I really commend Moroccan team for that good performance in that match , making it the only African team that is left in the world cup compition, I really encourage other African brothers to work hard in the next world cup.  I keep wondering why the African teams are not doing so well when it comes to world cup compition, when we have good talented players from the African space playing in Champions League and other various compitions around the world. The Africans need work hard in order to change that narratives.

The Croatians will put up a fight but they'll lose to Brazil. The Brazil team is too goof for  Croatia. Croatia have the advantage of how they play but I don't think they are strong enough to win any of the teams left at this stage  of the competition. They didn't win Morocco when they met, They cant beat Portugal, Argentina, France, England, Netherland. I might actually be wrong and underestimating them but that is my personal opinion.  

The quarter final looks easy to predict but it actually not easy. I might be hear thinking it would be an easy win for Brazil and the match might be decided by penalties in the end. I will still put my money on Brazil though.

Indonesia's legislative arm has passed a new law that criminalizes sex before or outside marriage. People convicted of extramarital sex could face as much as one year in prison.
This law would also affect foreigners and tourists that came to visit the country. Some citizens of the country are protesting against this law. While others are seeing it as a welcome development.

Business owners in the country are lamenting that this law can discourage tourists from visiting the country which would affect their businesses negatively. I am also perceiving that this policy might also scare investors from investing in Indonesia. But some religious business owners are of the view that this policy would attract business to the country from other religious or conservative nations or investors.

What are your thoughts?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63869078

Enough rumours circulating Ronaldo and what his next club will be. He exits united the moment he procrastinate the conditions of the team. Ronaldo said his mind and Piers Morgan have even urged Ronaldo to have a second thought about joining arsenal which I think it's absolutely out of the box for the GOAT. Ronaldo focusing more on the world cup rather than staggering on rumours concerning his move to Al-Nessr as false. He's heavily link with move to Saudi club and it's one of the big deals in football history if he pull it.

I have recently meet a few people that are just not watching any football match of the World Cup because they feel that the Qatari government has ignored many of the most basic human rights. I already knew that in most emirates of the area, there are several classes of workers. The elite does not really work or they just manage at high level or do politics or get paid as "local partners" of foreign companies. A second level, Muslims but not of the elites are mid-managers. Europeans and Americans are despised, but they are necessary for skilled jobs. For example, if there is a queue for a restaurant, the locals will be seated first even if they arrive last. Obviously, Europeans are willing to put up with the shit but the price is two to three times their salaries at home.

An now we get to the last tier: Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, Philippines,... the moment they arrive, their passports are taken from them and they are stuck in the country for periods of 5 or more years. No air conditioned in the barracks, misery salaries, medieval work conditions...

I do understand that some of us will decide not participating on this. The Cup is filled with blood.

The champions league is going to begin again after the world cup,and we would see which team can come out to win it. Real Madrid did an excellent job last season winning their league and the champions league as Karim Benzema went on to be the highest goal scorer in Lalliga and also winning the Ballon d'or for the year.
It was indeed his season,but this year seems to be a different season altogether,he hasn't score enough goals as he did last season,although the season has not gotten anywhere yet,but Barcelona's Lewandowski has began to show his goal scoring abilities in the Laliga,and might move ahead of Benzema in winning the  goalden boot this year.

After yesterday's closing 1/8 games, I have another team that I think is a contender for the final - Portugal. I also was surprised by their excellent performance against Switzerland. Haven't seen Portugal play like that in a long time. As for Brazil and Croatia, I think Croatia will lose in regulation time. Most likely the game will not come down to a penalty shootout. It's hard to call Croatia a semi-final contender at the moment.

Looking at what's going on in the crypto market right now, investing in bitcoin and holding it really seems like the safest option.
It can be said that there is already a rule that when bitcoin rises, altcoins rise even faster, but when bitcoin falls, all altcoins fall, much more than bitcoin, and many altcoins never recover, unlike bitcoin, which has been around for 13 years.
I still regret my mistake when I invested part of my bitcoin earnings in 2017 in some promising altcoins, which failed in 2018 and never recovered.
During that time bitcoins have fully recovered and I have no doubt that this scenario will repeat itself for bitcoin.

The only thing that keeps giving me the freedom vibe right now is Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the only innovation that keeps me a bit ahead of the Government.

I am sure that some millionaires and billionaires out there are already sicken of the government and it's banking system.

They monitor you when you made some deposits in the bank.

They sit you down and start asking questions when you are ready to use your hard earned money.

They use your money behind your back to invest for themselves.

This is why I strongly believe that Bitcoin will forever keep it's value intact, do make sure that you at least have 50% of your fund in
 Bitcoin, whatever your crypto dream might be make sure Bitcoin has its place in your hardware wallet.

Brazil intimidated their opponents. They played some great football today. While playing football in the match, they almost did samba at the same time. They showed that they are one of the strongest favorites for the cup. They passed the last 16 round very comfortably and the same will probably happen in the quarterfinals. If they match with Argentina in the semifinals, it is not difficult for them to reach the final by eliminating them. Because they play better football than Argentina.
I think the winner of the England-France match with Brazil will meet in the final. But it would be a little difficult to know who will win the final

So it looks like all this elétrica car stuff just consumes more energy

In crisis, oil is much safer to use.

I believe this news shows how political and economical all this "carbon" discussion is, and not really ecological.

Curious is that bitcoin is not being banned from Switzerland.  Probably eletric cars consume much more energy there.

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Most EU nations are pro AML (anti money laundering) regulation. Which promotes digital currency, CBDC and cashless society, all formats which they claim helps prevent money laundering.

The new italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni however appears to be one of the few bucking the trend. She is proposing regulations and laws which allow businesses to refuse credit cards and demand cash payments for sums up to €60. An increase from the current limit of €30.

With bank runs and related negative trends on the rise. "Cash is king" sounds like a great policy to me. Certainly this is the wave of the future. Only bitcoin beats cash. Gold, silver and precious metals are too clunky, unsupported and cumbersome to efficiently conduct transactions. The same can be said of a barter system. Cash is one of the best options we have atm.

I hope neymar will be playing against south korea if he can. His contribution will be needed by brazil to win the match against south korea. South korea has the same play style like japan. Brazil must be careful when the game will be reaching the end of match.
Brazil is having a very good squad right now with so many great players on it. i hope that richarlison will be on fire against south korea. Song heu min and richarlison will against each other to prove which country that's more capable to be qualified for the quarter final.

They are 5 points behind Paris Saint Germain, maybe that is an insignificant margin if we look at it in the Premier League, but it will be different if we see this distance in Ligue 1, especially the team above it is Paris Saint Germain which we all know that they are the only team that has many star players and also has everything compared to the other teams here.
Lens have done good things so far, but I have to be honest they won't be able to overtake Paris Saint Germain who are at the top of the table even though they have a 5 point margin.

Of course their meeting in this round is based on their results in the group stages. His Croats have more experience, but Japan came with more motivation and they have very high speed. This match will be interesting because both countries have their respective advantages.
In the other match between Brazil vs South Korea, it will be a match that places Brazil as the favourite. How could it not be, Brazil has a luxurious squad of both their core players and players who sit on the bench.

Bayern Munich is indeed one of the strongest teams that cannot be replaced by other teams in the struggle for the championship trophy in the Bundesliga. as seen at the moment other teams in the bundesliga only produce stars in their team and sell to other clubs so there is no big strength for other teams when dealing with Bayern Munich. even Union Berlin, which was previously believed to be able to give a different feel to the Bundesliga at the start of the season, but they had to give up early before the league entered the second half. apart from that we see bayern munich stronger not only in the bundesliga but in the champions league Bayern Munich performed well enough to beat barcelona and inter milan in the group phase and we will see how consistent they are in the champions league this season.

Newcastle United are still a small team. it doesn't matter how much they have. the amount of money a team has is not what classifies them as a big team. Maybe in the future but right now they are a small team. They can have all that money and still get it wrong. As for this season, I believe they'll qualify for the European competition but not the ucl, maybe the uel or conference league


Hmmm you know what , let's see where newcastle finish the season and let's talk again about this what so called 'big team' newcastle for sure a mediocre team untik this day ... unless they prove themselves to win something in the next 10 years , which yeah let's talk again in 10 years lol.

Despite they are owned by the PIF saudi prince doesnt mean they would automatically spend billion dollars at once.