Berto Jongman: Radioactive Mass Murder — Fukushima Impact Classified by Japanese Government, Nuclear Industry in Cover-Up Mode

Radioactive ‘mass murder’: nuclear industry keeps Fukushima impact in secret, worst to come Radiation is a rather tricky enemy. You cannot see it, you cannot smell it yet it’s harmful for our ecosystem, our markets and our bodies. The Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster is still making headlines but no one knows the full truth about …

Patrick Meier: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years [from Ancient Graffiti to Digital Pee in the Virtual Forest…]

Social Media: The First 2,000 Years What do Papyrus rolls and Twitter have in common? Both were used as a means of “instant” communication. Indeed, a careful reading of history reveals just how ancient social media really is. Further, the questions we pose about social media today have already been debated countless times over hundreds of …

Emmanuel: Call for Speakers Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE X) 18-20 JUL 14 NYC

HOPE X will take place on July 18-20 (Fri-Sun) 2014 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. HOPE stands for Hackers on Planet Earth, one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world.  It has been taking place very two years since 1994. Below is the call for speakers, panelists, and …

Owl: Ralph Nader on Internet Wrongful Secrecy, Snares and Delusions

Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all: “Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of …

Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.4

ATROCITIES: risks of state-led mass killing AUSTRALIA: Terrorists taking cut of millions in drug money BIG DATA: predictive algorythms and virtues of transparancy CAR: CAR risks spiralling into genocide CHINA: 37,000 Elite Offshore Accounts Outed, China Reacts to Protect Them and Censor the Story CHINA: How Its Leader — Now the World’s Most Powerful Man …