The initials FIFA stand for Federation Internationale de Football Association.



From Al Arabiya News: "The 2022 Qatar World Cup is less than 50 days away, with the tournament set to attract more than one million football fans from around the globe. Football’s biggest tournament kicks off on November 20 - marking the first time the FIFA tournament has been hosted by a Middle East country - and fans from within the region and across the world are gearing up for the month-long sporting action."

From the International Olympic Committee: "Qatar will host the biggest football show on the planet in 2022, where global stars like Ronaldo, Messi, Mbappe, Pogba, Neymar, and Kane are ready to light it up. . . The stakes are as high as ever with established footballing nations like Brazil, Belgium, Argentina, England, Germany, Portugal, Senegal, South Korea, and many more aiming for glory and a new page of football history."

Due to Qatar's human-rights record, football fans in other nations are protesting: "Officials have clearly been readying themselves for an intense period of scrutiny and activism at one of the most controversial World Cups in football’s history."

From France24.com: "Qatar has received an avalanche of bad publicity ahead of hosting the World Cup in November and December. The football extravaganza has prompted Western media and NGOs to decry the desert nation’s human rights record, notably concerning the treatment of migrant workers."

From The Guardian: "With the surrounding noise on human rights, worker deaths, image laundering and the rest, it is easy to forget what Qatar 2022 is really all about, the founding message at the very heart of this global festival of football. Which is, of course, corruption."

Being that Mingle2 is an international website - with members in South America, Central America, Mexico, Asia, Africa and Europe - I avoid using ethnocentric term soccer when writing about the game of international football, especially since the game's official name is Football.

How about some positive political news for a change.



https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/500-children-reunited-biden-harris-task-force-200/story?id=91180989

500 children being reunited with their parents is a good thing.

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Welcome to the site.

I have installed food vending machines so that Mingle2 members don't have to wait until the Mingle2 cafeteria opens in order to eat.

I do not anticipate any problems with the food vending machines as long as someone doesn't try to reach inside and . . .

Darn it! Too late. I had better go get the key.

Who invited those meddling kids into Mingle2 anyway?

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Yum!

Meanwhile, back in reality . . .

Uh, your Mingle2 profile says that you are looking for a woman.

For what it is worth, I have to let the Men in Black x-ray any cake that I make.

They want to make sure that an extraterrestrial like me doesn't make a cake that can help another extraterrestrial escape detention.

Apparently, the Men in Black had a little trouble in one of their detention facilities.

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Oh yeah? Have you ever been inside Blondey111's dungeon?

Have you looked inside caves?