I am watching as I love the World Cup but - **** those guys and their regressive, repressive rules. I agree, it never should have been awarded to them, but money talks.

This whole 'sport washing' thing is absolutely a blight, a pox upon the world, but let's be honest FIFA (and IOC) are a bunch of corrupt self serving assholes themselves too.
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It's the same for F1 now too. We are seeing more races in the Far East. Countries with no real history of racing heritage. Just rich greedy people who can afford to buy the most expensive cars and build an F1 track in their backyard.

Something needs to change, but I think that will only happen if and when we end the global reliance on oil, and economies shift.
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I too was going to make a rash statement about how moving away from oil will really help, and also will see this monuments to excess sink back into the desert sand but then I thought about it some more and realised - who will really suffer? It won't be the rich, the royals, the sheiks but the poor exploited workers, the folk that are generally at the shit-end of the stick anyway.

In a way though, are these places not just using the model we've set up, but just at a far more extreme end and with a much quicker jump to the conclusion?
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No. Their society has been like this long before Europe ever did much. The Arabs were taking people from Eastern Africa as slaves in far greater numbers then Europe when the American slave trade was operating.

But I do think if we ever manage to end the need for oil it is going to have a big shift on global economies. The USA and the Far East will feel the impact as Ebrington is run by the stock market and global reaction. It would devalue their currencies and international financial standing. Oil is their only real commodity.
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Fifa & F1....

Pah! - It's all bullshit.
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The bigger they get, the more corrupt they become.
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But I do so love the idea of an international festival of football. Shame it's so tainted.
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Greed H.... Just unadulterated Greed.
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