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It has been brought to our attention that the immensely brittle wall acting as a flimsy obstacle to those with a leaning to pry into systems is having Berlin Wall moments all over the shop at the moment as clumsy and/or non-existent protocols are blinkered to off.
On the day when swathes of the country congregated around a coalition of the selfish and the stupid, the Premier League chose to hide away very very bad news - the appointment of Richard Masters as the latest attempt at a chief executive.
Burying this disastrous selection process on the biggest election day in modern history was a two-fold strategy - to avoid any public attention on the actual appointment (and the farcical processes that had preceded it) and to make it an impossibility for any media to raise a shout about whether Masters is what the corrupt EPL really needs.
The systemic corruption in the Premier League became robust as soon as Masters became interim CEO. What a weird fluke!
Mister Masters, who took over when Scudamore skedaddled away satchel secure in his grasp, has overseen the onset and implementation of the most systemically corrupt window in Premier League history (Leicester City's 2015/16 Fairy Tale aside) - underground markets know match outcomes prior to kick off and insiders are amassing vast fortunes matchfixing the events via accommodating match officials, agents and bookmakers.
Now either Masters is a) incredibly inept and blinkered to the corruptions perpetrated lower in the pyramid or b) he is a criminalised enabler of systemic matchfixing and corruption in the EPL. If it is the former, he shouldn't be in the job... ... if it is the latter, he should be arrested. There are no other options.
As the corruption is so glaringly systemic and the Premier League don't want anybody to notice the announcement, we assume that Master's mind, if not the mastermind, is, at the very least, aware that things are not as they should be in the integrity department.
There will be much more Dick Masters-baiting in the period ahead...
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"I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years" - Velvet Underground
Both my wife and I have coronavirus. Mine is mild, Ruth's less so. And she has two underlying health conditions.
You wake up in the morning and the first thing that comes to mind is "is my wife still breathing?"
You spend your days undertaking worst case scenario planning - are we each aware of all the finances? what are our funeral requests? does Ruth comprehend how to access Football is Fixed's 15 data/evidence secretion sites dotted around the world? do I have enough details to contact her psychotherapy clients?
And then you make breakfast.
Of course, we are not included in the coronavirus data as we are in lockdown at home and, despite six separate doctors confirming the Covid-19 diagnosis, we are in effect invisible. That is until Ruth reaches the stage where she can only hold her breath for 7 seconds (the current hospitalisation benchmark test). Until then there will be no oxygen or respirator or face-to-face medical support.
The data has been gamed by the UK government throughout this pandemic. The daily deaths total (already delayed) were only released following Johnson's 5pm Media Show to avoid awkward questions, but as soon as Johnson self-isolates for a window of coke and call girls suddenly, as if be magic, the daily death figures are available four hours earlier.
And the attitude of the Premier League, mainstream football media and their mafia paymasters kind of grates too... ... while I sit here wondering if these are the last hours that I am ever going to have with my beautiful sweet wife, the psychopathic greed merchants are only concerned with finishing their decrepit matchfixed tournaments of fake.
I am not the only one. Our general feedback is that football fans are not happy with the malicious behaviours of the English game. Most people aren't missing football because we are facing up to a bubonic plague while the deniers plot profits while calling out "bring out your dead".
Reports saying Premier League season may finish Bhind closed doors before May end due to £700m of rights payments; PEOPLE ARE DYING. THE COUNTRY IS IN CRISIS. FOOTBALL IS NEVER MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR HEALTH OR THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE IT. YOU LOOK GREEDY, SELFISH & STUPID. STOP.
Supportive of this surrealism are the Guardian football journalists who continue in their desperate attempts to get the Premier League back on our screens asap - "feeling sad after burying your loved one? then let's start footie again as a glorious distraction to your grief".
There are television rights to be paid, sponsors to be compensated (Barclays, Budweiser, Coca Cola, EA Sports, Nike etc), fake narratives of success and failure to be completed, transfers to be planned, contracts to be renewed.
There's a quarter of a season of matchfixing and insider trading to go, for fuck's sake.
"Football is the perfect antidote to death" they screech.
But here is an array of their fake news from the last three and a half days.
On Sunday in the paper, Harry Kane had the temerity to demand a June 30th termination to the 2019/20 EPL season come what may - if not finished by this date, it should be cancelled said the England captain. By Monday morning, the article had been rewritten with a new title referring to Kane wanting to leave Spurs and no mention of the season completion date until paragraph 7.
A newspaper?
We've also been presented with Steinberg and Ingle telling us West Ham United will not release stadium for the Anniversary Games in July due to EPL completion; David Conn (who should really drop the second "n" in his name) entirely manipulating the reality of the latest UEFA stance on season termination while refusing to acknowledge the impracticality of everything that would need to be in place for a non-void conclusion; while McInnes claims that the non-league seasons had been voided with "needless and inexplicable haste" - it's a fucking pandemic you halfwit.
How much is John Colquhoun and his underworld companions paying these fake journalists?
Corporate journalism in sport is entirely captured in this country.
Luke Heighton of the Telegraph Investigations Team told me: "UK football journalists prefer (a) not to rock the boat (b) not to bite the hand that feeds them, and (c) like to make damn sure they are all telling the same story... Like royal reporters they prefer to work as a pack and their aim is to promote the product."
And the Guardian keep asking for reader subscriptions.
The scumbag editor Kath Viner writes "Coronavirus: the Guardian's Promise To Our Readers" which is actually just a begging letter to Blairites and the befuddled - pay me my money down at £500K per annum.
The newspaper's football section is a mafia mouthpiece...
... the bookmakers, insider traders and matchfixers should fund the propaganda, not readers.
We need to know whether our hospitals are safe. If we can't even prevent retaliation against healthcare workers for warning of hazards during a pandemic, "whistleblower protection" is a cruel myth. https://t.co/3MhSQLOr1C
Covid-19 is not going away. The UK death rate is still increasing on a logarithmic scale. So the fake state is now entering the twilight zone of reality suppression. Medics in the UK (and USA) are being threatened by their 'superiors' if they publicise the lack of PPE, the absence of respirators, the invisibility of testing, the fake government disclosures that don't tie in with the reality on the ground etc. Whistleblowers in the NHS are treated the same as whistleblowers in football. Threaten them, Undermine them. Doxx them. Spread rumours. Terminate them (or their contracts) as a last resort. It's like a latter day version of "Mr Smith Goes To Washington".
English football has to get real - there is no conclusion to this null and void season. The Premier League, bookmakers, agents and club staff are going to all take a financial hit. But the rest of the country is taking this hit too. What makes Mr Colquhoun, Mr Conn, Mr Masters, BT Sport or Sky any different? The strategies being utilised to attempt to restart the dead season are parallel to all of the mafia strategies underpinning the UK game - marginal gains is the only way to nudge edge on the opposition entities in a mature market. But it is these very marginal gains that reveal the systemic corruptions to analysts, investigators and whistleblowers. For example, we could not have proved the full extent of the extensive corruption behind Livarpool FC without their marginal gains idiocy. The evidence would not have been conclusive. But without psychopathic extremism, Manchester City would have pipped them to the title again (had the season been completed) and each marginal gain is a positive in the income column. Livarpool did not have to trade their matchfixing in the markets for extra revenues. That they did is their downfall.
The ostrich-like refusal of the English game to cancel football matches when every other league on the planet had done so will result in thousands more deaths in the country, and all because they were desperate to make the EPL title (and all those multi-million pound insider trades) safe and to ensure that another US-owned club were standing in 4th place at termination (on the off chance that there would be no legal opposition to the truncated season not being null and void). It is a peculiarity of the EPL that only Livarpool and Varchester United have a veto over referee selection and chief executive appointment. That is not a level playing field. This mafia is losing the fans through greed. I love football, I risk my life to save some semblance of integrity in the sport but, you know what, I'm not missing it because the beautiful game is a rotten mafia-ridden betting product. The only global league still taking place is the Belarusian Premier League. Last season, the top two teams were Dinamo Brest and BATE Borisov. In the first two rounds of season 2020, the four games involving these teams have been insider traded and matchfixed. There are even fixes in Friendlies between Swedish 6th and 7th Division teams. The bookmakers have to fix something. Bookmakers destroy sport and destroy lives. The 'elite' in football like the 'elite' in capitalism expect preferential treatment. In a crisis, it is disaster capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich. And that is addressed in PART TWO of this post which is only available to Patrons, Members and Supporters - How To Continue Receiving FOOTBALL IS FIXED posts
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Our Christmas posts for 2019 focus on Manchester City, marginal gains, matchfixing, mafia and meritocracy.
We provide three disparate yet linked tales of how marginal gains undermine robust holistic advancement ensuring that a criminalised psychopathy triumphs over the public good.
The lack of meritocracy engendered by these mafia infrastructures causes a systemic long-term harm to football.
To celebrate living in the end times, we're publishing a trilogy of ChristmasCarols
1) What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool
2) What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders
3) What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists ___________________________________________________
Marginal Gains But first we need to address marginal gains. Marginal gains first reached the attention of the sporting public when Team Sky cycling team pushed every input to the threshold of illegality and then beyond in order to lever a donkey and other dopers onto victory podia across France and other accommodating countries. This systemic corruption destroyed the legacy of Team Skydespite the victories. No matter how much controlled media told us wonderful fairy tales about Wiggins and Froome, nobody actually believed them - it was a fake reality ensconced in history and is now accepted as such. No glory there. The change of name to TeamINEOS doesn't work either - the perception remains that INEOS continue to be doped up athletes with secreted motors utilising illegal marginal gains. So the deal is that you trade wealth for credibility. You sell out. In late capitalism, every market sector evolves to maturity usually in the form of a cartel, a monopoly or duopoly or another mafia template of some sort. Although these sectoral structures come together to work towards mutually beneficial defence e.g. against onerous regulation, these edifices fragment and fight over turf for the remainder of the time. In mature market sectors there is little likelihood of game-changing inputs - there is a low probability that one of the Big Four accounting firms is going to develop an entirely new business model, for example. So, there's a whole bunch of people out there who perceive that marginal gains are the only way to gain edge in mature markets. (Of course, creative thinking would be a better provider of unique competitive edge but there is minimal creativity in psychopathic structures and individuals.) So, in football, there is a battle going on between the Gestifute grouping of agents and the Stellar/ Key Sports/ Unique/ Base family of operators. Although agents of the world unite when intermediaries are threatened with some limitation on their leeching from the sport, the world for agents is in a state of permanent war. To gain edge, excessive marginal gains are enacted - matchfixing games, third party ownership of players, takeover of media, insider trading, money laundering & tax evasion, coercion of match officials and players, control of institutions, systemic doping and mafia violence. But marginal gains only work up to the threshold of a sweet spot thereafter being psychopathic, revealing and self-harming. Each successful implementation of a marginal gain by one agent grouping against another exposes information on the crimes at play. An agent could be legitimate and earn his 15%. An agent might realise that if one of his clients kicked the ball straight out of play from the kick off, he could sell 'Time of 1st Throw-In' on the spread markets and be quids in. An agent might reckon that if he started representing more goalkeepers, he could 'persuade' them to let in goals, particularly if such goals are scored by other clients in the stable. An agent might start betting on knowledge of this insider corruption. An agent might recognise that you need more match control to take more betting market control and reach agreements with several PGMOB match officials. An agent might come across other entities trying to achieve the same corruptions and seek to develop networks to offset enemies - here a number of agents would work together to fix games. An agent might understand that 5th Estate anti-corruption investigative journalists are on his case and start seeking to disguise his corruption matrices. So, third party ownership of players and setting up satellite agencies allows greater but more opaque control of the field of play. An agent might seek to cement betting market control by linking with numerous doping entities in the underworld. An agent might want to take control of international teams by levering in managers and using kickbacks as a lubrication to get his often underperforming clients selected to play for their country. An agent needs to start paying under-the-table brown envelopes to mafia entities to launder their processes in the black market. Meanwhile, the UK state and its offshore dominions offer crime secretion and tax evasion for monies from the grey and white markets. An agent might feel limited by the volume that he can safely trade on the events that he is matchfixing and so become a part of a larger betting entity, established solely for the purpose of matchfixing and cornering global markets against peripheral patsies. An agent might comprehend that the illicit wealth being created in a not-very-subtle-stylish-nor-discreet manner is becoming public knowledge via leaks, hacks and 5th Estate journalism and sign deals to transform mainstream media output into a suppression of corruption realities and an advertorial for those very entities that are orchestrating this corruption. An agent might develop a cartel of clubs in the upper leagues for enhanced matchfixing, the control of league promotion and relegation and the promotion of clients. An agent will quickly come to find that managerial change at clubs outside the cartel strengthens his power base and provides matchfixing opportunities as well. An agent might seek to make his criminalised template systemic by taking over the institutions of power - starting small with taking over referee selection, then moving larger and seeking to take over the entire Premier League. An agent might create spectacles to demonstrate his mafia control of the corruptions in British football - perhaps a 9-0 away win live on the telly where one of his clients scores a hat-trick. An agent might start seeking enhanced reputation management and a legacy and a burying of the murky past. An agent, as part of burying that past, might seek to 'remove' those who know-too-much. An agent might develop a God Complex. Once this agent started on his path, this conclusion was an inevitability. If he hadn't perpetrated the corruptions, someone else would and power would have shifted in the game. That's the issue here - absolute power requires absolute psychopathy. But marginal gains is a self-harming psychopathy that reveals corruptions to observers. And this is where marginal gains falls down. An agent is featured in all 3 of the Christmas tales below... ________________________________________________________________________ What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool An agent could become involved in creating cartels of teams for result manipulation, insider trading, client promotion and systemic corruption, so he could... We have exclusively detailed the systemic corruption underpinning the improvement in the fortunes of Liverpool FC in other places - see Lizards, Lacertae & Liverpool - this template features the cartelised treatment of other clubs, the control of some PGMOB officials, insider trading and matchfixing...
In season 2019/20, these corruptions have inflated with four more teams liaising directly over match outcomes and several more match officials added to the corruption roster.
The biases against Manchester City and in favour of Liverpool via the mis-application of VAR represents a systemic crime.
We saw in the World Club Cup Final how a legitimate non-fraudulent referee deals with VAR - Abdulrahman Al Jassim is in a different class to the mafia-linked operatives presented to us by the PGMOB.
But the response to corruption in a competitive marketplace has to be holistic, robust and analytically astute and Manchester City have not stepped up to the mark.
The initial business model at Manchester City was simple but enlightening - sovereign wealth + meritocracy = growth + expansion. And for a number of years this worked. Wonderfully.
But the weakness was in the structure. Private fiefdoms became established in the club (particularly within the self-harming entity that is Manchester City Analytics) and bottlenecks of inefficiency developed at key communication points while numerous individuals surfed their performance protecting their mortgages and private school financing while adding little to the overall project.
The evolution of these fiefdoms has entirely undermined the club. Meritocracy has been trumped by mediocrity. Good people are leaving and others (like the Football is Fixed Network) are not willing to get involved - we refuse to work with any entity that leaks and withdraw immediately in such instance (as we did with City).
Leading people in Manchester City Analytics have been sacked recently following our disclosures of deliberate leakage of proprietary analytics to Liverpool (via a mafia-influenced route) and absolute poverty of performance in assessing corruptions being perpetrated against Manchester City's interests. City have lost Sancho and the 2019/20 Premier League title because of Manchester City Analytics - the entire entity needs disbanding and rebuilding more professionally.
And when Manchester City do raise a point with the EPL, it is peripheral to a strong argument. So Guardiola correctly complained about the fixture scheduling over the xmas window but the entire fixture list is game theorised to the benefit of the Liverpool cartel of teams - last Saturday saw four EPL games entirely controlled results-wise and in the global betting markets by the participating teams - that isn't sport, that is a gambling scam.
Manchester City also leaks like a sieve. We know of 8 individuals (including three players) who do not have Manchester City's best interests at heart either deliberately by batting for the other side or via inefficiencies and stupidities undermining the operation. And this has impact.
With one player who repeatedly underplays his professional hand, the knowledge is in South East Asian betting markets pre-match - and, before kick off, we all know if he is going to have a Timeform squiggle next to his name.
Another example - Oxbridge educated Vicky Kloss is Chief Communications Officer at the club. Yet on foreign trips she is the biggest source of cybersecurity weakness in the entire enterprise as she repeatedly flouts internal security rules and standards. A rogue operator could hack into City via targeting Ms Kloss. And she used to work for the police!!! Cybersecure she is not.
But the real issues lie not with shoddy professionalism or poor infrastructure but with the gambling mafia who are destroying football for betting market and other financial gains.
These systemic corruptions have impacts beyond league titles. Player careers are destroyed or enhanced by mafia. Matchfixing is routine. Managers like Guardiola, Wenger, Mourinho, Silva, Emery and any others associated in any way with Gestifute are targeted by pgMOBsters to change our realities.
Guardiola will eventually give up on accepting the corruption in the Premier League. Arteta has gone and Pep's wife and family are spending more time in Catalonia. And there is little point continuing in an obviously corrupted league.
City could have protected themselves against the LiverpoolCorruption Juggernaut... ... but the club's infrastructure and rogue individuals within it prevented any defence.
Blue Moon setting...? __________________________________________________ What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders An agent might secure psychopathic control over in-play refereeing decisions by owning the Head of VAR, so he might... It isn't just that the introduction of VAR into the Premier League has been flawed in the extreme, it is that the modes in which the technology is failing suggest deliberate chaos to the benefit of insider traders on the global betting markets. We have stated elsewhere about the deficiencies in the PGMOB's version of VAR - see VARcical - and the fact that when VAR was introduced in Italy's Serie A match outcomes altered by referee error fell to 5% of games whereas in the Premier League the figure hovers around 25%. One in 4 games... But the systemic nature of the decision-making is the fraudulent issue - with certain match officials (either as referee or in the Stockley Park VAR centre), the decisions are positively correlated with insider trading patterns in the markets. This occurs at statistically significant levels. This corruption utilises marginal gains which is what reveals their criminalised processes - greed = discovery. Stockley Park is also not cybersecure. This is a disaster waiting to happen and stuff has already been posted on the dark web via leakage. When control of the VAR decision-making processes are in-house then exerting further match control via coercion or persuasion of clients to perform appropriately on the field of play presents a very strong hand to an agent. The final corrupt nail in this coffin is the control of the referee selection process, both on a game-by-game basis and also in which officials get promoted to the Select Group on the PGMOB. As one individual agent exerts psychopathic control over all three of these arenas, we have systemic corruption. All of this indicates matchfixing. And yet VAR could be near to 100% perfect. There are several technologies out there to make it so, the most interesting of which is Sportable. If players and the ball have proprietary sensors then it is possible at any time to determine the sequences of ball and player contact, absolutely confirming whether a foul has been committed or not. A smart ball will be able to monitor other rules too. Furthermore, the technology is markedly more accurate than the GPS systems currently in use allowing more accurate player analytics. You could remove the human from the process which, with the PGMOB monstrosity as the other option, is definitely preferable. Sportable is available now. Why would an agent choose to maintain the current corrupted template when a near-perfect alternative exists? We're hoping that Arsene Wenger pushes for this new technology in his new rule as global head of football integrity. Pressure Riley and pressure Swarbrick. Make the mafia squeak.__________________________________________________ What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists An agent might elect to evolve into a mafia man, if he so wishes... The Economist: "In 1944 Raymond Chandler described the ideal character of a fictional private eye as a man comfortable on mean streets, but "who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." He is: "... a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man's insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man."
In recent times, there have been an array of crimes both particular and systemic worldwide targeting anti-corruption journalists and organisations. There is a battle for truth. Power doesn't deal too well with truth. Nino di Matteo (anti-mafia Sicilian magistrate): "We live in a mafia state - a state that, in order to preserve the status quo, has to remove whistleblowers who want justice. We want to know the reason for the silence of the mainstream media - why are they frightened to the degree they become accomplices in (and beneficiaries of) the corruption. We must rebel against this system and this mafia method." When the government of Joseph Muscat, the prime minister of Malta (for now), orchestrated the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia for her anti-corruption disclosures of all facets of corruption on the crime island particularly the money laundering schemes involving Muscat, his chief of mafia staff Keith Schembri and the high-flying psychopath Yorgen Fenech. The mafia state of Malta was so confident in its psychopathic veil that Neville Gafa (from the PM's office) followed Daphne around the day prior to her murder photographing her and all protests for a real inquiry into the death fell on stony mafia ground. But just over two years on and the castle has crumbled. Some of the orchestrators of this horrific murder of a brave anti-corruption activist will soon rot in a Maltese prison. The campaign for justice is won. Daphne Caruana Galizia's last quote before the car bombing: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate." Four months after Caruana Galizia was killed, Jan Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirova were murdered by mafia in Slovakia for Jan's anti-corruption investigations and journalism. We outed Marian Kocner as the prime suspect immediately and, following the resignation of the prime minister, a team of 82 police officers eventually gathered enough evidence to arrest Kocner. When Jamal Khashoggi was brutally tortured and murdered by Saudi representatives in Turkey, the route back from perpetrators-to-intermediaries-to-orchestrator led right to the palace of Prince Salman. Even at this elevated level of global elite, there have been impacts. Salman has been ostracised by numerous global entities and the western investment banking community pulled any interest in the IPO of Saudi Aramco which had to be force fed to dutiful Saudi citizenry to be made worthwhile. There are numerous other examples, the most obvious of which is the illegal imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange by the UK and British rogue states for the crime of exposing the historical war crimes of those very states. The Wikileaks Theory of Change (2006): “Where details are known as to the inner workings of authoritarian regimes, we see conspiratorial interactions among the political elite, not merely for preferment or favour within the regime, but as the primary planning methodology behind maintaining or strengthening authoritarian power. Authoritarian regimes create forces which oppose them by pushing against a people’s will to truth, love and self-realisation. Plans which assist authoritarian rule, once discovered, induce further resistance. Hence such schemes are concealed by successful authoritarian powers until resistance is futile or outweighed by the efficiencies of naked power. This collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population, is enough to define their behaviour as conspiratorial.” But. And it is a very big but... The public weight is very firmly on the side of justice. State Mafia and/or Mafia, whether emanating from Saudi Arabia, Malta, Slovakia, Brighton or Stirling are all in the same boat. Their crimes are visible and the stories are already written. Justice will be served. And. By confronting the haak ging, we renovate. We are leaderless, anonymous and comfortable with violence. "And the ball has never been more in our court. And, talking of court... ... if we burn, you burn with us."
Fifty Shades of Snuff - Ceramic Hobs RIP Simon Morris ________________________________________________________________________
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I'm taking a week off My wife is very poorly with coronavirus & I'm not able to look after her and continue working We both have the virus but mine is milder
Herd immunity followed by inept befuddlement Great Thanks for that
This was the weekend when VAR was supposed to be used professionally and with integrity by the pgMOBsters who officiate our Premier League games.
Mike "Kipper" Riley, the CEO of the pgMOB, told us improvements were about to happen. Neil "Kickback" Swarbrick, the Head of VAR, praised himself and predicted a 9/10 just around the corner.
And instead we got... Fake VAR in favour of Liverpool, denying Palace a point. Fake VAR removing Raheem Sterling's goal for Manchester City. A whole collection of fake nonsense against Arsenal by Attwell of the pgMOB. Mike Dean with his own take on reality in Brighton vs Leicester. Bizarre interpretations of the rules by Hooper & Mason at Bournemouth vs Wolves.
In Italy's Serie A after the introduction of VAR, just one in every 20 matches had the result altered due to refereeing errors.
In the Premier League this season, nearly 30% of games have had referee/VAR-error induced fake outcomes.
When any of our network undertake consultancy work at clubs we always introduce the concept of the Real League Table - adjusted for the inputs of fake officials.
It used to offer competitive advantage but most clubs do it now - Bournemouth, for example, use it to determine the 'real' quality of the opposition as opposed to the version offered by the 'actual' league table. It helps with tactics and strategy.
Let's see the Real League Table after 128 games (a third of the season):
1. Manchester City 13-31 2. Liverpool 13-31 3. Chelsea 13-26 4. Arsenal 13-26 5. Leicester 13-24 6. Burnley 13-21 7. Wolverhampton 13-21 8. Sheffield United 12-18 9. West Ham United 13-18 10. Tottenham 13-17 11. Bournemouth 13-17 12. Brighton 13-15 13. Everton 13-15 14. Newcastle 12-15 15. Aston Villa 12-11 16. Norwich 13-11 17. Manchester United 12-10 18. Southampton 13-10 19. Watford 13-9 20. Crystal Palace 13-7
In the top four European leagues, no leading team had been targeted as heavily as Manchester City... ... and none has been so favoured as Crystal Palace.
The League Table Always Lies. There should be serious questions in the media about Solskjaer and Hodgson rather than the focus on pseudo-journalism elsewhere.
Riley & Swarbrick should be sacked and the police called in. But the Premier League systemic corruption template is on borrowed time now that Arsene Wenger's new role at FIFA gives him oversight of IFAB and the rules of the game.
Kipper Riley is to meet Wenger soon and schadenfreude will be on the menu both for the stolen EPL title in 2015/16 and for all of the matchfixing against Arsenal while Wenger lit up the English game. ________________________________________________________________________
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Strewth! - A Fixed BT Sport Televised Premier League Match Not Under BT Sport Control! When Mourinho took Spurs to that weird grassed area where West Ham United play their home matches, there was considerable early market insider trading against the man in his first game back in the Premier League.
Patsy fools internal to BT laundered previous illicit profits onto the Hammers only to discover that Jose was entirely in control of the event.
Roberto, the West Ham United goalkeeper, is represented by Mariano Aguilar owner of the eponymous M.AG. Mr Aguilar is closely associated with Doyen Sports. Doyen Sports are very closely associated with Gestifute. And Gestifute are Mourinho's pimps - if you wish to trace this chain yourself, this article is a good place to begin Mariano Aguilar & Doyen Sports
Roberto was poorness personified in the match letting in the three goals that killed off the game with his superficial performance deciding the outcome.
After the West Ham v Spurs game, interactions took place to discuss manners in which the systemic matchfixing template that currently underpins the Premier League might be corrupted more extensively and internally for proprietary profits in the period ahead using similar templates.
There's no loyalty between mafia thieves as they function as a fragmented cartel sharing strategies when it suits the systemic corruption overall but fighting over turf the rest of the time.
Anyway.
The discussions were between 'associates' from three gambling agents (two of whom are linked) and we understand that decisions were taken to influence the outcomes of EPL games and Championship games.
But who could those agents be?
Recipe For Corruption Use players to corrupt events. Influence these match outcomes to private agendas. Generally these agendas are related to insider trading on the betting markets as, in the holistic, the amount earned from the corruption must more than offset the deterioration in market value of the player making the 'mistake', but player underperformance is used for managerial regime change too (see below). The insider trading is carefully placed to avoid alerting the markets. We had to work hard to detect it.
Data To assess whether these corruptions came to pass, we need an external neutral source for the data.
So we used the data available at 'Who Scored?' to list the 'Errors leading to Goals' in the Premier League in the last four rounds of matches.
There have been 16 such errors.
Here they are with a brief description and the agent name in brackets (if we think it might be of relevance).
1.Everton v Norwich - Gylfi Sigurdsson (Stellar) mistake leading to second Norwich goal in 2-0 defeat. Who Scored? rated him the worst player on the pitch.
2. Sheffield United v Manchester United - Phil Jones (Key Sports) presents the first goal to the home team before being substituted at half time while Simon Moore (Key Sports) gifts Man Utd their third goal in a heavily matchfixed 3-3 draw. By far the two poorest players on the pitch according to Who Scored?
3. Burnley v Crystal Palace - Nick Pope (Stellar) makes error leading to opening goal with first shot on target on the stroke of half time. Lets both on-target shots in during 0-2 defeat and was the poorest player according to Who Scored?. Ben Mee was also at fault for the second goal.
4. Liverpool v Brighton - A fixed match saw red card for Alisson and an error from his replacement Adrian in a market-orientated Tony Bloom event.
5. Southampton v Watford - Jack Stephens (Stellar) is the culprit for the opening goal of the game although Southampton rebound to win anyway. Stephens was the joint lowest rated Who Scored? player.
6. Norwich City v Arsenal - Christoph Zimmermann (Unique Sports) inexplicably basketballs the ball away in Freddie Ljungberg's opening game as Arsenal manager to provide a penalty equaliser when the Gunners confidence was low. Arsenal grab a 2-2 draw.
7. Manchester United v Tottenham - Paolo Gazzaniga dived all aroundMarcus Rashford's 6th minute strike in 2-1 defeat.
8. Liverpool v Everton - Jordan Pickford (Stellar) took to the media ahead of this game to tell us how he was fighting for Marco Silva to keep his job as Everton manager but, according to our source, he actually was not so focused on this outcome. So when Pickford made errors and let in all 5 shots on target achieving the lowest Who Scored? EPL player rating of the season, it wasn't a surprise. Neither was the sacking of Silva the following day. Job done.
9. Sheffield United v Newcastle - In a tight game Dean Henderson (Stellar) let in the first two shots on target in 2-0 home defeat - he was the Who Scored? lowest rated player in the match.
10. Tottenham v Burnley - Nick Pope (Stellar) pontificated letting in 5 of the first six shots on target in a 0-5 defeat where he was the lowest rated Who Scored? player.
11. Norwich v Sheffield United - A mistake by Mario Vrancic led to a 2-1 defeat for the Canaries. 12. Brighton v Wolves - Another internal Bloom matchfixing event with crazy errors from Davy Propper and Rui Patricio along the way. Rumoured to be a two-for-two event but now we've announced it publicly, the return match could be anything. The job's a good 'un though.
And when you trace further back into the season, the percentage of match-changing errors made by the likes of Tyrone Mings (Key Sports), Pickford, Henderson and the like is far higher percentage-wise than should be the case - it is statistically significant.
And the template extends to the Championship.
If one takes another metric of goalkeeper performance and apply it to the Championship, the same agents stand out.
If one records the number of occasions this season that keepers concede over 60% of the shots on target in Championship games, only 7 players have achieved this feat on four or more occasions:
Randolph of Unique Sports and Middlesborough, Rudd of Stellar and Preston and Long of Key Sports and Hull City are three of them. Two others are ███████████████ and another was previously represented by one of our trio.
So what?
It isn't just that over 50% of the errors have been made from players represented by the triumvirate of Stellar, Key Sports and Unique. It isn't just that these errors were result-changing or insider trader-influenced or both. It doesn't matter that Marco Silva lost his job due to corruptions perpetrated against his interests. It doesn't even matter that Stellar represent all three current England goalkeepers (Pope, Pickford and Henderson). Or that they also represent the 1st choice Scotland goalkeeper David Marshall. Or that Stellar have signed up the 1st and 2nd choice Wales keepers while the two Irish national keepers are represented by Unique Sports and Key Sports. It doesn't matter that this is producing proprietary matchfixing layered on top of the systemic in the Premier League and control of the outcomes of international matches. Nor does it matter that these mistake-prone players are non-meritocratically elevated onto the international stage. It doesn't even matter that BT Sport were patsies on their own event nor that they have lost their EPL CEO placeperson David Skipwith Pemsel for integrity violations on the fake character they created for the man. No. None of this fuckin' matters.
What matters is that this is the end of your sport.
Agents are matchfixing games to money launder previous winnings in order to reinvest such insider traded booty in both legal and illicit player representation (third party ownership) which produces profits that need to be laundered via future matchfixing, which is engendered by coerced players making 'mistakes' in insider traded events etc etc ad finitum - the Death Spiral of Marginally Gained Corruptions!
Unless a Labour government is elected tomorrow, football in this country is dead.
The sport will however remain a spectacle and Gary Lineker will still don underwear on Match of the Day to celebrate the landing of another systemic corruption involving Leicester City and every passing game will spiral up the histrionic scale of 'best ever', 'greatest ever', 'unbelievable' as fortunes are made out of your sport being turned into a casino.
But the match outcome will always be in certain dark pool betting markets pre-match... ... and that is the very definition of matchfixing.
That's the choice when it comes to footie.
Mafia, matchfixing, corrupt media, money laundering and misery... ... or proper regulation of agents and betting markets, the outright banning of insider trading, fan representation on club boards, a regulatory body to undermine corruption in UK football, a functioning anti-doping agency, a fruitful fit-and-proper-person test that filters out psychopathy rather than inviting it in and, most importantly, the chance for the most beautiful sport to rediscover its beauty.
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On the day when swathes of the country congregated around a coalition of the selfish and the stupid, the Premier League chose to hide away very very bad news - the appointment of Richard Masters as the latest attempt at a chief executive.
Burying this disastrous selection process on the biggest election day in modern history was a two-fold strategy - to avoid any public attention on the actual appointment (and the farcical processes that had preceded it) and to make it an impossibility for any media to raise a shout about whether Masters is what the corrupt EPL really needs.
The systemic corruption in the Premier League became robust as soon as Masters became interim CEO. What a weird fluke!
Mister Masters, who took over when Scudamore skedaddled away satchel secure in his grasp, has overseen the onset and implementation of the most systemically corrupt window in Premier League history (Leicester City's 2015/16 Fairy Tale aside) - underground markets know match outcomes prior to kick off and insiders are amassing vast fortunes matchfixing the events via accommodating match officials, agents and bookmakers.
Now either Masters is a) incredibly inept and blinkered to the corruptions perpetrated lower in the pyramid or b) he is a criminalised enabler of systemic matchfixing and corruption in the EPL. If it is the former, he shouldn't be in the job... ... if it is the latter, he should be arrested. There are no other options.
As the corruption is so glaringly systemic and the Premier League don't want anybody to notice the announcement, we assume that Master's mind, if not the mastermind, is, at the very least, aware that things are not as they should be in the integrity department.
There will be much more Dick Masters-baiting in the period ahead...
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Our Christmas posts for 2019 focus on Manchester City, marginal gains, matchfixing, mafia and meritocracy.
We provide three disparate yet linked tales of how marginal gains undermine robust holistic advancement ensuring that a criminalised psychopathy triumphs over the public good.
The lack of meritocracy engendered by these mafia infrastructures causes a systemic long-term harm to football.
To celebrate living in the end times, we're publishing a trilogy of ChristmasCarols
1) What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool
2) What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders
3) What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists ___________________________________________________
Marginal Gains But first we need to address marginal gains. Marginal gains first reached the attention of the sporting public when Team Sky cycling team pushed every input to the threshold of illegality and then beyond in order to lever a donkey and other dopers onto victory podia across France and other accommodating countries. This systemic corruption destroyed the legacy of Team Skydespite the victories. No matter how much controlled media told us wonderful fairy tales about Wiggins and Froome, nobody actually believed them - it was a fake reality ensconced in history and is now accepted as such. No glory there. The change of name to TeamINEOS doesn't work either - the perception remains that INEOS continue to be doped up athletes with secreted motors utilising illegal marginal gains. So the deal is that you trade wealth for credibility. You sell out. In late capitalism, every market sector evolves to maturity usually in the form of a cartel, a monopoly or duopoly or another mafia template of some sort. Although these sectoral structures come together to work towards mutually beneficial defence e.g. against onerous regulation, these edifices fragment and fight over turf for the remainder of the time. In mature market sectors there is little likelihood of game-changing inputs - there is a low probability that one of the Big Four accounting firms is going to develop an entirely new business model, for example. So, there's a whole bunch of people out there who perceive that marginal gains are the only way to gain edge in mature markets. (Of course, creative thinking would be a better provider of unique competitive edge but there is minimal creativity in psychopathic structures and individuals.) So, in football, there is a battle going on between the Gestifute grouping of agents and the Stellar/ Key Sports/ Unique/ Base family of operators. Although agents of the world unite when intermediaries are threatened with some limitation on their leeching from the sport, the world for agents is in a state of permanent war. To gain edge, excessive marginal gains are enacted - matchfixing games, third party ownership of players, takeover of media, insider trading, money laundering & tax evasion, coercion of match officials and players, control of institutions, systemic doping and mafia violence. But marginal gains only work up to the threshold of a sweet spot thereafter being psychopathic, revealing and self-harming. Each successful implementation of a marginal gain by one agent grouping against another exposes information on the crimes at play. An agent could be legitimate and earn his 15%. An agent might realise that if one of his clients kicked the ball straight out of play from the kick off, he could sell 'Time of 1st Throw-In' on the spread markets and be quids in. An agent might reckon that if he started representing more goalkeepers, he could 'persuade' them to let in goals, particularly if such goals are scored by other clients in the stable. An agent might start betting on knowledge of this insider corruption. An agent might recognise that you need more match control to take more betting market control and reach agreements with several PGMOB match officials. An agent might come across other entities trying to achieve the same corruptions and seek to develop networks to offset enemies - here a number of agents would work together to fix games. An agent might understand that 5th Estate anti-corruption investigative journalists are on his case and start seeking to disguise his corruption matrices. So, third party ownership of players and setting up satellite agencies allows greater but more opaque control of the field of play. An agent might seek to cement betting market control by linking with numerous doping entities in the underworld. An agent might want to take control of international teams by levering in managers and using kickbacks as a lubrication to get his often underperforming clients selected to play for their country. An agent needs to start paying under-the-table brown envelopes to mafia entities to launder their processes in the black market. Meanwhile, the UK state and its offshore dominions offer crime secretion and tax evasion for monies from the grey and white markets. An agent might feel limited by the volume that he can safely trade on the events that he is matchfixing and so become a part of a larger betting entity, established solely for the purpose of matchfixing and cornering global markets against peripheral patsies. An agent might comprehend that the illicit wealth being created in a not-very-subtle-stylish-nor-discreet manner is becoming public knowledge via leaks, hacks and 5th Estate journalism and sign deals to transform mainstream media output into a suppression of corruption realities and an advertorial for those very entities that are orchestrating this corruption. An agent might develop a cartel of clubs in the upper leagues for enhanced matchfixing, the control of league promotion and relegation and the promotion of clients. An agent will quickly come to find that managerial change at clubs outside the cartel strengthens his power base and provides matchfixing opportunities as well. An agent might seek to make his criminalised template systemic by taking over the institutions of power - starting small with taking over referee selection, then moving larger and seeking to take over the entire Premier League. An agent might create spectacles to demonstrate his mafia control of the corruptions in British football - perhaps a 9-0 away win live on the telly where one of his clients scores a hat-trick. An agent might start seeking enhanced reputation management and a legacy and a burying of the murky past. An agent, as part of burying that past, might seek to 'remove' those who know-too-much. An agent might develop a God Complex. Once this agent started on his path, this conclusion was an inevitability. If he hadn't perpetrated the corruptions, someone else would and power would have shifted in the game. That's the issue here - absolute power requires absolute psychopathy. But marginal gains is a self-harming psychopathy that reveals corruptions to observers. And this is where marginal gains falls down. An agent is featured in all 3 of the Christmas tales below... ________________________________________________________________________ What's Going So Wrong with Manchester City and What's Going So Right for Liverpool An agent could become involved in creating cartels of teams for result manipulation, insider trading, client promotion and systemic corruption, so he could... We have exclusively detailed the systemic corruption underpinning the improvement in the fortunes of Liverpool FC in other places - see Lizards, Lacertae & Liverpool - this template features the cartelised treatment of other clubs, the control of some PGMOB officials, insider trading and matchfixing...
In season 2019/20, these corruptions have inflated with four more teams liaising directly over match outcomes and several more match officials added to the corruption roster.
The biases against Manchester City and in favour of Liverpool via the mis-application of VAR represents a systemic crime.
We saw in the World Club Cup Final how a legitimate non-fraudulent referee deals with VAR - Abdulrahman Al Jassim is in a different class to the mafia-linked operatives presented to us by the PGMOB.
But the response to corruption in a competitive marketplace has to be holistic, robust and analytically astute and Manchester City have not stepped up to the mark.
The initial business model at Manchester City was simple but enlightening - sovereign wealth + meritocracy = growth + expansion. And for a number of years this worked. Wonderfully.
But the weakness was in the structure. Private fiefdoms became established in the club (particularly within the self-harming entity that is Manchester City Analytics) and bottlenecks of inefficiency developed at key communication points while numerous individuals surfed their performance protecting their mortgages and private school financing while adding little to the overall project.
The evolution of these fiefdoms has entirely undermined the club. Meritocracy has been trumped by mediocrity. Good people are leaving and others (like the Football is Fixed Network) are not willing to get involved - we refuse to work with any entity that leaks and withdraw immediately in such instance (as we did with City).
Leading people in Manchester City Analytics have been sacked recently following our disclosures of deliberate leakage of proprietary analytics to Liverpool (via a mafia-influenced route) and absolute poverty of performance in assessing corruptions being perpetrated against Manchester City's interests. City have lost Sancho and the 2019/20 Premier League title because of Manchester City Analytics - the entire entity needs disbanding and rebuilding more professionally.
And when Manchester City do raise a point with the EPL, it is peripheral to a strong argument. So Guardiola correctly complained about the fixture scheduling over the xmas window but the entire fixture list is game theorised to the benefit of the Liverpool cartel of teams - last Saturday saw four EPL games entirely controlled results-wise and in the global betting markets by the participating teams - that isn't sport, that is a gambling scam.
Manchester City also leaks like a sieve. We know of 8 individuals (including three players) who do not have Manchester City's best interests at heart either deliberately by batting for the other side or via inefficiencies and stupidities undermining the operation. And this has impact.
With one player who repeatedly underplays his professional hand, the knowledge is in South East Asian betting markets pre-match - and, before kick off, we all know if he is going to have a Timeform squiggle next to his name.
Another example - Oxbridge educated Vicky Kloss is Chief Communications Officer at the club. Yet on foreign trips she is the biggest source of cybersecurity weakness in the entire enterprise as she repeatedly flouts internal security rules and standards. A rogue operator could hack into City via targeting Ms Kloss. And she used to work for the police!!! Cybersecure she is not.
But the real issues lie not with shoddy professionalism or poor infrastructure but with the gambling mafia who are destroying football for betting market and other financial gains.
These systemic corruptions have impacts beyond league titles. Player careers are destroyed or enhanced by mafia. Matchfixing is routine. Managers like Guardiola, Wenger, Mourinho, Silva, Emery and any others associated in any way with Gestifute are targeted by pgMOBsters to change our realities.
Guardiola will eventually give up on accepting the corruption in the Premier League. Arteta has gone and Pep's wife and family are spending more time in Catalonia. And there is little point continuing in an obviously corrupted league.
City could have protected themselves against the LiverpoolCorruption Juggernaut... ... but the club's infrastructure and rogue individuals within it prevented any defence.
Blue Moon setting...? __________________________________________________ What's Going So Wrong with VAR and What's Going So Right for Insider Traders An agent might secure psychopathic control over in-play refereeing decisions by owning the Head of VAR, so he might... It isn't just that the introduction of VAR into the Premier League has been flawed in the extreme, it is that the modes in which the technology is failing suggest deliberate chaos to the benefit of insider traders on the global betting markets. We have stated elsewhere about the deficiencies in the PGMOB's version of VAR - see VARcical - and the fact that when VAR was introduced in Italy's Serie A match outcomes altered by referee error fell to 5% of games whereas in the Premier League the figure hovers around 25%. One in 4 games... But the systemic nature of the decision-making is the fraudulent issue - with certain match officials (either as referee or in the Stockley Park VAR centre), the decisions are positively correlated with insider trading patterns in the markets. This occurs at statistically significant levels. This corruption utilises marginal gains which is what reveals their criminalised processes - greed = discovery. Stockley Park is also not cybersecure. This is a disaster waiting to happen and stuff has already been posted on the dark web via leakage. When control of the VAR decision-making processes are in-house then exerting further match control via coercion or persuasion of clients to perform appropriately on the field of play presents a very strong hand to an agent. The final corrupt nail in this coffin is the control of the referee selection process, both on a game-by-game basis and also in which officials get promoted to the Select Group on the PGMOB. As one individual agent exerts psychopathic control over all three of these arenas, we have systemic corruption. All of this indicates matchfixing. And yet VAR could be near to 100% perfect. There are several technologies out there to make it so, the most interesting of which is Sportable. If players and the ball have proprietary sensors then it is possible at any time to determine the sequences of ball and player contact, absolutely confirming whether a foul has been committed or not. A smart ball will be able to monitor other rules too. Furthermore, the technology is markedly more accurate than the GPS systems currently in use allowing more accurate player analytics. You could remove the human from the process which, with the PGMOB monstrosity as the other option, is definitely preferable. Sportable is available now. Why would an agent choose to maintain the current corrupted template when a near-perfect alternative exists? We're hoping that Arsene Wenger pushes for this new technology in his new rule as global head of football integrity. Pressure Riley and pressure Swarbrick. Make the mafia squeak.__________________________________________________ What's Going So Wrong with Mafia and What's Going So Right for 5th Estate Anti-Corruption Journalists An agent might elect to evolve into a mafia man, if he so wishes... The Economist: "In 1944 Raymond Chandler described the ideal character of a fictional private eye as a man comfortable on mean streets, but "who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." He is: "... a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man's insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man."
In recent times, there have been an array of crimes both particular and systemic worldwide targeting anti-corruption journalists and organisations. There is a battle for truth. Power doesn't deal too well with truth. Nino di Matteo (anti-mafia Sicilian magistrate): "We live in a mafia state - a state that, in order to preserve the status quo, has to remove whistleblowers who want justice. We want to know the reason for the silence of the mainstream media - why are they frightened to the degree they become accomplices in (and beneficiaries of) the corruption. We must rebel against this system and this mafia method." When the government of Joseph Muscat, the prime minister of Malta (for now), orchestrated the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia for her anti-corruption disclosures of all facets of corruption on the crime island particularly the money laundering schemes involving Muscat, his chief of mafia staff Keith Schembri and the high-flying psychopath Yorgen Fenech. The mafia state of Malta was so confident in its psychopathic veil that Neville Gafa (from the PM's office) followed Daphne around the day prior to her murder photographing her and all protests for a real inquiry into the death fell on stony mafia ground. But just over two years on and the castle has crumbled. Some of the orchestrators of this horrific murder of a brave anti-corruption activist will soon rot in a Maltese prison. The campaign for justice is won. Daphne Caruana Galizia's last quote before the car bombing: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate." Four months after Caruana Galizia was killed, Jan Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirova were murdered by mafia in Slovakia for Jan's anti-corruption investigations and journalism. We outed Marian Kocner as the prime suspect immediately and, following the resignation of the prime minister, a team of 82 police officers eventually gathered enough evidence to arrest Kocner. When Jamal Khashoggi was brutally tortured and murdered by Saudi representatives in Turkey, the route back from perpetrators-to-intermediaries-to-orchestrator led right to the palace of Prince Salman. Even at this elevated level of global elite, there have been impacts. Salman has been ostracised by numerous global entities and the western investment banking community pulled any interest in the IPO of Saudi Aramco which had to be force fed to dutiful Saudi citizenry to be made worthwhile. There are numerous other examples, the most obvious of which is the illegal imprisonment and torture of Julian Assange by the UK and British rogue states for the crime of exposing the historical war crimes of those very states. The Wikileaks Theory of Change (2006): “Where details are known as to the inner workings of authoritarian regimes, we see conspiratorial interactions among the political elite, not merely for preferment or favour within the regime, but as the primary planning methodology behind maintaining or strengthening authoritarian power. Authoritarian regimes create forces which oppose them by pushing against a people’s will to truth, love and self-realisation. Plans which assist authoritarian rule, once discovered, induce further resistance. Hence such schemes are concealed by successful authoritarian powers until resistance is futile or outweighed by the efficiencies of naked power. This collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population, is enough to define their behaviour as conspiratorial.” But. And it is a very big but... The public weight is very firmly on the side of justice. State Mafia and/or Mafia, whether emanating from Saudi Arabia, Malta, Slovakia, Brighton or Stirling are all in the same boat. Their crimes are visible and the stories are already written. Justice will be served. And. By confronting the haak ging, we renovate. We are leaderless, anonymous and comfortable with violence. "And the ball has never been more in our court. And, talking of court... ... if we burn, you burn with us."
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This week a reserve team player who has played barely 90 minutes for his club this season and who hadn't played for his country for thirteen months achieved wall-to-wall mainstream media coverage over an incident as inconsequential as you might wish to create, so minor that even his own club and international team-mates say that this is commonplace in football and should be kept within the squad circle and not aired publicly.
But aired publicly it was, ad fucking nauseum.
Joe Gomez, the player in question is represented by John Colquhoun's Key Sports Management. Mr Colquhoun has issues with Raheem Sterling from the Aidy Ward era - Sterling faced down Colly Boy's weird business strategies and hasn't been forgiven.
So a no-brainer for Colquhoun...
But.
Why did Gareth Southgate make this minor spat public? Who else influenced that choice? When did Southgate make the decision that Gomez would play a part in the game - prior to the inflated spectacle or because of it? Did any money change hands between any agent and any other representative relating to this peripheral news?
And, no doubt, in a world of pseudo-fake, Joe Gomez will be worth more in the transfer market because of this charade.
Peripheral stories to sell papers and secure profits...
Southgate's squad selection is biasedtiltedowned impacted by a small grouping of agents with 6 of the current England squad being represented by Stellar, for example (including all three goalkeepers - Stellar also represent 1st choice Scottish keeper and 1st and 2nd choice Welsh which might be a problem if either of the owners were professional gamblers, which, of course, they are).
Not so long ago, Colquhoun also represented all three England squad goalkeepers (under McClaren), and that ended badly with Wally-with-the-Brolly-gate and Scott Carson's mistake.
And this ownership of England squad players by a small fragmented cartel of agents is consolidated by hidden representation.
There is an invisible market in football which is never addressed in the mainstream media... ... it is the underground market where agents and intermediaries trade players between their agencies like pieces of meat with multiple and third party ownership being the norm in this infrastructure.
New agencies are established and the key players like Colquhoun are now known to be behind tens of different firms in partial or complete ownership (or other suitable linkage).
The opacity regarding ownership of players needs to be addressed. Mind you the opacity relating to club owners needs sorting too. And referee selection. And doping. And insider trading. And matchfixing.
And the British sports media is nothing if not opaque.
Anyway. That's an aside.
The key question here remains...
... How Many People Own A Slice Of The Southgate Pizza? ________________________________________________________________________
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We Open Betting Markets. Whistleblowing, Corruption Hacking, Fraud Forensics.
The Pyramids of Giza serve as a graphic to help describe a simple 3-D model of corruption in football
The power pyramid on the left represents agents, betting, mafia. The power pyramid on the right represents the ruling bodies, the national associations, major leagues. The power pyramid in the centre represents the territory where these two other pyramids mingle - the upper part of the central pyramid is the white market, the lower half is the grey market and the underground is the underground.
Any organisation, cartel, consortia, committee, institution, and any of their tentacles of operation may undertake quantised interactions with any other entity in either of the side pyramids. These equilibria exist at various layers in the central pyramid depending upon their degree of opacity. Clusters frequently develop but swiftly disperse due to a bounty of proprietary (and often antisocial) agendas.
When we delve into the dire, diabolical, desperate, difficult, dangerous, dodgy world of the underground, one might discover that the same equilibria repeatedly develop.
Betting dominates the left hand power pyramid - that is where all the various interests choose to coincide. Committee poisons the right hand power pyramid. Their combination is disastrous for football.
Because the brand is everything, we are presented with a truly Orwellian world where bodies like UEFA and the EPL undertake 'white corruption' to undermine more serious forms of 'grey/black corruption'. For UEFA, an East European team backed by gun running in Transdniestria or a dodgy penalty to the crappy French team? For EPL, allow a mass insider cornered market on a Premier League game or take actions to challenge that criminality?
Because the brands cannot be tainted, they play with our neohyperrealities.
In the good old days of fixed football in the 90's, every so often a game would come up that was fixed - Juventus v Piacenza, say, after Gianni Agnelli's death. Nowadays, there are very few top flight European league matches that don't have several competing power bases all believing that they have control of the event.
Total Football. Forget that... ... what we are dealing on here, girls and boys, is Total Poker.
A number of insiders around a virtual table with Dark Pool inputs and individual operators controlling their bids. Player A looks comfortable with a midfielder and some injury information, while Player B is hoping that the 4th Official might influence the referee, but Player C owns a team and the opposing goalie and is piling on the chips.
Under Blatter, the global game has deteriorated to this gambling spectacle we witness today, as he and his cronies stuff the booty in their bags and run for cover.
The graphic structure of football betting markets is, in effect, no different to the Cornelius Castoriadis overview of capitalism: "... modern capitalism is essentially a bureaucratized society with a pyramidal, hierarchical structure. In it are not opposed, as in two clearly separate tiers, a small class of exploiters and a large class of producers. The division of society is much more complex and stratified, and no simple criterion is available to sum it up."
To their credit (limited in certain cases, very limited in others), UEFA, Europol, HMRC, Federbet and some European bookmakers and, most critically in the world of the middle pyramid, some Asian market makers are attempting to dislodge rogue consortia from the game. All but the most sociopathic understand that the time has come to rein in the corruption - the general public are in no mood to countenance being ripped off by crowds of addicted shysters. The EPL has finally discovered that the psychopathic template has its limitations. The system is not accepting further destabilisation. But the Championship appears to be the gift to the criminalised outliers... ... Richard Scudamore and his hidden backers are laying down the line: "Here, have your own league to distort and criminalise, but keep away from the EPL as that is our territory to corrupt."
This might not clean the game up in the medium term but at least we will have a classier form of fix!
But the one factor that unites all parties involved in the criminalisation of global football is this... ... no regulation. Trust us to police ourselves.
But self-regulation = no regulation = a free playing field for the various tiers of psychopath to exploit the sport for proprietary profit.
Football is Fixed (the blog) is entering retirement due to: i) the onset of a high level consultancy project, ii) the forthcoming publication of a book detailing the demise of Glasgow Rangers, and iii) the formation of the Football is Fixed hedge fund (FIFAss) in 2014 - details of the latter will be announced in this space on January 1st 2014.
But all of the inappropriate structures and abuses of power by a psychopathic elite that exist within football are also present, and often to a far greater degree, in more important areas of reality.
So, our final post is the statement made by our hero Bradley Manning before he was given a life sentence for speaking the truth to power... ... and to us.
The Army Court of Criminal Appeals refuses to make this statement public so we, via Alexa O'Brien, are making it available on their behalf as it should be assumed that they have nothing to hide.
Were it not for Ms O'Brien, an independent freelance journalist, Manning's voice would have been silenced. Working through the night, she transcribed and released his every word.
Thank you all very much for your interest in the Football is Fixed blog. There is such a discrepancy between footballing neohyperrealities and the public perception thereof that we have been repeatedly able to arbitrage these two versions of reality to the benefit of both parties.
Before too long, Football is Fixed will be unilaterally seen as the prescient source of exposure of the rampant corruption that has completely demolished football at the highest levels - for example, one of the issues with undertaking consultancy work is that there are so few teams that we would be willing to work alongside due to the omnipresent criminalities that define the sport.
In the meantime, all 1200 posts from the last seven years will reappear online sometime soon.
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For more information on the lack of public and press access to United States v. Pfc. Manning, visit the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) "to order the Judge to grant the public and press access to the government's motion papers, the court's own orders, and transcripts of proceedings, none of which have been made public to date." IMPORTANT UPDATE The statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Manning at the providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification under Article 92 with a substituted time frame for the offense, and nine specifications for lesser included offenses under Article 134. Below is a transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O'Brien at the Article 39(a) session of United States v. Pfc. Bradley Manning on February 28, 2013 at Fort Meade, MD, USA and published on March 1, 2013. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. On March 11, 2013, Manning's providence inquiry statement was officially released. See below. On March 12, 2013, leaked audio of Manning reading his statement was published by The Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Judge Lind: Pfc. Manning you may read your statement. Pfc. Bradley Manning: Yes, your Honor. I wrote this statement in the confinement facility. Start now. The following facts are provided in support of the providence inquiry for my court martial, United States v. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning. Personal Facts. I am a twenty-five year old Private First Class in the United States Army currently assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, HHC, US Army Garrison (USAG), Joint Base Myer, Henderson Hall, Fort Meyer, Virginia. My [exodus?] assignment I was assigned to HHC, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY. My primary military occupational specialty or MOS is 35 Foxtrot intelligence analyst. I entered active duty status on 2 October 2007. I enlisted with the hope of obtaining both real world experience and earning benefits under the GI Bill for college opportunities. Facts regarding my position as an intelligence analyst. In order to enlist in the Army I took the Standard Armed Services Aptitude Battery or [ASVAB?]. My score on this battery was high enough for me to qualify for any enlisted MOS position. My recruiter informed me that I should select an MOS that complimented my interests outside the military. In response, I told him that I was interested in geopolitical matters and information technology. He suggested that I consider becoming an intelligence analyst. After researching the intelligence analyst position, I agreed that this would be a good fit for me. In particular, I enjoyed the fact that an analyst could use information derived from a variety of sources to create work products that informed the command of its available choices for determining the best course of action or COA's. Although the MOS required working knowledge of computers, it primarily required me to consider how raw information can be combined with other available intelligence sources in order to create products that assisted the command in its situational awareness or SA. I accessed that my natural interest in geopolitical affairs and my computer skills would make me an excellent intelligence analyst. After enlisting I reported to the Fort Meade military entrance processing station on 1 October 2007. I then traveled to and reported at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri on 2 October 2007 to begin basic combat training or BCT. Once at Fort Leonard Wood I quickly realized that I was neither physically nor mentally prepared for the requirements of basic training. My BCT experience lasted six months instead of the normal ten weeks. Due to medical issues, I was placed on a hold status. A physical examination indicated that I sustained injuries to my right soldier and left foot. Due to those injuries I was unable to continue 'basic'. During medical hold, I was informed that I may be out processed from the Army, however, I resisted being chaptered out because I felt that I could overcome my medical issues and continue to serve. On 2[8 or 20?] January 2008, I returned to basic combat training. This time I was better prepared and I completed training on 2 April 2008. I then reported for the MOS specific Advanced Individual Training or AIT on 7 April 2008. AIT was an enjoyable experience for me. Unlike basic training where I felt different from the other soldiers, I fit in and did well. I preferred the mental challenges of reviewing a large amount of information from various sources and trying to create useful or actionable products. I especially enjoyed the practice of analysis through the use of computer applications and methods that I was familiar with. I graduated from AIT on 16 August 2008 and reported to my first duty station, Fort Drum, NY on 28 August 2008. As an analyst, Significant Activities or SigActs were a frequent source of information for me to use in creating work products. I started working extensively with SigActs early after my arrival at Fort Drum. My computer background allowed me to use the tools of organic to the Distributed Common Ground System-Army or D6-A computers to create polished work products for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team chain of command. The non-commissioned officer in charge, or NCOIC, of the S2 section, then Master Sergeant David P. Adkins recognized my skills and potential and tasked me to work on a tool abandoned by a previously assigned analyst, the incident tracker. The incident tracker was viewed as a back up to the Combined Information Data Network Exchange or CIDNE and as a unit, historical reference to work with. In the months preceding my upcoming deployment, I worked on creating a new version of the incident tracker and used SigActs to populate it. The SigActs I used were from Afghanistan, because at the time our unit was scheduled to deploy to the Logar and Wardak Provinces of Afghanistan. Later my unit was reassigned to deploy to Eastern Baghdad, Iraq. At that point, I removed the Afghanistan SigActs and switched to Iraq SigActs. As and analyst I viewed the SigActs as historical data. I believed this view is shared by other all-source analysts as well. SigActs give a first look impression of a specific or isolated event. This event can be an improvised explosive device attack or IED, small arms fire engagement or SAF, engagement with a hostile force, or any other event a specific unit documented and recorded in real time. In my perspective the information contained within a single SigAct or group of SigActs is not very sensitive. The events encapsulated within most SigActs involve either enemy engagements or causalities. Most of this information is publicly reported by the public affairs office or PAO, embedded media pools, or host nation (HN) media. As I started working with SigActs I felt they were similar to a daily journal or log that a person may keep. They capture what happens on a particular day in time. They are created immediately after the event, and are potentially updated over a period of hours until final version is published on the Combined Information Data Network Exchange. Each unit has its own Standard Operating Procedure or SOP for reporting and recording SigActs. The SOP may differ between reporting in a particular deployment and reporting in garrison. In garrison, a SigAct normally involves personnel issues such as driving under the influence or DUI incidents or an automobile accident involving the death or serious injury of a soldier. The reports starts at the company level and goes up to the battalion, brigade, and even up to the division level. In deployed environment a unit may observe or participate in an event and a platoon leader or platoon sergeant may report the event as a SigAct to the company headquarters and through the radio transmission operator or RTO. The commander or RTO will then forward the report to the battalion battle captain or battle non-commissioned officer or NCO. Once the battalion battle captain or battle NCO receives the report they will either (1) notify the battalion operations officer or S3; (2) conduct an action, such as launching a quick reaction force; or (3) record the event and report-- and further report it up the chain of command to the brigade. The reporting of each event is done by radio or over the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network or SIPRNet, normally by an assigned soldier, usually junior enlisted E-4 and below. Once the SigAct is recorded, the SigAct is further sent up the chain of command. At each level, additional information can either be added or corrected as needed. Normally within 24 to 48 hours, the updating and reporting or a particular SigAct is complete. Eventually all reports and SigActs go through the chain of command from brigade to division and division to corps. At corps level the SigAct is finalized and [missed word]. The CIDNE system contains a database that is used by thousands of Department of Defense-- DoD personnel-- including soldiers, civilians, and contractors support. It was the United States Central Command or CENTCOM reporting tool for operational reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two separate but similar databases were maintained for each theater-- CIDNE-I for Iraq and CIDNE-A for Afghanistan. Each database encompasses over a hundred types of reports and other historical information for access. They contain millions of vetted and finalized directories including operational intelligence reporting. CIDNE was created to collect and analyze battle-space data to provide daily operational and Intelligence Community (IC) reporting relevant to a commander's daily decision making process. The CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A databases contain reporting and analysis fields for multiple disciplines including Human Intelligence or HUMINT reports, Psychological Operations or PSYOP reports, Engagement reports, Counter Improvised Explosive Device or CIED reports, SigAct reports, Targeting reports, Social and Cultural reports, Civil Affairs reports, and Human Terrain reporting. As an intelligence analyst, I had unlimited access to the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A databases and the information contained within them. Although each table within the database is important, I primarily dealt with HUMINT reports, SigAct reports, and Counter IED reports, because these reports were used to create a work product I was required to published as an analyst. In working on an assignment I looked anywhere and everywhere for information. As an all-source analyst, this was something that was expected. The D6-A systems had databases built in, and I utilized them on a daily basis. This simply was-- the search tools available on the D6-A systems on SIPRNet such as Query Tree and the DoD and Intellink search engines. Primarily, I utilized the CIDNE database using the historical and HUMINT reporting to conduct my analysis and provide a back up for my work product. I did statistical analysis on historical data including SigActs to back up analysis that were based on HUMINT reporting and produce charts, graphs, and tables. I also created maps and charts to conduct predictive analysis based on statistical trends. The SigAct reporting provided a reference point for what occurred and provided myself and other analysts with the information to conclude possible outcome. Although SigAct reporting is sensitive at the time of their creation, their sensitivity normally dissipates within 48 to 72 hours as the information is either publicly released or the unit involved is no longer in the area and not in danger. It is my understanding that the SigAct reports remain classified only because they are maintained within CIDNE-- because it is only accessible on SIPRnet. Everything on CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A to include SigAct reporting was treated as classified information. Facts regarding the storage of SigAct Reports. As part of my training at Fort Drum, I was instructed to ensure that I create back ups of my work product. The need to create back ups was particularly acute given the relative instability and reliability of the computer systems we used in the field during deployment. These computer systems included both organic and theater provided equipment (TPE) D6-A machines. The organic D6-A machines we brought with us into the field on our deployment were Dell [missed word] laptops and the TPE D6-A machines were Alienware brand laptops. The [M90?] D6-A laptops were the preferred machine to use as they were slightly faster and had fewer problems with dust and temperature than the theater provided Alienware laptops. I used several D6-A machines during the deployment due to various technical problems with the laptops. With these issues several analysts lost information, but I never lost information due to the multiple backups I created. I attempted to backup as much relevant information as possible. I would save the information so that I or another analyst could quickly access it whenever a machine crashed, SIPRnet connectivity was down, or I forgot where the data was stored. When backing up information I would do one or all of the following things based on my training: [(1)] Physical back up. I tried to keep physical back up copies of information on paper so that the information could be grabbed quickly. Also, it was easier to brief from hard copies of research and HUMINT reports. (2) Local drive back up. I tried to sort out information I deemed relevant and keep complete copies of the information on each of the computers I used in the Temporary Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or T-SCIF, including my primary and secondary D6-A machines. This was stored under my user profile on the desktop. [(3)] Shared drive backup. Each analyst had access to a 'T' drive-- what we called 'T' drive shared across the SIPRnet. It allowed others to access information that was stored on it. S6 operated the 'T' drive. [(4)] Compact disk rewritable or CD-RW back up. For larger datasets I saved the information onto a re-writable disk, labeled the disks, and stored them in the conference room of the T-SCIF. This redundancy permitted us the ability to not worry about information loss. If the system crashed, I could easily pull the information from a my secondary computer, the 'T' drive, or one of the CD-RWs. If another analyst wanted to access my data, but I was unavailable she could find my published products directory on the 'T' drive or on the CD-RWs. I sorted all of my products or research by date, time, and group; and updated the information on each of the storage methods to ensure that the latest information was available to them. During the deployment I had several of the D6-A machines crash on me. Whenever one of the a computer crashed, I usually lost information but the redundancy method ensured my ability to quickly restore old backup data and add my current information to the machine when it was repaired or replaced. I stored the backup CD-RW with larger datasets in the conference room of the T-SCIF or next to my workstation. I marked the CD-RWs based on the classification level and its content. Unclassified CD-RWs were only labeled with the content type and not marked with classification markings. Early on in the deployment, I only saved and stored the SigActs that were within or near our operational environment. Later I thought it would be easier to just to save all of the SigActs onto a CD-RW. The process would not take very long to complete and so I downloaded the SigActs from CIDNE-I onto a CD-RW. After finishing with CIDNE-I, I did the same with CIDNE-A. By retrieving the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs I was able to retrieve the information whenever I needed it, and not rely upon the unreliable and slow SIPRnet connectivity needed to pull. Instead, I could just find the CD-RW and open up a pre-loaded spreadsheet. This process began in late December 2009 and continued through early January 2010. I could quickly export one month of the SigAct data at a time and download in the background as I did other tasks. The process took approximately a week for each table. After downloading the SigAct tables, I periodically updated them, by pulling only the most recent SigActs and simply copying them and pasting them into the database saved on the CD-RW. I never hid the fact that I had downloaded copies of both the SigAct tables from CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A. They were stored on appropriately labeled and marked CD-RWs, stored in the open. I viewed the saved copies of the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables as being for both for my use and the use of anyone within the S2 section during the SIPRnet connectivity issues. In addition to the SigAct tables, I had a large repository of HUMINT reports and Counter IED reports downloaded from CIDNE-I. These contained reports that were relevant to the area in and around our operational environment in Eastern Baghdad and the Diyala Province of Iraq. In order to compress the data to fit onto a CD-RW, I used a compression algorithm called 'bzip2'. The program used to compress the data is called 'WinRAR'. WinRAR is an application that is free, and can be easily downloaded from the internet via the Non-Secure Internet Relay Protocol Network or NIPRnet. I downloaded WinRAR on NIPRnet and transferred it to the D6-A machine user profile desktop using a CD-RW. I did not try to hide the fact that I was downloading WinRAR onto my SIPRnet D6-A machine or computer. With the assistance of the bzip2 compression algorithm using the WinRAR program, I was able to fit all of the SigActs onto a single CD-RW and relevant HUMINT and Counter IED reports onto a separate CD-RW. Facts regarding my knowledge of the WikiLeaks Organization or WLO. I first became vaguely aware of the WLO during my AIT at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, although I did not fully pay attention until the WLO released purported Short Messaging System or SMS messages from 11 September 2001 on 25 November 2009. At that time references to the release and the WLO website showed up in my daily Google news open source search for information related to US foreign policy. The stories were about how WLO published about approximately 500,000 messages. I then reviewed the messages myself and realized that the posted messages were very likely real given the sheer volume and detail of the content. After this, I began conducting research on WLO. I conducted searches on both NIPRnet and SIPRnet on WLO beginning in late November 2009 and early December 2009. At this time I also began to routinely monitor the WLO website. In response to one of my searches in December 2009, I found the United States Army Counter Intelligence Center or USACIC report on the WikiLeaks organization. After reviewing the report, I believed that this report was possibly the one that my AIT referenced in early 2008. I may or may not have saved the report on my D6-A workstation. I know I reviewed the document on other occasions throughout early 2010, and saved it on both my primary and secondary laptops. After reviewing the report, I continued doing research on WLO. However, based upon my open-source collection, I discovered information that contradicted the 2008 USACIC report including information that indicated that similar to other press agencies, WLO seemed to be dedicated to exposing illegal activities and corruption. WLO received numerous award and recognition for its reporting activities. Also, in reviewing the WLO website, I found information regarding US military SOPs for Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and information on the then outdated rules of engagement for ROE in Iraq for cross-border pursuits of former members of Saddam Hussein [missed word] government. After seeing the information available on the WLO website, I continued following it and collecting open source information from it. During this time period, I followed several organizations and groups including wire press agencies such as the Associated Press and Reuters and private intelligence agencies including Strategic Forecasting or Stratfor. This practice was something I was trained to do during AIT, and was something that good analysts were expected to do. During the searches of WLO, I found several pieces of information that I found useful in my work product-- in my work as an analyst, specifically I recall WLO publishing documents related to weapons trafficking between two nations that affected my OP. I integrated this information into one or more of my work products. In addition to visiting the WLO website, I began following WLO using Instant Relay Chat or IRC Client called 'XChat' sometime in early January 2010. IRC is a protocol for real time internet communications by messaging and conferencing, colloquially referred to as chat rooms or chats. The IRC chat rooms are designed for group communication discussion forums. Each IRC chat room is called a channel-- similar to a television where you can tune in or follow a channel-- so long as it is open and does not require an invite. Once you joining a specific IRC conversation, other users in the conversation can see that you have joined the room. On the Internet there are millions of different IRC channels across several services. Channel topics span a range of topics covering all kinds of interests and hobbies. The primary reason for following WLO on IRC was curiosity-- particularly in regards to how and why they obtained the SMS messages referenced above. I believed that collecting information on the WLO would assist me in this goal. Initially I simply observed the IRC conversations. I wanted to know how the organization was structured, and how they obtained their data. The conversations I viewed were usually technical in nature but sometimes switched to a lively debate on issues the particular individual may have felt strongly about. Over a period of time I became more involved in these discussions especially when conversations turned to geopolitical events and information technology topics, such as networking and encryption methods. Based on these observations, I would describe the WL organization as almost academic in nature. In addition to the WLO conversations, I participated in numerous other IRC channels across at least three different networks. The other IRC channels I participated in normally dealt with technical topics including with Linux and Berkley Secure Distribution BSD operating systems or OS's, networking, encryption algorithms and techniques, and other more political topics, such as politics and [missed word]. I normally engaged in multiple IRC conversations simultaneously-- mostly publicly, but often privately. The XChat client enabled me to manage these multiple conversations across different channels and servers. The screen for XChat was often busy, but its screens enabled me to see when something was interesting. I would then select the conversation and either observe or participate. I really enjoyed the IRC conversations pertaining to and involving the WLO, however, at some point in late February or early March of 2010, the WLO IRC channel was no longer accessible. Instead, regular participants of this channel switched to using the Jabber server. Jabber is another internet communication [missed word] similar but more sophisticated than IRC. The IRC and Jabber conversations, allowed me to feel connected to others even when alone. They helped me pass the time and keep motivated throughout the deployment. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the SigActs. As indicated above I created copies of the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables as part of the process of backing up information. At the time I did so, I did not intend to use this information for any purpose other than for back up. However, I later decided to release this information publicly. At that time, I believe and still believe that these tables are two of the most significant documents of our time. On 8 January 2010, I collected the CD-RW I stored in the conference room of the T-SCIF and placed it into the cargo pocket of my ACU or Army Combat Uniform. At the end of my shift, I took the CD-RW out of the T-SCIF and brought it to my Containerized Housing Unit of CHU. I copied the data onto my personal laptop. Later at the beginning of my shift, I returned the CD-RW back to the conference room of the T-SCIF. At the time I saved the SigActs to my laptop, I planned to take them with me on mid-tour leave and decide what to do with them. At some point prior to my mid-tour leave, I transferred the information from my computer to a Secure Digital memory card from for my digital camera. The SD card for the camera also worked on my computer and allowed me to store the SigAct tables in a secure manner for transport. I began mid-tour leave on 23 January 2010, flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Reagan National Airport in Virginia. I arrived at the home of my aunt, Debra M. Van Alstyne, in Potomac, Maryland and quickly got into contact with my then boyfriend, Tyler R. Watkins. Tyler, then a student at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and I made plans for me to visit him [the] Boston, Massachusetts area. I was excited to see Tyler and planned on talking to Tyler about where our relationship was going and about my time in Iraq. However, when I arrived in the Boston area Tyler and I seemed to become distant. He did not seem very excited about my return from Iraq. I tried talking to him about our relationship but he refused to make any plans. I also tried to raising the topic of releasing the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables to the public. I asked Tyler hypothetical questions about what he would do if he had documents that he thought the public needed access to. Tyler really didn't really have a specific answer for me. He tried to answer the questions and be supportive, but seemed confused by the question in this and its context. I then tried to be more specific, but he asked too many questions. Rather than try to explain my dilemma, I decided to just to drop the conversation. After a few days in Waltham, I began to feel really bad feeling that I was over staying my welcome, and I returned to Maryland. I spent the remainder of my time on leave in the Washington, DC area. During this time a blizzard bombarded the mid-atlantic, and I spent a significant period of time essentially stuck in my aunt's house in Maryland. I began to think about what I knew and the information I still had in my possession. For me, the SigActs represented the on the ground reality of both the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. I felt that we were risking so much for people that seemed unwilling to cooperate with us, leading to frustration and anger on both sides. I began to become depressed with the situation that we found ourselves increasingly mired in year after year. The SigActs documented this in great detail and provide a context of what we were seeing on the ground. In attempting to conduct counter-terrorism or CT and counter-insurgency COIN operations we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and not being suspicious of and avoiding cooperation with our Host Nation partners, and ignoring the second and third order effects of accomplishing short-term goals and missions. I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as well as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan. I also believed the detailed analysis of the data over a long period of time by different sectors of society might cause society to reevaluate the need or even the desire to even to engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the effected environment everyday. At my aunt's house I debated what I should do with the SigActs-- in particular whether I should hold on to them-- or expose them through a press agency. At this point I decided that it made sense to try to expose the SigAct tables to an American newspaper. I first called my local newspaper, The Washington Post, and spoke with a woman saying that she was a reporter. I asked her if The Washington Post would be interested in receiving information that would have enormous value to the American public. Although we spoke for about five minutes concerning the general nature of what I possessed, I do not believe she took me seriously. She informed me that The Washington Post would possibly be interested, but that such decisions were made only after seeing the information I was referring to and after consideration by the senior editors. I then decided to contact the largest and most popular newspaper, The New York Times. I called the public editor number on The New York Times website. The phone rang and was answered by a machine. I went through the menu to the section for news tips. I was routed to an answering machine. I left a message stating I had access to information about Iraq and Afghanistan that I believed was very important. However, despite leaving my Skype phone number and personal email address, I never received a reply from The New York Times. I also briefly considered dropping into the office for the Political Commentary blog, Politico, however the weather conditions during my leave hampered my efforts to travel. After these failed efforts I had ultimately decided to submit the materials to the WLO. I was not sure if the WLO would actually publish these the SigAct tables [missed a few words]. I was also concerned that they might not be noticed by the American media. However, based upon what I read about the WLO through my research described above, this seemed to be the best medium for publishing this information to the world within my reach. At my aunt's house I joined in on an IRC conversation and stated I had information that needed to be shared with the world. I wrote that the information would help document the true cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the individuals in the IRC asked me to describe the information. However, before I could describe the information another individual pointed me to the link for the WLO website's online submission system. After ending my IRC connection, I considered my options one more time. Ultimately, I felt that the right thing to do was to release the SigActs. On 3 February 2010, I visited the WLO website on my computer and clicked on the submit documents link. Next I found the submit your information online link and elected to submit the SigActs via the onion router or TOR anonymizing network by a special link. TOR is a system intended to provide anonymity online. The software routes internet traffic through a network of servers and other TOR clients in order to conceal the user's location and identity. I was familiar with TOR and had it previously installed on a computer to anonymously monitor the social media websites of militia groups operating within central Iraq. I followed the prompts and attached the compressed data files of CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs. I attached a text file I drafted while preparing to provide the documents to The Washington Post. It provided rough guidelines saying 'It's already been sanitized of any source identifying information. You might need to sit on this information-- perhaps 90 to 100 days to figure out how best to release such a large amount of data and to protect its source. This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day.' After sending this, I left the SD card in a camera case at my aunt's house in the event I needed it again in the future. I returned from mid-tour leave on 11 February 2010. Although the information had not yet been publicly published by the WLO, I felt this sense of relief by them having it. I felt I had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what I had seen and read about and knew were happening in both Iraq and Afghanistan everyday. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of 10 Reykjavik 13. I first became aware of the diplomatic cables during my training period in AIT. I later learned about the Department of State or DoS Net-centric Diplomacy NCD portal from the 2/10 Brigade Combat Team S2, Captain Steven Lim. Captain Lim sent a section wide email to the other analysts and officers in late December 2009 containing the SIPRnet link to the portal along with the instructions to look at the cables contained within them and to incorporate them into our work product. Shortly after this I also noticed the diplomatic cables were being reported to in products from the corps level US Forces Iraq or USF-I. Based upon Captain Lim's direction to become familiar with its contents, I read virtually every published cable concerning Iraq. I also began scanning the database and reading other random cables that piqued my curiosity. It was around this time-- in early to mid-January of 2010, that I began searching the database for information on Iceland. I became interested in Iceland due to the IRC conversations I viewed in the WLO channel discussing an issue called Icesave. At this time I was not very familiar with the topic, but it seemed to be a big issue for those participating in the conversation. This is when I decided to investigate and conduct a few searches on Iceland and find out more. At the time, I did not find anything discussing the Icesave issue either directly or indirectly. I then conducted an open source search for Icesave. I then learned that Iceland was involved in a dispute with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands concerning the financial collapse of one or more of Iceland's banks. According to open source reporting much of the public controversy involved the United Kingdom's use of anti-terrorism legislation against Iceland in order to freeze Icelandic access assets for payment of the guarantees for UK depositors that lost money. Shortly after returning from mid-tour leave, I returned to the Net Centric Diplomacy portal to search for information on Iceland and Icesave as the topic had not abated on the WLO IRC channel. To my surprise, on 14 February 2010, I found the cable 10 Reykjavik 13, which referenced the Icesave issue directly. The cable published on 13 January 2010 was just over two pages in length. I read the cable and quickly concluded that Iceland was essentially being bullied diplomatically by two larger European powers. It appeared to me that Iceland was out viable options and was coming to the US for assistance. Despite the quiet request for assistance, it did not appear that we were going to do anything. From my perspective it appeared that we were not getting involved due to the lack of long term geopolitical benefit to do so. After digesting the contents of 10 Reykjavik 13 I debated on whether this was something I should send to the WLO. At this point the WLO had not published or acknowledged receipt of the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables. Despite not knowing that if the SigActs were a priority for the WLO, I decided the cable was something that would be important and I felt that I would I might be able to right a wrong by having them publish this document. I burned the information onto a CD-RW on 15 February 2010, took it to my CHU, and saved it onto my personal laptop. I navigated to the WLO website via a TOR connection like before and uploaded the document via the secure form. Amazingly, when WLO published 10 Reykjavik 13 within hours, proving that the form worked and that they must have received the SigAct tables. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team or AW team video. During the mid-February 2010 time frame the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division targeting analyst , then Specialist Jihrleah W. Showman and others discussed a video that Ms. Showman had found on the 'T' drive. The video depicted several individuals being engaged by an aerial weapons team. At first I did not consider the video very special, as I have viewed countless other war porn type videos depicting combat. However, the recording of audio comments by the aerial weapons team crew and the second engagement in the video of an unarmed bongo truck troubled me. As Showman and a few other analysts and officers in the T-SCIF commented on the video and debated whether the crew violated the rules of engagement or ROE in the second engagement, I shied away from this debate, instead conducting some research on the event. I wanted to learn what happened and whether there was any background to the events of the day that the event occurred, 12 July 2007. Using Google I searched for the event by its date by its and general location. I found several news accounts involving two Reuters employees who were killed during the aerial weapon team engagement. Another story explained that Reuters had requested for a copy of the video under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA. Reuters wanted to view the video in order to be able to understand what had happened and to improve their safety practices in combat zones. A spokesperson for Reuters was quoted saying that the video might help avoid the reoccurrence of the tragedy and believed there was a compelling need for the immediate release of the video. Despite the submission of the FOIA request, the news account explained that CENTCOM replied to Reuters stating that they could not give a time frame for considering a FOIA request and that the video might no longer exist. Another story I found written a year later said that even though Reuters was still pursuing their request, they still did not receive a formal response or written determination in accordance with FOIA. The fact neither CENTCOM or Multi National Forces Iraq or MNF-I would not voluntarily release the video troubled me further. It was clear to me that the event happened because the aerial weapons team mistakenly identified Reuters employees as a potential threat and that the people in the bongo truck were merely attempting to assist the wounded. The people in the van were not a threat but merely 'good samaritans'. The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote "dead bastards" unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers. At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the location, one of the aerial weapons team crew members verbally asks for the wounded person to pick up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage. For me, this seems similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass. While saddened by the aerial weapons team crew's lack of concern about human life, I was disturbed by the response of the discovery of injured children at the scene. In the video, you can see that the bongo truck driving up to assist the wounded individual. In response the aerial weapons team crew-- as soon as the individuals are a threat, they repeatedly request for authorization to fire on the bongo truck and once granted they engage the vehicle at least six times. Shortly after the second engagement, a mechanized infantry unit arrives at the scene. Within minutes, the aerial weapons team crew learns that children were in the van and despite the injuries the crew exhibits no remorse. Instead, they downplay the significance of their actions, saying quote "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kid's into a battle" unquote. The aerial weapons team crew members sound like they lack sympathy for the children or the parents. Later in a particularly disturbing manner, the aerial weapons team crew verbalizes enjoyment at the sight of one of the ground vehicles driving over a body-- or one of the bodies. As I continued my research, I found an article discussing the book, The Good Soldiers, written by Washington Post writer David Finkel. In Mr. Finkel book, he writes about the aerial weapons team attack. As, I read an online excerpt in Google Books, I followed Mr. Finkel's account of the event belonging to the video. I quickly realize that Mr. Finkel was quoting, I feel in verbatim, the audio communications of the aerial weapons team crew. It is clear to me that Mr. Finkel obtained access and a copy of the video during his tenure as an embedded journalist. I was aghast at Mr. Finkel's portrayal of the incident. Reading his account, one would believe the engagement was somehow justified as 'payback' for an earlier attack that lead to the death of a soldier. Mr. Finkel ends his account of the engagement by discussing how a soldier finds an individual still alive from the attack. He writes that the soldier finds him and sees him gesture with his two forefingers together, a common method in the Middle East to communicate that they are friendly. However, instead of assisting him, the soldier makes an obscene gesture extending his middle finger. The individual apparently dies shortly thereafter. Reading this, I can only think of how this person was simply trying to help others, and then he quickly finds he needs help as well. To make matter worse, in the last moments of his life, he continues to express his friendly gesture-- his friendly intent-- only to find himself receiving this well known gesture of unfriendliness. For me it's all a big mess, and I am left wondering what these things mean, and how it all fits together , and it burdens me emotionally. I saved a copy of the video on my workstation. I searched for and found the rules of engagement, the rules of engagement annexes, and a flow chart from the 2007 time period-- as well as an unclassified Rules of Engagement smart card from 2006. On 15 February 2010 I burned these documents onto a CD-RW, the same time I burned the 10 Reykjavik 13 cable onto a CD-RW. At the time, I placed the video and rules for of engagement information onto my personal laptop in my CHU. I planned to keep this information there until I redeployed in Summer of 2010. I planned on providing this to the Reuters office in London to assist them in preventing events such as this in the future. However, after the WLO published 10 Reykjavik 13 I altered my plans. I decided to provide the video and the rules of engagement to them so that Reuters would have this information before I re-deployed from Iraq. On about 21 February 2010, I as described above, I used the WLO submission form and uploaded the documents. The WLO released the video on 5 April 2010. After the release, I was concern about the impact of the video and how it would be received by the general public. I hoped that the public would be as alarmed as me about the conduct of the aerial weapons team crew members. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare. After the release I was encouraged by the response in the media and general public, who observed the aerial weapons team video. As I hoped, others were just as troubled-- if not more troubled that me by what they saw. At this time, I began seeing reports claiming that the Department of Defense and CENTCOM could not confirm the authenticity of the video. Additionally, one of my supervisors, Captain Casey Fulton, stated her belief that the video was not authentic. In her response, I decided to ensure that the authenticity of the video would not be questioned in the future. On 25 February April 2010, I emailed Captain Fulton a link to the video that was on our 'T' drive, and a copy of the video published by WLO that was collected by the Open Source Center, so she could compare them herself. Around this time frame, I burned a second CD-RW containing the aerial weapons team video. In order to made it appear authentic, I placed a classification sticker and wrote Reuters FOIA REQ on its face. I placed the CD-RW in one of my personal CD cases containing a set of 'Starting Out in Arabic' CD's. I planned on mailing out the CD-RW to Reuters after our I re-deployed , so they could have a copy that was unquestionably authentic. Almost immediately after submitting the aerial weapons team video and the rules of engagement documents I notified the individuals in the WLO IRC to expect an important submission. I received a response from an individual going by the handle of 'ox''office'-- at first our conversations were general in nature, but over time as our conversations progressed, I accessed assessed this individual to be an important part of the WLO. Due to the strict adherence of anonymity by the WLO, we never exchanged identifying information. However, I believe the individual was likely Mr. Julian Assange [he pronounced it with three syllables], Mr. Daniel Schmidt, or a proxy representative of Mr. Assange and Schmidt. As the communications transferred from IRC to the Jabber client, I gave 'ox''office' and later 'pressassociation' the name of Nathaniel Frank in my address book, after the author of a book I read in 2009. After a period of time, I developed what I felt was a friendly relationship with Nathaniel. Our mutual interest in information technology and politics made our conversations enjoyable. We engaged in conversation often. Sometimes as long as an hour or more. I often looked forward to my conversations with Nathaniel after work. The anonymity that was provided by TOR and the Jabber client and the WLO's policy allowed me to feel I could just be myself, free of the concerns of social labeling and perceptions that are often placed upon me in real life. In real life, I lacked a closed friendship with the people I worked with in my section, the S2 section. In my section, the S2 section and supported battalions and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team as a whole. For instance, I lacked close ties with my roommate to his discomfort regarding my perceived sexual orientation. Over the next few months, I stayed in frequent contact with Nathaniel. We conversed on nearly a daily basis and I felt that we were developing a friendship. Conversations covered many topics and I enjoyed the ability to talk about pretty much everything anything, and not just the publications that the WLO was working on. In retrospect I realize that that these dynamics were artificial and were valued more by myself than Nathaniel. For me these conversations represented an opportunity to escape from the immense pressures and anxiety that I experienced and built up through out the deployment. It seems that as I tried harder to fit in at work, the more I seemed to alienate my peers and lose the respect, trust, and support I needed. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of documents related to the detainments by the Iraqi Federal Police or FP, and the Detainee Assessment Briefs, and the USACIC United States Army Counter Intelligence Center report. On 27 February 2010, a report was received from a subordinate battalion. The report described an event in which the Federal Police or FP detained 15 individuals for printing anti-Iraqi literature. On 2 March 2010, I received instructions from an S3 section officer in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Tactical Operation Center or TOC to investigate the matter, and figure out who these quote 'bad guys' unquote were and how significant this event was for the Federal Police. Over the course of my research I found that none of the individuals had previous ties to anti-Iraqi actions or suspected terrorist militia groups. A few hours later, I received several photos from the scene-- from the subordinate battalion. They were accidentally sent to an officer on a different team on than the S2 section and she forwarded them to me. These photos included picture of the individuals, pallets of unprinted paper and seized copies of the final printed material or the printed document; and a high resolution photo of the printed material itself. I printed up one [missed word] copy of a high resolution photo-- I laminated it for ease of use and transfer. I then walked to the TOC and delivered the laminated copy to our category two interpreter. She reviewed the information and about a half an hour later delivered a rough written transcript in English to the S2 section. I read the transcript and followed up with her, asking her for her take on the content. She said it was easy for her to transcribe verbatim, since I blew up the photograph and laminated it. She said the general nature of the document was benign. The documentation, as I had sensed as well, was merely a scholarly critique of the then current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. It detailed corruption within the cabinet of al-Maliki's government and the financial impact of his corruption on the Iraqi people. After discovering this discrepancy between the Federal Police's report and the interpreter's transcript, I forwarded this discovery to the top OIC and the battle NCOIC. The top OIC and the overhearing battle captain informed me that they didn't need or want to know this information anymore. They told me to quote "drop it" unquote and to just assist them and the Federal Police in finding out, where more of these print shops creating quote "anti-Iraqi literature" unquote. I couldn't believe what I heard and I returned to the T-SCIF and complained to the other analysts and my section NCOIC about what happened. Some were sympathetic, but no one wanted to do anything about it. I am the type of person who likes to know how things work. And, as an analyst, this means I always want to figure out the truth. Unlike other analysts in my section or other sections within the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, I was not satisfied with just scratching the surface and producing canned or cookie cutter assessments. I wanted to know why something was the way it was, and what we could to correct or mitigate a situation. I knew that if I continued to assist the Baghdad Federal Police in identifying the political opponents of Prime Minister al-Maliki, those people would be arrested and in the custody of the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police and very likely tortured and not seen again for a very long time-- if ever. Instead of assisting the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police, I decided to take the information and expose it to the WLO, in the hope that before the upcoming 7 March 2010 election, they could generate some immediate press on the issue and prevent this unit of the Federal Police from continuing to crack down on political opponents of al-Maliki. On 4 March 2010, I burned the report, the photos, the high resolution copy of the pamphlet, and the interpreter's hand written transcript onto a CD-RW. I took the CD-RW to my CHU and copied the data onto my personal computer. Unlike the times before, instead of uploading the information through the WLO website's submission form. I made a Secure File Transfer Protocol or SFTP connection to a file drop box operated by the WLO. The drop box contained a folder that allowed me to upload directly into it. Saving files into this directory, allowed anyone with log in access to the server to view and download them. After uploading these files to the WLO, on 5 March 2010, I notified Nathaniel over Jabber. Although sympathetic, he said that the WLO needed more information to confirm the event in order for it to be published or to gain interest in the international media. I attempted to provide the specifics, but to my disappointment, the WLO website chose not to publish this information. At the same time, I began sifting through information from the US Southern Command or SOUTHCOM and Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Cuba or JTF-GTMO. The thought occurred to me-- although unlikely, that I wouldn't be surprised if the individuals detainees detained by the Federal Police might be turned over back into US custody-- and ending up in the custody of Joint Task Force Guantanamo. As I digested through the information on Joint Task Force Guantanamo, I quickly found the Detainee Assessment Briefs or DABs. I previously came across the documents before in 2009 but did not think much about them. However, this time I was more curious in during this search and I found them again. The DABs were written in standard DoD memorandum format and addressed the commander US SOUTHCOM. Each memorandum gave basic and background information about a specific detainee held at some point by Joint Task Force Guantanamo. I have always been interested on the issue of the moral efficacy of our actions surrounding Joint Task Force Guantanamo. On the one hand, I have always understood the need to detain and interrogate individuals who might wish to harm the United States and our allies, however, I felt that's what we were trying to do at Joint Task Force Guantanamo. However, the more I became educated on the topic, it seemed that we found ourselves holding an increasing number of individuals indefinitely that we believed or knew to be innocent, low level foot soldiers that did not have useful intelligence and would be released if they were still held in theater. I also recall that in early 2009 the, then newly elected president, Barack Obama, stated that he would close Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and that the facility compromised our standing over all, and diminished our quote 'moral authority' unquote. After familiarizing myself with the Detainee Assessment Briefs, I agree. Reading through the Detainee Assessment Briefs, I noticed that they were not analytical products, instead they contained summaries of tear line versions of interim intelligence reports that were old or unclassified. None of the DABs contained the names of sources or quotes from tactical interrogation reports or TIR's. Since the DABs were being sent to the US SOUTHCOM commander, I assessed that they were intended to provide a very general background information on each of the detainees and not a detailed assessment. In addition to the manner in which the DAB's were written, I recognized that they were at least several years old, and discussed detainees that were already released from Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Based on this, I determined that the DABs were not very important from either an intelligence or a national security standpoint. On 7 March 2010, during my Jabber conversation with Nathaniel, I asked him if he thought the DABs were of any use to anyone. Nathaniel indicated, although he did not believe that they were of political significance, he did believe that they could be used to merge into the general historical account of what occurred at Joint Task Force Guantanamo. He also thought that the DAB's might be helpful to the legal counsel of those currently and previously held at JTF-GTMO. After this discussion, I decided to download the data DABs. I used an application called Wget to download the DABs. I downloaded Wget off of the NIPRnet laptop in the T-SCIF, like other programs. I saved that onto a CD-RW, and placed the executable in my 'My Documents' directory on of my user profile, on the D6-A SIPRnet workstation. On 7 March 2010, I took the list of links for the Detainee Assessment Briefs, and Wget downloaded them sequentially. I burned the data onto a CD-RW, and took it into my CHU, and copied them to my personal computer. On 8 March 2010, I combined the Detainee Assessment Briefs with the United States Army Counterintelligence Center report on the WLO, into a compressed [missed word] IP or zip file. Zip files contain multiple files which are compressed to reduce their size. After creating the zip file, I uploaded the file onto their cloud drop box via Secure File Transfer Protocol. Once these were uploaded, I notified Nathaniel that the information was in the 'x' directory, which had been designated for my own use. Earlier that day, I downloaded the USACIC report on WLO. As discussed about above, I previously reviewed the report on numerous occasions and although I saved the document onto the work station before, I could not locate it. After I found the document again, I downloaded it to my work station, and saved it onto the same CD-RW as the Detainee Assessment Briefs described above. Although my access included a great deal of information, I decided I had nothing else to send to WLO after sending the Detainee Assessment Briefs and the USACIC report. Up to this point I had sent them the following: the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs tables; the Reykjavik 13 Department of State Cable; the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team video and the 2006-2007 rules of engagement documents; the SigAct report and supporting documents concerning the 15 individuals detained by the Baghdad Federal Police; the USSOUTHCOM and Joint Task Force Guantanamo Detainee Assessment Briefs; a USACIC report on the WikiLeaks organization website. Over the next few weeks I did not send any additional information to the WLO. I continued to converse with Nathaniel over the Jabber client and in the WLO IRC channel. Although I stopped sending documents to WLO, no one associated with the WLO pressured me into giving more information. The decisions that I made to send documents and information to the WLO and the website were my own decisions, and I take full responsibility for my actions. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of other Government documents. One 22 March 2010, I downloaded two documents. I found these documents over the course of my normal duties as an analyst. Based on my training and the guidance of my superiors, I look at as much information as possible. Doing so provided me with the ability to make connections that others might miss. On several occasions during the month of March, I accessed information from a government entity. I read several documents from a section within this government entity. The content of two of these documents upset me greatly. I had difficulty believing what this section was doing. On 22 March 2010, I downloaded the two documents that I found troubling. I compressed them into a zip file named blah.zip and burned them onto a CD-RW. I took the CD-RW to my CHU and saved the file to my personal computer. I uploaded the information to the WLO website using the designated prompts. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the Net Centric Diplomacy Department of State cables. In late March of 2010, I received a warning over Jabber from Nathaniel, that the WLO website would be publishing the aerial weapons team video. He indicated that the WLO would be very busy and the frequency and intensity of our Jabber conversations decrease significantly. During this time, I had nothing but work to distract me. I read more of the diplomatic cables published on the Department of State Net Centric Diplomacy server. With my insatiable curiosity and interest in geopolitics I became fascinated with them. I read not only the cables on Iraq, but also about countries and events that I found interesting. The more I read, the more I was fascinated with by the way that we dealt with other nations and organizations. I also began to think that the documented backdoor deals and seemingly criminal activity that didn't seem characteristic of the de facto leader of the free world. Up to this point, during the deployment, I had issues I struggled with and difficulty at work. Of the documents release, the cables were the only one I was not absolutely certain couldn't harm the United States. I conducted research on the cables published on the Net Centric Diplomacy, as well as how Department of State cables worked in general. In particular, I wanted to know how each cable was published on SIRPnet via the Net Centric Diplomacy. As part of my open source research, I found a document published by the Department of State on its official website. The document provided guidance on caption markings for individual cables and handling instructions for their distribution. I quickly learned the caption markings clearly detailed the sensitivity level of the Department of State cables. For example, NODIS or No Distribution was used for messages at the highest sensitivity and were only distributed to the authorized recipients. The SIPDIS or SIPRnet distribution caption was applied only to recording of other information messages that were deemed appropriate for a release for a wide number of individuals. According to the Department of State guidance for a cable to have the SIPDIS [missed word] caption, it could not include other captions that were intended to limit distribution. The SIPDIS caption was only for information that could only be shared with anyone with access to SIPRnet. I was aware that thousands of military personnel, DoD, Department of State, and other civilian agencies had easy access to the tables. The fact that the SIPDIS caption was only for wide distribution made sense to me, given that the vast majority of the Net Centric Diplomacy Cables were not classified. The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that-- that this type of information should become public. I once read a and used a quote on open diplomacy written after the First World War and how the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other. I thought these cables were a prime example of a need for a more open diplomacy. Given all of the Department of State cables information that I read, the fact that most of the cables were unclassified, and that all the cables have a SIPDIS caption, I believe that the public release of these cables would not damage the United States; however, I did believe that the cables might be embarrassing, since they represented very honest opinions and statements behind the backs of other nations and organizations. In many ways these cables are a catalogue of cliques and gossip. I believed exposing this information might make some within the Department of State and other government entities unhappy. On 22 28 March 2010, I began downloading a copy of the SIPDIS cables using the program Wget, described above. I used instances of the Wget application to download the Net Centric Diplomacy cables in the background. As I worked on my daily tasks, the Net Centric Diplomacy cables were downloaded from 28 March 2010 to 9 April 2010. After downloading the cables, I saved them onto a CD-RW. These cables went from the earliest dates in Net Centric Diplomacy to 28 February 2010. I took the CD-RW to my CHU on 10 April 2010. I sorted the cables on my personal computer, compressed them using the bzip2 compression algorithm described above, and uploaded them to the WLO via designated drop box described above. On 3 May 2010, I used Wget to download and update of the cables for the months of March 2010 and April 2010 and saved the information onto a zip file and burned it to a CD-RW. I then took the CD-RW to my CHU and saved those to my computer. I later found that the file was corrupted during the transfer. Although I intended to re-save another copy of these cables, I was removed from the T-SCIF on 8 May 2010 after an altercation. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of Garani, Farah Province Afghanistan 15-6 Investigation and Videos. [NB Pfc. Manning plead 'not guilty' to the Specification 11, Charge II for the Garani Video as charged by the government, which alleged as November charge date. Read more here.] In late March 2010, I discovered a US CENTCOM directly on a 2009 airstrike in Afghanistan. I was searching CENTCOM for information I could use as an analyst. As described above, this was something that myself and other analysts and officers did on a frequent basis. As I reviewed the documents I recalled the incident and what happened. The airstrike occurred in the Garani village in the Farah Province, Northwestern Afghanistan. It received worldwide press coverage during the time as it was reported that up to 100 to 150 Afghan civilians-- mostly women and children-- were accidentally killed during the airstrike. After going through the report and the [missed word] annexes, I began to review the incident as being similar to the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team engagements in Iraq. However, this event was noticeably different in that it involved a significantly higher number of individuals, larger aircraft and much heavier munitions. Also, the conclusions of the report are even more disturbing than those of the July 2007 incident. I did not see anything in the 15-6 report or its annexes that gave away sensitive information. Rather, the investigation and its conclusions helped explain how this incident occurred, and were-- what those involved should have done, and how to avoid an event like this from occurring again. After investigating the report and its annexes, I downloaded the 15-6 investigation, PowerPoint presentations, and several other supporting documents to my D6-A workstation. I also downloaded three zip files containing the videos of the incident. I burned this information onto a CD-RW and transferred it to the personal computer in my CHU. I did later that day or the next day-- I uploaded the information to the WLO website this time using a new version of the WLO website submission form. Unlike other times using the submission form above, I did not activate the TOR anonymizer. Your Honor, this concludes my statement and facts for this providence inquiry.
__________ UPDATE: On March 11, 2013 Manning's statement was officially released. I corrected one phrase based on this release, namely "not being suspicious." On March 2, 2013, I went through each line of the rush transcript published here on March 1 to check it for accuracy and inadvertent typos or misspellings. Since multiple news outlets have printed the rush transcript that was originally published here; every single amendment made during this review-- including non-substantive typos-- are noted with a strike-through and/or highlighted. When I first published the rush transcript of Manning's statement, I had noted under "Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team or AW team video" that the handle of the individual who Manning said he interacted with was 'office' and not 'ox'. When Guardian journalist, Ed Pilkington, approached me to ask for permission to publish the rush transcript on the guardian.co.uk, we had a quick conversation concerning the fact that both he and a Wired journalist had noted the handle was 'ox' and not 'office'. Because of the overriding need to publish Manning's statement as soon as possible, and my being back in Court at Fort Meade during our exchange after having worked through the night to get a rush transcript completed and published, I quickly deferred to consensus and amended 'office' to 'ox'. After reviewing my rush transcript line-by-line, however, I stand by my original notation of the handle as 'office', and not 'ox'. I have amended the transcript above to reflect that determination.
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Systemic and sociopathic, private and psychopathic abuses AND reputational damage are the bank's core competencies.
By constantly pushing the boundaries of legality and illegality and then some, the bank invites chaos into its world and ours. And has done so for decades.
It all started with the support of the apartheid regime in South Africa and, in the last half decade alone, we have witnessed accusations of money laundering, the senior management bonus scandal, subprime mortgage corruptions, tax avoidance via an elaborate circuit of Cayman Islands companies, promotion of tax havens, having to make tax repayments over false claiming of tax credits, fined for conflict of interest in the Del Monte buyout, while for its part in the Libor rate-fixing scandal the bank had to pay the FSA the biggest fine it had ever imposed in its history, the bank has also been fined for attempting to manipulate and fix the US electricity market, and then there is the ongoing Qatari capital raising regulatory investigation, and the major role played by the bank in the misselling of payment protection insurance etc etc.
But the biggest self-harming reputational damage is still to come... ... when, in the window ahead, it is shown that both systemic and private match fixing dominates the world's self-styled biggest league, the Premier League, Barclay's global image will take a further battering - the bank not only rips us all off repeatedly but also profits from a brand that is destroying our sport.
Disinvest or close your accounts with this monstrosity now.
Nottingham Forest opened at 3.20 (11/5) in places for their FA Cup tie versus West Ham United. By kick off, Nottingham Forest were 1.35 (4/11) at 10Bet.
West Ham drifted from Evens to 9/2. Turnover was of a level normally seen in Big Six Premier League clashes.
IN OUR DATABASE OF OVER 80,000 GAMES COVERING TWO DECADES OF GLOBAL FOOTBALL WE HAVE NEVER WITNESSED SUCH PRICE DYNAMICS (WITH VOLUME) AS EXISTED ON THIS MATCH.
But...
Over 50% of the pre-match volume was traded before the West Ham team was made public... ... that was the team with 9 changes and three debutants and a 3 man defence where two players were making their first appearances of the season and the other was a midfielder who had been out for a month. A couple of substitutes were also debutants. Oh, and a change of goalkeeper.
After losing 5-0, the West Ham hierarchy are offering a VIP package to the child filmed crying during this allegedly competitive game.
Looking at the betting patterns, that is the very least that the club should be doing.
If any one person involved in the match underperformed due to knowledge of the global gamble then we are dealing with match fixing.
Insider trading or... ... match fixing AND insider trading? ___________________________________________________________________________________
When even youngsters know that they are being ripped off, the insider bettors really do not see reality in the same way as the rest of us.
Meanwhile in a parallel universe, Gordon Strachan, the Ladbrokes ambassador (for feck's sake?!), informed us on the ITV FA Cup highlights show: "The fans know nothing." Which may be the case but at least they know enough to understand that they have just witnessed the biggest insider gamble for two decades and on a terrestrial televised match just two months into The English Match Fixing Scandal...
... even more audacious if it turns out to be match fixing!
IT IS ENTIRELY VALID TO REST PLAYERS... ... IT ISN'T VALID WHEN KNOWLEDGE OF THIS SELECTION SURFACES VIA SOME PEOPLE IN-THE-KNOW AS A COLOSSAL CO-ORDINATED INSIDER GAMBLE ACROSS THE PLANET.
THE INFORMATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE PUBLIC EARLIER SO THAT ITV DIDN'T PAY TO BROADCAST WEST HAM 3RD TEAM AND FANS DIDNT WASTE THEIR MONEY.
FANS PAY THEIR AUSTERITY-BITTEN EARNINGS TO WATCH FOOTBALL - NOT A BETTING SCANDAL UNFOLDING.
THIS INSIDER GAMBLE MASSIVELY DISTORTED AND CORRUPTED THE MARKETS FOR PRIVATE PROFIT.
AND IF THAT ISN'T ILLICIT INSIDER TRADING THEN WHAT THE FECK IS?
BUT THE LIQUIDITY SUGGESTS THAT SOME PEOPLE WERE IN NO DOUBT AS TO THE OUTCOME AND THAT MAKES THIS EVENT SOMETHING FAR MORE SIGNIFICANT.
And even if this is solely an example of sociopathic insider trading... ... in financial markets in Britain, insider trading used to be regarded as a perk of the job before regulation was introduced. Now people are occasionally jailed for such psychopathy.
Why is insider trading on football seen differently? Or have we become so inured to the corruption in the game that fans also see insider betting as merely being a perk of the job?
When bookies see such insider volume, the markets should be suspended as they are corrupted. All bets should be cancelled. End of... Instead, the bookmakers trade it elsewhere for private profit.
Meanwhile the authorities focus their concerted attentions on accusing some Black men of getting booked deliberately...
DJ Campbell Is Innocent... ... Relatively. ___________________________________________________________________________________
This blog post is no accusation against any individual or grouping of individuals. But some insiders, those in-the-know, people in the loop, exploited inside knowledge to profit from a compromised market. Our primary point is that this opportunity should not exist. It is a loophole. Bookies pass the knowledge around the world in a pyramid scheme of insider exploitation of the market until some offshore layer is left holding the liquidity parcel when the music stops. This isn't a legitimate market. It is a poker play. But you cannot blame people for exploiting opportunities that come their way... ... it is the infrastructure of the game architected by the authorities that allow this casino to exist.
Until global betting markets are regulated, globally, and there is a compulsion for club officials to make public new knowledge that impacts upon the markets, these farces will recur recurrently.
Football markets are highly liquid global markets and should be treated as such.
If the information had been made public then ITV wouldn't have covered the game, bookmakers would have priced the market correctly, advertisers wouldn't be peeved about viewing figures, the FA Cup brand wouldn't have been tainted and, most importantly of all, West Ham fans wouldn't have wasted their money on a 3rd team game away from home with defeat a certainty.
After all, a debutant, a seasonal debutant and a midfielder who has not played in a month in a three man defence in front of a new goalie still perfecting his English is a given if you are in receipt of the knowledge!
Estimated Annual Global Betting Turnover on Football = £1 trillion.
New Premier League TV deal covering three seasons = £5.1 billion.
Average Global Betting Turnover on a Big 4 Premier League game = £5.0 billion.
Manchester United Market Capitalisation = £2.8 billion.
Premier League Annual Agents' Fees = £115 million.
Maximum Trade allowed in Asian Underground Markets = £25 million.
Wayne Rooney's Annual Earnings = £12 million.
Richard Scudamore's Annual Earnings = £2 million.
Premier League Referee Annual Earnings = £100,000.
Annual Minimum Wage Employees at Premier League Clubs = £12,000. ____________________________________________________________________________________
In late capitalism, financial distortions within a sector define the corruptions available... ... and, unfortunately, everybody has a price. For example, the fact that the new Premier League tv deal (covering 1140 games) is worth the equivalent of the total global trading volume on just one major Premier League game is indicative of absolute betting market control of the sector.
Or, the fact that 54 nation states have an annual GDP less than the new Premier League tv deal - Richard Scudamore runs a small country. Or, the fact that the very lightly regulated global betting market has turnover equivalent to 56% of Britain's GDP is suggestive of the pressing need for far more onerous regulation.
Or, the fact that most bookmaking entities are linked to Offshore Financial Centres guaranteeing tax evasion and money laundering. Or, the fact that referees on £2,000 per week are determining match outcomes on £5 billion markets resulting in an absolute certainty of matchfixing. Or, if the market capitalisation of a club is exceeded by the betting turnover on just one of their matches then are we dealing with a football club or an inversion capital market medium? ___________________________________________________________________________________
When such financial structures exist, the outcomes are warped beyond recognition and bear no resemblance to the reality underpinning the corrupted marketplaces - we are dealing with a hyperreality.
Take horseracing. My thesis in the mid-nineties was entitled "The Impact of Conspicuous Money on Outcome in British Horserace Betting Markets". Here we had 'sporting' events with prize money of £3,000 and betting turnover of £10 million - the distorted incentives produced extensive corruption and the fixing of races to the benefit of ALL insiders (bookies, owners, trainers, jockeys etc).
The corruption was orchestrated from the very top of the industry sector.
While at the Centre for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, I had discussions with Rodney Brack, the chief executive of the British Horseracing Levy Board (BHLB), where we openly discussed the mechanics of fixing a horserace - from non-trying jockeys to selected watering of courses etc etc etc. Brack had no problem with these corruptions.
But horseracing is an internalised corrupted market of limited turnover whereas matchfixing in football is a truly transnational global affair. This leads to an exponential increase in the levels of corruption.
The population at large has a real problem with corruption. There is a propensity to either assume that corruption exists but is acted upon by only a few bad apples or that everything is corrupt and that the only way to determine reality is by conspiracy theories. Both are wrong. Corruption in sport is extensive but not absolute.
And, the information and knowledge is out there if one cares to look.
Richard Murphy (Tax Justice Network) and Ian Fraser both knew about HSBC and tax avoidance/evasion in 2010 or earlier but there was minimal media interest and no action. Or Phil Mac Giolla Bhain exposed the financial shenanigans at Glasgow Rangers years before the mainstream media eventually decided to pick up on the extensive corruptions and tax avoidance/evasion at the club. . Entertainingly for the zeitgeist, income inequalities not only produce fraud, money laundering and tax evasion but also a far greater incentive for whistleblowers to confront and expose the criminalities at play. Joseph Stiglitz claims that, in extremis, these wealth distortions create revolutionary paradigms partially due to the disconnect between the hyperrealities of the 1% and the' real' realities of the 99%.
And so it is in football.
We are largely unemployable in British football due to our 8 year whistleblowing campaign against corruption, matchfixing and fraud in the sport - no entity wants transparency. But aside from the likes of ourselves, there are other individuals who are within the millionaire's paradise who feel thoroughly disenfranchised from the rewards on offer. And there are others who, aware of the distortions in the sector, have a price where they will sell out on the corruption for personal gain.
The fulsome exposure of matchfixing, corruption, tax evasion, money laundering and fraud in British football is merely a matter of time. And then everyone will say "why wasn't this exposed by mainstream media, regulators, institutions and government before now?" Just as we are all now asking that same question about HSBC, HMRC, PwC, Barclays, RBS, the Murdochracy, Lehman Brothers, Enron etc etc etc ad nauseum.
Jean Baudrillard: "Today's violence, the violence produced by our hypermodernity, is terror."
The financialisation of inversion late capitalism is terroristic and destroys reality in favour of corruption, fraud, fakery, insider trading, regulatory capture, money laundering and irrational violence.
In sport, football is no longer football but has reached Baudrillard's 4th Phase of the Image where there are no linkages whatsoever between what plays out on our screens and the game which was once loved by fans the world over.
2. Spectacles of Violence
Heysel Disaster
Baudrillard: "The most striking thing about events such as those that took place at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels, in 1985, is not their violence per se but the way in which this violence was given worldwide currency by television, and in the process turned into a travesty of itself... A simulacrum of violence, emerging less from passion than from the screen: a violence in the nature of the image... So true is this that it is advisable not to be in a public place where television is operating, considering the high probability that its very presence will precipitate a violent event [the Boston Marathon, the murders at Port Said stadium, Hillsborough]."
Hillsborough Disaster
Neither Heysel nor Hillsborough were solely disasters. They were terroristic events. The institutional lies of the South Yorkshire police have produced 26 years of lack of closure for all those affected by the loss of 96 innocent lives at a football match (all under the real-time media gaze of television cameras left running to capture the unfolding tragedy). The Hillsborough Inquiry has heard that senior masonic officers met after the disaster to collate strategy with David Duckenfield, the police commander at the match, being made Grand Master of his lodge just one year on from the deaths - institutional terror rewarded with power on the square. Baudrillard: "We are dealing, therefore, not with irrational episodes in the life of our society, but instead with something that is completely in accord with that society's accelerating plunge into the void... the diverted effects of a terrorism to which the state is in no way opposed."
Bradford City Fire Disaster
The relatives of the 56 football fans who died in the 1985 disaster at Valley Parade have thought for decades that the deaths of their loved ones were caused by a casually discarded cigarette igniting rubbish under a poorly maintained wooden stand. Yet author Martin Fletcher has recently revealed that Stafford Heginbotham, the club's then chairman, had alleged pyromaniacal tendencies - the Bradford City blaze being the ninth incidence of incendiary blaze at businesses owned by Heginbotham over a period of 18 years. Having learned two days prior to the fire that the club would have to spend £2m to bring the ground up to the safety standards required for promotion, Heginbotham's series of coincidences beggar belief. And yet the Popplewell Inquiry found nothing untoward and a myth has been allowed to continue for three decades. Insurance terror against one's own fans.
Blackpool Fans Anti-Oyston Protests
A Protesting Fan
By the seaside last weekend, Blackpool football fansbecame Baudrillardian in their continuing protests against the psychopathic Oyston family who are in the process of asset stripping the club to oblivion. After the pitch was invaded, the match was abandoned and will not be replayed. There was no violence against the visiting Huddersfield Town supporters, no interference by police nor stewards and only a targeting of sociopath by supporter. In a symbolic act of some consequence, the Oystons had the statue of Stan Mortensen removed prior to the planned Judgement Day protest and continue to exercise their power by suing fans for being fans.
If the Oystons are the bad guys in this media spectacle then the good guy is supposed to be Valeri Belokon, the president of the Seasiders. He is a Latvian banker whose former financial backer, Maxim Bakiyev, was a Kyrgyzstani warlord on the run from Interpol.
Quoting Baudrillard about Heysel applies here also: "There is another logic at work here, too, the logic of attempted role reversal: spectators (English fans, in this case) turn themselves into actors; usurping the role of the protagonists (players), under the gaze of the media, they invent their own spectacle (which - we may as well admit it - is somewhat more fascinating than the official one). Now is this not precisely what is expected of the modern spectator? Is he not supposed to abandon the spectatorish inertia and intervene in the spectacle himself?"
Baudrillard: "Where exactly does participation pass over into too much participation?"
3. Institutional Terror in Football
Once wrenched away from its basic principle, football can be pressed into the service of any end whatsoever - financialisation, utilisation of performing enhancing substances, insider trading and matchfixing, spectacles of corruption, public relations abuses and violence of coercion. Football has become, in the words of Roger Caillois, "a theatre of circus-like play" linked via mafiosi and transglobal crime syndicates to underground betting markets, largely but not exclusively located in SE Asia.
In the Premier League, there are referees earning £2K per week officiating on matches with global turnover around £5bn. Some of these officials are criminalised in a net of corruption - it is not by fluke that Betfair (a bookmaking facilitator of matchfixing) use an Octopus and SE Asians in their advertising campaigns.
Football matches are ever more frequently played behind closed doors due to spectators having previously impinged upon an event. Baudrillard: "A ban of this kind could never do away with the chauvinistic passions surrounding soccer, but it does perfectly exemplify the terroristic hyperrealism of our world, a world where a 'real' event occurs in a vacuum, stripped of its context and visible only from afar, televisually."
Football events played without fans merely mimic the reality that already exists across much of horseracing - courses with minimal numbers of racegoers, operating fraudulent events to the private benefit of the offcourse bookmaking chains, the online market makers, the bookies in the betting rings and the manipulators on the rails. The horse is merely an afterthought in this particular poker game.
In Scottish football we have an antagonistic relationship between the Bhoy and the 'Ger but the background bears no resemblance to the history of St Walfrid or the Sons of Struth. Dermot Desmond, who owns around a third of Celtic, also owns nearly 5% of Ladbrokes, the official bookmaker of Rangers, whilst Celtic have set up a deal with Unibet to provide in-play betting opportunities for the Celtic fans via the club's phone app. Yet Unibet are a bookmaker that Sportsbook Review advise punters against using due to non-payment of winnings so that, in effect, the club are merely taking a slice of the action in the illicit fleecing of their fans. Meanwhile, Rangers are being repeatedly asset stripped by the most rapacious forms of psycho-capitalist. Celtic and Rangers fans deserve better than this.
Elsewhere in Scottish football, the fans are invisible at "events so minimal that they might as well not take place at all" - these events, however, must have maximal enlargement on our screens.
In England, the Premier League is in the midst of its very own Calciopoli - a combination of mafia and matchfixing that creates a systemic criminalisation of the sport to the benefit of an array of sociopathic insiders who corrupt the game for considerable proprietary benefits. Bookmakers own football clubs and those owners are then elevated to institutional positions of power and influence. Agents choose referees for EPL matches to the benefit of their clients and their proprietary trading. Last night's Championship Play-Off between Brentford and Middlesboro is a case in point - 7 'Boro players and the Brentford goalkeeper are represented by the same agent and this agent has a very very very close relationship with the referee stretching back nearly a quarter of a century. It is no surprise that the outcome was in the market pre-match.
The FA Cup has become an insider traders paradise - remember the betting patterns on the fixed match last season between Nottingham Forest and West Ham that left a child crying and insiders much the richer for their terroristic psychopathy?
A Crying Child
4. The Terror of 4th Estate Mainstream Media The mainstream media is the facilitating catalyst to these hyperrealities and is always complicit in this collection of travesties. Baudrillard: "The media is always on the scene in advance of terrorist violence."
Take Andy Murray's joyous wedding. The media scrummage at the rehearsal led to leading Scottish photojournalist Gordon Jack dying. Not only did all mainstream media representations of the wedding entirely ignore this death but the fact that the wedding required a rehearsal in order to be perfect for media was surreal in itself. Death intruding on the spectacle is an abomination of the public relations control grid.
The mainstream media accommodates terroristic violence and warped public relations as its raison d'etre.
Out of all the footballers across all generations, what sort of media would choose to select Steve McManaman as a match summariser in the aftermath of his close business relationship with the matchfixing money launderer Carson Yeung? The output of the football section of the Guardian newspaper is entirely overseen by a football agent who is actively involved in matchfixing and mafia-like behaviours while Clare Balding's new BBC chat show must have an obligatory criminal to parade positively in each episode.
Baudrillard: "The public must simply be eliminated, to ensure that the only event occurring is strictly televisual in nature."
5. State Terror
Britain has just experienced a terroristic play in the 2015 General Election.
Baudrillard: "Neither a represented people nor a legitimate sovereign is now the issue. That political configuration has given way to a contest in which there is no longer any question of a social contract; a transpolitical contest between an agency orientated towards totalitarian self-reference on the one hand, and sardonic or refractory, agnostic and infantile masses on the other (masses which no longer speak, though they chat)."
There is no such thing as a representative democracy just like there is no such thing as justice - the only person currently serving a prison sentence over the HSBC affair is a whistleblower.
The media plays with our hyperrealities whilst the first past the post system denies any vestige of democratic process. The BBC is more than happy to allow Nigel Farage to appear over 20 times on its Question Time programme to engender the fear that decides elections and is happy for that process to produce an outcome whereby 13% of the vote is for a racist party so long as that only equates to one seat in parliament and the post-election removal of Farage from the stage until next required. And, on election night itself, out of all the former politicos that might be chosen to provide the Labour party line, the BBC gave us war crime apologist Alistair Campbell who we must now all remember as a former alcoholic fighting depression rather than a facilitator of illicit murder.
The City of London wanted a Conservative majority government and that is exactly what we were given.
Or as Nomi Prins writes about the US oligarchy: "No matter what spin is used for campaigning purposes, the idea that a critical distance can be maintained between the White House and Wall Street is naïve given the multiple channels of money and favours that flow between the two. It is even more improbable, given the history of connections that Hillary Clinton has established through her associations with key bank leaders in the early 1990s, during her time as a senator from New York, and given their contributions to the Clinton foundation while she was secretary of state. At some level, the situation couldn’t be less complicated: her path aligns with that of the country’s most powerful bankers. If she becomes president, that will remain the case."
Baudrillard: "It [the State] no longer works on the basis of political will, but instead on the basis of intimidation, dissuasion, simulation, provocation or spectacular solicitation." 6. Conclusion
Baudrillard: "Political events... unfold, in a sense, in an empty stadium (the empty form of representation) whence any real public has been expelled because of potentially too lively passions, and whence nothing emerges now save a television retranscription (CRT images, statistics, poll results...). Politics still works, even captivates us, but subtly everything begins to operate as though some International Political Federation has suspended the public for an indeterminate period and expelled it from all stadiums to ensure the objective conduct of the match. Such is our present transpolitical arena: a transparent form of public space from which all the actors have been withdrawn - and a pure form of the event from which all passion has been removed."
Judge Lind: Pfc. Manning you may read your statement. 
