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Biden administration angered by Opec+ oil output cut | Opec
The Biden administration and its supporters have reacted angrily to the Opec+ decision to cut oil production, seeing it as a rebuff to the US president’s efforts to improve relations with Saudi Arabia.
The White House made clear that it viewed the decision by the oil production cartel, in which the plus sign represents the inclusion of Russia, to reduce daily production by 2m barrels, as a geopolitical move, and a slight to Biden who is seeking to cut Russian revenues and keep the petrol price down before November’s congressional elections.
He angered his supporters by visiting Jeddah in July where he was pictured greeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump, in the hope of increased production and lower oil prices, despite US intelligence findings that the kingdom’s de facto ruler was behind the 2018 murder of the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
White House spokesperson Karin Jean-Pierre said: “It’s clear that Opec+ is aligning with Russia with today’s announcement.”
A statement from the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and the director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, said the president was “disappointed by the shortsighted decision … while the global economy is dealing with the continued negative impact of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine”.
“I think it is a mistake on their part. And I think it’s time for a wholesale re-revaluation of the US alliance with Saudi Arabia,” the Democratic senator Chris Murphy told CNBC.
Tom Malinowski, a New Jersey Democratic congressman introduced legislation that would withdraw US troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
“Our message to MBS should be: “If you want to side with Putin, then ask Putin to defend you. And good luck with that,”” Malinowski said on Twitter.
Khalid Aljabri, whose father, Saad, is an exiled senior Saudi intelligence official, argued that whatever the impact, part of the intention behind Riyadh’s participation in the Opec+ decision was about US politics.
“Previous monarchs were able to optimise between maximising Saudi oil revenue while aligning production policy with the interests of their western security guarantors, mainly the US,” Aljabri said.
“[Prince Mohammed] is different. Unlike his predecessors, he is an astute observer of domestic US politics and completely understands that high gas prices and inflation can swing the result of an election away from an incumbent president and his party.”
He described the move “as an assault on democracy and election interference while allowing Putin to perpetuate his assault on Ukraine”.
Despite the anger in Washington, experts on Saudi Arabia and the oil market questioned how much impact the decision would have on a bilateral relationship that has already become threadbare.
“I don’t think the Saudis think there’s much that the US administration can do to register their discontent in a meaningful way, and I don’t think the US expects that Saudi is going to go against Opec discussions for their interests,” said Kirsten Fontenrose, director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council and a former senior director for the Gulf in the national security council. “So I think the Saudis know that the US isn’t going to be pleased with this, but they don’t much care.”
As part of his overtures to Riyadh over the summer, Biden had approved significant arms sales to Saudi Arabia but after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Nato allies that have provided arms to Kyiv and hope to replenish their arsenals have jumped ahead in the queue under alliance rules. So Biden’s promise of arms sales has not been fulfilled.
Ed Hirs, an energy expert at the department of economics at the University of Houston, also said that the west did not provide the vaccines that Saudi Arabia was seeking at the height of the pandemic and the country suffered a high death rate.
“If you step back, the United States does not have much to offer at this point and the Saudis don’t see any reason to provide any help,” Hirs said.
It is possible that the production cut will not have a big impact on prices. Despite surpassing predictions earlier in the week of cuts of 1m to 1.5m barrels, several Opec producers are already producing below their quotas, so the actual cut could be closer to 900,000 barrels.
“The Opec nations do not want to be in a position of providing too many barrels to a global economy that goes soft on them,” Hirs added. “It’s not a break with the west because relations were broken already. We didn’t help them very much through very difficult times.”
Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area: report
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An influx of Californians and other Americans has made its way to Mexico City, angering some locals who say they are gentrifying the area, according to a report.
The Los Angeles Times report on Wednesday outlined how some Mexican locals are “fed up” with the growing number of Americans, many from California, moving to and visiting the country, which has contributed to a rise in rent and a shift from Spanish to English in some places.
“New to the city? Working remotely?” Fliers popping up around Mexico City reportedly said. “You’re a f—ing plague and the locals f—ing hate you. Leave.”
The article outlines how Americans have brought a scent of “new-wave” imperialism as taquerias and corner stores have slowly transformed into coffee shops and Pilates studios.
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Skyline in daytime of Mexico City People in foreground, at Chapultepec Castle, and Paseo de la Reforma in distance, Mexico City, Mexico.
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English is also reportedly becoming more prevalent as more Americans are moving to and visiting Mexico City to take advantage of lower rent and the ability to stay in Mexico for 6 months without a visa.
“We’re the only brown people,” Fernando Bustos Gorozpe, a 38-year-old writer and university professor, told the Los Angeles Times. “We’re the only people speaking Spanish except the waiters.”
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Bustos later posted a video on TikTok saying that the influx of Americans “stinks of modern colonialism” and nearly 2,000 people responded in agreement.
“Mexico is classist and racist,” Bustos added. “People with white skin are given preference. Now, if a local wants to go to a restaurant or a club, they don’t just have to compete with rich, white Mexicans but with foreigners too.”
The article also pointed to a social media post online where a young American said, “Do yourself a favor and remote work in Mexico City – is truly magical.”
The tweet received many negative responses.
Paddleboats on the lake at Bosque de Chapultepec forest park.
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“Please don’t,” one of the replies said. “This city is becoming more and more expensive every day in part because of people like you, and you don’t even realize or care about it.”
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While the Los Angeles Times report insisted that the “vast majority” of Mexico City locals are “unwaveringly kind” to visitors, there remains a “friction beneath the surface” of what gentrification means to the area.
“There’s a distinction between people who want to learn about the place they are in and those who just like it because it’s cheap,” 31-year-old Hugo Van der Merwe, a man who grew up in Florida and Namibia who has been working remotely in Mexico City, said. “I’ve met a number of people who don’t really care that they’re in Mexico, they just care that it’s cheap.”
The State Department reports that there are 1.6 million Americans living in Mexico, many of them coming during the coronavirus pandemic when Mexico eased restrictions sooner than many places in the United States, but it remains unknown how many of those Americans are in Mexico City.
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The Los Angeles Times says that in the first four months of this year, 1.2 million foreign visitors arrived at Mexico City’s airport.
“We’re just seeing Americans flooding in,” Alexandra Demou, who runs the relocation company Welcome Home Mexico, said. “It’s people who maybe have their own business, or maybe they’re thinking of starting some consulting or freelance work. They don’t even know how long they’re going to stay. They’re completely picking up their entire lives and just moving down here.”
Demou added that she receives 50 calls a week from people thinking about moving to Mexico City.
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Lauren Rodwell, who moved to Mexico City from San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, says she is sensitive to the gentrification issue but doesn’t feel guilty as a Black woman.
“I kind of feel like, as a person of color from America, I’m so economically disadvantaged that wherever I go and experience some advantage or equity, I take it,” Rodwell said, adding that “being Black in America,” is exhausting and “it’s nice to take a break from it.”
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The Los Angeles Times reported a similar situation in Portugal earlier this year in a story titled “Welcome to Portugal, the new expat haven. Californians, please go home.”
In the article, the outlet reported that the number of Americans living in Portugal has risen by 45% in the past year and many residents have been frustrated by rising housing costs associated with that.
EA’s Terrible Meme Tweet Angered Many Devs, Execs
Remember last week? It happened about 34 years ago, so if you don’t, I understand. But last Thursday, the official EA Twitter account tweeted a bad joke about single-player games that led to an internet-wide roasting and eventually an apology from the Battlefield publisher. And apparently, EA is still dealing with angry employees who felt the tweet was an insult to them, their staff, and the games they are making.
A new report from USA Today sheds some light on how the terrible tweet came about, what the reaction to it was internally at EA, what plans were pitched to handle the situation, and the ongoing aftermath of it all. The whole mess is both equally confusing and funny.
According to the report, an hour after the tweet went live last week, it landed in EA’s internal Slack chat room, where employees and social media staff began sharing all the roasts and angry responses (some from current EA execs) that were popping up all over. As negative reactions spiraled out of control and the discourse began, folks at EA began formulating a plan to turn the tweet into a positive. It just wasn’t a good one.
The initial plan was to get all the other EA social media accounts to start dunking on the tweet while hopefully drawing more attention to the various single-player games the publisher has in the works. But some staff pointed out that this “roasting EA strategy” would just reinforce the narrative online that EA’s own studios and teams hate the company. And so, after many social media managers backed out of that plan, it fell apart.
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“The most agreed-on idea was to take responsibility for it and apologize,” one source told USA Today. However, this apology ended up being an equally embarrassing tweet saying people who play single-player games were actually 11s.
But while the internet moved on to its next target, higher-ups at EA are continuing to deal with the fallout from the tweet. USA Today reports that the FIFA publisher is hosting roundtable discussions and team meetings with executives who felt the joke was an insult to the games they’re working on and the staff making them.
As for how this happened, well it turns out EA’s official Twitter account isn’t run by anyone from EA or its social teams. According to sources who spoke to USA Today, it’s very likely that the person who tweeted the soon-to-be-infamous joke had no idea how poorly it would be received online.
“I’m 99 percent sure the person who posted the tweet and their manager don’t even know about the single-player games comment from a decade ago,” one source told USA Today. (The comment they reference was the infamous 2010 quote from then-EA Games president Frank Gibeau, saying that single-player games were “finished.”)
Further, that source says that the staff running the Twitter account are “all new” and that most of them “aren’t really game industry people” and likely had no idea about EA’s long, bad history with single-player games.
It seems wild that the official Twitter account for one of the largest video game publishers in the world isn’t run by people who have a working knowledge of video games and the industry, but then again, when do large corporations make logical decisions?
NBA Rumors: Rudy Gobert’s Public Criticism Angered Donovan Mitchell’s Inner Circle | Bleacher Report
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A comment Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert made about the Phoenix Suns and guard Devin Booker in January was reportedly perceived as a slight against teammate Donovan Mitchell by those close to Mitchell.
According to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, Gobert said the following about Utah’s status as a title contender and what he felt set championship-caliber teams apart from the Jazz:
“We know that when the playoffs come, we’re not just going to flip a switch and all of the sudden communicate, all of the sudden be able to stay in front of our man, all of the sudden be able to rebound. When I watch some of these other teams like the Suns or the Warriors, for example, those guys are a step ahead of us in terms of winning habits. I feel like they take every game personally.
“You can tell Devin Booker is playing his ass off defensively. I’ve been watching him compared to, like, two years ago. Guys like that, they buy in and you can tell that they take pride in playing defense, stopping their man, doing whatever they can defensively to stop the other team and be part of a winning culture.”
Per MacMahon, the comments “made some within Mitchell’s inner circle seethe” due to the belief that Gobert “violated locker room protocols by publicly pointing a finger at his teammate.”
Gobert never said Mitchell’s name, but the apparent perception was that he was calling out Mitchell since he and Booker play the same position.
During the aftermath of Gobert’s comments, several Jazz players made their feelings known about what Gobert said and the meaning behind it.
Publicly, Mitchell didn’t take any offense to it, saying: “I’m not really concerned about it. At the end of the day, we’ve got to all find ways to get better. That’s really it. We all have individual ways of doing it, and his just happens to be this way. So, cool.”
Jazz forward Royce O’Neale said: “Anything [Gobert] says, he doesn’t mean bad by it. [But] you don’t have to say those comments [to the media].”
Guard Jordan Clarkson later pointed out, “It ain’t like [Gobert] pointed out a big man or nothing,” furthering the perception that Gobert may have been taking a shot at Mitchell.
For his part, Gobert said he simply wanted to help all of his teammates be better:
“Sometimes I can be clumsy with what I say, but I always speak my mind and it always comes from a place of wanting to win. Like I said to Don privately, everything that I do on the court is to help him be better. All the things that I do to get him open, to communicate with him, to try to push him defensively. Whether it’s Donovan or all my teammates, all the things I do is to help them be better.”
Gobert’s comments might not have gotten any publicity under normal circumstances, but he and Mitchell have had issues in the past.
MacMahon noted that Gobert and Mitchell didn’t speak to each other for months at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic because of Gobert’s handling of the situation.
Gobert was the first NBA player to test positive for COVID-19, followed by Mitchell. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported at the time that Gobert carelessly touched his teammates’ belongings before the diagnosis in an apparent sign that he wasn’t taking things seriously.
Mitchell later admitted he was angry at Gobert at first and said it “took a while for me to kind of cool off.”
On top of those issues, the Jazz have failed to parlay strong regular seasons into playoff success.
Utah has reached the playoffs in each of the past six seasons but hasn’t made it past the second round. That includes this season, as the Jazz fell 4-2 in their first-round series with the Dallas Mavericks, getting eliminated in a 98-96 Game 6 loss on Thursday.
Per MacMahon, opposing teams have been circling and waiting to see if Mitchell might request a trade during the offseason.
Mitchell hasn’t suggested publicly that he wants to be traded, but if his relationship with Gobert is irreparable, it’s possible the three-time All-Star could be playing elsewhere next season.
Taiwan angered after largest ever incursion by Chinese air force
Chinese and Taiwanese national flags are displayed alongside a military airplane in this illustration taken April 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
TAIPEI, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Taiwan sharply criticised China on Saturday after Beijing marked the founding of the People’s Republic of China with the largest ever incursion by the Chinese air force into the island’s air defence zone.
Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained for a year or more of repeated missions by China’s air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence zone close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.
Taiwanese fighters scrambled against 38 Chinese aircraft in two waves on Friday, the Taiwan Defence Ministry said. It said Taiwan sent combat aircraft to warn away the Chinese aircraft, while missile systems were deployed to monitor them.
“China has been wantonly engaged in military aggression, damaging regional peace,” Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang told reporters on Saturday morning.
The first wave of incursions comprised 18 J-16 and four Su-30 fighter jets plus two nuclear-capable H-6 bombers and an anti-submarine aircraft, while the second had 10 J-16s, 2 H-6s and an early warning aircraft, the ministry said.
The first batch of Chinese aircraft all flew in an area close to the Pratas Islands, with the two bombers flying closest to the atoll, according to a map issued by the ministry.
The second group flew down into the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines, a key waterway that links the Pacific with the disputed South China Sea.
China has yet to comment. It has previously said such flights were to protect the country’s sovereignty and aimed at “collusion” between Taiwan and the United States, the island’s most important international backer.
The previous largest incursion happened in June, involving 28 Chinese air force aircraft. read more
China’s latest mission came less than a day after its government launched a attack on Taiwan’s foreign minister, evoking the words of revolutionary leader Mao Zedong to denounce him as a “shrilling” fly for his efforts to promote Taiwan internationally. read more
China has stepped up military and political pressure to try and force Taiwan to accept Chinese sovereignty.
Taiwan says it is an independent country and will defend its freedom and democracy.
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jane Wardell and William Mallard
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Women angered by questions from NFL investigators during Deshaun Watson inquiry
Two women told Sports Illustrated in a story published Friday that they resent some of the tactics NFL investigators used in interviews with them regarding their contact with Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Ashley Solis told SI that NFL investigators asked her what she was wearing when she worked with Watson, “which honestly really pissed me off.” In her lawsuit, Solis described incidents of sexual misconduct by Watson, including him putting his penis in her hand.
“She explained that that’s something that she has to ask — which I don’t believe at all,” Solis told SI.
NFL investigators Lisa Friel and Jennifer Gaffney, former prosecutors now running the league’s personal conduct policy investigations, were the ones who talked to Solis, Lauren Baxley and another eight of the 22 women who have filed suit against Watson. Watson, through his attorney, Rusty Hardin, has denied the charges.
Baxley told SI she thought the NFL investigators were “patronizing” and “victim-blaming” in their line of questioning. She said her interview with the Houston Police Department was “very respectful and trauma-informed.”
Solis and Baxley were both part of an April news conference where they named themselves in the case. SI said they agreed to an interview last week, frustrated with the fact that Watson remains active on the Texans’ roster.
Watson has dressed, but he has participated only in practice drills so far. The league says there are “no restrictions” on his participation. He remains subject to the NFL’s personal conduct policy, which allows the league, via commissioner Roger Goodell, to act and potentially suspend players it determines have violated the league’s policies even without a formal criminal case.
Attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the 22 women, told SI that Solis and Baxley wanted to talk to the NFL to hear what the magazine called “unfiltered accounts directly from them.” He also said that after his first three clients were interviewed, he was present for the fourth one in what the magazine described as an effort to reset the tone. He said future interviews have been better received by his clients, SI reported.
The NFL told ESPN’s Kimberley A. Martin on Friday that there is “no change to [Watson’s] status as the investigations by the Houston Police Department and the league continue.” The NFL added that the review of the “serious allegations” against Watson “remains ongoing and active.”
“We are working cooperatively with the Houston Police Department and ensuring that the NFL’s inquiry does not interfere with their investigation.”
Video shows angered octopus attack man on Australia beach
A video showing an octopus lashing out at a man on a beach last month in Western Australia has gone viral.
Geologist and author Lance Karlson was about go for a swim near the resort where he and his family were staying on March 19 when he spotted what he believed was stingray’s tail striking a seagull, according to Reuters. Upon further inspection, Karlson and his 2-year-old daughter discovered it was an octopus.
He took a video of the creature swimming near him in shallow water before it suddenly launched its arms at him. Then, after setting up his family in a sun protection tent, he put on some goggles and went into the water alone to explore crab shells. Once he was swimming, the octopus found him again and used its arms to lunge at Karlson, who felt a forceful sting across his neck and back.
“My goggles became fogged, the water was suddenly murky and I remember being shocked and confused,” Karlson told the news agency.
He later uploaded the footage on social media and called it the “angriest octopus” in Geographe Bay. “After going after a seagull it then decided my daughter and I deserved a lashing!” he wrote on Instagram. “I later discovered its home amongst a crab graveyard, where it came after me again!”
The octopus left red marks on Karlson’s neck and upper body. But he told Reuters that he felt no animosity toward the animal.
Dr. Jennifer Mather, a professor at the University of Lethbridge who has studied octopuses for decades, saw the viral video and told CBS News on Friday that since the man approached a crab graveyard, it’s clear he got too close to the octopus’ shelter. She said the crab shells were essentially its garbage heap.
“Fish often scavenge the shell remains, and the octopus sometimes aims what we called a ‘slap’ at them,” she said.
Octopuses don’t typically behave this way, according to Mather, considering they’re shy animals.
“It’s very unusual for an octopus to be aggressive like this but they have clear personalities, and you could describe this one as irritable or reactive,” Mather said. “The man was in no danger, the octopus was just warning him off.”