standing in the way of control - The Gossip
94 - Silent shout - The Knife
60 pts
95 - Last nite - The Strokes
96 - Wolf like me - TV on the Radio
97 - Dog days are over - Florence and the Machine
98 - Family affair - Mary J Blige
99 - Cranes in the sky - Solange
100 - Strict machine - Goldfrapp
101 - Rolling in the deep - Adele
102 - Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
103 - Slow - Kylie Minogue
104 - The mother we share - Chvrches
105 - Say it right - Nelly Furtado
106 - Digital love - Daft Punk
107 - Someone great - LCD Soundsystem
108 - That's not my name / Great DJ - The Ting Tings
109 - Hope there's someone - Antony and the Johnsons
110 - Wet dream - Wet Leg
54 pts
111 - I know a place - Muna
53 pts
112 - French navy - Camera Obscura
113 - I do this all the time - Self Esteem
52 pts
114 - Harder than you think - Public Enemy
115 - King of the mountain - Kate Bush
116 - There there - Radiohead
117 - Anti-hero - Taylor Swift
118 - Good fortune - P J Harvey
119 - The wire - Haim
120 - Int'l players anthem (I choose you) - UGK ft Outkast
51 pts
121 - There goes the fear - Doves
122 - Up with people - Lambchop
123 - The words that maketh murder - P J Harvey
124 - Emerge - Fischerspooner
125 - Shake it off - Taylor Swift
126 - Empire state of mind - Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys
127 - Two months off - Underworld
128 - One day like this - Elbow
129 - You ain't the problem - Michael Kiwanuka
130 - Love is a losing game - Amy Winehouse
131 - Mariners apartment complex - Lana Del Rey
132 - Myth - Beach House
133 - This is america - Childish Gambino
134 - Some girls - Rachel Stevens
135 - Lloyd I'm ready to be heartbroken - Camera Obscura
136 - Move your feet - Junior Senior
137 - Husbands - Savages
50 pts
138 - We found love - Rihanna ft Calvin Harris
139 - Damn, dis-moi (girlfriend) - Christine and the Queens ft Dâm-Funk
140 - Groovejet (if this ain't love) - Spiller ft Sophie Ellis Bextor
141 - Chandelier - Sia
142 - Levitating - Dua Lipa
143 - Don't start now - Dua Lipa
144 - Go! - Public Service Broadcasting
145 - About you now - Sugababes
146 - Since u been gone - Kelly Clarkson
147 - Heads will roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
148 - Slow life - Super Furry Animals
149 - Bootylicious - Destiny's Child
150 - This is the life - Amy MacDonald
151 - Welcome to the black parade - My Chemical Romance
152 - Pretty pimpin - Kurt Vile
153 - Go - The Chemical Brothers ft Q-Tip
154 - Days like these - Low
155 - Party hard - Andrew Wk
156 - The turning of our bones - Arab Strap
157 - Bohemian like you - Dandy Warhols
158 - Pumped up kicks - Foster the People
159 - We the people… - A Tribe Called Quest
160 - Take me to church - Hozier
161 - Williams' blood - Grace Jones
162 - Geraldine - Glasvegas
44 pts
163 - The girl and the robot - Röyksopp ft Robyn
43 pts
164 - Remember where you are - Jessie Ware
165 - Chaeri - Magdalena Bay
42 pts
166 - Evil - Interpol
167 - Hoppipolla - Sigur Rós
168 - Reflektor - Arcade Fire ft David Bowie
169 - Neighbourhood #2 (Laika) - Arcade Fire
170 - Midnight city - M83
171 - Coles corner - Richard Hawley
172 - Miami - Baxter Drury
173 - Heartbeat - Annie
174 - The modern age ep - The Strokes
175 - Lose yourself - Eminem
176 - Call the shots - Girls Aloud
177 - PDA - Interpol
178 - Loud places - Jamie xx ft Romy
179 - Don't shut me down - ABBA
41 pts
180 - Oblivion - Grimes
181 - Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
182 - Düsseldorf - Teleman
183 - Such Great Heights - The Postal Service
184 - Precious - Depeche Mode
185 - I'm a cuckoo - Belle & Sebastian
186 - Somewhere only we know - Keane
187 - The rip - Portishead
188 - New rules - Dua Lipa
189 - Bring me to life - Evanescence
190 - Hard to explain - The Strokes
191 - Someone like you - Adele
192 - Star roving - Slowdive
193 - Lonely boy - The Black Keys
194 - Obstacle 1 - Interpol
195 - Not in love - Crystal Castles ft Robert Smith
196 - In for the kill - La Roux
197 - Queen of hearts - Fucked Up
198 - Stuck between stations - The Hold Steady
199 - Burn baby burn - Ash
40 pts
200 - Push the button - Sugababes
201 - Try again - Aaliyah
202 - Danny Nedelko - Idles
203 - Close your eyes (and count to fuck) - Run the Jewels ft Zack de la Rocha
204 - More than a woman - Aaliyah
205 - Feel good hit of the summer - Queens of the Stone Age
206 - Pyramid song - Radiohead
207 - Head home - Midlake
208 - Telephone - Lady Gaga ft Beyoncé
209 - Like I used to - Sharon van Etten and Angel Olsen
210 - Over and over - Hot Chip
211 - Into you - Ariana Grande
212 - Vampire - Olivia Rodrigo
213 - Archangel - Burial
214 - Emmylou - First Aid Kit
215 - Motion sickness - Phoebe Bridgers
216 - 99 problems - Jay-Z
217 - Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
218 - Sea within a sea - The Horrors
219 - 1901 - Phoenix
220 - I follow rivers - Lykke Li
221 - Whenever wherever - Shakira
222 - Fake empire - The National
223 - Sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains) - Arcade Fire
224 - Frontier psychiatrist - The Avalanches
225 - Danger! high voltage - Electric Six
226 - Ladyflash - The Go! Team
227 - Katy on a mission - Katy B
228 - GMF - John Grant with Sinéad O'Connor
229 - Kids - MGMT
230 - You know I'm no good - Amy Winehouse
231 - I luv u - Dizzee Rascal
232 - Beautiful day - U2
233 - Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
234 - Lazy - X-press 2 ft David Byrne
235 - Club foot - Kasabian
236 - Fallin' - Alicia Keys
237 - Greatest hits - Jockstrap
238 - Remedy - Little Boots
239 - I believe in a thing called love - The Darkness
240 - Lies - Chvrches
241 - Leave the door open - Silk Sonic
242 - Reagan - Killer Mike
243 - Shut up kiss me - Angel Olsen
244 - Round and round / Mistaken wedding - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
245 - Glue - Bicep
246 - Black magic - Little Mix
247 - Hade - Charisma.com
248 - My heart is a drummer - Allo Darlin'
249 - One-armed scissor - At The Drive In
250 - Feel it still - Portugal, The Man
251 - Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
34 pts
252 - Irish blood english heart - Morrissey
33 pts
253 - Whole again - Atomic Kitten
254 - Feel you - Julia Holter
32 pts
255 - It's a hit - Rilo Kiley
256 - Papillion - Editors
257 - Summertime sadness - Lana Del Rey
258 - Everybody's changing - Keane
31 pts
259 - The middle - Jimmy Eat World
260 - Somebody told me - The Killers
261 - Editors - Munich
Performers getting at least 250 points in total were:
JAY-Z 552 pts/4 in the chart
OUTKAST 538/4
SUGABABES 499/4
ROBYN 465/3
BEYONCÉ 409/2
RIHANNA 408/2
TAYLOR SWIFT 403/3
KYLIE MINOGUE 394/2
GIRLS ALOUD 391/3
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM 345/3
AMY WINEHOUSE 339/3
DAFT PUNK 336/3
M.I.A. 333/1
YEAH YEAH YEAHS 324/3
LADY GAGA 318/2
LANA DEL REY 307/2
AMERIE 286/1
DAVID BOWIE 279/3
KENDRICK LAMAR 265/2
ARCTIC MONKEYS 263/1
GORILLAZ 262/2
(Yes, this includes nominations that didn't make the published chart.)
Observations
#FearOfMu21c was part of "Music Twttr", an accumulation of mostly-British mostly-middle-aged mostly-male posters. It reflects a particular cultural bias: primarily The Sort Of Tune They'll Play on BBC 6 Music. Almost nothing not in English, very little folk and country and roots music.
I ended up with 17 votes counting to the top 261, 16 to the top 250. This is as much as would be expected by sheer chance.
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LETTERBOXD
Note: This will include a few releases from 2021 due to the pandemic/awards season
1. Minari
2. The Vast of Night
3. First Cow
4. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
5. The Forty-Year-Old Version
6. Palm Springs
7. Sound of Metal
8. Black Bear
9. Nomadland
10. One Night in Miami…
[Grade A]
11. Bull
12. Boys State
13. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
14. Tenet
15. The White Tiger
16. Let Him Go
17. Mogul Mowgli
18. Judas and the Black Messiah
19. His House
20. The King of Staten Island
21. Wendy
22. Mangrove
23. Pieces of a Woman
24. Possessor
25. VFW
26. The Short History of the Long Road
27. The Mauritanian
28. The Platform
29. You Cannot Kill David Arquette
30. The Lodge
31. Swallow
32. Soul
33. Wolfwalkers
34. Run
35. The World to Come
36. Time
37. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
38. Bacurau
39. The Assistant
40. Big Time Adolescence
41. I Care a Lot
42. MLK/FBI
43. The Other Lamb
44. FP2: Beats of Rage
45. The Father
46. Saint Maud
47. Mank
48. The Trial of the Chicago 7
49. Our Friend
50. Sweetheart
51. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
52. Hamilton
53. The Rental
54. 1BR
55. Guns Akimbo
56. Alone
57. Proxima
58. Host
59. Ordinary Love
60. Greenland
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[Grade B]
61. I’m Your Woman
62. Promising Young Woman
63. Bad Education
64. La Llorona
65. Another Round
66. Valley Girl
67. Skylines
68. Malcolm & Marie
69. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
70. The Invisible Man
71. Da 5 Bloods
72. Underwater
73. The Way Back
74. Color Out of Space
75. Happiest Season
76. The Croods: A New Age
77. Nocturne
78. Love and Monsters
79. Superman: Man of Tomorrow
80. Sputnik
81. Enola Holmes
82. News of the World
83. Project Power
84. The Wolf of Snow Hollow
85. Hammer
86. The Empty Man
87. Bad Trip
88. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
89. The Quarry
90. The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
91. Vampires vs. the Bronx
92. Shadow in the Cloud
[Grade C]
93. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
94. The Personal History of David Copperfield
95. Bad Hair
96. Superman: Red Son
97. Scoob!
98. Land
99. On the Rocks
100. The Photograph
101. An American Pickle
102. Lost Girls & Love Hotels
103. The Broken Hearts Gallery
104. Summerland
105. Sonic the Hedgehog
106. We Summon the Darkness
107. The Beach House
108. Relic
109. Gretel & Hansel
110. Freaky
111. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
112. Black Box
113. Peninsula
114. Rebecca
115. Impractical Jokers: The Movie
116. Class Action Park
117. Downhill
118. Extraction
119. The Devil All the Time
120. The Gentlemen
121. Let Them All Talk
122. The Dark and the Wicked
123. Kajillionaire
124. Come Play
125. The Little Things
126. Unhinged
127. Dreamland
128. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
129. Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
130. Bad Boys for Life
131. Vivarium
132. Blood Machines
133. Hubie Halloween
134. Onward
135. The Hunt
136. Ammonite
137. The Lovebirds
138. Amulet
139. The Witches
140. Fatman
141. The High Note
142. Blood Quantum
143. Cherry
144. The New Mutants
[Grade D]
145. Irresistible
146. Ava
147. You Should Have Left
148. Last Moment of Clarity
149. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
150. Evil Eye
151. Emma.
152. The Old Guard
153. Shirley
154. The Rhythm Section
155. Bill & Ted Face the Music
156. Arkansas
157. Greed
158. Becky
159. My Spy
160. Mulan
161. Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge
162. Antebellum
163. The Tax Collector
164. Greyhound
165. Hillbilly Elegy
166. The Banker
167. Trolls World Tour
168. The Jesus Rolls
169. The Call of the Wild
170. Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons
171. The Midnight Sky
[Grade F]
172. Wonder Woman 1984
173. All My Life
174. The War with Grandpa
175. Force of Nature
176. The Night Clerk
177. The Iron Mask
178. Chick Fight
179. The Babysitter: Killer Queen
180. Capone
181. The Grudge
182. Songbird
183. Bloodshot
184. Monster Hunter
185. Above Suspicion
186. Jiu Jitsu
187. Blue Story
188. The Turning
189. Brahms: The Boy II
190. Dolittle
[Bottom 10]
191. Seberg
192. Like a Boss
193. Artemis Fowl
194. Fatale
195. Fantasy Island
196. The Lie
197. Homeward
198. Money Plane
199. Music
200. A Fall From Grace
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Sunday, August 15, 2021
Canada to require air travelers to be vaccinated
(AP) The Canadian government will soon require all air travelers and passengers on interprovincial trains to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said Friday that includes all commercial air travelers, passengers on trains between provinces and cruise ship passengers. “As soon as possible in the Fall and no later than the end of October, the Government of Canada will require employees in the federally regulated air, rail, and marine transportation sectors to be vaccinated. The vaccination requirement will also extend to certain travelers. This includes all commercial air travelers,” his office said in a statement. France announced this week that it will require people have a special virus pass before they can travel by plane, train or bus across the country.
Debt: So long to the savings glut
(The Week) “Americans are borrowing again,” said AnnaMaria Andriotis at The Wall Street Journal. After a year in which many consumers reduced spending, stashed savings, and used stimulus checks to pay down debt, more people have gone back to “splurging on cars, vacations, and eating out”—and seeking loans to pay for it. “Lenders originated some 3 million auto loans and leases in March, the highest monthly figure on record,” with the balances for those new originations topping a record $73 billion. A record 6 million new general-purpose credit cards were also issued the same month. The balances on our cards are still “about $140 billion lower than at the end of 2019,” said Alexandre Tanzi and Katia Dmitrieva at Bloomberg. But household debt—which includes mortgages, credit cards, and other consumer loans—rose in the second quarter “at the fastest pace since 2013.” Much of that was driven by the hot housing market—and Americans scrambling to refinance while mortgage rates remained low.
More US cities requiring proof of vaccination to go places
(AP) Hold on to that vaccination card. A rapidly growing number of places across the U.S. are requiring people to show proof they have been inoculated against COVID-19 to teach school, work at a hospital, see a concert or eat inside a restaurant. Following New York City’s lead, New Orleans and San Francisco will impose such rules at many businesses starting next week, while Los Angeles is looking into the idea. The new measures are an attempt to stem the rising tide of COVID-19 cases that has pushed hospitals to the breaking point, including in the Dallas area, where top officials warned they are running out of beds in their pediatric intensive care units.
Western fires threaten thousands of homes, strain resources
(AP) A month-old wildfire burning through forestlands in Northern California lurched toward a small lumber town as blazes across the U.S. Western states strained resources and threatened thousands of homes with destruction. Crews were cutting back brush and using bulldozers to build lines to keep the Dixie Fire from reaching Westwood east of Lake Almanor, not far from where the lightning-caused blaze destroyed much of the town of Greenville last week. To the northwest, the Monument Fire continued to grow after destroying a dozen homes and threatened about 2,500 homes in a sparsely populated region. They were among more than 100 large wildfires burning in a dozen Western states seared by drought and hot, bone-dry weather that has turned forests, brushlands, meadows and pastures into tinder. The U.S. Forest Service said Friday it’s operating in crisis mode, fully deploying firefighters and maxing out its support system.
500 years later, Mexico recalls Spanish conquest
(Los Angeles Times) The final resting place of one of Mexico’s signature historical figures is easy to miss. A simple red plaque—just a name and the years he lived—marks the spot where his tomb is embedded in a wall to the side of the altar in a dilapidated downtown church. The name alone, however, recalls centuries of conflict and a never-ending debate about the essential identity of Mexico: HERNAN CORTES 1485-1547. The legendary Spanish military commander may be hidden away in death, but a few blocks away, authorities are readying a remembrance of his momentous triumph—the conquest of the Aztec Empire. Friday marks the 500th anniversary of the fall in 1521 of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, now the site of Mexico City. The bloody siege culminating in its surrender launched three centuries of Spanish dominion in Mexico. “We were all born from the conquest, no longer Aztecs, no longer Spanish, but Indian-Hispanic-Americans, mestizos,” wrote Carlos Fuentes, the late Mexican author. “We are what we are because Hernán Cortés, for good or for bad, did what he did.”
7.2 magnitude earthquake hits Haiti; at least 304 killed
(AP) A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, killing at least 304 people and injuring at least 1,800 others as buildings tumbled into rubble. Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he was rushing aid to areas where towns were destroyed and hospitals overwhelmed with incoming patients. The epicenter of the quake was about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and widespread damage was reported in the hemisphere's poorest nations as a tropical storm also bore down. Henry declared a one-month state of emergency for the whole country and said some towns were almost completely razed.
Belarus floods the European Union with migrants
(CNN) Desperate, frightened and begging for help, they emerge from the darkness: a group of Yazidi migrants, lost in the forests of eastern Europe. It’s a surreal sight—and one that has been repeated over many recent nights. Having survived persecution by ISIS at home in Iraq, here on the Belarus-Lithuania border the Yazidis find themselves caught up in a breathtakingly cynical plot. Belarus’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has been accused of using these desperate souls as pawns in his high-stakes game with the European Union. Over the course of 24 hours from July 27 to 28, a record 171 people were caught on the border—many of them Iraqis. A total of more than 4,000 have been caught so far this year. European officials say Lukashenko’s bureaucracy is extracting thousands of euros from each traveler then “weaponizing” them—according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis—in order to burden Belarus’s neighbor Lithuania. Officials say the migrants are flown from the Middle East to Minsk, and then guided to the Belarus-Lithuania border by unspecified facilitators, where they are allowed to cross, unimpeded by Belarusian border police. Lithuania has called it “petty”—“mass revenge” for sanctions imposed by the EU after Belarus forced a Ryanair plane to land in Minsk so they could arrest an opposition blogger on board. A Western intelligence official told CNN the scheme could not function without the permission of the Belarusian state, and that Lukashenko was likely using the migrants as a way to pressurize the EU into negotiations on lifting the sanctions against him.
Heat wave edges higher in southern Europe
(AP) Intense heat baking Italy pushed northward towards the popular tourist destination of Florence Friday while wildfires charred the country’s south, and Spain appeared headed for an all-time record high temperature as a heat wave kept southern Europe in a fiery hold. Italy saw temperatures in places upwards of 40 C (104 F), and Rome broiled. By late afternoon Friday, the heat in Florence reached 39 C (102 F). That city and Bologna also were issued alerts for Saturday by the health ministry. Many southern European countries have suffered days of intense heat, accompanied by deadly wildfires in Algeria, Turkey, Italy and Greece. Wildfires on the Italian island of Sardinia were reported largely contained, but a blaze early Friday near Tivoli in the countryside east of Rome forced the evacuation of 25 families.
At least 40 killed in Turkey flood as search for missing continues
(Reuters) Families of those missing after Turkey’s worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll from the raging torrents could rise further. At least 40 people have died from the floods in the northern Black Sea region, the second natural disaster to strike the country this month. Drone footage by Reuters showed massive damage in the flood-hit Black Sea town of Bozkurt, where emergency workers were searching demolished buildings.
Marine vanguard lands in Kabul as US speeds up evacuations
(AP) The first forces of a Marine battalion arrived in Kabul at week’s end to stand guard as the U.S. speeds up evacuation flights for some American diplomats and thousands of Afghans, spurred by a lightning Taliban offensive that increasingly is isolating Afghanistan’s capital. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said “elements” of a battalion were now in Kabul, the vanguard of three Marine and Army battalions that the U.S. was sending to the city by the end of the weekend to help more Americans and their Afghan colleagues get out quickly. The Taliban, emboldened by the imminent end of the U.S. combat mission in the country, took four more provincial capitals Friday, heightening fears they would move soon on the capital, which is home to millions of Afghans.
‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’
(Washington Post) After enlisting in the U.S. military against his family’s wishes, Chicago native Tom Amenta said he found himself in “middle-of-nowhere,” Afghanistan, in 2002 as an Army Ranger in a remote area some 15 minutes from the border with Pakistan. He was fighting the initial battles of a war that few knew would stretch on for 20 years. Now 40 and retired from the military, he felt anger foam inside as he watched the evening news. Headline after headline broadcast the latest gains by Taliban fighters, who have seized control of more than a dozen of the country’s provincial capitals as the Afghan government inches closer to collapse in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal. Friends who had been killed there came to mind, including NFL star Pat Tillman. Fond memories of former Afghan colleagues, such as interpreters, who remained in the country and whose fates he didn’t know, also resurfaced. “It makes me angry, really angry,” Amenta said of the U.S. withdrawal, lamenting the billions upon billions of dollars spent on the war effort—not to mention the emotional, financial and human toll suffered by thousands of Americans who served or sent their loved ones to fight in Afghanistan. “I mean, why did my friend get blown up? For what?” said Amenta. “No one’s saying, ‘Hey, you know, at least we did something.’ There’s just nothing to really show for it,” former Army medic Frank Scott Novak said. “And so, everyone’s kind of angry and wondering, why? Why were we even there?”
Nobody running Lebanon, says central bank boss
(Reuters) Lebanon’s central bank governor said nobody was running the country as he defended his decision to halt fuel subsidies that have drained currency reserves, saying the government could resolve the problem by passing necessary legislation. In an interview broadcast on Saturday, governor Riad Salameh pressed back against government accusations that he had acted alone in declaring an end to the subsidies on Wednesday, saying everyone knew the decision was coming. The move is the latest turn in a crippling financial crisis that has sunk the Lebanese pound by 90% in less than two years and pushed more than half the population into poverty. Salameh said Lebanon could recover but it was not possible to say how many years that would take. “So far you have nobody running the country,” he said in the interview with Radio Free Lebanon. Lebanon’s sectarian politicians have failed to agree on a new government since Prime Minister Hassan Diab quit last August after the catastrophic Beirut port blast.
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Well, that’s the weather forecast for the next eight days (for my American friends 39°C is 102°F) so you know what? I’m fine with FitzSimmons killing me tonight!
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all the books I read this year!!
one of my new year’s resolutions was to read more nonfiction, and I did a pretty good job of it. I didn’t track the books I read the year before, but I know i only read a few nonfiction so I’m proud of myself. my other NYR was to shower more which I also accomplished! anyways, my list of books is under the cut if you want to check it out.
NF is for nonfiction, F is for fiction, A is for audiobook and P is for paperback. any spelling errors on the author’s names is from my horrible handwriting. maybe next year I’ll keep track electronically so I don’t have to struggle through reading my own handwriting lmao
January
1. Maude by Donna Maybry – NF - A
2. Revival by Stephen King – F - A
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams – F - A
4. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Acherman – NF - A
5. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman- F – P
6. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin – F – A
7. Girl on a Train by AJ Waines – F – A
8. 1984 by George Orwell – F – A
9. Bought and Sold by Morgan Stephens – NF – A
10. Forrest Gump – Winston Groom – F – A
3 Nonfiction, 7 Fiction. 9 audiobooks, 1 paperback
February
11. White Trash by Nancy Isenberg – NF – A
12. Sachiko by Caren Stenson – NF – A
13. 3,026 Days in Captivity by Natascha Kampush – NF – A
14. Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson – F – A
15. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter – F – A
16. The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas – F – A
17. The Shining by Stephen King – F – A
18. The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson – NF – A
4 nonfiction, 4 fiction. 8 audiobooks, 0 paperbacks
March
19. What She Knew by Gilly MacMillian – F – A
20. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver – F – A
21. The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter – F – A
22. Fallen by Karin Slaughter – F – A
23. Criminal by Karin Slaughter – F – A
24. Unseen by Karin Salughter – F – A
25. Blindsided by Karin Slaughter – F – A
26. Kisscut by Karin Slaughter – F – A
27. Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan – F – P
0 nonfiction, 9 fiction. 8 audiobooks, 1 paperback
April
28. A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter – F – A
29. Indelible by Karin Slaughter – F – A
30. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – F – A
31. Cop Town by Karin Slaughter – F – A
32. Elizabeth and Michael by Donald Boyle – NF – A
33. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty – F- A
1 nonfiction, 5 fiction. 6 audiobooks, 0 paperbacks
May
34. Snatched by Karin Slaughter – F – A
35. Don’t Breath a Word by Jennifer McMahon – F – A
36. Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty – F – A
37. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty – F – A
38. When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosich Jr, MD – NF – A
39. The Lies We Tell by Meg Carter – F – A
40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley – F – A
41. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore – NF – A
42. Nailbiter series by Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson – F – P
43. Triptych by Karin Slaughter – F – A
44. Glass House by Brian Alexander – NF – A
45. The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle – F – A
46. Busted by Karin Slaughter – F – A
47. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth – NF – A
4 nonfiction, 10 fiction. 13 audiobooks, 1 paperback
June
48. Rosemary by Kate Clifford Larson – NF – A
49. Lost Girls by Robert Kolker – NF – A
50. Drink by Ann Dursett Johnston – NF – A
51. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman – F- A
52. The Grown Up by Gillian Flynn – F – P
53. The Salt Fix by Dr. James Dinicolantonio, MD – NF – A
54. Broken River by J. Robert Lennin – F - A
55. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie – F – A
56. American Gods by Neil Gaiman – F – A
57. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman – F - A
58. My Story by Elizabeth Smart – NF – A
5 nonfiction, 6 fiction. 10 audiobooks, 1 paperback
July
59. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta – F – A
60. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie – F – A
61. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance – NF – A
62. Under Your Skin by Sabine Durant – F – A
63. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari – NF - A
64. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty – F – A
2 nonfiction, 4 fiction. 6 audiobooks, 0 paperbacks
August
65. You Have No Fucking Idea: The Story About My Life by Matt Baier – NF – P
66. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman – F – P
67. Carol (The Price of Salt) by Patricia Highsmith – F – A
68. Waiting to be Heard by Amanda Knox – NF – A
69. The Miracle of Dunkirk by Walter Lord – NF – A
70. Replay by Ken Grimwood – F- A
71. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware – F – A
72. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher – F – A
73. Girl Walks Out of a Bar by Lisa F. Smith – NF – A
74. The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna Lebaron - NF – A
75. The Dinner by Herman Koch – F – A
76. American Fire by Monica Hesse – NF – A
77. The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell – F – A
78. Kiss Me Like a Stranger by Gene Wilder – NF – A
79. The Vegas Diaries by Holly Madison – NF – A
80. I Found You by Lisa Jewell – F – A
81. Dark Place to Hide by AJ Waines – F – A
82. The Silver Lining’s Playbook by Matthew Quick – F – A
8 nonfiction, 10 fiction. 16 audiobooks, 2 paperbacks
September
83. The Lost Girls by Heather Young – F – A
84. Dead Wake by Erik Larson – NF – A
85. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie – F – A
86. Lie to Me by JT Ellison – F – A
87. The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr – F - A
88. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins – F – A
89. From a Buick 8 by Stephen King – F – A
90. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie – F – A
91. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett – F – A
92. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith – F – P
93. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett – F – A
94. Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane – F – A
95. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman – F – A
1 nonfiction, 12 fiction. 12 audiobooks, 1 paperback
October
96. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett – F – A
97. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – NF – A
98. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett – F – A
99. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – F – P
100. Stardust by Neil Gaiman – F – A
101. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin – F - A
102. The Monogram Murders by Sophia Turner – F – A
103. My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix – F – A
104. The Axeman of New Orleans by Miriam C. Davis – NF – A
105. The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty – F – P
106. A Pocket Full of Rye – Agatha Christie – F – A
107. The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprex Sweeny – F - A
108. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty – F – A
109. Catching the Wolf On Wall Street by Jordan Belfort – NF – A
110. Hell House by Richard Matheson – F – A
3 nonfiction, 12 fiction. 13 audiobooks, 2 paperbacks
November
111. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable – NF – A
112. The Secret Life of Introverts by Jenn Granneman – NF – A
113. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout – F- A
114. The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst – F – A
115. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter – f – A
116. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty – F – P
117. The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty – F – A
2 nonfiction, 5 fiction. 1 paperback, 6 audiobooks
December
118. Last Breath by Karin Slaughter – F – A
119. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – F – A
120. The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Barron – NF – A
121. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – F – A
122. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng – F – A
123. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman – F – A
124. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup – NF – A
125. The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fairgrove – NF – A
126. The Magician’s Apprentice by Ann Patchett – F – A
127. Rabbit by Patricia Willams – NF – A
128. Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings – NF – A
129. The Secret Life of the Mind by Marianao Segman, MD – NF – A
130. Black Chalk by Christopher B. Yates – F – A
131. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie – F – A
132. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie – F – A
133. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie – F -A
134. Money, A Memoir by Liz Perle – NF - A
7 nonfiction, 10 fiction. 17 audiobooks, 0 paperbacks.
Total:
134 total books!!
40 nonfiction, 94 fiction. 9 paperbacks, 126 audiobooks.
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