#but also being a journalist would be interesting but i guess that kind of slots with law as

[elytrafemme]

i wonder if it’s strange, but something i find so fascinating to study is corruption in authority & moral conundrums in law. like i was talking to my brother and father about this but the reason that i want to go into law is because i’m fascinated with the concept and eternal question of what prompts you to defend a guilty person (especially tied with the question of does defending a guilty person defend more people than just that person?) and like. i really love studying corrupt governments not because it depresses me but because i find hope in figuring out where the root of that corruption is and how we as people can work to lessen it. 

i guess it’s less strange when i write it out but i dunno. these things don’t depress me or fill me with existential fear. i find them really exciting actually.

[teamwoah]

GAMBLING CASINOS ON THE WEB

In these days just about every person owns a computer or has some kind of a way to get online, and with great purpose! There are so a lot of various factors you can do on the web now a times that you couldn’t do say even five several years back. The sheer volume of online gambling sites alone is earth shattering. In the year 2002 as outlined in United states of america Today by equity analysis organization Bear Stearns was quoted in declaring that more than 4.five million men and women, half of them becoming folks from the United States frequently gamble on the web. Of course this variety has much more than doubled in the earlier 6 many years given that that estimate was prepared in United states Today.

Practically any individual can gamble on the internet at these gaming casinos, as prolonged as it is lawful in your location of residence! There are quite a few amount of web sites such that offer video games this kind of as roulette, black jack, and slots the place you can engage in for actual funds and acquire actual cash in the procedure. Other websites have other things such as “chips” that when accrued can be employed to get stuff on the internet site, or to engage in far more video games. A lot more probably than not nevertheless, if you might be heading to be gambling online you’re going to get some actual income! Possibly way please make sure you know you are point out or region legislative rules ahead of gambling online.

If you are heading to gamble at a internet site with actual cash its a good idea to stick to these stage of criteria: – Make sure the site is legally certified – Payouts are reviewed and licensed by an independent auditing organization – Consumer support is responsive – Accreditation is given by resources this sort of as SafeBet, and the Interactive Gaming Council

On the web gambling sites and on line casino websites more than most likely will let you to pay with credit card, verify, cash order, or wire transfer. Though just lately web sites have also started out accepting other kinds of payment this sort of as FirePay, NetTeller, ACH, 900 Shell out and the like. I personally like the types that have the ACH choice simply because you can just take it immediately out of you are bank account and put it proper into you’re account on-line. Also do not be surprised when signing up for these sites if they ask for you are drivers license variety, financial institution account quantity, credit score card quantity, or social protection number. This is just their way of assuring that you are of lawful age!

If you are seeking for internet sites that possibly permit actual funds wagers or bogus wagers remember to go to Google and research for key phrases this sort of as “On-line Gambling Sites”, “On the internet Black Jack Websites”, “On the internet Roulette Web sites” or other research conditions this kind of as “Gamble With True Money On-line” or “On the internet Gambling Casinos With Actual Wagers.”

Many gambling chats and information teams devoted to poker more and much more usually anxiously mention the so-named card-playing robots, known as “bots” in the nomenclature of the World wide web, that are currently being utilised on commercial gambling internet sites. Juara Slot 777 are confident that a variety of gambling portals prospers because of to the use of the unique plans, ready to beat an above-typical participant, not mentioning a newbie. In a traditional casino you can constantly guess the weak sides of your competitor, determine out his technique and etc, in a virtual gaming property there is no telling your competitor is a human, but not specifically produced program, “substituted” for a actual participant.

If it is correct, then widespread of poker bots able of beating an common player would pose a considerable issue for poker sector. With out generation of a special technique verifying the identification and “humanity” of playing cards gamers in on-line casinos, the company could be considerably undercut. This is an viewpoint of gamers themselves, and gambling figures, interested in further improvement of on-line game sector.

Some skeptics say that, considering the complexity of the match and consistently modifying methods, development of the system that can go through opponents’ cards utilizing particular methods of display scanning and answer in genuine time is a lot of many years away at very best. The supporters of this level of see point to the variety of business programs that purport to help players, but with no actual result. Nonetheless there is a completely ready response for all of these objections – in Canadian College of Alberta a personal computer poker research group has created an artificially clever automaton recognized as “Vex Bot”. This robot is capable of taking part in poker at master amount in a recreation with two gamers. The new program has already been utilised to take a look at the frontiers of synthetic intelligence, as it will be the basis for industrial poker tutorial system. As shortly as the news about robot generation was printed in media, the creators commenced to receive letters mentioning the hazard of system use for the functions of unlawful gambling organization.

Darse Billings who is lead designer of “Vex Bot” considers that chance of the use of bots on industrial internet sites is approximately 50:50, but he is also sure that all of the modern programs can not likely match his development, which is a outcome of a 10 several years study work of a crew of professionals.

“The strategy of the sport is hard and to sit down and write a software that can conquer a table of experienced human gamers is no trivial job,” Billings mentioned. In accordance to his the viewpoint, the greatest obstacles lie in the sum of information unavailable to the participant and the need to have for the system to be in a position to employ a range of methods at diverse times, this sort of as bluffing and laying traps for opponents, and so forth Just for this goal synthetic intelligence was added to the technique, capable not only compute chances but also line up logic of game, model it truly is opponents actions, and so on.

In the viewpoint of creators of “Vex Bot”, its principal edge is that, as nicely as any other robotic they have no thoughts, no worry and no shame and can not be nervous. He will stay indifferent even prior to the most intense participant.

Journalists, learning the issue of poker boats, observe that it is extremely hard to get the real photograph simply because of the unwillingness of a lot of gambling operators to solution upon requests on this situation. There are no large-high quality plans, able to observe suspicious poker internet sites with the uncommon patterns of sport.

Representative of CryptoLogic Organization, commenting this issue, pointed out that some players, suspected to use of boats, have been banned from the member internet sites. Often it is just unattainable to be confident who plays is a human or robot, but a firm, exposing all uncommon techniques, prefers to be reinsured and protect itself from the possible socializing with a bot.

Professional players, speaking about the recognition of poker bots, mention how advantageous it can be: if you have the software, able to engage in twenty five casinos concurrently, two tables apiece and even if you are playing a minimum $10-20 on a match, you make $1000 an hour. The contributors of numerous gambling chats are distressed that the personal computer applications have presently took the spot of interactive poker. Skeptics are certain that poker will carry on to grow to be far more well-known, in spite of all of threats from the side of programmers. In their impression, it really is only a make a difference of time ahead of much more people want to produce their personal bots to be remembered, but all of these tries are doomed to failure.

[eyestethickunica]

Thank u, next.

It will end here.

This journey started six months ago.

Before ending up with this job, I had four applications. First, I applied in a known large company located in Bonifacio Global City. It was epic. For a first time job hunter, I really had the guts to apply there knowing it was miles away from home. Since the location is BGC, many people applied there coming from different places and universities. It was horrifying, I mean the interview itself. There were two monsters, ahem, ladies I mean who were smiling but you know deep inside, they were not satisfied with the girl in front of them.

But that moment, I felt independency at first hand.

My second application was in UPS in Clark Development Corporation. It was actually my worst application ever. The heartache when I went home from UPS is worse than Citi’s. The only thing that made my application a failure when I mentioned I had a breakdown back in college. It was a naive move, certainly. I shouldn’t have mentioned it but it was a blessing a disguise on my part though. The job position was a customer service representative and my family would surely disapproved if I were to work there.

After that fiasco, I tried applying in TaskUs. TaskUs is a known call center agency in Clark with a colorful buidling and enthusiatic friendly company that is located in front of Medical City, Clark Global City. I asked my mom if it is okay with her for me to work in that kind of job, being a call center agent. No offense meant to those working in call center, it is just that, I graduated with a 4-year course related to Marketing yet I will end up working as an agent. It was kind of a taboo, I guess. (Kudos to them though!) But then, my mom agreed. It was a nice place she said and the experience may help me to improve my English communication skills since we’re planning to go to United States.

So early in the morning, I went to TaskUs and had my first step: Initial interview. The questions asked were the same from my last two interviews so it went easy and along the interview, the recruiter asked my hobbies so I told her that I’m fond of writing. I do watch a lot of movies locally and internationally. I also mentioned that I was a journalist back in high school so the interview shifted into something different. She said (in non-verbatim), “We actually have another account here in TaskUs for someone like you. This account is quite different. You need not to speak, however, you will use your mind. This account is MediaMax wherein you create headlines and no worries, that team were full of nerds so I think you fit in there.” At that point, I was really amazed. Like “Wow! Lord, I applied for the position of a call center agent yet you given me this opportunity.”

“So this will be the process: In the next step, you will take an exam for MediaMax. If you passed, you will have two final interviews. An interview for MediaMax and for non-voice account. So if you passed MediaMax, you have the choice of which account do you want to go.” she added. So I did the exam. On the first take, I did few mistakes but the recruiter gave me another chance and I passed it. She talked to me personally right after the exam and told me to come back later at night for the final interview. I went back around 8pm and had my interview. And damn! It was the most interesting interview I ever had! It was as if that team leader and I were just talking about things we have in common. She said that to be in the MediaMax, we’re using our brain cells to the fullest. We need to be aware anything related to Netflix and other known magazines since we’re making headlines and saving articles from those and there, she mentioned that she wasn’t sure when would I start since there will be a single slot available and they’re expecting two other candidates to be interviewed but I was the first candidate she interviewed and if the other two failed or passed, I will be the first option to be hired.

After that, the HR staff gave me the requirements and everything. He said that once the slot is available and open, I can start immediately. So I did everything but the downside was that, I waited for two months. It was like a week or two before I ended with my job right now, they called to inform me that the slot is already open and they will just call me again for the contract signing. I was really excited of course! But they called me again days after saying that the lady who was supposed to leave cancelled her resignation so I just need to wait again.

On my third application, it was simple and lighthearted kind of interview. I made a mistake though. After the initial interview with the HR executive, I need to be in front of a camera for a video application that is intended to be sent to the CEO (she was in Australia at that time) so that she has the idea who the candidate is. To be fair, I was just really excited to work in Resourcefull so what happened was that, I looked like I auditioned for PBB House. I was really enthusiastic (LOL). After the interview, Ma’am Mika (If I remember it correctly) told us (I’m with a friend) that she will just call or text us for an update. After a week, she texted us and we went there. My friend passed the position we applied for but she needs to wait for two months for the training while on my end, I was actually hired to be part in HR Department. The sad part, I rejected it as well as my friend. HR Department has really a lot of works compare in other clerical jobs, that’s why I declined it. I kinda regret it though even as of the moment.

Few days after that, I had another interview and fortunately, I landed on my current job. By God’s grace, I’m working for six months now but I needed to end this. This was not part of the plan though. I planned to leave Pampanga after a year of my employment and pursue my career in Manila. I really want to go back in Citi or somewhere in BGC. As of now, I’m experiencing UTI. My kidneys are not functioning well. I tend to be nauseous and vomits once in a while so I had another checkups, lab tests and even ultrasound. The results are not worse so I’m thankful for that, however, my UTI is still there and the ultrasound shows that my liver grown bigger than normal so I really need to lessen my intake of cholesterol and fatty foods, condiments, alcohol and softdrinks. Just water.

It saddens me but I really need to leave.

[gesteckt1]

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Our last test is likely the most important one for those who buy a laptop: battery life. We loop a 4K video at a relatively bright 250 to 260 nits, with the laptop set to airplane mode, and with earbuds connected. The results for the Spectre x360 15 are fairly impressive, but not the winner. The winner is its near-twin, the Spectre x360 15 with a Core i5-8550U and GeForce MX150. Remember: Both laptops have the exact same-size battery and the exact same screen. Still, for a laptop with this much CPU and GPU performance, this is an impressive result.This still doesn’t mean you can play a game on batteries for nine hours. It means you can probably watch movies on the SSD for that long. Browsing, gaming, and other CPU-intensive tasks will use far more battery.There’s two conclusions to be made here. The first is the HP Spectre x360 15 itself. The high-end laptop has been around for two years now, but it took Intel’s Kaby Lake-G to make it sing, delivering plenty of performance to go with the looks.

We have few quibbles with the Spectre x360 15 design. But we were hoping it'd be lighter rather than heavier. The slender profile hides our biggest disappointment, though: the weight. Blame the 4K panel, or look on the bright side and appreciate the sturdiness, but bottom line, this is a heavier laptop than we'd like. The second conclusion is that Intel’s Kaby Lake-G Core i7-8705G is a pretty impressive package (our review of the CPU is here.) It’s not enough to threaten Nvidia’s dominance at the high-end of gaming laptops, but the truth is, the lion’s share of gaming laptops sales are actually in the GeForce GTX 1050 range. The Spectre x360 15 can hold its own in this crowd, further blurring the line between mainstream and gaming machines. Microsoft has announced a new Surface tablet computer called the Go. It’s smaller, lighter, and cheaper than its siblings. Initial thoughts by most tech journalists is to assume it’s going to be too small and too underpowered to function as a proper laptop. They’re right, of course, but I’m interested in it for a different purpose: a travel laptop.

Small, light, and cheap are some of the main aspects I look for in my search for the perfect travel laptop, but those aren’t the only ones.Regardless how long you’re travelling, you almost certainly don’t need a full-size laptop. Most people don’t need any laptop, but if you’re reading this I’m guessing you need to do some work while you’re on the go, and a regular tablet just doesn’t cut it. As handy as they are, there’s something to be said about a device that can run all the same software as your computer at home. There are workarounds and options with a tablet, but a “real” computer is just a bit easier.In my years as a digital nomad, I rely on my laptop to make a living while I’m on the road. I’ve figured out what I need, and what I don’t. The new Surface Go ticks a lot of the right boxes, but lets first talk about what I’m looking for in a laptop specifically for travel.

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Size: Small. Lugging a 17-inch behemoth gets old before you make it across the airport. Something small and light is vital.Price: Low. There is something freeing about having a laptop that won't break your wallet and mind if it got stolen, like mine almost did last year with the rest of my gear.Battery life: Between long flights, long sessions at coffee shops, and perhaps a few days between being able to charge properly, exceptionally long battery life is crucial. My current laptop, for example, lasts for 11 hours or more, depending what I’m doing.Charge via USB: This is probably the hidden key to it all. Being able to charge your laptop via USB means you can connect a USB battery pack and have, essentially, unlimited battery life. OK, not “unlimited” but depending on the pack, between a few hours to more than double the already long battery life. That’s huge, and sadly, rare.

The traditional must-haves when it comes to computers are far less important. Screen size, resolution, processing power, etc, are all secondary to the above. If it’s a little slow, isn’t that a fair trade for something that weighs next to nothing and lasts for 10 hours?The Surface Go ticks a lot of the right boxes. It’s got a 10-inch screen and is 8.3mm thick (about a third of an inch), so it’s small and compact. At 1.15-pounds it’s light too.It charges via USB-C, which is fantastic and pretty much the reason I’m writing this preview at all.As far as the price goes, it’s more expensive than my go-to Asus. List is $400, but that’s without the, for our purposes, required keyboard. Figure $100 for that, according to Microsoft’s pricing, and we’re looking at a $500 laptop. There are some great budget laptops for $500 that will offer more in terms of traditional “computery” things, but all are much larger and heavier.

Battery life is a claimed 9 hours, which is quite good. One of the ways my current travel laptop pick does its 11+ hour trick is by having an Intel Atom processor. This performs far below what you’d expect in one of their regular chips. It’s a hypermiling Toyota Prius, so expecting a good 0-60 time misses the point.The Surface Go is using an Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor, which is of the Kaby Lake family. It will be interesting to see if this performs better than the Atoms. It’s a year newer than the Atom x5-Z8350 in my Asus, and not of the Atom family, so it’s possible it will be faster. My assumption is it will, based on a fair guess that Microsoft wouldn’t release one of their few hardware products with the kind of performance I’m willing to tolerate in a travel laptop. People expecting even tablet-like performance would likely be flustered with Atom-speed, and that doesn’t sound like what Microsoft would want to do. So I think it’s a fair guess the Go will be faster than other 10-inch tablet/computer hybrids, but with less battery life. But I could be wrong.

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And a faster processor wouldn’t be bad. My Asus is fine for writing, web, Netflix, even photo editing, but try to do more than one thing at a time, or any sort of video editing, and it becomes an infuriating slog.There are other aspects, too, that are good, but not vital for the travel minded. The screen has a decent resolution of 1800x1200, for example. I briefly had a 10-inch laptop with a 1920x1080 screen and I’ll tell you, it was too much. Everything was just too small, and there’s only so much that zooming in and increasing font size can do. Which is to say, on this size screen, 1800x1200 should plenty for a laptop, especially one that's a more squarish 3:2 aspect ratio vs the usual laptop 16x9. The Asus Transformer is 1280x800, for comparison, and that's a bit of a weak spot.

I’m not rushing out to get a Surface Go. While it looks good on paper, it’s also remarkably similar to my year- and-a-half-old Asus Transformer Mini T102HA. If the Go really does last 9 hours, and if it is a little faster than the Atom-based 10-inchers, it will certainly be worth considering. I love my travel laptop, but something with a higher resolution screen and some more horsepower would do nicely.It’s also worth considering that the price isn’t really $400. As mentioned, it’s really $500 with the keyboard, and that’s with a 64GB harddrive and 4GB of RAM. That’s “fine” for a travel laptop, and I made do with those numbers for years across several computers (a built-in SD card slot handles most of the storage for them and for the Go). If you add in $50 more, the Go gets a 128GB harddrive and 8GB of RAM. That’s definitely the way to go, but now we’re talking even more money than the Asus, for only a little bit better on paper.

[celticnoise]

Last year, in an articles on this site, I argued that one of the problems with Sevco fans is that they genuinely don’t know who their friends are. I argued that Doncaster and Regan are amongst them; these are men who will literally do anything to hold the Sevco franchise together.

If it’s in their power then they’ll move mountains for the club.

They did in 2012, of course.

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I’ve written extensively on those days, about stuff that’s in the public domain but also stuff that isn’t.

I’ve researched this matter thoroughly and I know some things for sure and I can make a pretty good guess at some others.

It is my firm belief, based on what I know and have seen, that both Regan and Doncaster are at least partially guilty of assisting in the collapse of Rangers.

Doncaster then used that disaster as leverage in trying to get Sevco into the top flight, via the television deal he had negotiated behind the backs of the clubs.

The whole thing reeks and it always has.

Regan’s role has always been more opaque, but he was aware of what was going on at Ibrox at an early stage and because he and Whyte were already in communication over what became Resolution 12 it makes sense that he would have gone along with even the most hair-brained scheme over there.

A lot of people know this stuff.

There’s not much incentive for them to talk, but the information has got out anyway, in strategic leaks online.

I’d say a couple of thousand people at most are wholly familiar with that information and the ground it covers; that’s a lot within a small community – and the Internet Bampots are a small community – but that doesn’t matter if the media won’t touch the subject with a barge pole and so you can’t get it out there to the wider public.

I do believe full public disclosure of that information would wreck careers; these men couldn’t survive the rest of the country knowing, for example, that they knew Whyte intended to keep running up debts and then dump the lot overboard. Of how the face painter and the taxi company and the newsagents who were ripped off and will get pennies in the pound could have been saved from the hassle had the SFA and SPL leadership hit the brakes when Whyte told them what was going on inside Ibrox.

Instead they helped him do it.

I don’t just believe that; I know that for a fact.

And one of the people in the know about the full extent of it is Dave King.

He probably knows more than any of the Bampots do, and not only because he was on Whyte’s board.

Today the whole country has become aware that his knowledge goes deeper than that of the majority of the public.

Because Dave King  bought the Charlotte Fakeovers documents, for £50,000.

Those documents belonged to Craig Whyte.

Charlotte Fakeovers is the name given to the man who hacked Whyte’s laptop and stole them.

According to Donald Findlay, those materials were to be used for the purposes of blackmail.

Now they are in the hands of a man a South African judge called a “glib and shameless liar”, a man he urged us to disbelieve on every matter great or small unless it was supported by evidence. We know he has no respect of normative behaviours. We know he does not play by the rules. We know he is a man of appalling personal character.

We know he’s capable of anything.

Findlay does not make it clear where, when or why these details were obtained, but it was not for the good of the club.

Because Whyte still had this stuff.

King wanted it too. Why? Why would he? What did he intend to do with that information?

We know one of the things he used it for.

He leaked some of it to friendly journalists in his quest to take over Sevco.

He used it to firmly establish the links between Charles Green and Craig Whyte. so that he might destabilise the regime Green left behind him at Ibrox.

King made sure sections of that information did make it into the media and that helped collapse confidence in the previous Ibrox board and torpedoed the share price, which made it easier and cheaper for him and his colleagues to get a controlling interest.

But that’s not all the Charlotte Fakeovers documents contained.

Craig Whyte recorded conversations.

He kept extensive notes on meetings.

He saved every email.

The paper trails on that laptop could wreck many a career.

Amongst that stuff are the details of every email exchanged between him and the people who run football in Scotland.

There is at least one tape recording of a meeting between himself and SFA officials, and there are probably many more.

See, Whyte’s been doing this for a long time.

He knew this all might unravel, and would perhaps even end up in a trial.

He secured himself against that possibility by recording everything and everyone.

Dave King bought it all.

He knows who did what, where and when.

He knows who was involved and who wasn’t, and how deeply.

He turned at least some of that information over to the prosecutors going after Whyte but I suspect he kept hold of the bits that helped him more than them.

I suspect, strongly suspect, that he’s got enough to sink Doncaster and Regan and perhaps even guarantee that at least one of them, maybe both, faced some hard questions of their own in a courtroom.

Blackmail is a big word.

It’s a controversial word.

It is a legally dicey word, which is why I am not alleging that it’s a technique being used in Scottish football today.

But Findlay himself, in a courtroom, used it to describe what that information was to be used for … and although he didn’t say so, he’s entirely aware that Whyte himself intended no less. We have no reason whatsoever to believe that King didn’t plan the same. Indeed, what he did use it for could constitute tortious interference and share price manipulation at the very least.

There’s more though. History has taught us that at Ibrox there is always more.

Last month, this website reported that King came over for the Whyte trial and whilst he was here he and Regan met, in private, for an “off-the-record” chat which Regan said was about “general issues”.  Nothing to see, people, go on your way.

Except that it had come in the same week when the SFA waived the club through their European license process although the club didn’t qualify.

Hey, we’ll never know what transpired at that meeting but we’re in a place where it doesn’t even require much imagination to conjure up the worst scenarios.

King bought the ability to do it, and he was only able to because these men left themselves wide open to it with their conduct.

Even if what Regan and Doncaster did was legal – and I do wonder about that; it’s a question for people much smarter than me – the immorality of allowing a guy like Whyte to deliberately crash a football club, on their watch, stiffing creditors, wrecking it all, is astounding and these people could not survive that.

They allowed Whyte to keep on running the club when they knew full well the direction he was moving it.

It was only after details of his previous business dealings were exposed by Mark Daly and the BBC that they acted and then because they had no choice.

For those who wondered what the real function of the Pinsent Mason report was – the one into allegations that Whyte and Green had been working together, and which they let Sevco organise, effectively an investigation into itself – this is the answer.

The SFA knew an independent inquiry might turn up more than just a link between those two; it might establish what their own involvement was in the collapse of Rangers.

I cannot put it more bluntly than this;

From October 2011 at the latest, both Neil Doncaster and Stewart Regan knew that Rangers was going into administration and that the ultimate objective was some kind of phoenix company which would seek to dump the debts and emerge clean. Not only did they support this action but they were talking to Craig Whyte from that point onwards about how it could best be done, presented and sold to the football public.

Every single organisation with which Rangers were doing business from that moment on was being defrauded and the SFA and the SPL were knowing, willing, participants in that fraud. They said nothing to stop it. They did nothing to stop it.

Did they alert other clubs? Well we know that sometime early in November Doncaster got the SPL board together and informed them of a “developing situation” in Scottish football which he used on 21 November to push through the Sky deal, and collapsing the idea of FansTV.

The clubs were aware of something going on, but I’m not convinced that they were aware of how deep the hole was and I know for sure they weren’t aware of what was called Project Charlotte, the blueprint (which both Regan and Doncaster had seen and signed off on) by which Rangers would be collapsed, a new company born and its SFA membership and SPL place handed over to a NewCo wiped clean and able to compete as if nothing had happened.

See everyone knows Regan and Doncaster tried to sell that plan at the end; what few outside the Bampots are aware of, and what hasn’t sunk in yet to many others, is that they were involved in planning that for month before the fact … and they allowed Whyte to keep on going anyway.

The implications of that are enormous.

What I’ve just done here is show you the broad strokes of what they were involved with; King knows the fine details.

This is a blog which thousands of people read but the media would bring that story to the whole country, and both Regan and Doncaster would be gone.

Yesterday Craig Whyte was cleared of fraud in connection to the takeover of the club.

One of the reasons why he was never charged in connection with anything that happened after that point is a mystery.

If those charges ever follow – BDO are still trying to unravel all this, and they might well want those charges brought – the chances are that he will not be alone in the dock.

Don’t believe for a second that Sevco supports the removal of Stewart Regan.

They could have that simply by releasing this information.

In the last 12 months they have made a lot of noise in public and put pressure on him through the press – the media reports of their unhappiness were a not-so-coded threat – but the real squeezing was, and will continue to be, be done in private.

Unlike the fans, King and his board know who their “friends” are.

And as long as King holds their careers in his hands Regan and Doncaster are dangerously compromised. They cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of the game, when he and others can make them dance to a particular tune. The imperative for removing both of them is obvious.

When I published this article in November of last year there were a few disbelieving gasps, and then silence fell again.

I don’t expect that to change now, although we’re six months down the line and the truth of this is all the more evident.

Yesterday Alastair Johnston returned to Ibrox and a seat on Sevco’s board. The club is spending money at a rapid rate; King has publicly said that it’s the season ticket cash, the only major source of income they have. No-one in the SFA or the media has asked what he intends to do when the coffers are empty, but I have been writing about this unscrupulous barsteward long enough to know that he’s capable of any mendacity or underhanded act and that he views the people running our game as gutless worms.

Which they are. I agree with him on that, and because I do I can easily imagine what I’d do if I was in his shoes.

He will squeeze these guys like tubes of toothpaste if his club finds itself in serious peril … and we cannot count on them doing the right thing.

But who wants to do something about this?

As I said in my piece earlier today, calling on the SFA to do the right thing is laudable. It’s also toothless.

Scottish football is corrupt to the core.

This article is a reworked piece from November last year, but it is updated with new information in the public domain … in light of today’s official admission on STV News that particulars of this are true it’s become relevant again.

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Richard Keys gave a long interview to The Daily Record today, where, amongst other things, he suggested that Scottish football fans boycott his former employer.

You know, the one that sacked “his mate” – a notorious bigot – for the most appalling sexism, and was on the verge of sacking him too before he resigned.

I’ve been racking my brain trying to work out what motive he could possibly have for wanting people to deprive them of money.

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I can’t seriously think he gives a damn about Scottish football.

If he did, he would never have chosen to discuss it through that particular organ.

Because The Daily Record hates Scottish football, and it has for years.

Keys own disregard comes across pretty clearly in his puzzlement over what happened to Rangers.

Read this and try and get your heads around it.

“Scottish football has made some extraordinary decisions domestically which I didn’t understand but which have had a very detrimental effect on the game. And you know what I’m referring to. All these years on still no one can tell me what Rangers were guilty of when they were sent down to the bottom tier. The expectation was they would be found guilty but my understanding is they were never convicted of any wrong-doing. But I guess that’s another matter entirely.”

When he says he doesn’t understand, you better believe it. He should have stuck with that. Instead he gives us a glimpse of what little he does understand about it – that they were never convicted of wrong-doing – and reveals he knows even less than he thinks he does.

One of the reasons for his lack of comprehension is made immediately clear.

“The only reason I knew what was happening at Rangers in 2011 was because I started reading the Daily Record. And that’s when we started covering it properly …”

And suddenly it makes total sense.

If all I had to go on for an understanding of those events was Keith Jackson and Andy Gray, yeah I suspect I’d be woefully ignorant of them as well.

I’ve said this many, many, many times … the coverage of those events, in that paper in particular, has damaged the reputation of our game, south of the border, in ways that are unmeasurable. For one, it contributed to half of English football thinking this country was a sectarian anti-Rangers backwater which, for a spell, just went mad.

It bears no resemblance to the truth whatsoever. It is what we call the Victim Lie. It is pernicious, it is distorting and it is dangerous. It has raised the temperature of hate in this country to a staggering level. It is also an assault on the truth which can’t be ignored.

It is one of the reasons not a single Scottish football supporter with a fraction of a brain cell buys it or trusts a single word that is published in that paper. That rag, and those who write for it, wilfully distorted the facts and led a campaign whose end result would have been the collapse of any credibility our sport had left.

Had their call for Sevco to be put straight into the SPL been heeded tens of thousands of fans would have walked away never to return, the integrity of the sport here not simply compromised but utterly shredded.

Apart from that, the paper was the key proponent of the Armageddon Theory, and did as much, if not more, to talk it down and burn its commercial standing to ash, as even the SFA and the SPL leaders who virtually begged sponsors to walk away.

No Scottish football fan will ever forgive those people for that, or forget that they did it.

To read Keys absurd comments today, and to learn that his knowledge of that time comes from the things he read in the disreputable rag which promoted Whyte when many of us were calling him a crook and then blamed the rest of us for what happened to the club … it’s sickening.

So Keys limited his understand to The Daily Record version of events and anything else he wanted to know about the game up here I’m sure he got from his “mate” sitting next to him, who in between dismissive discussions of how women had no role in football except to look good for the men, I am certain shared with him tales of the “grand old days of yore.”

Gray spent one year at Ibrox, but was a boyhood fan, imbibed in all that supremacy guff, brought up to believe he was one of the Peepul.

Backward, intolerant, a complete muppet in short.

This is what happens when you take no interest whatsoever in a subject, but get occasional snippets of information from a couple of sources singing from the same hymn sheet, and normally I would have a big rant about this kind of thing, and try and give him an overview of it, filling him in on everything that went on but why should I? Why should any of us?

We know what happened and the truth can be found on many a blog and in at least one book and in at least some of the newspapers of the time, in between all the heart-rending for the down-on-its-luck Rangers, who spent their own way to oblivion and wanted the rest of us to pick up the tab. The club that cheated the rest of us for years.

When it came time, every club in Scotland knew what they were voting for and why.

If Keys is too lazy or too pig ignorant or just too stupid to get it, that’s his problem, not ours. Nobody asked him to “understand it”; he wasn’t part of the discussion and he isn’t now. He’s another in a long line of arrogant EPL obsessed tossers to come up here and lecture us, only this time he’s feigning sympathy instead of expressing contempt.

But it’s just another kind of contempt, that’s all, and all the more offensive because it contains within it a fully formed version of the Victim Lie.

His comments on Scottish football fans and Sky had merit; of course they did. His story about how Sky’s board took an executive decision not to promote Scottish football in any way, shape or form, even by acknowledging it existed at all, is chilling.

But that aside, not a thing he’s said was exactly original thinking.

If he’s interested in the well-being of our game he ought to learn about it. He ought to know who up here he can trust and who was filling his head with nonsense. He ought to speak to some of his colleagues south of the border, like Alex Thomson at Channel 4, or Mark Daly from the BBC.

They’ll put him right if he cares to learn at all.

There are still stories up here, real honest-to-God ones, which have been buried under an avalanche of lies and distortions … and some are still current today, with enormous potential for changing the landscape of the game. If he’s a serious journalist he could be on the cutting edge of breaking those wide open to an audience that simply won’t believe them.

Most Scottish football fans here would welcome that kind of scrutiny, the real kind, the kind that looks at the issues properly, and critically. Keys says he’s passionate about the sport here. If he is, he can prove it to all of us, easily.

But he ought to watch who he asks for information, and who he talks to afterwards.

Not everyone up here would be interested in telling him the truth.

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