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On 31.05.2015 15:07, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:
on Samstag, 30. Mai 2015 at 18:55, Ken Hiebert wrote under the subject "FIFA
scandal":
I note that not only Putin, but Third World countries in general are reported
to support Blatter.
Because the proceeds from the worlds largest sports events, the football
world championship, are being distributed to all memmber football associations
around the world, more than 200 of them.
Big business and their Corporate News Networks want football to be controlled as the big US
american "sports", like US Rugby ("football"), Basketball etc, which are pure
businesses where sports clubs controlled by their members have no say at all, but only the owners.
The owners of the English "Premier Ligue", the French "Lique un", the Spanisch "Primera division", and the German
"Bundesliga" etc etc would very much like to organize world football events with the exclusion of the Third World countries except Brasil
and Argentina, but they fear that this would result in a situation as in Boxing, where a number of competing "World" boxing
"Associations" i.e. businesses all organise their own "World champions", or Rugby, where there is already a multitude of world
leagues with different rules (including the US football, which is nothing but a more brutalized version of Rugby).
And now comes the king's, i.e. New York Stock Exchanges, mounted messenger
on the White Horse, the US criminal justice system and tries to establish US
Imperialism as the sole owner of World football, in order to lead it surely in
the corral of US Big Business.
And so called "lefties" don't read the signs clearly written on the wall?
I fear Lüko's take on the FIFA affair is a bit naive. All of what he
says about the motives of the American authorities may be true, but the
football establishment everywhere is incredibly corrupt and dominated by
the national elites - we're talking about billions of dollars or euros
with kickbacks worth millions. Blatter has in the middle of this morass
of blatant corruption for nearly 20 years, whether he's directly got his
snout in the trough or not.
This is another case of where by adopting the motto that "my enemy's
enemy is my friend" leads to politically false conclusions.
Einde O'Callaghan
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