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Safed detergent's latest ad is a monumentally problematic and sanitized counter-narrative of the Jantar Mantar police action. It reminded me of Pepsi's ill-fated 2017 Kendall Jenner ad. In the new Safed ad, students are protesting and want the minister to respond. A lady cop, stationed on the minister's route,...

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Press Trust of India

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ANI

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[WATCH] ANC UPLOADED NAMES ON TIME AND SOME WERE KICKED OUT DUE TO TECHNICAL GLITCHES “We did upload all of the candidates, it’s important to assure our members, supporters and our community that participated in the candidate selection process that took place. We did upload all of our candidates from all the nine provinces and regions on time. The 28th of August was the final day of submission of the final list, why it took place then is because the ANC undergoes an extensive process of vetting and interviewing and holding community meetings, all of this take time. We are very robust in how we’ve improved our candidate selection process. The very last portion of the batch is when the system started kicking them out. That was before 5 o’clock. We are not discussing here a lack of compliance on the part of the African National Congress with regards to meeting the deadline but a batch of names on the uploaded list that were kicked out. We are asking the IEC to consider for submission all those candidates who had already been captured in the IEC system but were kicked out. The second thing we are asking is to get to the bottom of why the very last batch was kicked out. We are asking for an investigation and this will get us to the bottom of the issue. This ties in with the question of are we fighting with the IEC? We are not. We respect and continue to have the full confidence in the integrity of the IEC run processes. It continues being one of the most important institutions and hallmarks of our democracy and that is why we hope that a constructive engagement can take place and an investigation on whether there were technological challenges that were not foreseen” -ANC SPOKESPERSON MAHLENGI BHENGU

ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula

95,400 views • 28 days ago

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According to the Progress Action Fund, Twitter banned the following political ad that they had placed on Twitter/X, and then their account was shadow banned. The ad below, entitled “Republicans In Your Bedroom,” which PAF says was intended for the August 8 election in Ohio was taken down, according to the group. Progress Action Fund believes this ad was taken down due to Elon Musk having a “far-right political agenda.” I decided to check the Twitter ad policy, and that policy does say that the promotion of “adult sexual content” is not permitted. Some of the examples of of this content would include the following: •Full and partial nudity •Modeled clothing that is sexual in nature I think that perhaps this ad could be deemed to fall under the second bullet point, but I believe that would be quite a reach. That would mean that virtually all swimwear ads would also be prohibited. I think Twiitter/X owes an explanation for this. Was this ad really banned? If so, why? Also why is the aforementioned account shadow banned (if that is true)? What are everyone’s thoughts? Should this ad be permitted on Twitter? If not, why not?

Ed Krassenstein

3,165,321 views • 3 years ago

Notch Clips. every other ad tool ignores the footage sitting in your dropbox and generates new clips from a prompt. notch opens your library instead. it watches every clip you have ever shot and understands what is inside each one. the mood. who is in frame. what they are doing. the quality. so when you ask it to build an ad, it does not start from scratch. it reaches into your past shoots, finds the clip that fits, and slots it into the exact moment that needs it. here is what that looks like. you had thirteen versions of one reaction shot. notch picked the one that worked and left the other twelve. not by filename. not by guessing from a reference image. it watched all thirteen and could tell the difference. that is the whole idea. the right clip was already in your library. every other tool was about to make a worse one. footage you already shot, turned into every ad you still need. drop your site and a few clips you have. notch builds the first ad from them.
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Notch Clips. every other ad tool ignores the footage sitting in your dropbox and generates new clips from a prompt. notch opens your library instead. it watches every clip you have ever shot and understands what is inside each one. the mood. who is in frame. what they are doing. the quality. so when you ask it to build an ad, it does not start from scratch. it reaches into your past shoots, finds the clip that fits, and slots it into the exact moment that needs it. here is what that looks like. you had thirteen versions of one reaction shot. notch picked the one that worked and left the other twelve. not by filename. not by guessing from a reference image. it watched all thirteen and could tell the difference. that is the whole idea. the right clip was already in your library. every other tool was about to make a worse one. footage you already shot, turned into every ad you still need. drop your site and a few clips you have. notch builds the first ad from them.

Vinay Jain

406,286 views • 4 months ago

After the Education Minister's resignation, CJP protesters are now saying the protest is not over. They claim they are taking a one-week break and will return to Delhi next week to protest again and demand the resignations of other ministers. They are saying they will keep protesting until they get every minister to resign. After the Education Minister's resignation, these people have now forgotten their place. They've become addicted to free burgers and pizza, which is why they want to keep protesting for no reason. The people of Delhi are suffering because of this. The government should throw them out of Delhi. Enough is enough.
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After the Education Minister's resignation, CJP protesters are now saying the protest is not over. They claim they are taking a one-week break and will return to Delhi next week to protest again and demand the resignations of other ministers. They are saying they will keep protesting until they get every minister to resign. After the Education Minister's resignation, these people have now forgotten their place. They've become addicted to free burgers and pizza, which is why they want to keep protesting for no reason. The people of Delhi are suffering because of this. The government should throw them out of Delhi. Enough is enough.

Saffron Chargers

48,625 views • 2 months ago

#WATCH | JPSC-JSSC aspirants' protest | Ranchi, Jharkhand: Student leader Ravindra Paswan says, "Today, we are changing the course of our movement. We have had enough of Gandhian methods and peaceful protests. They simply aren't listening. We are now going to adopt the path of Bhagat Singh. We are prepared to face bullets, even if the government shoots us in the chest, for this cause. We will continue our agitation until our demands are met. We are issuing an ultimatum to the government: meet our demands by the 18th. Cancel the JSSC results, scrap all exams conducted by the TDPL agency, and order a CBI inquiry into all of them. If this is not done, lakhs of students and youths from Jharkhand will lay siege to the Chief Minister's residence on the 20th... the effigy burning is scheduled for tomorrow. We are going to burn the effigies of the Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government, Chief Minister Hemant Soren himself, Rahul Gandhi, and all the parties supporting them."
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#WATCH | JPSC-JSSC aspirants' protest | Ranchi, Jharkhand: Student leader Ravindra Paswan says, "Today, we are changing the course of our movement. We have had enough of Gandhian methods and peaceful protests. They simply aren't listening. We are now going to adopt the path of Bhagat Singh. We are prepared to face bullets, even if the government shoots us in the chest, for this cause. We will continue our agitation until our demands are met. We are issuing an ultimatum to the government: meet our demands by the 18th. Cancel the JSSC results, scrap all exams conducted by the TDPL agency, and order a CBI inquiry into all of them. If this is not done, lakhs of students and youths from Jharkhand will lay siege to the Chief Minister's residence on the 20th... the effigy burning is scheduled for tomorrow. We are going to burn the effigies of the Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government, Chief Minister Hemant Soren himself, Rahul Gandhi, and all the parties supporting them."

ANI

111,427 views • 1 month ago

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2) "This resistance is not one that can be intimidated," said Representative Ilhan Omar told the anti-ICE protest as they marched. “Regardless of what the tyrant in the White House believes, we know that we are here to stay and this is our country." "We have responded with bravery. We have responded with our neighbors showing up and saying 'not on my watch.'" "We live in a democracy, we are going to show all of them the door out," she told the crowd over a speaker from the back of a truck. "And we are going to make sure that these people pay for what they have done to us."

Ford Fischer

12,168 views • 8 months ago

This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians. The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews. And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it. What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants. What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen. There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.
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This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians. The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews. And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it. What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants. What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen. There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.

Colin Wright

4,195,596 views • 3 years ago

INVESTING IN OUR CHILDREN IS PRIORITY: Usha Vance was asked about her efforts to help the literacy rate of children increase, and it's something she's PASSIONATE about: "I think one way we can kind of counteract that is giving them the tools they need to be able to think critically and pursue whatever it is that they care about, but also the gift of concentration and focus in a really challenging world and I see childhood literacy is the start of all that." Our children are the FUTURE of the country, and we should be doing EVERYTHING we can to ensure that they have a foundational education that sets them up for SUCCESS!
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INVESTING IN OUR CHILDREN IS PRIORITY: Usha Vance was asked about her efforts to help the literacy rate of children increase, and it's something she's PASSIONATE about: "I think one way we can kind of counteract that is giving them the tools they need to be able to think critically and pursue whatever it is that they care about, but also the gift of concentration and focus in a really challenging world and I see childhood literacy is the start of all that." Our children are the FUTURE of the country, and we should be doing EVERYTHING we can to ensure that they have a foundational education that sets them up for SUCCESS!

Gunther Eagleman™

30,287 views • 7 months ago

"THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR THE RIGHT TO PROTEST": HARISH SALVE. ARW CJP SYMPATHISERS DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE? Legal eagle Harish Salve tears into CJP, explaining why its Jantar Mantar protest crossed the line into unlawful conduct that, he argues, undermines the right to protest itself. Q: When does a protest cease to be protected democratic dissent and cross into unlawful conduct? Did that happen here? Harish Salve: "Yes. They have a right to protest. They can get together with placards. They can use social media. They can make speeches. They can demand a minister's resignation. They can call for non-cooperation. They can say, 'We'll do this, we'll do that.' That's all perfectly lawful. They may even say, 'We will march to Parliament.' But Parliament is a declared sensitive area, and we do not need to elaborate on why. We all know why it is a sensitive area. The police put up barricades. If you believe you are being unreasonably prevented, you ask the Police Commissioner for permission. If he says no, you go to a court of law and seek an order. The court will balance your right to protest against the security concerns raised by the police and decide whether the denial is justified. That's the rule of law. Once in a while, you may stage a token protest. You walk up to the barricade, place your hand on it, and allow yourself to be arrested. That's a recognised form of protest. What we saw, or rather what I have seen in videos and across various news channels, is nowhere near the right to protest. Jumping on police personnel, surrounding them, inflicting wounds and injuries on them, this is not a right to protest. Public order is the line that limits the right to protest. Even Article 19(2) makes it clear that public order is a constitutionally recognised ground on which the freedom of speech and expression may be restricted."
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"THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR THE RIGHT TO PROTEST": HARISH SALVE. ARW CJP SYMPATHISERS DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE? Legal eagle Harish Salve tears into CJP, explaining why its Jantar Mantar protest crossed the line into unlawful conduct that, he argues, undermines the right to protest itself. Q: When does a protest cease to be protected democratic dissent and cross into unlawful conduct? Did that happen here? Harish Salve: "Yes. They have a right to protest. They can get together with placards. They can use social media. They can make speeches. They can demand a minister's resignation. They can call for non-cooperation. They can say, 'We'll do this, we'll do that.' That's all perfectly lawful. They may even say, 'We will march to Parliament.' But Parliament is a declared sensitive area, and we do not need to elaborate on why. We all know why it is a sensitive area. The police put up barricades. If you believe you are being unreasonably prevented, you ask the Police Commissioner for permission. If he says no, you go to a court of law and seek an order. The court will balance your right to protest against the security concerns raised by the police and decide whether the denial is justified. That's the rule of law. Once in a while, you may stage a token protest. You walk up to the barricade, place your hand on it, and allow yourself to be arrested. That's a recognised form of protest. What we saw, or rather what I have seen in videos and across various news channels, is nowhere near the right to protest. Jumping on police personnel, surrounding them, inflicting wounds and injuries on them, this is not a right to protest. Public order is the line that limits the right to protest. Even Article 19(2) makes it clear that public order is a constitutionally recognised ground on which the freedom of speech and expression may be restricted."

Rahul Shivshankar

45,015 views • 2 months ago

Animation ads are ripping rn Small brands usually never ran them. One 3D ad meant a studio, a storyboard and a month of revisions. So when people are suddenly coming across a clay motion ad for a $30 serum. It's scroll stopping. Arcads just shipped the animation studio and it squashes that whole process into one prompt. Here is what I would do: - Make a list of the top 5 brands in your space - Search each one in the Meta Ad Library - Find the oldest ads they're still running Those are probably the best performers with the highest ROAS. A brand that keeps paying for the same ad for months is getting paid back. - Send them over to the Arcads agent, Mark and ask for the hook, the pain point, the offer - Put in your URL and product image and build that winning angle into your prompt - Generate the same ad in all 6 styles - Keep the first round short (I'd start around 15 seconds and only go longer once a style proves itself) Now you're testing style and angle at the same time, and each creative costs you a few minutes of waiting. - Run every version on Meta as its own ad set - Cut the losers after a few days and keep the style with the highest ROAS - Make 10 more variations in that style with fresh hooks - Find the winners and double down - Repeat with the next brand's angle Animation used to be a brand awareness play for companies with money to burn. Now you can run it as a performance ad and shut it down it in 3 days if it flops.
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Animation ads are ripping rn Small brands usually never ran them. One 3D ad meant a studio, a storyboard and a month of revisions. So when people are suddenly coming across a clay motion ad for a $30 serum. It's scroll stopping. Arcads just shipped the animation studio and it squashes that whole process into one prompt. Here is what I would do: - Make a list of the top 5 brands in your space - Search each one in the Meta Ad Library - Find the oldest ads they're still running Those are probably the best performers with the highest ROAS. A brand that keeps paying for the same ad for months is getting paid back. - Send them over to the Arcads agent, Mark and ask for the hook, the pain point, the offer - Put in your URL and product image and build that winning angle into your prompt - Generate the same ad in all 6 styles - Keep the first round short (I'd start around 15 seconds and only go longer once a style proves itself) Now you're testing style and angle at the same time, and each creative costs you a few minutes of waiting. - Run every version on Meta as its own ad set - Cut the losers after a few days and keep the style with the highest ROAS - Make 10 more variations in that style with fresh hooks - Find the winners and double down - Repeat with the next brand's angle Animation used to be a brand awareness play for companies with money to burn. Now you can run it as a performance ad and shut it down it in 3 days if it flops.

Rez Karim

11,967 views • 19 days ago

This type of ad has been crushing it lately. And I'm talking about the "Brand story" type of ad. Let's analyze how it works. These ads follow a simple 3-part structure: - Hook - Body - New thing 1. The Hook The first thing these ads have is a strong first line that gets attention and generates curiosity. The only goal: to stop the scroll. It usually starts with something unexpected: a problem, a confession, a struggle, or a strong curiosity gap. 2. The Body Then we have the body, which is what all these videos have in common and why all these videos perform really well: The idea here is to share the story of the brand, the mission, and how and why they started. Show the progress they have been making. This creates a feeling of effort and like the journey of a hero. You know, when, like in movies, the hero has a mission to achieve or save something/someone, and you really connect with that idea and you cheer for him, well, it's the same here. 3. The End After building emotional investment, the creator finally introduces the “new thing”: a new feature, a new drop, a new product, a new update. The reveal hits harder because the story has already earned the viewer’s attention and trust. Instead of “Here’s our product,” it becomes: “Here’s what our journey led to.” And psychologically, that’s much more powerful. That's all for today! This was day 18/60 of analyzing a brand per day. Thanks for reading, if you have any questions, leave them below. If you want my team and me to help you create content, we are a DM away from making it happen. If you liked this thread, you will probably like the linked one below:
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This type of ad has been crushing it lately. And I'm talking about the "Brand story" type of ad. Let's analyze how it works. These ads follow a simple 3-part structure: - Hook - Body - New thing 1. The Hook The first thing these ads have is a strong first line that gets attention and generates curiosity. The only goal: to stop the scroll. It usually starts with something unexpected: a problem, a confession, a struggle, or a strong curiosity gap. 2. The Body Then we have the body, which is what all these videos have in common and why all these videos perform really well: The idea here is to share the story of the brand, the mission, and how and why they started. Show the progress they have been making. This creates a feeling of effort and like the journey of a hero. You know, when, like in movies, the hero has a mission to achieve or save something/someone, and you really connect with that idea and you cheer for him, well, it's the same here. 3. The End After building emotional investment, the creator finally introduces the “new thing”: a new feature, a new drop, a new product, a new update. The reveal hits harder because the story has already earned the viewer’s attention and trust. Instead of “Here’s our product,” it becomes: “Here’s what our journey led to.” And psychologically, that’s much more powerful. That's all for today! This was day 18/60 of analyzing a brand per day. Thanks for reading, if you have any questions, leave them below. If you want my team and me to help you create content, we are a DM away from making it happen. If you liked this thread, you will probably like the linked one below:

axe

11,283 views • 10 months ago

When Trump dropped a White House TV ad stacked with stealth bombers and anti-communist rhetoric right as Xi Jinping arrived, most people thought it was just standard political posturing. They missed the point completely. That video wasn't meant for the American voter. It was a direct, calculated message to Beijing. Back in the 1980s, there was a famous marketing book called Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind That Birthed the "Cola Wars." Pepsi couldn't out-tradition Coke, so they repositioned them, making Coke look like "your grandfather's drink" while Pepsi became "the choice of a new generation." That is pure positioning. It’s about manipulating perception, because perception becomes reality. That’s exactly what Trump is doing on the global stage. You do not host a communist leader in your office and release an ad saying "we will never be communist" just to get out of a meeting. That makes no sense. You do it to remind foreign adversaries who think America is on the ropes that behind the diplomatic smiles, we have an unmatched force and we can do this ALL DAY LONG.
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When Trump dropped a White House TV ad stacked with stealth bombers and anti-communist rhetoric right as Xi Jinping arrived, most people thought it was just standard political posturing. They missed the point completely. That video wasn't meant for the American voter. It was a direct, calculated message to Beijing. Back in the 1980s, there was a famous marketing book called Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind That Birthed the "Cola Wars." Pepsi couldn't out-tradition Coke, so they repositioned them, making Coke look like "your grandfather's drink" while Pepsi became "the choice of a new generation." That is pure positioning. It’s about manipulating perception, because perception becomes reality. That’s exactly what Trump is doing on the global stage. You do not host a communist leader in your office and release an ad saying "we will never be communist" just to get out of a meeting. That makes no sense. You do it to remind foreign adversaries who think America is on the ropes that behind the diplomatic smiles, we have an unmatched force and we can do this ALL DAY LONG.

Glenn Beck

80,318 views • 6 days ago