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July 6, 2020             Trump is terrible. Biden is just as bad. In some ways the Democrat is worse.             You shouldn’t vote for either one.             Trump is erratic and unpredictable, which is dangerous. Even so, Biden is worse than Trump on international relations. At the center of the president’s worldview is a deep, admirable and prescient skepticism about foreign interventionism.  Trump began criticizing the Iraq War  soon after it began, when the U.S. invasion was still popular. His critiques  continued  during the 2016 primaries—have you known of another Republican to campaign  against  militarism? As president-elect Trump  told  a room full of service members: “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be i...

The fatal mistakes which led  to lockdown Modelling is no substitute for quality data  and research Dr. John Lee Over the past few weeks, my sense of the surreal has been increasing. At a time when rational interpretation of the Covid data indicates that we should be getting back to normal, we instead see an elaboration of arbitrary responses. These are invariably explained as being ‘guided by science’. In fact, they are doing something rather different: being guided by models, bad data and subjective opinion. Some of those claiming to be ‘following the science’ seem not to understand the meaning of the word. At the outset, we were told the virus was so pernicious that it could, if not confronted, claim half a million lives in the UK alone. Its fatality rate was estimated by the World Health Organisation at 3.4 per cent. Then from various sources, we heard 0.9 per cent, followed by 0.6 per cent. It could yet settle closer to 0.1 per cent — similar to seaso...

If you don't have the time to watch the entire video, fast forward 14:00 for a discussion of the death count and why the peaks are not natural.  Verdict... mass homicide by government response.  CONFIRMED! The Absolute SCIENCE Behind MASKS And The PROOF THAT THEY DON’T WORK with Denis Rancourt Source: Press For Truth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 fro...

Individualism could theoretically work as a political system, in a hypothetical world where nobody is ever helpless and the planet has infinite resources and the ecosystem is infinitely robust. But we do not live in such a world. No, we live in a world where every single person is born helpless and somebody needs to take good care of them to help turn them into physically and psychologically healthy adults, where people get sick and become disabled, where most of us go through a prolonged period of steadily increasing weakness and convalescence before death. A world with a fragile ecosystem and finite resources. Individualism has no real answers for the mass-scale implementation of its value system in such a world. The only way to believe it does is with a lot of compartmentalizing away from reality and refusing to look at the tremendous suffering that is brought on by saying people who need help must either get it from family members who are hopefully kind or rely on the ...

"The ultimate religious question is “What is compassion?” Or as Christianity puts it, “What is love?” Compassion is not a quality that can be demonstrated empirically. It is not a thing. It is something that we use flexibly. It speaks to a quality that we keep very close to us: the urgency of kindness. Compassion exists only to the extent that we invest it with the energy of our own lives…" ~ Curtis White,  https://tricycle.org/magazine/science-delusion/   Source:  http://wellnessforumhealth.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=077e29b11be80ab57e1a2ecabb7da330.307&s=0b024618ef41885623671a0a8f0882e7 Check out  https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 contri...

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate Adjust   Share     July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the Harpers Magazine’s October issue. Forward  responses to letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democrac...