27 YEARS AGO TODAY…
Michael Cole interviews Tori before her match with Ivory on Smackdown.
Crazy to think this writing was the norm during the attitude era…
Unlocked a new favorite spot 🗺️
Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:
Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . .
This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal.
And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.
And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . .
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
. . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it.
I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race.
Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.
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Kendall Jenner podría ser una de las 7 maravillas del mundo 🔥
Wen Tether audit? nOw.
Today Tether announces its first full financial audit for Tether International, conducted by KPMG U.S. which resulted in an unqualified clean opinion, marking the highest result possible.
An unqualified opinion is the best possible audit opinion an independent auditor can issue.
(“unqualified” in accounting jargon means without reservations — not that the audit was incomplete).
Tether’s financial audit, by at least an order of magnitude, is the largest inaugural audit in the history of finance. My congratulations go to the entire Tether team and especially to our Finance function, which demonstrated its ability, precision and commitment to complete this review process within the highest standards across the whole digital assets and global financial industry. We couldn’t be more proud.
Despite our Company being subject to several years of detractors’ false claims, competitors lies, political attacks and misinformed coverage by several mainstream newspapers trying desperately to discredit us for the benefit of their friends in the tall ivory towers, Tether delivered what it promised: a full financial audit issued by a Big Four accounting firm, KPMG U.S.
Tether created the stablecoin industry with USD₮ in 2014, revolutionizing the whole financial industry. Today everyone talks about stablecoins, yet it all started 12 years ago, with a tiny team and a big mission. We were there when no one else could understand the disruptive potential of what we invented.
Our Company has evolved into one of the most financially significant and operationally sophisticated private companies in the world. This audit demonstrates that our financial infrastructure and governance have evolved alongside that responsibility. Today, more than 650 million users across all emerging markets continue to rely on Tether daily, choosing USD₮ as their currency, for their life savings, for their commerce, for the future of their children. These are people that have been left behind by the traditional financial system and they trust our Company to remain resilient amidst all the global uncertainty that plagues the world - the proof of that stability is no longer just a Tether promise; it's now an independent signed opinion.
“Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know
Nothing Else Matters”
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🚨 EXCL: Nottingham Forest set to sign Ousmane Diomande from Sporting CP. Deal being finalised for coveted #
SportingCP# centre-back at €40m. 22yo Ivory Coast int’l expected to travel tonight & do medical before joining #
NFFC# on 5yr contract
@TheAthleticFC
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假如你爸爸在2008年没买房子,买了100万的美光。
那看看你家2026年了账户还有多少钱😂
🚨💣 BREAKING: YAN DIOMANDE TO REAL MADRID, HERE WE GO! ⚪️✨
Agreement closed tonight with RB Leipzig for fee over €100m for the Ivorian winger.
Diomande will fly to Madrid this week for medical tests and contract signing until June 2031.
DONE. 🇨🇮
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2025 global births by county (top 50):
1. 🇮🇳 India: 23.1M
2. 🇨🇳 China: 8.7M
3. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 7.6M
4. 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 6.9M
5. 🇨🇩 DR Congo: 4.6M
6. 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 4.4M
7. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 4.2M
8. 🇺🇸 United States: 3.7M
9. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 3.4M
10. 🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.5M
11. 🇪🇬 Egypt: 2.5M
12. 🇹🇿 Tanzania: 2.4M
13. 🇲🇽 Mexico: 2.0M
14. 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1.8M
15. 🇺🇬 Uganda: 1.7M
16. 🇸🇩 Sudan: 1.7M
17. 🇰🇪 Kenya: 1.5M
18. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1.5M
19. 🇦🇴 Angola: 1.4M
20. 🇾🇪 Yemen: 1.4M
21. 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1.3M
22. 🇲🇿 Mozambique: 1.3M
23. 🇷🇺 Russia: 1.2M
24. 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1.2M
25. 🇿🇦 South Africa: 1.2M
26. 🇳🇪 Niger: 1.1M
27. 🇮🇷 Iran: 1.1M
28. 🇹🇷 Turkey: 1.1M
29. 🇲🇬 Madagascar: 1.0M
30. 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire: 1.0M
31. 🇲🇱 Mali: 987K
32. 🇨🇲 Cameroon: 981K
33. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: 911K
34. 🇹🇩 Chad: 907K
35. 🇬🇭 Ghana: 898K
36. 🇲🇲 Myanmar: 888K
37. 🇩🇿 Algeria: 855K
38. 🇸🇴 Somalia: 822K
39. 🇯🇵 Japan: 748K
40. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: 742K
41. 🇿🇲 Zambia: 709K
42. 🇩🇪 Germany: 708K
43. 🇨🇴 Colombia: 693K
44. 🇲🇼 Malawi: 685K
45. 🇬🇧 UK: 680K
46. 🇫🇷 France: 635K
47. 🇲🇦 Morocco: 619K
48. 🇸🇾 Syria: 601K
49. 🇹🇭 Thailand: 572K
50. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 565K
Nigeria alone had 1M more births than the entire Europe
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