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Brandon Bryant (whistleblower)
Brandon Wayne Bryant (born November 18, 1985, in Missoula, Montana) is an American whistleblower. From 2006 to 2011 he was a camera operator (''sensor operator'') of unmanned drones of the United States Air Force. His job was targeted killing. On December 10, 2012, the German magazine ''Der Spiegel'' reported about Bryant, his former work and his post traumatic stress disorder. He gave his testimony to an expert council of the United Nations and to the German Parliamentary Committee investigating the NSA spying scandal. Jesselyn Radack is his lawyer. In April 2015 Brandon Bryant gave his first public keynote 'Inside the Predator' on the drone-system and his experience as a drone operator at the conference 'DRONES: Eyes from a Distance', the opening event of the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin, Germany. In 2015 the Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler and the German section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms awarded Bryant with the Federation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Bryant Speaking At The Disruption Network Lab 2022-03-26 (CC Maria Silvano) Cropped
Brandon may refer to: Names and people *Brandon (given name), a male given name *Brandon (surname), a surname with several different origins Places Australia *Brandon, a farm and 19th century homestead in Seaham, New South Wales *Brandon, Queensland, a small town just south of Townsville Canada *Brandon, Manitoba England *Brandon, County Durham *Brandon, Lincolnshire *Brandon, Northumberland *Brandon, Suffolk *Brandon, Warwickshire *Brandon Hill, Bristol France *Brandon, Saône-et-Loire Ireland *Brandon, County Kerry *Mount Brandon, a mountain overlooking the village *Brandon Bay, the bay overlooked by the village *Brandon Creek, County Kerry *Brandon Hill, a hill between Graiguenamana and Inistoige, Co. Kilkenny. United States *Brandon Corner, California *Brandon, Colorado *Brandon, Florida *Brandon, Iowa *Brandon Township, Michigan *Brandon, Minnesota *Brandon Township, Minnesota *Brandon, Mississippi *Brandon, Montana *Brandon, Nebraska *Brandon, New York *Brandon, Ohi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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American Whistleblowers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema For Peace
The Cinema for Peace Foundation is a registered, non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany. It supports film-based projects dealing with global humanitarian and environmental issues, and coordinates the Cinema for Peace awards. History The Cinema for Peace Foundation was founded in 2008 building on the successful outcome of the annual Cinema for Peace Gala, which started in 2002. Since then, the Cinema for Peace Foundation has been running internally originated, cinema-based humanitarian projects. In 2018, Cinema for Peace Foundation expanded its cinema-based humanitarian projects to include arranging medical treatment for Pussy Riot activist Pyotr Verzilof,BBC, 'Alexei Navalny: Putin critic arrives in Germany for medical treatment', 22 August 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53871617 after he was poisoned. Pussy Riot and Cinema for Peace had earlier coordinated humanitarian projects in 2014. On 22 August 2020, Cinema for Peace organized an emergency medical t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen International Film Festival
The Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) is a film festival held annually in October in Bergen, Norway since 2000, and is the largest film festival in the nation in number of films. The festival celebrated its 20th edition in 2019, featuring more than 150 films in the program. The festival leader is Tor Fosse, and BIFF is owned by Bergen Cinema. The festival´s main venue is Bergen Cinema's Magnus Barefoot Cinema Centre, with additional screenings taking place at the local art film theatre Cinemateket at Georgernes Verft and at the student cinema at Kvarteret. History In 2000, Bergen was a European Capital of Culture. Due to the occasion, Bergen Cinema arranged Bergen International Film Festival, with the most important films from the festival circuit of the year and many sneak previews of movies already picked up for Norwegian distribution. BIFF was one of the most successful events to take place during the celebration of the Cultural City, and was arranged again the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonje Hessen Schei
Tonje Hessen Schei is a Norwegian film director, producer and screenwriter. She has directed the documentary film ''DRONE'' and ''Play Again'', and has directed and produced the films ''Independent Intervention'' and ''iHuman''. She produced ''Privacy of Wounds'' in 2018. Her film ''DRONE'' won the Norwegian Gullruten award, the Amanda award and the Golden Nymph Award. Hessen Schei studied social anthropology at NTNU before taking a bachelor's degree in film production at the University of Texas, in Austin, USA. She later majored in film production at NTNU (now: Master in Film and Video Production) at the Department of Arts and Media Studies. Filmography See also * Arne Birkenstock * Brandon Bryant * Government by algorithm * Regulation of algorithms Regulation of algorithms, or algorithmic regulation, is the creation of laws, rules and public sector policies for promotion and regulation of algorithms, particularly in artificial intelligence and machine learning. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatstheater Mainz
The Staatstheater Mainz (Mainz State Theatre) is a theatre in Mainz, Germany, which is owned and operated by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Situated on the Gutenbergplatz, the complex comprises two theatres which are connected by an underground passage and also by skywalk. Performances of opera, drama and ballet are presented. Its name was Stadttheater Mainz (municipal theatre) until 1989. The main building was constructed between 1829 and 1833 by Georg Moller in Neoclassical style. The construction had been requested by the bourgeoisie of the city of Mainz for decades and cost 280,000 guilders (the city's budget amounted to 300,000 guilders at that time). The theatre's great hall (Großes Haus) was destroyed by bombing during World War II. Friedrich Meyer-Oertel became director of the theatre in 1968. The small hall (Kleines Haus) was built in 1997. Remedial work from 1976 to 1977 aimed at restoring Moller's rotunda were undertaken by Dieter Oesterlen. Between 1998 and 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of German Scientists
The Federation of German Scientists - VDW (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e. V.) is a German non-governmental organization. History Since its founding 1959 by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Otto Hahn, Max Born and further prominent Nuclear physics, nuclear scientists, known as Göttinger 18, who had previously publicly declared their position against the nuclear armament of the German Bundeswehr, the Federation has been committed to the ideal of ''responsible Wissenschaft''. The founders were almost identical to the "Göttinger 18" (compare the historical Göttingen Seven). Both the "Göttingen Manifesto" and the formation of the VDW were an expression of the new sense of responsibility felt by Otto Hahn and some scientists after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki. The VDW tried to mirror the American Federation of American Scientists, Federation of Atomic Scientists. VDW has been identified as Western Germany's Pugwash Conferences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Association Of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
The International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) is an international non-governmental organisation headquartered in Berlin. It was founded in 1988 and seeks "to build and strengthen international legal efforts to ban the use and threat of use of nuclear weapons." Its membership consists of individual lawyers and lawyer's organisations. The current co-presidents of the organisation are Peter Beckeand Takeya Sasaki. The German section of the organisation was co-founded by former German Minister of Justice Herta Däubler-Gmelin. IALANA had a central role in the process that sought an advisory ruling on the legality of nuclear arms from the International Court of Justice.Sarah J. Diehl, James Clay Moltz, ''Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation: A Reference Book'' (p. 277), 2002 The organisation has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. See also *International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler
The Federation of German Scientists - VDW (Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler e. V.) is a German non-governmental organization. History Since its founding 1959 by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Otto Hahn, Max Born and further prominent nuclear scientists, known as Göttinger 18, who had previously publicly declared their position against the nuclear armament of the German Bundeswehr, the Federation has been committed to the ideal of ''responsible Wissenschaft''. The founders were almost identical to the " Göttinger 18" (compare the historical Göttingen Seven). Both the "Göttingen Manifesto" and the formation of the VDW were an expression of the new sense of responsibility felt by Otto Hahn and some scientists after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The VDW tried to mirror the American Federation of Atomic Scientists. VDW has been identified as Western Germany's Pugwash group. Members of VDW feel committed to taking into consideration the possi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disruption Network Lab
Disruption, disruptive, or disrupted may refer to: Business * Creative disruption, disruption concept in a creative context, introduced in 1992 by TBWA's chairman Jean-Marie Dru *Disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen's theory of industry disruption by new technology or products Psychology and sociology * Disruptive behavior disorders, a class of mental health disorders * Disruptive physician, a physician whose obnoxious behaviour upsets patients or other staff * Social disruption, a radical alteration, transformation, dysfunction or breakdown of social life Other uses * Cell disruption is a method or process in cell biology for releasing biological molecules from inside a cell *'' Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble'', a 2016 book by Daniel Lyons * Disruption (adoption) is also the term for the cancellation of an adoption of a child before it is legally completed * Disruption (of schema), in the field of computer genetic algorithms * Disruption of 1843, the div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
