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And to tie it back to the royals, isn't it documented that there was both bribery and royal intervention in purchase of our jets by the Saudis? As the seminal LA punks Flipper sang, "that's the way, of the wooorrrld".

FWIW whoever replaces Blatter will face the same challenges (to put it diplomatically). Why? Because most countries in the world are corrupt and what we would think of as unfair. In that sense FIFA with its backhanders and pork barreling is a pretty accurate reflection of the world. It would be very surprising if whoever comes next made the organisation transparent and fair. The guy before Blatter was up on this kind of thing too.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The best thing they ever removed from this forum > was the "Hide Poster" option. You could activate > it for anyone and -behold!- otherwise unreadable > threads were cleared of dross. Wouldn't that be just wonderful.

Such filthy business.

http://betterelephant.org/blog/2013/04/09/report-uncovers-corruption-at-the-elephant/ This has an ectensive list of former council employees and councillors working on the Heygate regeneration who have been either employed by Lend Lease or gained financially in some other way. I haven't verified these personally.

Didn't some council employees at the time who sold Heygate for a song wind up with cushy jobs with the developer they sold the land to? Heygate seems more like a case of corruption and greed at the local level than a sinister central government policy.

Rapid change in demographic resulting from desire for profit, perhaps, but to call it social cleansing there should be evidence of sinister intent. Desire for profit is a cornerstone value of our society, the sort of social engineering that results is a side effect, so I don't think this is splitting hairs.

keekybreeks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cultural appropriation fam, thats the buzzword in > ed these days Is it, and if it was would that be such a horrible thing? Does anyone own culture, so that it may be taken from them? When idiot savants like Rousseau or Mark E Smith wow the public and produce a myriad followers do we really think they're better than the occasional lucid words of a street drunk or are we just heaping meaning on them? Is the ineptly scrawled tag on a bus window really that vital? What happens when no artist learns a craft anymore, and it's all just concepts and lights switching off and on in a room? For answers to these and more, send an SAE to "Thanks EDF, I'm out" and see if I respond.

Yeah...coz Basquiat is so obscure you couldn't possibly have heard of him otherwise.

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