Ricardo Copper

Longhauler

[Nick De Marco KC @nickdemarco_]

I was just reading about this. To me, it makes matters considerably worse.
The issue is no longer simply whether the original red card was justified. It is whether FIFA has undermined the integrity of the World Cup, and its own authority as the global regulator of football, by appearing either to invent a procedure or, at the very least, to apply its rules in a wholly unprecedented way, against a backdrop of acknowledged political pressure, while refusing to give reasons and seemingly leaving the decision with no meaningful avenue of challenge.

As someone committed to sporting integrity, transparency, fairness and the rule of law in sport, if the reports of what has happened are accurate, I find this deeply troubling.

For years I have represented players and others facing lengthy bans for betting offences where there has been no suggestion whatsoever of match manipulation, because the governing bodies, including FIFA, have consistently argued that preserving confidence in the integrity of the sport requires robust and uncompromising enforcement.

If that is the standard expected of participants, the regulator itself must be held to at least the same standard. If the reports are accurate, this decision, and the consequences for FIFA, could prove to be truly seismic, eclipsing the controversy about the red card itself.

#sportslaw #sports #fifa #balogun

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head"

Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/GFVOhORkzk

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Getting rid of Keir Starmer is not enough. We need to get rid of the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of.

Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time.

A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

[Codziennik z Mordoru @mordownik4u]

Reprezentacja Haiti na oficjalnych koszulkach w których zagra na Mistrzostwach Świata umieściła POLSKĄ FLAGĘ!

To nie błąd projektanta ani przypadek – to wyjątkowy gest pełen szacunku, który porusza serce każdego Polaka. W 1802 roku Napoleon wysłał kilka tysięcy żołnierzy z Polskich Legionów na San Domingo (obecne Haiti), żeby zdławić tamtejsze powstanie niewolników. Polacy jednak wybrali inną drogę. Zamiast walczyć przeciwko walczącym o wolność, wielu z nich przeszło na stronę powstańców i stanęło do walki ramię w ramię z Haitańczykami przeciwko wojskom francuskim. Po zwycięstwie rewolucji i ogłoszeniu niepodległości w 1804 roku, pierwszy przywódca Haiti – Jean-Jacques Dessalines – oddał Polakom wielki hołd. Przyznał im pełne obywatelstwo, a w konstytucji nazwał ich „Białymi Murzynami Europy”. Były to słowa najwyższego uznania i braterstwa w tamtych czasach. Część polskich żołnierzy (ok. 400–500) została na wyspie na stałe, głównie w regionie Cazale, gdzie ich potomkowie mieszkają do dzisiaj. Dziś, ponad dwieście lat później, pamięć o polskiej odwadze i solidarności wciąż żyje na Haiti. Kiedy ich piłkarze wychodzą na murawę, niosą na piersi symbol naszej wspólnej historii – historii walki o wolność, która nie zna granic ani koloru skóry.

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current (AMOC) Collapse

One of the most vital systems of ocean currents - needed to keep life in northern Europe stable - is at risk of collapse. And now we can predict when it’s going to happen.

Credit: Alec Luhn ― New Scientist

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Fed up of the media lying to you every single day?

Double Down Newswatch will hold them to account.

Never before has aggressive scrutiny and fearless independent journalism been so important, yet never before has the mainstream media been so narrow in its perspectives, so infected in groupthink, and so tied to this failed political class and system.

If you find yourself screaming at the telly at the established pundits and news providers. The Laura Kuenssbergs, the Robert Pestons, the Trevor Phillips, Dana Bash and Bari Weiss, you are not alone. There are millions of people like you and we’re here for you.

This is not a program that will tell you what to think, the aim is to provide you with the information and knowledge you need to be able to make informed decisions in a functioning democracy, something that mainstream media is failing to do.

Like millions of others I’ve watched in horror and astonishment as the Israelis have used Western weapons and diplomatic protection to maim, mutilate and murder tens of thousands of small children and other civilians. There’s no other issue where the divide between the mainstream media and political class, which apparently regards this as tolerable, and the rest of us who’ve reacted like normal human beings, is so profound.

Above all, I feel deep shame and guilt at my own profession which continues to peddle a perverse inverted journalism, where allegations of racism are hurled not at the perpetrators and supporters of ethic cleansing, apartheid and genocide, but at their victims and their supporters, smeared and disempowered as antisemites.

Gaza encapsulates the political and intellectual and moral bankruptcy of those who rule over us and those who are to tell us what to think. Western politics and Western journalism is in desperate need of renewal, we want to be a part of that and we hope you join us.

@PulaRJS

Double Down Newswatch, covering the stories that mainstream media misreports, underreports or simple doesn’t report at all.

Premiers this Wednesday 6 May at 6pm

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The billionaire class are terrified because we're coming for them - we're going to tax them fairly and end rip-off Britain.

Let them attack. We're here to win.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

They were not intercepted. They were abducted in international waters.

This is piracy - and is a flagrant violation of international law.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Ex-MI5 Agent Annie Machon reveals that Mossad bombed its own Israeli embassy in London in a false flag operation, blaming Palestinians. This is the statecraft of a rogue nation: create terror, sell victim-hood, justify endless war.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Borneo Rainforest estimated to be approximately 130 to 140 million years old
Yet Indonesia has destroyed more than 90% of Borneo’s primary forest
Imagine a species that pays more respect to a 100 year old building than 130 million year old forest
Earth is being obliterated

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Before Amal Khalil was killed she was threatened via WhatsApp by an Israeli who has identified himself to other journalists as Gideon Gal Ben Avraham.

Here, he justifies the killing of journalists in voice notes.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

As the Metropolitan Police rolls out facial recognition nationwide, remember that the software is from Israeli firm Corsight AI and was used as part of the Gaza genocide first.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

This is the shocking story of how the British Department for Education has been captured by Israeli forces.

It's time to ask ourselves, who do our politicians actually work for?

@BobbyVylan

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

“There’s a guy called Dave Wells in Bournemouth with 3,000 properties... I think we should seize them.”

On Novara Live, @AaronBastani says to reconfigure the UK’s political economy, politicians need to start with tackling rent. He points to an example of a landlord called Dave Wells, who reportedly owned 3,000 properties before he died in 2025.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Peter Mandelson was friends with Jeffery Epstein. Instead of asking him about this, the media asked him about Jeremy Corbyn's supposed 'Antisemitism'.

Emily Maitlis, Lewis Goodall, Jon Sopel, Trevor Phillips, Robert Peston, Andrew Marr & Sophy Ridge hang your heads in shame

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

AMOC is weakening. New Potsdam Institute study: once it collapses, it stays collapsed. The point of no return was 350ppm CO₂. We crossed that in 1988. We're at 430 today. Without the Gulf Stream: US East Coast winters get extreme. Europe loses 7°C. Southern Ocean releases 83 gigatonnes of CO₂. The fossil fuel industry knew about AMOC in the 1980s. Same decade we crossed 350. The EPA just stopped regulating the emissions driving it.
#AMOC #ClimateChange #GulfStream #Science #Meteorologist

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Yesterday, the government passed a law effectively banning repeat protests.

The government is fed up with people protesting about genocide. Well, we are disgusted by its complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

The government wants to silence us. It will never succeed.