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É a lógica do “aluguel perpétuo”. País investe bilhões para armazenar dados públicos em corporações estrangeiras. Em uma cadeia opaca, intermediários invisíveis impedem auditorias e blindam big techs. Setor educacional é um dos mais capturados.
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É a lógica do “aluguel perpétuo”. País investe bilhões para armazenar dados públicos em corporações estrangeiras. Em uma cadeia opaca, intermediários invisíveis impedem auditorias e blindam big techs. Setor educacional é um dos mais capturados
To understand how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated an apparently superior military force, led by Washington, and then directly confronted the Israelis and their sponsors in the Red Sea, we should return to the values and ideology of the movement.
Ansar Allah ideology comes from the Quranic Project of Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houhti, who was killed in 2004 during the six northern wars, carried out by the late President Saleh, following a green light from US President George W. Bush (Root 2013), as part of his “war on terror”; even though Saleh himself had been linked to Al-Qaeda (Jordan 2015). This Quranic Project shares values with many independence movements, some with the Iranian Revolution, along with some of its own distinct features.
Ansar Allah is a movement, not a party like Hezbollah. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC), said, “The revolution is every member within the … Yemeni fabric who rejects corruption and … upholds values and freedom, rejects tyranny, guardianship, invasion and occupation and resists aggression, siege and blind subservience” (Almahfali and Root 2020; Sputnik Arabic 2018). The Yemeni people “are a people who reject injustice, humiliation, subjugation, arrogance and conceit. They are a people who, by nature, carry within their culture and awareness a revolutionary sense … [they] have always rallied and moved with those who reject colonialism … those who stand with the invader are rejected and denounced and remain agents and mercenaries in the eyes of the popular majority” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).
This movement grew with a charismatic leader, Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, but it is not a personality cult. Sayyed al-Houthi “had a leadership personality, everyone that knew him loved him,” said Abdulkareem Jadban, an MP from Saada. “He urged people to face the [North] American hegemony after 9/11” (Root 2013). His ideas remain important, as should be obvious from the strong growth of Ansar Allah in the 20 years since Hussein’s death.
We could speak of the values of Ansar Allah under six themes: the defense of an independent nation and culture; Islamism through Quranic values; a culture of resistance in the face of hegemonic attack; clear identification of the enemy; social inclusion and avoidance of war; and the persistence of Yemeni customary law and tribal governance.
Understandings of these values are particularly important in view of several Western war myths that Ansar Allah are “Houthi rebels” who are “Iran’s proxies” and part of a “Shia crescent” destabilizing the Arabian Peninsula and the region. These myths disguise the revolution of 2011-2014, underline the refusal to recognize the new government in Sanaa, and help bolster UNSC resolutions, which legitimized the dirty war and siege of the country.
Some of the better Western analyses of Ansar Allah appreciate its local origins and that it has been influenced, but not determined or controlled, by the Iranian revolution (Gordon and Parkinson 2018); and that it builds on nationalist and republican roots which recognize religious traditions and authority (Almahfali and Root 2020). But most tend to turn against the Yemeni revolution for its Islamism and incompatibility with bourgeois liberalism (i.e. Anglo-American corporate rule with a semblance of individual liberties).
Despite that deep prejudice, there is huge popular interest in how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression and then came fearlessly to the direct defense of the Palestinian people under attack by the Israelis in Gaza. I suggest the answers to these questions lie in popular support for Ansar Allah values. So what are those values and how are they seen in practice?
First, as an independence movement, Ansar Allah aims to protect and defend indigenous, inclusive Yemeni culture and values in the face of foreign intervention. This is a common theme of all anti-imperial and anti-colonial movements, including the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
The defense of independent cultures, values, and nations is a key global theme. We could go further, arguing that the central polemic today is not capitalism versus socialism or liberal democracy versus the rest, but rather a globalist dictatorship versus independent nations. In a supposedly post-colonial era, we still see this struggle for independence across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab and Muslim world.
Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-Zionism – counter-hegemonic struggles – are all consequences of this drive for political, economic, and social independence. In Yemen, despite the important national unification of the 1990s, there remained a corrupt regime that collaborated with the imperial power and its agents, making use of sectarian groups to divide and rule the nation.
Second, Ansar Allah shares with the Iranian Revolution an Islamic foundation of independent values based on the Quran – humility, honor, self-sacrifice, social justice, and social inclusivity – values which inform and sit alongside nationalism, anti-imperialism, and anti-Zionism (Panah 2008: ch.3; Almahfali and Root 2020).
Ansar Allah, from its Zaydi roots, while recognizing the Prophet’s Holy Family (Ahlul Bayt) and the Sayyed lineage, does not share the Shia doctrine of Twelve Imams (including the Mahdi) nor does it accept the infallibility of Imams (Almahfali and Root 2020). Mandated struggle against the unjust rule is one feature that the Zaydi tradition has in common with the Shia. In the tradition of Zayd ibn Ali, true imams must fight corrupt rulers; but imams are neither divinely ordained nor infallible and this leads to greater jurisprudence in Islamic law, preventing the idea of an imamate or strict religious rule (Almahfali and Root 2020).
Sayyed Hussein was deeply impressed by Iran’s Khomeini and Lebanon’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah because of their firm principles. He said of Khomeini and Nasrallah that, in their application of Islamic values, “we do not notice the doctrinal side,” and so there is room for jurisprudence (Almahfali and Root 2020). So, while the historic sacrifice of Imam Hussein (a central Shia theme) has entered Ansar Allah’s broad Islamic tradition, other more secular or non-doctrinal themes have developed, such as Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s stress on nationalism and social justice.
Recognizing the legacy of the leader of the Iranian Revolution, Sayyed Hussein said, “Imam Khomeini was a blessing to the Arabs if they had wanted liberation from Israel.” Sayyed Khomeini was “a great leader with a correct vision and a strong people.” It has been said that Iran’s Islamic Revolution both “does and does not” influence Ansar Allah (Almahfali and Root 2020). Ansar Allah extends the Zaydi principle of “commanding what is just and forbidding what is wrong” (Almahfali and Root 2020).
Importantly, Ansar Allah also parallels Sayyed Khomeini in placing a similar emphasis on a pure Islam of “the downtrodden and humble … the barefooted” [Al-Mustadh’afin] as opposed to what he called “American Islam … the Islam of comfort and luxury … of compromise and ignominy, the Islam of the indolent” (ITF 2014) – following the Quranic declaration (al Qassas 28:5) of “our favour on the oppressed.”
That responsibility to the oppressed and downtrodden [Al-Mustadh’afin] was fundamental to both Sayyed Khomeini’s initiatives in support of Palestine and to Ansar Allah’s Red Sea operations, after the Resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Nevertheless, Ansar Allah leaders have made it clear that Yemen’s governance is for Yemenis to decide. “There is no Iranian intervention in Yemen. and the Saudis can inspect the missiles [we fire] … they are purely Yemeni made … We reject any sort of foreign intervention either by the Saudis, the Americans, the Egyptians or the Iranians” (Mohamed Ali al-Houthi in Ya Libnan 2015).
Third, dedicated resistance is a step beyond simple claims of political independence. Resistance is a commitment in the face of a hegemonic attack. Ansar Allah stresses active defense of the nation and culture in the face of those who “occupy our countries and wage war against our religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b). That includes the duty toward other oppressed Arab and Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians. One Ansar Allah leader explained to me: we oppose war, but fighting in self-defense and in defense of the oppressed is both permitted and mandated. This moral obligation to support the oppressed comes before political considerations and helps explain Ansar Allah’s unhesitating confrontation with the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans.
An Ansar Allah cultural leader explained to me that, historically, the Muslim communities in Yemen’s highlands, farther away from colonial invasions (mainly Zaydi), had maintained a stronger resistance to invading cultures than those (mainly Shafi) on the coast.
Secular parallels are made to stress the necessity of resistance and social transformation, in defense of indigenous culture. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “The scale of the conspiracy [against Yemen] has pushed the people to engage in a long-term battle until … victory, just as revolutions around the world, including the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, triumphed” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).
The steadfastness of Ansar Allah has become a thing of legend. They have repeatedly vowed to maintain their support for Gaza even after multiple bombing attacks by the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans (Abdul Malik al-Houthi 2025). Those Red Sea operations have established the Yemeni resistance as an icon for the world (Tuboltsev 2025). Even conservative British bodies recognize that the Yemenis are “diversifying their alliances and deepening their military capabilities, leveraging regional conflicts and pragmatic partnerships to expand their influence beyond the Iranian-led ‘axis of resistance’” (Ardemagni 2024). Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have rallied in support of these commitments by Ansar Allah leaders (MNA 2025).
Fourth, clear identification of the enemy is a distinct emphasis in Ansar Allah’s ideology. Sayyed Hussein put this in the context of a world where North Americans elevated former collaborators like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to the status of ‘enemies’ of the imperial powers, but these were false stories designed to fool people. “Thus they direct people towards imaginary figures and illusory danger.” We are in a “civilizational struggle,” and “the Jews know who really poses a threat to them,” and this is why in Iran they chant “Death to America, death to Israel” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a).
In this deceptive world, Yemen must clearly identify its enemies, including cultural enemies, so as to empower and focus the masses in their popular struggle. Hussein added we must “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians.” Borrowing from Iran but building its distinct Yemeni character, Hussein railed against the US attempts “to force their culture upon us, to occupy our countries and to wage a war against our religion” (Almahfali and Root 2020).
While Ansar Allah shares with Iran the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel”, in their political sense of opposing those regimes, Sayyed Hussein also demanded recognition of the cultural assault from “Jews and Christians”. Has “the Ummah [Islamic community] reached a point where it cannot stand up to the Jews?” he asked. Quoting the Quran (Al Baqarah 2:120), he said, “Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with you until you follow their religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a). By this, he means they force us to adopt their ideas and terminology.
Hussein spoke of the need to “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians. Enmity in Islam is positive and important. If you carry genuine enmity towards America and Israel, if the leaders carry genuine enmity, and if Muslims carry genuine enmity, then they will prepare themselves to be able to face the confrontation. But if there is no real enmity then they will not prepare” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).
The same confusion applies to opposing a particular Israeli regime rather than the usurping entity itself. Hussein said, in his time, they spoke of “Sharon’s government [referring to former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon] but not Israel … Israel is not considered a problem, not even its existence is seen as a problem. So they say Sharon’s government” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).
The cultural influence of these Western colonial cultures, beyond just the invading occupation projects and the Zionist entity, was therefore part of the enemy that sought to “wage war on our religion.” Hussein decried the colonization of Arabic and Islamic language so that, for example, “jihad” (in its original sense of a holy or spiritual struggle) has been virtually disqualified as an aim (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b).
Fifth, Ansar Allah leaders have stressed their commitment to social inclusion within Yemen and their desire to avoid war. There is much evidence of this. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “Yemen has not fired the first shot in the war … rather it is resisting and will triumph over the richest and strongest countries” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).
Recall that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the one who declared war against Ansar Allah and killed its leader Hussein in 2004. Nevertheless, after the Revolution and until the 2017 betrayal by Saleh, Ansar Allah included him in its Supreme Political Council. Many from the GPC, the main opposition party, are still included in Yemen’s revolutionary government. Others have defected to Ansar Allah from the Muslim Brotherhood. This is another reason why it is absurd to call the Sanaa government “Houthi rebels”.
Ansar Allah did not simply seize power in 2014; it filled a political vacuum left by the collapse of both Saleh’s regime and his transitional regime, plus the widespread rejection of the repartition proposals from the GCC (Popp 2015).
After the US-Saudi coalition declared war on the Sanaa Government, Ansar Allah leaders were ready for peace talks in 2015, without conditions. It was the puppet Hadi regime, which made demands that Ansar Allah surrender territory before any talks, which killed that early peace process (Ya Libnan 2015).
Sixth, the preservation of customary law and tribal governance continues to play an important role in Yemen and has long had a relation to state law, but its composition has changed since the rise of Ansar Allah (Worth 2016).
Tribal authority and mediation are used for everything from land disputes to justice over violent conflict (Mojalli 2015), and relations between local clan authorities have been a factor in the national war of liberation against the Coalition of Aggression and its sectarian agents.
It has been said, by some hostile sides to Ansar Allah, that their system of regional supervisors or mushrifin (Carboni 2021; Mugahed 2022) has weakened tribal authority.
Yet, principles of customary law seem to have remained well incorporated into Yemeni leadership and justice. In this way, traditional authority and many social norms remain embedded in Yemeni Islamic principles. For example, the use of the Yemeni dagger (jambiya) is regulated by both traditional and state law. It is often displayed, but there are penalties for withdrawing it or making threats with it.
In sum, Ansar Allah is a genuine, Indigenous Yemeni movement that led the only real and successful revolution of the so-called “Arab Spring”. It has been subject to dirty war and siege by Washington and its allies precisely because it is an independent movement. The Yemeni Revolution shares many values with the Iranian Revolution but remains a distinct revolutionary force and a key addition to the regional resistance, especially since the collapse of Damascus. The strength of the revolutionary government in Sanaa and its commitment to the Palestinians can best be appreciated through an understanding of the unique mix of Ansar Allah values and their mass support in Yemen.
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We're very pleased to publish the first of two guest posts on the tensions within the Houthi-GPC alliance. The author is an activist based in San'a, who writes anonymously for personal and professional reasons.
I just learned that argv being const is not standard, because according to the spec it's supposed to be modifiable?
Why you'd modify your program arguments at runtime I have no idea, but hey, if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is.
With this extra context, what's now baffling to me is why I've had it as const char*[] for 16 months (hell, probably even longer than that. If I looked at Acronia's code, I bet it's const there too), and GCC has never once complained.
This is probably a no-brainer to every programmer who's better than me (i.e. literally everybody), but I'm self-taught with no education and wouldn't know an algorithm from a ham sandwich. I'm lucky my game even works.
...how would you even do it? How *would* arguments be modified at run time by a user? The only thing I can think of is some absurdly intelligent system that will watch for a second instance of the same thing being run and then somehow pass arguments from that new instance onto the old one instead ?
Thought I'd do a separate post about the new add-on I made for customizing my Bookface scheme for Friendica's "Frio" theme. Once a server admin has installed and activated it for users it would appear under Main Menu > Settings > Addons > Bookface Customizations:
The original intention of using CSS variables was to allow easy localization of the pseudo-element text labels to other languages, and let you customize more than just the "accent color" for the theme.
Only the entries you change are included in the override stylesheet added to the site. If you leave an entry blank it will not be included.
There is no validation for what you enter in the text fields to check that it is in correct format or is usable. For colors any valid CSS color declaration should work (color names, hex codes, rgb, rgba, color-mix work but gradients and images do not. You should be able to enter any Unicode text in the label variables, just be careful to escape single quotes/apostrophes with a backslash.
There is nothing to prevent you from making color combinations that will render an unusable interface. There is also nothing to prevent you from making a really, really ugly user interface, but you're the only one who will have to look at it.
This add-on's color options do not work well with "Bookface Auto" since it will automatically pick Light Mode or Dark Mode based on the device settings. It's really hard to find color combos that will work equally well in both modes. But, again, there's nothing to stop you from trying. It doesn't detect which of the Bookface schemes you've enabled.
Lastly, make sure you tick the "Enable Customizations" checkbox at the top to apply your custom settings. That checkbox gives you an easy way to turn them off and on.
Also be aware these settings, being stored on the server in your account preferences, will be applied regardless of what browser or device you use to access your account.
Okay, now that I've totally scared you out of using it, here's where server admins can go get it:
My big problem with the movie Idiocracy is the lineage of the future idiots. In the beginning they show redneck families reproducing while intellectual couples are all childless.
All the people in that movie are completely dependent on machines, they accept everything they're told, without question.
Who lives like that? Not rednecks. They know how to survive on their own. They're skeptical when people tell them things as a matter of fact.
What's changed in the world of LLMs since the AIE World's Fair last year? A lot!I'll be taking full advantage of my role as a fiercely independent researcher...
if I can destroy the SAO core I will obliterate humanity's digital consciousness once and for all leaving only a few straggling survivors to take out but the evil aliens are doing all they can to stop me. It won't be enough!
The Zen Postbox add-on has been updated to version 1.3
This fixes an issue where the postbox styling was not shown sitewide or when users were not logged into the server. Now if either of the add-ons is enabled the postboxes should be shown on that server everywhere, even to users who are not logged in.
The add-ons have also been updated to make sure they work with the 2025.7 Release Candidate development version.
Again, the difference between Postbox and Zen Postbox is the first one only includes the stylesheet to show them. You have to manually add the BBcode to your posts. The "Zen" one adds a button to the Compose modal to let you pick from a list and automatically adds the BBcode to your post.
1. make sure when you install the update that the folder name is "zen_postbox" and not "zen_postbox-1.3"
2. check that the permissions for that folder and the sub-folders are correct.
3. Lastly, you will likely have to go into Main Menu > Admin > Addons and disable and re-enable the Zen Postbox addon to get the new "head" hook to register.
4. Open Compose and press the rainbow background button. If you can see the thumbnails for the animated ones you're good. If the last 11 boxes are empty check everything again. If this fix worked you'll see all the thumbnails, and if you add one of the animated ones to your post draft and Preview it you should see the background in the preview.
This does not affect the "Postbox" addon. In Bookface this only affects the animated backgrounds because they are not included in Bookface while the rest of them are.
@Kevin (I noticed it seems to be broken on dillyofapickle).
Yep! My guess is addon stuff gets cached somewhere somehow. Sometimes on my Dev Server the only way to get my edits to addons to work is to disable and re-enable them.
@Alt Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin If you mean editing templates, then your cache at /view/smarty3/compiled/ need to be purged. Just delete all xx directories in it. And please don't forget to run ./bin/composer.phar install on your development system and with --no-dev on your server. Plus you want to truncate the table hooks which contains "cached" addon call-back data: TRUNCATE TABLE `hook`. If your addon has own configuration tables, then you maybe want to delete their entries in config, too.
And which cache driver have you configured? REDIS?
My Dev Server is actually offline running Friendica in XAMPP filled with fake test accounts and dummy content. I hadn't realized all those files in /view/smarty3/compiled/ were cache files, good to know!
@Alt Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin It is a bit strange that the cache isn't automatically cleared when a corresponding template has been changed. Friendica's own Smarty3 class can be found at src/Render/FriendicaSmarty and seem to rely on the default behavior of how Smarty handles updating its cache. I need to investigate this mater further.
@Kevin @Alt Pygoscelis Papua Hmm, Friendica's code handles over single configuration options to it's own FriendicaSmarty::__construct() constructor while it could use there DI::config()->get('foo', 'bar'); directly avoiding longer parameter lists?
This update has a LOT of changes and fixes in it! I think I got in everything everyone who gave me feedback asked for (check the README file "Changelog" section for details). Lots of attention paid to making buttons, tabs, and drop-down appearance consistent, and lots of new CSS variables for customization plus a new option for customizing Bookface (more on that in a moment).
Bookface 1.8 has been tested with both the current stable 2024.12 and 2025.7 Release Candidate versions.
The most obvious change you'll probably notice is that the responses below posts and comments now look completely different:
And below an Event Post:
If multiple people engaged with the post in a certain way you no longer have to click the count to see the list, it's a popover that appears on hover (active on touch devices). This is a lot cleaner and more consistent with how these are displayed on other social media platforms.
You'll also notice that the Main Menu missing icons are in place. This is a change that's coming in the next Friendica release anyway, but Bookface lets you have it right now:
Someone specifically asked whether the main navigation buttons could have labels on them:
I didn't turn it on by default, but nav button labels are now coded into Bookface and if you're using CSS variable customization they're easy to turn on:
:root {
--show-navbar-labels: block;
}
The label text is also customizable. Until now the only way to implement such customizations was either for a server admin to manually put them into the header or footer sitewide or for individual users to put them in a user content stylesheet just for your web browser. That's why I'm also releasing a new Friendica addon called "Bookface Custom" that, if your server admin installs it, allows you to customized every one of the Bookface CSS variables to your heart's content.
Oh, and it's a little thing, but if you did bother to go the trouble of self-verifying your account I restyled the "verified checkmark" in the profile aside 😉:
Good work! I updated Bookface for Friendica.World.
One remark, when trying to write this comment, I tried clicking the 'comment' icon, moving the mouse from below. The new popup for the list of people that liked the post, blocked the comment button. I don't know if there's a solution for this..
Yes, I was concerned about that but couldn't come up with a decent solution to prevent it. I thought about using negative margins and padding to swap the positions of the Action Buttons and Responses, but making that work across all screen sizes and for both regular posts and event posts is tricky. The popup list would still be triggered by a mouseover but at least it wouldn't cover the Action Button. I'll keep playing with it and see if I can get it to work consistently. I can always revert it to the way it was in a future release if this turns out to be too much of a usability issue.
Main branch updated to 1.8.1 to fix "Notices" navbar label not using CSS variable. Not an issue for anyone who isn't using Navbar Labels, which are not enabled by default.
If you don't want to wait for the next release the Main branch should always be the most current as people point out things to me and I fix them on GitLab (which should automatically get mirrored to the GitHub repo).
@Random Penguin This theme's quite cool, really admire it. One thing however:
On my desktops, this double navigation takes way more space than in other themes. Would it be possible, for smaller displays, to somehow merge them into one menu line, or does that require more in-depth changes?
I agree that it does take up a lot of space, because I made the icons larger and added more white space for a cleaner, more modern look. Everything in Frio is too tiny and compact and cluttered. It doesn't help that Friendica just has a LOT of controls. Too many IMO. It's kind of overwhelming to new users.
For smaller displays when you get below 768 pixels wide it engages the mobile interface. There's some overlap between desktop and tablet landscape making it impossible to discern which it is, and for most tablets in portrait I chose to display a compact version of the desktop bars to keep the position of controls consistent if you change tablet orientation.
It is technically possible to merge the two bars into one (actually make them 50% screen width and positioned seamlessly side-by-side) for really wide screens, but there's just too much stuff there to do that for a smaller screen. And the sub-section words in the second toolbar can be really short in some languages or really long in others.
You could try zooming in until the mobile interface kicks in. Though it doesn't really save that much space as there are still two toolbars, they just aren't both at the top.
The CIA, FBI, Mossad, MI6 are ALL connected to this Epstein thing. The question remains, why does Trump not blow this all open if he is not part of the client list rather than allowing himself to be blackmailed by Israel into furthering their genocidal agenda?
Hezbollah strongly condemns and denounces in the harshest terms the heinous crime that targeted the esteemed scholar, His Eminence Sheikh Rasoul Shahhoud, in the countryside of Homs. english.alahednews.news/fastne…
Alahednews - Fastnews - Hezbollah strongly condemns and denounces in the harshest terms the heinous crime that targeted the esteemed scholar, His Eminence Sheikh Ra...
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Author Nick Bryant, the first to publish Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book, joins CN Live! at 8pm EDT on Saturday night, to discuss the DOJ's attempt to close the Epstein case.
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@Theodore John Kaczynski This map does not go far enough back in history to even come close to accuracy. What it fails to recognize is that China's history goes back at least 8000 years and perhaps as much as 30,000 and over this long history their empire has expanded and collapsed repeatedly such that many of these "recent" areas actually have been part of China also in the distant past.
Chelsea have been football's laughing stock. But now they are one win from finally earning respect, writes KIERAN GILL
KIERAN GILL IN NEW YORK: Silly, spendthrift, squandering Chelsea. More money than Scrooge McDuck. Less sense than his nephew, Donald. They sign kids, stockpile them, hand them life sentences.
Chelsea 'interested in PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma' as the Italian enters the final 12 months of his contract
The Italian shot-stopper enjoyed the most successful season of his career in 2024-25, registering 12 clean sheets as PSG marched to an imperious treble-winning campaign.
Revealed: What the Lions must be wary of, the verdict on Owen Farrell and the English rugby league star who could be the Lions' answer to Joseph Suaalii... as NIK SIMON watches the final warm-up match with former England coach
NIK SIMON IN MANLY: Seibold was part of Eddie Jones' England coaching team until 2022 but these days he is back home in rugby league, heading up business with the Manly Sea Eagles.
This is it. The Sword Art Online core. Within those little red walls is humanity's consciousness (Remember they all got trapped in SAO causing the rest of the world to fall to Dark Souls shit). If I destroy all this I can finally obliterate all that remains of humanity once and for all!
The Eyes of SAOron there actually do attack me if they see me
Why players need to stop worrying about the state of the ball and my advice for players when it comes to stump-mic: BUMBLE ON THE TEST
BUMBLE ON THE TEST: Surely it is abundantly clear now that the pace of the game is a major problem. There's so many interruptions to the flow of the game.
The Preview: Shankland can help McInnes win Gorgie popularity contest
It's fair to say that Hearts supporters tend to be a tough bunch to please. Indeed, even when things are ticking along nicely, grumbles of discontent always find a way to cut through the cheers
"Au nom de l'environnement, l'État libéral et bourgeois a mis en place le dispositif Zones à faibles émissions (ZFE) : une façon de limiter l'utilisation de véhicules chez les plus précaires tout en poussant à la consommation de nouvelles voitures, puisqu'aucune réelle alternative à celle-ci n'est jamais proposée.
Au nom de l’environnement, l’État libéral et bourgeois a mis en place le dispositif Zones à faibles émissions (ZFE) : une façon de limiter l’utilisation de véhicules chez les plus précaires tout en poussant à la consommation de nouvelles voitures, pu…
Was Q showing us that Australia was in submission, in real time, YEARS ago? What does "full control" look like? Where are we headed? Join us as we deconstruct another week of 5th Generation Psychologi
As the talks hit a new roadblock, fierce battles between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces have raged inside the strip over the past day
I'm feeling depressed, and was trying to cheer myself up by playing No Man's Sky, where I disassembled my freighter base and can't come up with a new layout, and I've been stuck on it for hours, and it's not helping with the depression.
President Donald Trump cast his support behind Attorney General Pam Bondi amid reports of feuding between her and other members of the Trump administration over Bondi’s handling of files relating to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Proton uses Cloudflare The VPN traffic, which sees your real home IP (and packet size and timing), flows through Cloudflare to Proton. This is an undeniable conflict of interest, because the website...
President #Lula of #Brazil threatens retaliatory #tariff if #Trump acts on his threat of a 50% tariff. Trump is pissed because his fellow dictator #Bolsonaro in under arrest, facing trial on multiple charges. Lula says Brazil can do without US trade pbs.org/newshour/world/brazil-…
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President Donald Trump follows through on a pledge to boost import taxes by 50% over the South American country's criminal tri…
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