The problem with the advice to stockpile is that the public will notice that cold food, bottled water and crank radios are only required if the water supply is contaminated, global communications collapse, and you can't go outside.
In other words, they're prepping us for war.
This 'Be Ready' campaign is very poorly briefed. Be ready, they say, but what for? Vague allusions to cyber attacks or storms, but ambiguity only encourages rapid misinformation and panicked conjecture online.
This isn't how to prepare for anything.
Why are people acting like the Man City case is unresolved? That's not how an appeal works.
If a murderer is found guilty but appeals, he goes to prison. The guilt is established by the verdict.
An appeal can change something after the fact, but until then, the guilt stands.
Kemi Badenoch is, for the first time in 15 years, finally trying to put distance between the Tories and the Far Right, instead of mirroring their policies.
It was always ludicrous that they ever thought they could out-looney the racist extremists falling into line around Farage.
Sad thing is, Man City used to have some of the most respected fans in the league.
Holding their own in a city with United, then an absolute powerhouse, and doing it with integrity and passion.
Now, they're universally hated, reputationally crippled, and morally bankrupt.
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From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015
#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015
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Manchester City will argue the so-called 'tagged' sponsorship payments (totalling £830m) came from the Abu Dhabi Government not their owner (ADUG). This applies to State-controlled entities such as Etihad and Etisalat. Yet Etihad has previously refuted AD Government funding as "false".
City can point to an internal report written for the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in 2010 which concluded the Abu Dhabi Government did indeed cover the sponsorship of Manchester City. The report was not intended for external publication.
In their UEFA case, City denied the Etihad (or any other) sponsorship funds came from any other source other than a direct payment. Sheikh Mansour provided a letter which read: "I have not authorised ADUG to make any payments to Etihad, Etisalat or any of their affiliates in relation to their sponsorship of MCFC."
In 2015, the 'Partnership for Open and Fair Skies' wrote to the US departments of Commerce, Transportation and State arguing Etihad gained a competitive advantage due to receiving huge sums from the Abu Dhabi Government. They allude to the internal report referenced above, which appears to confirm this.
Yet Etihad's response was: "The assertion that the Abu Dhabi Government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false.
"In 2011 Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10-year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City’s stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues."
Etihad's denial the Abu Dhabi Government helped pay for their sponsorship goes against City's core argument, according to the verdict, that "AD Sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the AD Government towards their liability to pay the Recorded Sponsorship Fees."
Due to redacted names, multiple sponsors, and the phrase 'from time to time', City could make a case for other sponsors, but Etihad's on-record denial doesn't help the club's position, according to multiple legal sources spoken to.
Worth also reiterating, the panel, having reviewed the evidence already provided, already concluded any notion the Abu Dhabi Government not ADUG paid the tagged sums was "concocted well after the event".
I'm old enough to remember newly bought relegation fodder Manchester City bidding £100m for Kaka a decade before that amount became a thing, and how much it obviously stank even then.
How did it take anyone this long to act on it?
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This is like that bit in Pulp Fiction when Butch and Marsellus team up to kick fuck out of the gimp.
Except Man City didn't start the game at that point. They've been playing this game of monopoly for the same amount of time as everyone else. It's more like playing a game, realising you're losing, then stealing a few 500s from the bank and declaring yourself the winner.
Imagine a game of Monopoly…
You join halfway through with wads of cash. The other players already have hotels everywhere.
Then they create a new rule: you can only spend what your existing properties generate.
That’s Financial Fair Play.
#mcfc #cfc #avfc #nufc @henrywinter
If Man City try to drag this out through appeals, they're only dooming themselves.
No one is going to want to sign for or partner with a tainted club who could be about to face record sanctions, forced sale or expulsion.
Avengers 1 is a cathartic wish fulfillment answer to 9/11 and you won't convince me otherwise.
Why Hollywood Has Never Made a Great 9/11 Movie hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
Gen Z conspiracy theorists trying to prove 9/11 didn't happen the way an entire fucking traumatised generation literally saw it happen.
Welcome to the Idiocracy.
Worth pointing out that even in prison, men have a problem with other men who victimise children.
It's even abhorrent to other male criminals.
The reaction online and support for Clancy from a small subsection of women is the problem being discussed here.
The Lindsay Clancy case is a textbook example of social media extremism
A heinous crime is committed. Every agrees it's terrible
A subgroup react in an extreme, visual way. There is push back against this
The pushback is taken out of context and turned into a gender war.
As a Brit, I'm not saying the USA looks insane, but right now they have a deranged senile lunatic as president, a school gets shot up every other week, and they're currently debating whether it's ok for a mother to strangle her own kids to death.
Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
They're the ones we should be reflecting on and showing sympathy towards.
Whether their mother, Lindsay Clancy, was unwell or not is her issue to resolve in court.
Our attention should be on the real victims, as in any other case of parental killing.
Posted to prove Britons keep out invading foreigners, completely skipping that those same invaders built our concept of modern British culture, law, art, architecture and faith, completely undermining his own xenophobic point in the process.
In 54 BC, when Julius Caesar invaded Britain, one man led the resistance.
His name was Cassivellaunus.
A Briton war leader who used chariots, ambush tactics, and the land itself to fight the most powerful army in the world. When Caesar tried to cross the River Thames, Cassivellaunus had sharpened stakes placed beneath the water to block the Roman advance.
Rome eventually forced peace, but Caesar never conquered Britain.
Cassivellaunus stands among the earliest recorded defenders of this island. England was not built by people who simply accepted whatever arrived on their shores. It was built by people who valued their land, their independence, and their way of life enough to defend it. 🏴
If you want to see how skewed this site is now in favour of a right-wing echo chamber, Rupert Lowe is current trending at number 1 in the UK because of a video that 90% of the voting public won't ever see, care about or be influenced by in any way.
