Be careful what you wish for Ukraine’s State Security Service raids multiple officials’ homes and discovers evidence of corruption, including hand-written dreams of mink coats and more
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Meduza ^
| February 1, 2023 | Meduza
On January 31, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned about upcoming “staffing changes” in the Ukrainian government. The
following day, Ukraine’s State Security Service and other law-enforcement agencies conducted a series of searches targeting prominent officials and businesspeople suspected of corruption. Among their discoveries were “manifesting” wish lists — and loads of embezzled money. Ukraine’s Economic Security Bureau and State Security agents searched the home of the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky. The Ukrainian media connects the search to a fraud investigation focusing on Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta, two petroleum companies nationalized by Ukraine last November. The investigators believe that around $1 billion worth...
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4 Americans infected with Covid-19 strain seen in mink in 2020: CDC
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Business Standard ^
The infected people are from Michigan -- two employees of a Michigan mink farm that experienced a coronavirus outbreak in October 2020 -- while the other two had no known links to the farm. This
suggests that the mink variant may have been circulating more widely among area residents at the time, the New York Times reported. The cluster, which previously included just three cases, represents the first known instance of possible animal-to-human transmission of the virus in the US. Samples of the virus collected from all four people contained two mutations that scientists have hypothesised may be signs of...
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Danish PM Denies She New Order for Mink Kill Was Not Legally Valid
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AsiaOne ^
| NOVEMBER 03, 2021
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, facing a probe over the slaughter of the country's entire mink herd last year, on Wednesday (Nov 3) denied that she knew then that the government did not have legal authority to order the move. Responding
to the rising spread of coronavirus from mink to people, including a new mutated strain, Frederiksen's Social Democratic government in November 2021 ordered all of the country's 17 million minks killed. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. The government later admitted it did not have the legal authority to...
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COVID outbreak reported on Oregon mink farm
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Seattle Times ^
| 28 Nov 2020 | AP sourced
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon mink farm has reported an outbreak of COVID-19 among animals and staff. ...The
state has not said where the farm is located, how many animals the farm has, when the farmer reported the illnesses, or when the animals were tested.
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Mutant COVID-19 strain in Denmark’s mink could cause ‘new pandemic’: scientist
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New York Post ^
| November 5, 2020 | Tamar Lapin
The coronavirus mutation discovered in Denmark’s mink could spark a new wave of the illness in the country, scientists warn. Authorities
in Denmark — the world’s largest producer of mink furs — said five cases of the new virus strain had been recorded on mink farms and 12 cases in humans. The mutation showed a decreased sensitivity against antibodies, meaning it could potentially cause a COVID-19 vaccine to be less effective, experts said....
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A mink may have infected a human with Covid-19, Dutch authorities believe
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CNN ^
| 20 May 2020 | Mick Krever and Rob Picheta
(CNN)Dutch authorities believe a mink may have infected a human with Covid-19, and are instituting mandatory testing at all mink farms in the Netherlands. "On the basis of new research results from the ongoing research into Covid-19 infections at mink farms, it is plausible that an infection took place from mink to
human," the Dutch government said in a statement late Tuesday night. "It also appears from this research that minks can have Covid-19 without displaying symptoms." The government said antibody testing of minks would be expanded to "all mink farms in the Netherlands and will become mandatory." The government...
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Coronavirus updates: Mink may have infected human with COVID-19, officials say
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ABC News ^
| 05 20 2020 | https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-50-us-states-now-eased-coronavirus/story?id=707813
SNIP Dutch investigators believe a human may have contracted the novel coronavirus from a mink at a farm in the Netherlands. New research findings in the ongoing investigation into the country's mink farms also show that the animals can have COVID-19 without showing any symptoms, according to a press release from the
Dutch government. Investigators also believe cats may have a role in the spread of the virus on the mink farms. Coronavirus antibodies were detected in three out of 11 cats at one of the mink farms under investigation. Pending further research, the Dutch government is advising mink farm...
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After Walking Thousands Of Miles, Mink The Bear Is Almost Back Home
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NPR ^
| 5-15-19
Hanover, N.H., Deputy Fire Chief Michael Hinsley in the woods with Mink the bear. For
years, an elderly resident of Hanover, N.H., fed one particular female black bear. The old man's food offer of choice? Birdseed and maple-glazed doughnuts from a diner down the street. Then the man died, and the bear started venturing out farther in search of more delicious treats. She had become comfortable around humans, and people in town grew to love her — a lumbering, strong but gentle animal that would come right up to your door. She's named Mink, after a local natural area called...
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A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur: “As soon as black women could afford to buy mink coats [tr]
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NY Times ^
| January 31, 2019 | Jasmine Sanders
My mother, Vivian Jarrett-Irving, is the owner of two fur coats: a full-length mahogany mink and a fox that hits right below the knee. Both
hang from pegs she affixed to the back wall of her bedroom closet, as if their sensual, febrile glamour were too singular to be slotted in among the racks of common clothing. But their storage is purely sensible. “I keep them in here because it’s cooler,” she said. Kept too warm, the pelts will shed, and excessive humidity may rot the underlying skins; too cold and the hides are prone to dry out and crack....
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Divas Always Wear Mink
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MOTUS A.D. ^
| 8-17-18 | MOTUS
Beyond the music itself, the moment everyone talked about after Franklin’s performance at the Kennedy Center was the way, just before the final chorus, as she was reaching the all-out crescendo, she stripped off her mink and let it fall to the floor. Whoosh!
Dropping the fur—it’s an old gospel move, a gesture of emotional abandon, of letting loose. – Soul Survivor Ah, such sweet sadness; the lights in Detroit - which only recently began to glow a bit again - will be a bit dimmer tonight as the curtain comes down on one of Motown’s great ones. Aretha’s...
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Man admits taking $250K from Head Start; bought Maserati, mink coat
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NJ Advance Media for NJ.com ^
| June 7, 2016
The former executive director of a former Head Start program in Jersey City Tuesday admitted that he diverted more than $250,000 from programs for underprivileged children and used the money for personal expenses, including a Maserati and a mink coat, prosecutors said. Robert
E. Mays, 38, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in federal court to one count of wire fraud. According to court papers charging him, Mays in 2013 forged records and duped employees at the Jersey City Child Development Centers into believing that its board of directors had raised his salary 61 percent to $155,000...
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Animal-Rights Activists Free 5,740 Mink in Cross-Country Crime Spree
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nymag.com ^
| July 25, 2015 | Chas Danner
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force has arrested two animal-rights activists after they spent half a year driving 40,000 miles around the U.S., raiding fur farms, and releasing about 5,740 mink into the wild. According
to the Associated Press, in addition to freeing the mink (and one bobcat), Joseph Buddenberg, 31, and Nicole Kissane, 28, allegedly slashed tires, smashed windows, glued door locks, vandalized businesses using caustic acid, and even tried to flood a fur industry employee’s home.
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Two arrested in 2013 mink-freeing spree that hit Minnesota
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startribune.com ^
Two animal-rights activists have been charged in California with terrorizing the fur industry during cross-country road trips — including in Minnesota — two years ago in which they released about 5,740 mink from fur farms and vandalized the homes and businesses of operators. The
October 2013 spree left losses in Minnesota, the nation’s fifth-largest mink producer, and neighboring Wisconsin. Hundreds of mink were set loose from a southeastern Minnesota ranch, just days after Wisconsin fur farm owners scrambled to catch their own mink with fishing nets following a similar action that they called “devastating” to their operations. The four-generation Myhre...
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Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "That Touch Of Mink"(1962)
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Daily Motion ^
| 1962 | Delbert Mann
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