I was looking for his name to add him onto the post. Guess he’s no longer present here…?
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Mystic
We're all born mad
A Wayne State University police officer was called to an apartment complex in downtown Detroit, where moments after entering the building he shot a dog in the face twice. The police chief decided not to take any disciplinary action against the cop, saying “He had no recourse. He was boxed in the corner with nowhere to retreat.” The dog, named Ace, is a 10-year-old Goldendoodle, described by neighbors as gentle and playful, who serves as an emotional support dog.
Mystic
We're all born mad
France’s prisons are now at 120% of capacity. As of April 1, France counted 73,080 inmates in prisons equipped to hold just 60,899 people.
Mystic
We're all born mad
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released its annual report on global military spending, which topped $2.3 trillion in 2022, a 3.7 percent increase over the previous year. European expenditures climbed by 13 percent, the largest year-to-year increase since the end of the Cold War. The US led the way with $877 billion, more than the next 10 countries combined.
US: $877 billion
China: $292 billion
Russia: $86 billion
India: $81 billion
Saudi Arabia: $75 billion
United Kingdom: $68 billion
Germany: $56 billion
France: $54 billion
South Korea: $46 billion
Japan: $46 billion
Ukraine: $44 billion
US: $877 billion
China: $292 billion
Russia: $86 billion
India: $81 billion
Saudi Arabia: $75 billion
United Kingdom: $68 billion
Germany: $56 billion
France: $54 billion
South Korea: $46 billion
Japan: $46 billion
Ukraine: $44 billion
Mystic
We're all born mad
In the 1950s, the Soviet spy Kim Philby was then positioned as MI-6’s man in Washington and regularly entertained some of the top figures in US intelligence at booze-sodden parties in his sprawling house, including Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner and "Jesus" Jim Angleton. This was the time of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Philby considered the Wisconsin demagogue a buffoon and realized that while his bombastic hearings were creating a climate of paranoia inside the State Department, Pentagon and CIA, they weren’t doing any real damage to the vast Soviet spy network in the US. Philby knew something most American bureaucrats and politicians didn’t: the primary source for McCarthy’s targets was none other than J. Edgar Hoover, eager to use McCarthy’s political pogrom to cripple his rivals at the CIA. One day Philby took Hoover to lunch and asked him directly what the FBI man thought of the sweaty Senator. Hoover primly wiped his mouth with a napkin and said: “Oh, I see him at the race track from time to time, but he’s yet to give me a winner.”
Mystic
We're all born mad
The Wall Street Journal is coming around to the conclusion that corporate profits, not wages, have been the prime driver of inflation.
Mystic
We're all born mad
More than 300 children, including two 10-year-olds, were found working at McDonald’s restaurants across Kentucky and several other states. Some of the kids were discovered working -- unpaid -- as late as 2:00 am. If this trend toward child labor continues, Nike will be moving its sweatshops from Vietnam to Paducah with 8-year-olds stitching Air Jordans for $2.00 a day.
Mystic
We're all born mad
PRICES GOING DOWN:
The value of commercial real estate in San Francisco seems to be in free-fall. In 2019, the 22-story tower at 350 California Street in downtown was worth around $300 million. Now up for sale, bids on are expected to come in at around $60 million, an 80% decline in value in four years.
The value of commercial real estate in San Francisco seems to be in free-fall. In 2019, the 22-story tower at 350 California Street in downtown was worth around $300 million. Now up for sale, bids on are expected to come in at around $60 million, an 80% decline in value in four years.
