America’s Quality Pot Is Changing the Drug War

With weed now permitted in some form in 23 U.S. states, the flow of cannabis out of Mexico has slowed and, to a degree, reversed

Από τα coffee shops στα social clubs και όχι μόνο. Τί κάνουν αλλιώς οι χώρες που πρωτοστατούν στη νομιμοποίηση της κάνναβης.

Πριν από μια 15ετία η Ολλανδία ήταν η χώρα προς την οποία έδειχναν όλοι όταν ήθελαν να αναφερθούν στη νομιμοποίηση της κάνναβης/μαριχουάνα. Από τότε όμως έχουν αλλάξει πολλά, καθώς ο αριθμός των χωρών στην Ευρώπη αλλά και στην άλλη πλευρά του Ατλαντικού, που άλλαξαν τις πολιτικές αυξάνουν και οι νέες πολιτικές που έχουν υιοθετηθεί κινούνται σε έναν ευρύ άξονα που ξεκινά από την απλή αποποινικοποίηση της χρήσης για ιατρικούς ή/και ψυχαγωγικούς λόγους και μπορεί να φτάνει ως και την πλήρη νομιμοποίηση καλλιέργειας, διάθεσης κλπ, πάντα βέβαια υπό όρους και προϋποθέσεις.

Το σημείο καμπής όμως, για την αλλαγή αυτών των πολιτικών, ήταν κυρίως για τις ΗΠΑ που πλέον ηγούνται του κινήματος για τη νομιμοποίηση της κάνναβης, «αποτυχία στον πόλεμο κατά των ναρκωτικών» και η ανάγκη να συζητηθούν και να υιοθετηθούν εναλλακτικές πολιτικές. Ακόμη και ο ΓΓ του ΟΗΕ, Μπαν γι Μουν- όπως και ο προκάτοχός του Κόφι Άναν- στηρίζει το έργο τηςΠαγκόσμιας Επιτροπής για τα Ναρκωτικά η οποία κάνει ανοιχτά λόγο για την αποτυχία σε αυτό τον «πόλεμο» και τρέχει καμπάνια και αναζήτησης νέων προσεγγίσεων στο θέμα.

To δε video-animation (σε μορφή παραμυθιού και με πρωταγωνιστή τον...δράκο Drugo) της Επιτροπής εξηγεί με τον πιο απλό τρόπο αυτή την αποτυχία και περνά το μήνυμα για τη νέα προσέγγιση που απαιτείται στο θέμα.

To Pirate Bay σπάει πλάκα με τους ISPs

Στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο τα βρήκαν... σκούρα οι πάροχοι με την νέα τεχνολογία του The Pirate Bay.

Αρκετοί πάροχοι σε πολλές χώρες θέλουν να μπλοκάρουν την πρόσβαση των χρηστών Internet προς το The Pirate Bay, σε μία προσπάθεια καταπολέμησης τηςπειρατείας.

Μετά το προσωρινό κλείσιμο από την Αστυνομία της Σουηδίας τον περασμένο Δεκέμβριο, το site επανήλθε.

2nd International Tattoo Convention CY 3,4,5 April 2015 (Video Teaser)

CYPRUS INT. TATTOO CONVENTION // 3-4-5 APRIL 2015 from CYPRUS Int. TATTOO Conv. on Vimeo.

Se7en Photography tricks You Didn't know your Smartphone can do

Just when you thought you needed to purchase external devices such as fisheye lens or tripods, now, there’s an alternative solution! In this video, the guys at COOPH demonstrate some creative smartphone photography tips and tricks that you can do with your iPhone 5S.



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Lemon & Baking Soda – This Combination Could Save Lives

The combination of lemon and baking soda has 10,000 times stronger effect than chemotherapy! Why was this fact kept as a secret? Being totally aware of the powerful properties lemon provides is completely opposite to the interest some world organisations have. For that reason, we recommend you share this article and help a friend who needs it!

Do you have any idea what’s the recent number of deaths caused by the fact that this is being kept secret, in order to protect large corporations?

Τρεις “κρυμμένες” λειτουργίες του VLC Player που δεν ξέρατε και θα σας λύσουν τα χέρια

Ο VLC είναι ίσως ο δημοφιλέστερος media player για τα περισσότερα desktop λειτουργικά συστήματα, ενώ διαθέτει και εκδόσεις για Android και iOS φορητές συσκευές. Ο VLC ξεκίνησε από το Linux ως ένας media player με δυνατότητα streaming και αναπαραγωγή media υλικού μέσα από LAN δίκτυο (άλλωστε VLC σημαίνει Video LAN client), αλλά έγινε σύντομα δημοφιλής και στα Windows, κυρίως επειδή μπορούσε να αναπαράγει τους περισσότερους τύπους αρχείων, λόγω των ενσωματώμενων codecs.

Επίσης, ήταν από τους πρώτους media players που υποστήριζαν τα αρχεία υποτίτλων.

Αυτό όμως που οι περισσότεροι δε γνωρίζουν, είναι ότι το VLC έχει αρκετές επιπλέον δυνατότητες, τις οποίες και θα παρουσιάσουμε παρακάτω.

'Google grown big and bad': Assange reveals company and its founder's links to US govt

One of the world's largest internet companies, Google 'should be a serious concern' internationally, WikiLeaks co-founder and Editor-in-chief Julian Assange says, revealing its connections and donations to the White House.

"Google is steadily becoming the Internet for many people. Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history," Assange writes in his article, an extract from which is published in Newsweek.

Based on Assange's personal encounter with Google's chairman Eric Schmidt, the story of the corporation's connections with the US government is intertwined with Schmidt's personality.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Reuters / Hannibal)

Graduating with a degree in engineering from Princeton, Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems, a company that sold computers and software, in 1983, and over the years had become part of its executive leadership.

"Sun had significant contracts with the US government, but it was not until he was in Utah as CEO of Novell that records show Schmidt strategically engaging Washington’s overt political class," Assange writes.

Referring to federal campaign finance records, Assange says "two lots of $1,000" to a Utah senator in 1999 was the future Google CEO’s first donation, with "over a dozen other politicians and PACs, including Al Gore, George W. Bush, Dianne Feinstein, and Hillary Clinton...on the Schmidt’s payroll" in the following years.

Ahead of his interview with Google executive chairman in 2011, Assange was "too eager to see a politically unambitious Silicon Valley engineer, a relic of the good old days of computer science graduate culture on the West Coast," but says Schmidt "who pays regular visits to the White House" is not the type.

When visiting Assange, who was living under house arrest in England at the time, to quiz him "on the organizational and technological underpinnings of WikiLeaks," Eric Schmidt was accompanied by Jared Cohen, the Director of Google Ideas, who also works for the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank specializing in US foreign policy.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Reuters / Suzanne Plunkett)

While describing Schmidt's politics as "surprisingly conventional, even banal," Assange says the man behind Google "was at his best when he was speaking (perhaps without realizing it) as an engineer."

Talking about Cohen, the WikiLeaks co-founder names him "Google’s director of regime change."

According to Assange's research, "he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East," including his interference with US politics in Afghanistan and Lebanon.

"Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has," Assange says, providing not only data on its direct connections with the White House, but also remembering the PRISM program scandal, when the company was "caught red-handed making petabytes of personal data available to the US intelligence community."

Google is "luring people into its services trap," and "if the future of the Internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world," Assange concludes.

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The Culture High

Journeying across the North American landscape, The Culture High is the riveting story that tears into the very fiber of modern day marijuana prohibition to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and oppose the existing pot laws.

With budgets to fight the war reaching billions and arrests for simple possession sky rocketing to nearly a million annually, the debate over marijuana’s legality has reached epic proportions. Utilizing the quirky yet profound nature of its predecessor, The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, The Culture High raises the stakes with some of todays biggest names, unprecedented access to footage previously unobtainable, and incredibly moving testimonials from both sides of the spectrum. 

Top celebrities, former undercover agents, university professors and a slew of unforgettable characters from all points of view come together for an amusing yet insightful portrait of cannabis prohibition and the grasp it has on society as a whole. The Culture High will strip search the oddity of human nature and dare to ask the question: 
What exactly is going on here?

FED UP

Everything we've been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. FED UP is the film the food industry doesn't want you to see. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.




Website: http://fedupmovie.com/
Fed up in facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FedUpMovie
Download the documentary HERE

Libération: "Μαστουρώστε υπεύθυνα"

Η εφημερίδα παίρνει θέση υπέρ της απελευθέρωσης, με αφορμή έρευνα 

«Αφιερωμένη» στα ναρκωτικά είναι η σημερινή έκδοση της γαλλικής εφημερίδας Liberation, η οποία προκαλεί με τον τίτλο της «Droguez-vous avec modération»- " "Μαστουρώστε υπεύθυνα". Η εφημερίδα παίρνει θέση υπέρ της απελευθέρωσης των ναρκωτικών, με αφορμή έρευνα γύρω από το ζήτημα. Στο κύριο άρθρο του, ο αναπληρωτής εκδότης της Libération υποστηρίζει ότι το κατασταλτικό κλίμα γύρω από τα ναρκωτικά αποτρέπει κάθε συζήτηση γύρω από τη χρήση και πως η ορθολογική χρήση κάνει καλό, κάτι που συμπεραίνει η έρευνα.

Παράξενες μικρές εφευρέσεις

Μπορεί κάποιες να τις βρείτε χρήσιμες. Δεν είναι η ανακάλυψη του τροχού αλλά σίγουρα είναι παράξενες και με ιδιαίτερο σχεδιασμό.

Just Looks Like A Man Walking Around In the Snow. It's Definitely Not What It looks Like...

'Aliens could share more tech with us, if we warmonger less' - Former Canada Defense Minister

He was Canadian minister of Defense in 1960s, ruling over the country's armed forces during the time of the Cold War -- and when he retired he publicly stated that we are not alone in the universe, and some guests from outer space actually live here, on planet Earth. Is this fantasy? Is someone actually watching us? Today we ask the man who says UFOs are a serious business -- Paul Hellyer.

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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

― Henry David Thoreau

What if money was no object?

British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915-1973), author of the cult-classic The Way of Zen, played a key role in popularizing Eastern philosophy in the West, like John Cage had done, in the middle of the 20th century.

In this short video, a fine complement to this omnibus of wisdom on how to find your purpose and do what you love, Watts asks the seemingly simple question of what you would do if money were no object:

“So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it’s so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say ‘Well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers’ But as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way! Another person says ‘Well I’d like to live an out-of-door’s life and ride horses.’ I said ‘You wanna teach in a riding school?’

Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him ‘You do that! And forget the money!’ Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living – that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of which you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing – it doesn’t really matter what it is – you can eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you’ll find others who are.

But it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like in order to go on spending things you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it’s all retch and no vomit – it never gets there! And so therefore it’s so important to consider this question:

What do I desire?” – Alan Watts

The Extended Mind

We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and all sensory clues are eliminated.

And people’s intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. The most common kind of non-local mental interaction occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring.

Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results. Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones, enabling widespread participation.

How Facebook and Google censure your reality

Freedom of speech – your reality

Freedom of speech is recognized as a human right by most developed countries, but its application remains completely theoretical. In the world we live in, it is not the best political, scientific or artistic ideas that become popular, but instead those that are most profitable. An enormous propaganda machine controls most of the information that people have access to. Public opinion and taste is being carefully shaped by the ruling elite in the attempt to create a population of obedient slaves that don’t have the mental capacity to challenge their rule.

There is no freedom of speech, and without it, there is no democracy. We are all born with the indisputable power of expressing ourselves. Evolution gave us the enormous potential by allowing us to share ideas and complex or abstract concepts. This natural gift brought us all the cultural and technological development throughout history.

Today we have developed incredible means of communications that allow us to instantly share ideas with people around the globe. Information has no real limits, and if it wasn’t for the serious efforts by corporations and oppressive governments to restrain it, we would live in a world where arts, technologies and science would thrive and push humanity back into balance and abundance.

Source | PieceFit

We’re facing mass extinction – Last Hours

Last Hours is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.

Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.

An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers associated with climate change.

Το βενζινάδικο του μέλλοντος!

Ίσως μάλιστα όχι του πολύ μακρινού μέλλοντος. Τότε που στα αυτοκίνητά μας δεν θα βάζουμε βενζίνη αλλά απλά θα τα φορτίζουμε. Αν και τα ηλεκτρικά αυτοκίνητα είναι πραγματικότητα η έλλειψη υποδομών για τη λειτουργία τους είναι ένα βασικό πρόβλημα στην παγκόσμια υιοθέτηση των ηλεκτροκίνητων αυτοκινήτων.

Στη διαδιακσία για την ανεύρεση πρακτικών λύσεων η Honda has παρουσίασε τα πλάνα της για τη δημιουργία σταθμών φόρτισης σε πραγματικό περιβάλλον αστικών κέντρων, προκειμένου να πραγματοποιήσει ευρείες δοκιμές. Οι σταθμοί θα παράγουν την απαιτούμενη ενέργεια από ηλιακούς συλλέκτες δυμιουργώντας έναν πλήρη κύκλο παραγωγής και κατανάλωσης καθαρής ενέργειας.

Το πρ’ογραμμα θα ξεκινήσει στις ιαπωνικές πόλεις Saitama, Kumagaya και Chichibu, με σκοπό να πετύχει την “Ολική Διαχείριση Ενέργειας.”