Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?
Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump
Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?
Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump
(🌕) One of the biggest concerns for the coaching staff is that Argentina’s pressing isn’t working as it normally does and Scaloni is looking for ways to restore one of the team’s trademark strengths.
Another concern is that Argentina has plenty of possession but lacks a change of pace. Against defensive opponents, the team has become too reliant on Lionel Messi producing moments of brilliance. The objective now is to improve the starting XI through both tactical and physical adjustments. @hernanclaus@DiarioOle 🚨🇦🇷
@mosquitobatman In my state the commies n Islamists despite being a minority are the loudest bunch. So people think the whole of WB is like that, filled with rabies minded people. I hope the same is with TN and these dravidiots are a loud minority.
This happens, honestly, especially when you demand good screenplays first.
We’ve had CC, Superman, Peacemaker 2, Supergirl, we have Lanterns coming.
Paradise Lost & Booster Gold are being worked on, and we have B&TB / WW with scripts being written.
So 8 projects of this slate are either in production or already been made.
I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.
‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.
‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’
‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’
‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’
She stopped dead.
‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’
That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.
Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.
So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.
‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’
A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.
My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.
‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’
The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.
Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’
Case closed.
At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.
If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.
The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.
Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.
Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’
The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.
#SundayMusings
A emoção da jornalista japonesa Kiyomi Nakamura ao perguntar ao Vini Jr sobre as dificuldades que enfrentou e ele tenta acalmá-la: "Está tudo bem".
Ela depois conta em uma entrevista que é fã dele e se não existisse o racismo, tudo seria perfeito.