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Mkutano wa kimataifa kuhusu fidia kwa ajili ya utumwa na ukoloni, unatarajia kufanyika nchini Ghana kuanzia leo Jumatano, Juni 17. Kwa siku tatu, wataalamu, mawaziri, na wakuu wa nchi watajaribu kufafanua hatua zinazofuata katika harakati ambayo hivi karibuni ilifikia hatua muhimu kwa kupitishwa kwa azimio la Umoja wa Mataifa linalotambua utumwa kama uhalifu mkubwa zaidi dhidi ya binadamu.
Mkutano wa kimataifa kuhusu fidia kwa ajili ya utumwa na ukoloni, unatarajia kufanyika nchini Ghana kuanzia leo Jumatano, Juni 17. Kwa siku tatu, wataalamu, mawaziri, na wakuu wa nchi watajaribu kufafanua hatua zinazofuata katika harakati ambayo hivi karibuni ilifikia hatua muhimu kwa kupitishwa kwa azimio la Umoja wa Mataifa linalotambua utumwa kama uhalifu mkubwa zaidi dhidi ya binadamu.
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Штаб «Хатам аль-Анбія», який координує збройні сили Ірану, заявив, що якщо Ізраїль не припинить свої атаки на півдні Лівану, йому слід очікувати «жорсткої відповіді» від Ісламської республіки
Штаб «Хатам аль-Анбія», який координує збройні сили Ірану, заявив, що якщо Ізраїль не припинить свої атаки на півдні Лівану, йому слід очікувати «жорсткої відповіді» від Ісламської республіки
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Le secrétaire général des Nations unies, António Guterres, était en visite ce mardi 16 juin en Haïti. Accueilli à l’aéroport international Toussaint-Louverture par le Premier ministre Alix Didier Fils-Aimé et plusieurs membres du gouvernement, le chef de l’ONU a rencontré des autorités, des représentants de la société civile et effectué plusieurs visites sur le terrain afin de mesurer l’ampleur de la crise.
Le secrétaire général des Nations unies, António Guterres, était en visite ce mardi 16 juin en Haïti. Accueilli à l’aéroport international Toussaint-Louverture par le Premier ministre Alix Didier Fils-Aimé et plusieurs membres du gouvernement, le chef de l’ONU a rencontré des autorités, des représentants de la société civile et effectué plusieurs visites sur le terrain afin de mesurer l’ampleur de la crise.
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In Malawi’s Chiradzulu district, located in the southern region of the country, Diana Sitima’s farm shows how a combination of agroecology and secure land ownership can create a thriving commercial enterprise. Many neighboring farmers rely primarily on growing and selling maize. But, on her 3.5-hectare (8.6-acre) farm, Sitima combines diverse crops of fruits and vegetables […]
In Malawi’s Chiradzulu district, located in the southern region of the country, Diana Sitima’s farm shows how a combination of agroecology and secure land ownership can create a thriving commercial enterprise. Many neighboring farmers rely primarily on growing and selling maize. But, on her 3.5-hectare (8.6-acre) farm, Sitima combines diverse crops of fruits and vegetables […]
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Лидеры страны «Большой семерки» (G7) на саммите во Франции договорились увеличить поставки вооружений Украине и усилить давление на российскую военную экономику. Об этом говорится в совместном заявлении стран.
Лидеры страны «Большой семерки» (G7) на саммите во Франции договорились увеличить поставки вооружений Украине и усилить давление на российскую военную экономику. Об этом говорится в совместном заявлении стран.
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Kamioietako bat bidetik atera da eta kontrako norabidean sartu da, beste kamioia joz. Beste kamioilariak zauri arinak ditu, eta Tuterako Ospitalera eraman dute.
Kamioietako bat bidetik atera da eta kontrako norabidean sartu da, beste kamioia joz. Beste kamioilariak zauri arinak ditu, eta Tuterako Ospitalera eraman dute.
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És professora del Departament de Pedagogia Aplicada de la UAB des de fa trenta anys, però sobretot és mare de cinc criatures, ara ja joves, una de les quals amb una discapacitat i dues més acollides. I és portaveu de la Plataforma per una Escola Inclusiva. “Ens preocupa molt que s'estigui usant la paraula «inclusió» com a insult, això és injust i contraproduent”, comenta. La entrada Noemí Santiveri: «La diversitat és part de la vida. La segregació genera ignorància, distància, por. I això és el que la inclusió pot revertir, si la fem bé» se publicó primero en Diari de la Sanitat.
És professora del Departament de Pedagogia Aplicada de la UAB des de fa trenta anys, però sobretot és mare de cinc criatures, ara ja joves, una de les quals amb una discapacitat i dues més acollides. I és portaveu de la Plataforma per una Escola Inclusiva. “Ens preocupa molt que s'estigui usant la paraula «inclusió» com a insult, això és injust i contraproduent”, comenta. La entrada Noemí Santiveri: «La diversitat és part de la vida. La segregació genera ignorància, distància, por. I això és el que la inclusió pot revertir, si la fem bé» se publicó primero en Diari de la Sanitat.
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Бишкек жана Кант шаарларында суу менен камсыздоо жана сууну тазалоо инфраструктурасын жаңылоо боюнча ири долбоор ишке ашырылганын 16-июнда Швейцариянын Кыргызстандагы элчилиги билдирди. Долбоорду Европа реконструкциялоо жана өнүктүрүү банкы (ЕРӨБ), Швейцария өкмөтү, Европа Биримдиги жана Глобалдык экологиялык фонд (ГЭФ) колдоп, каржылады. Бишкекте 28 миллион еврого 16 км канализация коллекторлору жана 2,6 км суу түтүк магистралдары орнотулду, 35 терең суу кудуктары казылып, курулду, атайын...
Бишкек жана Кант шаарларында суу менен камсыздоо жана сууну тазалоо инфраструктурасын жаңылоо боюнча ири долбоор ишке ашырылганын 16-июнда Швейцариянын Кыргызстандагы элчилиги билдирди. Долбоорду Европа реконструкциялоо жана өнүктүрүү банкы (ЕРӨБ), Швейцария өкмөтү, Европа Биримдиги жана Глобалдык экологиялык фонд (ГЭФ) колдоп, каржылады. Бишкекте 28 миллион еврого 16 км канализация коллекторлору жана 2,6 км суу түтүк магистралдары орнотулду, 35 терең суу кудуктары казылып, курулду, атайын...
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El Mundial de 2026 se presenta como una gran celebración deportiva, pero llega marcado por guerras, tensiones diplomáticas y los intereses económicos que rodean al fútbol global. ¿Hasta qué punto es posible separar deporte y política? L'entrada Un Mundial menos mundial. El deporte en tiempos coléricos ha aparegut primer a Catalunya Plural.
El Mundial de 2026 se presenta como una gran celebración deportiva, pero llega marcado por guerras, tensiones diplomáticas y los intereses económicos que rodean al fútbol global. ¿Hasta qué punto es posible separar deporte y política? L'entrada Un Mundial menos mundial. El deporte en tiempos coléricos ha aparegut primer a Catalunya Plural.
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Diplomasia ya Afrika Magharibi iko katika nafasi muhimu mjini Nouakchott. Rais wa Mauritania Mohamed Ould Ghazouani amempokea mwenzake wa Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, kwa ziara rasmi mnamo Juni 15 na 16. Mkutano huo ulilenga kuimarisha uhusiano wa pande mbili, ushirikiano wa kiuchumi, na majadiliano kuhusu changamoto za usalama zinazoikabili Afrika Magharibi.
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Diplomasia ya Afrika Magharibi iko katika nafasi muhimu mjini Nouakchott. Rais wa Mauritania Mohamed Ould Ghazouani amempokea mwenzake wa Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, kwa ziara rasmi mnamo Juni 15 na 16. Mkutano huo ulilenga kuimarisha uhusiano wa pande mbili, ushirikiano wa kiuchumi, na majadiliano kuhusu changamoto za usalama zinazoikabili Afrika Magharibi.
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Letáky s QR kódy, falešný blog ženy jménem Sophie, stovky prázdných facebookových stránek, smyšlená novinářka i reklamní bannery vypuštěné v čase volebního moratoria. Tak vypadala... The post Operace Rokh Solis aneb jak izraelská firma zasahovala do francouzských voleb appeared first on investigace.cz.
Letáky s QR kódy, falešný blog ženy jménem Sophie, stovky prázdných facebookových stránek, smyšlená novinářka i reklamní bannery vypuštěné v čase volebního moratoria. Tak vypadala... The post Operace Rokh Solis aneb jak izraelská firma zasahovala do francouzských voleb appeared first on investigace.cz.
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El 11 de junio de 1955, el circuito francés de la Sarthe fue escenario de un terrible choque múltiple Martha Gellhorn, la mujer que engañó a los oficiales y se coló en un barco para informar del desembarco en Normandía “Un tramo de 300 metros cuadrados de gente alegre y vitoreando se transformó en un horror negro e histérico”. Así describió la revista Time en su número de junio de 1955 el terrible accidente que tuvo lugar en las 24 Horas de Le Mans después de que los restos en llamas del Mercedes conducido por el francés Pierre Levegh llegaran hasta la grada en la que estaba el público. El mayor accidente de la historia del automovilismo terminó con la muerte del piloto y de 83 espectadores. “El borde de la carretera se convirtió en un caos, con los heridos tratando de escapar y los ilesos avanzando para ver más. Pasó media hora antes de que todas las ambulancias de la ciudad comenzaran a evacuar a los afectados”, describió la revista estadounidense entonces. Consecuencias del desastre de Le Mans en 1955. En los años 50, los pilotos practicaban este deporte con unas normas de seguridad muy deficientes. Los coches ni siquiera llevaban cinturón porque los conductores decían que era peligroso estar atado en caso de incendio. Los accidentes eran, como podemos suponer, frecuentes y, sobre todo, graves. Apenas unos días antes de esto, el doble campeón del mundo Alberto Ascari había muerto en Monza. El día del accidente El 11 de junio de 1955, más de 250.000 personas se habían reunido en el circuito de la Sarthe para disfrutar de un nuevo duelo entre Mercedes, los que dominaban la competición en ese momento, y Jaguar, sus rivales ingleses. Entre los pilotos protagonistas del torneo estaban Juan Manuel Fangio (Mercedes) y Mike Hawthorn (Jaguar). Al final de las dos primeras horas, el británico Hawthorn lideraba la carrera con claridad tras haber completado un total de 28 vueltas. Este estaba a punto de entrar a boxes para repostar cuando recibió una señal de su equipo de mecánicos. El piloto frenó su Jaguar y giró a la derecha hacia boxes, pero el daño ya estaba hecho. Detrás de él, el británico Lance Macklin, en un Austin-Healey, se vio sorprendido, pero frenó bruscamente y consiguió girar a la izquierda. Detrás de él estaba el Mercedes de Pierre Levegh, que avanzaba a 240 kilómetros por hora. Levegh levantó el brazo para avisar a su compañero Juan Fangio, que se encontraba unos metros por detrás, para que redujera la velocidad. Fue su último gesto. El coche de Levegh chocó contra la parte trasera del Austin-Healey de Macklin y empezó a girar hasta estrellarse contra uno de los muros de contención del circuito. El piloto salió despedido de su coche y murió tras el impacto, arrollando a varias de las personas que había en la grada. Por increíble que parezca, la organización no suspendió la carrera, aunque Mercedes retiró a sus pilotos como muestra de respeto.
El 11 de junio de 1955, el circuito francés de la Sarthe fue escenario de un terrible choque múltiple Martha Gellhorn, la mujer que engañó a los oficiales y se coló en un barco para informar del desembarco en Normandía “Un tramo de 300 metros cuadrados de gente alegre y vitoreando se transformó en un horror negro e histérico”. Así describió la revista Time en su número de junio de 1955 el terrible accidente que tuvo lugar en las 24 Horas de Le Mans después de que los restos en llamas del Mercedes conducido por el francés Pierre Levegh llegaran hasta la grada en la que estaba el público. El mayor accidente de la historia del automovilismo terminó con la muerte del piloto y de 83 espectadores. “El borde de la carretera se convirtió en un caos, con los heridos tratando de escapar y los ilesos avanzando para ver más. Pasó media hora antes de que todas las ambulancias de la ciudad comenzaran a evacuar a los afectados”, describió la revista estadounidense entonces. Consecuencias del desastre de Le Mans en 1955. En los años 50, los pilotos practicaban este deporte con unas normas de seguridad muy deficientes. Los coches ni siquiera llevaban cinturón porque los conductores decían que era peligroso estar atado en caso de incendio. Los accidentes eran, como podemos suponer, frecuentes y, sobre todo, graves. Apenas unos días antes de esto, el doble campeón del mundo Alberto Ascari había muerto en Monza. El día del accidente El 11 de junio de 1955, más de 250.000 personas se habían reunido en el circuito de la Sarthe para disfrutar de un nuevo duelo entre Mercedes, los que dominaban la competición en ese momento, y Jaguar, sus rivales ingleses. Entre los pilotos protagonistas del torneo estaban Juan Manuel Fangio (Mercedes) y Mike Hawthorn (Jaguar). Al final de las dos primeras horas, el británico Hawthorn lideraba la carrera con claridad tras haber completado un total de 28 vueltas. Este estaba a punto de entrar a boxes para repostar cuando recibió una señal de su equipo de mecánicos. El piloto frenó su Jaguar y giró a la derecha hacia boxes, pero el daño ya estaba hecho. Detrás de él, el británico Lance Macklin, en un Austin-Healey, se vio sorprendido, pero frenó bruscamente y consiguió girar a la izquierda. Detrás de él estaba el Mercedes de Pierre Levegh, que avanzaba a 240 kilómetros por hora. Levegh levantó el brazo para avisar a su compañero Juan Fangio, que se encontraba unos metros por detrás, para que redujera la velocidad. Fue su último gesto. El coche de Levegh chocó contra la parte trasera del Austin-Healey de Macklin y empezó a girar hasta estrellarse contra uno de los muros de contención del circuito. El piloto salió despedido de su coche y murió tras el impacto, arrollando a varias de las personas que había en la grada. Por increíble que parezca, la organización no suspendió la carrera, aunque Mercedes retiró a sus pilotos como muestra de respeto.
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Nûçeyên Cîhanê ji Dengê Amerîka
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Dünýäniň dürli regionlarynda we Türkmenistanda şu günki bolan we bolup duran soňky wakalar barada gysgaça habarlar.
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Dünýäniň dürli regionlarynda we Türkmenistanda şu günki bolan we bolup duran soňky wakalar barada gysgaça habarlar.
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هەواڵە جیهانیـیەکان لە دەنگی ئەمەریکا
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Dimanche 21 juin se tient le deuxIème tour de l'élection présidentielle en Colombie. À l'issue du premier tour, lee candidat d'ultradroite, Abelardo de la Espriella a devancé la figure de gauche, Ivan Cepeda. Décryptage. - Démocratie / Amériques, Décryptages, Droites extrêmes
Dimanche 21 juin se tient le deuxIème tour de l'élection présidentielle en Colombie. À l'issue du premier tour, lee candidat d'ultradroite, Abelardo de la Espriella a devancé la figure de gauche, Ivan Cepeda. Décryptage. - Démocratie / Amériques, Décryptages, Droites extrêmes
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La Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026 comença enmig d'un context internacional convuls. Entre guerres obertes, restriccions migratòries i interessos econòmics, la idea que esport i política poden caminar per separat sembla cada vegada més difícil de sostenir. L'entrada Un Mundial menys mundial. L’esport en temps colèrics ha aparegut primer a Catalunya Plural.
La Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2026 comença enmig d'un context internacional convuls. Entre guerres obertes, restriccions migratòries i interessos econòmics, la idea que esport i política poden caminar per separat sembla cada vegada més difícil de sostenir. L'entrada Un Mundial menys mundial. L’esport en temps colèrics ha aparegut primer a Catalunya Plural.
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За даними ОВА, внаслідок атаки на Запоріжжя пошкоджені дев’ять житлових будинків і нежитлові будівлі в Олександрівському і Космічному районах міста
За даними ОВА, внаслідок атаки на Запоріжжя пошкоджені дев’ять житлових будинків і нежитлові будівлі в Олександрівському і Космічному районах міста
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Oof, so many fails. An abject purge from the Kennedy Center, a tatty Iran deal, a brackish Reflecting Pool, and pay-per-view bloodsport at the People's House rife with lurid jingoism, cheesy fireworks, garish flyovers, honor guards for Nazi thugs, grift vast and brazen, and the crass smear of an iconic woman in the name of "a permission structure made visible" enabling the worst people in the world to act out. The result: "The cringiest collapse of a nation in real time."For many appalled observers, the grotesque state of the Republic (if you can keep it) summoned the tawdry antics of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho in Mike Judge's infamous Idiocracy - "Welcome to AOL Time Warner Taco Bell US Government Long Distance," "Welcome to Costco. I love you" - the portrait of a dystopian American future after "mankind became stupider at a frightening rate." His deranged, AR-15-wielding State of the Union: "I know shit's bad right now, with all the starvin', and the dust storms, and we're running outta french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution. We got this guy Not Sure, and he's so smart, he's gonna fix everything in a week."And so to a pricey Iran "deal” maybe (or not) ending an inept illegal war that fails on all fronts - military, political, economic, moral - and strengthens Iran’s hand as a regional power. Where are we, asks retired Major General Paul Eaton after "a war with no plan, no strategy, no achievable objective, no definition of what victory even looked like, and no plan for day 2." His response: "Thirteen dead. Years of lost readiness. Higher prices in every American home. All to arrive back at the starting line, weaker than when we left it." Meanwhile, the cost of his fucking ballroom that nobody asked for has soared 50% to $600 million, more than half to be paid by us, not imaginary "generous American patriots."In another weekend fail, symbolic but gratifying, hundreds of real patriots gathered - and thousands watched a livestream - to see the vile name stripped from the Kennedy Center after US District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled it illegal. Alas, the crowd waited all day and night in humid heat - bearing flags, "You're No JFK" signs, hope to see "a horrible scar" vanquished - only for Friday's midnight deadline to come and go as workers built endless scaffolding and Center lackeys filed last-ditch appeals. Rumors flew, chants grew - "TAKE IT DOWN," "Rest in Shame," "Tear down that wall," "More Cow Bell" - as drag queen Tara Hoot blew bubbles and Rep. Joyce Beatty declared, to cheers, "We cannot be silenced."The approach of midnight brought breathless countdowns - "30 minutes!“ "Five minutes!" "No pressure - you’re doing great!” - then angry charges of "a cover-up in real time" when it passed. People sang This Land is Your Land, thunderstorms halted work (and extended the deadline), and when a miraculous double rainbow emerged, people huddled under awnings to sing God Bless America and give thanks: "And the angels sang...Mother Nature Understands The Assignment...Just think what She'll do when he leaves the White House...Well-played, universe." One worker in a lift could have quickly done the job; instead, 13 hours later, the final scaffolding went up - to hang a tarp, met with boos, to hide a snowflake's shame. Around 4 a.m, the Center later told the judge, the 18 odious letters of “The Donald J. Trump and" had been removed. For the public, it's hard to tell: The tarp's still up. To Andrew Flanagan, it confirms "how deeply insecure & pathetic" is the guy who's usually a "big redaction fan" - for the Epstein files, Mueller report, Jan. 6 transcripts, any form of accountability. "Nothing says 'stable genius' like illegally slapping your name on a cultural landmark, then hiding your name getting ripped off behind a bedsheet like a toddler who broke a vase," he wrote, adding, "Sheet was probably stolen from a hotel." Still, the action offered a modest "preview of Independence Day," what one resident called "this little splash of hope in the rain."Not so his vaunted, likely illegal, American-flag-blue do-over of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool: Because everything he touches dies or stinks, it has joined the Resistance by swiftly reverting to its previous brackish algae-green. After the "expert builder" stupidly removed a state-of-the-art filtration system installed by Barack Hussein Obama, boasted its new "CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL WATER” would "SPARKLE magnificently...for 100 years," and insisted the rogue algae was just a “residual part of the normal startup process," the $1.5 million job that ballooned into a no-bid $14.2 million has in days proved an algae-beset bust, with National Park workers now frantically dumping gallons of hydrogen peroxide into it. We wonder if it's great yet?There was also Paige, the four-ton elephant bedecked with a "Unity Drives Victory" banner the Texas GOP brought into its annual convention in Houston, a promised "larger-than-life surprise" who abundantly peed at the feet of the faithful just as Greg Abbott finished his keynote speech - what Dems called a "perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party." While it's unclear how much Dear Leader is to blame for that fiasco, he's totally, shamelessly, smirkingly responsible for the simultaneous atrocity unfolding on the White House Lawn: An impossibly base, blood-spattered cage fight, "crass display of toxic hyper machismo," and "bar fight making millions for the Epstein class" that "flaunted the absolute worst of America."UFC Freedom 250, the besmirching of a staid White House lawn long reserved for dignified welcomes to foreign leaders, careful displays of statesmanship and the occasional Easter egg roll, began in May with the construction of a massive, hulking, $60 million cage called "the Claw." For weeks, up to 900 workers from seven federal agencies, including DHS and FAA, labored on our dime to build a gaudy monstrosity for 14 mixed martial arts fighters to beat and pummel each other bloody - at a "House that has hosted Churchill, Mandela, the Apollo astronauts...(that) sits at the center of the constitutional republic a generation of Americans bled for in places whose names their grandchildren cannot pronounce."Trump "sees everything and everyone in terms of dominance or submission," notes Robert Reich. Choosing to mark his fucking big boy birthday by wrapping it in the pretext of the country's 250th anniversary and planning what's been likened to a "human cockfighting" spectacle on the White House Lawn, Reich adds, is "seeking to project an America like the winner of a cage match" - cheap, crude, violent, and so brazenly tasteless that even Republicans who once freaked out at Michelle Obama's vegetable garden there joined the vast 84% of Americans who denounced the event. Implausibly, impressively, the damning consensus reached Fox News viewers. "Tacky as hell," declared one. "Trump is a white trash president." He is also history's most corrupt president, so no surprise his "gift to Americans" proved, per a failed lawsuit, "a volcano of corruption" and a “private, commercial, corrupt use of our most sacred national monuments," with Trump at its greedy core. He invested heavily in UFC owner TKO; his World Liberty Financial crypto business, earning billions on paper, was an “official sponsor"; so was Truth Social - "Download Truth Social today!"- and TrumpCoins.com - "Limited quantities available now!" Melding corporate and political grift, fighters were "paid" crypto bonuses, ads and logos were everywhere, fights in a Bud-Light-adorned ring had to be watched with a subscription to Paramount Plus, sponsorships cost up to $1.5 million per person.The flagrant profiteering and Hunger Games optics were so "tone-deaf to the struggles of the American people” even some UFC fighters objected. "I don’t give a fuck to fight in front of some fucking billionaires and rich people," said one; added middleweight champion Sean Strickland, "To go hang out with people on the Epstein list? I'm good, dog.” (He was reportedly banned for criticizing Israel and the Epstein cover-up; he turned up anyway that night and was later escorted out by security for causing "disorder.") All in all, in a "celebration of American strength and exceptionalism" featuring guys clearly not quite princes among men, it was less than surprising things regularly descended into cruder, meaner, more vicious territory.Bantamweight Sean O’Malley, "a nasty little shit" in all red, white and blue, the color scheme for everything in sight - has publicly defended cheating on his wife because rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate said it was okay: "If I get a little puss on the side - I got status, so I can." After he beat Canada’s Aiemann Zahabi to raucous chants of "U-S-A!" he thanked his fans, offered a tribute to UFC's Dana White - "Dana’s a fucking gangster," and threw up several straight-armed "Sieg Heils" to Trump. The team of four accommodating announcers - who rapturously praised the event's "unbelievable" energy, spirit, patriotism that gave them "goosebumps...How special is it to be here?" - called them "salutes to the troops."Like all the fighters, O'Malley had earlier walked through the lofty Lincoln Memorial to a scuffling weigh-in where thugs jousted - "Don't act like a fucking animal" - and a press conference. Like the others, he later dressed in an opulent White House "locker room," aka the historic Indian Treaty Room, and made his cinematic way to the Claw flanked by an honor guard - a veteran, first responder or Medal of Honor recipient - cleverly obliging every service member to salute as he walked past. Lincoln, Eisenhower, Paul Krugman weep at the "unspeakably vulgar" debasement. The ancient philosopher Seneca, on the rise and fall of a Roman Empire that also boasted extreme inequality and gladiatorial games: "The way to ruin is rapid." Sean O'Malley walks from the White House to his fight with an Honor GuardPhoto by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesBefore the actual bloodshed, there were weeks of other grotesqueries: Screaming promos - "Are you ready?!" - with an AI, shirtless, oiled, ripped fantasy Trump next to other oiled guys grappling; a $1-million-a-plate fundraising "candlelight dinner," probs akin to this one, at Trump's D.C. golf club; a barbed, garbled panel of all 14 fighters, adding more insult to injury to the Lincoln Memorial. The big bellicose day started with Trump and White marching (or waddling) out to their own color guard, a flyover by the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, and the incongruous sight of Nitro Circus motocross riders on dirt bikes flying through jumps and spins in front of the White House. Best comment: "OMG ffs we just want health care."Despite a hilariously sinister weather forecast - lightning, downpours, wind gusts, possible swarms of mosquitoes in the heat - fights were only delayed an hour, with no rain. The waiting crowd, less than a predicted 4,000 ringside and 80,000 at the Ellipse watching on huge screens, were treated to a Department of War (sic) recruitment video touting "peace through strength," songs from American Pie to Sex on Fire, "ring girls" in sexy "patriotic motifs," UFC fights projected onto iconic buildings - including rapist Conor McGregor on the Washington Monument - and protesters chanting, “Whose house? Our house!" alongside a makeshift cage filled with puppets of regime lackeys "to show them behind bars where they belong."Ultimately, all seven fights ended in knockouts or TKOs, many brutal. Former lightweight champion Ilia Topuria, in his first fight since he and his ex-wife reached a settlement after she accused him of domestic abuse, lost to Justin Gaethje in a TKO that left Topuria's face so bloodied a doctor nearly stopped the bout; the crowd chanted "U-S-A!" and “Let them fight!”, he did, and Topuria was later found to have suffered orbital fractures in both eyes. Lightweight Michael Chandler, 40, was "destroyed" by upstart Brazilian Mauricio Ruffy in Round 1. Fans urged Chandler to "Retire, please"; through a translator, Ruffy asked his girlfriend to marry him "since we're right here at the White House," and urged fans to, "Give your life to Jesus."The fights, and the graphic accounts of their pummeling, were savage: "Ruffy stung Chandler with a spinning heel kick, hurt him with an uppercut and whipped a horrific body shot into his midsection, ripping a nasty liver punch...Chandler shoots for a takedown, but Ruffy sprawls. OH! Another spinning heel kick! Down goes Chandler!" Etc. Later, at a post-fight press conference with most of the fighters - except Topuria, in the hospital - Dana White celebrated an event with "no political agenda." “I believe that if you are an American, no matter where you sit politically, tonight was just a proud night,” he said. "Hopefully, we created some unity in the country and the world, and brought in some new fans." Diego Lopes celebrates defeating Steve Garcia in their featherweight bout. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesStill, all the disingenuous violence paled before the barbarism of heavyweight Josh Hokit, a self described “100% transphobic" who called a Black fighter "a human gorilla," tried to sic ICE on his Mexican mother, and theatrically staggered wasted into the weigh-in pretending to puke from a night of drinking because "a giant black man wants to knock me out." After taking down aforementioned black man Derrick Lewis, Hokit offered Trump ringside a gaudy pendant and a shout-out "for having the balls to put something like this on." Then he giddily proclaimed himself "the beast that's ready to feast," thanked "my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” and added, "Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?"The crowd gave a modest, sickening roar. The president said nothing in response, nor has he yet, because the "short-fingered vulgarian" is not celebrating a birthday or a nation's anniversary so much as he is "flipping off all of it, and all of us, by desecrating every American temple that presidential authority touches." "The bar has been on the ground for so long we have stopped noticing we are crawling," writes Tom Wellborn of "what the man in the cage chose to do with the microphone at the White House." Hokit spoke with "the full confidence of a man in a room that told him his worst instincts were welcome," and where "the culture of the room tells you cruelty is the entry fee."Hokit "read the room," he goes on, "with attention to what the environment rewards and what it punishes, and what the environment rewarded was the ugliest thing a person could say. He knew the environment would punish nothing, because the man whose birthday it was has built his entire career on the same calculation...The president got another night of the only thing he has ever wanted...the performance of dominance in a room full of people who will never tell him no." But that night, another room hosted Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment in New York. "Welcome to all of you who couldn't get tickets to the White House cage fights," cracked Robert De Niro. Then, reciting a litany of Trump horrors, he urged the crowd to repeatedly echo the only sane response to an insane historic moment, which they did: "Shut the fuck up."
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Oof, so many fails. An abject purge from the Kennedy Center, a tatty Iran deal, a brackish Reflecting Pool, and pay-per-view bloodsport at the People's House rife with lurid jingoism, cheesy fireworks, garish flyovers, honor guards for Nazi thugs, grift vast and brazen, and the crass smear of an iconic woman in the name of "a permission structure made visible" enabling the worst people in the world to act out. The result: "The cringiest collapse of a nation in real time."For many appalled observers, the grotesque state of the Republic (if you can keep it) summoned the tawdry antics of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho in Mike Judge's infamous Idiocracy - "Welcome to AOL Time Warner Taco Bell US Government Long Distance," "Welcome to Costco. I love you" - the portrait of a dystopian American future after "mankind became stupider at a frightening rate." His deranged, AR-15-wielding State of the Union: "I know shit's bad right now, with all the starvin', and the dust storms, and we're running outta french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution. We got this guy Not Sure, and he's so smart, he's gonna fix everything in a week."And so to a pricey Iran "deal” maybe (or not) ending an inept illegal war that fails on all fronts - military, political, economic, moral - and strengthens Iran’s hand as a regional power. Where are we, asks retired Major General Paul Eaton after "a war with no plan, no strategy, no achievable objective, no definition of what victory even looked like, and no plan for day 2." His response: "Thirteen dead. Years of lost readiness. Higher prices in every American home. All to arrive back at the starting line, weaker than when we left it." Meanwhile, the cost of his fucking ballroom that nobody asked for has soared 50% to $600 million, more than half to be paid by us, not imaginary "generous American patriots."In another weekend fail, symbolic but gratifying, hundreds of real patriots gathered - and thousands watched a livestream - to see the vile name stripped from the Kennedy Center after US District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled it illegal. Alas, the crowd waited all day and night in humid heat - bearing flags, "You're No JFK" signs, hope to see "a horrible scar" vanquished - only for Friday's midnight deadline to come and go as workers built endless scaffolding and Center lackeys filed last-ditch appeals. Rumors flew, chants grew - "TAKE IT DOWN," "Rest in Shame," "Tear down that wall," "More Cow Bell" - as drag queen Tara Hoot blew bubbles and Rep. Joyce Beatty declared, to cheers, "We cannot be silenced."The approach of midnight brought breathless countdowns - "30 minutes!“ "Five minutes!" "No pressure - you’re doing great!” - then angry charges of "a cover-up in real time" when it passed. People sang This Land is Your Land, thunderstorms halted work (and extended the deadline), and when a miraculous double rainbow emerged, people huddled under awnings to sing God Bless America and give thanks: "And the angels sang...Mother Nature Understands The Assignment...Just think what She'll do when he leaves the White House...Well-played, universe." One worker in a lift could have quickly done the job; instead, 13 hours later, the final scaffolding went up - to hang a tarp, met with boos, to hide a snowflake's shame. Around 4 a.m, the Center later told the judge, the 18 odious letters of “The Donald J. Trump and" had been removed. For the public, it's hard to tell: The tarp's still up. To Andrew Flanagan, it confirms "how deeply insecure & pathetic" is the guy who's usually a "big redaction fan" - for the Epstein files, Mueller report, Jan. 6 transcripts, any form of accountability. "Nothing says 'stable genius' like illegally slapping your name on a cultural landmark, then hiding your name getting ripped off behind a bedsheet like a toddler who broke a vase," he wrote, adding, "Sheet was probably stolen from a hotel." Still, the action offered a modest "preview of Independence Day," what one resident called "this little splash of hope in the rain."Not so his vaunted, likely illegal, American-flag-blue do-over of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool: Because everything he touches dies or stinks, it has joined the Resistance by swiftly reverting to its previous brackish algae-green. After the "expert builder" stupidly removed a state-of-the-art filtration system installed by Barack Hussein Obama, boasted its new "CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL WATER” would "SPARKLE magnificently...for 100 years," and insisted the rogue algae was just a “residual part of the normal startup process," the $1.5 million job that ballooned into a no-bid $14.2 million has in days proved an algae-beset bust, with National Park workers now frantically dumping gallons of hydrogen peroxide into it. We wonder if it's great yet?There was also Paige, the four-ton elephant bedecked with a "Unity Drives Victory" banner the Texas GOP brought into its annual convention in Houston, a promised "larger-than-life surprise" who abundantly peed at the feet of the faithful just as Greg Abbott finished his keynote speech - what Dems called a "perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party." While it's unclear how much Dear Leader is to blame for that fiasco, he's totally, shamelessly, smirkingly responsible for the simultaneous atrocity unfolding on the White House Lawn: An impossibly base, blood-spattered cage fight, "crass display of toxic hyper machismo," and "bar fight making millions for the Epstein class" that "flaunted the absolute worst of America."UFC Freedom 250, the besmirching of a staid White House lawn long reserved for dignified welcomes to foreign leaders, careful displays of statesmanship and the occasional Easter egg roll, began in May with the construction of a massive, hulking, $60 million cage called "the Claw." For weeks, up to 900 workers from seven federal agencies, including DHS and FAA, labored on our dime to build a gaudy monstrosity for 14 mixed martial arts fighters to beat and pummel each other bloody - at a "House that has hosted Churchill, Mandela, the Apollo astronauts...(that) sits at the center of the constitutional republic a generation of Americans bled for in places whose names their grandchildren cannot pronounce."Trump "sees everything and everyone in terms of dominance or submission," notes Robert Reich. Choosing to mark his fucking big boy birthday by wrapping it in the pretext of the country's 250th anniversary and planning what's been likened to a "human cockfighting" spectacle on the White House Lawn, Reich adds, is "seeking to project an America like the winner of a cage match" - cheap, crude, violent, and so brazenly tasteless that even Republicans who once freaked out at Michelle Obama's vegetable garden there joined the vast 84% of Americans who denounced the event. Implausibly, impressively, the damning consensus reached Fox News viewers. "Tacky as hell," declared one. "Trump is a white trash president." He is also history's most corrupt president, so no surprise his "gift to Americans" proved, per a failed lawsuit, "a volcano of corruption" and a “private, commercial, corrupt use of our most sacred national monuments," with Trump at its greedy core. He invested heavily in UFC owner TKO; his World Liberty Financial crypto business, earning billions on paper, was an “official sponsor"; so was Truth Social - "Download Truth Social today!"- and TrumpCoins.com - "Limited quantities available now!" Melding corporate and political grift, fighters were "paid" crypto bonuses, ads and logos were everywhere, fights in a Bud-Light-adorned ring had to be watched with a subscription to Paramount Plus, sponsorships cost up to $1.5 million per person.The flagrant profiteering and Hunger Games optics were so "tone-deaf to the struggles of the American people” even some UFC fighters objected. "I don’t give a fuck to fight in front of some fucking billionaires and rich people," said one; added middleweight champion Sean Strickland, "To go hang out with people on the Epstein list? I'm good, dog.” (He was reportedly banned for criticizing Israel and the Epstein cover-up; he turned up anyway that night and was later escorted out by security for causing "disorder.") All in all, in a "celebration of American strength and exceptionalism" featuring guys clearly not quite princes among men, it was less than surprising things regularly descended into cruder, meaner, more vicious territory.Bantamweight Sean O’Malley, "a nasty little shit" in all red, white and blue, the color scheme for everything in sight - has publicly defended cheating on his wife because rapist and human trafficker Andrew Tate said it was okay: "If I get a little puss on the side - I got status, so I can." After he beat Canada’s Aiemann Zahabi to raucous chants of "U-S-A!" he thanked his fans, offered a tribute to UFC's Dana White - "Dana’s a fucking gangster," and threw up several straight-armed "Sieg Heils" to Trump. The team of four accommodating announcers - who rapturously praised the event's "unbelievable" energy, spirit, patriotism that gave them "goosebumps...How special is it to be here?" - called them "salutes to the troops."Like all the fighters, O'Malley had earlier walked through the lofty Lincoln Memorial to a scuffling weigh-in where thugs jousted - "Don't act like a fucking animal" - and a press conference. Like the others, he later dressed in an opulent White House "locker room," aka the historic Indian Treaty Room, and made his cinematic way to the Claw flanked by an honor guard - a veteran, first responder or Medal of Honor recipient - cleverly obliging every service member to salute as he walked past. Lincoln, Eisenhower, Paul Krugman weep at the "unspeakably vulgar" debasement. The ancient philosopher Seneca, on the rise and fall of a Roman Empire that also boasted extreme inequality and gladiatorial games: "The way to ruin is rapid." Sean O'Malley walks from the White House to his fight with an Honor GuardPhoto by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesBefore the actual bloodshed, there were weeks of other grotesqueries: Screaming promos - "Are you ready?!" - with an AI, shirtless, oiled, ripped fantasy Trump next to other oiled guys grappling; a $1-million-a-plate fundraising "candlelight dinner," probs akin to this one, at Trump's D.C. golf club; a barbed, garbled panel of all 14 fighters, adding more insult to injury to the Lincoln Memorial. The big bellicose day started with Trump and White marching (or waddling) out to their own color guard, a flyover by the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, and the incongruous sight of Nitro Circus motocross riders on dirt bikes flying through jumps and spins in front of the White House. Best comment: "OMG ffs we just want health care."Despite a hilariously sinister weather forecast - lightning, downpours, wind gusts, possible swarms of mosquitoes in the heat - fights were only delayed an hour, with no rain. The waiting crowd, less than a predicted 4,000 ringside and 80,000 at the Ellipse watching on huge screens, were treated to a Department of War (sic) recruitment video touting "peace through strength," songs from American Pie to Sex on Fire, "ring girls" in sexy "patriotic motifs," UFC fights projected onto iconic buildings - including rapist Conor McGregor on the Washington Monument - and protesters chanting, “Whose house? Our house!" alongside a makeshift cage filled with puppets of regime lackeys "to show them behind bars where they belong."Ultimately, all seven fights ended in knockouts or TKOs, many brutal. Former lightweight champion Ilia Topuria, in his first fight since he and his ex-wife reached a settlement after she accused him of domestic abuse, lost to Justin Gaethje in a TKO that left Topuria's face so bloodied a doctor nearly stopped the bout; the crowd chanted "U-S-A!" and “Let them fight!”, he did, and Topuria was later found to have suffered orbital fractures in both eyes. Lightweight Michael Chandler, 40, was "destroyed" by upstart Brazilian Mauricio Ruffy in Round 1. Fans urged Chandler to "Retire, please"; through a translator, Ruffy asked his girlfriend to marry him "since we're right here at the White House," and urged fans to, "Give your life to Jesus."The fights, and the graphic accounts of their pummeling, were savage: "Ruffy stung Chandler with a spinning heel kick, hurt him with an uppercut and whipped a horrific body shot into his midsection, ripping a nasty liver punch...Chandler shoots for a takedown, but Ruffy sprawls. OH! Another spinning heel kick! Down goes Chandler!" Etc. Later, at a post-fight press conference with most of the fighters - except Topuria, in the hospital - Dana White celebrated an event with "no political agenda." “I believe that if you are an American, no matter where you sit politically, tonight was just a proud night,” he said. "Hopefully, we created some unity in the country and the world, and brought in some new fans." Diego Lopes celebrates defeating Steve Garcia in their featherweight bout. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesStill, all the disingenuous violence paled before the barbarism of heavyweight Josh Hokit, a self described “100% transphobic" who called a Black fighter "a human gorilla," tried to sic ICE on his Mexican mother, and theatrically staggered wasted into the weigh-in pretending to puke from a night of drinking because "a giant black man wants to knock me out." After taking down aforementioned black man Derrick Lewis, Hokit offered Trump ringside a gaudy pendant and a shout-out "for having the balls to put something like this on." Then he giddily proclaimed himself "the beast that's ready to feast," thanked "my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” and added, "Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?"The crowd gave a modest, sickening roar. The president said nothing in response, nor has he yet, because the "short-fingered vulgarian" is not celebrating a birthday or a nation's anniversary so much as he is "flipping off all of it, and all of us, by desecrating every American temple that presidential authority touches." "The bar has been on the ground for so long we have stopped noticing we are crawling," writes Tom Wellborn of "what the man in the cage chose to do with the microphone at the White House." Hokit spoke with "the full confidence of a man in a room that told him his worst instincts were welcome," and where "the culture of the room tells you cruelty is the entry fee."Hokit "read the room," he goes on, "with attention to what the environment rewards and what it punishes, and what the environment rewarded was the ugliest thing a person could say. He knew the environment would punish nothing, because the man whose birthday it was has built his entire career on the same calculation...The president got another night of the only thing he has ever wanted...the performance of dominance in a room full of people who will never tell him no." But that night, another room hosted Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment in New York. "Welcome to all of you who couldn't get tickets to the White House cage fights," cracked Robert De Niro. Then, reciting a litany of Trump horrors, he urged the crowd to repeatedly echo the only sane response to an insane historic moment, which they did: "Shut the fuck up."
44 minutes
El acuerdo entre Washington y Teherán incorpora un ambicioso mecanismo financiero que pretende transformar la economía iraní y ofrecer incentivos económicos suficientes para que ambas partes culminen un acuerdo definitivo en los próximos dos meses
44 minutes
El acuerdo entre Washington y Teherán incorpora un ambicioso mecanismo financiero que pretende transformar la economía iraní y ofrecer incentivos económicos suficientes para que ambas partes culminen un acuerdo definitivo en los próximos dos meses