Je suis tombée sur la série Flashback, avec Michaël Youn, que TF1 diffuse en ce moment.
Une policière de 2024 revient en 1994 pour sauver son père.
Si cette œuvre ne séduira pas le cinéphile, elle pourrait néanmoins offrir au sociologue un sujet de réflexion intéressant.🧶
Jouer sur les contrastes entre les époques est un procédé souvent efficace, mais les scénaristes peinent ici à trouver des vrais décalages et exagèrent des clichés pour créer une discordance (les mecs sont forcément des beaufs misogynes qui jettent leurs papiers par terre).
Hormis ces clichés qui heurtent sa sensibilité, la policière féministe, écoresponsable et végane n’est nullement déphasée par ce saut temporel et conserve tous ses repères.
Elle évolue dans un environnement qui, à quelques détails près, lui est familier.
C’est ça qui interpelle.
I was born 51 years ago. What is the purpose of my life?
I have lived several lives in my lifetime. A happy but oblivious childhood in the Soviet Union, focused on family, mathematics and sports. The gangster 1990s in Ukraine focused on survival and money. 1/
My next life was in the US and Europe as an academic economist: PhD in Wisconsin, a first job in Bonn, later Penn State, Penn, and Pittsburgh, the pressure of tenure, first top publications.
In 2014, a new life started: policy work in Ukraine. 2/
I co-founded an important this-tank, served on the supervisory board of the central bank of Ukraine, and became the president of the Kyiv School of Economics.
Then, in 2019 there was a very short diversion into politics. Zelenskyy appointed me the minister of economy. 3/
🧵 THREAD: Manchester City, the charges, the evidence, & how justice was delayed.
Manchester City weren’t charged because rivals complained or because they 'spent big'. They were charged because evidence shows a decade-long system designed to hide owner funding, inflate revenue & deceive & obstruct investigations.
The Premier League’s case didn’t appear overnight.
It began in late 2018, triggered by Football Leaks documents - internal emails, invoices, contracts - that contradicted what City had been telling UEFA & the Premier League for years.
Those emails are the backbone of everything that followed. At the centre of the case is a simple allegation: Manchester City repeatedly disguised owner funding as commercial revenue.
FFP rules require sponsorship income to be real, independent, and market value. What the emails suggest is that City’s biggest 'sponsors' weren’t paying what City claimed - Abu Dhabi was.
Take Etihad as an example. Leaked emails show City executives discussing Etihad paying only a fraction of headline sponsorship deals, with the shortfall quietly topped up by Abu Dhabi government-linked entities.
One email explicitly references ensuring funds 'come through the correct channels' so they are not detected as separate sources of funding. That is the definition of disguised equity. This wasn’t a one-off.
Emails show Etihad deals where shirt sponsorship, stadium, training kit & campus naming rights were all inflated wildly out of line with the market at the time - later confirmed in the actual contracts, not just drafts.
The numbers in the leaks weren’t hypothetical. They were real. UEFA auditors suspected this as early as 2013–14.
They found £47m of 'intellectual property' sales boosting income, a £5m 'win bonus' paid for an FA Cup final City lost & sponsorships from Aabar and Etisalat above market value.
City were fined & restricted - but crucially, UEFA never saw the full records. Why? Because City refused to provide them. This becomes a pattern.
When UEFA charged City again in 2020, they imposed a two-year Champions League ban. City appealed to CAS & had it overturned. City fans shout 'INNOCENT', shared out of context screenshots. They're wrong.
CAS did not rule that City were innocent. CAS ruled that UEFA could not meet the burden of proof - largely because City did not co-operate. City were fined €10m specifically for obstructing the investigation.
Even City's own expert witness was denied access to key information that could have disproved disguised funding. 'No evidence' doesn’t mean nothing happened. It means the evidence was withheld.
CAS explicitly stated that disguised equity funding could not be excluded - only that neither side could conclusively prove their case. That vagueness was entirely engineered.
After CAS, new emails emerged suggesting Simon Pearce, a senior City executive & Sheikh Mansour adviser, had given misleading testimony under oath. City declined to comment. Again.
While all this was happening, the Premier League had already been investigating City for years. City’s response? Delay. Delay. Delay. Obstruct. Litigate.
Court filings later revealed City challenged the legality of the investigation itself, filed repeated procedural applications, refused to hand over documents, forced arbitration, then challenged arbitration & tried to keep the entire process secret.
A High Court judge called it out in 2021. “It is surprising, and a matter of legitimate public concern, that so little progress has been made.” That’s legal spiel for stonewalling.
This obstruction accounts for 35 of the 115 charges alone & that’s before we get to the secret payments.
City declared Roberto Mancini's salary as £1.45m per year. On the same day he signed with City, he also signed a “consultancy” deal with Al Jazira - a club owned by the same man who owns City - worth £1.75m per year. That deal was explicitly marked confidential.
Emails show City executives arranging the payments. Same signatures. Same people. Same day. The allegation is obvious: City paid Mancini off the books.
Leaked documents allege undeclared payments for Yaya Touré, including via third parties. These aren’t rumours. They’re contracts, emails, invoices. This is why there are 14 charges relating to manager and player remuneration.
Then there’s image rights. City told UEFA they sold player image rights for a £24.5m lump sum to comply with FFP. Later, they quietly resumed earning millions from image rights again.
The buyer? A company whose directors included City’s own senior legal officer. Independent journalists couldn’t even establish its genuine commercial purpose.
All of this feeds into the core allegation across 54 charges: City failed to provide accurate financial information in good faith. Not once. Not twice. But repeatedly, over nearly a decade.
Now add politics. UK government departments discussed City’s charges with the British embassy in Abu Dhabi. Those communications are sealed - because releasing them could 'damage relations with the UAE'. City insist they are not state-backed. Then why is the state involved?
Yet still, the delays continue. A 12-week closed-door hearing. Half a million documents. Years of silence. City remain 'innocent' - not because the evidence disappeared, but because the verdict hasn’t landed.
This is why the case matters. If City walk away with a fine, it tells every club to cheat cleverly, obstruct endlessly, spend on lawyers, not compliance.. & the rules collapse.
This isn’t about jealousy. It isn’t about success. It’s about whether financial regulation in English football is real - or optional for the richest club in the league.
The evidence exists. The emails exist. The delays are documented. Now only one question remains, do the rules apply to City or not?
This is all publicly available information, by the way. If you enjoyed, please repost it. Tag a City fan in denial. Tag a friend who is sick of arguing with people who don't understand what's happening.
Hope people enjoyed it, though City fans won't.
There's plenty of questions to be asked out of this, here's mine:
1. If Etihad, Etisalat, Aabar & other Abu Dhabi-linked sponsors paid the full value of their deals themselves, why have City never allowed regulators to see the sponsors' incoming funds for the relevant periods?
2. Why do leaked internal emails explicitly refer to sponsors paying only part of agreed sums, with "Abu Dhabi partners" making up the balance - & why has City never produced evidence disproving this?
3. Why were sponsorship values at City multiples higher than market comparables at the time - & who independently verified those valuations?
4. Why did City’s own executives discuss ensuring money came through "correct channels" so it wouldn’t appear as separate funding?
5. Why did Roberto Mancini sign two contracts on the same day - one with Manchester City and one with Al Jazira - both signed by City-linked executives?
6. What actual work did Mancini perform for Al Jazira that justified £1.75m per year - & where is the evidence of that work?
7. Why were those Al Jazira payments contractually required to be kept secret?
8. If payments to Mancini & Yaya Touré were legitimate, why were they not disclosed to UEFA & the Premier League at the time?
9. If City "did nothing wrong" in 2014, why did they accept a €60m fine, squad restrictions, wage caps, & transfer limits rather than fully contest the case?
10. Why did UEFA auditors say City's income had been artificially inflated via intellectual property sales & related-party transactions?
11. Why did City agree never to repeat those accounting practices if they were legitimate?
12. Why have City been repeatedly fined & criticised for non-cooperation - by UEFA, CAS, the Premier League & a High Court judge?
13. Why did City refuse to provide documents that even their own expert witness said would have been necessary to disprove disguised funding?
14. Why did a UK High Court judge state it was "surprising & of legitimate public concern" that so little progress had been made after years of investigation?
15. Why do City fans and representatives claim CAS "cleared" City when the panel explicitly said neither side’s hypothesis could be proven due to lack of evidence?
16. Why did CAS fine City €10m for non-cooperation if City had fully complied?
17. Why was key evidence (including later Football Leaks documents) not available to CAS at the time?
18. Why is City leading the charge to weaken APT rules if their sponsorships are genuinely at fair market value?
19. Why would stricter scrutiny of related-party sponsorships be a threat unless those deals rely on ownership links?
20. Why did the UK government discuss City’s charges with its embassy in Abu Dhabi - & why would disclosure "risk UK–UAE relations"?
21. If City are not state-backed in any meaningful way, why would diplomatic sensitivity exist at all?
22. One that City NEVER answers - if they have a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence,” why has none of it been made public, why has every investigation been marked by delay, obstruction & partial disclosure?
These are not accusations. They are unanswered questions. And in regulated sport - especially one built on competitive integrity - silence, obstruction & delay are not neutral acts. They are signals.
If City truly have nothing to hide, the solution has always been simple - open the books. Fully. Everywhere. Shouldn't be hard if they're innocent, right?
The Age of Aquarius is unfolding, and its energy is dismantling systems humanity has tolerated for centuries. Aquarian energy is egalitarian, innovative, human-centric, and deeply allergic to control structures built on greed and secrecy. Here’s what you can expect:
First and foremost: monopolies. Aquarius energy does not support concentrated power. It supports decentralization, collaboration, innovation, and systems designed to serve humanity, not feed on it. Structures built on hoarding control cannot survive in Aquarian currents.
Next is the decline of monarchies. They say the monarchy has fallen for a long time now. No, it hasn't. They're still running things in the background. But the spell breaks. The celebrity aura fades. People stop caring. This will push for a fairer distribution of wealth (this shift will take time, but it’s coming).
No puedo citar directamente a Javier. Lo que comenta de que se salven menos de los que se condenan, a todas luces es lo que parece con sólo observar el mundo, pero no tenemos confirmación de que sea así y tampoco está definido de forma infalible.
Por otra parte, afirmar que Dios Padre no quiere, porque no es su voluntad, que sean más los que se salvan que los que se condenan, incluso cuando el Hijo quisiera cambiarlo, me suena a un error gordo. 🤷🏻
Re USA v Abrego Garcia: A quick summary of what Judge Crenshaw’s newly unsealed order from 12/3 shows & means: He reviewed ~3,000 govt documents in chambers. Most were irrelevant, but he ordered a few dozen key ones turned over to defense. ... 1/7 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
US Atty McGuire had previously sworn that he alone decided to indict Abrego Garcia. But emails show, per Crenshaw, that @DAGToddBlanche's Office told McGuire that indicting was a “top priority”; they wanted it “sooner rather than later”; & they even oversaw its content. ... 2/7
... Abrego’s vindictiveness claim hinges on timing. For 3 years the govt took no steps to charge him for his 11/30/22 traffic stop. It sent him to CECOT on 3/15/25 &, on 4/1/25, closed his arrest file. ...
3/7
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8 HIDDEN GROK COMMANDS THAT 90% OF USERS DON’T KNOW
Most people use GROK like this:
“Write a post,”
“Make a list,”
“Explain this…”
But if you’re doing that, you’re missing out on 90% of its real power.
Here are 8 advanced commands that will make GROK work at its full potential:
1️⃣ “Act as…” – Turns GROK into any expert.
→ Generic prompts give weak answers. Defining a clear role improves results dramatically.
→ Example: “Act as a luxury brand marketer. Develop a high-end product promotion strategy.”
2️⃣ “Break this answer down into 3 levels: beginner, advanced, expert.”
→ You get a response tailored to different skill levels.
→ Perfect for learning, articles, scripts, and marketing.
American Cowboys leash the Cow (BAAL).
Spaniard Matadors pierce the Cow (BAAL).
Hindus and the Aryan Race worship the Cow (BAAL).
Gau Mata never was a western tradition.
(Gau=Kesra and Mata=Nermend)
Do you see the symbol of the flag of IRAN on the forehead of BAAL?
The police of Poland worship that symbol:
The BAAList show all the time is on repeat.
The world sees the same movie again and again.
At the end the BAALists slaughter everyone and the stage will become clean for the next rehearsal.
Retard BAAList slaves who dance on the stage of Gau Mata theater.
Revelation 3:9
Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.
@perfektworld @Tuliodna @LongDesertTrain @bitterbichon "Nach derzeitigem Kenntnisstand entwickeln ~ 10% der COVID-Patienten LongCovid, innerhalb der Long- und PostCOVID-Gruppe gibt es nochmal einige, die keine Konzentrations-, Gedächtnis- oder Aufmerksamkeitsstörungen entwickeln
Das sind dann nochmal ca. die Hälfte, oder 40 bis 50 %"
@perfektworld @Tuliodna @LongDesertTrain @bitterbichon "Demenz impliziert bei Angehörigen, Patienten und in der Gesellschaft häufig, dass diese Erkrankung nicht reversibel – also nicht mehr rückgängig zu machen – ist.
Das ist bei Covid, was wir vermuten (🤡!!!) und hoffen(🤫!!), nicht der Fall"