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We can control flows of money “dirty”
08
Apr
Cases like Swiss leaks, Brazilian scandals and many countries, Panama Papers
now may help the idea of controlling the flow of this money “dirty” stealing wealth of peoples and contribute to the concentration of money in the hands of a few.
According to experts interviewed by the BBC, p Panama Papers should help the idea of controlling the flow of money and grow the instruments to implement technical and legal technologies and technologies to be used both for good and for evil, but could now benefit control of this money.
Offshore accounts, it is import
ant to remember by themselves are not illegal, the problem is that they are used to escape the tax authorities and tax collection, so it is a form of theft from foreign nations, especially hide money and dirty fight on national political campaigns.
According to the director of criminology at the University of Basel and director of the Basel Institute of Governance Mark Pieth: “The case (of Panama Papers) will help control the flow of illicit money.”
A task force was formed by the huge volume of documents (more than 2 Tera 11 million sheets of paper), will be a total of 107 of the world media outlets have mobilized to review the data.
Professor Pieth will be assisting these professionals in the investigative core that has already established a connection, for example, between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his friend musician Sergei Roldugin, supposed orange for political, something denied by Putin.
It is a new face to the world and a tremor to corrupt and political foul play based on the use of financial power to defraud and win elections.
Tolerance, differences and peace
07
Apr
When discussing tolerance and associate with religious fundamentalism, rarely associate with the ideological and political fundamentalism, the reason is simple that in the history of treaties on tolerance, religious discussion was with the John Locke about this (see post).
Interestingly it was precisely when this pact took hold, with Catherine of Tolerance Edict of Medici, who tried to fend off the fanaticism of Lutherans and Catholics that had caused many wars and crises, the Tolerance Edict is 1562 after the peace of Amboise 1563, was preceded by a series of religious, trade and territorial war, war calls the 30 years (1618-1648).
The wars of today are based more on cultural differences, with a religious background, but cease to be commercial and also territorial, but fundamentalism is another, most often with ideological and / or religious roots, but remember that the Afghanistan was dominated by Russia and was where the US fought a war in 1968 before the Vietnam war, and even before the Korean war between 1950 and 1953.
These wars now explode into conflict as the Ukraine-Russia, internal problems in most of the Latin American countries, and just a lack of understanding of the historical reasons compromising peace and attempts to dilute the deep existing social differences here.
Even the radical Islamic state can not be understood to be the important cultural differences between the Arab world and the West, there is another fundamentalism in progress.
In addition to the ideologies, fizzing in Latin America, there is an ignorance of the cultural, ethnic and even religious differences that can create deep and raise new fundamentalism in Europe is difficult to get the Arabs.
Investigative journalism and networks
06
Apr
The Investigative Journalism is independent journalism, which has led to
serious issues of corruption, problems of violence in the world and many other types of oppression.
Cases like Swiss Leaks and now Panama Letters are related to investigative journalism, but the mainstream media and much of other newspapers also do not really understand what this means, in January 2013, an event of the veteran investigative journalist David Kaplan helped defining what this type of journalism is not:
– Leaked news, “get a leaked document by a powerful official and write it on that day is not investigative journalism “, said Kaplan, director of the Global Network of Investigative Journalism and author of Global Investigative Journalism: Strategies for Support.
– Not editorial story: “Some journalists think that all good stories are investigative reporting,” Kaplan said.
– It is critical report: “Investigative journalism may have critical elements, but just because you’re writing something that is hard and critical does not mean you’ve done the excavation involving investigative journalism
– Not reporting on crime and corruption, “Just because you’re covering crime and corruption in editorship does not mean that you are using the tools of investigative journalism.”
In Brazil, last year the Investigative Journalist Evany José Metzker, 67, was found dead beheaded in a rural area of Padre Paraíso, in the Jequitinhonha Valley in Minas Gerais, he researched many cases of violence, including the police, and that period was investigating a prostitution gang of teenagers who acted in Catuji. Minas Gerais State.
Panama Papers: global corruption
05
Apr
Revelations 11 million documents involving international figures, no less than
140 politicians from 50 countries, associated with offshore companies (name that is increasingly associated with money laundering in companies you stand havens), scandalize the world.
Many tax havens, 21 in all where these companies are located, many linked to the British Crown, which is why there are already pressures in the country, including involving the crown and the Prime Minister to Iceland, famous for his reforms, had the Prime Minister involved, but under popular pressure this quickly resigned.
Iceland is an icon in this process because the turnaround in the country after the 2008 crisis was an example, politicians and bankers accused were arrested, and when the country seemed to turn the page, a company called Wintris, owned by Gunnlaugsson and wife to 2009 appeared in tax havens, popular pressure was immediate and he resigned.
The Panama Papers also cast doubt on two of the main Icelandic ministers: Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economy and Olof Nordal, Interior Minister appeared also the new president of Argentina Macri and the President of Angola and a network that could not exist without the approval of Macri.
The Investigative Journalism through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , the same Swiss Leaks points the company Mega Star Enterprises, headquartered in Panama and created by Mossack Fonseca as one of the research sources, but there are others.
To follow a familiar catchphrase in Brazil, we would say: you have to move the world to clean, close tax havens and international process openings, some perhaps in the court of The Hague.
Are we reading minds ?
16
Mar
A device size of a matchstick that reads thought, called stentrode was
developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne (Australian) with a test done on animals to test the ability of neural signals and convert them into electronic signals.
The initial idea is to use the device to move a bionic arm for example, and would be easily implanted and not being invasive (would be implanted in the neck of a patient and positioned in a blood vessel), as the doctor said Terry O’Brien, Department of Medicine and Neurology at the University and a member of the research team.
O’Brien said:. “The great innovation is that we now have a minimally invasive brain-computer interface device that is potentially practical for use in the long run” as news on the university website that announced the stentrode.
Current methods to access precise brain signals require complex surgery with opening the skull and become less effective after a few months, the control signals of unreliability.
The stentrode is less invasive because it is attached to a vein in the neck and therefore easier maintenance.
Will the future be able to read thoughts and communicate by brain signals?
Networking media fight for privacity
15
Mar
Apple expects the outcome of the fight against the US government that
wants to release software that keeps sensitive data of this company, Apple is a private company that keeps your software and private content, to say something about the “privacy”.
I believe it will take, then the feature that Apple introduced in February to a court to unblocking one phone to the FBI of the December 2015 shooting of authors in the Californian city of San Bernardino (left there 14 dead and 22 wounded) still follow the American justice system and we do not know where it will stop.
For the company’s bitten apple, the repercussions would cause “significant damage to civil liberties, society and national security” as news of the Guardian.
Also according to the British tabloid the next few weeks the Whatsapp plans to expand its coding systems so that also your voice messages are encrypted, as well as messages in groups, also Facebook will launch tools soon as Snapchat and Google work in this direction .
According to experts in Silicon Valley’s leading companies on the issue of privacy at the time that Apple locks the legal battle with the United States Department of Justice, other companies will in the vacuum of this battle.
Even the British newspaper reports that the projects of these companies indicate that the industry is willing to publicly support Apple with concrete actions against the demands of the US government, then the fight will open.
Everything is obvious, if you know
11
Mar
Duncan J. Watts is author known networks because their work on how networks
function, an essential aspect is that the six degrees of freedom, whereby through six degrees of connection, we are connected to all, depending of course on the insertion any network, there are those invisible that are not seen by any network.
His book Everything is obvious, since you know the answer (as common sense deceives us), gives clues to a new way of thinking, published in 2011 had a translation of Peace and Earth in 2015, explains the misconceptions about future.
Explains that contemporary rationalization is beneficial, but it can lead to misunderstandings “. The implicit belief that people are rational until proven otherwise is an optimistic belief, even sensible to be encouraged” (WATTS, 2015 pp . 47)
The basic problem is when we want to pass it to people: “However, exercise to rationalize the behavior overshadows an important difference between what we mean when we talk about” understand “human behavior, as opposed to the behavior of electrons, proteins or planets.” (WATTS, 2015, pp. 47)
And clarifies that being a network, can not be confused with these electrons or proteins, “But none are expected to understand how to be an electron – no doubt, even the notion of such an expectation is laughable.” (WATTS, 2015 pp. 48)
This is where media networks (which are technologies) can affect people (that are connected through the media).
After printer, now 3D pen
09
Mar
After the printer, 3D pens It is the launch of WobbleWorks company, creator
of the first mercado, 3D pen announced the launch of a children’s version of the portable printer called 3Doodler Start a portable printer, reference 3D printers.
The company ensures that it is completely safe, the pen now available for children is a version of the pen “adult” 3D 3Dooler launched in 2013 but had a successful release in 2015.
For this release the controls and operation have been simplified for use by children (actually the recommended minimum age is 8 years), to leave the plastic simply press the single button on the pen to start the output of plastic that is overheated internally.
The market that all copies did not wait long, since there are several alternative models, one is the Lix Pen, a pen developed by a team of designers and engineers with 14mm diameter, the object has the body made of aluminum and concentrates a weight 40 grams, and there are many other eastern origin.
The 3D printers followed the front of this market, their designs are more accurate, faster and generally were made by artists, but this new market that encourages individual creativity, particularly teenagers tend to grow.
Chinese artist protests by refugees
29
Jan
It is still little known to the general 
public Ai Weiwei, an artist of modern China, but that is also his critic, that its works have been to Brazil, now he protests against the measures on refugees adopted by the Parliament of Denmark, preventing your and “private” civil rights o have assets, phony capitalism.
His protest was about to close his Breaks exhibition at Faurschou Foundation of Copenhagen, as is your Instagram profile, and also in the Aros museum in the west of the small country, where already pulled its shows this institution. Said the artist on Instagram: “as a result of this unfortunate decision, I will have to leave the exhibition to express my protest against the decision of the Danish Government,” whose work on display is a criticism of your country A New Dynasty, Made in China.
The artist said his decision was supported by the director of Faurshou Foudation, Jens Faurschou said on social network media that “regrets the decision of the Danish Parliament to place itself at the forefront of the inhuman policy in the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe and the Middle East “.
The artist currently exhibits in Spain, according to its “Forever” work in the figure, had a recent controversy with the Lego factory that refused to send parts to the artist, and he asked fans to send him legos, the response was overwhelming.
Maybe art does not save the world, but can save the right to life of refugees
