The ESPN report on Sepp Blatter also implied that Chuck Blazer brought a paper trail to the table that he could help interpret.

We’ve had a statute called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for years, which is likely what they’re working under here. We have it because, well, typically the organizations doing the bribery are filthy rich, and would rather pay 9-figure fines than have execs serve jail time. Think of it like a speed trap helping a…

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This investigation has been going on for at least four years. When the NY Daily News first reported on it last year, they said that Chuck Blazer—a former FIFA, CONCACAF, and American soccer bigwig who is likely corrupt as shit and flipped to help the FBI—wore a wiretap and was gathering information at the 2012 London…

Michael Garcia, a former US attorney, spent two years of his time compiling a report on the bid at FIFAs behest, which they then buried. I’m assuming it all started there

These investigations take awhile and a former exec agreed to flip on FIFA pretty recently so if anything it’s pretty quick on an arrest front. With a 93% conviction rate you choose cases you can win.

So what brought this about? Sure, FIFA is probably the most corrupt international organization, period, but Qatar’s literally been killing slave laborers for years for World Cup 2022 and nobody gives a crap. Russia’s announcement that it’s using prison labor for the 2018 Cup (glass houses there)? Somebody didn’t pay a…

especially given the fact that apparently Chuck Blazer flipping was instrumental in this

Should I get my hopes up? I really wanna get my hopes up. Like I really do, someone please tell I can and should.

Even though Blatter isn’t on this initial list there’s a decent chance they get a bunch of these guys to flip on him, no?

Poison isn’t always fatal, sometimes it just makes it burn when you pee.

Just to be safe, I’m only gonna consume things that are clearly marked “not poison.”

Ricin or GTFO

When I was pregnant with my first child I had no clue I was pregnant until I was 5 in a half months along. I am not a stupid person. I had excellent sex education and a mother in the medical profession whom I could, and did, ask any sex or body related question to. Yet, here I was 21 years ago pregnant at over 5…

I actually learned (from Facebook comments of all things) that it’s apparently more common* that one would think. It’s just a perfect storm of things from women who are usually irregular, to women whi have their period throughout their entire pregnancy. And then you’ve got the ones that barely show at all when they’re…

I knew a woman who gave birth (the day she got OFF a plane, incidentally) and didn’t know she was pregnant. She had had gastric bypass 10 months (? I don’t remember exactly) previously and asked her dr about not losing the weight as quickly as she should have, and swelling of the ankles, etc. Dr said it was all side…

I recently read about a woman who found herself pregnant at 8 months. She had fairly serious digestive issues normally, which also affected her period, and attributed the symptoms to those issues. Without a point of comparison, like a previous pregnancy, I could see how that would happen.

Some of these cases include mothers who are obese, which can apparently dull the sensation of fetal movement. My partner was volunteering at a hospital and a woman delivered a child at the reception desk, while experiencing horrific pain. She was a big woman and had some sensation, but assumed it was bad gas and…

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