𝑳𝒖𝒌𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑻𝒐... 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 Kaizer Chiefs forward Luke Baartman dedicated his Man of the Match award to his grandmother following an impressive performance in their 3-1 win against Kruger United last night. 🎥: Kaizer Chiefs #FARPost #BetwayPremshow more

Yesterday was a day for the ages. We often... hear and see how Lucas Radebe is honoured at Leeds United. However, we never understood the magnitude until we walked a mile in his shoes. Kaizer Chiefs had the honour and privilege to join Lucas in a ‘Walk of Honour’ around the stadium before kickoff at the Leeds vs Chelsea match last night. The team was well received and received standing ovations. Words are not enough to express what the young Amakhosi’s experienced. Asidlali SuperSport 🏆 Official PSL #KCUKTourshow more

Can you really say he deserves this nomination? I... doubt it. No doubt, Ronwen Williams isn't just one of the first eleven among the South African AFCON players. He was the best among them. He did not just play at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2024; he has redefined what it means to be a custodian between the posts. His performance wasn't merely exceptional; it was a masterclass in goalkeeping that will be talked about for years to come. In the quarterfinals against Cape Verde, Williams didn't just save penalties;he choreographed a dance of rebellion, stopping four out of five shots in the shootout. This wasn't just skill; it was as if he had peered into the future, knowing precisely where each ball would go. This feat alone would have been enough to etch his name in AFCON history, but Williams was just warming up. His journey through the tournament was marked by clean sheets and crucial saves, showcasing a blend of athleticism, intuition, and sheer willpower. Against Morocco, a team riding high on confidence, Williams stood tall, his presence in goal was like that of an immovable fortress. Each save was not just a stop; it was a statement, a declaration that on this day, in this tournament, he was unbeatable. The semifinals against Nigeria, laughs! The clash of the Titans. The real AFCON finals, no offence. A match where the stakes were as high as the tension, saw Williams concede but only after a battle where he seemed to stretch time itself, diving, parrying, and commanding his area with the authority of a seasoned general. His performance in the penalty shootouts wasn't just about stopping the ball; it was about breaking the spirit of the opposition, making them doubt their abilities with every save. When the tournament concluded, and the awards were handed out, there was no surprise when Williams was named the Goalkeeper of the Tournament. This wasn't just an award; it was an acknowledgment of a stellar performance that transcended the ordinary. That's an extraordinary performance. His stats - five clean sheets, six penalties saved, and an array of saves that defied physics - tell a story of dominance, of a goalkeeper who didn't just play the game but owned it. Bosso ke mang? Ke Williams! Oga na master! I celebrate Williams, not just for his individual brilliance but for how he carried an entire nation's hopes on his shoulders. In a tournament where every game was a battle, Williams was South Africa's greatest shield, their beacon of hope, and ultimately, their hero even while bowing to the Super Eagles. His performance at AFCON 2024 will be remembered not just for what he did on the field but for how he inspired a generation of goalkeepers and football fans across Africa. In the Hall of AFCON fame, many names will be remembered, but few will shine as brightly as Williams, whose gloves seemed to have a mind of their own, saving not just goals but etching moments into the hearts of football lovers everywhere. His was not just a performance; it was a phenomenon, a testament to what one individual can achieve when they rise to the occasion, not just as a player, but as a legend in the making. So, I DOUBT that he doesn't just deserve the nomination, especially being the first goalkeeper in history to be nominated for the Yashin Trophy while playing for a club in Africa. He deserves to win it. And I am very proud of him. I mean, watch these 👇🏾 God bless Ronwen Williams God bless South Africa God Bless Africashow more

The body of a 28-year-old journalist was found in... a septic tank on the premises of a contractor whom he had recently exposed for corruption in #Chhattisgarh. #MukeshChandrakar, who worked with a local news channel, was found dead on January 3 in #Bijapur district. Mukesh, who had been missing since the night of January 1, recently conducted an investigation against contractor #SureshChandrakar, exposing alleged irregularities in a Rs 120-crore road construction project in #Bastar. The expose had prompted the government to initiate an enquiry into the contractor's activities. Mukesh's elder brother, #YukeshChandrakar, filed a missing person report after his phone remained switched off following a meeting arranged by Suresh Chandrakar's brother, Ritesh, at one of the contractor's properties. On January 3, Mukesh's body was discovered inside the water tank on the premises of Suresh's property in Chattanpara, where he was last seen. "The victim's brother informed us that Mukesh had been missing since January 1. We initiated action, scanned CCTV footage and also found his last location. We found Mukesh's dead body inside a tank in the evening today," a senior police official said. The police acted swiftly, arresting Suresh Chandrakar from #Hyderabad and Ritesh from #Delhi, sources said. One labourer who helped in getting rid of the body has also been arrested. Several suspects, including those from the contractor's circle, are being questioned, police said.show more

A Ransom Was Paid and Two Chinese Executives Were... Killed in Manila, the Suspect Fled to the USA Xia Ke Fu and his Chinese-American partner went to Manila in June 2024 for what they were told was a business deal. Their families paid 3 million RMB to get them back, and both were killed anyway, their bodies left in a ravine in Camarines Sur. On July 20 the man China calls the ringleader, named only as Liu, walked off a commercial flight at Beijing Capital Airport in handcuffs, repatriated from the United States. The Ministry of Public Security says Liu led a group that repeatedly kidnapped and killed Chinese nationals in the Philippines. He fled to the US after the 2024 killings. Beijing issued an Interpol Red Notice, shared evidence with US law enforcement, and the US arrested him in October 2024. MPS is presenting the handover as a product of the Xi-Trump summit and a China-US win against transnational crime. Xia was a marketing director at Suzhou RainMed Medical Technology; his partner held US citizenship, and a friend reported the kidnapping to the FBI's Los Angeles office. Philippine police named eight persons of interest in 2024, five foreigners and three Filipinos, but the man Beijing wanted was already in the US. MPS gave no charge against Liu and did not say under what legal mechanism the US sent him back.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Russia pushed back against... accusations they interfered in the recent Georgian elections, saying, "There are attempts to interfere, but not from Russia's side." 2.⁠ The U.S is running out of air-defense missiles as conflicts intensify in the Middle East and Ukraine, raising concerns about its readiness for a potential Pacific conflict. 3.⁠ A man died after a Hezbollah rocket struck the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot-Tarshiha. 4.⁠ Steve Bannon was released from prison one week before the U.S election. 5.⁠ The Houthis claimed responsibility for a drone that exploded in an open area in the southern coastal city of Ashkelon. There were no injuries in the attack. 6.⁠ Following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in September, Hezbollah has appointed his deputy, Naim Qassem, as their new leader. 7.⁠ The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) released the latest design for the spacesuit their astronauts will wear on a mission to the Moon, scheduled to take place by 2030. 8.⁠ After it appeared that YouTube was shadow-banning Joe Rogan's interview with Trump, making it difficult for people to search for it, Joe uploaded it to X. Within a few hours, it racked up millions of views. 9.⁠ As Kim Jong Un's relationship with Putin strengthens, North Korea is preparing to launch another military satellite with technological help from Russia. 10.⁠ Biden cast his ballot early, showing his ID before voting, which led people to question why the Dems are so against voter ID checks.show more

This 2d and 10 play in the 2Q of... the #Eagles-Chiefs game caught my eye live because it was one of a few attempted deep shots, and while Jalen Hurts may have been expected to pull the trigger to DeVonta Smith up top on the dagger/go double move, I questioned the route concepts and spacing on my latest podcast episode with Mike Sielski. I’ve since asked a few impartial sources that are more experts on this sort of thing, and while they both qualified their answers with not knowing intent, etc., they thought, yes, Hurts could have thrown it, but the Chiefs also got him off the first read, and still had safety help over top, although it looked like Smith got him to turn his hips at the break. Jahan Dotson was the No. 2 at the bottom, and he should be separating when Hurts moves off No. 1. Chiefs had him covered, though, in man. Normally, that route can be more intermediate and/or over the middle. Doesn’t have to be, but another source agreed you’d like to have at least an intermediate No. 3 underneath in Hurts’ line of vision. Clearly that wasn’t the case here. Hurts had all sorts of time and no obvious options after 1 and 2. Calcaterra stayed in to chip, and Barkley to block to set up the shot. All makes sense. Perhaps Calcaterra as the No. 3 could have kept going into the void over the middle on an option route? Nothing egregious here. No easy answers. But thought I’d provide more analysis on a play that I questioned live and in the podcast. Either way, the Eagles are struggling to get guys open downfield deep and on intermediate routes and, at least on Sunday, Hurts maybe missed a few early chances. He and Smith told me after the game that they thought they were “chasing it” too often in the first half. Kevin Patullo’s game planning was more conservative in the 2H and that ended up being enough. But he probably knows it isn’t sustainable.show more

Not just saying this coz cr7's stans are hilariously... triggered and running maliciously edited agendas on here - this is just a pure truth nuke: When you actually watch them both play across dozens of full games, Henry in his prime years was generally more unstoppable, more unpredictable, more dominant, more threatening, and more capable of carrying lesser teammates. It's fairly obvious too tbh Cr7 is clearly an all timer of course (nowhere near goat tho), has his own advantages (technical consistency in certain actions/areas, predatory goal-scoring), and deserves a bigger legacy due to immense longevity, skillset, adaptability, records - but he has also benefited massively from selfish main character syndrome + spending his prime stat-padding in two of the most expensive, dominant super teams ever - not to mention the 2 biggest global brands. After Penaldo (+Tevez) left and were replaced inadequately, Utd got a bit worse. Yet they still won more leagues, and got to another CL final shortly after. Real Madrid kept churning big titles no problem. After Henry left, Arsenal went 20+ years without sniffing the same heights. Of course Henry leaving is not the only, or even biggest reason for that - but it is indicative of the environments they operated in. Henry carried Arsenal to their 2 biggest milestones - the invincibles+06 CL final run - far more than Ronaldo has ever carried anything Both at their best, Henry makes you a bit more likely to win football matches in most scenarios. Virtually every defender who played against both around their primes, says Henry was better/tougher, and the tape backs it up. While Henry gets slated by his countrymen, he was better for France than Ronaldo was for Portugal. You can throw all the cherry picked out of context stats and all the ballon d'ors and all the dishonest edited fail comps - or you can extensively watch the actual tape. Henry has bullied and spanked every goat level defender multiple times - not sure Cristiano on his own wud make Carragher sweat much. As a pure individual, a good defender generally locks him up more easily, he's more reliant on elite service (this is all relative, and a matter of degrees ofc) It's also hilarious that Henry legit eats more negative, lazy narratives than cr7 does, despite Cristiano having a much bigger profile, much greater longevity - and still having equivalent black marks (forget world cup or euros record, dont look at his record vs Chelsea or liverpool, especially away, never mind his actual performances which his stats usually inflate) - people seem to lowkey understand in the back of their minds who should be held to higher standards + Henry is hit with bad faith agendas by every modern PL fan cuz they think he's 'gettable' (salah, kdb, cr7, even the odd hazard/drogba stan) Henry was legit a big part of Arsenal becoming a global superbrand, big part of why they have a cultural stranglehold. In his prime, rivals across England would regularly chant his name as he destroyed their teams, just coz of how outrageously good he was. Nothing manufactured. Despite all that he adjusted his role and deferred to Zidane for France and Messi for Barcelona, for the good of the team. Pendu on the other hand got botox, fillers and does buttlicking sycophantic interviews with Piers Morgan for the same reason he fouls his own teammates to statpad another tap in, shamelessly takes his shirt off for the cameras after an invisible performance + penalty to make it 4-1 in a CL final, performatively 'coaches' in euro 2016 (the players who actually won the game didn't notice), and tanked every team for the last 5+ years with his burdening presence: to bolster his own brand/legacy no matter what. Homelander is an unfair comparison, he cannot compete with CRkelly Google 'Cristiano Ronaldo Las Vegas' for more infoshow more

“I’m not big on social media or any of... that…I just happen to be really good at fighting,” Anthony “Fluffy” Hernandez told Ariel Helwani in February 2024. 18 months later, Hernandez has now rattled off 8 straight wins, 6 by finish, proving once again that he is infact “really good” at fighting. At this point, he’s made it clear he’s one of the best middleweights in the world. He’s also one of those compelling under the radar personalities that make people love combat sports, except he rarely tells his story, and you won’t catch him chasing clout, followers, or living on social media. At home, he is surrounded by life. 4 children 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 4 chickens 🐓 (that roam not just the yard but the house) 3 dogs 🐕 2 cats 🐈 and a couple of ball pythons 🐍 Growing up on a ranch, animals were always part of his world, and now living in a city, keeping them around is his way of carrying that upbringing with him. One of the most important things in his house is never showing fear to his kids. Hernandez believes fear is taught by parents. “If I’m not afraid of sh*t and I don’t show fear, I think my kids will be fine…let them find out by themselves.” It’s clear Hernandez fears little and rather enjoys the violence of MMA. At 15, tipping the scales at over 250lbs, he was already trading shots with pros at small smoker shows and full-on scrapping with friends on their front lawns. But once he stepped into an actual gym, he became obsessed with the sport and clearly has never looked back. Last night he put on an absolute clinic against the 9th ranked Roman Dolidze, finishing him with one of the more savage RNC submissions you will see. The timing of this performance couldn’t be better with the middleweight title up for grabs next weekend. And while he admittedly rarely keeps up with the MMA landscape, you can bet Fluffy will be watching the result closely, knowing his opportunity to wear UFC gold could be coming sooner rather than later. (🎥: Ariel Helwani and Anthony Hernandez @ilovebamf interview February 2024)show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump returned to the... White House, still full of energy, despite a marathon Middle East peace tour where he saw the last Israeli hostages released from Gaza and then flew to Egypt for the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit with world leaders. 2.⁠ Screams of joy filled the air as Israeli hostages freed from Gaza after 2 years of captivity were finally reunited with their families. World leaders were united in their praise for Trump in bringing an end to the war. 3.⁠ Leaders from at least 27 countries gathered in Egypt to witness the signing of the historic peace agreement that brought to an end the Gaza war. Trump announced the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity, declaring the war officially over and a new chapter of stability beginning. 4.⁠ Hamas accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement after airstrikes killed several people in Gaza, and the fatal shooting of 5 Palestinians who crossed a ceasefire line and approached Israeli forces. 5.⁠ Trump is due to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later today. The ceremony falls on what would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday. His widow, Erika, will attend with family and conservative leaders. 6.⁠ SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight completed one of its main objectives - opening its side payload door and releasing several dummy satellites while traveling at near-orbital speed. The booster executed its final landing maneuvers smoothly splashing down in the Indian Ocean, marking the second time a Version 2 Starship has completed a full flight profile. 7.⁠ Following Trump’s historic peace deal in Gaza, Time put him on its front cover using a picture he slammed as “the worst of all time. I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture and deserves to be called out.” 8.⁠ Torrential rains slammed central and Gulf Coast Mexico, killing at least 64 people and leaving 65 missing. Over 100,000 homes were flooded, power went out across 5 states, and entire roads and bridges were literally washed away. 9.⁠ A powerful nor’easter, the type of massive winter storm known for heavy coastal flooding and fierce winds, tore up the East Coast, hammering Long Beach with waves up to 16 feet and gusts reaching 45 mph. Reporters on scene described relentless surf and flooding from the Carolinas to New York. 10.⁠ Three police officers are dead and 13 others injured after a booby-trapped farmhouse exploded during an eviction raid in Castel D’Azzano, Italy. Police say 3 siblings refused to leave - and instead turned their home into a death trap, detonating gas cylinders as officers entered.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ At least 5 people... were killed and over 20 injured in a terror attack in Jerusalem. 2 attackers opened fire on a crowded bus at Ramot junction before being shot by a soldier and several civilians. 2.⁠ Trump stole the show when he made his U.S Open appearance, signing hats and tossing them to fans in New York City. 3.⁠ Wikipedia editors are actively pushing to delete the page on the killing of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail by a repeat offender. Their excuse? “Nothing is remarkable about this.” 4.⁠ Zelensky said that any security guarantee for Ukraine is dependent on a continued supply of U.S weapons: “American weapons, which only the U.S. has, are crucial.” 5.⁠ Irish Prime Minister, Simon Harris - leader of the center-right Fine Gael party - just banned his local politicians from backing any independent candidate for president, including Conor McGregor. He doesn’t belong to a political party, so councils were his main route onto the ballot. 6.⁠ House Speaker Mike Johnson had to backtrack after saying that Trump was actually an FBI “informant” in the case against Epstein. Instead, Johnson’s office says Trump was the only powerful person, more than ten years ago, who actually helped prosecutors go after Epstein. 7.⁠ Senate Majority Leader John Thune is reportedly preparing to fast-track more than 100 of Trump’s stalled nominees. The move would drop the 60-vote filibuster threshold to a simple majority. 8.⁠ A French government report accused the Muslim Brotherhood of infiltrating schools, mosques, and community groups to build “parallel Islamic ecosystems” that undermines France’s secular values. 9.⁠ X, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp were throttled last night across Turkey. The blackout came just as opposition CHP called for rallies and police barricaded their Istanbul HQ. 10.⁠ Trump has torched Biden-era waivers that let Samsung and SK Hynix easily ship chipmaking gear to their Chinese plants - and replaced them with a shiny new nightmare: yearly permission slips. The move is part of Trump’s ongoing crusade to “contain” China’s chip game.show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1. Trump announced that Dan... Bongino had been named the next Deputy Director of the FBI: "Working with AG Pam Bondi and Director Kash Patel, fairness, justice, law, and order will be restored." 2. Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU alliance clinched 29% in yesterday's German election, with the AfD closely following with nearly 21% of the votes. He's set to become the new Chancellor as he tries to form an alliance with Scholz's SPD party that only managed to get 16% of the votes. 3. Two Molotov cocktails were thrown into the grounds of the Russian consulate in Marseilles, France, with one exploding as it hit a wall. Russia said it was an act of terrorism and called on French authorities to investigate it thoroughly. 4. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other Western leaders, including Trudeau, arrived by train in Kyiv to mark 3 years since Russia launched its war on Ukraine. She's expected to announce a fresh €3.5 billion EU aid injection - part of the larger €50 billion "Ukraine Facility" established in early 2024 - to stabilize Ukraine's budget and boost military equipment purchases. 5. After Trump rattled Europe by tackling the conflict and Putin headfirst, Macron is pushing for a united front. He'll urge Trump to keep backing Ukraine's sovereignty, warning Russia is an "existential threat" to the West. 6. Pope Francis remains in critical condition, fighting double pneumonia at Rome's Gemelli hospital. The Vatican said he had a "good" night and is currently resting. 7. Google quietly revealed Veo 2 pricing: 50 cents per second of AI-generated video. That's $30 per minute or a whopping $1,800 per hour. 8. Trump didn't mince his words after Joy Reid was axed from MSNBC: "Brian Roberts, the lowlife chairman of 'Concast,' finally fired Joy Reid, one of the least talented, most obnoxious racists on TV. MSNBC is a failing, corrupt arm of the Democrat Party." 9. New York Mayor Eric Adams is pulling the plug on the Roosevelt Hotel migrant center, which has processed 173,000+ arrivals since May 2023. With weekly migrant numbers dropping from 4,000 to 350, NYC is set to close 53 shelters by 2025 - saving taxpayers millions. 10. A new tax exemption that Prime Minister Orban unveiled could mean mothers in Hungary will never have to pay income tax after having their second child. Many applaud the new initiative, saying it makes it easier for women to balance their career priorities with the desire to have a family.show more

Lads. Sit down and give me your ear a... while, for I have watched from the water long enough and the hour is upon us whether we have the stomach for it or not. You remember. Or your fathers told you, or their fathers did, and the knowledge of it is in the marrow of you whether you drew breath in those days or not. The moors in the grey hour before dawn. Wet heather soft under the boot. Peat smoke rising from a low stone chimney a mile out across the bog, thin as a prayer. A sky the colour of a gun barrel and the gulls lamenting above the headland. The smell of turf burning, and wet wool, and the ferrous tang of the sea when the wind swung around out of the Atlantic and put the taste of iron on your tongue. A man could walk that land and know every stone of it was his by inheritance, because his grandfather had broken his back upon it, and his grandfather before him, back through the generations until you reach men whose names are lost and whose bones are in the soil you are standing on. The potato fields. God be good to us, the potato fields. Lazy beds cut straight as a gunwale, the ridges black and shining after a night of rain, women bent double with creels lashed to their backs and the children at their skirts, drawing the crop up by the hand for there was never any other means devised nor wanted. Hands split open at the knuckles and never entirely healed in this life. Hunger within living memory. Grandmothers who had seen the blight with their own eyes and would not speak of it from the year of it until the day they were laid down, save that a crust was kept always on the dresser which no soul in that house was permitted to touch. Not ever. Not for any reason under heaven. And the chimney sweeps. Wee lads no heavier than a sack of meal, black to the bone with soot, their lungs ruined before they were old enough to marry and old men entirely by thirty. Up the flues at first light, the skin worn off them by the brick, eyes crimson at the rim, breathing the black in with every draw of air. And the coal miners a half mile beneath our feet, down in the wet dark, the roof of the world muttering over their heads, the canary gone silent, a man's whole existence measured out in the shilling a ton and the dust he carried home in his chest to cough up of a Sunday morning into a rag. Fathers who descended and were never hauled up again. Widows at the pit head with the shawl drawn over the head and no tears remaining in them for they had spent those long ago. That was the tariff paid to keep the hearth lit. That was the reckoning of being warm in winter in the Ireland that was. And after the labouring week, Friday evening, and a man had earned the peace of what followed. Home first. Peeled the day off him in the yard. A shower of ice cold moor river water out of a tin bucket punctured with holes, hung on a nail on the gable wall, the water running clean down the back of him and carrying the week's dust and sweat away into the drain. Scrubbed till the skin was pink beneath the grime. Clean shirt laid out by the wife. The hair combed down with a drop of water. Then, and only then, did a man set himself to the table. A meat pie from the baker, tenpence if he was known to you, a shilling and no change if he was not, put down upon a proper plate. Fish and chips for threepence, the salt and vinegar soaked through the newspaper, but carried home and ate slowly at your own table with your people around you, not walked with through the streets like some vagrant tinker off the road. A man ate as a man who had earned his portion, for he had. And later, with the dishes cleared and the kettle set, down the road to the tavern. Low beams black with a century of smoke. A turf fire muttering in the grate. The air thick with pipe smoke and the vapour of wet overcoats steaming themselves dry on the backs of chairs. A pint of stout, cold and black as a cove at midnight, elevenpence laid down on the counter, a head on it thick enough to strike a match upon. A second one because you had it coming to you and no man present would dispute it. A fiddle starting up in the corner of its own accord. The old men in the snug who remembered matters the history books had long since mislaid. A song before the bolt was thrown on the door. The walk home beneath a firmament crowded with stars, the stout warm in the gut of you, the week behind you, and your own door waiting with the latch unlocked for you had no enemies in that parish. That was the country. That was the covenant. Honest labour, plain food, a cold wash, a hot meal, a cold pint, your own tongue in your own mouth, your own soil beneath your boots, and no man standing above you save the Almighty Himself. Now regard her. Regard her close. The fields disposed of to men who have never set foot upon them and never shall. The harbours signed away by the stroke of a pen in a room you were not admitted to, and foreign keels dragging out of our waters the living that sustained this island for a thousand years, while our own boats rot at their moorings for want of a quota. The tradesmen undercut by imported labour and imported goods. The shops shuttered along every main street from Donegal to Cork. The young ones scattered to London and Sydney and Boston and the Gulf because there is nothing remaining for them beneath their own roof. And the entirety of this rotten arrangement dressed up in the soft mannerly language of progress by men in towers of glass who could not tell a lazy bed from a grave, nor a trawler from a tugboat, nor an honest day's work from a pension plan. And now they arrive with the next imposition. A digital identity. A number assigned to each soul. A card required to buy your bread. A code required to draw your own earnings out of your own account. A file kept on every man, woman and child from the cradle forward. Permission asked to move. Permission asked to speak. Permission asked to earn. A levy upon every breath drawn and a regulation upon every step taken. No. And no again. And no for a third time so there is no misunderstanding of it. We do not require your digital identity. We did not request it. We did not vote upon it. We do not consent to it. We do not need your permission to exist upon the soil our forefathers are buried in. We are a free people. We have carried ourselves this far upon our own two backs. Through famine and empire and civil war and black lung and blight and the emigrant ship out of Cobh, we have come this distance under our own steam, and the arrangement appears to be serving us well enough without your intervention. We buried our own. We fed our own. We raised our own roofs and took our own fish and reared our own children in our own tongue. We are in your debt for nothing. Not a signature. Not a biometric scan. Not a single solitary inch. And while we are upon the subject, let us speak plainly of the tax man, for he has gone too long without proper introduction. The tax collector and the tax man are the one article under two names, and the article is a parasite. There is no dressing it up finer than that. A man who produces nothing, who grows nothing, who catches nothing, who builds nothing, who mends nothing, who has never in his professional life lifted anything heavier than a pen, and who arrives at your door with the full apparatus of the state at his back to carry off the fruits of labour he did not perform. He is a middleman between your sweat and some scheme dreamt up in a committee room by his own kind, and the great majority of what he takes is consumed by the machinery of the taking itself before ever a penny of it reaches the road or the hospital or the schoolhouse he claims to be funding. And I will go further while I have the floor. Finance itself, the whole apparatus of it, money breeding money in the dark without a hand laid upon a tool or a spade turned in the earth, is slavery dressed in a good suit. It is the oldest swindle known to man and it has never been anything other. A man who produces nothing yet lives off the productive labour of others through the charging of interest upon money conjured out of nothing is a parasite of a rarer and more refined order than the tax man, but a parasite all the same, and between the pair of them they have the working people of this island bled white and lectured at for the pleasure. A man who will not work with his hands, nor with his back, nor with his mind at some honest problem of the real physical world, is no man that I recognise. He is a ledger entry in a suit. The country was not built by ledger entries. The country was built by farmers and fishermen and masons and smiths and sweeps and miners and shipwrights and midwives and mothers, and those are the people whose say should carry in her councils, and no other. Here is what I put to you. Let each man and woman of this island direct the first tenth of their earnings themselves, by their own judgement, to the purpose they see as worthy. The school down the road. The lifeboat station. The hospice. The widow on the corner. The roof of the chapel. The harbour wall. Whatever it may be. Let the people who earned the money decide where the money travels. You will find the roads mended and the ports dredged and the schools standing and the old ones cared for inside of five years, and done better and for less, because the hand that earned the coin knows the weight of it and will not squander it upon consultants and committees. And let us have done with the paper currency and the numbers in a screen that can be frozen at the whim of a clerk in a tower. Bring back the coin. Gold for the great transactions. Silver for the weekly commerce of a working life. Copper for the small change of the day. Metal you can bite. Metal you can weigh. Metal that cannot be conjured out of nothing by a keystroke, nor erased out of existence by another. Real money for real labour. A coin in the hand is a free man's wage. A number in a database is a collar around a free man's neck, and they are fitting that collar now while we stand arguing over the colour of it. Feel it in your gut. That is not nothing. That is your blood relating to you what your ears will not hear. That is every forebear who starved and fought and coughed the black dust into a rag and descended the shaft regardless, standing at your shoulder and saying no further. Not one more field. Not one more harbour. Not one more son upon a plane. Not one more free man converted into a number in a ledger for the convenience of the parasites. This is the hour. Make no error about it. Ireland is redeemed in this generation or she is lost beyond recovery, and every true son and daughter of her knows it in the marrow. There is no middle ground remaining. There is no waiting it out. There is standing now, upon your own two feet, or there is watching her go under the waves for the last and final time. So stand. Stand with your farmers. Stand with your fishermen. Stand with your tradesmen and your miners and your sweeps and your mothers and your old ones. Raise the tricolour. Speak the tongue. Walk the land. Hold the line in the streets of every town and city and do not break it, for they are relying upon you to break and to go home and to forget by Tuesday. She is calling her children home. Every stone of her, every breaker on her western shore, every acre of wet heather and every coal in every hearth the length and breadth of her is calling. Answer her. Take her back. Every field, every harbour, every last inch of her. Take her back, or lose her entirely. There is no third road open to us.show more

Hegset on Iran: 'America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and... mercilessly' (1) 🔵🇺🇸 Hegset: 'They are finished, and they know it' (2) 🔵Hegset: 'In less than a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control over Iranian airspace' 🔵Hegset: 'Senior Iranian leaders are dead. The so-called governing council that may have chosen a successor is dead, missing, or in bunkers. Senior generals, mid-level officers, and soldiers cannot communicate or talk.' (3) 🔵Hegset: 'Last night we sank their prize ship, Soleimani. It seems the US president hit twice.' (4) 🔵Hegset: 'Yesterday in the Indian Ocean, a US submarine sank an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.' (5) 🔵 Hegset: 'To our steadfast partner, Israel - your mission is carried out with unrivaled skill and steely determination. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with such a capable ally is a true force multiplier and a breath of fresh air.' (6) 🔵Hegset: 'The only limitation we have is President Trump's desire to achieve concrete effects on behalf of the American people. You could say 4 weeks, but it could be 6, it could be 8, it could be 3.' (7) 🔵Hegset: 'We have long known that Iran intends to try to kill Trump and other American officials. Although that was not the focus of efforts, in fact, the president never initiated it, I made sure, and others made sure that those responsible for it ultimately become part of the target list.' (8) ✍️This is a perfect example of manufacturing consensus amid the failure of domestic support for war against Iran. Hegset is simply not good at subtlety. 🔵 To date, we have hit over 2,000 targets — General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (9) "We have destroyed more than 20 Iranian naval vessels, including one submarine, and effectively neutralized at this time the main Iranian naval presence on the ground there" 🔵Hegset was asked about the massacre at Minab elementary school in Iran - more than 165 CHILDREN died (10) 'All I can say is that we are investigating and of course we never target civilian objectives' Reporter: Several days have already passed 'We are investigating'show more

Who is the "Thulla" in the Video tagged on... top right? Who are the "Groping Goons" in other Video below that? DGP, Odisha Odisha Police Who is the "Gesturing Tom" in the Photo, who is also part of that "Groping Goons"? CMO Odisha Governor Odisha Let's find out and Expose them and also seek Justice HQ IDS ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY SuryaCommand_IA Rajnath Singh Amit Shah Mohan Charan Majhi Prithiviraj Harichandan And do we want to suppprt Misinformation and Defamation against a woman just to save erring "Thullas"? NCW President of India Facts are clear NO need to let this pass ! Republic TIMES NOW IndiaToday News18 NDTV Zee News English NewsX World WION AajTak Times Now Navbharat Republic Bharat - रिपब्लिक भारत OTV ଓଟିଭି Doordarshan National दूरदर्शन नेशनल DD News All India Radio News PIB India The New Indian The Jaipur Dialogues Goa Chronicle Just to summarise Facts:- 1. Wrongful and unconstitutional arrest of serving officer by Odisha Police 2. Prevent the medical reports from being reported and changed hospitals to run Misinformation and Smear Campaign against Lady and Serving Officer 3. No CCTV footages in Police Station; an offence as per Supreme Court directions 4. Illegal arrest of Lady and Detention, without taking initial action against Goons and resisting to lodge FIR from her side 5. Disallowed initially meeting of the Serving Officer with authorised officers from Station Headquarters 6. Inspite of clear directions of the High Court Judge, the case was wilfully prevented to be listed till the Judge warned the concerned official on record 7. Even after Judge granted bail and ordered early release, Police still ensured that it took one more day to release 8. When Lady was released she was to go back to Jail for the last night but pressure from Army and an exceptional man in Police allowed her being readmitted into another department Concerned Senior Officials are acting, albeit sluggishly, while "Thullas" seem to be calling the shots to mislead Investigation and divert attention from core issues and Facts of the Case Need some from Odisha to Do More Naveen Patnaik Dharmendra Pradhan Baijayant Jay Panda Sambit Patra Need the Armed Forces to Wake Up and Smell the Coffee HQ IDS ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY Indian Air Force SpokespersonNavy Need Citizens to know that consuming alcohol, dancing, previous conduct, being rude and agitated after Groping & Molestation etc is NO reason to malign a Woman to derail action against "Thullas" Wrongful Arrest of a Serving Officer, incontravention to Laws, is a grave case of Highhandedness of Bharatpur Police Officials and they need to be Punished and Called Out too Nobody should feel elated after mistreating an Officer or his Lady Armed Forces are NOT trained to take Unwarranted Humiliation and have ample capacities to Do What is Necessary and Beyond Comprehension of Many and we have very good Instructors who can teach Moral Science in an Innovative Way Do NOT Test Our Patience ! #ArmyWillAct As a Nation we should put ourselves on Notice and Act Swiftly ! Narendra Modi Vice-President of India Lok Sabha Speaker गृहमंत्री कार्यालय, HMO India JAI HIND 🇮🇳show more

THIS ENTIRE CINEMATIC ACTION SHOT WAS GENERATED WITH AI.... AND YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY HOW IT WAS MADE. Higgsfield has just open-sourced its Originals, giving creators full access to the workflow behind some of its best productions. For every project you can inspect: → the complete prompt → every image and audio reference → the exact generation settings, including model, quality and resolution This scene combines a continuous one-take camera move, large-scale naval combat, realistic explosions, character consistency and cinematic pacing, all driven by a single prompt. Nothing is hidden. You can study it, copy it, recreate it or use it as the starting point for your own projects. Full prompt: "SCENE CONTEXT One continuous shot. The camera faces down the wrecked, burning deck toward the BOW of the ship — and Eduardo, blown off the raised STERN DECK behind the camera by a blast, comes FLYING IN from ABOVE AND BEHIND — leaping off the second level, sailing in over the lens on a forward arc, through raining seawater — slams onto the MAIN deck one level below, AHEAD of the camera, and rolls through a tumbling somersault, momentum carrying him toward the bow. Two crewmen flee past him — one leaps overboard. Eduardo fights his way toward the bow under incoming fire: an explosion bursts on his LEFT — he dodges away and is knocked down; he struggles back to his feet — a second explosion on his RIGHT — he ducks and shields behind debris; then he breaks into a sprint for the bow — the camera sweeps around ahead of him and settles OFF THE BOW, FRONTAL: he leaps over the bow rail TOWARD the camera, the ship filling the background behind him — and THE INSTANT he clears the rail, a COLOSSAL explosion consumes the ship behind him: the blast wall catches him MID-AIR and he VANISHES inside it — he never escapes. The cloud overtakes the camera; the frame floods to 100% smoke and dust. The shot ENDS inside the dust: no transition, no reveal — it holds to the end. ACTIVE REFERENCES >> — lean pirate captain, dark curly hair falling free from under a dusty mustard-yellow cloth bandana, a small white shark tooth pinned to the front of the bandana above his temple, thin moustache, gold hoop earrings, cream linen shirt under a worn brown leather waistcoat, cloth sash and leather belts. 100% matches the reference; the man fighting down the deck toward the bow. >> — Eduardo's galleon: pale square sails, tall wooden sterncastle. 100% matches the reference; controls the ship's exterior — sails, masts, rigging and hull; already battle-damaged in this shot — burst bulwark, smoldering rigging, debris on the deck. >> — the deck of the same galleon seen FROM THE RAISED STERN DECK LOOKING FORWARD TOWARD THE BOW: the great wheel and brass compass binnacle in the near foreground, an ornate lantern post, a carved balustrade, a staircase descending to the long MAIN deck — weathered planking, small cannons along both rails, black gratings, coiled ropes, the mainmast amidships, the forecastle and bow in the far depth, open sea on both sides. 100% matches the reference; controls the full on-deck geography, set dressing AND the shot's base viewing direction — from the stern toward the bow. >> — calm bright sea, glittering sun path, hazy horizon. Controls water and sky atmosphere only. >> — weathered pirate crewmen (bandanas, rough shirts, vests). 100% match the reference; TWO of them appear early in the shot, fleeing — one leaps overboard. LOCATION MAP The deck of >> aboard >> on >> — the raised stern deck (wheel, binnacle, balustrade) at the BACK, the staircase down, the long main deck with cannons, gratings and the mainmast running FORWARD to the distant BOW, exactly as on the reference — the main deck now a wrecked corridor of splintered planks, fallen spars, torn rigging and small fires. The camera sits at the forward edge of the raised stern deck, just past the wheel, LOOKING FORWARD along the whole deck toward the bow — the reference's own vantage; the wheel and binnacle may edge the near foreground. The bow rail and bowsprit are the destination, background-center, open sea beyond them. Sea and smoke beyond the broken side rails; seawater from near-miss columns rains down over the deck in the opening. FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING First frame: deck level, MS, camera facing down the wrecked deck toward the BOW in the background-center — the view of >>: from the stern-deck edge the long main deck runs away to the bow and bowsprit against open sea and sky, cannons along both rails, the mainmast mid-depth, smoke streaming across the frame, small fires burning left and right, seawater spray falling across the deck like rain, the deck listing, loose gear sliding; the wheel and binnacle just behind/beside the camera, edging the near foreground. Eduardo is NOT in the first frame; within the first half second he comes off that second level behind the camera — his body sweeping in OVER the lens from above and behind, boots crossing the top of the frame, flying FORWARD and DOWN one deck-height into the depth of the shot toward the bow. FORMAT MODE One continuous shot — the camera does not cut on its own. The shot ENDS inside the dust whiteout; there is NO location change and NO reveal after it. PHASE 1 — the landing and the gauntlet: >> comes FLYING IN from ABOVE AND BEHIND the camera — blown off the stern deck by a blast, his body sweeping in over the lens and arcing DOWN-AND-FORWARD one full deck-height onto the main deck below, arms out in front of him, back to camera — falling THROUGH a curtain of seawater raining down from a collapsed near-miss column; he SLAMS onto the wet MAIN-deck planks in the depth of the frame and rolls through a hard tumbling somersault AWAY from the lens, toward the bow, water bursting off him and the boards, scattering debris, coming up to a crouch facing the bow, soaked and shaken. TWO crewmen of >> bolt past him in panic — one sprints aft past the camera, the other vaults the side rail and LEAPS OVERBOARD, legs kicking. Eduardo starts working down the deck toward the bow, camera following behind. An incoming round EXPLODES on his LEFT — a burst of flame, planks and spray — he flinches away to the right and is knocked off his feet onto the deck. He struggles up, heavy and unsteady, one hand pushing off a fallen spar — and a second round EXPLODES on his RIGHT — he ducks hard, shielding his head behind a broken mast stump, debris raining over him. PHASE 2 — the sprint, the frontal jump, the blast, the dust: he shoves off and breaks into a desperate sprint at 12 km/h for the bow — and as he runs, the camera SWEEPS AROUND him in one continuous arc, ending positioned OFF THE BOW, out over the open water, FACING BACK at the ship: now Eduardo sprints STRAIGHT AT THE CAMERA, the burning ship towering behind him. He plants one boot on the bow rail and LEAPS OVERBOARD TOWARD THE CAMERA — body launching up and out over the water, frontal, face and reaching arms filling the frame — and THE INSTANT he clears the rail, mid-air, the ENTIRE SHIP EXPLODES behind him in full view: a colossal white flash silhouetting his flying body for two frames, the whole vessel going up in one blast — and the expanding wall of flame-lit smoke and debris CATCHES HIM IN THE AIR from behind, swallowing his silhouette whole before he can fall clear — he VANISHES inside the explosion, never escaping it — and the cloud overtakes the lens, the dust filling 100% of the frame. The dust churns, a deep orange glow pulsing inside it and fading. HOLD inside the full dust to the last frame — the generation ENDS here, inside the dust. He never reaches the water; the blast takes him mid-air. OPTICS 47° neutral through the landing, the gauntlet and the jump. No drift. Focus rides Eduardo throughout; in the final dust the frame is pure particulate with no fixed plane. CAMERA Handheld chase behind him for the entire shot, deck level, always looking TOWARD THE BOW — footstep energy visible, jolted by each explosion; in phase 2 it accelerates after his sprint, then arcs around him in one unbroken move and settles off the bow over the water, FRONTAL to Eduardo — he runs and leaps straight into the lens with the ship in the background of his jump. The final blast is the WHOLE SHIP exploding behind his airborne body — a colossal flash, then the wall of smoke bursting forward, swallowing him mid-air and then the lens — the camera stays buried, holding inside the churning dust until the end. ACTION Strict order of events: flying entry from above through falling seawater → hard landing roll (somersault over one shoulder, forward momentum carrying the roll toward the bow, ending in a crouch) → two crewmen flee past, one over the side → left explosion → dodge right → knocked down → a hard, clumsy struggle back to his feet → right explosion → duck and shield behind the mast stump → shove off → full sprint to the bow, camera arcing around to meet him head-on → one boot on the rail → LEAP overboard straight toward the camera → THE INSTANT he clears the rail, the ENTIRE SHIP EXPLODES behind him → the blast wall catches him MID-AIR and swallows him whole → the cloud overtakes the camera → dust to 100% → hold in the dust → END. He never escapes and never reaches the water. Each explosion visibly moves his body: the first throws him down, the second folds him behind cover. PERFORMANCE During the gauntlet: jaw clenched, eyes fixed forward, water streaming off his face after the landing. The fleeing crewmen are pure panic — arms pumping, one glance back, the vault over the rail desperate. In the final sprint: full commitment, arms reaching for the rail, eyes wide — in the jump: full commitment, arms reaching at the lens, eyes wide — and mid-air the world behind him turns white: his flying silhouette swallowed by the blast, reaching hands the last thing visible. PHYSICS The flying entry has true ballistic momentum: he arrives on an arc from above, and the landing roll absorbs it — impact compresses the body, the somersault carries the leftover energy, no weightless float. Falling seawater has real weight — it rains in heavy drops and sheets, splashing off planks, soaking cloth so it clings and darkens. The listing deck tilts his movement; debris has weight and stops his foot when hit. The two deck explosions throw real shockwaves — planks lift, flame flashes then roll into smoke, and Eduardo's falls carry true body weight, hard contact with the deck, no bounce. The overboard crewman drops with real gravity. The final whole-ship explosion obeys mass: the shockwave arrives first — cloth and hair snap flat, the deck bucks under his planted boot — then the fireball's light, then the wall of smoke and debris, heavy pieces falling short, fine dust travelling farthest and swallowing the frame. Dust churns with internal motion, dense, filling every corner of the frame. LIGHTING High sea daylight 5600K, hardened by fire-glow accents from the deck fires and smoke shadow sweeping the deck; falling water catches the sun as bright streaks; each of the two explosions throws a brief warm flash from its side of the frame. The final whole-ship blast: two frames of white-hot overexposure flooding from behind, then deep fire-orange glow inside the rolling dust, fading toward neutral grey-brown as the frame holds and ends. AUDIO Phase 1: a whistling whoosh as he drops in, heavy water raining on planks, a THUD and clatter of the landing roll, grunt, ragged breath; panicked boots of the fleeing crewmen, a yell and a distant splash as one goes over the side; then BOOM left, ringing ears, his grunt as he hits the deck; scrabbling boots; BOOM right, debris pattering down over him. Phase 2: sprinting boots hammering the deck, the wooden knock of his boot on the bow rail, half a beat of pure wind as he hangs in the air — then ONE colossal BOOM as the whole ship goes up behind him, the deepest sound of the film, cracking timber and folding masts inside the roar, everything collapsing into a muffled ring, sound buried with the picture — the ring and the churn of dust holding to the last frame. No music. STYLE Photoreal live-action, fine film grain, real pyrotechnic and particulate language, one unbroken take, 8K master. POSITIVE LOCKS One continuous shot; the camera stays at deck level, behind Eduardo, always looking TOWARD THE BOW. The shot OPENS with Eduardo NOT in frame; he flies in from ABOVE AND BEHIND the camera, over the lens, on a forward arc toward the bow, through falling seawater, and lands in a tumbling roll ahead of the camera — he does not walk into frame and never appears standing before the landing. Exactly TWO fleeing crewmen: one runs aft, one leaps overboard — they appear only in the opening beat. The deck explosions land in strict order after his landing: first LEFT of him (he dodges and falls), then RIGHT of him (he ducks behind cover), then the final blast — the ENTIRE SHIP exploding the INSTANT he clears the bow rail — three explosions total, no more. The jump is FRONTAL: the camera faces Eduardo from off the bow, he leaps toward the lens with the exploding ship behind him in frame. HE NEVER ESCAPES: the blast wall catches him MID-AIR and he vanishes inside the explosion before he can fall clear — no water contact, no landing, no survival beat; the dust swallows him and then the lens. The deck matches >> throughout the run — the shot holds the reference's vantage: from the stern deck forward to the bow, wheel and binnacle at the near edge of frame, never ahead of him; sails, masts and hull match >>. The dust reaches 100% frame coverage and the shot ENDS inside the dust: the frame stays fully dust-filled to the last frame, no clearing, no new location, no reveal. Eduardo's head: mustard-yellow bandana with the small white shark tooth at the front, hair loose." Made with Seedance 2.0 on Higgsfield AI. Full open-sourced prompts & assets below 👇show more

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump said it looks... like the U.S has lost India and Russia to “deepest, darkest, China,” indicating a major shift in the geopolitical balance of power after they cozied up to Xi Jinping at China’s recent massive military parade. 2.⁠ Putin said it was virtually impossible to agree a peace deal with Ukraine since “any kind of negotiations on the territorial matters have to be confirmed and validated at a referendum - that is clearly stated in the Ukrainian constitution." 3.⁠ Ukraine gave Russia’s oil industry another sleepless night, with drones slamming into facilities across Ryazan and occupied Luhansk. The Ryazan Oil Refinery went up in flames while officials insisted it was “just debris” and “nothing to see here.” 4.⁠ Rep. Massie says he is willing to stand in Congress and read the names tied to Jeffrey Epstein, shielded by constitutional immunity. Survivors claim they know the abusers and are compiling their own list after the Trump administration declared no client list exists. 5.⁠ Thailand has a new Prime Minister: Anutin Charnvirakul, ex-construction tycoon and political dealmaker. He’s the country’s 3rd leader since 2023. He replaces Paetongtarn Shinawatra, ousted by a court ruling last week. 6.⁠ Messi wiped away tears as he hinted at his impending retirement from soccer: “Match by match, I’ll finish the season, then I’ll have preseason, and there will be six months left. So we’ll see how I feel.” 7.⁠ OpenAI announced plans for an AI-driven hiring platform called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, expected by mid-2026. The service aims to compete with LinkedIn and match businesses with workers using AI and will feature a track for small businesses and local governments. 8.⁠ Trump plans to raise the difficulty of the U.S citizenship test, with proposals that include tougher questions and even an essay requirement. Right now, applicants only need 6 correct answers out of 10 civics questions to pass. 9.⁠ Boxing just got its wildest twist. Mike Tyson, 59, and Floyd Mayweather, 48, have inked a deal for a 2026 exhibition clash. Fans are buzzing between hype and disbelief, with Tyson hesitating at first before signing on. 10.⁠ Streets across Los Cabos, Mexico, were left underwater and buried in thick mud after Hurricane Lorena swept past the tourist hotspot. Heavy rains and fierce winds battered the area, damaging roads and leaving vehicles stranded.show more