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He's Indian. Most women find them repulsive. And they have tiny private parts.

Another racist league? No, thanks.

lol


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAdOR5Kj8U

Most people don't watch these shows anymore. And these aren't competitions. They're shows focused mainly on keeping viewers and signing talent with strong marketability (by today's standard).

iamyemiakins:
Na audio?

Audio? For that? lol

lol Doesn't matter. Still not watching.

FIFA, CAF, CONCACAF, AFCON, Caribbean Leagues, African Leagues, Local League >

Great, op. Now all you need to do is make some fake designer stuff and cash out. j/k

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JovialJune:
Hahahaha, they will come for your head real soon

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Also, a good portion of men who complain are h0mosexuals who refuse to be themselves. Instead they just keep pretending that women are a "problem" when really they're just ashamed to admit they want men.

Most men who complain have mental problems, or they have the misfortune of being born into challenging circumstances that make them very angry and bitter. But it's mostly men with mental problems, specifically, they're delusional/m0rons. They don't have the mental health or capacity to understand and accept anything from women, but servitude. They ideally want to control and abuse women whenever/however they please.

These people shouldn't be taken seriously. They're the bottom of society. If anything, they need to be managed, so they cause less trouble. The terrorists in the north are an example of what happens when you don't control stup1d people.

There's easy ways to block your kid's access to certain things. If you actually know what you're doing, you can even monitor every single thing they do and stop it in real time.

Parents should really take the time to educate their child on dangers, and explain why they don't want them to access certain things until they reach a certain age (or ideally never).

It must be so hard parenting now with so much filth being mainstream and easily accessed. You have to fight for them to have a childhood, be normal, and not be a dingbat.

You might have to lock your kid in a cell with law books and math textbooks until they're 18. lol

Peanut butter and banana sandwich, and yogurt.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-ma-may-divest-ant-group-holdings-report-2021-4

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, the founder of Ant Group, reportedly may give up his stake in the company, Reuters reported.

The move is one option being discussed as Ant Group executives and Chinese regulators seek to find a way forward for the embattled tech giant. This is according to Saturday's report, which cited unnamed government and company sources.

It was unclear whether Ant Group or Ma would be tasked with a final decision on Ma's potential exit, the report said. Sources told Reuters the company hoped Ma's stake would be sold to Ant investors or Alibaba Group.

Ma's tech empire has been under increased scrutiny after the mogul made negative comments last fall about financial regulations during a public appearance.

In the wake of his comments, President Xi Jinping reportedly personally halted a planned $37 billion initial public offering by Ant Group. In meetings before the IPO's cancellation, Ma reportedly offered to give parts of Ant Group to the Chinese government.

News of Ma's potential exit came a week after Alibaba Group, also founded by Ma, was hit with a record $2.8 billion fine.

Reuters on Saturday said the decision about whether Ma would exit Ant Group was being discussed in meetings with officials. But an Ant Group spokesperson issued a statement to the outlet, saying Ma's exit "has never been the subject of discussions with anyone."

Press reports tracked the whereabouts of Ma as he fell out of favor last fall, including a long period where he seemed to disappear from view altogether. It was later reported by The Financial Times that he'd spent some of that time meeting with regulators.

Ma on Wednesday joined Russian leader Vladimir Putin on a video conference, his first public appearance since last weekend's record fine.

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Former Spanish PMs Rajoy and Aznar testify in corruption case
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL8N2LM2CK

Former IMF chief Rato faces fresh fraud accusations in Spain
https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/former-imf-chief-rato-faces-fresh-fraud-accusations-in-spain/

The long history of corruption in Spanish politics
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/long-history-corruption-spanish-politics

Spain’s Monarchy Is at a Crossroads Amid Corruption Scandal
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/helder-ferreira-do-vale-spain-monarchy-king-juan-carlos-corruption-scandal-news-15266/amp/

Corruption in Spain – A Brief Analysis of High-Profile Cases and Spanish Authorities’ Anticorruption Efforts
https://www.kroll.com/en/insights/publications/compliance-risk/spain-corruption-analysis

I encourage everyone to raise awareness about this issue on social media. There are people who can help, and will.

Turkey bacon, eggs, and pepper jack cheese on toast

Fake.

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In July 2018, the European Green Party released an eye-opening report identifying the costs of corruption across the EU. In Spain, corruption costs amount to EUR 90 billion annually, or 8% of GDP, according to the report. Public opinion surveys indicate that corruption ranks among the highest concerns for Spanish citizens, 94% of whom believe the problem is widespread.

https://www.kroll.com/en/insights/publications/compliance-risk/spain-corruption-analysis

Funflipper:
That is the real deal man. A well toned body unlike the ones (moyo Lawal, anita Joseph and co.) with loose skin, flabby stomach and rubbing thighs.

I wasn't complimenting her. She has fake, hard b****t and butt.

Her body looks rock hard. Must be like hugging a statue.

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Re-watched Olympus Has Fallen a few nights ago.

It's still fun watching the greasy oyinbo beat the heck out of asians. Fuqua did great work with that and Equalizer. I wish he would give us more of that instead of his latest stuff.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/nhs-england-set-up-review-20398145

NHS England will establish an independent review body to assess the prescription of puberty blockers to people aged under 16.

The move follows a High Court ruling in March which allows parents of transgender children to consent to treatment with puberty blockers on their child’s behalf without a court’s approval – though the judge added “additional safeguards” may need to be built into the decision-making process.

According to NHS England, the review group was being established in response to the “additional safeguards” suggestion as an “interim measure” to ensure any decision-making follows a “robust” process.

In a statement on its website, NHS England said: “This group will be comprised of health and care professionals with expertise in child development, neurodevelopment and mental health, assessing capacity and consent, and safeguarding processes.”

The March ruling came in the case of a 15-year-old, identified as XY, who was born a boy but lives as a girl and is undergoing treatment with puberty blockers.

The judge was asked to consider the issue following the High Court’s landmark decision in the case of Keira Bell last December over whether children can consent to the use of puberty blockers.

But she started legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust – which runs the UK’s only gender identity development service (GIDS) providing treatment to transgender children – arguing that children cannot properly consent to taking puberty blockers.

Judges ruled in Ms Bell’s favour and said children under 16 need to understand “the immediate and long-term consequences of the treatment” to be able to consent to the use of puberty blockers.

NHS England said the review group would aim to ensure GIDS has carried out an enhanced clinical review of each patient and information on the risks and benefits of puberty blockers is provided.

The body said: “Where the review group is content with the decision-making process, then there would not be a requirement from GIDS clinicians to seek a best interests decision from the court, but they could still do so.

“Where the review group raises concerns about the decision-making process, then the Tavistock will need to seek a best interests decision from the court in order to confirm the commencement or continuation of treatment.”

It is not clear when the review group will be established, however NHS England said more details would be available “in due course”.

https://www.si.com/high-school/2021/03/25/arkansas-governor-signs-bill-transgender-girls-ban-school-sports

On Friday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the anti-transgender athlete bill requiring athletes to compete in school sports according to their sex at birth.

Lee said the bill helps to "preserve women's athletics and ensure fair competition."

"This legislation responds to damaging federal policies that stand in opposition to the years of progress made under Title IX and I commend members of the General Assembly for their bipartisan work," Lee said.

Tennessee became the third state to enact legislation into law this year after Mississippi and Arkansas.

Lawmakers who support the bill in the Volunteer State argue that the bill protects women sports by ensuring fairness and eliminating a competitive edge for transgender women versus cisgender peers.

On Thursday, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed Senate Bill 354, which banned transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The decision comes two weeks after Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed a similar bill, which will go in effect July 1.

The Arkansas bill was introduced in late February by attorney general Leslie Rutledge, who described it as a preemptive effort after President Joe Biden signed an executive order that prohibited discrimination based on gender identity in school sports.

“We don’t want common sense to be overshadowed by so-called political correctness, and this bill will ensure the integrity of girls and women in sports,” Rutledge said, per the Associated Press, while acknowledging that she was unaware of any instances of transgender athletes playing on school sports teams in Arkansas.

The bill asserts that transgender girls and women athletes competing would create an unfair playing field, as they would have a biological advantage over their cisgender competitors. Critics of the bill, meanwhile, accuse the proposal of being discriminatory against transgender Americans.

In a statement released Thursday, Hutchinson called his decision to sign the bill as a way to "promote and maintain fairness in women’s sporting events."

“Today, I have signed into law SB354 called the 'Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.' I have studied the law and heard from hundreds of constituents on this issue. I signed the law as a fan of women’s sports from basketball to soccer and including many others in which women compete successfully," Hutchinson wrote. "This law simply says that female athletes should not have to compete in a sport against a student of the male sex when the sport is designed for women’s competition. As I have stated previously, I agree with the intention of this law."

Florida and Pennsylvania have also signed similar bills recently. Hopefully, the trend continues.

It's sad that society is so f**ked up that there needs to be a law to keep r3t4rds out of female sports.

It's in Qatar? Not watching.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-very-bad-bank-inside-032159830.html

(Bloomberg) -- It’s been 11 weeks since Lai Xiaomin, the man once known as the God of Wealth, was executed on a cold Friday morning in the Chinese city of Tianjin.

But his shadow still hangs over one of the most dramatic corruption stories ever to come out of China – a tale that has now set nerves on edge around the financial world.

At its center is China Huarong Asset Management Co., the state financial company that Lai lorded over until getting ensnared in a sweeping crackdown on corruption by China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

From Hong Kong to London to New York, questions burn. Will the Chinese government stand behind $23.2 billion that Lai borrowed on overseas markets -- or will international bond investors have to swallow losses? Are key state-owned enterprises like Huarong still too big to fail, as global finance has long assumed – or will these companies be allowed to stumble, just like anyone else?

The answers will have huge implications for China and markets across Asia. Should Huarong fail to pay back its debts in full, the development would cast doubt over a core tenet of Chinese investment: the assumed government backing for important state-owned enterprises, or SOEs.

“A default at a central state-owned company like Huarong is unprecedented,” said Owen Gallimore, head of credit strategy at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group. Should one occur, he said, it would mark “a watershed moment” for Chinese and Asian credit markets.

Not since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s has the issue weighed so heavily. Huarong bonds -- among the most widely held SOE debt worldwide -- recently fell to a record low of about 52 cents on the dollar. That’s not the pennies on a dollar normally associated with deeply troubled companies elsewhere, but it’s practically unheard of for an SOE.

Fears of a near-term default eased on Thursday after the company was said to have prepared funds for full repayment of a S$600 million ($450 million) offshore bond due April 27. Huarong plans to pay on the due date, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named discussing private information.

That’s a drop in the ocean and won’t remove investor concerns. All told, Huarong owes bondholders at home and abroad the equivalent of $42 billion. Some $17.1 billion of that falls due by the end of 2022, according to Bloomberg-compiled data.

Bad Bank

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Huarong was created in the aftermath of the ‘90s Asian collapse to avert another crisis, not cause one. The idea was to contain a swelling wave of bad loans threatening Chinese banks. Huarong was to serve as a “bad bank,” a safe repository for the billions in souring loans made to state companies.

Along with three other bad banks, Huarong swapped delinquent debts for stakes in hundreds of big SOEs and, in the process, helped turn around chronic money-losers like the giant China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.

After Lai took over in 2012, Huarong reached for more, pushing into investment banking, trusts, real estate and positioning itself as a key player in China’s $54 trillion financial industry.

Before long, global banks came knocking. In 2013, for instance, Shane Zhang, co-head of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Morgan Stanley, met with Lai. Zhang said his company was “very optimistic” about the future of Huarong, according to a statement posted on Huarong’s website at the time.

Before Huarong went public in Hong Kong in 2015, it sold a $2.4 billion stake to a group of investors including Warburg Pincus, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund. BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group acquired lots of stock too, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock has collapsed 67% since its listing.

Lai had no trouble financing his grand ambitions. A big reason: Everyone thought Beijing would always stand behind a key company like Huarong. It easily borrowed money in the offshore market at rates as low as 2.1%. It borrowed still more in the domestic interbank market. Along the way Lai transformed Huarong into a powerful shadow lender, extending credit to companies that banks turned away.

The truth was darker. Lai, a former senior official at the nation’s banking regulator, doled out loans with little oversight from his board or risk management committee.

One Huarong credit officer said Lai personally called the shots on most of the offshore corporate loans underwritten by her division.

Money also flowed to projects disguised as parts of China’s push to build railroads, ports and more around the world – the so-called Belt and Road Initiative, according to an executive at a state bank. Huarong didn’t immediately reply to questions on its lending practices.

Given Lai’s fate, both people spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Huarong snapped up more than half of the 510 billion yuan in distressed debts disposed of by Chinese banks in 2016. At its peak, Lai’s sprawling empire had almost 200 units at home and abroad. He boasted in 2017 that Huarong, having reached the Hong Kong stock exchange, would soon go public in mainland China, too.

The IPO never happened. Lai was arrested in 2018 and subsequently confessed to a range of economic crimes in a state TV show. He spoke of trunk-loads of cash being spirited into a Beijing apartment he’d dubbed “the supermarket.” Authorities said they discovered 200 million yuan there. Expensive real estate, luxury watches, art, gold – the list of Lai’s treasure ran on.

This past January, Lai was found guilty by the Secondary Intermediate People’s Court in Tianjin of accepting of $277 million in bribes between 2008 and 2018. He was put to death three weeks later – a rare use of capital punishment for economic crimes. Some took the execution as a message from China’s leader, Xi Jinping: my crackdown on corruption will roll on.

At Huarong, the bottom has fallen out. Net income plummeted 95% from 2017 to 2019, to 1.4 billion yuan, and then sank 92% during the first half of 2020. Assets have shriveled by 165 billion yuan.

The company on April 1 announced that it would delay its 2020 results, saying its auditor needed more time. The influential Caixin magazine this week openly speculated about Huarong’s fate, including the possibility of bankruptcy. Its credit outlook was put on review for a potential downgrade by all three top rating firms.

According to people familiar with the matter, Huarong has proposed a sweeping restructuring. The plan would involve offloading its money-losing, non-core businesses. Huarong is still trying to get a handle on what those businesses might be worth. The proposal, which the government would have to approve, helps explain why the company delayed its 2020 results, the people said.

Company executives have been meeting with peers at state banks to assuage their concerns over the past two weeks, a Huarong official said.

The Chinese finance ministry has raised another possibility: transferring its stake in Huarong to a unit of the nation’s sovereign wealth fund that could then sort out the assorted debt problems. Regulators have held several meetings to discuss the company’s plight, according to people familiar with the matter.

In an emailed response to questions from Bloomberg, Huarong said it has “adequate liquidity” and plans to announce the expected date of its 2020 earnings release after consulting with auditors. China’s banking and insurance regulator didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment on Huarong’s situation.

News the company aims to repay a note due this month helped its bonds rebound from record lows on Thursday. It’s not just about cost of funding though, said Thu Ha Chow, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles Investments Asia in Singapore. For Huarong to access the market it will need “a clear and definitive commitment,” from China’s finance ministry toward the offshore debt or clarity on a restructuring, she said.

One thing is sure: Huarong is part of a much bigger problem in China. State-owned enterprises are shouldering the equivalent of $4.1 trillion in debt, and a growing number of them are struggling to keep current with creditors. In all, SOEs reneged on a record 79.5 billion yuan of local bonds in 2020, lifting their share of onshore payment failures to 57% from just 8.5% a year earlier, according to Fitch Ratings. The figure jumped to 72% in the first quarter of 2021.

The shockwaves from Huarong and these broader debt problems have only begun to reverberate through Chinese finance. Dismantling all or part of Lai’s old empire would show Beijing is willing to accept short-term pain to instill financial discipline among state-owned enterprises.

The irony is that Huarong was supposed to fix China’s big debt problem, not cause a new one.

“Allowing a state-owned financial institution that undertook the task of resolving troubles of China’s financial system to fail is the worst way to handle risks,” said Feng Jianlin, a Beijing-based chief analyst at research institute FOST. “The authorities must consider the massive risk spillover effects.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sanctions-us-biden-plans/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b

Washington — The Biden administration issued a wide range of sanctions against Russia on Thursday in retaliation for recent incursions including the SolarWinds cyber espionage campaign and Moscow's interference in the 2020 presidential election.

The sanctions target more than 30 Russian entities and include the expulsion of at least 10 Russian individuals from the U.S., including intelligence officials and diplomats. The administration also issued an executive order barring U.S. financial institutions from purchasing ruble-denominated bonds beginning in June of 2021, according to a White House fact sheet.

"The Biden administration has been clear that the United States desires a relationship with Russia that is stable and predictable," the White House said. "We do not think that we need to continue on a negative trajectory. However, we have also been clear — publicly and privately — that we will defend our national interests and impose costs for Russian Government actions that seek to harm us."

Administration officials have vowed for weeks to exact costs from Moscow. In a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, President Biden said the U.S. would "act firmly" in defense of its national interests while proposing a summit with the Russian leader to discuss a "full range of issues."

The White House also said the sanctions were in response to reports that Russia encouraged Taliban fighters to injure or kill coalition forces in Afghanistan. "Given the sensitivity of this matter, which involves the safety and well-being of our forces, it is being handled through diplomatic, military and intelligence channels," the White House statement said.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Thursday that during their call, Mr. Biden informed Putin the U.S. was about to respond to cyber intrusions and election interference by Russia.

Sullivan summarized Mr. Biden's comments to Putin as, "He said, 'I told you that I was going to look into this, I made a determination that Russia has, in fact, conducted these actions. And I'm a man of my word, I am going to respond. But I'm not looking to escalate, I'm looking to provide proportionate responses. And I believe that it is in our interest to find a stable and predictable way forward in this relationship.'"

According to an unclassified report from the U.S. intelligence community, Putin authorized influence campaigns aimed at hurting Mr. Biden's candidacy during the 2020 election and boost former President Donald Trump.

"A key element of Moscow's strategy this election cycle was its use of proxies linked to Russian intelligence to push influence narratives — including misleading or unsubstantiated allegations against President Biden — to U.S. media organizations, U.S. officials, and prominent U.S. individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration," the declassified report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated.

Last year, cybersecurity researchers identified a hack of a piece of software called SolarWinds — an intrusion that gave cyber criminals access to 18,000 government and private computer networks. The U.S. intelligence community identified hackers in Russia as behind the attack, and they gained access to digital files of several U.S. government agencies, including the Treasury, Justice and State Departments.

The National Security Agency, FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency formally attributed the attack to Russia on Thursday, saying the country's Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, directed the intrusions. A joint advisory from the agencies identified five vulnerabilities that the SVR exploited to carry out the attack.

Microsoft President Brad Smith in February told "60 Minutes" that the SolarWinds hack was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen."

The U.S. has also publicly warned Russia against aggressive actions in Ukraine. Russia has amassed more than 40,000 troops on Ukraine's eastern border, and more than 40,000 in Crimea, the region that Putin annexed away from Ukraine and declared Russian in 2014.

On Wednesday, at a meeting in Brussels with NATO allies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is "deeply concerned about what we're seeing, about Russia's ongoing aggressive actions, rhetoric directed at Ukraine."

Top intelligence officials on Wednesday told a Senate panel that Russia would continue to employ "a variety of tactics" to undermine the U.S., including mercenary operations, assassinations, arms sales, cyber capabilities and malign influence campaigns — but that Moscow did not seek military conflict.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cariole-horne-former-buffalo-police-officer-pension-lawsuit-win/#app

Former Buffalo officer who stopped fellow cop's chokehold on suspect will get pension after winning lawsuit

A former Buffalo Police officer who said she was fired for intervening when a White officer attempted to choke a Black suspect will receive her pension after winning a lawsuit on Tuesday. The New York State Supreme Court vacated a previous ruling upholding the firing of Cariol Horne, CBS Buffalo affiliate WIVB-TV reports.

In his ruling, Judge Dennis Ward wrote that "the City of Buffalo has recognized the error and has acknowledged the need to undo an injustice from the past. The legal system can at the very least be the mechanism to help justice prevail, even if belatedly."

"While the Eric Garners and the George Floyds of the world never had a chance for a 'do-over,' at least here the correction can be done," Ward wrote.

Horne gained national attention in 2006 when she said she stopped officer Greg Kwiatkowski's chokehold on Neal Mack.

"Neal Mack looked like he was about to die," Horne told "CBS This Morning" in an interview in 2020. "So had I not stepped in, he possibly could have. He was handcuffed and being choked."

She was ultimately fired in 2008, mere months before she was eligible to receive her full pension.

Kwiatkowski sued Horne and her lawyer for defamation. In 2011, a judge found that Horne's lawyer made eight statements that were considered defamatory and false, including the claim that Horne "saved the life of a suspect who was already in handcuffs and was being choked out by officer Greg Kwiatkowski."

But Mack maintains that Horne saved his life.

"He was choking me. I was handcuffed. Cariol Horne said, 'You killing him, Greg,' and she reached over and tried to grab his hand around my neck," Mack told "CBS This Morning" last year.

Mack sued five officers involved in his arrest in 2012. A jury found no wrongdoing in a ruling of 5 to 1. The juror who sided with Mack was the only Black person on the jury, reports the Buffalo News.

In 2018, Kwiatkowski was sentenced to four months in federal prison for a 2009 incident in which he used "unlawful and unreasonable force" against four black teenagers, including slamming their heads into a car. Ward said knowledge was not made available during "the original determinations in this case by both the hearing officer and this court."

"Likewise, the current societal view toward the use of chokeholds and physical force in effecting arrests along with the City of Buffalo's expression of specific disapproval of such force by legislative enactment, has altered the landscape," Ward added.

Horne is eligible for back pay and benefits through August 4, 2010.

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