George Orwell said "if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
On the plus side, FIFA will be only too happy to stick some football pitches in the background.
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I spoke with CNNi's Linda Kinkade about how the FIFA greed machine is revving up ahead of the 2026 World Cup
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
The Evening Standard employed 364 journalists and staff when Lebedev bought it for £1 in 2009.
It now has 16
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Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
#cans ?
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Det er ingen grenser for FIFA-presidenten.
Loans from a UAE bank were funnelled into the Libyan war effort "likely including payments to Russia’s Wagner Group". More brilliant investigative work from @thesentryorg.bsky.social
Dimitrios Psarrakis was the business partner, co-author and, for eight years, parliamentary researcher of Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP arrested in 2022 in a huge corruption investigation involving MEPs being paid to praise Qatar's human rights record ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
On Monday, we revealed that the overseer of Fifa's newest sponsor had paid a six-figure sum to settle insider trading allegations. Today, we reveal that the company's newly appointed CEO has close ties to the MEP at the heart of the Qatargate corruption scandal...
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They’re still looking for potential survivors trapped under the rubble in Tallet El Khayat Beirut after the Israeli strike that levelled an entire building
There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.
You are being lied to
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
NEW @theathleticfc.bsky.social
White House wants FIFA to follow lead of IOC by issuing policy to bar transgender women from professional women’s soccer — with Trump yet to sign off on required government guarantees for US-led bid to host Women’s World Cup in 2031.
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FIFA's new "prediction market partner":
- backed by UAE royal family
- no working product
- unlicensed in most jurisdictions
- run by a man credibly accused of insider trading
👏 @uglygame.bsky.social @philippeauclair.bsky.social @samindrakunti.bsky.social
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By @sportingintel.bsky.social
With some input from both @ncgeehan.bsky.social and Kunti.
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How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon
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Dubai is like catnip to the British far-right
‘Amazing’: how to grow a meadow in the sea
- Vibrant #seagrass meadows once flourished around the UK but most have been destroyed. Now, communities and scientists are working to restore them
@projectseagrass.bsky.social
Story by me
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Important to point out that Jesus was never legally classed as a sexual predator nor was he ever fined for tax fraud.
Saudi Arabia, Russia and others yet again blocking progress on climate science ...
> IPCC: ‘Frustrating and disappointing’ meeting leaves AR7 timeline in deadlock
#climatecrisis
@carbonbrief.org
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Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative?
It’s bizarre, frankly
"The USA under President Trump ... is facing a human rights emergency marked by discriminatory immigration policies, mass detentions and arbitrary arrests by masked, armed agents"
Somebody needs to remind @amnesty.org that Football Unites the World.
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Academic publishing is a massive scam that impoverishes academics.
Talked with a fellow barrister ther night abt other barristers using AI to do first draft of judicial review grounds. And we were like…. “Why?” It’s our job (privilege, pleasure) to analyse that problem, formulate that argument. Why would you want a machine to attempt that first?
Last year, Entergy received approval to build three natural gas plants that will generate about 2.3 gigawatts of electricity for Meta’s data center in Louisiana. The utility also applied to connect even more gas generation to the power grid in Louisiana to meet increasing demand. Hyperion will have about 5 gigawatts of computing power, with the remaining gigawatts used to power the broader campus, according to a Meta spokesperson. The seven new gas plants will need to be approved by state regulators. The agreement between the companies includes a Meta commitment to help fund up to 2.5 gigawatts of new renewable resources as well as a memorandum of understanding to explore future development and use of nuclear power. Read More: Entergy Aims to Build More Gas in Wake of Meta’s Big Data Center — With assistance from Edwin Chan
It's really difficult to properly express how nuts this is. Meta's 2.2 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel plant was already world-leading bad. Now they're adding 5.2 EXTRA gigawatts on top. So SEVEN NEW FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS for one data centre.
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Exclusive:
Approval of U.S.-led bid to host Women’s World Cup in 2031 was postponed in significant part because… Trump’s White House has not provided required govt guarantees to FIFA & host cities want much better terms than 2026.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...
Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week, part two.
More up here: www.instagram.com/p/DWYXD0Rjak...
At least 1,116 people have been killed since March 2, incl 121 children, acc to min of health. At least 3,229 have been injured, incl 399 children.
My latest w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: FIFA just released a pair of highly anticipated decisions regarding Israel & Palestine. Taken together, they're an obscene abdication of FIFA’s own statutes & its publicly stated commitment to human rights. For @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
