Download or read book A Machine They re Secretly Building written by Andrew Westerside and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I want you to know what's happening...' From what might be a news desk, an office, a bedroom, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre, two people – reporters, senators, freedom fighters, or just... well... concerned citizens like you – think about what it is to speak up, speak out, blow the whistle and lift the veil. A Machine They're Secretly Building charts a course from the Top Secret secrets of WWI intelligence (via the moon, 1972's Chess World Championships, a disco in Oklahoma and the cafeteria at CERN) through to 9/11, the erosion of privacy, Edward Snowden and the terror of a future that might already be upon us. It is about how we got to the point where our governments are spying on us and how that's changing who we are.

Download or read book Postdigital Performances of Care written by Liam Jarvis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid-19 has been described as a 'digital pandemic'. But who might the characterisation of the pandemic as 'digital' leave behind? This timely book reconsiders the pandemic as 'postdigital', examining tensions between a growing postdigital attitude of disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on adapted modes of online practice mid-lockdown in both performance-making and healthcare. What emerged amidst the pandemic restrictions was a theatre that was unable to show its face, instead adapting into a variety of 'covid-safe' remote forms of engagement, from 'Zoom plays' to self-generating experiences sent by post. This book explores the ways that both performances and healthcare practices found proxies for direct touch and face-to-face encounters, deconstructing the way that care and resilience were spectacularized by political actors online. Liam Jarvis and Karen Savage explore aspects of care in relation to technology, spectacle and facilitation, and how new modes of delivery and the repurposing of theatre spaces that were displaced amidst the mass migration online have been enabling as well as controversial. The variety of case studies assessed includes internet memes, online films, performances of everyday resilience through social media and participatory theatre productions, including Thaddeus Phillips' Zoom Motel, Coney's Telephone and Nightcap's Handle with Care.

Download or read book The Audit or Iceland a Modern Myth written by Andrew Westerside and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global economy is a mess. The crash has landed, the tide's swept out, and it's taken our hope with it. There's less in our pockets and more to be spent. The rich have got richer, the middle's squeezed tight, and the poor are being dragged ever downwards. With the true value of money and the human cost of greed firmly in their sights, Proto-type Theater tell the story of how, in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash, the nation of Iceland raised their voices in protest and railed against the currents. Using original text, performance, film, music and animation, The Audit is about finding strength, overcoming a world designed to keep us docile, and how collective power can move a mountain – even if only a little.

Download or read book Rubicon written by Randall Wood and published by TensionBookworks. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book three of The Twelve Shepherds Saga we discover that the mission of the Shepherds is more than just the pursuit of justice. The corruption and unscrupulousness of those in power have resulted in a public outcry that can no longer be ignored. With the help of the press the people themselves apply pressure on those in office, and as a result the mission reaches a turning point. The Shepherds now target the root of the problem, knowing that when crossing that line, there is no turning back.

Download or read book Shooting the Messenger written by Andrew Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Al-Qaeda terrorists who attacked the United States in 2001 wanted to weaken the West, they achieved their mission by striking a blow at the heart of democracy. Since 9/11 governments including those of the USA, the UK, France and Australia have introduced tough, intimidating legislation to discourage the legitimate activities of a probing press, so greatly needed after the Iraq War proved that executive government could not be trusted. Often hiding behind arguments about defending national security and fighting the war on terror, governments criminalised legitimate journalistic work, ramping up their attacks on journalists’ sources, and the whistle-blowers who are so essential in keeping governments honest. Through detailed research and analysis, this book, which includes interviews with leading figures in the field, including Edward Snowden, explains how mass surveillance and anti-terror laws are of questionable value in defeating terrorism, but have had a ‘chilling effect’ on one of the foundations of democracy: revelatory journalism.

Download or read book Hacker Culture A to Z written by Kim Crawley and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Written by longtime cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley, this fun reference introduces you to key people and companies, fundamental ideas, and milestone films, games, and magazines in the annals of hacking. From airgapping to phreaking to zombie malware, grasping the terminology is crucial to understanding hacker culture and history. If you're just getting started on your hacker journey, you'll find plenty here to guide your learning and help you understand the references and cultural allusions you come across. More experienced hackers will find historical depth, wry humor, and surprising facts about familiar cultural touchstones. Understand the relationship between hacker culture and cybersecurity Get to know the ideas behind the hacker ethos, like "knowledge should be free" Explore topics and publications central to hacker culture, including 2600 Magazine Appreciate the history of cybersecurity Learn about key figures in the history of hacker culture Understand the difference between hackers and cybercriminals

Download or read book Understanding Risk Taking written by Jens O. Zinn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines and systematises findings from a growing body of research that examines the different rationales, dimensions and dynamics of risk-taking in current societies; providing insight into the different motivations and social roots of risk-taking to advance scholarly debates and improve social regulation. Conceptually, the book goes beyond common approaches which problematise socially undesirable risk-taking, or highlight the alluring character of risk-taking. Instead, it follows a broadly interpretivist approach and engages in examining motives, control, routinisation, reflexivity, skills, resources, the role of identity in risk-taking and how these are rooted in and framed by different social forces. Zinn draws on qualitative studies from different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, pragmatism, feminism, class analysis, theory of practice and discourse analysis among others, to outline key distinctions and concepts central to the understanding of risk-taking. It will be a key resource for everyone who is concerned with the understanding and management of risk-taking in all kinds of social domains, such as immigration, youth, leisure sports, crime, health, finance, and social policy.

Download or read book Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity written by Newton Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 9/11 to Charlie Hebdo along with Sony-pocalypse and DARPA's $2 million Cyber Grand Challenge, this book examines counterterrorism and cyber security history, strategies and technologies from a thought-provoking approach that encompasses personal experiences, investigative journalism, historical and current events, ideas from thought leaders and the make-believe of Hollywood such as 24, Homeland and The Americans. President Barack Obama also said in his 2015 State of the Union address, "We are making sure our government integrates intelligence to combat cyber threats, just as we have done to combat terrorism. In this new edition, there are seven completely new chapters, including three new contributed chapters by healthcare chief information security officer Ray Balut and Jean C. Stanford, DEF CON speaker Philip Polstra and security engineer and Black Hat speaker Darren Manners, as well as new commentaries by communications expert Andy Marken and DEF CON speaker Emily Peed. The book offers practical advice for businesses, governments and individuals to better secure the world and protect cyberspace.

Download or read book Whistle Blowers written by Matt Doeden and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what drives some whistle-blowers to publicly release confidential information, and provides case studies of such high-profile whistle-blowers as Edward Snowden, Kathryn Bolkovac, and Jeffrey Wigand.

Download or read book Psychoanalysis Online 3 written by Jill Savege Scharff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the global economy. It describes the essentials of a framework for teleanalysis that is secure in terms both of technology and ethical stance. The technology is a third in the therapeutic alliance and its impact needs to be analysed like every other element in the field. Teleanalysis appears to some people to be a distancing methodology but the authors report surprising closeness across a distance. Teleanalysis offers a window into the analytic pair's experience of time, space, deprivation, fantasy, and physicality and shows unconscious dynamics displayed graphically on the image on the screen. The book looks at the convenience and impact of internet use among various communities including LGBTQI in terms of defense against and transition to intimacy, and gives clinical evidence of transformation made possible through the therapeutic aspects of technology.

Download or read book Land of Adventure written by Thaddeus Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' Hangover ' There were two young men with hangover in a Greenwich Cafe of New York City at the very heart of the Village, the artists' haven They looked moodily as if caught by a storm mysterious one, with dancing ghostly demons Their faces expressed tints of deep-seated sorrow ' I know it quite good you cry deep within yourself unable to solve your problem, Romeo alike I also know she was your muse, a goddess of love and it makes me feeling so much sorrowful for you I really share your suffering, my dear friend ' said one of them to another one, visibly shaken His friend looked up with dampened eyes ' She was my only beauty, my love greater than life with so many brilliantly sparkling tints on the heavenly canvas filled with stars She was my beloved angel looking after me my sweet protector, my sense of life, my only love She was a swan with wings spread wide with nothing to hide and everything to show a swan on the canvas of the sky above reflected in the waters of a quiet lake one performing a shining serenade of love with a carousel of many hues and shades She was my everlasting support, my arm a gentle pillar and though all powerful one like all the pillars of the Acropolis of Athens supposed to stay eternally, withstanding time as part of me, she, my heavenly angel of love Yet she's gone, no chance to have her back ' ' Don't cry, my dear friend ', the other man said ' I'm your pillar now, your best and caring friend for as long as you need it, my dearest friend ' He took him in his very arms and held him so for long minutes, stroking him gently on his arm while strangers in the cafe looked curiously at them ' Hangover ' by Thaddeus Hutyra Copyright © Thaddeus Hutyra All Rights Reserved.

Download or read book All Along the Watchtower written by William J. Craig and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy around the case of a former Green Beret’s murder of his wife shows the lengths the government will go to to keep its secrets hidden. It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frost’s poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman’s scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind. In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier, had her life brutally ripped from her. Her husband, William Tyree, a Special Forces soldier, was convicted of this heinous murder, which he has always vehemently denied. Some elements of this case seem to be chilling echoes of the Jeffrey MacDonald case, made famous in the book and film Fatal Vision. A military doctor and US Army Captain, MacDonald was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters but always maintained his innocence. As in the MacDonald case, the case against William Tyree raises questions as to whether the government and military suppressed evidence that could prove his innocence. The Tyree case sent a shockwave through the idyllic community of Ayer, the United States Army, and the judicial system of Massachusetts. This case provoked suspicions of judicial misconduct, government cover-up, clandestine Black Ops by the military, and various conspiracy theories ultimately implicating “Deep State” involvement. The events that took place that fateful day, the subsequent courtroom showdown, and the ongoing legal battles raise provocative questions that continue to revolve around this case to this day.

Download or read book TANGO OF LIFE written by Thaddeus Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' Echoes of Love ' Must I be Shakespeare to express our pure love one which was definitely greater than life, our elixir our magnum opus, transcendental and everlasting We had it so good, enjoying each other seductively best friends and lovers, or frivolous lovers and friends difficult to say what was first, or rather both at once Our love was the Sun splashing us most brightly and the shimmering stars at fully luminescent nights sending us ethereal kisses of genuine love incessantly Our love were beautiful people smiling at us warmly wishing us all the goodwills there are in the world and we ourselves, fully united in each other as one Everything was in place, rightfully and blissfully godly flawless rivers of honey, seas of boundless beauty biodiversity serving us as we doing our best for her But when you went unexpectedly one day away with no goodbye at all, not even a word of farewell it was the end of the world for me, Hamlet alike Stars crashed down on Earth the next moonless night and I was swept fast away by raging tides of the sea a castaway on the ocean, in its full and ghostly storm I was myself a vulnerable bottle with a message inside saying I love you till the end of the world and beyond the bottle filled with the tears of my despair, your lover And the scintillating echoes spread across the world like the Brazilian tango on the Copacabana beach just a walking distance from charming Rio de Janeiro The echoes and echoes, and echoes, and echoes like the Argentinian tango in elegant Buenos Aires like the sparkling Parisian tango of truthful lovers The echoes of tangoes, tinkling, hissing and ringing whistling, buzzing, rattling, whizzing, jingling like bells gorgeously dynamic on the streets and in ballrooms The echoes never ending, in the breezes of winds blowing ecstatically across vast lands and continents and under the rhythmic and pulsating symphonic skies One had impression one saw mysterious Amazons on wild galloping horses, with manes like wings seeming to fly in the air but these were just echoes Echoes of love, passion, desires and ethereal dreams but above all of the thundering iridescent tangoes the tangoes of love, dreams which came true, of life The rhapsodic tangoes in every corner of this world Oh, long live love, long live tangoes of love ! May dazzling echoes spread you across the world !! Love yourselves to your best, dear amaranthine lovers spread your sensual love to every single individual This world must become a planet of love, now !! Dance in the various tangoes, whirling tangoes Not only Argentinian tangoes but also salon tangoes English tangoes, NeoTango, all the tangoes there are Forget the sorrows of daily life, the ups and the downs Give in into the rhythms of hilarious music and dance and you shall see your loved one is back in your arms Oh, play us angels music of Chopin and Mozart play to the echoes of love

Download or read book SYMPHONY OF FREE SPIRITS written by Tadeusz Hutyra and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' Lovers of Universe ' You're in my arms, we're in the arms of stars dancing together in the starlight while passionately kissing each other Our kisses are formed of interstellar dust our love is threaded of rays from the stars and we're continuing to kiss one another we, the amaranthine lovers of Universe And though we're standing on a beach in the embrace of moonlighted night chatting in a New York cafe till the late night hours or speeding up a car direction California we're embraced as much by the stars shining us brilliantly from the luminous sky Though we're sitting on dangerous cliffs overlooking the powers of the Poseidon's sea no matter whether together or far away from one another we're still the galactic adventurers guardians of Universe in love The echoes of our deep love spread fast across Scottish land masses across the Alps, across Carpathians across mountains of the Caucasus flying like a mysterious jet plane and ending somewhere there in China still being echoed from a wall to a wall of the ancient Chinese Wall There is no rest to our passionate love 'cause we are brought on our starship into furthest dimensions of the many galactics dancing our love in the never ending starlit space singing our love to the tunes of various sounds of Universe and kissing each other with the energy borrowed from the stars no need really to return what's borrowed Oh, my darling, we're destined for each other never to be split, always together even if the winds bring us far apart even if fate not always is favorable yet we're acquiescent to whatever might happen 'cause we know nothing can split us We're simply dancing in the arms of stars dancing together in the starlight while passionately kissing each other Our kisses are formed of interstellar dust our love is threaded of rays from the stars and we're continuing to kiss one another we, the amaranthine lovers of Universe No matter what happens we're together no matter where you are or I am we're together Tolstoy's War and Peace, Shakespeare's Hamlet The Bells brought to life by Edgar Allan Poe Whatever it might be we're together destined to one another, married by our love 'cause our love is one, one and only one 'cause our souls are one soul, our hearts are one heart 'cause our desires are one desire, our desire 'cause all we are are two halves being whole 'cause our spirits are mixed by wand of love into elixir, the elixir of love Wow, we're dancing in adrenalized Tomorrowland dancing in Amsterdam's Arena at Sensation White dancing frenziedly in New York's Boulevard on Mount Victoria in windy Wellington's starry night dancing among stars, we, the lovers of Universe !! Earth and stars are the fields of our love we're the lovers since Adam and Eve the amaranthine lovers of Universe drinking elixirs of love from our lips elixirs which form us all to who we are we, the lovers of Universe, forevermore

Download or read book TOP SECRET 37 LAWS OF POLITICAL POWER written by IKE KLINSMANN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to every aspiring leader who desires to succeed in politics. You will learn how to seize power in less than 30 minutes. Illustrated with real-life examples of how others succeeded. It aims to equip the reader with vital tools to succeed where others failed and to safeguard the reader against possible pitfalls schemed by custodians of power. Some of the principles explained in this book can find useful applications even in other public sectors where power is desired With its rich explanations, a politician is exposed to hidden laws and secrets which have been exclusively preserved by the aristocracy. With such knowledge, the reader can stir up cascade of events that will change his destiny forever

Download or read book The War on Journalism written by Andrew Fowler and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racked by public distrust, cowed by government surveillance and powerful corporations, the mainstream media is in crisis. Newspapers which flourished for centuries and TV networks that once ruled the world are failing. Andrew Fowler’s The War on Journalism tells how the media helped write its own epitaph. Drawing on personal interviews and his background in investigative journalism, Fowler traces the decline of the culture of truthbringing. It’s a tale of sackings, cutbacks and self-censoring editors, deals, threats and government standover tactics. Alongside tabloids like the News of the World, notorious for phone hacking, giants like the BBC, Australia’s ABC, The Washington Post and The New York Times, The Guardian and Le Monde come under fire. When first WikiLeaks and then Edward Snowden blew the whistle, they did more than reveal explosive secrets: they undermined establishment, or insider, media – where governments ‘leaked’ information to favoured reporters in return for sympathetic coverage. Along with lawyer-turned-gonzo-journalist Glenn Greenwald, these outsiders challenged everyone from The Guardian on the left to Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire on the right. The establishment fought back with draconian laws to silence the new journalism. From the UK to the US to Australia, governments harass journalists, threatening to jail both whistleblowers and those who publish their leaks. Staying one move ahead of post-9/11 intelligence agencies is fraught. Every cell phone is a mobile tracking device. The public’s right to know is a battleground. At stake are the kind of journalism that survives and the kind of world in which we will live: democratic or dominated by executive government, unchallenged and unaccountable, spying on its own citizens and producing fraudulent arguments to fight horrific wars. The internet – which promised people easy access to information and each other – is now being used to produce a dark future. This is a defining moment, not just for journalism but for us all.

Download or read book Night and Dana written by Anya Davidson and published by Graphic Universe TM. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change generation Dana Drucker fights boredom in her Florida beach town by crafting special-effects makeup—the more gruesome, the better. But when a messy prank with Dana’s best friend Lily gets the wrong kind of attention, the girls have two choices: find a new creative outlet or leave high school without graduating. To save their shot at diplomas, Dana and Lily join a community college film class. It gives Dana a chance to keep practicing her monster makeup, as she and Lily start work on a horror movie inspired by local ocean warming. And a search for filming locations puts Dana in the path of Daphne Ocean, an activist and self-proclaimed water witch—the perfect kind of inspiring outsider. But when filming starts, Dana finds herself growing apart from Lily, who doesn’t seem to need her closest friend much anymore. Soon, tempers are flaring, and Dana’s pushing away old friends and her new mentor. But as everything starts going up in flames, Dana also begins to forge her voice. Night and Dana is a creative coming-of-age story for the climate-change era, a graphic novel about making art and growing up when it feels like the world is on fire.