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We in the Socialist Party have always insisted that socialism and communism are two words which differ in the same way as spade and shovel, i.e. not at all.
Socialism and communism may be the same thing, but a spade and a shovel are different things – a shovel has raised edges and is used for moving materials around, a spade has a flat edge that is designed to cut into the ground and to dig.
He did great interviews with Mattick and with Kliman, and as Alan points out was a very good writer.
Not of particular importance, but the Kliman interview was done by myself not Stuart Watkins.
Prof John Drury, a member of a subgroup to the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage)
If people don’t know, John Drury is a founder member of the journal Aufheben. There was a minor scandal when his identity was revealed.
I read this book the other day. It’s well written and very good. Obviously a few, minor and not central to his argument, things that could be argued with but definitely worth a read.
There’s an interesting discussion between him and Steven Pinker here: https://thepanpsycast.com/panpsycast
What’s wrong with mobile phones?
A general loss in the ability to focus for long periods of time. Though how true that is I don’t know. I keep meaning to look up some studies, but keep getting distracted by notifications on my social media.
I don’t know about the rest of you here but I’m not going to download that app allowing my movements and who I meet to be tracked.
Well if you use a smartphone with Google Maps already all your movements are being logged anyhow.
Anti-mainstream view (and without conspiracy theory):
What did you think about the article and why share it? To me this read like an article denying climate change or something. In the UK excess deaths are now tens of thousands above average, according to the ONS. It’s not at all comparable to the WMD thing before the invasion of Iraq. The WMD’s didn’t exist, I think it now takes a fair amount of self-delusion or conspiracy thinking to believe that there isn’t a major health situation going on.
All is not lost:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200220190257/https://sapiencia.eu/
The only ones who need fear such monitoring are the advocates of violent acts, who don’t want to be seen.
Socialists have no fear of being monitored because we have nothing to hide.There’s plenty of other reasons why people may not what the state snooping around your dirty laundry.
Another real life consequence of people mindlessly spreading this nonsense about 5G
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52395771
But the population density in Sweden is nothing like that in the UK, Spain, Italy etc. I found this map which shows the population density *of urban areas* (there’s not really much point averaging the land mass against population numbers, we want to know how densly populated the areas are where people actually live). By looking at it seems to map onto Covid19 hotspots quite well.
It’s from this webpage:
https://www.citymetric.com/fabric/these-maps-reveal-truth-about-population-density-across-europe-3625There’s no point comparing apples and oranges…
it was very high weekly total for a week in april ; that is probably what is meant
Yes that’s what the article says; “The Office for National Statistics said there were 18,500 deaths in the week up to 10 April – about 8,000 more than is normal at this time of year.” – So not insignificant.
Also aren’t the figures adjusted in retrospect, as the data comes through? It can take weeks for the full data to get through. So the figures for recent weeks will be incomplete.
Seems weird to want to deny that something unusual is going on…
However to compare the Covid-19 deaths to a full season of flu deaths is puerile.
Here, Here. As far as I understand it ONS are already saying 2020 deaths are at 20 year high, and this is still the beginning of it.
Also learn the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. It’s the ionizing kind that is a health risk, and that’s why people are advised to not have too many X-rays. 5G works on microwave frequencies, it’s non-ionizing. Standing around in strong sunlight too long is more of a health risk.
