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FIFA will make $13 billion from this World Cup. They will pay $0 in taxes. This is completely legal. Every host country signs a contract exempting them. The Swiss non-profit loophole that runs the world's biggest sport: youtube.com/watch?v=h5RXAhNJ…
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How Europe is Designing a Tax System You Can't Escape. The Netherlands is going to tax, previously, a no-go-zone in taxing: Unrealized gains. What do you think? #box3act #unrealizedgains youtu.be/rf7rw4RIx_Q?si=opzM…
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If the current editors of the NYT were alive in 1945:
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BREAKING: Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU will provisionally implement the Mercosur deal, despite the European Parliament’s vote to review the agreement. 🇪🇺
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If you don’t know, now you know 🦅
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Eergisteren zag ik dit fragment al op X voorbijkomen. Ik heb bewust niet gereageerd, omdat ik anders te veel uit een bepaalde ergernis zou reageren. Maar twee dagen later voelt het nog steeds alsof ik naar een parallelle wereld zit te kijken. Ik voel geen enkele binding. De grote olifant in de kamer wordt volledig genegeerd. In plaats daarvan hebben we het over ‘voorkeursroutes’, ‘rigoureus snoeien’, ‘het starten van een pilot’ en ‘de uitvoerbaarheid van camerainzet’. Ondertussen wordt de meest fundamentele constatering niet eens echt benoemd: deze man had hier überhaupt nooit mogen zijn. Dat dit punt buiten beschouwing blijft, maakt het een absurdistisch gesprek.
Aan de vooravond van de rechtszaak tegen de verdachte van de moord op de 17-jarige Lisa spreken we met de burgemeester van Ouder-Amstel. Ze vertelt over de maatregelen die haar gemeente heeft genomen op de bewuste fietsroute. #Nieuwsuur
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Hoezo is FvD vanavond niet bij het slotdebat, maar NSC wel? Echt ongelooflijk.
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Zorgelijk is vooral de gretigheid van Bontenbal waarmee hij reageert op “(mogelijk) onteigenen van piekbelasters in de buurt van natuur”. Bontenbal: “Timmermans heeft hier gelijk in. Doen wat nodig is.” Fatsoen… Onteigenen helpt natuur niet. Je pakt wel iemands levenswerk af
Fatsoenlijk? Het CDA wil boeren gedwongen onteigenen, het levenswerk van families slopen en de toekomst van jonge boeren afnemen. BBB laat dat niet gebeuren. Nooit. Als je ook maar iets geeft om de mensen die voor ons eten zorgen en de prijs van je boodschappen: stem BBB. 🇳🇱
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🇫🇷 Far-left French politician Louis Boyard slyly takes off his Rolex worth approx. $50,000 before giving an interview ‘denouncing the ultra-rich’ Communists are the worst hypocrites.
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A Swedish court has ruled that the Eritrean migrant who raped 16-year-old Meya Åberg won’t be deported because the rape didn’t last long enough. The rape took place on September 1st last year when Meya missed her bus and was walking through a pedestrian tunnel after finishing her shift at McDonald’s. Meya and her family immediately reported it to the police. The 18-year-old Eritrean migrant, named Yazied Mohamed, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for rape. Mohamed is a citizen of Eritrea, and the prosecutor sought his deportation. However, the Court of Appeal noted that the man has refugee status. Under Swedish law, deporting a refugee requires that the crime committed constitutes an “exceptionally serious offense” and that allowing them to remain in Sweden would pose a “serious threat to public order and safety.” The rape of 16-year-old Meya was not deemed serious enough to justify deportation, with the Court of Appeal citing, among other factors, the “duration” of the rape in its assessment. “Rape is, in many cases, considered an exceptionally serious offense that could lead to the deportation of a refugee, but an assessment must be made based on all circumstances in the individual case. Given the nature and duration of the offense in question, the Court of Appeal finds that while the crime is serious, it does not constitute an exceptionally serious offense that would warrant a deportation order for Yazied Mohamed. The request for deportation is therefore rejected,” the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland wrote in its ruling.
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NOW - Starmer announces mandatory digital ID for the right to work in UK.
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"Iedere extra woning erbij is een gezin extra dat naar Nederland kan komen." -Anne-Marijke Podt, D66 #29oktober #verkiezingen #29oktober
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Countries with the highest number of arrests for online comments in 2023: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 12,183 🇧🇾 Belarus: 6,205 🇩🇪 Germany: 3,500 🇨🇳 China: 1,500 🇹🇷 Turkey: 500 🇷🇺 Russia: 400 🇵🇱 Poland: 300 🇹🇭 Thailand: 258 🇧🇷 Brazil: 200 🇸🇾 Syria: 146 🇮🇳 India: 100 🇮🇷 Iran: 100 🇫🇷 France: 54 🇺🇸 USA: 50 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 45 🇪🇬 Egypt: 20 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 15 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: 13 🇭🇺 Hungary: 10 And then Brits come and lecture the world on the so-called "free speech" 🤡
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Ik begrijp nu wel beter dat #GroenLinks met #PvdA fuseert. Schandelijk om te zeggen blij te zijn dat iemand niet meer kan zeggen wat hij wil. #Kirk is doodgeschoten. Iemand vermoorden waar Julia het niet mee eens is? Geen probleem. Ze begrijpt waar het vandaan komt. Ze voelt het.
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I've had enough of the lies, the smears and the word games. Two little children are going to grow up without a father because these people pretend not to know what words mean. Even now, they won't reflect on their own conduct and instead interrupt, deflect and engage in endless whataboutism. I'm so fucking done with this. The gloves are off and they're not coming back on until we are back to civil discourse and a world where people can speak on a college campus without fearing for their lives.
Replying to @KonstantinKisin
You’re always calm and composed, willing to listen, debate; pleasant when interrupted. The loss of Charlie Kirk seemingly has impacted you like so many of us to a point we now will undoubtedly be more controlling of such situations, drawing out the overall point and hypocrisy.
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This is insane @LauraLoomer @0hour1
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I hope I'm wrong. But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever. Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past. I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful. But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else. Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight. But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds. I hope I'm wrong.
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RIP Charlie Kirk…
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