Topic: DRUGS - on August 1, 2013 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Uruguay votes to create world's first national legal marijuana market
Uruguay's unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market has taken its critical first step in the lower house of Congress.
All 50 members of the ruling Broad Front coalition approved the proposal just before midnight on Wednesday in a party line vote, keeping a narrow majority of the 96 MPs present after more than 13 hours of passionate debate.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 31, 2013 at 5:25:00 PM CEST
XKeyscore: NSA Programm sammelt “beinahe alles was ein Nutzer im Internet tut”
Vor rund einer Woche berichteten wir, dass der BND die Software XKeyscore nutzt, wie auch Verfassungsschutz-Präsident Hans-Georg Maaßen gegenüber der Bild am Sonntag mittlerweile bestätigt hat. Nachdem bereits die brasilianische Zeitung O Globo Mundo einige Folien zu XKeyscore veröffentlicht hatte, legt nun Glenn Greenwald für den Guardian nach und veröffentlicht 32 als “Top Secret” eingestufte Folien zu XKeyscore (von uns hier gespiegelt). Einige Folien die Greenwald verwendet, sind in der pdf allerdings nicht vorhanden. Es scheint also noch mehr auf uns zu zukommen. Die Folien scheinen insgesamt zu bestätigen, was der Spiegel bereits berichtet hat.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 31, 2013 at 5:09:00 PM CEST
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 31, 2013 at 5:07:00 PM CEST
Berlusconi-Prozess mit Hindernissen: "Mit einer Verurteilung machen sie mich zum Heiligen"
Experten sind ratlos, ein Richter nickt ein, Berlusconis Anwalt verteilt Handküsse. Das Land hält den Atem an, das Oberste Gericht in Rom entscheidet über die Zukunft des Skandalpolitikers - und lässt sich reichlich Zeit. Geboten wird italienisches Theater.
Was wird mit Berlusconi passieren? Sein Anwalt, hager, zwei Meter groß und Senator in Berlusconis Partei, beugt sich hinab. Ein Handkuss für die Fragestellerin, Gerichtsreporterin der "Repubblica", und einen zweiten für die Kollegin des Kommunistenblatts "Unità". Dann sagt Niccolò Ghedini: "Es kann alles passieren."
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 31, 2013 at 2:32:00 PM CEST
Edward Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow
The father of the whistleblower Edward Snowden has said the FBI tried to persuade him to fly to Moscow so that he could encourage his son to return to the United States.
"I said: 'I want to be able to speak with my son … Can you set up communications?' and it was 'Well, we are not sure,' Lon Snowden told the Washington Post. "I said: 'Wait a minute, folks, I'm not going to sit on the tarmac to be an emotional tool for you.'"
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 31, 2013 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
Uruguay to vote on marijuana legalisation bill
Uruguay's House of Representative is preparing to vote on a bill to legalise marijuana on Wednesday.
If passed by the House and the Senate, Uruguay will become the first country to legally regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana.
The law is backed by the government of President Jose Mujica, which says it will remove profits from drug dealers and divert users from harder drugs.
Under the bill, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 31, 2013 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
Geruchsbelästigung: Amtsgericht bestätigt Kündigung für rauchenden Mieter
Im Prozess um die fristlose Kündigung für einen rauchenden Mieter hat das Amtsgericht Düsseldorf der Vermieterin recht gegeben. Der Mann müsse seine Wohnung räumen, weil er die anderen Parteien im Haus mit dem Zigarettenkonsum belästige. Allerdings ist eine Berufung gegen das Urteil möglich.
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Topic: KAMELE - on July 31, 2013 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Sweet shop assault over Camel Balls dispute
A customer in a London Road sweet shop allegedly assaulted another customer after a complaint was made about the appropriateness of the ‘Camel Balls’ brand of sweets.
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Topic: ART - on July 31, 2013 at 12:56:00 PM CEST
Graffiti Attack at Wookey Hole Caves
Two sections of Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset were attacked by graffiti artists during the night.
A rope believed to be used by the raiders to abseil into the valley was left behind and mock cave paintings were produced deep inside the caverns. Elaborate drawings of a cave man and woman, a baby and a mammoth were also painted in the cave exit tunnel.
Wookey Hole owner Daniel Medley says he is trying to find out whether Bristol’s Banksy is behind the attack on the caves, which was carried out in the dead of night.
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Topic: CARS - on July 30, 2013 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
BMW's New Electric Car Is Just Like a Tesla, Only Much, Much Worse
I was ready to love BMW’s new electric car, the i3. Maybe I will, once I get the chance to drive it. I'd really like to love it, if only so I can stop raving about the Tesla Model S all the time and rave about a different car for once. But at first glance: yeesh. It has the range of a Chevy Volt and the looks of a Pontiac Aztek. And those aren’t even the most disappointing things about it.
The i3 is a big deal, or at least it was supposed to be, because it was designed from scratch to be an electric car, like Tesla’s Model S was—and because it’s a BMW, which implies that it’s well-built. It had been hailed, in fact, as BMW’s answer to the Model S. But it does not seem to be that.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 30, 2013 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
Bradley Manning trial: judge to read verdict – live coverage
Judge to rule on the case of Bradley Manning, accused of 'aiding the enemy' by leaking military secrets to WikiLeaks
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 30, 2013 at 5:05:00 PM CEST
Steinbrück to Students: Pot Should Be Decriminalized
Peer Steinbrück, the center-left Social Democratic Party's (SPD) candidate for chancellor, went all out to appeal to young voters with a recent visit to a student flatshare in Kreuzberg, a trendy district in the German capital. Not only did the party leave 48 bottles of beer in its wake, Steinbrück made an unexpected comment.
According to the daily B.Z. newspaper on Tuesday, no topic was off limits. Apparently, the student schmooze saw a jovial Steinbrück pull out the stops in an attempt to mobilize young voters -- by advocating the decriminalization of cannabis.
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