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    red terror
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    <p>FIFA needs to make the ballot results transparent and accountable. Secrecy is a veil that leads directly to backdoor deals, graft & corruption.  </p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="red terror" data-cid="493040" data-time="1432830657">
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    <p>My guess is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS, the U.S. taxman)...</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/soccer/soccer-rat-ex-u-s-soccer-exec-chuck-blazer-fbi-informant-article-1.1995761'>Soccer Rat! The inside story of how Chuck Blazer, ex-U.S. soccer executive and FIFA bigwig, became a confidential informant for the FBI</a></span></span></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>New York Daily News article was from last November.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Blazer failed to pay income taxes for more than a decade while hauling in tens of millions of dollars, a discovery the feds used to threaten him with prosecution and convert him into a cooperating witness beginning in 2011.</span></strong>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>John Oliver has a worthy slapdown on FIFA and Blatter last night...</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>

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    <strong><a class="bbc_url" href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/sports/soccer/sepp-blatters-top-fifa-deputy-jerome-valcke-is-said-to-have-transferred-money-central-to-bribery-case.html?_r=0">Blatter’s Top FIFA Deputy Is Said to Have Transferred Money Central to Bribery Case</a></strong>

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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/jun/02/fifa-calls-press-conference-amid-latest-corruption-claims-live'><strong>Sepp Blatter quits as Fifa president</strong></a></p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">
    <p> </p>
    <div>“I will organise extraordinary congress for a replacement for me as president. I will not stand. I am now free from the constraints of an election. I will be in a position to focus on profound reforms. For many years we have called for reforms. But these are not sufficient.”</div>
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    <p> </p>
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    <p> </p>
    <div>“We need a limitation on mandates and terms of office. I have fought for these changes but my efforts have been counteracted.”</div>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>LOL. He certainly knows how to do shameless.</p>

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    swapacrate
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    <p>They need a system like Rugby, its helps out the poorer nations. Oh no hang on....</p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="swapacrate" data-cid="493934" data-time="1433266210"><p>
    They need a system like Rugby, its helps out the poorer nations. Oh no hang on....</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    Are you suggesting WR doesn't fund the smaller nations? I Think you're just saying something vaguely populist.

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    NTA
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    <p><img src="http://images.latintimes.com/sites/latintimes.com/files/styles/pulse_embed/public/2015/05/29/fifa-memes_3.jpg?itok=5fxNd7Vj" alt="fifa-memes_3.jpg?itok=5fxNd7Vj"></p>

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    red terror
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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/sports/soccer/sepp-blatter-to-resign-as-fifa-president.html?_r=0'>NYT</a> and <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/fifa-president-sepp-blatter-announces-resignation/story?id=31473282#.VW3zEHtCoJU.twitter'>ABC News</a> in U.S. reporting Blatter is the target of an FBI corruption probe. With UEFA and sponsors piling on, he had to walk the plank. And he could yet be in handcuffs.</p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="red terror" data-cid="493976" data-time="1433292478">
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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/sports/soccer/sepp-blatter-to-resign-as-fifa-president.html?_r=0'>NYT</a> and <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/fifa-president-sepp-blatter-announces-resignation/story?id=31473282#.VW3zEHtCoJU.twitter'>ABC News</a> in U.S. reporting Blatter is the target of an FBI corruption probe. With UEFA and sponsors piling on, he had to walk the plank. And he could yet be in handcuffs.</p>
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    <p>I don't see how he is going to escape this.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>The Feds will offer leniency to those who blab.</p>
    <p>And blab they will.</p>
    <p>They are white collar crims. Not the mob.</p>

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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/blatter-have-you-ever-taken-a-bribe-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-fifa-president/story-fndkzvnd-1227381077740'>http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/blatter-have-you-ever-taken-a-bribe-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-fifa-president/story-fndkzvnd-1227381077740</a></p>
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    <p>Pommy journalist who basically started this 6 years ago, after investigating the IOC, and decided FIFA smelled just as bad. Serious implications for the FFA and Frank Lowy, too.</p>
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><br><p><snip></p>
    <p>Jennings is the author of ‘Omerta: Sepp Blatter’s FIFA-Organised Crime Family’. He likens FIFA to the Mafia characters he’s previously investigated in his career.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>“Basically, what you’ve got coming down from the top is the licence to steal, which all capo bosses have to give, all gang bosses have to give their lieutenants,” he said.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>“And what you’ve got coming down is unaudited million-dollar development grants, no auditors so the guys can just steal - they were the voters, by the way, last last Friday - and also a whole fistful of World Cup tickets which come under the table and are then sold into the black market.”</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Jennings’ work caught the attention of the FBI, which sent “serious-looking Americans with broad shoulders who had been in the Marines” to visit him in London in 2009.</p>
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    <p>“And that’s been the best day of all, because then I knew they were serious professionals and understanding of the structures of organised crime and they wanted to talk about FIFA’s structures,” he told <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://ab.co/1FqMg2A'>Lateline.</a></p>
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    <p>“So I knew back in 2009 it was going to start to roll. And I initially described to them how FIFA worked: who the personalities were, all the senior people. We developed from there.”</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Last night, Jennings predicted Blatter was “dead meat.”</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>“I mean, Blatter has been a micromanager since 1976. And, in fact, if you look at the criminal indictment there are things coming up that he had to know about. But he is a dead man walking.”</p>
    <p><snip></p>
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    Frye
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    <p><img src="http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2015/05/17/1227358/132942-1fe03096-fc74-11e4-8350-bd0ae55feeaa.jpg" alt="132942-1fe03096-fc74-11e4-8350-bd0ae55fe"></p>

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    red terror
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"> <span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-size:18px;">So that’s the last we’ll see of Blatter?</span></span>
    <p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Not yet. He said he would carry on in the role until the outcome of the new election, which is to take place at some point between December and March next year. One intriguing question is whether Blatter will travel to the women’s World Cup in Canada, which starts this week. <strong>An ESPN documentary last month claimed Blatter had not been to north America for four years because of the FBI investigation into Fifa</strong>, although he has claimed he has nothing to fear from the investigation.</p>
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    <p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);"> </p>
    <p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/sepp-blatter/11647490/Sepp-Blatter-quits-The-who-why-what-of-Fifa-presidents-shock-departure-explained.html'>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/sepp-blatter/11647490/Sepp-Blatter-quits-The-who-why-what-of-Fifa-presidents-shock-departure-explained.html</a></p>

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    El Toro supremo
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    Yip.......As a spinoff I see this penalty shootout in the US is now under investigation for match fixing. Personally I cant see it......all looks above board.......except maybe the last save? <br><br>

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    swapacrate
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="booboo" data-cid="493960" data-time="1433280161">
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    <p>Are you suggesting WR doesn't fund the smaller nations? I Think you're just saying something vaguely populist.</p>
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    <p>To be fair its not about the funding for me. Which Im sure could be better.</p>
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    <p>Its how the Northern nations manipulate the residency rules, to suit them and not the pacific nations. Plus, its how the top countries have 2 votes, and countries like the Pacific Nations get no say.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Its about getting the balance right.</p>

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    Tim
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    <p>Nate Silver and Daniel Drezner have both written about creating an alternative to FIFA.<br><br>
    <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-break-fifa/'>http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-break-fifa/</a><br><br>
    <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/01/what-international-relations-theory-can-tell-us-about-breaking-fifa/'>http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/01/what-international-relations-theory-can-tell-us-about-breaking-fifa/</a></p>

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    red terror
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    <p>The Saffer press has been closely monitoring revelations from their own hosting bid... </p>
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    <div>
    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">
    <div><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>How South Africa rigged the 2010 World Cup bid </strong></span></div>
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    <div><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">US Indictment tells a tale of diverted FIFA funds, banks in the Cayman Islands and briefcases stacked with dollar bills</span></strong></div>
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    </blockquote>
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    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.rdm.co.za/sport/2015/05/28/how-south-africa-rigged-the-2010-world-cup-bid'>http://www.rdm.co.za/sport/2015/05/28/how-south-africa-rigged-the-2010-world-cup-bid</a></p>

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    El Toro supremo
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    <p>If you are trying to find a hero in this entire FIFA saga.....here is one for you.</p>
    <p>Why can't there be more people like this?</p>
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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/'>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/</a></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>The key is not to suck up to people in power...</p>
    <p>I absolutely love the way he puts the bait out there.........hats off dude!</p>

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    <p>From that article:</p>
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    <p></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Georgia;font-size:18px;">I get the mike and I said, ‘Herr Blatter, have you ever taken a bribe?'”</span></blockquote>
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    <p> 🤣  🤣  🤣  🤣  🤣  🤣</p>

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    <p></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><span style="color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:Georgia;font-size:18px;">After years of being barred from FIFA news conferences, Jennings said he’s looking forward to seeing the indicted executives in a U.S. court.</span>
    <p style="font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(17,17,17);">“I just hope I can afford the airfare to New York and that someone will let me sleep on their couch,” he said, “so that I can be there in the [courthouse] press box to say, ‘Hi guys! It’s been a long run, hasn’t it?’”</p></blockquote>
    <p>BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How good is this old bloke?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Fucks given: negative four thousand.</p>

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