UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

UG616 - The Secret, Silent Poisoning (Nuclear Victims in Peace and War)

We hear how not only the Japanese but also the Marshall Islanders continue to suffer as a result of the US military's determination to assert its nuclear superiority, whatever the cost to human life. Complementing out main focus on Nuclear Weapons, we hear from Chris Busby that the safety of Nuclear Power may be overestimated by a factor of 400.

DEFRIEND YOUR ONLINE NAZI "FRIENDS" (EDL MANCHESTER) #edl #uaf #antifa

Whenever the EDL and their fascist kind come out to play, (albeit in diminished numbers) the maggot larvae of organised racial hatred crawl out of the woodwork throughout social media, people most of the time silent about politics and such like, all of a sudden, inexplicably pop up, out of character, openly lending their support to the neo-nazi scum.

UG#614 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 1 (Capitalism, Debt & Banking)

We left off our reading of David Graeber with the statement that "The logic of money was granted autonomy. Political and military power were then gradually reorganized around it". This week we look in more detail at what that meant, focusing mainly on the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as reading more from Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear a few words from Ivan Illich and the first half of a radio adaptation of a video on the Banking Cartels and the US Federal Reserve.

UG#615 - Granting Autonomy to The Logic of Money 2 (Capitalism, Banking...)

This week is a sequel to last week's episode, again combining some hidden history of the bankers in USA with our continued reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We conclude with the audio of an introductory presentation on Altruistic Economics which Robin Upton gave at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin in December 2009.

Jeff Marsh "Comes Out" On Twitter As Being Gay #edl #lgbt

Perhaps the most surprising tweet of them all, was this afternoon when violent racist ex-soccer hooligan "Joe Casuals" (Jeff Marsh to you or I) openly came out as "gay". This is the sadistic racist former EDL thug who enjoys slashing Manchester United fans with sharp knives for fun, and many of his mates do stiff arm nazi salutes and use the hashtag #14/88, and now he has supposedly come out of the closet, putting himself at risk of homophobia from his nazi mates.

UG#613 - Economic Disposal of The Worthless (Hidden History of Eugenics in USA)

This show examines the history of eugenics in USA. Robert Whitaker tells how WASPish business magnates took up the idea of racial purity and aggressively promoted eugenics, leading directly to forced sterilizations and lobotomies across USA, and indirectly to Nazi Germany's Final Solution.

Alexandra Park: Tree felling resumes at protest site

SAVE THE TREES! | 08-02-2013 12:57 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Alexandra Park: Tree felling resumes at protest site
Tree felling in Alexandra Park, Whalley Range Manchester City Council said it would not be deflected from its plans

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21321490

UG#612 - From Conquistadors to Opium Wars (Debt & the Great Capitalist Empires)

This time we look at the grim consequences of the logic of imperialist exploitation for profit since the Middle Ages. As a specific example of the general principles we read about in Debt, The First 5000 Years we hear Frank Sanello on the Opium Wars between Britain and China.

Crazy Weather & Crazy Society

Journalist and scientist Andrew Freedman: what new science is saying about freaky 2013 weather. Plus Dr. Kathy McMahon "the Peak Oil Shrink" Kathy tells us about Nicole Foss, "sucky collapse", and a surprising turn in her own life.

Sheffield Vegan Approach

Want to save animals, improve your health and protect the planet?
Why not go vegan for a month?

Occupy Sheffield: Peoples Forum on Debt - 2nd March 2013

Occupy Sheffield are hosting a Peoples Forum on Debt on Saturday 2nd March 2013, 9.30am-3pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 10 St James St. S1 2EW (just along from the Cathedral, past the Blue Moon).

The EDL In Manchester

The breakaway conspirators will arrive in Manchester for the EDL rally in their handfuls, ready to show their displeasure at North of England's street nazis being ignored by the EDL leadership Tommy Whatsisname and Emporer Kev Carroll, or at least that is their stated intention on Facebook. They call themselves the Northwest Alliance, and say they have nothing whatsoever to do with the EDL since their online public spat, but will continue to attend the EDL's rallies, just to be kind to Emporer Kev.

Calais Migrant Solidarity training weekend Nottingham 23rd/24th Feb

Calais Migrant Solidarity | 31-01-2013 15:12 | Sheffield

Training weekend for Calais Migrant Solidarity (CMS).
SUMAC centre, Nottingham
23rd and 24th February, 10-5pm

A Climate Warning From the Future

Alex Smith | 30-01-2013 03:57 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Scientist Dr. David Karoly says record heat & fires in Australia are a warning to the world. "The bug guy" U. of Maryland's Dr. Michael Raupp on insects in a warming world. Steven Davis explains why climate solutions advanced just 9 years ago are no longer possible.

EDL /SDL/WDL Members Join The BFF For Half Price With Discount Code #edl #sdl

Things are getting desperate at the unregistered British Fascist Party (BFP). Unkle Kev Karroll (KKK) recently took over the rains of this piss-poor shambles of a nazi party when King Rat Weston jumped from the sinking ship and went all literary, but unbeknown to almost all the population, since last summer, an extra-special money-saving offer has been available to EDL / SDL and even "WDL Members"......

UG#611 - Money as Powerlessness(Economic Parasitism,MMT,Debt in the Middle Ages)

Does money really empower people, or does it trap them in a zero-sum game in which >99% will come out as losers? A two-parter this time on money and debt. In our first hour, two speeches from the first conference on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. In the second, we continue reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Aaron's Army #aaronsw

Following is the text of remarks by Carl Malamud at the Internet Archive's Memorial for Aaron Swartz,
January 24, 2013,

http://blog.archive.org/2013/01/15/memorial-for-aaron-swartz/

UG#610 - From Enclosure to Privatization (Luddism, Magna Carta & Debt)

We start with Peter Linebaugh on Luddism and the multifaceted enclosure movement in UK. Then, a report on prison privatization in Canada. We conclude by starting chapter 10 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years on the decline of the Axial age empires and social systems in India and China.

Brazil: the perfect freedom of expression?

Emilio José Lemos de Lima | 15-01-2013 19:03 | Sheffield

"I don't agree with only one of the words you say, but I will defend to the death your right to do so!"(Voltaire),

It is controversial the relationship between freedom of expression and the degree of development of societies.

Many seek to justify the repressive character of the current regimes as a price that must be paid for achieving progress.

Legal arms sales prop up gun-runners, say activists

Rory MacKinnon | 15-01-2013 17:47 | Terror War | Sheffield | World

Britain cannot stop illegal gun-running until it ends its own dalliances with dictators, peace activists said today ahead of a BBC exposé of arms dealers.

Yorkshire gunshop owner Gary Hyde was jailed last year for his role in the illegal shipping of around 40,000 AK47s and millions of bullets from China to Nigeria in 2006 - on the eve of a tense general election.

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