RT - ANOTHER VIEW ON MICROPLASTICS, DANGER OR NO DANGER?

This article might best be read while sipping a 20 oz. soda through a plastic straw.  Realistically, I have no scientific background on this topic, but tend to be skeptical of the climat is falling crowd.  There has always been climate change, long before the gasoline fueled automobiles.  I do not assert that the following article is correct, but that it is a corrective to the panic reporting about scientific questions in the US and the West, reporting that demands more money for certain types of research, but never questions the hypotheses upon which the research is based.  This article is worth a read.  Hugh Murray

‘It doesn’t harm us’: Russian scientist busts myths about microplastics

Alarming media reports about the harm of microplastics to the human body and the environment are greatly exaggerated, Alexei Khokhlov has told RT

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Microplastics are among the most widely discussed environmental topics today. The media often highlights the harmful effects of polymer nanoparticles on living organisms. However, as head of the Department of Polymer and Crystal Physics at Moscow State University, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexei Khokhlov told RT, there is no scientific basis for these claims. Khokhlov argues that microplastic particles are no more hazardous to humans than tiny wood or concrete particles which exist in the environment in much greater quantities.

RT: In recent years, many scientific studies and media reports have been published about microplastics. What exactly are they made of?

Khokhlov: Microplastics are defined as fragments of polymer materials smaller than 5 mm. These particles can break down into even smaller micron-sized pieces, and there are also polymer nanoparticles. 

We live in an era dominated by new materials. Just 100 years ago, the polymer industry was virtually nonexistent. The widespread use of plastics began in the 1950s, and today, approximately 400 million tons of various plastics are produced annually worldwide.

The main types of polymers include polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene, and polyvinyl chloride. These materials are used to make plastic wrap, packaging, and so on. Essentially, we are surrounded by polymer materials; life today would be unimaginable without them.

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RT: Is it true that microplastics are everywhere, even in our food and water?

Khokhlov: The molecular structure of polymers consists of long chains of monomer units. Interestingly, we are made up of polymers ourselves, since proteins, DNA and RNA chains are molecules of such type. As for their presence in the environment, particles from all natural and man-made materials find their way into the environment.

Nanoparticles of dust, sand, and natural polymers like cellulose can enter cells. Wood itself is essentially a composite material made from cellulose and lignin. Annually, around 2.5 billion tons of wood are produced globally, while plastics account for only 400 million tons. It’s a very small amount compared to natural polymers. 

RT: How do microplastics affect living cells? Can particles penetrate cells and disrupt their function?

Khokhlov: Any material will break down into smaller particles as a result of environmental exposure. All nanoparticles can enter the human bloodstream, not just microplastics. For instance, walls gradually disintegrate into dust and sand, which also make their way into the human body. There is no evidence that microplastic particles are particularly harmful.

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Humanity has coexisted with ordinary dust for millions of years, and it doesn’t harm us. When any particle enters the human body, it is coated by biological fluids that include fragments of bacteria, proteins, etc. A ‘biocorona’, or coating made up of these fragments, forms around the particle, so it cannot affect the human organism. This process occurs with all particles, regardless of their composition — microplastics included. For the body, there is no difference between microplastics and dust. 

Currently, plastic makes up only 15% of the total volume of solid waste. This is relatively low, and the concentration of microplastics in the environment remains minimal. Laboratory studies claiming harmful effects are often conducted using extremely high concentrations of microplastics that do not reflect real-world scenarios.

RT: If the environmental impact isn’t significant, why do you think the media and public are so concerned about this issue?

Khokhlov: Because the media needs sensational stories. The idea that wood particles can enter human cells isn’t shocking because wood is familiar to us and no one believes it could pose any risk. Synthetic polymers, however, evoke fear because they are unfamiliar and artificial. But there’s no evidence to suggest they act differently than other particles.

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For example, there has been a lot of talk about eliminating plastic bottles since microplastics can get into the water. However, further research has shown that most of the microplastics found in water primarily come from polyamides, which are synthetic fibers used in textiles. When these fabrics are washed, tiny particles make their way into wastewater and eventually into our waterways.

RT: Can we replace plastic containers with alternatives that won’t break down into microplastics, or ones that would be made up of particles that are safe for nature and humans?

Khokhlov: There are always alternatives, but they tend to be much more expensive. And in many industries, such as healthcare, the alternative isn’t the same. For example, we can switch from single-use syringes and gloves to reusable options, but what will the consequences be?

In regions where access to clean water is inconsistent and sanitation is poor, single-use items and plastic bottles serve as the only means to avoid poisoning and infectious diseases.

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However, it’s crucial to ensure that plastic packaging isn’t carelessly discarded outdoors but is properly disposed of. Out of 400 million tons of plastic, 300 million end up in landfills or incinerators, meaning that 100 million tons aren’t disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner. This is a significant issue that warrants attention and action.

Moreover, the primary sources of microplastics are not plastic utensils or packaging but washed [synthetic] clothes, worn automobile tires, urban dust, and even road markings and marine paint. This suggests that combating microplastics would require us to give up driving cars and using washing machines. But what would that lead to? People cannot forgo hygiene standards, and our current infrastructure and logistics cannot provide alternative solutions that would meet the needs of society.

WHAT MOVIE SPAWNED A MAJOR POLITICAL MOVEMENT?

CAN AMERICA FACE ITS PAST??   Hugh Murray

  Rob Quinn of Newser, 2/5/25 reported:

    "One of the thousands of silent films believed to have been lost forever is lost no more. The Heart of Lincoln, a 1915 Civil War drama, was found by Dan Martin, an intern going through old reels Historic Films Archive in Greenport, Long Island, NBC News reports. Martin, a film preservation student, tells Newsday that most of the material he was going through consisted of "kind of dry" old education reels discarded by universities, but he recognized Francis Ford's name when he rolled the credits on the old 16-millimeter print. Ford, who directed the movie and starred as Abraham Lincoln, is the older brother of John Ford, who won a record four Oscars for best director, including one for 1940's The Grapes of Wrath."

                             Hugh Murray

My point is different: - 1915 "The Heart of Lincoln" found. Was it a hit when released? How big?  In 1913 the blockbuster film of that era covered some of the same material, but in a different way.  "Birth of a Nation." was probably the most popular American film until "Gone with the Wind" in 1939. It earned more in sales until "Gone with the Wind."  Birth was the product of D W Griffiths.  It was shown in the White House, and Pres. Woodrow Wilson declared, in a film's slide, that it was written in lightning. Birth depicts some scenes from the War Between the States, the pain when family members fight for different sides, and finally the defeat of the South,.  The second half of Birth portrays the results of defeat. the foolishness of the Northerners who sought to remake the South without understanding it. The film shows how many local whites were oppressed by the corrupt Republicans and their unschooled allies.  Finally, in desperation,  the local whites, defeated by the war and then dispossessed by corrupt and coddled local scallywag's, carpet bagger Yankees, and illiterate former slaves.  In desperation the local whites banded together in informal organizations to overthrow the Reconstruction governments. It was made to encourage audiences to emote as the Klansmen rode at night to restore order. And cheer the audiences did!  

        The American film industry has produced many popular and artful and money-making films.  To this day Hollywood means movies.  However, unlike all the popular and arty and money-making films that came later, none did what Birth of a Nation succeeded in doing.  Birth created a movement!   Birth was so popular a film, it brought about a revival of the KKK, and not only in the South. No wonder Pres. Wilson, Democrat, who had been Chancellor of Princeton U., prided himself that no blacks were admitted to the prestigious university under his leadership. Wilson, Democrat, also segregated the Federal Civil Service, and require a person's photo when applying for a federal job so no blacks would be hired. Wilson segregated the military too. And so he led America into war, the war to save democracy. And the war to end all wars. The book that inspired the film "Irth of a Nation" was The Clansman.  Has any other film had such impact?  In 1924 the KKK had a march on Washington.  A candidate for the Democratic nomination was endorsed by the KKK.  Another faction, oppossed, favord Roman Catholic NY Gov. Al Smith.  It took 103 ballots before the delegates ignored both major factions and chose a lesser known candidate, who did poorly in the general election against Calvin Coolidge.

     Wilson, a Democrat, is considered a progressive President.  For Sec. of the Navy, he chose Josephus Daniels, a Democrat from North Carolina.  Daniels had personally partaken in the overthrow of the last Republican city in the South, Wilmington.  White mobs overthrew the GOP-Populist local government, chasing out some, burning out others, and using bullets too.  With such a background, Pres. Wilson chose Daniels as his Sec. of the Navy, a very important post as war loomed.  Daniels is credited in making it easier to advance in the navy on experience in the service, and less on outside credentials.  He is also noted for his view, the greatest crime in America is allowing blacks to vote.  For Under Sec. of the Navy, Pres. Wilson chose a young, healthy New Yorker, Franklin D. Roosevelt.  When FDR became President, he retained a segregated Civil Service, and a segregated military.

             A few days ago, tha last surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen died at age 100, Harry Stewart, Jr.  Basically, this was like other black units in the military, segregated.  Of course, to begin, there were white instructors to teach all how to fly, and there were some whites too, but overall it was a segregated unit, like the rest of the American military.  I worked for a white who was an officer of an all black artillary in WWII.  I am not implying that segregated units were necessarily bad, they can promote pride and enthusiasm.  That is the advantage of the HBCUs.

     My point is that the US was conflicted on race from the beginning.  The Civil War was fought to end the slave-power, and slavery.  Beginning in 1865 riots and Lincoln's assassination brought the Radical Republicans to power in Congress, but they were often foiled by War Democrat Pres. Andrew Johnson.  The Civil Rights Amendments to the Constitution seemed tp solve the problem.  But a guerrilla war in the South, waged by whites wearing informal rebel attire, Klan white, red shirts, or whatever, against former black Union soldiers, Republicans, white teachers in black schools, black businesses, etc.  Pres. Grant tried to go after the Klan, but in the disputed election of 1876, the North promised to remove Yankee troops from the area.  With the fall of Wilmington in 1898, one could speak of the Solid South (solidly Democratic, solidly segregated).  The North and South were re-united, symbolized as many from both parts of the nation volunteered in the Spanish American War that brought us Puerto Rico, Philippines, and influence in Cuba.

     Like the other great nations in 1900, America was a racist nation too.  And up to 1950 or so.  What changed America????

From National Public Radio, New Orleans, Opera, Free People of Color, France

 The main source today is from America's National Public Radio.  Politically, it is normally left, and is no fan of Pres. Trump.  But other stories can be quite informative.  I urge all to follow the link to the story, aired Monday 3 January 2025.  https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-4868011/oldest-black-american-opera-premiere

Below are some of my comments on that story.  I know little of opera, in New Orleans or anywhere.  But the idea that NO was a center of opera in the US during the 19th century does raise the question of possible connections with other musical forms, especially with jazz, which was developing in New Orleans later in that century.  My story, with amazement, is below:

     National Public Radio aired this report about the New Orleans French Opera House.  It is 6 minutes if you listen or the reading material contained in the link too.  Some of tin the 20th century, he FPCs Free People of Color may have been free for generations. Unlike the CR Movement in much of the South, which was intertwined with black Protestant churches, the FPCs were generally light skinned, and Roman Catholics.  And they had considerable influence in NO.

     As an unofficial tour guide in 1963 with the instruction (AVOID ARRESTS), i took 4 foreigners to the Knights of Peter Claver Building, which housed the local NAACP.  We entered their offices and they kindly agreed totalk to  our group presenting a summary of its activities.  I think Ernest Morial gave the talk (he would become the first black mayor of NO in the 1970s.  While he was speaking, one of the young foreigners whispered to me,"Is he a Negro?"  I was shocked by the question, and then I realized the NAACP attorney was much closet to my skin color than to the young man from  Ouagadougou. the capital of what was then called Upper Volta in West Africa.  His skin was very black, and his was an innocent question. And the situation must have been an echo of when newly arrived Marcus Garvey went to the offices of the NAACP  a century ago and saw only whites and W. E. B. Du Bois.  Garvey went on to found an openly black nationalist organization.  The point is that the black leadership in NO, was different from that in other parts of the South, lighter skin, better off financially, often well educated in Catholic schools, sometimes with French language heritage..  Bryant Gumble (formerly on Today on NBC) and his brother are descendants of FPCS.

      There was opera in NO going back to the late 1700s, but the  French Opera House, which opened just a year before the war, would become the social center for much of NO.  At the same time, blacks were less welcome.. But opera was not the only musical for.  There was also a German newspaper in NO, which may have also contributed to the brass bands.  My friend John is a relation to Hahn, an editor of the German newspaper, and the only Republican Mayor of NO.  If he served, it was around 1867.

    Who were the other French speaking FPCs who may have left NO for a more successful careers in France?  By the 1850s FPC womenin NO  were not required to wear yellow stars, but a certain kind of headgear so everyone  would know their race.

   How did this contribute to jazz?  Or did it?  Jazz, the word akin to jizz, or the emission from the penis during sex, does seem to connect jazz to the cat houses in the French Quarter.

   The composer of the opera, Edmund Dede. It is now being produced in full for the first time, though written over a century ago.  There were other Louisianans who went to France to find a place for their arts.  Later, most know Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Claude McKay, Richard Wright and others including jaz musicians,but most of these were general Americans, not born with a French cultural tradition.  But it does say something of the free spirit allowed in France.

  In the 1950s Anne Braden wrote a book about segregation in the South THE WALL BETWEEN.  And in the mid  50s, I began to cross the invisible wall between the races  in NO, going to sit-in a history class at Dillard U.  I knew the professor, a refugee from Hamburg, Georg Iggers, and he alternated between the Unitarian Church (where I met him) and a synagogue.  In his class, I met a young woman and we chatted.  Shirley Dede.  Was she related to the composer?  She subscribed to a Trotskyist newspaper, Workers World, and was active in the NAACP.  We went to a few places together where we would not be arrested.  I crossed the wall in NO long before I crossed the wall in Berlin. New Orleans is a most intersting city.

  Hugh Murray

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-4868011/oldest-black-american-opera-premiere

the link should get you to a tape on Opera in NO and beyond.   Hugh

From RT: JFK ASSASSINATION FILES TO BE OPENED AFTER ONLY 61+ YEARS, RFK AND MLK FILES TOO

 28 Jan, 2025 17:16

CIA, Israel and conspiracy theories: What to expect from the JFK files

Thousands of records about the US president’s assassination in 1963 still remain classified

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US President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of all remaining withheld records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Almost 5,000 documents are still veiled in secrecy.

Kennedy was killed in November 1963, while visiting Dallas, Texas. A congressional commission chaired by Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren concluded in 1964 that “lone gunman” Lee Harvey Oswald was to blame. The CIA coined the pejorative term “conspiracy theory” to describe alternate scenarios regarding JFK’s death, which has not stopped many Americans from doubting the Warren Commission’s conclusions.

Trump’s order also applies to the remaining classified records about the 1968 assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights campaigner Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

READ MORE: Trump orders release of JFK, RFK and MLK files

How many documents are there?

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) says it has declassified 99% of some 320,000 documents related to the JFK assassination, as required by a law passed by Congress in 1992. The final deadline for declassification was October 2017, but the US intelligence community claimed it needed more time to review and redact the records.

According to multiple estimates, 2,140 documents remain fully or partially redacted, while another 2,500 records have been kept secret for other reasons, such as court orders or donor restrictions.

What is in the secret files?

One item of particular interest is a June 1961 memorandum written by White House adviser Arthur Schlesinger, outlining how JFK could accomplish his goal of “splintering the Agency [CIA] into a thousand pieces and scattering it to the winds.” One page is redacted in full, while two more have partial redactions. Kennedy was frustrated with the CIA after the botched invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April that year.

Another partially redacted record is the transcript of the testimony that CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton gave to the Church Committee in January 1976. Some scholars believe Angleton, who ran the CIA's Israel desk for years and was a friend of Soviet spy Kim Philby, had lied to Congress about Israel obtaining nuclear weapons in the 1960s – something the Jewish State has neither confirmed nor denied.

Other potentially revealing records relate to CIA surveillance activities in Mexico in the early 1960s, when Oswald visited the country, and the work of a CIA officer with Cuban exiles in Miami that intersected with Oswald.

What can be expected of the revelations?

Historians and researchers that have spoken to major US outlets seem to agree that there will be no “smoking gun” in the remaining documents.

“There will be some puzzle pieces that will be put back in that will tell a more robust and rich story,” Tom Samoluk, a board member of the JFK Library Foundation, has told CNN.

Journalist Gerald Posner has warned that “anybody waiting for a smoking gun that’s going to turn this case upside down will be sorely disappointed.”

READ MORE: JFK’s grandson slams Trump’s order to release assassination files

Kennedy’s nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lauded the declassification as a step against the “60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation” used by the intelligence agencies to suppress “troubling facts” about the JFK assassination. He claimed that this “provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises – the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID – that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex.”

RFK Jr. has said that he believes there is “overwhelming evidence” tying the CIA to the assassination of both his uncle and his father.

When can we expect the release?

Trump’s executive order gave the US Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General 45 days to review the records and “present a plan” for their full and complete release. Both offices are currently held by acting officials, as the Senate still needs to confirm Pam Bondi as the attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard as the DNI.

“We’re hoping this is going to be a mechanical plan,” Larry Schnapf, a New York-based attorney who has sued the government to compel the release of JFK files, told ABC News. If the government opts for a “substantive” review, going document-by-document, “it’s going to be a while,” he added.

from RT: FORMER PRES. JOE BIDEN JOINS THE PRINCE HALL MASONS

 I think this story has been overlooked by the American media.  Hugh Murray

25 Jan, 2025 14:34

Biden joins black Freemasons

The former US president could technically be excommunicated from the Catholic Church for becoming a Master Mason

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Former US President Joe Biden, a self-professed Catholic, has joined an African-American Masonic lodge as a ‘Master Mason’. The Vatican takes a dim view of Freemasonry, and Catholics who join the fraternal order face excommunication.

Biden was inducted into the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge in South Carolina on Sunday, one day before he left office. In a private ceremony, the lodge’s grand master, Victor C. Major, granted Biden “Master Mason membership with full honors,” according to a statement published by the organization last weekend that circulated online on Friday.

”To be a Freemason is to be part of a brotherhood dedicated to personal growth, service to others, and the pursuit of knowledge and truth,” the lodge wrote. Biden’s service, the statement added, “reflects the core values” of this brotherhood.

Although its origins stretch back to the 15th century, modern Freemasonry developed in Britain in the early 1700s and quickly grew into a Europe- and US-wide fraternity for philosophers, religious dissidents, occultists, and the business and political elite. Some 14 US presidents, including George Washington, were Freemasons.

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Prince Hall Masonry is a historically black sect of Freemasonry founded in 1775 by a freed slave in Boston.

Biden has not publicly acknowledged joining the ranks of the Prince Hall Masons. However, his membership in the organization stands at odds with his Catholic faith.

Pope Clement XII forbade Catholics from practicing Freemasonry in 1738, and this papal ban remained in place until 1983, when the Vatican issued a new order banning membership in organizations that “plot against the Church.” While the new order did not explicitly name Freemasonry, it maintained excommunication as a potential punishment for Catholics who join such organizations.

”The faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion,” Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would go on to become Pope, declared at the time.

Throughout his political life, Biden has sometimes embraced political positions that contradict his faith. Back in 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops drafted a document that would have forbidden Biden from receiving Holy Communion over his pro-abortion views. After Pope Francis declared Biden a “good Catholic,” and said that he should continue receiving Communion, the document was revised to state that Catholic politicians have a “special responsibility to embody Church teaching in their service of the common good.”  End of RT story.

    Hugh Murray adds:  It is known Hitler sought to destroy Jews, Communists, and other groups.  Among his enemies, the Masons, and he confiscated their property.  Vichy, the French state erected after the 3rd French Republic capitulated to the Nazis, was not a typical fascist state, certainly not like Hitler's in various ways.  It saw Vichy as the answer to the French Revolution, which it blamed on Jews, Masons, and radicals.  Forget Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, for the slogans of Vichy would be practical and revolve round Work, Family, Nation, and unofficially, the (Catholic) Faith.  They would co-laborate with the Nazis, but did  not want to become Nazis.  Vichy was the Catholic response to the French Revolution.  The Cathedral of Notre Dame - inconceivable that it was once a Temple to the Goddess of Reason, unbelievable that the Christian calendar had been replaced the Year 1 of the Revolution and a decimal, 10-day week.  Marshall Petain had to agree that France would be part of Neuropa (Neurope), but a very French part providing the final answer to 1789.

JANUARY 20, 2025 -- MAKE THIS 2 HEROES DAY

 2 HEROES DAY -- MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY AND

DON J. TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION DAY

Both great men, both heroes, both despised by the American establishments of their eras.

Both became convicted felons, so we recall King writing letters from the Birmingham jail.  He was convicted by fanatical Democratic District Attorneys determined to punish all who challenged racist, segregation laws.  Former Pres. Trump had to defend himself in court by a slew of fanatical Democratic Party DAs, likely coordinated by Atty. Gen. Garland's Justice Department.  If Trump would simply retire to senility, he would be no threat to the globalist order, but he was planning to run for President a 3rd time, in 2024, and the globalist elite and their coalition decided the best way to prevent him from winning would be through the courts.  Convict him in heavily Democratic areas where the juries would lean against any Republican.  Dig up old charges, some that had never been used against any other business man, or any man faced with a long past sex allegation and never before tried, and now years after the "fact," and taking documents from the National Archives, while VP Biden had also taken such documents, docs which a President could take, but a vice president could not legally do so; yet the Biden case was gently handled by Garland's attys, but they went after Trump - hard.  And, ironically, one reason the recent Democratic Party hates Trump, the Democrats are the defenders of the new racism, the anti-white, anti-male, anti- this and that bureaucratic nightmare of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which also requires inclusion of biological men in women's sports so women will have less chance of winning.  Trump and the MAGA movement stand for equal rights and merit, concepts that are now anathema to Democrats.  Prior to the 2024 election, Trump was facing up to 700 years if all those cases were resolved against him.  Trump did not yield - he fought on.

     King was threatened and assassinated.  They tried to assassinate Trump, twice, in 2 months.  He fought on, and he won the election.  Jan. 20, 2025 will be the beginning of out liberation day.  The invaders are on notice that they will have to go home.  The borders will be open for legal immigrants.  Looters and criminals will be punished, despite Soros chosen attys who fail to perform their duties.  We will have freedom of speech, freedom to question Medictators like Dr. Fauci, whose funds may have paid for the development of Covid (as part of biological warfare), and whose policies probably killed many Americans who should have survived.  Free speech will not resolve all differences, but it may clarify issues.  There will still be mistakes made, many unsolved problems, but we won't have Los Angelse burning so many homes because the Gov. refused to do his job in controlled burning of underbrush and saving record rainfalls for the non-rainy days.  It won't be perfect, for it never is here on earth, but it will be more open so we may discover our mistakes before they become catastrophes.  With luck, under Trump's leadership, America enters a new age on Jan. 20, 2025.

FOOTBALL STAR WINS BIG CONTRACT - TROUBLE, HIS TEAM HAS NOT WON MUCH LATELY

 

Soccer Star Signs Historic Sports Deal

Erling Haaland commits to Manchester City for 10 seasons, expected to make $600K a week

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff Posted Jan 17, 2025 4:35 PM CST

Manchester City's Erling Haaland claps his hands during warmup before an English Premier League match with Liverpool at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Dec. 1, 2024.   (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson, File)

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One of the best soccer players in the world has just raised the bar on compensation. Erling Haaland has signed what the Athletic calls an "extraordinary" contract to remain with Manchester City for the next 10 seasons. Terms were not announced, but it's believed to be "among the most lucrative sporting contracts ever," according to the outlet. CBS Sports reports that that the 24-year-old striker is expected to make 500,000 pounds a week, or about $610,000.. . . 

among the comments -

humura 7 hours ago

This season began, and he was top of the league in scores and Man City was #1, and then, other teams learnt that if they had big guys, they could bloc his plays. True, Man. City lost 2 essential players from its mid-field, and with no one to feed the striker the ball, he could not score goals.so in 2025, Man City has tumbled down to #6, Mo Salah (from Egypt) has taken the lead in the leagues' goals, and Liverpool now has won a firm grasp on the #1 position, with Arsenal, Nottingham Forest and others also ahead of Man. City. Man. City even lost to what had been the best known team, perhaps in the world a few decades ago, its cross town rival, Manchester United.
I see this contract as far too much for a player already begining to fail. Spend on building the rest of the team.