EXCLUSIVE: Ruud Gullit calls on Gianni Infantino to resign amid growing World Cup controversy
"I have stayed quiet for a long time because I wanted to judge this World Cup on football matters. But the deeper we get into the preparations, the more it becomes clear that football is no longer the main story. For that reason, I believe Gianni Infantino should seriously consider stepping down as FIFA President.
A World Cup should unite people. Instead, this tournament is becoming a symbol of division, political disputes, travel restrictions, and administrative failures.
We are hearing reports that Iranian supporters have had their ticket allocations withdrawn. We have seen the case of Somali referee Omar Artan, selected by FIFA on merit to officiate at the highest level, yet reportedly denied entry into the host country. These are not minor issues. They strike at the heart of what the World Cup is supposed to represent.
FIFA cannot continue promoting football as a universal game while qualified supporters, officials, and participants face barriers that appear unrelated to football itself. The organisation's first responsibility is to protect the integrity and accessibility of the competition.
What concerns me most is that these problems were foreseeable. FIFA awarded the tournament, FIFA approved the arrangements, and FIFA repeatedly assured the football world that everyone would be welcomed. If those assurances are proving unreliable, then accountability must start at the very top.
Leadership is not about appearing in photographs with politicians or celebrating commercial success. Leadership is about taking responsibility when things go wrong. That is why I believe Mr Infantino must ask himself whether he is still the right person to lead world football.
The rising cost of attending matches is another serious concern. Many loyal supporters who follow their countries through qualification campaigns can no longer afford to attend the tournament. Football risks becoming an exclusive event for corporations and wealthy spectators rather than the ordinary fans who built the game.
The World Cup belongs to the world, not to governments, political interests, or football administrators. It belongs to the players, the referees, and the supporters.
If FIFA cannot guarantee that all three are treated fairly and equally, then it has failed in its most fundamental duty.
The football world deserves answers, accountability, and leadership. If those cannot be provided under the current administration, then perhaps the time has come for new leadership at FIFA."
The problem is not that this is new to russian genocide of Ukraine. This is what russians are known for wherever they go for centuries. They even r@ped Holocaust survivors newly liberated as they entered liberated camps.
The problem is West imagines that without war, this stops. Or that its conscripts following orders to commit crimes they would otherwise not commit.
How you think russian mafia run largest sex trafficking ring on earth that steal children from all former Soviet states?
It’s not product of war. This is russia
This is culture that r@pes its own soldiers as part of military training. This is culture that uses r@pe as value of masculinity. This is culture that trafficks in slavery to fund its own identity propaganda. Do you know how much money is required to rewrite entire history of who you are? Ask Sudan where 23 million victims piled up so russia can steal their gold.
This is not Putin. It is simply Putin is russian.
Ask any nation russia has occupied in anyway what their most offensive and horrific crimes are. It’s always one answer.
Why do you think every single supporter of russia in West is a pedophile or sex offender?
And you imagine should we fall they won’t do this to you because they sign agreement promising not to? They don’t need war. They only need you.
As side note, I don’t believe in treating these prisoners of war humanely. Our defenders who did nothing but fight on their own land to defend their wives and children have been tortured and murdered. Yet we give humane treatment to this evil. They had choice. They might not like the choice they have. But they had choice.
Mehdi Hasan slams Elon Musk, "He is obsessed with finding these cases where he can then amplify far right voices"
"He doesn't just do it in England with Tommy Robinson, he does it in German with the AfD, obviously he does it in the US with Twitter"
Victoria Derbyshire, "What is he seeking to do?"
Mehdi Hasan, "He's seeking to embolden some of the worst far right voices in the Western world"
"That's why he's funding so many people all over the place"
"This is his agenda. It's a very racist agenda. We see that in the US with the Republican party"
"Elon Musk amplifies some of the most neo-nazi voices on Twitter"
"You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, can you take apartheid South Africa out of the boy?"
The replies here are some of the most depraved shit I’ve ever seen. Elon Musk wants mass violence in Europe. He’s been encouraging it for years, promoting violent psychopaths like Tommy Robinson, calling for civil war.
He will encourage this.
The oligarch engineering a takeover of the media is close personal friends with Netanyahu and offered him a seat on the board of Oracle. Ellison is also a major patron of the IDF.
Now “fanatic Zionist” Bari Weiss will lead:
Paramount, Warner, CBS, TikTok, CNN, 60 Minutes…
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“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on.”
—Larry Ellison, 2024
“Through all of the perilous times since Israel’s founding, we have called on the brave men and women of the IDF to defend our home.”
—2017, Friends of the IDF Gala, with a $16.6 million donation
Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.
The White House needs to explain why Donald Trump keeps going to the hospital and taking cognitive tests.
This is a total betrayal…Do not even dare to speak on behalf of wounded women.
An Afghan man, perfect English, telling you women in Afghanistan are fine. Just fine. Don't worry.
This is not nuance. This is normalization. This is normalizing Taliban.
Let’s women in Afghanistan talk.
Women who have been flogged. Women who have been imprisoned. Women who have been denied an education. Women who have watched their lives disappear under gender apartheid.
We the women of Iran have seen this movie before. Just watch the second video.
An Iranian man, same perfect English, so relax, saying IRGC the terrorist organization that massacres protesters, and morality police are not that bad, they’re just fine and women if you don’t have fun with them!
To every Afghan woman, every Iranian woman: Be louder than these men.
Do not let anyone with microphones, normalize what is being done to your bodies, your lives, your freedom.
@UAGApartheid
These are the DSA geniuses that built Platner in a lab but failed to observe his Nazi tendencies and misogynistic worldview. Professional malpractice, and these two should not be allowed within a hundred mile radius of a Democratic race ever again.
The problem with the widespread Anti Westernism in our societies and the lack of democratic resilience is not only that we have so many people who are influenced by this propaganda, but also the huge amount of apathetic people who do not care at all.
Besides the incompetence, what makes the affaire DSA-Platner so infuriating is the hypocrisy. They say Americans don't want "candidates grown in a vat" but where oh where did anyone say they wanted candidates selected by these two tone-deaf fools who can't even conduct proper self-oppo research?
I have an idea: how about candidates who, on their own and under their own volition, decide to pursue public service, rally support from their networks and communities, get elected, and then serve honorably for the right reasons? Not as proxies for some party schism, not as agents for or against a foreign country, but to actually f*cking serve? How exactly would that be, America? Would you be okay with that?
Today, women in Afghanistan are being shot in the streets simply for anting an education, wanting a job. Wanting to work and wanting to walk outside without a man's permission.
Taliban security forces killed one person and several wounded. Dozens arrested including women and girls.
It started last Friday, when Taliban imams announced from mosque loudspeakers that women were forbidden from leaving their homes without full hijab, including face cover.
Morality police flooded Herat's streets, markets, and shopping centers, batons in hand, arresting women for their clothing.
Just one day after some men in the West rolled out the red carpet for the Taliban, normalizing them, legitimizing them, shaking their hands, you can see how savagely women being shot and beaten up in the streets.
Jared and Ivanka Kushner want to buy Sazan Island in Albania because it is beautiful and they want to make it a resort. How nice!
But Sazan island is not a vacation spot. It’s a well-documented strategic military chokepoint with a long military history.
In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev stood at the nearby Soviet submarine base and said, "From there I could control the Mediterranean to Gibraltar." Sazan island controls the Strait of Otranto, and the Strait of Otranto controls access to the entire Adriatic.
Every empire that wanted to control the Adriatic, wanted Sazan. Romans. Ottomans. Italians. Germans. Soviets.
What Ivanka describes as "An unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean," is approximately 3,600 nuclear bunkers and kilometers of tunnels and hardened underground facilities, including a submarine pen the Soviets built specifically to project power into the Mediterranean, and is still an Albanian military zone.
The deal was negotiated in secret. Albanian citizens and their own parliament didn't know about it until the press reported it. The Albanian government approved it immediately after Trump won reelection. Kushner’s newly formed investment company is using $4.6 billion from Saudi Arabia and Gulf sovereign wealth funds to fund the purchase. A Qatari company, Power International Holding, is a co-owner of the project and is currently under investigation by Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors.
Now that the deal is public, the Albanians are pissed. They're in the streets marching by the thousands in Tirana, Albania’s capital with banners reading "Albania is not for sale." Private security forces have attacked protesters. The Albanian government has suspended police officers, and revoked security company licenses.
Yep, just a couple private civilians looking to open a resort. No need to look further...
Now that you know the whole story, what do you think?
@joni_askola It’s not a blind spot; they know, and are as compromised as he is. We don’t have a counterintelligence service right now when it comes to Kremlin operatives.
The goal is to empty out the institutions and accelerate the targeting of Americans blocking “the singularity.” If you are on their radar, you should be working on a plan B.
Is this you?
You were trained at Erik Prince’s psyop ranch in Wyoming, right?
Didn’t you work at FBI counterintelligence under convicted Russian asset Charles McGonigal?
So many questions.
By the time Trump is done, he will have transferred many trillions to the billionaire class—DOGE, the BBB, entitlement cuts, crypto fraud, pardons, total criminal immunity...
The chief enabler & beneficiary is racist conman Elon Musk.
The SpaceX IPO is the final capitulation.
Despite his white supremacist, eugenicist & violent comments, and despite the ACTIONS he’s taken which led to the EBOLA outbreak, the SCREWWORM outbreak & MILLIONS of dead from starvation and AIDS, the entire financial sector has looked the other way.
Venture capital, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, private equity, NASDAQ, FTSE Russell, Fidelity, Google…
They’ve all just decided that a man who lies all day long, and who wants to genetically engineer humanity to be more white, should be able to dump his stock on retirees whether they like it or not.
For money.
I believe we have reached terminal capitalism. We need to fundamentally change the system that sorts sadistic psychopaths to the top of the pyramid.