John Pilger: "...elite corruption is unspeakable in Britain."
"The mind's awareness of meanings or ideas in its own internal voice of consciousness is, according to Derrida, a repeatedly referred to norm of authenticity, authority and truthfulness in metaphysics." - Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan in their Introduction to "Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, and Post-Modernism".
We use metaphysics widely in our projects.
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value.
Metaphysics is a priori speculation upon questions that are unanswerable to scientific observation, analysis, or experiment.
Metaphysics is excessively subtle and recondite reasoning.
That's what the Free Dictionary reckons anyway...
Today's post combines our two favourite areas of sousveillance - the "elite corruption" of Pilger, and the "authenticity, authority and truthfulness in metaphysics" of Derrida.
In this post we examine Controlling the Reality.
Pretentious or what?
Yesterday was a Sky Grand Slam Super Sunday Sort Of Day.
After the completion of the entertainment, the Murdochracy has televised 39 Premiership matches so far this season.
25 of these theatricals have been refereed by Howard Webb (Man City v Man United), Mike Dean (Chelsea v Arsenal) or Mike Riley.
64% of the big betting turnover Sky extravaganzas fall under the jurisdiction of these three men, one of whom was banned just a couple of years back for his links to an online tipping site called Arbitros.
And the number 39 continues to hold a lofty perch in the ScudamoreWorld leaks.
Various statements along the lines of "we understand that there are objections to our plans; we see no validity in these objections; we are proceeding anyway".
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There is no validity in proceeding with an expansion of the ScudamoreWorld product in a global Depression.
Of course, as Mr Webb officiated at the Munich Memorial Match (the last Manchester derby), it was just a tad surprising to see him get the follow-up Manchester derby following his dreadful performance that afternoon.
There is no meritocracy at the PGMOB.
Mike Dean is a Comedic Controller.
Mr Dean's matches are a random walk through hyperreality.
Unless you are a psychic or fortunately well-connected, Mr Dean's matches are a footballing farcical fake.
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These two men, together with their assistants, and the shared requirement of Controlling the Reality, had major influences on the Grand Slam Gambling Spectacular.
Taking each market, I mean match, in turn.
All the focus has been on the Ronaldo sending off by Mr Webb.
It was probably slightly harsh but this merely represented the tip of a very large iceberg.
Numerous bookmaking firms in Britain and Gibraltar priced up "Special Markets" for the Manchester derby.
Ronaldo versus Robinho was a popular one, and there were numerous other markets linked to Ronaldo's performance.
Each of these markets was proprietary ie the market makers developed a "Special Markets" structure that was gamed to optimise the returns when their activity of Controlling the Reality came into hyperrealisation.
These markets are fake markets on fake events.
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Click on "All Matches By Country And League" and the highlighted sections are English football, Enhanced Multiples and Mythical Matches.
Enhanced Multiples are, in reality, a voluntary form of protection money.
Marketed as "Sexy Six Acca's" and other such nonsenses, the befuddled gambler simply hands over his/her earnings to the murky.
Mythical Matches are not real at all.
The match doesn't even take place.
Mythical Matches mean that you are able to bet on Manchester City versus Manchester United every week of the season.
But the impacts of Controlling the Reality meant that neither of the Murdochracy's events were real either.
At the City of Manchester, for instance, just one little statistic out of numerous that we could have utilised in support of our assertions, Man City committed 17 fouls and received 2 yellow cards for their indiscretions. Man United committed two fewer fouls (15), and, yet, received 6 yellows and a red.
Just one point, as we said...
The Chelsea game was the typical Mike Dean event.
Arsenal won thanks to refereeing errors.
Or worse...
Phil Scolari is demanding an apology from Dean, and, far more interestingly, he hinted at fears that the mistakes against his team might have been deliberate.
The Comedic Controller certainly involved himself in Controlling the Reality, but Chelsea must accept some blame themselves.
That is two home defeats since Ray Wilkins arrived.
We warned you...
Let us examine Mr Dean's officiating data, ignoring all the erroneous offsides and things. Dean gave Chelsea 2 yellows for 18 fouls. Arsenal received none for 16.
So, if we are going to be banging on about Mythical Matches, Arsenal committed 1 more foul than Man Utd, as the away team in high intensity matches, and United got 6 yellows and a red.
These were tilts in Controlling the Reality.
There are many others that we could share with you, but we're not going to.
So tough...
The Premiership brand is flagging.
Not only are tickets not being sold for the flagship events, but there are huge swathes of human-free zones at most of the Premiership grounds.
West Ham United are partially in administration.
Portsmouth are financially compromised.
In fact, Portsmouth are just compromised.
The advertising is proving more interesting than the matches where the outcome has already been decided prior to the event.
The last month has seen a remarkable change in the ads.
Gone are the commercial revenue streams, to be replaced by the occasional advert for a bookmaker, and numerous ads relating to the plight of ScudamoreWorld.
"Bet Now."
"Big savings on match tickets."
"Barclays giving away match tickets every 90 minutes at ATMs."
"Seatexchange.com."
"Join Chelsea TV. Half price for 3 months."
"Kids join the Chelsea Bridge Club."
"Please drink our £4 per pint beer."
Before long, we will be seeing Richard Scudamore transferring his Stalinist mode of marketing to these very advertising hoardings.
"Buy our Brand."
"The 39th Step - A Growth Product."
"Free Thaksin Shinawatra."
That sort of thing...
After the completion of the London derby, Richard Keys on Sky informed us that just 7 points cover the Big 4 and that we are witnessing "the most exciting season ever".
Not true.
We are witnessing Controlling the Reality, though.
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David Collier, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board states: "We think that it is wrong that commercial betting companies make use of our sporting product without making any payment for doing so."
Collier wishes to see a European-wide levy on gambling to benefit grassroots sports programmes.
But this is, once again, only the tip of an iceberg.
The bookmakers are making "use of our sporting product" in other ways too.
A thought before returning to reality.
Sky are bringing us Redknapp versus Lampard when Spurs face Watford in the televised Mickey Mouse Cup game on Wednesday.
Subtle, this is not...
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