A pessimistic view: plutocracy is entrenching itself to the point that it will cause a revolution.

I fear that that revolution would be the opportunity to eliminate all the people whose work is no longer needed by the elite.

A Chinese journalist confessed to making up stories about corruption, saying he was bribed to write them.

Next will he confess to making up false confessions?

Film production in LA is disappearing as other places lure it away by offering tax breaks.

Cutting taxes to win business away from other jurisdictions is a form of "beggar thy neighbor": businesses play states and countries against each other to the detriment of all of them. Plutocrats' pet politicians might call this outcome success, but those that are loyal to their country should instead propose a treaty to ban competing via tax breaks.

France refuses to play this fool's game.

Rape is regularly used as a tool of cruelty in Syria.

Of all the loathsome acts described in this article, the second worst is that of the man who rejected his wife because she was raped. The worst of all is that of her father. Their attitude also inspires the rapes.

Dick Cheney Feared Assassination by Shock to Implanted Heart Defibrillator.

Cheney's worries were entirely justified.

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