{"id":6016,"date":"2023-03-12T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T19:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2023-03-12T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T18:13:46","slug":"uchicago-startup-awarded-polsky-prize-for-best-middle-east-weapons-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/12\/uchicago-startup-awarded-polsky-prize-for-best-middle-east-weapons-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UChicago Startup Awarded Polsky Prize for \u2018Best Middle-East Weapons Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">POLSKY CENTER \u2014 In their latest email roundup that nobody read, the Polsky Center awarded its prestigious Best Middle East Weapons Deal award to new UChicago startup Metal Economy, Inc., which its founders describe as a \u201cshell company\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second year Sparrow Hawk praised his group\u2019s record profits. \u201cThey buy anything over there \u2014 ship shells, tank shells, gun shells, crab shells. We sell it all. Mostly we sell bullet shells, though.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked if his \u201cshell company\u201d received any funding from the US government, Hawk abruptly excused himself to the bathroom and refused to return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runner-up Spencer Dawson, CEO of AmnesTEA (a startup that ships steel crates of herbal tea packages to Israel and Palestine to \u201cencourage peace and mindfulness\u201d), reluctantly conceded that Metal Economy was the fair winner, citing their impressive tally of war crimes aided and abetted by the company. \u201cYou really gotta give it up for them \u2014 they were the better arms dealers this year,\u201d he remarked. Dawson was last spotted asking passers-by if they knew of any uranium available in Hyde Park.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey buy anything over there \u2014 ship shells, tank shells, gun shells, crab shells. We sell it all. Mostly we sell bullet shells, though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}