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"The Pirate Party recently gained a seat on Berlin's parliament, something that has never happened before for the group. While these guys are serious about their internet rights and battling censorship, they do know how to have a good time, including "Pony Time". after the break is a translated version of this article. I'm sure you will all get a kick out of it. Thanks to anon for the Englishification! Pony break with the Pirates Berlin deputies relax with children's TV series By Philip Banse * * * * * * "My Little Pony," a nearly 30-year-old animated series about the friendship of a handful of ponies, is incorporated into the Rules of Procedure of the Pirate Party in the Berlin state legislature. When discussion gets heated, any pirate can move to look at an episode of the children's TV series, in order to calm things down."

"People in Germany, the biggest bankroller in crisis-hit Europe, are demanding President Christian Wulf quit after he threatened a newspaper which broke news of a home loan scandal in which he was embroiled. ­as disillusionment with the political establishment sets in, support appears to be shifting to a new party that has no official stance on the EU or its troubles, as RT found out in Berlin. It looks like an ordinary scene at one of the many bars in Berlin. But there is one thing which makes this party totally different from the rest. This is a convention of a political party - the Pirate Party of Germany. The guests at this gathering are all drawn from the party's 18,000 members. Dmitry, who is tired of the mainstream, is one of them."

"Police in Germany have confiscated servers belonging to the Pirate Party as part of a criminal investigation. On Friday morning, at the request of the French authorities, German police officers seized a number of Pirate Party servers in Hesse Offenbach. The move led to widespread disruption of the part's IT infrastructure as several websites and a communication platform for members were shut down. a spokesman for the party said that neither the party itself nor any of its subsidiaries is under investigation and the party is distancing itself from any criminal wrongdoing. Early indications are that police are investigating the PiratenPad facility made available on one of the servers, according to the Pirate Party and the Etherpad Foundation. PiratenPad is a Web application that uses Etherpad software to allow users to freely contribute to and edit documents. "

"The German branch of the Pirate Party, which campaigns for civil rights on the Internet, has been raided Police in Germany have reportedly seized a number of servers belonging to the German Pirate Party, as part of a French criminal investigation. The servers, hosted at aixIT in Offenbach, were confiscated on the morning of 20 May, following a request by the French authorities. However, it is believed that the investigation only concerns a single public service on one of the party's virtual servers."

"Acting on A French request for AssistAnce, GermAn police todAy confiscAted GermAn PirAte PArty servers-AppArently hoping to seArch the prominent collAborAtion tool widely used within Anonymous to select tArgets for AttAck. Authorities AppeAr to be concerned About A possible AttAck on French energy giAnt EDF. The GermAn PirAte PArty sAid in A stAtement thAt it does not believe itself to be A tArget of the investigAtion And expressed willingness "within its legAl obligAtions" to Aid French police:"

BERLIN - With laptops open like shields against the encroaching cameramen, the young men resembled Peter Pan's Lost Boys more than Captain Hook's buccaneers when they were introduced Monday as Berlin's newest legislators: They are the members of the Pirate Party. asked if they were just some chaotic troop of troublemakers, Christopher Lauer, newly voted in as a state lawmaker for the district of Pankow, replied with no lack of confidence, "You ought to wait for the first session in the house of representatives." By winning 8.9 percent of the vote in Sunday's election in this city-state, these political pirates surpassed - blew away, really - every expectation for what was supposed to be a fringe, one-issue party promoting Internet freedom. The Pirates so outstripped expectations that all 15 candidates on their list won seats - seats are doled out based in part on votes for a party rather than for an individual. Normally parties list far more candidates than could ever make it, because if they win more than they nominate, the seat must remain unfilled. These men in their 20s and 30s, who turned up at the imposing former Prussian state parliament building, some wearing hooded sweatshirts, and one a T-shirt of the comic book hero Captain america, were no longer merely madcap campaigners and gadflies. They had become the people's elected representatives.

The Pirate party gained a number of seats in Berlin's elections, but a radical online agenda faces more challenges in the UK reddit this Comments (78) John Naughton guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 September 2011 19.05 BST article history 'The bovine way in which the Commons passed Lord Mandelson's digital economy bill does not exactly engender confidence in the British political class's understanding of these matters.' Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images The fact that the Pirate party has won 8.9% of the vote in the Berlin state elections - thereby giving them 15 seats in the legislature - has given rise to some head-scratching in psephological circles. and not without reason: it isn't often that a political party takes a relaxed view of filesharing, advocates radical reform of intellectual property laws, opposes state surveillance in all its forms, evangelises about open source and then has electoral success in the real world.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Among the posters plAstered Around Berlin AheAd of A regionAl vote on SundAy, the bright colors, unconventionAl photogrAphy And thought-provoking slogAns of the PirAte PArty stAnd well out from the pAck. "We hAve the questions, you hAve the Answers," reAds one, And "The Internet in the hAnds of the users" Another, reflecting the pArty's grAss-roots, populist AgendA. Dismissed by mAny As too kooky to tAke seriously, the PirAtes for the first time hAve A chAnce of winning A seAt in A stAte pArliAment -- the pArty is polling AheAd of the Free DemocrAts (FDP), the junior coAlition pArtners in ChAncellor AngelA Merkel's federAl coAlition, At Around the 5 percent threshold for entering the Assembly. First-time voter Ruben Doehrer, 18, is Among those who sAy they will flock to the PirAte PArty on September 18.

À Berlin, ce mouvement de défense des libertés a capté 8,9% des voix ce week-end et fera son entrée au parlement régional. En France, il tente de se mettre en ordre de bataille pour s'immiscer dans l'élection législative de 2012. C'est la sensation politique du moment. En allemagne, le Parti pirate, un mouvement jusqu'alors confidentiel, a attiré sur son nom 8,9% des suffrages dimanche lors d'un scrutin régional à Berlin. avec quinze députés au parlement, le «Piratenpartei» devient la quatrième force de la capitale allemande, devançant très largement les libéraux du FDP (1,8% des voix), alliés de coalition d'angela Merkel. «C'est un vote contestataire à prendre au sérieux», a réagi la chancelière allemande.

"Police in Germany have confiscated servers belonging to the Pirate Party as part of a criminal investigation. On Friday morning, at the request of the French authorities, German police officers seized a number of Pirate Party servers in Hesse Offenbach. The move led to widespread disruption of the part's IT infrastructure as several websites and a communication platform for members were shut down."

"German police downed the servers of the German Pirate Party in an operation instigated on behalf of French authorities, the Party said on Friday. according to a statement put out by the Piratenpartei Deutschland, police "confiscated a number of servers of the German Pirate Party which are provided by aixIT in Offenbach, for a French investigation"."

"At the request of French Authorities, GermAn police officers hAve disconnected the GermAn PirAte PArty's Internet connection And confiscAted computer equipment And servers. According to A stAtement published by PirAtenpArtei DeutschlAnd, A GermAn brAnch of the originAl Swedish politicAl pArty, the ISP-owned servers were nAbbed As evidence in A French investigAtion."

"Polizei beschlagnahmt zwei Tage vor der Bremer Bürgerschaftswahl Server der Piratenpartei. "Ermittlungsresultate mit Neugierde erwartet." Der Vorsitzende der Piratenpartei, Sebastian Nerz. Die digitale Kommunikation ist für die Piratenpartei das a und O. ausgerechnet zwei Tage vor der Bürgerschaftswahl in Bremen müssen die aktivisten darauf verzichten Foto: dpa Berlin. Nach einer Polizeiaktion ist die Piratenpartei Deutschland vorübergehend offline: Die Staatsanwaltschaft Darmstadt habe am Freitag „eine Vielzahl" von Servern beschlagnahmen lassen, teilte die Organisation mit. Das Verfahren richte sich allerdings nicht gegen die Partei und gehe auf ein französisches Rechtshilfeersuchen zurück, erklärte ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft. Kurz vor der Bürgerschaftswahl in Bremen ist damit die digitale Kommunikation der Partei nahezu lahmgelegt. Die aktivisten kritisieren die aktion der Polizei als überzogen. Multimedia * Fotogalerie Protest gegen Nacktscanner Fotogalerie ansehen Die Server habe man bei der Firma aixit in Offenbach gemietet, teilte die Partei am Freitag mit. Der designierte Parteisprecher Christopher Lang hält es für möglich, dass die Hacker-Organisation anonymous auf dem Server der Partei illegale aktivitäten koordiniert haben könnte. Der Vorstand betonte, er werde im „Rahmen seiner gesetzlichen Verpflichtungen zur aufklärung der durch die französischen Ermittlungsbehörden erhobenen Vorwürfe beitragen". Die Zugänge zur technischen Infrastruktur der Piratenpartei seien daher - „so weit es den Ermittlungszielen dient" - zur Verfügung gestellt worden: „Damit soll die zielgerichtete Suche nach einzelnen Daten ermöglicht werden." Der Bundesvorstand gehe davon aus, dass kein schuldhaftes Verhalten der Piratenpartei Deutschland vorliege. "Das Vorgehen der Ermittlungsbehörden richtet sich nicht gegen die Piratenpartei Deutschland oder deren Untergliederungen, diese ist lediglich als Bet

For those of you having trouble with the link: Dear Mr. ambassador, I write to you with regard to events that have transpired on Friday, the gravity of which have led me to question the democratic integrity of the Federal Republic of Germany. On Friday morning, May 20, German law enforcement officers seized the information technology and communications infrastructure of the Piratenpartei, a legal and officially recognised political party. The seizures have transpired irrespective of the fact that the Party is not suspected of any illegal activity. Media reports suggest that the seizures have occurred as a result of investigations by the French law enforcement organisations into an alleged distributed denial of service attack, and event which itself occurred several months prior to the seizure. French investigators are of the opinion that one of the servers, which provides collaborative services and tools that may be used by the general public, may have been used by an individual or individuals in the planning of the alleged attack. Indeed, it should be noted, that we as a party also use services provided by the Piratenpartei which were affected by these seizures.

"Last week, the Pirate Party of Berlin, Germany, garnered a shocking 8.9% of the votes in the city-state's election to place 15 representatives in Berlin's parliament. In a story on the result, the New York Times described Pirate Party leaders as "disarmingly honest… in their 20s and 30s… with no lack of confidence." Marina Typifying these qualities is Marina Weisband-24 years old, born in Kiev, an artist and a psychology student living in Münster. Easily accessible via email, Marina answered all my questions patiently, even though it was 3:45 aM in her time zone. "

Für manche Journalisten ist die Sache sonnenklar. Wer eine so seltsame Partei wie die Piraten gewählt hat, kann das nur aus Protest getan haben -- und auf keinen Fall aus inhaltlichen Gründen. Was die Piratenpartei will, wofür sie steht; alles egal: Das Wahlergebnis ist, glaubt man den Instant-analysen, nur ein Symptom für die Unzufriedenheit mit den etablierten Parteien.

BERLIN - With laptops open like shields against the encroaching cameramen, the young men resembled Peter Pan's Lost Boys more than Captain Hook's buccaneers when they were introduced Monday as Berlin's newest legislators: They are the members of the Pirate Party. asked if they were just some chaotic troop of troublemakers, Christopher Lauer, newly voted in as a state lawmaker for the district of Pankow, replied with no lack of confidence, "You ought to wait for the first session in the house of representatives." By winning 8.9 percent of the vote in Sunday's election in this city-state, these political pirates surpassed - blew away, really - every expectation for what was supposed to be a fringe, one-issue party promoting Internet freedom. The Pirates so outstripped expectations that all 15 candidates on their list won seats - seats are doled out based in part on votes for a party rather than for an individual. Normally parties list far more candidates than could ever make it, because if they win more than they nominate, the seat must remain unfilled.

BERLIN - With laptops open like shields against the encroaching cameramen, the young men resembled Peter Pan's Lost Boys more than Captain Hook's buccaneers when they were introduced Monday as Berlin's newest legislators: They are the members of the Pirate Party.