Corruption Unveiled: Julian Hessenthaler & Frederik Obermaier · #DNL31 #OrganisedCrime
Disruption Network Lab
Corruption Unveiled: Austria's Troublesome Path from Strache to Kurz From . Julian Hessenthaler, the private detective who set the trap for Strache and triggered the "Ibiza affair," delves into the issues of power and abuse of power in the state of Austria with Frederik Obermaier one of the journalists to whom he leaked the video. In 2019, a scandal rocked Austrian politics as journalists from Der Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed a secretly recorded video featuring Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the far-right FPÖ. In the video, he offered state contracts...
info_outline
Émile P. Torres: Trolling AI Doomerism & Longtermism
Disruption Network Lab
Philosopher Émile P. Torres takes you on a journey through the surreal and very influential techno-utopian – and dystopian - philosophies and ideologies of Silicon Valley billionaires and leaders. Recorded at a meet-up and workshop curated by Sabina Barcucci. Read more about the meet-up here: . Our next conference is Organised Crime: A Global Business, Nov 24–26 2023: . Become a menber: dnlb.org/join More events and resources at Join our Telegram Group for Berlin event updates: Follow us:
info_outline
Sharon K. Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China)
Disruption Network Lab
Sharon Hom (Executive Director, Human Rights in China, HK/US).
info_outline
Are Kleptocrats the big winners of Covid-19?
Disruption Network Lab
Award-winning investigative journalist and author Tom Burgis discusses the opportunities that the pandemic has provided for kleptocracy to flourish. He shared his experience on the topic on how the crisis has helped to break down defences against kleptocracy. What can we learn about the response to the pandemic and the structures that allow the transnational kleptocracy to thrive, what are our strategies to hold power to account and could the post-pandemic future look brighter?
info_outline
Whistleblowing during Covid-19
Disruption Network Lab
Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell & Rima Sghaier discuss the role of whistleblowers during COVID-19 and discusses the importance of exposing the truth during the pandemic.
info_outline
THE Q IN QONSPIRACY
Disruption Network Lab
In this conversation between Wu Ming 1 and Florian Cramer, QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as games and a new kind of cults. By focusing on the mutation of conspiracy myths from countercultural phenomena to contemporary meme and influencer culture, they will focus on three conspiracy narratives: "The Great Replacement", QAnon and "The Great Reset".
info_outline
WHISTLEBLOWING & COVID-19
Disruption Network Lab
This keynote conversation brings together Eileen Chubb, a former care assistant in the UK who became a whistleblower and later a campaigner, and Erika Cheung, one of the key whistleblowers in the Theranos scandal and today co-founder and executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship.
info_outline
JULIAN ASSANGE: A statement by Jennifer Robinson
Disruption Network Lab
JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown
info_outline
JULIAN ASSANGE: Repression, Isolation & Lockdown
Disruption Network Lab
This panel brings together four experts in the field of technology, human rights, investigative journalism and law to address the importance of transparency, government accountability and media freedom through the case and the present conditions of Julian Assange.
info_outline
Voice of Care: Helen O’Connor
Disruption Network Lab
Helen O’Connor, National Health Service nurse in the United Kingdom for many years and today GMB NHS Union Organiser will give a critical perspective on the UK health care system and the measures that need to be taken to protect the rights of the workers, rather than allowing private companies to profit, in order to help resolve the pandemic and future public health emergencies.
info_outlineAward-winning investigative journalist and author Tom Burgis discusses the opportunities that the pandemic has provided for kleptocracy to flourish. Across the world, we've seen dramatic increases in government spending, logistical obstacles for watchdogs monitoring kleptocratic financial flows, and a ready-made excuse for restrictions on freedom of movement... and political protest.
In our conversation, Tom shared his wealth of experience on the topic (nodding to his recently published second book, 'Kleptopia: How dirty money is conquering the world"), on how the crisis has helped to break down defences against kleptocracy. What can we learn about the response to the pandemic and the structures that allow the transnational kleptocracy to thrive, what are our strategies to hold power to account and could the post-pandemic future look brighter?