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Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter  @velocirapture23 15 May, 2020 22:09 Get short URL © Reuters / Chris Helgren / Thomas Peter 130 Follow RT on The focus of US policing is shifting from enforcement to prevention as mass incarceration falls out of favor. ‘Pre-crime’ detection is the hot new thing, accomplished through analysis of behavior and…facial features? Researchers at the University of Harrisburg  announced  earlier this week that they had developed AI software capable of predicting - with 80 percent accuracy! - whether a person is a criminal just by looking at their face.  “ Our next step is finding strategic partners to advance this mission ,” the press release stated, hinting that a New York Police Department veteran was working alongside two professors and a PhD candidate on the project. That statement had been pulled by Thursday after controversy ...

There’s been some confusion about what The Digger is all about. Many think this is “my” (ie Elizabeth Hayes, or EH’s) site. This is understandable but inaccurate. The site owner made me the moderator before disappearing and I kept it limping along for a while until more people would contribute. Actually, my intention, as well as that of the site owner, has always been for this to be a community effort, with many people contributing. I am most happy to see this becoming more and more the reality. Also, the site was created around the time the Yellow Vests began their uprising, and the site’s intention is to take their policies to heart. The enemy is not located along ideological or party lines, but class lines; and the common enemy can be found in those with the wealth and power to actually control policies, not among the peons of whatever ideological stripe. Thus we seek commonality among what has come to be defined as left and right, although both sides have shifted priorities m...

EH here. I don't know how we missed this, but here's Guns + Butter's interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner aired on March 18, 2020. Even though it’s a month old it’s really useful to listen to, particularly if, like me, you feel like an avalanche of CV-19 information has been dumped on you these past months; or, alternatively, you're just starting to question the pro-lockdown MSM/"left" "people over profits" narrative. It offers a historical account from the beginning lie that we had a world pandemic on our hands on January 31, and looks at the broad picture in terms of how the plandemic was set up, the players involved and who stands to gain and who stands to lose. Very interesting and informative.  Here is the URL  to the episode. The site's introduction is copied below.   NOTE! The URL   www.gunsandbutter.org   to Guns + Butter below does not work. Use  http://gunsandbutter.org/home.htm  to get to the homepage.  ~...

Thanks to James for contributing this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By  Mark Taliano Global Research, May 14, 2020 Region:  USA Theme:  Intelligence ,  Media Disinformation ,  Science and Medicine   364       48     13       460 Evidence demonstrates that the Coronavirus Operation started well before the “lockdowns” and the Fear campaigns. Consider, for example, that whereas the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020 (1) the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act (CARE Act), also known as H.R 748 was introduced over a year earlier, on January 24, 2019, at a time when most had not even heard of the Coronavirus. According to descriptor, the bill “responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and bus...

Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought Introduction A study published in March by the COVID-19 Response Team from Imperial College (Ferguson20 [1] ) appears to have been largely responsible for driving government actions in the UK and, to a fair extent, in the US and some other countries. Until that report came out, the strategy of the UK government, at least, seems to have been to rely on the build up of ‘herd immunity’ to slow the growth of the epidemic and eventually cause it to peter out. The ‘herd immunity threshold’ (HIT) can be estimated from the basic reproduction rate of the epidemic, R 0  – a measure of how many people, on average, each infected individual infects. Standard simple compartmental models of epidemic growth imply that the HIT equals {1 – 1/R 0 }. Once the HIT is passed, the rate of new infections starts to decline, which should ensure that health systems will not thereafter be overwhelmed and makes it more practicable to t...