Thursday, October 14, 2021
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What Is Causing a Global Goods Shortage? | Inside Story
Oct 14, 2021 • A supply chain crisis is threatening to derail the world's economic recovery from the pandemic. New smartphones, toys, clothes, and even Christmas turkeys are among many items failing to reach consumers.
Container ports in the US and Europe are working at full capacity. Manufacturing hubs in China have slowed down output because of power shortages and high commodity prices.
So, what are the solutions?
Presenter: Imran Khan | Guests: Jas Kalra - Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management, Newcastle University Business School; Dan Wang - Chief Economist, Hang Seng Bank China; Stavros Karamperidis - Lecturer in Maritime Economics, University of Plymouth.
Container ports in the US and Europe are working at full capacity. Manufacturing hubs in China have slowed down output because of power shortages and high commodity prices.
So, what are the solutions?
Presenter: Imran Khan | Guests: Jas Kalra - Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management, Newcastle University Business School; Dan Wang - Chief Economist, Hang Seng Bank China; Stavros Karamperidis - Lecturer in Maritime Economics, University of Plymouth.
Daniel Craig Says He Goes to Gay Bars to Avoid Fights at Straight Venues
THE GUARDIAN: Bond star says he dislikes the aggression of hetero spaces, and gay bars were a good place to meet women
Daniel Craig: ‘[Gay bars] would just be a good place to go.’ Photograph: Valérie Macon/AFP/Getty Images
From his portrayal of a more vulnerable Bond to his cerise suit jacket on the red carpet, Daniel Craig has worked hard to defy expectations of masculinity – so it came as little surprise when the actor revealed he liked to frequent gay bars to avoid the “aggressive dick swinging” of hetero spaces.
“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” Craig said on the podcast Lunch with Bruce. “One of the reasons: because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often.”
The 53-year-old said he started going to gay bars when he was young because he wanted to avoid ending up “being in a punch-up” during a night out, which he said happened “quite a lot” in straight venues.
Craig, who has been married to Rachel Weisz for a decade, also said that when he was single it was a good way to meet women.
“[Gay bars] would just be a good place to go,” he said. “Everybody was chill, everybody. You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. It was OK. And it was a very safe place to be. And I could meet girls there, cos there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was kind of an ulterior motive.” » | Nadia Khomami, Arts and culture correspondent | Thursday, October 14, 2021
From his portrayal of a more vulnerable Bond to his cerise suit jacket on the red carpet, Daniel Craig has worked hard to defy expectations of masculinity – so it came as little surprise when the actor revealed he liked to frequent gay bars to avoid the “aggressive dick swinging” of hetero spaces.
“I’ve been going to gay bars for as long as I can remember,” Craig said on the podcast Lunch with Bruce. “One of the reasons: because I don’t get into fights in gay bars that often.”
The 53-year-old said he started going to gay bars when he was young because he wanted to avoid ending up “being in a punch-up” during a night out, which he said happened “quite a lot” in straight venues.
Craig, who has been married to Rachel Weisz for a decade, also said that when he was single it was a good way to meet women.
“[Gay bars] would just be a good place to go,” he said. “Everybody was chill, everybody. You didn’t really have to sort of state your sexuality. It was OK. And it was a very safe place to be. And I could meet girls there, cos there are a lot of girls there for exactly the same reason I was there. It was kind of an ulterior motive.” » | Nadia Khomami, Arts and culture correspondent | Thursday, October 14, 2021
Life after Fifty as a Gay Man
Gay Germans Marry for the First Time. Gay Marriage Has Been Legal in Germany since October 1, 2017
Oct 1, 2017 • Same-sex couples married in Germany for the first time on Sunday, with several dozen couples tying the knot at civil registry offices that opened specially to mark the coming into force of a law passed by parliament in June.
Among them were Karl Kreile, 59, and Bodo Mende, 60, who became Germany's first married gay couple, exchanging vows at the town hall in the Berlin borough of Schoeneberg on Sunday after 38 years together.
Among them were Karl Kreile, 59, and Bodo Mende, 60, who became Germany's first married gay couple, exchanging vows at the town hall in the Berlin borough of Schoeneberg on Sunday after 38 years together.
Brexit : des exigences britanniques inacceptables
LE MONDE : ace à la surenchère de Londres concernant la remise en cause de la compétence de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne, l’UE doit rester ferme, tant pour sauvegarder la paix en Irlande que pour défendre le marché unique.
Editorial. On croyait le cauchemar du Brexit terminé. Il n’en est rien. Tout juste deux ans après sa signature, le 17 octobre 2019, l’accord sur le divorce péniblement conclu entre le Royaume-uni et l’Union européenne est remis en cause par son principal promoteur, Boris Johnson. Le contentieux soulevé par Londres porte sur la mise en œuvre du « protocole nord-irlandais », un volet de l’accord qui prévoit l’instauration de contrôles douaniers pour les marchandises débarquant en Irlande du Nord en provenance de Grande-Bretagne afin de protéger le marché intérieur européen, auquel appartient toute l’île d’Irlande.
Instaurer une telle frontière de fait en mer d’Irlande était la seule solution pour éviter le rétablissement de la frontière entre les deux Irlandes supprimée par l’accord de paix de 1998. Les contrôles à l’entrée de l’Irlande du Nord, province du Royaume-Uni, résultaient également d’un choix net de M. Johnson : la sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’union douanière européenne. Sa prédécesseure, Theresa May, avait fait le choix inverse, précisément pour éviter une frontière en mer d’Irlande, option, affirmait-elle, qu’« aucun premier ministre britannique n’acceptera[it] jamais ». » | Éditorial, Le Monde | jeudi 14 octobre 2021
Brüssel und London lancieren riskanten Brexit-Poker um Nordirland: Sowohl die EU wie auch Grossbritannien wollen das Nordirland-Protokoll reformieren. Doch während Brüssel praktische Vorschläge für Handelserleichterungen präsentiert, wirft London Grundsatzfragen rund um EU-Richter auf. Erneut droht eine Konfrontation mit potenziell schwerwiegenden Folgen. »
Editorial. On croyait le cauchemar du Brexit terminé. Il n’en est rien. Tout juste deux ans après sa signature, le 17 octobre 2019, l’accord sur le divorce péniblement conclu entre le Royaume-uni et l’Union européenne est remis en cause par son principal promoteur, Boris Johnson. Le contentieux soulevé par Londres porte sur la mise en œuvre du « protocole nord-irlandais », un volet de l’accord qui prévoit l’instauration de contrôles douaniers pour les marchandises débarquant en Irlande du Nord en provenance de Grande-Bretagne afin de protéger le marché intérieur européen, auquel appartient toute l’île d’Irlande.
Instaurer une telle frontière de fait en mer d’Irlande était la seule solution pour éviter le rétablissement de la frontière entre les deux Irlandes supprimée par l’accord de paix de 1998. Les contrôles à l’entrée de l’Irlande du Nord, province du Royaume-Uni, résultaient également d’un choix net de M. Johnson : la sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’union douanière européenne. Sa prédécesseure, Theresa May, avait fait le choix inverse, précisément pour éviter une frontière en mer d’Irlande, option, affirmait-elle, qu’« aucun premier ministre britannique n’acceptera[it] jamais ». » | Éditorial, Le Monde | jeudi 14 octobre 2021
Brüssel und London lancieren riskanten Brexit-Poker um Nordirland: Sowohl die EU wie auch Grossbritannien wollen das Nordirland-Protokoll reformieren. Doch während Brüssel praktische Vorschläge für Handelserleichterungen präsentiert, wirft London Grundsatzfragen rund um EU-Richter auf. Erneut droht eine Konfrontation mit potenziell schwerwiegenden Folgen. »
Republican Lieutenant Governor Says Trans Rights Are the Antichrist’s Work in Another Vile Rant
PINK NEWS: North Carolina’s lieutenant governor Mark Robinson was caught on camera again ranting against the LGBT+ community, calling the trans rights movement “demonic” and “full of the spirit of Antichrist”.
North Carolina's lieutenant governor Mark Robinson said the trans rights movement is "demonic" in a video at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in August. (Twitter/@RightWingWatch)
Right Wing Watch published a video of the Republican lawmaker speaking at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina, in August. In the video, Robinson claimed there “ain’t but two genders”.
In a virulently transphobic rant, he said: “You can go to the doctor and get cut up, you can go down to the dress shop and get made up, you can go down there and get drugged up, but at the end of the day, you are just a drugged-up, dressed-up, made-up, cut-up man or woman.
“You ain’t changed what God put in you, that DNA.” » | Maggie Baska | Wednesday, October 13, 2021
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Right Wing Watch published a video of the Republican lawmaker speaking at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina, in August. In the video, Robinson claimed there “ain’t but two genders”.
In a virulently transphobic rant, he said: “You can go to the doctor and get cut up, you can go down to the dress shop and get made up, you can go down there and get drugged up, but at the end of the day, you are just a drugged-up, dressed-up, made-up, cut-up man or woman.
“You ain’t changed what God put in you, that DNA.” » | Maggie Baska | Wednesday, October 13, 2021
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Kongsberg: Deadly Bow and Arrow Attack Suspect in Norway Had Converted to Islam
A man arrested over a bow and arrow attack in Norway in which five people died had converted to Islam police have said.
The 37-year-old Danish citizen is accused of the killings of four women and a man on Wednesday night in the southern town of Kongsberg.
He was arrested and questioned for several hours overnight.
The 37-year-old Danish citizen is accused of the killings of four women and a man on Wednesday night in the southern town of Kongsberg.
He was arrested and questioned for several hours overnight.
La Pologne poursuit son bras de fer avec l’UE
LE FIGARO : La décision du Tribunal constitutionnel contestant la primauté du droit européen sur le droit national est entrée en vigueur mardi.
La décision du Tribunal constitutionnel polonais, jugeant certains articles du traité sur l’Union européenne «incompatibles» avec la Constitution, n’aura finalement pas tardé à être publiée dans le Journal officiel. Ce mardi 12 octobre, cinq jours après l’annonce de son contenu, la décision qui dénonce «l’ingérence » de la Cour de justice de l’UE(CJUE) dans le système juridique polonais est entrée en vigueur.
Dans la presse polonaise, la nouvelle est passée presque inaperçue. Il est vrai que ce tribunal n’est plus considéré comme légitime par de nombreux juristes et experts internationaux. Certains journaux polonais refusent de l’appeler «Tribunal constitutionnel», préférant le qualifier de «Tribunal de Julia Przylebska», du nom de sa présidente, amie personnelle de Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chef du parti majoritaire au pouvoir. Un élément de chantage » | Par Hélène Bienvenu | mercredi 13 octobre 2021
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Finding a Retirement Home If You’re LGBT
Apr 20, 2015 • Ageing gays and lesbians should have the choice of specialised retirement homes, according to a new association aiming to fill a gap in the market.
Retired gardener Sigi Strickenberger is partly paralysed. Seven years ago he discovered a gay and lesbian home care service. Having a gay nurse looking after him is important. He feels he can only really be himself in front of someone who can also relate to him.
In Zurich an association has been set up with a view to building retirement homes and apartments for LGBT people as well as to installing other services for old age. It’s generating interest, even among younger people, some of whom also hope to find a place in an LGBT home for themselves one day.
As long as Strickenberger is healthy enough, he would like to stay at home with the aid of the gay home care service. But should the time come, he could well imagine moving to an LGBT old people’s home.
Being surrounded by people with the same interests is important. In an LGBT home, entertainment might be a drag show rather than an afternoon ballroom dancing. Plans are to have the first LGBT home up and running in five years. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
Retired gardener Sigi Strickenberger is partly paralysed. Seven years ago he discovered a gay and lesbian home care service. Having a gay nurse looking after him is important. He feels he can only really be himself in front of someone who can also relate to him.
In Zurich an association has been set up with a view to building retirement homes and apartments for LGBT people as well as to installing other services for old age. It’s generating interest, even among younger people, some of whom also hope to find a place in an LGBT home for themselves one day.
As long as Strickenberger is healthy enough, he would like to stay at home with the aid of the gay home care service. But should the time come, he could well imagine moving to an LGBT old people’s home.
Being surrounded by people with the same interests is important. In an LGBT home, entertainment might be a drag show rather than an afternoon ballroom dancing. Plans are to have the first LGBT home up and running in five years. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
LGBT Documentary: Gay, Old and Out
Feb 27, 2018 • Meet the people who paved the way for LGBT rights. It has been a long hard fight to secure acceptance for the LGBT community, and the older people who fought the fight often get overlooked and forgotten.
For LGBT history month this documentary follows the astonishing and moving stories of the members of the Opening Doors London project - whose personal struggles and successes paved the way.
For LGBT history month this documentary follows the astonishing and moving stories of the members of the Opening Doors London project - whose personal struggles and successes paved the way.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
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It really is high time for him to ask his mother to buy him a rattle to play with – as a matter of urgency! That way, we can all be left in peace, and he would be pacified. – Mark
It really is high time for him to ask his mother to buy him a rattle to play with – as a matter of urgency! That way, we can all be left in peace, and he would be pacified. – Mark
The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money
THE NEW YORK TIMES: In 1969, two years after the Cayman Islands, a British territory, passed its first law to allow secretive offshore trusts, an official government report struck an ominous note. A tide of glossy propositions from private developers, it warned, was washing through the islands. Cayman was fast becoming a state captured by shady finance.
Those were the pungent beginnings of a modern system brought to light by the Pandora Papers, an enormous data leak coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The papers exposed a smorgasbord of secretive and questionable financial dealings by more than 330 politicians and public officials from over 90 countries and territories — and over 130 billionaires from Russia, the United States and elsewhere. On display was a dizzying array of chicanery and wealth hoarding, often by the very people who should crack down on it.
The revelations, published on Oct. 3, are global in scope. But if there is one country at the system’s heart, it is Britain. Taken together with its partly controlled territories overseas, Britain is instrumental in the worldwide concealment of cash and assets. It is, as a member of the ruling Conservative Party said last week, “the money laundering capital of the world.” And the City of London, its gilded financial center, is at the system’s core. For Britain, whose bloated financial sector exacerbates widespread economic problems, that’s bad enough. For the world, at the mercy of an economic system rigged for the rich, it’s even worse. » | Nicholas Shaxson | Monday, October 11, 2021
BSE: Grossbritannien wird den Rinderwahnsinn nicht los – ein neuer Fall hat nun Konsequenzen
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Die grosse BSE-Epidemie liegt ein Vierteljahrhundert zurück. Doch bis heute haftet britischem Fleisch ein Stigma an. Und immer wieder gibt es neue Fälle von Rinderwahnsinn auf der Insel. So wie im vergangenen Monat – jahrzehntelange Bemühungen könnten damit vergebens sein.
Am 17. September ist es wieder so weit: Auf einem Bauernhof in der Grafschaft Somerset wird ein neuer Fall der Rinderkrankheit BSE bestätigt. Das infizierte Tier sei gestorben und entfernt worden, teilt die britische Tier- und Pflanzengesundheitsbehörde (Apha) umgehend mit. Und die oberste Veterinärbeamtin des Vereinigten Königreichs betont: «Es besteht kein Risiko für die Lebensmittelsicherheit oder die öffentliche Gesundheit.» » | Melchior Poppe | Diensrag, 12. Oktober 2021
Am 17. September ist es wieder so weit: Auf einem Bauernhof in der Grafschaft Somerset wird ein neuer Fall der Rinderkrankheit BSE bestätigt. Das infizierte Tier sei gestorben und entfernt worden, teilt die britische Tier- und Pflanzengesundheitsbehörde (Apha) umgehend mit. Und die oberste Veterinärbeamtin des Vereinigten Königreichs betont: «Es besteht kein Risiko für die Lebensmittelsicherheit oder die öffentliche Gesundheit.» » | Melchior Poppe | Diensrag, 12. Oktober 2021
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