Podcasts about Big Society

Brian Gerrish, Ben Rubin and Prof. Diane Rasmussen McAdie with today's UK Column News. If you would like to support our independent journalism, please join the community: https://community.ukcolumn.org/ 00:00 Brexit Without Exit: Germany's Chancellor and the EU Military Unification – Is the UK Next? 11:06 Institutions Eroding from Within: The Country on the Brink of Collapse 15:17 Stasi Starmer and His Thought Police Arresting Grannies – A Cabinet Full of Wrong'uns 19:44 Diane Reports on the Common Knowledge Event: The Scottish People's Covid-19 Inquiry 34:51 Cheltenham Event Tickets On Sale—UK Column Is Member Funded, Please Join Us 38:38 David Cameron's ‘Big Society' Plan: How's That Working Out? 47:46 Who Are the People Behind This Destruction? The Organizations and Individuals Involved 57:42 The Same Tactics at Play: PCR Tests Paving the Way for the Dangerous mRNA Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-february-2025

BEN HABIB, JIM ALLISTER & DAN BOUCHER GIVE US OUR COUNTRY BACK GLOBAL DISCUSSION FORUM EPISODE 06 Give Us Our Country Back: Focusing on the internationally totemic issue of Northern Ireland's people being subject to EU laws over which they have no say, and over which their politicians have no vote. To support Jim Allister's bill, visit: https://www.restoretheunion.co.uk First keynote speaker: Jim Allister KC MP Jim Allister KC is the MP for North Antrim having previously represented the constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2011-2024. He represented Northern Ireland in the European Parliament from 2004-09. A strong Unionist, Jim is an implacable opponent of the Irish Sea Border, a stand which was critical in seeing him returned to Parliament at the last election overturning one of the largest majorities in Northern Ireland to do so. To follow or contact Ben Habib, visit: https://x.com/JimAllister Second keynote speaker: Dr. Dan Boucher Dr Dan Boucher has a PhD in sovereignty and international relations. Author of The Big Society in a Small Country, he was until September 2021 a member of the Conservative Party and stood as a Conservative candidate in Wales. Unable to reconcile himself with the Northern Ireland Protocol, he resigned from the Conservative Party and joined the DUP, subsequently becoming their Director of Policy. Dismayed by the 'Safeguarding the Union' deal that the DUP did with the UK government he resigned his position in April 2024. Widely published in the Belfast Newsletter, Conservative Home, Facts4EU, Comment Central, and Brexit Central, he is writing a book on the impact of the Windsor Framework on the future of the United Kingdom. To follow or contact Ben Habib, visit: https://x.com/DansBoucher Surprise guest speaker: Ben Habib Delightfully eloquent, highly intelligent, well-informed, and occasionally argumentative(!), Ben is a former Member of the European Parliament and now former Deputy Leader of Reform UK. Drawing upon his time as a MEP, Ben has particular insight into the workings of the EU Parliament and the EU Commission. He also addresses the recent fallout he has had with Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage. To follow or contact Ben Habib, visit: https://x.com/benhabib6 To join us on our next Global Discussion Forum, please sign up to our mailing lists at either: https://facts4eu.org/news https://cibuk.org https://www.commandingthenarrative.com Chaired by: Leigh Evans https://facts4eu.org/news https://cibuk.org Deputy Chairmen: Steven Tripp https://www.commandingthenarrative.com https://x.com/RealStevenTripp https://rumble.com/user/ExCandidates https://spectator.com.au/author/steven-tripp Ben Philips https://cibuk.org Follow us on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CibukOrg Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GIXhHBogM1McL5EPGP3DT Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/ExCandidates Please share and spread the word! #AusPol #nswpol #interview #podcast #politics #commentary #australia #uk #independent #media #government #steventripp #leighevans #benphilips #brexit #facts4eu #cibuk #CtN #GDF #ukpolitics #benhabib #nigelfarage #reformuk #jimallister #tuv #dup #danboucher #northernisland #greatbritain #restoretheunion

What's Coming This Episode? Ed has been thinking about the importance of local action recently. Some fantastic volunteers have been hard at work in his area and he's been amazed by the reaction of people. How can we harness this effect more widely? What can our listeners do to get stuck in? Enjoy the show, it's The Self Help Podcast! Links Some local news from Ed, where local volunteers have been hard at work Remember 'The Big Society'? Local action and net zero Stay in Touch We're all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch: Follow Live in the Present on Twitter and Facebook for daily doses of inspiration Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Twitter Subscribe to our weekly podcast on iTunes Leave us an Honest Review on iTunes We'd be amazingly grateful if you could leave us a review on iTunes. It will really help us to build our audience. So, if your like what you hear (and would like to hear more great free content) then visit our iTunes page and leave us an honest review (all feedback gratefully received!).

In our fifth episode of Dead Ends we've broken out into a two parter. In part one of episode five, we talk austerity, Big Society and the tactics of austerity service design.

Send us a Text Message.I spoke to Gemma Bourne, Managing Director at Better Society Capital (formerly Big Society Capital) as part of a collaboration with UKREiiF (The UK's Real Estate and Infrastructure Forum).We talked about topics including:Where the UK's leading social impact investor gets its capital from, including dormant bank accounts What other organisations can learn from 10 years of impact investing, including how to avoid ‘impact blinkers' that distract from thorough due diligenceWhat a career in impact investing involves, career pathways and advice on how to shift into a career with impact, from any starting point. Guest website: https://bettersocietycapital.com/ Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemma-bourne-69808544/Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

The society wedding of the year takes place today, as Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, prepares to marry his bride-to-be Olivia Henson. The lavish nuptials, set to be attended by Prince William himself, will be held at the grandiose Chester Cathedral. However, the couple has reportedly imposed a strict rule on all 400 guests - no gifts allowed. The ancient pews will be filled with the British aristocracy, including two heirs to the throne - Prince William and Prince George, who are both expected to take on prominent roles.The Duke, named Britain's youngest billionaire last month after inheriting his fortune in 2016, has spared no expense. 100,000 flowers paid for by the groom himself were planted around the city in preparation. A trio of local schoolchildren - Grace Crook, Isla Mills and Cassie Lounds - will serve as choristers, singing for the newlywed couple. Head chorister Grace Crook expressed her excitement, saying:"It is an absolute honour to now be the Head Chorister and I am really looking forward to the big day. It is a lot of pressure but it is such an incredible opportunity and I can't wait!"Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed!Subscribe now for exclusive shows like 'Palace Intrigue,' and get bonus content from Deep Crown (our exclusive Palace Insider!) Or get 'Daily Comedy News,' and '5 Good News Stories' with no commercials! Plans start at $4.99 per month, or save 20% with a yearly plan at $49.99. Join today and help support the show!We now have Merch!  FREE SHIPPING! Check out all the products like T-shirts, mugs, bags, jackets and more with logos and slogans from your favorite shows! Did we mention there's free shipping?Get more info from Caloroga Shark Media and sign up for our newsletter here.

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Matt sits down with MPs leaving Parliament at the next election to talk about their highs and lows, their best and worst bosses, and the lessons they've learned from their time in politics.Sir Robert Goodwill, an MP for two decades, reveals the uncomfortable conversations he's had as a party whip, which Prime Minister sacked him most graciously, and how a lasagna swung his choice in the Tory leadership contest in 2005.Plus: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester discuss Keir Starmer's version of the "Big Society", whether the government is out of step with the public on tax and spend, and how we should remember Lenin, 100 years after his death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour Leader Keir Starmer is pledging to restore people's civic pride and community work. It sounds a lot like former Prime Minister David Cameron's abandoned "Big Society" project. We ask one of the architects of that plan, ResPublica Director Phillip Blond, why Labour are revisiting the idea. Also in the show: more than 40 Tory MPs are calling on their own leader to deliver more funding for councils. Derbyshire Council's Leader and Vice-Chair of the County Councils Network Barry Lewis sets out the state of local government finance as we head towards May elections. Hosted by Stephen Carroll and Caroline Hepker.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Cameron pushed his “big society” plan during his time as prime minister – but it didn't work very well. Was it always doomed to fail? Seth Thevoz speaks to Peter John, head of the School of Politics and Economics at King's College London, about the history and legacy of this policy position – as well as the lessons we can learn from it.  “The big society didn't seem to stack up with wider policy changes.”  “The critics were out really from the start.”  “It proved to be embarrassing, and became a target of satire. It was easily targeted and ridiculed.”  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Seth Thévoz. Audio editor: Alex Rees. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this conversations episode, Matthew Gwyther and Giles Gibbons discuss where sustainability is now, what non-financial audit is likely to mean for corporates in the next few years, what Giles thinks about the ever-increasing squadrons of ESG consultants selling their wares, why Good Business has remained relatively small and what Giles makes of the Bud Lite Trans blow up.I have known Giles for twenty years during which time I've watched corporate responsibility morph into corporate social responsibility and then sustainability and ESG with a bit of “purpose” shoe-horned in. Good Business has been running for almost three decades and Gibbons bears the scars of many campaigns - from the ill-fated but interesting Big Society project with David Cameron through all his interesting work in the food and hospitality industry and work with big corporates like GSK, Disney, Coca Cola and The Gates Foundation. Giles knows what he's talking about which is why I must have interviewed him half a dozen times. He's normally my first port of call as a journalist writing about these issues. He gives great, authentic and uncompromising quotes which are always free of word salad flannel with a greenwash dressing.But he is still pushing and has recently written "We've gone from pushing water uphill to a time where social and environmental issues are an essential part of the mainstream business landscape".We're now reaching a point where delivering the change becomes much harder. Businesses have taken the (relatively) easy steps. The actions they need to take next are harder. They require more substantive change and in some cases significant capital expenditure. At the same time, the buffer put in place by the relative success of their sustainability action so far is protecting the business from the kind of exposure and criticism that would galvanise decision-makers. So action is stalling. In our conversation about where sustainability is now, we discuss what non-financial audit is likely to mean for corporates in the next few years, what he thinks about the ever-increasing squadrons of ESG consultants selling their wares, why Good Business has remained relatively small and what he makes of the Bud Lite Trans blow up.

In this week's episode of The Office Manager Diaries, Hana is joined by Katie Overton who is the Senior Business Support Manager at Big Society Capital. We have some frank conversations on the challenges in not just office management roles, but managing administrative teams as well and how unimportant a degree can be in these roles and the misjudgement placed on job specs requiring them putting of perfectly capable candidates who didn't put themselves through uni...The Portal: https://theofficemanagementportal.com/packagesThe Group: https://www.theofficemanagementgroup.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hana-gray-theomg/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theofficemanagementgroup/

Topics & Time Stamps - Part 2Women going into politics have been obliged to be better men than men (01:15) Indra most inspired by social workers' (mostly women) intuitive understanding of people's real needs and how they unreservedly give themselves to the task of problem solving (02:35) The Big Society (community focused) program in British politics (04:10) What is soft power? The power of narrative or storytelling to generate attraction and therefore relationship, as in the power of the American dream to attract relationship from all over the world (05:58) What is the story we're telling about our reality? (10:60) The ladder nature of Integral stages of development may be trapping us in old language about what development looks like (11:40) When the women in the London Integral circle walked away, and the need to apply the Integral model rather than simply study it and talk about it (12:12) The radical equality of everyone and formative agency: different agencies need to be held in a fluid state rather than in ladder format (16:57) Does Integral need to evolve to serve a wider landscape? (19:47) What is the design of the public space that could honor the full human being, where all the different voices would be heard? (24:22) The axis of a new politics: back to the I, the we, the world; at the heart of the vision is a new way of looking at who we are (26:34) The internet, the fractal emergence of a new vision holding our creative potential and political agency, and  the soft power of how we tell the story (29:52) What gives Indra hope? The miracle of connectedness in this moment (32:37) The power of paying attention to the interaction in this particular moment: that is the life changing, world changing energy that we are looking for and that we need (36:15) Resources & References - Part 2Indra Adnan and Pat Kane, https://newintegrity.blogs.com/files/risw_final4-copy-1.pdf (Re-imagining Social Work) British politician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron (David Cameron), author of https://amzn.to/3xKVD1O (For the Record), and political agency in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Society (Big Society) program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nye (Joseph Nye), Head of Kennedy School of Government, advisor to Bill Clinton, https://www.thoughtco.com/soft-power-in-u-s-foreign-policy-3310359 (Understanding Soft Power) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan (Robert Kegan), https://amzn.to/3y8XbE3 (The Discerning Heart: The Developmental Psychology of Robert Kegan)* https://integraleuropeanconference.com/integral-theory/ (Ken Wilber's stages of development) https://www.terrypatten.com/ (Terry Patten), https://amzn.to/39C7FTf (A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries)* https://integraleuropeanconference.com/ (Integral European Conference) Integral leaders https://www.dianemushohamilton.com/ (Diane Hamilton), https://www.terrypatten.com/ (Terry Patten), https://www.stevemcintosh.com/ (Steve McIntosh)  Indra Adnan, https://amzn.to/3xHeRFm (The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age)* Indra Adnan, founder of https://www.thealternative.org.uk/ (The Alternative Global), a socio-political platform serving systemic transformation * As an Amazon Associate, Deep Transformation earns from qualifying purchases. --- Indra Adnan is founder and co-initiator of The Alternative Global, a socio-political platform serving systemic transformation. AltGlobal publishes a Daily Alternative news blog, develops cosmo-local agency networks (CANs) and connects planetary regeneration projects. Indra is concurrently a socio-psychotherapist, writer, and consultant on soft power. Clients have included the Danish and Brazilian governments, World Economic Forum, and NATO. Her book The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year in 2021. --- Podcast produced by Vanessa Santos and Show...

Interview Summary So let's get started. As a seasoned food waste campaigner, what led you to this innovative, illustrated explainer video approach? What's important about this kind of visual messaging? What are you hoping to achieve by it? Well, we wanted to start telling a different story about how we can solve these problems, and the root causes of food waste and poverty. We show how inequalities of wealth and power in the industrial food system generate waste and hunger, more often than not. Waste and hunger will ultimately continue unless we fix these inequalities. Charities are only ‘sticking plaster' or ‘band aid' resolution to food insecurity. What we're really saying with this campaign is that the UK's distribution of surplus food is also only a second class solution for food waste issues too. So to see what the more systemic solutions for food waste are, we need to look at the root causes. And to do this, we need to rewrite the dominant story of how our food system generates food waste. So, let's look back at the history of this. Food waste as an issue has taken off really over the last decade, in the UK and globally. A fairly standard story has begun to emerge: Food waste primarily happens at the retail and consumer level in rich, industrialized countries, and it's down to individual failings of consumers to be solved with educational campaigns to change that behavior. Now, on the other hand, we have food loss, which makes it sound unintentional. Like it's been sort of lost down the back of the sofa. But it's actually food wasted in supply chain problems, where lower income countries which lack infrastructure, like storage and refrigeration, and apparently, have inefficient supply chain. The problem with this narrative is, by accident or design, it falsely implies that industrialized food supply chains in rich countries are effectively efficient and low waste. And to solve food waste in these countries, it's enough to leave it to voluntary commitments by companies. In other words, market innovation will solve food waste, with some role for social enterprises and charities to hoover up the leftovers. So, in this system, we need to modernize the supply chain of countries in the Global South to make them more efficient and emulate these systems. This apparently de-political approach to food waste has become ascendant, and gone largely unchallenged. But it is, in fact, deeply neoliberal: the assumption that businesses in the free market are fundamentally efficient, and any problems are usually down to the personality failings of individual consumers or perhaps state intervention. With these films and other resources, we basically aim to rewrite this narrative by explaining how actually the inequalities of wealth and power that occur in the industrial food system generate waste. They generate overproduction, price crashes, inflexibility over seasonal variations, and rejecting food for being the wrong size and shape. But not only that, they also distribute wealth and foods extremely unequally. So generating mass hunger, despite there being no shortage of food or wealth to go round, and it creates underdevelopment. The lack of storage infrastructure in the Global South, is not a coincidence. It's the result of generations of colonial exploitation, which continues in a slightly different form today, with multinational corporations often extracting huge amounts of money and resources from the world's poorest countries. Understanding all this means, that we need more systemic solutions than just taking food waste and giving it to people in poverty or embracing voluntary commitments by businesses. We need to design food waste and poverty out of the system in the first place. Our videos sketch out some of these solutions. Now, all of this is a more complex story to tell then just spontaneously rescuing lots of food waste for people in need. What we've tried to do with these animations is make this new narrative more accessible and really create these videos out of wanting to help reframe this conversation and communicate about the root causes and the deeper solutions for food waste and poverty. Thank you so much, Martin, for showing so clearly that food waste is a product of a dysfunctional industrial food system and no guarantor of food security for the poor. In that context, what policy and practice successes has the UK Plenty to Share Campaign had to date in reducing food waste and food poverty? And what kind of challenges are you facing? What do you think are the lessons to be learned? We're a tiny organization, so we pretty quickly realized that, if we want to win the kind of change we want to see it's not going to be an overnight thing. So, we decided we need to take the time to build a strong movement behind the systemic solutions and involve whoever we can. Our focus has really been on getting people used to our new way of framing the problems of food waste and poverty, and building a movement to advocate our systemic solutions. We put together a document called the Food Abundance and Equality Declaration, which now has over 40 organizational signatories, mainly based in the UK. But also including, Rights Not Charity, including environmental campaign groups, like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, also anti-hunger advocacy groups, like Feeding Britain. And I think, really importantly, some of the UK's largest networks of food aid and redistribution, including IFAN, the Independent Food Aid Network, which is the UK's second largest network of food aid providers, and groups like FoodCycle, and the Real Jungle Food Project. The Declaration states that food redistribution is only a second class solution to food waste and poverty, and we need these more systemic solutions by regulating food businesses to reduce waste, fairer pay, tax justice, and providing a strong social safety net. We've got the launch of the Declaration into "The Big Issue" magazine, which is fantastic. It's one of the world's most widely circulated street newspapers. So, we see signing the declaration as a first step to recognizing this new way of framing the issue, and we've started encouraging signatories to get more involved in specific campaigns for systemic solutions and feeling more confident to speak out about solutions beyond their bread and butter of food redistribution. We've seen some great collaborations emerging out of this already. A great example is the CEO of surplus food sharing app, OLIO, recently joined Tax Justice UK's campaigning the UK to back Biden's proposals to clamp down on global tax evasion. And as we're also conscious, we don't have all the answers, we've tried to give a platform to amplify the campaign, for the Declaration signatories. For instance, we've joined up with social justice Amp Best to amplify their call for a real living wage and stronger social safety net. In the UK, the biggest opportunity at the moment is opposing the cuts to Universal Credit, which is the UK's current main system of welfare payments. For the longer term, we'd like to advocate for things like, a minimum income guarantee, a form of Universal Basic Income, so that the UK social safety net is very strong, and people don't have to rely on charity to survive. We're also campaigning for systemic solutions to food waste. We would like to see food waste regulation and to make it compulsory for food businesses to report on and halve their food waste by 2030. We'd like to see unfair trading practices' legislation to protect suppliers, from food waste being transferred onto them by their suppliers, and finally, creating a fairer food system rooted in greater food sovereignty. So we're hoping to hold an event in Parliament to give these voices a platform in front of policy makers. As for challenges, we've been surprised by how difficult it's been to get media cut-through with the project. The UK media reaction to food insecurity is dominated by food banks. So far, unfortunately, supermarket press releases promoting charitable food distribution are more publishable than the emergence of a big alternative civil society collaboration. But the rewards of the project have really been seeing this grass roots movement beginning to build. Ultimately taking the time to build that and set down roots is the most important thing. Thank you, Martin, you've given us a great deal to think about. One thing that strikes me very much is the way you're re-politicizing the issues of food waste and food poverty. It's not just a matter for charity. The Declaration you've launched is certainly proving to be a significant tool, fostering joined-up food, environmental, and income-based social justice campaigning though active civil society collaborations. It's looking at creatively developing systemic solutions to food poverty and waste. This is very significant. Your comments about the media likewise ring a bell here in Canada. Since the mid 1980s, the CBC, our publicly tax paid broadcaster, has been actively promoting food bank drives and donations making it somewhat difficult for them to report objectively on these matters. In that light, I'm particularly interested in This is Rubbish's campaign to disentangle solutions to food waste from quick fixes or remedies to food poverty, using food banks as transnational and national corporate go-betweens So, what practical role do you see food banks playing in advocating for the Right to Food? It's a great question, and this has really been at the center of this campaign. So, we see it as absolutely essential that we get food banks and food redistribution charities to be at the forefront of the struggle for things like a right to food, the greater wealth equality, and food waste regulation. The media reaction to food insecurity is dominated by food banks. They're the most visually obvious and filmable manifestation of food insecurity, so they often appear in coverage and become influential spokespeople on food insecurity, for the media and policy makers. They get a lot of attention. So if they call out government policies, it gets reported, as governments are often keen to use food charities as a so called moral release valve. In the UK, when former Prime Minister David Cameron's conservative government gave up a substantial part of its responsibility to end poverty, through brutal cuts to welfare spending, asked his invented Big Society, aka volunteers and charities, to pick up the pieces, this is exactly what was going on. A photo opportunity with some food bank volunteers, puff pieces about food bank volunteers are more popular with the media as well. It's a simple story for them to tell, and often newspapers in the UK get involved in campaigning for food redistribution. For instance, I remember receiving a Big Society Award for my own food redistribution work. It just arrived in the post one day, and I remember feeling so angry and ashamed at this kind of lazy co-option, as it was clear that they hadn't researched what the group I was part of was doing or about its back history. So, it's a lot more difficult though, for government to do this co-option, if food redistribution organizations are actively saying, "No, food charity cannot be the long-term solution "to the problem, we want you to do this instead." We've collaborated a lot with the independent food aid network, IFAN, the UK's second largest network of food banks. They are fantastic at putting this message front and center - that we want a future without the need for food banks, essentially, we want to do ourselves out of a job. And they're consistently raising press.re on the government to provide adequate financial assistance to people in poverty, long before our campaign started. The Trussell Trust too, the UK's largest network of food banks, has also been increasingly vocal about this.   In contrast, there are some food redistribution organizations that have focused entirely on pushing an expansion of food redistribution and strengthening government funding and corporate ties to achieve this. We hope to change that, and change the culture of these organizations, so that they'll join in with the movement, and that's the kind of movement that Plenty to Share hopes to create. Ultimately, people in food charities should be our ally. We shouldn't be seeing them as the enemy. Ultimately, the people working in them want an end to food waste and poverty. And indeed, some of the earliest examples of food redistribution in the US grew out of public outrage of the existence of huge crop surpluses occurring alongside mass hunger in the Great Depression. And the foundation of the earliest food banks in the 1960s grew partly out of concern over food waste. Following the 2008 crash, it seemed an understandable reaction, to the raising awareness of food waste. Coupled with seeing the devastating impact of austerity policies, many people have decided to take matters into their own hands and set up charities to redistribute food, to compensate for these failures of government. I must say I was involved in these kind of movements for a decade. For instance, I helped set up the Gleaning Network in the UK, which is a group who would harvest leftover crops from farms for charity. And I helped organize a chapter of Food Net Problems in London to build the consciousness of why we need rights not charity, and to help build the confidence of these groups to speak out in paid systemic solution.   So to do this, Plenty to Share tries to focus on the things that unite through food aid groups in acknowledgement that they don't want to be the long-term solution to food waste and poverty. Our focus has really been getting them involved in campaigns for those longer-term solutions. We use that as a bridge to help encourage them to do more policy advocacy, simultaneously, alongside that, we have tried to educate people about the limitations of food banks. The most important thing is uniting people around these long-term policies, which ultimately stop food waste arising in the first place and remove the needs for food charities.    

Veterans In Politics- Season 2, Episode 8  with  Tom Tugendhat MBE VR MPIn the last of this current series Jonny sits down with fellow Int Corps Reservist, linguist and veteran of Afghanistan (and other operations!) Tom Tugendhat.  Their chat is as you might imagine when two people from the same Corps family come together for a catch up and you're invited to listen in.They cover the 'Big Society', Tom's observations of community kindness during Covid-19 and Jonny even has time to rib Tom for a social media picture of both him and Dan Jarvis MP (a previous guest of the show) currently doing the rounds on social media showing them on tour in Afghanistan with some dubious haircuts. This is a fantastic episode to round off the series and Tom was a fabulous guest, funny, observant and easy to talk to.This podcast series maintains its independence and features several parties in this series.NOTE- We are independently funded without any fancy sponsors so rely on you to rate, donate or become our mate.  Donate - CampaignForceFor more info on Tom go to: https://www.tomtugendhat.org/About Tom (in his own words): I grew up in London and Sellinge, near Ashford, before going to read Theology at Bristol University where I also worked in the local homeless shelter in the St Paul's area. I then studied for a Masters' degree in Islamics at Cambridge University, which including learning Arabic in Yemen.After graduating, I went to Beirut as a journalist where I wrote about the conflict as well as regional politics and economics. Soon after I established one of Lebanon's first public relations companies and won some major international clients. When I returned to the UK I worked as a management consultant before going into energy analysis in the City. At about the same time I joined the TA.When the Iraq War broke out in 2003, I was mobilised as an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer to serve with the Royal Marines.  After the war I returned to my job in the City, but was soon asked to help with the distribution of the New Iraqi Dinar as part of the economic reconstruction effort. Over the next six months I ran the central region – Baghdad and surrounding cities – and distributed much of the $4.5 billion-worth of cash that went into Iraq.The next year I saw a series of projects conducted on behalf of the British government and companies including helping to improve Morocco's ports to ensure they were compliant with modern protocols. In 2005, I was asked by the Foreign Office to go to Afghanistan and help grow the National Security Council. Working in the Dari language, the project involved setting the strategic goals for a new office that coordinated Afghanistan's strategic advice to President Karzai.  When one of the members of the National Security Council was named governor of Helmand Province, he asked for me to go with him as his adviser. Together, and this time working in Pashto, the language of southern Afghanistan, we set up the first non-warlord administration in Helmand since the Soviet invasion.After two years in Afghanistan I returned to the UK, but my former Royal Marines unit was deploying to Helmand and asked me to go too. I mobilised and served operationally for a further two years, for which I received the MBE, coming off my last patrol in July 2009.On returning to the UK, I was asked by the new Chief of the General Staff to work on the Army Strategy Team. When he was made Chief of the Defence Staff he asked me to serve as his military assistant and principal adviser. I remain a reserve officer.In 2015 I was elected as Member of Parliament for Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Malling. I live with my wife, Anissia, and our two children near Edenbridge.#StandUpServeAgain

Derica Shields joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about the value of listening to Black peoples' accounts and analyses of their own lives. They discuss Shields's book-length oral history of Black experiences of the welfare state, “A Heavy Nonpresence,” recently published by Triple Canopy. Shields reflects on her effort to share the stories of Black people who are mistreated and monitored by the state, while also being made to feel that they should be grateful for receiving the assistance to which they're entitled. Her work shows how, in Britain, liberal nostalgia for the so-called care of the state is premised on not listening to those who receive benefits—and how politicians and journalists enable Black people to be shamed for doing so by upholding the age-old distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor (as if colonialism never happened).With Gale and Provan, Shields listens to and discusses excerpts from “A Heavy Nonpresence,” which includes accounts of seven Londoners whose lives are entwined with the welfare system. Shields advocates for oral history as a way of enabling marginalized people to be heard—and to hear each other—as well as to mitigate shame and circulate survival strategies. She notes that government assistance for Black people tends to be thought of as contingent on “good behavior,” but observes a recent shift in public opinion and political discourse, due to a reckoning with Britain's history of colonialism and racism. Rather than act thankful for the rewards of navigating an inhumane bureaucracy, more and more people are saying: “We are here, and the same rights accrue to us.” Derica Shields is a writer, researcher, and cultural worker living in London. She is the author of the forthcoming book Bad Practice (Book Works, 2021). Her work has been published by Frieze, Flash Art, Cell Project Space, and the New Inquiry, and presented by the Institute for Contemporary Arts (London) and Spectacle Theater (Brooklyn), among other publications and institutions.With Gale and Provan, Shields speaks about Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, The Heart of the Race (Virago Press, 1985); Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare Is a Women's Issue,” Ms., spring 1972; a video of the Labour MP David Lammy lambasting the British government for deporting immigrants on April 16, 2018; and a newsreel of West Indian workers, including the famed calypso musician Lord Kitchener, arriving in London aboard the SS Empire Windrush in 1948.Medium Rotation is produced by Alexander Provan with Andrew Leland, and edited by Provan with Matt Frassica. Tashi Wada composed the theme music. Matt Mehlan acted as audio engineer and contributed additional music.Medium Rotation is made possible through generous contributions from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Nicholas Harteau. This season of Medium Rotation is part of Triple Canopy's twenty-sixth issue, Two Ears and One Mouth, which receives support from the Stolbun Collection, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Agnes Gund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

William Jaquet is a multi-instrumentalist and lead singer of Manchester band Big Society. Produced by RecRooms, The Kicking Back Podcast is an audio and video podcast hosted by video producer and musician Brad Ingham. It discusses Arts, Music and many other topics with a different Artist/ Creative each episode.

We’ve all had quite enough reality for one year. In an IfG Christmas special, we ask what fictional and fantasy worlds can teach us about governing. What does the collapse of the Republic in Star Wars tell us about Brexit? Does the Harry Potter universe need drastic democratic reform? In the real world, who nails life in government better: Borgen or The West Wing? And where’s the Public Inquiry into the murder epidemic in Midsomer? James Graham – our greatest political playwright and the pen behind This House, Quiz and Brexit: The Uncivil War – is our guest for this special holiday edition. “Dramas like The West Wing let you take an institution like the Presidency and stress-test it in a fictional environment… You get to enjoy the absurdities in a safe place.” – James Graham“What does Obi-Wan Kenobi tell Anakin? ‘Only the Sith deal in extremes’. Star Wars is a love letter to social democracy and George Lucas is the ultimate centrist dad.” – James Graham“Midsomer badly needs a place-based approach to crime prevention.” – Alice Lilly“The Death Star? That’s no moon, that’s a failed Government mega-project.” – Gavin Freeguard“The Thick Of It essentially predicted the Big Society with its ‘Fourth Sector Pathfinders’.” – Emma NorrisPresented by Cath Haddon with Alice Lilly, Emma Norris and Gavin Freeguard. Audio production by Alex Rees See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

En la centro-izquierda tenemos tres tipos de liberalismo Liberalismo-Progresista, es un liberalismo con fuerte influencia de las ideas progres y posmodernas de la filosofía continental como también de clásicos radicales como Rousseau. En el mundo su mayor representante actual es Justin Troudeau y en Chile el Partido Liberal de Vlado Mirosevic. Socioliberalismo, es la síntesis del liberalismo con la socialdemocracia keynesiana, también cuenta acá la tercera vía, grandes representantes son Bill Clinton o Joe Biden y a nivel nacional el ex-Presidente Lagos y el Partido Ciudadanos de Ignacia Gómez y Andrés Velasco Liberalismo Igualitario, es el liberalismo que nace con la teoría de John Rawls en los sesenta norteamericanos, en la escuela analítica de la filosofía. Propugna una síntesis entre liberalismo e igualdad. En Chile sus representantes son los académicos Daniel Brieba y Cristóbal Bellolio, ambos de Red Liberal. Mientras que en el centro hoy estamos más huérfanos. Tenemos al Liberalismo Moderno, un liberalismo-Demócrata, fundamentado en pensadores utilitarista como John Stuart Mill, que actualizan el liberalismo clásico con una mirada compatible con el liberalismo social y cultural. En el mundo su mayor representante actual es Emmanuel Macron o el Partido Liberal-Demócrata Británico de Nick Clegg, mientras que en Chile Sebastián Sichel de sumemos y Convergencia Liberal sería sus representantes políticos, también cabe mencionar acá al Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP) Liberalismo Clásico Ubicado en la centro-derecha, es el primer liberalismo de John Locke y Adam Smith, tiene concepciones de Ius Naturalismo como justificativo de sus libertades. A nivel mundial, hoy sus mayores representantes son el FDP Aleman de Christian Lindner o el partido VVD Holandés de Mark Rutte. En Chile, el extinto partido Amplitud, y el centro de estudios Horizontal podrían caber en en esta definición. En la centro derecha tenemos las fusiones Liberal-Conservadoras, Nacido de la mano del conservador británico Edmund Burke, hasta la Big Society del ex-primer ministro David Cameron. Evópoli de Felipe Kast, que tiene elementos de liberalismo clásico y social-cristianismo, por tanto caería también dentro de esta definición. Jaime Bellolio de la UDI y algunos sectores más progresistas de RN también podrían ser considerados Moderados o conservador-liberales. En la derecha tenemos a los Libertarios que se pueden dividir en cuatro grupos, Primero en el liberalismo de derecha de la escuela de Chicago de Milton Friedman, llamada popularmente como neoliberalismo. Luego los herederos de la escuela austriaca de Frederick Hayek. Los libertarios pueden ir de anarco-capitalistas de Rothbard hasta paleo-libertarios de Han Herman Hoppe, estos últimos son una fusión paleo conservadora y teorías minarquistas. Cabe resaltar que también hay libertarios más de centro o “liberal-libertario” como Nozik. Evidentemente quien más representa la política Libertaria en el mundo son el Partido Libertario de Estados Unidos. En Chile encontramos herederos de los Chicago Boys en el Think Tank Libertad y Desarrollo. Mientras que los libertarios de la escuela austriaca están reunidos entorno a la FPP de Axel Káiser. En la derecha más dura están los Paleo-Libertarios, en el en formación Partido Libertario de Chile y en el Centro de Estudios Libertarios de Vanessa Káiser, con ligazón al Partido Republicano de JAK. Sobre los Liberal-Libertarios, son representados por intelectuales chilenos como Benjamin Ugalde, Felipe Schwember y Valentina Verbal de Evópoli o también por la Guatemalteca Gloria Álvarez.

Will is the charismatic front man of the alternative/indie/rock band Big Society. I spoke to Will about the importance of believing in your work, how he got into singing professionally,  how his band got started , the power of music and its ability to make you feel something  and how ultimately music should be 'good fun'!

Adrian McCartney speaks about Nehemiah chapter five and what it means to be society, all in this together.

durée : 00:29:21 - Avoir raison avec... - par : Brice Couturier - Pour ce premier épisode, Brice Couturier propose de présenter le philosophe américain John Rawls en le réhabilitant dans son contexte : de la Big Society de Lyndon Johnson à la lutte pour les droits civiques de Martin Luther King. - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Alain Boyer professeur de philosophie morale et politique à l’université Paris – Sorbonne

durée : 00:29:21 - Avoir raison avec... - par : Brice Couturier - Pour ce premier épisode, Brice Couturier propose de présenter le philosophe américain John Rawls en le réhabilitant dans son contexte : de la Big Society de Lyndon Johnson à la lutte pour les droits civiques de Martin Luther King. - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Alain Boyer professeur de philosophie morale et politique à l’université Paris – Sorbonne

Can give you track names if you email me.

Spotkanie z Krystianem Lupą jest pierwszym z cyklu spotkań Laboratorium Przyszłości: Razem/Osobno organizowanym przez Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej [29 listopada 2013] Spotkanie odbyło się krótko po premierze najnowszego spektaklu Krystiana Lupy „Miasto Snu” według powieści Alfreda Kubina „Po tamtej stronie”. Spotkaniu towarzyszył performans, praca wideo Wojtka Ziemilskiego „Potencjał (A i B)”. Perła, stolica Państwa Snu legła w gruzach. Czy każda próba utopii musi zakończyć się katastrofą? Czy każda próba realizacji marzenia o lepszym, sprawiedliwym świecie prowadzić musi do Pustyni Realnego, rzeczywistości opartej na anomii i nagiej przemocy? „Laboratorium Przyszłości: RAZEM/OSOBNO to kolejna odsłona długofalowego projektu zainicjowanego w 2011 roku przez Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski. Jego celem jest zwrócenie się ku przyszłości poprzez połączenie najważniejszych tematów, prognoz i intuicji obecnych w sztuce współczesnej, nauce, polityce i życiu społecznym. Punktem wyjścia jest przekonanie o konieczności przywrócenia debaty o przyszłości i możliwym kształcie świata w centrum społecznego zainteresowania. W dyskusji tej szczególnie ważne wydaje się połączenie głosu artystów i ich diagnoz, badań oraz intuicji z dyskursem obecnym na innych polach i w obszarze innych dyscyplin. Projekt RAZEM/OSOBNO skupia się na społeczeństwie przyszłości: relacjach jednostki i grupy, możliwych typach organizacji społecznej partycypacji w świecie, przeciwstawnych tendencjach, które mogą mieć wpływ na to, jak potoczy się życie społeczne i jakie przyjmie formy. Projekt ma otwartą, wielowątkową strukturę, na którą złożą się seminaria z udziałem wybitnych specjalistów z dziedzin nauk społecznych (transmitowane na żywo poprzez telewizję internetową CSW), warsztaty i spotkania, program filmowy, obejmujący zarówno dokumenty, jak i narracje fabularne oraz interwencje artystyczne. Laboratoryjna, eksperymentalna formuła, umożliwiająca nawarstwianie i dodawanie poszczególnych elementów służyć ma poszerzaniu możliwości refleksji i budowaniu długofalowego dialogu pomiędzy zaproszonymi ekspertami, artystami i publicznością. Sztuka i nauka traktowane są tu na równi jako narzędzia do badania i projektowania społecznej zmiany, wyobrażania i opracowywania alternatywnych scenariuszy dla społeczeństwa jutra. Uruchomienie złożonej, wielowątkowej refleksji nad kluczowymi problemami współistnienia i współdziałania będzie kluczem zarówno do diagnozy współczesności jak i jej – pozytywnego i negatywnego – potencjału dla przyszłości. Jedną z propozycji Laboratorium Przyszłości jest cykl seminariów prowadzony przez Edwina Bendyka, który formułuje najistotniejsze pytania dotyczące tematyki projektu w następujący sposób: „Społeczeństwo nie istnieje!” – oświadczyła przed laty Margaret Thatcher. Latem 2011 nieistniejące społeczeństwo: mężczyźni i kobiety z londyńskich dzielnic wyszli na ulice grabić, palić i niszczyć miejską infrastrukturę. Płonące sklepy, autobusy, przystanki niczym sceny z dystopijnej powieści „Królestwo nadchodzi” J.G. Ballarda obwieszczały katastrofę. Marzenie o Big Society legło w gruzach zniszczone przez zbuntowany lumpen-konsumtariat. Rok później Londyn znowu zaskoczył. Najpierw Olimpiada, potem jednak rzecz najważniejsza – Igrzyska Paraolimpijskie i oszałamiające otwarcie z udziałem Stephena Hawkinga. Czysty intelekt uwięziony w bezwładnym ciele, stał się ikoną nowego społeczeństwa, w którym wszyscy godni są uznania i szacunku. Potwierdzeniem tej przemiany stała się ceremonia zamknięcia igrzysk, kiedy milionowy tłum londyńczyków żegnał niepełnosprawnych sportowców.

The first podcast from the new 'This is the One' series, hosted by Andy Murphy & Gav Jones. We will be chatting to people about things they are doing, new music, films anything of interest. This episode we chat to Will & Thom from BIG Society, an up and coming band from Manchester who have released 3 great tracks so far, including their most recent single 'Give Me My Name' which Spotify recently included in their famed 'Up and Coming Bands' playlist. We discuss the tracks released so far, how they formed, their influences, plans for the future and have a chat through a few tracks they have chosen to talk about frmo other artists such as Tame Impala and The Replacements.

This week we review - Clare In The Community (Series 12 Episode 2)Radio sitcom set around the professional and personal life of the social worker Clare Barker. Control freak Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis.Using constant professional and technical jargon while working with colleagues and at home with her partner Brian, Clare rarely finds time to solve her own problems. She is too involved improving her client's lives and solving her friend's problems. For Clare everything is a competition, from having the ultimate linguistic answer to an argument, to improving Brian's lifestyle and their relationship as a couple. Through frequent 'talks' about their relationship, Clare and Brian agree that they love each other but eventually come to realise that they have little shared interests.Clare is in her thirties, white, middle-class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.Starring Sally Phillips, Alex Lowe, Nina Conti, Richard Lumsden, Gemma Craven, Liza Tarbuck and Sarah Kendall.Written by Harry Venning and David RamsdenProduced by Katie Tyrrell and Alexandra SmithA BBC Studios productionClare In The Community is available here: https://bbc.in/339mZO9The Comedy Slab Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spreaker, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Spotify and Youtube.Subscribe for a new episode each Monday.Get in touch - we're @ComedySlab on Twitter and ComedySlab on Facebook.

Everything old is still old. Unless you are Jason Kenney. Then it's brand new and somehow it will work despite never working before. Trickle-down economics right out of the Randian book of failure. Thatcher's failed Big Society offloading. ALEC inspired labour exploitation endorsed by anti-union forces. More Harper style Law & Order that will end up in court on Constitutional grounds. Attacks on rights for students at all levels from elimination of Bill 24 protections for LGBTQ2+ youth to threats of post-secondary funding dependent on allowing far right propaganda on campus without protest. That doesn't even touch the proposed "war room" to defend last century's industry, the threatened unwinnable challenges on the Federal government that will do nothing but cost money and the multiple promises that "maintaining current funding" is not a funding cut. Despite 15,000 new students in Alberta entering the system every year. Despite the aging population needing increased access to healthcare plus population growth. As multinational Oil & Gas companies get out of the oilsands to prevent stranded assets, they need more subsidies and gifts apparently. And there is no need to end coal-fired electircity generation, according to these visionaries. If you think repealing the Alberta carbon levy regime is going to prevent or change anything, like the Federal plan being imposed, you must be a UCP mark. But then that plays into the poor Alberta false reality, but it will be Albertans who pay not the corporations increasing profit margins. But hey, P3's will be back big time. They still don't save any money and cost much more in the long run but this is a campaign for the literal survival of Alberta. Just ask the guys being investigated by the RCMP for illegal donations and vote rigging. As if the Ontario mess isn't warning enough, this one will go down to the wire.

Part Two focuses on David Cameron's mission to modernise and transform the Conservative party and its thinking, exploring ideas such as the Big Society, the major shake-up of education and health policy, social reforms such as same-sex marriage and the ambition to make the party more environmentally conscious. We examine the impact of the financial crisis and "austerity" on the Cameron governments. We ask whether there is such a thing as "Cameronism" and we assess the success of David Cameron's mission to make the Conservatives more diverse and representative of modern Britain.

Paul Twivy has been the first port of call for three UK prime ministers seeking social change. We spoke to Paul about effective campaigning, why the Big Society never took off, and why CSR might be the future of commerce. Plus we share the secrets behind a piece of fundraising copy that's compelling audiences to sit up, pay attention and donate.

This presentation given by Paul Gibson, Disability Rights Commissioner, follows on from Katherine Runswick-Cole's talk on her research project ‘Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society'. In this talk he focuses on the journey of understanding, and the role of research in making disability rights real. 12 August 2015

Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, discusses her research project ‘Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society' which she completed in collaboration with Dan Goodley of the University of Sheffield, UK. In this paper they seek to develop an understanding of social policy driven by a commitment to the politics of disability, especially the politics of people labeled with learning disabilities. 12 August 2015

Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, discusses her research project ‘Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society' which she completed in collaboration with Dan Goodley of the University of Sheffield, UK. In this paper they seek to develop an understanding of social policy driven by a commitment to the politics of disability, especially the politics of people labeled with learning disabilities. 12 August 2015

This presentation given by Paul Gibson, Disability Rights Commissioner, follows on from Katherine Runswick-Cole's talk on her research project ‘Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society'. In this talk he focuses on the journey of understanding, and the role of research in making disability rights real. 12 August 2015

Bernard Harris, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde, gives a talk as part of the Centenary seminar series in Michaelmas Term 2013. The Centenary seminar series in Michaelmas Term 2013 was celebrating 100 years of social enquiry at Oxford University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention.

Recorded in 2012, Prof. John Milbank and Dr Simon Oliver discuss how Christian theology can make a contribution to discussion of the future of modern urban societies: what sort of society, and economics, do we need if we are to flourish as human being

Tim Montgomerie is joined by Lucy Fisher, Isabel Hardman and David Aaronovitch. Lucy Fisher: Yesterday a new “cash for access” scandal exploded, after MPs Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind were caught out offering their influence and political contacts in exchange for money. The revelation looks set to erode further voters' faith in mainstream politics, which will benefit only Ukip and the Greens at the polls in May. The scandal has also sparked a row about MPs' second jobs, on which many are now calling for an outright ban. Isabel Hardman: The Church of England is now locked into a face-off with the Conservative party. The Bishops probably didn't mean to offend the Tories so much with their letter last week, but they did, partly by being so naive about complex issues such as defence and partly by being mealy-mouthed about the recovery. But the Tories also didn't need to get so upset about what the Bishops wrote - if indeed they read it. It included a defence of markets and of the Big Society:... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Since the financial crisis, Far-Right and populist political parties, such as Ukip, Front National and Golden Dawn have grown in support raising a number of pressing questions. What explains their rise?  Who supports them?  Why do some succeed and others fail?  Can they be stopped? The Challenging Orthodoxies Society presents The Rise of the Far Right, a panel discussion with three expert speakers grappling with the recent rise in support for Far-Right and populist political parties. Phillip Blond - Director of the ResPublica Thinktank and political theorist described as 'the driving force behind David Cameron's Big Society' Dr Norma Rossi - Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Children's fitness classes, a website to encourage volunteers and an Olympics legacy programme are three projects given millions of pounds of public money - yet failed to deliver. And they were projects chosen by an organisation set up specifically to lead David Cameron's Big Society initiative. Reporter Simon Cox looks at what went wrong and asks whether the Big Society is still going strong, in spite of, not because of the government's involvement.

Professor Marilyn Strathern Professor Marilyn Strathern will give the final lecture in a series of five lectures on Understanding Society. The series will culminate in a panel discussion at Kings Place on Tuesday 27 November 2012. Abstract This final lecture in the series takes on the issue of what seems one of the least appealing aspects of ‘society’, as the term is used in common parlance, namely its vacuousness, and suggests what an anthropologist might find interesting in that. Does the Big Society render the concept even more (as in bigger) vacuous? And if it does, what might be some of the consequences? The lecture questions both what might be taken for granted in an appeal to society and what it then means to promote it. If indeed there is no such thing, do these questions become more interesting, or less so? It is a conundrum that is best approached from a wider stage than ministerial pronouncements.

What's so great about Sweden? The British left has long been obsessed with Sweden. Now the Conservatives are too. Little wonder: the country always tops the global charts for happiness and social cohesion; its economy is dynamic and its deficit is low. In this week's Analysis, Jo Fidgen investigates the "Swedish model" and the British obsession with it. She finds the country is more conservative than people think, with its centre-right government's generous welfare state depending on very traditional notions of trust and social cohesion. At the root of Swedish conservativism is what the experts call a "Swedish theory of love" - in which the state is seen as the defender of the individual. Could this idea ever work for Britain? Sweden has provided a blue-print for David Cameron's Conservatives and their "Big Society" reforms, but many in Sweden argue that they are being misunderstood by Britain's Tories. Jo also looks at how, as Sweden struggles to become more multicultural, the "Swedish model" itself may in fact be unravelling. Interviewees include: Anders Borg, Swedish finance minister Samuel Englom, Chief Legal Adviser at the Swedish trade union federation (TCO) Fraser Nelson, Editor of The Spectator magazine Sofia Nerbrand, Swedish centre-right thinker Nalin Pekgul, Swedish Social Democrat member of Parliament Lars Tragardh, Professor of History at Ersta Sköndal University College Marcus Uvell, President of the free market think-tank Timbro Producer: Mukul Devichand.

--{ The Planned Authoritarian Society: Ones Higher, Owning Those Elected, Lead Masses to Demand the Expected: "Beware of Mobs Following the Direction Of Moneyed Celebrities Escaping Detection But Speaking as Though from Labouring Class, You'd Hope Some Would Pick Up, But Alas, It's Always Intelligentsia Who Give the Voice To Bring in Socialism, Big Gov., No Choice, For it's Time to Implement the Big Society, Post-Consumerism, Communitarian Variety, 'The People Have Spoken', Presidents Will Say, 'Implement the Agenda Without Delay', What's Left of Rights All Up for Big Steal, Smiling Bankers' Offer, 'Here's the New Deal' " © Alan Watt }-- Mass Protests - Planned Bank Crash, Bankers Profit - Scam of Money, Governments Borrowing from Private Banks. Public Adaptation into World of No Privacy - Automotive Black Boxes and Cameras Spying on You. Taxpayer-Funded EU Propaganda Centre, Re-Creation of History - Training of Soldiers to be Killers. Book of Old Testament, Garden of Eden, Symbol of Pomegranate, Serpent, Adam and Eve, Two Creations/Lineages. Plan for Greece to Put up National Assets as Collateral for Bonds - Billions and Billions in EU Bailouts--Where Does the Money Go? - "Sustainable" Living - Children Shaped to be the Perfect Drone for the Future. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Oct. 17, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Heather talks to Hazel Stuteley OBE who is a retired health visitor from Cornwall and some of the community leaders from the Beacon Community Regeneration Partnership and Townstal Community Partnership. During the 1990’s Hazel and her fellow health visitor Phil Trenoweth led some multi-award-winning community engagement work in the Beacon Estate, near Falmouth in Cornwall. But she didn’t stop there and has now worked alongside a total of eight vulnerable communities across the UK over the last 10 years to empower residents to successfully transform their communities and in doing so, make huge improvements in things like unemployment, crime and children’s education. Hazel’s work clearly illustrates that nurses, health visitors and midwives can lead some remarkable changes. She will also draw out why she, as a health visitor, felt compelled to act and why she thinks her leadership was so well accepted by those around her. The importance of Hazel’s work is that the successes she has led have now been analysed and developed into a series of clear steps which are now enabling local councils, NHS partners and others across the country to make Big Society a reality. See www.healthcomplexity.net for more on Connecting Communities Length 26 min 37 sec Music written and recorded by Peter Cook, author, business consultant at the Academy of Rock www.academy-of-rock.co.uk

The Coalition government's policy agenda on 'the Big Society' marks a major shift in the landscape. It has been described as radically passing power from the state to citizens and civil society. What does it mean for migrants, for migrant community organisations, and for communities where migrants live? What opportunities and threats does it bring for the sector? And is there any evidence yet on the impact of the new agenda? This briefing will be presented by Vaughan Jones, Chief Executive of Praxis, a community-based organisation working with migrants in London. Part of COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series: topical, cutting edge research on migration and migration related issues will be made accessible to an audience of policy makers and other research users. Questions and discussion will follow the presentations on the potential implications for policy and practice.

If there is one idea on which David Cameron has staked the reputation of his government it is the Big Society, and he has stressed the role he believes faith groups have to play in it. Their reaction has, however, been mixed with the Archbishop of Canterbury describing it as a "stale slogan" in danger of being seen as an opportunistic cover for spending cuts. So what is the Big Society, and are its values consistent with religious values? Ernie is joined by Phillip Blond, Director of the Think Tank Respublica and widely credited as being the originator of the government's Big Society idea, Maleiha Malik, Professor in Law at King's College, London: and Antony Lerman, former founding director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research.

If there is one idea on which David Cameron has staked the reputation of his government it is the Big Society, and he has stressed the role he believes faith groups have to play in it. Their reaction has, however, been mixed with the Archbishop of Canterbury describing it as a "stale slogan" in danger of being seen as an opportunistic cover for spending cuts. So what is the Big Society, and are its values consistent with religious values? Ernie is joined by Phillip Blond, Director of the Think Tank Respublica and widely credited as being the originator of the government's Big Society idea, Maleiha Malik, Professor in Law at King's College, London: and Antony Lerman, former founding director of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research.

--{ Socialism -- Communism is a Pose by Any Other Name: "Agenda 21, International Socialism by Stealth, As per Communist Manifesto, Redistribution of Wealth, Countries Amalgamated via U.N. Signings, And We're Told to Adapt, No More Whinings, Social Engineering Used on Every Level, Experts Prattle Pseudo-Science to Dispel All Resistance, Even Things Disgusting, You'll Come to Love Big Brother and Be Trusting, Proper Adaptation Leaves You Less Inhibited, Fit to Join the Collective, Imagination Unlimited" © Alan Watt }-- Agenda 21, Big Society, Communitarianism, Confinement to Your "Community" Area - Redistribution of Wealth - Year-round Schools, Scientific Indoctrination - Movement of Factories Abroad and "Emerging" Nations built up--Paid for by Western Taxpayer - Extradition for Linking to Copyrighted Material - Elite Schools for UN and EU Bureaucrats' Children - Public Trained to be Dependent on "Experts". Britain and Balance of Power, Financing of Nations for War, Factions Stirred up to Fight Each Other in Middle East - Iraq and Iran. Stanley Kubrick, Symbology, "2001 A Space Odyssey" movie, Moon Landing, "2010" and "3001". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - June 20, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ The Authoritarian "Big Society", Real Terror-Causing Anxiety: "The Formula Recycled Around Again, It's Never Failed Since Don't Know When, "Change is Good" for Those in Control Who Use the Formula to Destroy the Soul, Cybernetics Sees Humans as Organized Clusters, Awaiting Reorganization by Master Who Musters All the Energies into a Planned Society, Run by "Experts" of Control-Freak Variety, They Study Their Victims, The Glue That Binds, Then Destroy the Family, Leave Old Culture Behind, New Borg-Like System Pushed by the Elect, This Wasteland They Will Call --- Perfect" © Alan Watt }-- United Nations - Competitive Psychopaths, Addiction to Power and Domination - Psychopaths Glorified in History - System of "Civilization" with Money, Bankers and Slavery - Life in Tribal Societies, So-called "Primitive" Cultures - Eradication of "Bad" Bits of History - Bombardment with Global News - Institutionalization of Topics into Society - Destruction of All That had Gone Before - Formula of How to Take Down Nations and Empires - Top-Down Promotion - Body Scanners, Humiliation of Prisoners, Public Adaptation - Destruction of the Family Unit - Pushing the Envelope, Programming through Fiction - Training in Kindergarten - Culture Industry, Frankfurt and Macy Group, Theo Adorno - Dehumanization. You Are Your Own Champion. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - May 31, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Beyond 2011 Keynote presentation from Robert Ashton, author of The Barefoot Entrepreneur.

--{ A New World Order Coming into View, Making Surveilled Serfs of Me and You: "Total Information Network is Watching You, Terribly Interested in All That You Do, You May Move to Cairo, India or Sicily, Only Right You Have is Right to No Privacy, It's Not Happenstance We've Headed This Way, Many a Tyrant has Dreamt of This Day, Training Humans to Accept it Was Formulomatic, Been Used by Nazis, Soviets and Democratic, Been Used by Mafia, Money for "Protection", Now No Freedoms for Security is the Deception, Perpetual War and Terrorism is the New Normal, Decided Long Ago at Bigwig Meetings Informal, A Generation Growing Up Knowing No Other Way, Adapting and Obeying to What Authorities Say, Eventually They're Majority, as Older Ones Die, No One Left to Tell Them the System's a Lie" © Alan Watt }-- Automated Constant Surveillance, End of Public Anonymity, No Privacy - Depopulation by Many Means - Diet, Injections and Injunctions - Carbon Tax - Communitarianism, "Big Society" and Volunteerism - Food Supply Speculation Market, Bets on Crop Failures - Goldman Sachs Betting on Death Derivatives - Culture Industry's Promotion of Intergenerational Degradation, Societal Destruction - BBC's "Charity' Branch for Overseas Programming - CIA and the Media - Perpetual War - Everyone Must be Predictable in Totalitarian Society - Entertainment, Music and Fashion Industry given for Public to Emulate. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - May 23, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Those Who Rule the "Big Society" Are Purposeful, Confident, Lacking in Piety: "Is it Communism, Fascism, Can't Make a Decision? Read Norman Dodd on the Reece Commission, So We're Fasci-Socialist, All by Coincidence? Peruse "Foundations: Their Power and Influence", Hear Yuri Bezmenov's Critical Examination On Success of KGB's "Social Contamination", And on Money, Disbelieve Nations are Insolvent, The Military Industrial Complex has Banker Involvement, Big Bankers have Ruled Down Through the Ages, Building and Destroying Empires in Stages, Never a Lender nor Borrower Be, There's a Rich Cabal at the Top of World Tree" © Alan Watt }-- First World Countries, Total Surveillance - Happy Slaves Love Socialism - Best Educated Generation, Living in Semi-Hypnotic Fantasy World - Knowledge Collected for Mass Control - News is for You to Chatter About - Reuters-AP Mainstream Media - Levels of News and History - Job of U.S. as World "Policeman" - Wars of Economics and Plunder - House of Lords and Senate - Rebellions - Britain - Plan for World Government - British Commonwealth, Oath to the Queen - Same Agenda Regardless of Changing Politicians in "Democracy" - American Revolution and Whisky Rebellion - 1970s - UN "Rogue" Nations - Societal Control through Science/Neuroscience - CFR/Chatham House on Coming Food Crisis - World HAARP Array for Weather Modification/Geoengineering - Movies to Program You - Allergy to Tyranny - Medicated Water Supply - Communism is Here - Big Agri-Business Farming Takeover - Interdependent System (Total Dependence). (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - April 19, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Andrew Marr talks to the Catholic Archbishop Vincent Nichols about how far his faith's social teachings chime with the Big Society, but also what impact the government's cuts might have on the work of Catholic charities. The writer Michael Collins charts the rise and fall of the council estate, and what role social housing will have in the future. Lisa Appignanesi gets to grips with the most untidy of emotions: love. And the neuroscientist, David Eagleman exposes the workings of the non-conscious brain, and questions whether scientists should wade into the debate over what is fair punishment. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Fundamentally, says Dr Paul Tracey, the 'Big Society' is an organisational concept, but to date employers have been excluded from the narrative.

The "big society" - the idea that volunteers should take over some of the functions of the state - is the most over-used policy phrase of the moment. But how will the theory work in practice? Chris Bowlby looks at the big society on the ground in Oxford - from the affluent streets of the City's North to the deprived estates of Blackbird Leys - and tries to figure out the consequences of expecting communities to do more for themselves.

In episode four, David interviews deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes MP, and hosts a rather lively debate on the Big Society. Joining him in the Big Society debate are Conservative politician Shaun Bailey, Big Society architect Phillip Blond and journalist Johann Hari.

Bishop and Green led a discussion based on their recent book, "The Road From Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society". Together, they will take a look at what set us on the road to the recent financial crisis, whilst also highlighting the signs to guide us back to prosperity. Matthew Bishop is US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. Michael Green is a leading independent economist and writer.

--{ Frankfurt School, One of a Kind, Members Strove to Own Your Mind: "The Manner Which "News" is Routinely Presented Leaves Thinkers Cold, the Technique Resented, For it's Geared to Children, Around 5th Grade, With Marketers Aiding the Way it's Made, It's an Arm of Governance for Perception Control, And Propaganda that Deadens the Soul, We Go Through Life, Regardless of Mentality, With Thoughts Implanted from P.R. "Reality", In Fact We're Products of Psychological Technique, Very Few Hunt Old Books, Knowledge to Seek, Contamination was Loosed Upon Each Culture, Countries Destroyed and Looted by the Vulture" © Alan Watt }-- Crisis Creation, Use of Soft Power and "Popular Uprisings" - Geopolitical Events Scripted in Advance - US Sizes up ElBaradei, Egypt - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Fomenting Revolutions on the World Chessboard - Presidents Absconding with Treasuries go to Montreal - Underwear Bomber Set-up - National Service Bill UK - Perpetual War. Monsanto Monopoly of GM Crops / Terminator Seed / Herbicides, GM Alfalfa Approved - One Big Cabal Running the World (including Agriculture) - Hillary Clinton and Ambassadors Meet - Authoritarian Model State of China - Depleted Uranium Weaponry, Radiation Exposure Effects. Britain to Sell (and Give Away) its Woodlands - Soaring Food Prices, Governments Stockpiling Food - More Cutbacks and Corruption in NHS - Public Services Farmed out to Corporations, Co-ops and NGOs etc. for the "Big Society". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Feb. 1, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Whose Brain is it Anyhow? "The Big Brother, Big Society's Now the Saviour, Using Specialists to Change Our Behaviour, Gone are the Days They'd Appeal for Compliance, In Skinnerian Techniques They've Reliance, To Modify the People at Work, at Leisure, Herd Adaptability Using Peer Pressure, When Certain Topics Arise Making You Uneasy Your Default Position Will Make You Queasy Should You Attempt to Give Your Opinion Which Would Rattle the Delicacy of Herd Minion, The Politically Correct Agenda is Thrust as a Must, Governments in Science Have Put all Their Trust" © Alan Watt }-- Governments using Behaviourism on the Public, Guidance into the "Right" Direction - Ideas Marketed to You. Malthusian Population Control - Rothschild Family Interest in Disease-Carrying Fleas - Crop Contamination by GMO - Arkansas, Blackbird and Fish Deaths. Weather Modification, Rain Creation in Desert. Total Information Network - Payments by Smartphone - Training into Biometric Scans at School - Value Added Tax Hikes - Public Adaptation. Climate "Experts" Still Faking Temperatures to Show "Global Warming". Police Stop-and-Search Powers for "Terrorists". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 3, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Public Relations, Neuroscience and "The Big Society": "Your Masters, Confident in Their Reliance And Efficacy in Programmes of Neuroscience, Are Full Steam Ahead in the Promotion, In Mass-Behavioural Changes without Commotion, Yes, No Matter the Absurdity Changes Bring, The Hypnotized Public will Accept Anything, Political Correctness, Nudges, Default Positions, Ensure the Herd Goes Through Transitions, Austerity, Decimated Families, All with Piety, Prepared for the Sovietized "Big Society" " © Alan Watt }-- Organizational and Class Structure of the World - Facade of Democracy and Voting - Public-Private Partnerships (Public Pays, Private Profits) - End of the Nation-State - "We're All in it Together" Slogan - Rise of IMF/World Bank - Debt "Contagion" Worldwide - Redistribution of Wealth - Crisis to Bring in Authoritarianism - Club of Rome - Abolition of Right to Remain Silent - Predictive Programming through Comedy and Entertainment - Court Advisors of Kings and Queens - Edward Bernays, Mass Manipulation, Creation of Consumerist Society, Propaganda (now Public Relations) - Behavioural Prompts and Defaults - Pavlovian Training for Children, Tracking by Swipe Cards on Lampposts. Greenland Prospers after Leaving EU - Britain, Canada etc. Fish Stocks Plundered by Foreign Fishing, Domestic Fishermen Not Allowed to Fish. International Corporate Welfare (Paid by Taxpayers). Increasing Costs and Taxation for Rural Areas to Force Movement into Cities. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 1, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Academics from Cambridge Judge Business School have raised doubts about whether the size and speed of George Osborne's cuts will dampen the country's economic recovery and whether volunteers under the banner of working in a "Big Society" can really take on jobs previously performed by public sector workers. Boni Sones OBE reports.

Opinion Former Panel ‘Is the Big Society working?’ In association with Cass Business School, Policy Exchange and Reed in Partnership Chair:   Neil O'Brien, Director, Policy Exchange Panel: Kevin Browne, Director of New Business, Reed in Partnership
           Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society
           Steve Moore, Big Society Network
         Professor Paul Palmer, Associate Dean for Ethics, Sustainability and  Engagement, Cass Business School
           Jenni Russell, Commentator, The Sunday Times & The Guardian Thursday 18th Nov 2010 Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row City of London  EC1Y 8TZ

Under the Prime Minister's project for The Big Society, the coalition government wants charities to have much greater involvement in the running of public services. At the same time, substantial cuts are expected in official regulators which check that charities are competent and honest. Recent financial scandals have shown the vulnerability of even the most prestigious organisations to systematic fraud. The Charity Commission admits that a quarter of charities fail to file their accounts on time, covering a combined annual income of £6 billion. The Commission also says that in future allegations of fraud may no longer be automatically investigated. Meanwhile, other national charities are facing rebellions from lifelong local supporters over planned reorganisations designed to win huge public contracts. Gerry Northam asks if we can be confident that charities are fit and honest enough to take responsibility from the public sector. Producer: Sally Chesworth.

--{ The Great Work of the Ages Spoken of by Sages: Builders Erected Babylon while Media Jabbered On: "The Public Never Knows, Such an Awful Sin, Entire Government Structure Captured from Within, Politicians, Family Titles, Yet Few Ever Knew Of "Special" Politicians with Manifesto to Do, Most Peoples Wish to Stay Just as They Are, Infiltrators Won the Game, Change Stretched too Far, For the Old Ways are in Ruins, Cultures are Debased, Memories of All That Was, Altered or Erased, We're in Orwellian Fear, Terror and Suspicion, The Ministry of Love will Torture, Recondition, For the Good of "The Big Society", Good of the Whole, Many to be Sacrificed after Tearing Out the Soul, Plan is in the Open, Victor on Banner Leans, Survivor will be "New Man", Scientifically Altered Genes, Yes, the Few Saw it Coming, Voices Drowned in the Rush Of Victims Changing Happily Toward the Deafening Hush" © Alan Watt }-- Dialectic Process of World Takeover - No Law Requires Media to Tell People the Truth - British House of Lords and Communist/World Socialist Agenda - Dependence on "Cheap Food" of Grocery Chain Stores - City of London - Money Laundering - Financial "Aid" from Secretive Foundations. Causes of Early-Onset Female Puberty - No Deviation Allowed from Doctrines - Theory of Evolution and "Evolutionary Intelligence". Water Supply Poisoning by Aluminium. Roadside Cameras Scan for "Offences". Transition Phase, Mixture of "1984" and "Brave New World" - Centralized Food Distribution, Quotas and Rationing - Long-Range Depopulation Plans - Think-Tank Projections to Year 2050 (and Beyond) - Removal of "Hateful Videos" from Internet. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Nov. 4, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Andy Cope, Sustrans, talks on 'The Research and Evaluation Needs of the Third Sector in the Big Society: A Sustrans / Cycling Perspective' as part of the 7th Cycling and Society Symposium at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford in 2010.

Bigging It Up The Coalition claims its Big Society is more than a slogan and its ideas are shaping key policies. Anne McElvoy investigates the little-known genesis of David Cameron's big idea and examines what its roots reveal about how the government will go about doing less - and ensuring society does more. Presenter Anne McElvoy Producer Simon Coates Editor Innes Bowen.

--{ The Big Society: Corp-Philanthro CEOs, Smart, Dripping Piety, Oversee Rulership of New "Big Society": "Some People Think Very Slowly, Some More Quickly, A Minority Divulge the Future, Such as Carroll Quigley On Behalf of CFR, He said the Future Would Go To a Feudal World System Run by Corporate CEO, Philanthropist Club is a Cartel in Control of Billions Thrown Around Stock Market, Influencing Minions, Formed to Participate in New Governance Variety, With NGOs and "Them That Knows" in The Big Society, Democracy's too Cumbersome, Humouring the People, Governance is Swifter, Since People are Now Sheeple, Oh Sure, Some will Bleat, Demanding This or That, The Ministry of Love'll Handle any Uncouth Spoiled Brat, We'll be Taught Austerity by Steroidal Social Workers, Faces Sour, Flushed with Power, Chasing After Shirkers, Serving World Masters, Respecting Those who Rule 'em, Thought Police with Electric-ease Hunting Those who Fool 'em, It's All Done so Smoothly, None Dare Think Rebel ! Sheeple, Plugged-in Optimists, Shepherded to Hell" © Alan Watt }-- Continual Updates in the Matrix into the "Proper" System for Your Generation - Media Middlemen Peddling the Nonsense - Britain, Idea of Democracy and Voting, Impression given of Involvement - Post-Democratic Society, Public Must become "Austere" - Farming Practices for the Herd - Treatment based on Economic Value - Intrusive Advertising - Privacy Commissioners - World with No Privacy - Idea of "Reality" given to Each Age Group - "Soylent Green" - Dehumanization - Culture Given from the Top Down - NSA Corporations - Tracking through Facebook - "Social Network" Stalking - Mexico, Iris Scans for "Secure" Cities - Incremental Conditioning and Adaptation - "Surface" X-ray Scanners to Skeletal Scans at Airports - Sci-fi Predictive Programming, "Total Recall" movie - Step by Step to Implanted Chip - Degeneration into the New System - Experiment of Communism, Soviet Union - Man Dethroned from His Pedestal. Children Policing Public - The Big/Great/Grand Society - "Philanthropy" and "Charities" Running the World (Outside of Politics). (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Aug. 20, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ West Going Third World -- Look Around, From the Media, Barely a Sound: Nearly Over, You Know -- the Long, Long Fight, We're Communitarian and Poor, Neo-Trotskyite: "Generations of Treaties to Search and See, Governments Signed, Neglecting You and Me, All Intended for Neo-Soviet, Way of Living, A World Served by Labour and Your Giving, Hierarchy of CEOs, Foundations and NGOs, With Experts Directing How it Goes, And "Leaders" Seeking the Opportunity To Strut and Lord Over "Your" Community, A New Global Curriculum Set in Schools, Ensuring Compliant, Stupid, Slaving Fools, Like Animals in Orwell's "Animal Farm" We'll be Ruled by Pigs Trained in Charm, So We'll All Work for the "Greater Good", Dissidents are Outcasts, Dinosaurs, Rude, When Equally Poor, We Must Give Thanks To Rockefeller, Rothschilds and Big Banks For Neo-Communism Which We're to Love, Peasants at Bottom and Elite Above" © Alan Watt }-- Waking Up vs. Reacting to Changes - "Simple" Questions and Answers - World Federation - Front-man Politicians, Left-Right Game - Prime Ministers Chretien and Mulroney, NAFTA - "Communities" (Ruled by Councils of Experts) and Pretence of Participation - Soviet System - UK, Big Society, Community Organizers, Saul Alinski et al., Communitarianism - Australia Invaded by Agenda 21, Sustainability, Smart Growth, Earth Charter - Youth Trained to be New Soviet Leaders - Authoritarian Global Society - Redistribution of Wealth, Marxist Economics - Communism for Peasants - Rural Clearances, Carbon Sinks, Land Access for Authorized Corporations Only. Carnegie Endowment Foundation - Branches of CFR-RIIA Worldwide - Asian-Pacific Regional Bloc. Future Intellectual Agenda of United Nations according to WAAS Survey. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 28, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ For the RIIA/CFR and International Bankers: Long in the Making, a World for the Taking: "Soviet Rule by Council, So Doctrinarian, Comes Back via Cameron as Communitarian, He says Devolution of Power Down to Local Will be Hailed by Peasants and Country Yokel, Century of Change and Agenda Twenty-One Will Step-by-Step get Reconstruction Done, E.U. and U.N. Glad to See End of Nations, In this Feudal System We'll Know Our Stations And Everyone Must Comply and Participate, Like Solitude, Privacy? --Hmmm--Antisocial--Hate! We Must All Join in and Plan Future Together, Till the Soil, Plant Food, Watching the Weather, Then Give Crops to U.N., Ooh-Warm-Touchy-Feely, Who'll Take Lion's Share, Distribute Rest to Needy, Yes, in Harmony with Nature, Milner-Marx the Saviour, Skinny and Happy, GMO on I.Q. Modified Behaviour" © Alan Watt }-- Temporary Homes and Infrastructure in U.S. and Canada - Cities Not Maintained, Areas Planned for Demolition - Paved Roads turned to Gravel - "Communities" under Regionalism - One-Party System - UK, "The Big Society" for Communitarianism - New Soviet Rule by Councils, NGOs - EU Super-Soviet Bloc - Agenda 21, UN Quotas for Each Region - EU now Powerful Single Entity at UN - Smart Meters, Higher Energy Costs, Quotas and Cutoffs - Falling Population Levels in Europe - EU Parliament Approves More Immigration. Planned Global Food Shortages - Public Scanned with X-ray / Tetra Wave / Microwave, Dosed with Radiation - Chosen Media at Bilderberg Meeting - New Feudal System. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 19, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)