Topic: Drone - on July 2, 2012 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Einsatz 1000 Dollar: US-Spionage-Drohne entführt
“It was funny.” Feindliche Übernahme durch erfolgreichen GPS-Hack – Warnung vor “Terroristen”
Studenten der University of Texas haben die Kontrolle über ein kleines Drohnenflugzeug des US-Heimatschutzministeriums übernommen und vor den Augen der Beamten im Stadion der Universität den Kurs nach ihren Vorgaben geändert.
Die Drohne drehte sich nach dem Start, der von den DHS-Beamten durchgeführt wurde, entgegen der ursprünglich eingegebenen Daten für die Route zur Seite und raste Richtung Erdboden. Kurz vor dem Aufprall zogen die Studenten das kleine Flugzeug wieder in die Höhe, da es nicht darum ging, das Fluggerät zu zerstören.
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Topic: Drone - on July 2, 2012 at 10:19:00 AM CEST
Spy drones can be hijacked by terrorists, used as weapons
Most Americans can conjure up images of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, when terrorists hijacked jetliners and used them as guided, fuel-laden missiles to cause the most casualties.
Now, imagine those scenarios being played out on a smaller, but more frequent, scale, all across the country. It's possible, if a change in U.S. policy regarding domestic airspace goes through.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on July 2, 2012 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
Gotteskrieger im Siegesrausch
Zuerst haben sie die Tuareg-Rebellen verjagt. Nun zerstören muslimischen Fundamentalisten im Norden Malis das Weltkulturerbe der Wüstenstadt Timbuktu.
Trotz weltweiter Empörung sind die Islamisten in Timbuktu unbeirrt. „Wir handeln im Namen Gottes“, sagte der Sprecher der radikalislamistischen Gruppe Ansar Dine, Sanda Ould Boumana, gegenüber AFP. Seit Samstag früh sind islamistische Eiferer in der berühmtesten Stadt Malis dabei, systematisch alle 16 Mausoleen und Grabstätten zu zerstören, in denen die Heiligen Timbuktus begraben sind und verehrt werden.
Nachdem am Samstag die Mausoleen Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi Moctar und Alpha Moya dem Erdboden gleichgemacht worden sind, machten sich die Islamisten am Sonntag an das Gelände der größten Moschee der Stadt, Djingareyber. Vier Mausoleen dort sollten noch am gleichen Tag zerstört werden.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 2, 2012 at 9:00:00 AM CEST
Ten Great Reasons to Kill America’s Ban on Growing Hemp
America’s industrial ban on hemp is “a poster child for dumb regulation,” argues lazy ass pothead! Wait, sorry, scratch that. Make that Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, introducing an amendment last week to the densely contested 2012 Farm Bill, which is either a subsidies and sustainability savior or callous food austerity, depending on who you ask. But if you ask Wyden, “the best possible Farm Bill” is one that repeals a ban on industrial hemp the United States is already quite busy, and expensively, importing from the few feet it takes to cross the Canadian border.
“I will be urging my colleagues to support this amendment,” Wyden announced last week on the Senate floor, reminding the assembled elected that his plan won’t cost American taxpayers a dime. “I want [them] to know I will be back at this again until there are smarter regulations in place.”
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 1, 2012 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
Drunken States Of America - DUI
For millions of Americans, the Labor Day weekend is the last big party of the summer.
For the cops and emergency medical teams of Maricopa County, Arizona - like their counterparts across the U.S. – it can mean chaos, blood, and violence.
Drunken States of America premieres on Thursday 28 June at 9pm and follows the mayhem that can be attributed to mostly one thing: alcohol!
Too many Labor Day revellers cross the line between a good time and dangerous intoxication.
The consequences can be severe, ranging from physical injuries to prison.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 1, 2012 at 9:32:00 AM CEST
Cities Balk as Federal Law on Marijuana Is Enforced
Faced with growing chaos in the state’s medical marijuana industry, this city in Northern California passed an ordinance in 2008 that meticulously detailed, over 11 pages, how the drug could be grown and sold here.
Humboldt Medical Supply, a dispensary here in Humboldt County regarded as a law-abiding model that has given free cannabis to elderly patients, became the first to obtain a permit in 2010. The Sai Center, whose owner has a history of flouting city regulations and was described by the mayor as running his business “purely for profit,” was rejected last year.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 30, 2012 at 12:09:00 PM CEST
Digitalks Salon “Wie umgehe ich Vorratsdatenspeicherung?”
mit Pepi Zawodsky aka @maclemon & Martin Leyrer aka @leyrer, moderiert von Meral Akin-Hecke (Digitalks). Aufgenommen am 25. Juni im Sektor5, veranstaltet von Digitalks.at
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 30, 2012 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
KGB vs. KGB: Putin's crackdown extends to old comrades
Arrests and intimidation of political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin have been on the upswing recently, extending even to a former KGB comrade of the Russian leader.
Gennady Gudkov is the last person you'd think of as a radical dissident. Yet he's been driven into a dangerous corner, and it looks like the Kremlin has set its sights on destroying him.
A former career KGB officer, Mr. Gudkov and his son, Dmitry, are both Duma deputies with the "loyal opposition" party Just Russia. The Gudkovs both became involved with the street protest movement that erupted last December in order to steer the protesters toward peaceful and constructive engagement with the authorities, the elder Gudkov insists.
But today, amid a wave of government actions that some protest leaders are calling "the shadow of 1937" – the year mass Stalin-era repressions began – the Gudkovs find themselves in serious trouble, with their family business all but ruined by a blizzard of state "inspections" and the pro-Kremlin United Russia party moving to expel them and another Just Russia deputy, Ilya Ponomaryov, from the Duma.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 30, 2012 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Endspurt gegen ACTA
Am 4. Juli wird das EU-Parlament über das Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) abstimmen, wie wir schon an mehreren Stellen berichtet haben.
Jetzt ist die Empfehlung des Berichterstatters, MdEP David Martin, in deutscher Fassung online:
Der Berichterstatter empfiehlt dem Europäischen Parlament daher, seine Zustimmung zu dem Abschluss von ACTA zu verweigern.</p>
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 30, 2012 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
'Go home and lie', court tells lesbian Iranian
A German court told a lesbian who had fled persecution in Iran, to go back and simply live discreetly and hide her sexuality. Iranian courts sentence lesbians to whippings and, in a fourth instance, death.
Samira Ghorbani Danesh fled Iran in 2009 and has been living in a women's shelter in northern Bavaria since.
She now has until the end of July to leave, Die Welt newspaper said on Thursday as the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees refused the 24-year-old asylum
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 30, 2012 at 9:14:00 AM CEST
Festplattenabgabe: Vorwürfe gegen Elektrohandel
Nach Schätzungen der Initiative "Kunst hat Recht" habe der Elektrohandel zwischen 10 und 15 Millionen Euro an Abgaben eingehoben, diese aber nie an die Urheber weitergegeben. Der Obmann des Verbands für Elektrohandel weist diese Vorwürfe zurück.
Im Streit um eine Urheberrechtsabgabe auf Festplatten hat die Initiative „Kunst hat Recht" am heutigen Donnerstag dem Elektrohandel vorgeworfen, diese seit fast zwei Jahren bereits einzuheben, allerdings nicht an die Verwertungsgesellschaften weiterzugeben. „Nach Schätzungen haben sich bereits zwischen 10 und 15 Mio. Euro angehäuft", heißt es in einer Aussendung. Damit konfrontiert weist der Obmann des Elektro- und Einrichtungsfachhandels, Wolfgang Krejcik, im APA-Gespräch die Vorwürfe als haltlos von sich: „Diese Behauptungen entsprechen nicht der Wahrheit."
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on June 29, 2012 at 1:49:00 PM CEST
Austria
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