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BREAKING #news - FIFA reinstates star Team USA player after Trump intervention

During the USA vs Bosnia and Herzegovina World Cup match, USMNT star Folarin Balogun received a red card that would have suspended him for the following game against Belgium. FIFA rules have worked that way for 60 to 70 years. Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask for a review. On Sunday, FIFA announced the suspension had been reversed, the first such reversal since 1962.

At the time of the red card, multiple videos flagged the referee as someone connected to a game-fixing scandal in Brazilian soccer. Whether the ref was corrupt, FIFA bent to presidential pressure, or both things are simultaneously true is the question Hawk leaves open.

Infantino had previously visited Trump in the Oval Office and brought a gold replica of the World Cup trophy. Trump is scheduled to present the actual trophy at the championship match. Hawk notes the line between those facts without claiming a formal arrangement, while pointing out that a sitting president calling FIFA to reinstate his country's star player is its own category of problem entirely.

"Dono el cor i l'ànima a Catalunya" ?

"Dono el meu cor i la meva ànima a Catalunya." ?

Based on Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Wheels turn crush me, I am the machine
Heaven helps those who forget to dream
I see a spark, great is what we are
Eyes toward my reward, compensated for

I am no one, I am nothing
Mold me, make me
Into something you find worth in (I am no one, I am nothing)
Deem special

I am no one, I am nothing (I can't see, I can't see)
And I'm sure I'll remember
Love this brings me, love this brings me (I am no one, I am nothing)
By the glass cuts on my feet

Fate damns, guides me into life's fear and shame
Bullied me into submission, it's the only thing that keeps me sane
I will never break free, I don't want to break free
Comfort in my tortures, there must be a reward

I am no one, I am nothing (I can't see, I can't see)
Mold me, make me
Into something you find worth in (I am no one, I am nothing)
Deem special

I am no one, I am nothing (I can't see, I can't see)
And I'm sure I'll remember
Love this brings me, love this brings me (I am no one, I am nothing)
By the glass cuts on my feet

I sold myself out to you, you told me that you were truth
Use me as your new disease, I just need to please
I live, die, kill just for you, my self-esteem I remove
Cut me and bleed me dry, I can serve, just let me try

I am no one, I am nothing
God, please help me
Mold me into what you want me to be (I am no one, I am nothing)
I can't stand down
I feel removed, I feel remorse (I can't see, I can't see)
For my understanding

Take me, change me (I am no one, I am nothing)
Into something

What happened to the dream jobs? It felt in the 2000s/ 2010s we were so close to transforming work - from tech novs at google, startups and youtube. However KSI/logan paul/ mr beast tells us they are depressed, google fires its office masseuses… where did they dream jobs go?

We think it's time to do an evalution of GenZhukov.

So we'd like feedback from all ranks, some might want to step down, others might have ambitions that haven't been heard.

Personally I think we should have more integration between our socials. Deeper integreation between Discord, Reddit, and other Socials.

Second, I really think being just an online community isn't good enough and we need to get out to there, or motivate people to get out there.

So I want to hear from every country, nation, state, county, province, city, local village, even your local neighbourhood where people can get in contact, in real life, with other people, with other socialists, communists, and in some cases even greens. Because in England the Greens are more left wing than Labour for example.

Finally, we should take a look at our leadership structure. Does it still function as it originally did? It worked when we started. But things change.

Generally I'd like to look at streamlining more. Do we we need 4 levels of leadership? Maybe not. Let's talk about it.

I want to hear input from every member and I also encourage everyone to join our Discord where can talk in more private than on Reddit.

https://discord.gg/ewj333jDjD

Thank you, comrades, all

Beach Boys!

We think it's time to do an evalution of GenZhukov.

So we'd like feedback from all ranks, some might want to step down, others might have ambitions that haven't been heard.

Personally I think we should have more integration between our socials. Deeper integreation between Discord, Reddit, and other Socials.

Second, I really think being just an online community isn't good enough and we need to get out to there, or motivate people to get out there.

So I want to hear from every country, nation, state, county, province, city, local village, even your local neighbourhood where people can get in contact, in real life, with other people, with other socialists, communists, and in some cases even greens. Because in England the Greens are more left wing than Labour for example.

Finally, we should take a look at our leadership structure. Does it still function as it originally did? It worked when we started. But things change.

Generally I'd like to look at streamlining more. Do we we need 4 levels of leadership? Maybe not. Let's talk about it.

I want to hear input from every member and I also encourage everyone to join our Discord where can talk in more private than on Reddit.

https://discord.gg/ewj333jDjD

Thank you, comrades, all

Famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece, The Sacrifice is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation that inspired Andrew Sarris (The Village Voice) to proclaim, "You may find yourself moved as you have never been moved before."

As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky's arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home. (The film's masterful cinematography is by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's longtime collaborator).

For Alexander, a philosopher troubled about man's lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them. The director's last film, made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.

When the US enters the Vietnam War, it’s confident in its military might, but it soon finds itself struggling with an underestimated enemy, a widening war, and political turmoil at home. North Vietnam has been fighting for an independent and unified Vietnam for decades. As both sides clash in the jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, the war becomes a quagmire in which military power alone cannot secure victory.

As far as African dictators go, there is probably no single greater illustration of the nuances and complexities that underpin dictatorships in Africa, than Joseph Desire Mobutu’s 31 year stint, as the leader of the nation known today as the DRC.

A self-proclaimed anti-communist who modelled his entire state apparatus after China’s chairman Mao. A self-styled African revolutionary, who collaborated with his country’s former colonisers to assassinate his own prime minister and a proud Afrocentric, whose love for European luxuries and prestige would see him seize control of an estimated one third of his country’s GDP and build a personal net worth nearly twice the size of his country’s national debt.

A paradoxical man from a nation of paradox. Mobutu may have been stereotypically arrogant and cruel, but he was far from a simpleton. His over 3 decades as Congo’s Supreme leader, would be built on a complex combination of evil genius, will power and good fortune.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro

00:46 Why Europe Colonised Africa

02:05 The Scramble for Africa

03:35 Factors that led to the Colonialisation of Africa

06:12 French Colonialism in Africa

08:11 British Colonialism in Africa

12:33 Comparing French and British Colonialism

18:18 Impact of Colonialism in Africa

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