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Posted on Naked Capitalism on September 24, 2020 By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Like many New Yorkers, I cannot begin to imagine the place without a thriving restaurant culture. This is just another respect in which the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the city hard and despite dropping COVID-19 numbers, there’s no end for the restaurant industry in sight According to the New York Times,  9 of Every 10 Restaurants and Bars in N.Y.C. Can’t Pay Full Rent : The ongoing travails of the industry were underscored by a survey released this week by the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which found that nearly nine out of every 10 dining establishments had not paid full rent in August and that about a third had not paid any rent. Outdoor dining alone has not replaced any meaningful proportion of lost revenues. Yet nor will the much touted return of indoor dining at reduced capacity b...

  State of society - how we got here - what can we do? -- by Denis Rancourt This clip is from a zoom presentation that I gave on 24-SEP-2020, to 283 members of Vaccine Choice Canada. Links about some items that I mentioned in the clip: The science paper about social hierarchies: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... My book, which is free to download: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... My video about the geopolitics of COVID: https://youtu.be/JUYZCqR_l-k My big geopolitics study for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (ocla.ca): https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Links to all my covid work: http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/2... Source: Denis Rancourt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Digger’s Purpose and Standards This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise. Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyo...

 Thanks to Maxwell for bringing this video to our attention.   (The sound levels are fixed at 1:30.) 9/24/20 Governor Ron DeSantis Holds Virtual Roundtable with Leading Public Health Experts Source: Governor Ron DeSantis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Digger’s Purpose and Standards This site does not have a particular political position. We welcome articles from various points of view, and civil debate when differences arise. Contributions of articles from posters are always welcome. Unless a contribution is really beyond the pale, we do not edit what goes up as topics for discussion. If you would like to contribute an article, let one of the moderators know. Likewise if you would like to become an official contributor so you can put up articles yourself, but for that we need to exchange email addresses and we need a Google email address from you. Contributions can be anything, including fiction, poems, cartoons, or songs. They can be your own writing or someone else’s wr...

 Source: Reporting by Matt Taibbi Revenge of the Money Launderers The "FinCen Files" story reveals: getting caught not only doesn’t stop the world's biggest banks from moving dirty money, it may encourage them Matt Taibbi 10 min 6 1 On December 11, 2012, U.S. Justice Department officials called a press conference in Brooklyn. The key players were once and future bank lawyer Lanny Breuer (disguised at the time as Barack Obama’s Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ’s Criminal Division), and Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and future Attorney General. The duo revealed that HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, had agreed to a $ 1.9 billion settlement  for years of money-laundering offenses. An alphabet soup of regulatory agencies was represented that day, from the Justice Department, to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Treasury, the New York County District Attorney, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Cur...

Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Says "Second Wave" Faked on False-Positive COVID Tests, "Pandemic is Over" Updated on September 25, 2020 Ralph Lopez    more Contact Author Dr. Mike Yeadon In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says "there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen." The "Big Pharma" insider asserts that false positive results from inherently unreliable COVID tests are being used to manufacture a "second wave" based on "new cases." Dr. Mike Yeadon , a former Vice President and Chief Science Officer for Pfizer for 16 years, says that half or even "almost all" of tests for COVID are false positives. Dr. Yeadon also argues that the threshold for herd immunity may be much lower than previously thought, and may have been reached in many countries already. In an  interview last week   Dr. Yeadon was asked: "we are basing a government pol...