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Following the selection of the 2006 World Cup hosts, FIFA decided on new policy for determining the host of future world cups.
The six world confederations, roughly corresponding to continents, would rotate, with the host country being selected from the confederation's members. This system was only used for the selection of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.
In September 2007, the rotation system came under review when it was proposed that only the last two World Cup host confederations be ineligible.[15] This proposal was adopted on October 29, 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland by FIFA's Executive Committee. Under this policy, a 2018 bid can come from North America, Asia, Europe, or Oceania, as the 2010 hosts, Africa, and the 2014 hosts, South America, are ineligible.[2]

We have seen that wealthy contractors can sometimes bribe government inspectors to ignore building code violations, and the poor have little power to protest and few choices about where to live since these buildings are the only ones they can afford.
While poverty is one important factor in disaster vulnerability, it is not its sole determinant. Experience shows that in some disaster situations, a close-knit poor community has been able to withstand the trauma and destruction of a natural crisis more effectively and with fewer losses than nearby wealthier communities. For example, in the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, one well-organized barrio called Tepito eschewed all outside aid, noting that they were able, as a community, to salvage building materials, reconstruct their shanties, and reopen their small nonformal enterprises far more quickly than their neighbors who lived in expensive high-rise apartments, who did not know or come to the assistance of their neighbors, and who depended on city services and transportation systems to reconstruct their homes or to return to work.
And when tornadoes sweep through the Midwest, don't WHITES suffer terribly? Do they whine about it? No, they roll up their sleeves and rebuild.
They don't blather endlessly about affirmative action and handouts.
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