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Bitcoin arrives on the property scene
By REBECCA THISTLETON, Financial Review It hasn’t moved in next door, but it’s checking out the neighbourhood: online currency Bitcoin has arrived on the property market scene. In Melbourne, buyer’s agent Paul Osborne has started accepting payments in the currency. “I see potential for Bitcoins to be used in house sales, but only when it [...]
4/20 Surprise: Proposed Colorado Marijuana Rules Will Make It Easier to Get a Mile-High High
Bill vaporizes ‘vertical integration,’ one-year monopoly proposals By STEVEN NELSON, April 19, 2013, US News Colorado legislators announced legislation for regulating legal marijuana businesses Friday as ecstatic potheads flocked to Denver to light up in public Saturday in celebration of the first “4/20″ since Coloradans voted to legalize the drug in November. The proposed legislation would allow out-of-state residents [...]
World Privacy Forum’s Top Ten Opt Outs
from http://www.worldprivacyforum.org/ As privacy experts, we are frequently asked about “opting out,” and which opt outs we think are the most important. This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum has developed over the years from responding to those questions. The list below does not contain all opt [...]
US Supreme Court Limits Front Door Drug Dog Sniffs
by Phillip Smith, Information Liberation, March 26, 2013 The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a drug dog’s sniff of a residence’s front door is search under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment and that police must therefore obtain a search warrant before unleashing the hounds. The case was Florida v. Jardines. While the high court has [...]
British Children set up “Soda Speakeasies” after their private school bans all drinks other than water
by Pavan Amara and Mark Blunden, 21 January 2013 A School is believed to be the first in London to become “water only” and ban fizzy drinks for pupils. Acland Burghley in Camden is setting out to improve health — but has even banned fruit juice and diet drinks. The school hopes its water-only policy will [...]
Control Your Local Police
by Dave Hummels, Center for a Stateless Society, Feb 18, 2013 While reflecting on recent episodes of police misconduct in my community and beyond, I began to think about how much law enforcement agencies resemble the Catholic Church. And no, this is not a pre-St. Patrick’s day Irish joke. Consider the following: The Church and police departments have [...]
Idaho, Arizona Schools Go Into Full Prison Mode
School kids in Yuma are taken into “protective” custody by William Grigg, LRC Blog, February 14, 2013 03:54 PM Schools in Meridian, Idaho went into full “prison mode” after a student who brought a folding shovel to Heritage Middle School in Meridian, Idaho prompted the school’s “resource officer” to call for a full lockdown. Deputy Chief Tracy Basterrechea [...]
The U.S. drug czar weighs in on Canada’s pot habit and a great rebuttal!
by Gil Kerlikowske, macleans.ca , February 11, 2013 Gil Kerlikowske is U.S. President Obama’s director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy—more commonly known as the U.S. “drug czar.” His long career in law enforcement included serving as police chief in two border cities: Buffalo and Seattle. Q: In the November elections, two states—Washington and Colorado—voted to [...]
A Look Ahead: 12 States That Could Legalize Medical Marijuana in 2013
from The Medical Marijuana Business Daily, January 15, 2013 Last year was a significant one for the marijuana industry, with two states passing MMJ laws and another two legalizing cannabis for recreational use. It will be hard to top that, but the industry could be poised for another big year in 2013. As Medical Marijuana Business Daily [...]
Liberty group to build fortress called THE CITADEL in 2013 that will house 3500-7000 people
from IIICitadel.com The Citadel is evolving as a planned community where residents are bound together by: Patriotism Pride in American Exceptionalism Our proud history of Liberty as defined by our Founding Fathers, and Physical preparedness to survive and prevail in the face of natural catastrophes — such as Hurricanes Sandy or Katrina — or man-made [...]
Developer Pitches Charter City on Island Near Detroit
BY LOUIS AGUILAR THE DETROIT NEWS Detroit — As the broken city thinks big and radically about its future, a developer is stepping forward with a revolutionary idea: Sell the city’s Belle Isle park for $1 billion to private investors who will transform it into a free-market utopia. The 982-acre island would then be developed into a [...]
