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AR-15

Florida Police Arrest ‘White Supremacist’ Who Threatened Walmart Mass Shooting

(Daniel Becerril/Reuters) Florida police announced over the weekend that they have arrested a young white man after he wrote on Facebook that he would be getting his AR-15 back soon and that people should stay away from Walmart. Richard Clayton, 26, alleged…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Monsanto

Monsanto’s ‘Fusion Center’ Shows Proactive Crisis Prep Can Go Too Far

On Aug. 8, The Guardian's Sam Levin shared a review of documents proving that agrochemical company Monsanto launched an elaborate media relations crisis plan to target journalists and activists writing negatively about their products. "The records reviewed b…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Palestine

Walking a Different Path – West Bank, Palestine

When we first started telling people that we were going to hike in the West Bank, Palestine, they were incredulous. You’re going where? You’re doing what? Over a 3 week period, starting in Rummana at the northern Israeli/ Palestine border and ending in Beit…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Animal Protection

Twitch is encountering a lot of issues that have people irritated

People are angry with Twitch. That in and of itself might not be surprising, since people find ways to get angry about quite a bit. All that anger has boiled over into a hashtag movement with #TWITCHISOVERPARTY and there's a few different reasons behind it al…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Star Wars

Subtle home decor for the Star Wars fanatic

If the Alhazen lamp reminds you of an iconic object from a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon, you’re not alone. The lamp is a play on the Lightsaber and uses acrylic optics to disperse light, much like most lightsaber toys and prototypes do. Designed by Saif Fais…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Hiroshima

Israel Has Submarines Armed with Weapons That Could Kill Millions of People

Having three submarines in operation generally means at least one is at sea at any particular time, a necessity for a sea-based nuclear deterrent. The Dolphin class reportedly carries up to sixteen torpedoes and missiles; if the submarines primary task is nuc…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

New York City

New York City raised minimum wage to $15, and its restaurants outperformed the nation

After NYC raised its minimum wage from $7.25/h to $15/h this year -- the largest pay hike for low-waged workers in half a century -- the city's restaurants boomed, posting the highest growth levels in the country. The findings come from a study undertaken by…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

This wealthy African country is building a Trump-like wall to stop migrants from its neighbors

The tiny oil-rich central African nation of Equatorial Guinea is carrying on plans to erect a wall along its 183km-long border with Cameroon. The plans have sparked controversy with Cameroon authorities because of concerns about encroachment into Cameroons t…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Lance Armstrong hit with hilarious backlash after boasting about cycling faster than Vice President Mike Pence

Lance Armstrong, the disgraced cyclist who was stripped of seven Tour de France victories, was excoriated on social media over the weekend after he boasted about passing Vice President Mike Pence on a Nantucket bike path. "I can't drop many people on a bike …

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Animal Protection

Sweden: Animal Cruelty in ‘Immigrant-Dense Areas’ as Cats, Hedgehogs, Swans Killed

Earlier this week, Swedish media spoke to Annica Sjöberg, the head of the animal welfare group Djurens Vänner in the municipality of Nässjö, who claimed that youths were using local hedgehogs as footballs and kicking them around, Nyheter Idag reports. Sjöber…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Florida Police Arrest ‘White Supremacist’ Who Threatened Walmart Mass Shooting

Monsanto’s ‘Fusion Center’ Shows Proactive Crisis Prep Can Go Too Far

Walking a Different Path – West Bank, Palestine

Twitch is encountering a lot of issues that have people irritated

Subtle home decor for the Star Wars fanatic

Israel Has Submarines Armed with Weapons That Could Kill Millions of People

New York City raised minimum wage to $15, and its restaurants outperformed the nation

This wealthy African country is building a Trump-like wall to stop migrants from its neighbors

Lance Armstrong hit with hilarious backlash after boasting about cycling faster than Vice President Mike Pence

Sweden: Animal Cruelty in ‘Immigrant-Dense Areas’ as Cats, Hedgehogs, Swans Killed

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