The Arcade Wire: Oil God You are an Oil God! Wreak havoc on the world's oil supplies by unleashing war and disaster. Bend governments and economies to your will to alter trade practices. Your goal? Double consumer gasoline prices in five years using whatever means necessary. The game explores the relationship between gas prices, geopolitics, and oil profits. Key Features: 8 godly wraths to inflict upon a toy world below 4 governments and 3 economy types alter global trade practices A model of the crude oil futures market In-game tutorial and highscores WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name | World news The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short. The group will scour the released documents to survey damage caused by the disclosures. One of the most embarrassing revelations was that the US state department had drawn up a list of information it would like on key UN figures – it later emerged the CIA had asked for the information. "Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. WTF is more commonly associated with the Facebook and Twitter profiles of teenagers than secret agency committees. Earlier this month the Guardian revealed that the CIA was responsible for drafting the data "wishlist" that the US state department wanted on UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and other senior members of the organisation. Although the CIA has featured in some WikiLeaks disclosures, relatively little of its own information has entered the ether, the paper reported. Acronyms.
Wikileaks Stories Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press (image: Reuters) Operation Payback is a bitch. "Anonymous" is retaliating against Mastercard for denying payment processing services to WikiLeaks, and Mastercard.com is currently down as a result. The apparent US government efforts to cut Wikileaks' lifeblood—cashflow and web services—kicked into high gear this week. Amazon.com, which provided some hosting services to Wikileaks, and DNS service provider EveryDNS.net, have also cut off service to the secret-leaking website. "Operation: Payback" began months ago as a series of attacks targeting anti-piracy entities like the RIAA and MPAA. "Their servers have been shut down and they will remain so for as long as there is no true freedom of information and data," read an Anonymous open letter related to Operation Payback. The US hasn't pressed charges against Assange or Wikileaks, but all the noose-tightening is concurrent with increasingly blunt statements characterizing Wikileaks as a criminal or terrorist organization.
Horde of Directors A game about corporate connectedness. Created with T. Michael Keesey. Horde of Directors was designed and developed specifically for the Videogames with an Agenda exhibition, London UK Fall 2004. The game puts the player in the role of an activist trying to advance a social agenda in the complex world of interrelated corporate and government interests. Drawing on data from 2002 Ars Electronica Golden Nica winner They Rule by Josh On, players choose a real corporation or organization to influence, and set to work having heated arguments with those organization's actual board directors. Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International SPIEGEL: In 1998, the German Constitutional Court ruled that the German government is not allowed to have a nationwide police force because, according to the constitution, the individual German states are responsible for police matters. (Editor's note: The current federal police force is actually the former federal border police force, which was given new assignments after the introduction of the borderless Schengen Area.) De Maizière: I don't want to be granted any new powers or authority -- I only want the police that we now have, to be organized differently with their current powers and authority. My interior minister colleagues should have taken a look at this instead of immediately launching into a tirade. You don't openly criticize members of your family in public. SPIEGEL: ... the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, for example, and the interior minister of lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann. De Maizière: Showing strength is different than showing muscle. De Maizière: No.
Leaky World: a playable theory - Molleindustria Our Preface Julian Assange's short essay is an intriguing theory of conspiracy (as opposed to conspiracy theory) that effectively and concisely describes the drama of transnational power in the information age. It's an obscure, strategical text from 2006 that assumes a new relevance in the light of the massive leaks of 2010. However, we believe it has several flaws: 1) It is a byproduct of the leftist idea of class consciousness achieved via enlightenment. The Truth and the power of rational arguments are ultimately going to prevail, Social change can be achieved simply by revealing unjust structures to the ignorant masses. 2) It is informed by hacker culture and shares with it all the shortcomings of a technocentric thought. 3) It abstracts the concept of authoritarian power too much, ignoring intra-capitalist tensions and the conflicting national and corporate interests that are arguably the main reason for secrecy. Julian Assange - me @ iq.org December 3, 2006 Introduction
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US diplomats spied on UN leadership | World news Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK. A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding forensic technical details about the communications systems used by top UN officials, including passwords and personal encryption keys used in private and commercial networks for official communications. It called for detailed biometric information "on key UN officials, to include undersecretaries, heads of specialised agencies and their chief advisers, top SYG [secretary general] aides, heads of peace operations and political field missions, including force commanders" as well as intelligence on Ban's "management and decision-making style and his influence on the secretariat".
Jonas Kyratzes Flower The developer that brought you the award-winning PLAYSTATION Network title flOw is back with another concept that challenges traditional gaming conventions. Flower expands the team's tradition of delivering simple gameplay, accessible controls and a medium to explore emotional chords uncommon in video games. In Flower, the surrounding environment, most often pushed to the background in games, is pulled to the forefront and becomes the primary "character." The player will journey through a beautifully vivid and changing landscape in this fresh and genuine game only on PS3. The game exploits the tension between urban bustle and natural serenity. The goals and journey in each level vary, but all involve flight, exploration and interaction with the worlds presented to you. Both pastoral and at times chaotic, Flower is a visual, audio and interactive escape on PS3. Order Flower on PlayStation Network Store or GameStop
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