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Pirate Party of Finland May End Up In Court For Collecting Too Many Bitcoins | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine March 27, 2015 October 19, 2020

Pirate Party of Finland May End Up In Court For Collecting Too Many Bitcoins March 27, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News To fund their election campaign Pirate Party Finland (PPFI) is accepting bitcoins. Finnish law states that you are allowed to collect up to 1,500 Euros annually in anonymous donations. Since there is no precedent on bitcoin donations and it’s not recognized as a currency in Finland, the police have informed the party that “they have little idea on how bitcoin donations should be handled”. The press spokesperson, Jonna Purojärvi, confirm that they have already reached over 1,500 Euros in anonymous bitcoin donations. This means that …

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Pirate Party Of Portugal Is Rising To Activity Again | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine March 25, 2015 October 19, 2020

Pirate Party of Portugal is Rising to Activity Again March 25, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Europe, Pirate Party News The Portuguese Pirate Party (PPPT) has not been very active lately but now it seems they are ready to get active again. Last week, on 14 March, the Portuguese Pirate Party Movement revealed their tough and long work on their party infrastructure. They released a new website with everything gathered to be easily accessible (forum, working groups, opinion texts etc). This re-organization was launched on 14 March 2015 (3.1415) as a symbolic gesture for “π as in Pirate”. PPPT are not yet able to obtain enough signatures to become …

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Israeli Pirates Protest Against Election, Reaches 981 Votes | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine March 25, 2015 October 19, 2020

Israeli Pirates Protest Against Election, Reaches 981 votes March 28, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News Traditionally Israel has had numerous different parties participating in their elections (in 2013 there were 32). This made the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) raise the threshold from 2% to 3.25% a year ago. In December 2014 the government was dissolved and called for new elections on 17 March 2015. The new limits didn’t deter that many parties from participating, 25 political parties ran for these 2015 elections. PPIL took part in the elections but only as a protest against the political system and the increase of the threshold. Their campaign video …

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Expensive Election Campaign? Crazy Video: Priceless | PirateTimes

Josef Ohlsson Collentine March 24, 2015 October 19, 2020

Expensive Election Campaign? Crazy Video: Priceless March 24, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Interview On the 19th of April Finland will hold their National Elections. To help the Finnish population make up their mind the nationalTV station ‘Yle’ created an election compass and made an interview with every candidate in the election. They interviewed 1,826 candidates where each candidate was given four minutes to explain their politics and ideas. The video clips from all candidates can be watched in their video-gallery. In earlier elections the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) gave several warnings to Finland for not being democratically fair towards smaller parties. Finnish media usually …

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Limiting Liberty: How Governments Capitalize on Tragedy | PirateTimes

Morgan Pevonka-Thompson March 23, 2015 January 13, 2021

Limiting Liberty: How Governments Capitalize on Tragedy March 23, 2015 · by Morgan Pevonka-Thompson · in Uncategorized Around the world, tragedy has been capitalized upon in order to curtail civil liberties. From the attacks on 9/11, the London Metro bombings, to shooting incidents like the George Zimmermann case and the Sandy Hook shooting. Mass media and legislators have attempted to use appeals to emotion in order to curtail civil liberties. In this text I will focus mostly on freedoms and the situation in the US but the situation is similar around the world. One recent example being the “gag law” that is very close to being enacted in Spain. For …

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