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Animal Protection

This cat was caught in a “body-gripping” trap for 2 days in Metro Vancouver

The Fur-Bearers has renewed its calls for the City of Delta to take action after a family cat by the name of Blu was grievously injured in a foot-hold trap in Ladner. Photograph: Josie Moubert A local non-profit animal protection group has renewed its calls…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

‘Russia Is an Occupier’: Thousands Fill Georgia’s Capital Against Putin for Fifth Day

Protests began last Thursday in the wake of a visit to the Georgian Parliament by Russian State Duma Deputy Sergei Gavrilov. Gavrilov infuriated Georgians by sitting in Kobakhidze’s seat, one specially reserved for the head of the Georgian Parliament, and add…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

AR-15

Member of ‘militia’ that detained migrants faces jail time for impersonating federal employee – Washington Post

A man approaches a group of apparent migrants along a dusty road. Stop! he yells in Spanish, before identifying himself as U.S. Border Patrol. What are you guys doing? The moment was captured in a video filmed in mid-April, and posted to James Benvies Faceb…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

VR

Valve’s ‘flagship’ Index VR game is the Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

Back when the Valve Index was announced, Valve teased that it was working on a game it described only as a “flagship” VR game due out this year. That game has now been revealed as Aperture Hand Lab, a VR-based spinoff of Valve’s Portal series intended to tea…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

VR

Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

(Update: An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Aperture Hand Lab as the "flagship" title Valve teased alongside the Valve Index reveal, and has since been corrected.) Valve and Cloudhead Games have launched Aperture Hand Lab, a VR-based spi…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Hrant Dink

A Mormon Polygamist Allegedly Ran A $500 Million Scam. Here’s How

Mormon polygamist Jacob Kingston goes to trial in July for a scam involving his entire Mormon clan.Kingston is a member of the Order, an organized crime ring and the largest Mormon polygamist sect in all of Utah.He allegedly collecte…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Food Industry

Eldorado Is Building a Better Casino Giant; McDonald’s Has Built a Better Burger

On Sunday, regional casino company Eldorado Resorts (NASDAQ:ERI) announced it was buying larger peer Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR). And while that may seem counterintuitive, it could be a winning combination. Not counterintuitive is this news from McDon…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Yellow Vests

India: a general election, emerging model of power, and populist resistance

Economic goals and the ritual of democracy We already noted the economic goal of this new model of power, namely to steamroll economic reforms, deregulate existing labour, create the large mass of a disenfranchised labour force, create a unified market of go…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Refugees

UNRWA raises $110m but still cash-strapped after US cuts

United Nations - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has raised $110m in funding pledges, helping to plug a budget gap that remains after the United States cut its 2019 contributions to zero. Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Wo…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Trade War

FedEx warns 2020 results to be hurt by trade war, shares fall 2%

(Reuters) - Package delivery company FedEx Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Tuesday, but warned its fiscal 2020 performance would be hurt by trade uncertainty and non-renewal of Amazon contract, sending its shares down 2%. The company…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

This cat was caught in a “body-gripping” trap for 2 days in Metro Vancouver

‘Russia Is an Occupier’: Thousands Fill Georgia’s Capital Against Putin for Fifth Day

Member of ‘militia’ that detained migrants faces jail time for impersonating federal employee – Washington Post

Valve’s ‘flagship’ Index VR game is the Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

A Mormon Polygamist Allegedly Ran A $500 Million Scam. Here’s How

Eldorado Is Building a Better Casino Giant; McDonald’s Has Built a Better Burger

India: a general election, emerging model of power, and populist resistance

UNRWA raises $110m but still cash-strapped after US cuts

FedEx warns 2020 results to be hurt by trade war, shares fall 2%

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