Duplolas's News Network #1

[Duplolas 1]

So ive decided to start posting some articles that I have found on the internet recently every-so-often as a fun thing to do.

 

So here we go:

 

The Australian Government, led by Julia Gillard, is proposing changes to anti-discrimination laws that could spell the end of online video gaming in Australia.

 

Website Herald Sun is reporting that amendments to anti-discrimination legislation could make it illegal to — and I hope you’re sitting down for this one — call someone a name. If the changes made it into law, you could be taken to court and fined over calling someone a “Noob” in a game like Call of Duty.

 

It would also mean you would have to watch your mouth in public, even amongst friends. Calling someone “mate” — a staple in Australian vocabularies — could unwittingly offend someone, placing you in hot water with police.

 

The laws would also extend the racial vilification laws to cover things like age and sex, meaning calling someone “old” or a “misogynist” might be a ticket to the court room.

 

The new laws are being spearheaded by Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and the implications go far beyond our favorite pastime. If you found a shop assistant rude, you would be able to take him to court (and vise versa). If someone mentioned in passing that the party you voted for in the last election was a dumb decision, you would have grounds to sue.

 

It would be illegal in Australia to offend anyone, for any reason, willingly or not.

 

What a bleak, horrible future we live in.

 

Fag

 

I also have a second article:

 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing the use of marijuana.

 

“There is a tension between federal law and these state laws,” Holder said in response to questions after a speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. “I would expect the policy pronouncement that we’re going to make will be done relatively soon.”

 

Voters in Washington and Colorado on Nov. 6 approved ballot proposals legalizing possession of up to one ounce of marijuana.

 

 

And one more for the road:

 

Mexican smugglers used a pneumatic-powered cannon to propel cans packed with 85 pounds (38kg) of marijuana into the air and over a fence at the Mexican border near San Luis, Arizona, authorities said on Wednesday.

 

"We haven't seen this before," said Kyle Estes, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman. "We've seen catapults, but nothing like this. That's for sure."

 

He estimated the marijuana's value at $42,500.

 

The plot was foiled when U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered the 33 pot-filled cans last week before they could be picked up by smugglers in an area about 500 feet from the border fence, on the United States side, Estes said.

 

Agents searching the area about 200 miles southwest of Phoenix recovered a carbon dioxide tank used to propel objects from the cannon, he said.

 

Smugglers have become increasingly inventive in trying to move contraband into the U.S. in light of stepped up efforts to crack down on border smuggling, Estes said.

 

U.S. authorities have added more fencing, agents and technologies including unmanned surveillance drones to tighten security along Arizona's border with Mexico in recent years.

 

Drug traffickers have responded with a variety of ruses including strapping marijuana loads to low-flying microlight aircraft and hurling it over the border fence using medieval-style catapults.

 

No one was arrested in connection with the latest scheme.

 

THE FUNNY THING IS, THEY SAID THEY HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE BUT WITH CATAPULTS!

 

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