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‘Gangnam Style’ cops will help tourists settle disputes in South Korea

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“South Korea unveiled its new ‘tourist police’ force Wednesday, with snappy uniforms from rapper Psy’s costume designer and a ‘Gangnam Style’ launch in central Seoul. Around 100 young policemen and women make up the first batch of the new force — formed to protect tourists from being ripped off during their stay in the South Korean capital. The officers were handpicked for their linguistic skills, and can speak a range of languages including English, Japanese and Mandarin. ‘Those who think they were overcharged by taxi drivers or street food vendors can come and talk to us. We will help settle the problem,’ English-speaking recruit Park Jae-Hyoung told AFP.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/16/gangam-style-cops-will-help-tourists-settle-disputes-while-visiting-south-korea/

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State, provincial regulators raise red flags on virtual currency

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“Consumers may be headed for trouble when they turn over bank and brokerage pass codes to investment advisers or get pulled into investment scams involving digital currencies, state securities regulators said.  The North American Securities Administrators Association said digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, offer consumers another way of paying for goods and services, but they also provide a ‘fertile ground for scam artists to capitalize on … (their) increasing popularity and acceptance.’  The association’s members include state and provincial regulators in the United States, Canada and Mexico.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-investing-risks-idUSBRE99E12V20131015

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Dutch Silk Road vendors ‘caught with a thick layer of MDMA in their hair’

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“The 24-year-old and 29-year-old were caught, ‘red-handed during the manufacturing of ecstasy in a container behind their home in Zetten. The suspects were arrested with a thick layer of MDMA powder in their hair,’ reports The Daily Dot.  Police found trays of MDMA powder, used stamps, cutting tools, and a tablet machine.  When going to their homes in the city of Arnhem they found ecstasy and MDMA worth 26,000 euros in one’s home, and drugs worth 80,000 euros in the other home.  The vendors went by the name XTC Express and they were extremely popular among Silk Road users. The 300mg pills were very potent and got great reviews from customers.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456758/Two-Dutch-Silk-Road-vendors-alias-XTC-Express-caught-red-handed-layer-MDMA-hair.html

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Undercover agents made over 100 Silk Road purchases, tested ‘high purity’

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“Since November 2011, law enforcement agents have made over 100 undercover purchases of illegal substances from Silk Road vendors, both from and shipped to the Southern District of New York, including heroin, ecstasy, and cocaine. The document states that their samples, which came from 10 different countries, ‘have been laboratory-tested and have typically shown high purity levels.’  At the time of Ulbricht’s arrest, there were 13,000 listings for controlled substances on Silk Road.  If you’d like to claim some of the bitcoins as your own, you can do that easily enough at the hearings. Good luck proving your transaction was one of the legal ones.”

http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-forfeiture-complaint-ulbricht/

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Russia to Grab Pension Money, Temporarily

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“Russia’s government is temporarily seizing $7.6 billion in savings from non-state pension funds while it carries out inspections, a move critics say looks like a ‘confiscation’ aimed at plugging a hole in next year’s state budget.  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told ministers Thursday that the government needs to check that the money Russians channel to private pension funds is safe. To do this, it will seize 244 billion rubles ($7.6 billion) from non-state pension funds and put them into the state pension fund.  Pension funds hold more than $100 billion in assets.  Government officials say they’ll just hold the money on the state pension fund’s books for a year while the checks are carried out.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/10/03/russia-to-grab-pension-money-temporarily/

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Obamacare’s broken website cost more than LinkedIn, Spotify combined

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“The site is so busted that, as of a couple days ago, the number of people that successfully purchased healthcare through it was in the ‘single digits,’ according to the Washington Post.  The reason for this nationwide headache apparently stems from poorly written code, which buckled under the heavy influx of traffic that its engineers and administrators should have seen coming. But the fact that Healthcare.gov can’t do the one job it was built to do isn’t the most infuriating part of this debacle – it’s that we, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $500 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock.”

http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost/

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Goodbye Silk Road, Hello Sheep Marketplace

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“The war on drugs is a costly game of cops and robbers. One illicit business is shut down, and a dozen more spring up. Instead of chasing after the administrators of online marketplaces, the authorities should check out the business model with a view to drug decriminalization. A rating system for buyers and sellers, similar to that operating on eBay, and the sterile, anonymous way in which goods and money change hands, would serve nicely to bring down street crime and the use of contaminated substances.  It is a fact of life that these substances are readily available anyway, only without any kind of quality assurance system and often in dangerous settings.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/goodbye-silk-road-hello-sheep-marketplace.html

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How the Silk Road Shutdown Makes Everyone Less Safe

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“It took someone named Dread Pirate Roberts to create a way for people to buy and sell illegal drugs without the threat of getting hurt and with little threat of getting ripped off. His deep website, Silk Road, was the eBay of the underworld until it was seized by the FBI last week. When the government shut down Silk Road, it kicked all its users back onto the streets, locking users out of the safest way anyone has ever devised for acquiring an illicit substance—whether a mind-altering substance or a not-yet-FDA-approved food or medication.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/how-the-silk-road-shutdown-makes-everyone-less-safe

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Georgia Police Kill Diabetic After Family Calls 911 Requesting Ambulance

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“On Friday afternoon, 43-year-old Jack Lamar Roberson was shot to death by Waycross police officers in front of his mother, fiancé and 8-year-old daughter.  Alicia Herron, Roberson’s fiancé and girlfriend of 10 years, says she called 911 to request an ambulance for Roberson out of concern for his diabetic condition. But police arrived at their home instead. Immediately after the shooting, around 100 people gathered in the neighborhood to express outrage at Roberson’s death, describing him as a devoted father, partner and son who never caused any trouble.”

http://raniakhalek.com/2013/10/08/georgia-police-kill-diabetic-black-man-after-family-calls-911-requesting-ambulance/

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Cops fatally shoot Texas homeowner who shot and killed intruder

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“Police fatally shot a Texas homeowner shortly after the man shot and killed an intruder Thursday night in an alley behind his home.  Neighbors said William Hall was reclusive and had recently received notices from the city about uncut grass and other code violations, reported The Dallas Morning News.  The suspected burglar, 30-year-old Jerry Hale, apparently believed the homeowner had died before he broke in Thursday night, police said.  Hall confronted the intruder, shot him and threatened to shoot him again as he stood over him in an alley behind the Far East Dallas home, investigators said. [..] Police said Hall disregarded orders to drop the weapon, and officers fatally shot him.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/01/cops-fatally-shoot-texas-homeowner-who-shot-and-killed-intruder/

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