Surveillance Camera Players in Brazil Contra Ordem E Progresso surveillance camera players in Brazil http://www.notbored.org/brazil.html Between 12 and 14 September 2009, Bill from the Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Invited to participate in Performance Presente Futuro, vol II, Bill was originally scheduled to spend a total of five days and four nights in Rio. Due to extraordinary problems in obtaining a travel visa from the General Consulate of Brazil -- which required equally extraordinary solutions (including an unscheduled, last-minute 1,000-mile roundtrip drive to and from Washington, DC, between 9 and 10 September) -- Bill's stay was greatly shortened.

Argentina Copyright Case Brings Access To Education Into The Spotlight From IP Watch Catherine Saez An Argentinean philosophy professor is being sued for alleged copyright infringement for posting translated versions of French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s works on a website, according to the Copy South Research Group. The case is bringing international attention to the limitations on access to education brought about by copyright. In an attempt to make foreign philosophers’ work available to Spanish language readers and students, Prof. Horacio Potel said he created an open source website named “Nietzsche in Spanish” in December 1999, one named “Heidegger in Spanish” in June 2000 and one entitled “Derrida in Spanish” in June 2001. On 19 February he was advised that a criminal case was opened against him. In December 2008, French publishing company “les Editions de Minuit” lodged a complaint which was passed on to the French Embassy in Argentina and it became the basis of the Argentina Book Chamber’s legal action against Potel, according to CopySouth.

ASCII .- ... -.-. .. .. Amsterdam Subversive Code for Information Interchange --- Internetworkspace --- 1998 - 2..? Harv Stanic :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Internetworkspace - A free and open place with free internet access, aggregating point for all people interested in hacking together, or simply hanging around or on the net while learning Free and OSS, creating and mixing chaos for all people interested in free flow of information across any new or old medium. .................................................................. The idea of ASCII was conceived in late 1998 as there was the need for a non-profit 'internetworkspace' running on free and open source software, and spreading the word of it's necessity to enable, educate and prepare people for the upcoming internet age, on-line privacy, as well as need for people to meet and exchange ideas and information face to face. .................................................................. click start to stop ..................................................................

Social Movements Against the Global Security Architecture!
A Critique of the Militarisation of Social Conflict and the
Securitisation of Everyday Life
Gipfelsoli

* Assessment of the Strategy Papers of the ‘Future Group’ (on the
future of EU Home Affairs policies) and the ‘new strategic directions’
of NATO, put forward in the publication, ‘Towards a Grand Strategy in an
Uncertain World’

* Proposal for a campaign against the new EU policies to be ratified
under the Swedish Presidency of the EU in 2009

Recent unrest due to food price hikes, protests against rising energy
costs, visions and realities of a climate crisis and growing concerns
over scarce resources, in conjunction with the continued turmoil of
financial markets, are creating a sense of insecurity for a neoliberal
regime in severe crisis. The G8 states and their allies are seeking to
contain these conflicts and the evident accumulation crisis of the
global economy through market-orientated solutions in order to restore
economic growth whilst calls for more state intervention in the
regulation of financial markets are rife. At the same time, the ‘war on
terror’ serves to justify ever-more militarisation of all spheres of
life. Wars are waged to secure new markets, transport routes and
resources. New techniques of governance are emerging within a logic of
waging war against who- or whatever cannot be made profitable.

Britain Makes Camera That "Sees" Under Clothes Reuters Reporting by Luke Baker Sun Mar 9, 7:21 AM ET A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry. The T5000 camera, created by a company called ThruVision, uses what it calls "passive imaging technology" to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays -- known as Terahertz or T-rays -- that they emit.

website: http://www.TheMetaTechnology.com An anti-virus software runs without scanning your computer. A web Search Engine works without asking what you want to find. A web browser displays not the web page but the server's location. Welcome in the world of Meta Technology. "Meta Technology" is a series of modified technologies developed in order to let you really understand common technologies. Invented by the founder of the radical collective named k-hello.org, "Meta Technology" is an out-of-the-box set of tools to improve your awareness of technology.

Extraterrestrial Biopolitics and Creative Industries

Konrad Becker, Global Security Alliance

Global media and business networks create a planetary environment for
geopolitical experimentation with global parameters of life — and death.
The "Grand Chessboard" of the geo-strategic world has expanded to outer
space and inner space. Conflict management has migrated into the military
entertainment complex, the domain of culture, media and the creative
industries.

The space age began with a grand media spectacle. In the 1960's, for the
first time in history, planet Earth was emerging in the consciousness of a
global audience, terrestrials on a pale blue dot in the vastness of the
skies. But the innocent picture of Man on the moon was diverting attention
from an advanced weapons program for the militarization of space. The
rockets of the United States space program and the Soviet Union's Cosmic
Troops were based on the V-2 ballistic missiles of World War II. In 1945
Wernher von Braun and his team, who developed and manufactured the V-2 based
on slave labor, were brought to America. This operation named Project
Paperclip included scientists linked to human experiments in concentration
camps. Nazi military officers were at the core of Defense Department
projects that centered on carrying military personnel up into space and
moving them around, but also on the use of robotic weapons in orbit, nuclear
missiles and the setup of armed "Death Stars".

Extraterrestrial Biopolitics and Creative Industries

Konrad Becker, Global Security Alliance

Global media and business networks create a planetary environment for
geopolitical experimentation with global parameters of life — and death.
The "Grand Chessboard" of the geo-strategic world has expanded to outer
space and inner space. Conflict management has migrated into the military
entertainment complex, the domain of culture, media and the creative
industries.

The space age began with a grand media spectacle. In the 1960's, for the
first time in history, planet Earth was emerging in the consciousness of a
global audience, terrestrials on a pale blue dot in the vastness of the
skies. But the innocent picture of Man on the moon was diverting attention
from an advanced weapons program for the militarization of space. The
rockets of the United States space program and the Soviet Union's Cosmic
Troops were based on the V-2 ballistic missiles of World War II. In 1945
Wernher von Braun and his team, who developed and manufactured the V-2 based
on slave labor, were brought to America. This operation named Project
Paperclip included scientists linked to human experiments in concentration
camps. Nazi military officers were at the core of Defense Department
projects that centered on carrying military personnel up into space and
moving them around, but also on the use of robotic weapons in orbit, nuclear
missiles and the setup of armed "Death Stars".

Taharar! writes:

Taharar! Concept Paper
http://www.taharar.org

Taharar! ["liberate yourself!" in Arabic] is an autonomous project that aims to empower individuals, collectives, and groups working on issues of social justice in West Asia and North Africa by providing them with alternative communication and technical services, information, resources, and support. Taharar!'s vision is to combat the digital censorship prevalent in West Asia and North Africa by providing an accessible pool of resources in local languages (including Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Kurdish, etc.) that people to create democratic alternatives by controlling their own secure means of communications through the use and proliferation of free, open source software and technologies.

Torrents of Desire and the Shape of the Information Landscape

Felix Stalder

We are in the midst an uneven shift from an information environment
characterized by scarcity of cultural goods to one characterized
by their abundance. Until very recently, even privileged people
had access to a relatively limited number of news sources, books,
audio recordings, films and other forms of informational goods. This
was partly due to the fact that the means of mass communication
were expensive, cumbersome and thus relatively centralized. In
this configuration, most people were relegated to the role of
consumers, or, if they lacked purchasing power, not even that.

This
is changing. The Internet is giving ever greater numbers of people
access to efficient means of mass communication and p2p protocols
such as Bittorrent are making the distribution of material highly
efficient. For some reason to be further examined, more and more
material is becoming freely available within this new information
environment. As an effect, the current structure of the culture
industries, in Adorno's sense,[1] is being undermined, and with it,
deeply-entrenched notions of intellectual property. This is happening
despite well-orchestrated campaigns by major industries to prevent
this shift. The campaigns include measures raging from the seemingly
endless expansion of intellectual property regulations across the
globe, to new technologies aimed at maintaining informational scarcity
(digital rights management (DRM) systems), to mass persecution of
average citizens who engage in standard practices on p2p networks.

As a consequence, we are in the midst of a pitched battle. One side we
have organized industries, with their well-honed machines of political
lobbying and armies of highly-paid lawyers and technologists, on the
other side. Strangely enough, on the other side, we do not have any
powerful interests or well-organized commercial players. Rather we
have a rag-tag group of people and small groups, including programmers
who develop open source tools to efficiently distribute digital
files; administrators running infrastructural nodes for p2p networks
out of their small ISPs (Internet Service Providers) or using cheap
hosted locations; shadowy, closed "release groups" who specialize in
circumventing any kind of copy-protection and making works available
within their own circles often before it they are available to the
public; and, finally, millions of ordinary computer users who prefer
to get their goods from the p2p networks where they are freely
available (not just free of charge, but also without DRM) and where
they can, if they wish to, release their own material just as easily.