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June 25, 2018

Man convinces people to buy 'Hot Dog Water' for $28 a bottle

During an arts and culture festival in Vancouver last week, a street vendor thought it would be funny to advertise bottles of 'Hot Dog Water' for $38 Canadian dollars ($28 US dollars) as part of a satirical demonstration to "encourage critical thinking related to product marketing."

At the end of the day, he had just two bottles left.

According to the satirical sign at the stand, Hot Dog Water is "keto compatible," and will help those who drink it "lose weight, increase brain function, look younger, [and] increase vitality."

The vendor, Douglas Bevans, told Global News that dozens of people actually purchased bottles of hot dog water from him, and had no idea the whole thing was fake.

"They've been drinking it for hours," he said during the festival. "We have gone through about 60 liters of real hot dog water."

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Hot-Dog-Water-Vancouver-festival-stand-bottle-sign-13018126.php

June 19, 2018

I'm old enough to remember the NRA trying to argue that...

...the Nazis never would have been able to put Jewish folks in the camps if the Jews had guns...

Anybody else interested in seeing that theory put to the test??

EDIT: I'm talking about giving the migrants at the border a shitload of guns... As a purely academic thought experiment, of course...

June 19, 2018

Leave. EU (Brexiteers) faces new questions over contacts with Russia

A leader of the Leave.EU campaign suggested sending a “message of support” to the Russian ambassador after the then foreign secretary made a speech that was critical of Russia, documents seen by the Observer suggest.

The material also appears to show that Andy Wigmore, spokesman for the Leave.EU campaign and the business partner of Arron Banks, the biggest funder of Brexit, passed confidential legal documents to high-ranking officials at the Russian embassy and then denied it to parliament.

The documents related to George Cottrell, an aide to Nigel Farage who was with him on the campaign trail for Donald Trump in July 2016. Cottrell was arrested by the FBI and charged with 21 counts of money laundering, bribery and wire fraud.

Damian Collins, chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, said that Banks and Wigmore appeared to have misled parliament and “what we really need to know is why”. He added: “It makes you question whose side they are on.”

According to material seen by the Observer, Wigmore, who was Belize’s trade envoy to Britain at the time, forwarded an email to a Russian diplomat marked “Fw Cottrell docs – Eyes Only”. It is understood the email, dated 20 August 2016, showed six attachments of legal documents relating to Cottrell’s arrest by federal agents. It appears that Wigmore sent it to Sergey Fedichkin , a third secretary at the Russian embassy, saying: “Have fun with this.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/leave-eu-russia-arron-banks-andy-wigmore?CMP=share_btn_tw

June 14, 2018

Your Daily Greenwald, "Hillary is the REAL villain here!" Edition:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1007064609247854593

Hey Greenwald fans -- Get in here and defend your boy, if you dare...

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