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𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝
Hi! This one is inspired in the rumours that were floating around Carlos and a brazilian girl during the French GP (after the comments made by the brazilian commentator). Then I added some other things. PLEASE, READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION. Thank u. @diorleclerc @lickmeleclerc @libraryofloveletters (Thank u for editing this and all of you for pulling up with me)
enana= midget // amor=love // corazón=my heart
ship: carlos sainz jr. x fem!reader.
summary: after some rumors opened old wounds again, you and Carlos reach a turning point, is there a future for you worth saving?
warnings: mentions of cheating. betraying. alcohol mentions. NO PROOF READ.
word count: 9.4K.
FRIDAY - LE CASTELLET, FRANCE
You would love to say that you had seen it coming, that you had seen it coming, and that you had prepared for it. The truth was that you would not have seen it coming even if it had hit you on the head. Simply reality gave you a beating that left you knocked out.
Just after Austria, Paul Richard was the penultimate race before the summer break and that week Europe was experiencing a heat wave. The temperature was unbearable and not even the air conditioning could make it any better. You were in the garage watching FP2 when you felt your phone vibrating in your pocket. What-? You had about twenty lost messages in the WhatsApp group you had with your friends, who were furiously discussing something over audio messages. You couldn’t listen to them at the time and that’s what you texted before one of them texted back “That cheating ass did it again, he can’t keep his dick in his fucking pants” You raised your eyebrows, who were they talking about? You replied quickly with a short “I’ll listen later” text, but you couldn’t even get back into hospitality before another one of your friends called you hysterical. Apparently, a Brazilian commentator told the story of how Carlos met a girl at a party after the Brazilian GP last year and then spent a few days at her house in the countryside, along with Lando and Luisa. Social media had already exploded with people talking about how all this was already a rumour last year or speculating about you two.
You were used to rumours, that was nothing new. People did not tire of speculating, that if you were not going to a race, that if there were no photos of you on vacation, that if you did not have public social networks. You understood the curiosity, but that was not a door you wanted to open. What you weren’t used to was someone echoing rumours on a broadcast and bringing them into the public eye. Social media were a microclimate, and the issue stayed there, but journalists rarely echoed rumours.
The heat wave was unbearable, so you were walking back to the hospitality after FP2 to get a bottle of water when Carlos glimpsed you and said something to Ellie, his PR manager, before jogging towards you.
“Ellie told me about the rumours,” he murmured, leaning toward you slightly to stand next to you. “Have you seen them?”
“Yes, I have,” you replied with a quick nod “Leticia called me to talk about it” She also had a lot to say about how Carlos was a fucking idiot but you would not say that to him.
“And?”
You gave him a look of confusion. “I wasn’t worried about it until you brought it back and asked,” You didn’t understand why he would give importance to something like that if it was just rumours “Why? Should I be worried about something?”
“I just wanted to make sure you are ok” Weird. He knew you didn’t use to bother with rumours, mainly because they were always speculation and you had to admit that most of the fans were very nice.
“I’m” You nodded briefly “I trust you” You added. You stared at each other in silence for a moment. You opened your mouth as if to say something else, but you weren’t sure what to say or where all that came from or why Carlos had brought it up. If it was just rumours, there was no need to worry about that, was it?
You spoke too soon. Turns out there was something to worry about. Social media, mainly Twitter, quickly identified who she was and found a TikTok video of Carlos swimming in this girl’s pool and they also found some photos of him posing with the girl and some of her friends, at least the photos were not anything committed, it was like any photo he took with a fan. Apparently, this girl was friends with Rubens Barrichello’s son and the rumour was that Carlos, Lando, and Luisa, among other people, had ended up at her house in the countryside for a crazy party weekend. There would be nothing to worry about if it wasn’t because he had told you he was going to stay for a few days at the hotel in Sao Paulo, playing golf with Lando.
You caressed your temples.
That couldn’t be happening to you again. You didn’t want it to happen again. It was like coming back six years in time. You were feeling a déjà vu.
A few months before you got pregnant with Sofia, you and Carlos were having a rough patch. They fought all the time and hardly saw each other. Mainly the fights were over small things that later ended up becoming huge. He was in his last stint at Toro Rosso before moving on to Renault and when he wasn’t traveling; he had to spend hours and hours in the simulator as a development driver. You were in your last year of college living the good life, in Ibiza, traveling with friends. You guys were trying to make it work no matter what and especially since you both hoped it was just a losing streak.
One day Carlos appeared at your door out of nowhere. He wasn’t supposed to visit Spain soon. You hadn’t seen each other for a month and you hadn’t spoken for a couple of weeks now because you had a big fight after he didn’t come to your birthday to go to the Red Bull factory in Milton Keynes. In an attempt, you tried to be understanding with him and his work, but at that moment you just wanted your boyfriend around. It was almost felt like you were in a relationship with a ghost. You had been surprised, but you had decided that you were at least going to have dinner before talking about the fight you had recently. You hadn’t finished clearing the dishes when Carlos blurted out,
“I slept with someone else,” He said back then. At least he had the decency to look regretful.
At first, you thought you had misheard and were ready to crack a joke when you saw he wasn’t laughing. Carlos was dead serious. There was not a joking note on her face. You were furious. Your last fight had been left aside, and you had lost your voice from yelling at him so much. You had yelled, cried, insulted, kicked, and thrown things and he had simply stood there watching you, without moving. He hadn’t made excuses; he hadn’t tried to justify himself; he hadn’t blamed you. Simply, Carlos had stayed seated letting you unload. When you finished, you just stared at him for a moment before locking yourself in your room.
That night had been terrible. You hadn’t slept trying to figure out what you were going to do next. The most obvious option was to leave him and the other was to forgive him and move on. You didn’t want to forgive him, mainly because you were proud as hell and because you felt like it was what you were supposed to do. But you loved him so much. You didn’t want that to be the end of you. You thought everyone was human and made mistakes. The problem was that to forgive him you had to move on because you couldn’t forgive him, only to be blaming or resenting him all the time. If you forgave him, you had to leave all that behind and really move forward.
Eventually, you did. You forgave him. Then, out of nowhere, Sofia came into your lives. You guys moved forward. Not everyone could do that, but you could leave that bad memory behind and mistrust never arose again because in all those years Carlos had never given you a reason to doubt him. Until now. You didn’t really understand what was going on. You didn’t want to do it either, because that would probably lead to a crisis.
Both of you had grown up, and you wanted to believe that the way you argued had grown too. They no longer threw accusations out of nowhere and blew everything up. They were more rational and calmer, or at least that’s what you wanted to believe because all you could think about was how you could feel the wild beat of your heart even in your ears when Carlos approached you. You looked at Sofía, your daughter. She was coloring her book, oblivious to the panic you were feeling. You felt trapped. You wanted to get out of there and run away as far as possible, but you couldn’t.
“Ready to go?” Carlos asked, and you saw how Sofia looked up to smile at him. You couldn’t do that to her, you didn’t want to. You needed to solve it before it affected her.
“Did you finish the debrief?” You asked him with your eyes fixed on what was left of your apple. You were no longer hungry, you had lost your appetite.
“Yeah, we can go for today” He moved in front of you.
“Let’s go then,” you replied with a lopsided smile that didn’t reach your eyes before getting up from the table. Hospitality was almost empty. You collected Sofia’s things to put them in your bag.
Carlos stretched out his hand, brushing against yours to help you pick up the pencils and the book. You flinched at the contact. You were running on autopilot. Your head was spinning too much to think about, doing anything other than moving your feet and getting out of there as fast as possible.
If he noticed your reaction to his contact, he gave no sign.
“I’m sleepy,” Sofia moaned, rubbing her eye with her hand.
“She didn’t take a nap” You explained to him stoic as a statue.
Carlos nodded before taking her in his arms. You slipped next to them and you left the hospitality to walk in silence towards the paddock exit.
It was curious how the brain worked when you were in a crisis. Your brain didn’t seem to work the way you would like it to. The rational side would tell you to take it easy and think of all the logical reasons he hadn’t cheated on you. Instead of doing it, you kept thinking of all the possibilities, including that it was more than possible that he had cheated on you before and you would have never found out. All those rumours about him cheating on you might be true, after all. Not as ridiculous as they seemed to you just a few hours ago.
The ride back to the hotel was silent. The driver had the music down and Sofia had fallen asleep on Carlos’s shoulder as soon as you got in the car. He reached out the hand that wasn’t holding hers to offer it to you and you placed your hand on top of his before turning your gaze out the window.
You rationally knew that you were probably overreacting. A video meant nothing more than he had probably had a good weekend, but then, why had he told you he was staying at the hotel in Sao Paulo and had traveled to the countryside? It didn’t even bother you he’d had a weekend party in the slightest. The video in the pool seemed to be taken from an angle that Carlos didn’t realize, and it wasn’t exactly suggestive. The photos didn’t look like it either. Maybe she found him and asked for a photo like any fan. Some photos seemed innocent, but were they really? You couldn’t help but wonder if something else hadn’t happened.
You felt like an idiot overthinking the whole thing, but deep down, you felt that something was not right. It was like the last time again, only this time there was doubt. The last time he had admitted it to you directly, but now the doubt was floating in the air. You were not sure what was happening.
He gestured an “are you ok?” with his lips so as not to wake Sofia up, to which you responded with a nod. You knew you had to talk about that ASAP before it became a bomb, but it was race weekend and the last thing you needed was Carlos overthinking while he was driving at 300kmph.
You couldn’t avoid the conversation too much because as soon as they arrived at the hotel, Carlos left Sofia asleep on the sofa and left the door ajar before following you to the room.
“What’s going on with you?” He asked as you sat on the bed. You couldn’t wait to get in the shower. The heat in Le Castellet was unbearable, and you were all sticky.
“I have a headache,” you murmured in response, taking off your shoes.
“C’mon, give me some credit.” After all that time, he could tell when something was happening to you. You hated that right now.
You rolled your eyes “The fans found a video”
“About?”
“You’re at this girl’s house, swimming in her pool” He knew who you were talking about when you referred to ‘this girl’ “I hate asking but, is all this they are saying true?” You asked, turning to see him.
“I don’t know what they are saying, but I thought you weren’t worried about it.” He frowned.
“Things change, it’s not just some idiot talking about it on TV anymore” You jumped out of bed “What happened?”
“I told you, nothing”
You let out a sigh before scratching your forehead “I hate doing this but I’ve to ask, did you cheat on me?” You asked him, staring at him. It could feel like your heart stopped for a second and your breath hitched as you waited for his answer. You didn’t want to throw accusations into the air, but you needed to ask him directly. Seeing his face and assessing his expression, you wanted to believe that you could do it after all this time.
“No” Carlos shook his head, responded almost instantly, and frowned “Don’t you trust me?”
Now you felt bad for questioning him “I do” You nodded slowly “If you say nothing happened, then nothing happened, but I had to ask” The climate was now tense between you.
“Nothing happened,” Carlos shook his head “Lando and Luisa were there, they can confirm it”
Technically, they couldn’t unless they had slept next to him. You rolled your eyes “How did you end up there?”
“She knows Luisa, this girl’s father has his own golf course in the country house, which was where we were”
“Golf? Did you do all this to play golf with Lando?” The explanation sounded logical, but you still didn’t understand why he had done all that. Especially since he had told you he and Lando were going to stay in Sao Paulo to try out the golf courses.
“When you say it like that, it sounds stupid” He rolled his eyes “They-“
You interrupted him “I don’t care about Lando and Luisa, I’m not married to them, I’m married to you” You knew you were probably being too harsh and overreacting about a rumour but you couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that he had hidden from you he had been somewhere else “Why did you lie?”
“What are you talking about?” Really, he had forgotten? He really needed to get his head in order.
“You told me you were going to stay at the hotel in Sao Paulo with Lando, not at someone else’s house.” You crossed your arms over your chest.
“It came up at the last minute. They offered it to us at the party, so we went. I didn’t think there was anything weird about it” You stared at him and analyzed his expression. He wasn’t lying. At least that’s what it seemed to you. The story made sense, at least. You understood he wouldn’t have found necessary to tell you because there was nothing wrong with going golfing with his friends.
“Okay” You nodded softly. You wanted to believe him, you needed to believe him, so you did.
“Are we good?”
“We’re good,” you agreed before Carlos walked over to you and wrapped his arms around you.
“I’m sorry,” He murmured against your hair.
“It’s ok” you assured him, closing your eyes to inhale his scent.
Was it?
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SUNDAY - LE CASTELLET, FRANCE
It was race day and fortunately; the temperature had dropped a bit compared to the previous days. The subject had been buried between you. You believed him. You still believed that he had been an idiot for not having told you especially if there was nothing to hide. You thought the storm had passed. Turns out it wasn’t. The girl had posted a few stories on Instagram suggesting how football players, actors, and F1 drivers had tried to go on a date with her. Of course, she was following Carlos, by itself that wouldn’t mean anything if it weren’t because she had later answered some questions on Instagram suggesting that something had happened between her and an F1 driver and that the rumours weren’t rumours after all.
You had spent the entire trip to Paul Richard looking at the stories and ignoring the calls from your friends, who were surely willing to tell you how stupid they thought Carlos was. He had to go earlier that day, so you were going solo with Sofia. Your friends didn’t like when you forgave him years ago and surely now they were eager to tell you how wrong you had been to forgive him back then. They were going to have opinions about it.
“Mom” Sofia called you “Can I go?” She asked you, pointing to Carola, who was leading Checo Jr. and Carlotta by the hand.
“Go,” you told her and stood watching as she approached them.
Your phone vibrated again, and you rolled your eyes before answering the call.
“Leticia”
“Did you watch the videos?” Your friend asked you with a shriek.
“Yes, I did,” You let out a sigh “They don’t mean a thing”
“Don’t they mean anything? Talk to him,” she insisted.
“I did it. He says nothing happened and I believe him,” you told him firmly. You watched as Sofia ran with Checo Jr. and Carlotta.
“(Y/N)” Leticia’s tone made you close your eyes briefly. You didn’t want to hear everything she had to say, you knew she was coming from a good place but you didn’t need to keep dwelling on the subject “I love you but he’s done this before, what tells you he didn’t do it again?”
“He says he didn’t do it, I have to trust Leticia, he’s my husband” The children were playing tag and Carola was talking to a couple of people next to them.
“That he cheated on you before,” she added.
“Can you let that go? I'm the one who forgave him was me and we moved on,” You had forgiven and until that moment, you had never looked back “I won't believe some random girl over my husband”
“Just be careful, okay?” She mumbled, “Maybe the girl is telling the truth after all”
“Or maybe he wants her minute of fame and that’s it.” You really didn’t want to have that conversation with her. The last thing you needed was for Leticia to keep insisting on the song “I’ve to go”
You approached the Perez. Carola was telling you about the family’s plans for the summer break, but all you could think about was the conversation you had with Leticia. You couldn’t stop thinking that she came from a place of love and didn't want you to make a mistake away, but you wished you hadn’t answered her call.
Carola offered to watch Sofia for an hour, since she wanted to play with Carlotta and Sergio Jr. You promised her you would meet her at Red Bull hospitality after dropping off your stuff.
“Hey” Lando greeted you walking next to you “Sofia didn’t come today?”
“She is with the Perez,” you answered, speeding up your pace a bit.
“Are you ok though? Have you seen the videos Natalia posted? Luisa just called,” You closed your eyes briefly and took a deep breath. You really didn’t want to talk about it. Why couldn’t people understand that? “Luisa can’t believe she did this,” Lando babbled “She is technically not her friend, but she hangs out with her cousins and-”
You interrupted him, “I know there must be a very interesting story behind all this, but I don’t want to hear it today, Lando”
“Are you mad?” He asked, frowning.
“Not at you if that’s what you are asking” You shrugged. You still believed Carlos, you really did, but you didn’t want to hear more people talk to you about it. You wanted to believe Carlos, you had to because otherwise, it meant that he had lied to you.
“C’mon, (Y/N) I promise that nothing she says is true, he didn’t even look at her twice all weekend” Carlos hadn’t looked at her twice but somehow he ended up in her house? Lando had to find something better to say if he was going to want to defend him.
“Lando” You called him “I really don’t want to hear it” You didn’t want to talk about that stuff with anyone except him, you just needed to get on with your day and you would talk to Carlos later.
“Have you talked to Carlos yet?”
“He has commitments with the sponsors today” You explained HIM. That was the reason he had to leave the hotel a little earlier today.
“If that makes you feel better, nothing happened” Lando had no way of knowing that for sure, but you understood Carlos was his friend and he had to defend him.
“How do you know? Did you sleep in the same room? Lando took a step back at your tone. You felt bad for him but he had insisted on talking about it after you had told him you didn’t want to do it “Look, I’m not mad at you, Carlos is the one that owes me all that we already know” You scratched forehead “I’m just disappointed” You sighed “I know you are his friend and not mine but I opened you the doors to my home, I watched you sit on my table, play with my daughter, I thought at least you would give me the courtesy and the respect I deserved, not as your friend’s wife but as a person who welcomed you into their home” The fact that the girl was close to Luisa and that Lando had the idea of going in the first place did not I had been upset because after all it was Carlos who had agreed to go but at the time you were just mad and Lando was being your punching bag since you couldn’t talk to Carlos.
“Carlos said yes.” Lando frowned. “And I didn’t think there was anything wrong with going to the cottage, either.”
“And that’s his fault” You agreed “but you could have to think about the fact that he has a wife and a 5-year-old kid who by the way, thinks highly of you, Lando” You were being unfair, you knew it but you needed to download the anger and Lando had pushed you to the limit without knowing it “I’m sorry, I know you can’t control Carlos actions and that it’s not your fault but I’m mad right now and I don’t want to talk about it” You let out a sigh because Lando looked like he had been punched in the face. “See? I’m being a bitch, not the right time, I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay,” He assured you “Talk to you later?”
You responded with a nod and a grunt before he trotted off to McLaren’s hospitality. Your shitty humor scared him, that was for sure. You didn’t know if you needed to talk to Carlos; you felt you didn’t, but after talking to Leticia and Lando, you felt you had to.
After leaving your things in the hospitality, you returned with Carola and the children. When you checked your cell phone, Leticia had sent you a message ‘I thought you wanted to see this video that’s going around on Twitter’ followed by a video where you could see Carlos at the party he had gone to, he had the same clothes as her. photo where he was posing with the girl and her friends. It seemed as if it had happened before the photo was taken. He was with his arm leaning against the wall, leaning. You supposed to hear her over the music. It was nothing compromising, but it was enough to send your mind flying. Now you couldn’t stop thinking about the videos that the girl had uploaded and the answers to her followers’ questions. In one, she had said how the driver had done it ‘more than one time’.
You watched that video repeatedly. Technically, there was nothing wrong with it but, and added to everything else, that was the breaking point where you wondered if you had to be so calm and trust Carlos’ word after all.
You couldn’t talk to Carlos until after the race, he had had to take a penalty, so he had started from the bottom of the grid but had come back to P5. It had been a difficult weekend because you knew Carlos wanted more but he had overtaken cars to get to the top of the table.
You walked down the hallway that led to his driver’s room. Carlos had to go to Maranello, and you were going to return with Sofia to Madrid on a commercial flight, and you didn’t want to have that conversation on the phone. You took a deep breath. You could do that. It was just a conversation with your husband.
“Hey,” you told him, leaning against the door frame.
“Hey, I’m done and we can go”
“Okay,” you told her with a small nod before moving to close the door behind you.
“Something happens?” He asked, raising his eyebrows.
“The girl,” You closed your eyes briefly “Natalie” You corrected yourself cause after all she had a name “She uploaded some stories talking about how she slept with a driver”
“Are you with that again? I thought we had clarified that nothing happened,” He replied, putting on his shirt.
“Leticia sent me a video of you and her at a party talking” You swallowed hard. There was actually nothing wrong with the video itself. God, were you being dramatic?
“I don’t understand what you want me to say”
Carlos didn’t seem to be worried or nervous about the new information, so that had to mean there was nothing he was keeping from you, right? “I want you to tell me if there is anything else that I should know other than what you told me I should be concerned about or that I am not seeing”
You saw how his expression changed a bit and how doubt appeared in his eyes
“Tell me” You demanded
“What?”
“You’re hiding something from me,” You pointed out “spit it out”
“She tried to kiss me,” He admitted, and you felt her breath catch briefly as she tried to process his words “But I pulled away before she could.”
“She tried to kiss you?” You asked him in disbelief. Hadn’t I thought of telling you before? Did you have to ask him to tell you? “And you didn’t mention it before? How did we go from ‘nothing happened’ to ‘she tried to kiss me’?”
“Nothing happened, she tried to kiss me, she was clearly drunk, and I walked away, that’s all” Carlos shrugged “You know that’s happened before” Some fans sometimes wanted to try their luck with drivers, and twice they had tried it with Carlos, he had been horrified but you had found it hilarious. Now you weren’t finding it the least bit funny.
“See? I really want to trust you but you keep lying and hiding things,” You groaned.
“I’m not lying,” He insisted.
“First you didn’t tell me you were going to stay at the country house and then you omitted to tell me she had tried to kiss you,” You wanted to believe him but he had already lied to you before or omitted things. You couldn’t help but wonder, what else wasn’t he telling you? “Put yourself in my shoes, Carlos, this isn’t getting any better”
“It’s the truth, nothing happened I swear, there’s nothing else I can say”
“I don’t even get why you wanted to go to her country house in the first place, all to play golf?”
“Was I supposed to say no?” He asked, raising his eyebrows and you wore red. Did he still not understand that it wasn’t right?
“Mhm, yes?” You told him as if it was obvious “You wouldn’t even want to go to something like that, especially knowing that if anyone found out, rumours would spread.”
“It was just a weekend in the country, I wasn’t even alone with her,” He defended himself “What has anything to do with my love for you?”
“You put me through all this speculation and rumours to go play golf, Carlos. My faith in you is falling quick”
“What am I guilty of? Wanting to play golf? Wanting to take a break with my friends?”
You snorted, “I wish I could do that”
“Do what? Take a break? Of course, you can”
You passed your hands over your face. He couldn’t be serious, he couldn’t be so oblivious to the fact that you had a five-year-old depending on you “Are you kidding me? What about Sofia? Who is the one who is with her when she gets sick? Who takes her to school? Who helps her with her homework?”
Carlos took a step back, a little hurt by your statement. Well, at least he knew you were furious “That’s not fair. You know I’m there whenever I can when work isn’t in the middle”
“Or when you’re not playing golf,” you muttered scathingly.
“Are you suggesting I’m not a good father?” He asked, raising his eyebrows.
“Well, if you keep pulling things like this you are not getting the award for father of the year that’s for sure,” you mocked sarcastically. You were uncontrollable, and you really didn’t mean it, but now you were furious.
“husband of the year? Maybe not,” He shook his head, giving you a hurt look “But father? Don’t you think you are being a little unfair?”
“Instead of spending a part of your limited time with your daughter, you stayed there, have fun and lie to me about it. That’s ok but is that me being unfair or is it you not seeing things?” You weren’t thinking clearly. You wanted him to hurt as much as your chest was hurting you at that moment. You knew he would be there more if he could and that the parents could also take time off “I would love to have fun go to Ibiza with my friends and leave Sofia with someone else,” Especially if he was around, that would be much easier “but you know, at least one of us has to stay and give her some stability”
“Sometimes I need to take a break and I enjoy playing golf. Apparently those are my sins,” He said, and you raised your eyebrows. Was he being sarcastic now?
“A break? Do you feel you needed a break?” Suddenly you were angry about the fact that he had never thought about you, that maybe you also needed a break sometimes “What about me?”
How had you guys gone from talking about the videos and what had happened in Brazil to questioning which of you two deserved more of a break? You needed to get out of there. You didn’t want to continue having this conversation with him. It would not end well, even though everything was already a mess, anyway.
“I think I’m going to leave with Sofia early,” you murmured, turning around to open the door.
“(Y/N)” He called you “Don’t do this”
“Me? You are the one making the stupid decisions” You rolled your eyes before opening the door and walking out.
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TUESDAY - MADRID, SPAIN
It was funny how everything could fall apart so fast. You thought your relationship with Carlos was solid, but now you could only see how everything was falling apart in front of you. It was a house of cards, fragile and that with just a breeze had ended up in pieces.
What had followed the disastrous weekend in France had been a client asking if you were fit to work. A client you had been working on for the last few months had looked at you and asked if that was a good time for you to meet to see the details for the coatings. You would have thought she just wanted to be polite if it wasn’t for the look she had given you. She had given you a look of sympathy. You gave her a friendly smile and told her you were fine to see the details of the coatings, but deep down you were furious. People talked. You preferred to pretend like it wasn’t, but it was. People probably also talked about it behind your back.
Your boss also asked you if you needed some days off. No, you didn’t need it. Why would you? You never regretted having started dating a public person like Carlos, but for the first time, you were. The client and your boss hadn’t even had to mention what they were referring to. You knew they had probably read about your private life.
You knew how all that worked. The rumours. You had seen it a couple of months ago with Checo’s video after the Monaco Grand Prix. Everyone had been talking about it for a week until Checo had released a statement to calm the waters. At that moment, you had felt bad for Carola, for having to deal with all that after giving birth less than a month ago.
Hola! magazine published an article about how Carlos and you seemed to be more solid than ever, along with some photos in the paddock and others recycled from previous vacations. You suspected that the Ferrari PR team could be behind that, working behind the scenes.
You avoided Carlos as much as possible, trying to put a space between you so you could cool your head and think clearly about what had happened. You and Sofia were supposed to travel to Budapest on Friday to join him for the last race of the summer break before you all moved to Mallorca for the rest of the break. Blanca, Carlos’s sister, was getting married next week, so they were going to spend a few days in Madrid before going on vacation. You decided you weren’t in a mental state to call Carlos to tell him that. You just sent him a text saying you’d see him in Madrid on Monday. Of course, he called you after reading the message. You ignored his calls twice until he saw that he clearly would not stop, so you answered the phone.
“Finally,” He answered on the first ring “Are you avoiding me?”
“Yes, I am” There was no point in denying anything. You didn’t want to talk to him after what had happened on Sunday.
“Are you still mad about that?” He let out a moan from the other end of the phone “I told you already what happened”
“Yeah, I know the speech by heart, ‘nothing happened’, right?” Sarcasm came out of your voice.
“Are you still mad?”
“No, I was angry on Friday maybe, now I’m furious,” You corrected him. Furious couldn’t explain how badly you wanted to play darts with a photo of him “Everyone is talking about what happened, my boss just asked me if I don’t want to take a vacation, so you’re not exactly my favourite person right now”
“I don’t understand why you care so much about what people say?”
“It’s humiliating, I have clients who are aware of what they say about my private life and all the rumours they are inventing” From a threesome of Carlos with Lando and the girl until he had bought her a ticket so that saw you at the Monaco Grand Prix when you knew that wasn’t true, he had been glued to you that weekend, his whole family had been there too, that just wasn’t possible “A client, a client asked me if I was fit to continue with the project, this is my job Carlos, I don’t live being your lapdog”
“The rumours will go away, they will move on to the next topic of the moment,” He said to comfort you.
“They won’t go away fast enough,” You sighed and rubbed your hand over your face “An article in Hola! won't make them go away.”
“It’s the most popular magazine in Spain,” Carlos pointed out.
You let out a bitter laugh “You think an article is gonna be enough to shut it down?” You rolled your eyes. People on Twitter almost certainly did not read that magazine and you doubted they would stop talking about it soon. His name was still trending “It’s not just Spain, everyone is talking about this in case you haven’t noticed”
“The rumours aren’t my fault.” He murmured back, “You knew this was my life before you got into it.”
“Yeah, I know”
“Why are you mad at me, then?”
“You are an idiot! That’s the problem! You acted like one with all this stuff,” You took a deep breath, you really didn’t want to explode against him and start yelling at him on the phone “I-I have to go, Sofia is calling me”
“I didn't hear anything”
“I’ll talk to you later,” you answered before ending the call. You put the phone aside. Yes, that definitely hadn’t gone well.
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MONDAY - MADRID, SPAIN
You knew immediately when Carlos slid in beside you on the bed. Mainly because you felt the bed sink under his weight and because you could smell the scent of his shampoo as if he had just taken a shower. You didn’t need to open your eyes to know that it was early in the morning. He had sent you a text (to which you hadn’t responded) before you went to sleep to let you know he was going to be late. Hungary had not been good. Both Ferraris had been left off the podium and had suffered a beating from Red Bull and Mercedes. In addition, the strategy had been a disaster and the criticism of the team was becoming increasingly fierce. When he saw he had no intention of approaching you, so you rolled over to lean on him and snuggle up against him even without opening your eyes, you didn’t think you could face him at that moment. He was so hot, so cozy, perfect to cuddle up to.
“Hey, you,” He murmured brushing his lips with your hair “Shouldn’t we talk?”
“Tomorrow” You moaned against him and felt a couple of drops from his wet hair fall on your forehead.
You knew you shouldn’t. You were giving mixed signals, but you were semi-asleep and you weren’t so worried about the mixed signals but about snuggling against the warmth of him.
The next morning, you slipped out of bed and straight into the kitchen. If you were lucky, maybe you could make breakfast and sneak away, but when you were almost done, he walked into the kitchen with his hair tousled and still with a sleepy face.
“At least if you are gonna cheat on me, you should have been smart to do it.” You snapped out of nowhere. If they were going to talk about it, it was better to go to the point “Maybe my problem is that I expected too much from you”
“For the millionth time, I didn’t cheat on you,” He replied with a hoarse voice opening the refrigerator.
“I wish I could believe you” You snorted, cutting a couple of slices of bread “How could I know? How could I know nothing happened?
“Cause I’m telling you it didn’t”
“And that should be enough? I should trust your word just like that ”And his word should suffice then? Normally I would, but at the time you couldn’t stop thinking about how you had been in that position before. “Your word means nothing to me right now”
“I didn’t betray you”
“You owe me fidelity but first, you owe me respect, you couldn’t even respect me enough to not drag me into this month in public” You had spent the week with your boss insisting that you take a few days off and explaining to your clients that you could still pay attention to their projects.
“I wasn’t the one that made it public”
“You think I’m mad at her for taking her minute of fame?” You asked in disbelief “I’m mad at you for even giving her the chance to do it in the first place,” He should have thought and didn’t even go there in the first place “The fact you didn't cheat doesn’t make it any better, you still lied”
“I need you to trust me, nothing happened,” He insisted and approached you to place his hands on your shoulders but you took a step back
“Trust you? You cheated on me once. What’s stopping you from cheating on me again?”
“You forgave me for that!” Carlos exclaimed.
“I did, yes” You nodded, crossing your arms over your chest.
“Then you can’t bring it back after all these years and use it against me. If you decide to forgive, you can’t go out there throwing it in my face”
You opened your mouth to reply when he saw something moving out of the corner of your eye. Sofia came out of the hall, rubbing her eye with her fist.
“Are you fighting?” she asked softly.
“No corazón, we chat, that’s all,” you assured her, giving Sofia a small smile. Piñon came walking behind her before approaching Carlos so that he could pet him. Traitor.
“Come here, enana” Carlos said to Sofia before taking her in his arms “Let’s make those pancakes you like” he added before giving you a look that said you were definitely going to continue that conversation later. Fantastic. You couldn’t wait.
A couple of hours later, while you were trying to finish an email for a client, Carlos walked into the office.
“Didn’t you get the memo? I don’t want you here. Go away, get lost,” you growled without looking up at him. You were in a bad mood. Your customer thought you were distracted because the store had apparently delivered the wrong colour tile. That wasn’t your fault. How could it be? “I don’t want to deal with you right now.” You didn’t want to know if he was cheating on you or not.
“Stop walking away from me,” He leaned against your desk “We need to solve this out”
“I’m not 22 anymore. I can’t just turn around and walk away. I wish I could, but I can’t” You slammed the laptop lid shut. You’ve had enough of your talk. You just wanted me to leave you alone “Cause be sure as fuck that I would walk away if it wasn’t for Sofia”
“You don’t mean that”
“Oh, I do. You kept things from me, lied about it, and then suggested it was because you ‘wanted a break’ was really revealing.” You still didn’t understand why he had wanted to do all that.
“I didn’t want the rumours to happen.” His guilty expression almost made you feel sorry for him. Almost.
“And you think I wanted this? Having a baby at 22? No, I did not, but these are the cards we got.” And he was the one who needed a break? If I needed a break, then you needed the world to stop “You had an option, you could just walk away”
“What?”
“When I got pregnant with Sofia, I gave you a choice, to walk away,” you reminded her. At that moment, you didn’t want him to feel trapped and need to stay with you just because you got pregnant.
“What does all this have to do with what happened in Brazil?” Carlos frowned.
“You said you needed a break and I’m just remembering you that you had the choice to walk away back then”
“I couldn’t have even if I wanted to and you know that” Of course, he would always want to do the right thing, he could never walk away from his daughter but still you gave him the option to choose what he wanted to do. Neither of them was ready to have a child, but less than nine months later, Sofia arrived.
“I ’m giving you the choice again. If you don’t want this life, you can go” You would not hold him. You were tired of fighting and, honestly, you weren’t even sure of anything anymore.
“You are giving up on us?” He asked, staring at you.
“You did it first,” you replied without taking your eyes off him “If you think you don’t want this life, married life, husband life, father life, then you are free to walk away”
“I could never walk away from Sofía” It was good to know, but then if he could walk away from you?
“Good to know. At least one of us is holding you back.” You replied sarcastically, but before Carlos could respond, Sofia stormed into the office.
“Moooooooooom!” she called out before stopping to look at the two of them “Are you fighting again?”
“We are not fighting, enana“ Carlos assured her, giving her a sweet smile “What happened?”
“I want a sandwich”
You gave her a look, and you raised her eyebrows.
“Please?” she added.
“A sandwich it’s then,” He said before picking her up and walking out of the office without even glancing at you.
Well, that had gone bad. Even if he hadn’t cheated on you, even if he had just lied to you, added to the background, you couldn’t help but think that he was lying to you. You wanted to trust him, you really wanted to, but Carlos had cheated on you before, that he was stopping him from doing it one more time? There was nothing to stop him. In fact, he could do it without you knowing about it. The problem was that even without the deception; he had still been disloyal to you in other ways. Also, if he hadn’t cheated on you, why hadn’t he mentioned to you earlier about the girl trying to kiss him? You hated having to be like this, doubting his word, but unfortunately, he had given you over one reason to do it.
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THRUSDAY - MADRID, SPAIN
The rest of the week was torture. You two only interacted when Sofia was involved. You still slept in the same bed every night, mainly because Sofia was smart enough to know that something was happening if you two slept separately. The first night like that was an inferno, so you just fell asleep “accidentally” on the couch watching a movie or over your desk in your office. Every time, you woke up with a blanket over you. You hated him. Not only for the obvious, but for still doing stuff like that for you. It makes it harder to hate him as you should. You had to hate him for putting you in that situation.
Thursday night was Carlos’s sister’s bachelorette party and her fiancé’s bachelor party, so you two were going out separately. When you came back, you were clearly drunk, having lost count after finishing the fourth round of tequila shots. Normally you would stop before, but you wanted to get drunk. You needed to get drunk to cope with everything that was happening with you and Carlos. You were too tired and drunk to think about sleeping on the couch in an awkward position. Carlos was already in bed with the lights off when you came in. You cursed when you couldn’t undo the strap on your heel that made him squirm on the bed.
“Need help?” he asked with a murmur.
“No,” you growled, forcing the heel strap to lodge.
“Let me,” Carlos replied, getting up from the bed and approaching you. He crouched in front of you and you put your hand on his shoulder to steady yourself. Once I took off your heels, you put your feet on the ground and let out a groan of pleasure when you felt the cold floor under your feet. Wearing heels was a pain. You didn’t even have the strength to remove your makeup, so you crawled into bed and lay on your side. Carlos did the same, standing next to you.
“You hurt me,” you moaned as you felt the mattress move under his weight.
“I know,” he murmured.
“All you do is hurt me,” you complained “You are never here, so what am I supposed to do now? Worrying all the time about where you are and who are you with?”
“You have nothing to worry about,” Carlos replied, placing his hand on your arm.
“I gave you the best years of my life and this is how you pay me,” you slurred “Lying to my face”
“I’m sorry”
“Maybe I’m the one that’s your mistress after all” You moaned “Oh gosh” You put your hands over your face “I’m your mistress” You moaned “I hate you” You exclaimed and heard Carlos let out a breath “I hate you so bad” You hated him for making you love him, for loving so much every single thing of him.
“You are not my mistress,” He replied, shaking his head “There is no one else but you”
“I wish I could believe you,” you moaned and paused before speaking again “Why did you need a break from Sofia and me? Are we overwhelming?” You asked him with a hurting look.
“What? When did I say something like that?”
“The other day in your driver’s room, you said you needed a break”
“I-” He sighed “That wasn’t what I meant”
“Carlos?”
“And it is?”
“If you didn’t cheat on me, then why did you lie?” You asked him, turning to look at him.
Carlos stared at you for a minute before letting out a sigh “I don’t know”
Well, that answer only gave you more doubts.
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SATURDAY - MADRID, SPAIN
It was the day of the wedding. The day before, you had woken up with a hangover from hell and Carlos had just been... weird. He had been giving you weird looks all day and had a wet puppy look that made you wonder what the hell you said while you were drunk. That morning, he was not in bed when you woke up, so you had no clue what had happened.
Saturday was chaotic. Sofia had to be there earlier because she was going to be the flower girl, so Carlos’ parents took her a little earlier. You were going to go later so you could meet there.
“I’m ready, let’s go,” you told him, leaving the room still adjusting your bracelet “What are you doing?” You asked, frowning when you saw he was sitting at the table looking at a fixed point.
Carlos turned to see you “I’m giving you the divorce,” He informed you, moving the papers that were on the table towards you.
You stared at him for a moment “What?” you asked him in disbelief
“I’m giving you the divorce if that’s what you want”
“I heard you” You swallowed hard. How had that happened? Was he letting you go? “Are you giving up on us?
“I just want you to be happy,” He murmured “And the last two weeks? You were the most miserable person I’ve ever seen and I hate that for you,” Carlos explained getting up from the table “I’m sorry it’s because of me because I was an idiot”
“I’m sorry if I can’t avoid my humour,” you replied scathingly, crossing your arms over your chest.
“The last thing I want is for you to be miserable because of me”
“Giving me the divorce would be the least you could do after what you have done,” you pointed out. You didn’t want a divorce. You loved him, but you needed Carlos, to be honest, and willing to make changes. Not to repeat the same mistakes that had brought you there above all.
“We have a daughter that will need two parents that can coexist. We need to end this before we can’t even look at each other,” He pointed out.
He was giving up on you. As simple as that. He was letting you go and you couldn’t feel any more pain than what you were experiencing at that moment “You don’t think we can solve it?” You asked in a whisper.
“Last night you said you hated me,” He explained to you “I don’t think there is a point of return from that” Carlos added getting close to you “Also, you said something that made me think, I wanted to take a break from the races, not from you, nor from Sofia”
“Oh,” You frowned. He was referring to what he had said in his driver’s room. So he didn’t want a break from family life?
“You should explain it to me better. I’m sorry,” Carlos made a face.
“You should have just said it, not gone incognito for a weekend,” You agreed with a nod “And lie to me about it and hide things from me”
“I was wrong, I know, I’m sorry,” He admitted. At least Carlos was taking full responsibility for his actions.
“You didn’t ask me why I hate you”
“Why do you hate me?” He asked, raising his eyebrows.
“For making me love you,” You replied before letting out a sigh “That’s the thing, I love you so much” You bit your lower lip “And that’s a problem cause I can forgive all the stupid things you do, for all the love I’ve for you, for our little family, for our daughter”
“Do you think you can forgive after all this?” He asked, and you were silent for a minute before nodding slightly. You could at least try “You don’t want the divorce?”
“No,” You frowned “Why would I? I want us to work, but I need you to do better, be better Carlos, please”
“I will,” He assured you, nodding energetically before moving closer to you to wrap his arms around you. You had missed contact with him so badly “I’m so sorry, amor“ Carlos murmured against your hair “Are we ok?” He asked after a moment.
You bit your lower lip, you wanted to be honest with “No” you murmured softly but raised your head to give him a small smile “But we will be, eventually” you added confidently.
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“The royal spin doctors had the opportunity to censor any pictures from the coronation before they could be replayed on the day … And the royal spin doctors dictated which clips of the footage could be shown in future broadcasts in what they called with an Orwellian phrase: ‘a perpetuity edit’.”
Ryley’s decision to speak out has broken the omertà around the secret agreements between British television and the royal family over coverage of formal events. His comments confirm many details previously reported in the Guardian about how Buckingham Palace controlled coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles III’s coronation.
This included a WhatsApp group where royal courtiers would tell senior editors at the BBC, ITN, and Sky News in real time if the royal family wanted specific pieces of footage removed from circulation.
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SHABBAT INSTRUCTIONS for those in ISRAEL (1)
REQUIRED! If you cannot clearly hear sirens in your home (how about with windows closed and A/C on?), you MUST due to Pikuach Nefesh mamash have a way to hear alerts on Shabbat! If you live in a settlement or near a confrontation area, it is absolutely required due to possible infiltration alerts.
SILENT CHANNELS (the silent wave) - several radio and TV channels will go “silent broadcast” for Shabbat, ONLY making announcements of alerts. Note, the announcements are for anywhere in the country - not only your area.
STREAM IT - No radio, no TV? Stream it on your phone or computer.
SILENT TV - silent, visually displays rocket launches with no sound, comes on for major events such as infiltrations.
Israel Channel 14 - stream https://www.now14.co.il/live/ or on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsmvoBzEMfM
SILENT RADIO - no music or talking except to announce rockets or major events.
• Moreshet network - on frequencies 90.5, 90.8, 92.5 and 100.7.
• Kol Chai radio - on frequencies 92.8, 93 and 102.5. - stream https://www.93fm.co.il/radio/players/%d7%a9%d7%99%d7%93%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%97%d7%99/
• Kol Barama Radio - on frequencies 92.1, 104.3, 105.7 and 107.6. - stream https://kol-barama.co.il/live/
• Galei Israel - on frequencies 89.3, 94 and 106.5. - https://www.rlive.co.il/station/galey-israel
• Radio Darom - on frequency 101.5.
ON SCREEN - leave a computer open to https://www.oref.org.il/en - alerts will display and sound on the screen. Make sure to turn off screen saver, sleep and hibernate (so the computer doesn’t turn off after 10 min or a hour).
VIA APP - leave on your phone (plug in to stay charged) with red alert app. Set app to YOUR area so it only alerts for your area. Press the TEST ALERT button to make sure you can hear it and know what it sounds like (most apps allow you to select different alert sounds.). We suggest Tzofar Red Alert, Homefront Command, or Cumta - available in the Play Store or App Store. But problem, the alert sounds don’t differentiate alert type, such as infiltration, so if an alert goes off for your area CLICK THE PHONE TO VERIFY ALERT TYPE. Yes, on Shabbat - this is Pikuach Nefesh mamash!
VIA WHATSAPP OR TELEGRAM - if you get your alerts via WhatsApp or Telegram, set a distinctive ring tone for the alert group so you’ll know it's that group, and turn off Do Not Disturb for Shabbat. Then view pop-up alerts BUT DO NOT HESITATE to open phone and read if alerted.
It is a mitzvah to take actions to protect and save life and limb on Shabbat, not a violation. But ONLY actions which do so.
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A BBC staffer is under fire for a string of antisemitic Facebook posts in which she referred to Jewish people as “Nazi apartheid parasites” and called white people a “virus.”
Dawn Queva, Senior Scheduling Coordinator & Playout Planner at BBC Three, made many of the troubling, since-deleted posts over the last few months, Deadline revealed.
In one rant, Queva – whose profile appeared under the name Dawn Las Quevas-Allen – called Jewish people “Nazi apartheid parasites” and accused them of funding a “holohoax,” the outlet said.
She also made several posts criticizing Israel and Zionism – including one in which she referred to “a bunch of subcontinental European melanin recessive CaucAsian japhetic AshkeNazi who have no None zero zilch blood connection to the land of Palestine or Israel historically.”
Some of Queva’s disturbing posts go back nearly a decade: In 2014, she referred to Israel as “Israhell,” the Times of Israel said.
“The Zionist genocidal land squatting so called Jew’ irrespective of the fact that The UKKK and Amerikkka gave away land they had no god given right to a people who have no god given right to,” Queva added in another post, according to screenshots shared by Deadline.
Queva – who previously worked for A+E Networks, UKTV, and Disney, according to Deadline – also repeatedly hit out at white people, whom she referred to as a “virus” and a “mutant invader species,” the Telegraph wrote.
Several of her posts refer to Great Britain as the “UKKK,” in reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
In another update, she wrote that white people were a “barbaric bloodthirsty rapacious murderous genocidal thieving parasitical deviant breed”.
Several of her posts were removed or restricted by Facebook – including an early January incident in which her activity was restricted for bullying and hate speech, the Times of Israel said.
Queva then slammed the action as “anti black klu klux klan white/Zionist restrictions,” the outlet reported.
Queva appeared to respond to the reports about her previous posts on Friday, when she updated her Facebook wall with a video from the 1987 movie “The Garbage Pail Kids” alongside a caption that read “only those who live a lie hate the truth!”
She also commented below to add an infographic supposedly listing Jewish slave ship owners, as well as the infamous photo of Gordon, an escaped slave with a heinously scarred back due to years of abuse.
Queva’s disturbing posts are believed to have been circulated in BBC WhatsApp groups that formed in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The BBC was under scrutiny for its coverage of the attack and subsequent war – and Director General Time Davie has held “listening meetings’ in order to address the perceived bias in its work, Deadline explained.
There have also been recent reports that 22 employees at the national broadcaster have filed complaints about antisemitism in the workplace, the Telegraph added.
“We don’t comment on individual members of staff and we have well-established and robust processes in place to handle such issues, we do not tolerate anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or any form of abuse and we take any such allegations seriously and take appropriate disciplinary action wherever necessary,” a BBC spokesperson told The Post.
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On its face, Holocaust denial makes no sense. The physical evidence of the genocide exists. The testimony of survivors and of Nazis and their collaborators exists. And they are all irrefutable.
Beyond that, the Nazis were proud of the fact that they killed 6 million Jews. By denying the Holocaust, contemporary Nazis and Nazi fans seem to be demeaning their heroes. Why would they do that?
The mystery of Holocaust denial is no mere puzzlement from a distant past. Understanding its purpose is essential as we contend with our present predicament. Immediately after word got out about Hamas’s sadistic slaughter of more than 1,400 Israeli men, women and children on Oct. 7, Hamas’s supporters worldwide launched a concerted effort to deny that anything had happened.
Just as neo-Nazis both celebrate the Holocaust and deny it, so do those who rapturously greeted the stories of slaughtered and decapitated Jewish babies and men, and raped and dismembered Jewish women and girls, insist that Hamas didn’t commit any of those crimes.
A notable aspect of the atrocities is that Hamas’s mass murderers didn’t try to hide them. Instead, they broadcast them worldwide as they carried them out. Armed with Go Pro cameras and the cellphones of their victims, the Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel filmed the rape, dismemberment, torture and execution of their victims on their victims’ own phones, posting them in their victims’ family WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages as they carried them out. They did the same with their own social-media platforms. No one needed researchers to comb through Hamas archives. The directions for the slaughter were found in documents that the terrorists carried with them into Israel.
So why are supporters of Hamas tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli children, women and men being held hostage in the Gaza Strip? They celebrate the hostage-taking on their social-media postings. Why are they insisting to their fellow students on campuses or subway riders in New York and Johannesburg that there are no hostages in Gaza, and this is all a Zionist conspiracy? A gas-lighting?
To understand what is happening and what it represents, we need to look at the most popular and powerful form of Holocaust denial today. As Izabella Tabarovsky meticulously demonstrated in a Tablet magazine article last January, this form of Holocaust denial was coined by the Soviets. It was popularized by a Palestinian terrorist of some repute: Palestinian Authority chairman and Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas.
In 1982, Abbas wrote a doctoral dissertation at the KGB’s Institute of Oriental Studies, which he later turned into a bestselling book. His thesis, titled “The Relationship Between Zionists and Nazis, 1933-1945,” is the basis for Holocaust education in Palestinian schools.
Abbas claimed that the Zionists were Nazis. He insisted that just as the Nazis defined themselves as Aryan racial supremacists, the Zionists defined themselves as Jewish racial supremacists. Abbas claimed that the Holocaust was a collaborative effort between the Nazis and the Zionist leadership in the land of Israel. David Ben-Gurion, he wrote, had agents in Europe who collaborated with the Nazis. Their goal, Abbas said, was to support the genocide of European Jewry in order to win international sympathy for the Zionist effort to establish a Jewish supremacist state in the land of Israel, aka “Palestine.”
As Tabarovsky explained, the allure of Abbas’s claims for Palestinian Jew-haters and Soviets alike is clear. First, it enables them to avoid accounting for the role they played in the murder of 6 million Jews. It was the Palestinian Arab leader Haj Amin al-Husseini—not Ben-Gurion or any other Jew, Zionist or not—who collaborated with Hitler to annihilate the Jews in Europe and throughout the world. And it was the Soviet Union,—not the Zionist leadership—that signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazis. By insisting that it was the Jews who collaborated with their own destruction, both the Soviets and the Palestinians were able to project their own culpability onto their enemy: the Jews. They were also able to deny the Jews moral legitimacy as victims.
After all, if the Jews did it to themselves, then no one else had anything to own up to. And more importantly, the Jews’ alleged venality meant that the Nazis were right. The Jews are evil and deserve to be wiped off the map.
The same malevolent, genocide-supportive rationale guides Hamas’s supporters worldwide today.
Over the past several days, more and more information has come out about how the victims of Hamas’s atrocities were murdered and tortured with a sadism that was inconceivable until Oct. 7. And as that information is disseminated, Hamas supporters’ efforts to demonize those disseminating the information have expanded exponentially.
Consider just one example. Over the weekend, Eli Beer, the head of United Hatzalah rescue organization, told an American Jewish audience the story of a baby from Kfar Aza. The baby, he said, was placed in an oven and burned alive. It was later reported that the baby’s father was shot and left to bleed to death as his wife was gang-raped and executed, and his baby burned alive.
I posted the story on my X-platform (formerly Twitter) account. Within hours, the post went viral. By Wednesday morning, it had been viewed by more than 2.5 million people. Thousands had reposted, and thousands more had responded.
By Monday afternoon, I realized that most of the reposts and comments were supportive of Hamas. Many made jokes about the atrocity. But most of the posts were sheer denials that the crime even took place. Posters demonized me as a “Zionist Nazi” who propagates lies. Some pro-Hamas posters created memes declaring me a liar.
Once I understood what was happening, I asked multiple people for confirmations, which I received directly and indirectly from the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli government, the American government, ZAKA (the body retrieval society, and in this case, body parts) and other sources. I also learned that the case that Beer revealed was not a lone event. Several bodies of babies were found with grill marks, indicating they had been burned alive in ovens.
Professor Chen Kugel, head of the Israel National Institute of Forensic Medicine, oversees the process of identifying the bodies of the victims. In media appearances since Oct. 7, Kugel has repeatedly described the corpses of victims who were burned alive. They can be distinguished from victims whose bodies were burned after they were executed by the presence of soot in their lungs. The soot indicates that they were breathing while they were burning.
The process of identifying the victims is protracted because Hamas directed its murderers to burn the bodies of their victims. Kugel and others have described the remains of many of the bodies as what can be seen from a crematorium. Avigail Gimpel, a volunteer at the Jewish burial society Chevra Kadisha who prepared dozens of victims’ bodies for burial, shared that several of the bodies she and her colleagues received were balls of charcoal. Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been brought in to sift through the ashes of burned-out homes to separate the human remains from burned furniture and walls.
Despite the mounting forensic and testimonial evidence, the denials continue and expand. When seen in the context of Palestinian Holocaust denial, they can be understood to serve three related goals.
First, the denials enable people who are accustomed to supporting the Palestinians, but who like to be seen as truthful, to feel comfortable casting doubt on the truth. For example, Eric Levitz, a progressive writer for New York magazine published the following on X on Oct. 22:
“Last night I asserted that this report [related to the slaughter of October 7] indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them.”
This week, the Yale Daily News published a similarly depraved correction of an opinion column that related to the fact that Hamas terrorists beheaded and raped their victims. The Yale student paper insisted the allegations had not been substantiated.
The second purpose of Hamas supporters’ denial is to criminalize Israel. If Hamas isn’t guilty, then obviously Israel is. Abbas accused the Jews of responsibility for the Holocaust in order to reject the moral legitimacy of the State of Israel. He did it as well to avoid contending with Palestinian culpability for the genocide despite Husseini’s role in blocking Jewish emigration to pre-state Israel and his direct role in carrying out the Holocaust. Just so, Hamas supporters are now accusing Israel of killing its own people or fabricating their victimization at the hands of the terrorist organization in order to build a case that Israel is the villain of this story. This enables Jew-haters worldwide to feel comfortable expressing their own loathing of the Jews. If the Jews are the villains, then it is moral to hate them. It is moral to stand with Hamas. And it is immoral to support the Jews and the State of Israel.
Finally, once truth is cast into doubt and Israel is castigated as the villain, the denials of Hamas’s crimes facilitate the continuation and expansion of those crimes. Hamas’s declared goal, like Abbas’s Fatah Party, is the elimination of the Jewish state. That is, its goal is to enact another Holocaust. With Israel castigated as a liar and the villain, the next step is to wipe it out.
To Jews and their supporters, Hamas apologists now terrorizing Jews on college campuses and in cities throughout the United States and Europe, and running rampant on social-media platforms seem crazy. How can they deny the undeniable fact of Hamas culpability?
But Hamas’s boosters are not delusional. They know exactly what they are doing.
They are waging a psychological war against Western governments and publics. Their purpose is to gaslight hundreds of millions of people, to cause them to question their own grip on reality and intimidate them into silence. At the same time, they seek to embolden their allies and fellow travelers to stand openly with Hamas by showing they have nothing to lose from doing so.
If they are successful, their efforts will produce an international climate conducive to the achievement of their common goal of eradicating the Jewish people and the Jewish state. If they are partially successful, Israel’s war effort will be undermined, and assaults on Jews worldwide will increase.
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discord chat said something about the far cry antagonists whatsapp group chat. i would've added hoyt sending broadcasts like 'Organ Market Flash Sale! 🧠🩺 Contact for more details.', Joseph spamming obnoxiously long religious anecdotes while Anton sends hoax videos, Vaas sending an image and deleting it saying 'sorry wrong room'. Hoyt @ him saying 'was that jason brody tied to a chair on a candlelit dinner?' (Read.) the new dawn twins get added but kicked out once they realized they have to change the group name... but alas navigating this chat maker website is too cursed for even me
shoutout to @crochetcrow especially for her hilarious Anton just being AFK except to occassionally say 'OK. 👍'
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Discover the Top 10 Digital Marketing Agencies in Delhi for 2024
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking innovative and efficient ways to connect with their target audience, build brand awareness, and drive sales. The capital city of India, Delhi, is a bustling hub for digital marketing expertise, housing some of the most proficient agencies in the country. Leading the pack is Nexgen Digital Solutions, a comprehensive digital marketing agency renowned for its bespoke services and client-centric approach. Here’s a detailed look at the top 10 digital marketing agencies in Delhi for 2024, starting with the frontrunner.
1. Nexgen Digital Solutions
At the forefront of digital marketing innovation, Nexgen Digital Solutions stands out for its holistic approach to digital marketing. Offering an impressive array of services including Bulk SMS, Email, and WhatsApp Services, IVR and Voice Broadcasting Services, alongside classic Digital Marketing and SEO Services, Nexgen Digital Solutions is the go-to partner for businesses aiming for exponential growth. Their expertise extends to Website Development and product photoshoots, ensuring a comprehensive online presence for their clients. Reach out to them at their Dwarka Mor office or get in touch via phone or email for a tailored digital marketing strategy that aligns with your business goals.
2. Creative Digital Brain
Known for its creative strategies and innovative solutions, Creative Digital Brain offers personalized digital marketing solutions that resonate with your brand’s voice and objectives. Their expertise in social media marketing and content creation makes them a standout choice.
3. Market Leaders
Focusing on ROI-driven strategies, Market Leaders excel in delivering measurable results through SEO, PPC, and digital strategy. They are a top choice for businesses looking to get a competitive edge in their industry.
4. TechSavvy Marketers
With a strong emphasis on technology-driven marketing solutions, TechSavvy Marketers specialize in marketing automation, AI-based analytics, and targeted ad campaigns, catering to the tech-savvy entrepreneur.
5. Brand Builders
Brand Builders are experts in crafting compelling brand stories and digital experiences that engage and convert. Their services include brand strategy, digital advertising, and customer engagement techniques.
6. Visionary Media Group
Offering a blend of traditional and digital marketing strategies, Visionary Media Group is perfect for businesses looking for a comprehensive approach to increase their online and offline presence.
7. Digital Innovation Hub
As the name suggests, Digital Innovation Hub is all about innovative digital solutions. Specializing in emerging technologies and digital transformation strategies, they help businesses stay ahead of the curve.
8. Social Savvy
Social Savvy focuses on leveraging social media platforms to build brand loyalty and drive engagement. Their targeted social media campaigns are designed to connect businesses with their ideal audience effectively.
9. SEO Masters
SEO Masters are the go-to agency for all things SEO. From keyword research to on-page and off-page optimization, they ensure your website ranks high on search engines and attracts organic traffic.
10. OmniChannel Experts
OmniChannel Experts specialize in creating seamless customer experiences across all digital and physical channels. Their integrated marketing strategies ensure consistent messaging and branding across all touchpoints.
Choosing the right digital marketing agency is crucial for the success of your online marketing efforts. Each of these agencies brings something unique to the table, but Nexgen Digital Solutions stands out for its comprehensive services and customer-first approach, making it an excellent choice for businesses in Delhi and beyond.
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Is Social Media Useful in Spreading Information on COVID-19 in Malaysia?
In the current digital era, social media has become an integral part of our lives, connecting us to our family, friends, and the world. In addition to sharing photos, social media has played a significant role in disseminating information about crucial issues, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Let's explore how social media helps spread virus-related information and its impact on digital communities.
The Power of Social Media for COVID-19 Information
1. Rapid Dissemination of Information
During the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increased social media activity in Malaysia played a crucial role. Malaysians were well-connected digitally, as they spent an average of 2 hours and 47 minutes daily on social media, surpassing the global average by a significant margin. This participation was primarily motivated by the need to obtain information (76.2%) and keep up with news and events (65.8%). Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp were the primary sources for vital updates, news, and recommendations. This ongoing flow of information helps increase the awareness and preparedness of the digital community (Howe, 2023).
2. Real-time Updates
The Malaysian government provided up-to-date COVID-19 information via e-government and social media. They relied on channels such as the Ministry of Health's Official Portal, specialised Facebook pages (such as CRPC and KKM), and the CPRC KKM channel on Telegram. The Director-General of Health's daily press briefings are not only broadcast live on television but also live online via Facebook. In April 2020, they released the MySejahtera mobile app to assist users in monitoring their health and reporting check-in locations, allowing for prompt responses to control the spread of the virus (Dawi et al., 2021).
3. Community Support
During these difficult times, social media has been essential in helping Malaysians feel more connected to one another, with many Facebook groups and online communities offering information and support. For example, neighbours used platforms such as Nextdoor to offer assistance to those in need, and digital communities united in unprecedented ways to share resources and aid one another (FMT Media Sdn Bhd, 2020). Moreover, #benderaputih groups were formed on Facebook to share addresses for assistance and information on local food banks, with Malaysians in need flying white flags outside their residences to indicate distress. The digital community, including neighbours, personalities, and businesses, responded by donating food and other necessities, demonstrating the power of social media to bring communities together in times of crisis (BBC News, 2021).
4. Countering Misinformation
By actively utilizing social media, the Malaysian Ministry of Health (KKM) has taken significant measures to combat COVID-19 misinformation. Through their official social media channels, KKM provides accurate and up-to-date information, dispels misconceptions, and addresses concerns, ensuring that the public receives trustworthy information and is better equipped to make informed decisions during the pandemic. In addition, KKM has released information about the repercussions of disseminating false information. This proactive approach not only helps counter Misinformation but also fosters a sense of trust in official sources, which is crucial during a public health crisis (Euronews, 2020).
The Dark Side of Social Media in COVID-19 Information Spread
1. Misinformation and Rumors
In Malaysia, as in many other countries, social media has served as a breeding ground for Misinformation and rumors about COVID-19. Facebook and WhatsApp have been used to spread false information about the virus's origins, prevention, and treatment options. This has led to public confusion and, in some cases, hazardous behavior, such as disregarding medical advice. False information can undermine the efforts of health authorities and exacerbate the pandemic's effects, causing unnecessary alarm (Balakrishnan et al., 2021).
2. Amplification of Fear
Despite its many advantages, social media can be a double-edged instrument, particularly during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. One of its negative characteristics is its potential to amplify fear and anxiety. Sensationalized headlines and the dissemination of misleading images can elicit strong emotions, resulting in increased stress and negative effects on mental health. The internet has been rife with misleading information about the virus, including conspiracy theories and misleading statistics. There have been instances where images fraudulently purporting to depict the coronavirus under a microscope have caused panic and confusion. Such false information can be extensively disseminated on social media platforms like Facebook, inciting panic and undermining accurate comprehension (Euronews, 2020).
Conclusion
In conclusion, social media has proven to be a powerful tool in spreading information about COVID-19 in Malaysia. During the pandemic, it rapidly disseminated vital information and connected people, nurturing community and support. The government's use of social media channels contributed to disseminating timely information to the public. However, this has a negative aspect: disseminating false information and terror. Misinformation and sensationalized content have led to public perplexity and hysteria. To maximize the benefits of social media, we must use it responsibly and ensure that accurate information prevails, particularly during the pandemic. Connecting and informing us, social media can be a force for good, but it is up to each of us to ensure that it serves our best interests.
What's your opinion on the role of social media in spreading COVID-19 information in Malaysia? Share your thoughts and vote below.
Reference list
Balakrishnan, V., Ng, K. S., & Rahim, H. A. (2021). To share or not to share – The underlying motives of sharing fake news amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. Technology in Society, 66, 101676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101676
BBC News. (2021). Malaysians in Covid lockdown fly white flags to ask for help. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57717214
Dawi, N. M., Namazi, H., Hwang, H. J., Ismail, S., Marešová, P., & Krejcar, O. (2021). Attitude toward protective behavior engagement during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia: the role of e-government and social media. Frontiers in Public Health, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.609716
Euronews. (2020, January 30). Coronavirus: Malaysia arrests five for spreading misinformation online | #TheCube. Euronews. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2020/01/29/coronavirus-malaysia-arrests-five-for-spreading-misinformation-online-thecube
FMT Media Sdn Bhd. (2020). Nextdoor: Free network connecting neighbours in quarantine. Freemalaysiatoday. https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2020/03/29/nextdoor-free-network-connecting-neighbours-in-quarantine/
Howe, S. (2023). Social Media statistics for Malaysia [Updated 2023]. Meltwater. https://www.meltwater.com/en/blog/social-media-statistics-malaysia
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this 600+ J.E.W.I.S.H chat group (their WhatsApp name) has been mentioned in the attached article. Media are currently reviewing sources (there's over 10 hours of scripts) and writing articles. So stay tuned - you'll soon see who has been in the shadows destroying the careers of anti-genocide Australian, journalists, academics and creatives. So far, most of their known victims are young, LGBTQI, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.
Heads will roll - hopefully!
#whatsapp#jewsagainstfascism#jews against israel#jews against genocide#161#1312#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#antifa#antifascist#antifaschistische aktion#class war#antinazi#privacy#invasion of privacy#anti genocide#no pride in genocide#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#antizionist#antiauthoritarian#internet#cybercore#humanrights
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Cara Optimasi Media Whatsapp Untuk Jualan
Sekarang ini sepertinya segala sesuatu dapat dilakukan dengan cara online dalam segala hal. Bayangkan saja jika dulu orang mau beli sesuatu harus datang ke lokasi tetapi sekarang sudah tinggal pesan dan barang diantar. Tidak hanya itu, sudah banyak orang sekarang yang tinggal di Indonesia tetapi bekerja di perusahaan asing secara remote. Hal seperti ini biasa dilakukan dengan menjual keahlian di desain, javascript dan yang lainnya.
Dengan semakin meningkatnya segala sesuatu secara online, maka banyak orang berlomba-lomba untuk bisa jualan secara online. Untuk media yang paling tepat dalam promosi ini adalah menggunakan Whatsapp. Media satu ini bisa kamu jadikan alat penghasil uang asalkan kamu mengetahui cara yang tepat untuk melakukan penjualan.
Bergabung Group Facebook
Mungkin kamu akan bertanya “kita akan melakukan promosi di Whatsapp kenapa harus bergabung group Facebook?” jawabannya cukup simple yaitu untuk bisa mendapatkan nomor calon pelanggan. Penggunaan facebook sebagai modal awal untuk bisa mendapatkan nomor Whatsapp sangatlah optimal. Jadi kamu bisa bergabung dengan banyak group Facebook terutama yang group jualan.
Setelah itu kamu bisa posting foto produk yang akan kamu jual lalu berikan diskon besar dengan cara menyertakan nomor Whatsapp jika ingin mendapatkan promosi tersebut. Dengan cara ini maka kebanyakan dari mereka akan share nomornya untuk bisa mendapatkan promo besar tersebut.
Broadcast
Untuk masalah promosi ini tentu kamu harus melakukan broadcast untuk bisa jualan di Whatsapp. Untuk nomor sendiri yaitu di dapatkan dari tahap pertama tadi dan tugas kamu menyimpan semua nomor tersebut. Jika kamu melakukan pengiriman pesan ke banyak nomor seperti yang kamu lakukan di tahap pertama tentu akan kesulitan jika satu-satu. Maka dari itu, kamu bisa menjadikan akun Whatsapp kamu menjadi Whatsapp bisnis.
Dengan proses peralihan tentu memang Whatsapp tidak menggratiskan tetapi kamu harus membayar 360 ribu dalam setahun. Dengan menjadi akun bisnis kamu bisa mengirimkan pesan secara unlimited ke semua nomor. Untuk broadcast ini sendiri yang harus dipahami yaitu menggunakan dengan cara dua arah.
Untuk arah pertama kamu bisa broadcast terkait motivasi atau hal lain yang bermanfaat. Dengan cara ini agar tidak membuat calon pelanggan merasa resah jika hanya share-share foto saja. Selanjutnya, kamu bisa menggunakan untuk jualan semua produk yang ingin dipasarkan tersebut. Dengan adanya hal ini maka kamu bisa lebih dekat kepada calon pelanggan dan berpotensi membeli semua produk yang kamu jual.
Whatsapp story
Ketika semua sudah mendapatkan banyak nomor tersebut, maka tahap selanjutnya adalah membuat story ini. Dengan menggunakan story ini tentu akan lebih efektif karena tidak perlu share satu persatu nomor ke semua nomor kontak yang ada.
Tetapi dalam hal bisnis, tentu story tidak hanya sekedar story tetapi perlu tehnik tersendiri dalam melakukannya. Maka dari itu, dalam story tersebut kamu jangan asal share produk terus-menerus. Hal seperti ini tentu hanya akan membuat calon pelanggan malas melihatnya. Jadi sesekali kamu perlu yang namanya share tentang motivasi atau hal lain yang bermanfaat untuk orang banyak.
Itulah beberapa tahapan jika kamu ingin menjadikan Whatsapp sebagai ladang untuk mencari uang. Lakukan tehnik di atas secara konsisten dan diawali dengan langkah pertama dimana kamu bisa mendapatkan nomor Whatsapp secara gratis. Jika kamu benar-benar menekuni ini kemungkinan juga nanti akan berjalan tehnik lain yang akan lebih jitu.
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I am proud of myself but at what cost?
Tumblr, I had a disagreement with a friend (and more, actually) tonight. As juniors of the broadcasting club, we were tasked to post content on our social media account weekly by the seniors as they are busy with their final year projects. At first, I was okay with it as we were gonna do it together but then I found myself being the only one concerned about the task. There were four of us, but I was the only one anxious as we haven’t progressed on the presumably simple task.
When the President of the club asked us to update the progress (on the content) in our WhatsApp group, none of them wanted to reply to her text. It’s not like I didn’t want to either but I have only been the one replying to her texts than others. They didn’t even make a SOUND as much as react to anything. I had to update, make progress and post everything myself. I believe I deserve the rights to be offended.
In our meeting, the President mentioned about an upcoming project. She asked if any of the juniors could help with the paperwork and I jokingly (though still offended) suggested one of the other juniors. She responded “WE will do it” to my expectation. Oh, now it’s WE huh? WE will do it? How about the content that I did by MYSELF then?
She took it personal and called on to fight her, in the meeting, with seniors present? She wanted me to fight her? Mf you be serious bitch I’M THE VICTIM. I didn’t continue the conversation there of course. I took it to our private WhatsApp group where I opened up that I was offended and disappointed with all of their behaviours.
Anyhow, I am still proud of myself because I am able to stand up for myself. It’s rare of me to do it because I have been such a suck up, people pleaser that would put others above me. I realised that and I am slowly learning to undo that.
I’m also learning that I deserve to feel hurt and that I NEED hurt to grow and find what’s right for me.
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News organizations that used the broadcast feed of the official ceremonies had to promise any social media clips would be “solemn and dignified,” as the Guardian phrases it, though it’s not clear what kind of written arrangements may exist with U.S. news outlets. Staff for the royal family even maintained a WhatsApp group with executives at British media outlets, letting the news organizations know in real time what clips were permissible for re-publishing during the Queen’s memorial service, according to the Guardian.
What are the royals trying to hide from the public? As it turns out, nothing as scandalous as you’d expect, given the history of people like Prince Andrew, the new king’s brother and a notable associate of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Queen Elizabeth II contributed roughly $2.7 million to settle a civil sexual assault lawsuit against Andrew, according to Time magazine.
No, the royal family would like to make sure you don’t see things like King Charles III impatiently making one of his servants take away a pen holder at the desk where he proclaimed himself king. In the video, which went viral on social media, Charles looks like an entitled prick, which is precisely the kind of video the royal family doesn’t want circulating after losing the queen—a woman often compared to a neighborly grandmother and a much softer image for a group of people who are hoarding immense stolen wealth.
Another censored clip involves a man named Mike Tindall, husband of the Queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips, who was looking at his watch during a quiet period of reflection, an act that was apparently considered scandalous by some in the UK, according to the Guardian.
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ISRAEL REALTIME
SHABBAT -ALERT- INSTRUCTIONS for those in ISRAEL
Chief Rabbinute instructions with High Risk adjustments
Parshat Vayera - SHABBAT in Israel starts tonight at 4:31 PM and ends at 5:26 PM Saturday night (+/- a few minutes depending on where in Israel.)
REQUIRED! You MUST due to Pikuach Nefesh mamash have a way to hear or see alerts on Shabbat! Sirens and INFILTRATION alerts. Here’s how…
SILENT CHANNELS - Radio and TV stations go “silent broadcast” for Shabbat, ONLY announcements of alerts.
- this is STRONGLY required this Shabbat due to the high risk of attacks and possible instructions from Homefront Command for some areas to shelter for extended periods if a major event occurs. -
No TV or Radio? STREAM IT on phone or computer.
(1) SILENT TV - Channel 14 - stream https://www.now14.co.il/live/
(2) SILENT RADIO -
• Moreshet network - on radio 90.5, 90.8, 92.5 and 100.7.
• Kol Chai radio - on radio 92.8, 93 and 102.5. - stream https://www.93fm.co.il/radio/players/%d7%a9%d7%99%d7%93%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%97%d7%99/
• Kol Barama Radio - on radio 92.1, 104.3, 105.7 and 107.6. - stream https://kol-barama.co.il/live/
• Galei Israel - on radio 89.3, 94 and 106.5. - https://www.rlive.co.il/station/galey-israel
• Radio Darom - on radio 101.5.
(3) ON SCREEN - leave a computer open to https://www.oref.org.il/en - alerts will display and sound on the screen. Turn OFF screen saver, sleep and hibernate so the computer doesn’t turn off.
(4) VIA APP - leave on phone with red alert app. Set app to YOUR area so it only alerts for your area. Press the TEST ALERT to make sure you can hear it and know what it sounds like. We suggest Tzofar Red Alert & Homefront Command - available in Play Store and App Store.
IF an alert goes off for your area CLICK THE PHONE TO VERIFY ALERT TYPE - to see if infiltration! Yes, on Shabbat - this is Pikuach Nefesh mamash!
(5) VIA WHATSAPP OR TELEGRAM - ialerts via WhatsApp or Telegram channels, set a distinctive tone for the alert group so you’ll know it's that group, and turn off Do Not Disturb for Shabbat. Then view pop-up alerts BUT DO NOT HESITATE to open and read if alerted to check if your area to check if infiltration.
It is a mitzvah to take actions to protect and save and preserve life on Shabbat, not a violation. But ONLY actions which do so.
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My friends and I just decided to calculate a little how many functions the social network VKontakte contains...
(This is not a complete list)
Own VK Pay payment system, messenger, advertising, video, audio/music, short videos, as in Tik-Tok, live broadcast, online calls, as in WhatsApp, articles, donations, stickers, personal and group chats, voice chats, online games, communities (separate from the main account), accounts themselves, mail like Gmail, bots, translators, applications for maintaining health, competitions, voting, watching programs, listening to music, paying taxes, utilities and other things, free cloud storage (saved photos and albums that can be created separately and it will all be stored on your page), bookmarks, personal privacy settings, search on the map of various stores (geolocation), VK market, products in VK (you can sell your products), official label for celebrity accounts, friends, subscribers, comments, the ability to share records, your own internal currency (votes in VK)
I'm tired of enumerating...
OMG! I HAVE BEEN USING THIS NETWORK FOR SO LONG BUT I DID NOT THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THIS HUGE...
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WhatsApp postpones Brazil launch of new Communities feature until after elections
Outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro attempted to pressure the company into launching the update sooner
WhatsApp had a key role in leading far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the Planalto Palace in the 2018 general elections. One year later, the company admitted that its main product had been used in a mass messaging scheme to push false news about Bolsonaro's opponent, Workers Party's leftist Fernando Haddad.
Attempting to repeat the successful formula in his reelection campaign in 2022, Bolsonaro held a meeting — requested by him — with WhatsApp executives in the same Planalto Palace on April 27. The meeting's agenda was short, but it contained one important item: WhatsApp's decision to withhold the launch of the Communities feature in Brazil.
A few days earlier, WhatsApp had announced a major update to its messaging service. With Communities, users can organize multiple groups under one same broader group and administrators will have access to more detailed tools, including broadcast lists. In practical terms, this expands the member limit for groups and gives admins the power to simultaneously message thousands of users.
But there was a catch: while the feature was set to launch globally in September, one month before the elections in Brazil, the rollout in South America's largest country only began after the voting process concluded, with a gradual rollout beginning around November.
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