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Nike released the trailer for its upcoming “Rip The Script” World Cup brand campaign featuring: - LeBron James - Cristiano Ronaldo - Kylian Mbappé - Kim Kardashian - Saint West - Travis Scott - Lisa - Erling Haaland - Vini Jr. - Zlatan Ibrahimović + many more

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🚨 Reporter asks Cristiano Ronaldo about João Neves’ comments, the Golden Boot race, and his international future at the 2026 FIFA World Cup: 🗣️ Reporter: “Cristiano, João Neves recently said that despite everything you’ve achieved, you’re treated like just another player in the Portugal dressing room. What do you make of that statement?” 🗣️ Cristiano Ronaldo: “I think João is right. In this team, nobody is bigger than Portugal. It doesn’t matter if you’ve played one game or two hundred games, everyone has responsibilities and everyone is expected to contribute.” “I don’t ask for special treatment and I’ve never wanted it. What matters is respect, hard work and doing your job for the team.” “Of course I have more experience than most players here, so I try to help whenever I can. But when we’re on the pitch, we’re all fighting for the same badge and the same objective.” 🗣️ Reporter: “Lionel Messi is currently leading the World Cup scoring charts. Do you pay attention to that and does it motivate you to score more goals?” 🗣️ Cristiano Ronaldo: “I couldn’t care less about Messi. Mbappé has scored goals. Haaland has scored goals. Harry Kane has scored goals. Messi has scored goals. He’s just another player in this tournament trying to help his country win.” “My focus is on Portugal. If I help the team with goals, assists or leadership, then I’ve done my job.” “I’ve spent my entire career competing, but not chasing people. I focus on myself, my team and what I can control.” “The World Cup isn’t decided by who leads the scoring chart after a few matches. It’s decided by who is still standing at the end.” “If goals come, they come. If records come, they come. Right now, my only concern is helping Portugal keep winning.” “I respect every great player in this competition, but I’m not here to follow anybody’s numbers. I’m here to help Portugal become world champions.” 🗣️ Reporter: “Do you intend to keep playing for a few more years? Could we even see you at the 2030 World Cup?” 🗣️ Cristiano Ronaldo: “I don’t know. Football has taught me never to look too far ahead.” “What I can say is that I still feel good physically, I still enjoy competing, and I still feel I can help my teammates and my country.” “As long as that feeling remains, I’ll continue playing. The day I feel I can no longer contribute at the level I expect from myself, I’ll be the first person to know.” “But right now, my focus is not on 2030. My focus is on tomorrow, the next training session, the next match and helping Portugal in this World Cup.” “People always want answers about five years from now. I prefer to focus on the present because that’s where football is played.” “Will I be at the 2030 World Cup? I honestly don’t know. But I’ve learned in my career that when people think something is impossible, that’s usually when interesting things happen”. {DAZN }

SethOfficial

347,522 просмотров • 21 дней назад

Soccer is booming in the United States and World Cup viewership shows there is MASSIVE interest, but it will never be the priority and always play 5th fiddle to the Big 4 sports in America unless Americans fundamentally change their approach to youth sports. American Soccer is behind the rest of the world for 3 reasons: 1. Cultural Sporting DNA In the USA, Soccer competes in a crowded field of Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey instead of dominating like abroad. Europe and the rest of the world built soccer through community clubs, local pride and it being their default sport. They are born with a soccer ball on their feet. 2. Pay-to-Play Barrier In the USA most youth are priced out of playing because the cost to be on the team is too expensive. Currently there is a 14% decline in youth soccer participation between ages 6 to 12. Europe and the rest of world’s accessible club model keeps more kids in the game longer. 3. Less participation in the sport An all time high 16.8 million youth played outdoor soccer in the USA in 2025, but per capita the USA is far behind other European countries like Belgium which has a 3x higher rate of participation for its population size. For American soccer to catch up, it has to change its sporting culture focus to development instead of making money and lower the cost barrier for participation through state and government funded clubs over the next 20 years. Development needs to be the priority, not maximizing how much money can be made off the athlete and their parents. Instead of focusing on the old statement of “if our best athletes played”, focus on making the best athletes want to keep playing and the ones who do play the beautiful game better at it. Then and only then can we find our Erling Haaland, Lamine Yamal, Messi, Ronaldo or Jude Bellingham. We have to build the structure for them to develop in. #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Football #Soccer #RG3 #OuttaPocket #USA

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Ep. 31: Gabe Whaley - Playing the Crowd and Outlasting the Hype Gabe Whaley (Gabriel Whaley) is co-founder and CEO of MSCHF (MSCHF), the art collective, fashion and footwear brand, startup, and fill-in-the-blank, famous for its viral products and cultural interventions. A few notable works include Jesus Shoes (Nike Air Max filled with holy water), Severed Spots (a "decentralized" Damien Hirst print), Museum of Forgeries (One original Warhol and 999 perfect forgeries), and of course the Big Red Boot. This conversation was heavily influenced by MSCHF's recently released Made by MSCHF, a "textbook," through which the team peels back the curtain and shows us inside the black box that has produced more viral hits than one can count. Gabe had a sheltered childhood and went to two years of army academy at West Point before eventually finding his way to New York City to intern at Buzzfeed around 2014. In his spare time, he started releasing weird internet projects under the name "Miscellaneous Mischief." After tasting virality a few times, he started collaborating with likeminded creatives and eventually formalized MSCHF in 2019. I've known Gabe for many years (and even did a small collaboration with him from my seat at 100 Thieves). We sat down to reflect on the last 15 years and the arc of MSCHF, what made it special, and where one goes next when virality makes you feel nothing and the internet feels mature. The conversation includes MSCHF's eye-of-the-beholder legibility, their obsession with value, the power of mystery, and how the product doesn't culminate with release, but after the audience has made it their own (in MSCHF parlance, "playing the crowd"). We also discuss the creative process behind the hit factory, how acting as a label rather than individuals changes their relationship to the work, whether the cultural future is actually canceled, how the internet has changed, and how real world experiences offer something to the creator and the consumer that digital life simply can't. We wrap-up by speed-running through many of MSCHF's internal values, from "always punch up," to "death is just as importance as birth," to perhaps its defining frame: "nothing is sacred." I hope you are inspired toward play, originality, embracing discomfort, and having the courage to burn it all down and start anew. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:21 - Value and Legibility 13:24 - Is the Future Canceled? 20:00 - We Create as a Result of What We Believe In 26:11 - What Makes a Good Remix 29:08 - How MSCHF Relates to the Current Thing and Evolves What Game it Plays 38:31 - Creating Something the Crowd Can Play 44:59 - Emphasis on Craft and Objects Rather than Creating "Lifestyle" 47:27 - Keeping Up in a World That Demands Constant Production 53:11 - Resisting The Internet's Scale and Lack of Friction 1:03:15 - Accidental World Building, Process, Creative Inputs, and Focus 1:14:09 - Creating as a Collective and Gabe's Role in Enabling the Team 1:22:30 - Trust, Shedding the Black Box, and Staying Original 1:30:35 - Applied MSCHF – Doors are Open 1:34:21 - Sarah Andelman, People Who are Still Excited, and Long Time Horizons 1:41:52 - Buzzfeed 1:44:41 - MSCHF Values Available on all platforms and transcript below.

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

83,100 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

HOW THE U.N. FOOLED THE WORLD ABOUT CHINA Westerners took over control of a United Nations body to claim the Chinese locked up a million or millions of people—but they had no evidence. The “MILLIONS” number was extrapolated from interviews with just 40 people, and they were not randomly selected, said Australian lawyer and researcher Jaq James from Geolaw Narratives. These clearly untrustworthy findings were then amplified by mainstream media reports quoting people from US groups paid to demonize China—with their membership and funding hidden from readers, our own research shows. The result is a massive scam on the world’s public. Four points: . 1. THEY HIDE THE NEED FOR DERADICALIZATION Point one: In mainstream reports about terrorist deradicalization efforts after the 9/11 attack, the 9/11 act of terrorism is mentioned. Same with the deradicalization efforts after the 7/7 terrorism act in London. But there were more than 130 brutal, acts of terror in China—that’s correct, more than 130 murderous acts in which large numbers of innocent people were killed by Uyghur separatists. But these are simply not mentioned in typical reports. Only the response is mentioned. By deliberately removing the huge number of acts of terror to which the Chinese are responding, western journalists make the Chinese look like they are taking arbitrary actions against the Uyghurs. Yet the truth is that they were doing what westerners also did, responding to terrorist acts. [Image shows clip of “French re-education camps” headline] You can see how unfair that is. . 2. ORIGIN OF ‘MILLION LOCKED UP’ CLAIMS Point two: The first claim that China had arbitrarily locked up a million people was exposed by independent journalists at The Grayzone, as coming from an extrapolation from just eight people. More damning still, that extrapolation came from CHRD, a notorious US-based demonization-of-China outfit funded by the US government. The second claim that million people had been locked up came from the UNOHCR, the UN's human rights office. They took interviews from just 40 people and extrapolated what they heard to claim one million people had been unfairly locked up, as Jaq James’ research shows. Ms James points out that the UN should have interviewed randomly selected individuals to get a fair picture. But by interviewing politically networked ones, they are guaranteed to get a biased image. Again, fundamentally unfair. . 3. JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS Point three: This UN department had a leader, Michelle Bachelet, known for her appetite for justice and fairness. This meant she struggled with her staff—westerners who really controlled the operation. She insisted that their report be released alongside a response from China. Here we can see two reports – one from the UN group’s staff, and the response from China. The staff report was just 48 pages long. China’s reply was 120 pages long. How many western mainstream media outlets quoted the Chinese report, or even acknowledged its existence? Zero. Not one. Not. A. Single. One. . 4. IN WHICH WE DESTROY THE FINANCIAL TIMES Point four: The mainstream media write-ups about this subject hid the truth from readers in a shockingly deceitful way. Let’s take a look at a Financial Times article, which is fairly typical. It reinforces the UN group’s dubious findings with evidence which comes from “human rights experts and activists” – in other words, people paid by the US government to demonize China. The writers do NOT provide their names, just calling them “experts”. As Kyle Feranna said in his 2024 book: “Western NGOs, ostensibly concerned with human rights, disproportion¬ately focused on alleged violations in China despite much worse abuses occurring elsewhere in the world.” In other words, they weaponize human rights as tool to use against the Chinese. . GUANTANAMO BAY Then we get a quote from “Rushan Abbas of the Campaign for Uyghurs”. The Financial Times hides from its readers the fact that Ms Abbas was at the notorious Guantanamo Bay – not as a Muslim victim, but on the US side there. And the paper hides the fact that the Campaign for Uyghurs is financed by the NED, the CIA’s regime change spin off. These are absolutely key facts which change the whole tenor of the piece – and the FT is cheerfully deceiving its paying readers by omitting them. Abbas is quoted as saying, of the UN group’s western office staff, “without them, it would not have been released”. This reinforces many reports which say that Commissioner Michelle Bachelet did not want to release such an unfair report, but her staff, mostly westerners, pushed the unfair report out on her last day. . ANONYMOUS SOURCES Then the FT feature article quotes yet another person described as “an activist” and declines to provide his or her name. Then we go to yet another unnamed “human rights” officer. And then yes, a further unnamed “human rights” officer. And then we get a quote from an unnamed “person with knowledge”. And here we have another anonymous quote – a senior European diplomat. No name. I mean, there are so many unnamed sources in this piece, it would have been rejected at any decent journalism school. . OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY Now the FT piece breezily passes over a reference to the other side of the story by quote “China and 68 other countries”. This is hilarious. So if you are a demonizer, paid by the US State Department, you can get as many column inches in the FT as you like, with your name and funding hidden. But if you are 69 actual named countries defending China, giving the other side of the story—well, they’ll just mention it in passing. . THE REAL STORY Now, right at the bottom of the article we actually have a named person – and he actually tells the real story. “Bachelet was never really in full control of her office,” said Marc Limon. Now any journalist worth their salt would realize that that is the key quote in the whole article – and they would ask – okay, if she was not in charge of that UN group, WHO WAS? But the FT writers choose not to ask that awkward question. They don’t want to know. And they definitely don’t want their readers to know. . CLOSING LINE The FT writers close the article with a line from a quote “Uyghur journalist” who actually is named. She is Nuriman Abdureshid. So the reader is left thinking – oh, so they actually did manage to discuss this with someone in Xinjiang, someone with a name and a job. But what the FT "journalists" omit to tell the paper's long-suffering readers is that Ms Nuriman Abdureshid is associated with a group called Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a Washington DC group which demonizes China to such an extreme extent that even other anti-China groups avoid them out of sheer embarrassment. Do I have proof that Victims of Communism is backed by the government? Well, the AI which has taken over Google tells us that Victims of Communism has received funding from the US State Department to deal with human rights issues. Here’s what happens when we look up their funding to check the details. [CLICKS LINK] “SORRY YOU HAVE BEEN BLOCKED’. Ah yes, the famous US “free speech”. . A QUESTION I’m going to close with a question. Why is the political and media class in the west working so hard to fool the world about the Chinese? Why work so hard to demonize a country that is working hard to lift itself out of starvation level poverty? What don’t they want the world to know? Could it be that China is actually doing something right? Think about that – and we may all, one day, be on the road to peace. .

Nury Vittachi

19,103 просмотров • 20 дней назад

Recently did an interview with the lead developer of Knight's Path on the title's future release and the state of the industry. The Western AAA gaming industry has shifted its focus away from its core audience, favoring products for smaller, less engaged demographics. This shift has led to a noticeable disconnect between large publishers and their traditional fan base. This has, however, created an environment for indies to thrive. They can prioritize authenticity and community, crafting games that resonate with their players and that is exactly the case with Knight's Path. In December of 2023, Knights Path: The Tournament was released to Very Positive reviews on Steam. It is a short medieval RPG featuring challenging combat, an immersive progression system, and a nice little story. It served as an announcement, a combat concept demo, and a teaser for the forthcoming open-world RPG Knight's Path, which is currently in active development. I asked what their plans were regarding the scope of the full release. While you might get the impression that Knight's Path is an arena fighting game, that’s not the case with the full release. "Knight's Path will be a proper open-world, story-driven RPG. Of course, as a small indie team, we’re keeping the scope modest. The open world will be compact but dense, featuring one town, one village, castle ruins, forests, valleys, and other areas to explore." Many gamers would agree it is better to have a limited number of fully fleshed-out areas than to present a gigantic, empty world. This has been a major criticism levied towards recent releases like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and even modern Assassins Creed, which tends to rely on repetitive gameplay loops scattered across an overly large map, which can feel more like busywork than meaningful exploration. I have always believed that quality over quantity is the best way to go. The team has also made this a priority with things such as the story and weapon types. "We plan to include three main weapon types: longsword, sword and shield, and bows. These will feature the full progression system seen in the demo, with skill levels such as Novice, Adept, Expert, and Master. Players will need to learn individual skills from different trainers to progress. In addition, we’re introducing secondary weapons like spears, halberds, and other polearms. These won’t have RPG-style progression but will still offer variety in combat." Regarding the story, they plan to be bold and strive to create a 16-28 hour-long main campaign. "The story will be divided into four chapters, with each chapter offering around 4–7 hours of gameplay. As in the demo, the player character begins as a nobody, slowly learning how to wield a sword and eventually becoming a knight. However, the progression will be much more realistic than in the demo, where the peasant hilariously transformed into a champion in just four days." This is a far cry from many games that are released nowadays. In just 2024 alone at a glance, the AA release Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn provided an average of 8 hours of content, Princess Peach: Showtime at 10 hours, Silent Hill 2 Remake at 15, and even the GOTY winner Astrobot holds an average playtime of 10 hours. A major issue within the industry is the way we are treated by the people who only have jobs because of our favorite hobby. In 2024 the gaming industry is forecasted to generate $208.7 BILLION dollars, up from 5.4% in 2023. Compare that to Hollywood, which is a measly $12.3 billion. The gaming industry employs 727,000 individuals in the United States alone. So, you'd think these people would have a little bit of respect for gamers, though so many who are vocal on social media show nothing but contempt for us. Perhaps this is because of fear if they do not show loyalty to a cause or "fit in" that they may not secure funding or genuinely believe in what they preach, but the team behind Knight's Path isn't worried about that. "We are independent developers, and we plan to stay independent so we can stay true to our vision. Knight's Path is a game made by gamers for gamers. We’re prioritizing fun gameplay above all, and we firmly believe this is exactly what gamers want." I also raised some questions about their big plans moving forward. In the demo, one of the major criticisms I had was with the voice acting. I had guessed it was done via AI, which was confirmed. "You guessed correctly– the voice acting in the demo was done by AI, and it was probably the loudest critique we received, and we totally understand why! Back then, we didn’t have much of a choice, but for the full game, we don’t plan to use any AI voices. Luckily, after the demo release, many voice actors reached out to us, volunteering to lend their voices to the full game. We absolutely plan to answer their call and give them that opportunity." AI can be a useful tool, especially for developers starting out who can't commit a lot of money to voice acting or just want to see a version of the product that's closer to what they envision the full release to be, but going from that to real voice actors will bump the experience to the next level. I myself played the demo in its entirety and really enjoyed my time with it! I thought the game was reminiscent of Gothic 2 and even The Witcher. I was happily surprised when I didn't encounter any bugs or glitches and while some areas have not been fleshed out like the voice acting, I would recommend putting the game on your wishlist to see what this team does in the future when they finally deliver their updated demo and the eventual full release of the game.

Vara Dark

42,375 просмотров • 1 год назад

Over the last two and a half years, the two of us, Michael Shellenberger and alex gutentag, have written and published hundreds of articles and testified before Congress on multiple occasions about the clear violations of the spirit and letter of the Constitution by former President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders. We exposed a sweeping effort by former and current officials with the CIA, FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and its intermediary organizations to construct a Censorship Industrial Complex to censor President Donald Trump and millions of his supporters. We documented that Democrats and Democrat-appointed judges were abusing the justice system in an unconstitutional effort to incarcerate Trump or otherwise prevent him from running for office. And we published extensively on efforts by Democrats, Europeans, and Brazilians to engage in mass surveillance of social media accounts and text messaging apps to search for disfavored speech. In addition, we have repeatedly defended Trump and the Trump administration from false and malicious claims that they have violated the Constitution or undermined democratic norms any more than Democrats. We showed that Trump and Republican demands for censorship have paled against the totalitarian weaponization by Democrats of the Intelligence Community to spy on the Trump campaign, spread disinformation, interfere in elections, and create a global Censorship Industrial Complex. We repeatedly pointed out that between 2017 and 2021, the Trump administration obeyed court orders, consistent with the clear requirement under the Constitution that it do so. And we were the first to report on new evidence that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director had ordered the spying on Trump campaign officials to justify surveillance of the Trump campaign, spread disinformation, interfere in the 2016 election, and undermine a duly elected president. Since Trump’s reelection, we have defended his administration’s justified cuts to USAID, the Department of Education, and other agencies. We have welcomed his use of legal executive authority to make sweeping orders to end “gender-affirming care” for minors and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We documented and condemned the role of the CIA and USAID in instigating and justifying the impeachment of Trump in 2019, and USAID for contributing to the Russia collusion hoax. We have argued that Democrats and the media’s claims that these actions are unconstitutional are false and politically motivated. Few formerly Left-wing journalists and commentators have done more to recognize and document the Left’s descent into totalitarianism and irrationality. We have made the case that, given Democrats’ many failures and abuses of power, Trump’s victory was a moral win, not just an electoral one. Given all of this, we believe it is necessary to speak out against the Trump Administration’s recent violations of the spirit and, and perhaps the letter, of the United States Constitution with regards to free speech, privacy, and the separation of powers. The Trump administration detained and may deport a Palestinian student activist named Mahmoud Khalil for his involvement in university protests and his alleged support for Hamas. The Trump administration is using AI to review the social media accounts of tens of thousands of foreign students for wrongthink. And the administration, over the weekend, ignored a judge’s order to return planeloads of alleged gang members from Venezuela to the United States and instead sent them to El Salvador, claiming that the 1798 Alien Enemies Act allows for its noncompliance because it is non-justiciable outside of the court’s authority. These actions do not, either individually or together, approach anything close to the unconstitutional “whole-of-society” censorship and weaponization of government by the Democratic Party, but they may become a pattern that, if left unchecked, threatens to undermine the administration’s moral authority. Given the ongoing assault on free speech and individual rights in Europe, maintaining this authority is sorely needed if civil liberties and Enlightenment values are to be upheld in the West. The courts may still rule that some of those actions are constitutional. The fact that the Palestinian student activist is not a citizen may make his deportation constitutional. Democrats have been using the National Science Foundation for the last decade to fund universities the development of AI-based censorship tools to give or sell to social media platforms. And the Justice Department has complied with orders by a judge for a sworn declaration, and the court will hold another hearing on Friday. Even so, the Trump administration’s actions violate the spirit of the Constitution’s protections for freedom of speech, privacy, and due process. Khalil was indeed involved in negotiations between Columbia University and student protestors, and many foreign students have expressed anti-Israel views, but deporting someone for exercising what appears to be a lawful exercise of free speech and using AI surveillance tools to surveil foreign students’ views on a complex topic, establish a dangerous precedent that will likely have an intended chilling effect on speech for foreign students and citizens alike, particularly around the Israel-Palestine conflict. Such a chilling effect is overreaching, counterproductive, and wrong. Both critics and supporters of Israel alike should reject such broad measures and instead support open discourse and debate on university campuses. And, given that American presidents have only activated the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 during wars, and since Congress has not approved of any war with Venezuela, it is for the judiciary, not the executive branch, to decide whether the Act is non-justiciable. The Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked previously during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II, and even then, the courts reviewed whether the Act was being appropriately applied. Trump’s invocation of the statute refers to a “hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States.” The Act, however, specifies that the “invasion or predatory incursion” must be one perpetrated “by any foreign nation or government.” The administration claims that the Venezuelan gang is acting as a “de facto government in the areas in which it is operating,” but this argument is not legally sound. There is also not sufficient evidence to support the DOJ’s claim that the gang is taking directions from the Maduro government. Reinforcing the perception that the Trump administration is violating the Constitutionally protected separation of powers, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts yesterday condemned calls for the impeachment of the judge overseeing the Alien Enemies Act case. “For more than two centuries,” said Roberts in a public statement, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” Roberts’ statement may have been partly motivated by Trump’s statement, made a few hours earlier, about the Alien Enemies Case judge. “This judge,” wrote Trump on Truth Social, “like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” Roberts’ statement likely reflects the opinion of the majority of Supreme Court justices. It is rare for justices to issue public statements, as they tend to let their rulings speak for themselves. Two weeks ago, Roberts and Trump-appointed justice Amy Coney Barrett joined liberal justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in refusing to overturn a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to pay out USAID grants. Barrett’s other rulings suggest that there are at least five justices who agree with Roberts. None of the three cases described above are needed for the Trump administration to implement its agenda. If any foreign students are a proven national security threat then they can be deported on that basis and not on their expressions of sympathy with Gazans or even Hamas. Our highest court has repeatedly ruled that Nazis can march through neighborhoods of Holocaust survivors as long as they do not immediately incite violence, and we should defend that high bar for censorship, as difficult as it is sometimes. And the Trump administration could have simply returned the alleged gang members to the United States, kept them in detention, and appealed the court’s order. Whatever political gains the Trump administration believes it is getting from such actions are significantly outweighed by their moral and political harm. In all three cases, the administration’s actions undermine the ethos in which our founding fathers created the United States of America as a beacon of freedom, privacy, and rule of law protected through the separation of powers. And the Trump administration’s actions undermine one of the central claims upon which Trump was elected, and which drew him support from independents and Democrats, which is that Trump would protect the public from an out-of-control deep state. “They’re not coming after me,” said Trump, famously, “they’re coming after you. I’m just standing in the way.” A top Democratic pollster recently confirmed that Trump won the popular vote because he persuaded Democrats and Independents to vote for him. While those voters may care more about inflation and immigration than civil liberties, many of them also care about free speech, privacy, and the separation of powers. And many of Trump’s new independent and liberal voters were likely alienated by the Democratic Party’s assault on civil liberties. If Trump signals that he is attacking free speech, violating the separation of powers, and “coming after” independent justices, he will undermine his presidency and destroy his nationalist and populist coalition. Trump himself must understand deeply the importance of civil liberties and the separation of powers. The IC illegally spied on his campaign and spread disinformation about him. The FBI invaded the sacred privacy of his home in Florida. The government censored his voters. No president in American history has been more victimized by unconstitutional governmental abuses of power than Trump. It is disrespectful to the civil libertarians and constitutionalists in the Republican coalition for the Trump administration to behave in ways that run contrary to their values. Many independents, Democrats, and liberals were reassured by Trump’s alliance with former liberal Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who are lifelong advocates for freedom of speech and privacy. The Transportation Security Administration apparently spied on Gabbard through its “Quiet Skies” program because of her foreign policy views. And the Biden Administration demanded and achieved censorship of Kennedy for his constitutionally protected speech. Trump’s former campaign manager and current chief of staff, Susie Wiles, understands the importance of building a big tent, including one that includes civil libertarians; it was at the heart of her successful strategy to win a majority of the popular vote in the 2024 election. Vice President JD Vance received his law degree from Yale Law School and has spoken out eloquently against European censorship. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made clear that he wants to put free speech at the center of America’s foreign policy diplomacy. Why, then, is the Trump administration engaged in such self-destructive behavior? Why has it been ignoring the multiple warnings it has been given, including from its own supporters and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Please, subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video!

Michael Shellenberger

647,313 просмотров • 1 год назад

Over the last decade, Western media, academics, and policymakers have understandably viewed right-wing nationalist victories as temporary aberrations soon to be corrected. After Britons voted to leave the European Union in June 2016 and Americans elected Donald Trump that November, prominent commentators predicted a swift return to deepening globalization. And indeed, Europe extended its globalist project. The United Kingdom’s globalist Conservative governments allowed net migration to rise to a record 906,000 in the year ending June 2023, more than four times pre-Brexit levels. Those same Conservatives passed a “net zero” emissions by 2050 into law in 2019, accelerated subsidies for offshore wind, and failed to tap North Sea oil and gas, even as energy bills climbed. And conservative ministers adopted World Health Organization guidance for Covid lockdowns, masking, and vaccination, and they expanded gender self-identification guidance in English schools. German and French establishment parties enforced a cordon sanitaire or firewall against the “far-right” Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Rassemblement National (RN) parties, denying them coalition partners and most mainstream coverage, and American voters in 2020 elected Joe Biden, who reversed Trump’s border policies and rejoined the Paris climate accord on his first day in office. Biden restored Obama-era diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks across the federal bureaucracy and revived federal pressure on social media companies to remove disfavored speech. But then, the reelection of Donald Trump in November 2024 dashed those hopes. Trump returned to power on promises to seal the southern border, deport illegal immigrants, end the electric vehicle mandate, withdraw from the Paris accord, and dismantle federal censorship of social media. Within hours of taking office, he signed an executive order banning federal involvement in online censorship and stripped the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of its role in policing so-called misinformation. Vice President JD Vance told a stunned Munich Security Conference audience in February 2025 that “the threat I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within.” In February 2025, Trump called the European Union an “atrocity” and announced new tariffs. Democrats may yet retake the White House in 2028 and one or both chambers of Congress in this fall’s midterms. The Trump administration’s war with Iran, which began on February 28, 2026, has triggered the largest oil supply shock on record, rising gasoline prices, and a potential recession. Trump’s net approval rating sits at minus 23 points with 60% disapproving and 37% approving. California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a balanced $350 billion budget last week and called Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “dumb and dumber” as he positioned himself for a 2028 run. And both Newsom and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke at the Munich Security Conference in February, implicitly responding to Vance, with Newsom telling the audience, “Donald Trump is temporary. He’ll be gone in three years.” And the globalists are fighting back in Europe. European Commission officials in Brussels are tightening their censorial grip on the digital public square through the Digital Services Act and a “Democracy Shield” program to demand censorship of the Right ahead of upcoming elections. In Britain, Labor leadership challengers Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting have openly called for the United Kingdom to rejoin the European Union. Streeting formally launched his leadership bid in May 2026 by calling Brexit “a catastrophic mistake” and saying “Britain’s future lies with Europe, and one day back in the European Union.” And France’s Marine Le Pen lost her right to run for the 2027 presidency on March 31, 2025, when a Paris court convicted her of embezzling EU funds and immediately barred her from public office for five years. But right-wing nationalists are not far from taking power in major European capitals. In Britain, the right-wing Reform UK party gained more than 1,400 seats in the May 7, 2026, local elections, while Labor lost more than 1,300 seats and the Conservatives lost over 500. Ninety-seven Labor MPs last week called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. Seventy percent of British respondents told YouGov in May 2026 that Starmer was performing “poorly.” In France, Jordan Bardella of the RN leads in the polls for the 2027 presidential election with 35 - 37.5% support, with Marine Le Pen close behind at 34% before her ban. President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating fell to 11% in late 2025, the lowest the Verian polling firm had ever recorded. And in Germany, the AfD leads national polling at 29% against the center-right CDU/CSU’s 22%, the Greens’ 14%, and the SPD’s 12% as of mid-May 2026. Berlin polls now put the AfD in second place behind the CDU, a position once considered politically impossible in the capital. And mainstream conservative parties are already moving to the right on migration and climate. German Chancellor and CDU leader Friedrich Merz passed a non-binding migration motion in January with AfD support, breaking a seventy-five-year taboo against cooperating with the “far right.” Merz adopted much of the AfD’s migration language during his campaign, promising to turn migrants away at the border and to accelerate deportations. The cordon sanitaire that excluded the right has cracked, and the political center of gravity in Germany, and in much of Europe, has shifted toward the very positions that establishment leaders spent a decade demonizing. The implications for Europe, NATO, and the broader Western order are massive. NATO’s basic premise rests on a shared American and European commitment to defending an open liberal order, but Vance told European leaders in Munich that US support would depend on whether they honored free speech and democratic legitimacy, which they have not done. Tariffs and trade disputes between Washington and Brussels have replaced the steady tariff reductions that defined the postwar order. And the institutions that defined the transatlantic system since 1945, including NATO, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the United Nations climate accords, the World Economic Forum, and the European Union itself, are weaker than ever. Meanwhile, historic US support for maintaining open shipping lanes and Taiwan appears to be weakening. For nearly a decade, the legacy media and progressive activists demonized Trump, Farage, Bardella, and Weidel as fascists or Nazis bent on destroying democracy. President Biden in 2022, speaking against a blood-red backdrop at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, declared that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.” Yet today those same figures are governing or on the verge of governing major Western nations and cities. The question is why. Why did nationalism return? Why did the globalist consensus that ruled the West from 1945 to 2024 collapse so quickly? And why are right-wing nationalists winning despite sustained attacks from the establishment? Please subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

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Jack Straw

93,788 просмотров • 1 год назад

Election fraud in Guatemala… if happens here, it will happen in the US in 2024. The facts: 1. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (Like the FEC in the US) is in charge of the election, and in this election they didn't had an IT Director, the previous one is currently in court prosecuted because of "anomalies" in the previous election. How they managed to have control on the different voting systems? 2. Before our General Elections, and after the call for elections when all parties were already registered and participating, some were suspended and dismissed by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which the Electoral and Political Parties Law (LEPP) forbids, some parties appealed to the Constitutional Court, as their right to vote and be elected was being violated, and to this day, haven't get any response from the Court. 3. On June 25, the General Elections were held. There were thousands of complaints from almost all party poll watchers. Among these complaints, there were reports of party poll watchers being kidnapped during the countdown; records being edited in the absence of party poll watchers, changing the votes; data tampering during data entry into the system; forgery of the original physical records; polling station officers refusing to provide the necessary paper forms to report this incidents, etc. The very same day, and the next day, many party poll watchers reported these incidents with the polling station officers to the Public Ministry (Kind of the General Attorney's Office in the US) and to the Constitutional Court. This is well documented in the video included in this post. 4. The Constitutional Court sent its ruling to the Supreme Court of Justice, and they ordered to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Electoral Boards to compare the original records (white papers) with the copies (yellow papers), and to recount the votes, in a hearing, in the presence of party poll watchers and the media. The Electoral Boards didn't comply with the ruling, and the media was almost absent or didn't publish the complaints and findings, producing a general discontent and distrust in the electoral process. Some party poll watchers escalated their reports to the Public Ministry, reporting the misdeeds of the polling station officers. Several party poll watchers called for a repeat of the elections due to all the flaws found, and of course, the media pundits created the false narrative that auditing the records and recounting the votes was going against what was voted in the ballot boxes and against the electoral law, when in reality, it's a way to make the process more transparent and it is clearly stipulated in Article III of the Electoral and Political Parties Law 5. According to the dubious results, from the more than 20 candidates, for the first time in the country's history, the majority of the votes were null, the winner was null, which is a clear indication of the widespread discontent and mistrust for the Guatemalan political class, but because none of the candidates got more than 50%+1 of the votes, a second round is needed. Is worth noting that the second place after null was held by the UNE party, a left-wing political candidate Sandra Torres got it, and the third place in these dubious results was obtained by the political party "Movimiento Semilla", an extreme left-wing political party with a presidential candidate virtually unknown throughout the entire country, this raised suspicions among absolutely all Guatemalans, except for the typical media pundits who tried to justify it at all costs with any baseless excuse or narrative. 6. After some pressure from foreign forces, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that The Electoral Boards comply with what was needed, but this was a lie, they were pressured not to proceed with the legal process. It is worth noting that "Movimiento Semilla" party, is well connected with international forces, most of their members have belonged to NGOs founded by none other that George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, so is most of our media pundits, and most of the college professors, for instance, former Secretary-General and current Semilla's candidate for Congress, Samuel Andrés Pérez Alvarez, is son of the Abraham Samuel Pérez de León, who has been an advisor to the World Bank and the UNDP/PNUD; he is a professor in Universidad Rafael Landívar which receives grants from the Open Society Foundations for the "independent news site" called Plaza Pública where both father and son write their columns. 7. During the process, Guatemalan prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche issued a public statement exposing an open case against "Movimiento Semilla" party, a process that started around 2018, way before the elections. Curruchiche showed legal documents and evidence from the forensic agencies' expert examination, showing forgery of signatures in the party affiliation process, affiliating dead people, affiliations only with signature and without names. Considering that in Guatemala, in order to have a political party, you have to affiliate certain number of people, failing to do so, makes the legal figure that constitutes the party, lack the necessary foundation, thus, nullifying the party, but again, even without the legal representation, the party appealed to the Constitutional Court, which under foreign pressures, granted protection to the inexistent party, citing that the electoral law establishes that once the election call has been made, parties cannot be canceled. However, they did cancel other parties after the call, demonstrating that there is no equality before the law, and that this party has privileges due to its connections abroad. This was one of the complains of other candidate that was left out of the election on similar grounds. It is worth noting that the prosecutor notified the Supreme Electoral Tribunal about this matters since 2018, and they didn't nullify the party, and it is also worth noting that Semilla was reported for receiving funding from abroad, specifically, from the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), and even tho there was a legal preceding, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal protected Semilla ignoring the law. 8. While all these events were transpiring, after hearing Semilla's almost unknown presidential candidate mention the elections observers from as the ones validating the results, I did a research on who were these election observers sent by the EU, who spare no expense with hundreds of members all over the country in quite expensive cars. It turns out that these observers, just before the election, held a meeting only with Semilla's presidential candidate and with no other candidate, most of its members are in fact, members of the party or acquaintances that have work along in the very same NGOs, and all the "influencers" and young tiktokers that support the party and engaged in smear campaigns against all other parties, were also election observers for and similar NGOs, the case of Romeo Alejandro Méndez Zuñiga who partnered with José Roberto Alejos Cámbara (brother of convicted Gustavo Adolfo Alejos Cámbara) in his NGO of observer called Caminemos Political Association, which has received grants from the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD). I wrote a long post with all the evidence, it is in Spanish but you can use any web translator, it includes a great hearing with .Rep. Scott Perry exposing how USAID (which is embedded in all this NGOs) is founding ideological groups in Guatemala: 9. Verifying that political parties comply with the law and do their job properly, without affiliating deceased individuals, without forged signatures, or affiliating only with signatures and without names as Semilla did, is the responsibility of the Registrar of Citizens, Ramiro José Muñoz Jordán, who was ordered by a judge to suspend the Semilla party, if he fail to comply with the ruling, appropriate measures will be issued, possibly facing a warrant, but before he was notified, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal grant him vacations, and his whereabouts are currently unknown. This lead to more distrust in the whole electoral process, and the opacity of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. 10. Recently, the corrupt President Magistrate of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, Irma Elizabeth Palencia Orellana, usurping functions, since according to our constitution, international relations are the exclusive domain of the executive branch, called for a statement from the Secretary-General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, who is aligned with the globalists of Semilla. We are experiencing an electoral fraud, one that is fiercely protected by foreign forces who seek impunity for both, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the corruption within the Semilla Party, a fraud strongly defended by the media by not only hiding what truly happened, but also distorting and misrepresenting the actual events and facts with unfounded narratives to manipulate the masses and public opinion, and if it happens here, in this laboratory of so many three letter foreign agencies, it will happen in the USA, as it always does. It happened here in 2019, it happened there in November 2020, it will be the same in 2024 there. Please, address this issue, do your own due diligence, there is a lot to uncover. .Donald Trump Jr. .Marjorie Taylor Greene .Mark R. Levin .GregGutfeld .Jesse Watters .Charlie Kirk .DC_Draino .Terrence K. Williams .Sebastian Gorka DrG .Ted Cruz .Steven Crowder .Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 .Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 .E . .End Wokeness .Tim Pool .James O'Keefe .Robert F. Kennedy Jr .Dr Jordan B Peterson .Ben Shapiro .Lex Fridman .MaryAnastasiaO'Grady .Salomondrin 🤖 .Luis Almagro

Rodrigo Polo

67,745 просмотров • 3 лет назад

I am the Senior Vice President of Cultural Strategy at Nike. My department does not make shoes. My department makes people say the word "Nike" 4.2 billion times in 72 hours without paying for a single impression. I have a model. We call it the Kaepernick Yield Curve internally. Slide 4. The number. $6 billion in brand value. From one man kneeling. Cost of distribution: zero. The entire internet did it for us. Both sides. At the same time. Sharing the same thirty-second spot. Saying our name while they burned our shoes on camera. We watched them set fire to a product they had already purchased. That was the moment I got promoted. The formula requires what we call a Cultural Tension Index. Every country has fault lines. Not geological. Demographic. Linguistic. Chromatic. We map them quarterly. The Netherlands scored a 94 in February. France was a 91. Japan is at 87 but rising. I have read Geert Wilders' platform. Not for politics. For market research. Every grievance he names is an engagement segment we can activate with a single kit reveal. I have read Le Pen's manifesto. I have read AfD campaign literature. I have a folder on my desktop called "Sentiment Reservoirs" and it contains every populist platform in Western Europe indexed by activatable emotion. Housing crisis. Wage stagnation. Cultural invisibility. The feeling that the country your grandfather built now speaks a language you don't recognize. These are not problems to me. These are market conditions. I'll tell you how the Dutch kit was built. We partnered with Patta. This is the part I'm proudest of. Patta is real. Edson and Gee, twenty years in Amsterdam, genuine street culture, Surinamese and hip-hop roots baked into the concrete of Zuidoost. The community is authentic. The collaboration is authentic. We are not authentic. We are selecting authentic things and placing them at the exact intersection where they will generate the maximum argument. Patta doesn't know they're the match. They think they're the product. Remove: orange. Remove: windmills. Remove: tulips. Remove: every signifier that one demographic considers "theirs." Insert: steel drums. Insert: African prints. Insert: bodies that do not look like the 1988 squad. Not because those bodies don't belong. They do belong. That's what makes it work. The ad is CORRECT. We made a correct ad that generates more outrage than an incorrect one ever could. Because you can't say it's wrong. You can only say it makes you uncomfortable. And discomfort is worth three times what outrage is worth in our model. Outrage peaks at 48 hours. Discomfort cycles for weeks. We don't sell shoes. We sell the argument about the shoes. I have a dashboard. It's called ROAR. Return On Algorithmic Rage. It refreshes every six minutes. I can watch the Netherlands kit travel from right-wing accounts ("demographic replacement") to progressive quote-tweets ("if this bothers you, you're telling on yourself") to mainstream think pieces ("What Nike's Dutch Kit Reveals About European Identity") to late-night monologues. Each handoff multiplies the impression count by 2.3x. We have never found the ceiling. The far-right accounts respond in four hours. We know this because we tested it with the France kit in 2024. The progressive defense takes six hours. The think pieces take thirty-six. The "I'm not racist BUT" accounts — the ones who feel something and don't know what to call it — take seventy-two hours. Those are the most valuable. They share the ad to say "I'm conflicted." Conflicted shares have a 4.1x engagement multiplier over angry shares. Both sides share the ad. Here is what I find interesting. The far-right says elites are replacing them. The left says this is representation. In my budget, both words appear on the same line item. "Replacement" and "representation" are the same P&L entry viewed from different positions in the income bracket. Neither side is wrong about what's happening. Both sides are wrong about who benefits. The answer is in our quarterly filing. Page 114. The workers in Tangerang stitch this kit for $204 a month. Eleven-hour shifts. Factory dormitory built within walking distance so Nike's supplier doesn't have to offer transportation stipends. It costs $3.70 in labor to produce a jersey that retails at €150. The Dutch factory worker in Eindhoven whose job went overseas fifteen years ago and the Surinamese kid in Zuidoost whose grandmother came on the last boat from Paramaribo — neither can afford this jersey. Both will argue about it online. For free. One is a "response cadence" in our model. The other is a "content asset." Neither is a customer. Both are inventory. I mention the wages not because it troubles me. I mention it because it is the one detail that generates zero impressions. No one screenshots a wage slip. No one boycotts a supply chain. They boycott a COLOR SCHEME. They share a thirty-second ad to prove which tribe they belong to while a woman in Indonesia sews the swoosh onto polyester for eleven hours and does not have an opinion about Dutch identity because she is thinking about whether her daughter can attend school this term. The word "diversity" appears in our marketing budget. Not under "values." Under "earned media catalyst." Line item 7. Right between "athlete controversy window" and "geopolitical sentiment farming." We discovered something the sociologists missed. You don't need to give people representation. You just need to show them their own face. Showing is cheaper than paying. A face in an ad costs one production shoot. A living wage costs quarterly, forever, compounding. We replaced redistribution with recognition. The algorithm cannot tell the difference. The quarterly filing can. Both sides share the ad. My team is seven people. The Cultural Tension Mapping unit. We sit on the fourteenth floor in a room called "The Fault Line." There is a world map on the wall with color-coded pins. Each pin represents a national team kit that has not yet been released. Each pin has a number. The number is the projected earned media value of the controversy that kit will generate. The Netherlands pin said $340 million. We came in at $410 million. I got a spot bonus. I need the wound to stay open. If the Netherlands solved its housing crisis tomorrow, our CTI drops forty points. If wages rose. If integration succeeded so completely that nobody felt displaced. That kit becomes just a kit. A pretty collaboration between a sportswear brand and a streetwear brand. No one argues. No one shares. No one says our name for free. We don't need the problem solved. We need the problem shareable. I have a meeting in eleven minutes. We're looking at the 2027 cycle. Japan is interesting. A Harajuku collab with no cherry blossoms. Brazil without yellow. England without St. George. Every country with an identity has an identity fault line and every fault line is a product launch. The kit itself? The kit is beautiful. That's the thing nobody wants to admit. It's a gorgeous piece of work. Patta did extraordinary design. The community it represents is real. The culture is real. The celebration is real. We just noticed it would also generate $410 million in free advertising if we positioned it correctly. Both sides share the ad. The graph goes up and to the right. It has never gone any other direction. I have a 2027 pin for every country with a flag.

Peter Girnus 🦅

36,012 просмотров • 1 месяц назад