Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
Read more...Yearly Archives: 2020
The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020
COVID-19 peak, or plateau? ~ Biden v. Sanders forces at platform committee ~ When you’ve lost Rod Dreher ~ Trump halts ad spend ~ Smugness ~ National security goons and the election ~ Warehousing, shipping for Xmas ~ COVID-19 immunity ~ WHO hires Cass Sunstein ~ Team masks
Read more...Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It
NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
Read more...Links 7/31/2020
Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update
A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...Kamala Harris or Susan Rice? The Veepstakes Appears To Have Kicked Out Two Truly Terrible Choices
If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn’t unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2020
COVID-19 in the five problem states ~ Biden’s ground game ~ Trump to postpone election or drop out ~ A taxonomy of state failure ~ GDP (ugh), employment situation, rail) ~ Boeing ~ Chinese seeds ~ DIV Covid vaccine ~ “The Stupids Do Covid!:” ~ Grinding games ~ The riots, forgotten ~ Circus Peanut Jello Salad
Read more...The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Read more...Links 7/30/2020
Mayberry v. KKR Plaintiffs File Amended Complaint, Refuting Standing Issues in Recent Kentucky Supreme Court Decision
Another front opens in the landmark public pension case, Mayberry v. KKR
Read more...Public Health Experts Fear a Hasty FDA Signoff on Vaccine
Experts have the willies about the rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine approved.
Read more...Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA
IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/29/2020
COVID-19 case and death rates ~ Biden veepstakes ~ Biden v. anarchists ~ Biden on ISDS ~ Bloomberg ~ Campaign Barbie ~ Election fraud ~ Housing ~ Intel manufacturing debacle ~ “Amazon’s monopoly tollbooth” ~ Mysterious seeds from China! ~ Crowds ~ Baseball workers ~ Trillbillies
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