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" ... It was called a burned-out shelter. You could either sit with it and be tortured by “phantom income” or liquidate and have a capital gain with cash, if any, less than the gain. You would still be ahead overall, since there was a big spread between the capital gain and ordinary income rates, but if you had not put some of the savings aside you would not feel like you were ahead. ... "
" ... Kramer Wimberley: No. In instances when I did feel something, what I feel more often than not is pain and rage, the raw emotion that comes out because I am thinking past my own personal feelings. I am trying to put myself in the place of those people who were actually tortured. As bad as the things that I have lived through and experienced in my 50-something years have been, they are nothing in comparison to being kidnapped and ripped away from your family, dehumanized and stripped and tortured and raped and tossed over the side of a ship. ... "
" ... The STB began its life as the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1887, the result of agricultural interests to consolidate their power over the railroad industry. For example, if given the opportunity, a grain supplier would prefer that the government to set the shipping price as close to zero as possible instead of engaging in the market. Thus, began the tortured history of the regulator deciding the prices that railroads could charge with brute attempts to find prices that covered the actual cost of building the railroad. This proved quite inefficient, so much so that the U.S. did not have adequate rail infrastructure needed to ship munitions for World War I. In the meanwhile, new forms of transportation emerged that proved more convenient and flexible than regulated rail, such as trucks. By the 1970s, when the ICC reached its height of over 2,000 employees, Congress began the long overdue process of deregulation. Unsurprisingly, freight railroad investment, safety, and quality surged. Congress continued further deregulation in 1996, and the organization was renamed the Surface Transportation Board. ... "
" ... This last is told from the perspective of a local photographer-reporter working the streets. It's his job to capture images of tortured torsos, headless bodies and the like day in day out. He reveals what everybody knows – that the police scarcely interfere with the mayhem. And that the mayhem was unleashed when the cartels were decapitated by law-enforcement, deprived of their bosses, thereby igniting endless renewed turf wars. The photographer's story illustrates the show's particular peerless strength – telling the stories through participants' eyes. Pause a moment and think what that means. It means getting the most apparently irredeemable characters to co-operate with the project. It means gaining their trust. How was that possible? According to Nick Quested he did it by distributing to them his last documentary 'Hell On Earth: The Rise of Isis And the Fall of Syria'. An explanation almost impossible to believe – unless you've actually seen the 2016 film which depicts with enormous sympathy and brutal honesty and astonishing access the only place on earth more terrifying than Mexico's cartelistan. ... "
" ... Ultimately, one monarch, King Philip of France, took against the Templars. On Friday 13 of October 1307, they were rounded up, tortured for confessions (again, expect gruesome descriptions in the book) and quickly disbanded. This is probably why Friday 13 is still considered unlucky. ... "