BREAKING: Top FIFA officials arrested in Switzerland, to be indicted on corruption charges
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It has made my weekend. I can just see Bibi with a True Detective or Prime Suspect type wall chart in his office trying to link the different global actors that are working to oppose Zionist world domination. There's Abbas and Putin, Assad, some Iranian guy, and at the top of the pyramid, pulling all the strings, even higher up than Kevin Bacon, is Blatter.
Bibi casts one of his concealed throwing knives and it sticks in the wall, right between blatter's eyes.
"Get him," he says. "Bring him down and the world is ours."
I wish this was as funny ... that tart from Trinidad said the same thing:
[article=http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE79G38820111017?irpc=932]PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has blamed Zionism for the circumstances that led to him and former Asian Football Confederation chief Mohammed Bin Hammam being forced out of world football.
Warner, 68, resigned from FIFA after ethics investigations were begun into a meeting he held with Bin Hammam where FIFA say payments were made to Caribbean soccer officials ahead of the election for FIFA president in June.
Qatari Bin Hammam was handed a lifetime ban by FIFA for his role in the affair while a number of Caribbean officials were given suspensions last week.
Bin Hammam was not immediately available for comment.
Trinadadian Warner says in a letter to the Trinidad Guardian, which will be published in full on Tuesday, he intends to speak out on the affair and highlighted who he felt was to blame for his downfall.
"I will talk about the Zionism, which probably is the most important reason why this acrid attack on Bin Hammam and me was mounted," Warner told the newspaper.[/article]
"Zionism" here is just conveniently switched for Judaism ... Today's anti-semites are mostly cowardly bastards.
We have so many problems as is - be it internally or externally. I say let ISIS take care of this one (they are, after all, Mossad stooges)
It's what they tried to save in Matrix 3
When he's not dressed up as a woman ...
You know what..... I AM!
Stop confusing Sandra Bullock movies with reality ...
Ha! I'll buy you a cigar for next time I see you.More pertinent are you ever not on feckin holidays?
Warner is proper mental ... First the Zionists, now the Yanks - but based on evidence from the ....
[article=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ex-fifa-executive-jack-warner-attacks-5798615]The FBI swooped to arrest 14 FIFA officials, in conjunction with the Swiss authorities, as they arrived in Zurich for the congress, and the presidential election.
Predictably, Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term, but that hasn't stopped Warner from hitting out at the USA, albeit with evidence from a very sketchy source.
In the video, Warner says: "I look to see [holding up piece of paper with headline from The Onion ] that FIFA has frantically announced a 2015, this year, a World Cup beginning May 27th in the USA.
"If FIFA is so bad, why is it the USA wants a FIFA World Cup? Why is it they want games on May 27, two days before the FIFA elections? Why is it the US authorities sought to embarrass FIFA in Zurich?
"Something has to be wrong. I point out to you over and over, that all this has stemmed from the US' failed bid to host the World Cup."
The article, entitled 'FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States. Global Soccer Tournament To Kick Off In America Later This Afternoon' was published on Wednesday afternoon.
It was, of course, full of satire, including this extract: "At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup’s opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game’s first three minutes."
Warner was in the headlines for the wrong reasons once again this week, after he was taken to hospital complaining of 'exhaustion' following his arrest. However, he was seen dancing at a rally soon afterwards.
In a speech to supporters, he later compared himself to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.[/article]
[article=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ex-fifa-executive-jack-warner-attacks-5798615]The FBI swooped to arrest 14 FIFA officials, in conjunction with the Swiss authorities, as they arrived in Zurich for the congress, and the presidential election.
Predictably, Sepp Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term, but that hasn't stopped Warner from hitting out at the USA, albeit with evidence from a very sketchy source.
In the video, Warner says: "I look to see [holding up piece of paper with headline from The Onion ] that FIFA has frantically announced a 2015, this year, a World Cup beginning May 27th in the USA.
"If FIFA is so bad, why is it the USA wants a FIFA World Cup? Why is it they want games on May 27, two days before the FIFA elections? Why is it the US authorities sought to embarrass FIFA in Zurich?
"Something has to be wrong. I point out to you over and over, that all this has stemmed from the US' failed bid to host the World Cup."
The article, entitled 'FIFA Frantically Announces 2015 Summer World Cup In United States. Global Soccer Tournament To Kick Off In America Later This Afternoon' was published on Wednesday afternoon.
It was, of course, full of satire, including this extract: "At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup’s opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game’s first three minutes."
Warner was in the headlines for the wrong reasons once again this week, after he was taken to hospital complaining of 'exhaustion' following his arrest. However, he was seen dancing at a rally soon afterwards.
In a speech to supporters, he later compared himself to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.[/article]
FIFA’s executive committee produced reports on the viability of various host countries for the 2022 World Cup
This is the summary of Qatars:
Here's a comparison of the summaries, hard to read but you can see by the colours one country stood out as being risky, which of course won completely fairly:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...r-was-needed-for-2022-s-qatari-world-cup.html
This is the summary of Qatars:
Here's a comparison of the summaries, hard to read but you can see by the colours one country stood out as being risky, which of course won completely fairly:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...r-was-needed-for-2022-s-qatari-world-cup.html
makes sense to your accountant
it's a real shame some of those other countries didn't get the world cup
SA's Jordaan is in a lot of shit too -
Say what you want about the guy, but I like that he is speaking out on this.
Boris Johnson's Facebook Page:
[article=Boris Johnson's Facebook Page]Looking back, I can remember clearly when I first had an inkling of the disaster. It was the night before the fatal vote in 2010, and we in the England delegation were summoned to that swanky Zurich hotel where the Fifa hierarchs like to do their deals.
It must have been about 10pm. Somewhere upstairs the Prime Minister was schmoozing a series of mendacious figures from the world of international football. Prince William was on another doomed mission somewhere else. I found myself in a dimly lit bar, drinking beer with Gary Lineker and Fabio Capello, while keeping an eye on the door.
Our instructions were simple. If any Fifa executive walked in, we were to make ourselves as pleasant as we decently could. We were to inveigle ourselves into their society, to tell self-deprecating jokes, to put them at their ease in the approved British manner – in short, to use whatever feeble charms we possessed to persuade them to vote for us.
I managed to join a group from – I think – Latin America. They were full of fun and life. They loved London, they adored England, they recognised our role in the creation of football. But would they vote for us? I looked into their merry faces; I scanned their eyes for a clue; and I was none the wiser.
My tension grew. We all knew that the case for England 2018 was superb; we knew that by every measure of logic and fairness we should be serious contenders to host the World Cup. But what was actually going to happen? At length I sought out the nice young British executive who had been put in charge of the PR for our bid - and I asked him straight out; and I will never forget the look I saw in his eyes – a look of sudden and terrifying candour.
I had talked to him for months, on and off, and had never known him to deviate from a tone of buoyant optimism. We had sketched out all sorts of scenarios for success, and they each depended on progressing to the second round. If X country or Y country were eliminated, we would tell ourselves, then all their first round votes would transfer to us.
By the second round we would be in an immensely strong position. Fortified with the votes of X or Y, we would scorch into the third round – and, bingo! Everyone would vote for England as the safe bet, and it would be Three Lions on a Shirt, Jules Rimet gleaming again in Wembley, and a general feeling of orgiastic national good humour.
England would host the greatest tournament of the world’s most popular game for the first time since 1966 – and all we had to do was get through that first round of voting. But could we? “I don’t know,” said our campaign manager in a whisper. “I have moments when I just can’t see where our votes are coming from.”
As we were to see the following day, he was right to be nervous. It was a rout, a fiasco, a moment of national humiliation and derision. England was blown a collective raspberry in a global version of the Eurovision song contest. Nobody’s votes transferred to us, because we beat nobody. We managed to be kicked out first with nul points and only two votes, one of which came from the English chap on Fifa.
And ever since I have asked myself why we bombed so badly. We seemed to have such a good case. England had given the game to the world, and yet we hadn’t hosted the Cup for two generations. We had by far the most developed markets for TV and advertising. We had a football-loving public. Above all we had the infrastructure to put on a world-class sporting event, as we showed beyond doubt in 2012.
And it isn’t as if we failed to woo the Fifa executives. When their delegation was in town, we made sure their traffic lights were always on green, like a series of invisible butlers holding open the doors of a palace. I even joined the 32-stone Chuck Blazer for breakfast – or for one of his series of breakfasts. Blatter, I am afraid, was treated with a reverence that was positively emetic. And none of it was enough.
Now, thanks in large part to the indefatigable work of the British press, we now appear to know the reason. The whole Fifa edifice was and is weevilled with apparent corruption. While other countries turned a blind eye, the Americans have stepped in. The US has an extraordinary doctrine – that if you commit a crime by using an American banking network then you have committed a crime under American law and must answer to America; and if it brings the kleptocrats of Fifa to justice, then I am all for it.
I hope that the law now takes its course: that Sepp Blatter is finally forced to take responsibility for what appears to have happened on his watch, and to resign. If they had any sense of honour the sponsors would now pull the plug on this plainly fraudulent organisation.
In an ideal world the guilty would be convicted and Fifa would be wound up and replaced – as I have long since argued – by a more transparent and accountable body. I have to say, alas, that I am not entirely certain that things will turn out this way. As both the US and Swiss investigators acknowledge, bribery is difficult to prove.
And then there is a further geopolitical problem. You and I may rejoice at the notion of Britain and America triumphing in the final reel of the movie – James Bond and Felix Leiter coming together to winkle Blofeld from his lair. Not everyone sees it that way; not everyone likes the idea of an Anglo-American imperium. You may have noted that the French and Spanish Fifa wallahs decided, amazingly, to vote for Blatter.
All we can do is watch events, send whatever evidence we have to the Americans, and live in hope. And if the Swiss police indeed show that the 2010 contest was corrupted, then it will have to be re-run. London stands ready.[/article]
Boris Johnson's Facebook Page:
[article=Boris Johnson's Facebook Page]Looking back, I can remember clearly when I first had an inkling of the disaster. It was the night before the fatal vote in 2010, and we in the England delegation were summoned to that swanky Zurich hotel where the Fifa hierarchs like to do their deals.
It must have been about 10pm. Somewhere upstairs the Prime Minister was schmoozing a series of mendacious figures from the world of international football. Prince William was on another doomed mission somewhere else. I found myself in a dimly lit bar, drinking beer with Gary Lineker and Fabio Capello, while keeping an eye on the door.
Our instructions were simple. If any Fifa executive walked in, we were to make ourselves as pleasant as we decently could. We were to inveigle ourselves into their society, to tell self-deprecating jokes, to put them at their ease in the approved British manner – in short, to use whatever feeble charms we possessed to persuade them to vote for us.
I managed to join a group from – I think – Latin America. They were full of fun and life. They loved London, they adored England, they recognised our role in the creation of football. But would they vote for us? I looked into their merry faces; I scanned their eyes for a clue; and I was none the wiser.
My tension grew. We all knew that the case for England 2018 was superb; we knew that by every measure of logic and fairness we should be serious contenders to host the World Cup. But what was actually going to happen? At length I sought out the nice young British executive who had been put in charge of the PR for our bid - and I asked him straight out; and I will never forget the look I saw in his eyes – a look of sudden and terrifying candour.
I had talked to him for months, on and off, and had never known him to deviate from a tone of buoyant optimism. We had sketched out all sorts of scenarios for success, and they each depended on progressing to the second round. If X country or Y country were eliminated, we would tell ourselves, then all their first round votes would transfer to us.
By the second round we would be in an immensely strong position. Fortified with the votes of X or Y, we would scorch into the third round – and, bingo! Everyone would vote for England as the safe bet, and it would be Three Lions on a Shirt, Jules Rimet gleaming again in Wembley, and a general feeling of orgiastic national good humour.
England would host the greatest tournament of the world’s most popular game for the first time since 1966 – and all we had to do was get through that first round of voting. But could we? “I don’t know,” said our campaign manager in a whisper. “I have moments when I just can’t see where our votes are coming from.”
As we were to see the following day, he was right to be nervous. It was a rout, a fiasco, a moment of national humiliation and derision. England was blown a collective raspberry in a global version of the Eurovision song contest. Nobody’s votes transferred to us, because we beat nobody. We managed to be kicked out first with nul points and only two votes, one of which came from the English chap on Fifa.
And ever since I have asked myself why we bombed so badly. We seemed to have such a good case. England had given the game to the world, and yet we hadn’t hosted the Cup for two generations. We had by far the most developed markets for TV and advertising. We had a football-loving public. Above all we had the infrastructure to put on a world-class sporting event, as we showed beyond doubt in 2012.
And it isn’t as if we failed to woo the Fifa executives. When their delegation was in town, we made sure their traffic lights were always on green, like a series of invisible butlers holding open the doors of a palace. I even joined the 32-stone Chuck Blazer for breakfast – or for one of his series of breakfasts. Blatter, I am afraid, was treated with a reverence that was positively emetic. And none of it was enough.
Now, thanks in large part to the indefatigable work of the British press, we now appear to know the reason. The whole Fifa edifice was and is weevilled with apparent corruption. While other countries turned a blind eye, the Americans have stepped in. The US has an extraordinary doctrine – that if you commit a crime by using an American banking network then you have committed a crime under American law and must answer to America; and if it brings the kleptocrats of Fifa to justice, then I am all for it.
I hope that the law now takes its course: that Sepp Blatter is finally forced to take responsibility for what appears to have happened on his watch, and to resign. If they had any sense of honour the sponsors would now pull the plug on this plainly fraudulent organisation.
In an ideal world the guilty would be convicted and Fifa would be wound up and replaced – as I have long since argued – by a more transparent and accountable body. I have to say, alas, that I am not entirely certain that things will turn out this way. As both the US and Swiss investigators acknowledge, bribery is difficult to prove.
And then there is a further geopolitical problem. You and I may rejoice at the notion of Britain and America triumphing in the final reel of the movie – James Bond and Felix Leiter coming together to winkle Blofeld from his lair. Not everyone sees it that way; not everyone likes the idea of an Anglo-American imperium. You may have noted that the French and Spanish Fifa wallahs decided, amazingly, to vote for Blatter.
All we can do is watch events, send whatever evidence we have to the Americans, and live in hope. And if the Swiss police indeed show that the 2010 contest was corrupted, then it will have to be re-run. London stands ready.[/article]
It's not a London bid though.
FIFA’s executive committee produced reports on the viability of various host countries for the 2022 World Cup
This is the summary of Qatars:
Here's a comparison of the summaries, hard to read but you can see by the colours one country stood out as being risky, which of course won completely fairly:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...r-was-needed-for-2022-s-qatari-world-cup.html
Can't even spell competition. Doesn't anyone proof read this shit?
He's speaking as the Mayor of London.
But HOW can it be a bribe?
It's not really that surprising though is it. It seems readiness or suitability to host isn't a deal maker, there are other criteria that 'impress' the executives who decide.
Well of course, but fifty years - eventually reaching over seventy years - is still a pretty contentious gap, bearing in mind other major players and the range of countries with the right set up. Even when you factor in the need to build up certain areas of the world, that's not an innocent-looking slight.
I don't think there's much to be done about it unless there is some sort of revelation following the FBI's probe. It's put up or shut up or seek an alternative solution. We and the Americans don't carry enough clout to topple the status quo and our actions have probably entrenched matters.
No, it would take a reformed FIFA. Part of what it needs to do is separate, at least partially, the idea of development from hosting the world cup. This witless policy of identifying an area of the football world that needs developing, but only acting on that once it wins a bid to host the thing, leads to that madness whereby the infrastructure only starts being built in order to have something in place for the event. God knows how many people have perished building a succession of white elephant stadia all over the world just so Blatter can declare he's 'modernised' a region of his kingdom. It's pop-up football culture posing as organic development.
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