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As the Wall Street Journal reports Israel believes Iran moved thousands of enrichment centrifuges deep into mountain tunnels, the US deploys additional warplanes and hawks declare diplomacy dead — while an Iranian official warns that any nuclear strike would mean the end of Israel itself. Kim breaks down whether Washington is sleepwalking into a wider, years-long war.

Nearly 120,000 Flock surveillance cameras now blanket the country, and public backlash is boiling over — with residents in cities like Houston destroying them faster than police can investigate. Kim digs into the surveillance network’s explosive growth and the company’s claim that its cameras “don’t track people.”

As the State Department brands Cuba the “capital of 21st-century communism” and officials claim China and Russia are feeding Iran the intelligence to hit US troops, Kim examines the campaign to redirect American anger toward these adversaries — and the question of who benefits from that framing.

Kim covers a series of disturbing reports out of Israel and the occupied West Bank. An Israeli settler named Yossi Rainer publishes a lengthy public post celebrating his family’s move from a “luxurious penthouse” to an isolated farm beside a Palestinian village — stating openly that the purpose is to seize land, occupy structures Palestinians built, and make a future Palestinian state impossible, adding that they’ll “live by the sword.” Kim then turns to fresh accounts of settler violence, including a reported attack on a Palestinian village, and asks why episodes like these draw so little Western media coverage.

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Soccer is the most participated team sport in the country.

These conversations generally centre on:

Australia, in comparison, has developed a soccer participation system, but not a national development system for elite talent.

• was the preparation leading up to the World Cup the best it could be?
• were the players well prepared?
• are our coaches good enough?
• is there enough elite talent coming through the system?

geographic dispersion increases travel demands and costs, and makes early identification difficult, particularly for those in regional and rural areas

Australian soccer’s big issues

To do this, the conversation must continue long after the competition ends. Australia needs to shift the rhetoric from “what went wrong” to “what’s needed to improve our position”?

Read more:
Where do Socceroos come from? Our map reveals Australia’s junior talent hotspots

Evidence from countries such as Belgium and Morocco suggests sustained success is achieved through long-term, targeted investment rather than crossing your fingers and waiting for the next “golden generation” to arrive.

one thing [that’s] missing in Australia [is] a long-term vision for the game.

Australia needs to focus on building a high-performance player development ecosystem. This will require more help from state and federal governments.

Belgium has a population of about 12 million people, compared with Australia’s 27 million. Both countries have high soccer participation rates.

• Although these systems vary, they all maximise talent identification and minimise the likelihood of losing promising players before they reach their potential.
• pathways between grassroots soccer, talent identification programs, semiprofessional and professional clubs are fragmented and inconsistent
• The “pay to play” model is possibly the most significant barrier for Australian players, particularly if they are talented.
• Yet Belgium has consistently produced world-class players and reached the latter stages of major tournaments, including placing third in the 2018 World Cup.

the “pay to play” model and high participation fees compared with other countries (where community clubs or professional academies absorb the developmental burden) limits opportunities

The world’s most successful soccer nations have developed ecosystems designed to identify, support and nurture talent regardless of geography, socioeconomic status or personal connections.

Morocco has invested heavily in elite player development, coach education and high-performance infrastructure.

The dominance of other elite codes – such as Aussie rules footy, rugby league, basketball and cricket – likely also impacts the retention of soccer players, despite such high participation rates.

Playing fees for the National Premier League (NPL) – Australian soccer’s third tier and the main league where young prospects are scouted by professional clubs – are typically up to ,500 for a 15-year-old. This is about seven times more for the same age group in Australian rules football.

What do other countries do better?

Australia, in contrast, continues to rely on community clubs, the NPL and a limited number of A-League academies to identify and nurture talent.

It’s obvious, then, that Australia does not have a participation problem. The challenge is converting participation into elite performance.

concerns about whether access to elite opportunities are equally available to all talented players, regardless of their location or their families’ financial resources/connections with the game.

Only eight nations have ever won the men’s World Cup. All possess highly developed ecosystems.

With such strong participation numbers in Australia, the question now is whether the system is identifying and developing every talented player who enters it.

However, the countries that are repeatedly competitive on the world stage are not necessarily those with the greatest resources. Rather, they are the countries that are most effective in turning participation into development, and development into performance.

These nations do not simply produce outstanding players. They produce systems that identify, develop and generate exceptional players.

Football Australia has started this discussion. After the Egypt defeat at the World Cup, Football Australia executive director of football Heather Garriock said the governing body would seek to implement a long-term vision for Australian soccer:

Australia had high hopes of an historic World Cup knockout round win after progressing through the group stage.

This has included funding and establishing a national centre of excellence that identifies and nurtures talented players to eventually improve the fortunes of the national team.

What will the future hold?

However, a painful Round of 32 exit, losing a penalty shootout to Egypt, raised familiar questions about the state of soccer in Australia.

In Australia, many young players face barriers that most young athletes in leading soccer nations do not:

Similar to Belgium, Morocco has a comparable population to Australia but has historically performed substantially better on the world stage.

In countries such as France and Germany, academy costs are free or significantly cheaper.

To answer them properly, we need to examine some deep, structural problems.

Following poor performances in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Belgium restructured its youth development system and created an ecosystem designed to identify, develop and export elite players.

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Skyroot’s breakthrough launch comes as India’s government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeks to supercharge the country’s space industry. India has long had a robust space program, with government-developed rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the larger LVM3 often attracting commercial customers from the United States and Europe. India became the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon in 2023, and is working on an oft-delayed human-rated crew capsule to fly astronauts to low-Earth orbit.

Modi has told the Indian space industry to increase its annual launch total from about five launches per year to 50 before the end of the decade. The prime minister called Chandana and congratulated the Skyroot team after Saturday’s launch.

“This is a defining moment in India’s space journey,” Modi said in a statement. “The growing participation of our private sector is opening new frontiers and accelerating innovation. This achievement will encourage countless youngsters to dream bigger and innovate fearlessly.”

Chandana, a former engineer at India’s space agency, founded Skyroot in 2018 with another ISRO scientist, Naga Bharath Daka. They decided to focus on developing a solid-fueled launcher first, optimizing for what Chandana described as the lowest development time and the lowest cost per launch. “We wanted to get to an orbital launch vehicle in a few years,” Chandana told Ars.

“It’s a test launch” he said at the time. “Statistically, the first launch from a private company almost always fails. It’s very difficult to succeed with all new systems. But I think we have done everything we can do to ensure the first launch goes well.”

Indeed, the first launch went very well, exceeding all expectations. A second Vikram-1 launch could happen before the end of the year, Chandana said.

“This is a 100 percent designed in India rocket, a 100 percent made in India rocket, built by 100 percent Indian people, for India and for the world,” Chandana said after the launch Saturday. “This was a historic moment for India, but also a very proud moment for the global space sector because the world needs more access to space.”

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