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"The FEI has apparently rowed back on its own proposal to sanction national equestrian federations with a “prevalence” of doping. If the measure had gone forward it would most likely have penalised the sport’s wealthiest benefactors; Middle Eastern endurance racing still returns more positives than any other region or any other FEI discipline.

New sanctions were suggested last year following a significant spike in positives in Saudi Arabia. But despite enquiries by HorseSport.com over the past seven weeks, the FEI has declined to confirm if new sanctions are in the draft EADCMP (anti-doping) rules for 2025, slated for debate at the FEI Sport Forum on April 29-30.

The FEI already stands accused of succumbing to “sportswashing” through allocating this week’s World Cup jumping and dressage finals to Saudi Arabia. Three leading equestrian news organisations, The Horse Magazine, Reiten St Georg and WorldofShowjumping.com announced a boycott, largely citing Saudi Arabia’s attitude to human rights.

The FEI is, however, is challenged in finding hosts for their major events which is a topic of discussion at their Sports Forum next week. As of now, the FEI has not yet received an application to host next year’s European Jumping, Eventing, or Senior Para Championships. The announcement about Saudi Arabia hosting these Finals was announced at the end of 2019 (four and half years ahead of the event) and it’s not clear whether any bidding took place. Typically, the FEI offers the chance to bid on hosting the World Cup Finals three years in advance.

Simultaneously, HorseSport.com has pressed the FEI on the contradiction of allocating “big-ticket” championships to countries with known equine doping and cheating problems at a time when the FEI is focussed on public concern about sport horse welfare and the Social Licence to Operate (SLO).

Since 2019, FEI endurance racing has been heavily promoted at Al Ula in Saudi Arabia. It has staged the world’s richest annual race ever since the Al Wathba venue in UAE pulled the Presidents Cup from the FEI calendar in reaction to the stricter FEI endurance rules effective from 2020.

There have always been multiple doping positives from Al Ula, involving cocktails of up to seven different drugs, highlighting the ease with which routinely doped horses progress to top level endurance sport. In 2020, the FEI disciplined three senior officials for “failing in their duty” after a large number of field-of-play violations at Al Ula were not not acted upon.

Last November Al Ula was allocated the 2026 FEI World Endurance Championships, despite having recently returned the greatest number of positives (14 Saudi owned and trained horses out of the 33 sampled) at any single show or event in equestrian anti-doping history. One rider-trainer received a record seven-and-a-half-year ban. Sampling returns from the big 2024 Al Ula fixture are notably better, but could not have been predicted last November.

Not surprisingly, the FEI seems reluctant to answer the question actually asked regarding Saudi Arabia by any media organisation."

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As a rule, political candidates are not reliable historians of the present. In 2012, while in Minnesota campaigning for reëlection, President Barack Obama recounted his “tussles” with obstructionist Republicans in Congress before indulging in a bit of wishful thinking. “I believe that if we’re successful in this election,” he said, “the fever may break, because there’s a tradition in the Republican Party of more common sense than that.” Not to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t been following along at home, but the fever did not break. Still, Joe Biden struck the same note in 2019, while campaigning in New Hampshire. “With Donald Trump out of the White House—not a joke—you will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends,” he said. But, as President, Biden started to see the light—or the dying of it. In September, he gave a speech, in Philadelphia, asserting that “equality and democracy are under assault.” Last Wednesday, he spoke again, a few blocks from the Capitol. “As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America—for governor, Congress, attorney general, secretary of state—who won’t commit, they will not commit, to accepting the results of elections that they are running in,” he said. “This is a path to chaos in America.”

The sitting President’s party has lost congressional seats in nearly every midterm election of the past century. When it first happened to Obama, in 2010, he referred to it as a “shellacking.” This shellacking season, the Republicans have no shortage of issues to run on (inflation, Biden’s abject approval ratings), and an expanding array of systemic advantages (the anti-democratic structure of the Senate, the widening asymmetry of gerrymandering, the suppressive spirit of several states’ post-2020 voting laws). But there’s at least a chance that, with enough Democratic turnout, all of this can be overcome. So some Trumpist Republicans have been flirting with another anti-democratic tactic: tacitly exploiting, or even encouraging, an atmosphere of political violence.

Trump, of course, has long revelled in threats of brute force, both veiled and explicit. After each new incitement, G.O.P. leaders have gone through the familiar cycle: consternation, equivocation, whataboutism, and, finally, full capitulation. The result has been a normalization of political violence: “January 6th was a normal tourist visit” is the new Lost Cause dogma, and Republicans who dissent are reëducated or excommunicated. It’s impossible to predict how all this will end, and it would be irresponsible to draw too direct a line between the rhetorical climate and any individual’s actions. But, obviously, none of it bodes well.

Late last month, in the middle of the night, a forty-two-year-old man entered the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, by shattering a glass door with a hammer. She wasn’t there, but her eighty-two-year-old husband was; in the moments before the intruder was arrested, he used the hammer to bash Paul Pelosi’s skull. The next day, Hillary Clinton tweeted a link to a Los Angeles Times article reporting that the assailant had spread “far-right, bigoted conspiracies.” Elon Musk—the new owner of Twitter, the world’s richest man, and, these days, a folk hero of the far right—replied to Clinton’s tweet, linking to a piece from the Santa Monica Observer, a gossip site filled with salacious clickbait, which speculated that the assault was not a political attack but a hookup gone wrong. The Observer later took down the story; Musk deleted his tweet, but he didn’t apologize or issue a correction. “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences,” he had tweeted on the day he took over the company, shortly before amplifying defamatory misinformation with no consequences. Trump, days later, mused that “the glass, it seems, was broken from the inside to the out, so it wasn’t a break-in, it was a breakout.” According to the police, this is flatly false, but what difference does that make?

The right doesn’t have a monopoly on political violence, of course. Perhaps the most analogous incident in recent memory is the 2017 shooting, by a disturbed gunman who identified with the left, of the Republican congressman Steve Scalise and several others. After that attack, prominent Democrats expressed unqualified condemnation, and sympathy for the victims. After the attack on Paul Pelosi, some Republican officials issued thoughts and prayers; others, such as Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, found a way to blame both sides (“This is what Democrat policies are bringing, but of course we wish Paul Pelosi a recovery”). Still others (Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas; Representative Clay Higgins, of Louisiana) treated the incident as fodder for fatuous conspiracy theories, or as a gruesome punch line.

It’s a journalistic cliché, but a useful exercise: imagine that all this were happening in another country. A political leader, the object of years of menacing rhetoric, is targeted; the opposition party vacillates between downplaying the incident and playing it for cheap laughs. This is also a country with more guns than people, and more than ten mass shootings in an average week. And one where, year after year, voting gets harder, especially for poor people and racial minorities. How would you rate that country’s long-term democratic prospects?

Last week, Brazil held a runoff Presidential election between Jair Bolsonaro, the proto-authoritarian incumbent, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist former President. Gun ownership had spiked under Bolsonaro, and the months leading up to the election were extraordinarily tense. The journalism nonprofit Agência Pública recorded more than three hundred incidents of election-related violence, including at least fifteen murders and twenty-three assassination attempts. Lula won, by less than two percentage points, and supporters of Bolsonaro, who has insisted for years that the voting system is rigged, took to the streets, demanding that the military overturn the result. Bolsonaro stayed silent for two days, and even then did not formally concede; he distanced himself from “the destruction of property” and other forms of protest, but did not tell his supporters to stand down. Once he is stripped of Presidential immunity, he could face charges of mishandling public funds and recklessly endangering his citizens during the pandemic, accusations he dismisses. But he may be calculating that he can benefit from mass unrest, and from the perception that there is no way to hold him accountable without tearing the country apart.

If this sounds like the kind of thing that can happen only in a relatively young democracy, consider that nearly every move Bolsonaro has made is one first used by Trump. “This is a path to chaos in America,” Biden said. “It’s unprecedented, it’s unlawful, and it’s un-American.” Chaos? Absolutely. Un-American? Maybe. ♦

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When Donald Trump became the first former United States president to face federal criminal charges on June 9, it set the scene for a legal battle that could test the U.S. judicial and political systems. The charges—37 in total—are related to Trump’s storage of highly classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. On Aug. 1, Trump was indicted on even more serious charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He faces four charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, violate civil rights, and obstruct an official proceeding. The American public will closely follow his cases to see what they reveal about America’s ability to hold its most powerful citizens to account. Trump claimed the classified documents indictment is a “witch hunt” and a “hoax” by the Biden administration. He called the Jan. 6 indictment an attempt to interfere in the upcoming presidential election. “They are also going after me as RETRIBUTION for the Republicans in Congress going after them,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, days before the first federal indictment. “The difference is, they have created major crimes, I have created none!” Many Republicans are similarly questioning the motivation and timing of the indictment releases. Sen. Ted Cruz called it “political persecution,” while former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker called it the “stuff of a banana republic.” But despite claims that prosecuting Trump means a slide into autocracy, the indictment and conviction of former leaders in democratic and semi-democratic countries around the world is, in fact, quite common.

A Foreign Policy analysis found that at least 78 leaders in 53 democratic or semi-democratic countries—the vast majority of which have successfully held democratic elections following the indictments—have been indicted since 2000. Countries and territories with a “partly free” or “free” score on Freedom House’s global freedom ranking, a total of 143, were included in this analysis.

Some of the richest and most influential nations in the world have not only indicted but convicted former leaders on serious charges. In the past five years alone, South Korea has convicted two of its former presidents on corruption charges: Lee Myung-bak, who served as president from 2008 to 2013, and his successor, Park Geun-hye, who was impeached in 2017. Both have since been pardoned by sitting presidents while serving their approximately two-decade-long sentences. South Korea suffers from a history of collusion and corruption between politicians and giant firms, known as chaebol. This old way of doing business helped put two other Korean leaders behind bars just before the turn of the century, bringing the tally of Korean leaders convicted to four in the past 30 years. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was similarly found guilty of bribery in 2021 and sentenced to three years in jail. Two of those years were suspended, and the remaining year will be served under house arrest as upheld by a Parisian court this May. And just last year, former President of Bolivia Jeanine Añez—who stepped forward as a proposed interim president in 2019 following the resignation of her predecessor, Evo Morales—was sentenced to 10 years in prison. She was accused of illegally taking over the presidency.

Trump’s criminal cases are unlikely to fall to the same political pressures that exonerated him in his two prior impeachment trials, but if acquitted, he wouldn’t be the first. Charismatic, recently deceased Italian statesman Silvio Berlusconi had a storied passage through his home country’s volatile judicial system. He was only convicted once in more than 30 court cases and acquitted in 10 for charges ranging from bribery to paying for sex with a minor. Two former Taiwanese presidents, Lee Teng-hui and Ma Ying-jeou, were also acquitted of embezzlement in 2013 and leaking confidential information in 2019, respectively. The International Criminal Court (ICC)—a legal institution that lacks any enforcement mechanisms of its own—has charged numerous leaders with crimes, for which they’ve been prosecuted in the organization’s judicial divisions. Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and the Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo both faced ICC charges of crimes against humanity; Kenyatta’s charges—initiated before he was president—were dropped, while Gbagbo was acquitted. Gbagbo’s charges are related to a five-month period of chaos and violence following his loss in the country’s 2010 presidential election.

To be sure, prosecuting a former leader can also ignite political tensions and destabilize domestic politics. One of the most contemporary examples is Israel, where the charges of corruption against Benjamin Netanyahu sparked a political crisis in 2019 that continues to run its course. It resulted in a tumultuous power swing that saw five elections in four years with Netanyahu returning as prime minister in December 2022 despite his legal troubles. It’s unclear whether he’ll be found guilty, or whether the courts could enforce a guilty verdict. Now back in power, Netanyahu has proposed a sweeping judicial overhaul that would give him final say over judge appointments and his government the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions. The proposal led to mass protests this year, and opponents call it a conflict of interest as Netanyahu remains a criminal defendant. Former leaders have also taken extreme measures to avoid serving time after conviction, as several have done in El Salvador. Since a brutal civil war that ended in the 1990s, many of the country’s presidents have faced legal troubles, often corruption. Two presidents, Mauricio Funes and Salvador Sánchez Cerén, both fled to Nicaragua, where they have avoided jail time. Francisco Flores Pérez, president in the early 2000s, died awaiting trial in 2016. The only leader of the country who has served a sentence since 2000 is Antonio Saca—again, on corruption charges. And in countries that have yet to establish a strong democracy and where the military wields considerable power, political leaders who have fallen out of favor with the army are more vulnerable to indictments and imprisonment. A slew of prime ministers has been either indicted or imprisoned in Pakistan, the latest being cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan. Khan’s brief arrest in May sparked nationwide protests and a more intense military crackdown on other party leaders ahead of general elections this fall.

But the indictments of leaders are not always a bad thing for democracies. They can help restore democratic legitimacy and serve as a way to reckon with past injustices from dictatorial regimes, as seen in the trials of former Argentine presidents Jorge Rafael Videla and Reynaldo Bignone and former Uruguayan presidents Juan María Bordaberry and Gregorio Conrado Álvarez. Similarly in South Korea, the imprisonments of military dictator Chun Doo-hwan and former President Roh Tae-woo for their part in the fatal crackdown of the 1980 pro-democracy Gwangju Uprising served as a victory for the young democracy. There is no blueprint for how the Trump cases will play out. In some settings, the trial of a former president has been a major test for democracy, while in others it’s demonstrated the independence of judicial institutions. One thing is certain: Whatever happens in the United States will likely do more to cement opinions of the country’s institutions rather than of the former president himself.

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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday that he will step down on May 15 after two decades at the helm, and hand power to his deputy Lawrence Wong.

Lee, 72, will formally advise the city-state’s president to appoint Wong, who is currently deputy prime minister and finance minister, to succeed him, his office said in a brief statement. Wong, who has the unanimous support of lawmakers in the long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), will be sworn in at the national palace later the same day, it said.

Lee has served as prime minister and head of the PAP since August 2004.

Lee announced last November that he would retire this year and has already named Wong as his designated successor. Lee originally planned to step down before turning 70, but those plans were shelved because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Also complicating Lee’s retirement was a series of blunders by his first designated successor, Heng Swee Keat, culminating in what political scholar Michael D. Barr called a “spectacularly embarrassing performance during the General Election campaign of 2020.” Heng stepped aside as leader-in-waiting in April 2021, over two years after he was initially tapped in November 2018. Lee and the PAP were forced to go back to the drawing board in selecting the next prime minister.

Wong, formerly the finance minister, was announced as Lee’s new successor in April 2022; next month, he will finally take over Singapore’s top office. When Lee passes the baton on to Wong, it will end a lengthy saga that began all the way back in 2016.

“For any country, a leadership transition is a significant moment. Lawrence and the 4G [fourth-generation] team have worked hard to gain the people’s trust, notably during the pandemic,” Lee said in a Facebook post on Monday. “I ask all Singaporeans to give Lawrence and his team your full support, and work with them to create a brighter future for Singapore.”

Lee has said there is no reason to delay the political transition and that passing the baton to Wong before national elections due next year will allow the 51-year-old politician to win his own mandate and take the country forward.

Wong came to prominence while helping to coordinate Singapore’s fight against COVID-19. He will be the city-state’s fourth leader since its independence in 1965.

The PAP, one of the world’s longest-serving parties, retained its super majority with 83 out of 93 parliamentary seats in 2020 general elections. But that was its worst performance after losing some seats and support slipped.

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How many countries, continents and nations are there in the whole world?

There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.

What are the 7 continents and their countries list?

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The number of countries in each continent fluctuate based on different timely political reasons, but Africa has 54 counties, Antarctica has 0 counties, Asia has 47 countries, Australia has 14 counties, Europe has 43 counties, North America has 23 counties, and South America has 12 countries.

Which country is No 1 in world?

For the second year in a row, Switzerland is the best country in the world, according to the U.S News and World report.13 Sept 2023

Are there 252 countries in the world?

The United Nations, for example, recognizes 251 countries and territories. 1 The United States, however, officially recognizes fewer than 200 nations. 2 Ultimately, the best answer is that there are 196 countries in the world.26 Feb 2020

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The smallest country in the world is Vatican City, with only 0.44 square kilometers. Monaco is the second smallest country, with 2.03 square kilometers.

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One such country is republic of Molossia, which is located in Dayton, Nevada and has only 33 people living there. This tiny country is considered as one of the smallest sovereign states in the world with only 0.2 square kilometers of land area.11 Jun 2022

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Canada. Canada takes up about two-fifths of the North American continent, making it the second-largest country in the world after.

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There are 28 states and 8 union territories in the country. Union territories are administered through an administrator appointed by the President.

Which is the 29th state of India?

Telangana

The correct answer is Telangana. In 2014, Telangana became the 29th state of India. Telangana was formed by reorganizing the state of Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana.

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23 districts

West Bengal is now divided into 23 districts.

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How many panchayats are there in Howrah district?

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The district has 30 police stations (Howrah Police Commissionerate has 16 general police stations including 1 women's PS, 1 cyber crime PS and Howrah Rural PD has 10 general police stations including 1 women's PS, 1 cyber crime PS), 157 gram panchayats and There are 50 censuses. Towns.

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In July 2015, Howrah Municipal Corporation and Bally Municipality were merged. The 35 wards of Bally Municipality were reduced to 16 under Howrah Municipal Corporation. In November 2021, the West Bengal Legislative Assembly passed a bill to separate Bally Municipality from Howrah Municipal Corporation.

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यह पूरी दुनिया में कितने देश महादेश और राष्ट्रसंघ वर्तमान है

आज विश्व में 195 देश हैं। इस कुल में 193 देश शामिल हैं जो संयुक्त राष्ट्र के सदस्य राज्य हैं और 2 देश जो गैर-सदस्य पर्यवेक्षक राज्य हैं: होली सी और फिलिस्तीन राज्य।

7 महाद्वीप और उनके देशों की सूची क्या है?

सात महाद्वीप | अवलोकन एवं तथ्य - वीडियो एवं पाठ...

प्रत्येक महाद्वीप में देशों की संख्या अलग-अलग सामयिक राजनीतिक कारणों के आधार पर घटती-बढ़ती रहती है, लेकिन अफ्रीका में 54 काउंटी, अंटार्कटिका में 0 काउंटी, एशिया में 47 देश, ऑस्ट्रेलिया में 14 काउंटी, यूरोप में 43 काउंटी, उत्तरी अमेरिका में 23 काउंटी और दक्षिण अमेरिका में 23 काउंटी हैं। 12 देश हैं.

दुनिया में नंबर 1 देश कौन सा है?

यू.एस. न्यूज एंड वर्ल्ड रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, स्विट्जरलैंड लगातार दूसरे वर्ष दुनिया का सबसे अच्छा देश है। 13 सितंबर 2023

क्या विश्व में 252 देश हैं?

उदाहरण के लिए, संयुक्त राष्ट्र 251 देशों और क्षेत्रों को मान्यता देता है। हालाँकि, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका आधिकारिक तौर पर 200 से कम देशों को मान्यता देता है। अंततः, सबसे अच्छा उत्तर यह है कि दुनिया में 196 देश हैं। 26 फरवरी 2020

2023 में सबसे छोटा देश कौन सा है?

विश्व के सबसे छोटे देश 2023 - समझदार मतदाता

दुनिया का सबसे छोटा देश वेटिकन सिटी है, जिसका क्षेत्रफल केवल 0.44 वर्ग किलोमीटर है। मोनाको 2.03 वर्ग किलोमीटर के साथ दूसरा सबसे छोटा देश है।

किस देश में केवल 33 लोग रहते हैं?

दुनिया का सबसे छोटा देश जहां सिर्फ 32 लोग रहते हैं...

ऐसा ही एक देश है मोलोसिया गणराज्य, जो डेटन, नेवादा में स्थित है और वहां केवल 33 लोग रहते हैं। केवल 0.2 वर्ग किलोमीटर भूमि क्षेत्र वाले इस छोटे से देश को दुनिया के सबसे छोटे संप्रभु राज्यों में से एक माना जाता है।11 जून 2022

नंबर 2 देश क्या है?

कनाडा. कनाडा उत्तरी अमेरिकी महाद्वीप का लगभग दो-पाँचवाँ भाग घेरता है, जिससे यह दुनिया का दूसरा सबसे बड़ा देश बन जाता है।

शीर्ष 10 सबसे अमीर देश कौन सा है?

प्रति व्यक्ति सकल घरेलू उत्पाद के हिसाब से दुनिया के शीर्ष 10 सबसे अमीर देश इस प्रकार हैं:

सिंगापुर.

कतर.

मकाओ एसएआर.

संयुक्त अरब अमीरात।

स्विट्जरलैंड.

नॉर्वे.

संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका।

सैन मारिनो।

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देश भारत में कितने राज्य वर्तमान है

28 राज्य

देश में 28 राज्य और 8 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश हैं। केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों का प्रशासन राष्ट्रपति द्वारा नियुक्त प्रशासक के माध्यम से किया जाता है।

भारत का 29वाँ राज्य कौन सा है?

तेलंगाना

सही उत्तर तेलंगाना है। 2014 में तेलंगाना भारत का 29वां राज्य बना। आंध्र प्रदेश राज्य का पुनर्गठन करके तेलंगाना का गठन किया गया। हैदराबाद तेलंगाना की राजधानी है।

पश्चिम बंगाल में कितने जिले वर्तमान है

23 जिले

पश्चिम बंगाल अब 23 जिलों में विभाजित है।

हावड़ा जिले में कितने म्युनिसिपल एरिया और पंचायत एरिया है

हावड़ा जिले में कितनी पंचायतें हैं?

हावड़ा जिला - विकिपीडिया

जिले में 30 पुलिस स्टेशन हैं (हावड़ा पुलिस आयुक्तालय में 1 महिला पीएस, 1 साइबर अपराध पीएस सहित 16 सामान्य पुलिस स्टेशन हैं और हावड़ा ग्रामीण पीडी में 1 महिला पीएस, 1 साइबर अपराध पीएस सहित 10 सामान्य पुलिस स्टेशन हैं), 157 ग्राम पंचायतें और 50 जनगणना हैं। कस्बे.

हावड़ा में कितनी नगर पालिकाएँ हैं?

हावड़ा नगर निगम - विकिपीडिया

जुलाई 2015 में, हावड़ा नगर निगम और बल्ली नगर पालिका का विलय कर दिया गया। हावड़ा नगर निगम के अंतर्गत बाली नगर पालिका के 35 वार्डों को घटाकर 16 कर दिया गया। नवंबर 2021 में, पश्चिम बंगाल विधान सभा ने बल्ली नगर पालिका को हावड़ा नगर निगम से अलग करने के लिए एक विधेयक पारित किया।

इतने एरिया जिले राज्य देश विदेश महादेश लेकर हमारी दुनिया की यह रंगिन मौसम

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Patrice Motsepe - Wikipedia

Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe (born 28 January 1962) is a South African mining billionaire businessman. Since 12 March 2021, he has been serving as the President of the Confederation of African Football.[2] He is the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, which has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum. He sits on several company boards, including being the non-executive chairman of Harmony Gold, the world's 12th largest gold mining company, and the deputy chairman of Sanlam. In 2012, Motsepe was named South Africa's richest man (excluding Elon Musk), topping the Sunday Times' annual Rich List with an estimated fortune of R20.07 billion ($1 billion).[3] Almost a decade later in 2020, Motsepe was ranked as the 1,307th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes, with a reported fortune of US$3.1 billion.

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Know Insights about MD of Hiranandani Group - Niranjan Hiranandani

Born on March 8, 1950, Niranjan Hiranandani is a millionaire Indian businessman who specializes in real estate. He is also a co-founder and managing director of the Hiranandani Group. His net worth, as of June 2021, was US$1.6 billion, placing him among the 100 richest Indians according to Forbes.(Source: )

According to the Grohe Hurun survey, he was one of the top 10 Indian real estate tycoons in 2020.According to the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List (2020), he ranked as the second richest individual in the real estate sector in 2020. Hiranandani is the owner of the privately held Hiranandani Group, along with other family members.

Early life and education

Mumbai is where Hiranandani was born. The Hiranandani clan hails from Sindh. Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani, his father, was an ENT surgeon who was also the winner of the Padma Bhushan award from the Indian government. Niranajan Hiranandani has two brothers: Surendra is his younger brother, and Navin is his elder brother. Hiranandani received his education from Campion School in Mumbai and graduated from Sydenham College in Mumbai with a bachelor's degree in business. He is an Institute of Chartered Accountants of India chartered accountant.

Career

Hiranandani began his working life as a teacher of accounting.[13] He established his first company, a textile weaving factory, in Kandivali, Mumbai, in 1981.

In 1985, he and his brother Surendra began a real estate company called Hiranandani Gardens after purchasing 250 acres of property in Powai, Mumbai.Currently, Hiranandani Constructions is renovating and launching two townships that it purchased for around ₹1,000 crore at a judicial auction. A township called Hiranandani Estate was constructed in Thane, Maharashtra, which is a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Area.

In 2006, Hiranandani Hospital was established in Thane, and in Powai, in 2011. He founded Yotta Infrastructure and is its founder and chairman. In its Integrated Yotta Data Center Park at Navi, he opened the second-largest data center in the world, called NM1.

Niranajan Hiranandani's name appeared in the Pandora Papers in October of 2021. It is said that he stashed $60 million in multiple offshore trusts.According to Hiranandani, his son Darshan Hiranandani, who resides in Dubai, is the rightful owner of the funds kept in the offshore account located in the British Virgin Islands.

Associations

17 schools have Hiranandani as a board member, including the Thane and Powai locations of the Hiranandani Foundation School.

In addition to serving as chairman of the Mumbai City, Development and Environment Committee of the Indian Merchants Chambers (I.M.C.) Hiranandani was the previous president of the Maharashtra Chambers of Housing Industry .

In addition, he serves as President of the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO), an organization established by the Indian government's Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs with the goals of advancing ethics and transparency in the real estate industry and developing the country's unorganized real estate market into a globally competitive industry.

The 100-year-old "Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India" (ASSOCHAM) is the trade body of which he served as president. founded with the intention of influencing the nation's trade, commerce, and industrial environment.The International Chamber of Commerce has ASSOCHAM as a member.

Member of the Maharashtra government's study group on the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme and of the Government of India's task force on housing and urban development reforms.

Hiranandani served as the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry's (FICCI) president for real estate and as an advisor to the Indian government on housing and habitat policy.

Additionally, he was a key player in the establishment of HSNC institution, Mumbai, a recently established cluster institution. Despite being State-owned, the H(S)NC Board, one of the oldest educational trusts in India, which he has previously served as president of, will run and oversee this university. He will continue to be associated with the same when serving as the institute's "Provost" in the future. Notable Universities like K.C. College and H.R. College will be part of this cluster university.

Personal life

Niranjan Hiranandani is the spouse of Kamal Hiranandani, with whom he has a son, Darshan, and a daughter, Priya. Priya is wed to businessman Cyrus Vandrevala, who resides in London. Neha Jhalani, the daughter of businessman Pradeep Jhalani and his wife Shabnam Jhalani, of Delhi, is Darshan's wife.

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Inside Man: How FIFA Guided the World Cup to Saudi Arabia

"As the world reeled from the coronavirus crisis in the fall of 2020, the president of soccer’s global governing body, Gianni Infantino, headed to Rome for an audience with Italy’s prime minister. Wearing masks and bumping elbows, Mr. Infantino, the president of FIFA, and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, greeted each other in front of journalists before disappearing with the president of the Italian soccer federation into one of the ornate state rooms of the 16th-century Palazzo Chigi, the Italian leader’s official residence. …”

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Billionaire investor Ryan Cohen has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GameStop, a brick-and-mortar video game retailer in the United States, a move that could potentially impact Dogecoin. GameStop’s stock and the Dogecoin price have shown signs of correlation. Before assuming this role, Cohen had been the Executive Chairman of GameStop since January 2022 and remained the largest shareholder. The experienced investor takes over in what analysts said is an attempt by the board to turn around the fortunes of the public company. Pro-GameStop Billionaire Takes Over As CEO In this role, Cohen takes over as the President, Chief Executive, and Chairman of GameStop, representing a move to overhaul and possibly revive the company’s leadership structure. While he assumes several positions, reports indicate that the billionaire won’t receive a salary. Following news of Cohen’s announcement, GameStop prices surged 10%. Analysts interpret this expansion as confidence in the experienced investor’s capability and even genuine commitment to sparking a turnaround following challenges in 2022 and the shifting landscape that has seen sales in brick-and-mortar stores fall. The appointment is bullish for GameStop because Cohen is one of the largest shareholders. From September 2020, the billionaire started accumulating aggressively through to December 2020. The billionaire publicly supported a stock that hedge funds had ignored, as they were betting on a video game retailer to go bankrupt. However, in January 2021, due to a “short squeeze,” GameStop’s stock prices surged by 1,500% as retailers jumped on board, causing the stock to reach around $81. Will Dogecoin Mirror GameStop’s Rally Of 2021? The sharp expansion of GameStop in January due to FOMO and retailers banking on a “meme stock” bear the same characteristics as the sudden rally of Dogecoin in the first half of 2021. At peaks, Dogecoin soared to as high as $0.78 as support from Elon Musk, the world’s richest entrepreneur, pumped the coin to record levels. The CEO of X openly expressed support for DOGE, even appearing on Sunday Night Live (SNL) as the “Doge Master.” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCF8I_X1qKI[/embed] Beyond Elon Musk, Dogecoin’s status as the first meme coin and its alignment with the broader trend of meme stocks rallying in early 2021, driven chiefly by online communities and social media, fueled DOGE prices. DOGE prices have since cooled off, falling by over 80% as bears pressed on, reversing the project’s huge valuations. Even so, supporters remain bullish, expecting the meme coin to recover in the sessions ahead. Dogecoin prices on September 28| Source: DOGEUSDT on Binance, TradingView It remains to be seen if Elon Musk will continue tweeting frequently about DOGE. The billionaire is being sued in New York for allegedly promoting Dogecoin as a “get-rich-quick” scheme. The lawsuit claims that Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX were involved in a “racketeering conspiracy” to support DOGE. Source

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Video of Sikh leader’s killing shows coordinated attack (Washington Post) At least six men and two vehicles were involved in the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside his place of worship, according to video reviewed by The Washington Post and witness accounts, suggesting a larger and more organized operation than has previously been reported. In a bombshell announcement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canada’s House of Commons last week that authorities were pursuing “credible allegations” that agents of the Indian government were involved in the killing. Canadian authorities have drawn on human and signals intelligence to support their claims of Indian government involvement, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has reported. That intelligence includes intercepted communications of Indian diplomats, some of them on Canadian soil.

Only Richest 20% of Americans Still Have Excess Pandemic Savings (Bloomberg) Americans outside the wealthiest 20% of the country have run out of extra savings and now have less cash on hand than they did when the pandemic began, according to the latest Federal Reserve study of household finances. For the bottom 80% of households by income, bank deposits and other liquid assets were lower in June this year than they were in March 2020, after adjustment for inflation. All income groups have seen their balances decline in real terms from a peak in 2021, according to the Fed survey. But among the wealthiest one-fifth of households, cash savings are still about 8% above their level when Covid hit. By contrast, the poorest two-fifths of Americans have seen an 8% drop in that period. And the next 40%—a group that roughly corresponds with the US middle class—saw their cash savings drop below pre-pandemic levels in the last quarter. The figures point to dwindling firepower available for US consumers. Some analysts warn a downturn is in the cards as households run low on spare cash.

America’s poor math skills raise alarms over global competitiveness (AP) Many Americans joke about how bad they are at math, and already abysmal scores on standardized math tests are falling even further. The nation needs people who are good at math, employers say. They say America’s poor math performance is a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. “The advances in technology that are going to drive where the world goes in the next 50 years are going to come from other countries, because they have the intellectual capital and we don’t,” said Jim Stigler, a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the process of teaching and learning subjects including math. Meanwhile, the number of jobs in math occupations—positions that “use arithmetic and apply advanced techniques to make calculations, analyze data and solve problems”—will increase by more than 30,000 per year through the end of this decade, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show. That’s much faster than most other kinds of jobs. “Mathematics is becoming more and more a part of almost every career,” said Michael Allen, who chairs the math department at Tennessee Technological University.

Nothing Greases The Hinges Of Friendship Like $40 Billion (Guardian) At a White House summit with leaders from various Pacific Islands on Monday, President Biden pledged $40 billion in economic aid to nations in the region. The massive pledge would tie the 18 nations present at the meeting closer to the U.S. as China attempts to expand its influence across the Pacific. The aid package is set to feature secure undersea cable connectivity infrastructure for Pacific nations among other benefits, though the funding plans have yet to be submitted to Congress, which is currently looking to make budget cuts as it stares down the barrel of a possible government shutdown later this week.

Police militias used to fight Brazil’s gangs. Now they extort, traffic and kill, too. (Washington Post) For years, police in Rio de Janeiro state have waged a bloody and expensive campaign against the gangs that dominate many of its impoverished favelas. But all the violence and effort, prosecutors and analysts say, has missed the most pressing security challenge confronting this notoriously turbulent region: A shadow force made up of active and retired police officers themselves, which extorts, traffics drugs and kills at will and with impunity. These police militias, rooted in Brazil’s authoritarian past but with ties to government today, claim that they’re private security enterprises needed to contain gang violence. But they now control far more of Rio than gangs ever have, researchers say. They have more weapons, more money, more political power. Remnants of the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985, police militias were once broadly accepted by authorities as an adjunct to official security forces in the fight against violent criminal gangs. But many are now vying against those gangs to dominate the same criminal activities.

Finland and NATO (NYT) Barely a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland cast aside decades of military nonalignment and self-reliance and joined the NATO alliance. That happened with breathtaking speed, as these matters go, but gaining membership may have been the easy part. Now comes the complicated process of integrating itself into the alliance and its requirement of collective defense—with all of its financial, legal and strategic hurdles. Membership in NATO has long been considered a cheap benefit, given the American nuclear umbrella and the principle of collective defense. But NATO also has extensive requirements of its members—not just spending goals for the military, but specific demands from each country for certain capabilities, armaments, troop strengths and infrastructure as defined by the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Achieving that will demand some difficult and costly decisions from the government and military officials. They will have to decide how to move troops and equipment to Norway, Sweden or the Baltic States in the event they need reinforcements, for instance, or whether to participate in other NATO tasks like patrols in Kosovo or the Mediterranean.

Missing migrants (NYT) April is a beautiful month on the shores of the Mediterranean. But for Meron Estefanos, and others who monitor the migrant passage, spring also brings a sense of foreboding. “How many people are we going to lose this time,” Estefanos, an Eritrean activist based in Uganda, often asks herself. Over the past decade, the vast blue sea between North Africa, Turkey and Europe has become a stage for mass death. Of the more than 2 million people who have attempted the crossing, most from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, at least 28,000 are missing, presumed to have perished, conservative estimates suggest. Of the known dead, only around 13 percent of bodies are ever recovered by European authorities, the ICRC estimates. The vast majority are never identified. The chances of a relative receiving confirmation of a missing loved one’s death are “like the odds of winning the lottery,” in the words of one humanitarian official.

The grain spat threatening to wipe out goodwill between Poland and Ukraine (Washington Post) There is so much grain at Wieslaw Gryn’s farm in eastern Poland—the farm his family has run for two centuries—that wheat kernels are spilling out of the storage barn and into the yard. “There’s no space in the silos,” Gryn, 65, said, as he tapped one of the metal towers holding grain harvested from the fields that stretch toward the Ukrainian border. “Full,” he said. “All full.” Across this agricultural region, some farmers like Gryn say they are struggling to sell their grain at prices that would cover costs, leading to overflowing silos and warehouses. They blame their woes in part on an influx of Ukrainian grain last year, imports that were greenlit by the European Union to help Kyiv circumvent a Russian blockade. The move, which brought cheap Ukrainian wheat to the E.U. market, caused a glut in Poland and sent local prices plummeting, angering farmers. Keeping them placated is a priority for Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party ahead of elections on Oct. 15, even as it threatens lasting damage to the alliance with Ukraine. Experts say the quarrel over grain could be a signal of more friction ahead as European farmers feel threatened by Ukraine’s vast farms. “We are closing the borders in order to defend the Polish farmer, because defending the interests of the Polish farmer is our most important imperative,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.

Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh (Reuters) Hungry and exhausted Armenian families jammed roads to flee homes in the defeated breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the United States called on Azerbaijan to protect civilians and let in aid. The Armenians of Karabakh—part of Azerbaijan beyond Baku’s control since the dissolution of the Soviet Union—began fleeing this week after their forces were routed in a lightning military operation by Azerbaijan’s military. At least 13,550 of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians who call Nagorno-Karabakh home arrived in Armenia on the first day of the exodus, with hundreds of cars and buses crammed with belongings snaking down the mountain road out of Azerbaijan. As Armenians rushed to leave the Karabakh capital, fuel stations were overwhelmed by panic buying. The authorities there said at least 68 people were killed and 200 injured in a massive blaze when a fuel storage facility blew up on Monday.

Rupees (Bloomberg) On May 19, the Reserve Bank of India ordered the withdrawal of all 2,000-rupee bank notes by the end of September, ordering people to exchange them for smaller bills or deposit them in banks. There were 3.56 trillion rupees’ worth of 2,000-rupee notes, and while most have been banked, still 7 percent remained in circulation as of the beginning of the month. That means that very soon, some 240 billion rupees’ ($2.9 billion) worth of currency might be rendered invalid within a week. The 2,000-rupee note, which is worth around $24, was first introduced in 2016 and is a preferred storage of value for large cash deals. After the end of the month, they’ll only be able to be exchanged with the Reserve Bank of India, and the individual will have to have an explanation for why they missed the deadline.

South China Sea: Philippines removes Chinese barrier in contested area (BBC) The Philippines says it has removed a floating barrier installed by China to block Philippine fishing boats entering a contested area in the South China Sea. The Philippines coast guard said it had been instructed to do so by President Ferdinand Marcos Junior. Manila says China violated its fishing rights with the 300m (1,000ft) barrier in the Scarborough Shoal. China claims more than 90% of the South China Sea and seized the shoal in 2012. The South China Sea is a rich fishing ground that is believed to hold vast oil and gas reserves. More than half of the world’s fishing vessels operate in this area. China’s claims—which include sovereignty over plots of land and their adjacent waters—have angered not just the Philippines but also Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.

Few persecuted Christians find refuge in US, new report finds (Religion News Service) Fewer Christians fleeing persecution in their native countries have found a safe harbor in the United States in the past half decade, according to a new report from a pair of Christian nonprofits, which cites the effects of the pandemic and the dismantling of U.S. refugee resettlement programs during the Trump administration. The report, titled “Closed Doors,” found the number of Christians coming to the U.S. from countries named on a prominent persecution watchlist dropped from 32,248 in 2016 to 9,528 in 2022—a decline of 70%. The decline in Christian refugees comes at a time when the persecution against Christians is on the rise, said Ryan Brown, CEO of Open Doors. According to the Watch List released earlier this year, some 360 million Christians face what Open Doors calls “high levels of discrimination and persecution.” That’s up from 260 million reported in a 2020 edition of the “Closed Doors” report. Much of the increase has come in sub-Saharan Africa, he said, driven by political instability and internal conflict in countries like Nigeria.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Despite economic headwinds that affected Nigeria’s economy, three Nigerians have appeared in the list of richest black people on earth. They are Aliko Dangote, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Mike Adenuga. Aliko Dangote, President of the pan-African Conglomerate, the Dangote Group, tops the list. Here is a list of 17 richest black people on earth 1. Aliko Dangote ($10.8 billion) Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, founded and chairs Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement producer. He owns 85% of publicly-traded Dangote Cement through a holding company. Dangote Cement has the capacity to produce 48.6 million metric tons annually and has operations in 10 countries across Africa. After many years in development, Dangote’s fertilizer plant in Nigeria began operations in March 2022. Dangote Refinery has been under construction since 2016 and is expected to be one of the world’s largest oil refineries once complete. 2. Robert F. Smith ($8 billion) Robert F. Smith founded private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in 2000. It focuses exclusively on investing in software companies. With $96 billion in assets, Vista is one of the best-performing private equity firms, posting annualized returns of 31% since inception. In October 2020, Smith entered into an agreement with the DOJ and IRS, agreeing to pay $139 million for his role in a tax evasion scheme. As a college student, Smith secured an internship at Bell Labs after calling the company every week for five months. An engineer by training, he worked at Kraft Foods and Goodyear Tire before getting his MBA at Columbia University. During a commencement speech, Smith vowed to wipe out the student debt of the entire 2019 graduating class of Morehouse College. 3. David Steward ($7.6 billion) David Steward is the founder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology. In the early days, Steward sometimes went without a paycheck and once watched his car get repossessed from the office parking lot. Today he is majority owner of the $14.5 billion (sales) company, whose customers include Citi, Verizon and the federal government. He grew up in the segregated South with seven siblings; his father worked as a mechanic, janitor and trash collector. Steward donated $1.3 million to the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2018 to create the David and Thelma Steward Institute for Jazz Studies. 4. Abdulsamad Rabiu ($5.6 billion) Abdulsamad Rabiu is the founder of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate active in cement production, sugar refining and real estate. In early January 2020, Rabiu merged his privately-owned Obu Cement company with listed firm Cement Co. of Northern Nigeria, which he controlled. The combined firm, called BUA Cement Plc, trades on the Nigerian stock exchange; Rabiu owns 98.2% of it. Rabiu, the son of a businessman, inherited land from his father. He set up his own business in 1988 importing iron, steel and chemicals. 5. Mike Adenuga ($3.6 billion) Adenuga, Nigeria’s second richest man, built his fortune in telecom and oil production. His mobile phone network, Globacom, is the third largest operator in Nigeria, with 55 million subscribers. His oil exploration outfit, Conoil Producing, operates 6 oil blocks in the Niger Delta. Adenuga got an MBA at Pace University in New York, supporting himself as a student by working as a taxi driver. He made his first million at age 26 selling lace and distributing soft drinks. 6. Jay-Z ($2.5 billion) Since becoming hip-hop’s first billionaire in 2019, Jay-Z has more than doubled his fortune thanks to his lucrative liquor businesses. In 2021, giant LVMH purchased a 50% stake in his champagne empire Armand de Brignac, otherwise known as Ace of Spades.

Jay-Z sold a majority of his stake in his cognac brand D’Usse to Bacardi in February 2023. His other assets range from a fine art collection including works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, his music catalog and shares in companies like Block and Uber. In 2021 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame; He won an Emmy in 2022 for Outstanding Variety Special for his production of the Super Bowl Halftime Show. 7. Oprah Winfrey ($2.5 billion) Oprah Winfrey has transitioned her hit talk show, which ran for 25 years, into a media and business empire. Reinvested, the profits from her show, plus profits from films like The Color Purple, Beloved and Selma (which her Harpo Productions coproduced) add up to an estimated more than $2 billion. In 2011, Winfrey launched cable channel OWN. She sold most of her stake in the network to owner Warner Bros. Discovery in 2020 in exchange for shares in the company. Winfrey bought a 10% stake in Weight Watchers in 2015, though she owns less now. Her sprawling real estate portfolio includes homes in California, Nashville and over a dozen properties in Hawaii. 8. PATRICE MOTSEPE ($2.3 billion) Patrice Motsepe, the founder and chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, became a billionaire in 2008 – the first black African on the Forbes list. In 2016, he launched a private equity firm, African Rainbow Capital, focused on investing in Africa. Motsepe also has a stake in Sanlam, a listed financial services firm, and is the president and owner of the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club. In March 2021, Motsepe was elected president of the Confederation of African Football, the sport’s governing body on the continent. In 1994, he became the first black partner at law firm Bowman Gilfillan in Johannesburg, and then started a mining services contracting business. In 1997, he bought low-producing gold mine shafts and later turned them profitable. 9. Michael Jordan ($2 billion) Regarded by most as the NBA’s greatest all-time player, Michael Jordan won six titles with the Chicago Bulls. His salary during his career totaled $90 million, but he has earned $1.8 billion (pre-tax) from such corporate partners as Nike, Hanes and Gatorade. MJ joined sports-betting firm DraftKings as a special advisor to the board and an investor in September 2020. He also became a NASCAR team co-owner in late 2020. Jordan, who owns the Charlotte Hornets, agreed to sell a minority stake in a 2019 deal that valued the NBA team at $1.5 billion. 10. STRIVE MASIYIWA, ($1.8 billion) Strive Masiyiwa overcame protracted government opposition to launch mobile phone network Econet Wireless Zimbabwe in his country of birth in 1998. He owns just over 50% of the publicly-traded Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, which is one part of his larger Econet Group. Masiyiwa also owns just over half of private company Liquid Telecom, which provides fiber optic and satellite services to telecom firms across Africa. His other assets include stakes in mobile phone networks in Burundi and Lesotho, and investments in fintech and power distribution firms in Africa. He and his wife Tsitsi founded the Higherlife Foundation, which supports orphaned and poor children in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi and Lesotho. 11. Alexander Karp ($1.8 billion) Alex Karp is cofounder and CEO of data mining firm Palantir Technologies, which received early backing from CIA investment arm In-Q-Tel. The company does contract work for government agencies like the Department of Defense, the FBI and the Danish National Police. Palantir went public on the New York Stock Exchange in an unusual direct listing process in September 2020. Karp met Palantir cofounder and billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel while at Stanford Law School. Karp managed money before starting Palantir in 2004, and occasionally teaches meditation classes at the company. 12. Rihanna ($1.4 billion ) Rihanna, Barbados’ most famous export, is a billionaire thanks to the success of cosmetics line Fenty Beauty.

The cosmetics company, which she co-owns with French luxury retailer LVMH, doubled its revenue in 2022. She also has a 30% stake in the Savage x Fenty lingerie line, which raised money at a $1 billion valuation in February 2021. The pop star headlined the Super Bowl LVII halftime show for the first time in 2023, during which she revealed she is pregnant with her second child. Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky already have one son, born in May 2022. She released her first new music in five years in 2022 for the movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Her song “Lift Me Up” was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. 13. Michael Lee-Chin ($1.4 billion each) Michael Lee-Chin made a fortune investing in financial companies like National Commercial Bank Jamaica and AIC Limited. The native of Jamaica acquired AIC in 1987, when it had less than $1 million in assets under management. Under Lee-Chin, the Canada-based wealth management and mutual fund business managed more than $10 billion in assets by 2002. But the firm was hit hard by the 2008 recession, and Lee-Chin sold AIC to Canadian financial services group Manulife in 2009 for an undisclosed price. He managed to hold onto a valuable 60% stake in National Commercial Bank Jamaica, which now makes up much of his wealth. 14. MOHAMMED IBRAHIM ($1.2 billion) Mohammed “Mo” Ibrahim founded Celtel International in 1998, one of the first mobile phone companies serving Africa and the Middle East. He sold Celtel to Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Company for $3.4 billion in 2005 and pocketed $1.4 billion. Since then, he’s focused on fighting corrupt leadership in Africa through the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, directed by his daughter, Hadeel. Ibrahim also chairs the board of Satya Capital, a private equity fund that invests in African businesses, education and healthcare. 15. Tiger Woods ($1.1 billion) Woods has earned roughly $1.8 billion during his pro golf career, including a PGA Tour-record $121 million in prize money. In 2022, Forbes certified him as a billionaire, making him only the second active athlete ever with that distinction, after LeBron James. Woods reached that rarified air despite reportedly turning down a “mind-blowingly enormous” offer from the upstart LIV Golf tour, a deal that LIV CEO Greg Norman told the Washington Post would have been in the “high nine digits.” Woods has parlayed his golfing paychecks into investments that include two homes on Jupiter Island, a golf-course design business and high-end mini-golf chain Popstroke. Woods and fellow golf star Rory McIlroy announced in 2022 that they had founded TMRW Sports, a tech-focused venture with plans to launch a new golf league called TGL. The superstar is also a partner with Justin Timberlake and British billionaire Joe Lewis in Nexxus, a luxury real-estate venture. 16. LeBron James ($1 billion) James is the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $1 billion in June 2022. Born to a 16-year-old single mother, he lived with an assortment of family members, friends and neighbors, plus his youth football coach, before being drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. James has reportedly earned more than $430 million in pretax salary from stints with the Cavaliers, the Miami Heat and his current team, the Los Angeles Lakers. He has raked in upwards of $900 million (pretax) off the court, according to Forbes estimates from business ventures and endorsement deals with the likes of PepsiCo, Walmart and Nike. Key to his billionaire status: James has been more than a pitchman, taking equity in brands he works with, including Beats by Dre and the fast-growing Blaze Pizza chain. His LeBron James Family Foundation opened its first elementary school in 2018 and has pledged to spend more than $40 million to send kids to college. 17. Tyler Perry ($1 billion) A director, actor, producer and writer,

Tyler Perry is best known for his “Madea” franchise, which has grossed more than $660 million. Perry started out in live theater in the 1990s and became extremely popular before transitioning to film and television in the 2000s. Perry’s wealth comes both from his cut as a producer and from a library dating back to the early 1990s: he owns 100% of the content he’s created. In 2019, he opened Tyler Perry Studios, a 330-acre property in Atlanta with 12 sound stages and custom sets that include a to-scale White House. #billionaire #Nigerians #wealth #Worldsrichestblackpeople

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Quiet sides of wealthy Nigerians

Mike Adenuga

According to the Forbes list of African billionaires for 2020, Mike Adenuga, the founder of Globacom and the Chairman of Conoil Producing, is the third richest person in Africa. The astute businessman built his fortune in telecommunications and oil exploration.Adenuga’s name not only resonates among his peers but is also mentioned by musicians who can’t seem to get enough of using him as a reference when praying for financial breakthrough. However, with all the buzz around him, the 67-year-old not only lives a quiet life, he is not also seen in social circles. Some years ago, when one of his children got married, it was reported that the oil major instructed guests not to take any photos at the classy but private wedding. Adenuga guards his privacy so jealously that according to reports, only select members of his staff have access to him.

Fola Adeola

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc is arguably one of the most popular new generation banks in Nigeria. Its tentacles are also spread outside the ‘giant of Africa’ as it has branches in 10 other African countries.However, not much is known about one of the brains behind the financial institution― Fola Adeola. Apart from the fact that the serial entrepreneur is scarcely seen at society parties, his wife, Hajara, and their six children also live very low-key lifestyles. His wife’s modest is further proof that the couple does not want to live in the full glare of the public.Adeola was 34 when she and the co-founder of the bank, the late Tayo Aderinokun, applied for a banking licence in 1988, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Adedeji Adeleke

A lot of people only got to hear about the reserved businessman, Adedeji Adeleke, through his superstar son, David, popularly known as Davido.Born on March 6, 1957, the senior Adeleke is the founder and president of Adeleke University. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Holdings Limited. Although two of Adedeji’s brothers have held top political positions in the past, he has still managed to keep a low profile.His son’s popularity has undoubtedly put the spotlight on him over the years as Davido regularly sings and talks about his father’s wealth. Unlike others of his ilk, Adeleke is one billionaire who is not often seen amidst the crème de la crème but Davido, the self-proclaimed ‘omo baba olowo (child of a rich man)’, is certainly doing that for him.

Leo ‘Stan’ Ekeh

Leonard Ekeh can be described as one of the most successful technopreneurs to have come out of Africa. He has carved a niche for himself in the information technology sector and is still working hard to make more impact. Many years ago, the smart entrepreneur rightly predicted that ICT would occupy an important position in the world’s economy and he decided to toe that path. It won’t be out of place to say that Ekeh’s foresight has helped him to quickly adapt to changes in the world market and conveniently utilise new technologies to his advantage.He founded Zinox Technologies Limited in 2001 and the company.

Pascal Dozie

Even as an octogenarian, business magnate, Pascal Dozie, is numbered among the richest men in Imo State and Nigeria as a whole. With a net worth estimated by Forbes to be at $1bn, there is no gainsaying the fact that he has had a successful career.Dozie began his career as an economist at the National Economic Development Office in the United Kingdom. He was also a part-time lecturer at the North Western Polytechnic, London. Between 1970 and 1971, he served as a consulting economist at the African States Consulting Organisation in Uganda. In 1971, after quitting his job in Uganda, he relocated to Nigeria at the request of his mother. Armed with his experience in econometrics and industrial engineering, the enterprising businessman launched his first company, African Development Consulting Group, which later gave birth to Diamond Bank.Dozie was the Chairman of MTN Nigeria for 18 years before he, alongside five other non-Executive Directors, left their positions in 2019. The savvy entrepreneur has five sons and he is gradually handing over the reins of the business he painstakingly built to his eldest son, Uzoma, who was the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Bank before the financial institution’s merger with Access Bank.The wealthy entrepreneur keeps a low-key profile and seemingly shies away from anything that is not about business.

Ibukun Awosika

She is the Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria; founder of the Chair Centre Group; and co-founder and past chairperson of the Women in Business, Management and Public Service. With that, it is evident that Awosika is not a small fry by any standards. The brilliant businesswoman also chairs a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards including Gems Africa, House of Tara International, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Digital Jewel Limited, Convention on Business Integrity and the Afterschool Graduate Development Centre― a facility she promoted to help address youth employability and enterprise issues in Nigeria. She used to be the Chairman of FBN Life Assurance Limited, FBN Capital Limited and Kakawa Discount House Limited. She also served on the board of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority.

Abdulsamad Rabiu

Kano-born business tycoon, Abdulsamad Rabiu, made his fortune as the owner of BUA Cement Plc and that has earned him an enviable spot on the list of billionaires in Africa. He is also the chairman of the Bank of Industry. On July 7, 2020, Forbes estimated Rabiu’s wealth to be $3.2bn, placing him at the 716th position in the global billionaire’s club.

Jim Ovia

Jim Ovia can be described as a very private person, though he is the founder of a public limited company, Zenith Bank Plc, which happens to be one of the most profitable financial institutions in the country.A 58-year-old native of Agbor in Delta State, Ovia keeps his family off the social media radar and shields his private life jealously. He started his banking career in 1973 as a clerk at Union Bank. He worked for three years as a bank clerk before moving to the United States of America, where he obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees. Called ‘The godfather of Nigerian banking’ in banking circles, Ovia transformed Zenith from a small commercial bank into a formidable financial conglomerate, that boasts of over 500 branches and business offices in all states of Nigeria, as well as subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and China.

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Top 10 Richest Football Players 2023

Top 10 Richest Football Players 2023 Get ready to explore the world of football

1. Faiq Bolkiah net worth: $20 Billion:

Faiq Bolkiah, born on May 9th, 1998, in Los Angeles, California, is widely considered the wealthiest football player in the world, with an estimated net worth of $20 billion as of 2023. As a member of the Bruneian Royal Family and former captain of the Brunei national team, he has made a name for himself both on and off the pitch. Currently, Faiq Bolkiah plays as a midfielder for the Thai club Chonburi, where his impressive skills and wealth have garnered much attention. His success is undoubtedly due in part to his dedication to the game, as well as his high level of expertise in managing his finances. Given his exceptional abilities and accomplishments, Faiq Bolkiah's fame and fortune are well-deserved. As a top-performing athlete and a member of a respected royal family, he serves as an inspiration to many aspiring football players around the world.

2. Cristiano Ronaldo Net Worth: $690 Million:

As of 2023, Cristiano Ronaldo's net worth has soared to $690 million, making him the second-richest footballer in the world. In 2020, he earned an impressive $105 million before taxes and fees, securing his spot at No. 4 on Forbes' Celebrity 100 list. Apart from his success on the pitch, CR7 is renowned for his entrepreneurial skills, with interests in various business ventures. One of these is his hotel chain, and he also has a lucrative long-term partnership with Nike. Cristiano Ronaldo's net worth makes him the wealthiest football player globally, with his annual salary and bonuses amounting to $70 million. Ronaldo's return to Manchester United, where he won several Premier League and Champions League titles between 2003 and 2009, has been a significant contributor to his income. Moreover, the Portuguese superstar earns money from promoting other products under his CR7 brand, which includes a range of items such as perfume, underwear, eyeglasses, hotels, and gyms. He also has his own sponsorships and agreements with various companies that have added to his wealth.

3. Lionel Messi net worth: $620 million:

Lionel Messi is currently the Third-richest football player globally, with a fortune estimated at $620 million. In 2019, he was the fifth-highest paid celebrity, and the third-richest footballer with pre-tax earnings of $104 million. Messi's annual salary is approximately $80 million, which he earns through his contract with Barcelona, running until 2020-21. He also enjoys a lifelong sponsorship deal with Adidas, ensuring his continued financial success. With a net worth estimated at $600 million, Lionel Messi is one of the wealthiest footballers in the world. His success both on and off the pitch has enabled him to build an impressive fortune, and his loyal fans continue to support him as he cements his place as one of the greatest football players of all time.

4. David Beckham net worth: 450 million:

David Beckham, a retired footballer from England, is the Forth-richest football player globally, with an estimated net worth of $450 million. Currently, he serves as the president and co-owner of Inter Miami CF, as well as a co-owner of Salford City. Beckham began his professional football career at the young age of 17 when he signed with Manchester United. Over his two-decade-long career, he set numerous records and became a global ambassador for the sport. Beckham has consistently ranked among the highest earners in football and was even listed as the highest-paid player in the world in 2013. Beyond football, Beckham is also a fashion icon with numerous endorsement deals, making him one of the most recognizable athletes worldwide. Additionally, he is a philanthropist and has served as a UNICEF UK ambassador since 2005. Overall, David Beckham's significant contributions to the sport of football and his success in business and fashion have enabled him to build a substantial fortune while also making a positive impact in the world.

5. David Whelan net worth: 210 million:

David Whelan is widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. Even at the age of 85, he remains one of the richest football players in the world, thanks to his remarkable career and successful business ventures. Whelan played for the Blackburn Rovers and Crewe Alexandra football clubs and also owned the Wigan Athletic club. Whelan's current net worth is estimated to be around $210 million, placing him among the wealthiest soccer players globally. He has been recognized for his contributions to the sport and his community, having been awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Wigan by the Wigan Borough Council. David Whelan's enduring success in football and business is a testament to his talent, dedication, and entrepreneurial spirit. He has made a significant impact on the sport and continues to inspire new generations of footballers and entrepreneurs alike.

6. Neymar da Silva Santos Junior net worth: $200 million:

Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the fifth-richest football player in the world with a net worth of $200 million, according to his wiki page. The Brazilian and Paris Saint-Germain star was voted as the seventh-highest-paid celebrity globally, with a net income of $95.5 million before taxes in 2019. Neymar has been signed to Paris Saint-Germain until June 2022, under a five-year contract worth $350 million. At the young age of 17, he made his debut for Santos and played a significant role in helping the team win two consecutive championships, a Copa do Brasil, and Santos' first Copa Libertadores since 1963. During his time alongside Lionel Messi, Neymar was instrumental in helping Barcelona win the La Liga, Copa del Rey, and Champions League trebles. He finished third in the FIFA Ballon d'Or for his outstanding efforts. In the 2015-16 season, he achieved a domestic double with his team. Neymar's impressive success both on and off the field is a testament to his hard work, talent, and dedication to the sport. He continues to inspire and amaze football fans around the world with his outstanding performances and achievements.

7. Zlatan Ibrahimovic net worth: $190 million:

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is currently the seventh-richest footballer in the world, with a fortune of $190 million according to Forbes. The Swedish footballer is currently playing for AC Milan in Serie A, with a six-month contract worth €3.5 million. During his illustrious career, Ibrahimovic has played for some of the world's top clubs including AC Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, and Juventus. He has also been an endorser for top brands such as Adidas and Nike. With a net worth of $190 million, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is undoubtedly one of the wealthiest football players in the world. He first rose to prominence as one of Europe's most talented attackers while playing for Ajax before joining Juventus two years later.

8. Kylian Mbappe net worth: 176 million:

At only 23 years of age, Kylian Mbappe has already established himself as one of the best and wealthiest soccer players in the world. He has repeatedly been featured as the highest-paid athlete in various magazines. Mbappe is known for his exceptional dribbling abilities, speed, and finishing, and has already broken numerous records in his 7-year career. Some of his achievements include being the second-most expensive player in history and the most expensive teenage player. He is also the second-highest all-time top goal scorer of his club. Mbappe became the youngest French player and the second teenager to score in a World Cup Final, making history in the sport.

9. Wayne Rooney net worth: $170 million:

Footballer Wayne Rooney is the ninth wealthiest player in the world with a net worth of $170 million. He has been among the top 10 highest-paid football players in the world for the last 11 years. During his time at DC United, he reportedly earned a salary of £2.6 million ($3.5 million). Rooney has collaborated with major companies such as Samsung, Coca-Cola, EA Sports, and Nike. His estimated net worth is around $160 million. Rooney is known for his successful career with Manchester United, where he became the only English player to win the Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and FIFA Club World Cup.

10. Ronaldo LuísNazário de Lima net worth: 160 million:

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, commonly known as Ronaldo, is a former footballer and businessman from Brazil who is considered one of the greatest players of all time. Throughout his dazzling football career, he achieved many records and amassed a great deal of wealth. At just 21 years old, this Brazilian legend became the most expensive player and the youngest recipient of the Ballon d'Or award, a record he still holds to this day. He holds many other records, including being recognized as one of the greatest living players. Due to multiple injuries, he was forced to retire from the game. Ronaldo's estimated net worth is around $160 million, making him one of the richest football players. He has also been a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador since 2000.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the world of football has produced many talented players who have not only made a name for themselves but have also amassed great wealth through their careers and business ventures. The top 10 richest football players in 2023 are a testament to this fact, with their combined net worth amounting to billions of dollars. Their success both on and off the field serve as inspiration for aspiring young footballers to strive for excellence in their careers and financial endeavors. Read the full article

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Senator Bernie Sanders in Washington, DC. Photograph: Stephen Voss/The Observer

Bernie Sanders: ‘Oligarchs Run Russia. But Guess What? They Run The US As Well’

The veteran senator is now part of Joe Biden’s inner circle, and is still fighting his country’s vast inequalities

— The Guardian USA | Sunday February 19, 2023

After the State of the Union address at the beginning of this month, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece that argued: “Joe Biden is Bernie Sanders.” By this it meant that, somehow, by stealth, under the cover of darkness, a “democratic socialist” – both words apparently terms of abuse in the WSJ commentator’s lexicon – had invaded the White House and was now making policy for ordinary Americans, interfering in the unjust struggle of their lives, trying to help them get decent jobs and provide them with affordable healthcare. The implication was clear: offshore your assets and offer unhinged prayers to Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Speaking to Sanders last week, I wondered if that was how it felt to him.

The 81-year-old senator for Vermont gave one of his brief, gravelly guffaws, his concession to small talk. “Not quite,” he said. “I do go to the White House every now and then and chat with the president but no, I’m not in the White House. But that’s the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch’s paper – you know Rupert Murdoch in the UK, right?”

I confirm a passing acquaintance.

“Well, the fact is the Wall Street Journal is shocked – flabbergasted! – that an American president would have the courage to mention in his speech, say, that the Oil Industry Made $200bn in Profit, while jacking up prices for everyone; they are shocked to hear that a president wants to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry; shocked to hear a president talk about the need to raise teacher salaries. Joe Biden is far more conservative than I am. But to his credit, I think he has seen what the progressive movement is doing in this country. And he feels comfortable with some of our ideas – and I appreciate that.”

In some ways, the Wall Street Journal was more on the money than Sanders allows. Many of Biden’s proposals did appear to come verbatim from the manifesto that saw Sanders twice beaten to second place in the race to become the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2016 and 2020 – policies that Sanders has been pressing since he first ran for the office of Vermont senator in 1972, on behalf of the Liberty Union party, and finished third with 2% of the vote. For much of that time Sanders – the longest-serving independent representative in congressional history – sounded a lot like a prophet railing in a wilderness of Reaganite deregulation (he has been arguing for a $15 minimum wage for two decades; it still hasn’t come to pass). In the years since the financial crash, however, and particularly since the start of the pandemic, many more people have listened.

For a generation of millennials raised on digital noise, Sanders became, in 2016, the political equivalent of a rare vinyl record: tangible, authentic, a reliable source of timeless indy riffs. For all but the most self-righteous of those fans – a strident few believed him a sellout for eventually endorsing the “centrist” Biden – he retains that appeal (strange to think that the progressive hero of the land-of-the-next-new-thing is an octogenarian – stranger that both of his most visible political rivals are, too). Sanders has written a new book partly aimed at that millennial generation – its Day-Glo title is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism – reminding the young of their age-old rights and responsibilities.

With Joe Biden, 12 September 2019, when both men were Democratic presidential hopefuls. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

The driving narrative of the book is outrage at the obscene wealth inequalities in the world’s richest economy. One of the things that Biden had the temerity – in the Wall Street Journal’s view – to raise in his State of the Union address was a billionaire minimum tax, “because no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a firefighter or a schoolteacher”. Under the proposed tax on annual gains in wealth, tech billionaire Elon Musk, for example, would have paid upwards of $20bn a year through the pandemic. Sanders would go further, but he concedes it’s a start. In his book he refers to America’s billionaires as oligarchs. He hopes the pejorative will finally start to catch on.

“One of the points that I wanted to make,” he says, “is yeah, of course the oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? Oligarchs run the United States as well. And it’s not just the United States, it’s not just Russia; Europe, the UK, all over the world, we’re seeing a small number of incredibly wealthy people running things in their favour. A Global Oligarchy. This is an issue that needs to be talked about.”

There are plenty of others. Sanders writes, likably, as he talks – straight to the point, low on personal digression, high on public policy. A keen admirer of his once observed how “Bernie’s the last person you’d want to be stuck on a desert island with. Two weeks of lectures about healthcare, and you’d look for a shark and dive in.” In this determination, he says, he wants to be an antidote to the oligarch-owned American media, which would have its audience think and talk about anything else – celebrities, the ballgame, the latest “woke” meme – than the stuff that might loosen their control of politics and the economy. “We don’t talk about our dysfunctional healthcare system. We don’t talk about income and wealth inequality. We hardly talk significantly about the existential threat of climate. The purpose of my book is to begin that discussion.”

It is one flank of what might yet be the beginning of the closing chapter of Sanders’s unique career, a suitably raucous throat-clearing for a last hurrah. There is another thrust to that campaign. Sanders has just become chair of the Senate health, education, labour and pensions committee. He clearly intends to use that office not only to pursue his primary long-term aim – Medicare for all – but to create some proper political theatre along the way. His opening acts have seen him request the presence before the committee of Stéphane Bancel, the chief executive of Moderna, who Sanders argues “has become a multibillionaire” by creating a coronavirus vaccine with government money. Calls have also gone out to Howard Schultz, the chief executive of Starbucks, to address his “union-busting” policies and their relation to his staggering personal fortune. Jeff Bezos, of Amazon, a long-term bete noire of Sanders, should also look out for an invitation. Expect TV ratings of Senate hearings to soar.

One of the inspiring things about Sanders’s devotion to his cause – in light of the factional divisions of the British left – has been his grownup willingness to get behind Biden’s programme and try to influence it from within. The two of them have profound political differences, but, as he outlines in the book, a sincere personal respect; their wives get along well. Sanders would probably hesitate to use a term as emotional as friendship for a political adversary, but that’s how it sounds.

“For us to get along was a) the right thing to do,” he says. “And b) good politics. If you’re a smart guy and you want to win an election, why wouldn’t you sit down and work closely with the person who came in second place? The results didn’t go as far as I would like, but there are solid ideas which have been incorporated, in some cases, into governmental policy.”

Bernie Sanders in 1981. Photograph: Robert Swanson/Vanguard Press/University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library

Having ceded the nomination, he was not interested in any kind of pious sulk that might have divided the Democrats and allowed Trump to return. He is very clear about the existential threat that Trump posed to American democracy. To what extent does he think that threat still will be a factor in 2024?

“Well,” he says, “just before talking to you, I came from a meeting with Lula [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva], the president of Brazil. That is exactly what we talked about. He had the same phenomenon with a rightwing authoritarian, [Jair] Bolsonaro, refusing to accept the election result.” He had been discussing with Lula something Franklin Roosevelt argued in the 1930s: “FDR said freedom is not just the right to vote. It is the right to healthcare, housing, a secure job. When [government] works to do that rather than looking after the interests of billionaires, then people will say ‘you know what, I think democracy works’. If it doesn’t do that, bad things happen and Trump and Bolsonaro gain a foothold.”

The 6 January hearings about the insurrection at the Capitol were important historically but had a limited political effect, he believes. “Trump supporters don’t sit around watching CNN. Many of them still believe that the election was stolen and Trump is right.” He points to an ABC-Washington Post poll of a couple of days earlier that, while expressing little excitement about either candidate, had put Trump three points ahead of Biden in a presidential race.

One of the causal factors Sanders addresses in his book is the alarming growth of news deserts in the US: cities and regions where there are no local news outlets at all. In the absence of knowing what is happening in their neighbourhood, people become entangled in the seductive conspiracy threads of social media. But as well as proposing a method of federal funding for local news, Sanders also keeps the faith that social media – a powerful personal campaigning platform for him – can be redeemed. Isn’t there a certain naivety in this? Isn’t the divisive anger that drives the revenues of Twitter and the rest always more likely to be a reactionary than a progressive force?

“Well,” he says, “I think, the more we know, the more positive options are open to us. And in terms of anger, I think people do have the right to be angry. In America right now, weekly inflation-adjusted wages for workers are lower than they were 50 years ago. Should people be angry that their bosses now make 400 times what they make? I know in the UK you have in a lot of strikes and turmoil. It is about the fact that in the last 40 years, 50 years, there has been an unprecedented transfer of wealth, from the working families to the top 1%. Should people be angry about that? Damn right they should.”

The hero in his book is Eugene Debs, five times presidential candidate of the Socialist party of America at the turn of the 20th century. Before Sanders went into politics – when he was living somewhat off-grid in Vermont (“definitely not a hippy”) – he made a documentary about Debs, designed to be sent to schools across the country. He is the figure he has always tried to live up to.

“Debs is almost unknown now, but he was a remarkable man. A great orator, a great organiser. Contemporaries referred to him as almost a Christ-like figure, prepared to give you the shirt off his back. He ended up spending three years in jail for his opposition to world war one.”

Forerunner: Socialist Eugene Debs addressing a crowd, circa 1910. Photograph: Fotosearch/Getty Images

I wonder, in relation to this, if any of his early interest in socialist history came from his family.

He suggests not. “My father immigrated to the United States from Poland at the age of 17, without any money at all. He got a job as a paint salesman and was a paint salesman his whole life. He was never a union man.”

What would his parents have made of how things have turned out for their son?

“Both of them died young. To be honest, I think they would have been delighted to discover I graduated college. Being a United States senator, running for president, all that would have been unthinkable.”

And would it have seemed unthinkable for him at the time too?

“It was never about a career,” he says. “When I was in college I got involved in the civil rights movement, then I worked for a union. Those were the things that I was motivated by. Eventually I ended up becoming mayor of Burlington, Vermont by 10 votes. But no, I never thought that I would get elected anything.”

With Sanders making noises about his schedule, this leads us to the billion-dollar – or $15 – question. His book-length manifesto ends with something of a rallying cry: “Let’s do it!�� Is he still thinking of another run for the Democrat nomination for 2024?

“I think what’s going to happen,” he says, “is that President Biden is going to run for re-election. And if he does, I will support him.”

And does he think age is a key issue in that choice – for Biden and for himself?

“Age is always a factor,” he says. “But there are 1,000 factors. Some people who are 80 or more have more energy than people who are 30. I would hope,” he says, warming, as ever, to his theme, “that we will fight ageism as much as we fight sexism and racism and homophobia, judge people on how they are and not simply by their age. There are,” he says, “a lot of elderly people with a whole lot of experience who are very capable of doing great work.”

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