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Als sportliefhebber de vervelende conclusie trekken dat alle topsport #sportswashing is.

Come on Ireland 🇮🇪 Step up!

Boycott is the essential tool to prevent Zionist sportwashing.

Ireland must refuse to play the apartheid state of Israel in the upcoming Nations Cup.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260213-un-official-refuses-calls-to-resign-denounces-states-silence-over-genocide-in-palestine/

#football #sportswashing #IsraelTerroristState #uefa #kickisraeloutoffifa #fifa #showisraeltheredcard #gaza #genocide #apartheid #bds

@NMBA

#IOC - #Sportswashing #fascism since 1936! *

#Sportswash #Sportswashing #NoToSportsWashing
#FWakeSportsMentality

Billionaires have defeated We The People, Team Owners have programmed the audience minds. #TrumpFandom

"it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions"

#NeilPostmanWasRight1985 https://github.com/RocketDerp/April14_2025/blob/main/Quotes_Pile/Specific/Postman_1985_Howdy_Doody.md

Neil Postman 1985

"For all his perspicacity, George Orwell would have been stymied by this situation; there is nothing “Orwellian” about it. The President does not have the press under his thumb. The New York Times and The Washington Post are not Pravda; the Associated Press is not Tass. And there is no Newspeak here. Lies have not been defined as truth nor truth as lies. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference. Which is why Aldous Huxley would not in the least be surprised by the story. Indeed, he prophesied its coming. He believed that it is far more likely that the Western democracies will dance and dream themselves into oblivion than march into it, single file and manacled. Huxley grasped, as Orwell did not, that it is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions. Although Huxley did not specify that television would be our main line to the drug, he would have no difficulty accepting Robert MacNeil’s observation that “Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.” Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Doody." ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985, page 111

Howdy Doody is an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by Victor F. Campbell and E. Roger Muir. It was broadcast on the NBC...

Gianni Infantino sprüht Frieden wie E605: farblos, geruchlos, tödlich für Moral. Angriffskrieg? Verdünnt. Sanktionen? Verdampft. Hauptsache, der Geldfluss lebt. FIFA nennt das Dialog, jeder andere Sportswashing mit Totenkopf-Etikett. Fair Play stirbt leise, wenn Milliarden applaudieren. ⚽☠️💸
#Infantino #FIFA #Sportswashing #Russland #Ukraine #Moralvergiftung #GeldVorWerten

@greenpeace

All big-money sports is #sportsWashing

Either brand promotion for the corporations that own or sponsor teams or events, or countries building loyalty to their régimes.

Support local teams, owned by players and fans.

@merileedkarr

#sports

"India, after being confirmed last month as host of the 2030 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, is bidding to host the 2036 Olympics in Ahmedabad, with Qatar seen as its biggest rival" 2 grotesquely inappropriate locations based on weather participation & #sportswashing www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Breakdown in cricket relations...

#sportswashing #football #soccer
“Perhaps the #WorldCup shouldn’t be organized in a country whose government espouses hate, threatens peace abroad, and unleashes state violence at home”
“Rather than resist #authoritarian instrumentalization of the tournament, #FIFA has instead regularly embraced its possibilities”
#Infantino “has taken sycophancy to new shame-free lows as he assiduously performs deep-tissue ego massage on Mr. Trump” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-beautiful-game-has-been-caught-up-in-trumps-ugly-politics-can/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejuicemedia/115886801808898521

A good one here on #sportswashing in cycling.

See also Team Fracking…I mean Ineos

Surge in executions in Saudi

Almost one execution a day and a new record

January 2026

No less than 356 people were executed in 2025 exceeding the grizzly total of 338 in the previous year. Large numbers are foreign individuals. Many are executed for drugs crimes sometimes involving trivial amounts. Trials are notoriously unfair and the use of torture is routine. Most executions are thought to be by beheading.

Human Rights Watch refers to the ‘weaponising the penalty’ as a means to curb dissent. The de facto leader of Saudi is Mohammad bin Salman who was said to be keen to modernise the Kingdom. On this showing it would seem he has some way to go.

Sportswashing

A feature of the Kingdom is the vast amount being spent on sport in what has been termed ‘sportswashing’. Aided by leaders such as Boris Johnson and Donald Trump he has purchased the English football club Newcastle United and has secured the rights to the World Cup in 2034. This increase in largesse followed the murder of Khashoggi which sent huge shock waves around the world and was almost certainly ordered by MBS. We have noted before that there is no difficulty in recruiting sportsmen and women to compete in a wide variety of sports including golf, tennis, F1 motor racing, cycling and equestrianism.

He quoted as saying that “he does not care about sportswashing criticism” so long as the long-term diversification away from oil dependency is successful.

He need not worry. Western politicians are falling over themselves to visit and seek to secure trade deals. The British government’s desire for growth means human rights considerations are unlikely to intrude. The massive number of executions are unlikely to form more than a ripple on the UK government’s desire for exports, the sale of arms and investment in the UK itself.

There is a small hint of concern in an Early Day Motion 1411 in June last year:

“That this House remains concerned about human rights violations in Saudi Arabia; welcomes the recent release of dozens of political prisoners, including University of Leeds PhD student Salma al-Shehab, human rights defender Mohammed al-Qahtani, and doctor Lina Alsharif; notes, however, that released individuals face continued restrictions, including travel bans; further notes that others remain arbitrarily imprisoned for peaceful dissent, such as Manahel al-Otaibi; is alarmed by the record number of death penalty executions, with 345 in 2024 and over 140 in 2025 so far, with a number of persons who committed their alleged crimes as minors facing execution; is concerned about labour exploitation and potential deaths of workers in connection with the 2034 FIFA World Cup and other mega-projects in the absence of fundamental labour rights reform; calls on the UK Government to urge Saudi Arabia to release all those imprisoned for defending or exercising their rights and to establish a moratorium on use of the death penalty; and further calls on the Government to actively raise such rights issues and cases of concern, including in connection with on-going discussions with Gulf Cooperation Council states on a Free Trade Agreement”. [Source House of Commons accessed 2 January]

There were 15 signatures, none of which were Conservative.

One execution is noteworthy and that is of Turki al-Jasser in June. He was a journalist who worked for the Al Taqreer newspaper which the regime closed down. He wrote articles exposing the corruption within the Royal Family. He was arrested and his home searched. Much of what happened to him was surrounded in secrecy. His family did not know of his execution until after the event.

We seem to have moved to a situation where a high level of gross human rights violations are the norm and the desire for trade effectively trumps any meaningful political concern. Sport is being successfully being used to sanitise the regime’s reputation and millions are happy to spectate with little concern for what takes place behind the scenes.

Sources: HRW, MSN, Guardian, Council on Foreign Relations, Amnesty.

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#DeathPenalty #keffala #MBS #SaudiArabia #SportsWashing

Emirates NBA Cup.

My decision to stop following all organized sports at every level becomes wiser and more prescient the more time passes.

This is the latest example of which I've become aware of the obscenities inherent in competitive sports.

#NBA #NBACup #Emirates #EmiratesNBACup #basketball #sports #SportsWashing #IdolWorship

FIFA’s newly created “Peace Prize” was invented behind closed doors with no transparent criteria, then handed to Donald Trump — a highly polarising political leader — at the World Cup draw. The choice has sparked ethics complaints accusing FIFA’s president of breaching neutrality and turning football into a vehicle for political PR. This isn’t peacebuilding, it’s sportswashing and undermines FIFA’s credibility.

#fifa #sportswashing

https://www.newsweek.com/fifas-sportswashing-peace-prize-opinion-11188232

@hanse_mina #IOC like #FIFA, are corrupt #Sportswashing organizations!

I see Fifa is giving out peace prizes. #sportsWashing

@AlisonCreekside what else can we expect from #Sportswashing #cleptocrats like #FIFA?

If you thought this sponsorship deal Barça has taken (😢) with a virtually unknown crypto company full of 🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩couldn’t get any worse, read how the company’s account follows 3 people/entities: Barça, Bitcoin and accused sex trafficker and self-avowed misogynist Andrew Tate.
I just wanna be a huge sports fan without teams or athletes sportswashing for dictators, crypto grifters and sexual abusers. Is this too much to ask?!
https://www.ft.com/content/9fb4a3b9-d289-4ae7-b783-94ceb3632ef1
#sportswashing #sports #corruption

People only saw Ronaldo’s smile and melted.
150 M views in 24 h — pure love for CR7.
Behind that smile:
500 MW Grok data center in Saudi Arabia
multi-hundred-billion $ AI deal
American AI entering millions of Middle East phones, schools, minds
Love for a star just became free advertising for the biggest power play in the region.
We liked it.
They bought the future.
#BeyondTheSmile #Sportswashing #AI #SaudiArabia #Ronaldo