#Thread
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In the run up to the #USPresidentialElections2020 when the characters & stories seem more mind-boggling than ever, it can be difficult to discern...
'How the fuck did the world end up here'?
Some great answers/insight here #Kleptopia 👏📕
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In the run up to the #USPresidentialElections2020 when the characters & stories seem more mind-boggling than ever, it can be difficult to discern...
'How the fuck did the world end up here'?
Some great answers/insight here #Kleptopia 👏📕
💸
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Uncivil & Outright Criminal Behaviour seems to have been normalised throughout societies everywhere;
- Politics
- Crony Capitalism
- Social Media
- Reality TV
... Even Sport 🧐
I've tried to get my head around it with the help of some good books & following smart journo's
Uncivil & Outright Criminal Behaviour seems to have been normalised throughout societies everywhere;
- Politics
- Crony Capitalism
- Social Media
- Reality TV
... Even Sport 🧐
I've tried to get my head around it with the help of some good books & following smart journo's
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To understand the rise of;
-Strongman leaders
-Autocrats
-Dictators
-Kleptocrats
-Crooks
-Spooks
-Shady financiers
-Conmen
& other maniacal actors worldwide, there's some good reading in the pics below & above👀
#politicains #bankers #crooks #spooks #crime #money #power
To understand the rise of;
-Strongman leaders
-Autocrats
-Dictators
-Kleptocrats
-Crooks
-Spooks
-Shady financiers
-Conmen
& other maniacal actors worldwide, there's some good reading in the pics below & above👀
#politicains #bankers #crooks #spooks #crime #money #power
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Politicians & leaders everywhere have embraced #disinformation & reframe history to distort the present while they attempt power grabs 🌎
They use opaque #offshore financial networks to extract wealth and move it around the world #FinCENFiles
Then there's #SocialMedia 🤪📵
Politicians & leaders everywhere have embraced #disinformation & reframe history to distort the present while they attempt power grabs 🌎
They use opaque #offshore financial networks to extract wealth and move it around the world #FinCENFiles
Then there's #SocialMedia 🤪📵
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#SocialMedia is an Attention & Engagement economy
It's business model is aimed at #hype & #clicks
#algorithms favour salacious, surprising, blood boiling & often untrue info
It now spreads further, faster & deeper than any previous form of news media
We have a Problem🤯
#SocialMedia is an Attention & Engagement economy
It's business model is aimed at #hype & #clicks
#algorithms favour salacious, surprising, blood boiling & often untrue info
It now spreads further, faster & deeper than any previous form of news media
We have a Problem🤯
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It created competing realities for different groups which can result in the crazy partisan type conversations we all see around us regularly 📺📵
#trumpbidendebate
Before 2005, if you weren't interested in #politics & #currentaffairs you could blissfully ignore
Now🙈🙉❌
It created competing realities for different groups which can result in the crazy partisan type conversations we all see around us regularly 📺📵
#trumpbidendebate
Before 2005, if you weren't interested in #politics & #currentaffairs you could blissfully ignore
Now🙈🙉❌
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You're drawn into #politics & #currentaffairs via every screen you see
It can be overwhelming & seem bat-shit crazy
So if you're not a discerning consumer of this type of news (& you get your info from #facebook )
Can send people a bit🤯
#anxiety
#confusion
#depression
You're drawn into #politics & #currentaffairs via every screen you see
It can be overwhelming & seem bat-shit crazy
So if you're not a discerning consumer of this type of news (& you get your info from #facebook )
Can send people a bit🤯
#anxiety
#confusion
#depression
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Trusting the #news we get gives us all an anchor point & common understanding - It's comforting and is hopefully based on #facts
The main emotional response #socialmedia seems to engender is #Fear & #Anger
#WarOfTheWorlds #OrsonWells #FakeNews
aeon.co/essays/a-radio…
Trusting the #news we get gives us all an anchor point & common understanding - It's comforting and is hopefully based on #facts
The main emotional response #socialmedia seems to engender is #Fear & #Anger
#WarOfTheWorlds #OrsonWells #FakeNews
aeon.co/essays/a-radio…
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#RealityTV has a lot to answer for too!
In a push for more & more content, around 2000 Reality TV became the de rigueur for broadcasters
Churn out Inexpensive, engaging & less filtered📺
It also re-launched a bankrupt #DonaldTrump via #TheApprentice FFS!
On that note..
#RealityTV has a lot to answer for too!
In a push for more & more content, around 2000 Reality TV became the de rigueur for broadcasters
Churn out Inexpensive, engaging & less filtered📺
It also re-launched a bankrupt #DonaldTrump via #TheApprentice FFS!
On that note..
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It offered a platform to some very questionable characters who would have previously been marginalised in society (criminal / outrageously brash / extreme)!
Dodgy characters filtered into #sport too
Reality, decency & cultural norms often seem passé today
How to fix it?🤔
It offered a platform to some very questionable characters who would have previously been marginalised in society (criminal / outrageously brash / extreme)!
Dodgy characters filtered into #sport too
Reality, decency & cultural norms often seem passé today
How to fix it?🤔
#Moneylaundering in & unregulated #gambling in #football 💸🎲🌏
#Drugs and #criminalcartels in #boxing 🥊💊🔫
Checks & Balances seem to be eroding...⚖️
Globalisation has opened sport up to Transnational Organised Crime
Social Media & TV Legitimises questionable characters!
#Drugs and #criminalcartels in #boxing 🥊💊🔫
Checks & Balances seem to be eroding...⚖️
Globalisation has opened sport up to Transnational Organised Crime
Social Media & TV Legitimises questionable characters!
Here's a topical story today #WiganAthletic 💸⚽️
(Also see; #CharltonAthletic #BuryAFC #Macclesfield etc)
Similar Patters - Similar Cast Of Characters
#Moneylaundering #Football ??
@david_conn @KieranMaguire @AdamCrafton_ @tariqpanja @DuffofBrentford
london-post.co.uk/wigan-athletic…
(Also see; #CharltonAthletic #BuryAFC #Macclesfield etc)
Similar Patters - Similar Cast Of Characters
#Moneylaundering #Football ??
@david_conn @KieranMaguire @AdamCrafton_ @tariqpanja @DuffofBrentford
london-post.co.uk/wigan-athletic…
Money needs laundering (Proceeds of Crime/Capital Flights etc) 💸
➡️Football Club financial difficulty
➡️Middle-man/broker
➡️Front company/shells/bagmen
➡️Dodgy Lawyers/Solicitors
➡️Dodgy Auditors/Administrators
➡️Poor scrutiny/Regulation
➡️Acq/Placement💰
➡️BUST OUT
Rinse&Repeat
➡️Football Club financial difficulty
➡️Middle-man/broker
➡️Front company/shells/bagmen
➡️Dodgy Lawyers/Solicitors
➡️Dodgy Auditors/Administrators
➡️Poor scrutiny/Regulation
➡️Acq/Placement💰
➡️BUST OUT
Rinse&Repeat
For casual football fans who are confused by these continuous #fraud (s) and scratching their heads thinking...
"It must be OK because big companies who are highly regulated are involved in the processes"
Think again!🤪
#Auditors #Banks #Football
@FD @tomburgis @JamesPiotr
"It must be OK because big companies who are highly regulated are involved in the processes"
Think again!🤪
#Auditors #Banks #Football
@FD @tomburgis @JamesPiotr
There seems to be a proliferation of these types of frauds involving sport ⚽️🥊
@JackPittBrooke @david_conn @nicolatallantsw @MiloPete
- Money Laundering (Source of 💰 Drugs, Financial Scams/Investment schemes/Trafficking/Capital Flight)
- Layered through property developers..
@JackPittBrooke @david_conn @nicolatallantsw @MiloPete
- Money Laundering (Source of 💰 Drugs, Financial Scams/Investment schemes/Trafficking/Capital Flight)
- Layered through property developers..
If you needed reminding that wherever there are large money flows & weak regulations, there will be organised crime ... READ THIS! 💸👀
#Gangsters hold 🔫 to #QPR Directors head at Half Time @EFL
@mr_gillard (link below) is BRILLIANT!
thebristolcable.org/series/cornerm…
#Gangsters hold 🔫 to #QPR Directors head at Half Time @EFL
@mr_gillard (link below) is BRILLIANT!
thebristolcable.org/series/cornerm…
thebristolcable.org/series/cornerm…
@mr_gillard book #forqueenandcurrency explains the type of fraud that goes on too (Rufus #charlton / #ponzi)
His book #Legacy also gives an interesting insight into #Organisedcrime links to #Westham
Brilliant journalist!👏📕 Buy his books. They are 👌
@mr_gillard book #forqueenandcurrency explains the type of fraud that goes on too (Rufus #charlton / #ponzi)
His book #Legacy also gives an interesting insight into #Organisedcrime links to #Westham
Brilliant journalist!👏📕 Buy his books. They are 👌
Before #Paldini was held at gunpoint in the Directors Box at Half Time at #QPR he'd instigated his own "hostile takeover" which reads like a scene from @Succession_HBO
questia.com/newspaper/1G1-…
questia.com/newspaper/1G1-…
Andrew Barclay of Barclay Bro's lineage when he tried to purchase #CAFC;
"Joke of a situation.
Rename Charlatan Athletic until situation resolved with stable leaders/owners ?
EFL farting around whilst clubs go under & stripped to the bone by conmen. V Sad."
#Southall #Bassini
"Joke of a situation.
Rename Charlatan Athletic until situation resolved with stable leaders/owners ?
EFL farting around whilst clubs go under & stripped to the bone by conmen. V Sad."
#Southall #Bassini
Incredible interview & insight into lobbying, how deals are done within Trumps world and the cast of characters that get behind the curtain 👀
#LevParnas #Trump #Giuliani #PresidentialDebate2020 #Ukraine #Turkey #USA
This is a great overview from @MoisesNaim from his talk with @Columbia_Biz
Gives more understanding around the stories in @tomburgis #Kleptopia and elaborates on my point in this thread.
A good watch - Eye opener 👀
Gives more understanding around the stories in @tomburgis #Kleptopia and elaborates on my point in this thread.
A good watch - Eye opener 👀
Dark & Tragic BUT topical none-the-less
This is horrible, however it's in-line with exactly what is talked about in this thread...
Reality TV/ Social Media has created a weak grey zone for nefarious actors to semi-legitimise
#Norcross #TOWIE #RealityTV
thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/c…
This is horrible, however it's in-line with exactly what is talked about in this thread...
Reality TV/ Social Media has created a weak grey zone for nefarious actors to semi-legitimise
#Norcross #TOWIE #RealityTV
thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/c…
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The topics in this 'thread' seem to be slowly getting more widespread attention - Much needed!
This should be an interesting watch 👀📺
#Crime #Mob #Mafia #Cartels #SocialMedia #RealityTV #Podcasts #Politics #Sport #Governments
#AttentionEconomy #MTK
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
The topics in this 'thread' seem to be slowly getting more widespread attention - Much needed!
This should be an interesting watch 👀📺
#Crime #Mob #Mafia #Cartels #SocialMedia #RealityTV #Podcasts #Politics #Sport #Governments
#AttentionEconomy #MTK
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
I feel like a #Cassandra sometimes - Mind you, this stuff wasn't hard to predict post Brexit 🤔📺⬇️
Fox News and giving primetime to extreme views is coming to the UK... 'Yay'! 🤦
This #Thread gets more relevant by the day.
#PiersMorgan
#RachelJohnson
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Fox News and giving primetime to extreme views is coming to the UK... 'Yay'! 🤦
This #Thread gets more relevant by the day.
#PiersMorgan
#RachelJohnson
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Again, on the note of #RealityTV and the glamorisation of Crime...
In Israel, one of the major Mafia Dons there (#YaakovAlperon) family had their own show 📺🤯
#Hypernormalisation
irishexaminer.com/world/arid-200…
In Israel, one of the major Mafia Dons there (#YaakovAlperon) family had their own show 📺🤯
#Hypernormalisation
irishexaminer.com/world/arid-200…
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