A motivational speaker has been found guilty over the deaths of three people who fell ill during a meeting at an Arizona sweat lodge
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A jury found James Ray guilty of three counts of negligent homicide
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
After the recent Vancouver riots, it became clear that the world is surveiling itself at an unprecedented scale. Angry citizens gave police one million photos and 1,000 hours of video footage to help them track down the rioters. If we aren’t living in a surveillance state run by the government, we’re certainly conducting a huge surveillance experiment on each other.
Which is what makes two new apps, CopRecorder and OpenWatch, and their Web component, OpenWatch.net, so interesting. They are the brainchildren of Rich Jones, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate who describes himself as pretty much a hacker to the core
. Flush with cash and time from a few successful forays into the app market, nine months ago Jones decided to devote some of his time to developing what he calls a global participatory counter-surveillance project which uses cellular phones as a way of monitoring authority figures
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A visiting American evangelist who claims healing powers has walked from a NSW court without even a fine despite driving 110km blind drunk and crashing into a parked car.
Self-claimed prophet of God
Jason Hooper — touring with Hillsong protege Ben Hughes — declared God had forgiven him for his double-shot whisky binge that ended in a mangled wreck on the Mid North Coast.
I’ve worked it out with the Lord. I was wrong,
Hooper told The Sunday Telegraph — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An underground bus terminal could solve the peak-hour logjam that turns one of the city’s major arteries into a commuter nightmare, says a leading authority on transport.
York Street in the Sydney city centre is the bane of bus commuters travelling from the city’s north, as it transforms into a single line of traffic moving at glacial pace.
Many frustrated passengers simply get off at Wynyard and walk towards Town Hall rather than sit in the traffic jam. There is such a backlog at the Queen Victoria Building that commuters boarding buses to suburbs including Balmain, Epping and Lane Cove are also delayed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A cornerstone
of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
Legal experts including Lord Ken Macdonald QC, a former director of public prosecutions, have expressed alarm at the proposal and questioned how it would work in practice — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The five-cent coin should be scrapped because it is too expensive to make and a nuisance, the Royal Australian Mint says. And the federal government is considering dumping it — via The Sydney Morning Herald
This 4 bedroom 3.5-bathroom unique beach home [Fuse Architecture] is the product of the client’s desires to reflect the personal lifestyles of their family. This property is located on a highly popular surf spot in Santa Cruz, CA, which is perfect for this active, surfing family of six. The design is perfectly suited to fuse together the distinctiveness of a modern home with the active beach vibe that encompasses the family — via ArchDaily
Police in Brandenburg who discovered a large plot of cannabis called on the neighbouring house only to find an 84-year-old woman who had been feeding her rabbits with the plants.
The rabbits really like it,
the woman told officers who called on her in the village of Golzow near Belzig — via cartooncat.newsvine.com
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