Transit Lounge

Jodi Rose
Transit Lounge

Cultural Producer Jodi Rose invites creative people into the Transit Lounge to talk about life in perpetual motion and visions of the future. A series of internationally nomadic conversations about society, creativity & technology with makers, thinkers and doers. You never know who you'll meet in the Transit Lounge!

  1. Kudzai Mubaiwa talks women, finance and freedom at open:fora

    29/05/2019

    Kudzai Mubaiwa talks women, finance and freedom at open:fora

    Kudzai M Mubaiwa talks about why there is a clear need for women to have resources for them to attain real freedom, with a leaning towards strong networks they can activate for tangible forms of wealth. The conversation emphasizes how economic empowerment brings options. Investor Saint + Future + Female + Zimbabwe + iZone Hub + open:fora ----more---- iZone Hub is a Zimbabwean Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Community Development Hub that serves women and youth makers, innovators, creatives, small business owners. We help them develop their enterprises in the digital age and promote creation over consumption. Financial & Digital Literacy Trainer | Personal Finance & Small Business Columnist Kudzai M Mubaiwa is an economic development professional and financial educator who is the founder of Investor Saint (Private) Limited. She is a cofounder of iZone Hub that serves youth and women entrepreneurs and innovators. Her passion is to increase the financial and digital literacy of individuals and small business owners – enabling them to create wealth and ultimately escape poverty – whilst leveraging the opportunity of the internet. Kudzai anchors a personal finance radio program and writes for a weekly business newspaper on small business. Investor Saint iZone Hub Twitter: @kedukudzi @iZoneHub   Open:fora Feminist Cafè (OFFC) AfricaOSH (Africa Open Science & Hardware) & AfricArXiv Art as Protest open:fora weeklong neighbourhood open culture event in Berlin's deep West. In times of increasing illiberal democracy (Orbàn), upload filters and Exiteering the pressures on our freedoms to act, share culture and make voices heard, reinforces the urgency to act on how we as global citizens can reclaim our collective res publica. Joining our team members from South Sudan and GIG (Global Innovation Gathering) network guests working for open cultures across five continents, open:fora invites all our neighbours, friends, students, activists and all those interested in creating resonant open cultures, technologies and ecologies in celebrating with us! Hosted by r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH and Open Source Ecology Germany e.V., open:fora offers an opportunity to engage with, build and discuss that which drives critical positions on open technologies, media literacy and capacity building not only at home, but in the challenging post-conflict environments our organisations often work in. STEAM (Science Tech Engineering Art Math), #ASKotec (Access to Skills and Knowledge – open tech emergency case), PAPERPCB (symbiotic synthesizers), Open:fora Feminist Cafè (OFFC), MMN - Migrant Media Networks, AfricaOSH (Africa Open Science & Hardware), #defyhatenow, AfricArXiv, Heteropia, and Art as Protest are some of codeplay key words marking a range of activities that ALL are invited to join. twitter: @intertwilight facebook: opencultureagency programm: https://www.open-fora.org/ open:fora supported by #GuerrillaFoundation     Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Support independent radio! Donate & keep the conversation flowing Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to your event! signal at transitloungeradio dot net tags: r0g_agency, open-fora, guerrilla foundation, open culture, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, Kudzai Mubaiwa, izonehub, investorsaint, Zimbabwe, women, economy, finance, empowerment, business, incubator, start-up

    9 min
  2. Friedrich Lindenberg talks money laundering, data transparency and pirate radio at Dark Havens

    21/05/2019

    Friedrich Lindenberg talks money laundering, data transparency and pirate radio at Dark Havens

    Friedrich Lindenberg talks me through the investigative journalism data tools developed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and details of the Azerbaijani Laundromat. He is optimistic about the potential for lasting and significant structural change to dismantle the complex financial industries that support organised crime & money laundering worldwide. We agree on the importance of pirate radio! Organised Crime + Money Laundering + Data Journalism + OCCRP + #DNL15 ----more---- Data Team Lead, OCCRP, Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, DE Friedrich Lindenberg leads the data team at OCCRP. He is responsible for the development of OCCRP Data and supports ongoing investigations where data analysis is needed. In 2014/2015, Friedrich was a Knight International journalism fellow with the International Center for Journalists, working with the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), and in 2013 he was a Knight-Mozilla Open News fellow at Spiegel Online in Hamburg. Prior to that, Friedrich was an open data activist, and worked to promote the release of government information about public finance, lobbying, procurement and law-making across the world. Twitter: @pudo OCCRP: Azerbaijani Landromat OCCRP: The Russian Laundromat Exposed OCCRP: Investigative Tools (Find online sources / Search for leads / Map your investigation) OCCRP: Database for Researchers (145 Million entries) OCCRP: Data Visualisation Tools (for investigators) Guardian: Everything about the Azerbaijani Laundromat Reuters: National Crime Agency Account Freezing Order The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is an investigative reporting platform formed by 40 non-profit investigative centers, scores of journalists and several major regional news organizations around the globe. Our network is spread across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. We teamed up in 2006 to do transnational investigative reporting and promote technology-based approaches to exposing organized crime and corruption worldwide. We help journalists anywhere to trace people, companies and assets across the globe. Our team has worked on dozens of award-winning investigations in different regions. Their support is free for reporters from anywhere in the world. DARK HAVENS PANEL LEAKING MASSIVE DATASETS: Security, Openness, and Collective Mobilisation Ryan Gallagher (Investigative Reporter & Editor, The Intercept, UK) Friedrich Lindenberg (Data Team Lead, OCCRP, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, DE) Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) This panel poses issues of security and openness related to the analysis of data leaks and strategies of indexing data, to journalists, technical experts, researchers, and the larger civic society. In the case of the Panama Papers (April 2016) 11.5 million financial and legal records were leaked in 2015 from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca; those were followed by the Bahamas Leaks (September 2016), where 1.3 million internal company register files were leaked; later, the Paradise Papers (November 2017) were a set of 13.4 million leaked confidential electronic documents about offshore investments. This huge amount of information was all leaked to the Süddeutsche Zeitung reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, who shared it with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) who coordinated a worldwide investigation. Ryan Gallagher (The Intercept) and Friedrich Lindenberg (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP) discuss the ethics of massive data leaks, security and secrecy vs. openness and transparency, as well as source protection and collective mobilisation in the analysis of the material. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin    Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Support independent radio! Donate & keep the conversation flowing Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record conversations at your event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, Dark Havens, Disruption Network Lab, journalism, treasure islands, finance curse, offshore tour operator, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation

    26 min
  3. Simon Shuster talks corruption, hitmen and civil society at Dark Havens

    09/05/2019

    Simon Shuster talks corruption, hitmen and civil society at Dark Havens

    Simon Shuster talks in the Transit Lounge at Dark Havens about the importance of the work journalists do as the immune system of a society. "Investigative journalists expose things most people would agree we do not want – organised crime, corruption, illicit wealth and inequalities." As journalists bring these secrets to light, it's important for people to understand and hear what we do, to have the media literacy to understand the kinds of conversations and complexity that goes into dealing with a story, and the synergy between journalists and activists in civil society to push for change. Tax Havens + Investigative Journalism + Time Magazine + Berlin + #DNL15 ----more---- Simon Shuster (Berlin Reporter for TIME, RU/DE) Simon Shuster has been the Berlin bureau chief of Time Magazines since 2013, responsible for coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. Born in Moscow and raised in San Francisco, his work in the last few years has focused on the European refugee crisis, the rise of right-wing populism and Russian hybrid warfare from Ukraine to the US. @shustry Articles by Simon Shuster It's Business as Usual for Russians in Sudan, Despite Bashir's Fall How Putin Built a Ragtag Empire of Tyrants and Failing States She Was Next in Line to Be the President. He Plays One on TV. Who Will Win Ukraine's Election? (spoiler alert: the comedian) DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli Community Director: Lieke Ploeger Programme Managers: Daniela Silvestrin, Nada Bakr, Monti Harmony Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Support independent radio! Donate & keep the conversation flowing Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record conversations at your event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, Dark Havens, Disruption Network Lab, journalism, treasure islands, finance curse, offshore tour operator, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, Simon Shuster, Time Magazine

    20 min
  4. Erik Bordeleau talks fabulation, finance and cryptophilosophy at Economic Space Agency

    05/05/2019

    Erik Bordeleau talks fabulation, finance and cryptophilosophy at Economic Space Agency

    HOW TO SHORT CAPITALISM: THE CRYPTO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ECSA Economic Space Agency (ECSA) is building the next generation network infrastructure for programmable economies. Most blockchain and distributed ledger technologies applications are oriented toward the creation of distributed markets, reinforcing rather than disrupting oligarchic concentration of wealth over time and questioning what “value” is actually traded. ECSA offers something different: a fully integrated, commons-oriented approach to cryptoeconomy. Economic Space + Cryptophilosophy + Post-Capitalism + Speculative Economy + Fabulation I met with Erik Bordeleau at the ECSA 'Economic Space Design Program' in the Haus der Statistik Werkstatt in Berlin to find out exactly what is 'Economic Space' and how we can claim agency. The readings and notes come from the subsequent 'Token Logic Design' seminar series with Erik at the School of Disobedience, Art and the Blockchain. ----more---- Edited transcript: JR: Can you tell me what exactly the Economic Space Agency is? I imagine intergalatic cryptocurrencies… EB: As it exists now comes from an initiative called ‘Robin Hood Hedge Fund Coop’ making captures on the actual financial markets. We were able to gather some money and redistribute it to projects that we found interesting. Commons-oriented projects essentially. And then blockchain and distributed ledger technologies came in. We were being Robin Hoods of the traditional markets, which can only go up to a certain point. Then with distributed ledger technologies, you can start to imagine creating new markets or new financial stratas that you can start operating with. The way I understand it is the opportunity to create a thousand financial plateaus, from which you can start deterritorializing finance as it exists, and start making value a little bit more multi-dimensional. One of the things we used to say at ECSA is that we are stuck in a mono economy, where everything gets valued within a very narrow set of coordinates, which we call capitalism. Which generates as all we know tremendous externalities. The way forward towards a post-capitalist economy needs to be towards recognising all these values that are considered external to our economic system. JR: What is fabulation? EB: Fabulation is a way of saying that you can't think of the 'real' economy, as opposed to the speculative economy. The economy is always speculative, all the way down. That's not something to judge, or it's not something to deplore. It's something to accept, to deal with, so we need to accept that we are also part of self-fulfilling prophecies or processes. We are part of that. We're a little bit lunatic at times, we are entertaining ideas that seem completely incredible. But it's part of the game. The economic game is fuelled with dreams, and fabulation is a term to name the passage from the virtual to the actual. As one philosopher I really like says 'Only people who are dreaming can modify someone else's dream'. You can't just go up to someone and make them change their minds. You have to be meeting people in the space where they dream, they're also dreaming of something... So, the open office was organised here at Haus der Statistik which is a dream itself. But a dream with a fantastic reality.. I would like to have this collective adventure keep on going, and grow organically. So there's a mix of fantasy, craziness, crazy ambition that we express collectively, but I also want other types of intelligences that are more grounded, closer to the granular aspects of all the relationality of our lives. I want that to be more and more part of our process. Because that's how something sustainable, organic will sustain in the future. That's really important. We're coming in with quite radical ideas but they need to be translated, converted into practices of different kinds, and that's what I envision for the future. A very multi-dimensional proliferating set of practices that share some sort of common financial or alter-financial understanding, so that we can federate when necessary for a common agenda, but otherwise most of the time developing these practices for their own sake. Economic Space Agency is a group of radical economists, software architects, finance theorists, game designers, critical thinkers and artists, coming together to reimagine the future of the economy. Our crew in Berlin includes, among others: Akseli Virtanen, Pekko Koskinen, Jackie Vu, James Foley, Jon Beller, Joel E. Mason, Erik Bordeleau, Fabian Bruder, Emma Stenström, Emanuele Braga, Tirdad Zolghadr, Matthias Einhoff and more. *** Erik Bordeleau Erik Bordeleau is researcher at the SenseLab (Concordia University, Montreal), fugitive finance planner at the Economic Space Agency (ECSA) and affiliated researcher at the Center for Arts, Business & Culture of the Stockholm School of Economics. His work articulates at the intersection of political philosophy, media and financial theory, contemporary art and cinema studies, with a marked interest for the speculative turn and the renewal of the question of the possible in contemporary thinking. He recently taught a seminar series in critical cryptoeconomics at the School of Disobedience at Volksbühne (Berlin) and is currently working on the creation of an MA program in Cryptoeconomics at the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS). With Saloranta & De Vylder, he is developing The Sphere, a p2p community platform for self-organization in the performing arts, which is also part of ABC’s research projects. He is based in Berlin. Erik Bordeleau PhD ECSA on Medium     Economic Space Agency (ECSA) ECSA STACK Gravity:: Distributed Runtime Gravity provides secure computational containment, serialization, persistence, networking, and hardware interfaces to be utilized upwards throughout the ECSA stack. Gravity Protocol The Gravity protocol provides event ordering, scaling, strong security, fail recovery and high availability. It ensures network wide consistency, and enables distributed atomic transactions. Space:: Organizational Expression Space is a grammar for the creation of programmable organizations which can seamlessly combine models of governance and economy. It provides Gravity with an organizational programming environment, utilizing Gravity's implementation of object capabilities. Space Protocol:: Organizational Interoperability The Space Protocol allows the organizational forms of Space to interoperate, regardless of their implementation substrate, establishing fully organizable economic networks. Economic Space:: Value Expression ECSA's offer:: networked value production, distribution and measurement through a new economic abstraction:: The Economic Space. Economic Space Protocols:: Economic Interoperability Protocols and models such as distributed exchange, trading units, synthetic indexing and network derivatives enable the creation of organizational forms with a shared economic grammar. Economic Space Agency (Medium.com) A global collective working to remake the DNA of the economy. Programmed decentralised commons production, April 2017 Video: After Scarcity "A compelling economic sci-fi is mathematic disguised in a well-crafted storyline." SCREENING + DISCUSSION around "After Scarcity" (Bahar Noorizadeh, 2019) with Stefan Heidenreich and Economic Space Agency. Haus der Statistik, Monday 6th May, 19:30 to 22:00 pm  For many of us, computer technology seems almost inseparable from the corporate hypercapitalism of Silicon Valley. In "After Scarcity", Bahar Noorizadeh explores the soviet cybernetic past in search of our possible post-neoliberal future. "How might we use computation to get us out of our current state of digital feudalism and towards new possible utopias? After all, what would Vladimir "socialism is electricity plus statistic" Lenin have to say about blockchain?" This fascinating 30 min. sci-fi essay film will act as a free indirect entry point for a wider discussion around the disruptive potential of crypto- and cyber-economies. Including: Stefan Heidenreich's recent work around a non-money economy partly based on algorithmic matching formulas, and ECSA's general proposal to build a financial and computational infrastructure for post-hayekian economy. “Flying through swarms of floating dots outlining monasteries and city streets, After Scarcity flashes through decades of history to propose the ways contingent pasts can make fictive futures realer, showing us that digital socialism was inbred into the communist revolution and that computation doesn’t mean we’re condemned to today’s tyranny of total financialization.” Complementary readings Imagine there's no money: dialogue between Stefan Heidenreich & Geert Lovink  Geert Lovink: German media theorist Stefan Heidenreich has produced a concise proposal for a ‘non-monetary economy’. The book is entitled */Money/* and came out late 2017 with Merve Verlag in Berlin. Excerpts in English can be found at the Transmediale website. There we find the following description of Heidenreich’s project: ‘Given complex information infrastructures that have already been developed for documenting transactions, tying consumer habits to identities, and accurately predicting future exchanges, the substructure of a new kind of economy is now in place.’ March 2018 How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. Peters, B. (2016) Cambridge: MIT Press. Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream. Spufford, F. (2010). London: Faber & Faber. Review by Philip Cunliffe In the fifties, Soviet economic growth made it seem that the USSR might still win on the front of delivering material abundance to the masses: ‘Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche’... The heroes of Spufford’s Soviet dream are an entire generation of peasants brutally torn off the

    13 min
  5. Frederik Obermaier talks Panama Papers, global crime & cocktails at Dark Havens

    25/04/2019

    Frederik Obermaier talks Panama Papers, global crime & cocktails at Dark Havens

    Frederik Obermaier on global crime & collaborative reporting, the demise of the 'lone wolf' investigative journalist, Panama Papers cocktails, writing that email to Vladimir Putin, and a thank you message to John/Jane Doe for the 11.5 million files contained in the Panama Papers. The stories are global, crimes are global and journalism needs to be global: Frederik dishes on the complexities of working collaboratively with 400 journalists from 80 countries over a year to publish the Panama Papers. Tax Havens + Investigative Journalism + Collaboration + Panama Papers + #DNL15 ----more---- Frederik Obermaier Investigative journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DE "It was a difficult process, to be honest. Our editor-in-chief (Wolfgang Krach) was a big fan of collaborations, so he encouraged us to share the data. It think he's a visionary in this aspect. We also had colleagues who asked us: 'Frederik, Bastian are you stupid? You're sharing a scoop! Why should you?' Sometimes they're in this old lonely wolf mindset, journalists, especially investigative journalists being the lonely wolf not sharing anything even with his outlet... always secretive, always hunting for the scoop. These times are over in journalism. I think in investigative journalism, it's now the pack, the power of the pack. And it's only logical because crime is not limited to one country anymore. We're speaking about transnational organised crime groups. So it's only logical to team up as journalists to tackle this problem, to uncover it. And I think we need more. We do see a lot of collaborations currently in journalism, and I think that's good. The more, the merrier!" Frederik Obermaier is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter for the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading broadsheet. He is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. He also initiated the Paradise Papers-revelations. Obermaier is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ.org. Photo by Stefanie Preuin/SZ If you have data, contact Frederik Obermaier using a secure channel & encrypted communication. Please note that unencrypted email, skype and phone calls are highly susceptible to being monitored or accessed. Contact details on his website Email encryption via PGP Threema: FPN4FKZE Documentary: The Panama Papers (2018), directed by Alex Winter (TRAILER) “We’ve said it again and again: some stories are too big, too complex and too global for lone-wolf muckrakers or even individual news organisations to tackle. We believe collaboration is the wave of the future in global journalism. Pooling resources and sharing information is a powerful way to investigate and expose stories that politicians, corporations and organized criminals are determined to keep in the shadows.” Gerard Ryle, Director ICIJ Panama Papers wins Pulitzer Prize How the Panama Papers were unwrapped Reporting on The Panama Papers Reporting on The Paradise Papers The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money, by Bastian Obermayer & Frederik Obermaier. The inside story from the journalists who set the investigation in motion. ICIJ Investigations: Panama Papers / Paradise Papers ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database OCCRP: Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project Forbidden Stories: Network of Journalists Twitter: @f_obermaier PANAMA PAPERS: How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money WATCH VIDEO: DARK HAVENS KEYNOTE Frederik Obermaier (Investigative Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DE). Moderated by Max Heywood (Transparency International Global Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator, UK/DE). The Panama Papers began with a cryptic message from an anonymous whistleblower. “Hello, this is John Doe,” the source wrote. “Interested in data?” In the months that followed, the confidential source transferred emails, client data and scanned letters, from Mossack Fonseca, a notorious Panamanian law firm that has not only helped prime ministers, kings and presidents hide their money, but has also provided services to dictators, drug cartels, Mafia clans, fraudsters, weapons dealers, and regimes like North Korea or Iran. After the revelation several heads of governments had to step down, thousands of investigations were launched, approximately one billion $ recouped. The Panama Papers proved that there is a whole parallel world offshore in which the rich and powerful enjoy the freedom to avoid not just taxes but all kinds of laws they find inconvenient. In this Keynote, Süddeutsche Zeitung investigative journalist Frederik Obermaier reflects on the Panama Papers and their impact (arrests, changes in legislation etc.), as well as the crucial roles of whistleblowers and the need to protect them. In conversation with Max Heywood, the dialogue addresses what we learnt from The Panama Papers about political and economic power, what progress has been made against tax and dark havens, and how the Panama Papers have changed the way journalists think about and analyse tax havens. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin   Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help keep the conversation free-flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record a series of conversations at your world changing event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, Dark Havens, Disruption Network Lab, journalism, treasure islands, finance curse, offshore tour operator, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, Frederik Obermaier, Süddeutsche Zeitung

    14 min
  6. RYBN talk art, algorithmic investment and offshore tourism at Dark Havens

    23/04/2019

    RYBN talk art, algorithmic investment and offshore tourism at Dark Havens

    RYBN.ORG RYBN walk us through the Offshore Tour Operator to explore local traces of the transnational and liquid financial industry, and introduce classic tax avoidance schemes the Double Irish, Singapore Sling, Bermuda Black hole and Dutch Sandwich. Offshore Tour Operator directs the user through addresses from the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database to discover & map the local premises of businesses listed in the Offshore Leaks, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Paradise Papers. A situationist GPS prototype for psychogeographic drift encouraging you to create concrete visual representation of the opaque and offshore, thus reshaping the imaginary around tax havens. Photographs of buildings listed at each address capture the offshore economies in the local landscape, architecture and environments. Tax Haven Tourism + Algorithmic Investment + Psychogeography + Art as Financial Optimiser + #DNL15 ----more---- Financial optimisation through art, it turns out only works for dead, (mostly) white & male artists, and collectors who can afford to stash excess cash in anonymous shell companies and complex trusts to hide their money through the acquisition of art. It doesn't work so well for living artists, who apparently can't transform themselves into tax havens to help offset billionaires income. I, like most artists could help you write off millions through conceptual art, feel free to call anytime! ALGOFFSHORE TAX OPTIMIZER THROUGH ART is a system that generates tax optimization schemes, using art as a speculative vehicle. Taking advantage of every possible offshoring strategy to compute a personalised solution for any interested art collector, the user can customise the optimisation scheme with personalised parameters and dedicated algorithms. RYBN.ORG Extra-disciplinary Artistic Research Platform, FR RYBN.ORG is a Paris-based collective founded in 1999. The collective follows an extra-disciplinary investigation methodology on the functioning of complex and esoteric phenomena and systems - high frequency markets structure, algorithmic trading strategies, offshore banking networks, kabbalah hermeneutics, digital labor and human computers, computer viruses, etc. Their works have been presented in many art centers and festivals internationally. Explore Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary uncovering  tax havens hidden in plain sight through counter-financial dérive. RYBN Offshore Tour Operator Offshore Tour Operator is a situationist GPS prototype, orientated toward a computer assisted psychogeographic drift, that dictates the walk of the user through the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database addresses - including the Offshore Leaks, the Bahamas Leaks, the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers. The prototype exists in two versions : a DIY open hardware version, using a raspberry pi 0 coupled to a GPS, and an android app. RYBN Algoffshores RYBN Resources: academic papers on tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens and fiscal optimisation Offshore Tour Operator, Art as Financial Optimiser Neural.it Art, Capital of the 21st Century Offshore Tour Operator on We Make Money Not Art Twitter: @RYBn_ Image credits: RYBN & LISTE BASEL Offshore Tour Operator / Algoffshore - The Great Offshore, RYBN.ORG / Exhibition HeK at LISTE Art Fair Basel, 2018, curated by Boris Magrini - courtesy of Ivana Krešič. RYBN.ORG THE GREAT OFFSHORE RYBN.ORG (Extra-disciplinary Artistic Research Platform, FR) Moderated by Ela Kagel (Digital Strategist and Founder of SUPERMARKT Berlin, DE) RYBN presents the “The Great Offshore” project, an artistic investigation conducted in several tax havens. The Great Offshore addresses the question of representation of offshore finance: due to its opaque nature and the secrecy that surrounds it, it is impossible to picture. The symbolic representations that are usually in use are, as many invitations to evasion, filled by colonial images of exotic islands, of palm trees beaches and golden sands, infinite walls of numbered mailboxes, that contribute to the aestheticisation of financial power. In a similar fashion, as Alain Deneault underlines it, the vocabulary in use to describe offshore finance is not neutral, and produces a positive, technical, legal and legitimate picture, that neutralizes critics. As a consequence, either within semantics or semiotics, we face a representation crisis. To overcome this representation failure, The Great Offshore project seeks for traces of this transnational and liquid financial industry, to capture how it marks local landscapes, architectures and environments. The Great Offshore project aims to reshape the imaginary around tax havens, by re-engaging with the situationist strategies of psycho-geography, enhanced by digital and algorithmic means. During the talk, RYBN unfold the different chapters that composed the project and its artistic, semiotic and political dimensions. + Workshop / Psycho-Geographic Tour  of Berlin shell companies & shadow finance offices with RYBN.org. What is psychogeography? :: an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting," originating with the Situationist International movement. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." It has also been defined as "a total dissolution of boundaries between art and life," and "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape. Psychogeography: delve into the soul of a city Siobhan Lyons The Conversation 2017 Psychogeography, as the term suggests, is the intersection of psychology and geography. It focuses on our psychological experiences of the city, and reveals or illuminates forgotten, discarded, or marginalised aspects of the urban environment: The transition of a space from one use to another undergirds much of psychogeography’s preoccupation; the notion of a palimpsest – an object or piece of writing with new material superimposed over earlier writings – is particularly important. Psychogeography thrives as an interrogation of space and history; it compels us to abandon – at least temporarily – our ordinary conceptions of the face value of a location, so that we may question its mercurial history. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin   Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record conversations at your next world changing event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, Dark Havens, Disruption Network Lab, journalism, treasure island, finance curse, offshore tour operator, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, RYBN.ORG, offshore tour operator, algoffshore, algorithmic trading, economic art, psychogeography, offshore tourism, art investment, Art Basel, international art market

    21 min
  7. Nicholas Shaxson talks power, money and the finance curse at Dark Havens

    23/04/2019

    Nicholas Shaxson talks power, money and the finance curse at Dark Havens

    Nicholas Shaxson unveils the secrets of the seriously, filthy rich and talks me through how many of the world's offshore tax havens are not only tropical islands, but actually British & OECD territories. Just what effect does that shadowy 'spider web' network of wealth extraction have on our societies? How are offshore tax havens central to the global economy? What is the finance curse? Listen to find out more! Tax Havens + Treasure Islands + Finance Curse + Tax Justice Network + #DNL15 ----more---- Nicholas Shaxson (Journalist, author Treasure Islands & Finance Curse, UK/DE) Nicholas Shaxson: The Finance Curse The Guardian: How the outsized power of the city of London makes Britain poorer Open Democracy: The men who stole the world The Finance Curse: Buy the Book Tax Justice Network: Nicholas Shaxson Tax Justice Network: Finance Curse The Guardian: Finance Curse Review The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire Nicholas Shaxson: Treasure Islands Twitter: @nickshaxson Nicholas Shaxson is a British writer, journalist and investigator. He is author of the acclaimed books The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making us all Poorer (2018); Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (2012); and Poisoned Wells: the Dirty Politics of African Oil (2007). He is a writer and researcher for the Tax Justice Network, an expert-led group focused on tax and tax havens. In 2012 the International Tax Review named him as one of its “Global Tax 50” most influential people in international tax. He has written for The Financial Times, Reuters, Vanity Fair, the Economist and the BBC, as well as many other publications. Nicholas Shaxson Photo credit: Mark Garner (Grove Atlantic) Watch the Documentary: 'The Spider's Web' At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance. The Spider's Web was written, directed and produced by Michael Oswald, and was substantially inspired by Nicholas Shaxson's book Treasure Islands, an extensive éxpose on the global consequences of tax havens. For those interested to learn more about tax justice and financial secrecy, read about the Tax Justice Network's campaigning and regular blogs - become part of the movement for change and listen to the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast: the Taxcast. HIDDEN TREASURES How the Global Shadow Economy Drives Inequality WATCH VIDEO Nicholas Shaxson (Journalist, author of Treasure Islands, and Finance Curse, UK/DE), Maira Martini (Senior Policy Advisor, Transparency International, BR/DE). Moderated by Simon Shuster (Reporter for TIME, RU/DE). This panel introduces the topic of offshore secrecy and tax havens bringing together two experts of the field. Nicholas Shaxson will refer to his book Treasure Islands: Dirty Money, Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole Your Cash, where he describes the connections between global economic affairs since slavery and secretive offshore tax havens. In his analysis, dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system contributed to generate global inequalities and shift of wealth from poor to rich, as well as undermining our democracies via financial deregulations. Maìra Martini will describe the schemes connecting shell companies, multiple offshore bank accounts, and money laundering, by referring to her work at Transparency International on a report on the role of banks in cross-border corruption cases. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help keep the conversation free-flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record a series of conversations at your world changing event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, dark havens, disruption network lab, journalism, treasure islands, finance curse, offshore tour operator, paradise papers, lux leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, tax justice network, Nicholas Shaxson, City of London

    20 min
  8. Stéphanie Gibaud talks whistleblowers & tax justice at Dark Havens

    22/04/2019

    Stéphanie Gibaud talks whistleblowers & tax justice at Dark Havens

    Stéphanie Gibaud talks about becoming a spy for the French authorities, the impact on her life and ongoing search for justice after blowing the whistle on tax fraud at UBS. Tax Havens + UBS + Whistleblowers + Tax Justice + #DNL15 ----more---- UBS Whistleblower, FR Twitter: @Steph_and_me Stéphanie Gibaud wrote the book Whistleblowers: The Man Hunt (2017) with an introduction by Julian Assange. In 2018, she was a jury member of the GUE/NGL Award in honor of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. She will also be a jury member in 2019. As a Public Relations specialist, if I had shredded the documents UBS suddenly asked me to destroy in 2008, I could have risked prison. I was working for UBS Marketing Department and had absolutely no idea of the scope of the documents, which I was supposed to get rid of. Searches were taking place; I refused to be part of illegal activities & blew the whistle internally. When in a weakened state because of the harassment I was suffering at UBS, I was targeted by the French state in 2011 and, constraint by the law, had to communicate confidential information to the French Ministry of Finances, which have widely helped to identify numerous offshore bank accounts. Stéphanie Gibaud Whistleblowers: The Man Hunt La traque des lanceurs d’alerte, Stéphanie Gibaud Préface de Julian Assange, Publisher Max Milo Editions UBS ordered to pay £3.9bn by French court over raft of violations UBS Whistleblower’s Paltry Reward FT: How French authorities used a whistleblower to sting UBS bankers (read article) by David Keohane in Paris, March 1, 2019 *UBS were eventually fined €4.5 billion for recruiting clients in France and helping them evade taxes. #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Twitter: @disruptberlin Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've enjoyed listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, your generous support keeps the conversation flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed #DNL15, Transparency International, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, dark havens, disruption network lab, conversation, journalism, treasure island, finance curse, offshore tour operator, paradise papers, lux leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, Stéphanie Gibaud, whistle blowers, Man Hunt, Max Milo, France, Switzerland

    18 min

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