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Geopolitics and internet Mark,You must have in mind some things:a) Technology is not neutral and thats no difference in Digital Technology and Internet b) Merchant Order and Cities, putting things on a historical perspective in geopolitical termsMerchant Order and CitiesBruge ---- the central rudder stockVenice ---- the caravelAntwerp ---- printingGenoa ----- accountingAmsterdam --- the fluytLondon --- the steam engineBoston ---- the piston engineNew York --- the electric engineLos Angeles --- the microchipc) Second about the shift of paradigm in the order city to still maintain geopolitical controlXX XXIOncle Sam Oncle GoogleHolywood, California , USA Silicon Valley, California, USASimulation and Representation Industry Simulation and Programming Industry d) how the geopolitical control is related to enterprises each one dominating one field related to the geopolitical control and the digital conditionFacebook ---- network controlLinkedin ---- professional controlGoogle ------ search controlApple -------- creative controlAmazon ------- publishers controlMicrosoft ---- enterprises controlICANN --------- traffic controlIntel --------- speed controlLinux --------- open source controlWe can go on talking about telecom tech, financing and stockchanges softwares systems (FINAZISM), sattelite tech and many morerelated to the digital technologies and the Internet. STUPID is disconsider history and not know that history is repeating itself. And there is people that thinks they are free ... Duda Valle
RE: <nettime> Geopolitics and Internet "Jernej Amon Prodnik" <jernej.prodnik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>RE: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and Internet Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -From: "Jernej Amon Prodnik" <jernej.prodnik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:04:02 +0100It's still interesting to read something as stupid as calling Wallersteinstupid (most of all, stupid because he doesn't consider the Internet and thecomplete and radical change it supposedly brought about, lol).A nice summary that, Eduardo.Jernej -----Original Message----- From: nettime-l-bounces-E4ExXAXZP6aEi8DpZVb4nw< at >public.gmane.org [mailto:nettime-l-bounces-E4ExXAXZP6aEi8DpZVb4nw< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Valle Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:55 AM To: nettime-l-E4ExXAXZP6aEi8DpZVb4nw< at >public.gmane.org Subject: <nettime> Geopolitics and Internet Geopolitics and internet Mark, You must have in mind some things:<...>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:04:16 -0500 (EST)Subject: Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDuda: Yes, a few things . . . <g> ALL technology has a *bias* (particularly, starting with language) --which does not mean that those who "use" the technology understand whatthis BIAS might be, since few people (even today) think in terms oftechnological environments or the ways that they shape and define ourbehaviors and attitudes. Yes, Plato was concerned that alphabetic writing would radically change thehuman capacity to REMEMBER and he was correct! But how many on this list,including the "fans"of the Pre-Socratics, have read Eric Havelock's "Preface to Plato"? It's important the list of technologies you cite ends with the "New York --electric engine" (i.e. Edison and Tesla) and "Los Angeles -- the microchip"(although, this was actually "Silicon Valley," not LA, while noting thatthe "customer" was the post-Sputnik "space race," including bothcommunications satellites and ICBMs, which was certainly centered inSoCal, w/ Lockheed et al.) So, what are the BIASES of *electricity* and *silicon* and what did theyPROVOKE in *cultural* terms? What happens to people when they startlaunching satellites into orbit? How does this change our perception ofwhat it means to be "global"? Without "answers" to these questions (or for that matter, without evenunderstanding the importance of the questions), you will spend a lot oftime running in circles chasing your own tail and never really getanywhere -- burdened with the *biases* of earlier technologies! Google was an offshoot of the NSA -- based on the intelligence community'sneed for a "database" that could deal with an unlimited amount of"unstructured" data (i.e. they paid for the development of Big Table)followed by the impulse to be able to "watch" the real-time stream of*here comes everyone* "questions. But that doesn't mean that "Uncle Google" (or those at Ft. Meade gettingthe real-time feed) either know what to do with it or what its widerimplications might mean. Yes, if "ebola" breaks out in Wichita, then the NSA will quickly know thatpeople are Googling strange questions about blood coming out of theirorifices but that's hardly a sophisticated form of "control" of anything(including people's orifices)! No. None of companies you mention -- many of which I know quite well --are in CONTROL of anything other than the *forms* they generate and,ultimately, the influence these forms have on the wider technologicalenvironment. They are, if you will, the technological *environment*reproducing itself -- as if there were no humans involved. The "semiotics" of Apple is SATANIC, for instance, since the name "Apple"and the symbol of the fruit w/ a bite taken out is deliberately lifted fromGenesis and the "temptation" of EVE by the serpent. Does that mean thatSteve Jobs was promoting the *devil* or (more likely) that he was promotingthe FAUSTIAN BARGAIN implied by our inclination to "think different"? Take enough LSD and you meet the *devil*? What's "controlling" what? Yes. It is STUPID to not consider what we have already learned. It isalso *stupid* to only consider history as a LINEAR "progression" (i.e.18th century book-based thinking), when *electricity* pushed us intothinking in "all around" terms 150+ years ago (i.e the "electric" originsof "social" science). But that doesn't mean that using the "geo-political" (i.e. mostly "geographical") frame is the best one or, given its own origins andhistoric context, that it is really informed by what has been learned in the past century about society and its *formative* relationship with technology! The EAR replaced the EYE a long time ago! So, what happens when the HANDreplaces the EAR? (And, if that question doesn't make any sense to you,then what do you "know" about the world we live in?)Eric McLuhan asserts that we are now living in "next" Renaissance, arepeating pattern with roughly 400 year "cycles," If he's right, then whatis being RE-BORN (or re-learned) . . . ?? Mark StahlmanBrooklyn NY- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:50:51 +0000Rethoric ...Nasdaq is going on well , i wonder Why and where they are located. Why CERNis not in ?frica ? When the Imperium shifts to the hiperimperium.XX XXIImperium HiperImperiumIt is not because communication is changing that reality is changing , butthere Will always be some REST for the REST of the World. information isnot knowledge. The people that sells bits dont care about the bits, theyjust want to sell machines to be more precise nowadays mobile machine$$$$$.I am Still using my 5 senses ...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:48:58 +0000In Liverpool i was presenting a Geopolitical analysis of Contemporary Artand Electronic Art inside of what i called the Web of Art and their 14instances. I was analysing only 3 instances: the artists, the fairs and thecollectors and they were still on the same geopolitical pattern.China was rising and so the BRICS because of lack of infra structure, needof expansion of capitalism and cheap labor force , but we all know wherethe headquarters and CEOs are located...You were saying that communication is changing everything and if thespectrum is few, how can they even talk ...So here you have some facts that reality is not really changing in termsof geopolitical power i will send some conceptual maps from my presentationin Liverpool. <...> From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:48 -0500 Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and Internet Duda: Sorry -- how do you explain the rise of CHINA in "geopolitical" terms (i.e. a development which was completely missed by the geopoliticists)? Why would changes in communications make "problems" go away? And, "communication" isn't about spectrum (which is a machine-to-machine parameter) but instead about how *people* actually TALK to each other! I wasn't there, so what did you PROVE in Liverpool . . . ?? <g> Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 1:08:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In geopolitical terms, NO. And this was proved in my presentation in Liverpool in relation to Art. <...>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hi all,I've just published an article on Mute as part of a forthcoming anthology of writing on Post-Media published collaboratively by Mute books and Post-Media Lab (www.postmedialab.org):http://www.metamute.org/editorial/lab/remaking-media-practices-%E2%80%93-tactical-media-to-post-mediaThis is an attempt to trace some lines between the notions of post-media and tactical media in order to imagine new approaches in times of digital ubiquity. As a matter of fact, I had to repeat a lot of known facts (especially for this list), but hopefully you can also find some new insights.All the best!Clemens
Dear All,We live in an unprecedented era of historical change. The web was/is part of an assemblage of ideologies and empirical realities that can be summarised under terms such as neo-liberal information societies. Since 2008 it is clear that this very system is in crisis. In the past, financial crises have hit the so called peripheries hard, Asia in 1997, Brasil, Russia, in 1998, Argentine in 2001. Now the former West is in the eye of the hurricaine. This is not just about a short dip in the GNP, it is a major transitional crisis, a crisis of the world system and of a specific developmental model in which those digital technologies which we all so love ;-) have played a particular role.It has become increasingly clear that digitech is part of the problem, rather than the solution (or maybe both). Is it justifiable that data warehouses be built which have the energy consumption of a medium sized town just so that bored teenies can remix manga (sorry for the exmaple it could be anything) so that salaried academics theorise this as the latest fad of remix-society's empowerment?This is where the Fields project comes in which I have initiated together with Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits of RIXC, Riga. I am posting an early call for participation below.I have also written a longer text which gives a bit more background:http://www.thenextlayer.org/node/1459The gist of the argument is that there is no single term anymore that can serve as an umbrella term for those practices, neither digital art nor media art. We also cannot settle to live comfortably in a post-media condition if this implies the stagnation so characteristic for anything post- (remember, after postmodernism came a phase of hyperactivity, of hyper-modernism, just look at the Shard). We need to move beyond this situation and not just invent a new aesthetics but new forms of living, of coopperation, of exchange. Technologies will play a role in this, but not such a privileged anymore. The vantage point of media as THE key viewpoint from where to conceptualise change has outlived its usefulness. Something new has to come into existence, and this will grow from a multiplicity of interconnected fields.This is why we are posting such an early call. We are not just making an exhibition, but starting a conversation. So if you do want to participate in this experiment, please respond to the call below (and not to my email address). This is not just for artists but you can also respond as a curator, theorist, activist: put yourself on the mapFIELDSCall for ParticipationFields starts from the assumption that the changing role of art in society is one where it becomes a critical interloper in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. The range of practices which were once subsumed under terms such as media art, digital art, art and technology, art and science, have experienced such growth and diversification that no single term can work as a signpost any more. Fields is about mapping those expanded fields of artistic practices which are contextual seedbeds for ideas and practices aiming at overcoming the crisis of the present, inventing new avenues for future developments by bringing together traditionally separated domains. Fields is about new ecological and transversal trends in art, outlining potential future trajectories for multifarious types of activities that merge politics, technology, ecology, gender, semiology.Which Fields act as catalysts and underpin those artistic practices which offer the greatest potential for social change towards more imaginative and sustainable ways of living? Which pre-cursors in the last 30-40 years did exist and what can we learn from those often untold stories? Areas that we will be looking at include but are not restricted to* real fields, fields as in agricultural fields, works relating to fields, food growing, water, seeds, plant ecologies and communications; eco-activism, agro-socio-political projects* field as metaphor, semiotic field theories and meta-field theories; work as decoding and recoding of cultural patterns of social use of images;* electromagnetic fields: and their experimental epistomologies (quantum field theory); notion of relational field (Burnham 1968); the epistemological implications of quantum theory in art* gendered fields, field as a psychological relation, psychological and psycho-analytical field theories* field theories of perception* social field theories, theories of masses and of emotional 'contagion'; relational field theories, notion of culture as a relational fieldIf you have an art or artistic-research project that fits one of those categories or where you feel that it extends this concept, please send a short description to: fields-RHazsT51LA8< at >public.gmane.orgThis is a first round call, the deadline is 31st of May, 2013.In 2013 we aim at organising a number of workshops and event, beginning with Transmediale 2013, where the initial matrix of Fields gets jointly developed. This work is a step to the launch of the final exhibition Fields from May 15 to August 03 as part of Riga Culture Capital 2014, at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of National Art Museum in Riga. Fields is co-curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, and will get produced by RIXC in collaboration with a growing number of networks and partners.regardsArmin..............Art, Technology and Social Changehttp://www.thenextlayer.org/
Networks symmetry and Net Neutralityby OlivierAuber(watch it on YouTube WTFTalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0sX6j5D_c)Help improving the english speech : http://lite.framapad.org/p/rAgoXE7W1xAs you may know,1/4 of the Amazon has been already deforested in order toprint reports about Net neutralityDid we forget something? Maybe, yes !Non tech people usualy imagine that the notion of "symmetry" in terms ofnetworks, is a synonym of "equality" of UP and DOWN streams at user'slevel or "IN OUT" streams at the level of the peering points. But thenotion of "symmetry" goes much further. It it also,and mostly, a questionof protocols.When Vinton Cerf, one of the godfathers of the internet, recentlyappointed by President Obama to the National Science Board, asserts that"Internet is symmetric, No doubt that he is taking it seriously. Yes,lnternet is POTENTIALLY symmetric, because it contains in itself all theresources to become effectively symmetric and the big players have theresponsibility to implement it. If they do not, they should not complainabout the domination of Goggle and other data silos that do preciselybenefit the asymmetry of the net as it is in reality.In fact, the Internet as people know it so far, essentially implementsasymmetrical protocols such as the well known http of the world wide web.Theses asymmetrical protocols, called Unicast, makes it necessary, whenyou want to achieve an "all-to-all" interaction to establish somewhere aspecial node which is responsible for the switch. According to the powerlaw, it is obviously the biggest node that wins, because it allows toconnect as many people as possible. In this game based on an asymmetricalprotocal, the winner takes all every time (Goggle, Facebook, Twitter,etc.), which are, I would say, not social networks, but social silos), tothe point that, after a while, everybody is a prisonner.of these silos,and nobody is interested to played anymore.However, there are also symmetrical protocols on the Internet. One maythink about peer-to-peer protocols such as the ones used over meshnetworks, but more fundamentally, the general model of it is called"Multicast", defined as a part of IPv6, which allows "all-to-all"relationships without the intervention of any particular center, if it isthe Internet in its entirety. Unfortunately, these protocols, when theyare not fought by institutions (such as Peer-to-peer) are not (or little)made available to the public by the I S P and Telcos, which keep them forthemselves so far. We understand why: the multicast protocol greatly savesbandwidth by allowing a transmitter who wants to send a video to a millionreceivers simultaneously, to emit it only once, then the routersdistributed on the network replicate it, according to the requests. Thisis usualy how, we, simple users, receive the bullshits of the TV channelsat home, but you may have noticed that you can't emit anything that way,because for us, the net is artificially made asymetric!So, obviously, when some can use the net symmetrically, and others cannot, there is no netneutraliyRemember what Van Jacobson, another internet guru, asserted in 1995 : "Howto kill the internet? Easy! Just invent the web !" Unfortunately, this ismore and more relevant! By not making these symmetrical protocolsavailable, many network players are condemned to play a game where theylose every time (and users too). Indeed, as a recent skirmish between Freea french I S P and Google denotes it, the profitability of networkcarriers is much lower than the one of big nodes (Youtube, etc.) and otherhuge data warehouses, that essentially asymmetrical protocols make themabsolutely necessary. Note also that all of us, simple users, we losealso, because our personal data are drawn into bottomless pits over whichwe have no control.In short, in order to escape this depressive spiral which centralises allthe innovation and economic power in the hands of a few players, it wouldrequire a day where users as well as operators and others, become awarethat another internet is possible: a symmetrical internet! (within themeaning ofdata flow AND protocols)Therefore, the Internet could be a little more "neutral" than it is now,because it would anymore favor dominant positions automatically. Thefuture would cease to be written in advance. The innovation that seems tobe dry today outside from dominant silos, would revive! Finally thePeer-to-peer spirit developed by the pioneers of the Internet couldfinally reach adulthood and show its full utility. Thank you.Any questions Yes, you, please!What do you think of the projects of some governments to tax the platformslike Google, on the basis of the personal data they hold on citizens?I fear that it will lead to clear an other quarter of the Amazonrainforest before they realizes that it is not a good idea. The intentionbehind is good, and I would not want to overwhelm the authors of thisidea. But I have many reservations. The main one is an ethical issue. Ithink in a world where there is more and more a sort of fusion betweenourselves and our data, trading such data will look more and more likehuman trafficking! The taxation of these data can not do anything againstthat. On the contrary, it would endorse the existence of this practice.Another question? YesIf I am right, the establishment of a symmetrical network, wouldnecessarily involve the legalization of the peer-to-peer sharing ofcopyrighted filesA symmetrical network would facilitate the sharing of all types of files,and the benefits would be huge for the culture and the economy. This doesnot mean that sharing copyrighted files would be legal. The copyrightedfiles represent only a drop in the ocean. Is the defense of this drop areason to stay in the stone age of networksAnother question? Yes!According to you, how will we finance all this?Thank you for asking this crucial question! Many researchers emphasize theparallelism between the asymmetric shape of the web and the currentmechanism of money creation which is also asymmetrical.How can we achieve a symmetrical network in those conditions?If you want a symmetrical network, it is necessary to design it in such away that it generate itself a new form of currency which has to be alsosymmetrical! Some people work on it! This may be the subject of one of myupcoming keynotes.What could be the triggering event of such a change?The network has operated until now because there was a certain symmetrybetween the "big fish" of the net. However, this symmetry is being broken.There are essentially three options for them: 1: being eaten by thebiggest one. 2: find an agreement between them, including with the States,to make a sort of triangular trade of our personal data, that is to say,our identities! 3: Recreate the symmetry, not only among themselves, butwith us. The first two solutions are ultimately quite explosive, and Iweigh my words! Only the third is sustainable but nobody knows how toachieve it. This is why we must be aware about that!If I understand you correctly, the solutions 1 and 2 prevail currently. Doyou you think there some kind of conspiracy?No, there is no conspiracy at all, just, dare I say, one of the greatestmysteries of mankind. Indeed, as far as we look in our body, or in theuniverse, there is no "center", no governing body of all others. The brainwhich is often attributed this virtue, if it has functional areas, is notbuilt as a hierarchy ordered by any center. It is essentially asymmetrical network. The mystery is to know why we, essentiallysymmetrical human beings, are building essentially asymmetrical andhierarchical social networks Nothing says that we must be structured ashordes of primates or wolf packs, right? So it can change!But in fact, Google offers us to become transhuman, even immortal!You ask good questions. I've spotted you! The question is who would becomeimmortal? Is it the man? Or is it the idea that the man shapes abouthimself? I mean the idea that some men who derive their power from theasymmetry of the networks, form about all others. I'll return to thispoint in a next keynote ...Please, may I ask another question!Thank you, but now I have a slight prostate problem. I must leave you! Askyour questions on the social silo Twitter with the hashtag WTF talks. I'llanswer later with pleasure! See you soon!
From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:58:42 +0000You know i know t?o, headquarters , decision makers are not in the South hemisphere, i know because i have a very close experience t?o.Off course there is dialogue , their goals is profit. And now the employers are the "owners" of the enterprises, it is funny to see them saying " in my enterprise ..." The BRICS have to find their mission but Still they are dependent because most of the System is dependent of the G7, Still ARt is Still very important and the problem is that collectors from "developed nations" know and recognize that while in others parts of the World that is Still unrecognized, just to ilustrate or TO PROVE that, there is only 2 South americans collectors on a list of top 150 collectors on the very OLD contemporary Art ... Industrial Economy is related to Economy and not culture and the wealthy persons from the developed countries knows that culture Is more important and h?s more value that the Economy ...From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:18:05 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.orgDuda: As you know, the primary economic development of the past 200 years has been INDUSTRIALIZATION, which has moved across the globe -- country-by-country. The "developed" world *finished* this process and, as a result, reached a plateau and become post-industrial (i.e. shifting to "finance" and other services) in the late 20th century, which left it to many other countries to GROW much faster as they now being industrialized. The headquarters and CEOs involved in this wider global growth process are *NOT* in London or New York but instead in Mumbai, Sao Paolo, Moscow and Beijing. I know, I've been there! There is PLENTY of spectrum for everyone to *talk* and that's what they have been doing -- with much of it *refusing* to work under the direction of the fading "Imperium." China will *not* allow themselves to be told what to do by anyone and I suspect that Brazil is doing something similar. The "power" of the old industrial centers gets WEAKER (not stronger) every day! Art (in terms of fairs, rich collectors etc) is a by-product of this process and maps into it with a significant "lag" -- given that this is "luxury" and not a "productive" activity. So, it's "backwards" not "forward" looking. If you want to chart actual shifts in "power" you would be much better dealing with rates of change of energy and materials consumption (i.e. the industrial economy) and not "art." Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 4:49:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In Liverpool i was presenting a Geopolitical analysis of Contemporary Art and Electronic Art inside of what i called the Web of Art and their 14 instances. I was analysing only 3 instances: the artists, the fairs and the collectors and they were still on the same geopolitical pattern. China was rising and so the BRICS because of lack of infra structure, need of expansion of capitalism and cheap labor force , but we all know where the headquarters and CEOs are located... You were saying that communication is changing everything and if the spectrum is few, how can they even talk ... So here you have some facts that reality is not really changing in terms of geopolitical power i will send some conceptual maps from my presentation in Liverpool. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:48 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: Sorry -- how do you explain the rise of CHINA in "geopolitical" terms (i.e. a development which was completely missed by the geopoliticists)? Why would changes in communications make "problems" go away? And, "communication" isn't about spectrum (which is a machine-to-machine parameter) but instead about how *people* actually TALK to each other! I wasn't there, so what did you PROVE in Liverpool . . . ?? <g> Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 1:08:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In geopolitical terms, NO. And this was proved in my presentation in Liverpool in relation to Art. Communication is faster and is cover a broader spectrum but still reproducing the same problems. And this broader spectrum is still low, for example if you look at Brasil in terms of digital acess ... or Africa. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:38:09 -0500Subject: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: > It is not because communication is changing that reality is changing Really -- how do you know that . . . ?? Mark== From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:35:55 +0000Decisions are negociated, at least that, but the BRICS governments are just looking for bu$$$ine$$$ to mantain an economical ?grow* no matter about enviroment , labour conditions, mafia (Russia and oil owners) ... We are living under FINAZISM so no matter from where the money came from as long as they mantain a certain economical grow, so people can buy a new car and a new computer. You have no ideia how Brazilian states deal when transnationals wants to invest here, fiscal benefits that you will not believe and they will never find that in the developed nations in the name of cheap labour force, profit and a market.Culture and Art are totally related and collectors play a major role , specially in countries where the State and their Museums dont even know what is to collect Art and therefore preserves Culture.Culture, communication and the world are mutants but you can see milenar cultures that are not affected by that, on contrary they reafirm certain things during a long time and facing communication changes. YES, I proved and i can apply that in many other fields and instances of Art and you will find the same patterns. Take a look on wich market brazil is leading globally and you will take a picture of what is going on and for shure in ART the leaders are for no coincidence USA and Europe ... Take a look at the leading journals in Science, Art and Technologies and their boards ... Take a look on the top scientists of the world ...Take a look at Elsevier control ...Jokes are welcome since we are all clowns ... or maybe notCopy for the list since the discussion begins there.From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:55:30 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.orgDuda: CHINA: 0% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. RUSSIA: 10% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. INDIA: 20% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. BRASIL: ??% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. If that chance for Brazil is more than 20-30%, then there is no one to blame other than the Brazilians -- which I doubt *very* much. Culture is *free* for everyone -- in fact it is an ENVIRONMENT that is largely shaped by *communications* technologies. When those technologies change, so does the culture! ART collecting of "major pieces" is NOT the same as "culture" and is NOT for everyone -- instead it is an "investment" for some in the *elites* which has little to do with either economics or politics. Sorry -- you have NOT proved anything about the global "structure" of power by analyzing the location of *high-end* art collectors! MarkIn a message dated 2/19/2013 9:58:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: You know i know t?o, headquarters , decision makers are not in the South hemisphere, i know because i have a very close experience t?o.Off course there is dialogue , their goals is profit. And now the employers are the "owners" of the enterprises, it is funny to see them saying " in my enterprise ..." The BRICS have to find their mission but Still they are dependent because most of the System is dependent of the G7, Still ARt is Still very important and the problem is that collectors from "developed nations" know and recognize that while in others parts of the World that is Still unrecognized, just to ilustrate or TO PROVE that, there is only 2 South americans collectors on a list of top 150 collectors on the very OLD contemporary Art ...Industrial Economy is related to Economy and not culture and the wealthy persons from the developed countries knows that culture Is more important and h?s more value that the Economy ... From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:18:05 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: As you know, the primary economic development of the past 200 years has been INDUSTRIALIZATION, which has moved across the globe -- country-by-country. The "developed" world *finished* this process and, as a result, reached a plateau and become post-industrial (i.e. shifting to "finance" and other services) in the late 20th century, which left it to many other countries to GROW much faster as they now being industrialized. The headquarters and CEOs involved in this wider global growth process are *NOT* in London or New York but instead in Mumbai, Sao Paolo, Moscow and Beijing. I know, I've been there! There is PLENTY of spectrum for everyone to *talk* and that's what they have been doing -- with much of it *refusing* to work under the direction of the fading "Imperium." China will *not* allow themselves to be told what to do by anyone and I suspect that Brazil is doing something similar. The "power" of the old industrial centers gets WEAKER (not stronger) every day! Art (in terms of fairs, rich collectors etc) is a by-product of this process and maps into it with a significant "lag" -- given that this is "luxury" and not a "productive" activity. So, it's "backwards" not "forward" looking. If you want to chart actual shifts in "power" you would be much better dealing with rates of change of energy and materials consumption (i.e. the industrial economy) and not "art." Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 4:49:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In Liverpool i was presenting a Geopolitical analysis of Contemporary Art and Electronic Art inside of what i called the Web of Art and their 14 instances. I was analysing only 3 instances: the artists, the fairs and the collectors and they were still on the same geopolitical pattern. China was rising and so the BRICS because of lack of infra structure, need of expansion of capitalism and cheap labor force , but we all know where the headquarters and CEOs are located... You were saying that communication is changing everything and if the spectrum is few, how can they even talk ... So here you have some facts that reality is not really changing in terms of geopolitical power i will send some conceptual maps from my presentation in Liverpool. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:48 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: Sorry -- how do you explain the rise of CHINA in "geopolitical" terms (i.e. a development which was completely missed by the geopoliticists)? Why would changes in communications make "problems" go away? And, "communication" isn't about spectrum (which is a machine-to-machine parameter) but instead about how *people* actually TALK to each other! I wasn't there, so what did you PROVE in Liverpool . . . ?? <g> Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 1:08:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In geopolitical terms, NO. And this was proved in my presentation in Liverpool in relation to Art. Communication is faster and is cover a broader spectrum but still reproducing the same problems. And this broader spectrum is still low, for example if you look at Brasil in terms of digital acess ... or Africa. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:38:09 -0500Subject: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: > It is not because communication is changing that reality is changing Really -- how do you know that . . . ?? Mark=== From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>To: "newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org" <newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.org>, "nettime-fO7mttO5ZDI< at >public.gmane.org"<nettime-fO7mttO5ZDI< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:50:58 +0000Importance: NormalMime-Version: 1.0Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitContent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiStatus: ROX-Status: FContent-Length: 9391Lines: 275I use digital technologies and is nothing new, you like the ones thats says new media ...Creativity and interesting things are not only related to digital ..The discussion started in nettime so ...From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:52:00 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.orgDuda: If it says OFFLIST then it's NOT for nettime -- okay? Yes, it's a MARKET (or whatever you want to call it) economy worldwide -- not exactly a big discovery . . . !! <g> The fact that some places are more "developed" than others and that RICH people like to collect art -- also not a surprise. If you care to think through the NEW effects of *digital* technologies, then you might come up with something new and interesting . . . or maybe not. Mark In a message dated 2/20/2013 11:35:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: Decisions are negociated, at least that, but the BRICS governments are just looking for bu$$$ine$$$ to mantain an economical ?grow* no matter about enviroment , labour conditions, mafia (Russia and oil owners) ... We are living under FINAZISM so no matter from where the money came from as long as they mantain a certain economical grow, so people can buy a new car and a new computer. You have no ideia how Brazilian states deal when transnationals wants to invest here, fiscal benefits that you will not believe and they will never find that in the developed nations in the name of cheap labour force, profit and a market. Culture and Art are totally related and collectors play a major role , specially in countries where the State and their Museums dont even know what is to collect Art and therefore preserves Culture. Culture, communication and the world are mutants but you can see milenar cultures that are not affected by that, on contrary they reafirm certain things during a long time and facing communication changes. YES, I proved and i can apply that in many other fields and instances of Art and you will find the same patterns. Take a look on wich market brazil is leading globally and you will take a picture of what is going on and for shure in ART the leaders are for no coincidence USA and Europe ... Take a look at the leading journals in Science, Art and Technologies and their boards ... Take a look on the top scientists of the world ... Take a look at Elsevier control ... Jokes are welcome since we are all clowns ... or maybe not Copy for the list since the discussion begins there. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:55:30 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: CHINA: 0% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. RUSSIA: 10% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. INDIA: 20% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. BRASIL: ??% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. If that chance for Brazil is more than 20-30%, then there is no one to blame other than the Brazilians -- which I doubt *very* much. Culture is *free* for everyone -- in fact it is an ENVIRONMENT that is largely shaped by *communications* technologies. When those technologies change, so does the culture! ART collecting of "major pieces" is NOT the same as "culture" and is NOT for everyone -- instead it is an "investment" for some in the *elites* which has little to do with either economics or politics. Sorry -- you have NOT proved anything about the global "structure" of power by analyzing the location of *high-end* art collectors! Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 9:58:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: You know i know t?o, headquarters , decision makers are not in the South hemisphere, i know because i have a very close experience t?o.Off course there is dialogue , their goals is profit. And now the employers are the "owners" of the enterprises, it is funny to see them saying " in my enterprise ..." The BRICS have to find their mission but Still they are dependent because most of the System is dependent of the G7, Still ARt is Still very important and the problem is that collectors from "developed nations" know and recognize that while in others parts of the World that is Still unrecognized, just to ilustrate or TO PROVE that, there is only 2 South americans collectors on a list of top 150 collectors on the very OLD contemporary Art ...Industrial Economy is related to Economy and not culture and the wealthy persons from the developed countries knows that culture Is more important and h?s more value that the Economy ... From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:18:05 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: As you know, the primary economic development of the past 200 years has been INDUSTRIALIZATION, which has moved across the globe -- country-by-country. The "developed" world *finished* this process and, as a result, reached a plateau and become post-industrial (i.e. shifting to "finance" and other services) in the late 20th century, which left it to many other countries to GROW much faster as they now being industrialized. The headquarters and CEOs involved in this wider global growth process are *NOT* in London or New York but instead in Mumbai, Sao Paolo, Moscow and Beijing. I know, I've been there! There is PLENTY of spectrum for everyone to *talk* and that's what they have been doing -- with much of it *refusing* to work under the direction of the fading "Imperium." China will *not* allow themselves to be told what to do by anyone and I suspect that Brazil is doing something similar. The "power" of the old industrial centers gets WEAKER (not stronger) every day! Art (in terms of fairs, rich collectors etc) is a by-product of this process and maps into it with a significant "lag" -- given that this is "luxury" and not a "productive" activity. So, it's "backwards" not "forward" looking. If you want to chart actual shifts in "power" you would be much better dealing with rates of change of energy and materials consumption (i.e. the industrial economy) and not "art." Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 4:49:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In Liverpool i was presenting a Geopolitical analysis of Contemporary Art and Electronic Art inside of what i called the Web of Art and their 14 instances. I was analysing only 3 instances: the artists, the fairs and the collectors and they were still on the same geopolitical pattern. China was rising and so the BRICS because of lack of infra structure, need of expansion of capitalism and cheap labor force , but we all know where the headquarters and CEOs are located... You were saying that communication is changing everything and if the spectrum is few, how can they even talk ... So here you have some facts that reality is not really changing in terms of geopolitical power i will send some conceptual maps from my presentation in Liverpool. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:48 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: Sorry -- how do you explain the rise of CHINA in "geopolitical" terms (i.e. a development which was completely missed by the geopoliticists)? Why would changes in communications make "problems" go away? And, "communication" isn't about spectrum (which is a machine-to-machine parameter) but instead about how *people* actually TALK to each other! I wasn't there, so what did you PROVE in Liverpool . . . ?? <g> Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 1:08:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In geopolitical terms, NO. And this was proved in my presentation in Liverpool in relation to Art. Communication is faster and is cover a broader spectrum but still reproducing the same problems. And this broader spectrum is still low, for example if you look at Brasil in terms of digital acess ... or Africa.From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:38:09 -0500Subject: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: > It is not because communication is changing that reality is changing Really -- how do you know that . . . ?? Mark==== From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDate: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:52:46 +0000There is no OLD or new media aproach there is life and the digital condition.I work on a daily basis and as Far as i know raise Your foice or show Your opinion in 2 discussion lists and in one social media is Far from being a TV star or a Spam... If there is something that i use less and less is TV ...Sometimes You have to fight to sustain Your point the view If You are not part of any group, so ...and YES i proved that in geopolitical terms NEW or OLD media are under Control of the same geopolitical Power, but it is something that the majority dont want to discuss , they just want to discuss How wonderfull digital technologies are ...The discussion started in nettime so for me is important that they have acess too ... Talking about acess do You want to discuss Internet acess in the World , Maybe You can analyse that t?o and see How they are Still concentrate in some parts of the World...From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:09:28 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetDuda: Your urge to "perform in public" -- risking my cutting off what is supposed to be a *private* conversation -- is indeed an OLD MEDIA approach using "new media" technologies. You have adopted the role of a BROADCASTER with your posts to Facebook, nettime etc, so, yes, in terms of your own "creativity" you are *not* operating in a "digital" modality -- instead you behave as if you were the "star" in your own television show! But the *environment* has changed. It is now DIGITAL. Television is no longer in "charge" of our lives. Under the circumstances, acting like a TV star is understandable but also a "throw-back." You want people to pay attention to you, so you have to "engage" them, but you don't really want to have a conversation -- which is why you insist on posting all this to nettime. Like the rest of us, you are "caught" in the interval between two worlds, in an age of radical transition . . . Mark In a message dated 2/20/2013 5:51:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: I use digital technologies and is nothing new, you like the ones thats says new media ... Creativity and interesting things are not only related to digital .. The discussion started in nettime so ... From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:52:00 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: If it says OFFLIST then it's NOT for nettime -- okay? Yes, it's a MARKET (or whatever you want to call it) economy worldwide -- not exactly a big discovery . . . !! <g> The fact that some places are more "developed" than others and that RICH people like to collect art -- also not a surprise. If you care to think through the NEW effects of *digital* technologies, then you might come up with something new and interesting . . . or maybe not. Mark In a message dated 2/20/2013 11:35:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: Decisions are negociated, at least that, but the BRICS governments are just looking for bu$$$ine$$$ to mantain an economical ?grow* no matter about enviroment , labour conditions, mafia (Russia and oil owners) ... We are living under FINAZISM so no matter from where the money came from as long as they mantain a certain economical grow, so people can buy a new car and a new computer. You have no ideia how Brazilian states deal when transnationals wants to invest here, fiscal benefits that you will not believe and they will never find that in the developed nations in the name of cheap labour force, profit and a market. Culture and Art are totally related and collectors play a major role , specially in countries where the State and their Museums dont even know what is to collect Art and therefore preserves Culture. Culture, communication and the world are mutants but you can see milenar cultures that are not affected by that, on contrary they reafirm certain things during a long time and facing communication changes. YES, I proved and i can apply that in many other fields and instances of Art and you will find the same patterns. Take a look on wich market brazil is leading globally and you will take a picture of what is going on and for shure in ART the leaders are for no coincidence USA and Europe ... Take a look at the leading journals in Science, Art and Technologies and their boards ... Take a look on the top scientists of the world ... Take a look at Elsevier control ... Jokes are welcome since we are all clowns ... or maybe not Copy for the list since the discussion begins there. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:55:30 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: CHINA: 0% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. RUSSIA: 10% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. INDIA: 20% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. BRASIL: ??% chance that *important* political or economic decisions will be made outside. If that chance for Brazil is more than 20-30%, then there is no one to blame other than the Brazilians -- which I doubt *very* much. Culture is *free* for everyone -- in fact it is an ENVIRONMENT that is largely shaped by *communications* technologies. When those technologies change, so does the culture! ART collecting of "major pieces" is NOT the same as "culture" and is NOT for everyone -- instead it is an "investment" for some in the *elites* which has little to do with either economics or politics. Sorry -- you have NOT proved anything about the global "structure" of power by analyzing the location of *high-end* art collectors! Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 9:58:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: You know i know t?o, headquarters , decision makers are not in the South hemisphere, i know because i have a very close experience t?o.Off course there is dialogue , their goals is profit. And now the employers are the "owners" of the enterprises, it is funny to see them saying " in my enterprise ..." The BRICS have to find their mission but Still they are dependent because most of the System is dependent of the G7, Still ARt is Still very important and the problem is that collectors from "developed nations" know and recognize that while in others parts of the World that is Still unrecognized, just to ilustrate or TO PROVE that, there is only 2 South americans collectors on a list of top 150 collectors on the very OLD contemporary Art ...Industrial Economy is related to Economy and not culture and the wealthy persons from the developed countries knows that culture Is more important and h?s more value that the Economy ... From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:18:05 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: As you know, the primary economic development of the past 200 years has been INDUSTRIALIZATION, which has moved across the globe -- country-by-country. The "developed" world *finished* this process and, as a result, reached a plateau and become post-industrial (i.e. shifting to "finance" and other services) in the late 20th century, which left it to many other countries to GROW much faster as they now being industrialized. The headquarters and CEOs involved in this wider global growth process are *NOT* in London or New York but instead in Mumbai, Sao Paolo, Moscow and Beijing. I know, I've been there! There is PLENTY of spectrum for everyone to *talk* and that's what they have been doing -- with much of it *refusing* to work under the direction of the fading "Imperium." China will *not* allow themselves to be told what to do by anyone and I suspect that Brazil is doing something similar. The "power" of the old industrial centers gets WEAKER (not stronger) every day! Art (in terms of fairs, rich collectors etc) is a by-product of this process and maps into it with a significant "lag" -- given that this is "luxury" and not a "productive" activity. So, it's "backwards" not "forward" looking. If you want to chart actual shifts in "power" you would be much better dealing with rates of change of energy and materials consumption (i.e. the industrial economy) and not "art." Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 4:49:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In Liverpool i was presenting a Geopolitical analysis of Contemporary Art and Electronic Art inside of what i called the Web of Art and their 14 instances. I was analysing only 3 instances: the artists, the fairs and the collectors and they were still on the same geopolitical pattern. China was rising and so the BRICS because of lack of infra structure, need of expansion of capitalism and cheap labor force , but we all know where the headquarters and CEOs are located... You were saying that communication is changing everything and if the spectrum is few, how can they even talk ... So here you have some facts that reality is not really changing in terms of geopolitical power i will send some conceptual maps from my presentation in Liverpool. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:48 -0500Subject: Re: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: Sorry -- how do you explain the rise of CHINA in "geopolitical" terms (i.e. a development which was completely missed by the geopoliticists)? Why would changes in communications make "problems" go away? And, "communication" isn't about spectrum (which is a machine-to-machine parameter) but instead about how *people* actually TALK to each other! I wasn't there, so what did you PROVE in Liverpool . . . ?? <g> Mark In a message dated 2/19/2013 1:08:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org writes: In geopolitical terms, NO. And this was proved in my presentation in Liverpool in relation to Art. Communication is faster and is cover a broader spectrum but still reproducing the same problems. And this broader spectrum is still low, for example if you look at Brasil in terms of digital acess ... or Africa. From: Newmedia-YDxpq3io04c< at >public.gmane.orgDate: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:38:09 -0500Subject: OFFLIST Re: <nettime> Geopolitics and InternetTo: dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org Duda: > It is not because communication is changing that reality is changing Really -- how do you know that . . . ?? Mark===== From: Eduardo Valle <dudavalle-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org>Subject: RE: nettime-l Digest, Vol 65, Issue 4Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:38:10 +0000Jernej, history repeating , just for You to let You know only 30 % of the brazilians h?s acess to internet and the majority of that is private ... i wonder How are these number in ?frica and Who are the providers ... Please tell me How many countries in this World h?s his own sat?lite ... But is all new, equal and neutral ... <...>
The 9th edition of Video Vortex will start this Thursday in L??neburg!Video Vortex #9Re:assemblies of Video28 Feb. ??? 2 March 2013L??neburg, GermanyCentre for Digital CulturesLeuphana University The conference asks how can we analyze and compare assemblages of online video? Besides speakers, performances and workshops we already announced - among them Beth Coleman and Nishant Shah - we would like to introduce to you a further set of speakers and topics: Joshua Neves, Gabriel Menotti and Filippo Spreafico find different ways to organize filters and frameworks for glimpses of online video. Neves pleads for adopting new thinking for each video assembly, a multiplicity of video theories. The method of Menotti to access the videosphere is through curation. Even more hands-on is Spreafico???s video montage, which simultaneously shows his ???local??? and ???personal??? view on information.Along the activism-journalism-civic media axis, Sascha Simons scrutinizes the phenomenon of amateur video witnesses along lines of circulation, credibility, and mobilization. Margarita Tsomou takes the protests on Syntagma Square in Athens in 2011 as her familiar example to explore the visual affectivity of bodies and social spaces in a performance lecture.Besides covering movements of majorities inserting itself in existing social structures, video can be seen as a literal social beast reflecting the dark side of amateur video production. Nelli Kambouri and Pavlos Hatzopoulos look at the blistering video propaganda of the Greek fascist party Golden Dawn.At this critical stage, contested video networks have to deal with attempts to subsume cultural production and consumption under brand and corporate authorities. Coders and developers of VLC, FFmpeg, Pan.do.ra and P2P Next gather at Video Vortex to exchange concepts and strategies to keep video formats, codecs and archives available to the commons.Video as part of the learning sphere is likewise contested: MOOC(s) are rising as a new promise for democratizing education or just as effective market reach. Hybrid Publishing Lab and guests from Coventry University will discuss critically how videos get re-embedded and re-annotated in teaching platforms.Financing of film, television and video projects reflects the logics of the new assemblages. Media industry and users alike are expecting multiplatform-ready narrative forms. Three case studies of the Moving Image Lab mirror these challenges and will be discussed alongside Dystopia, an interactive web film, to reflect what new terrains and demands are showing up in media production.Andrew Clay translates the challenge of social media right within a format of academic presentation. Surrounded by three video projectors and using the interaction of participants, he will immerse a talk on social film into the format social film. The social force of copresence and sharing in a state of crisis is what interests Deborah Ligorio in her art project Survival Kits.Certainly social video is about the mirroring of social visions. This February in Cairo, the artists Kaya Behkalam and Azin Feizabadi together with curator Jens Maier-Rothe conceived a performative lecture on the very notion of ??projection??. Jasmina Metwaly from Mosireen Collective ??? who organized Tahir Cinema, open air projections of mobile video during the egyptian revolution ???, will respond with her insights and experiences in facilitating and screening political video.How much citizen reporters rely on personal engagement, skills and persistence, is shown by the film High Tech Low Life by Steve Maing, a cinematic portait of two Chinese video bloggers.Video Vortex #9 in general traces new digital video culture, its users, spectators and producers by looking at criss-cross effects between neighboring domains, tracks and turfs of video. The way users made digital culture a part of their real life is illustrated in the ???video meme??? "Digital Natives" by artist Ren??e Ridgway.Participants: Beth Coleman, Seth Keen, Edwin, Thomas ??stbye, Andreas Treske, Stephanie Hough, Martin Kati??, Theresa Steffens, Arndt Potdevin, Robert M. Ochshorn, Nan Haifen, Viola Sarnelli, Boris Traue, Achim Kredelbach , Dalida Mar??a Benfield, Ren??e Ridgway, Gabriel S Moses, Nishant Shah, Margarita Tsomou, Sascha Simons, Nelli Kambouri, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Joshua Neves, Gabriel Menotti, Filippo Spreafico, Caroline Heron, Jonathan Shaw, Jan Gerber, Sebastian Luetgert, Elric Milon, Sascha Kluger, Jamie King, Stefano Sabatini, Peter Snowdon, Miya Yoshida, Boaz Levin, Azin Feizabadi, Kaya Behkalam, Jens Maier-Rothe, Jasmina Metwaly, Left Vision, Katja Grundmann, Graswurzel.tv , Bj??rn Ahrend, Timo Gro??pietsch, Vito Campanelli , Robert M. Ochshorn, Alejo Duque, Luc??a Ega??a Rojas, Andre w Clay, Stefan Heidenreich, Deborah Ligorio, Cornelia Sollfrank, among othersThe full program can be found here on videovortex9.netVV9 is organized by Leuphana University???s Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab. A portion of VV9 also constitutes the first part of the ANALOG event series, sponsored by the university???s Centre for Digital Cultures.VV9 is funded through Innovation Incubator, a major EU project financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the federal state of Lower Saxony.
[This is a remarkable statement, coming from a young person who has been facing the most intense pressure over the last two years, which he largely spent in solitary confinement with the perspective of life in prison, or worse. His motivation, as he states it, was "revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare."Another thing that struck me was that that Manning offered the material first to the Washington Post and the NYT. But they were not interested. Only then did he approach Wikileaks.The statement shows both the failure of the mainstream press, and the importance Wikileaks, no matter what one might think of the way the operation has been run, or the people running it. Felix]---------------This statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This rush transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O'Brien at the Article 39(a) session of United States v. Pfc. Bradley Manning on February 28, 2013 at Fort Meade, MD, USA.http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wikileaks/bradley_manning/pfc_bradley_e_manning_providence_hearing_statement.htmlJudge Colonel Denise Lind: Pfc Manning you may read your statement.Pfc Bradley Manning: Yes, your honor. I wrote this statement in the confinement facility. The following facts are provided in support of the providence inquiry for my court martial, United States v. Pfc Bradley E. Manning.Personal facts I am a 25-year-old Private First Class in the United States Army currently assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, HHC, US Army Garrison (USAG), Joint Base Myer, Henderson Hall, Fort Meyer, Virginia.My [missed word] assignment I was assigned to HHC, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY. My primary military occupational specialty or MOS is 35 Foxtrot intelligence analyst. I entered active duty status on 2 October 2007. I enlisted with the hope of obtaining both real world experience and earning benefits under the GI Bill for college opportunities.__Facts regarding my position as an intelligence analystIn order to enlist in the Army I took the Standard Armed Services Aptitude Battery, My score on this battery was high enough for me to qualify for any enlisted MOS positon. My recruiter informed me that I should select an MOS that complimented my interests outside the military. In response, I told him that I was interested in geopolitical matters and information technology. He suggested that I consider becoming an intelligence analyst.After researching the intelligence analyst position, I agreed that this would be a good fit for me. In particular, I enjoyed the fact that an analyst could use information derived from a variety of sources to create work products that informed the command of its available choices for determining the best course of action or COAs. Although the MOS required working knowledge of computers, it primarily required me to consider how raw information can be combined with other available intelligence sources in order to create products that assisted the command in its situational awareness or SA.I accessed that my natural interest in geopolitical affairs and my computer skills would make me an excellent intelligence analyst. After enlisting I reported to the Fort Meade military entrance processing station on 1 October 2007. I then traveled to and reported at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri on 2 October 2007 to begin basic combat training or BCT.Once at Fort Leonard Wood I quickly realized that I was neither physically nor mentally prepared for the requirements of basic training. My BCT experience lasted six months instead of the normal ten weeks. Due to medical issues, I was placed on a hold status. A physical examination indicated that I sustained injuries to my right soldier and left foot.Due to those injuries I was unable to continue "basic". During medical hold, I was informed that I may be out processed from the Army, however, I resisted being chaptered out because I felt that I could overcome my medical issues and continue to serve. On 2[8 or 20?] January 2008, I returned to basic combat training. This time I was better prepared and I completed training on 2 April 2008.I then reported for the MOS specific Advanced Individual Training or AIT on 7 April 2008. AIT was an enjoyable experience for me. Unlike basic training where I felt different from the other soldiers, I fit in did well. I preferred the mental challenges of reviewing a large amount of information from various sources and trying to create useful or actionable products. I especially enjoyed the practice of analysis through the use of computer applications and methods that I was familiar with.I graduated from AIT on 16 August 2008 and reported to my first duty station, Fort Drum, NY on 28 August 2008. As an analyst, Significant Activities or SigActs were a frequent source of information for me to use in creating work products. I started working extensively with SigActs early after my arrival at Fort Drum. My computer background allowed me to use the tools of organic to the Distributed Common Ground System-Army or D6-A computers to create polished work products for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team chain of command.The non-commissioned officer in charge, or NCOIC, of the S2 section, then Master Sergeant David P. Adkins recognized my skills and potential and tasked me to work on a tool abandoned by a previously assigned analyst, the incident tracker. The incident tracker was viewed as a back up to the Combined Information Data Network Exchange or CIDNE and as a unit, historical reference to work with.In the months preceding my upcoming deployment, I worked on creating a new version of the incident tracker and used SigActs to populate it. The SigActs I used were from Afghanistan, because at the time our unit was scheduled to deploy to the Logar and Wardak Provinces of Afghanistan. Later my unit was reassigned to deploy to Eastern Baghdad, Iraq. At that point, I removed the Afghanistan SigActs and switched to Iraq SigActs.As and analyst I viewed the SigActs as historical data. I believed this view is shared by other all-source analysts as well. SigActs give a first look impression of a specific or isolated event. This event can be an improvised explosive device attack or IED, small arms fire engagement or SAF engagement with a hostile force, or any other event a specific unit documented and recorded in real time.In my perspective the information contained within a single SigAct or group of SigActs is not very sensitive. The events encapsulated within most SigActs involve either enemy engagements or causalities. Most of this information is publicly reported by the public affairs office or PAO, embedded media pools, or host nation HN media.As I started working with SigActs I felt they were similar to a daily journal or log that a person may keep. They capture what happens on a particular day in time. They are created immediately after the event, and are potentially updated over a period of hours until final version is published on the Combined Information Data Network Exchange. Each unit has its own Standard Operating Procedure or SOP for reporting recording SigActs. The SOP may differ between reporting in a particular deployment and reporting in garrison.In garrison a SigAct normally involves personnel issues such as driving under the influence or DUI incidents or an automobile accident involving the death or serious injury of a soldier. The reports starts at the company level and goes up to the battalion, brigade, and even up to the division level.In deployed environment a unit may observe or participate in an event and a platoon leader or platoon sergeant may report the event as a SigAct to the company headquarters and the radio transmission operator or RTO. The commander or RTO will then forward the report to the battalion battle captain or battle non-commissioned officer or NCO. Once the battalion battle captain or battle NCO receives the report they will either (1) notify the battalion operations officer or S3; (2) conduct an action, such as launching a quick reaction force; or (3) record the event and report and further report it up the chain of command to the brigade.The reporting of each event is done by radio or over the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network or SIPRNet, normally by an assigned soldier, usually junior enlisted E-4 and below. Once the SigAct is recorded, the SigAct is further sent up the chain of command. At each level, additional information can either be added or corrected as needed. Normally within 24 to 48 hours, the updating and reporting or a particular SigAct is complete. Eventually all reports and SigActs go through the chain of command from brigade to division and division to corp. At corp level the SigAct is finalized and [missed word].The CIDNE system contains a database that is used by thousands of Department of Defense (DoD) personel including soldiers, civilians, and contractors support. It was the United States Central Command or CENTCOM reporting tool for operational reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two separate but similar databases were maintained for each theater –CIDNE-I for Iraq and CIDNE-A for Afghanistan. Each database encompasses over a hundred types of reports and other historical information for access. They contain millions of vetted and finalized directories including operational intelligence reporting.CIDNE was created to collect and analyze battle-space data to provide daily operational and Intelligence Community (IC) reporting relevant to a commander's daily decision making process. The CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A databases contain reporting and analysis fields for multiple disciplines including Human Intelligence or HUMINT reports, Psychological Operations or PSYOP reports, Engagement reports, Counter Improvised Explosive Device or CIED reports, SigAct reports, Targeting reports, Social and Cultural reports, Civil Affairs reports, and Human Terrain reporting.As an intelligence analyst, I had unlimited access to the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A databases and the information contained within them. Although each table within the database is important, I primarily dealt with HUMINT reports, SigAct reports and Counter IED reports, because these reports were used to create a work-product I was required to published as an analyst.In working on an assignment I looked anywhere and everywhere for information. As an all-source analyst, this was something that was expected. The D6-A systems had databases built in, and I utilized them on a daily basis. This simply was – the search tools available on the D6-A systems on SIPRNet such as Query Tree and the DoD and Intellink search engines.Primarily, I utilized the CIDNE database using the historical and HUMINT reporting to conduct my analysis and provide a back up for my work product. I did statistical analysis on historical data including SigActs to back up analysis that were based on HUMINT reporting and produce charts, graphs, and tables. I also created maps and charts to conduct predictive analysis based on statistical trends. The SigAct reporting provided a reference point for what occurred and provided myself and other analysts with the information to conclude possible outcome.Although SigAct reporting is sensitive at the time of their creation, their sensitivity normally dissipates within 48 to 72 hours as the information is either publicly released or the unit involved is no longer in the area and not in danger.It is my understanding that the SigAct reports remain classified only because they are maintained within CIDNE – because it is only accessible on SIPRnet. Everything on CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A to include SigAct reporting was treated as classified information.__Facts regarding the storage of SigAct reportsAs part of my training at Fort Drum, I was instructed to ensure that I create back ups of my work product. The need to create back ups was particularly acute given the relative instability and reliability of the computer systems we used in the field during deployment. These computer systems included both organic and theater provided equipment (TPE) D6-A machines.The organic D6-A machines we brought with us into the field on our deployment were Dell [missed word] laptops and the TPE D6-A machines were Alienware brand laptops. The [M90?] D6-A laptops were the preferred machine to use as they were slightly faster and had fewer problems with dust and temperature than the theater provided Alienware laptops. I used several D6-A machines during the deployment due to various technical problems with the laptops.With these issues several analysts lost information, but I never lost information due to the multiple backups I created. I attempted to backup as much relevant information as possible. I would save the information so that I or another analyst could quickly access it whenever a 1machine crashed, SIPRnet connectivity was down, or I forgot where the data was stored.When backing up information I would do one or all of the following things based on my training:1. Physical back up. I tried to keep physical back up copies of information on paper so that the information could be grabbed quickly. Also, it was easier to brief from hard copies of research and HUMINT reports.2. Local drive back up. I tried to sort out information I deemed relevant and keep complete copies of the information on each of the computers I used in the Temporary Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or T-SCIF, including my primary and secondary D6-A machines. This was stored under my user profile on the desktop.3. Shared drive backup. Each analyst had access to a T- drive – what we called T-drive shared across the SIPRnet. It allowed others to access information that was stored on it. S6 operated the T-drive.4. Compact disk rewritable or CD-RW back up. For larger datasets I saved the information onto a re-writable disk, labeled the disks, and stored them in the conference room of the T-SCIF. This redundancy permitted us to not worry about information loss. If the system crashed, I could easily pull the information from a secondary computer, the T-drive, or one of the CD-RWs.If another analysts wanted to access my data, but I was unavailable she could find my published products directory on the T-drive or on the CD-RWs. I sorted all of my products or research by date, time, and group; and updated the information on each of the storage methods to ensure that the latest information was available to them.During the deployment I had several of the D6-A machines crash on me. Whenever one of the computer crashed, I usually lost information but the redundancy method ensured my ability to quickly restore old backup data and add my current information to the machine when it was repaired or replaced.I stored the backup CD-RW with larger datasets in the conference room of the T-SCIF or next to my workstation. I marked the CD-RWs based on the classification level and its content. Unclassified CD-RWs were only labeled with the content type and not marked with classification markings. Early on in the deployment, I only saved and stored the SigActs that were within or near operational environment.Later I thought it would be easier to just to save all of the SigActs onto a CD-RW. The process would not take very long to complete and so I downloaded the SigActs from CIDNE-I onto a CD-RW. After finishing with CIDNE-I, I did the same with CIDNE-A. By retrieving the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs I was able to retrieve the information whenever I needed it, and not rely upon the unreliable and slow SIPRnet connectivity needed to pull. Instead, I could just find the CD-RW and open up a pre-loaded spreadsheet.This process began in late December 2009 and continued through early January 2010. I could quickly export one month of the SigAct data at a time and download in the background as I did other tasks.The process took approximately a week for each table. After downloading the SigAct tables, I periodically updated them, by pulling the most recent SigActs and simply copying them and pasting them into the database saved on the CD-RW. I never hid the fact that I had downloaded copies of both the SigAct tables from CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A. They were stored on appropriately labeled and marked CD-RW, stored in the open.I viewed this the saving copies of CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A as for both for my use and the use of anyone within the S2 section during the SIPRnet connectivity issues.In addition to the SigAct tables, I had a large repository of HUMINT reports and Counter IED reports downloaded from CIDNE-I. These contained reports that were relevant to the area in and around our operational environment in Eastern Baghdad and the Diyala Province of Iraq.In order to compress the data to fit onto a CD-RW, I used a compression algorithm called "bzip2". The program used to compress the data is called WinRAR. WinRAR is an application that is free, and can be easily downloaded from the internet via the Non-Secure Internet Relay Protocol Network or NIPRnet. I downloaded WinRAR on NIPRnet and transfered it to the D6-A machine user profile desktop using a CD-RW. I did not try to hide the fact that I was downloading WinRAR onto my SIPRnet D6-A machine or computer.With the assistance of the bzip2 algorithm using the WinRAR program, I was able to fit All of the SigActs onto a single CD-RW and relevant HUMINT and Counter ID reports onto a separate CD-RW.__Facts regarding my knowledge of the WikiLeaks organization or WLOI first became vaguely aware of the WLO during my AIT at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, although I did not fully pay attention until the WLO released purported Short Messaging System or SMS messages from 11 September 2001 on 25 November 2009. At that time references to the release and the WLO website showed up in my daily Google news open source search for information related to US foreign policy.The stories were about how WLO published about approximately 500,000 messages. I then reviewed the messages myself and realized that the posted messages were very likely real given the sheer volume and detail of the content.After this, I began conducting research on WLO. I conducted searched on both NIPRnet and SIPRnet on WLO beginning in late November 2009 and early December 2009. At this time I also began to routinely monitor the WLO website. In response to one of my searches in 2009, I found the United States Army Counter Intelligence Center or USACIC report on the WikiLeaks organization. After reviewing the report, I believed that this report was possibly the one that my AIT referenced in early 2008.I may or may not have saved the report on my D6-A workstation. I know I reviewed the document on other occasions throughout early 2010, and saved it on both my primary and secondary laptops. After reviewing the report, I continued doing research on WLO. However, based upon my open-source collection, I discovered information that contradicted the 2008 USACIC report including information that indicated that similar to other press agencies, WLO seemed to be dedicated to exposing illegal activities and corruption.WLO received numerous award and recognition for its reporting activities. Also, in reviewing the WLO website, I found information regarding US military SOPs for Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and information on the then outdated rules of engagement for ROE in Iraq for cross-border pursuits of former members of Saddam Hussein [missed word] government.After seeing the information available on the WLO website, I continued following it and collecting open sources information from it. During this time period, I followed several organizations and groups including wire press agencies such as the Associated Press and Reuters and private intelligence agencies including Strategic Forecasting or Stratfor. This practice was something I was trained to do during AIT, and was something that good analysts were expected to do.During the searches of WLO, I found several pieces of information that I found useful in my work product in my work as an analyst, specifically I recall WLO publishing documents related to weapons trafficking between two nations that affected my OP. I integrated this information into one or more of my work products.In addition to visiting the WLO website, I began following WLO using Instand Relay Chat or IRC Client called XChat sometime in early January 2010.IRC is a protocol for real time internet communications by messaging and conferencing, colloquially referred to as chat rooms or chats. The IRC chat rooms are designed for group communication discussion forums. Each IRC chat room is called a channel – similar to a Television where you can tune in or follow a channel – so long as it is open and does not require [missed word].Once you [missed word] a specific IRC conversation, other users in the conversation can see that you have joined the room. On the Internet there are millions of different IRC channels across several services. Channel topics span a range of topics covering all kinds of interests and hobbies. The primary reason for following WLO on IRC was curiosity – particularly in regards to how and why they obtained the SMS messages referenced above. I believed that collecting information on the WLO would assist me in this goal.Initially I simply observed the IRC conversations. I wanted to know how the organization was structured, and how they obtained their data. The conversations I viewed were usually technical in nature but sometimes switched to a lively debate on issue the particular individual may have felt strongly about.Over a period of time I became more involved in these discussions especially when conversations turned to geopolitical events and information technology topics, such as networking and encryption methods. Based on these observations, I would describe the WL organization as almost academic in nature. In addition to the WLO conversations, I participated in numerous other IRC channels acros at least three different networks. The other IRC channels I participated in normally dealt with technical topics including with Linux and Berkley Secure Distribution BSD operating systems or OSs, networking, encryption algorithms and techniques and other more political topics, such as politics and [missed word].I normally engaged in multiple IRC conversations simultaneously –mostly publicly, but often privately. The XChat client enabled me to manage these multiple conversations across different channels and servers. The screen for XChat was often busy, but its screens enabled me to see when something was interesting. I would then select the conversation and either observe or participate.I really enjoyed the IRC conversations pertaining to and involving the WLO, however, at some point in late February or early March of 2010, the WLO IRC channel was no longer accessible. Instead, regular participants of this channel switched to using the Jabber server. Jabber is another internet communication [missed word] similar but more sophisticated than IRC.The IRC and Jabber conversations, allowed me to feel connected to others even when alone. They helped pass the time and keep motivated throughout the deployment.__Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the SigActsAs indicated above I created copies of the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables as part of the process of backing up information. At the time I did so, I did not intend to use this information for any purpose other than for back up. However, I later decided to release this information publicly. At that time, I believe and still believe that these tables are two of the most significant documents of our time.On 8 January 2010, I collected the CD-RW I stored in the conference room of the T-SCIF and placed it into the cargo pocket of my ACU or Army Combat Uniform. At the end of my shift, I took the CD-RW out of the T-SCIF and brought it to my Containerized Housing Unit of CHU. I copied the data onto my personal laptop. Later at the beginning of my shift, I returned the CD-RW back to the conference room of the T-SCIF. At the time I saved the SigActs to my laptop, I planned to take them with me on mid-tour leave and decide what to do with them.At some point prior to my mid-tour, I transfered the information from my computer to a Secure Digital memory card from my digital camera. The SD card for the camera also worked on my computer and allowed me to store the SigAct tables in a secure manner for transport.I began mid-tour leave on 23 January 2010, flying from Atlanta, Georgia to Reagan National Airport in Virginia. I arrived at the home of my aunt, Debra M. Van Alstyne, in Potomac, Maryland and quickly got into contact with my then boyfriend, Tyler R. Watkins. Tyler, then a student at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and I made plans for me to visit him him Boston, Massachusetts [missed word].I was excited to see Tyler and planned on talking to Tyler about where our relationship was going and about my time in Iraq. However, when I arrived in the Boston area Tyler and I seemed to become distant. He did not seem very excited about my return from Iraq. I tried talking to him about our relationship but he refused to make any plans.I also tried to raising the topic of releasing the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigAct tables to the public. I asked Tyler hypothetical questions about what he would do if he had documents that he thought the public needed access to. Tyler really didn't have a specific answer for me. He tried to answer the questions and be supportive, but seemed confused by the question in this context.I then tried to be more specific, but he asked too many questions. Rather than try to explain my dilemma, I decided to just drop the conversation. After a few days in Waltham, I began to feel really bad. I was over staying my welcome, and I returned to Maryland. I spent the remainder of my time on leave in the Washington, DC area.During this time a blizzard bombarded the mid-atlantic, and I spent a significant period of time essentially stuck in my aunt's house in Maryland. I began to think about what I knew and the information I still had in my possession. For me, the SigActs represented the on the ground reality of both the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.I felt that we were risking so much for people that seemed unwilling to cooperate with us, leading to frustration and anger on both sides. I began to become depressed with the situation that we found ourselves increasingly mired in year after year. The SigActs documented this in great detail and provide a context of what we were seeing on the ground.In attempting to conduct counter-terrorism or CT and counter-insurgency COIN operations we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and not being suspicious of and avoiding cooperation with our Host Nation partners, and ignoring the second and third order effects of accomplishing short-term goals and missions. I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as [missed word] as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.I also believed the detailed analysis of the data over a long period of time by different sectors of society might cause society to reevaluate the need or even the desire to even to engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the effected environment everyday.At my aunt's house I debated what I should do with the SigActs – in particular whether I should hold on to them – or expose them through a press agency. At this point I decided that it made sense to try to expose the SigAct tables to an American newspaper. I first called my local news paper, The Washington Post, and spoke with a woman saying that she was a reporter. I asked her if the Washington Post would be interested in receiving information that would have enormous value to the American public.Although we spoke for about five minutes concerning the general nature of what I possessed, I do not believe she took me seriously. She informed me that the Washington Post would possibly be interested, but that such decisions were made only after seeing the information I was referring to and after consideration by senior editors.I then decided to contact [missed word] the most popular newspaper, The New York Times. I called the public editor number on The New York Times website. The phone rang and was answered by a machine. I went through the menu to the section for news tips. I was routed to an answering machine. I left a message stating I had access to information about Iraq and Afghanistan that I believed was very important. However, despite leaving my Skype phone number and personal email address, I never received a reply from The New York Times.I also briefly considered dropping into the office for the Political Commentary blog, Politico, however the weather conditions during my leave hampered my efforts to travel. After these failed efforts I had ultimately decided to submit the materials to the WLO. I was not sure if the WLO would actually publish these SigAct tables [missed a few words]. I was concerned that they might not be noticed by the American media. However, based upon what I read about the WLO through my research described above, this seemed to be the best medium for publishing this information to the world within my reach.At my aunts house I joined in on an IRC conversation and stated I had information that needed to be shared with the world. I wrote that the information would help document the true cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the individuals in the IRC asked me to describe the information. However, before I could describe the information another individual pointed me to the link for the WLO web site online submission system. After ending my IRC connection, I considered my options one more time. Ultimately, I felt that the right thing to do was to release the SigActs.On 3 February 2010, I visited the WLO website on my computer and clicked on the submit documents link. Next I found the submit your information online link and elected to submit the SigActs via the onion router or TOR anonymizing network by special link. TOR is a system intended to provide anonymity online. The software routes internet traffic through a network of servers and other TOR clients in order to conceal the user's location and identity.I was familiar with TOR and had it previously installed on a computer to anonymously monitor the social media website of militia groups operating within central Iraq. I followed the prompts and attached the compressed data files of CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs. I attached a text file I drafted while preparing to provide the documents to the Washington Post. It provided rough guidelines saying: "It's already been sanitized of any source identifying information. You might need to sit on this information – perhaps 90 to 100 days to figure out how best to release such a large amount of data and to protect its source. This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day."After sending this, I left the SD card in a camera case at my aunt's house in the event I needed it again in the future. I returned from mid-tour leave on 11 February 2010. Although the information had not yet been publicly by the WLO, I felt this sense of relief by them having it. I felt I had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what I had seen and read about and knew were happening in both Iraq and Afghanistan everyday.__Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of 10 Reykjavik 13I first became aware of the diplomatic cables during my training period in AIT. I later learned about the Department of State or DoS Net-centric Diplomacy NCD portal from the 2/10 Brigade Combat Team S2, Captain Steven Lim. Captain Lim sent a section wide email to the other analysts and officer in late December 2009 containing the SIPRnet link to the portal along with the instructions to look at the cables contained within them and to incorporate them into our work product.Shortly after this I also noticed the diplomatic cables were being reported to in products from the corp level US Forces Iraq or US-I. Based upon Captain Lim's direction to become familiar with its contents, I read virtually every published cable concerning Iraq.I also began scanning the database and reading other random cables that piqued my curiosity. It was around this time – in early to mid-January of 2010, that I began searching the database for information on Iceland. I became interested in Iceland due to the IRC conversations I viewed in the WLO channel discussing an issue called Icesave. At this time I was not very familiar with the topic, but it seemed to be a big issue for those participating in the conversation. This is when I decided to investigate and conduct a few searches on Iceland and find out more.At the time, I did not find anything discussing the Icesave issue either directly or indirectly. I then conducted an open source search for Icesave. I then learned that Iceland was involved in a dispute with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands concerning the financial collapse of one or more of Iceland's banks. According to open source reporting much of the public controversy involved the United Kingdom's use of anti-terrorism legislation against Iceland in order to freeze Icelandic access for payment of the guarantees for UK depositors that lost money.Shortly after returning from mid-tour leave, I returned to the Net Centric Diplomacy portal to search for information on Iceland and Icesave as the topic had not abated on the WLO IRC channel. To my surprise, on 14 February 2010, I found the cable 10 Reykjavik 13, which referenced the Icesave issue directly.The cable published on 13 January 2010 was just over two pages in length. I read the cable and quickly concluded that Iceland was essentially being bullied diplomatically by two larger European powers. It appeared to me that Iceland was out viable options and was coming to the US for assistance. Despite the quiet request for assistance, it did not appear that we were going to do anything. From my perspective it appeared that we were not getting involved due to the lack of long term geopolitical benefit to do so. After digesting the contents of 10 Reykjavik 13 I debated whether this was something I should send to the WLO. At this point the WLO had not published or acknowledged receipt of the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables. Despite not knowing that the SigActs were a priority for the WLO, I decided the cable was something that would be important. I felt that I would be able to right a wrong by having them publish this document. I burned the information onto a CD-RW on 15 February 2010, took it to my CHU, and saved it onto my personal laptop.I navigated to the WLO website via a TOR connection like before and uploaded the document via the secure form. Amazingly, when WLO published 10 Reykjavik 13 within hours, proving that the form worked and that they must have received the SigAct tables.__Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team or AW team videoDuring the mid-February 2010 time frame the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division targeting analysts, then Specialist Jihrleah W. Showman discussed a video that Ms. Showman had found on the T-drive.The video depicted several individuals being engaged by an aerial weapons team. At first I did not consider the video very special, as I have viewed countless other war porn type videos depicting combat. However, the recording of audio comments by the aerial weapons team crew and the second engagement in the video of an unarmed bongo truck troubled me.As Showman and a few other analysts and officers in the T-SCIF commented on the video and debated whether the crew violated the rules of engagement or ROE in the second engagement, I shied away from this debate, instead conducting some research on the event. I wanted to learn what happened and whether there was any background to the events of the day that the event occurred, 12 July 2007.Using Google I searched for the event by its date by its general location. I found several new accounts involving two Reuters employees who were killed during the aerial weapon team engagement. Another story explained that Reuters had requested for a copy of the video under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA. Reuters wanted to view the video in order to understand what had happened and to improve their safety practices in combat zones. A spokesperson for Reuters was quoted saying that the video might help avoid the reoccurrence of the tragedy and believed there was a compelling need for the immediate release of the video.Despite the submission of the FOIA request, the news account explained that CENTCOM replied to Reuters stating that they could not give a time frame for considering a FOIA request and that the video might no longer exist. Another story I found written a year later said that even though Reuters was still pursuing their request. They still did not receive a formal response or written determination in accordance with FOIA.The fact neither CENTCOM or Multi National Forces Iraq or MNF-I would not voluntarily release the video troubled me further. It was clear to me that the event happened because the aerial weapons team mistakenly identified Reuters employees as a potential threat and that the people in the bongo truck were merely attempting to assist the wounded. The people in the van were not a threat but merely "good samaritans". The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have.The dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote "dead bastards" unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers. At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the location, one of the aerial weapons team crew members verbally asks for the wounded person to pick up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage. For me, this seems similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass.While saddened by the aerial weapons team crew's lack of concern about human life, I was disturbed by the response of the discovery of injured children at the scene. In the video, you can see that the bongo truck driving up to assist the wounded individual. In response the aerial weapons team crew – as soon as the individuals are a threat, they repeatedly request for authorization to fire on the bongo truck and once granted they engage the vehicle at least six times.Shortly after the second engagement, a mechanized infantry unit arrives at the scene. Within minutes, the aerial weapons team crew learns that children were in the van and despite the injuries the crew exhibits no remorse. Instead, they downplay the significance of their actions, saying quote "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle" unquote.The aerial weapons team crew members sound like they lack sympathy for the children or the parents. Later in a particularly disturbing manner, the aerial weapons team verbalizes enjoyment at the sight of one of the ground vehicles driving over a body – or one of the bodies. As I continued my research, I found an article discussing the book, The Good Soldiers, written by Washington Post writer David Finkel.In Mr. Finkel book, he writes about the aerial weapons team attack. As, I read an online excerpt in Google Books, I followed Mr. Finkel's account of the event belonging to the video. I quickly realize that Mr. Finkel was quoting, I feel in verbatim, the audio communications of the aerial weapons team crew.It is clear to me that Mr. Finkel obtained access and a copy of the video during his tenue as an embedded journalist. I was aghast at Mr. Finkel's portrayal of the incident. Reading his account, one would believe the engagement was somehow justified as "payback" for an earlier attack that lead to the death of a soldier. Mr. Finkel ends his account by discussing how a soldier finds an individual still alive from the attack. He writes that the soldier finds him and sees him gesture with his two forefingers together, a common method in the Middle East to communicate that they are friendly. However, instead of assisting him, the soldier makes an obscene gesture extending his middle finger.The individual apparently dies shortly thereafter. Reading this, I can only think of how this person was simply trying to help others, and then he quickly finds he needs help as well. To make matter worse, in the last moments of his life, he continues to express his friendly gesture – only to find himself receiving this well known gesture of unfriendliness. For me it's all a big mess, and I am left wondering what these things mean, and how it all fits together. It burdens me emotionally.I saved a copy of the video on my workstation. I searched for and found the rules of engagement, the rules of engagement annexes, and a flow chart from the 2007 time period – as well as an unclassified Rules of Engagement smart card from 2006. On 15 February 2010 I burned these documents onto a CD-RW, the same time I burned the 10 Reykjavik 13 cable onto a CD-RW. At the time, I placed the video and rules for engagement information onto my personal laptop in my CHU. I planned to keep this information there until I redeployed in Summer 2010. I planned on providing this to the Reuters office in London to assist them in preventing events such as this in the future.However, after the WLO published 10 Reykjavik 13 I altered my plans. I decided to provide the video and the rules of engagement to them so that Reuters would have this information before I re-deployed from Iraq. On about 21 February 2010, I described above, I used the WLO submission form and uploaded the documents. The WLO released the video on 5 April 2010. After the release, I was concern about the impact of the video and how it would been received by the general public.I hoped that the public would be as alarmed as me about the conduct of the aerial weapons team crew members. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare. After the release I was encouraged by the response in the media and general public, who observed the aerial weapons team video. As I hoped, others were just as troubled – if not more troubled that me by what they saw.At this time, I began seeing reports claiming that the Department of Defense an CENTCOM could not confirm the authenticity of the video. Additionally, one of my supervisors, Captain Casey Fulton, stated her belief that the video was not authentic. In her response, I decided to ensure that the authenticity of the video would not be questioned in the future. On 25 February 2010, I emailed Captain Fulton, a link to the video that was on our T-drive, and a copy of the video published by WLO that was collected by the open source center, so she could compare them herself.Around this time frame, I burned a second CD-RW containing the aerial weapons team video. In order to made it appear authentic, I placed a classification sticker and wrote Reuters FOIA REQ on its face. I placed the CD-RW in one of my personal CD cases containing a set of "Starting Out in Arabic" CD's. I planned on mailing out the CD-RW to Reuters after our re-deployment, so they could have a copy that was unquestionably authentic.Almost immediately after submitting the aerial weapons team video and rules of engagement documents I notified the individuals in the WLO IRC to expect an important submission. I received a response from an individual going by the handle of "Ox" - at first our conversations were general in nature, but over time as our conversations progressed, I accessed this individual to be an important part of the WLO.Due to the strict adherence of anonymity by the WLO, we never exchanged identifying information. However, I believe the individual was likely Mr. Julian Assange [he pronounced it with three syllables], Mr. Daniel Schmidt, or a proxy representative of Mr. Assange and Schmidt.As the communications transfered from IRC to the Jabber client, I gave "Ox" and later "pressassociation" the name of Nathaniel Frank in my address book, after the author of a book I read in 2009.After a period of time, I developed what I felt was a friendly relationship with Nathaniel. Our mutual interest in information technology and politics made our conversations enjoyable. We engaged in conversation often. Sometimes as long as an hour or more. I often looked forward to my conversations with Nathaniel after work.The anonymity that was provided by TOR and the Jabber client and the WLO's policy allowed me to feel I could just be myself, free of the concerns of social labeling and perceptions that are often placed upon me in real life. In real life, I lacked a closed friendship with the people I worked with in my section, the S2 section.In my section, the S2 section supported battalions and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team as a whole. For instance, I lacked close ties with my roommate to his discomfort regarding my perceived sexual orientation. Over the next few months, I stayed in frequent contact with Nathaniel. We conversed on nearly a daily basis and I felt that we were developing a friendship.Conversations covered many topics and I enjoyed the ability to talk about pretty much everything, and not just the publications that the WLO was working on. In retrospect that these dynamics were artificial and were valued more by myself than Nathaniel. For me these conversations represented an opportunity to escape from the immense pressures and anxiety that I experienced and built up through out the deployment. It seems that as I tried harder to fit in at work, the more I seemed to alienate my peers and lose respect, trust, and support I needed.__Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of documents related to the detainments by the Iraqi Federal Police or FP, and the detainee assessment briefs, and the USACIC United States Army counter-intelligence center reportOn 27 February 2010, a report was received from a subordinate battalion. The report described an event in which the Federal Police or FP detained 15 individuals for printing anti-Iraqi literature. On 2 March 2010, I received instructions from an S3 section officer in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Tactical Operation Center or TOC to investigate the matter, and figure out who the quote "bad guys" unquote were and how significant this event was for the Federal Police.Over the course of my research I found that none of the individuals had previous ties to anti-Iraqi actions or suspected terrorist militia groups. A few hours later, I received several [playlist?] from the scene – from this subordinate battalion. They were accidentally sent to an officer on a different team on the S2 section and she forwarded them to me.These photos included picture of the individuals, pallets of unprinted paper and seized copies of the final printed material or the printed document; and a high resolution photo of the printed material itself. I printed up one [missed word] copy of a high resolution photo – I laminated it for ease of use and transfer. I then walked to the TOC and delivered the laminated copy to our category two interpreter.She reviewed the information and about a half and hour later delivered a rough written transcript in English to the S2 section. I read the transcript and followed up with her, asking her for her take on the content. She said it was easy for her to transcribe verbatim, since I blew up the photograph and laminated it. She said the general nature of the document was benign. The document, as I had sensed as well, was merely a scholarly critique of the then current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.It detailed corruption within the cabinet of al-Maliki's government and the financial impact of his corruption on the Iraqi people. After discovering this discrepancy between the Federal Police's report and the interpreter's transcript, I forwarded this discovery to the top OIC and the battle NCOIC. The top OIC and the overhearing battle captain informed me that they didn't need or want to know this information anymore. They told me to quote "drop it" unquote and to just assist them and the Federal Police in finding out, where more of these print shops creating quote "anti-Iraqi literature" unquote.I couldn't believe what I heard and I returned to the T-SCIF and complained to the other analysts and my section NCOIC about what happened. Some were sympathetic, but no one wanted to do anything about it.I am the type of person who likes to know how things work. And, as an analyst, this means I always want to figure out the truth. Unlike other analysts in my section or other sections within the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, I was not satisfied with just scratching the surface and producing canned or cookie cutter assessments. I wanted to know why something was the way it was, and what we could to correct or mitigate a situation.I knew that if I continued to assist the Baghdad Federal Police in identifying the political opponents of Prime Minister al-Maliki, those people would be arrested and in the custody of the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police and very likely tortured and not seen again for a very long time – if ever.Instead of assisting the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police, I decided to take the information and expose it to the WLO, in the hope that before the upcoming 7 March 2010 election, they could generate some immediate press on the issue and prevent this unit of the Federal Police from continuing to crack down in political opponents of al-Maliki.On 4 March 2010, I burned the report, the photos, the high resolution copy of the pamphlet, and the interpreters hand written transcript onto a CD-RW. I took the CD-RW to my CHU and copied the data onto my personal computer. Unlike the times before, instead of uploading the information through the WLO website submission form. I made a Secure File Transfer Protocol or SFTP connection to a file drop box operated by the WLO.The drop box contained a folder that allowed me to upload directly into it. Saving files into this directory. Allowed anyone with log in access to server to view and download them. After uploading these files to the WLO, on 5 March 2010, I notified Nathaniel over Jabber. Although sympathetic, he said that the WLO needed more information to confirm the event in order for it to be published or to gain interest in the international media.I attempted to provide the specifics, but to my disappointment, the WLO website chose not to publish this information. At the same time, I began sifting through information from the US Southern Command or SOUTHCOM and Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Cuba or JTF-GTMO. The thought occurred to me – although unlikely, that I wouldn't be surprised if the individuals detainees by the Federal Police might be turned over back into US custody – and ending up in the custody of Joint Task Force Guantanamo.As I digested through the information on Joint Task Force Guantanamo, I quickly found the Detainee Assessment Briefs or DABs. I previously came across the documents before in 2009 but did not think much about them. However, this time I was more curious in this search and I found them again.The DABs were written in standard DoD memorandum format and addressed the commander US SOUTHCOM. Each memorandum gave basic and background information about a detainee held at some point by Joint Task Force Guantanamo. I have always been interested on the issue of the moral efficacy of our actions surrounding Joint Task Force Guantanamo. On the one hand, I have always understood the need to detain and interrogate individuals who might wish to harm the United States and our allies, however, I felt that what we were trying to do at Joint Task Force Guantanamo.However, the more I became educated on the topic, it seemed that we found ourselves holding an increasing number of individuals indefinitely that we believed or knew to be innocent, low level foot soldiers that did not have useful intelligence and would be released if they were still held in theater.I also recall that in early 2009 the, then newly elected president, Barack Obama, stated that he would close Joint Task Force Guantanamo, and that the facility compromised our standing over all, and diminished our quote "moral authority" unquote.After familiarizing myself with the Detainee Assessment Briefs, I agree. Reading through the Detainee Assessment Briefs, I noticed that they were not analytical products, instead they contained summaries of tear line versions of interim intelligence reports that were old or unclassified. None of the DABs contained the names of sources or quotes from tactical interrogation reports or TIRs. Since the DABs were being sent to the US SOUTHCOM commander, I assessed that they were intended to provide very general background information on each of the detainees and not a detailed assessment.In addition to the manner in which the DABs were written, I recognized that they were at least several years old, and discussed detainees that were already released from Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Based on this, I determined that the DAB's were not very important fro either an intelligence or a national security standpoint. On 7 March 2010, during my Jabber conversation with Nathaniel, I asked him if he thought the DAB's were of any use to anyone.Nathaniel indicated, although he did not believe that they were of political significance, he did believe that they could be used to merge into the general historical account of what occurred at Joint Task Force Guantanamo. He also thought that the DABs might be helpful to the legal counsel of those currently and previously held at JTF-GTMO.After this discussion, I decided to download the data. I used an application called Wget to download the DAB's. I downloaded Wget off of the NIPRnet laptop in the T-SCIF, like other programs. I saved that onto a CD-RW, and placed the executable in my "My Documents" directory on my user profile, on the D6-A SIPRnet workstation.On 7 March 2010, I took the list of links for the detainee assessment briefs, and Wget downloaded them sequentially. I burned the data onto a CD-RW, and took it into my CHU, and copied them onto my personal computer. On 8 March 2010, I combined the Detainee Assessment Briefs with the United States Army Counterintelligence Center reports on the WLO, into a compressed IP file. Zip files contain multiple files which are compressed to reduce their size.After creating the zip file, I uploaded the file onto their cloud drop box via Secure File Transfer Protocol. Once these were uploaded, I notified Nathaniel that the information was in the X-directory, which had been designated for my own use. Earlier that day, I downloaded the USACIC report on WLO.As discussed about, I previously reviewed the report on numerous occasions and although I saved the document onto the work station before, I could not locate it. After I found the document again, I downloaded it to my work station, and saved it onto the same CD-RW as the Detainee Assessment Briefs described above.Although my access included a great deal of information, I decided I had nothing else to send to WLO after sending the Detainee Assessment Briefs and the USACIC report. Up to this point I had sent them the following: the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs tables; the Reykjavik 13 Department of State Cable; the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team video and the 2006-2007 rules of engagement documents; the SigAct report and supporting documents concerning the 15 individuals detained by the Baghdad Federal Police; the USSOUTHCOM and Joint Task Force Guantanamo Detainee Assessment Briefs; a USACIC report on the WikiLeaks website and the WikiLeaks organization.Over the next few weeks I did not send any additional information to the WLO. I continued to converse with Nathaniel over the Jabber client and in the WLO IRC channel. Although I stopped sending documents to WLO, no one associated with the WLO pressures me into giving more information. The decisions that I made to send documents and information to the WLO and the website were my own decisions, and I take full responsibility for my actions.__Facts regarding the unauthorized disclosure of other government documentsOne 22 March 2010, I downloaded two documents. I found these documents over the course of my normal duties as an analysts. Based on my training and the guidance of my superiors, I look at as much information as possible.Doings so provided me with the ability to make connections that others might miss. On several occasions during the month of March, I accessed information from a Government entity. I read several documents from a section within this Government entity. The content of two of these documents upset me greatly. I had difficulty believing what this section was doing.On 22 March 2010, I downloaded the two documents that I found troubling. I compressed them into a zip file named blah.zip and burned them onto a CD-RW. I took the CD-RW to my CHU and saved the file to my personal computer.I uploaded the information to the WLO website using the designated prompts.__Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the net-centric diplomacy Department of State cablesIn late March of 2010, I received a warning over Jabber from Nathaniel, that the WLO website would be publishing the aerial weapons team video. He indicated that the WLO would be very busy and the frequency and intensity of our Jabber conversations decrease significantly. During this time, I had nothing but work to distract me.I read more of the diplomatic cables published on the Department of State Net Centric Diplomacy. With my insatiable curiosity and interest in geopolitics I became fascinated with them. I read not only the cables on Iraq, but also about countries and events that I found interesting.The more I read, the more I was fascinated with the way that we dealt with other nations and organizations. I also began to think the documented backdoor deals and seemingly criminal activity that didn't seem characteristic of the de facto leader of the free world.Up to this point,during the deployment, I had issues I struggled with and difficulty at work. Of the documents release, the cables were the only one I was not absolutely certain couldn't harm the United States. I conducted research on the cables published on the Net Centric Diplomacy, as well as how Department of State cables worked in general.In particular, I wanted to know how each cable was published on SIRPnet via the Net Centric Diplomacy. As part of my open source research, I found a document published by the Department of State on its official website.The document provided guidance on caption markings for individual cables and handling instructions for their distribution. I quickly learned the caption markings clearly detailed the sensitivity of the Department of State cables. For example, NODIS or No Distribution was used for messages at the highest sensitivity and were only distributed to the authorized recipients.The SIPDIS or SIPRnet distribution caption was applied only to recording of other information messages that were deemed appropriate for a release for a wide number of individuals. According to the Department of State guidance for a cable to have the SIPDIS [missed word] caption, it could not include other captions that were intended to limit distribution.The SIPDIS caption was only for information that could only be shared with anyone with access to SIPRnet. I was aware that thousands of military personel, DoD, Department of State, and other civilian agencies had easy access to the tables. The fact that the SIPDIS caption was only for wide distribution made sense to me, given that the vast majority of the Net Centric Diplomacy Cables were not classified.The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that should become public. I once read a and used a quote on open diplomacy written after the First World War and how the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other.I thought these cables were a prime example of a need for a more open diplomacy. Given all of the Department of State cables that I read, the fact that most of the cables were unclassified, and that all the cables have a SIPDIS caption.I believe that the public release of these cables would not damage the United States, however, I did believe that the cables might be embarrassing, since they represented very honest opinions and statements behind the backs of other nations and organizations.In many ways these cables are a catalogue of cliques and gossip. I believed exposing this information might make some within the Department of State and other government entities unhappy. On 22 March 2010, I began downloading a copy of the SIPDIS cables using the program Wget, described above.I used instances of the Wget application to download the Net Centric Diplomacy cables in the background. As I worked on my daily tasks, the Net centric Diplomacy cables were downloaded from 28 March 2010 to 9 April 2010. After downloading the cables, I saved them on to a CD-RW.These cables went from the earliest dates in Net Centric Diplomacy to 28 February 2010. I took the CD-RW to my CHU on 10 April 2010. I sorted the cables on my personal computer, compressed them using the bzip2 compression algorithm described above, and uploaded them to the WLO via designated drop box described above.On 3 May 2010, I used Wget to download and update of the cables for the months of March 2010 and April 2010 and saved the information onto a zip file and burned it to a CD-RW. I then took the CD-RW to my CHU and saved those to my computer. I later found that the file was corrupted during the transfer. Although I intended to re-save another copy of these cables, I was removed from the T-SCIF on 8 May 2010 after an altercation.__Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of Garani, Farah Province Afghanistan 15-6 Investigation and VideosIn late March 2010, I discovered a US CENTCOM directly on a 2009 airstrike in Afghanistan. I was searching CENTCOM I could use as an analyst. As described above, this was something that myself and other officers did on a frequent basis. As I reviewed the incident and what happened. The airstrike occurred in the Garani village in the Farah Province, Northwestern Afghanistan. It received worldwide press coverage during the time as it was reported that up to 100 to 150 Afghan civilians – mostly women and children – were accidentally killed during the airstrike.After going through the report and the [missed word] annexes, I began to review the incident as being similar to the 12 July 2007 aerial weapons team engagements in Iraq. However, this event was noticeably different in that it involved a significantly higher number of individuals, larger aircraft and much heavier munitions. Also, the conclusions of the report are more disturbing than those of the July 2007 incident.I did not see anything in the 15-6 report or its annexes that gave away sensitive information. Rather, the investigation and its conclusions were and what those involved should have done, and how to avoid an event like this from occurring again.After investigating the report and its annexes, I downloaded the 15-6 investigation, PowerPoint presentations, and several other supporting documents to my D6-A workstation. I also downloaded three zip files containing the videos of the incident. I burned this information onto a CD-RW and transfered it to the personal computer in my CHU. I did later that day or the next day – I uploaded the information to the WL website this time using a new version of the WLO website submission form.Unlike other times using the submission form above, I did not activate the TOR anonymizer.Your honor, this concludes my statement and facts for this providence inquiry.
This represents a breakthrough of sort perhaps breakthroughs in severaldirections.Note that my only connection to House of Cards is to have watched theepisodes on Netflix.Mfrom: friendsofeliel [mailto:friendsofeliel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org] sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 1:47 PMto: friendsofeliel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.orgsubject: House of Cardshttp://www.friendsofeli.com/live/video_popup.php/House_of_Cards.pdf?id=72<http://www.friendsofeli.com/live/video_popup.php/House_of_Cards.pdf?id=72&download=1&bipass=1&start_dl=1> &download=1&bipass=1&start_dl=1Hello Friends, Family, and Neighbors,I hope that you and yours are all doing well. As you may know, "House ofCards" has been release on Netflix. I appear in episode 7 as "CongressmanWilkins". See the file / pdf. Please call Asif Satchu and request that Iappear as "Congress Wilkins" as a recurring role and that you would view theseries if his character returns for season 2. Here is his information:* Asif Satchu, 310-786-1600Warm Regards,EliPhone: 301-906-1292http://www.friendsofeli.com/live/video_popup.php/House_of_Cards.pdf?id=72<http://www.friendsofeli.com/live/video_popup.php/House_of_Cards.pdf?id=72&download=1&bipass=1&start_dl=1> &download=1&bipass=1&start_dl=1
Sergey Brin: Smartphones are 'emasculating'http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57571612-94/sergey-brin-smartphones-are-emasculating/Maybe these pictures tell a bigger story. It’s safe to assume that Brin’s role at Google is ‘limited’ to overseeing development of new technologies. Just look how different his photo is from the uniform style of the rest of Google’s leadership (http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/).This makes me think that Brin does not go through Google’s PR team before making public remarks such as smartphones are ‘emasculating’. He speaks as a genuine engineer.Perhaps this is done on purpose. Google lets Brin speak privacy-defying futuristic stuff in order to check how people feel about self-driving cars, digital glasses, etc. It’s not hard to imagine the following feedback loop – Brin conveys what he thinks are the benefits of Google glasses over current mobile devices -> Google observes whether people worry about privacy implications -> Google scales down its vision and ships a product with less uncanny features. Repeat. And everytime Google iterates, an additional inch of the original vision is gained.# distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission# <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets# more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l# archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime< at >kein.org
more out of sadness than anything else, i respond to the invitation ofgerman friends to explain wtf happened in the recent Italian generalelections.Quick summary: monti and austerity lost, the mummy is back (ohnooooo!), grillo, casaleggio and the 5-star movement won, but thecenterleft didn't lose by a whisker (and has absolute majority in thelower house and a wafer-thin relative majority in the upper house).Right now the government of Italy is unknown (it ain't the onlytop job vacant in Rome - everything is pretty vacant;). Grillo isconstantly upping the ante and who knows at this stage whether the5star MPs will give the external backing to bring a centerleftgovernment into life (as probably the majority of Italians want)or whether a fateful Grosse Koalition is in the works (it'd be thetombstone of the Democratic Party, militants are warning on socialnetworks). The left, split into two, fared very badly. Left EcologyFreedom (SEL) brought the left back into parliament with 40 elected inthe lower house by virtue of being in the winning coalition, but itonly commands 3% of the vote.Basically, Grillo has sucked in most of the left's and the northernleague's votes (except in Lombardy, where the green shirts win theregional gov't - in the new Lombard Reich, Milan held fast and votedcenterleft while giving much less support to Grillo than elsewhere).The young, precarious class voted 5Star in overwhelming numbers andhave rejuvenated Parliament. Entrepreneurs and professionals ruinedby the crisis also voted Grillo in droves. Salaried employees andpensioners mostly voted PD. Bersani-led PD played the whole campaignsaying they were going to be the absolute winners and ended up lookinglike the absolute losers, while Grillo filled up the piazzas of allmajor cities. The left has virtually disappeared from spaghettiland.What's next for it? Death or resurrection?The 5-star movement is a centrist populist movement that has at thetop of the agenda the purification of spaghetti politics and thecutting of its costs. It fuses online democratic participation andorganizing with charismatic leadership by the messiah, aka Beppe, andthe prophet, aka Casalecchio, who manages his web infrastructure andis the ideologue of the movement. It is part of the occupy, indignadam15 2011-201? revolutions, but is significantly less leftist thanboth. It is very legalistic (it is web libertarian, but detestsrioting), demands a basic income and is euroskeptic. Environmentalconcerns have been traditionally important, although much less duringthe electoral campaign. Grillo has also talked of suspending foreigndebt payments. But on the issue of austerity, he doesn't seem tounderstand the need for increasing spending, actually he seems to fora different kind of financial rigor than monti's. I wonder what groupM5S will be part of in the European Parliament (in the non-group,there are only nazis today).What's left of the italian movement is kinda split on the issueand there's a debate going on whether M5S is ours too or not (many5stars have a leftist past) - Wu Ming attacked its leader asreactionary, while Bifo thinks the M5S platform has many points themovement has long stood for, e.g. basic income. Grillo has beenaccused of being homophobic and mysoginist. He's also disparagedItaly's much-persecuted roms. His biggest fault is to have talked toneofascists bt saying that "antifascism doesn't concern him". That'sa point I can't tolerate, although it didn't stop 25% of Italiansgiving him the vote (while another 25% voted for Mr B's cryptofascistxenophobic promafia alliance). Leftists stand for antifascism andantiracism. And for equality. On that score, the precarious have shownto put more faith in Grillo than in Vendola (SEL's gay leader and theleft's only good orator, who also proposed basic income while speakingof the United States of Europe as a social, as well as political,imperative).My take is that this is ground zero for the spaghetti left in all itsforms, institutional or not, and we have to restart from scratch,building an online organization that decides on issues and selectsdelegates of, for, and by the people of the left, one withoutcharismatic leaders, and can thus be competitive with Grillo. Thelarger issue is what a leftist populism in Europe looks like.In the meantime, see you in Brussels on March 14 for DEMOCRACY VSEUROCRACY, for LIBERTY VS AUSTERITY - #14Mciao,lx
The Wall Street Journal's editorial take on the lessons of the Italianelections, for what it's worth - but I find it difficult to fault.Elections, Euro-Zone StyleThere are no angels available to govern, even in Brussels.The inconclusive result in Italy's election this week has sent bond yieldshigher and equity markets tumbling, as investors try to sort out the riskto the euro zone of Italian gridlock.The outcomewith Pier Luigi Bersani's center-left party slightly ahead,but lacking the votes to form a governmentalso has the EU doing what itdoes almost any time there's an election in the euro zone these days.European Council President Herman van Rompuy made the obligatory noisesabout respecting voter choice, just before making it clear that he woulddo no such thing."It is up to leading politicians to negotiate to form a government with astable situation so that reforms and consolidation of the budget cancontinue. There is no way back, there is no alternative," Mr. van Rompuysaid.German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle echoed the sentiment, insistingthat the next government continue the policies of the previous one, led bythe unelected Prime Minister Mario Monti, who raked in all of 10% of thevote this weekend.In other words, Italyor Greece, or Irelandcan have all the democracy itwants, as long as the winners take their orders not from voters, but fromBrussels or Berlin. That might seem an inflammatory way of putting it, butit's hard to see what other interpretation is possible from these kinds ofcomments.Berlin and Brussels won't put it so baldly. But their view is essentiallythis: We have decided on a course to save the euro from disintegration.Any deviation from that course is irresponsible. And they are counting onthe political elites in Italy, Spain, Greece and elsewhere to hew to thatcourse, come what may.There are at least two problems with this view. The most obvious is thatit makes a mockery of democracy. If policies can't be changed, regardlessof the outcome of elections, then the elections themselves are a farce.They are the veneer of popular sovereignty without the substance.But even if you accept that this moment is too treacherous for democraticaccountabilityto accept that responsible leaders have no choice but to goalong with the decisions made by the enlightened leadership of Europethiscourse is already proving self-defeating.In Spain, a center-right government that won in a landslide in late 2011was polling in the mid-teens even before a recent scandal over allegedillicit payments to top politicians broke out.In Greece, the single-minded focus on sticking with the policies dictatedby the EU have helped destroy Pasok, the center-left party that until lastyear was a mainstay of Greek politics. Parties of the far left and farright have been rising in Greece as the conventional parties have beendiscredited.Italy's political problems run deeper than the current crisis. But thegrand coalition that ruled for the past 15 months has fueled theperception that the mainstream parties are offering essentially the sameunpalatable program, and that only radical actionsuch as voting for BeppeGrillo's Five Star Movementhas any hope of effecting change.Decades of consensus-driven EU politicking may have convinced Europe'smainstream pols that they have no choice but to play the good European.But the people of Europe don't seem to agree.As James Madison put it, "If men were angels, no government would benecessary." Madison continues: "If angels were to govern men, neitherexternal nor internal controls on government would be necessary." But wehave democracies because we know we're not governed by angelsleaders arefallible, and sometimes venal, and everything else that human beings are.Because we know elites are not always right, we reserve the right tocashier them when necessary.Voters don't always choose wisely or well, or even coherently. But noangels are available to lead usnot even in Brussels. So we have no choicebut to persist in trying to choose as best we can.The EU, in trying to rob that choice of meaning by insisting that itspolicies be respected regardless of who wins, is playing a very dangerousgame. In insisting that "there is no alternative," Mr. van Rompuy isinviting voters to prove him wrong. They nearly did in Italy this week.
The fate of leaders and social movements associated with them is a recurring theme in my visual comments; Opendemocracy published two of them as far as I remember... this one is on Chavez...To see the big visual tableau I published on Sunday March 3 2013 got o my Flickr web site:http://flic.kr/p/dZczJF"LEADERS DIE" - the past does not last - ultimos momentos del librador from Bolivar to ChavezThroughout history social movements create leaders and vice versa... 'great leaders' weaken social movements that become over-dependent on their accumulated power and charisma. The shift in rhetorics from the revolutionary to the religious (1) in Venezuela is but a vain attempt to create an after-life for it's president and leader Hugo Chavez. "The process of beatification has begun, Hugo Chávez is becoming a figure of the unconscious, in the background, whose 'wishes' are being fulfilled by his ministers." (2)In July last year Hugo Chavez presented a 3D reconstruction of Simon Bolivar face during a presentation in the presidential palace in Caracas. (3) In true christian Catholic Church tradition a cult of the the ''liberator' from Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of a new local elite rule in so many South American nations, has been furthered by Chavez during his presidency. In his words: "Bolivar is the fight that does not end, he is born every day in ourselves, in his people, in the children, in the fight for life and for social justice." (4) A gigantic Mausoleum to which what is thought to be the remains of Simon Bolivar have been reburied, has been constructed in Caracas. (5) Chavez has embraced the theory that Simon Bolivar did not die a natural death but has been poisoned because of his insurgence against Spanish colonial rule. It is as if all this activities around the sainthood of leadership of what Chavez likes to see as his predecessor also were a foreshadowing of his own vulnerability and fears that came to a dramatic conclusion when a serious illness befell the new leader. His treatments in Cuba, the secrecy around his state of health and the rumours economics that tend to expand in such situations, led to a series of photographs showing Chavez in a Cuban hospital, reading a newspaper together with his two daughters. Reactions claiming that these pictures were a fraud, soon circulated. (6) Since the recent return of Chavez to Venezuela (live or as a corpse, also this is doubted) the lack of governmental information on his actual state remained the same. People are asked to believe those who speak in his name. ---(1) "Mass at Caracas military hospital as Chavez death rumour denied"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqw0ZYtDtoc&feature=youtube_gdata_player" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqw0ZYtDtoc&feature=youtube_g...</a>(2) A recent report on the 'ultimate moments of the liberator' today in The Observer:As Chávez fights cancer, Venezuela prepares for life after the presidentWhile a gravely ill president undergoes a new, tougher course of chemotherapy, both his supporters and opponents are unsure of what the future holds for their country-Stephen Gibbs in Caracas in CaracasThe Observer, Saturday 2 March 2013 19.16 GMT:"At a late-night press conference afterwards, Maduro conceded that Chávez is unable to speak because of a tracheal tube to assist his breathing, but has been able to contribute to the meetings via what the vice-president described as "a variety of means of writing". Venezuelan diplomats have meanwhile delivered several letters, purportedly from the leftist leader, including one to Cuba's Raúl Castro, congratulating him on his re-election as president.-"The process of beatification has begun," says Carlos Calderón, a Caracas-based lawyer. "Hugo Chávez is becoming a figure of the unconscious, in the background, whose 'wishes' are being fulfilled by his ministers."-Chávez's matchless talent at speaking to the poor in Venezuela – together with the billions of petrodollars which have been spent on social programmes – have earned him a quasi-religious reverence from his followers. But he remains a singularly divisive figure and the country is split almost evenly when it comes to evaluating his charms – he is loved by his supporters just as he is loathed by his opponents.-"He's the sort of president who only comes around perhaps every two centuries," says Francisco Morón, speaking from his new three-bedroom home, which he was given by the government last year after 25 years of homelessness.-The government has encouraged Venezuelans to attend church services and pray for their sick leader."<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/02/hugo-chavez-cancer-venezuela-president" rel="nofollow">www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/02/hugo-chavez-cancer-v...</a>(3) A curious source for this reconstruction of the likeness of a deceased human being transposed to sainthood is the english language Teheran Times form Iran, that obsservers: "After the scientist heading the 3D image project explained on Tuesday how it had been created using multiple scans and the latest forensic facial reconstruction methods, Chavez said Venezuelans were jubilant to see Bolivar's “real face” at last."<a href="http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/99980-chavez-unveilsnsimon-bolivarsnreconstructed-3-d-image-" rel="nofollow">www.tehrantimes.com/world/99980-chavez-unveilsnsimon-boli...</a>(4) Chavez unveils Simon Bolivar's reconstructed 3-D face Bolivar is the hero of independence in Venezuela and five other countries Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has unveiled a 3-D reconstruction of the face of Simon Bolivar, who died in 1830 after leading the fight against Spanish colonial rule in the region. The computer-generated image was created by artists studying Bolivar's remains. It looks remarkably like known portraits of the South American liberation hero. Two years ago Mr Chavez ordered that the remains should be exhumed. Bolivar was widely thought to have died from tuberculosis aged 47. But the Venezuelan president had a theory that Bolivar had been poisoned in revenge for his fight against the Spanish empire. Forensic tests were inconclusive. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143" rel="nofollow">www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18977143</a>(5) "Simón Bolívar's new tomb is monument to Hugo Chávez, say critics" (...) "More than 180 years after his death, the independence hero Simón Bolívar will be given an ostentatious and controversial new resting place in Venezuela thanks to his most famous modern-day follower, Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan president has commissioned a £90m, white-tiled and domed mausoleum in Caracas to pay homage to his political inspiration, the nation's founding father."<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/bolivar-tomb-chavez" rel="nofollow">www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/bolivar-tomb-chavez</a>(6) "SON FALSAS LAS FOTOS DE CHAVEZ, SON UN MONTAJE, NO PODRÁN CONTENER LA VERDAD POR MUCHO TIEMPO"<a href="http://www.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/16391181/El-Montaje-Fotos-Chavez.html" rel="nofollow">www.taringa.net/posts/imagenes/16391181/El-Montaje-Fotos-...</a>----Tjebbe van TijenImaginary Museum Projectsdramatising historical informationhttp://imaginarymuseum.orgweb-blog: The Limping Messengerhttp://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/Flickr: Swift News Tableaus by Tjebbe van Tijenhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213< at >N04/sets/72157630468570982/
Press Release. March, 10th 2013, NYC.* A response to the statements of the Cayman Islands senior officialregistrar Donnell Dixon, interviewed by the Caymanian Compassnewspaper about Loophole4All.com, a hack and leak of the CaymansCompany Register website. The full interview on Caymans newspaper:http://www.compasscayman.com/caycompass/2013/02/20/Artist-sells-fake-Cayman-company-certificatesThe video breaking news on Caymans national TV:http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2013/02/18/hacker-claims-cayman-breachOn the 15th February 2013, Paolo Cirio Ltd. publishedLoophole4All.com, an art project with 200,000 Caymans companies readyto be hijacked. It generated international attention from the press,concerned locals, and a new peculiar community of pirates of offshorebusinesses.* Paolo Cirio, spokesman for Paolo Cirio ltd., responds to the Caymans pressMr. Dixon’s statements are false and he is scamming people. Mr. Dixon,his colleagues, and the Caymans government sell incorporation of fakeshell companies, whose main purpose is to defraud the rest of world,causing onshore budget deficits and ever-growing impoverishment. Mr.Dixon’s work must be considered illegal, shameful, and "the biggesttax scam in the world,” as the U.S. President Barack Obama describedCaymans activity in 2008.Mr. Dixon lies when he states that the information of companiesregistered in the Caymans is public. Simple access to the list ofCaymans companies is granted only by request of a password, underlegal disclaimers and with limited search functionality. Then, for nomore detail than the names, the public must pay $35 for eachadditional entity, to reveal only a mailbox address and the date ofincorporation. It would cost the public more than $7 million to geteven a blurry picture of all the bogus companies falsely based in theCaymans islands. This “public” data is yet another fraud Mr. Dixonsells.The Caymanian Compass reports that there are only 92,000 companiesregistered in the Cayman Islands. However, the Loophole4all projectdiscovered 215,880 companies. Many of them had suspicious notesattached to their names, showing how the Cayman Registry is nothingnear an honest, public account, but has been corrupted bymultinational firms and local lawyers.Liberating information means moving data from a locked platform anddistributing it in a form that unveils and builds new knowledge. Thatis why here for the first time ever, you can download the entire listof Caymans companies:http://Loophole4All.com/press/cayman_companies_db.csvNow with it you can conduct your own investigations, make new art, orwhatever you want to do without the need to ask permission from Mr.Dixon. However data is not enough. Get informed about the offshorecenters through the video documentary produced for this project:http://Loophole4All.com/doc.php* In response to the Bermuda concerned about being the next targethttp://www.royalgazette.com/article/20130221/BUSINESS02/702219958Loophole4all won't reveal the country that it will attack next. Beforethat, though, everyone is invited to shop on Loophole4All.com tocrowd-fund the next attack by the pirates of the treasure islands inthe dark international waters of legal loopholes.* In response to the local businesses of the Cayman Islands that complainedYou can request to be removed from Loophole4All.com if you provideproof that you’re an honest and real local business. However, firstyou should ask for more transparency from the Caymans Registry (assomeone of you already did) to be sure that no one else could hijackyour business. As long as it's hard to verify your real information,it will be in danger.* In response to the many pirates that brought and stole offshore companiesWe cannot confirm that you can withdraw money at offshore bankbranches using a certificate of incorporation as identification.However, it may work as valid documentation, since the owners of thecompanies are anonymous. A clarification for those who asked about thelegality of the project: to steal the identity of a Caymans company isillegal only in the Cayman Islands, and Caymans court orders have verylittle credibility abroad. Avoiding taxes by registering a company inthe Cayman Islands is legal everywhere. However, remember thathijacking offshore business is here mainly promoted as a form ofprotest and not to scam other people - that would invite the attentionof the Interpol. Having a certificate and not using it is totallylegal.As an alternative to hijacking a company, you can send yourcertificates by mail to your country’s Minister of Treasury as anotherform of political pressure.If you buy a hand-signed certificate or a mailbox, you will have theexclusive ownership of the company with a unique original printedcertificate to collect. The other two basic purchase options are forunlimited copies.* In response to tackling offshore centers, I would propose threesimple solutions- Banning trade with corporations registered in a place withoutemployees, manufacturing, or sales.- Banning the promotion and advertising of offshore instruments.- Establishing an International Tribunal of Economic Crimes.* Finally, with the following quotes, I'd like to dedicate thisproject to people who gave their life for what today I believe is thefront in a war for possible social change through distributing thepower of knowledge."I want people to see the truth… regardless of who they are… becausewithout information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public"Bradley Manning, chat, 2010, unknown date and location."Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want tokeep it for themselves… We need to take information, wherever it isstored, make our copies and share them with the world."Aaron Swartz, Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, 2008, Italy* Some early international press coverage about the Loophole for AllInterview: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/26/4031516/wanna-buy-a-loophole-paolo-cirio-makes-corporate-identity-theft-intoUS: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/artinfo/artisthacker-invites-you-to-exploit-corporate-cayman-tax-breaks_b_2718672.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/3005965/200000-caymans-corporations-hacked-art-projectNorway: http://e24.no/utenriks/hacker-selger-deg-tilgang-til-skatteparadis/20338465Italy: http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/cayman-sul-web-levasione-20/2201697Spain: http://blogs.20minutos.es/codigo-abierto/2013/02/28/loophole4all-paraisos-fiscales-al-alcance-del-99/Greece: http://goo.gl/JvBfUGermany: http://de.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/869389/hacker-kunstler-paolo-cirio-ladt-dazu-ein-die-steuervorteileBrazil: http://www.select.art.br/article/da%20hora/paraisos-fiscais-ao-alcance-de-todos?page=unicThanks for the attention.
Sneak Preview: Indiancine.maFriday, March 15, 2013, 7 pmJaaga, 68 KH Double Road, BangaloreIn 2013, India celebrates 100 years of cinema. Pad.ma's contribution to these festivities will be a piece of infrastructure that we hope can be useful at a point where cinema is struggling with both its celluloid past and its digital future -- a resource that is intended to not only recollect the heritage of Indian film, but also to reaffirm the promise of cinema as an art form, just as it enters its second century. More and more of it will take place on the Internet, and our aim is to help cinema uncover some of the potential that lies in this transition.Thus, five years after its initial launch, Pad.ma has spawned its first sister project. Indiancine.ma will be an annotated archive of Indian film, and we're currently making the first steps towards building a network of institutions in India -- rooted in, but not limited to, the field of film studies -- to own and operate the site. The initial set of films and metadata is based on Ashish Rajadhyaksha's and Paul Willemen's "Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema", and the Wiki at wiki.indiancine.ma. Our hope is that Indiancine.ma will become a place where film scholars and enthusiasts from India and beyond can not only search and explore, but also write, rewrite, rearrange and reimagine the many histories of Indian cinema.In India, copyright for film works expires 60 years after their date of release. In consequence, Indian cinema up to 1952 is effectively in the public domain, which means that it can enter online archives that are open to the general public. But as most other abstract rights, copyright -- and in this case the fact that it expires -- is not just a given. If the public domain wasn't reclaimed, concretely and constantly, it would simply disappear. And even though in the grand scheme of things, Indiancine.ma is just a small claim, we think it is important enough to devote some of our time to it.Indiancine.ma will be launched later this year, and as of now is still under construction. But as the site is already functional, we'd love to give you a first preview. The archive has more than 30,000 entries, more than 5,000 of which are out of copyright. The hard part, as anyone who has ever dealt with Indian cinema will know, is finding the films. But while our initial set of moving images is small, it is going to grow in the coming weeks and months, thanks to a number of institutions and individuals who have already begun to contribute from their own archives.The site itself is based on pan.do/ra, and was developed by Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert, in February 2013 at Jaaga in Bangalore, with support from the Bohen Foundation and the Goethe Institute. Both Jan and Sebastian will be present to introduce the project, unfold the technology behind Indiancine.ma, and reflect on the politics of building open archives on the Internet.The presentation will begin at 7 pm, be followed by a discussion, and end around 8.30 pm. With all those who want to hang on for longer, we can move the conversation to the rooftop of Ranoosh, just about 100 meters up the road.pad.ma | indiancine.ma | pan.do/ra | jaaga.in | bohen.org | goethe.de/bangalore
Sharing and collaboration are often touted as the ultimate solutionsto combat the downturn. But the people who speak the loudest are oftenthe ones who have the least to be afraid of.http://ouishare.net/2013/03/is-the-collaborative-economy-only-for-the-privileged/For the past few years, I’ve been a dedicated advocate of thecollaborative economy. I belong to the OuiShare core team, have my ownsharing startup, write semi-regularly for Shareable, organize localmeetups in Helsinki, and so on.I’m able to do all this because I can afford it. I have a safety net.I was born in a Finnish upper middle class family. I have highereducation. I have savings, and I know that if I my startup won’t makeit and I run out of money, I can always get a job. The worst casescenario is that I have to ask for money from my parents.Still, like the most of us (there are exceptions too), I do need moneyfor living. To pay the rent, to get food on the table. And the truthis that I have never been in a situation where I’d have to worry aboutnot having enough money for either of those. I am very privileged.The financial considerations I have to make are in the neighborhoodof “can I afford to attend both OuiShare Fest in Paris and OuiShareSummit in Barcelona this year, or do I need to pick only one of them.”I’m not alone. I remember a discussion from a year ago, in the earlydays of OuiShare, when Antonin was describing the OuiShare activists.He said: “We are all Bobos.”He was referring to a term coined by David Brooks in his book Bobosin Paradise, describing people who are from the middle to upperclass, often highly educated, liberal, tolerant, and averse tohyperconsumption.Bobos don’t have to work 60-80 hours a week in a low-paid job just tofeed their family. Bobos can afford to work for what they believe in.Free is for the wealthyMany people have recently shared this inspirational TED talk by AmandaPalmer. In it she describes an ideal of the collaborative economy: ameritocracy in which people do not demand to be paid, but are insteadsimply voluntarily rewarded for their efforts by those for whom theyprovide value.http://on.ted.com/AmandaWhile there’s a lot in the talk to praise, not everyone was amused.Cord Jefferson of Gawker links the message with the recent hot topicof media companies not paying their writers, and notes that doingthings for free is always easier for those who are better off. He isworried that if the trend of “voluntarily” paying creatives for theirwork continues, the voice of the privileged will be heard even louderthan before, at the others’ expense.Jefferson writes: “Artists with million-dollar checks in their pocketsare telling other artists that they shouldn’t expect to get paid;publications are telling writers that they shouldn’t expect to getpaid, either; and meanwhile everyone wonders why we can’t get morediversity in the creative ranks.”You guessed right: I’m not getting paid for writing this article.Think about the people who edit Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap, or whocontribute to Linux, OpenOffice or Open Source Ecology, or who fundthe KickStarter projects (not to mention those who attend TED talks).How well do you think the different ethnical, cultural, and economicalbackgrounds are represented among them?___The sharing economy and the new class warfareSome have described collaborative consumption or the sharing economyas “an elite movement”. But there are also a lot of not-so-wealthypeople involved in it. They are often the ones who run chores inTaskRabbit or drive the Lyft vehicles. As many have pointed out, thisactually does not have that much to do with sharing. Erin Griffith ofPandoDaily writes:Sharing is by definition free — how can it have its own economy ifthere’s money involved? Sharing for money is called renting.Says one TaskRabbit: “I do definitely need the cash. But I’ve beenreading the press about TaskRabbit and there’s some real conflictof interests here. For one thing, the image and the verbiage theyuse — it’s neighbors helping neighbors — as if I’m doing this out ofthe goodness of my heart. As if I don’t care about the money — and Ido care about the money. I want to get paid and I want to get paidproperly.“It’s easy to think that if this trend continues, it might lead to adivision of people into two classes: those who use the sharing economyservices to live more comfortably, and those who are enabling thislifestyle because their income depends on it. Is this the future wewant?Some have proposed that the “real” sharing economy – the one wheremoney is not involved – should be called something else, like “anarchyeconomy” – separating it from the phenomenon dominated by the bigventure-funded corporations like Airbnb.While we can always argue about the terms that are used, what’s moreimportant is to identify the different motivations and abilitiespeople have, and the differences coming from their differentbackgrounds and capabilities. How can we create a new collaborativeeconomy that is equally beneficial for everyone, no matter where theycome from?
YOLO Heineken beer goes GLOBAL with FACEBOOK crowdsthe full size swift-news-tableau is available on My Flickr Page http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213< at >N04/8553406493/in/photostream/with 240 other news-tbaleus organised in 24 categories)http://www.flickr.com/photos/7141213< at >N04/------------------------------------------------You Only Live Once tells CEO of Heineken Jean-François van Boxmeer as he presents his praised 'premiumisation strategy' to conquer the world... Facebook will be an important tool as spontaneous beer consuming Facebook-Crowd-Parties (1) could compensate for the loss in revenue on the traditional bars and cafés of Western Europe struck by a long economic crisis.Van Boxmeer alludes to this in an answer of a question by the Asian CBNC journalist Christine Tan: "We are a very ordinary and popular product that is consumed every day. What you see is a shift in consumption which goes on trade. I mean when people go out to when they stay at home, and so they buy a little bit more in the supermarket. (2)"Heineken anticipates continued volume and growth momentum in 2013" and, as an example, price fighters like the German Lidl and Aldi multinationals are seen by Heineken as a potential new outlet. Private and public space parties are the way to go. Social media are the tools for the dynamic linking party-goers that want to congregate and consume the socialising Heineken fluids. Since Heineken has acquired a major share of the North and South American beer market, it has shifted its attention to the Asian market. In this strategic move from Western Europe to the rest of the world India is seen as "the last growth market." CEO Van Boxmeer keeps pointing this out in his well attended speeches all over the world. The final growth market not on the public agenda of Heineken is of course the muslim world in Northern and West Africa, Middle East and Asia. CEO Van Boxmeer is tactical enough never to mention this black spot in his market strategy. Non-alcohol - so called 0% - beer is ḥarām (حَرَام ), not only because the intend of such drinks is to simulate the effects of alcohol, but also in the production process minor traces of real alcohol can not be evaded, hence it is sinful and displeases Allah. Even CocaCola is deemed not ḥalāl, (لال) as minor traces of alcohol have been found in this beverage.All this is a foreshadowing of a new world paradigm: not any more First, Second and Third World, not anymore a bipolar divide in North and South, but the dichotomy of a BEER and NO-BEER world.----(1) The Dutch suburban town of Haren saw recently such a Facebook crowd party with youngsters flocking in from all over the place to one street to join a birthday party of a local teenage girl, carrying with them big supplies of Heineken beer. See my article "Project Heineken Helden in Haren 2012"http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/project-heineken-helden-in-haren-2012/" rel="nofollow">limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/project-heineke...The by now world biggest beer trader immediately realised the huge market potential of this phenomenon. The fact that this particular Facebook party ended up in a hooligan riot with riot police being called in to suppress it, did not disturb the social research department of the beer-dealer too much. Football hooligans form a non-neglectable segment of any beer trader for decades now. With Facebook - a marketing tool of real-time tracking of customers has arrived. As a recent study in the field by crowdscience.com formulates it: "Gather granular demographic, psychographic and non-endemic visitor profiles to enhance ad sales, content creation, and user satisfaction levels."Heineken did experiment early on with 'flash mobs' like in a shopping mall in Las Vegas where a Heineken music award the 'Latin Grammy' was celebrated by having a group of dancers perform and calling up a crowd through social media.http://www.remezcla.com/2011/latin/heinekens-latin-grammy-flash-mob-takes-over-las-vegas/" rel="nofollow">www.remezcla.com/2011/latin/heinekens-latin-grammy-flash-...(2) Transcript of television interview...http://bringmynewstolife.com/EU04996/jean-francois-van-boxmeer-cnbcap-16-dec-11.pdf" rel="nofollow">bringmynewstolife.com/EU04996/jean-francois-van-boxmeer-c...# distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission# <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,# collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets# more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l# archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime< at >kein.org
Sharing for Profit - I'm Not Buying it AnymoreBy Sven Eberlein02.20.13, 12:55am Comments (44)http://www.shareable.net/blog/sharing-for-profit-im-not-buying-it-anymoreReading about The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy [1] in Forbes Magazine, I get a strange feeling in my belly. There is, on one hand, the automatic delight at seeing the word "share" so prominently featured, as if it were walking down the red carpet on the way to accepting its Oscar, signaling to the world that it finally "made" it. I mean, who can resist the allure of smiling multi-millionaires who "share" their way to fame and fortune or savvy part-time entrepreneurs who "spin scraps into gold" to spend their life chilling on a beach in Costa Rica?On the other, less star-struck hand, flashes of childhood memories of huddling around a box of crayons with my friends keep interfering with this modern "Who wants to be a billionaire?" version of sharing. "Really?" A perplexed voice keeps popping into my head. "That's what this whole sharing thing is about — making money and leveraging the biggest advantage for yourself?" What once used to be the most basic human value your parents ever taught you seems to have magically morphed into a well coiffed, profitable, and fashionably cool buzzword for an entire industry.Don't get me wrong, I like Airbnb and Zipcar. They are great services that might as a whole conserve a few resources and on an individual basis bring a little more joy into the world. I have no problem that their founders are wealthy and treated like rock stars. I'm just feeling reluctant to hand them the word "sharing" on a golden platter. I mean, really, let's be honest here — if you have to pay to share something, it's commonly known in the English language as buying or renting.The fact that Zipcar just got bought up by Avis just shows how little daylight there is between a traditional car rental and a car share company. Long before sharing was all the rage, we were sharing that Avis Compact with all the German tourists. And what about that lovely Bed & Breakfast near Lake Geneva my girlfriend and I recently stayed at, with the most delightful hosts you could imagine? It wasn't on Airbnb, but we paid to stay with locals who generously shared with us homemade cake, travel tips, and laughter. What's to keep them from selling themselves as a house share? Or for that matter, what's to keep Disneyland from marketing itself as an experience share?Taken to its logical conclusion, the whole idea of the "share economy" seems pretty redundant. Isn't the sharing of goods, services, property or experience in exchange for money or other agreed upon currency the very definition of "economy?" Even the idea implied in "share economy" that we would make the best use of existing resources and space isn't really alien to the boring old economy — airlines don't call the space on the plane shared by the largest number of passengers "economy" for nothing.I don't mean to rain on the parade, but I'm worried that "sharing" is turning into the new "green," another once well-intentioned word that has become an overused and mostly meaningless marketing gimmick, like Samsung's recent "We All Share" campaign. I know that making money and clever marketing is the holy grail of capitalism, and one could argue that rebranding rentals as shares might ultimately help to bring a more collaborative attitude into the mainstream, just as driving a hybrid may lead to a deeper ecological understanding or buying a yoga mat could be the gateway into spirituality.But is this rising tide of popularity and commercialization really going to lift all the smaller boats that carry the more sublime meaning of sharing? Will it make us more generous and compassionate? Inspire us to listen to each other more intently? Come together in the town square more frequently? Commit random acts of kindness?I don't have the answer, but I like the questions. Maybe there needs to be a better definition or qualification of the word "sharing" as it relates to its different uses. For example, when everyone started to use the word "Green" in the building industry, the US Green Building Council came out with its LEED ratings system, a framework by which architects and builders can attain different levels of verifiable environmental standards. Could the market-based terrain of peer-to-peer commerce establish a similar scale of sharing, ranging from purely altruistic to purely commercial, perhaps under the Collaborative Consumption umbrella?Whether the new multi-billion dollar sharing industry becomes more discerning about the use of the word, I don't have any control over. However, as a consumer, I'm not buying it anymore. Is there anything inherently more noble or environmental about Zipcar than Avis? If there is, I'd like to know. If there isn't and the difference is simply in price, convenience, and hipness, then why rent a Zipcar for a day if I can get a better deal from Avis and I'm close enough to a pick-up? I guess we'll come full circle in this brave new collaborative competition once the Avis/Zipcar merger is complete and we start seeing "Avis Car Share" Fiat 500's on the corner.In the meantime, whether I'm renting through Airbnb or staying in a hotel, I will approach whoever my hosts are with an open heart and a big smile, knowing that I will be sharing space and essence, whether it is advertised as such or not. And just to play it safe, I will reserve the word "sharing" for my roles as citizen, friend, and neighbor, giving freely of myself, whether it's things, skills, or time, just because in my world what you give is in the end what you receive.[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/23/airbnb-and-the-unstoppable-rise-of-the-share-economy/