Re sanctions:
Yes, we are ending sanctions.
They get their money back (that we took from them). And you get way more money than that from your new sovereign wealth fund.
That’s the price of lasting peace. Do you want lasting peace or not?
Put all voting on the Blockchain and stop the fraud
Start with California first.
Tax paying Americans are politicians bosses and we need to remember this.
The USMNT will be playing a World Cup game in SoFi Stadium next Friday. But this Friday, workers in SoFi Stadium authorized a strike ahead of the tournament 😳
UNITE HERE Local 11, a union representing 2,000 workers at SoFi Stadium, is demanding protection from ICE.
They are also demanding premium wages during the World Cup from stadium food service operator Legends Global and FIFA.
This strike doesn’t mean the workers will immediately walk off their jobs, but this is the green light for them to do so anytime.
“They should not be there,” a worker named Yolanda Fierro said about ICE agents.
“We want fair wages that we think we are due. But the other things we want is the security and safety of employees and guests.
“If we cannot get those things, our folks are ready to walk. Let them run the stadium without us.”
Kurt Petersen, co-president of UNITE HERE Local 11, also had strong words.
"What good is the World Cup for Los Angeles when workers don't earn enough to pay the rent and must choose between showing up and being kidnapped by ICE?" he said.
“If we're forced to strike, those $100,000 FIFA suites will have nothing but bottled water and Doritos."
[via Washington Post and ESPN]
@EricWynalda I agree, even on the first goal, a back pick was set on Robinson to free up Havertz, who finished inside the 6. GK stuck to his line, with no anticipation/challenge. Should’ve cheated early to force a cross away from goal.
We are still stuck in bankster tentacles
Passive stablecoin yields is one of the most important things we need to unlock the future.
Without those, this bankruptcy/reformat cannot happen.
And that is still blocked.
Jared Kushner is a fanatical religious extremist dressed up in a suit
He cannot be trusted to hold the Pick of Destiny
And he proved it with that war.
There was a deal on the table. There was negotiation in good faith. And he chose war.
Exactly like the super oligarchs that started the previous world wars.
@AustinSteinbart@alchemy589 That’s my assessment on Promethean Action, as well. Where as, they recognize the crux within City of London, they fail to acknowledge the damage done by Trump.
No foreign government should be able to use its leverage over the United States to override the clearly expressed majority will of the American people.
Notice the pattern.
In almost every example:
Nobody was assaulted.
Nobody was threatened.
Nobody was denied service.
Nobody was harmed.
Yet these incidents get treated as though society is on the verge of a holocaust.
We should not be letting non-profits who make tons of money off of antisemitism be writing the definitions of antisemitism and making the rules on how we deal with it. Because as we can clearly see, their judgement is completely compromised.
In 1956, Lebanon passed a Banking Secrecy Law that turned Beirut into one of the most unregulated financial havens in the world - and planted the bomb that would explode decades later.
After the law was passed, Beirut became a magnet for tax-evading European money, super-rich oil sheikhs from the Gulf, and big Western company headquarters. Lebanon proudly called itself the “Switzerland of the Middle East.”
But the enormous wealth from this financial boom was controlled by a tiny group of elite banking families - mostly Maronite Christians, Sunnis, and Greek Orthodox - whom outsiders nicknamed the “Consular Bourgeoisie.” These families got richer and richer while everyone else was left behind.
At the same time, the Lebanese government deliberately neglected the rural areas. In the Shia Muslim south and the Beqaa Valley, there were almost no public schools, modern hospitals, paved roads, or reliable electricity. Impoverished Shia tobacco farmers lived under feudal landlords who used the state’s own system to keep them poor and powerless.
This extreme gap between rich Beirut and the forgotten countryside created a huge wave of internal migration. Hundreds of thousands of desperate, angry rural Shia moved into the slums of southern Beirut - an area known as the “Belt of Misery.”
When Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (the IRGC) arrived in 1982 to help organize Hezbollah, they didn't need to radicalize the Shia.
The Lebanese “Merchant Republic” had already done that work for them.