Raylan Harkins

Still thinking about thinking..... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🔻🔻🔻. 🔼

[Scotland’s Coefficient @scotlandscoeff1]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🟢 Hibs’ defeat in Kosovo tonight officially ranks as the eighth-worst European result by a Scottish club.

🧮 This is based solely on the opponent’s ClubElo rating at the time, rather than the gap between the two clubs’ ratings.

https://t.co/VPfZBlRBEM

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1898, Andrew Carnegie was so opposed to the United States annexing the Philippines that he offered to personally repay the $20 million the U.S. paid Spain for the islands — roughly $800 million today — if it meant the Philippines would be granted independence.

Carnegie joined figures such as Mark Twain, William James, and former president Grover Cleveland in opposing annexation through the American Anti-Imperialist League. He argued that ruling another nation through force would transform the United States from a republic into a colonial empire.

His offer was rejected, and the Senate approved the treaty by a single vote on February 6, 1899 — just two days after fighting broke out between American and Filipino forces. The United States then established colonial rule over the Philippines.

An elected Philippine Assembly was created in 1907, the Jones Act of 1916 promised eventual independence, and the Philippine Commonwealth was established in 1935. After the Japanese occupation during World War II, the United States finally recognized Philippine independence on July 4, 1946 — nearly 50 years after Carnegie’s proposal was turned down.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees in an effort to slow the expansion of two major deserts, making it the country with the largest tree-planting effort in history.

China has carried out the world’s largest afforestation program, planting tens of billions of trees to combat desertification and restore damaged ecosystems. After decades of deforestation, overgrazing, and expanding deserts, China launched the Three North Shelterbelt Program in 1978 to slow the growth of the Gobi Desert and protect farmland and cities from dust storms.

The effort later expanded to areas surrounding the Taklamakan Desert, where trees were planted along highways, rivers, and desert borders to stabilize shifting sands. These programs helped increase China’s forest coverage from around 12% in the early 1980s to more than 24% today, with NASA satellite data showing China contributed about 25% of the world’s increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

Pulling out the FIFA card. Oh my days

[TalkBirdieToMe @TalkBirdie_ToMe]

'Bryson DeChambeau, You Could Not Be a Bigger Wanker'

[Hoops @Hoopss]

This NBA I grew up on 🙌

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

Mmmm$$$$

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

And so it begins: the next phase in Trump’s War on Iran starts to take its toll:
Shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since July 15.
Brent crude hit $95/barrel this morning.
More important, prices of refined products spiking. For example, jet fuel is over $150 a barrel in Europe and just under $150 a barrel in North America.
Huge cuts in global supply of refined products from China, Russia and the Gulf — a dangerous triple-whammy for the global economy.

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

FFS.

Of course he does.

[Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal]

🚨🇺🇳 NEW: President Trump wants FIFA President Gianni Infantino to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations

[@nypost]

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

Top man

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'Spend a day with Kevin and you will see how a true, true superstar acts and behaves'

Former Liverpool and Newcastle manager Graeme Souness spoke to #BBCBreakfast about Kevin Keegan, who has died at the age of 75

https://t.co/1vTOmbRCb0

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The US spends 5 times more on its military than any other country -- more than the next 15 countries combined -- yet it's running out of anti-missile defenses and key munitions, can't defeat a middle power like Iran, is claiming Cuba (a tiny suffocated island of 11 million people) is threatening and bullying it, and now has to beg for hundreds of billions more at least to sustain this new Iran war.

[Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr]

⚡️#UPDATE UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved US use of British military bases for 'defensive strikes' against Iran, according to Bloomberg report.

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

Defensive?? No change at the top then

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved US use of British military bases for 'defensive strikes' against Iran, according to Bloomberg report.

[تكـتيكي @tactiek88]

من أكثر المشاهد سُخرية أن ترى ، أطفال اليوم يحاولون التقليل من الملك دييغو أرماندو مارادونا ليلاً نهارا وهو معتزل منذ عقود وفارق الحياة قبل سنوات !

أسمه فقط كافياً لجعل العالم يناقشه حتى اليوم

لذلك دييغو لا يُقارن
حتى لو سرق أحدهم 100 كرة ذهبية❤️

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

"People remember me for my hair, the perm, falling off a bike and 'I'd love it if we beat them!'"

Kevin Keegan reflected on some of things he thought people would remember him most by ❤️

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

"The people's champion, Newcastle adored him and loved him."

Former Newcastle player Micky Quinn pays tribute to Kevin Keegan after he passed away aged 75.

[george @StokeyyG2]

‘I like a lot of them artists but I thought it was crap…’

Wayne Rooney on the half time show for the World Cup Final 👏🤣🤣🤣

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

We think this pilot arriving into Dublin Airport this morning might be Spanish 😂🇪🇸

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

Tom Cruise?? Oh my days

[Raylan Harkins @TheRainMueller]

Robbie Williams? Naw mate. Awful

[The Extreme Football Enthusiast @ExtremeFootbal4]

🇧🇷 R9.

[ODAY @yl2vv]

Saudi Arabia and Jordan: There are no American bases in our countries.

US military: A large number of our soldiers were injured in Jordan and Saudi Arabia