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UG#568 - 9/10 Anniversary (Unaccountable Accounts from Powerdown to Stand Down)

This week's show is released 10 years to the day since Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon could not account for 1/4 of all its spending. Like the $2,300,000,000,000 he spoke about, many details from the next day are still unaccounted for, a decade later - including most notably the sudden (though not unexpected) implosion of WTC7. We hear the soundtrack of a new video by

http://ae911truth.org.

UG#567 Radical Democracy & The Rebirth of Epimethean Man (Deschooling Society 7)

We start this week's show with Professor David McNally on 21st century instances of people rebelling against their would be overlords. Then a set of activists in Spain on how a recent wave of protests against the austerity morphed into an experiment in self-government. Finally, we conclude our reading of radical philosopher Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, in which he describes the re-conceptualisation needed to break from the counter-productive and dependency producing hierarchical institutions of the 20th century.

Has Mark Serwotka's PCSU trade union been aiding attacks on the poor

How many pension credits claims are being suppressed, denied and blocked by staff at the London Pension centre in Newcastle?

Media manipulation of 9/11 Truth

To this day, 9/11 mythology remains official dogma on air and in print. As a result, most Americans remain unaware of the biggest lie of our time and its horrific consequences, touching their lives directly.

Sunday marks the 10th 9/11 anniversary. As on previous anniversaries, the media cover everything except what Americans most need to know - the truth.

UG#566 - If Not for The Man, Then for Whom? (Deschooling Society 6)

This show anticipates a time when most people are not working for the man, but interacting through what Ivan Illich describes as 'Learning Webs'. We start with a US valedictorian, Erica Goldson's bold speech against the school machine, and the conclusion of the John Taylor Gatto interview. Then we read chapter 6 of Deschooling Society, Learning Webs, before concluding with some thoughts on how a decentralised money system might work.

You only believe the official 9/11 story because you don't know what it is

Ten years have passed since the infamous events of September 11th, 2001 took place, and the majority of people still don't know a damn thing about the actual details of that event.

As is the case with so many issues, people tend to stand strong and argue a position or voice an opinion about an event like 9/11. But, when questioned about the many details surrounding that event they have no answers. They are clueless. And they are, in the end, dumbfounded.

The term "conspiracy theorist", perhaps the most misapplied description in our vernacular, is often used to describe 9/11 truthers. Perhaps that term does apply to a segment of the 9/11 truth movement. But in most cases a more accurate description of 9/11 truthers is probably "expert", or "scholar", or "researcher."

UG#565 - The World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life (Deschooling Society 5)

This week we look at the effect on the direction of Western society of the concerted efforts made to turn as many people as possible into non-thinking automata. In our first hour, a wide ranging and entertaining lecture from a quarter century ago, E. F. Schumacher speaks on "The World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life" in the year before his death. Then the ensuing Q & A, followed by chapter 5 from Illich's Deschooling Society. We conclude with a little from John Taylor Gatto and a retired Brigadier General on one aspect of waste by the US military.

UG#564 - Choosing A Life of Action (Deschooling Society 4)

The show this week reflects on why, in the face of dire predictions if we do not make big changes to how we live, so many people feel either powerless or even disinterested to try to effect such changes. We continue with last week's Gatto interview, followed by another chapter of Deschooling Society and an essay by Philip Balla.

Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery

I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities—window smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten.

Youth sentenced to years in jail for posting Facebook notices during riots

The state clampdown against working class youth in Britain continues unabated. On Tuesday, crown court judges in England handed down long jail sentences to two young men for posting comments on Facebook.

UG#563 - Extended Childhood and The New World Religion (Deschooling Society 2-3)

This week we pick up with both recordings from last week, focussing on the establishment of what in our second hour, Ivan Illich calls the 'New World Religion', the cult of mass compulsion schooling. As Gatto explains, in the 20th Century, mass compulsion schooling served to create the most essential resource of all for US big business - a stockpile of radically incomplete, childish adults who could be counted on to mass produced and mass consume goods and services according to a schedule imposed by managers. Illich broadens the discussion beyond merely business and adds historical perspective.

In defence of anarchy

Following is an article from Chumbawumba's Boff Whalley, it's a corporate repost but one of the few that are worth having here...

Parliament demands violent repression of British youth riots

Yesterday’s emergency debate in the British parliament, recalled in emergency session following the eruption of youth riots earlier this week, was a contemptible spectacle.

16,000 police deployed in London to put down youth revolt

Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the governmental emergency COBRA committee yesterday and called a special sitting in parliament for Thursday, in response to continuing rioting in London that has spread to other towns and cities in England.

Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism

“One formula [...] can be that of the mob: gullible, fickle, herdlike, low in taste and habit. [...] If [...] our purpsoe is manipulation – the persuasion of a large number of people to act, feel, think, known in certain ways – the convenient formula will be that of the masses”. — Raymond Williams

ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers" - Update and Dox

Verified Copy of Anthony Treasure's Facebook Page Surfaces.

UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)

This week we look at the need to deschool ourselves both as individuals and collectively, by relying more on our own wits and those of our personal contacts and less on the dying impersonal centralised institutions which dominated 20th century developed life. The title is a quote from an extended interview with John Taylor Gatto, which we follow by reading the first chapter of Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.

ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"

Anthony Treasure (Tony Treasure) from Castleford, Wakfield speaks out about his job de-benefitting the sick and disabled.

UG#561 - $100,000,000 to Crack A Lone Nut? (Amerithrax, Gladio, 7/7...)

Focusing on the Anthrax attacks of 2001 in the weeks after Sep 11th, we look at the deep state's policy of blaming its false flag attacks either on nebulous foreign terrorist groups, or, as a fallback, on a domestic 'lone nut'. Mark Crispin Miller speaks on the changing use of the term 'conspiracy theory', researcher Danielle Ganser on NATO's Operation Gladio, ex-UK police researcher Tony Farrell on 7/7, and researchers Meryl Nass and Graeme MacQueen on the 'Amerithrax' attacks.

LaDIY Cinema Fundraiser Presents: Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)

On Sunday, July 31 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm at the Rutland Arms, 86 Brown Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2BS

LaDIY Festival presents a first in a series of feminist film screenings

Starting with Jamie Babbit's light hearted comedy approach to radical feminism in 'Itty Bitty Titty Committee' (2007).

Sheffield Social Struggles Newswire Archive

UG#568 - 9/10 Anniversary (Unaccountable Accounts from Powerdown to Stand Down)

UG#567 Radical Democracy & The Rebirth of Epimethean Man (Deschooling Society 7)

Has Mark Serwotka's PCSU trade union been aiding attacks on the poor

Media manipulation of 9/11 Truth

UG#566 - If Not for The Man, Then for Whom? (Deschooling Society 6)

You only believe the official 9/11 story because you don't know what it is

UG#565 - The World Crisis and the Wholeness of Life (Deschooling Society 5)

UG#564 - Choosing A Life of Action (Deschooling Society 4)

Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery

Youth sentenced to years in jail for posting Facebook notices during riots

UG#563 - Extended Childhood and The New World Religion (Deschooling Society 2-3)

In defence of anarchy

Parliament demands violent repression of British youth riots

16,000 police deployed in London to put down youth revolt

Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism

ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers" - Update and Dox

UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)

ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"

UG#561 - $100,000,000 to Crack A Lone Nut? (Amerithrax, Gladio, 7/7...)

LaDIY Cinema Fundraiser Presents: Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)

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