Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.
This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.
Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.
🚨 Lothar Matthäus on Germany crashing out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup after defeat to Paraguay:
🗣️ “I am absolutely furious. This is not the Germany I know, and it’s certainly not the Germany I fought for. To be eliminated from the World Cup like this is unacceptable. Every player, every coach and every person involved with this team has to look in the mirror after tonight because this performance was nowhere near the standards expected of Germany.”
“You cannot wear the Germany shirt and play with so little urgency, so little aggression and so little belief. Paraguay fought for every ball like their lives depended on it, while Germany looked nervous, passive and completely out of ideas when the pressure arrived. We had enough quality to win this match, but football isn’t won by talent alone. It’s won by character, mentality and the willingness to suffer for your country.”
“I don’t want to hear excuses about bad luck, referees or penalties. Champions don’t hide behind excuses—they take responsibility. This defeat should hurt for a very long time because it was completely avoidable. Germany have let an entire nation down tonight. Credit to Paraguay, they deserved every second of this victory because they showed courage, discipline and heart. Germany forgot what it truly means to fight for this badge, and for me, that is the most painful part of all.”
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Ivory Coast v Norway is the World Cup Round of 32 match that best shows the absurdity of the Mercator Projection.
Despite Norway being shown on most maps as far larger than Ivory Coast, the two countries are actually almost identically sized. Ivory Coast is 322,463 km², and Norway: 323,802 km².
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
🇬🇧 CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING
Yesterday the convent and the burial place of Saint Patrick himself in Downpatrick was reduced to ashes.
Locals say it was arson. The resting place of the patron saint of Ireland set on fire, and the legacy media has nothing to say. The politicians have nothing to say.
A Catholic site tied to one of the most important figures in the history of these islands burns, and you get silence.
That silence tells you everything.
McDonald's loses lawsuit against chef Jamie Oliver, who proved that the food they sell is unfit for human consumption because it is highly toxic.
Chef Jamie Oliver won a lawsuit against the world's largest fast-food chain.
Oliver demonstrates how hamburgers are made.
According to Oliver, fatty cuts of meat are "washed" with ammonium hydroxide and then used to fill the hamburger patties. Even before this process, the TV presenter says, this meat was unfit for human consumption.
Oliver, a radical activist chef taking on the food industry, says:
"We are talking about meat that is sold as dog food and then served to humans. Aside from the quality of the meat, ammonium hydroxide is harmful to health." Oliver calls it "the pink slime process."
What sane person would put a piece of meat soaked in ammonium hydroxide into a child's mouth?
In another initiative, Oliver demonstrated how chicken nuggets are made: After the "best parts" are selected, the rest—fat, skin, cartilage, eyes, bones, head, feet—is subjected to a mechanical separation process called "Canica"—a euphemism used by food engineers. This blood-pink paste, which is deodorized, bleached, refreshed, and re-colored, is then coated in flour and deep-fried. It is typically fried in partially hydrogenated oils—in other words, toxic substances.
The food industry uses ammonium hydroxide as an antimicrobial agent, allowing McDonald's to use meat in its hamburgers that is unfit for human consumption. Even more alarming, however, is the fact that these ammonium-hydrogen-based substances are considered "legal components of the production process" in the global food industry, with the approval of health authorities. Consequently, consumers will never know what substances are in their food.
Please stop giving this fake food to your children.
Russia is still bombing Ukraine and Ireland is still helping them with raw materials.
It’s a scandal that’s still received almost no major international coverage.
So a huge thanks to @Telegraph for having me on to talk about the scandal at the Aughinish refinery 🫡