[Link] Grill’d co-founder Geoff Bainbridge quits Lark Distilling board over alleged drug use video

Read: 16/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Melbourne entrepreneur Geoff Bainbridge, a co-founder of Grill’d, has resigned as chief executive of an ASX-listed whiskey distillery after the emergence of video, published in a media outlet, purportedly showing him intoxicated while smoking methamphetamine.

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[Link] A Drug Cartel War Is Making Lime Prices Skyrocket in Mexico

Read: 31/1/2022 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—Limes are part of Mexico’s identity. Essential companions to tequila, tacos and guacamole, they’re critical ingredients in the country’s gastronomy.  They are also a pawn in an escalating war among rival drug cartels that is driving lime prices to record levels.

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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.

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[Link] Two Tourists Killed as Cartels Creep Into Mexico's Tulum Resort Area

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

But the October 20 killings revealed the dark underbelly of Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one that tourism officials along the vacation corridor have struggled to hide.

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