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UG#735 - Thinking Outside The Bucks (The Authenticity of A Life Beyond Money)

Robin Upton | 30-06-2016 14:56 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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A more personal show than usual, which I hope will prove an appealing contrast to the crimes of the Deep State. We return to a familiar theme of this show, the importance of following our heart, of working for love not money. A range of speakers, some new, some old, combine to challenge our ideas of self, of what it means to be a human, and of what we might achieve if we align our heads and hearts. We conclude with the vision of Chris Larcombe, who realized during his Ph.D in epigenetics that he was more interested in creating a moneyless system of interaction which would allow people, en masse, to better coordinate and help realize one another's dreams.

UG# #711 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control - 4 (Sickening Modern Medicine)

Robin Upton | 28-07-2015 14:23 | Analysis | Health | History | Sheffield

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We review the infamous Tuskeegee syphilis experiment and its even more murderous offshore equivalent, noting that the US government's apology to those affected did not stop it using "sovereign immunity" to block their class action lawsuit - since the deeds occurred outside of the USA. The lead attorney, Piper Hendricks shares her frustration. We conclude with an interview of Toni Bark, host of "Bought, The Movie" on regulatory capture by big pharma of CDC and the difficulty of assessment of the health risks of vaccines in light of the huge amounts of money involved.

UG#708 - Facing The Failing Culture of Control - 1 (Drugs, Addiction and Health)

Robin Upton | 29-05-2015 07:27 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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We look at a culture obsessed with control, focusing this episode on the level of the individual. Charles Eisenstein briefly contrasts the old story of isolated individuals in competition with the emerging story of ourselves as parts of a larger self. Then we hear Tomi Gomory, co-author of "Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs" on the increasing efforts made to control and categorize people by classifying them as "mentally ill". After some thoughts from Ivan Illich on iatrogenesis, we hear Rebecca Tiger, author of "Judging Addicts", on how the public perception of addiction has been managed as part of the "War on Drugs".U

The 2015 Northern Vegan Festival in Manchester

Northern Vegan Festival | 20-05-2015 15:38 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Health | Liverpool | Sheffield

On Saturday October 17, the Northern Vegan Festival returns to Manchester city centre for a bigger event than last year which this time features 4 venues.

The 2015 Great Yorkshire Vegan Festival in Leeds

Great Yorkshire Vegan Festival | 20-05-2015 15:21 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Health | Liverpool | Sheffield

One Saturday June 13, the Great Yorkshire Vegan Festival returns to Leeds city centre for a bigger event than last year, which this time will be at the Town Hall.

UG#707 - Returning To Earth (Fungus, Fermentation and Food)

Robin Upton | 02-05-2015 14:46 | Culture | Ecology | Health | Sheffield | World

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This time we leave Deep Politics for a change of pace, and focus instead on earthier matters. Beginning with a reading of Ivan Illich's "Declaration on Soil", we look closely at the source of our food, and the humble and often overlooked organisms without which larger life forms could not live or even digest their food. Philosophy and theory are not forgotten, but this a more practical show than usual, including advice on growing and fermenting food.

North's biggest ever vegan festival

Northern Vegan Festival | 22-08-2014 11:49 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Health | Liverpool | Sheffield

After the very successful 1st Northern Vegan Festival in Manchester last year, which over 2500 people came to, a 2nd much bigger Festival takes place next month in Blackpool, before we move back to Manchester in 2015 for an even bigger event.

UG#683 - The Standardization of Mind & Body (DSM-5, Disabilities & Fruit Trees)

Robin Upton | 29-05-2014 15:07 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Last time we looked at how mass communication technologies were shaped into the propaganda tool that big media is today. This time, a look at how the medical profession has responded to similar systemic pressures, gradually refining technologies and public expectations about physical and mental health so as to buttress the status quo. After Jess Martin's talk on 'disability' we hear Gary Greenberg on the DSM-5. We conclude with an alternative perspective from Tony Wright - that modern society, far from being a healthy norm from which any deviation is suspect, is itself a deeply dysfunctional result of millennia long changes in human brain biochemistry.

UG#671 - The Nuclear Fuel Pool of Damocles (Fukushima, Chernobyl and PBDEs)

Robin Upton | 04-12-2013 01:06 | Anti-Nuclear | Ecology | Health | Sheffield | World

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We hear a collection of speakers on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (which Wikipedia reports injured 39 and may result in anywhere from 0 to 1000 cancer deaths). We hear testimony that the real figures are many orders of magnitude higher, and that the crisis is far from over, with radiation leaks increasing and a pool containing over 400 tons of nuclear fuel suspended 100 foot in the air in a badly damaged building highly vulnerable to any further seismic disturbance.

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

Robin Upton | 11-11-2013 09:15 | Health | Social Struggles | Technology | Sheffield | World

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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#657 - Rounding Up The Opposition (Glyphosate Risks, David versus Monsanto)

Robin Upton | 29-07-2013 22:17 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Health | Sheffield | World

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A two part look at the practice of Genetic Engineering as carried out by Monsanto. We begin with a radio adaptation of 2009 film "David versus Monsanto". Then it's an in depth look at what the Wikipedia thought police describe as a "virtually ideal herbicide": Monsanto's glyphosate. Senior Research Scientist Stephanie Seneff, publisher of a recent papers suggesting that glyphosate (roundup) may be implicated in many of the diseases which are now increasing in prevalence in USA.

UG#655 - Unite and Conquer 3 (Social and Personal Consciousness of Self & Other)

Robin Upton | 21-07-2013 15:13 | Analysis | Health | Sheffield | World

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A successor show to episode 531, we wonder this week whether a suppressed half of human consciousness knows that we are inseparable from all of the rest of life? We begin with Jill Bolte Taylor's dramatic account of the stroke that shut down the left half of her brain, followed by Elisabet Sahtouris and Willis Harman on new paradigms in science, and author Gish Jen on cultural differences in ideas of the self.

UG#653 -The Biopsychosocial Approach (The Growth Of Child Development Disorders)

Robin Upton | 11-07-2013 10:40 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Following on from last week, another show on a very important but commercially sidelined scientific backwater. Dr. Gabor Maté combines personal testimony, anecdotal evidence and a lot of scientific research to tell a story of child development very different to the one pedalled by institutions such as the Drug Industry, the criminal justice system or other profiteers of human disfunctionality. Increasing ill health, Maté suggests, is a natural response to an increasingly sick society.

UG#652 - Is Humanity In Its Right Mind? (The Rise and Rise Of The Left Brain)

Robin Upton | 07-07-2013 02:28 | Analysis | Health | Sheffield | World

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This week, a remarkable set of ideas by an unknown speaker with a highly unusual credential (a sleep deprivation record of 11 days) whom I first came across only a few days ago. His ideas are such a close fit with many of the others we have heard on the show that I felt I had to share them with you. If they are even partly true, we all need to know about it.

UG#636 - Bilking The Afflicted (Addiction, Drugs & Capitalism)

Robin Upton | 11-05-2013 15:33 | Analysis | Health | Repression | Sheffield | World

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This episode we turn our attention to the 'War on Drugs', which as addiction specialist Gabor Maté points out is of course a war on drug users. We start with a hour on "The Science of Drug Politics" by former UK Government Chief Drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt whose testimony clearly suggests that scientific considerations were of minor interest to the politicians he was supposed to advise. Next we hear Dr. Maté who touches on some of the reasons why the War On Drugs may not be failure after all...

UG#620 - Sex And Drugs And Mental Health (Sex 'Addiction' and Broken Brains)

Robin Upton | 03-03-2013 05:35 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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We hear three different perspectives on the Mental Health of the US population - and indeed upon the American concept of 'mental health. Is it a matter of fixing broken brains with carefully targeted drugs? Our speakers agree that the US public have been profitably misinformed by professional experts full of ideas about how they should and shouldn't behave.

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

Robin Upton | 11-02-2013 02:56 | Health | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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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.

Sheffield Vegan Approach

The Vegan Approach | 03-02-2013 13:15 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Health | Sheffield

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

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UG#608 - Flight From Meaning 3 (Science, Chimpanzees and The Monongahela)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:12 | Analysis | Health | Sheffield | World

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I start my third year with an unusually open ended love-it-or-hate-it next episode in the 'Flight From Meaning' series, centered on an essay by philosopher Steve Talbott on how biologists contrive to study life itself as if it were merely a lifeless mechanism. We also hear from Jane Goodall about chimpanzee society and read some of Underground History of American Education on John Taylor Gatto's boyhood.

UG#609 - Flight From Meaning 4 (Crazy Like Us,Instructed Organism,Peace Pilgrim)

Robin Upton | 12-01-2013 12:07 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

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Three contrasting pieces for you which all hint at the inadequacy of limiting self as the skin-encapsulated ego. Firstly, Ethan Watters on socially defined aspects of madness, including how Glaxo Smith Kline aggressively globalized Western ideas of depression in Japan. Next, I summarize Steve Talbott's essay on problems of the 'man as machine' metaphor. Finally, an hour on Peace Pilgrim, whose 'retirement project' was to walk across USA for over 25 years without using money or asking for food or shelter.

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