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Scientists: Legalize horn sales to save endangered rhinoceroses

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“Attempts to discourage the use of rhino horn have failed, the scientists said, and, without a legal avenue to obtain the ingredient, the black market has stepped in. ‘Rhino horn is now worth more than gold,’ the scientists noted, saying that a kilogram that cost $4,700 in 1993 would fetch around $65,000 in 2012. Poachers, enticed by the high price tag, have swarmed, and ‘poaching in South Africa has, on average, more than doubled each year over the past 5 years.’  They liken their proposal to the legal trade in farmed crocodile skins, which has saved the endangered reptiles from over-hunting. A similar proposal for the rhinoceros was rejected 20 years ago.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/28/scientists-legalize-horn-sales-to-save-endangered-rhinoceroses/

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The war on African poaching: is militarization doomed to fail?

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“Governments have given game rangers better weapons, engaged intelligence analysts, and put spotter planes, helicopters, and unmanned drones into the air. Some have deployed their national defense forces into national parks. Private wildlife custodians have spent millions on their own armed anti-poaching guards, sniffer dogs, mini-drones, and informants.  The continental-scale slaughter of rhinos and elephants continues to intensify, despite rising arrests and killings of poachers and increasing interdiction of illegal shipments of rhino horn and ivory.  Some drug policy experts liken the uphill battle against African poaching to the war on drugs, an extraordinarily expensive, bloody failure.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/13/the-war-on-african-poaching-is-militarization-doomed-to-fail/

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Thai airport officials linked to rhino poaching

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“Thai authorities said Tuesday they would seek arrest warrants for three police officers allegedly involved in trafficking rhino horn through Bangkok’s main airport.  The horn was brought into Suvarnabhumi Airport in January by Vietnamese migrant workers paid $500 per trip, said Narasak Hemnithi, commander of the Natural Resources Environmental Crime Division. ‘After arriving in Bangkok they were asked to put the rhino horn on a trolley and leave it somewhere nobody could see and then police would come and collect it,’ he told AFP. ‘We have evidence, especially closed circuit television footage,’ he added.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/05/thai-airport-officials-linked-to-rhino-trade/

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Wildlife trafficker kills 5 crocodiles, 90 rare birds as police descend on his compound

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“Five dead crocodiles, 14 critically endangered turtles and a cache of other rare species have been found in the home of a suspected wildlife trader in one of the Philippines’ biggest slums, the government said Friday.  The juvenile saltwater crocodiles, as well as 90 birds, were killed by the trader or his aides shortly before police and environment officials raided the place Wednesday, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said. He denounced the unnamed suspects’ ‘cruelty’. ‘What’s particularly alarming about this poaching incident is that there were reports that most of these endangered animals were intentionally killed to avoid detection by authorities,’ Paje said in a statement.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/05/endanger-species-trafficker-kills-5-crocodiles-90-rare-birds-as-police-descend-on-his-compound/

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Firm says online gambling accounts for almost half of all Bitcoin transactions

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“It’s no secret that online gambling has been lucrative for a few pioneering companies. Even though it’s been illegal in the US since 2006, companies have made relatively large sums serving customers who are either placing bets outside the US, through a VPN, or by simply sending a Bitcoin amount to a fixed address corresponding to a “game” which will return a player’s money with various probabilities.  One of the biggest Bitcoin gambling sites, SatoshiDice, stays on the up-and-up with US regulators by blocking IP addresses coming to its site from the US, but in January 2013 it reported ฿33,310 in profits in 2012, which at the time reflected $596,231 (although today it would reflect much more).”

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/firm-says-online-gambling-accounts-for-almost-half-of-all-bitcoin-transactions/

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Bitcoin – The Digital Black Market: Anonymous and Uncensored

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Bitcoin – The Digital Black Market: Anonymous and Uncensored

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Thanks shallot! Indian police foil onion heist

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“Indian police have foiled a bid by robbers to make off with a truck laden with onions, in an unusual crime apparently motivated by rocketing prices of the staple food.  The humble root vegetable, an essential ingredient in Indian cooking, has a surprisingly weighty track record of political influence. In 1980, Indira Gandhi exploited rising onion prices to storm back to power, appearing at campaign rallies waving huge strings of them with the message that a government that can not control onion costs has no right to govern. And in 1998, a six-fold surge in the cost of onions was held partly responsible for the electoral defeat of the ruling Delhi state government.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/21/thanks-shallot-indian-police-foil-onion-heist/

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NYPD: Largest-ever gun seizure by an undercover cop was thanks to ‘stop and frisk’

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“The Commissioner was also quick to claim that, despite the undercover officers’ involvement and all other apparent evidence to the contrary, the seizure points to success of the ‘stop and frisk’ policy. Kelly’s claim rests on a wiretap of one of the accused, Eddie Campbell, who is heard to say that he prefers not to come to New York because of the stop-and-frisk policy: ‘I’m in Brownsville,’ Kelly quoted Campbell as saying. ‘We got like, umm, uh, whatchamacallit, stop and frisk.’ Campbell is accused of selling 90 guns during 24 meetings with the unnamed detective. Another alleged dealer, Walter Walker, is said to have sold him another 116 guns.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/19/nycs-police-chief-largest-ever-gun-seizure-by-an-undercover-cop-was-really-because-of-stop-and-frisk/

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Man finds 300 pounds of marijuana stashed in gun safe he bought on the Internet

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“The 1,000-pound steel safe, ordered from Champion Safe Co. of Provo, Utah, was made in Nogales, Mexico, and shipped by truck from Mexico to Champion’s warehouse near Mansfield, Ohio, Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart said. The safe was delivered on June 19 to the customer in western Ohio by an independent driver working for Champion, Lenhart said. The marijuana, tightly wrapped in 10, 28-pound packages, has an estimated street value of $420,000, according to Lenhart. He said the truck’s shipment contained 25 to 30 safes, and that all the others were free of drugs.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/18/ohio-man-finds-300-pound-load-of-marijuana-stashed-in-gun-safe-he-bought-on-the-internet/

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Bitcoin is Reinventing The Monetary System

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Bitcoin is Reinventing The Monetary System

“‘We’re talking about reinventing the world’s monetary system…from the ground up,’ says Jeffrey Tucker, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books, and an enthusiastic proponent of the open source peer-to-peer currency system Bitcoin. After participating in a panel discussion on Bitcoin at Freedom Fest, Tucker sat down with Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch to explain why he believes Bitcoin is an example of a new enterprise that can help create ‘a new world of liberty, despite the existence of the leviathan state.'”

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