Thursday, May 25, 2017

59. 5/25/17

A18 TRUMP'S CUTS WOULD MAKE JOB "IMPOSSIBLE," U.N. SAYS

"The United States contributes 22 percent of the United Nations' core operating budget of $5.4 billion. That share is set by an international agreement and is based on the size of the American economy."


Poor Nikki. She's said that she "wants the U.N. to use American taxpayer money more efficiently," but has "also expressed opposition to what she has called a slash-and-burn approach to budget reductions." She keeps flipping coins and hoping that they'll all land on the edges ...

B1 WHERE NESTLÉ GUZZLES WATER

"Last year, for the first time, bottled water outsold carbonated soft drinks in the United States."


"Nestlé persuaded officials to look at the data differently ..."

Until they discovered the footnote with the dollar sign and all those zeroes.

A20 QUESTIONS FOR THE D.E.A. AFTER THREE FATAL SHOOTINGS

"In the late 1980s and 1990s, the D.E.A.'s Operation Snowcap put agents through military training so they could join local forces in places like Peru and Bolivia to target airstrips used for smuggling and to destroy jungle labs."


"The D.E.A. said ... that it had shut down the program, the Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST)."

Not fast enough for the two women in the above photo.

A20 AFTER 7 STAYS SINCE 1983, ALABAMA INMATE HOPES TO STAVE OFF EXECUTION

"According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 60 percent of death-row exonerations since 2012 involved cases at least 20 years old."


The details of this guy's case are so perverted and nebulous. Life in prison without parole.

B5 TAKE A LOAD OFF. THE ROBOTS THAT FOLD LAUNDRY ARE COMING.

"Last year, about 17 million washers and dryers were sold in the United States, according to the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers."


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A1 HUNT FOR BOMBER'S ACCOMPLICES EXTENDS TO LIBYA

"The police accelerated their hunt Wednesday for co-plotters of the Manchester concert bombing, making at least a half-dozen arrests in Britain, searching for a possible clandestine bomb factory and extending the investigation to Libya, where two of the bomber's relatives were detained."


"In 2015 ... an imam at the mosque ... delivered a sermon condemning terrorism for political causes. The sermon prompted a heated discussion among congregants and some, including Mr. Abedi, objected to it."

So did the imam condone terrorism for non-political causes? gpac

A6 MIGRANTS WITH MEANS ARE SMUGGLED BY YACHT

"About 181,000 migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, risked the treacherous crossing from Libya and Egypt to Sicily last year, dying by the hundreds nearly every week."


Meanwhile, everybody gets paid.

C4 WHY THAT MUSIC KEEPS TRUCKIN' ON

"Jerry Garcia, founder of the band the Grateful Dead, was such a cheerleader for psychedelic use that his nickname was 'Captain Trips'."


"I don't like the saggy fonts they use."

TIME MACHINE
May 25, 1908
109 years ago


Page 16 EAST ORANGE TRIES NEWEST BLUE LAW

"The new Sunday law in East Orange, N. J., or, as its enemies have named it, 'the anti-Sabbath observance act,' went into full operation yesterday, and because the delivery of ice cream on the Sabbath is tabooed by the new ordinance, hundreds of persons had to make their own ice cream. The police were on the lookout to catch any one who broke the new blue law, many of them being out on bicycles to watch for offenders."

Watch out for that rocky road!

Page 14 PLANNING MORE WORK FOR PRESENT SUBWAY

"One of the fundamental defects of the Subway ... is 'that it fails to carry sufficient passengers upon a fixed 5-cent fare to justify the large investment which was finally found necessary to produce this splendid means of transportation'."



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