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Via Michael Roberts The continuing scandal of child poverty in the UK - which is accelerating. A new report by former UK PM Gordon Brown . “• One million children trying to sleep tonight without a bed of their own. • Two million boys and girls waking up in homes that do not have working washing machines cookers or fridges, never enjoying fresh or hot food, and without soap, shampoo and basic hygiene goods. • Three million forced to skip breakfast or other meals because there is no food in the house. • More than four million children officially registered as poor even on the government’s own estimates and based on its chosen definition of what constitutes poverty. With UK child poverty increasing by over 20 per cent in the past decade our country has seen the biggest increase of all the European countries – and, indeed, all advanced economies.” What's Brown's answer? End the two-child benefit gap; provide incentives for 'philanthropy' and tax gambling profits. These are...

'A million calls an hour' Related UK sharing intelligence with Israel continues 

Work – is the active expression of the labourer's own life.   And  this life activity he [the worker] sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. His life-activity, therefore, is but a means of securing his own existence. He works that he may keep alive. He does not count the labour itself as a part of his life; it is rather a sacrifice of his life. — Karl Marx

Note: This post has been put behind a wall with a warning by Blogger. It is excerpts from a legally-published book. Words such pornonationalism, sex, sexual, pornography are used in context. There not a single pronographic image or video. The post is will be reviewed by Blogger. ___________ By Richard Seymour Wherever disaster nationalism erupts, it produces a pornography of sexual evil: ‘porno-nationalism’, as Dibyesh Anand calls it. It fantasises about women who are ‘disgusting vile parasites’ (among the milder specimens of incel misogyny), duplicitous Muslims luring Hindu girls into their religion (the Hindu nationalist fear of ‘love jihad’), and elite child sex trafficking ‘across continents, through the Vatican, and underneath the cover of charities and child protective services’ (as a QAnon bestseller put it). The nation, being reproduced through sex, always recruits sexuality. In its rise during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, nationalism helped establish what Christoph...

The New York Times “ repeated Israel’s baseless claim that Hamas was stealing aid nearly two dozen times before its own sources contradicted that talking point, an Intercept analysis has found.”