NEW: The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink.
He made hundreds of millions, while countless people still don't have good internet.
We went to Louisiana where kids can't do their homework, schools can't support their students, and businesses struggle without a reliable connection.
🚨💣 THE NEGREIRA CASE — FULL RECAP:
• Between 2001 and 2018, FC Barcelona paid approximately €7.3 million to José María Enríquez Negreira.
• Negriera was the Vice-President of Spain’s Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) — effectively one of the most senior figures inside the Spanish refereeing structure.
• He held that position from 1994 until 2018.
• Barcelona's payments therefore continued for approximately 17 years while Negreira occupied a senior position within the refereeing establishment.
• Payments were made under different Barcelona presidencies:
— Joan Gaspart
— Joan Laporta
— Sandro Rosell
— Josep Maria Bartomeu
• The payments suddenly stopped in 2018 — the same year Negreira left the Spain’s Technical Committee of Referees.
• Barcelona's official explanation is that it paid for "technical reports and scouting information about referees" that they handed over to coaches and coaching staffs to prepare for matches
• However, when investigators called up former Barca coaches such as Luis Enrique and Ernesto Valverde and asked them about these reports, they said they had NEVER seen them or used them.
• Barcelona therefore spent millions of euros on "reports" that they never used.
• When investigators asked Negreira himself what the millions were for, he said "They paid me to ensure refereeing neutrality."
• When investigators then asked Joan Laporta about Negreira saying "he was paid to ensure refereeing neutrality", Laporta said "We never asked him to do that."
• Investigators examined invoices issued to Barça by to Negreira.
• One invoice dated 30 November 2005 was for €60,000 and described the expenditure as "aloe vera gift pack"
• When prosecutor asked Joan Laporta whether invoices such as this were connected to the alleged referee reports/services, his reply was "I don't know."
• Another invoice, for around €139,000, referred to having selected/digitized footage from the South Africa 2010 World Cup.
• The problem? The 2010 World Cup wasn't even played yet.
• This pattern repeated for multiple internatonal tournaments, where invoices were made before these tournaments were ever played.
• La Liga say the reason they are not sanctioning Barcelona for this scandal, is because the statute of limitations is of 3 years only, and the case was revealed in 2023, which means the statute of limitations has passed.
• The case is now in criminal court.
• UEFA have now launched their own investigation, and they could BAN Barcelona from their competitions if they find them guilty.
Here is Trump in 2011 calling Obama “stupid” for hosting the Chinese president and claiming that he wouldn’t give him a dinner.
“The president of China came a few months ago and we gave him a state dinner. Now, when people are screwing you, you don't give them state dinners.”
Fast-forward 15 years and Trump is giving President Xi a state dinner while China is helping Iran target American service members.
Who is the stupid one now?
@factpostnews Well, it’s finally hitting home.
They only cared about gas prices, eggs, 6 trans athletes and now Olive Garden.
Hopefully this will do the trick, because pedophilia and rape were clearly not a deal breaker.
@LongTimeHistory I bet she hires or used to hire undocumented immigrants.
That’s how some immigrants are, they tend to forget where they come from and how they look like. For some reason they get a passport and suddenly think their skin gets lighter?
I do know why this happens, ignorance.
@SanCadilla Este cabrón debe ser súper buen pedo, o algo sabe de algún poderoso. No hay de otra, no se puede explicar y aunque se intente, no se puede entender.