Sometimes you get a whole lot more than you paid for. Sometimes you don’t get what you paid for at all.
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Irish Times Article – Google saves millions in taxes thanks to its Irish operation: An effect of the arrangement is that Google Ireland, the operating company, made an after-tax profit of only €2.74 million on a turnover of €603 million…. Google Ireland paid Irish corporation tax of €1.6 million.Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that an Irish subsidiary of Microsoft was helping it reduce its tax bill by at least $500 million annually.
Leave a CommentI’ve had enough of Fahrad Manjoo’s articles on the 2004 election. He is at again this week as the self-designated hatchet man for Mark Crispin Miller’s new book Fooled Again!
1 CommentI was surprised a week or so ago about the media storm over Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadineja’s comments about Israel…. On the other hand, Iran wishing ill on Israel didn’t particularly seem like news to me.
Leave a CommentAs the whole world knows by now, France has been buffeted by nightly riots American coverage began with one of the most stupid editorials I have ever seen. Mark Steyn suggested that what was happening in the Parisian suburbs was akin to war and After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ”Arab street,” but it’s in Clichy-sous-Bois…For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc….Unlike America’s Europhiles, France’s Arab street correctly identified Chirac’s opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.
Leave a CommentThe Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » Move over James Buchanan: Time to declare Bush worst…president…ever?: Sorry guys, you are giving Bush too much credit here as the president…. Having bent the rules of civilised discourse and political behaviour so far, there really isn’t a safety net underneath them anymore.They have made enough enemies (Paul O’Neill, Colin Powell, Joe Wilson, Lawrence Wilkerson, John McCain – to name just a few) on their own team that they are in real danger right now.
1 CommentIt looks like the world is finally starting to sort itself out across the ocean. Mid-term elections are scaring the hell out of the Republican members of Congress and some of the Senate.
Leave a CommentTo anyone who has lived in the world and followed world history, the whole event has a false aura to it…. There are any number of paranoid and weird websites which talk about no plane flying into the Pentagon, kidnapped citizens, etc…
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