Monday Crash

ENERGY CRISIS - SO FAR TODAY [Monday morning time Asia]

- Crude oil price up 22%, with extreme volatility (3–5% swings).

- Price of natural gas in the Baltic just jumped 543%.

- Brent crude up 22%, with extreme volatility (3–5% swings).

- Heating oil up 22%

- Gasoline prices up 14%

- Japan’s Nikkei 225 down 7.2%. A gauge of fear in Japanese stock markets has surged to the highest level since the Covid crisis in 2020 as a sharp spike in oil prices dampens optimism

- South Korea’s KOSPI is down 8.11% and trigger circuit breaker. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has called for the quick launch of a cap on fuel prices as the government moves to contain a spike in energy costs triggered by escalating conflict in the Middle East

- Australia’s ASX 200 is down over 4%. Vietnam: -6.9%. Philippines: -5.3%. Taiwan: -5.1%

- Indonesia’s JCI down 4% [+ US$1 rocketed Rp 17,000 --- worse than May 1998 riot]. Indonesia’s stocks and currency slid toward new bearish milestones as rising Middle East conflict dragged on regional assets, compounding concerns over the country’s investability and policy direction

- Singapore’s STI down over 3%.

- US stock market futures point to big declines

• G7 discuss a possible joint release of oil from reserves co-ordinated with the International Energy Agency

• Saudi Aramco has offered prompt crude supply through a series of rare tenders

• Taiwan has set a weekly cap on oil-price increases

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If you feel powerless to help Gaza, you still has a choice: donate. When so much of what exists is false, authenticity is a powerful weapon we can wield that the state never could. So if you feel lost, hopeless, depressed, angry and afraid, I implore you to return - again - again - and again - to the feeling of love that exists within you that brought you here in the first place. It is only through this that we can remake the world. To redress Gaza’s famine, displacement, and destruction, independent and impartial humanitarian organizations - UN agencies, international and national NGOs - must be allowed to deliver relief at scale. To salvage Gaza’s people from the devastation inflicted by Israel, it must be unified with the West Bank to form an independent and sovereign Palestinian State, not to be parceled and colonized by the former.

Meanwhile, children continue to be shredded by US bombs, and the starvation reaches new depths of hellish collective punishment. If both parties are going to continue to support an ongoing genocide, at least they can both be honest about doing so, rather than having one openly bloodthirsty party, and another—unconvincingly—playing the role of powerless, bumbling humanitarian.

Please keep donate Gaza especially if you, as reader, has [background] International Relation [whatever universities]. IR Graduate means [you must, at least] get some semester [about] studying Middle East [in macro, not specifically Gaza].

We need more people to share fundraisers instead of only talking about Gaza. Some people think that those in Gaza don’t need money but that’s wrong. Almost everyone lost their source of income while essentials, food & medicine get sold for astronomical prices. So I put my attempt in all social media as I can, in twitter / X, in substack [since October 2023 I put link donation], in bluesky or bsky, in threads, in instagram.

Link to donate World Food Programme - Palestine appeal: click here

[Daniel Brühl]

link to donate

Most campaign shared or circulated in social media are for REAL people in Gaza. They’re legit. There are a lot of small campaigns for struggling families. This is their only lifeline. By donating & sharing, you are literally making history and alleviating part of their pain

Please do not rely on me alone for sharing your campaign. I’m only 1 person and sometimes I’m not online which is unreliable. I never ignore anybody on purpose but I have a very limited capacity & very little energy and time.

[Refaat Rafiq Alareer IF I MUST DIE] Refaat Rafiq Alareer was extremely hungry, November 2023, days before Refaat killed by Israel airstrike. If November 2023 already [one-by-one Gazan] extremely famine, extremely hungry, imagine November 2025 or more than 2 years Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.

[RENEW] 455 Languages IF I MUST DIE of Refaat Rafiq Alareer [by 6100+ Translators, Social Media Users]

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December 20, 2023

Dec 9th, 2023, New York City, 4.10am —- with update total languages to be 310 as of July 1st, 2024, 3.52am New York City, and then, to be 350 languages as of July 28th, 2024, 1.37am ====== newest update as of July, 3rd, 2025 already 384 languages, and October 8th, 2025 reaches 455 languages across the globe.

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