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Exposing the hypocrisy of journalists
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The Stockport Iniesta
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Well in Rabin, and other blues for not standing aside and letting them spout their shite unopposed.
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Miguel DelaneyVerified account @MiguelDelaney 7h7 hours ago
Everything. Anonymity grants freedom to mislead and be deceitful. Having your identity out there mitigates against that.
Miguel DelaneyVerified account @MiguelDelaney 7h7 hours ago
His identity of course affects the facts, because anonymity allows obfuscation and deception far easier, as it entirely removes accountability. I mean this has been the basis of the internet since it was invented! Not rocket science!
So as a known journalist he's at a disadvantage because he has no freedom to mislead, be deceitful and has full accountability on every claim he makes?
The biggest pile of shite argument any of them(the Harris brothers and the rest of shit list) have come out with in quite some time. He wants his identity so he can either discredit him and dismiss his claims and counterpoints based on publicly available sources, simply for not being a journalist; or shun him and act the prick via official channels if he is a journalist.
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Trevor Morley's Tache
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Just take a peak on Google and you`ll have some fucking nightmares. ;)
His picture for the Independent looks like a mugshot from Crimewatch.
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Ewan MacKennaVerified account @EwanMacKenna May 12
No other football club is directly run by those behind the biggest humanatarian crisis on earth and including any and all wrongs in an article doesn't make this wrong better, rather it takes away from the specifics of this wrong.
Reading through that twitter thread, he repeatedly says he will go after whoever if there is a direct link but then asks people not to focus on the Standard Chartered and New Balance links to the same crisis.... You know because that would require posting something sensational leading with "Liverpool FC". What an utter fraud.
Is anyone clued up on that to tell us if the UAE are the biggest contributing factor to the Yemen situation as he claims or if he is talking out of his arse, just to find a way to link City to it as they clinched the title?
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Trevor Morley's Tache
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Reading through that twitter thread, he repeatedly says he will go after whoever if there is a direct link but then asks people not to focus on the Standard Chartered and New Balance links to the same crisis.... You know because that would require posting something sensational leading with "Liverpool FC". What an utter fraud.
Is anyone clued up on that to tell us if the UAE are the biggest contributing factor to the Yemen situation as he claims or if he is talking out of his arse, just to find a way to link City to it as they clinched the title?
He misses the point that we are not a state owned club.
Reading through that twitter thread, he repeatedly says he will go after whoever if there is a direct link but then asks people not to focus on the Standard Chartered and New Balance links to the same crisis.... You know because that would require posting something sensational leading with "Liverpool FC". What an utter fraud.
Is anyone clued up on that to tell us if the UAE are the biggest contributing factor to the Yemen situation as he claims or if he is talking out of his arse, just to find a way to link City to it as they clinched the title?
Saudi is the main player. You know the state that has a strategic partnership with Man Utd, and who sponsor Man Utd through the state owned Saudi Telecom.
We've just watched the Women's World Cup won by the US. Zero mention of Sportswashing etc. Journalists like this are a disgrace.
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Oh yeah, that's why I chose that quote to make my point about his accountability and freedom to mislead.He misses the point that we are not a state owned club.
I just don't know alot about the Yemen conflict but I highly suspect neither does he, when you take out everything he hasn't cherry picked because it's linked to the UAE. He is claiming the UAE are the biggest contributor. Is he a sports writer or is this his field?
The conflict itself(which is a civil war) is nothing to do with the UAE from what I gather.
https://nena-news.it/is-iran-really-to-blame-for-yemen-conflict/
As far as the blockade goes as I understand it, it's something like Iran and Qatar vs Saudi Arabia and the UAE(and the USA since Trump backed the Saudi efforts against Iran?). So they all share blame in how it came about. It really would be better if they lifted the blockade but that's not the only problem in Yemen right now is it? To me it looks like the UAE dont want to ruin relations with Saudi Arabia much the same as Qatar and Iran. Why all sides need each other that much is not clear to me but I suppose in that part of the world you do need your allies for military support and good relations for trade etc.
As you say Sheikh Mansour has nothing to do with any of this and neither do City but we do have a link to the UAE as do Arsenal, Real Madrid and the FA Cup. I was just curious how accurate or inaccurate his claims were. I'm slowly putting a basic jigsaw picture of it together now, which has far bigger pieces to it from elsewhere, than he was making out.
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Oh yeah, that's why I chose that quote to make my point about his accountability and freedom to mislead.
It's a random nobody on twitter, which you're giving extra attention to. He's less significant with his imagery than the far-right pro-life brigade, given his utterly contemptuous attempt to link a starving child to our club.
Why are you playing 'just asking questions'
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but we do have a link to the UAE as do Arsenal, Real Madrid and the FA Cup
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So fucking what, that's the point of raising agendas, why is it that our connection to the UAE makes us suspect, but somehow Arsenal, RM and the FA cup are not criticised?
Your entire point seems to be as if you've not read anything throughout the the thread, and at best are asking everyone to explain it all to you. How about you read through the thread and links yourself?
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Metalartin
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Reading for anyone else interested in what this Ewan MacKenna fella is leaving out:
https://theglobepost.com/2017/11/21/qatar-saudi-arabia-blockade-game/
https://theglobepost.com/2019/06/17/qatar-crisis-gcc/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–19_Qatar_diplomatic_crisis
So from the UAE side, Saudi Arabia aren't great to be linked to, I can already gather that.
But for balance, from what I can see, important points that are always left out form people like him are:
Iran are no angels, accused of state sponsored terrorism for a start(imagine the stories that would be written if City were on that side of things?) that's a good thing to lead with when a dipper is claiming "Iran aren't that bad compared to the UAE la".
Saudi Arabia don't have good relations with Iran(probably doesn't need to be said), especially after an attack on their embassy in Iran(Tehran) in 2016, other issues add to it such as the interpretations of Islam, aspirations for leadership of the Islamic world, oil export policy and relations with the United States and other Western countries.
Qatar have had close relations with Iran for a long time, they share one of the largest natural gas fields in the world, so it would be mutually beneficial if they did.
Qatar paid $700 million to Iranian-backed Shi'a militias in Iraq, in 2017. Which angered both Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Saudi Arabia were becoming anxious about the Iranian presence in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. They demanded Qatar reduce its relations with Iran, to reduce its growing influence in the region.
The blockade itself includes the airspaces of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt.
https://theglobepost.com/2017/11/21/qatar-saudi-arabia-blockade-game/
https://theglobepost.com/2019/06/17/qatar-crisis-gcc/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–19_Qatar_diplomatic_crisis
So from the UAE side, Saudi Arabia aren't great to be linked to, I can already gather that.
But for balance, from what I can see, important points that are always left out form people like him are:
Iran are no angels, accused of state sponsored terrorism for a start(imagine the stories that would be written if City were on that side of things?) that's a good thing to lead with when a dipper is claiming "Iran aren't that bad compared to the UAE la".
Saudi Arabia don't have good relations with Iran(probably doesn't need to be said), especially after an attack on their embassy in Iran(Tehran) in 2016, other issues add to it such as the interpretations of Islam, aspirations for leadership of the Islamic world, oil export policy and relations with the United States and other Western countries.
Qatar have had close relations with Iran for a long time, they share one of the largest natural gas fields in the world, so it would be mutually beneficial if they did.
Qatar paid $700 million to Iranian-backed Shi'a militias in Iraq, in 2017. Which angered both Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Saudi Arabia were becoming anxious about the Iranian presence in Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. They demanded Qatar reduce its relations with Iran, to reduce its growing influence in the region.
The blockade itself includes the airspaces of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt.
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