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UG#709 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control - 2 (Atoms For Profit)

Power "too cheap to meter" offered humanity a whole lot of control, but that hardly describes what the plutonium industry actually delivered. Our continuing examination of the failing culture of control looks an aspect more serious than climate change - the nuclear power/weapons complex. Our first hour focuses on the close connection between the refinement of the technology of murder and the concomitant degradation of the deliberative process of waging war. Our second hour examines the intimate connections between nuclear war and nuclear power and between the privatization of the nuclear weapons establishment and the abandonment of any kind of effective oversight. The disturbing combination of a nuclear complex beyond government control and a commercially-controlled media which refuses to address the issue will be all too familiar to students of Deep Politics.

Audio: 'Mass Surveillance, Liberty and Activism' with ORG Director Jim Killock

The Open Rights Group's Executive Director Jim Killock gave a talk in Sheffield on 25th March 2015 at a ORG Sheffield meeting about mass surveillance, liberty and activism, attached is a recording of the talk and the Q and A with the audience.

#702 - The Temptation of The Technofix 2 (Have We Got Too Much Technology?)

We continue listening in on the October 2014 International Forum on Globalization conference "Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth". Seven speakers with contrasting styles and material manage to paint a pretty consistent picture of an economically justified technological development unhinged from our truly human values, one that is unsettling and depressing humans in ways beyond out conscious comprehension.

John Pilger: War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda #LoganCIJ14

Following is John Pilger’s address to the Logan Symposium, “Building an Alliance Against Secrecy, Surveillance & Censorship”, organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism, London, on 5th December, 2014

http://logancij.com/

Audio from #ORGCon2014 - The UK's Digital Rights Conference

Attached are recording from four of the sessions held at #ORGCon2014,

https://orgcon.openrightsgroup.org/2014/ on 15th November 2014.

The Siege of Julian Assange is a Farce

The siege of Knightsbridge is a farce. For two years, an exaggerated, costly police presence around the Ecuadorean embassy in London has served no purpose other than to flaunt the power of the state. Their quarry is an Australian charged with no crime, a refugee from gross injustice whose only security is the room given him by a brave South American country. His true crime is to have initiated a wave of truth-telling in an era of lies, cynicism and war.

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

On Friday 6th October 2014 Cory Doctorow addressed a packed meeting organised by the Open Rights Group Sheffield

https://sheffield.openrightsgroup.org/ in the Quaker Meeting House, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free.

Audio: Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Workshops 2014

Attached are audio recordings from some of the sessions at the 2014 Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair which was held in the Showroom on Saturday 12th July 2014.

A lone demonstrator kicks off 4th July at NSA Memwith Hill on stroke of midnight

As the main gates are shutdown before the annual evening demo begins. So the thousands of base personel, entering & leaving earlier on, all saw this, all day long.

4 July: Annual Independence FROM America demo at NSA Menwith Hill

Join the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) at the main entrance to NSA Menwith Hill, HG1 4QZ, on Friday 4 July from 5pm to 9pm for the annual "Independence FROM America" demonstration.

More info: 01423 884076.

Audio: Bruce Kent - No Faith in Trident

Bruce Kent addressed a Sheffield CND

http://www.sheffieldcnd.org.uk/ meeting last night, 29th April 2014, it was a culmination of his "No faith in Trident" speaking tour,

http://www.cnduk.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1857

Breaking the Frame - Luddites 200 Gathering

Luddy | 29-04-2014 16:42 | Technology | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Breaking The Frame gathering alternative technology and thinking acting...

UG#669 - The Restless Energy of The Hunted Mind (Information/Social Dysfunction)

We look at the relationship between stress, technology and the modern worldview's apparent disconnection from reality. We have one new speaker, William Powers, author of Hamlet's Blackberry, and Heather Menzies speaks for a second time after her first appearance three years ago when we first looked explicitly at this area in UG#514.

UG#663 - Geoengineering for Fun and Profit (One Technofix To Rule Them All?)

150 episodes on from our first show on geoengineering, we return to the topic with a pair of recent speeches from academics. In our second hour, an hour long speech by Clive Hamilton, author of "Earthmasters - Playing God with the climate". To set the scene we begin with a recent talk on education by professor Stephen Gough.

UG#661 - Countering Intelligence 4 (Death Dealing Drones Return Home to Roost)

This week, a radio adaptation of Drone Nation, the last part of Scott Noble's Counter Intelligence film, which begins by noting that the under the NDAA, the US president has claimed the power to kill anyone, any time, without notice. It traces the logic back from US drone attacks which trialled the same amorality abroad, but notes that US skies are increasingly populated by drones from the FBI, Police Forces or other government agencies. Next, a talk by Medea Benjamin, author of "Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control", followed by a keynote speech from Glenn Greenwald at a Civil Liberties conference.

Audio: 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill

The 2013 annual 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill organised by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB)

http://www.caab.org.uk/ featured a reading of the The People's Declaration of Independence from America and poetry from Mirzan – the Poet and was addressed by Andy Worthington and Salma Yaqoob.

Photos: 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill

Some photos from the annual Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill held on 4th July 2013.

Sheffield Technology Newswire Archive

UG#709 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control - 2 (Atoms For Profit)

Audio: 'Mass Surveillance, Liberty and Activism' with ORG Director Jim Killock

#702 - The Temptation of The Technofix 2 (Have We Got Too Much Technology?)

John Pilger: War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda #LoganCIJ14

Audio from #ORGCon2014 - The UK's Digital Rights Conference

The Siege of Julian Assange is a Farce

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free

Audio: Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Workshops 2014

A lone demonstrator kicks off 4th July at NSA Memwith Hill on stroke of midnight

4 July: Annual Independence FROM America demo at NSA Menwith Hill

Audio: Bruce Kent - No Faith in Trident

Breaking the Frame - Luddites 200 Gathering

UG#669 - The Restless Energy of The Hunted Mind (Information/Social Dysfunction)

UG#663 - Geoengineering for Fun and Profit (One Technofix To Rule Them All?)

UG#661 - Countering Intelligence 4 (Death Dealing Drones Return Home to Roost)

Audio: 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill

Photos: 4th July "Independence FROM America" protest at NSA Menwith Hill

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