#Move to Swiss from Qatar

[issrelocationsdubai]

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[reviewofeconomics]

Israel-Iran Escalation Spikes Oil and Sparks Market Volatility-

Investors have turned sharply risk averse after a dramatic military clash between Israel and Iran, sending oil prices to fresh highs and rattling global markets. On June 13 Israel launched air strikes on Iran’s nuclear and missile facilities – killing several senior commanders and scientists – prompting Iran to retaliate with ballistic missiles into Israel. The flare up forced Israel to warn of a “prolonged” operation and cancel nuclear talks with Tehran Even Iran’s state media reported fires at oil and gas sites, while Israel warned civilian ships to avoid Yemen’s Hodeidah port after striking Houthi run docks there The prospect of a broader Middle East war has stoked acute investor fear.

1• Brent crude jumped 7.0% on June 13, settling at $74.23/bbl (up ~$4.87)reuters.com, after intraday spikes above $78 – its largest move since early 2022. WTI rose 7.6% to ~$72.98reuters.com. Both benchmarks are ~12% higher than a week earlier. 2• Stocks fell worldwide: on June 13 the Dow fell 1.8%, S&P 500 –1.1% and Nasdaq –1.3%reuters.com. Europe’s STOXX 600 slid ~0.9% to three week lows, and Asian shares in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong were down ~1% eachreuters.com. By Sunday June 15 Gulf stock indexes plunged: Qatar’s fell 2.9%, Kuwait –4.3% and Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul index –1.6%reuters.comreuters.com. Israel’s TA 35 initially dipped nearly 2% but recovered to +0.5% on June 15reuters.com. 3• Bond yields were mixed: U.S. 10 year Treasury yields jumped to about 4.41% (+5.6 bps)reuters.com as inflationary pressures from oil rose, while safe havens in Europe pushed yields down (e.g. 10Y Bunds dipped). Israel’s government bonds rallied ~+0.4% (yields fell)reuters.com as officials promised to keep markets open. 4• Currencies & safe assets: The US dollar index rose ~+0.5%reuters.com as traders fled risk. The Swiss franc and Japanese yen initially strengthened (JPY briefly touched 144 per USD)reuters.com, while the euro weakened ($1.15)reuters.com. Gold jumped +1.4% to ~$3,431/ozreuters.com, near record highs, and even Bitcoin fell amid the sell off. These moves reflect a classic “risk off” rotation. One analyst called the current phase a “controlled confrontation” – markets are jittery but have not priced in a full war yetreuters.comreuters.com. The CBOE Volatility Index spiked to 20.82 on June 13, a three week peakreuters.com. U.S. futures and Asian markets will reopen after the weekend with all eyes on whether tensions ease or spread.

Oil Market Impact-

Crude has borne the brunt of geopolitical risk. Brent crude on Friday (June 13) surged from ~$69 to ~$78 intradayreuters.com, before settling at $74.23 – a 7.0% jumpreuters.com. WTI reached ~$77.62 intra day (a ~14% spike) and closed $72.98reuters.com. These are the largest one day percentage moves since early 2022reuters.com. By Monday, prices held near six month highs (front month Brent ~$74.17 on June 13)spglobal.com. Analysts note that actual output so far remains uninterrupted: Iran’s state oil company reported that refineries and storage were undamagedreuters.com, and Western officials say Iran still exports ~2 million bpd. OPEC’s spare capacity (Saudi/Russia, etc.) is roughly Iran’s outputreuters.com. But any wider war could quickly choke supplies. About 20 million barrels per day (nearly 20% of world oil) transit the Strait of Hormuzreuters.comaljazeera.com. “Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran are wholly locked into one tiny passage,” noted Rabobankreuters.com. Israel’s strikes on an Iranian offshore gas platform (in the shared South Pars field)reuters.com and Tehran’s threats to close Hormuz have “sent shockwaves” through marketsaljazeera.com. In response, policymakers are treading carefully. The IEA says it is “monitoring” developments and stands ready to release crude from its 1.2 billion-barrel emergency stockpile if neededspglobal.com. OPEC’s secretary-general Haitham al-Ghais urged calm, insisting there are “no developments in supply or market dynamics” that require new measuresspglobal.com. OPEC delegates note that, besides Iran, major producers (Saudi, UAE, Iraq) also ship via Hormuzspglobal.com, so full war would be a grave concern. Still, OPEC+ plans to boost output (adding ~2.2 mbd in July) are on trackspglobal.com, and one analyst reckons the cartel will stick to market share policies despite the crisisspglobal.com.

Global Equity Retreat and Safe Havens- The sudden risk shock knocked global equities off record highs. On Friday (June 13), major U.S. indexes fell: the Dow lost 1.8%, S&P 500 –1.1% and Nasdaq –1.3%reuters.com. European Stoxx 600 closed 0.9% lowerreuters.com, briefly hitting a three-week low, and MSCI Asia-Pacific slipped similarly. By Monday, U.S. futures and Asian bourses were poised for more weakness. Analysts attribute the broad sell off to “flight to safety” flows. Gold’s sharp rise to ~$3431/ozreuters.com and a rally in the U.S. dollarreuters.com signal that risk assets are under pressure. Volatility surveys confirm jitters: the VIX fear index jumped to 20.82 on June 13reuters.com. “Markets are struggling,” said one strategist, citing the inflationary oil shock (which should push bond yields higher) versus the safe haven bid (which drives yields lower)reuters.com. Indeed, U.S. 10-year yields briefly pulled back after the overnight shock, before trending up again. In Israel, markets are trying to stay open despite attacks. The Tel Aviv 35 Index erased early losses and closed up 0.5% on June 15reuters.com. Treasury prices rose (yields down ~0.4%)reuters.com and the shekel weakened from ~3.50 to 3.61 per USD by Fridayreuters.com. Finance Minister Smotrich hailed the “strong, stable, resilient” economyreuters.com, and the central bank stressed normal operations (banks and markets) would continuereuters.com. Nonetheless, forecasters warn that deeper conflict could eventually test even Israel’s robust finance.

Energy and Security Concerns-

Beyond financial markets, the standoff has raised energy-security fears. The most immediate worry is about oil chokepoints. If the Strait of Hormuz were disrupted, supply losses could be severe. One oil market strategist noted that any conflict “impacting output, shipping lanes like the Strait of Hormuz, or key infrastructure would directly affect global supply”spglobal.com. Al Jazeera reports that merchant shipping is still transiting Hormuz “on high alert,” and even talk of a closure has already pushed prices higheraljazeera.comaljazeera.com. A Houthi ultimatum also looms: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have begun targeting Israel (even claiming to fire missiles toward Tel Aviv)reuters.com and warned that Israel’s Haifa oil port could be hit next. Israel in turn struck the Red Sea port of Hodeidah on June 10, saying it was used by Houthis to funnel weaponsreuters.com. Such incidents threaten regional shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden – home to major oil and trade routes. Global shipping insurers have already raised premiums for Red Sea passages.

Policy Outlook and Investor Sentiment-

For now, central bankers appear reluctant to overreact to the shock. Experts point out that oil’s latest surge, while significant, may not derail monetary policy. “Long gone are the days when a central bank would hike rates because of a spike in oil prices,” said a Lombard Odier economist, noting that other producers (OPEC+ spare) can offset some Iranian cutsreuters.com. Still, officials will watch core inflation closely. The U.S. Federal Reserve meets on June 17–18 amid these tensions; Fed speakers may have to balance upside surprises from fuel costs against still weak growth signals. Government reactions have mostly aimed to contain panic. U.S. officials have urged calm, with President Trump (via social media) calling on Iran to negotiate rather than escalatereuters.com. Gulf Arab states (though sympathetic to Iran) held talks to defuse the crisis, and the U.S. Navy remains on alert to secure commerce. On markets, investors are in “wait-and-see” mode. One Washington CIO said the risk profile is “still too high” to jump back into stocksreuters.com. Indeed, funds have partially reversed recent bullish positions: commodity speculators piled into crude (raising net longs), but risk parities have reduced equity exposure. The bottom line: energy prices and risk sentiment are now hostage to the Iran-Israel skirmish. Markets will watch daily developments (rocket alerts, diplomatic moves, Houthi actions) for clues. If the confrontation remains limited, oil may retreat from its spikes; but any blow to Middle East output or chokepoints could send prices well above $80–$90/bbl. Until then, investors brace for volatility, with inflation expectations (driven by oil) and global growth outlook hanging in the balancespglobal.comreuters.com.

Sources: Reuters market reports and Middle East conflict updatesreuters.comreuters.comreuters.comspglobal.comreuters.com, Al Jazeeraaljazeera.com. All data as of mid-June 2025.

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[naturecoaster]

Originally published September, 2014 on NatureCoaster.com The Bellamy Brothers, David and Howard, were born in Pasco County, Florida. Although the Bellamy Brothers have toured in 65 countries around the world and could live anywhere, they still choose to reside on Florida’s Nature Coast at their Darby ranch. They grew up singing in church and learning to play guitar and various stringed instruments from their father, Homer. Their first musical gig was in 1968 at a benefit concert with Homer in San Antonio, Florida, at the Rattlesnake Roundup (now called the Rattlesnake Festival). In the early 1970s, they moved to Atlanta to break into a larger music scene. The First Hit Song is "Spiders and Snakes" recorded by Jim Stafford David Bellamy wrote the song, “Spiders and Snakes,” which Jim Stafford recorded in 1975. It was a huge hit and they soon moved to Jim’s house in Los Angeles where they recorded “Let Your Love Flow” in 1976 – their first hit – and oh what a hit it was! Homer Bellamy, Howard and David's father, taught them to play stringed instruments. David and Howard Bellamy at their family ranch in the 1970s “We lived in Los Angeles for the beginning of our career – for the first five years. We didn’t move. We just lived there because all of our recording was going on there, but as soon as we could afford ourselves we moved back to Darby,” Howard explains. “We feel very fortunate that we were brought up in this area and it is an old heritage for sure. Our place has been in our family since 1879. We have pretty deep roots here, and that’s why we never made the move to Nashville like most country singers.” They grew up on a 150-acre ranch in Darby that their great-grandfather, Abraham Milton Bellamy, and his wife, Susanna, homesteaded in 1870. They also lease a nearby 2500-acre ranch, which is a calf-cow operation. They have a nice recording studio on the ranch and they have a hit reality show filmed there called Honky Tonk Ranch. You can check it out here. Mermaid Cowgirl Filmed at Weeki Wachee Springs by The Bellamy Brothers The Bellamy Brothers and Gola at Weeki Wachee State Park filming Mermaid Cowgirl Their musical endeavor entitled Mermaid Cowgirl was filmed at Weeki Wachee Springs and in the Nature Coast. It is the second collaboration of The Bellamy Brothers and Gölä (Marco Pfeuti), a hugely popular Swiss rock musician. “Weeki Wachee has been a magical spot for us since we were kids growing up – not to mention the beautiful girls as mermaids. It’s just a magical spot. We used to canoe the river out to the Gulf there,” Howard reminisces. Frances Bellamy, "mom," is seen here with Loretta Lynn in the early 1980s. The Bellamy Brothers are Busy Preparing for their 40th Anniversary Howard and David's mother, Frances, was a true matriarch of the family, supporting the "boys" throughout their career. They called her by her first name, which always struck me as funny, but in the show business world I am sure that worked a lot better than "mom." David and Howard Bellamy’s 40th Anniversary was in 2015 and they worked hard, recording at their studio in Darby and touring around the world to fill a great multi-album set. So far they’ve recorded about 35 songs and toured the world, including Europe, Germany, India, Australia, and Qatar. You can listen on Apple Music. Fortunately for us, The Bellamy Brothers continue to play their music for fans at local benefits. Keep an eye on their schedule here. The Bellamy Brothers Continue Bringing Beautiful Music to their Fans Howard and David Bellamy playing a local gig to benefit The Thomas Promise Foundation. Image by Diane Bedard. When asked if retirement was on the radar, Howard replied, “We’ve been fortunate so far. The good Lord has kept us healthy through all this touring and travel. We’ve dealt with bouts of the flu and such on the road, but we’ve kept our will to do this and our passion for music is still there. We’re still quite adventurous.” Does he plan to continue returning to Pasco County? Howard and David Bellamy still raise quarter horses on their ranch in Darby. Image courtesy of The Bellamy Brothers. “We’ve never found any place better that we could relax and chill out than our old home place.” Want to Learn More About the Bellamy Brothers? Get their book, Let Your Love Flow, which provides a glimpse into a simpler place and time, along with the struggles of making it in the music business in the 1970s by visiting their online store here, or any one of several downtown Dade City merchants who carry it. It was well worth the read for me, bringing back some crazy memories of youthful antics. Watch their show, Honky Tonk Ranch on Circle TV, which is a free streaming service that can be found through Roku and a number of other sources. Visit their website, BellamyBrothers.com, and poke around... or best of all... go to one of their local charity concerts and just groove with these two original NatureCoasters. Read the full article

[thepercy6andtheradicalsabbatical]

Lidernenhütte to Friedrichshafen via Zurich

We awoke in the morning to find it was still storming and wondered about how our hike out was going to go, if the tram would run in bad weather, etc... On check in the hut had mentioned if we left out an empty bottle they would fill it with “syrup” overnight and that 1 L of syrup was included in our reservation. Matt decided to test the limits and left out and empty 1.5 L bottle and we were pleased to find in filled to the brim in the morning. We think the syrup turns out to be a sports drink of sorts that mostly tasted like sweet tea with a little fruit flavor as well. We scarfed down a breakfast of cold oatmeal and bread with jam/butter and then had he rain miraculously stop in time for our hike out. The kids did great on the short 15 min hike on a wet trail and we were all fired up to see at least 3 slimy looking jet-black salamanders which we later learned are “alpine salamanders” native to the alps. We were also very excited to see the tram coming up as we made our way towards the top station as this indicated to us it was indeed running despite the weather (we had a 3ish hour hike out if it wasn’t running or we missed our bus connection at the bottom, with no other bus for 4 more hours). We got to the top, where there had been a whole family of people hanging out and seemingly running the tram the day prior, to find…no one! We again loitered around a bit unsure how to make the tram go, then decided to try the telephone on the wall. Matt was able to speak with the same grandma lady from the day before (he thinks) who told him the tram would go down at 8, so we sat in the tram and waited…until at 8:06 Matt decided to call again as we hadn’t moved, she said it would move shortly so he tried to be patient despite being nervous about missing our bus at the bottom at 8:38 and sure enough the tram started down with little warning after a few more minutes. At the bottom you had been able to hear the engine fire up so had some warning before things started moving, but there no such luck at the top, so it was good we were all waiting in the tram. We made it down to find no one else in line for the bus and ended up with 15 min to kill at the bottom which the kids spent by singing enthusiastic “pump up” songs. Eventually the “bus” arrived again, driven by the same guy as the day before , but this time we were the only passengers. We rocked out to various US tunes on the way down thanks to the driver cranking the radio including “rock the boat” by the Hues Corporation, “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon and Garfunkel, and a german cover of Lou Reed’s “take a walk on the wild side” which Matt is definitely going to try to get a copy of to listen to in the future. The only other eventful happening on the drive down was our driver stopping at one point mid switchback and pulling out a large pair of binoculars to check out what may have been a chamois or an ibex on the ridge (without binoculars we could only tell there was an animal there). 

We arrived back in Sisikon and connected to Zurich where we ended up with 90 min to kill before our next train. We briefly considered a trip to either FIFA headquarters or FIFA museum of World Football (where you can apparently see an envelope of money representing Qatar bribes!) but decided we didn’t quite have enough time so just explored a nearby park where James Joyce apparently used to hang out. We then went in search of our bags we had checked in Interlaken and after some struggles in finding the right place to go to pick them up, were pleased to find they were all there and intact as promised. We then tried our best to spend down our remaining Swiss francs on snacks in the station (ended up with only 30 cents left over, pretty good!) and boarded for Germany. En route to Schaffhausen where we changed for another train we were surprised to see an up close view of some fairly large falls in the Rhine river (this place turns out to be called Rheinfall- another place to add to the list for future exploration). We changed in Schaffhausen for the final time of the day and everything was going smoothly en route to Freidrichshafen until a few stops before we were due to arrive the train stopped and an announcement was made in German and almost everyone got off the train, we waited around a bit but once it was obvious the train didn’t seem to be moving anytime soon we got off ourselves and were able to decipher the scrolling message on the platform in German with the help of google translate: our train was cancelled due to “bad weather”. We stood around a bit researching alternate routes when we noticed a big crowd of people coming back towards the train and getting on it again so surmised that it was no longer “cancelled” and got back on ourselves and eventually made it to Friedrichshafen only about an hour behind schedule. We had a 10 min walk to the “skyhostel” where we would be staying for the night and were none too pleased to see a cardboard sign in the window saying in German “skyhostel is closed until further notice due to remodeling”. Matt frantically checked his emails to see if he’d gotten any notice of this and could find none, but did notice a number to call listed in the confirmation email so called it and a man with an Indian accent answered and Matt advised him we had a reservation and noticed the sign saying the hostel was closed and the man replied “and so what is the problem?”. Matt decided to change tact and asked how we were supposed to check in for the night and the man said to wait outside and someone would come down to help us shortly. Sure enough, a nice German lady who smelled heavily of cigarettes came in a few minutes and showed us up to our room. As advertised, our room was a private apartment with washing machine on the top floor of the building with a partial lake view. We unpacked, showered and started laundry, pretty relieved to have a place to stay that night after all.

After unpacking we set out to explore the area. Friedrichshafen was apparently headquarters for German Zepplin building in the early 1900s and, as such, there was a Zepplin museum right next to our place. Alas, it was already closed for the day so we couldn’t go in to see their main attraction: a life size recreation of a section of the Hindenburg. However the kids had fun playing at a small Zepplin based play structure outside. We then set out to explore the waterfront promenade and noted several tasty looking restaurants as well as the whole area being set up for what seemed to be a large fair or carnival with (tons of booths/rides and at least 4 large biergartens going up). The kids dipped feet in the Bodensee but no one was too interested in swimming due to the on and off rain. We then found a ship themed playground to play in a bit more before heading back to a greek restaurant we’d seen for a tasty dinner. Matt then hit the grocery store for some snacks and breakfast supplies while the kids went with Becca for ice cream and we met back at the apartment again watching/hearing some epic lightning/thunder as we went to bed.

[worldofwardcraft]

The blood-soaked cup.

April 11,2022

Normally, WoW confines its opinions strictly to issues having to do with politics. But today finds us venturing into the world of sport. Recently, the US men's soccer team qualified for the World Cup, the quadrennial tournament that is the most-watched sporting event on the planet. And while we applaud their accomplishment, it must also be noted that the sponsor of this competition is a brazenly corrupt organization and the host country a horribly barbaric society.

Founded in 1904, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the governing body of the world's most popular sport. But for years that organization has been a hotbed of unbridled corruption. In 2015, for example, fourteen of its directors were indicted in the US over alleged bribery, fraud and money laundering in connection with an estimated $150 million worth of media and marketing rights for FIFA games in the Americas. At the same time, ousted FIFA president Sepp Blatter and board member Michel Platini were charged with fraud by Swiss authorities over a bribe to ensure Blatter's reelection.

In 2010, FIFA announced that the 2018 World Cup would be played in Russia (a brutal dictatorship) and the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar (a brutal monarchy) would host it in 2022. But, as The New York Times reported, US Department of Justice investigators determined that money was paid (we don't know how much) "to five members of FIFA’s top board ahead of the 2010 vote to choose Russia and Qatar as hosts."

Beyond the bribery, Qatar was a problematic choice for several reasons. For one, its intense summer heat meant FIFA had to move the tournament to November. Further, the tiny nation (about twice the size of Delaware) had almost no existing infrastructure to support the games. Which is why the oil-rich country doled out a staggering $200 billion to build seven new stadiums, an airport, hotels, roads and a public transport systems.  

But, as The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre testified, all that construction led to human rights abuses against as many as 24,000 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka who toiled on those projects. In addition to unpaid wages and withheld benefits, these workers endured squalid accomodations and working conditions so unsafe as to cause the deaths of 50 workers and injuries to some 38,000 in 2021 alone, according to the International Labour Organization.

Amidst the hype and hoopla, the games and goals, we shouldn't forget that this year's soccer World Cup comes covered in sordid corruption and needless deaths.

[semiotexte]

As the years passed, I learned to think of dreams as an integral part of life. There are dreams that, because of their sensory intensity, their realism or precisely their lack of realism, deserve to be introduced into autobiography, just as much as events that were actually lived through. Life begins and ends in the unconscious; the actions we carry out while fully lucid are only little islands in an archipelago of dreams. No existence can be completely rendered in its happiness or its madness without taking into account oneiric experiences. It’s Calderón de la Barca’s maxim reversed: it’s not a matter of thinking that life is a dream, but rather of realizing that dreams are also a form of life. It is just as strange to think, like the Egyptians, that dreams are cosmic channels through which the souls of ancestors pass in order to communicate with us, as to claim, as some of the neurosciences do, that dreams are a “cut-and-paste” of elements experienced by the brain during waking life, elements that return in the dream’s REM phase, while our eyes move beneath our eyelids, as if they were watching. Closed and sleeping, eyes continue to see. Therefore, it is more appropriate to say that the human psyche never stops creating and dealing with reality, sometimes in dreams, sometimes in waking life.

Whereas over the course of the past few months my waking life has been, to use the euphemistic Catalan expression, “good, so long as we don’t go into details,” my oneiric life has had the power of a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. During one of my recent dreams, I was talking with the artist Dominique González-Foerster about my problem of geographic dislocation: after years of a nomadic life, it is hard for me to decide on a place to live in the world. While we were having this conversation, we were watching the planets spin slowly in their orbits, as if we were two giant children and the solar system were a Calder mobile. I was explaining to her that, for now, in order to avoid the conflict that the decision entailed, I had rented an apartment on each planet, but that I didn’t spend more than a month on any one of them, and that this situation was economically and physically unsustainable. Probably because she is the creator of the Exotourisme project, Dominique in this dream was an expert on extraterrestrial real-estate management. “If I were you, I’d have an apartment on Mars and I’d keep a pied-à-terre on Saturn,” she was saying, showing a great deal of pragmatism, “but I’d get rid of the Uranus apartment. It’s much too far away.”

Awake, I don’t know much about astronomy; I don’t have the slightest idea of the positions or distances of the different planets in the solar system. But I consulted the Wikipedia page on Uranus: it is in fact one of the most distant planets from Earth. Only Neptune, Pluto, and the dwarf planets Haumea, Makemake, and Eris are farther away. I read that Uranus was the first planet discovered with the help of a telescope, eight years before the French Revolution. With the help of a lens he himself had made, the astronomer and musician William Herschel observed it one night in March in a clear sky, from the garden of his house at 19 New King Street, in the city of Bath. Since he didn’t yet know if it was a huge star or a tailless comet, they say that Herschel called it “Georgium Sidus,” the Georgian Star, to console King George III for the loss of the British colonies in America: England had lost a continent, but the King had gained a planet. Thanks to Uranus, Herschel was able to live on a generous royal pension of two hundred pounds a year. Because of Uranus, he abandoned both music and the city of Bath, where he was a chapel organist and director of public concerts, and settled in Windsor so that the King could be sure of his new conquest by observing it through a telescope. Because of Uranus, they say, Herschel went mad, and spent the rest of his life building the largest telescope of the eighteenth century, which the English called “the monster.” Because of Uranus, they say, Herschel never played the oboe again. He died at the age of eighty-four: the number of years it takes for Uranus to go around the sun. They say that the tube of his telescope was so wide that the family used it as a dining hall at his funeral.

Uranus is what astrophysicists call a “gas giant.” Made up of ice, methane, and ammonia, it is the coldest planet in the solar system, with winds that can exceed nine hundred kilometers per hour. In short, the living conditions are not especially suitable. So Dominique was right: I should leave the Uranus apartment.

But dream functions like a virus. From that night forward, while I’m awake, the sensation of having an apartment on Uranus increases, and I am more and more convinced that the place I should live is over there.

For the Greeks, as for me in this dream, Uranus was the solid roof of the world, the limit of the celestial vault. Uranus was regarded as the house of the gods in many Greek invocation rituals. In mythology, Uranus is the son that Gaia, the Earth, conceived alone, without insemination or coition. Greek mythology is at once a kind of retro sci-fi story anticipating in a do-it-yourself way the technologies of reproduction and bodily transformation that will appear throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and at the same time a kitschy TV series in which the characters give themselves over to an unimaginable number of relationships outside the law. Thus Gaia married her son Uranus, a Titan often represented in the middle of a cloud of stars, like a sort of Tom of Finland dancing with other muscle-bound guys in a techno club on Mount Olympus. From the incestuous and ultimately not very heterosexual relationships between heaven and earth, the first generation of Titans were born, including Oceanus (Water), Chronos (Time), and Mnemosyne (Memory) … Uranus was both the son of the Earth and the father of all the others. We don’t quite know what Uranus’s problem was, but the truth is that he was not a good father: either he forced his children to remain in Gaia’s womb, or he threw them into Tartarus as soon as they were born. So Gaia convinced one of her children to carry out a contraceptive operation. You can see in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence the representation that Giorgio Vasari made in the sixteenth century of Chronos castrating his father Uranus with a scythe. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, emerged from Uranus’s amputated genital organs … which could imply that love comes from the disjunction of the body’s genital organs, from the displacement and externalization of genital force.

This form of nonheterosexual conception, cited in Plato’s Symposium, was the inspiration for the German lawyer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs to come up with the word Uranian [Urning] in 1864 to designate what he called relations of the “third sex.” In order to explain men’s attraction to other men, Ulrichs, after Plato, cut subjectivity in half, separated the soul from the body, and imagined a combination of souls and bodies that authorized him to reclaim dignity for those who loved against the law. The segmentation of soul and body reproduces in the domain of experience the binary epistemology of sexual difference: there are only two options. Uranians are not, Ulrich writes, sick or criminal, but feminine souls enclosed in masculine bodies attracted to masculine souls.

This is not a bad idea to legitimize a form of love that, at the time, could get you hanged in England or in Prussia, and that, today, remains illegal in seventy-four countries and is subject to the death penalty in thirteen, including Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, and Qatar; a form of love that constitutes a common motive for violence in family, society, and police in most Western democracies.

Ulrichs does not make this statement as a lawyer or scientist: he is speaking in the first person. He does not say “there are Uranians,” but “I am a Uranian.” He asserts this, in Latin, on August 18, 1867, after having been condemned to prison and after his books have been banned by an assembly of five hundred jurists, members of the German Parliament, and a Bavarian prince—an ideal audience for such confessions. Until then, Ulrichs had hidden behind the pseudonym “Numa Numantius.” But from that day on, he speaks in his own name, he dares to taint the name of his father. In his diary, Ulrichs confesses he was terrified, and that, just before walking onto the stage of the Grand Hall of the Odeon Theater in Munich, he had been thinking about running away, never to return. But he says he suddenly remembered the words of the Swiss writer Heinrich Hössli, who a few years before had defended sodomites (though not, however, speaking in his own name): “Two ways lie before me,” Hössli wrote, “to write this book and expose myself to persecution, or not to write it and be full of guilt until the day I am buried. Of course I have encountered the temptation to stop writing … But before my eyes appeared the images of the persecuted and the wretched prospect of such children who have not yet been born, and I thought of the unhappy mothers at their cradles, rocking their cursed yet innocent children! And then I saw our judges with their eyes blindfolded. Finally, I imagined my gravedigger slipping the cover of my coffin over my cold face. Then, before I submitted, the imperious desire to stand up and defend the oppressed truth possessed me … And so I continued to write with my eyes resolutely averted from those who have worked for my destruction. I do not have to choose between remaining silent or speaking. I say to myself: speak or be judged!”

Ulrichs writes in his journal that the judges and Parliamentarians seated in Munich’s Odeon Hall cried out, as they listened to his speech, like an angry crowd: End the meeting! End the meeting! But he also notes that one or two voices were raised to say: Let him continue! In the midst of a chaotic tumult, the President left the theater, but some Parliamentarians remained. Ulrichs’s voice trembled. They listened.

But what does it mean to speak for those who have been refused access to reason and knowledge, for us who have been regarded as mentally ill? With what voice can we speak? Can the jaguar or the cyborg lend us their voices? To speak is to invent the language of the crossing, to project one’s voice into an interstellar expedition: to translate our difference into the language of the norm; while we continue, in secret, to practice a strange lingo that the law does not understand.

So Ulrichs was the first European citizen to declare publicly that he wanted to have an apartment on Uranus. He was the first mentally ill person, the first sexual criminal to stand up and denounce the categories that labeled him as sexually and criminally diseased.

He did not say, “I am not a sodomite.” On the contrary, he defended the right to practice sodomy between men, calling for a reorganization of the systems of signs, for a change of the political rituals that defined the social recognition of a body as healthy or sick, legal or illegal. He invented a new language and a new scene of enunciation. In each of Ulrichs’s words addressed from Uranus to the Munich jurists resounds the violence generated by the dualist epistemology of the West. The entire universe cut in half and solely in half. Everything is heads or tails in this system of knowledge. We are human or animal. Man or woman. Living or dead. We are the colonizer or the colonized. Living organism or machine. We have been divided by the norm. Cut in half and forced to remain on one side or the other of the rift. What we call “subjectivity” is only the scar that, over the multiplicity of all that we could have been, covers the wound of this fracture. It is over this scar that property, family, and inheritance were founded. Over this scar, names are written and sexual identities asserted.

On May 6, 1868, Karl Maria Kertbeny, an activist and defender of the rights of sexual minorities, sent a handwritten letter to Ulrichs in which for the first time he used the word homosexual to refer to what his friend called “Uranians.” Against the antisodomy law promulgated in Prussia, Kertbeny defended the idea that sexual practices between people of the same sex were as “natural” as the practices of those he calls—also for the first time—“heterosexuals.” For Kertbeny, homosexuality and heterosexuality were just two natural ways of loving. For medical jurisprudence at the end of the nineteenth century, however, homosexuality would be reclassified as a disease, a deviation, and a crime.

I am not speaking of history here. I am speaking to you of your lives, of mine, of today. While the notion of Uranianism has gone somewhat astray in the archives of literature, Kertbeny’s concepts would become authentic biopolitical techniques of dealing with sexuality and reproduction over the course of the twentieth century, to such an extent that most of you continue to use them to refer to your own identity, as if they were descriptive categories. Homosexuality would remain listed until 1975 in Western psychiatric manuals as a sexual disease. This remains a central notion, not only in the discourse of clinical psychology, but also in the political languages of Western democracies.

When the notion of homosexuality disappeared from psychiatric manuals, the notions of intersexuality and transsexuality appear as new pathologies for which medicine, pharmacology, and law suggest remedies. Each body born in a hospital in the West is examined and subjected to the protocols of evaluation of gender normality invented in the fifties in the United States by the doctors John Money and John and Joan Hampson: if the baby’s body does not comply with the visual criteria of sexual difference, it will be submitted to a battery of operations of “sexual reassignment.” In the same way, with a few minor exceptions, neither scientific discourse nor the law in most Western democracies recognizes the possibility of inscribing a body as a member of human society unless it is assigned either masculine or feminine gender. Transsexuality and intersexuality are described as psychosomatic pathologies, and not as the symptoms of the inadequacy of the politico-visual system of sexual differentiation when faced with the complexity of life.

How can you, how can we, organize an entire system of visibility, representation, right of self-determination, and political recognition if we follow such categories? Do you really believe you are male or female, that we are homosexual or heterosexual, intersexed or transsexual? Do these distinctions worry you? Do you trust them? Does the very meaning of your human identity depend on them? If you feel your throat constricting when you hear one of these words, do not silence it. It’s the multiplicity of the cosmos that is trying to pierce through your chest, as if it were the tube of a Herschel telescope.

Let me tell you that homosexuality and heterosexuality do not exist outside of a dualistic, hierarchical epistemology that aims at preserving the domination of the paterfamilias over the reproduction of life. Homosexuality and heterosexuality, intersexuality and transsexuality do not exist outside of a colonial, capitalist epistemology, which privileges the sexual practices of reproduction as a strategy for managing the population and the reproduction of labor, but also the reproduction of the population of consumers. It is capital, not life, that is being reproduced. These categories are the map imposed by authority, not the territory of life. But if homosexuality and heterosexuality, intersexuality and transsexuality, do not exist, then who are we? How do we love? Imagine it.

Then, I remember my dream and I understand that my trans condition is a new form of Uranism. I am not a man and I am not a woman and I am not heterosexual I am not homosexual I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the sex-gender system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary political and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a Uranian confined inside the limits of techno-scientific capitalism.

Like Ulrichs, I am bringing no news from the margins; instead, I bring you a piece of horizon. I come with news of Uranus, which is neither the realm of God nor the sewer. Quite the contrary. I was assigned a female sex at birth. They said I was lesbian. I decided to self-administer regular doses of testosterone. I never thought I was a man. I never thought I was a woman. I was several. I didn’t think of myself as transsexual. I wanted to experiment with testosterone. I love its viscosity, the unpredictability of the changes it causes, the intensity of the emotions it provokes forty-eight hours after taking it. And, if the injections are regular, its ability to undo your identity, to make organic layers of the body emerge that otherwise would have remained invisible. Here as everywhere, what matters is the measure: the dosage, the rhythm of injections, the order of them, the cadence. I wanted to become unrecognizable. I wasn’t asking medical institutions for testosterone as hormone therapy to cure “gender dysphoria.” I wanted to function with testosterone, to experience the intensity of my desire through it, to multiply my faces by metamorphosing my subjectivity, creating a body that was a revolutionary machine. I undid the mask of femininity that society had plastered onto my face until my identity documents became ridiculous, obsolete. Then, with no way out, I agreed to identify myself as a transsexual, as a “mentally ill person,” so that the medico-legal system would acknowledge me as a living human body. I paid with my body for the name I bear.

By making the decision to construct my subjectivity with testosterone, the way the shaman constructs his with plants, I take on the negativity of my time, a negativity I am forced to represent and against which I can fight only from this paradoxical incarnation, which is to be a trans man in the twenty-first century, a feminist bearing the name of a man in the #MeToo movement, an atheist of the hetero-patriarchal system turned into a consumer of the pharmacopornographic industry. My existence as a trans man constitutes at once the acme of the sexual ancien régime and the beginning of its collapse, the climax of its normative progression and the signal of a proliferation still to come.

I have come to talk to you—to you and to the dead, or rather, to those who live as if they were already dead—but I have come especially to talk to the cursed, innocent children who are yet to be born. Uranians are the survivors of a systematic, political attempt at infanticide: we have survived the attempt to kill in us, while we were not yet adults, and while we could not defend ourselves, the radical multiplicity of life and the desire to change the names of all things. Are you dead? Will they be born tomorrow? I congratulate you, belatedly or in advance.

I bring you news of the crossing, which is the realm of neither God nor the sewer. Quite the contrary. Do not be afraid, do not be excited, I have not come to explain anything morbid. I have not come to tell you what a transsexual is, or how to change your sex, or at what precise instant a transition is good or bad. Because none of that would be true, no truer than the ray of afternoon sun falling on a certain spot on the planet and changing according to the place from which it is seen. No truer than that the slow orbit described by Uranus as it revolves above the Earth is yellow. I cannot tell you everything that goes on when you take testosterone, or what that does in your body. Take the trouble to administer the necessary doses of knowledge to yourself, as many as your taste for risk allows you.

I have not come for that. As my indigenous Chilean mother Pedro Lemebel said, I do not know why I come, but I am here. In this Uranian apartment that overlooks the gardens of Athens. And I’ll stay a while. At the crossroads. Because intersection is the only place that exists. There are no opposite shores. We are always at the crossing of paths. And it is from this crossroad that I address you, like the monster who has learned the language of humans.

I no longer need, like Ulrichs, to assert that I am a masculine soul enclosed in a woman’s body. I have no soul and no body. I have an apartment on Uranus, which certainly places me far from most earthlings, but not so far that you can’t come see me. Even if only in dream …

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2021 NPM Number 28 - Naomi Shihab Nye - You Are Your Own State Department

You can listen to the podcast version of this series on Spotify, ITunes, Anchor, (https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis) Look for the podcast titled National Poetry Month at the Other Pages.

Here is the direct link to the audio for this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-spanoudis/episodes/2021-NPM-28-Naomi-Shihab-Nye-e104bk7

Welcome to National Poetry Month at The Other Pages. My name is Steve Spanoudis and I curate the series each year with help and contributions from Kashiana Singh and (Nelson) Howard Miller. I’m coming to you from Coral Springs, Florida, on the eastern edge of the Everglades.

Technically, National Poetry Month is over, but we didn’t quite get to thirty, so I thought I would squeeze a few more in.

Today’s poem, You Are Your Own State Department, was written by Naomi Shihab Nye, a woman who is, in many respects, much like her poem.

A common process in poetry is to describe something by talking about its pieces to give you a better picture of the whole. This poem is a first-person viewpoint, commentaries from her wanderings in life, and why she tries always (as we all should) to improve the things that we see wrong in the world. Even if it is only little things. That mirrors the idea of a thing being made of its smaller parts. And this too is a common process - that the form of a poem is chosen sometimes to mirror the thought process or the subject.

First, just a few comments about the poet. Born in 1952 in Saint Louis, Missouri, to Palestinian and Swiss/German parents, she has written poetry, novels, essays, and songs, authoring or contributing to thirty books, and editing several collections. She recently served as the Young People’s Poet Laureate for the Poetry Foundation. She is known for finding novel but clear perspectives on people, things, places, and circumstances. You will hear those things very clearly in today’s poem. It starts out:

Each day I miss Japanese precision. Trying to arrange things

the way they would. I miss the call to prayer

at Sharjah, the large collective pause. Or

the shy strawberry vendor with rickety wooden cart,

single small lightbulb pointed at a mound of berries.

In one of China’s great cities, before dawn.

Nye has commented that her poetry comes from a combination of: “local life, random characters met on the streets, [and] our own ancestry sifting down to us through small essential daily tasks.” The poem continues,

Forever I miss my Arab father’s way with mint leaves

floating in a cup of sugared tea—his delicate hands

arranging rinsed figs on a plate. What have we here?

said the wolf in the children’s story

stumbling upon people doing kind, small things.

Is this small monster one of us?

And she talks about those people - sometimes people who are displaced or themselves living under fear or hatred of one kind or another, and those small things they contribute:

When your country does not feel cozy, what do you do?

Teresa walks more now, to feel closer to her

ground. If destination within two miles, she must

hike or take the bus. Carries apples,

extra bottles of chilled water to give away.

Kim makes one positive move a day for someone else.

She ends describing a conversation with her father, and her thoughts afterward,

We talked for two hours via Google Chat,

they did not complain once. Discussing stories,

books, families, a character who does

what you might do.

Meanwhile secret diplomats are what we must be,

as a girl in Qatar once assured me,

each day slipping its blank visa into our hands.

After reading it, I walk away with all of the points Nye mentions above, and the rhetorical question: if we have the opportunity to make “one positive move a day,” shouldn’t we use it?

I hereby draft you all to be “secret diplomats.”

The full text of this poem is online at the Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149741/you-are-your-own-state-department) along with a much more extensive biography, and additional poems to read.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Canada’s Ontario to go on province-wide shutdown Dec. 26 (AP) Ontario on Monday announced a province-wide shutdown because of a second wave of COVID-19 in Canada’s most populous province. The lockdown will be put in place for southern Ontario from Dec. 26 until Jan. 23, but will lift for northern Ontario on Jan. 9. Ontario has had seven straight days of more than 2,000 cases a day. Modeling shows that could more than double in January. Health officials earlier said a four- to six-week hard lockdown could significantly stop the spread of COVID-19. Toronto, Canada’s largest city, had already closed restaurants for indoor dining but schools remained open. All high schools in Ontario will now be closed for in-person learning until Jan. 25. Elementary schools will be closed until Jan. 11.

Congress Strikes Long-Sought Stimulus Deal to Provide $900 Billion in Aid (NYT) Congressional leaders on Sunday reached a hard-fought agreement on a $900 billion stimulus package that would send immediate aid to Americans and businesses to help them cope with the economic devastation of the pandemic and fund the distribution of vaccines. The deal would deliver the first significant infusion of federal dollars into the economy since April, as negotiators broke through months of partisan gridlock that had scuttled earlier talks, leaving millions of Americans and businesses without federal help as the pandemic raged. While the plan is roughly half the size of the $2.2 trillion stimulus law enacted in March, it is one of the largest relief packages in modern history. The agreement was expected to provide $600 stimulus payments to millions of American adults earning up to $75,000.

Trump’s legacy: He changed the presidency, but will it last? (AP) The most improbable of presidents, Donald Trump reshaped the office and shattered its centuries-old norms and traditions while dominating the national discourse like no one before. He smashed conceptions about how presidents behave and communicate, offering unvarnished thoughts and policy declarations alike, pulling back the curtain for the American people while enthralling supporters and unnerving foes—and sometimes allies—both at home and abroad. While the nation would be hard-pressed to elect another figure as disruptive as Trump, it remains to be seen how much of his imprint on the office itself, occupied by only 44 other men, will be indelible. Already it shadows the work of his successor, President-elect Joe Biden, who framed his candidacy as a repudiation of Trump, offering himself as an antidote to the chaos and dissent of the past four years while vowing to restore dignity to the Oval Office. “For all four years, this is someone who at every opportunity tried to stretch presidential power beyond the limits of the law,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss. “He altered the presidency in many ways, but many of them can be changed back almost overnight by a president who wants to make the point that there is a change.”

Mexican president expects no conflicts with Biden administration (Reuters) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his weekend call with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden was “very friendly” and that he expect relations to be positive with the new Democratic administration taking office in January.

World closes borders to Britain as new coronavirus strain breeds panic (Reuters) A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK food shortages days before the Brexit cliff edge. India, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Jordan and Hong Kong suspended travel for Britons after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a mutated variant of the virus, up to 70% more transmissible, had been identified in the country. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman closed their borders completely. Several other nations have suspended travel from Britain including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and Canada. France shut its border to arrivals of people and trucks from Britain, closing off one of the most important trade arteries with mainland Europe. As families and truck drivers tried to navigate the travel bans to get back home in time for Christmas, British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s said shortages would start to appear within days if transport ties were not quickly restored.

Britons scramble for residency in Spain and Portugal ahead of Brexit (Reuters) In October, Michelle Jones and her husband Gary boarded a ferry in England for a new life in Spain. Had they left it beyond Britain’s period of transition out of the European Union, things would have been much more complicated. “We haven’t got a choice—it’s now or never,” the former housing association worker said at the hairdressing salon she has taken over in the resort town of Fuengirola in southern Spain. Britain formally left the European Union on Jan. 31 after its 2016 referendum, but since then it has been in a transition period under which rules on free travel and trade remain unchanged. That period ends on Dec. 31. Fourteen European countries, including Portugal and Spain, will grant Britons arriving before Dec. 31 the right to five years of residency. Other countries have tougher post-Brexit requirements, asking all Britons to re-apply after the transition period. Ahead of the deadline, some people have brought forward retirement plans and others have taken advantage of being able to work from home to move.

Skiing (Financial Times) The European Alps are home to a third of the world’s 2,084 ski resorts, and typically generate €28 billion in revenues. That is roughly 7 percent of the overall European Union tourism market. Though geographically compact, the Alps are the global seat of skiing, and in a typical year are host to about 43 percent of worldwide skier visits, considerably higher than North America (21 percent), the Asia Pacific region (16 percent), and other parts of Western Europe (10 percent). Naturally, this season will not be generating 28 billion euros. France has shut down all ski lifts through January 7, resorts in Italy and Austria are closed, and the Swiss are going to do their own thing but will cut ties with neighbors for the duration of the crisis.

Nepal Falls Into Political Turmoil. China and India Are Watching. (NYT) Nepal’s top leader dissolved Parliament on Sunday amid infighting among members of the governing party, throwing into doubt the political future of a strategically important Himalayan country where China and India have long jockeyed for influence. The prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, called for the dissolution of the lower house of Parliament despite protests from his own Nepal Communist Party and opposition groups, including the largest, Nepali Congress. Nepal is now set to hold elections starting in late April, more than a year earlier than the expected vote in November 2022. Mr. Oli made his move in the face of rising dissatisfaction with his job performance even within the ranks of his own party. He was elected to a second stint as prime minister in 2017 on promises of tamping down corruption and forging stronger ties with China and its economic growth machine. But Mr. Oli’s administration has been plagued with its own corruption allegations as well as criticism of his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has devastated an economy that has long depended on tourism and on remittances from its citizens abroad.

Rockets fired at U.S. embassy land inside Baghdad’s Green Zone, damaging compound (Reuters) At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy, causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday, the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday. The Iraqi military said an “outlaw group” fired eight rockets. Most of the missiles hit a residential complex and a security checkpoint inside the zone, damaging buildings and cars and wounding one Iraqi soldier, a military statement said. U.S. officials blame Iran-backed militia for regular rocket attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq, including near the embassy in Baghdad. No known Iran-backed groups have claimed responsibility.

Spyware targets phones of Al-Jazeera reporters (AP) Dozens of journalists at Al-Jazeera, the Qatari state-owned media company, have been targeted by advanced spyware in an attack likely linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a cybersecurity watchdog said Sunday. Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto said it traced malware that infected the personal phones of 36 journalists, producers, anchors and executives at Al-Jazeera back to the Israel-based NSO Group, which has been widely condemned for selling spyware to repressive governments. Most unnerving to the investigators was that iMessages were infecting targeted cellphones without the users taking any action—what’s known as a zero-click vulnerability. Through push notifications alone, the malware instructed the phones to upload their content to servers linked to the NSO Group, Citizen Lab said, turning journalists’ iPhones into powerful surveillance tools without even luring users to click on suspicious links or threatening texts. Citizen Lab, which has been tracking NSO spyware for four years, tied the attacks “with medium confidence” to the Emirati and Saudi governments, based on their past targeting of dissidents at home and abroad with the same spyware. The two countries are embroiled in a bitter geopolitical dispute with Qatar in which hacking and cyber surveillance have increasingly become favored tools.

In Tigray Conflict, Displaced Children Suffer (NYT) UM RAKUBA, Sudan—The Um Rakuba refugee camp is filling again, stifling in the afternoon sun in eastern Sudan, and there are children everywhere. More than 51,000 Ethiopians have fled their country because of the military’s offensive in the restive region of Tigray, and more than 19,000 of them are here at Um Rakuba. Almost a third of the Ethiopian refugees are children, with at least 361 of them arriving unaccompanied, according to the United Nations refugee agency. Many of the unaccompanied children said they were separated from their families as they bolted from their homes in the middle of the night, trekking hours and days with nothing but the clothes on their backs to reach safety. “It is quite heartbreaking,” Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, said in an interview in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. “For an emergency that is relatively small in numbers, I have hardly seen such a high level of people separated from their families, many children separated.”

The food industry and academic studies (Food Dive) A new study published in the journal Plos One reported that in 2018, 13 percent of research articles published in the 10-most-cited nutrition academic journals were funded at least in part by the food industry. Of those funded by the industry, 56 percent reported favorable findings for the industry backing them financially, vastly higher than the 10 percent of articles that were not paid for by the food industry that reported industry favorable outcomes.

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It was a different Gianni Infantino, a more pensive and less alarmingly excited Gianni Infantino, who addressed Hall 1 at the Qatar National Convention Center on Friday morning.

This had been the scene of Infantino’s own defining moment just a month ago: his sacking of the temple, his Woodstock, his I Have a Very Peculiar Dream. Brusquely late, Infantino was all business this time. "I am happy to be here," he kicked off in a descending tone as though announcing the imminent execution of a colony of wasps. "Has this World Cup been a massive success?" he was asked from the floor. No, Gianni politely declined. It had, in fact, been "an incredible success."

Mainly, he talked about numbers: 3.27 million spectators, 1.7 million in the fan zone, a billion dollars in excess profits, and $11 billion in projected profits for next time.

He talked about love, joy, and human rights. Above all, Infantino was "very, very happy" at the progress of his World Cup. Put your hands together and rejoice, cheer, and be thankful. Rejoice, even though your name is death. Because the fact is that some numbers were missing from Infantino’s podium notes, some usefully vague numbers that feel as if they are now on their way to being buried in plain sight.

The total number of migrant worker deaths during the 12-year cycle of Qatar’s World Cup has oscillated from three to 6,500, from 400 to 37. The New York Times reported just before the tournament that Nepal had calculated 2,000 deaths, including 200 suicides, a genuinely heartbreaking detail, albeit one that must, as ever, be degraded by Qatar’s bizarre absence of hard data. It has been a World Cup haunted by these ghosts, with a sense of something just out of sight. And as Infantino plowed on at the Convention Center, there was another specter on stage: the outline of another oleaginous, bald Swiss on another stage, 12 years apart.

The fact is, death and suffering were the inevitable collateral damage to this project from the moment Sepp Blatter read out the word "Qatar" in that weirdly strangled upbeat tone, crowded on his own stage by glad-handing power brokers, and perhaps feeling, through the lineups and posed smiles, that shadow already at his back, just out of shot, scythe clanking happily. Do we have to say this again? Because what we have here is still an open case. The dots have not been joined. As Infantino drenched his audience in the familiar margarine of platitudes and half-truths, there was another sound in the hall, beneath the whirr of the cameras and the battering of keyboards. There it is, hiding in the silence: the sound of someone getting away with murder.

And this story will now move on. The last days of Qatar 2022 are the end of something, the final notes to a cycle that began 12 years ago, bringing with it corruption, death, criminality, and a building project as large as every other World Cup combined. Little wonder the eyes of the world are a little glazed by now. Qatar 2022 has become an insoluble puzzle, a place where certainties collapse like sandcastles on the tide line, where nobody is really ever responsible for anything, where words stretch and lose their meaning, like the signs on the Doha fences that say "Amazing" and "Together."

Infantino says this is the best World Cup ever. Mark Pougatch says the Ghanaians are colorful. Nasser al-Khalifa says to stop mixing sports and politics. The supreme delivery committee is rumored to be planning to change the tournament motto for the final weekend from "Now is All" to "All is Now," and the response was a tired shrug and a sense of, yeah, that seems about right. But there is still time for a moment of clarity. After 12 years of staring at this process, one thing is undeniably clear. In the end, FIFA is responsible for everything. We can talk about Qatari law. We can discuss the Gulf War, colonialism, the decline of the West, and all the other things that are bad in the world.

But the fact remains that FIFA had options in this situation. And Fifa chose death and suffering. Look back with a clear line of sight, and from the moment Fifa made its bid decision, there was only one route from there to here. Define corporate manslaughter. What does that crime look or feel like as a chain of events? It is another question that has not been asked enough.

At which point the wind chimes tinkle one last time, and we’re back in the drowned world of September 2010. It is worth remembering the details here. Three months before the bid vote, Fifa sent its Evaluation Committee, led by its chairman Harold Mayne-Nicholls of Chile, to assess Qatar’s fitness to host a World Cup. The evaluators were in Qatar from September 13 to 17, 2010, which doesn’t sound very long, even less so when a portion of it seems to have been spent playing football at the Aspire Academy. The report is fascinating. It acknowledges the extent of the work Qatar has left to do while simultaneously averting its gaze from exactly how this is supposed to happen.

"The accommodation plan heavily depends on significant construction." Significant development is planned for both the New Doha International Airport and the general transport infrastructure. The considerable number of infrastructure projects and the volume of temporary event-time services both imply significant human resource requirements. "Are we getting anywhere yet?" "Is a picture emerging?" Of the 64 accommodation solutions proposed, 54 do not yet exist. "Of the 64 sites proposed, 39 still need to be built." "The remaining 25 sites are targeted for renovation." FIFA's committee considered stadium construction "medium risk" and team facilities "high risk." This was all duly noted by Mayne-Nicholls and fed back to his executive committee, albeit without a moment’s digging into who exactly was going to build all this stuff in a tiny nation.

Not that any of this was a mystery. Five minutes on Google would have done the job for FIFA's experts. As early as 2006, Human Rights Watch published a report on kafala-type working conditions in the neighboring emirates called Building Towers, Cheating Workers. It notes the deliberately poor data on deaths and working conditions (sound familiar?). It records a Construction Week investigation that found 880 migrant workers had died in the UAE in 2004 alone and an Indian official who registered 971 death cases in 2005.

Two years before the bid vote, Amnesty International described similar poor working conditions in Qatar itself, including exploitation, non-payment of wages, and a lack of protection under the law. There are no secrets here. There is an entire library of this stuff. And yet Fifa still asked Qatar to build it a World Cup, the equivalent of handing the council digger to the town’s most careless cowboy builder and promising to look the other way while he builds a new school playground.

In his big opening speech, Infantino described Qatar as “a child” who needed help. OK. That’s fine. But why, Fifa, did you ask a child to build you a €220 billion World Cup?

At the time, Mayne-Nicholls seemed, according to the Garcia report, more interested in trying to get his son and nephew a gig at the Aspire Academy. But his report was also relatively damning, and he would go on to publicly criticize the Qatar decision. Fifa responded by banning him from football for seven years on some vague-looking charges, which were later overturned by a baffled court of arbitration for sport. This, then, was the framework for the decision. And so the touchpaper was lit. Doha tripled in size in a decade. Workers poured into the country, drawn either by higher wages or by their own poverty, depending on how you want to look at it.

Qatar recruited specifically from nations worst hit by climate change because, hey, desperation comes cheap. It set up what the New Yorker has described as "an ecosystem of plausible deniability," with subcontractors upon subcontractors, a wall of silence, a lack of reporting, a lack of representation, and the failure even to conduct proper autopsies on its dead. The reforms of the past few years suggest that Qatar has been willing to bend its rules just a little to get this thing done. And yet no pressure was exerted, no conditions were applied, and you haven't come back in 10 years when you’ve moved on a bit further. Instead, FIFA simply struck a match and turned its back on the process.

It is perhaps one reason there has been no progress on the compensation of workers. Even as Infantino was crowing over his excess profits on Friday morning, Amnesty International’s head of economic and social justice, Stephen Cockburn, was calling on FIFRA to finally move on the idea of a legacy fund.

Gianni Infantino announced that Fifa earned $7.5 billion from the 2022 World Cup cycle, which was more than $1 billion higher than expected. He also forecasted that FIFA would make over $11 billion over the next four years. Yet he offered nothing new to so many workers and their families, who continue to be denied compensation for stolen wages and lost lives. It has been suggested that part of Fifa’s reluctance to commit to this could be the fear of a potential admission of implied liability. Very few things are left to chance around here. At least, not the ones that matter.

And that chain of liability really does need to be tested. Fifa, with its oversight, its European address, and its teams of experts and evaluators, chose this path in full knowledge of the consequences. Fifa is a wealthy businessman. It can be called to account. It is perhaps a surprise that there hasn’t yet been a more concerted attempt to do so. Instead, other events will now swim into the foreground. As of Sunday evening, a news cycle will end. The cartel of ghouls and goons that drove us here, the Blatter-Blazer-Warner golden generation, will fade deeper into the past. Nobody will ever read the Garcia report or care about handbags and mystery Picassos.

They’re selling discount Messi T-shirts at the Al Sadd Lulu Savings Center. The strangest decade in the history of big corporate sports is coming to an end. And, as it stands, the true villains of this play are still out there, wiping the blood from their palms as they stride out center stage to preach about love and joy and spreading the message—all while hiding in plain sight.

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Brazil's "oldest" Alvez can open his forehead tomorrow

Dani Alvez's name in Brazil's World Cup in Qatar was a big surprise. Many did not think that Tite could keep him in the World Cup squad. Think - or how! One of the most experienced footballers in Brazil, but he was out of the team for a long time. But after last September, this rightback was called up to Brazil's World Cup team without playing any competitive match. Brazil coach Tite came to Qatar World Cup with 39-year-old Alvez. Alvez was already desperate to play the World Cup. So much so that the one-time Barcelona star even joined the 'Barca-B' team just to prepare for the World Cup. Improved fitness a lot. That is what satisfied Tite and the Brazil management. Brazil have already played two games from Group G in the World Cup.

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After beating Serbia 2-0 and Switzerland 1-0, Brazil has already advanced to the last sixteen. Brazil will face Cameroon in the last match of the group on Friday night (Bangladesh time). As the last sixteen has already been confirmed, Tite can keep the regular players of the eleven in this match. And Alvez's forehead can be opened. Alvez can set the record of being Brazil's oldest player in the World Cup against Cameroon. Dalma Santos, who played for Brazil in the 1966 World Cup at the age of 37, still holds this record. What a coincidence! The late 2013 and double World Cup winner Dalmao always played in the rightback position. Dalma Santos is the brother of Nilton Santos, the legendary leftback known as 'Encyclopedia' in Brazilian football. Dani Alvez Brazil team in practice Brazil team in practice Photo: AFP Read more The Polish goalkeeper won't pay even if he loses a bet with Messi on penalties Poland's goalkeeper Szejny stopped Messi's penalty After playing two matches in the World Cup in Qatar, Brazil has had problems with injuries. Neymar and Danilo were injured in the first match against Serbia. It is highly likely that Neymar will not be on the field against Cameroon. The match is just a regulation fight for Brazil, and Neymar will want to be fully healthy in the knockout phase. That's why Neymar may be rested before the match against Cameroon even if he recovers. Their Milita also played in place of Danilo against the Swiss. Tate may make several changes to the Brazil team against Cameroon to keep key players injury-free at a crucial time in the World Cup. Just like France did last night against Tunisia, the Brazil coach can drop the second tier team as well. Alvez joined the Mexican league club UNM in July this year after completing his second term at Barca. This footballer, who has won the Champions League three times for Barcelona, ​​has not played a match since September 23. Alvez left Mexico after the season for UNM. From there he moved to Barcelona. Joined the "B" team of the Catalan club. Keeping himself fit by training with this B team ahead of the Qatar World Cup. It is understood that Alvez was desperate to play the World Cup even at this age. Hard work earned its reward. Read the full article

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Qatar 2022: Cameroonian disarms indomitable lions in Swiss victory

Qatar 2022: Cameroonian disarms indomitable lions in Swiss victory

Breel Embolo, a Cameroon native, scored the only goal of a cagey game to earn Switzerland a winning start to their Group G campaign. Embolo, who was born in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde but raised in Basel, is representing the Swiss at his second World Cup having received citizenship in 2014. The striker rounded off a free-flowing move in the 48th minute, sweeping home a low cutback from Xherdan…

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Kane fires England to World Cup brink, Italy held by Switzerland

Italy hold a two-goal advantage over the Swiss on goal difference heading into Sunday’s final games.

Northern Ireland host Italy, while Switzerland face Bulgaria at home.

Scotland guaranteed a playoff place behind already-qualified Denmark in Group F with a comfortable 2-0 win in Moldova.

Nathan Patterson and Che Adams either side of half-time as Steve Clarke’s men secured a fifth consecutive win.

Denmark beat the Faroe Islands 3-1 to maintain their 100 per cent record.

Harry Kane scored a first half hat-trick as England romped towards the 2022 World Cup with a 5-0 thrashing of Albania, but Italy still have work to do to reach Qatar after a 1-1 draw with Switzerland.

England still need a point to mathematically qualify when they visit San Marino on Monday, but boast a three-point lead and six-goal advantage on goal difference over Poland, who sealed at least a playoff place with a 4-1 win over 10-man Andorra.

The Three Lions can look ahead to Qatar with confidence as they bounced back to form at Wembley in style with all the goals coming before half-time.

“The first half was fantastic, as well as we’ve played for a long time,” said England boss Gareth Southgate.

“We’re best when we have an edge and this was a game that could put us on the verge of qualification for the World Cup.”

Harry Maguire put a difficult start to the season at club level behind him as the Manchester United captain opened the floodgates with a thumping header from Reece James’ free-kick.

Kane admitted on Thursday to also struggling physically and mentally from the exertions of England’s run to the Euro 2020 final added to the speculation over his future.

The England captain has scored just one Premier League goal this season, but now has six in five games for his country.

Kane headed home Jordan Henderson’s cross from close range before turning provider for Henderson to calmly slot home his first international goal on home soil.

England were rampant in the first 45 minutes as Kane thrashed home his second from a narrow angle before completing his fourth international hat-trick in spectacular fashion with a scissor kick from Phil Foden’s corner.

Kane is now level with Jimmy Greaves as England’s fourth highest goalscorer of all time on 44 and moved ahead of Wayne Rooney with the most competitive goals for the Three Lions.

Italy pay late penalty

European champions Italy maintained a narrow advantage over Switzerland at the top of Group C, but missed a glorious late chance to virtually secure qualification when Jorginho blazed a penalty over the bar.

The Chelsea midfielder has now missed six spot-kicks for club and country since the start of last season.

“If he felt like shooting, it is right that he took the penalty,” said Italy manager Roberto Mancini.

The visitors got off to a flying start in Rome when Silvan Widmer’s thunderous strike flew into the top corner.

The Azzurri levelled nine minutes before half-time thanks to a well-worked set-piece that was headed in by Giovanni Di Lorenzo.

Italy were given a controversial late spot-kick after a VAR review for a push on Domenico Berrardi by Ulisses Garcia.

Jorginho also missed from the spot when the sides drew 0-0 in September and fired well off target.

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Qatar World Cup: Italy wants FIFA World Cup qualifier against Switzerland to be played in Rome

After guardian Gianluigi Donnarumma was booed a week ago, Italy is asking to have November's match against Switzerland moved from the San Siro. The Azzurri are scheduled to play in Milan again, but according to tuttomercatoweb, another set is in the works following Donnarumma's mistreatment.

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The 22-year-old left childhood club AC Milan for PSG in the late spring on a free exchange after his agreement lapsed. It's a decision that has enraged the Rossoneri faithful, who booed him loudly when he returned to San Siro after Spain's Nations League humiliation. As a result, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has decided to shift the venue for Italy's next home fixture.

Roberto Mancini's side interpretation of Switzerland in a pivotal Football World Cup qualifier on November 12, in spite of the fact that it's not yet clear where that will presently be. Rome's Studio Olympic has been promoted as a potential scene, yet the arena has a rugby match between Italy and New Zealand six days sooner. Also, after protests by Roma and Lazio supervisors Jose Mourinho and Maurizio Sari, it stays not yet clear if the contribution will be a reasonable condition to hold the game.

The Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, like the Mapei Stadium in Sassuolo and the Allianz in Turin, is another option. Grounds in Florence, Udine, Palermo, and Bari are likewise being arranged as choices. Italy right now leads Switzerland in their Football World Cup qualifying bunch by three. Also, triumph over the Swiss one month from now would viably affirm capability for Qatar World Cup 2022 as gathering victors.

Donnarumma might have been stunned by the response from the homegroup - particularly after he helped Italy to Euro 2020 brilliance in July. Previous AC Milan mentor Arrigo Sacchi was unsurprised by boos, however, calling Donnarumma's move a 'selling out. For more to know about Qatar World Cup Tickets Click here

He said, as revealed by Football Italia: Obviously, there was a double-crossing. In football and in regular day-to-day existence, treachery must be reimbursed in kind. So we should not be stunned by a couple of scoffs. Italy's home internationals last month against Bulgaria and Lithuania were played in Sassuolo and Florence separately.

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9 DELICIOUS CAKES FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS IN 2021

Cakes have in no time turned into a fundamental component of each celebration and festivity, regardless of how huge or little. From birthday celebrations to anniversaries, wedding parties to child showers, Mother's Day to Father's Day; and so on, and a delightful cake will be the best method to give your friends and family a scrumptious treat. Cakes arrive in a wide assortment of flavors, styles, themes, and sizes, and models. You can rapidly check the website to make a request for tasty cakes and surprise your loved ones with online cake delivery in Doha. Here is an overview of the most famous and top of the line cake ideas to light up any extraordinary event or occasion on the schedule. In this way, moving right along, here is the rundown of the moving cakes in 2021:

 Lovable Woven Cake

With this woven cake pattern, you can transform your cake into a delightful woven artwork. This style is about the periphery, natural tones, and surprising, striking surfaces, and it's an inventive interpretation of the basketweave strategy. Look at these Woven cakes for events from internet preparing stores to see this pattern in real life that has been weaving, channeled pulled specks, and kaleidoscopic periphery. This is one of those patterns that is certainly worth the venture of time!

 Crazy Coconut Cake

Ready with thick and flavorful coconut milk and coconut extricates which are known for their heavenly taste, and subsequently, it is liked for each special day and event. The cake is glazed with a velvety and flavorful coconut icing cream, and coconut shreds are used to decorate it. To coordinate the coconut flavor and make the cake more delectable, add vanilla or caramel enhanced cream. Use online flower delivery Qatar to get beautiful flowers along with this cake.

 Glorious Marble Cake

A marble cake is made by consolidating two unmistakable cake tastes to make a marble-like impact on the cake. Chocolate and vanilla are the most famous and generally created cake flavors for marble cake. These flavors can be blended and coordinated to suit your inclinations, however, remember that a lighter and more obscure character ought to be utilized to give the cake a streaked look.

 Brushing Cake

Consolidating your cake is a speedy and simple procedure to add surface and style to your desserts by passing a scored icing smoother through buttercream frosting. Fill in the scored lines with one more shade of icing for a beautiful striped plan, or add a basic boundary or enhancement, as on the Merely Peony Cake. Rather than preparing yourself, you can arrange these as birthday cakes online who can bring this straightforwardly to your doorstep. Get this cake using the online cake delivery in Qatar and send them to your friends and family on special occasions.

 Rich Banana Cake

Bananas are perhaps the best natural product for making anniversary cakes, pies, and spreads and might be found in the organic product segment. At the point when bananas are treated with spread and sugar, they become much more delicious; when the banana flavor is joined with chocolate and butterscotch cream, the outcome is a character that is both vital and lip-smacking.

 Dark Buttercream

Bright cakes have their place, however, nothing beats an unblemished, dark buttercream cake for sway. Dark buttercream is a work of art and lovely material for metallic cake paint or brilliant treats embellishments. After a dark buttercream base, this Enchanted Energy Cake is covered with gold metallic paint. Against the dark icing, a couple of sugar gems genuinely pop, making this cake an incredible sight! Use flower delivery Qatar online to order beautiful flowers for special occasions.

 Sponge Cake

Sponge cake is a sort of non-yeasted cake that has a smooth surface and design. Sponge cakes are the best cakes online accessible in an assortment of flavors and tastes. Asian sponge cakes, genoise cake, swiss roll, and Victoria sponge cake are the absolute generally famous and notable sponge cake structures. You may likewise browse any of these delicious, delicate, and delectable cakes to add a specific touch to any of your special events and occasions.

 Delicious Biscuit Cake

In the event that you appreciate sponge cakes however need to take a look at a novel, new thing and distinctive this time, a delicious and wonderful bread roll cake is the best option for you. This cake is one of the best to go with on account of the light player, new cream, and luxurious surface. Pick your number one bread roll to make your chewy roll cake, and remember to enhance it with tasty chocolate-seasoned cream. 

 Redo Buttercreams

Buttercream moves, a proven strategy for making exemplary designs, are relied upon to make the best cake flavor in 2021. The way that these exchanges are framed by following a picture with buttercream icing is one reason they work so successfully. The pictures are drawn on waxed paper, then, at that point frozen prior to being applied to your cake or goodie. It's similar to shading. Use the best online florist in Qatar to get beautiful flowers along with this cake.

 Last Thoughts

Everybody is immersed in their position right now, and when it's your extraordinary day, life becomes calm and lighter. Accordingly, requesting cakes online is the most productive way to deal with doing the undertaking. Online cake delivery starting with one city then onto the next used to be troublesome, however with the appearance of online cake stores, the errand has become a lot simpler and quicker.

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Brazil's "oldest" Alvez can open his forehead tomorrow

Dani Alvez's name in Brazil's World Cup in Qatar was a big surprise. Many did not think that Tite could keep him in the World Cup squad. Think - or how! One of the most experienced footballers in Brazil, but he was out of the team for a long time. But after last September, this rightback was called up to Brazil's World Cup team without playing any competitive match. Brazil coach Tite came to Qatar World Cup with 39-year-old Alvez. Alvez was already desperate to play the World Cup. So much so that the one-time Barcelona star even joined the 'Barca-B' team just to prepare for the World Cup. Improved fitness a lot. That is what satisfied Tite and the Brazil management. Brazil have already played two games from Group G in the World Cup.

FIFA WORLD CUP 2022

After beating Serbia 2-0 and Switzerland 1-0, Brazil has already advanced to the last sixteen. Brazil will face Cameroon in the last match of the group on Friday night (Bangladesh time). As the last sixteen has already been confirmed, Tite can keep the regular players of the eleven in this match. And Alvez's forehead can be opened. Alvez can set the record of being Brazil's oldest player in the World Cup against Cameroon. Dalma Santos, who played for Brazil in the 1966 World Cup at the age of 37, still holds this record. What a coincidence! The late 2013 and double World Cup winner Dalmao always played in the rightback position. Dalma Santos is the brother of Nilton Santos, the legendary leftback known as 'Encyclopedia' in Brazilian football. Dani Alvez Brazil team in practice Brazil team in practice Photo: AFP Read more The Polish goalkeeper won't pay even if he loses a bet with Messi on penalties Poland's goalkeeper Szejny stopped Messi's penalty After playing two matches in the World Cup in Qatar, Brazil has had problems with injuries. Neymar and Danilo were injured in the first match against Serbia. It is highly likely that Neymar will not be on the field against Cameroon. The match is just a regulation fight for Brazil, and Neymar will want to be fully healthy in the knockout phase. That's why Neymar may be rested before the match against Cameroon even if he recovers. Their Milita also played in place of Danilo against the Swiss. Tate may make several changes to the Brazil team against Cameroon to keep key players injury-free at a crucial time in the World Cup. Just like France did last night against Tunisia, the Brazil coach can drop the second tier team as well. Alvez joined the Mexican league club UNM in July this year after completing his second term at Barca. This footballer, who has won the Champions League three times for Barcelona, ​​has not played a match since September 23. Alvez left Mexico after the season for UNM. From there he moved to Barcelona. Joined the "B" team of the Catalan club. Keeping himself fit by training with this B team ahead of the Qatar World Cup. It is understood that Alvez was desperate to play the World Cup even at this age. Hard work earned its reward. Read the full article