Razz Daily Post (2024)

06/02/2023

Day 135: Monday, February 6th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid."

- Haruki Murakami

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Gaziantep in south-eastern Turkey, killing at least 2,000 people in Turkey and Syria. According to the US Geological Survey, the tremor struck at 04:17 local time at a depth of 17.9km (11 miles) near the city of Gaziantep.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64533851

02/02/2023

Day 134: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security."

- Ray Bradbury

Hong Kong has announced free 500,000 airline tickets to foreign tourists in a global publicity push to rebuild its image battered by strict covid rules and also crackdowns on civil liberties. The free flights will be distributed from March 1st, 2023 through travel agents and overseas offices of Hong Kong's airlines.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Travel-Leisure/Tourism-starved-Hong-Kong-giving-away-half-a-million-plane-tickets

01/02/2023

Day 133: Wednesday, February 1st, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

Japanese striker Kazuyoshi Miura, a 55-year old football player has joined Portuguese second-division side Oliveirense on loan from J-League outfit Yokohama FC. Miura plans to play professional football until he is 60.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64488275

29/01/2023

Day 132: Sunday, January 29th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Opinions are like onions. They spell similarly, usually have many layers, and tend to make people cry."

- Caitlyn Paige

According to official statistics, the price of onions has skyrocketed in the Philippines to around 700 pesos (US$ 12.80; £ 10.40) per kg last month. Onions in Philippines is now more expensive than the cost of meat.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64327724

28/01/2023

Day 131: Saturday, January 28th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature."

- Andre Agassi

Belarusian-born Aryna Sabalenka has won the women's Australian Open final after defeating Elena Rybakina in three sets on Saturday. She has become the first player competing under a neutral flag to secure a grand slam. The organizer Tennis Australia had required Russian and Belarusian players to compete as neutrals amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/28/tennis/rybakina-sabalenka-australian-open-womens-final/index.html

27/01/2023

Day 130: Friday, January 27th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Trade is not a zero sum game where one country’s gain is another country’s loss. It is a positive sum game where all countries and thus the world benefit."

- Javier A. Reyes

The United States has announced that it will begin negotiations with 11 mostly Latin American nations on an agreement designed to promote regional economic cooperation but does not plan to offer greater access to the U.S. market for their goods.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/01/27/biden-latin-america-economic-cooperation/

26/01/2023

Day 129: Thursday, January 26th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Fascists use patriotism and religion to manipulate dumb people. Fascist propaganda works best on the dumbest of the dumb. They don't know when they're being lied to."

- Oliver Markus Malloy

Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook has announced that it will reinstate former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. Trump was banned from these social media accounts, more than two years ago after the deadly Capitol Hill riot.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-restore-donald-trumps-facebook-instagram-accounts-2023-01-25/

25/01/2023

Day 128: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."

- Simone de Beauvoir

Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are. He also called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/world/article/2001465906/pope-francis-homosexuality-not-a-crime

24/01/2023

Day 127: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character."

- Ayn Rand

Brazil and Argentina are in early talks to create a common currency, in hopes of reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/argentina-and-brazil-are-discussing-plans-for-a-common-currency.html

23/01/2023

Day 126: Monday, January 23rd, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"A person may hold his own beliefs and creeds to be dearest, and nourish them with all his might, but the moment he starts preaching the exclusive greatness and dominance over all other systems of beliefs and creeds, the world begins to plunge into a death trap."

- Abhijit Naskar

India has decided to ban a BBC documentary critical of its Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alleged role in deadly riots in Gujarat more than 20 years ago. The two-part documentary "India: The Modi Question," criticizes Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat in 2002 when riots broke out killing more than 1,000 people, mostly muslims.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/business-india/india-modi-bbc-documentary-twitter-youtube-censorship-intl-hnk/index.html

22/01/2023

Day 125: Sunday, January 22nd, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence."

- Elizabeth Warren

According to the US media, a gunman has killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration. This is the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.

https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-shooting-updates-24c38e3f3ddfbe2c31a9eabe8635dab2

21/01/2023

Day 124: Saturday, January 21st, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting."

- Joe Abercrombie

The United States has designated the Russian Wagner mercenary force a crime organisation. The Wagner Group has more than 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, of which 80% of them are believed to be recruited from Russian prisons.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/21/us-deems-russias-wagner-mercenaries-a-criminal-organisation

20/01/2023

Day 123: Friday, January 20th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words."

- David Crosby

Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby has died at the age of 81. He was a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock bands, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young).

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/amp/

19/01/2023

Day 122: Thursday, January 19th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"The Premier League is a timeless tale of boom and bust, no different from all those other bubbles they warn you about in business-school textbooks. Except, that is, in one crucial respect. In football, the bubble never burst."

- Joshua Robinson

According to Deloitte, 11 Premier League clubs made it to the Top 20 in their Money League study. Manchester City retained top spot, making 731m euros (£619.1m), ahead of Real Madrid (713.8m euros).

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64314328

18/01/2023

Day 121: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!"

- Robert Browning

Lucile Randon, a French nun, who was the oldest person in the world has died at the age of 118. She became a nun in 1944 and died in her sleep on Tuesday.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/18/lucile-randon-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-dies-at-118

17/01/2023

Day 120: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself."

- Robert A. Heinlein

For the first time in sixty years, China's population has declined with the national birth rate at a record low of 6.7 births per 1,000 people. The population of China is around 1.41 billion and fell by 850,000 in 2021.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64300190

16/01/2023

Day 119: Monday, January 16th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky; and that is pilot."

- Mohith Agadi

A pilot couple has been killed in air crashes in Nepal, sixteen years apart. Anju Khatiwada, 44, was the co-pilot on a Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that crashed in Pokhara, yesterday, killing all 68 passengers and 4 crew members. Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 in a crash of a Twin Otter plane of Yeti Airlines in Jumla, Nepal.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pilot-couple-killed-air-crashes-nepal-16-years-apart-2023-01-16/

15/01/2023

Day 118: Sunday, January 15th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"An ambiguous law is a dangerous one because it allows for the concept to be misused, neglected or worse, weaponised."

- Aysha Taryam

According to Israeli media, more than 80,000 people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government's proposed changes to the Israeli judicial system.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/world/tel-aviv-protest-netanyahu/index.html

14/01/2023

Day 117: Saturday, January 14th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger -- but recognize the opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

China, which is the world's second-largeat economy, witnessed a 9.9% decrease in exports year-on-year in December 2022. China’s economy is still recovering from the impact of Covid restrictions for the past three years.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/1/13/chinas-imports-exports-plunge-in-warning-sign-for-economy

13/01/2023

Day 116: Friday, January 13th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave."

- Elvis Presley

Lisa Marie Presley, singer-songwriter and daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has died at the age of 54 due to cardiac arrest.

https://people.com/music/lisa-marie-presley-dead-at-54/

12/01/2023

Day 115: Thursday, January 12th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly."

- Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck has died at the age of 78. Beck was considered as one of the most influential rock guitarists of all time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64228780

11/01/2023

Day 114: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement."

- Jess C Scott

Time-restricted eating (TRE) helps to improve sleep, gut health, cardiac function and helps to overcome obesity. TRE means people can eat during the day to a window of between 8 to 10 hours.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/time-restricted-eating-may-have-anti-aging-anti-cancer-effects

10/01/2023

Day 113: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

- George Orwell

An Iranian court has sentenced a Belgian citizen to 40 years in prison, dozens of lashes and fines for spying and other charges.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/10/iran-sentences-belgian-national-to-40-years-in-prison-74-lashes

09/01/2023

Day 112: Monday, January 9th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed."

- Bangambiki Habyarimana

According to NASA, a green comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is approaching Earth and is expected to be about 26 million miles from Earth on February 2nd, 2023. For the first time since the Stone Age, a green comet that takes about 50,000 years to complete its orbit around the sun will come closest to Earth.

https://www.insider.com/green-comet-to-pass-earth-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age-2023-1

08/01/2023

Day 111: Sunday, January 8th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—even if that means a loss of freedom."

- Anne Applebaum

China has ended almost three years of self-imposed isolation as it lifts quarantine requirements for inbound travellers, even though it continues to battle a surge in Covid-19 cases.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/08/china-welcomes-overseas-visitors-for-the-first-time-in-three-years

07/01/2023

Day 110: Saturday, January 7th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve."

- Jessica Brody

Wells Fargo, a major US bank, has fired Shankar Mishra, vice president of its Indian subsidiary, after he was arrested by Indian police over allegations that he urinated on a passenger during an incident aboard an Air India plane in November.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/wells-fargo-vp-arrested-fired-urinating-airplane-passenger-report

06/01/2023

Day 109: Friday, January 6th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to the World Happiness Report, for five years in a row, Finland has ranked No. 1 as the happiest country in the world. How to be happy? Don't compare yourself with others, enjoy nature and help your community.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/what-people-in-finland-happiest-country-in-world-never-do-according-to-psychologist.html

05/01/2023

Day 108: Thursday, January 5th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"If you really want peace, what is there to talk about? It’s when you really don’t want peace, that you want to keep holding talks of peace."

- Abhijit Naskar

According to Russian state media, President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Russian Defense Minister to cease fire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas (Jan 6-7).

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230105-live-russia-s-patriarch-kirill-calls-for-orthodox-christmas-ceasefire-in-ukraine

04/01/2023

Day 107: Wednesday, January 4th, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

Apple's shares fell 3.7% on Tuesday, dropping its market capitalization to US$ 1.989 trillion. Apple first surpassed US$ 2 trillion in market cap in August 2020, and briefly reached a market capitalization of US$ 3 trillion on January 3rd, 2022.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/04/apple-market-cap-shares-valuation-2-trillion-iphone-shipments/

03/01/2023

Day 106: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it."

- Justin K. McFarlane Beau

According to the Pew Research Center, the middle class has been shrinking throughout the last five decades as more Americans have entered either the upper or lower income brackets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02/middle-class-income-in-major-us-cities.html

02/01/2023

Day 105: Monday, January 2nd, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"The laws of political economy cannot be bent to suit the differences of latitude and longitude."

- M.M. Trumbul

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that a third of the global economy will be in recession this year. The economies of the US, EU and China are expected to slow down in 2023.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64142662

01/01/2023

Day 104: Sunday, January 1st, 2023:

Quote of the day:

"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."

- Roger Lowenstein

According to Bloomberg, Elon Musk has become the first human being in history to lose US$ 200 billion in net worth. Musk’s fortune peaked in November 2021 at US$ 340 billion, and as of today he is now worth US$ 137 billion.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-loses-200-billion-dollars-net-worth-record-bloomberg_n_63b0984ae4b0d6f0b9f43ccd

31/12/2022

Day 103: Saturday, December 31st, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.”

- Pope Benedict XVI

The Holy See Press office has announced that 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican's Mater Ecclesiae Monastery.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-12/pope-emeritus-benedict-xvi-dies-aged-95.html

29/12/2022

Day 102: Friday, December 30th, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"In some countries they wanted to touch him, in some they wanted to kiss him. In others they even kissed the ground he walked on. I thought it was beautiful, just beautiful."

- Clodoaldo

The world's greatest football player, Brazilian football legend Pele, has died at the age of 82. Pele is the only player to win the Fifa World Cup three times, lifting the trophy in 1958, 1962 and 1970. He was named Fifa's Player of the Century in 2000.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42751517

29/12/2022

Day 101: Thursday, December 29th, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"Everything I learned I learned from the
movies."

- Audrey Hepburn

Avatar: The Way of Water has officially crossed US$ 1 billion at the global box office in just two weeks and it is the fastest film in 2022 to reach that milestone.

https://www.ign.com/articles/avatar-the-way-of-water-crosses-1-billion-at-the-global-box-office-in-just-14-days

28/12/2022

Day 100: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

-G.K. Chesterton

Russian troops mobilized to fight in Ukraine can freeze their s***m for free. According to state news agency Tass, public funds will be used to finance the “free conservation and storage of s***m cells for citizens mobilized to participate in the special military operation.

https://fortune.com/2022/12/28/russia-mobilized-troops-free-s***m-banks/

27/12/2022

Day 99: Tuesday, December 27th, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."

- Terry Pratchett

The majority of the Top 10 movies of 2022 is composed of sequels and big tentpole blockbusters as such films have become safe bets for studios.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/amp/2022/12/27/the-10-biggest-movies-of-2022-at-the-global-box-office

26/12/2022

Day 98: Monday, December 26th, 2022:

Quote of the day:

“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready. You won't do well in the markets. If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.”

- Peter Lynch

According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, the world faces a recession in 2023 as higher borrowing costs targeted at tackling inflation cause a number of economies to contract.

https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/12/30197161/world-faces-a-recession-in-2023-says-researcher-the-battle-against-inflation-is-not-won-yet

25/12/2022

Day 97: Sunday, December 25th, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."

- Malala Yousafzai

Major international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have announced that they are halting their work in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s announcement that it is prohibiting women from working for NGOs.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3788046-major-ngos-halt-work-in-afghanistan-after-taliban-ban-on-female-workers/

23/12/2022

Day 96: Friday, December 23rd, 2022:

Quote of the day:

"The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another."

- Isabel Allende

According to internal estimate from China's top health officials, almost 250 million people in China may have caught Covid-19 in the first three weeeks of December.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/china/china-covid-infections-250-million-intl-hnk/index.html

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