Martin Azkarate

Future. Sunsets. Friends. Love. Live. Art. Mistakes. Events. People. Cultures. I want to believe. (Euskadi/Asturias/Spain)

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

French interior Minister on Ceuta after meeting with EU counterparts

"The problem isn't Schengen. Schengen is the solution. Schengen didn't let a single person from Ceuta onto the Spanish mainland. The problem is "outside interference" whipping up divisions within Europe"

[Memorias de Pez @MemoriasPez]

🚨DÍA HISTÓRICO🚨

El IBEX 35 pasa por primera vez de los 20.000 puntos.

Y si miramos el IBEX 35 con dividendos, la rentabilidad es de otro planeta.

Brutal.

[Financial Times @FT]

Italy, Germany and other countries that accused Spain of attracting migrants with its amnesty scheme have also quietly legalised the status of people who arrived irregularly in their own territory. https://t.co/qyXCOjNgWL

[Derroiciones Bilbao @derbilbao]

Tucker Carlson y el historiador Carryl Cooper hablan en en esta entrevista (https://t.co/ws0EWYHfbR) sobre España en relación a Ceuta, la Guerra Civil, su imperio, su identidad histórica, la ancestral animadversión judía/israelí contra nuestro país...

Tiene su interés.

[Roberto M. Romero @RobertoMRomero]

Al cabrón le preparan una encerrona histórica (una más) porque no lo pueden ni ver y el hijoputa te lo resuelve en dos días tranquilamente y sin armar jaleo. Yo entiendo que lo odien, de verdad. Es tan superior al resto gestionando crisis que no queda otra que odiarlo o rendirse.

[Krishna Agrawal @Krishnasagrawal]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture, which will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

🇪🇸 Since Spain won the World Cup, I’ve been obsessing over a thesis that I call “Latino Rising”, or the “Shakira Moment.” Hear me out.

There was a great article in the @nytimes about everything that’s going well in Spain, in addition to winning the World Cup. One of the points it made was that Spain is also experiencing a cultural renaissance, with Spanish cinema gaining international recognition and artists like Rosalía helping drive a shift away from English language songs on Spotify.

It immediately made me think about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl and all the conversations it inspired about Latino culture slowly replacing Black culture as the mainstream avant-garde of American culture.

Hip hop has arguably been the biggest cultural force to emerge in the music industry over the past forty years. It reshaped music, fashion and youth culture around the world. But now, slowly and unmistakably, Latino artists and Spanish language music seem to be starting to occupy that same space.

And then here’s a third data point. On a recent episode of the "Geopolitical Cousins" podcast, geopolitical analyst Marko Papic made the point that although every European country, like most of the rest of the world, faces demographic decline, Spain is much better positioned because it has access to a vast pool of immigration: Spanish-speaking Latin America. These immigrants arrive with a shared language, cultural familiarity and historical ties, giving Spain a unique advantage in integrating new arrivals.

And so you see, there’s this triangle:

1️⃣ Spain as the Old World anchor, winner of the World Cup and going through an energy and manufacturing renaissance.

(Not even mentioning its PM Pedro @sanchezcastejon standing up to Trump and Trump declaring Spain a “lost cause”, which might be the best endorsement ever.)

2️⃣ Latin America as the deep demographic pool, providing sheer scale and cultural diversity across so many different countries, from Chile to Argentina to Colombia to El Salvador to Mexico.

3️⃣ The US as the financial and soft power amplifier, with the world’s largest entertainment industry, the dominant global media platforms, and a rapidly growing Hispanic population that acts as a cultural bridge between Latin America and the wider world.

Once those three get in sync, Spain’s economic and geopolitical resurgence, Latin America’s demographic and cultural depth, and America’s financial and media power could combine to make Latino culture, and Spanish as a language, even more dominant globally, offering a Western cultural and soft power alternative to the Anglosphere.

Who symbolizes this new world better than @shakira? Born in Colombia, obviously popular in Spain as well as in the US, she has been a global icon since at least the 2010 World Cup. Everyone knows her and knows her songs, just like with Madonna in the 1980s.

Latino Rising: what we’re witnessing is a power shift in the West from the Anglosphere towards the Latinosphere, symbolized by the passing of the baton between Madonna and Shakira.

The Latinosphere, being distributed across three powerful nodes, and then splitting down further in a fractal manner across South America and within Spain itself, is also much more representative of a multipolar world than the US dominated Anglosphere.

As for me, as suggested by my wife, I’ll start taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo. Being French, it should be easy, or at least easier than Mandarin.

What do you think?

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell explained why some people succeed and some don't in a single 1-hour talk.

This will permanently change the way you think about talent, effort, and success.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

The one federal agency no one has even tried to reform is also the most powerful: CIA. Jim Erdman just resigned after a long career as an operations officer. He says the agency is completely out of control and dangerous.

0:00 The CIA's Obstruction of Justice
17:54 CIA Secrecy and the JFK Files
23:05 Is Tom Cotton a Tool of the CIA? How Does He Fit Into This?
26:47 Trump, the CIA's Control Over People, and Its Terrible Internal Leadership
30:59 Media Corruption and the Risks of Being a Whistleblower
36:43 How the CIA Influences the Behavior of the Media
40:45 Where Does the CIA Get Its Funding?
47:17 Is the Head of the CIA Compromised? Why Hasn't He Pursued Reform?
51:56 What's Stopping the Government From Releasing the JFK and 9-11 Files?
56:55 What Really Happened With Building 7?
1:01:41 Lee Harvey Oswald, MLK, J6, and the JFK Assassination
1:12:38 Is the DOJ Capable of Framing Someone?
1:17:38 Dan Bongino, the FBI, and Parallels Between the US and Foreign Countries
1:22:32 The Mistreatment of Joe Kent and Fall of the Trump Coalition
1:29:13 Erdman's Organization That Shut Down Vaccine Mandates
1:34:01 Was the CIA Involved in J6?

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Spain survived the Romans, the Moors, Napoleon and Franco. I’m sure it’ll find the strength to survive the tantrum of this disgusting pedophile. Trump has instantly made Spain the most popular vacation destination on Earth. ¡Que se joda Donald Trump!

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Me ha encantado la respuesta dels seleccionador Luis De la Fuente cuando le recordé que el seleccionador portugués es español, que han habido once jugadores nacidos en España que están en otras selecciones, y que uno de cuatro futbolistas de este Mundial no nacieron en el país que representan.

Le pregunté: ¿eso enriquece el Mundial?

La respuesta le honra

🎥: @FelipeRamis

[Gabriel Rufián @gabrielrufian]

Trump ha bombardeado y secuestrado al Presidente de Venezuela, ha chantajeado a Europa, se ha repartido las tierras raras de Ucrania con Putin, se ha querido quedar con Groenlandia, ha amenazado a Dinamarca, a Canadá, a México y a Colombia, bloquea salvajemente a Cuba, se ha inventado una ONU propia para construir un resort en Gaza, ha cortado la ayuda a Somalia, se ha mofado de las personas trans, de Macron y de Meloni en una rueda de prensa, ha asesinado y secuestrado incluso a niños con un ejército paramilitar privado llamado ICE que separa a la gente con chubasqueros de colores en campos de concentración en su propio territorio y ha bombardeado y matado en Irán.

Me parece raro que ahora haya llamado a la FIFA para quitarle una tarjeta roja a un jugador de la selección de EEUU.

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

📺 Carlos Cuerpo, a Ester Muñoz: "Este deterioro de la calidad del debate en esta sede aleja a los ciudadanos que solo perciben ruido. Nos convertimos en una Cámara de eco en la que solo nos escuchamos a nosotros mismos y usted tiene sus 30 segundos para su vídeo en Twitter"

[Arcadi España García 🇪🇺🚴‍♂️ @ArcadiSD]

El informe de @GoldmanSachs no sólo dice que España crece más que resto de grandes economías, sino que, además, está logrando mayores incrementos de productividad y crea empleo de mayor valor añadido.

A diferencia de otras etapas económicas, crecemos más y lo hacemos con bases más sólidas.

No son solo cifras, lo que dice Goldman Sachs es que la política económica del Gobierno genera bienestar.

¡Este es el camino!

https://t.co/0rR1wxa1gg

[Xiaopeng He @xiaopenghexpeng]

Our flying car fleet has successfully completed test flights at XPENG Guangzhou base. This milestone follows batch trial production, demonstrating advanced manufacturing consistency and synchronized flight-control capability.

[José Vico 🔻🇵🇸🇿🇦 @josevico4]

Esta reflexión de Manuel Rico pausada y argumentada sobre la imputación de Zapatero.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is the BEST, most hilarious breakdown I have seen of the absurd rationales I have heard trying to justify trump's idiotic war.

BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏

[Martin Azkarate @MartinAzcarate]

@Sefuelix @WSJ Who was charged for corruption?? Oh please, stop spreading lies..

[Martin Azkarate @MartinAzcarate]

@GGLLVX @WSJ Not even close my friend, not even close!