Diesen: Hvordan CIA unndro seg statlig kontroll

Professor Diesen snakker med Mike Benz om hvordan CIA unndro seg fra statlig kontroll, omstrukturerte seg med NGO'er som spydspiss for statskupp. Ukraina som eksempel.

Diesen og Wolff: Petrodollars nedtur oppløser Usa-imperiet

Professor Glenn Diesen og professor Richard Wolff: Petrodollars nedtur oppløser Usa-imperiet

Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now -- and it’s because we’re clinging to a business model that clearly doesn’t work. Education advocate Geoffrey Canada dares the system to look at the data, think about the customers and make systematic shifts in order to help greater numbers of kids excel.

TED talk downloaded from The Internet Archive.

Diesen & Berletic: Nye "Great Game" – Krig mot Iran, Russland og Kina

Professor Glenn Diesen og Brian Berletic: Det nye "Great Game" – Krig mot Iran, Russland og Kina

Glenn Diesen om Ukraina, USAID og NGOenes rolle

Professor Glenn Diesen har lenge vært kritisk til NATOs politikk overfor Ukraina. Her snakker han om den siste utviklingen i krigen, men også om avsløringene rundt USAID, som den amerikanske regjeringen har brukt til å finansiere medier, protester og andre operasjoner for å påvirke sivilsamfunnet rundt om i verden. Gjennom en mengde NGOer har USA drevet direkte påvirkning og undergravende virksomhet i stater de ønsker å kontrollere.

The way we fish for popular seafood such as salmon, tuna and shrimp is threatening to ruin our oceans. Paul Greenberg explores the sheer size and irrationality of the seafood economy, and suggests a few specific ways we can change it, to benefit both the natural world and the people who depend on fishing for their livelihoods.

TED talk downloaded from The Internet Archive.

For a variety of reasons broadcasters are not big users of open source - if anything many still have a viewpoint of Open Source that resembles views of the early 1990s. This presentation aims to explain what broadcasters around the world are doing in this area and what some of the difficulties are in an industry reliant on proprietary hardware and software as well as IPR-heavy. In particular it will look into the creation of the Open Broadcast Encoder (OBE), a professional television encoder running on commodity hardware which many Norwegian organisations have played a role in. Many of the deployments have been firsts for Open Source in broadcasting, not to mention software encoders, silencing many naysayers.

Kieran Kunhya has worked on a variety of Open Source projects in multimedia, mainly on x264 and FFmpeg/libav, trying to make them suitable for use in professional environments such as Blu-Ray, television transmission and post-production to broadcaster file interchange. However, the technical issues are only half of the puzzle - he also spends a lot of time trying to explain Broadcasting to Open Source people and Open Source to Broadcasters and has spoken at many events about this. He is the creator of the Open Broadcast Encoder project, which is a fully open source broadcast encoder used to deliver a variety of channels around the world from the most high profile channels to much smaller channels, putting small players (e.g Frikanalen in Norway) on a similar playing field to the big players. He has worked on all the major deployments of OBE.

Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I'll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.)

TED talk downloaded from The Internet Archive.