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  November 27, 2020 " Information Clearing House " - When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful. In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden's family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes. "She doesn't tell me she's hungry, she just moans. When she moans, I know something is wrong." "How much money do you have in the house? I asked. "Five pence," she replied. Irene said she might have to take up prostitution, "for the baby's sake". Her husband Jim, a truck driver who was unable to work because of illness, was next to her. It was as if they shared a private grief. This is what poverty does. In my experience, its damage is like the damage of war; it can last a lifetime, spread to loved ones and contaminate the next generation. It stunts children, brings on a host of diseases a...

 More evidence that the terms "left" and "right" have become meaningless.   MEET THE NEW BOSS The military-industrial complex is back. Source: Paul Joseph Watson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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...

  S--t Public Defenders See: Innocent, But Fined The state of Iowa collects millions of dollars in fines from people whose charges were dismissed. There's also a Catch-22: financially, you're better off guilty Matt Taibbi 6 hr ago 98 63 On August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a veteran police officer named Darren Wilson shot and killed an 18-year-old Black man named Michael Brown. The resulting furor led to protests across the country, igniting a debate about brutality, use of force, and policing tactics that rages to this day. In the wake of the protests in Ferguson, Barack Obama’s Justice Department opened a federal civil rights investigation of the city’s police department. On page 2 of the resulting report, the DOJ zeroed in on something unexpected: revenue. Ferguson police, the feds said, were under constant pressure from financially-strained burghers to generate cash, and essentially ordered to ticket as many people — poor people — as possible. The most penniless reside...

 It seems that John Hopkins published a study that suggests the Megadeath Virus Of Doom is no big deal and the number of deaths attributed to the virus are bogus, only to remove the study a few days later.  Fortunately, someone managed to save it before it was removed.   A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 By  YANNI GU  | November 22, 2020       After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September. According to  new data , the U.S. currently ranks first in total COVID-19 cases, new cases per day and deaths. Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins, critically analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in her webinar titled “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data.” From mid-March to m...

 Thanks to Maxwell for recommending this article... On wafer-thin ice The pandemic story stands on clayey feet in terms of its scientific evidence, which the critics of the scaremongering do not pay enough attention to. by Matthias Müller It seems as if the “Witnesses Coronas” have achieved what was for a long time frowned upon in science - at least according to their alleged self-image: the reversal of the burden of proof when evaluating scientific theories. Dealing with scientific theories has hitherto been subject to the cruel dictate of empiricism: if even a single observation did not agree with the theory, it was considered refuted, even if ten thousand observations seemingly supported the theory. So they go, the good old days of science. Because the "New Normal" apparently also includes actively fending off facts - especially when they conflict with the narrative of a few protagonists. Since Corona: Even if thousands of facts Studies and well-documented observations ref...